After Ishimoto Shin-Six Lieutenant General Ishimoto took office, he immediately ordered the Japanese army to launch an attack on the defensive positions of the People's Army.

It should be said that Lieutenant General Ishimoto and the Japanese army participating in the war had considerable expectations for this attack. On the one hand, the Japanese army generally had the determination to defend their homes and expel the invasion; on the other hand, it was also because it successfully broke through the Peripheral Defense Line of the People's Army, which increased confidence for the Japanese army. Therefore, at the beginning of the attack, the morale and fighting spirit of the Japanese army were quite high.

But after the war was opened, the Japanese army discovered that the defense of the People's Army was far from comparable to the front line. This time it was composed of positions with high and low levels, accompanied by a large number of castles, fire points, and artillery positions in the rear, making the People's Army's defensive positions form a dense firepower network composed of three layers of firepower matching in the distance, middle and near, including rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars and other light and heavy firepower.

The Japanese army's offensive team was still like the Russo-Japanese War, mainly with intensive charges. The distance between soldiers was only 2-3 meters. Then they carried rifles and advanced forward without supporting and cooperating with each other, and there was no firepower to suppress or cover behind them. Such offensive tactics are of course no different from directly sending heads to people in front of such a dense firepower net of the People's Army.

As a result, under the attack of the People's Army's intensive firepower, the Japanese soldiers fell almost in pieces on the way to attack. However, at this time, the Japanese army was still very energetic and full of courage to die. Of course, from another perspective, they actually had the awareness of being cannon fodder. Therefore, although they saw that the army in front suffered heavy casualties, the soldiers behind still remained calm. While shouting "Ban Zai", they continued to attack, one after another, and rushed to the steel with their flesh and blood, forming a line of defense for the metal storm.

However, although the courage of the Japanese army is commendable, it is impossible to match the metal storm with flesh and blood. Therefore, in addition to allowing soldiers to continue to die, the Japanese army's attack can only make its own casualties continue to break the record of rising again and again.

During the whole day of attack, more than 6,000 Japanese casualties were killed and killed on the spot, and more than 2,500 people were killed. However, they were not even next to the People's Army's defense line. Apart from about 50 meters ahead of the People's Army's defense line, Japanese corpses were left all over the ground.

Although Lieutenant General Ishimoto did not expect to break through the People's Army's defense line on the first day, in his expectation, it should have been a repeated rattle with the People's Army, so such a result was obviously unacceptable. However, Ishimoto's New Reich believed that this was the result of the attacking army's failure to work hard, so he decided to change the offensive troops the next day, especially the 22nd Division, who had made meritorious service and received awards before and were sent to the battlefield as a typical propaganda army to be responsible for the first wave of attacks.

Since taking over the remaining troops of the 23rd Division, the personnel lost to the 22nd Division in the First Battle were replenished, not only were they fully staffed, but they also had an additional brigade organization.

After receiving the task of attacking the People's Army positions the next day, the original members of the 22nd Division were of course full of fighting spirit. After all, they won a victory and were commended by the Army Department and the Emperor. At this time, everyone was in high spirits and naturally wanted to make new contributions to serve the Emperor and the country. It turned out that the soldiers of the 23rd Division all saved up enough breath, hoping to perform well in this battle.

To be honest, during this period, the officers and soldiers of the former 23rd Division were under considerable pressure. Not only were the whole country unanimously criticized them, but many families even wrote letters to sever their ties with them. Because their behavior made the whole family feel ashamed, everyone felt that they could not raise their heads. In addition to 53 officers committing suicide by committing suicide by cutting off their cholesterol, 26 officers and soldiers chose to commit suicide because they could not bear the pressure. Now they finally got the opportunity to fight, and many people have made up their minds to die on the battlefield in this battle to wash away the shame brought by the last war.

However, after all, the division commander of the division, Munosuke Yamamoto, was an intermediate commander who participated in the Russo-Japanese War. Although he did not participate in the Lushun offensive and defensive war, the cruel process of that war had long been spread throughout the army. As a profound lesson, Munosuke Yamamoto was very clear that the war has developed to this day, and the number of people cannot win the war by pushing the number of people. Because when the enemy had a complete defensive position and sufficient troops, Munosuke Yamamoto offensive and defensive war had already proved this. The People's Army's combat power was stronger than the Russian army, and the first day of the battle scenes were also watched. In terms of heart, it was not that the offensive troops did not work hard. It was because the People's Army's firepower was too strong and too dense. Such a battle could not be won by just the number of people or courage. It was necessary to have sufficient fire support and suppression.

So Yamamoto Kiyonosuke asked Shinjiu Ishimoto that he had to give him enough firepower to fight this battle. Lieutenant General Ishimoto Kiyonosuke did not refuse Yamamoto Kiyonosuke's request. After all, he also saw the battle situation on the first day, and he had basically received all kinds of information about the offensive and defensive battles in Lushun. I remember that he even scolded Nogi Shinjiu at that time, "Idiot, fool, why don't you use artillery, sacrifice precious soldiers for nothing."

However, there are indeed not many Japanese artillery now. There are 5 divisions here, but there are only more than 200 artillery pieces, and most of them are small and medium-sized artillery such as 75mm and 88mm. There are only more than 50 artillery pieces above 100mm, and the largest one with a caliber is only 120mm, totaling 10. Because most of the artillery produced by Japan have been transported to battlefields such as the Far East and North Korea, and although there are many arsenals in China, they lack steel, so they cannot increase their production capacity.

Japan's resources are very poor. Most of the industrial raw materials are basically supplied from abroad. It is iron ore. Most of them are purchased from China, mainly from the Daye Iron Mine. They are sold to Japan by Hanyang Iron Factory. After all, China's iron ore resources are rich and close to Japan. Therefore, Japan naturally purchased iron ore from China. At first, Japan was just a general supply and marketing purchase, but Japan was not assured that iron ore resources were controlled by China. So it took advantage of the poor management of the Hanyang Iron Factory to control the equity of the Hanyang Iron Factory through lending. In the old time and space, Japan finally fully controlled the Hanyang Iron Factory in the 1920s, making this largest steel joint enterprise in modern China and a representative enterprise of the Westernization Movement eventually become Japan's iron ore supply base.

However, in time and space, the East China government blocked Japan's sea transportation line and cut off China's iron ore supply. Although Japan also urgently purchased iron ore from Britain and the United States, Britain and the United States had strict control over resource exports, and the distance was long and the cost was high. It was impossible to make up for the gap in losing China's iron ore. Although Japan can also be said to have tried every means for steel raw materials, collecting scrap steel and scrap iron from the people, recruiting citizens to offer all the iron items at home, etc., but for the war, it was just a drop in the bucket. Therefore, after all the iron ore in stock was used up, Japan's arsenals could only reduce production capacity, and the general operating rate is no more than 30%.

Moreover, limited steel production capacity cannot be used to build artillery, as well as rifles, bullets, shells, etc. Therefore, in addition to a small inventory of Japanese artillery, the Japanese army's artillery is basically purchased from the United States, but it is naturally not enough to buy from countries of such a size in Japan. At present, the total number of artillery in the country is only more than 1,200. During the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese army invested nearly 2,000 artillery pieces. The Japanese army that attacked the peninsula was able to allocate more than 200 artillery pieces, which is quite considerable.

Shinji Ishimoto invested more than 180 artillery pieces for the second day's attack in one breath, of which 40 artillery pieces were above 100mm caliber, and 8 artillery pieces were used in 120mm caliber, which can be said to have invested a lot.

Although Yamamoto Kiyonosuke was not very satisfied with the fire support he received, the current situation of the Japanese army was like this, and he could not expect too much, so there was no complaints. Moreover, the small and medium-caliber artillery had a short range and was small in power, but the advantage was that it was easy and flexible, able to advance and attack with the infantry, and it might not be difficult to use. Although Yamamoto Kiyonosuke had rich practical experience, he was just a corps captain when he was in the Far East battlefield. Both his vision and pattern were limited. Moreover, he had only fought with the Russian army and had no experience in fighting with the People's Army. His understanding of war was completely at the level of combat against the Russian army. Of course, this was also the biggest shortcomings of the Japanese army as a whole.

So on the second day, the Japanese army first launched a fierce fire strike on the People's Army's positions. In fact, the People's Army's defense line was about 10 kilometers long. Of course, more than 160 artillery pieces could not cover all the positions of the People's Army. Therefore, they could only choose three key areas to attack. This is also the economy summarized by Shinji Ishimoto from yesterday's battle. The full attack stall was too wide. The Japanese army's firepower was insufficient. It was better to concentrate troops and choose several key areas to break through. Once they could break through the People's Army's positions and then expand to both sides.

The sound of artillery on the Japanese position was rumbling, and the People's Army's positions was pouring wildly into the positions of the People's Army, and the People's Army's positions were counterattacks from time to time, mainly using 100mm and 120mm mortars. This time, the People's Army landed on the battlefield without artillery, and the heavy weapons were mortars. Among them, the 100mm and 120mm mortars were weapons that could reach 5,000 meters away. Of course, the People's Army also had naval warships' naval artillery fire support.
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