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The Battle of Mukden
The Battle of Mukden (today: Shenyang, China) begins on February 19, 1905, the last major field battle of the Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria.
The battle lasted from February 19 to March 10, 1905.
300,000 men fought on both the Russian and Japanese sides. The battle was the greatest field battle of the time.
Since their landings on the Asian mainland, the Japanese under Marshal Iwao Oyama ...
... had pushed the Russians back far into Manchuria; the Russians suffered one defeat after another.
Now the main battle is imminent, near the Manchurian capital Mukden.
The battle finally began on February 19, 1905 with the deployment of General Kawamura's Japanese 5th Army ...
... on the left flank of the Russians. The Japanese attacked on February 20th. The "gray martyr", as the newspapers now call the Russian soldier, holds up!
On February 27, 1905, the Japanese 4th Army under General Michitsura Nozu ...
... on the right flank of the Russians to attack, whereupon the Russian commanders lose their heads. Finally, on March 3rd, the Russian lines were broken.
The combat management of the Russian High Command is made considerably more difficult by confused or even deliberately incorrect reports from field commanders who want to distract from failure as a troop leader.
The General Baron von Shtackelberg, who is unusually incompetent even by Russian standards, reports ...
... a fleeting retreat of the units subordinate to him with the words: "I advance in a retrograde direction ..."!
Since the Russian army wanted to avoid the encirclement, the Commander-in-Chief, General Kuropatkin ...
... finally orders the retreat to the north of the city.
Before that, there is a notable scene at the city's train station:
Two furious Russian generals meet, each shaking with anger accusing the other of "cowardice before the enemy"!
But it doesn’t stop at bad words: the two commanders get violently against each other, beat each other's faces bloody, shortly afterwards even toss and turn on the ground, flogging and tear the edge badges and catch cords from their uniforms.
The adjutants found it difficult to separate the two generals.
The beating are General Aleksandr Vasilievich Szamsonov ...
... and the cavalry commander Pawel Karlowitsch Rennenkampf ...:
The scene on the platform in Mukden happened to be a German military observer, Captain Max Hoffmann ...
... with viewed.
As luck would have it, Hoffmann - advanced to general...
... in August 1914 faced two Russian armies in East Prussia, which were led by the fighting opponents from Mukden.
His knowledge that neither Samsonow nor Rennenkampf would lift a finger in order to hurry to the aid of anyone else made the "miracle" of the Battle of Tannenberg (August 26-30, 1914) possible.
But back to Mukden:
As the Russian front collapsed noticeably, the army had to withdraw completely from Mukden on March 10, the withdrawal takes on chaotic forms.
The Japanese march into Mukden on the same day ...:
The Russian casualties were 26,500 dead and about 25,000 wounded. About 40,000 Russian soldiers were taken prisoner. The Japanese army had about 41,000 dead and wounded to mourn.
From a strategic point of view, the loss of the city was not of great importance, but the setback demoralized the entire Russian army.
Kuropatkin is replaced as a result of this defeat. There was no more major conflict between the two armies until the armistice.
The Japanese CAN no longer attack because their supply lines are now overstretched, the Russians DO NOT WANT to attack because news of revolutionary unrest in their home country (the "Bloody Sunday" of St. Petersburg ") circulated in the troops and was already severely demoralizing Soldiers stand on the verge of a mutiny.
The Russians lost the war on land!
The only hope left for them now is that the approaching “2nd pacific squadrons ", almost the entire Russian Baltic Sea fleet, can turn the situation with a victorious sea battle ...
The Battle of Mukden (today: Shenyang, China) begins on February 19, 1905, the last major field battle of the Russo-Japanese War in Manchuria.
The battle lasted from February 19 to March 10, 1905.
300,000 men fought on both the Russian and Japanese sides. The battle was the greatest field battle of the time.
Since their landings on the Asian mainland, the Japanese under Marshal Iwao Oyama ...
... had pushed the Russians back far into Manchuria; the Russians suffered one defeat after another.
Now the main battle is imminent, near the Manchurian capital Mukden.
The battle finally began on February 19, 1905 with the deployment of General Kawamura's Japanese 5th Army ...
... on the left flank of the Russians. The Japanese attacked on February 20th. The "gray martyr", as the newspapers now call the Russian soldier, holds up!
On February 27, 1905, the Japanese 4th Army under General Michitsura Nozu ...
... on the right flank of the Russians to attack, whereupon the Russian commanders lose their heads. Finally, on March 3rd, the Russian lines were broken.
The combat management of the Russian High Command is made considerably more difficult by confused or even deliberately incorrect reports from field commanders who want to distract from failure as a troop leader.
The General Baron von Shtackelberg, who is unusually incompetent even by Russian standards, reports ...
... a fleeting retreat of the units subordinate to him with the words: "I advance in a retrograde direction ..."!
Since the Russian army wanted to avoid the encirclement, the Commander-in-Chief, General Kuropatkin ...
... finally orders the retreat to the north of the city.
Before that, there is a notable scene at the city's train station:
Two furious Russian generals meet, each shaking with anger accusing the other of "cowardice before the enemy"!
But it doesn’t stop at bad words: the two commanders get violently against each other, beat each other's faces bloody, shortly afterwards even toss and turn on the ground, flogging and tear the edge badges and catch cords from their uniforms.
The adjutants found it difficult to separate the two generals.
The beating are General Aleksandr Vasilievich Szamsonov ...
... and the cavalry commander Pawel Karlowitsch Rennenkampf ...:
The scene on the platform in Mukden happened to be a German military observer, Captain Max Hoffmann ...
... with viewed.
As luck would have it, Hoffmann - advanced to general...
... in August 1914 faced two Russian armies in East Prussia, which were led by the fighting opponents from Mukden.
His knowledge that neither Samsonow nor Rennenkampf would lift a finger in order to hurry to the aid of anyone else made the "miracle" of the Battle of Tannenberg (August 26-30, 1914) possible.
But back to Mukden:
As the Russian front collapsed noticeably, the army had to withdraw completely from Mukden on March 10, the withdrawal takes on chaotic forms.
The Japanese march into Mukden on the same day ...:
The Russian casualties were 26,500 dead and about 25,000 wounded. About 40,000 Russian soldiers were taken prisoner. The Japanese army had about 41,000 dead and wounded to mourn.
From a strategic point of view, the loss of the city was not of great importance, but the setback demoralized the entire Russian army.
Kuropatkin is replaced as a result of this defeat. There was no more major conflict between the two armies until the armistice.
The Japanese CAN no longer attack because their supply lines are now overstretched, the Russians DO NOT WANT to attack because news of revolutionary unrest in their home country (the "Bloody Sunday" of St. Petersburg ") circulated in the troops and was already severely demoralizing Soldiers stand on the verge of a mutiny.
The Russians lost the war on land!
The only hope left for them now is that the approaching “2nd pacific squadrons ", almost the entire Russian Baltic Sea fleet, can turn the situation with a victorious sea battle ...
