Song Biao was promoted from squad leader to regiment leader in just one month. He was happy and painful. Being promoted is always a happy thing, but being a regiment leader for the Russians is both painful and painful.
Something to struggle with.
When the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China, the Japanese and Russian armies were the real main force and the vanguard of the invasion of China. They were more eager to annex China's territory and resources than any other great power. From that moment on, the Chinese
You should be careful to guard against them.
The two powers harm each other, whichever is less.
Between Japan and Russia, Song Biao would rather choose to help Russia or try his best to expel Japan from Northeast China. Otherwise, there will be endless troubles. In general, as long as the opportunity is seized, Russia is not difficult to deal with.
In the few days after he became the commander of the Manchurian Infantry Regiment, Song Biao only did one thing: recruiting troops. In the name of the Manchurian Infantry Regiment, he posted notices in various villages in Shenyang City and surrounding areas. He also made a big fanfare in Fushun.
To recruit people, if you recruit a local person, you will give the other party the position of captain, so that the other party can continue to recruit more people locally.
Time was very tight. Fortunately, the military salary offered by Song Biao was attractive enough and there were many applicants, which gave Song Biao a huge space to select those who were more suitable to serve as soldiers.
First of all, he only recruits healthy young people who are over 18 years old and under 30 years old; secondly, he gives priority to recruiting those who have attended private schools; thirdly, he recruits those who are skilled, who are from miners and caravans, who can ride horses, and who can hunt.
, can speak a little Russian.
When he and Major Kornilov reunited again on February 23, 1905, the Manchuria Infantry Regiment had expanded to 3,122 men, with two infantry battalions, one integrated infantry battalion, one transportation brigade, one engineering brigade, and two
The cavalry squadron also recruited more than ten small caravans who temporarily lived in Fushun and Shenyang, and was led by Lao Jintou to temporarily form a large caravan with more than 400 horsepower.
The organization of the Manchuria Infantry Regiment is based on the staff of the Russian Far East Army that has been set up. It is just to make it easier for brothers and newly recruited soldiers to understand the entire organization system. Song Biao's new organization has no basis at all for transportation, engineers and cavalry.
The troops adopted the Japanese army's organization, that is, they were organized according to the method of squad, squad, squadron, and brigade. The original combat troops used the somewhat messy organization of squad, squad, squadron, battalion, and regiment.
The basic command units are battalions and brigades, each of which has its own battalion headquarters.
After continuing to join General Mishuchenko's Kuban Cossack Cavalry, Song Biao and Major Kornilov led the team to leave Yangguantun the next day. In order to rush for time, they formally organized the army and set off at two o'clock in the morning.
Arriving at Taniguchi Village on the afternoon of the 24th, they stationed themselves on the spot and built simple fortifications and garrison areas in accordance with the orders of the Far East Army Staff Headquarters to create conditions for the Kuban Cossack Cavalry to move lightly and raid the Japanese army.
Taniguchi is only six kilometers away from the Japanese defense line of Shendan Fort. In fact, it is a real frontline position. The Second Group Army of the Russian Far East Army stationed a company here, belonging to the Fourth Siberian Infantry Division, and it was also a temporarily transferred reserve.
force.
Before dark, Song Biao and Major Kornilov quietly changed their clothes and walked ten miles to Jinshantun to observe the positions built by the Japanese army in Dongtaizi. The Japanese garrison at Shendan Fort was the 1st Cavalry Brigade, the Eighth Cavalry Brigade,
More than a thousand people adopted a decentralized defense strategy, trying to control more defense points, and built a large number of fortifications to assist each other in defense.
Shendan Fort is 40 kilometers away from Shenyang in the north and 35 kilometers away from Liaoyang in the south. It is right in the middle zone where the Japanese and Russian forces intersect. During this period, the Japanese army has gathered five armies in the Liaoyang area, with a total strength of 270,000. The Russian army has 1,082 artillery pieces and 200 machine guns, scattered over a 100-kilometer attack line. The total strength of the Russian army is about 330,000, with 1,266 artillery pieces and 60 machine guns.
In his busy schedule, Song Biao did not forget the special disguise required by the scouts. He had some white dog-skin jackets prepared in advance. After the group changed their clothes, they quietly infiltrated into the Japanese positions in the surrounding areas. After Jinshantun, it went deep into the area less than one kilometer away from the main Japanese position.
Song Biao was wearing a white coat and crawling in the heavy snow in a sloping forest. Major Kornilov, Li Fugui and others were hiding around him.
Hidden behind a bush, Song Biao carefully observed the Japanese army's Dongtaizi position with a telescope. The Japanese army had been stationed here for a month. The fortifications were very solid and complete. They were less than one thousand meters apart. You can even clearly see Japanese soldiers standing guard in trenches and tower posts.
On the frontline trenches, the Japanese army deployed a large number of shooting points and long iron wire horse defense lines. The trenches were very complete, and hidden trenches, cover trenches, traffic trenches and bulletproof trenches specially designed for grenades were also dug.
Song Biao could see a typical machine gun defense, surrounded by circles of burlap sacks filled with soil. The surroundings were filled high and compacted, and had extremely strong strafing capabilities. Judging from the distribution density, around Shendan Fort and Dongtaizi On the outer one-kilometer-long defense line, the Japanese army deployed more than fifteen heavy machine guns.
After seeing the situation of the defense line clearly, he turned to look at Major Kornilov. This man was lying next to him, also observing the Japanese defense line with a telescope.
After waiting for a moment, Major Kornilov turned back and looked at Song Biao and asked, "What do you think of the situation?"
Song Biao gave him his binoculars and said: "The Japanese army deployed a large number of machine guns. I estimate that there are more than fifteen. This scale seems a bit too large. A frontal attack will be very disadvantageous. More artillery must be deployed to attack... However, , considering that the Japanese army’s defenses have been very well constructed, the actual effect will not be very good.”
"Is that so?"
Major Kornilov was very confused, but after using Song Biao's telescope, he quickly gasped.
Military telescopes are not very rare, nor do they have good performance. They are usually equivalent to the specifications of mid-range civilian products, are low-priced, easy to carry, and can reach a magnification of 7 times. The so-called 7 times magnification is equivalent to If you can see something 700 meters away at 100 meters, if your vision can see a machine gun 200 meters away, you can see a machine gun 1,400 meters away through a military telescope.
From a distance of less than one kilometer, Song Biao could even see clearly that most of the Japanese machine guns were actually German-made Maxim heavy machine guns captured from the Russian army.
After observing for a while, Major Kornilov was able to confirm that the Japanese army had deployed a larger number of heavy machine guns. He asked suspiciously: "How come they have so many machine guns in a cavalry brigade? Is it necessary?"
Song Biao thought for a while and said: "If you think it is not necessary, then you still don't understand Asian culture and military thought. The basic judgments of cavalry in Asia and Europe are different. In Asia, cavalry is the fastest type of arms. Emphasizing speed and mobility, in Europe, the cavalry is fixed as the most powerful destructive unit. The Japanese army's goal of equipping the cavalry with a large number of machine guns is simple, that is, to penetrate into the enemy's positions and rear as quickly as possible, establish fortifications, and establish a defense .”
Major Kornilov was not an officer who looked down on Asians, but he still stubbornly sneered: "It is a very stupid choice to use the cavalry in this way. They waste the cavalry on this position...!"
Song Biao said nothing.
Once a person thinks that others are stupid, there is an 80% probability that he himself is stupid. Major Kornilov may also feel that he really can't go on with what he says next.
If the Japanese army was stupid, then the Far Eastern Army headquarters, which ordered the Cossack cavalry to attack the position from the side of Dongtaizi, was even more stupid.
At this time, no army knew the power of Maxim machine guns better than the Russian army. Fifteen Maxim machine guns were arranged crosswise on a defense line only one kilometer long, which could kill almost everything.
Major Kornilov observed with Song Biao's telescope for a long time, but never exchanged his views with Song Biao. After waiting for a while, he suddenly praised Song Biao: "This telescope of yours is very good. Can you give it to Song Biao?"
I?"
"cannot!"
Song Biao suddenly glared at Major Kornilov fiercely, startling him.
Major Kornilov hurriedly returned the telescope in his hand to Song Biao, and couldn't help but add: "It's really good, the view is very clear, I can even see the opponent's machine gun rack."
Song Biao grunted, found a tall pine tree nearby, and asked Li Fugui to help him climb up, overlooking the entire Japanese position from a higher position.
On the Dongtaizi position, the Japanese army actually deployed only one infantry regiment. There were only 1,500 troops in such a long defense line. It can be seen that the deployment was very scattered and the troops were limited. They could only rely on the powerful firepower of machine guns to supplement it, or
It is said that it was the only choice for the Japanese army when they wanted to defend Shendan Fort and were unable to mobilize a large number of troops.
The main positions of the Japanese army are the three defense lines of Dongtaizi, Beitaizi and Liuhekou surrounding Xiaobaozi. Some of the troops are retained in Xiaobaozi as reserve troops. There, the Japanese army used the original houses to build dozens of horse farms, with about five or six people.
Thousands of war horses are stored there, so large that they can be seen from a long distance away.
Considering that the Japanese army may have a defensive point at Liutiaokou, in the decisive battle at the final stage of the Russo-Japanese War, a brigade of 8,000 people wanted to defend a strategic area of 10 kilometers in radius. This plan was really a gamble and very lucky.
, if the Russian army is more resolute in fighting will and smarter, it can completely tear a hole here and directly separate the two main forces of the Japanese army in Liaoyang and Liaozhong, and use Shendan Fort for mobile deployment to concentrate the main force.
Encircle and destroy the smaller force.
From this point of view, General Dashanyan still bet on Shendan Fort despite a serious shortage of troops, and General Kuropatkin also had a premonition to dispatch the Second Army to besiege Shendan Fort. The two were making decisions.
The above are all very correct and brilliant. What is a pity is that the senior command of the Russian army
The rigidity of military officers, as well as various internal flaws in the Russian military system, as well as issues such as supplies and internal corruption, including General Kuropatkin himself, who also has the shortcoming of not being determined enough to fight, is afraid of excessive losses, and worries about gains and losses, even if
I made the right decision, but I didn't dare to follow through.
It should be said that the great defeat of the Russian army in the Battle of Fengtian basically originated from this humble Shendan Fort.
After observing the entire Japanese position from a high place, Song Biao led the reconnaissance team back to the valley entrance. Because he was forward-looking about the development of the entire war situation, after comprehensively and carefully observing the Japanese positions and armed arrangements, Song Biao
Fully aware that stationing troops at Taniguchi is a wrong choice.
After some deep thought, he returned to the valley entrance. Song Biao immediately asked Major Kornilov to stay and continue to work on the camp construction at the valley entrance, while he himself led Zhao Tingzhu's 1st Infantry Battalion and Hu Dalin's Engineer Brigade at night.
They set out quietly and secretly excavated fortifications at Jinshantun, two kilometers away from the front of the Dongtaizi defense line on the Japanese flank.
There is a large dense forest surrounding Jinshan Village, and more than a hundred local residents have already evacuated. The entire village is generally located on a slope, five or six meters higher than the surrounding fields, and there are several dozens of meters high.
Big mound.
When passing Jinshantun, Song Biao had realized that this was a good defense area. He built fortifications here and the overall defense effect was very good. If he could push further south, he could build fortifications on Yabatai Hill in the south to form a
With the two-point echoing situation, the Japanese army basically had no confidence that they would be able to attack by force.
He was secretly building fortifications in the big woods of Jinshan Tun. At the same time, he was also familiar with the distribution of houses in the village. If he had to retreat to the village, he could still fight a quasi-street fight on the spot.
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