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In the afternoon, when the deafening roar of artillery fire receded like a big cháo, the commander of the 13th Wing of the Japanese Army, Infantry Osaisoya Ryosuke staggered to his feet, and by this time, the shelter was in ruins. It took him a lot of effort to remove the two beams and get out of the dòng, and he stood on the cool breeze of the mountain with the smoke of gunpowder.

Erling Mountain is the 203 highlands, and the Japanese take its homonym and call it Erling Mountain. The original name of Erling Mountain is actually called Monkey Rock Mountain, located in the west of Lushun City, because of the altitude of 203 meters, it is called 203 Highland. The 203 Heights is the commanding heights of the western front, close to the city of Lushun and the port fortress, and echoes with the nearby Wangtai Mountain and East Jīguan Mountain. Because the 203 Heights can control the urban area of Arthur and the military port fortress, it will affect the whole body, so in the Russo-Japanese War, it was an important position for the two sides of the Jiāo War.

For the Japanese, Erling Mountain has a special significance.

From August 19 to 24, 1904, the first ground assault of the Japanese army on the Russian fortress at Arthur Pass failed. At noon on September 19, 1904, the Japanese army launched its second general offensive. Nogi Noshinori, commander of the Third Army, ordered the use of machine guns to supervise the battle, and ordered the soldiers to only advance and not retreat, otherwise they would all be killed on the spot. On the left and right flank battlefields, after four days of fierce fighting, the Japanese army captured several small batteries in the south fortress of the naval division battalion, but the main target of the 203 heights could not be captured for a long time. Nogi Noshinori was so anxious that he fell ill in Chuáng. In desperation, on September 22, he ordered the offensive to be stopped. In this general attack, the Japanese army suffered 7,500 casualties and the Russian army suffered 4,450 casualties. After that, from October 30 to November 2, the Japanese army launched a third general offensive, mainly attacking the commanding heights of the Eastern Front, Wangtai Mountain and Dongjī Guanshan, which were also unsuccessful. On November 26, 1904, Nogi Noshinori issued the fourth general attack order. After a long period of failure, Nogi integrated the 7th Division, which had just been reinforced from China, into the 3rd Army, and invested nearly 100,000 troops in 4 divisions, trying to capture the commanding heights of the Eastern Front as soon as possible, but still could not win. Later, he changed his tactics and transferred 3,000 Jīng Zhuang soldiers from four divisions to form 6 death squads to attack the western foot of Pine Mountain. Before leaving, Nogi Noshinori personally made strict demands to the daredevils: survive unexpectedly, fight to the death; Flee from the battle, and kill without forgiveness. In the evening, under the cover of artillery, death squads sorted. At night, the Japanese death squad took advantage of the moonlight to cross the trench and rush into the fourth fortress of Osong Mountain. The Russian army used searchlight scanning and machine-gun shè to hit the death squads, and the two sides fought and fought with white knives. The battle lasted until 2 a.m. the next day, with more than half of the death squads killed and wounded, and the assault was still unsuccessful, and the rest withdrew.

Seeing that the battle situation was stalemate, the chief of the general staff of the Japanese army, Yù Gentaro, who was at the headquarters in Liaoyang, personally came to Lushun to help in the battle and directly participated in the command. Nogi Noshinori ordered the warlords to set up machine guns to drive the soldiers to fight for the Russian fortress, and those who retreated were all killed. In order to compete for this hill less than 250 meters long and only more than 30 meters wide, the Japanese army dispatched 64,000 troops, used more than 60 large and small artillery, and fired 11,000 shells, including 2,254 280-mm howitzer shells, weighing nearly 500 tons, and 17,000 casualties, and finally captured the 203 heights on December 5, 1904. ⑤???? Read the latest chapter of this book, after the end of the battle, the corpses piled up by the Japanese army in the forward position were actually higher than the Russian position, the Japanese soldiers stepped on the fragmentary bodies of their comrades to kill into the Russian trenches, and the corpses of the dead soldiers on both sides piled up, and actually compared to the 203 main peak A participant said afterwards: "This is not a struggle between people, but a struggle between people and steel, burning oil, fried yào and corpse smell"

At that time, the largest 280 mm heavy artillery of the Japanese army was 7.8 kilometers long, and the 203 heights were only 5 kilometers away from the military port where the Russian warships docked. On January 1, 1905, the Russian generals had no intention of fighting again and took the initiative to ask the Japanese army to surrender, and Lushun fell into the hands of the Japanese army.

In order to boast of the "great military exploits" of the Japanese army in conquering the 203 Heights, after the end of the Russo-Japanese War, Nogi Noshinori renamed the mountain "Erling Mountain" with the homonym of the 203 Heights, and built a 10.3-meter-high, similar to a Japanese-style rifle bullet monument, the monument is made of shell skins collected here after the war, waste weapons smelted and cast. Nogi Noshinori, who lost his two sons in this battle, also wrote an inscription and wrote a poem by himself: "Erling Mountain is difficult to climb, the boy's entrepreneurial period is difficult, the iron-blooded mountain shape is changed, and everyone respects Erling Mountain." ”

Erling Mountain witnessed the most glorious and glorious moment of the Japanese Army in those years, but today, these splendor and glory are about to disappear. ,

A red sun came out of the thick smoke, probably after staying in the dark dòng for too long, and his dilated pupils were like bats that could not immediately adapt to the sun's rays, so Ryosuke Isoya had to squint his eyes. But when his pupils readjusted to the bright light of the day, he was suddenly surprised to find what a vivid and magnificent picture of war the earth presented to him.

In front of you is the endless sea, shimmering on the distant eastern horizon, which is indescribably quiet and beautiful. But the distant mountains had been crushed overnight by war machines from the Chinese, whom the Japanese had always looked down upon.

During these days, Chinese planes swept through the sky day and night, artillery spewed fire in the distance, hundreds of large surface ships, including battleships in the wind, cruised in Haikou, and everywhere in this land destined to become a battlefield, there were burning fortresses, blocked rivers, writhing and moaning lives, corpses that had solidified and were about to solidify, and countless deep and shallow craters and trenches.

The current Erling Mountain position is surprisingly quiet.

Isoya's cheap brain was completely blank at this point.

Ryosuke Isoya was born in Hyogo Prefecture and was the third son of Jiro Isoya, a former Sasayama clan. Ryosuke Isoya graduated from the 16th class of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School in 1904 and graduated from the Army University in 1915. In 1916, he served in the General Staff Headquarters, and in 1917 he was sent to China, where he was stationed in Guangzhou to support Sun Yat-sen's Guangdong government, and was later promoted to Dazuo, and came to Lushun as the captain of the 13th Infantry Wing.

Ryosuke Isoya is recognized as the "Shina Street" in the Japanese army. The latest and fastest update of this book comes from du58.He has been focusing on the political and military developments south of the Yangtze River in China, with a particular focus on the movements of Sun Yat-sen and his Chinese party system. In the Japanese Army, the "China Branch" is divided into the "Northern Branch" and the "Southern Branch", the Northern Branch mainly attaches importance to the North Branch and Manchuria with Beijing as the center, while the South Branch pays attention to the movements of Sun Yat-sen. Therefore, there is a big difference between the two, and it has had a great influence on the Japanese Army's formulation of its China policy. This is because the leadership of the Japanese Army is also divided into four factions: the "Continental European faction," the "Anglo-American faction," the "Russian faction," and the "Shina faction," and they are full of contradictions and struggles among themselves. This is one of the reasons why Japan's policy toward China has been constantly changing.

Ryosuke Isoya has a keen interest in China, and he has said more than once, "The military personnel called 'Shina Tong' must also be viewed separately and cannot be generalized." As soldiers, they have the common task of conducting detailed investigations and analyses of China's national affairs, national defense, military strength, and people's conditions, and reporting to their superiors and staff headquarters in order to prepare for war. However, the way we care about China and the way we understand it is very different. Since the Meiji Restoration, Japan has also begun to operate on the "Asian continent" with the implementation of the policy of enriching the country and strengthening the military. Its primary targets are North Korea and China. For this reason, the Japanese War Department has continuously sent army personnel to China to reconnoiter China's national conditions and collect intelligence on China, and it was in this environment that Isoya began to be interested in China; on the occasion of graduating from the Army Noncommissioned Officer School, he said: "My grades in school are all right, but in short, I hope to go to China, and I don't want to enter the Land University." ”

After the Chinese ** Party was supported by Japan to rise up in Guangdong, Sun Yat-sen called himself the generalissimo, while the people of Guangdong and the warlords of the southern provinces of China called him "Sun Cannon", but Isoya Ryosuke did not think so. He has always regarded Sun Yat-sen as a "teacher". In 1908, after receiving orders from the War Department, Ryosuke Isoya visited Sun Yat-sen for the first time in Shanghai. After this meeting with Sun Yat-sen, Ryosuke Isoya, who was more "concerned" about China, decided to work under Sun Yat-sen after the outbreak of Xinhai ** in 1911.

Ryosuke Isoya actually disapproved of the Japanese military department's support for the Chinese ** Party in Guangdong, and at that time, after intelligence reconnaissance in southern China, he had already discovered the young "high-tech warlord" who had quietly risen in Jiangxi.

After conducting some research on Yang Shuoming, Ryosuke Isoya came to the following conclusion: "Unlike Sun Yat-sen, who was bent on dedicating himself to the people of China, this young warlord named Yang Shuoming was close to Britain and the United States for the benefit of himself, his wife's family, and the overseas Chinese businessmen behind him, and was controlled by an American consortium, and they jointly adopted an anti-Japanese and anti-Japanese policy." This person does not trust anyone from the bottom of his heart, and among the powerful people of the middle ** valve, there are many people who put the interests of themselves, their own people, or those who support them first compared to the future of their own people. But this young soldier was able to fully and fully understand this atmosphere and put it into practice. ”,

But he didn't pay much attention to the young warlord until the catastrophic air raid in Guangzhou.

During that air raid, Ryosuke Isoya always believed that it was the protection of Amaterasu that saved him from the disaster.

For Yang Shuoming, who eliminated the leadership of the Chinese ** Party and the military and political officials, Isoya Ryosuke can be said to hate it to the core, and he realized how much disaster this person would bring to Japan in the future, so he began to pay attention to Yang Shuoming, but the War Department did not pay attention to Isoya Ryosuke's warning. And Ryosuke Isoya had to think about himself to complete the "research work" of the enemy.

And now, Ryosuke Isoya, who was transferred to Lushun, is no longer able to complete the task he gave himself.

At this time, most of the trenches under Isoya's feet had been blown up, and there were many bloodstained wounded soldiers sitting or lying in the trenches. The chief of staff was lying unconscious on a canvas, he crouched down, and a paramedic next to him was saying something to him, and strangely, he couldn't hear the other party's voice at all. He only saw that people's mouths were opening and closing, like fish thrown on the shore that were about to **.

It's over, I can't hear anymore. A wave of sadness rose in Ryosuke Isoya's heart.

In front of the position, there were broken corpses piled down on top of each other, and it was impossible to distinguish which ones belonged to the enemy and which belonged to one's own. The fiery red sun haunted the smoke of gunpowder, shining as generously as ever on the devastated battlefield and the dead soldiers.

Ryosuke Isoya's gaze continued to scan blankly over the position. The Japanese soldiers who were alive greeted their commander with an expression of despair that had survived the catastrophe, and now only the wing commander, deaf to the ears of the cannon, could read the language of his soldiers. It was a team about to be crushed, they had thousands of men, standing up as dense as a forest, but when they had fought for seven days and seven nights on this position, which bore the glorious and glorious past of the Japanese Army, there were less than six hundred living soldiers left in this wing.

Ryosuke Isoya suddenly realizes that this may be the last moment of his military career.

In the distance, again a team of enemy attacks appeared.

In the méngméng sun, the figures of the groups of Chinese soldiers seem to float silently in the hallucination, making people feel that the picture in front of them seems to be less real, but more like a trance dream.

A nightmare that never stops.

“…… Keep fighting, remember, even if you're left alone, you'll have to fight until dark. After dark, reinforcements will arrive and launch a counter-attack...... As your commander, I am proud of your heroic deeds. The soldiers of the Japanese Empire look at you, the dirty corpses of the enemy are all over the position, the remains of our comrades have not yet cooled, and there is no reason for us to stop fighting...... Retreat is as shameful as surrender"

Despite his generosity, he could no longer hear the soldiers' responses.

Looking at the rapidly approaching enemy, he leaned down, with difficulty picked up a gun from the ground and walked into the soldier's trench.

And when he walked into the trench, he found that what he was holding in his hand was a Chinese-made "huā machine" submachine gun.

This gun was supposed to have been snatched from the Chinese soldiers who died in battle by the Japanese soldiers, who lacked quick weapons.

Now Japanese soldiers are already very familiar with this "huā machine gun".

This submachine gun equipped with a 50-round arc magazine is mainly equipped with the ** squadron in Jiangxi. And it was this submachine gun and their master that made the Japanese officers and soldiers suffer enough.

At the moment of life and death, the Japanese officers and soldiers, who had always been arrogant, had to bow their heads, and after running out of ammunition, they threw away those bulky rifles and did everything possible to collect the enemy's weapons to fight.

And those who can pick up this kind of guns and bullets often have an extra chance of survival.

It's just that now, Isoya can't say whether he's lucky or unlucky.

And until now, Ryosuke Isoya did not want to believe that the Chinese factories were now able to produce such advanced and terrible weapons.

The battle started again, the fierce artillery fire and gunpowder smoke instantly enveloped the Japanese position, and the squadron once again invested heavy troops to fight for Erling Mountain, and the tragic battle lasted until the evening. It was not until midnight that reinforcements finally arrived, and the seriously wounded Ryosuke Isoya withdrew from his position with the wounded, and by that time his wing had less than 100 officers and men alive, including the lightly and seriously wounded. ,

In the afternoon of the next day, the bad news finally came, and the heights of Erling Mountain were lost and occupied by the squadron.

Hearing the news, Isoya was cheap and cried bitterly in the ward with his comrades.

After Ryosuke Isoya returned to Japan after nine deaths, when he was interviewed by a news reporter about the "Battle of Erling Mountain", he still couldn't hold back his tears.

"Do you know what it means to fight? You haven't been on the front line, you can't know, you can't know, and I've been there. We fought in blood, the Chinese tanks were crushed in the pile of dead people, and those dead bodies even made squeaky screams, like tortured rats, have you heard? ……”

“…… At that time, the war was already different from the Japanese war, we paid great attention to building strong fortifications, and our superiors demanded so, and our trenches were dug very deep, but in the end they were all blown into potholes and flat ground, and the enemy's bullets were like rain; Airplanes bombed, artillery bombarded, tanks crushed, dead people are actually a blink of an eye......"

“…… When our trenches were flattened, we built up bunkers with corpses, and our superiors encouraged us to do so, calling them 'Wall of Sighs' and 'Ròu City' The machine-gun bullets from the enemy hit these people's bunkers, making a 'poof' sound, and the dead people's brains, rotting ròu, and dirty blood were splattered everywhere. After a long time, it sticks to the face and can't be scraped off with a knife...... Later, there were so many dead people that we simply rolled around in the pile of dead people, sometimes numb from the beating, unable to hear any sound, our minds were blank, and even we felt strange, not knowing whether we were alive or dead......"

“…… The emperor called on us to punish the tyranny and defend the Manchurians, and we all want to win the battle, but can we win the battle by shouting slogans? You must know that the soldiers of the Imperial Army have never been afraid of death. You also know that when people are not afraid of death, there is no invincible enemy, let alone those despicable Chinese armies. However, when we joined the same army, we realized that all our previous knowledge of war, including the gods, weapons, strategic principles, and tactical principles, as well as the experience, experience, and mental preparation for war, were all useless."