readx; Although the Sixth Artillery Brigade of the Chinese Army was the first to open fire on Lushun after the declaration of war and completely opened the prelude to the war, the Lushun side was extremely calm in the first few days after the outbreak of the war, and the two sides were mainly engaged in artillery battles, and Liang Xunqin, commander of the Third Army, who was in charge of the war on the Liaodong Peninsula, did not eagerly launch a large-scale offensive. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

More than ten years ago, the brigade said in the Russian War, which had already proved for the world's armies that it was necessary to pay a huge price to conquer the fortress, and the Chinese army also deeply felt the difficulty of conquering the fortress when it conquered the Qingdao fortress that year. At that time, the Chinese Army was also the Third Army, with more than 100,000 troops besieging Qingdao and less than 10,000 German troops, and even the regular strength of the German army was only more than 4,000 people, but it still paid the price of more than 10,000 casualties.

With the example of the Battle of Qingdao and the fact that there is also a Lushun that this occupation of, so the Chinese side has always attached great importance to studying how to conquer these fortresses, otherwise it would not have specially developed and produced those siege heavy artillery, you must know that these siege heavy artillery are useless in field battles, and can only be used to conquer fixed fortresses.

In addition to strengthening the strength of large-caliber siege artillery, the Chinese side also studied a lot of earthwork, blasting and other means to break through the enemy's fortress. 、

In addition to these traditional means, thanks to the rapid development of the Chinese Air Force and the excellent performance of the Air Force in the Qingdao Campaign, a considerable part of the hope was pinned on the bombing of the Air Force, and in order to provide support to the ground army, the Chinese Air Force almost all the bomber units were transferred to support the Northeast Theater. A huge air base was set up in Weihaiwei, Shandong, and six bomber squadrons, three fighter squadrons, and two reconnaissance squadrons were deployed in a concentrated manner, so that the Weihaiwei air base weighed more than 150 planes, one of which was equipped with the latest B4 bombers, and in order to protect this air base, not only was the base located far away from the sea to avoid the bombing of enemy naval guns, but even a whole division of garrison troops was deployed.

In addition to the Weihaiwei Air Base on the Shandong Peninsula, the Air Force has also deployed a large number of troops at several air bases in Shenyang and Yingkou, and has also opened up numerous field airfields on the front line.

For the sake of this war in Northeast China, the Chinese Air Force took out all its belongings, and the entire Air Force only had 10 wings in total, and now the Air Force has deployed a full seven wings in the Northeast and Shandong regions, totaling more than 400 aircraft. In addition to one wing on the Russian side, there are only two wings left in the rest of the country. In addition to the carrier-based aircraft of the three aircraft carriers in active service, the naval forces also have some shore-based aircraft, mainly deployed in Qingdao, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and other naval bases, and these shore-based aircraft of the naval forces have also greatly reduced the pressure on the air force, enabling the air force to transfer most of its forces to the Northeast Theater.

If you want to conquer Lushun, you have to rely on the army's heavy artillery and earthwork last night and the air support of the air force, as for the navy's naval artillery support, there is basically no need to count on it, although there are two new battleships, but China only has two new battleships, but said, 'How many are there in this navy?' However, there were nine dreadnought and ultra-dreadnought battleships, and five battlecruisers with good combat effectiveness, so although the navy shouted every day for the shame of the snow armor, it still did not dare to send these two battleships to Lushun to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the navy. You must know that in addition to sending two battleships to provide artillery support to Lushun, the other main fleets are staring at China's two new battleships with wide eyes, and as soon as China's two battleships go to sea, the main fleet of Ben will immediately go to sea.

It is irrational to rashly engage in a decisive battle with the main force of the enemy navy when the strength is inferior, so Sa Zhenbing and other admirals said that it was better to avoid war or to preserve their strength, but they drove the capital ships to Shanghai early, on the one hand, to protect the mouth of the Yangtze River and Shanghai, and on the other hand, to avoid being trapped in Qingdao's Jiaozhou Bay and unable to play an important role.

In addition, the existence of a fleet also has the advantage of having a fleet, as long as these two battleships maintain combat effectiveness, then the navy will have to send most of the capital ships to watch the two Chinese battleships, and the number of troops sent will not be less, let alone more than four or five.

Because these two Chinese battleships are 40,000 tons of big guys, it is said that although there are many battleships on this side, there is only one Kaga-class and one Amagi Battlecruiser that can be compared with them, and the others are not the opponents of China's Yandi-class battleships, so they can only offset the quality disadvantage with the advantage of quantity.

This involves the saying that after the main forces of the navy are numerous, then the pressure on the Lushun side and other coastal areas will be much less, which can be seen from the fact that the navy only sent two battleships to Lushun to provide artillery support. If there is no containment of the Chinese Navy, the Navy will be able to send many capital ships to Lushun in one go, and when dozens or even hundreds of large-caliber naval guns add up to bombard the Chinese Army, let alone conquer Lushun, it is estimated that the Army will have to withdraw from the Liaodong Peninsula.

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In the first few days of the war, Liang Xunqin did not rush to launch a large-scale attack, but continued to carry out heavy artillery bombardment, and also began to carry out a lot of earthwork, simply put, digging tunnels, burying explosives, and then blasting all the way forward.

The army moved slowly, but the air force finally completed its initial deployment after half a month of preparation.

In addition to the air force bombing ground targets, two torpedo bombers and a horizontal bomber of the HNA will also enter and launch an air attack on the fleet in Port Arthur!" Lieutenant General Wu Shizhong handed the battle plan in his hand to Chen Jingyun.

Chen Jingyun looked at it twice and then raised his head and said: "The plan is very good, but the number of planes dispatched in this bombing operation exceeds three hundred, how to coordinate your air force to grasp it, and how about the anti-aircraft firepower on the Lushun side?" ”

Wu Shizhong said: "Although Lushun's ground artillery fire is strong, it is mainly large-caliber heavy artillery, and their anti-aircraft firepower is not strong, and it has only increased in recent years. In addition, the anti-aircraft firepower of the fleet in Port Arthur was not very strong, and it was learned through aerial reconnaissance that they were two Ise-class battleships, namely the Ise and the Zoxiang, and according to the information provided by the Military Intelligence Department in the past, the anti-aircraft fire of these two battleships was only four 76-millimeter anti-aircraft guns, in addition to some anti-aircraft machine guns. On the whole, the anti-aircraft firepower is not intensive, and it is far inferior to the anti-aircraft firepower of our navy. ”

Although the anti-aircraft firepower of warships in recent years has increased a lot compared with previous years, taking this as an example, in recent years, anti-aircraft machine guns have been mainly added to warships, but there are actually not many full-time anti-aircraft guns, and even the Nagato-level only have four 76-mm antiaircraft guns. The main role of these anti-aircraft guns was to expel the enemy's reconnaissance planes, and the admirals of various countries in those years did not pay much attention to the direct bombing of aircraft. The Chinese Navy is an exception because of the existence of Chen Jingyun, from the very beginning of the Chinese Navy is extremely important to aircraft, so the anti-aircraft firepower on the warships is also very intensive, the anti-aircraft guns of the Yandi-class battleships in addition to eight three-inch fifty-fold anti-aircraft guns, but also equipped with a full six triple eighteen 30 mm shipborne anti-aircraft guns, this 30 mm anti-aircraft gun is specially developed by the Navy to increase the anti-aircraft firepower of warships, Combined with the 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns on the warship, it was enough to form an air defense net that no aircraft in this era could penetrate. The fact that the Chinese Navy attaches great importance to anti-aircraft firepower does not mean that the navies of other countries will do the same, saying, "Although this navy has gradually attached importance to air defense forces, it has only increased the number of anti-aircraft machine guns, but it has not turned these battleships into hedgehogs in the later World War II period, and anti-aircraft fire points are everywhere." As for whether the navy will carry out a major modification of these warships and then add anti-aircraft firepower after the war, that is not a question that Chen Jingyun needs to consider now.

Chen Jingyun said: "It's good that you figure out these things, after all, there is only one chance for this kind of surprise attack, and after this bombing, it will be difficult for us to get such a surprise attack opportunity again!" ”

The air raid, and it was an air raid by hundreds of planes, which had never happened before in human history, and Chen Jingyun expected that he would not be too prepared.

At four o'clock in the morning of 10 May, nearly 200 planes from the air force and navy at Weihaiwei Air Base had all pulled out of the hangar, and in order to provide ample space for up to 200 planes, Weihaiwei Air Base was not just an airport, but a large base composed of three surrounding airfields and up to eight runways, otherwise there would be no way to let so many planes take off and land at the same time.

In the tower, Air Force Lieutenant General Li Tunyang looked at the densely packed airplanes in the brightly lit airport below, and then thought of the time when this unprecedented group of planes under his command would depart Lushun two hours later, and he couldn't help but get excited.

Rear Admiral Shan Jizhong, who was wearing a dark blue navy uniform, was also full of excitement, speaking of which he was originally a member of the Air Force, but later after the Navy established the Naval Aviation, he was transferred to the Navy and served as the commander of the Navy bomber unit, and in recent years, he was also promoted to the rank of major general.

Although all the naval bombing tests of the naval aviation units ended in failure, they were all tests taken on warships in high-speed maneuvering, and it was not ordinarily difficult for the aircraft to hit a warship in high-speed movement in recent years. However, if the warships were to stop moving, then the difficulty would be much lower, and the purpose of this time the navy dispatched so many naval planes was to bomb the Ise and the Shoxiang of the Navy, which were anchored in Port Arthur, and of course, other small and medium-sized ships were also within the bombing purpose.

At six o'clock in the morning, the sky was just dawning, and the group of planes that had been preparing all night took off one after another as the order was issued, and the first wave of more than 60 planes quickly took off and then thought about flying to Lushun in the north, and fifteen minutes later, the second wave of more than 100 planes also began to take off, and the three squadrons of the HNA next to it also followed.

In the northern sky of Lushun, there is also a group of more than 100 planes departing from Yingkou Air Base, which is heading for Lushun.

"Brother Shan, today you and my brother are destined to go down in history!" Li Tunyang did not hide the excitement in his heart at all, walked to the table and took out a bottle of Graff's red wine, poured two glasses, handed a glass to Shan Jizhong, and then the two touched the wine glasses lightly.

Shan Jizhong raised his glass and said: "For the rejuvenation of China!" ”

Li Tunyang also said: "For the rejuvenation of China!" ”