The fighters and bombers of the Chinese troops came up and bombed the port of Arthur indiscriminately. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, this kind of "indiscriminate bombing" seems to be irregular, but if you look closely, you will find that they all have a very clear goal...... The targets of the bombs were either Japanese arsenals or barracks, and even the headquarters was bombed.

As a result, the commander of the Japanese army in Port Arthur, Inoue Daisa, had to say on the phone in a hurry: "We are attacked by the enemy......

Then the call was cut off.

Needless to say, several aerial bombs whistled down from the sky and blew up the four-story small western-style building that the Japanese army used as a headquarters on the spot, burying all the command staff, including Inoue Daisa, in the rubble.

One of the reasons why the bombers of the Chinese troops bombed so accurately was that there were already Chinese troops lurking in Port Arthur, and they reported to the Chinese troops in detail the distribution map of the Japanese troops in the port...... It is not difficult for them to do this, after all, this is the territory of the Chinese, and the Chinese people also hate them because of the brutality of the Japanese army, so there are too many Chinese people who can take advantage of them.

On the other hand, many of these reconnaissance units lurking in the harbor are artillery scouts, and when Chinese warships and air forces bomb the harbor, they actually hide in high places and correct the trajectory of the Chinese navy and air force by radio.

All this caused bombs and shells to fly towards the Japanese bases as if they had eyes.

But more importantly, in fact, the Japanese army was not prepared to defend Port Arthur at all...... Judging from the location of Port Arthur, it can be said to be a hinterland from any direction, even to the southeast where the Chinese fleet has hit...... According to the Japanese army's consistent thinking, if the enemy's fleet could reach Arthur from the sea, then the Japanese Combined Fleet would basically cease to exist.

However, to be honest, the difference between the existence and non-existence of the Japanese Combined Fleet at this time was not very large, but a considerable part of the Japanese army did not know that the Japanese Combined Fleet had reached this point...... From this point of view, it was also the top brass of the Japanese army who concealed the defeat internally in order to avoid affecting morale.

Therefore, what the 301st Wing of the Japanese Army stationed in Port Arthur did in Port Arthur was nothing more than to maintain law and order and ensure the safety of roads, railways, and ports in the territory...... They don't even have a bomb shelter to hide.

To be exact, there are still air-raid shelters in Lushun, but they were built by the Russians during the Russo-Japanese War, and the Japanese army ...... They didn't think they were going to be hit by air strikes, and of course they didn't bother to build any bomb shelters.

As a result, the bombing of Port Arthur by the Chinese army brought heavy casualties to the Japanese army in the first place...... A group of more than 3,000 Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded on the spot, more than 1,000 were wounded, most of them were killed while sleeping in the barracks before they could understand what was going on, and the remaining 1,000 people were unable to organize an effective defense because they lost their command. Another puppet army of more than 5,000 people was also blown up on the spot.

In fact, even if these Japanese troops and puppet armies can organize defense, it will not become any climate, because the scouts who infiltrated Port Arthur in the morning also took advantage of this time to make trouble everywhere, and there was a gunshot here and an explosion there, only to make the Japanese puppet army dizzy, and they couldn't figure out which direction the enemy came from or how many people there were, and they couldn't defend if they wanted to.

The only thing that can play a role should be the fort arranged by the Japanese army in the area of West Jiguan Mountain in the "Tiger Tail...... West Cockscomb Mountain can be said to be the natural barrier of Port Arthur, but the original very small port has formed a curved, narrow reverse "S" shape, that is, a tiger's tail-like natural embankment due to the deposition of sea sand, which forces all ships to enter Port Arthur to follow the curve of the "tiger's tail".

It is conceivable that if strong batteries were placed on the commanding heights of West Cockscomb Mountain on both sides, the port could be easily blocked with artillery fire.

The Japanese army did have a battery on West Cockscomb Mountain, but alas, it was ...... Due to the above reasons, the fortifications here are basically left over from the Russo-Japanese War, and the Japanese army only slightly repaired them and symbolically placed a few guns and ignored them.

These forts, although they were all concrete fortifications, were exposed beyond the soil layer, and were not at all comparable to the Japanese fortifications on Tarawa or Iwo Jima.

As a result, half of these batteries were blown up by the bombers of the Chinese Air Force before a few shells were fired, and then the warships of the Chinese fleet drove up again, and hundreds of Gaoping dual-purpose guns bombarded these batteries, and it did not take long to beat them all to ruins.

Then, the 2nd Regiment, which had long been prepared for the landing, sent a battalion of troops to take the Higgins ship and the amphibious landing vehicle, and under the cover of naval guns and fighters, rushed up to the West Cockscomb Mountain, completely occupying the commanding heights on both sides of the port.

Immediately after that, the "Donald Duck" also went ashore under the cover of the infantry, and as soon as it landed on the shore, it immediately transformed into a "Sherman" tank and aimed its guns at the Japanese troops and ships in the harbor for a fierce bombardment.

Subsequently, another battalion, under the cover of the commanding heights on both flanks, took Higgins to quickly bypass the "tiger's tail" and go straight to the port and land......

In fact, what the Chinese troops did seemed a bit redundant, because the Japanese puppet army stationed in Lushun had already collapsed, and the puppet army had even taken the lead and didn't know where to go...... They were originally forced to be the eagle dogs of the Japanese army because of the Japanese army's obscenity or greed for life, and of course they would no longer work for the Japanese army at a critical moment.

The remaining 1,000 or so Japanese troops still organized several lines of defense.

But the so-called defense line is nothing more than a pile of sandbags set up in the streets, and then a few machine guns and a few rifles are placed on the sandbags.

Such a line of defense may be a problem for the Chinese army at home, because the Japanese have a great advantage over the Nationalist army in light weapons, not only that the Japanese army's rifles and machine guns are generally higher than the Nationalist army...... In modern times, many netizens believe that the formal performance of the national army's equipment is better than that of the Japanese army's 38 type, so they conclude that the equipment of the national army is superior to that of the Japanese army.

But this is clearly false...... The amount of formal equipment in the national army is not high, and more of it is made in Hanyang, and the amount of equipment such as light and heavy machine guns and mortars is lower than that of the Japanese army, especially the Japanese army still has a kind of "big killer" grenadier that is difficult for the national army to deal with, which makes the national army have a big gap with the Japanese army in light weapons.

However, what the Japanese army had to deal with was not an ordinary Chinese army, but a Chinese expeditionary force that had come back from a circle in the Pacific theater and was fully equipped with American equipment and rich combat experience!

(To be continued.) )