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Chapter 84:Retreating Russia

For the next month, it was all about the Far East.

There is no detail in Xu's afternoon summarizing all the intelligence on the ground battlefield in the Far East.

And with time later, the information collected is more comprehensive.

The Red Guard Corps has ten thousand elite troops, using various ways, quietly into the territory of North Korea, all the intelligence is gathered together by every soldier, naturally very carefully.

The red police soldiers who lurked up were not directly involved in the war, because it was not yet time for them to start.

The inability of the Russian Navy to compete for sea power, relying only on Vladivostok's shore artillery defense and the deployment of a large number of mines, blocked the Japanese Navy's threat to Vladivostok, and could not prevent the Japanese army from landing at any point in the coastal area.

After the First Army, the Second Army of the Japanese Army, under the command of Major General Obaogong, successfully landed on the coastline between Chongjin and Luojin, and cut off the railway from Luojin and Chongjin for the first time.

The 30,000-strong army of the Russian Army in Southern Ussuri has already gathered in Luojin.

Railway transportation was cut, contact between Luojin and Qingjin was cut off, and a large amount of supplies had not yet been shipped to Qingjin, which was fatal to the Russian forces in Qingjin.

The idea of the Russian Army is simple: to attract the Japanese army to fight in the Chongjin area.

The Japanese, on the other hand, simply let the Russians succeed, and then unite the Second Army to eliminate all Russian troops in North Korea.

The main force of the Second Japanese Army was 45,000, plus more than 20,000 in the First Army, with a total strength of 70,000.

Russia has amassed nearly 60,000 troops in Qingjin, and there are 30,000 troops in Luojin.

The Japanese moved too quickly.

In just one month, the Second Army had landed smoothly, and directly cut off the continuity of Qingjin and Luojin, and the Russian Army was completely passive.

The Russian Army's First Siberian Army in Rajin hastened to start from Luzin and try to open the line of communication.

But in front of the First Siberian Army was the more powerful Japanese Second Army.

In nearly half a month of fighting, the Russian Siberian First Army retreated, losing nearly half of its troops, but only retreated and opened the line of communication without hope.

This is a big blow to Russian soldiers in the Qingjin region, and morale is low.

In addition, there are not enough supplies, there are also the Japanese First Army, and the 40,000 troops of the Second Army to the east, weapons, ammunition and food supplies, are gradually exhausted.

In the face of the onslaught of the First Army, the Russian army, which did not have any reinforcements, could only choose to fight to the end with blood.

The battle of Chongjin, which began to retreat from the Dongman detachment and landed in the Second Japanese Army, took a month and a half.

After the decisive battle, it took more than ten days, and the Russian army, which had no way out, finally showed a show.

Sixty thousand Russian Army soldiers, almost all of whom died at the cost, ended the battle with the surrender of only two thousand.

The Japanese First and Second Armies also lost more than 20,000 people, and if it had not been for cutting off supplies, the Russian army lacked weapons and ammunition, and the two Japanese armies would have added up to more than 300 artillery pieces, otherwise Japan would not have lost just about 20,000 people.

Although the Japanese army lost a lot of money, through this war, it almost established Japan's control over the DPRK.

In the end, the Russian army left 10,000 troops here in Luojin, but in Russia, the Russians still have hundreds of thousands of troops.

If these forces cannot be eliminated, this war will not win the war with Japan's victory as the Japanese imagined.

On the contrary, because the longer the time, Russia will mobilize more troops to the Far East, so that the war side will be long and long war of attrition, and eventually Japan will be defeated.

Therefore, at the end of the battle of Chongjin, the Japanese First Army and the Second Army were too late to rest, and the two large armies gathered together to set out towards Luojin.

Rozin's Russian forces have been fully withdrawn, and they have converged with the garrison on the Vladivostya side to the east.

The Japanese army's combat effectiveness, far more than the Russian army expected, originally thought that one can hit four Russian soldiers, the combat damage is actually three times that of Japan.

To this end, the Russian army made adjustments, converging with Vladivostok and the Twin Cities a total of 160,000 troops, with a superior strength to fight the Japanese army.

And this is what the Japanese most want, that is, to fight, as soon as possible to eliminate the main forces of the Russian army, otherwise the war will be delayed until next year, because the cold winter in Siberia is coming, when the material is ready, the artillery transportation will be much slower.

In the First and Second Armies, towards Vladivostok, the Japanese Army's Ready Third Army also began to prepare for landing near Vladivostok.

The next battle will all revolve around Vladivostya.

Since the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, nearly four months have passed.

Zhang Yize of Jakarta is still patient and waits for the end of this war.

He waited, waiting for the red police to arrive in the Red Guards when it would not be so cold in Siberia next year.

Russia's Baltic Fleet is also on its way to the Far East, a long voyage, and next year's Battle of the Sea of Malaysia will soon be staged.

In this regard, Fan Yize is not in any hurry, because the operation of the troops in this era, the logistics and supply, and the efficiency of the army's operation are quite slow.

Just like the previous battles of the Japanese Army and the Russian Army, a war is only a matter of one month to prepare for the beginning, and it takes at least one month to prepare.

It’s not that both sides don’t want to speed up themselves, it’s that there’s no way to speed up.

The Russian army is better, after all, it is easy to work.

The Japanese army must consider the transportation of artillery shells, as well as the factors of communication and soldier fatigue, so it is impossible to speed up.

In particular, the third army, which is about to land in Vladivostya, has been preparing for more than half a year.

In order to be able to break through the fortress of Vladivostgar, the Japanese Third Army prepared more than 100 siege artillery, which can be completed in half a year, has been remarkable, in exchange for Russia, want to transport 100 attack city guns from the west, there is no more than a year, do not think.

The heavy equipment carried by the Third Army was so amazing that it could not be faster.

But without preparing these equipment, the Third Army would not have been able to attack a fortress like Vladivostya.

And these more than a hundred siege guns have almost exhausted the entire Japanese family.

The combined fleet could not be near Vladivostok's inner harbor, and only these siege artillery could threaten the Vladivostok fortress.

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