Chapter 114 is like a broken bamboo

In late March 1904, after more than a month of preparation, the Japanese army finally crossed the Tsushima Strait, landed from Nanpu, *zhen and quickly advanced to the north. At the same time, the Russian army also completed the preliminary assembly.

It is worth mentioning that in this war, although the Russian army was full of confidence and agance, it maintained a general contempt for the Japanese army, calling the war a 'military walk' and believing that a Russian soldier could defeat three Japanese soldiers.

The reason for this boasting and contempt for the Japanese army is not that the high-ranking generals of the Russian army are stupid, but out of the need to encourage morale. Although the Russian navy was defeated in the Russo-Japanese War in history, the performance of the army is still good, which is not generally considered vulnerable by later generations. The comparison of casualties between the Russian army and the Japanese army shows that the Japanese army has more casualties than the Russian army.

Although the Russian army generally maintained a contempt for the Japanese army, the military strategy adopted was very conservative and cautious. More than a month after the start of the war, the Russian army did not put on an offensive posture to enter*, but gathered troops to the three areas of the north bank of the Yalu River, Liaodong Peninsula, Yingkou to Haicheng, plus Liaoyang and In Fengtian area, it poses a defensive posture.

Because many high-level generals of the Russian army believe that even if a Russian soldier can defeat three Japanese soldiers, they should still take defense in the early stage of the war, wait for the reinforcement of the local troops, and then launch a counterattack after forming a triple military advantage, go directly to the south* and then cooperate with the navy. The next landing day is the mainland.

Although the strategy of the Russian army was regarded as too conservative and pedantic by many later generations, it was a practical strategy for the Russian army at that time. However, although the Russian Army Minister Alexi Kurotkin, who formulated this strategic plan, was cautious and conservative enough, he did not estimate the war of the Russian army. The fighting power has been seriously reduced.

In particular, the quality of the middle and high-level generals can be said to be the worst in Russia's thousand-year history. After Lieutenant General Zasurich, the commander of the Dongman Detachment, led his troops to stationed on the north bank of the Yalu River, he did not order the reinforcement of a large number of fortifications, and the reserves, which accounted for half of the total force, were deployed 10 kilometers behind the front line, while the front line The troops were scattered and assigned to the broad front. Not only did the infantry battlefield have any cover, but also the artillery positions had no cover.

When General Fogg of the Nanman Detachment defended Jinzhou, the 4th Division of 18,000 people only sent an infantry regiment to participate in the battle, and when the Japanese attacked Jinzhou, the main force remained still and watched the Jinzhou garrison besiege attacked ten times by the Japanese army and was defeated...

This kind of almost mentally retarded military deployment that can even be accused in a military court is not at all like the arrangement made by a professional modern general. It is better than them to change a grassroots officer of the Beiyang New Army to command.

In this way, the Japanese army in the Russo-Japanese War is like opening the aura of the protagonist. Well, the focus is not on how awesome the protagonist is, but how retarded the opponent is...

In the Russo-Japanese War, in fact, the combat effectiveness of Russian soldiers and the quality of basic officers are quite good, in line with the standards of Western powers, but the quality of senior generals is outrageous.

Zhao Dongyun knew in his memory that the Russian army would be defeated, but he did not study the history of the Russo-Japanese War in detail in his previous life, and he had never even heard of the name Ku Robert King in his last life. Who is not a person who studies modern history will have nothing to study the main generals of both sides? Question mark

So at this time, he did not know that several high-level generals in the Russian army were cheating national goods. Instead, he was getting the Russian army to adopt a conservative strategy. When Chen Binglu River's north bank, Yingkou to Haicheng Line and Liaodong Peninsula, he still agreed with this strategic deployment, believing that the Russian army commander Ku Robert King also returned It has a strategic vision.

He even thought that if more than 20,000 Russian troops guarded the Yalu River, it would be no problem to fight conservatively but block the Japanese First Army.

However, his estimate of the Russian army was still too optimistic. The Russian army's Dongman Detachment was completely defeated by the Japanese First Army in less than a month. The department was forced to retreat to Liaoyang, while the Japanese First Army left the Phoenix area after capturing Jiulian City, and the front pointed straight to Liaoyang.

After the first army won the first stage of victory, the second army of Japan also landed on the Liaodong Peninsula with the support of the navy and launched an attack on Lushun from north to south, and then approached Jinzhou at the end of May.

Up to now, it can be announced that the first stage of the Japanese army's operation has been completely successful. The first army in the direction of * has reached the door to march into the northeast hinterland, and the second army has successfully cut off the land connection between Lushun and Fengtian.

"The next action of the Japanese army will not be difficult to predict, nothing more than capturing Lushun and going north to Fengtian!" In the headquarters of Jinzhou Third Town, Zhao Dongyun and a large group of officers in the third town gathered around a simple sand table to express their opinions.

Although the third town did not participate in the war between Japan and Russia, the officers in the third town such as Zhao Dongyun still paid great attention to the war around them. In addition to paying attention to the movements of the Japanese and Russian armies at any time to prevent them from destroying China's external neutrality into Liaoxi, they also paid close attention to the two The specific situation of the army, mastering many military intelligence of the two armies and some tactics applied by the Japanese and Russian armies, etc.

The large-scale war between Japan and Russia will undoubtedly affect the development of the world army. After all, this is not a battle between Britain and those indigenous people in South Africa a few years ago. This is a large-scale war between the civilizations and modernized countries of the two countries. The performance of the two armies and navies can be said to attract relevant military personnel around the world. The concern of the staff.

The Beiyang New Army, which is on the side, will naturally not let go of this opportunity to publicly dispatch military attachants and collect secret or public information to try to obtain more information from this war.

Meng Enyuan continued to point to the sand table and said, "The next step is that the Japanese army is most likely to leave a part to contain Lushun, and then the main force will go north and attack Fengtian after meeting with their first army. As long as they can take Fengtian, they will win more than half of the war!"

However, as soon as his words fell, Chen Guangyuan said, "If the nail of Lushun has not been taken down, the Russian navy can use this former naval base to attack the supply line on the west coast of Japan at any time. How can the main force of the Japanese army rest assured to go north on a large scale?"

"How can Lushun be easily conquered by the Russians like hedgehogs?" As a cavalry general, Meng Enyuan is good at long-distance attack and combat. Naturally, he has no good impression of attacking the fortress. In his opinion, the Japanese army will certainly not gnaw on the hard bone of Lushun, but should leave some troops to contain Lushun. The main force quickly went north to Fengtian, took Fengtian and even took Vladivostok. Even if there is still one Lushun left in this war, it will be a victory.

Wang Zhanyuan said, "Isn't it that the Russian European fleet has set out for Asia? If they can rely on Lushun to leave the base after arriving in Asia, Japan will have no way to maintain the supply line on the west coast, and may even be defeated by the navy. Once the Japanese navy is defeated, then the Japanese navy will lose!"

After listening to Wang Zhanyuan's words, Zhao Dongyun nodded secretly. This man's view was not like a traditional army officer. Most of the army officers present basically focused on the army battlefield and thought that the Japanese army could win if they captured Fengtian.

But in fact, it is not so simple. Fighting with island countries like Japan, especially across the sea, it is really good to win on land, but if you can't win, as long as you defeat Japan's own navy, you can also win the war.

For Russia, even if the army is defeated, but the navy can defeat the Japanese navy, the victory still belongs to Russia.

If you consider it from this perspective, you will find that Lushun is a strategic place for the Japanese army to decide the outcome of the war. Russia may not lose if it loses Lushun, but Japan will definitely lose if it can't win...

However, when Wang Zhanyuan said so, some people naturally disagreed with him. Chen Guangyuan quickly said, "There are many troops needed to conquer Lushun, and it will take a long time to conquer the fortress of Lushun. If too many main forces are dragged to Lushun, it will have a significant impact on the capture of Fengtian. Many Japanese generals You will never see this..."

Zhao Dongyun watched his officers spit and argue, but he didn't say anything. Today's debate is not a formal military meeting, but just looking at the strategic deployment of Japan and Russia from the perspective of a third party, mainly to improve the tactical literacy of his officers.

After a dispute, Chen Guangyuan suddenly said, "But as far as I know, there are many machine guns in the Russian army, but they don't seem to be used much?"

The Beiyang New Army was equipped with a large number of heavy machine guns, so they were also concerned about the heavy machine guns of the two sides during the Russo-Japanese War. However, they found that the Russian army had a large number of heavy machine guns, and the Japanese army seemed to have but not many. However, the Russian army equipped with a large number of heavy machine guns did not exert the power of heavy machine guns.

They did not know that in addition to the original machine guns, the Russian army purchased about 100 heavy machine guns from Zhao Dongyun in January, but did not be assigned to the Dongman and Nanman detachments. Part of them were assigned to the Kanto detachment on the side of Lushun, while the other part was assigned to the main force in Fengtian.

The Dongman Detachment and the Nanman Detachment, which fought with the Japanese army before, did not get additional machine gun allocation, so it is normal for Chen Guangyuan and others not to see the Russian army carry out a large number of heavy machine guns to fight!

Just listening to Chen Guangyuan talk about machine guns, Zhao Dongyun is a little looking forward to it. How much damage can the Russian army, which is almost twice as many machine guns as in history, cause to the Japanese army?

The dense formation of the Japanese army charged towards the machine gun position of the Russian army, but it fell piece by piece. This scene is really exciting!

When the Japanese army suffered too many casualties and lost the original small advantages in history, can they still capture Lushun? It can also capture Fengtian. If it can, how many more casualties will Japan have than history? 50,000 or 100,000?

If the Japanese army suffered more casualties than in history, thus changing the results of history, for example, the Japanese army failed to take Lushun? For example, the Japanese army failed to take down Fengtian? How will the situation develop then?

Zhao Dongyun himself is not sure about these problems, but the only thing he can be sure of is that if history does not change, he will not get any benefits, so no matter what the future changes are, Zhao Dongyun has to change it. Whether it is good or bad, he will change history first!

Again, it's easy to fish if you muddy the water!