Wanbao Mountain

The attacking Tsarist Russian army concentrated more than 20 artillery pieces, mostly 40-caliber and 75-caliber army field artillery. Attacking the Japanese positions on the top of Wanbao Mountain, there was a burst of bombing, and the explosion was filled with smoke and dust and earth and rocks.

The shelling stopped after 5 minutes. Then the black Russian offensive troops attacked the mountaintop position. The gunfire immediately sounded loudly on the battlefield. The Japanese army launched a counterattack and knocked the Russian soldiers rushing in front to the ground like cutting leeks.

The attacking Russian soldiers also raised their guns to fight back, and the crisp gunfire sounds burst into pieces.

Listen carefully

It can be found that the gunfire between Japan and Russia was intermittent, most of which were single-firing rifles, and occasionally mixed with some heavy machine guns with "dadada...dadada" point shots, without the kind of crazy cathartic firepower strafing.

This situation is not surprising. Both Japanese and Russian armies are short of heavy machine guns, but they lack sufficient ammunition and cannot use them.

The reason is very simple, just be poor.

Tsarist Russia is now a corrupt feudal serf system. With the help of a large number of franc loans, the industrialization process has just begun. The main body is still an agricultural society, with backward productivity, serious corruption, and social contradictions are quite sharp.

The ruling class of Tsarist Russia is good at launching wars of aggression and expansion to divert and ease social conflicts.

Since the Meiji Restoration, Fusang Kingdom has vigorously introduced advanced Western industrial science and technology and scientific and technological development civilization, and has also embarked on the process of industrialization. However, due to the weak domestic foundation and poor resources, the development speed has been unfast.

The change came from the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. After receiving huge war compensation from the Qing Dynasty, Fusang was favored by Britain and the United States, and provided huge loans to its development, which made its domestic industrialization make great progress.

After the signing of the Xin Chou Treaty, Fusang Kingdom once again obtained huge amounts of funds through war. The industrial economy developed rapidly like taking a big tonic, and the industrialization process was further accelerated.

But after all, the days are still short, and Fusang Country is still a semi-industrial and semi-agricultural society. Most industries are concentrated in light industrial fields such as textile factories and silk reel factories, and they earn hard-earned money.

Compared with industrial powers such as Britain, Germany, the United States, France and the United States, the Japanese, Russia, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Italy and the Ottoman Empire were much worse, and at most they could only be considered as standing on the threshold of industrialization.

Therefore, during the Russo-Japanese War, the normal amount of ammunition carried by soldiers was about 20 to 30 rounds. After the bullet was fired, the most common thing to see was the charge of hand-to-hand blades, because weapons and ammunition still cost money to buy, and life is not worth the money.

When the battle was fierce, not only hand-to-hand combat occurred during the day, but also when the vision was poor at night, the enemy and us encountered each other. Both sides did not use artillery, but instead launched hand-to-hand charges in dense formations, killing corpses everywhere.

In order to identify our enemies and us at night, the Tsarist Russian army often wraps white cloth strips around their arms and throws them into combat in this almost primitive way.

Many times

Officers of foreign military observation teams will think that this is a war between hot and cold weapons. Cold weapons are used frequently and are afraid of people. Many battles are finally solved with bayonets.

In the battle a few days ago

The troops on the western wing of the Japanese army fought bloody battles. The Eighth Division immediately saw that Lieutenant General Naomoto had all his bullets, and was forced to carry out the world's largest hand-to-hand attack. More than 20,000 Japanese soldiers charged with sharp bayonets, breaking through the Russian army's heavy siege of Akiyama Brigade, and opening a big gap.

That grand scene that makes people's bloody is really spectacular.

On Wanbaoshan position

After the Russian army was repelled for three consecutive attacks, it launched the fourth attack without stopping. It can be seen that the Russian generals' offensive attitude was very firm. They must eliminate the commanding high point enemy that threatened the rear command, and sent two attack troops to strengthen the size of the battalion to launch an attack from the front and side at the same time.

The Russian soldiers shouted "Ula..." with their sharp bayonets, and rushed to the top of the mountain like a tide, with crisp gunshots endlessly.

Standing behind, you can see that the gunfire of the Japanese soldiers on the top of the mountain was much sparse. Seeing that the Russian soldiers were in a fierce offensive and they quickly approached the top of the mountain.

The Japanese soldiers on the top of the mountain shouted, jumped out of the trench, rushed down with their sharp bayonets...

Two black and yellow people collided fiercely, cursing, screaming, and slaughtering, mixed with the sound of weapons stabbing into the flesh and blood, and the sound of numbness on their scalp, like a bloody slaughterhouse. In the blink of an eye, a large body lay down.

"Oh... I can't stand it anymore." Major Zhou Lizhi sighed and put down the telescope in his hand.

At this time, several other military observers put down the telescopes in their hands, and silently looked solemn, and everyone had the same thoughts;

There is no need to see the details of such a tragic scene, so as not to have nightmares at night.

I have seen too much these days, and I am not doing well.

Although they were extremely dissatisfied with these dog robbers from Japan and Russia, the soldiers were all living people, and they just filled into the battlefield like a flesh-and-blooded mill. Tens of thousands of people were killed or injured in a major battle, and tens of thousands of people would feel unbearable after watching it.

More than ten minutes later

There were cheers coming from the top of Wanbao Mountain. Russian soldiers were attacked by the fierce Japanese army, and this attack failed again.

But the Japanese army also paid a heavy price. Two or three hundred corpses that could be seen in the naked eye were stacked across, and blood stained the top of the mountain red. This time, the victory was achieved by hundreds of lives, and the price was high.

How many times can the Japanese army support the weak forces?

Time passed by minute by minute, and at around 3 pm, after repelling the Russian army's six consecutive attacks, for the seventh attack, the Russian army finally attacked the top of the mountain and fought with the remaining Japanese soldiers in close-fitting hand-to-hand combat, and the two sides formed a group of kills.

See this scene

The Russian commander seized the opportunity to join the follow-up troops and finally captured the position on the top of the mountain in one fell swoop. The victorious Russian soldiers threw their hats into the sky excitedly and shouted "Ula...Ula..."

The remnants of Gaocun Brigade, which was defending the Wanbaoshan position, retreated. There were less than 400 soldiers left for more than 2,000 soldiers, most of them with different injuries. More than 1,600 bodies remained on the top of the mountain and rested here forever.

The attacking Russian troops were not feeling well. They paid the price of more than 3,000 casualties and captured the position on the top of the mountain. After a short rest, they immediately began to dig the tunnel position again and prepare to deal with the Japanese counterattack.

On October 16 and 17, the Japanese and Russian armies fought repeatedly on the Wanbaoshan position, changing hands several times until both sides were exhausted before stopping.

Then, both Japan and Russia consolidated their vested positions, repaired fortifications, and urgently sent reserve troops to the front to make up for the losses, confronted each other with high vigilance, and occasionally dispatched reconnaissance troops or carried out artillery attacks.

This is just a microcosm of this counterattack. The Japanese and Russian armies fought day and night on a 50-kilometer-wide position, fighting intermittently for more than a month until both sides were exhausted.

The Russian army cannot break through the Japanese defense, and the Japanese army cannot eat the Russian army in one bite. It is like two strong men fighting to the death in the arena, using swords, guns and sticks to each other to bleed each other. When they are tired of fighting, they will breathe a sigh of relief. After they recover, they will rush up and continue to fight their lives...

Melbourne Star Lake Ranch

A newest silver crown sedan is driving lightly on the asphalt road. The shade on both sides of the road flashes rapidly, and the silver body changes into a stream of light and darkness. The iconic shield-shaped front face in front of the car shows a luxurious and extraordinary momentum.

Brigadier General Bian Chunsong was wearing a white suit, a white top hat on his head, sunglasses on his nose, a cigar in his mouth, and his hands were leisurely on the ivory steering wheel, enjoying the fun of galloping.

His car is the latest Meteor series sports sedan produced by Crown Automobile. It is equipped with an era-leading 6-cylinder 5.8-liter petrol engine that can drive the sedan to a speed of 105 kilometers per hour. This is an amazing number of today's era, leaving all competitors behind.

The ridge-shaped engine cover of the church is luxurious and atmospheric, and the high arched streamlined wheel cover is full of power, giving this "Crown Meteor" extraordinary momentum.

Similarly, the price is also very touching. His "Valencia Style Customized Edition" costs 19,600 Jinyang, which is almost nearly 10,000 pounds.

In terms of grade, it is second only to the honorable car of the "Crown-Yu Tianxia" series.

After the car drove into the Xingxing Lake Ranch, Bian Chunsong deliberately slowed down. The fields around the ranch were rolling, and it was another harvest season.

The road winds along the riverside, and a few minutes later, I saw the fence of the pasture, and a large amount of alfalfa was planted along the fence. This is the most fat and tender pasture that horses, cattle and sheep like to eat. The pasture has been planted on a large scale, so that it can carry more livestock herds.

The car was moving forward a few minutes later, and saw the cowboys riding on the horse whip and greet him. Bian Chunsong also waved his hand and the car drove forward non-stop.

Several BMW three-ton trucks loaded with grain came towards us. This is the daily fleet of the ranch that transports grain and oil products to Melbourne. The carriage contains five conspicuous Chinese characters "Star Lake Ranch". There is also a row of English comparisons below, which looks concise and clear.

The truck convoy slowed down from a distance and honked his whistle.

Both sides stopped on the side of the road, Bian Chunsong parked the car aside, poked his head out and asked, "Which company is this delivery?"

"Sir, it's almost New Year's Day. Major companies in Melbourne will send rice, oil and noodles during festivals, and pig legs. This trip is to deliver goods to the fourth printing and dyeing factory. It is the order taken by the second manager outside. This is the third time today."

"Oh, thank you for your hard work these days. We will also send things to our ranch for the festival, so that everyone can celebrate New Year's Day happily."

"Thank you, Lord Sir, for your reward, we are all very motivated."

"That's good, go and go back early, be careful on the way."

"Okay!"

After saying hello, six trucks started to move one after another, whizzing past one after another, heading towards Melbourne.

Bian Chunsong drove forward and saw from here that the narrow and narrow lake surface of Xingxing Lake was rippling from afar. The towering castle was completely different from the original one. This was a reinforced concrete building rebuilt later. The exterior walls were paved with large pieces of red mountain rocks. The tall steeple were particularly conspicuous, and they looked like a scroll under the clear water and blue sky.

The Crown-Meteor car quickly drove into the center street of Xingxing Lake Ranch. It was no longer the old scene. The wide asphalt road runs through the center street. A complete drainage facility was built under the road to Xingxing Lake, which was completely the size of a small market town.

There are many commercial facilities on both sides of Central Street, with a total length of about 700 meters and a thousand people living in it. They are all hired workers from the ranch, more than 70% of whom are Bian clans who immigrated from the mainland.

The original wooden castle was not abandoned and was instead used as a workplace for the ranch management committee. The director of the management committee was Bian Shouli, the distant uncle of the family. He was a very disciplined old businessman and managed the ranch quite vigorously.

The total area of ​​Xingxing Lake Ranch is 28.4 square kilometers, about 7,700 acres (46,000 acres). It is one of the larger pastures in Melbourne. The cultivated arable land now accounts for about half of the pasture land, almost 4,000 acres. It plants walnuts, apples, grapes, barley and rapeseed, and widely used agricultural machinery to produce, which greatly saves manpower.

The ranch has its own small agricultural machinery repair station, blacksmith shop, flour mill and oil press, and a large winery that produces Xingxinghu brand wines.

Speaking of which, Baron Bian Chunsong is worthy of being a top student. He has his own set of theories for running a ranch. He reclaimed the land step by step to maximize the benefits. He has already operated it as a foresight and famous "model ranch".

This honor was not a seal of itself, but an honor awarded by the Victorian "Beautiful New Rural Movement Leading Group". It has a bronze medal as big as an abacus and is hung at the door of the ranch management committee.

The reason why Xingxing Lake Ranch was selected as a "model ranch" is that it has a reasonable planning, a clean and beautiful environment, a high sense of happiness for the ranch residents, and a harmonious neighborhood relationship. It can reflect a high level from both material and spiritual levels, representing the direction of future ranch development.

Among the thousands of ranches in Victoria, Xingxing Lake Ranch is a larger ranch. There are less than 100 ranches that can match it, but there are only a handful of them that do better than him.

In Victoria, it was the first ranch that referenced large-scale agricultural mechanized equipment production, the first ranch that carried out multiple operations, and the first ranch that built drainage facilities in residential gathering areas. All work was done ahead.

The more than 2,600 acres of barley it grows can provide more than 3,000 tons of high-quality flour every year. The flour mill purchases a large number of grain processing in nearby ranches, with an annual production capacity of 10,000 tons, creating a net profit of nearly 100,000 pounds.

The oil press plant has a production capacity of more than 470 tons per year, and the winery sells tens of thousands of bottles of wine every year, which has brought generous benefits to the ranch.

Xingxing Lake Ranch also has a large pig farm with a stock of 3,000 pigs. It regularly supplies live pigs to the Melbourne slaughterhouse, making full use of the orange rod feed of the ranch, barley bran from the flour mill, and wine residue from the winery are also very good pig feed, which is truly useful.

The size of the ranch sheep and cattle herds has been compressed year by year, but there is a horse farm of more than 140 horses, which houses Arab thoroughbred horses purchased at high prices from West Asia, each of which is expensive.

During his time as a military observer in South Africa, Bian Chunsong made connections with many top figures in Somalia and got more than 30 Arab thoroughbred horses through relationships and transported them back from afar.

After several years of hard work, the scale of the horse farm is now

Bian Chunsong has a sharp vision of running the ranch, and none of the surrounding ranchers deny it. He is the first rancher to grow walnuts. In more than ten years, it has grown to more than 400 acres of walnut orchards. The walnuts produced are thin skins, thick flesh, and firm flesh, and can squeeze oil. They are the most popular dried fruits in food factories. It is essential to make nut chocolate.

Walnut trees usually mature in 5 to 6 years. For more than 100 years, they will basically wait for fruits every year. All they need to do is prune branches and treat diseases and pests.

In this isolated environment in Australia, there are very few pests and diseases, so walnut trees grow very prosperously and can bring large and stable returns every year, which is much better than simply raising sheep and selling wool.

The market demand for dried walnuts is very strong. Bian Chunsong is preparing to expand the planting area in the next step and double the size of the walnut orchard in the next 3 to 4 years to reach a scale of 1,500 acres to 1,600 acres.

At that time, you can consider building your own chocolate factory, which specializes in producing dried fruit chocolate, and building your own brand. Wouldn't that be happy?
To be continued...