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Piaotian Literature of the Fourth Empire of China www.piaotia.com Chapter 401 Defending Vladivostok

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    After the attack began, the two regiments launched a fierce attack on the Russian army on a five-kilometer front.  Currently, there is only one Russian infantry division guarding Shuangchengzi, with more than 10,000 troops.  The defense lines scattered inside and outside the Shuangcheng city were very sparse, not to mention that after withstanding the indiscriminate bombing of the Chinese army for more than an hour, the Russian army had already suffered heavy losses, and many defense lines had heavy damage.  loopholes.

    "Da da da!" Amidst the hail of bullets, the Chinese soldiers crouched and quickly charged towards the Russian position.  A row of bullets hit, and the two soldiers at the front fell to the ground.  Bullets from heavy machine guns can easily kill soldiers.

    "Machine gun cover!" the junior officer who was charging with the troops ordered loudly.  Two light machine guns were set up and began to suppress the Russian army with fire.  The follow-up mortars were also set up and aimed at the Russian army's firepower point with a heavy bombardment.

    The battle was very fierce, and the Russian troops guarding Shuangchengzi showed great determination to fight.  Even though they were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of strength and weapons, they used their familiarity with Shuangchengzi to launch a fierce battle with the Chinese army.

    "Grenade!"

    More than a dozen grenades were thrown into the Russian trenches, killing a dozen resisting Russian soldiers inside.  The attacking Chinese soldiers immediately jumped up, rushed out of the last thirty meters and broke into the trench.

    "Click, click, click!" The light machine gun fired wildly, with twenty rounds of bullets in one magazine. In a few seconds, the surviving Russian troops in the trench were all wiped out.  They were all beaten into a honeycomb.

    As the Russian army's peripheral positions were breached, more and more Chinese troops invaded the Russian army's positions and launched attacks on the Russian troops guarding these positions.  Under the fierce attack of the Chinese army, the Russian army suffered heavy casualties.  By 12 o'clock at noon, all the outer positions of Shuangchengzi had fallen into the hands of the Chinese army.  The remaining Russian troops all retreated into Shuangchengzi City, preparing to continue their stubborn resistance to the Chinese army.

    Although, the battle went very smoothly.  But everyone knows that the real battle begins next.  At 12:30, the Chinese team had simply eaten a few mouthfuls of dry food.  Once again, they launched a fierce attack and entered Shuangchengzi City.  Brutal street fighting broke out immediately.

    Every house, street and even ruins that has not collapsed has become an object of competition between China and Russia.  The Chinese ** team used machine guns, grenades and rifles to coordinate, and used squads as units to gradually advance into Shuangchengzi City, eliminating the Russian troops in the city bit by bit.  Once you encounter a strong Russian firepower point, you will immediately use mortars to bombard it.  When the mortars cannot destroy the opponent's firepower point, they will bypass it.  At the same time, report the situation here to the company headquarters.  The company headquarters contacted Houfu's artillery by wireless telegraph and launched a devastating bombardment of the area.  Completely destroy the resisting Russian army.  This tactic is very useful. Although the advancement speed is not very fast, it minimizes the casualties of the soldiers.

    At three o'clock in the afternoon, the Chinese *** team had occupied the west city of Shuangchengzi and launched an attack on the east city.  At this time, only three to four thousand Russian troops continued to resist.  The defeat of the Russian army is right in front of us.

    "General, the West City has been occupied by the Chinese. I have less than 4,000 men left. We can't hold it any longer. Retreat immediately!" The commander of the 118th Division rushed into Major General Agata's headquarters.  , said loudly.  In just two hours, his troops had suffered heavy losses. If they continued to hold on, they might not be able to wait until sunset.  His army will be completely wiped out.

    "Shuangchengzi is over, the entire Far East is over! You can lead the troops to break out! I hope God bless you!" Major General Agata said with a dead look on his face, completely losing the high-spiritedness that he had guaranteed to be able to withstand the squadron in Shuangchengzi.  .

    "General, won't you come with us?" asked the commander of the 118th Division.

    "No. The Twin Cities are lost, and someone needs to be responsible!" Major General Agata shook his head.

    The commander of the 118th Division found that he could not persuade Major General Agata and had to leave by himself.

    At 3:30 in the afternoon, the remaining troops of the Russian 118th Division broke out from the east of Shuangchengzi. Relying on their familiarity with this area and paying a certain price, they broke out of the encirclement and fled south.  At the same time, Major General Agata, the top commander of the Russian army in Shuangchengzi, committed suicide by swallowing a gun at the headquarters.

    At 4:30 p.m., the 56th and 57th divisions of the Chinese Army's Second Group Army, which were ambushing south of Shuangchengzi, intercepted the remaining troops of the Russian 118th Division who were unable to escape.  After less than half an hour of fighting, the commander of the Russian 118th Division surrendered.  The entire Shuangchengzi battle ended here.  In this battle, the Second Army of the Chinese Army wiped out more than 30,000 Russian troops and lost more than 3,000 and nearly 4,000 of its own.  The combat power of the Russian regular army is much stronger than those of the newly formed armies.

    "Chiefs of Staff, all Chiefs of General Staff and Your Majesty, please send your report!  Shuangchengzi was finally captured. Next, it was time to launch an attack on Vladivostok, the last stronghold of the Russian army in the Far East!  "Major General Xie Dingkun, commander of the Second Group Army, said.

    "Yes, Commander!" Chief of Staff Zhang Shusen replied.

    "Order the troops to take more time to rest and attack Vladivostok tomorrow!" Major General Xie Dingkun ordered.  Shuangchengzi was hundreds of kilometers away from Vladivostok, and it would take three days for the Second Army to reach it even if it marched quickly.

    The capture of Shuangchengzi left the Russian army with only one strategic location, Vladivostok, in the Far East.  If Vladivostok is lost again, the Russian army will no longer have a foothold in the Far East.

    Xiong Wu, the chief of general staff directing the battle in Jilin, ordered the Second Army to end the battle in Vladivostok by mid-April.  During this period, the navy would cooperate with the attack on Vladivostok.  Vladivostok is the administrative and military center of the Russian Far East. In addition to stationing a large number of troops, it is also the home of the Russian Navy's Pacific Fleet.  Since the seventeenth century, Russia has been continuously expanding in order to find an outlet in the Pacific region.  Although Vladivostok is frozen in winter, it is already an indispensable and important port for the Russian army.  If Vladivostok is occupied by China, Russia will no longer have influence in the Pacific.

    After Tsar Nicholas II learned that the Shuangchengzi had been lost, he strictly ordered the Governor of the Far East, Alekseyev, to hold Vladivostok until the Russian army defeated the Chinese army in Eastern Siberia.  Vladivostok has complete fortifications and sufficient food and ammunition are stored. There is also a small arsenal in the city, which is enough to produce rifle bullets and supply ammunition to the troops.  Although Shuangchengzi was lost, the Russian army in Vladivostok still had great confidence in being able to defend Vladivostok.

    Vladivostok was a Chinese territory before 1860. The traditional Chinese name was "Vladivostok" and the locals called it "Vladivostok" (meaning harbor). It was named after its rich production of sea cucumbers.  Historically, Shanghai Shenwei has been a tourist attraction since the Tang, Liao and Jin Dynasties, and people's activities have gradually begun to appear here.  In Yuan Dynasty, it was called Yongming City.  During the Bohai Kingdom period of the Tang Dynasty, it was under the jurisdiction of Shubin Mansion.  Pochet Bay near Vladivostok was the foreign trade seaport of the northeastern border area of ??the Yuan Dynasty.  In order to strengthen the connection with the various ethnic groups in the East China Sea, the Yuan Dynasty opened the southeast post road from Xixiangzhou to Binhai Yongming City.  After the unequal "Sino-Russian Aihun Treaty" was signed in 1858 (the eighth year of Xianfeng reign in the Qing Dynasty), Tsarist Russia couldn't wait to extend its aggressive claws to the Chinese territory east of the Ussuri River.  In June 1860 (May of the 10th year of Xianfeng's reign in the Qing Dynasty), the Tsarist Russian army violently occupied Vladivostok, an important port in China, and renamed Vladivostok "Vladivostok", which means "Control the East", as a way to further expand in the Far East.  base.  In November of the same year, after the signing of the unequal Sino-Russian Beijing Treaty, China lost about 400,000 square kilometers of Jilin territory from the east of the Ussuri River to the sea, and Vladivostok was also included in Russian territory.

    Vladivostok is located near the waters of the Sea of ??Japan at the front of the Tsushima Warm Current and the Western Leman Cold Current. The winter icing period lasts for 100 to 110 days (from early December to mid-to-late March of the following year), and it is navigable with the help of icebreakers.  Since Russia occupied Vladivostok, it has become Russia's most important port in the Pacific.  Moreover, with the upcoming opening of the Trans-Siberian Railway, the position here will become increasingly important.  If Vladivostok is lost, hundreds of years of Russian efforts will be in vain.  Therefore, Tsar Nicholas II strictly ordered the defenders of Vladivostok to ensure that Vladivostok was controlled by Russia even if they fought to the death.

    Vladivostok, in the Far East Governor's Palace, the current Far East Governor Alexeyev is summoning the Russian generals in Vladivostok to discuss the defense of Vladivostok.  Rear Admiral Wizoft, commander of the Navy's Pacific Fleet, also participated in this meeting.  However, the Russian Navy's Pacific Fleet is relatively weak, and now it can only rely on the protection of coastal defense batteries and is trapped in Pochet Bay.

    The Russian Pacific Fleet includes a total of six battleships, 4 cruisers, 11 destroyers, 1 hospital ship, and several supply ships.  It seems that there are a lot of warships, but all of these warships are old goods from more than ten or twenty years ago.  In particular, the six battleships basically only have a displacement of seven to eight thousand tons, and their maximum speed is only fifteen knots.  In Britain and France, such battleships are simply called armored cruisers.  Against the Chinese navy, the Russian Pacific Fleet has absolutely no chance of winning.

    "Everyone, His Majesty the Tsar has strictly ordered that the defenders of Vladivostok must persist until the day when our army wins the victory on the battlefield in Eastern Siberia. At that time, reinforcements will arrive. If they fail, including me,  , will receive the severest punishment!" said Far East Governor Alexeyev.

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