The artillery bombardment of Vladivostok by the European-style coalition forces lasted all night.
The three artillery regiments fired a total of more than 50,000 artillery shells and carried out fire strikes on 17 forts defended by the Japanese army.
This is not enough. There are a total of six fort groups in the north of Lushun, with more than 40 forts or bunker groups.
These forts or bunkers are all built on higher ground. The tank engines of the Vladivostok Allied Forces currently do not have enough horsepower to launch attacks on these forts. If you have to accept your fate to fill them, it is estimated that filling all the Vladivostok Allied Forces will not be very effective.
In the Russo-Japanese War 15 years ago, the Japanese army paid a price of 110,000 casualties in order to capture the Russian-defended Port Arthur.
After more than ten years of painstaking efforts, the scale of the Lushun Fort is now larger than that of 1904. If the Vladivostok coalition forces want to attack when tanks cannot function, you can imagine the price they will pay.
In the early morning, the smoke did not dissipate as the sun rose, but the atmosphere became increasingly tense.
The plane sent by Xie Rundong to assist in the battle finally arrived.
The first batch of fighter planes that flew over Lushun were fighter planes dispatched by the Northern Expedition Fleet. Compared with the huge and clumsy bombers, fighter planes were more flexible and faster, so they were naturally harder to hit.
What Cheng Deba said was indeed correct. The Japanese had indeed prepared anti-aircraft firepower. They mounted a Taisho Type 3 heavy machine gun on a wooden stake and then launched anti-aircraft fire.
Although it is indeed a bit crude, it can barely be regarded as an anti-aircraft weapon, and it will pose some threat to aircraft. But unfortunately, even if it is modified with a heavy machine gun, the number is always too small and cannot be used on a large scale.
The threat from aircraft is fairly limited.
Japan is a country lacking resources. The few resources the Japanese have are used by the Japanese in the navy. The equipment level of the army has never been improved.
In World War I, heavy machine guns shined, and the Japanese saw the importance of heavy machine guns. Therefore, the Ministry of War made an army expansion plan in the middle of the world war, which stipulated that each brigade of the Japanese army should be equipped with one
The machine gun squadron has eight heavy machine guns.
If this plan can become a reality, one division of the Japanese army will have 96 heavy machine guns. Although this cannot keep up with the nearly 1,000 machine guns of a US military division, which is nearly 700 for a French army division, it can also greatly strengthen the Japanese army's firepower configuration.
But it is regrettable that although the world war has ended for a year, this plan is still on paper and has never become a reality.
The current Japanese army only has less than 20 heavy machine guns in one division. Even in an important port like Lushun, the total number of machine guns in the three divisions and the coastal defense force is less than 200. If they want to rely on this kind of firepower
The air force that intensively intercepts Lanfang is really wishful thinking.
These 200 heavy machine guns are the total number, and part of them must be installed on the fort to prepare for the Vladivostok coalition forces that may launch an attack at any time. It is impossible for all of them to be used for air defense.
So what fighter pilots have to face is less than 50 Taisho 3-year-old heavy machine guns. The most important thing is that these Taisho 3-year-old heavy machine guns are fed with 50-round bullets. This ammunition supply must be assisted by the assistant shooter.
, can ensure the smooth supply of ammunition, and even if the secondary shooter has only a little strength, it will affect the shooter's aim.
Lanfang's fighter jets are quite powerful even when attacking the ground. Each of Lanfang's fighter jets has two machine guns, and this wave of fighter jets has a total of 12, so although the battle has not yet begun, the balance of victory has already been
It began to tilt in the direction of Lanfang.
As the first fighter jet began to dive, ground anti-aircraft fire opened fire. For a moment, the chain of tracer bullets seemed to be about to strangle the light little thing, but the fighter jet simply pulled up and escaped.
The seemingly airtight fire net flies straight into the blue sky.
While this fighter jet was diving, other fighter jets were hovering in the sky. They were waiting for the anti-aircraft fire on the ground to fire before looking for their respective targets.
Without any communication, the eleven fighter jets dived towards the anti-aircraft firepower on the ground from all angles, and at this moment, no one noticed them at all.
This was the first time the Japanese army fought an aircraft, and it was also the first time the Japanese army conducted an air defense operation. It was impossible for the Japanese to arrange the distribution of firepower, nor to pay attention to mutual cover.
Just when these eleven fighter jets started to dive, almost all the machine gun shooters were still chasing the diving fighter jet just now, hoping to shoot it down and get a good start.
At this moment, more gods of death swooped down from the sky, whistling like goshawks catching hares on the grassland.
Puff puff
Only when dust stirred up by machine gun bullets appeared on the ground next to the shooters did the machine gun shooters realize that the danger was coming.
It was too late to turn the muzzle of the gun. Although almost all the machine gun shooters were desperately trying to turn the muzzle of the gun, at least eight heavy machine guns still misfired after the fighter jets completed the dive.
It is not easy to train a pilot, but it is not easy to train a heavy machine gun shooter, especially for an army like the Japanese army that is extremely stingy with bullets. It is even more difficult for them to train a qualified heavy machine gun shooter.
Before the commander of the ground air defense force could feel sorry for the heavy machine gun shooter, the plane from the sky came again.
Well, for the Japanese soldiers whose lives were threatened at any time, this was really painful.
But soon, they will know how lucky those machine gun shooters who just died in the air raid were.
There was a vague roar from the horizon, and the sound became louder and louder. This was the bomber formation coming over.
Xie Rundong released all the bombers, a total of 92. These bombers were all loaded with solidified bombs, 50 kilograms each, and each plane was loaded with 14 bombs.
Compared with fighter jets, bombers are indeed bulky, but when it comes to ground attack effectiveness, twelve fighter jets combined are not as good as one bomber.
The Japanese must not have received relevant information about Keelung Port. Otherwise, they would probably rather retreat to the mountainous areas of Korea to fight guerrillas than stick to Lushun. Soon, when the first bomber dropped an incendiary bomb, the Japanese
They paid the price for not paying attention to communication.
Lanfang's bombers were all level bombers, and no dive bombers had yet been developed. When the Japanese saw Lanfang's bombers flying over Lushun in level flight, some Japanese soldiers couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief.
Just don't swoop, just don't swoop
But what is that
Before the Japanese army could see clearly what those rapidly falling black dots were, balls of flames that looked like they came from hell swallowed up everyone within the explosion range.
When these bombers were dispatched, Xie Rundong's order was to turn Lushun into another Keelung. Therefore, although Lushun was the land of the Republic of China, these pilots had no scruples. They were only responsible for bombing and were not responsible for handling the funeral.
With the experience of using solidification on a large scale in Keelung City, Lanfang's bomber pilots still made certain arrangements before the war, such as which bombers were responsible for the forts, which bombers were responsible for bombing the barracks outside the city, and which bombers were responsible for parking in Port Arthur.
There are plans for the Japanese military ships and so on.
The consequence of having a plan was that it was extremely efficient. When these bombers flew over Lushun, the sky behind them was already covered in smoke.
Some bombers still flew back. Due to the efforts of the Vladivostok coalition forces last night, some of the bombers responsible for bombing the fort lost their targets, so they returned to Lushun, just like they did in Keelung, they randomly found a target and dropped it on Solid.
It is still different from Keelung. In Keelung, the bombers dropped all their bombs in the port, but in Lushun, there were several bombers who dropped their bombs into the city.
Of course, the bomber pilots later explained that they could not see clearly because the smoke obstructed their vision.
But what it is exactly, I am afraid only they themselves know.
Anyway, there are no Chinese in Lushun anymore. It would be a pity if Japanese expats were accidentally injured.
Now, do we have to attack? Wang Dingshan looked at Lushun, whose expression seemed to be burning, and hesitated.
Of course you have to attack. If you can ensure that all the Japanese troops in Lushun are dead, even if they are all dead, it is not bad to let the brothers warm themselves over the fire. Liu Zizheng must see it with his own eyes to feel comfortable.
Okay, attack, attack, brothers, let’s get started. Wang Dingshan shouted and jumped on his bulldog.
In the distance, the First Division of the Foreign Legion led by Xu Sheng was ready to attack.
As a fortress with well-equipped defense facilities, Lushun is not that easy to attack. On the way to Lushun, the Japanese laid huge minefields. If the Vladivostok coalition wanted to attack the Lushun Fortress, how to pass through these minefields was a big problem.
At this time, we definitely cannot send engineers to clear mines in the front. That would be equivalent to sending engineers to die.
When the Japanese army lays landmines, they will definitely leave a predetermined passage, which is not only convenient for the Japanese army to move out, but also to lead the Lanfang army to the place they want, and that place is often covered by the cross fire of the Japanese bunker.
point.
If it were not for the help of bombers, the Vladivostok coalition forces would really have to pay a heavy price to capture Lushun. However, when some forts were in ruins and some were shrouded in fire and smoke, the intensity of the Vladivostok coalition's attack was really about the same as a march.
Along a road that was obviously not damaged, the Vladivostok coalition forces successfully arrived at the anti-tank trenches. Lanfang's army had accumulated enough experience in dealing with anti-tank trenches. Soon the tank troops successfully passed through the anti-tank trenches and bypassed several more.
After building a hill with a fort, Xu Sheng finally arrived at the core area of Lushun.
Pull back. This was Xu Sheng's first words after seeing Lushun City.