Chapter 60: The Soldier Who Is Subdued Without Fighting
Life is indeed a wonderful journey.
When Song Biao accepted the highest award from Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin and the commission from the Russian Empire to form a Manchurian Infantry Division, he returned to his seat with the kind of pride that despised many generals of the Russian army, and his heart became more and more
There was a strange admiration.
He likes this kind of life full of thrills, unknowns and adventures. This kind of life is truly worthwhile. But a few months ago, how could he have thought that he would embark on such a life path?
So, life really has infinite possibilities!
On the stage, Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin took this opportunity to face the main generals of the Second Army and the Third Army, and made a complete communiqué about the entire Heigoutai battle, and summarized the battle for the Russian army.
The changes, benefits and various inspirations it brings.
The biggest inspiration is the tactics pioneered by Song Biao that rely on shotguns, machine guns, Cossack spears, booby traps and flares. This new tactic, officially named "Song Tactics", can effectively restrain the Japanese night offensive and positions.
Offensive, systematic and complete.
Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin hereby requires commanders of all units to master the use of this tactic and the allocation of equipment as soon as possible, and fully achieve the three key tactical points of advance prediction, advance blocking and cross-type counterattack.
When he was explaining the essentials of this tactic on the stage, many Russian generals in the audience glanced at Song Biao from time to time. Their complicated emotions tortured their hard and timid hearts.
Song Biao was thinking that if one day he became emperor, he would have to develop a more meaningful merit system, such as the Imperial Hussars Medal.
After the merit ceremony and grand celebration banquet, the generals and staff officers of each unit left Shendan Fort one after another.
Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin left Song Biao alone to discuss the formation of the Manchurian Infantry Division in the temporary combat conference room of the Second Army, accompanied by General Korbas and Mishuchenko.
General and Brigadier Madnidorf.
At this time, General Mishuchenko officially replaced General Bilderinger, who had retreated from the battle, and became the supreme commander of the Third Army of the Russian Far East Army. Everyone sat together and talked for a while, and soon talked about the entire current situation.
Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin is a rather special supreme commander. He is not the kind of person who is arbitrary and has no regard for others. In fact, he is very willing to listen to the opinions of others.
Taking this opportunity, General Korbas and General Mishuchenko both put forward some of their own ideas.
Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin was very silent and listened to them finish their thoughts. He did not immediately speak out, but instead said to Song Biao: "I heard that Madninov said that you have some special ideas about this war.
, can you tell me something?"
"Is that so?"
Song Biao glanced at Brigadier General Madnidorf. A few days ago at the Jiangjiayao position, he had indeed had several discussions with Brigadier General Madnidorf about the Russo-Japanese War, but he did not seriously consider whether to continue in-depth.
The impact of this war.
After thinking about it for a moment, Song Biaocai said: "I am considering the problem from the perspective of a third party. There is an old saying among the Chinese, the so-called authorities are confused, and bystanders know clearly. Translated into Russian, the parties involved are usually unclear, and those who have nothing to do with it are confused.
Can understand better. The cause of this war is very clear, and the commander-in-chief understands it better than anyone else. However, in this war, Japan, which took the initiative to provoke the war, was actually protecting the bottom line of their national development and survival, while Russia
, it is difficult for me to feel that Russia and the Russians are fighting for survival. These two determine that Russian soldiers will not fight with all their strength, while Japanese soldiers are not afraid of death. This is the first point. The second point,
Since the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War, Japan has been preparing for this war. Most of its soldiers are well-trained professional soldiers who have served in the army for many years, while the Russian army is mainly temporarily recruited reserve soldiers. Both sides are fighting on an equal basis.
The gap in level is obvious; third, the gap in equipment between Japan and Russia is no longer obvious; fourth, in terms of military establishment, the Japanese army completely follows the example of Germany and France, with a more complete system, while the Russian army has too many reservations
Without the traditional organizational system, the combat efficiency of the two armies is different. I am afraid that you, Commander-in-Chief, understand this most deeply."
He stopped when he said this. In fact, he really didn't want to say any more. Anyway, he had already obtained all the benefits he needed. He would not be able to fight to the death for the Russian and Japanese troops in the future. He would not be able to fight anymore. His Manchuria
The infantry regiment was also crippled by the Japanese Fifth Division.
Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin pondered for a long time and wanted to refute, but felt that he was unable to refute. He felt as if he had learned the news.
As we all know, when the commander-in-chief was serving as the Minister of War of the Tsarist Empire, he had a premonition that the Japanese army was accelerating its preparations for war with Russia. He strongly disagreed with the war with the Japanese army. As a result, he failed to do so and was appointed as the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Far Eastern Army.
Commander.
After a forced sigh, Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin suddenly said to Song Biao: "You are very right, but the other advantage you and Madnidov mentioned is exactly what I want to strive for now.
That is, the extremely precious advantage of time is on our side. Our army does not need to fight the Japanese army forcefully, because we can delay it. As long as we maintain the current situation for another six months, the Japanese army may lose the ability to continue to wage war.
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Song Biao said: "Sun Wu, the ancient Chinese military strategist, once said that it is the best policy to surrender the enemy's troops without fighting. If the Commander-in-Chief has such an idea, it is also feasible. Now that I have talked about it, I will explain it a little bit.
Let me tell you what I really think. Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, the Japanese army is actually very clear that they cannot continue to delay it. Even if you avoid the war and delay it, the Japanese army will continue to find ways to force a decisive battle. Therefore, I am afraid that a decisive battle is inevitable in the end. The war is
Economic and political extension, under the current situation in Japan, the only choice for the Japanese army is to use all their strength to fight for the final decisive battle. If we consider the problem from the perspective of the Japanese army, their only choice is to continue to attack the right wing of the Russian army and defeat it.
The Second Army. As long as they can do this, they can forcefully bypass the back of Shenyang, counter-encircle the entire Russian army, cut off all the Russian army's supplies, and defeat the Russian army's will to fight. This is their only countermeasure.
.If they choose to attack the front or attack the left wing, even if they win, they will only occupy Fushun in the end, which will have little impact on the entire war situation. They will still have to implement a second decisive battle in the future. The Japanese army will definitely not consider this possibility. If we
It's General Dashanyan. I will continue to wait and accumulate new troops, and then make a strong attack on the Russian left wing, forcing the Russian army to drag all the reserve troops to the left wing, and then use all the troops in my hand to gamble on the Russian right wing.
, as long as the main right-wing force of the Russian army is defeated in one battle, this war will be over. Even if you retreat to Shenyang first, the morale of the Russian army will be exhausted and everyone will be afraid of fighting, this war will be the same as losing."
After a pause and a moment of silence, Song Biao continued to add to Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin, reminding: "Actually, if the situation really develops to that point, Commander-in-Chief, even if you still reserve follow-up operations,
plan, His Majesty the Tsar will probably not give you this opportunity again. Shenyang is a place where you can no longer retreat, not to mention that there was a big victory just before, His Majesty the Tsar must have very high expectations for you now."
Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin still nodded silently and did not reject all of Song Biao's remarks. No matter how he viewed Song Biao before, at this moment, the Asian soldier he knew must be
A smart man with extremely high military qualities.
At this time, Song Biao was wearing the uniform of an infantry colonel of the Tsarist Russian Empire, wearing the St. George's First Class Gold Medal, which symbolizes one of the highest honors of the Tsarist Russian Empire, and speaking extremely fluent and standard Russian. His importance in the hearts of Kuropatkin and others
In fact, he has become heavier and is already in the same class.
As for how to understand "conquering the enemy without fighting", His Excellency Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin must not understand it, and he does not want to waste time and energy to understand it. This is precisely the gap between him and Dashanyan, Dashan
Only the "eight hundred miles across the enemy's rear" used by Iwa and Akiyama can be called a true "soldier that conquers the enemy without fighting."
If you understand and use Kreesewicz's "On War", you will definitely become a good general. But if you can truly understand and use "Sun Tzu's Art of War", you will definitely become a great military strategist.
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Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin thought deeply about Song Biao's reminder, and after a moment of silence he replied: "As you predicted, His Majesty asked us to annihilate the Japanese army as soon as possible. This is very bad news, but I have already
It is impossible to call back and make it clear that this matter is impossible. As far as the current situation is concerned, although our army already occupies a greater advantage, it is still too early and even unnecessary to fight the Japanese army. Of course, this requires
Let's see how the Japanese army thinks about the problem. If the Japanese army really wants to comprehensively defeat us, then they will make a serious mistake, and we will have to make them pay a heavy price."
Song Biao hummed and asked, "Then how do you plan to deploy it?"
Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin asked: "Song, if you were me, how would you deal with the Japanese army?"
"me?"
Song Biao sighed curiously, because he had never considered such a problem. After thinking about it for a while, he said: "I will have several deployments. First, I will reorganize the 350,000 troops into five
A group army, three group armies are deployed on the left, center and right wings, and two group armies are retained as reserve forces; secondly, I will give priority to strengthening the construction of fortifications, especially giving priority to protecting the right and left wings, so as to attract the Japanese army to attack the front as much as possible
position; third, allocate the strength of two divisions to strengthen rear support and ensure sufficient and stable logistics supplies; fourth, strengthen the configuration of military equipment, emphasize the firepower of position operations as much as possible, and configure more machine guns and shotguns
, concentrate artillery power on five group armies; fifth, form six to seven cavalry regiments to fight in a dispersed manner, responsible for bypassing Japanese positions and attacking Japan's supply lines. We must resolutely implement the principle of hit and run, so that the Japanese army will be exhausted.
Response; Sixth, I at least understand one principle, that is, losing the frontal battlefield and the left wing are not terrible things, especially the left wing. Even if the Japanese army occupied Fushun, it is actually impossible to detour through the rolling mountains to outflank the Russian rear wing, and the right wing is lost.
That's the most terrifying thing. War is deception, and the Japanese army knows this very well. If they attack a certain position first, then that position is exactly their feint attack."
Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin exclaimed in admiration and said: "In fact, you have imagined and considered more aspects than me, and you have some good inspiration for me. After the establishment of the Manchuria Infantry Division, the Hunjiang line
You are responsible for the safety of transportation and supplies. Regarding everything you want, the empire will not treat you badly, Colonel Song."
Song Biao smiled and said: "As for the transportation safety issue in the Hunjiang area, you can rest assured that I will eliminate the bandits here and those small-scale Japanese harassing troops in the shortest possible time!"
At this moment, I am afraid only he knows how Song Biao thinks about these issues deep in his heart. But one thing is undeniable, that is, Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin and General Mishuchenko both have a special feeling for him.
He is not a handsome and elegant noble gentleman, but he is extremely smart.
He is a smart man, this is your unanimous consensus on him, and under this consensus, he will stay away from the Russo-Japanese War for the time being.
With a wave of his hand, he left everyone's sight, taking with him machine guns, cannons and tens of thousands of rifles.
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