The two sides bombarded each other for about 30 minutes before the Japanese army began to launch a ground attack. However, about 600 meters near the People's Army's defense line, the People's Army's mortars first bombarded, followed by machine guns and grenade launchers, and then rifles. They were divided into three layers of firepower and launched a fierce attack on the Japanese army. The firepower was dense and the layers were clear. It seemed that the Japanese shelling just now had almost no impact on the People's Army.

However, at this point, Yamamoto Kiyonosuke knew that he could not retreat, so he could only grit his teeth and resist the attack of the People's Army, so he still ordered the troops to attack the People's Army's positions.

It should be said that the morale of the Japanese army is quite high, and the attack is very firm, and almost no one retreats. They often send a squadron or a brigade, and all the members fall on the way to the attack. Even if there are only a dozen people left, they do not retreat, and they still charge forward without hesitation until they all fall down for this.

However, high morale could not help the Japanese army break through the People's Army's defense line, and its role was just the opposite, causing major casualties to the Japanese army. After all, in this era, position attacks had very particular tactical cooperation and technology, and were not brainless rushing pigs. This was fully confirmed in the Russo-Japanese War. Unfortunately, the Japanese army did not learn enough lessons from the Russo-Japanese War.

Of course, it cannot be said that the Japanese are stupid or have low IQ. The situation in other countries is actually similar to that of Japan. They have not fully learned from the Russo-Japanese War. Habitual thinking is not so easy to change. So much so that in the First World War 10 years later in the old time and space, countries around the world have basically not many good ways to set up positions fortifications in the enemy's fortifications, except for using human pads. As a result, they can only fight one meat grinder-like battle after another. Until the late stage of World War I, Britain used tanks on the battlefield, while in the Allies, the Hutier tactics introduced by Germany, which has a little new tactic meaning. However, since in the late stage of the World War, these two new tactics just emerged and were not fully developed and improved, the war was over. Therefore, it was not until the Second World War that these new tactics really bear fruit.

It is not realistic to demand that the Japanese army make subversive tactical changes now, but the direct consequence is that the Japanese army paid a significant price for casualties. Although they finally approached the People's Army's positions twice, they still failed to achieve corresponding results. In just the morning's attack, the 22nd Division suffered more than 5,000 casualties, and a total of 1 brigade and 4 squadrons were destroyed. Therefore, Shin-six Ishimoto had to replace the 22nd Division with the 28th Division in the afternoon and continue the attack.

However, the performance of the 28th Division was not better than that of the 22nd Division. On the contrary, the serious casualties of the 22nd Division caused the mentality of the 28th Division to undergo a subtle change. The attack was a little retardant and the attack was not firm enough. If it was a slight setback, it immediately retreated. The division commander Yoshiichi Ishii was very angry and shot two captains with poor offense on the spot, which shocked the entire army and the attack improved a little. But no matter how good it improved, the attack on the People's Army's positions did not change. In the end, the Japanese army could only stop the attack after paying about 3,500 casualties.

On the third day, the Japanese army attacked for another day, with more than 7,000 casualties, and it was still impossible to break through the People's Army's defense line.

After three days of attack, the Japanese army suffered more than 22,000 casualties, of which more than 7,800 were killed. Such a major casualties reminded many Japanese troops of the Lushun offensive and defensive battle. In Japan, is this meat grinder-style war going to be staged again?

Fortunately, Shinji Ishimoto kept his mind at this time and knew that continuing to attack would only increase casualties by the Japanese army. If you want to break through the People's Army's defense line, blindly attacking is not possible. It requires more powerful firepower, that is, more artillery is needed.

After receiving the report from Shinjiu Ishimoto, the Japanese Army also attached great importance to it. Bi Jing suffered 22,000 casualties in three days, which was not as good as the shocking record of 16,000 casualties in one day in the offensive and defensive battle of Lushun, but it was also a very terrible loss. Moreover, Shinjiu Ishimoto's requirements were not excessive. Five divisions participated in the battle, and only more than 200 artillery pieces were indeed a little too few.

Fortunately, the Army Department did not hope that five divisions could break through the positions of the People's Army at the beginning, so it had already decided to gather troops while fighting. Although the People's Army's defense exceeded the expectations of the Army Department, it was still within the plan. Of course, if we wanted to break through the People's Army's defense line, more troops and more artillery were needed. Therefore, the Army Department also ordered Shinji Ishimoto to temporarily stop the attack, and at the same time seize the time to dispatch troops.

Five days later, the Japanese army reinforced 5 divisions and more than 500 artillery pieces, of which 20 were 152mm artillery pieces, and 8 were 280mm caliber. Although the diameter of this mortar was only 12 times and the range was less than 10,000 meters, it was large after all, so it was the ace of Japan's attack. In the Lushun offensive and defensive battle, the Japanese army finally won the victory and captured Lushun. On the one hand, it captured a high point such as the 203 Highland. On the other hand, it also relied on 16 such 280mm caliber artillery pieces. Finally, they set up these 16 artillery pieces on the 203 Highland and bombarded the city and ports of Lushun, which destroyed the Russian army's final will to resist and surrendered to the Japanese army. Now the Japanese army has finally re-activated this ace.

However, the 16 280mm caliber mortars on the Far East battlefield were either destroyed by the war or became the trophy of the People's Army; 16 other 16 were sunk by the Russian Vladivostok fleet on the way. Now there are only 12 of these artillery left in Japan. This time, the Army Department suddenly pulled out 2/3, which shows how much the Army Department attaches importance to this battle.

At this time, the Japanese army had assembled the 10th Division's troops, and the number of artillery reached more than 700. Although the proportion of troops was not high, it was already the most of Japan's artillery.

But at this moment, the Army Department received emergency reports from various places. It turned out that the People's Army landed ashore in Akita, Naoezu, Tottori, Izumo and other places, looting and arresting, causing significant damage to these places. The Army Department asked the Army Department to quickly send troops to resist.

It turned out that this round of attack by the Japanese army caused about 1,200 casualties to the People's Army. After the Japanese army stopped attacking, Luo Yue also estimated that the Japanese army was re-assembling its troops, so the Japanese army's new round of attack would definitely be larger. However, Luo Yue was not worried about this, because the People's Army's defense line had withstood the test, and in the face of the People's Army's fortifications, no matter how much troops the Japanese army invested, it would be useless, not to mention that the People's Army had also supported the navy.

Luo Yue was considering that he could send Russian mercenaries out to destroy them. Because once the Japanese army assembled a large army to attack the People's Army's defense line, it would inevitably lead to empty troops in other places, and it was the best time to send Russian mercenaries to attack the landing. Of course, the Japanese army might also send troops from the Neng Peninsula to attack the Russian mercenaries from all over the place. Therefore, Luo Yue asked the country to transfer two army divisions who stayed in the country to wait. Once the Japanese army divided the troops from the front, the People's Army would take the initiative to attack the Japanese army at Neng Peninsula, making it difficult for the Japanese army to take the initiative to attack the Japanese army.

Just after the Japanese army's forces were assembled, the People's Army's reinforcements reached the Noido Peninsula. So Luo Yue ordered that Russian mercenaries attack, and this time, a total of 12 regiments were launched, landing in 4 locations, each with 3 mercenary regiments, plus a company of the People's Army, and sent three crossing soldiers leaders, carrying 2 radio stations and 3 drones. In this way, the troops of each landing site were about 7,000 people, which was enough to fight against a brigade of the Japanese army. The places where the landing site was selected were Akita, Naoezu, Tottori, and Izumo, all of which were coastal cities.

Sure enough, the People's Army's landings were very successful, and the garrison at the landing sites was very empty. After the People's Army successfully landed, it immediately sent a mercenary army to destroy and loot everywhere.

This has indeed caused a problem for the Japanese Army. Should we attack Nobend Peninsula or eliminate other landing people's army troops first? Now the Japanese Army has organized a total of 16 divisions, and 11 divisions are used to attack Nobend Peninsula. In important places in various parts of Japan, such as Tokyo and Osaka, a part of the army must be retained to guard, which requires at least 3 divisions. Therefore, Japan can only send at most 2 divisions, but dispatched to 4 places, so each place can only send one brigade, which is obviously not enough. However, if the troops are drawn from the troops attacking Nobend Peninsula, the power of the attack Nobend Peninsula will be weakened. Maybe this is the purpose of the People's Army, and the Japanese Army is in great difficulty now.

After discussion, the Army Department finally decided to attack the Neng Peninsula as the main force, and to the location where the People's Army landed, each dispatched a brigade, with the goal of restraining the People's Army's landing troops, and did not require elimination or repulsion. Because the Army Department believed that the People's Army on the Neng Peninsula was the main force, while other landing troops were just partial divisions, which only interfered with the Japanese army. As long as it could be defeated or even annihilated the People's Army, the People's Army landed in other places would take the initiative to retreat, so attacking Neng Peninsula was the top priority at present. Of course, in this way, other places where the People's Army landed in the People's Army would inevitably suffer major damage, and many Japanese were plundered, but for the sake of the overall situation, they could only endure necessary sacrifices. Moreover, the Army Department still sent a brigade in various places, hoping to reduce the losses in various places as much as possible.

However, in this way, the attack could not be unlimitedly delayed. Moreover, Japan had invested a lot of manpower and material resources for this battle. Therefore, the Army Department also issued a death order to Shinji Ishii, which must achieve a decisive victory within 7 days.
Chapter completed!