Before the attack, the Japanese army did not launch artillery bombardment on the People's Army's positions, because Notsu Dokun had figured it out that the People's Army had equipped armored trains with long ranges, so playing artillery with the People's Army was completely seeking death, so it would be better not to use it.

Although Notsu Dokun has not yet figured out how the People's Army observed the landing point of the shells and informed the soldiers responsible for firing, the People's Army had created armored trains that installed naval large-caliber artillery, so they naturally had their reasons. Notsu Dokun suffered in the battle of Liaozhong. Therefore, Notsu Dokun decided to give up the artillery before the attack and let the army launch an attack directly on the positions of the People's Army. Of course, the Japanese army gave up using only medium-caliber artillery, and there were still a small number of small-caliber artillery of 57, 47, 37 mm, etc. that could be used with the soldiers, which could make up for the lack of firepower.

Notsu Dokun also does not believe that without artillery attacks, there is no attack, because in essence, Notsu Dokun is also a spiritual plagiarist. In fact, it is not just Notsu Dokun. Almost all Japanese soldiers in this era were spiritual plagiarists. The main factor of belief in victory is the courage, morale and determination to not fear sacrifice. Other factors are secondary, and of course, it is a matter of Cheng Du's depth.

Although Notsu Dokan firmly believed that relying on the spiritual power of Japanese soldiers could overcome all difficulties, he was still somewhat rational after all. Nogi Kidon turned the battle against Lushun into a meat grinder, which was also a profound lesson. Therefore, Notsu Dokan also carefully compared and analyzed the conditions of the two battles: Lushun is surrounded by mountains, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Russia has operated in Lushun for 6 or 7 years, and has built solid fortifications outside Lushun, and has built concrete fortifications on almost every hill.

When the Japanese attacked, they naturally took great efforts and caused huge casualties. However, the terrain in Liaozhong was much flatter and there were not many mountains. What kind of position could the People's Army build after only a few days of occupation of Liaozhong? According to the report of the scouts, the People's Army's defense line in Liaozhong was basically built with trenches and sand bags, and there were also a small amount of fortresses supported by wood to cover sand and soil and sand bags. It was very simple. Nozin Daoguan believed that even without artillery, the Japanese army could break through the People's Army's defense line.

But the result of the battle on the first day was much beyond Notsu Daokuen's expectations. The People's Army relied on such simple fortifications to not only block the Japanese attack and defend the positions, but also caused significant damage to the Japanese army.

In the battle on this day, nearly 2,500 soldiers were killed, and more than 3,000 were injured. Moreover, in this day's battle, the Japanese army had almost no good opportunities, and there were not many opportunities to connect to positions close to the People's Army. Every attack was basically repelled by the People's Army. It only captured two frontier positions with little value, and its impact on the entire battle situation was almost zero.

Notsu Dokun then realized that the situation was wrong, and he personally braved the war and approached the battlefield to carefully observe the defense line built by the People's Army. He discovered some problems. It turned out that the defense line of the People's Army was indeed a little different from the trenches in Notsu Dokun's cognition. It seemed to be more complicated, and the lines of the trenches were also more tortuous. Of course, Notsu Dokun also found these details before the attack, but at that time he thought it was just a similar thing, so he didn't care much. But now it seems that it is probably a big deal.

In fact, although the trenches dug by the People's Army were simple, they were indeed very good at Dayoutang, and they completely used the trenches from the World War I period in the old time and space. The entire trenches were divided into three layers, all of which were toothed or shuttle-angle-shaped, which was beneficial to reduce the killing area of ​​enemy artillery: the first layer was the front trench, with ordinary soldiers arranged. A chest wall about 40cm high was built on the side of the trench facing the enemy, and a shooting port was left. There was also an elbow platform about 30cm between the chest wall and the trench. In this way, soldiers could minimize the exposed parts when standing and shooting, and they could also place *; on the side wall of the trench, an ammunition port for placing bullets and other items was dug out on the side wall of the inner trench, which was dug up to provide a large number of wall holes for soldiers to rest on the one hand; on the other hand, it could also be used to defend against enemy artillery fire.

The second floor is a supporting trench, which is a position for machine guns and mortars. It is about 30-40 meters away from the front trench and the height of the chest wall is 90-100cm. In this way, the machine gun will not be blocked by the front trench when firing.

The third floor is the reserve trench, which is an area where battlefield hospitals, kitchens, front-line command posts, reserve teams, etc. is located about 70-100 meters away from the support trench.

There are traffic trenches connected between the three trenches, which are very convenient to communicate with each other. Before these three trenches, there are several foxgloves. Each foxglove can be arranged with a squad of soldiers, mainly to expand the depth of the position, and behind the trenches is the artillery position.

Of course, in addition to trenches, the firepower arrangement of the People's Army is also coordinated with trenches, with clear layers. The 60 and 80 mortars are responsible for attacking enemy troops in the range of 500-1,000 meters; the machine guns and grenade launchers are responsible for attacking enemy troops in the range of 200-500 meters; the rifle is responsible for attacking enemy troops in the range of 50-200 meters; within 50 meters, the pistols and * are responsible.

This will create wave strikes against the enemy, which can maximize the power and strike strength of the People's Army. It can cause the greatest damage to the enemy under the premise that the ammunition is delivered to a comparable level. In addition, the Japanese army still did not learn from the lessons of fighting with the Russian army. It still formed a dense array during the attack. The distance between the Japanese soldiers was basically no more than 5 meters, sometimes even only 2 or 3 meters, and it did not talk about the level of attack. It covers each other and just rushes forward blindly. This is equivalent to giving the People's Army more room for play, and there is no threat of artillery suppression. Therefore, the Japanese army's attack almost fell to the ground in rows, and it is not surprising that there are heavy casualties.

The battle on the first day was so unsuccessful, which was indeed beyond Notsu Dokun's expectations. And on that night, Notsu Dokun received a telegram from Harukami Toya, the commander of the 11th Division stationed at Shaling Fort. Only then did he realize that the progress of the war in Shaling Fort was also unfavorable to the Japanese army. The outer positions of Shaling Fort had been broken by the People's Army, and it would be difficult to stick to them tomorrow.

This was just a leak and raining all night. Notsu Dokun couldn't help but be too damn. He had no progress on his side, and the Shaling Fort could not stand it for even three days. What should I do? After negotiation with the staff, Notsu Dokun decided that at this time, he had no choice but to strengthen the attack and strive to capture Liaozhong before the fall of Shaling Fort. Therefore, Notsu Dokun also ordered Tooya Harukami to defend Shaling Fort at all costs.

Chief of Staff Uehara Yusaki believed that it was almost impossible to break through the People's Army's defense line without the suppression and cover of artillery. Therefore, in tomorrow's battle, artillery must be used. In view of the People's Army's far-reaching advantage of artillery shooting, Uehara Yoshi made suggestions to disperse artillery into units of brigades, squadrons, each unit is equipped with only 3-6 artillery pieces for dispersion. Such multi-point dispersion can be used to interfere with the People's Army's reconnaissance of artillery positions.

After thinking for a while, Nozu Daoguan also agreed to Uehara Yuki's suggestion. After all, there was no better way, so he could only try any tricks, so he ordered Uehara Yuki to make arrangements.

Sure enough, on the next day, the Japanese army launched another attack on the People's Army's positions. Moreover, this time the Japanese artillery finally showed its power and first launched an artillery attack on the People's Army's positions.

After a day of arrangement, Uehara Yoshisao arranged a total of 16 artillery positions, but first of all, only 6 artillery positions were opened, each with 6 88mm field artillery pieces, mainly to test the People's Army to see if the People's Army can discover the Japanese artillery positions and carry out effective strikes.

However, as soon as the Japanese artillery was opened, the People's Army's armored train troops immediately fired the drone to reconnaise and locate the Japanese artillery positions. In less than 10 minutes, the drone determined the coordinates of the six artillery positions of the Japanese army. The train cannon, which had been idle for a day yesterday, finally had its place to use, so the operator quickly determined the various firing parameters of the train cannon according to the data provided by the drone, and then filled the shells to fire.

After two rounds of calibrating the fire, the third round of fire finally successfully hit a Japanese artillery position. Then two train guns carried out 6 rounds of fire, and a total of 7 shells fell accurately into the position, which completely destroyed the artillery position. Then the train gun turned the target to the next artillery position.

Within half an hour, the train guns had destroyed three artillery positions in succession, and Uehara Yoshisaki could no longer hold back. The People's Army's reconnaissance ability was indeed powerful. The arrangement of dispersed artillery positions could be reconnaissed by them and carried out accurate strikes. Therefore, they hurriedly ordered the remaining five artillery positions to stop the artillery attack immediately and immediately transfer. The other eight unexposed artillery positions were also evacuated immediately. Then they informed Notsu Dokun and immediately ordered the ground troops to launch an attack.

However, the evacuation of artillery was not easy. While the Japanese army was preparing to evacuate, another artillery position was hit by train artillery, and in the end, a total of 4 artillery positions were destroyed.

Fortunately, Notsu Daokuen had already ordered the troops to launch an attack while shooting. The Japanese artillery fired about 30 minutes of artillery bombardment on the People's Army's positions. Although it did not cause major damage to the People's Army's positions, it did indeed suppress the People's Army and also played a certain role in covering the offensive troops. After all, when the Japanese army launched artillery fire, the People's Army soldiers in the positions had to hide, which also provided considerable convenience for the Japanese attack.
Chapter completed!