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Chapter four hundred and ninety seventh

The entire Liaodong Army was working hard to expand its strength, and the Japanese army was not idle either.

Nearly 100,000 elite troops, it took only five days to push the defense line outside Fengtian City.

The Russian army, which had only one last stronghold in the Liaodong region, was not idle either.

Nearly 50,000 troops retreated from the Liaohe defense line were all sent to the repaired positions outside the city after being reorganized.

Although he has an absolute advantage in military strength, the Russian commander-in-chief also knows that artillery is his weakness.

Three telegrams a day asked for help from the Far East, demanding support from heavy artillery to narrow the artillery gap between himself and the Japanese army.

However, it will take almost a month at the earliest to go from the Far East to Fengtian. And the Japanese cannot give them so much preparation time.

Nearly 100,000 Japanese troops, after only five days of rest, began to attack the Russian positions outside Fengtian City.

Because a large number of artillery and shells were seized from the Russian army, the Japanese army showed no mercy at all during the attack.

When he encountered a slightly more difficult Russian position, he immediately used heavy artillery to bombard the Russian position. He kept razing the Russian position to the ground before stopping and ordering the troops to continue attacking forward.

In this way, in less than five days, the Russian army lost all the defense lines outside and prepared to rely on Fengtian City to fight the final decisive battle with the Japanese army.

The battle was fierce. Although the Russian army had city walls to defend, it also stocked up all kinds of materials in the city.

However, the Russian army still only guarded for more than ten days.

When the city defense fortifications were torn apart by the Japanese army and more and more Japanese troops began to pour into Fengtian City, the Russian troops on other city defenses collapsed directly...

The Battle of Fengtian, which lasted for nearly twenty days, ended with the complete victory of the Japanese army.

At this time, the Japanese army also suffered heavy losses and could not continue to fight.

However, in order to capture Lushun as soon as possible, the Russian army's last stronghold in Liaodong.

The Japanese army that had just captured Fengtian still drew two divisions and a large number of artillery troops from their limited forces to move south.

A month later, with the help of the navy, the Japanese army successfully captured Lushun. Since then, all the entire Liaodong, except for the more than ten counties controlled by the Liaodong Army, fell into the hands of the Japanese.

Seeing that the two great powers of Japan and Russia suffered heavy losses in this decisive battle, they were no longer able to stand.

I don’t want to see Europe and the United States, which are divided by Japan and Russia, come forward.

After mediation by European and American powers, Japan and Russia finally decided to stop the war and use the existing defense line as the dividing line to share Northeast China together!

The Liaodong area, which completely surrounded the Liaodong Army, undoubtedly became the territory of the Japanese army.

The result of this coordination was that the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Manchurian Army, Oyama, was very dissatisfied with it.

"Baga, how can this be done! Liaodong was exchanged for the lives of more than 100,000 soldiers by the empire, and it should belong to us. As a defeated country, Russia should give us some compensation in terms of truth and reason. But in the end, he didn't even take out a county town!"

"This is not coordination at all, it is helping the Russians! How could the Empire take over such coordination results? I am not convinced!"

The chief of staff on the side was much calmer, and after thinking about it, he analyzed: "They are just helping the Russians! European and American powers do not want to see us dominate Northeast China, use the resources here to rise rapidly, and they have no choice but to help the Russian army and ask us to stop the attack!"

"One of the reason why the empire agreed to this obviously unfair coordination result is that the empire's strength is not enough to compete with old powers such as Europe and the United States. Another reason is that the empire is no longer able to fight again!"

"After statistics, after several consecutive battles, the empire lost 150,000 troops in Liaodong, and those injured were nearly 200,000 soldiers!"

"There are so many soldiers lost, coupled with the large amount of materials, weapons and ammunition consumed on the battlefield in Liaodong, the limited national strength of the empire can no longer bear this loss!"

"In front of you, only by stopping the war and using Liaodong's resources to replenish new blood can the empire come out of the quagmire of war and restore national strength. Therefore, in the opinion of Bei Zhi, there is no way for the empire to agree to such unfair coordination results!"

"Bageya Road, Europe and the United States like to take advantage of the situation and robbery. When the empire's national strength will surpass them one day, they will definitely make them look good!" Dashanyan, who was full of anger, could only vent his anger and dissatisfaction through scolding.

At this time, the chief of staff on the side whispered: "Commander-in-Chief, this is the order just sent by the Imperial Military Department: Let us clear the bandits in Liaodong as soon as possible! The Empire will immediately send professionals and companies to Liaodong to start mining, continuously import Liaodong minerals into the country and develop the domestic economy!"

When it comes to this, Dashanyan is also full of anger.

Eliminating bandit troubles is simple, but there are no doubt many difficulties in doing it.

The biggest bandit crisis in the entire Liaodong is the Liaodong Army. If the Liaodong Army was so easily destroyed, it would not continue to grow and grow in the Liaozhong area.

"Baga!" Dashanyan couldn't help but curse again.

The Chief of Staff continued: "The Commander-in-Chief, the Liaozhong counties controlled by the Liaodong Army, not only have a large amount of resources needed by the empire, but also a population of Liaodong that exceeds the energy. We must hold it in our own hands anyway, otherwise the empire's goal of obtaining resources from Liaodong will be slow to achieve!"

At this time, Dashanyan slowly recovered from his calmness and said with a murderous look on his face: "Liaodong Army, it's time to deal with them!"

"In the past, the Russian army echoed them, and the Empire did not dare to concentrate its troops against them! Now, the Empire has no worries and will definitely concentrate its heavy troops and destroy them in one fell swoop!"

"Commander-in-Chief, you have a solution!" the chief of staff asked quickly.

"No, I don't need a solution!" Dashanyan shook his head and replied.

"In the face of the cunning Liaodong Army, we can only win by completely overwhelming them with strong strength. As for the so-called conspiracy, no matter how meticulous it is, there may be loopholes. The Liaodong Army is really too cunning. As long as they discover these loopholes, they will definitely give us a fatal blow."

"I have fought with the Liaodong Army many times. No matter what conspiracy or tricks, they won't work in front of the Liaodong Army. They have solutions!"

The Chief of Staff thought about it and replied: "That's true. The Liaodong Army Commander Yang Xingguo's vision is indeed very vicious. As long as we expose a little loophole, he will find it! Commander-in-chief, what are you going to fight?"

"Concentrate six divisions and 100,000 elite troops, two heavy artillery brigades, and divide the troops into two sentences to launch an attack on the occupied areas of the Liaodong Army!"

"The last time we cooperated with the Russian army to attack the Liaodong army, the reason why we failed was because we were suspicious of each other and did not believe in each other!"

"Now the attacks are all the Imperial Army, so there is no suspicion!"
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