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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 211 The Unsatisfactory Results of the Japanese Army

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    The Japanese fleet finally gained the upper hand in the artillery battle off Vladivostok, but the landing that started just before evening encountered trouble again. A group of the vanguard rushed too hard and was directly driven into the minefield by Russian machine gun fire. There was originally a minefield.  In a low-lying area under the fortress, the fort fell silent after the indiscriminate bombardment by Japanese naval guns. After the Japanese troops landed on the shore, the roar of the Russian Maxim was heard again!

    Less than 300 meters away from the beach, the giant cannons on the Japanese battleships were unable to provide fire support at all. If they were slightly off target, they would blow up their own team's foreheads. However, the rapid-fire cannons on several destroyers of the Japanese naval fleet had an effect.  For a certain fire support task, once the Maxim fire points on the Russian fortress turrets are removed one by one, there will not be many people left in the vanguard group. The low-lying area is a good place to hide from the Russian machine gun fire.

    But it is also a fatal Shura Field. Because it is a depression, the direct fire from the Japanese warships cannot hit it, so this place was mined by the Russian army. When a Japanese brigade discovered something was wrong, the people who had been bombed were thrown over and suffered heavy casualties!

    Fortunately, the Russian army did not hold on. After losing the firepower of the fortress artillery and Maxim machine guns, the Russian army quickly withdrew from the front-line positions, while the Japanese army continued to bombard the empty forts and fortress positions indiscriminately.  For more than half an hour, a second brigade was sent for reinforcements before they rushed to the Russian position.

    The bloody feud between the Russian army and the Japanese army was forged during the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. The quality of individual soldiers of the Russian army in 1905 was much better than that of the Japanese army, which would be awesome in the future, especially in hand-to-hand combat with bayonets.  The Japanese suffered a heavy loss, which was also the reason why the Japanese army would emphasize the ability of individual soldiers to stab each other in the future.

    The Japanese army captured the fortress and fort that night, but they were too exhausted to advance overnight. As mentioned before, the forts and fortifications in Vladivostok faced the sea, so from the north, the fort didn't even have a gun hole.  The Japanese army had to temporarily establish a commanding firepower point on the fort, while the remaining four to five thousand Russian troops retreated to the city, using the Vladivostok Railway Station as the core fortification, preparing to fight a street battle with the Japanese.

    The heroic fighting of the Russian army not only disgraced the Japanese Navy and the Kurume Division, but also bought time for the residents of the city to evacuate. In the minds of the Russians, it is obvious that the Japanese yellow-skinned monkeys are murderous devils, but they are targeting the Chinese army.  Quite unfamiliar. The Russians look down on the Chinese but are not afraid of the Chinese, including the Chinese model army who have not yet learned the lesson.

    The Russians looked down on the Japanese. During the Russo-Japanese War, apart from their fanatical bushido spirit, the Japanese army was in a mess from battlefield command to strategic decision-making. The quality of individual soldiers was also extremely poor. Hundreds of thousands of troops surrounded the Port Arthur Fortress and fought.  There was no fighting for a year, and Nogi's two sons died on the battlefield. In the face of the Russian army's superior Maxim and grenades, the Japanese army's main strategy was to attack with meat and ammunition.

    Therefore, although the Japanese dispatched troops to Vladivostok have landed and captured the coastal fortresses and forts, the Russian army has no idea of ??surrender. It must be said here that the Russian army is smarter than the Japanese troops in the Songhu battlefield in the future, abandoning the first line of fortresses.  The purpose of the fort is to pull the Japanese troops ashore, which can reduce the threat of naval guns to the opponent's maritime fleet. At this time, Japan's air force is almost non-existent, and its aerial bombing capability is almost blank.

    This is about the glorious history of Vladivostok as a fortress. Between 1904 and 1905, the initially completed Vladivostok Fortress played an important role in preventing the Japanese army from occupying Vladivostok.  From 1910 to 1916, Engineer General A.P. Fernand proposed a new fortress design plan, and Major General A.P. Shaosin, commander of the Vladivostok Fortress Engineering Corps, was in favor of it.

    In the following years, fortresses No. 1-7 and fortresses a, e, zh and z were built on the south bank of the Suifen River basin from Ussuriysk (Twin Cities) to the Amursky Bay, and on the south and east banks of Russky Island.  A series of infrastructure such as fortresses 9-12, coastal forts, and anti-landing covered channels were installed.  The new fortress absorbed all the achievements of military engineering technology at that time, including many well-equipped bunkers and underground passages.

    If Vladivostok had 30,000 garrison troops like Port Arthur, then not to mention one Kurume Division, even three Kurume Divisions may not be able to successfully capture Vladivostok. In 1918, there was only one Eastern Siberian 7th Infantry Brigade left in the Vladivostok garrison.  With 6,000 people, it is difficult for them to defend such huge fortresses and fortifications.

    The main force guarding the fortress is artillery. There were 12 coastal artillery battalions in Vladivostok during the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. However, in February 1918, due to the confusing domestic situation in Russia, only 4 artillery battalions were left. Waiting for the first day  After the battle to land on the beach, the four artillery battalions lost almost all their artillery and more than half of their casualties. They had to withdraw to the second-line position under the order of the fortress commander and commander of the 7th Infantry Brigade, Pi Shaofu.

    It can be said that the Japanese Army at this time was still very capable of enduring hardships. After occupying the coastal fortresses and forts, the 12th Division seized the time and quickly launched ashore one by one. The division commander Shiba Goro dispatched his troops to Vladivostok.The headquarters is located in the core fort of the coastal fortress. Although the reinforced concrete building was damaged by the 280mm cannon bombardment of the Japanese Navy battleship, it is still much stronger than the camping tent in terms of sturdiness!

    Half of the brigade was lost during the landing, and more than half of the brigade was lost after landing. The 14th Infantry Regiment of the 12th Brigade, which was led by the Japanese 12th Division, lost one-third of its strength and was defeated by the division commander Shiba Goro.  It was moved to the second line to rest and replenish, and the 47th Infantry Regiment of the 12th Brigade took the lead.

    That night, Shibagoro and his Kurume Division spent so much energy and energy on landing and landing that they were unable to continue to pursue the victory and attack the Russian army in Vladivostok.

    On February 28, 1918, China and Japan launched a five-pronged attack on Siberia and the Far East. The three armies of the Chinese participating armies on land have made considerable progress, while the Japanese Vladivostok Expeditionary Force and the Japanese Navy landed on the beach in Vladivostok.  The performance can only be regarded as unsatisfactory.

    As for Japan¡¯s Trans-Kinggan Mountains Expeditionary Force, since the sea area north of Vladivostok has not yet thawed, Japan¡¯s Trans-Kinggan Mountains Dispatch Troops went directly north from Sakhalin Island, crossed the ice, and successfully conquered Temple Street, which was covered in ice for thousands of miles.  The lower Temple Street is about 80 kilometers away from the place where Heilongjiang flows into the Heilongjiang estuary, about 977 kilometers away from Khabarovsk, and 582 kilometers away from Komsomolsk, a heavy industrial city in the Far East in its previous life.

    In the summer when it is not frozen, Temple Street can be reached by medium-sized sea vessels. It is a transshipment port for river and offshore transportation in the Far East. However, because there is no railway and it has not yet thawed at the end of February, although the outer Xing'anling dispatched troops are in name only  It consists of two standing divisions, the Japanese Seventh Division and the Fifth Division. In fact, only the vanguard of a brigade originally stationed in the Seventh Division of Kanto Prefecture was dispatched.

    In 1918, the 7th Division, headed by Fujii Yukitsuchi, who graduated from the 8th class of the University of Japan, was organized as follows:

    7th Division

    13th Infantry Brigade: 25th Infantry Regiment, 26th Infantry Regiment

    14th Infantry Brigade: 27th Infantry Regiment, 28th Infantry Regiment

    7th Cavalry Regiment

    7th Field Artillery Regiment

    7th Engineer Regiment

    7th Transportation Wing

    The Seventh Division of the Japanese Army was established in Sapporo, Hokkaido on May 12, 1888. It was the first division established after the Imperial Japanese Army was reorganized from six regional commands into one divisional command.

    At that time, the reorganization was proposed by Prussian military adviser Jacob Merkel.

    The division is responsible for the defense of Hokkaido and is divided into 4 divisions (Sapporo, Hakodate, Asahikawa and Kushiro). Since the Japanese government encourages retired soldiers to defend Hokkaido, the 7th Division has excess troops and includes many originally from Japan.  Soldiers from other areas.

    The parent body of the 7th Division of the Northern Army Corps is the Garrison Corps in Hokkaido, which was established in 1885 in accordance with the "Garden Army Ordinance".  The garrison soldiers were responsible for the development of Hokkaido and the defense of the north.  They are half-farmers, half-soldiers who are engaged in farming during normal times; if there is war, they go into battle.  Unlike the first six divisions, it was reorganized into a division very late.

    After the Sino-Japanese War of 1896, it was officially reorganized into the 7th Division.  The regiment recruited and replenished troops from the four regiment areas of Sapporo, Asahikawa, Hakodate and Kushiro. However, the population of Hokkaido was very sparse at that time. Sometimes if a regiment in the alliance area could not recruit all the troops, it could only be recruited from the Tohoku region (Aomori, Aomori,  Iwate, Yamagata, etc.) to supplement the shortage of manpower.

    In Wang Geng's words, the 7th Division is the peasant army of the Japs. During the Warring States Period in Japan, it was the Ashigaru with spears as its main equipment. They farmed in peacetime and fought in wartime. With a large number of people, they were not considered samurai. Their combat effectiveness  Extremely poor.

    In fact, in Wang Geng¡¯s previous life, the commander of the 7th Division was stationed in Manchuria and was almost completely wiped out in the Battle of Nomenkan with Lao Maozi!

    Fortunately, the fate of the Seventh Division in its previous life, Comrade Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, the boss of Nomenkan, was just a corporal. After the October Revolution broke out, Russia  Corporal Zhukov joined the Red Army, joined the 4th Regiment of the 1st Moscow Cavalry Division, and became a Red Army cavalry platoon leader.
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