General Mishuchenko fully agreed with Song Biao's idea, and issued various new orders in his own name, mobilizing the entire army again. In fact, every step was deployed according to Song Biao's design.
Song Biao, who was still far away from the battlefield for the time being, breathed a sigh of relief.
On the afternoon of the 26th, he had been deploying the construction of new fortifications. At the same time, he asked Xue Changqing and Hu Dalin to select combat-ready soldiers from the transportation brigade and engineering brigade, and dispatched them for training. There was no time for rifle drills. He took the Cossacks from the Cossacks.
The cavalry army borrowed a thousand Cossack spears and asked everyone to hide in the big forest behind the position to practice assassination.
This kind of Cossack spears are all black, with a standard length of fourteen feet, and the spear heads are made of steel. Because they are eliminated very quickly on the battlefield, they don't even need to be carefully hammered by a blacksmith, and they just need to be sharpened enough.
The 4.26-meter long spear is very difficult to use, so it requires those with the strongest strength to use it. Fortunately, Song Biao's Manchu infantry regiment lacked everything except strong men.
The 1,400 brothers of the First Infantry Battalion and the Second Infantry Battalion also need to train. At this time, Song Biao is less like a regiment commander and more like a chief instructor, but he does not have time for formal militarized training.
There was no time to teach Zhao Tingzhu and others how to be a battalion commander, so all they had to do was adopt bandit-style management logic.
Zhao Tingzhu, Zhang Yahu, Hu Dalin, and Xue Changqing are the four deputy village leaders, and the other fourteen squadron captains are the leaders. The squadron captains of the two infantry battalions each have 180 people, and the squadron captains of the transportation brigade and the engineering brigade are
Each has more than two hundred subordinates.
Under this logic, the fourteen squadron leaders are all under the command of Song Biao, and this is also the most reasonable and effective method at present. As for the third infantry battalion led by Kornilov, Song Biao basically does not interfere
, as long as these people obey Major Kornilov's command, and Major Kornilov is willing to listen to his arrangements.
Heigoutai in January 1905 was so bloody and cruel.
From the 26th to the 28th, the Japanese Eighth Division had been attacking crazily, pushing their front line forward. Song Biao did not expect that they had a crudely made mortar, and the Russian army also had it. Both sides
Each other's mortars are constantly used from a few hundred meters away. These mortars are more dangerous to both sides, especially to the users.
The Eighth Division indeed only brought eight to ten 31-type rapid-fire field guns, but the number of artillery shells was quite large. Fortunately, the Russian artillery was relatively more fierce, until the trenches of the two sides were only more than 300 meters apart.
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This was probably another main reason why the Eighth Division desperately pushed the trenches forward.
The cruelty of the battlefield is beyond description in words. The extreme bloodshed is like hell. A large number of corpses left on the battlefield were frozen into ice corpses in the cold snowy night, covered with a thick layer of snow. Most of the soldiers were not killed in battle.
Instead, they froze to death in the cold night. They struggled on the battlefield. Both sides no longer had the will to save people. They could only watch them struggle until early morning. All the injured who could not crawl back would die.
Become a trophy of death.
In two days, although Song Biao's Manchurian Infantry Regiment was just a decoy and training exercise, it still sent a battalion to defend the position. The number of casualties was still very severe. The reduction of the three infantry battalions exceeded 20%. Fortunately, due to certain reasons
Due to the serious shortage of first aid personnel in the Russian army, General Mishuchenko still assigned an additional field doctor and four first aid personnel to Song Biao.
Song Biao's brothers were struggling painfully on the battlefield. The old brothers were doing it for their future and the promise Song Biao had made, and the new brothers were doing it for the military salary of thirty oceans a month.
Song Biao didn't even mention the rhetoric of national justice to all his brothers. On the premise of fighting for the Russians, it was too hypocritical to say such things, and it really didn't make much sense at this time. Once on the battlefield
, principles such as ethnicity are far less important than the feelings of comrades in the same class.
He cares about everyone as much as possible.
He had Lao Jintou's large caravan behind him to support him, and he bought enough supplies to last him through this period. He bought more than 4,000 kilograms of cooked beef and mutton, and each squadron had a portion, which he ate in three days.
, because he estimated that about half of the people would not survive these three days.
The night of the 28th finally fell.
Song Biao had been making various preparations, using his own methods to lure the Japanese army into making misjudgments. For this reason, he lost more than a dozen brothers, and even one was an old brother from the caravan who followed him in Erlang Cave.
He was calm, but his heart was extremely painful and twisted. This kind of pain would never be experienced or understood by ordinary people.
This kind of pain can only be understood by those men who have fought on the battlefield and lost their comrades.
You are not a wolf, so you don't understand how a wolf feels when he loses his teammates.
Darkness has fallen.
Song Biao waited calmly and nervously for the final verdict. The banks of the Hun River were filled with cold frost, the sky was slightly covered with snowflakes, and it was pitch black just a few steps away. It seemed that everything was developing in a direction more conducive to the Japanese army.
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On this last night, Song Biao asked Lao Jintou to stew the mutton bought from the villages around Shenyang. Twenty-three large iron pots filled the Heigoutai village with a strong smell of meat, seducing the entire battlefield.
Every soldier on board.
A bowl of mutton, a pot of shochu, and three pancakes, this is the dinner of the Manchurian Infantry Regiment on this last night.
Crouching on the battlefield and looking at the vast amounts of falling snow in the sky, Song Biao felt very worried.
The Japanese 5th Division has approached the Sumabao area in the south, and may launch an attack at dawn tomorrow to cover the remainder of the 8th Division in a bayonet battle. General Mishuchenko deployed a regiment of troops in Sumabao
Guard several earthen buildings and surrounding strongholds, as well as the surrounding trenches. A key problem now is that the Russian army is seriously lacking in machine guns. Even if General Mishuchenko personally went to the Second Group Army of the Far Eastern Army to mobilize, he actually did not get a few more.
machine guns. In the entire Heigoutai area, the Russian army only had eighteen machine guns, including six that Song Biao brought with him.
In the dark night, Song Biao put on his Zero-3 rifle and used a low-light scope to observe the movements of the Japanese troops at the forward position. Due to the weather, he could not see very far, but everything seemed extraordinarily normal.
He has been making estimates these days. The Japanese 8th Division's combat attrition as of today should exceed 6,000 men. It may be worthwhile to advance the position by 500 meters at the cost of 6,000 men.
In this intertwined era of re-evolution of modern military thought, the bayonet offensive is not a wrong and outdated idea, especially with the rise and application of trench warfare on a large scale, when mortars, submachine guns, light machine guns and tanks failed to achieve great success.
Before the advent of area, this tactic was still a major means of determining victory or defeat. We should not laugh at the Japanese commanders just because of the name of the pig attack tactic. After all, these people were also heroes of the Japanese army during this period, and they were beyond ordinary people.
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Li Jian Naofumi's idea was not wrong. His mistake was that his intention was too obvious and he met the monster Song Biao. The so-called famous general is definitely not impeccable. He is as strong as Su Yu. Why didn't he also have failures at his peak?
The long dark night was so unbearable that Song Biao drank a sip of soju from time to time to warm his body and ate hard cold pancakes to replenish his calories. The same was true for other brothers. At this time, the engineering brigade and the transportation brigade no longer had to engage in other tasks.
They are also hidden in various communication trenches and foxholes behind the trenches.
Song Biao had already arranged all the tasks that could be ordered and assigned, and there was no time to conduct drills. Whether each squadron could be effectively executed in the end could only be revealed after dawn.
In order to maintain physical strength, the three infantry battalions took turns to rest for a period of time, and the transportation brigade and engineering brigade took turns to rest. Only the guard squadron led by Song Biao had to stare into the distance all night long.
Time passed slowly, and in the early morning, the snow finally stopped, and the sky was still dark without even the slightest starlight.
Through the low-light mirror, Song Biao could vaguely see the front line of the Eighth Division's position. There were indeed some abnormal situations. There were obviously too many people moving around in the trenches, and some noises were inevitably heard at night.
At this time, Song Biao was already convinced that the Japanese army would launch an attack before dawn. He called Li Fugui next to him and whispered some instructions, asking Li Fugui to notify each squadron leader one by one to ensure that all squadron leaders could continue to be alert. At the same time,
Also notify other nearby Russian troops.
Soon after, the entire position became extremely tense, and everyone sped up their preparations.
The troops beside Song Biao were Zhao Tingzhu's 1st Infantry Battalion, the right wing was the 3rd Russian Infantry Battalion, and the left wing was Zhang Yahu's 2nd Infantry Battalion. A thousand soldiers selected from the transportation brigade and engineering brigade served as a reserve team, crawling on the ground.
Behind the trench, a thousand Cossack iron spears and more than sixty large iron pots were also prepared.
Within a hundred meters of the entire southern defense line, the Russian army quietly laid more than two hundred booby traps in the dark hours of the night, and used grenade fuses to wrap more explosive packages and bury them on the forward position.
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Just in case, there was a similar arrangement at the front of the northern line. There were 3,000 Cossack soldiers holding iron spears staying on the northern line. However, most of the machine guns were concentrated on the south side to make up for the lack of manpower.
The darkness seemed to be a silent killer, and with the premonition that the Japanese army was about to launch a general attack, everyone felt extremely nervous, as if their heart was tightly held by invisible hands, making it difficult to breathe.
The snowfall before dawn once again buried the corpses on the battlefield. Even the pile of corpses caused by machine gun fire seemed to have turned into a snow hill again, so calm. No blood or corpses could be seen. Some were just
Endless whiteness as far as the eye can see.
It's just that there is no light in the world.
The only light was in Song Biao's eyes. Through the dark green field of vision, he continued to stare at every movement of the opponent, and this movement became more and more frequent. When the first row of Japanese soldiers climbed out of the trench and slowly
While slowly crawling forward, Song Biao subconsciously looked at the time.
4:22 a.m. on January 29, 1905.
He knew that this would be a moment recorded in history, and from this moment on, he would truly change the wheel of history.
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