Chapter 455 A good show
After the snow cleared, the Siberian fleet resumed its bombardment of Arthur's Fortress.
After the Gold Mountain Fort was destroyed, Arthur's Fortress was like a rose with its thorns removed, leaving only the delicate buds.
The battleship's main gun is too expensive, with a barrel tens of thousands of rubles long. If you can, don't use it.
The large-angle front main gun of the "Trophy" is so powerful that the shells fired can bypass the obstacles on the periphery of Arthur's Fortress and directly bombard the core area of the fortress.
The sudden blizzard made the already desperate situation worse for the Japanese army. It was not a good idea to enter the mountainous areas to fight. Although it could avoid the shelling of the Siberian fleet, the nights in the mountainous areas were colder and more lethal to the Japanese army.
On the 26th, the day after Brusinov broke through the Golden State Isthmus, the telegraph room of Fortress Arthur was destroyed by artillery fire from the Siberian Fleet, and the Japanese troops in Kwantung completely lost contact with the Japanese mainland.
On the 27th, George received intelligence that the British army was gathering in Xiangjiang, preparing to go north for armed intervention.
Milyugin was a little nervous. The British Army was not afraid, but the Royal Navy was enough to form an overwhelming advantage over the Siberian Fleet.
The United Kingdom does not need to go to war with the Russian Empire. As long as it breaks the naval blockade of the Siberian Fleet and wins a glimmer of hope for the Japanese army in Kanto, the situation will change.
In the current situation, if Oyamayan is allowed to escape back to Japan, it will be a failure for George.
George is not worried.
The British were just putting on a show for George. If the British really wanted to intervene with force, then the gathering place for the British troops would not be Xiangjiang, but Weihaiwei.
Even if the British intervened with force, George was not afraid.
The Strait of Malacca is half the size of Aceh. If the British army wants to pass through the Strait of Malacca, they have to ask the submarines of the East India Fleet if they agree.
If a war really breaks out, all the submarines have to do is blockade Malacca, and the British forces in East Asia will also be caught in a trap.
Although Britain does not have the confidence to fall out with the Russian Empire, what this country is best at is muddying the waters and profiting from it.
George sent a telegram to Brusinov and Peter to speed up the attack on Arthur's Fortress and not give the British a chance to interfere.
On February 1, one month after the conflict in the Far East broke out, the Russian army finally returned to Dalini.
Before 1898, Dalini was called Qingniwa, and there was only one village, not even a town.
In 1899, Qingniwa was renamed the Special City of Dalini and was under the direct jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Empire. The then Finance Minister Witte was ambitious and wanted to build Dalini into a commercial center in the Far East.
Dalini’s plan was based on Paris. The city is huge and the buildings are majestic. It cannot be built in one day.
When the Russo-Japanese War broke out, the construction of Arthur's Fortress had not yet been completed, and Dalini was also in its infancy.
The first vanguard unit to enter Dalini was still the Sakhalin Division, a meritorious unit of the Amur Military District.
After recapturing Busan, Jinya accumulated military merit and became the first Japanese-American in the Sakhalin Division to successfully become a Russian citizen.
Jinya's current position has also become the commander of the 1st Battalion of the South Sakhalin Rifle Regiment.
Golden Teeth broke the unspoken rule that Japanese Americans could not serve as military officers in the Sakhalin Division, which also gave hope to all Japanese soldiers in the Sakhalin Division.
After the recapture of Seoul, there were rumors within the Sa Division that no matter how much contribution the Japanese soldiers of the Sa Division made, the Japanese soldiers could not become real Russians. The Amur Military District used the war to kill people in Amur Japanese.
So when they recaptured Busan, the Sakhalin Division's morale was not very high and its record was not good enough.
Jinya became the military commander of the first battalion, which gave all Japanese soldiers hope and morale rose again.
Jinya did not stay behind to command, but entered Dalini with the troops and personally directed the battle.
Before the Sa Division launched its attack, the Siberian Fleet and the artillery directly under the First Army had already shelled Dalini many times. Dalini was now devastated, with ruins all over the place.
Jinya entered a relatively complete house, and the floor inside the house was densely covered with Japanese corpses.
These Japanese soldiers were not killed by the saboteurs, but were frozen to death or died of serious injuries.
The Japanese corpse at the door of the room was still holding an egg grenade equipped by the Russian army. The grenade had frozen together with the hand.
"It seems that their condition is very bad, and the way they bandage the wound is also amateurish. This person only injured his leg. If he gets treatment in time, he should be able to recover."
The deputy battalion commander Luca is a Cossack, and There is no prejudice against gold teeth just because of their identity.
What’s more serious than the amateurishness is that almost all of these Japanese soldiers are wearing single clothes under their quilts, and it seems that the Japanese soldiers did not capture many sheepskin jackets.
"Burn it——"
Gold Teeth is indifferent, but fortunately it is winter.
The soldiers brought gasoline barrels, poured them on the corpses, and lit them on fire. The flames instantly engulfed everything.
The resistance of the Japanese army was very weak. In a well-positioned shooting point, the soldiers of the Sa Division found several frozen corpses.
These corpses hugged each other tightly, probably to keep out the cold, but they underestimated the power of General Dong.
A fierce battle broke out at the Dalini Municipal Government Office Building.
The city hall was one of the few completed buildings in Dalini before the outbreak of the war. The doors and windows are basically intact, which can provide better protection for the Japanese army.
From Jizhou to Busan, the Sa Division accumulated rich experience in urban warfare. Instead of attacking by force, they used smoke bombs to block the line of sight and sent engineers to carry explosives close to the office building in preparation for blowing it up.
"Surrender, you have been surrounded. If you continue to resist, you will die!"
Gold Ya used Japanese to persuade him to surrender.
The office building responded immediately.
“Asshole! You betrayed the empire, aren’t you ashamed?”
Jin Ya didn't talk nonsense and signaled the engineers to light the fire.
More than ten seconds later, with an earth-shattering explosion, less than half of the office building collapsed.
I have to say that the quality of this office building is quite good.
Without Jin Ya’s order, the grenade started firing smoke grenades again, covering the engineers to continue installing explosives. Before the engineers set out, a white flag was finally raised in the office building.
Oh!
As expected, I can’t even shed tears until I see the coffin.
A total of 405 Japanese soldiers survived in the office building.
Jin Ya ordered all Japanese troops to gather in the open space in front of the office building, and even the wounded soldiers were carried out.
The major who led the surrender was uneasy.
Because opposite the Japanese army were four heavy machine guns.
When everyone was gathered together, Jinya nodded slightly.
Dong dong dong dong——
Luka nodded repeatedly as he looked at the scene in front of him.
This is called loyalty!
Jin Ya didn't feel any compunction and ordered the soldiers to pour gasoline in front of everyone.
“Please—spare me—”
A Japanese soldier who was not quite dead begged.
"Those children who were strung up by you with bayonets and photographed as souvenirs should have begged like this before they died. Did you let them go?"
The soldiers who poured gasoline were not afraid of waste; Since he's not dead, just splash more.
The Sakhalin Division would not do stupid things like taking pictures. The process of recapturing Dalini was published in the newspaper. There was only one sentence that our army had recaptured Dalini on February 3 and killed 12,000 Japanese troops.
The killings here include all corpses.
George didn't even care about how the front line was fought. Dewey wanted to go to the front line to watch the battle up close, but George refused.
“Whose responsibility will it be if you die?”
“If I die in battle, it has nothing to do with you, can I declare it to the head office?”
Dewey believed that military observers who did not personally visit the front line were unqualified.
"Oh, even if you die in battle, it won't be considered a death in battle——"
George doesn't like the group of military observers.
Sending Dewey to the front line would not only be of no help, but Brusinov would also be responsible for Dewey's safety.
George has already offended the British, and George feels it is unnecessary to offend the United States again.
If you stay in Siping, you can just eat hot pot, sing songs, and wait for the battle reports from the front line. Why bother to take risks on the front line in person?
“The Asiatic Fleet has left port——”
Dewey wanted to see if George really had the courage to fall out with Britain.
After the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, the strength of the British Asian Fleet was strengthened. It was assembled in Hong Kong a few days ago and left Hong Kong to head north.
When George got this information, he couldn't help but doubt himself.
Does Britain really have the courage to intervene armedly?
This is impossible, Britain will not go to war for Japan and the Russian Empire, this is not in Britain's interests.
What really bothers George is the Russian Empire.
George was also convinced. Russians are really simple, and their brains are all about muscles.
During the Russo-Japanese War, the Russians shouted for peace rather than war, hoping that the empire and Japan would cease war.
After the Treaty of Portsmouth was signed, the Russians felt that the Tsar should be responsible for the defeat, and committed suicide like Nicholas I to apologize.
After the conflict in the Far East broke out, the Siberian fleet annihilated the combined fleet, and the Far East Army successively recaptured Goryeo and Fengtian, forcing the Japanese army into the Liaodong Peninsula, and the trapped beasts continued to fight.
You should be satisfied now, right?
No!
The current demand of the St. Petersburg workers is that George, the commander-in-chief of the Far Eastern Military District, be held accountable on the grounds that the Far Eastern Military District did not comply with the Treaty of Portsmouth.
Okay, okay, co-author St. Petersburg and the Far East Military District, no matter what we do, no matter how well we do it, we can't satisfy you.
How about I invite you to be the tsar?
I don’t know whether it was the St. Petersburg workers who made Nicholas feel the pressure, or whether the visit of the British Princess began to play a role.
After the conflict in the Far East broke out, Nicholas finally sent a telegram to George, hoping that George could end the war as soon as possible.
George disagrees, he has not achieved his goal yet.
In fact, it's almost the same.
George's purpose is to consume Japan's war potential and completely crush Japan to death.
Although Japan is not dead yet, it is almost dead.
Without the blood transfusions from Kanto and Goryeo, Japan would not even be able to repay the interest on its national debt, let alone recuperation.
British money is not so easy to get. If Japan loses its ability to repay, Britain will scrape the ground and drain all Japan's blood.
By then, without George taking action, Japan will be squeezed dry by Britain.
This can also let all countries in the world see the consequences of being a bitch of the British.
This is also a good show.
(End of this chapter)