Chapter 123, my lord, fight

The Russo-Japanese War broke out from February to June. Although Zhao Dongyun did not know what the original historical trajectory was, in fact, the war has been following the historical trajectory so far. In late June, the Japanese army set up the 'Manchurian Army General Command' to control the troops marching northeast.

At the same time, in order to conquer Lushun, he specially formed the Third Army. Its commander was the famous Naimhidian. This man conquered Lushun during the First Sino-Japanese War. At that time, the fight was extremely smooth. It only took only a few days before and after, and most of the time was spent on the road. In fact, the Qing army was defeated at the beginning of the battle. .

This time, Dashanyan appointed Nogi Hisa as the commander of the Third Army, which was also a precedent for trying to repeat the capture of Lushun during the First Sino-Japanese War.

At the same time, in order to ensure that the Third Army conquered Lushun, the other three armies of the Japanese army were the first to land, the Second Army and the Fourth Army, which had just landed, went north to Liaoyang. On the one hand, they tried to intercept the Russian army and go south to rescue Lushun, and on the other hand, they also tried to continue to attack north to Fengtian.

Under such a big back scene, the two sides gathered heavy troops in the Liaoyang area one after another, from tens of thousands to more than 100,000, and finally hundreds of thousands of troops from both sides gathered around Liaoyang to fight.

The third army in the direction of Lushun also tried to attack Lushun. However, in an attempted attack at the end of June, although it conquered several positions, it was also the first time that it encountered the tenacious resistance of the Russian army, resulting in large casualties.

On the one hand, due to certain casualties, and on the other hand, there is an extreme shortage of logistical supplies. The Japanese army has reached more than 200,000 troops fighting in the northeast, and the main force is engaged in a super-large-scale fierce battle with the Russian army in Liaoyang, which is unprecedented for ammunition and various consumption.

All kinds of supplies, especially the shortage of ammunition, forced the Third Army to slow down the pace of attacking Lushun. At this time, Nai Mu Xidian's brain was normal, so after trying to attack Lushun, the Third Army implemented the strategic defense posture and devoted its main energy to the Liaoyang Campaign.

If only from the perspective of the Japanese army, then the current strategy of the Japanese army is correct. After all, Lushun is a dead place for the army. The Japanese army does not need much strength to contain the Russian army in Lushun to free up the main force to solve the main force of the Russian army in the direction of Liaoyang first. There is no need to The premise is to invest a lot of troops to nibble on such a fortress as Lushun.

It can be said that before July 1904, the actions of the Japanese army were relatively reasonable and normal, and there was no deviation from the original historical trajectory.

However, although it is not a large-scale historical cheap, one thing worth noting is that in a series of battles in Liaoyang from June to early July, although the overall performance of the Russian army still did not meet the world's expectations for him, which is far from the level of the powerful powers under people's influence, but It is still much better than the battle of Yalu River and the previous south to reinforce Lushun, as well as in the battles of Jinzhou and Dalian.

Different from the previous series of battles, the Russian army fought relatively tenaciously in this battle of Liaoyang, and countless people were killed and injured every day, but still defended the front line.

However, compared with the casualties of the Russian army, the Japanese army suffered more casualties!

Especially in a full-line assault launched by the Japanese army on July 3, the second division responsible for launching the charge faced the intensive firepower of more than 100 Russian machine guns and the intensive killing of artillery and infantry firepower. In just one day, the division responsible for the attack was more than half of the casualties, let alone continue The attack, or even lost the ability to continue fighting, led to the direct dismissal of Hirojiro Nishi, the commander of the division, and Dashanyan reappointed Nishijima Zhuyi as the division commander of the Second Division.

"I've said for a long time that if I hadn't learned how to install such an ancient brain, it would be impossible not to kill tens of thousands of people!" In Jinzhou, hundreds of miles away from Liaoyang, Chen Guangyuan frowned slightly and said, "If the Japanese army does not change its tactics, it may be difficult to fight against the Russian defense system!"

The main domestic public opinion is biased towards Japan. In fact, many officers in the third town are also biased towards Japan. Chen Guangyuan is not exempt from vulgarity. Like some officers in the other third town, he hopes that Japan can win and avoid the Northeast becoming Yellow Russia.

However, Wang Zhanyuan next to him said, "This time, I was still too confident. I thought that the main force of the Russian army in Liaoyang was as vulnerable as several other Russian troops!"

"Next, I'm afraid the Japanese army will play the old tactics of circuitous attack!" Meng Enyuan also took a bite.

Don't think that the Japanese tactics these days will only charge with meat bombs. In fact, it is not. During the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese army advocated roundabouts and avoid frontal attacks. As for the Battle of Lushun, on the one hand, the Japanese navy was too urgent, and on the other hand, it was related to the elm head of Nogi Hironori. It does not represent the overall tactical style of the Japanese army at that time.

In fact, the reason why the Japanese army was able to win the historical Battle of Liaoyang and the Battle of Fengtian was that they took side attacks and roundabouts to lay the victory. In fact, it is not only the Russo-Japanese War. The tactical concept of the Japanese army that has been subordinated to the German Army for decades has almost unchanged, that is, four words:you Back to cover up.

The First Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War and even the Anti-Japanese War in later generations, the Japanese army has always played like this. The Battle of Lushun is only a special case, but it is such a special case that makes Chinese people generally think that the generals in the Japanese army are fools like Nogi Himen, who can only play meat and bullets...

In the headquarters of the third town, after the routine discussion of the Russo-Japanese war, a group of officers have left one after another. Since the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War in February, the third town has naturally paid close attention to the war between the two armies. At the same time, it also collects the dynamics of the two armies with bandits, local patrol shops and other public opinion. In addition, Beiyang is still Since the past, both armies have sent military officers to watch the battle, and several of the military officers watching the battle are officers from the third town.

In this way, the third town can continuously obtain the latest trends in the war between Japan and Russia, and even know some details of the battle.

Although it is not possible to obtain the military deployment of both sides in advance, it can also get a general process afterwards. At least the defeat of the second division reached Zhao Dongyun's ears in less than two days.

But to be honest, no matter how fierce the battle in Liaoyang is, Zhao Dongyun doesn't care much about it, but on the other hand, the military actions of Japan and Russia have also affected his arms trade from the side.

On July 5, Andrei, a Russian diplomat stationed in Jinzhou, made a strong diplomatic protest against Zhao Dongyun and asked Zhao Dongyun to stop providing shells to the Japanese army!

Looking at Andre with an angry face, Zhao Dongyun is also unhappy. Shit, you have to take care of my business!

In the face of Andre's private protest, Zhao Dongyun will naturally not take it seriously. Anyway, they will not make trouble on the stage. Why? Because Zhao Dongyun not only provided arms to Japan himself, more arms are actually provided to the Russians, and it is not good for them to come on the table!

Anyway, Zhao Dongyun has made up his mind to sell it to whoever gives the money, and both of them will not be offended. If anyone dares to cut off my wealth, I will dare to cut off the road behind your army.

Now Zhao Dongyun has this qualification. Although his army of more than 15,000 people is not worth mentioning on the whole northeast battlefield, if he suddenly dispatch troops at this critical moment, and regardless of political influence and other consequences, he will go straight into the back road of the Russian army or the back road of the Japanese army like a man. It can directly affect the victory or defeat of this war.

Of course, it's cool to do this in a short period of time. It is estimated that the next step will be their comprehensive revenge. Not only will Zhao Dongyun die ugly, but also the whole China will suffer...

However, the Russians protested, but they still didn't make any formal diplomatic protests!

On the other hand, Japan seems to have found that Zhao Dongyun continued to engage in the arms trade with the Russians, and let them know that the heavy machine gun that killed and injured the Japanese army was Zhao Dongyun sold to the Russians, and now he still provides a large number of machine gun bullets in the Russians, so Japan is quite angry. Angry, Jiro Sato came to blame again.

However, I was blocked by Zhao Dongyun, and it is still the same sentence: I have arms, and whoever wants to sell it will take the money! I don't care whether you are Russian or Japanese.

However, Japan himself could not cut off the source on Zhao Dongyun's side, but used other methods. They found Feng Delin and even Zhang Zuolin to try to cut off the arms smuggling channel to Russia in the west of Liaoning.

"Damn it, I really dare to cut off our wealth these days!" After learning that another group of ordnance were robbed by disguised horse bandits, Zhao Dongyun was not angry. Zhao Dongping couldn't wait to jump up: "Third brother, I can't continue like this. I don't plan to let go this day. I haven't found out who did it now, but if there is no day behind it, I'm absolutely I don't believe it."

Zhao Dongyun also had a gloomy face. He did not expect that Japan was more resolute than the Russians, and the Russians just protested verbally, but he did not expect that Japan himself dared to directly pull the bandits in Liaoxi to intercept his arms trade channel.

At this time, Lv Shuanggun, whose words are slightly short and dark but extremely strong, also said, "Your Excellency, we can't continue to put up with it. We have been robbed of two batches of goods this month. It is not to mention that these two batches alone are worth more than 60,000 taels of silver, and my brothers alone have been killed and injured. Ah!"

"If you want to say that those robbed horse team has nothing to do with Zhang Zuolin, they must be lying. What can we do with us now? If we don't cut off the hand that I stretched out, we won't want to do business with the Russians in the future!" Lu Shuanggun continued, "Your Excellency, fight!"