Although Guanjian, which attacks Lushun Port, is the 203 Heights, it is not all that will be fine if you only capture the 203 Heights, because the 203 Heights is not an isolated position, but a defensive system that supports and cooperates with a series of highland terrain around it. It is only the 203 Heights have the highest altitude and are located in the central area, so it is the most important position. However, if you attack the 203 Heights, you must attack with the surrounding defensive positions. Otherwise, you will not only be attacked by other surrounding positions when attacking the 203 Heights. Even if you occupy the 203 Heights, it will be difficult to maintain for a long time.

The main positions around the 203 Highland are Dading Mountain and Laohugou Mountain in the north, Shengjia Mountain and Beiyanggou on the south. This is because the People's Army landed on the west side of Lushun, so it avoided Nanshan, Songshu Mountain, Zhizi Mountain, Baiyu Mountain, Navy Mountain and other positions in northeast Lushun.

Luo Yue recruited senior personnel from the Marine Corps and the 1st Army to negotiate and decide that the Marine Corps would attack the 203 Highland, Shengjia Mountain and Beiyanggou; the 1st Division of the 1st Army would attack Dading Mountain and Laohugou Mountain. The 6th Division was the general reserve team, and the 1st Reservoir Regiment was responsible for guarding the beachhead positions, and the Navy was responsible for fire support. The tactics of the whole body were decided by each unit, and the Navy's fire support distribution would be negotiated and decided after the two battleships arrived. The time for starting the battle was set at 7 a.m.

Now the Marine Corps has only one division, so three combat regiments attack these three positions. The club is allocated: the 1st Regiment attacks the 203 Highland, the 2nd Regiment attacks the Shengjia Mountain, and the 3rd Regiment attacks the Beiyanggou. The affiliated fire support troops of each regiment, the artillery troops fight with each regiment, and the division's artillery regiments are also divided and delegated to each regiment to fight together. The club's offensive tactics are formulated by the regiments and departments and handed over to Luo Yue for review.

So that night, the various regiments of the Marine Corps also conducted urgent discussions and formulated combat plans. Fortunately, the terrain of this area was in detail, the People's Army had already done detailed surveys and mapped, drew a very accurate map, and also made a large sand table. Although the Japanese troops guarding the positions were unknown, the places on these hills were not large, and it was impossible to garrison too many troops, usually around 3,500. If there were more, the troops could not be fully expanded.

By 9 pm, each regiment had formulated its own combat plans and handed them over to Luo Yue for review. Luo Yue was basically satisfied.

At 5 a.m., two warships arrived at the Lushun waters and met with the Marine Corps fleet. Luo Yue was resting on the 218 ship, so he got up from the bed, recruited captains of each ship on his ship to negotiate tomorrow's battle.

Since tomorrow's battle will take place from multiple positions at the same time, it is impossible to concentrate the firepower of all warships to bombard a certain position, but the firepower cannot be dispersed too much. In addition, although there are no large warships in Lushun Port, there are still several destroyers and boats. These small ships are equipped with *, so they have the ability to sink large warships. They must guard against the attacks of these small ships and boats.

The final decision was that the direction of the Marine Corps' offensive was of course focused on the 203 Highlands. Therefore, the newly arrived Yuanyang and the two battleships of the Yangyang were responsible for bombarding the 203 Highlands. The direction of the 1st Division was Dadingshan as the focus of the attack, so four Zhenyuan-class warships were bombarded. After the two positions were shelled, they were bombarded and bombarded other positions.

The shelling time was set at 6:40 in the morning, and the fleet's escort was conducted by two submarines and two 218 boats. After handling these tasks, Luo Yue returned to the land. His headquarters was located in Lijiatun, about 6 kilometers west of the 203 Highlands. This place used to be a mountain village with about 1,000 people, but now there are less than 300 left, and they are all old, weak, women and children. Therefore, Luo Yue set this place as the location of his headquarters.

During the day of the truce, the Japanese army was certainly not idle. Nogi Hashinomi was also dispatching troops to strengthen the defense of surrounding positions. At 10:30 am, Nogi Hashinomi learned that when the joint fleet intercepted the Russian fleet in the Tsushima Strait, it was intercepted by the overseas Chinese fleet. It was sunk two battleships, two armored cruisers, and many warships were injured. They could no longer fight in a short period of time. Moreover, the People's Army did not only land in Lushun last night, but also broke through the Liaohe defense line and almost participated in the war in full.

Although Nogi Hadou was demoted to Lushun, he still had a relatively clear understanding of the current Liaodong battlefield. After the East China government participated in the war, the Japanese army would be in an extremely unfavorable situation. Not only would he not be able to get support from the navy, but Liaoyang's side had little chance of sending reinforcements to him in the short term, so he could only rely on his own troops. Now there are about 23,000 Japanese troops guarding Lushun, and there are still about 8,000 troops in the Jinzhou area. Nogi Hadou was quite confident and believed that he could at least have about one month to Lushun.

Of course, Noki Hinomi was not blindly confident. When the Japanese army captured Lushun, they invested a total of 100,000 troops, and the guards in Lushun were no more than 50,000 at most, but they fought for 9 months before they captured Lushun. Although the Japanese army did not have enough fortifications now, they were sufficient ammunition and supplies. If it were in the past, Noki Hinomi would have dared to boast that they had defended Lushun for half a year, but they had only experienced the savage Lushun offensive battle. Under his own command, the Japanese army suffered heavy losses. Noki Hinomi also restrained a lot and became conservative when evaluating.

At 12 noon, Nogi Hashinomi received a telegram from Commander Oyama Iwa, asking if he could defend Lushun. Therefore, Nogi Hashinomi also answered according to the time he expected to ensure that he could stick to it for one month.

Dashanyan was quite relieved after hearing this. To be honest, Dashanyan is now as big as a fight. The Liaohe defense line was broken by the People's Army overnight, and Lushun landed successfully. The joint fleet was hit hard again, and hundreds of thousands of Russian troops were still under pressure in the north. Of course, neither Dashanyan nor Nogi Kidun still knew that the joint fleet had actually suffered an almost devastating blow. He thought that after 3 or 4 months of renovation, the joint fleet could still fight again. If the two of them, it was Dashanyan who knew the real losses of the joint fleet, they would probably have another plan.

However, after hearing Nogi Hajiri's statement that he could defend Lushun for at least one month, Oyama's mood was much more relaxed. At least within this month, he could do his best to deal with the Liaohe People's Army regardless of Lushun. Now the Japanese army still has some reserve forces, which is the 4th Army stationed in the North Korea and Yalu River areas, with about 80,000 people. Now it is time to use this army.

After finishing contact with Oyama Iron, Nogi Hinomi immediately set out to arrange the defense system of Lushun. It turned out that the Japanese army had one registrar in Dading Mountain, Laohugou Mountain, Satoya Dashan, Beiyanggou, and the 203 Highlands, and were equipped with 4 machine guns and 2 artillery pieces. Dading Mountain and 203 Highlands were the weight of each defense line. Therefore, Nogi Hinomi sent one registrar to each of these two positions, and added 4 machine guns and 4 artillery pieces to Dading Mountain, and 6 machine guns and 6 artillery pieces to the 203 Highlands.

However, the area of ​​these hills is too small to place more troops, so Nogi Hajimi set up two regiments and an artillery regiment in Matsushu Mountain behind the 203 Highlands to reinforce the positions ahead at any time. At the same time, Nogi Hajimi also set up his command center in Matsushu Mountain to facilitate the command of the battle.

It turned out that Russia spent a lot of effort when laying out the defense of Lushun. It only built a giant fortress and two prisms on the 203 Highland. The fortress was covered with barbed wire with thorns, and bunkers were also built on the back slope for the reserve team, which was a bit of a backslope. In the gap between the 203 Highland and the nearby hills, several fortifications composed of dark trenches, fortifications, and bunkers were carefully built. More than 50 various bunkers were built on the 203 Highland, each bunker could accommodate 20-50 people.

At that time, the Japanese army paid a heavy price to conquer the 203 Highlands. In order to destroy the fixed fortress, the Japanese army adopted the tactic of tunnel blasting, and took down the 203 Highlands by relying entirely on human cushions. However, most of the fortifications built by the Russian army were destroyed. The giant fortress and two prisms on the 203 Highlands were blown up, and now there is no time to repair them. The remaining ruins can only be used as bunkers for infantry or artillery, but most of the deep trenches, dark trenches, and even trenches were cleared out, so the entire position was quite complete.

Moreover, Nogiki Hinomi laid a large number of barbed wire mesh on the high ground, which also absorbed the experience of the Japanese attack. When the Japanese army conquered the 203 Highland, they suffered a lot of barbed wire mesh. Now Nogi Hinomi also wanted to make the case according to the law, which also made the People's Army suffer.

After setting up the position, Nogi Hinomi stood on the 203 Highlands and was quite self-deserving. Imagining the battle tomorrow, the soldiers of the People's Army fell in front of their positions in groups. The people's army had to pay for the suffering they had suffered on this highland. Therefore, Nogi Hinomi also slept very peacefully that night.
Chapter completed!