We really want to go to Heigoutai to stop the Japanese Eighth Division.
The Battle of Heigoutai was very dangerous. After the Japanese First Cavalry Brigade stationed in Shendanbao was surrounded, the Japanese Eighth Division was quickly transferred from Liaozhong to the front line as a rescue force to fight with the Russian army at Heigoutai. During the battle, they adopted an extreme bayonet offensive despite insufficient ammunition, and broke through the Russian army's siege of Shendan Fort in one fell swoop.
Subsequently, the Japanese Third Division and the Fifth Division continued to rush from Liaoyang and central Liaoning areas to the areas around Shendan Fort. The three divisions plus a cavalry brigade attracted the entire Russian right-wing offensive.
Although the commander-in-chief of the Russian army, Infantry General Kuropatkin, initiated this early decisive battle, he was only forced by the pressure of Tsar Nicholas II. He knew that the time for the decisive battle had not yet come. In fact, The attack was just a forceful attack. After encountering the crazy Japanese counterattack at Heigoutai, Kuropatkin immediately chose to retreat, allowing the Japanese troops in Liaoyang and Liaoning to be connected together and able to carry out large-scale attacks. Scheduling, and implementing effective mobile operations in the final decisive battle, continuously deceiving the Russian army, causing the Russian army to make major mistakes in the deployment of the main force, and the Japanese army encircled and annihilated the right wing.
Song Biao obviously didn't want to have a head-on confrontation with the Japanese army. He really couldn't do it. He just wanted to seize the world's largest bayonet offensive of the Eighth Division and use his machine guns and shotguns to defeat the Japanese army's largest bayonet offensive in history. The biggest humiliation in history.
After the war, regardless of whether he made a profit or lost, he would immediately find a way to withdraw from the front lines of the Russo-Japanese War.
Based on the training level of the troops in his hands, if he fights with the Japanese army in a fair environment, the only outcome will be total death. His only chance of winning is to make full use of all kinds of unfairness and use it to the greatest disadvantage to the Japanese army. He was fighting the Japanese army under such circumstances, and he fled immediately after winning the battle. He absolutely couldn't let the Japanese army catch him and surround him. He would be dead at the first attack, and would be defeated at the first attack.
Before officially going to Heigoutai, Song Biao asked Lao Jintou to lead the team back to Shenyang City to purchase some additional supplies, including tung oil and cotton yarn, which always left Lao Jintou puzzled.
The Manchurian Infantry Regiment itself does not have many combat troops. The key is to haul a large amount of ordnance and supplies for General Mishuchenko's Kuban Cossack Cavalry. The only combat troops exist to protect this batch of supplies.
In order to avoid Japanese raids as much as possible, Song Biao chose to take advantage of the frozen Hun River to cross the river at night, bypassing the Liutiaokou defense line of Shendan Fort, detouring ten kilometers and then crossing the Hun River again at Heigoutai. river.
As long as the place name in the Kanto region has the word "台" in it, there will basically be some large natural mounds, and even the entire village is more than ten meters higher than the surrounding area.
This is the case with Heigoutai. It is adjacent to the Hun River to the west and a low-lying Heigou River to the south. The terrain itself is about 20 meters higher than that of the surrounding areas. There are several larger mounds in the south of Shenyang. In the plains area, having such a geographical location is considered a very special and key place, which can be attacked or defended.
The Second Army of the Russian Far East Army had just defeated the Japanese 2nd Cavalry Brigade stationed locally on the 24th and dispatched a Siberian 4th Infantry Division to station here. It was actually a temporary patchwork of 15 infantry battalions, led by Tishenlin. Colonel Si served as the commander, and this colonel was also a defeated general who had just returned from the Liaoyang battlefield in embarrassment. He had been frightened by the Japanese army. During the entire Heigoutai battle, he just stayed in the fortifications and even allowed the Japanese army to The Fifth Division passed through his defense line and inserted into the Willow Pass defense line, causing the Russian army to be divided into multiple units by the Japanese army and could not be connected from end to end.
Song Biao mobilized extremely quickly and rushed to the Heigoutai defense line overnight without formal transfer orders.
Almost at the same time, Naofumi Tachimi, who was hailed by Japan as "the last famous general of the shogunate", also led the Eighth Division to Kurokodai. The Eighth Division built a nearly one kilometer long tunnel on the northeast side of Toubao Village.
trenches, and the Russian 4th Siberian Infantry Division was also densely deployed along the east bank of the Hun River. The two sides continued to extend forward, and the larger-scale Heigoutai battle was already imminent.
Because it was the outpost of the Kuban Cossack Cavalry, after Song Biao arrived at Heigoutai, he immediately led his team deep into the southern line and built fortifications on the north side of Suma Fort to cover the left flank of the 4th Siberian Infantry Division. At the same time, he completely
Exposed to the Japanese Eighth Division.
Everything happened so fast. Whether it was luck or the smile of death, even Song Biao himself seemed to have trouble answering. In more than two months since he returned to this era, this was the first time he was so confused.
The entire regiment is building fortifications in accordance with his requirements. Sadly, the vast majority of the soldiers do not know why the fortifications are being built, let alone how to build them. All the soldiers in this Manchurian infantry regiment are recruits, and even the military training for recruits is not complete.
No, all non-commissioned officers do not have any formal military training and education foundation. In fact, they are not even as good as bandit troops.
Song Biao knew very well that his troops had almost no combat effectiveness at all. He tried his best to come here, but in fact it was just for this big gamble that related the fate of three nations.
Hu Dalin's engineering brigade recruited more than 400 people from various coal mines in the Fushun area. Zhang Dafu, one of the four squadron leaders, was a brother of the Hunjiang Caravan. He had experienced the battle of Qiandongling and worked as a Niwa carpenter.
Among the other three squadron leaders, two were from the Niujiabao Copper Mine and one was a local miner leader in Fushun.
At least in terms of skills, they are very skilled. They had received training in fortification construction in Niujiapu.
The commander of the 1st Infantry Battalion, Zhao Tingzhu, and the commander of the 2nd Infantry Battalion, Zhang Yahu, also had experience in this area. As well as some subsequent training, they all led the team to dig trenches and bunkers as quickly as possible according to Song Biao's requirements.
One thousand meters to the west from their front is Toupao Village. The Japanese army is also building fortifications on a slope surrounding the east end of Toupao Village. The distance between the forward positions of the two sides is no more than 750 meters.
In German military drills, 750 meters is just the conventional distribution distance between two infantry battalions.
Very short.
Even without a telescope, Song Biao could see the scene in the fortified area, which looked like a construction site. He thought that the other party would definitely be able to see them.
Song Biao found an old firewood pile abandoned by the villagers as a bunker and squatted nearby to observe the movements of the entire Japanese army. Although the distance between the two sides was very close, no one would rashly attack the opponent while the opponent's fortifications were not completed.
, because the Japanese army had already deployed several simple fortifications before, and the northern part of Song Biao was the defense line of the Russian 4th Siberian Infantry Division. There were more than 14,000 people stationed there, and it was absolutely impossible for the Japanese army to rush over at this time.
The two sides could only stare at each other eagerly.
Through his telescope, he clearly observed the entire movement of the Japanese army. They were the real aces of the Japanese army, with their strong momentum, high will, rich experience, sophisticated equipment, bravery of soldiers, and sagacity of officers at all levels.
, it is definitely not comparable to the miscellaneous troops in his hands. Even if General Mishuchenko's Cossack cavalry is mobilized, it is probably just a mantis to block the car.
The Eighth Division of the Japanese Army was established on October 1, 1898. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1898-1898, the Japanese Army determined that there would be a war between Japan and Russia, and used the Eighth Division as the main mountain unit for assault training. Its commander was known as the "One Soldier of the East"
Tachimi Naofumi, who belonged to the shogunate faction in his early years, defeated almost all the generals of the shogunate faction in the war to overthrow the shogunate, and was also the last shogunate general to surrender to the Meiji government, including Oyama Iwa, Saigo Takamori, Yamagata Aritomo, etc.
The so-called celebrities in the Japanese army were all his defeated generals. If he had not been from the shogunate faction, this gentleman would have already ascended to the throne of the Japanese army general. It would not be Oyama Iwa's turn to command the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 and the Russo-Japanese War.
The Eighth Division of the Japanese Army was basically a force trained by Naofumi Hitomi. If it had not been at a critical moment, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Manchuria Army, General Oyama Iwa, would never have sent him out. The facts finally proved how smart Oyama Iwa's choice was.
, which also proves that Naofumi Tachimi is indeed not a strategic master who can be dealt with by the rigid senior generals of the Russian army.
Tachimi Naofumi's strength lies in his extremely accurate and sophisticated grasp of fighter aircraft. If his opponent has the slightest flaw, he will catch him and beat him to death. Because he was once beaten black and blue by Tachimi Naofumi in the Overturning War, Oyama Iwa naturally knows this very well.
This person is awesome.
The Russian army definitely doesn't know.
Standing next to the firewood pile, Song Biao quietly peered at the elite Japanese army opposite, and was thinking about countermeasures in his heart. He came, but he did not come to die. He came to earn a vote and leave. But this
It's not easy to earn a vote.
Fortunately, the Eighth Division is currently focusing its main energy on Colonel Tishenlins's 4th Siberian Infantry Division. Two divisions of the Second Group Army of the Russian Far East Army are also rapidly mobilizing here, plus the possible arrival of the Kuban Cossacks.
Cavalry, at this time tomorrow, the Russian army will concentrate more than 40,000 troops in the Heigoudai area, twice the number of Naofumi Hatemi's 8th Division.
The Russian army is basically just a guest here. The 8th Division, which is twice as large as the 8th Division and is seriously short of ammunition, was beaten to a pulp by Naofumi Tatemi. It is precisely because of the 8th Division's bravery that the Tsarist Russian Far East Army Headquarters once again tried to postpone the decisive battle.
, shrinking most of the troops back.
Weakness against strongness is actually not completely without countermeasures. Soldiers and deceitful tactics. Zhou Yu can defeat Cao Cao in the Battle of Chibi, and Xie Xuan can defeat Fu Jian in the Battle of Feishui. This is enough to show that strength is not
The only factor that determines victory or defeat.
Song Biao was thinking rapidly in his head, spinning like a student in an examination room who is suddenly about to hand in a paper but still has more than half of the questions to answer, and his head was spinning.
He seems to have found a solution, but he's not sure yet.
After weighing it carefully, carefully, and even more carefully, he finally decided to continue taking the risk and take a gamble, because he was already standing on the front line that he dreamed of in life, and he had no choice but to take a gamble.
He also peered more carefully at the Japanese army's defenses. The Eighth Division was dispatched on a temporary basis this time, and they came for rescue. They did not bring enough ammunition. In addition, the Japanese army was seriously short of artillery shells throughout the Russo-Japanese War. They
They also failed to bring a few more artillery pieces.
This situation roughly determines the overall characteristics of the Eighth Division's defense around Toupao Village. Their defense line actually has an obvious invasion line, cutting the entire defense line into more than a dozen sections. In this way, they can
Continuously move each small defense line forward, either by attacking forward at night to dig trenches, or by temporarily constructing it under fire cover.
In short, this characteristic is very obvious. They will move forward little by little like crabs with hard shells. Just as the Japanese army did in the Battle of Lushun, they will eventually extend the defense line to less than a few meters away from the enemy's position.
100 meters away, then find a weak point in the Russian defense line, and defeat the opponent through a bayonet attack at night.
Before the entire World War I, the bayonet offensive was still a main method to determine the outcome of the battle. It was very common. During this period in the world, not only the Japanese army liked to do this, but also the Russian army, the German army, the British army... and even the US military.
The French army all did this. Now the people who are most famous for this are basically not the Japanese army, but the Russian army and the German army, which are known for their bravery. The reason why the US military was able to defeat its opponents with inferior rifles in the Spanish-American War was at the final moment.
It also relied on a powerful bayonet offensive.
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