A huge fighter plane appeared in front of Song Biao. He could catch it with just a stretch of his hand. As long as he caught it, he would be the one to rewrite Japan's national destiny. He would eventually realize his plan and plunge Japan and Russia into a conflict.
This is an embarrassing situation of "Japan has no army and Russia has no navy", and this is the most beneficial situation for China.
Song Biao immediately called all the generals together for a simple military meeting. Needless to say a lot of nonsense, he directly adjusted all combat plans and asked Colonel Brusilov to lead the Manchurian Army before two o'clock in the afternoon.
When the 1st Cavalry Brigade set off, Xue Changqing, accompanied by a transport battalion and local guides, made a surprise attack on Liaoyang, with the goal of Lushan.
Lushan is located on the northeast side of Liaoyang City, facing the city across the Taizi River. According to local soldiers in Liaoyang, the Taizi River is divided into two parts by a Shatuozi similar to Jiangxinzhou in the south of Lushan.
It's only thirty meters, and the narrowest part is only about ten meters wide.
Here, the Taizi River flows in a "Z" shape, Lushan runs directly into the city, and directly opposite is probably the Confucian Temple of the Japanese Army Headquarters.
If the Japanese defense force is relatively weak, Colonel Brusilov will need to make a decisive decision and directly attack the Japanese base camp. After that, Song Biao will arrive in Liaoyang with a large force within two days. From then on, he will defend Liaoyang and continue to wait for other opportunities.
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In addition, Song Biao once again dispatched a new liaison team, making sure to pass the information to Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin as soon as possible, so that he could readjust his deployment and concentrate his forces to defeat the main force of the Japanese right wing first, rather than entangle the front and left wings.
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If possible, Song Biao would send troops to insert into Liutiao Stronghold to separate the left and right wings of the Japanese army, and cooperate with the Russian army to besiege the third army of the Japanese army on the right wing, Ximuninidian.
The intelligence was so obvious that everyone knew that all the decisions Song Biao made at this time were the most correct and extremely risky. But if he had made the right decision, the Japanese army would have been completely stunned.
After Colonel Brusilov set off first, Song Biao also evacuated Sandaoling before 7 o'clock in the evening. Bypassing Liuhezi Town where the Japanese army might have troops stationed, they detoured from the southern route to Liaoyang and Zhang Yahu's Manchuria.
The 2nd Infantry Regiment was in charge of the rear at Taigouling.
Because of the huge amount of baggage, it was very difficult for Song Biao to march 60 kilometers in one night, so after Colonel Brusilov led the cavalry brigade to raid Liaoyang, Lieutenant Colonel Martos led Chen Wu's Manchurian Army
The 3rd Infantry Regiment and Kornilov's 1st Far Eastern Infantry Regiment followed closely behind. As well as the rapid march method, it was necessary to arrive in Liaoyang before 4 a.m. on June 1 to participate in the battle.
The reason why Lieutenant Colonel Martos was asked to pass was because Lieutenant Colonel Martos was the main designer of the Liaoyang defense line and knew the layout of the entire defense line very well.
At this time, Song Biao had basically understood the changes in the entire battle situation. According to the current situation of the Russian army, in about ten days, the Second Group Army of the Russian Far East Army would be completely defeated by the Japanese army, and the Japanese army would be able to outflank the entire Shenyang battlefield and cut off the Russian army.
The combat plan for the main supply lines and retreat routes can basically be achieved.
If Song Biao continues to stay in Sandaoling and fight the Japanese Fifth Army, there will actually be no significant improvement in the situation, unless he can attack the First Army from north to south in a very short period of time and defeat the Japanese Fifth and Fourth Army in succession.
The two armies forced the Japanese army to give up outflanking and enter a new round of positional warfare.
The cavalry brigade has been on the offensive for six hours. If all goes well, it may take another two hours before the cavalry brigade can launch a surprise attack on the command headquarters of the Japanese Manchuria Army. In that area, Oyamayan himself said, "There are no more troops to mobilize.
There is no strength left to defend oneself, and victory or defeat lies in the hands of all the kings." It must be at most the strength of an infantry brigade.
Song Biao had neither the thought nor the time to fight with the small Japanese troops. He bypassed Liuhezi and Jiguanshan, where the Japanese troops might have housing, and cut through the middle.
At 10 o'clock in the morning the next day, his troops arrived at a place called Shahu Town with a large amount of supplies and luggage, only the last ten kilometers away from Liaoyang County.
Sporadic artillery fire could be heard in the distance, and it seemed that there was a battle in the Longding Mountain area, but Lu Mountain directly in front was unusually calm.
Li Fugui, who was scouting in front, hurried back on horseback. When he saw Song Biao, he couldn't wait to jump off his horse and salute, saying: "Master, Commander Xue and Colonel Brusilov have captured Lushan. The Japanese army was caught off guard.
, an infantry regiment was forcibly eliminated by them, and now the Japanese army has reorganized its forces to counterattack. The positions are all ready. Colonel Brusilov gave me a detailed report and asked me to forward it to you!"
After saying this, he took out Colonel Brusilov's reply letter from his pocket and handed it to Song Biao.
Of course it would be better to have a detailed report.
Song Biao opened the letter and read it carefully. Only then did he realize that Colonel Brusilov arrived at Lushan exactly at 9 o'clock in the evening. He had already captured Lushan with the two infantry regiments led by Lieutenant Colonel Martos.
They took positions on the east side of Longding Mountain and Longding Mountain, and occupied the east gate of Liaoyang County of the Japanese army. The two sides had already launched an offensive and defensive battle in the county.
In fact, this raid was fought in an extremely confusing manner. Both sides were very confused. Song Biao did not know how many troops the Japanese army had in Liaoyang. The Japanese army also did not know how many troops the Russian army had and what kind of weapons and equipment they had.
Before arriving in Liaoyang, Colonel Brusilov encountered several Japanese search platoons in the last dozen kilometers and knocked down many Japanese sentry posts. However, because it was a cavalry raid, the Japanese had no time to strengthen their defenses.
and alert, Colonel Brusilov seized the opportunity to launch hand-to-hand combat to seize the two main positions in the north and south of Lushan, and used the forts on the positions to continuously bombard the Japanese headquarters.
Dashanyan did not directly command the troops at first. He initially thought they were bandit armed forces supported by the Russian army, the so-called Manchurian Infantry Division and others.
It wasn't until Colonel Brusilov wiped out an infantry regiment within half an hour and occupied two positions in the north and south of Lushan that Marshal Dashanyan knew something was wrong and that it was the Russian cavalry, the size of a brigade, but
At this time, he still didn't know the specific situation of Colonel Brusilov's cavalry brigade.
Because there were more than 40 position guns on the Lushan position, which were extremely powerful and were a key choke point for defending Liaoyang, the Japanese army could only organize two infantry regiments to attack, and the result was tragic.
The 1st Manchurian Cavalry Brigade designed by Song Biao completely copied Akiyama Haogu's idea. Before the raid on Liaoyang, a large number of additional machine guns and shotguns were added. The full strength of this cavalry brigade was 7,430, plus one of Xue Changqing's
The cavalry transport battalion has a total of 9,552 people and is equipped with 35 machine guns, 1,400 shotguns, and 55 mortars. Each cavalryman has a Cossack spear as regular equipment.
During this month of training, Song Biao specially trained the cavalry brigade's hand-to-hand combat capabilities, especially its ability to storm enemy positions after a surprise attack and to insert garrison defense capabilities behind the enemy's rear.
To put it bluntly, this is an infantry brigade capable of maneuvering on horseback.
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Each mortar has three rounds, so if you use them sparingly, it will last you a night.
The Japanese army did not expect this at all.
Both sides are actually a blind man fighting a blind man.
Marshal Dashanyan, no matter how smart he was and had so much combat experience, would never have imagined this. He sent two infantry regiments out to counterattack, but they were massacred by a combination of flares, machine guns and shotguns in less than twenty minutes.
Only then did Dashanyan realize that something was wrong, but Lieutenant Colonel Martos ran very fast all the way and arrived in Liaoyang at 2 o'clock in the morning.
Colonel Alexeevich Brusilov and Lieutenant Colonel Artur Krznovik Martos are among the best middle- and senior-level generals in the Russian Empire. The former served in the First World War.
Later, he served as the supreme commander of the Russian army, and the latter served as the chief of staff of General Samsolov in the Battle of Tannenberg, which was one of the few bright spots for Russia in the battle.
The two men are not the same type of officers at all. The former is a more Russian-style cavalry general. He is a senior general among academics who admire Suvorov's theory, while the latter's thinking and theory are more Western-European.
As the main designer of the Liaoyang defense line, Lieutenant Colonel Artur Martos was very aware of the value of this line of defense and the key points of defense. He immediately led two infantry regiments to take advantage of the chaos and seize the eastern part of the Japanese defense line at Longding Mountain.
Later, he sent troops to blow up the southeast corner of Liaoyang County. He rushed into the county and seized some strongholds, constantly attracting Japanese troops to fight inside the county. He and Colonel Alexeevich Brusilov used mortars to
The advantage of the positional artillery was to attack the Japanese army.
It was only then that Marshal Oyama Iwa and Chief of Staff Gentaro Kodama knew something was wrong. This was the main force of the Russian army, and the leading troops of the first and second waves were two brigades in size.
Dashanyan was still very confused at this time. Firstly, he couldn’t figure out where the Russian army came from. Secondly, he didn’t know the specific strength of the Russian army. Thirdly, he didn’t know the overall characteristics of this army, let alone what it was.
Song Biao's Manchurian Infantry Division.
Even though Song Biao had performed very well in Heigoutai before, Dashanyan felt that this was a bandit force, just a little braver. At the same time, he did not think that Song Biao's troops would appear here. This was because of his commander-in-chief.
Intelligence officer Nozumi Aoki.
It should be said that the Japanese army's luck in the navy is really good, and it is reasonable for the army to suffer some losses. First of all, General Kawamura Keimei was very unlucky. He was killed early in the second round of artillery attacks by the Manchurian Infantry Division. The entire
The command of the Fifth Army of the Japanese Manchuria Army was in chaos from behind, and no one was even sent to urgently notify the headquarters.
At this time, Dashanyan did not know that a quasi-army-sized main force of the Russian army had detoured and hit the Japanese army's right rear wing, so he could not figure out where the Russian army came from.
Including Dashanyan's intelligence from the front line, he did not know where the Russian army had a group army or a corps-level unit that had not participated in the war and could sneak attack Liaoyang.
Dashanyan has been fighting from the Falling War to today. His forty-year military career has allowed him to accumulate very rich battlefield experience. Even without any information for reference, he knows that the size of the enemy's army is definitely not small.
Each brigade has no baggage or logistics troops, and no marching tents, etc., which shows that there are large troops behind, and these are just the vanguard troops in front of them.
In fact, Dashanyan has quite a lot of troops in Liaoyang. He originally had three reserve brigades and 12 general station infantry brigades, but the 13th reserve brigade was deployed in Liaozhong County, the 14th reserve brigade was in Dengta County, and the four
The Infantry Brigade of the General Military Station was added to the Fifth Division, posing as the Fifth Division in the Benxi area. Two infantry brigades were retained at the grain depot center and transfer station in Anshan.
Even so, Dashanyan still has a reserve 1st brigade and 6 infantry brigades in Liaoyang, plus two Guards infantry brigades, and more than a dozen general depot transportation brigades, including the headquarters' staff officers, communications corps, and logistics corps...
…He has at least 20,000 troops available in Liaoyang County.
God's calculations are not as good as those of man. This battle lasted until dawn. By the time Dashanyan knew that his opponent had the size of two brigades and was only part of the main force of the Russian army, he had already lost four infantry regiments in succession.
of military strength.
In addition, the main positions and forts have been lost. Dashanyan's best choice is to retreat, but he has no way to retreat.
Liaoyang is only 20 to 60 kilometers away from the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th armies of the Japanese Manchuria Army. The defense line is strong, so it is naturally the best material concentration and transportation center. It is also the headquarters' command seat and intelligence center.
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If Liaoyang is lost, there will be no way to continue this battle.
Oyamayan could only hold on and let Chief of Staff Kodama Gentaro personally lead the team to attack from the west side. He first transferred back the 14th reserve brigade stationed in the Beacon Railway Station area, and then notified the Japanese Fourth Army Nozu in the Shahe area.
The Guandao Department began to adjust the tactics of the entire battle.
After all, their opponent was at the level of Colonel Brusilov. When the street fighting began, Colonel Brusilov simultaneously sent more than ten cavalry companies to patrol and guard the north and west sides of Liaoyang County, and to attack.
The Japanese army had strongholds near Liaoyang County, trying to organize the Japanese army to break out.
After being blocked, Kodama Gentaro redeployed the only two cavalry companies and attacked again. Then he rushed out, but was chased by two Russian cavalry companies. He could only go to Liaozhong County all the way.
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In fact, the other liaison forces dispatched by Dashanyan did not go well, because Colonel Brusilov led Xue Changqing and two transport battalions to increase the blockade on the north and south sides to compete for the Japanese strongholds in the surrounding areas.
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Regarding these situations, Song Biao could only know part of it from Colonel Brusilov. He did not know that Gentaro Kodama had broken through the encirclement before dawn. He also did not know that Oyama Iwa was still directing the battle in the county and destroying all kinds of intelligence.
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Colonel Brusilov didn't know either.
War is like this. Without enough intelligence, both sides are like two blind men fighting. They don't even know what the other side looks like.
Through Colonel Brusilov's reply, Song Biao didn't know much information, but he was convinced that the Japanese army would counterattack Liaoyang as soon as possible. Liaoyang was not only the command, intelligence, transportation, and material center of the Japanese army, but also the second
The retreat of 170,000 soldiers must pass through. Once Liaoyang is lost and has not been recaptured, the 270,000 elite Japanese Army soldiers will really never be able to return to Japan.
Song Biao gave the simplest example, how much supplies, food, ammunition, and artillery shells can the five Japanese armies carry on the front line? Liaoyang's geographical location, surrounding defense situation, and the fact that it is only 20 to 60 kilometers away from the front line
It was decided that it would be the material distribution center.
Could the Japanese army have predicted the outcome before the naval victory?
Oyama Iwa must prevent the defeat of the Japanese navy from happening. He must hoard enough military supplies on a large scale, especially food and ammunition. Take military pay as an example. In order to attract Japan's best young people to join the army, Japan has always taken very strong advantages.
Due to military policy, Japanese soldiers received very high wartime allowances, even much higher than those of the Russian army. The average wartime allowance for each Japanese soldier during the Russo-Japanese War was 45 yen per month.
During the entire Russo-Japanese War, Japan's military expenses, allowances and other expenses for the Japanese army alone were as high as 200 million yen. This did not include the Japanese army's disability and pension allowances. After this war, Japan's total military expenditure was actually as high as 14
Billion yen, it took ten years to pay off the debt, and it was not repaid until after the end of World War I.
Song Biao came to deduce that the Japanese military headquarters in Liaoyang currently has at least more than 30 million yen in military salary allowance reserves. As for military rations, they must be able to last for at least three months. If they are defeated in the first battle, will they all surrender later?
No more food?
Based on the normal monthly kilograms of rice grains for each soldier of the Japanese army, there must be 11 million kilograms of grain reserves alone. Otherwise, this battle would be impossible to fight. It is impossible for all soldiers to carry so much grain on their backs.
The frontline reserves are also limited, and at least half of the food is still in Liaoyang and Anshan.
Therefore, the Japanese army must retake Liaoyang in the shortest time. They cannot afford to lose it, and they will simply wait to die if they lose it.
Now that you have thought about this clearly, what else do you have to worry about later?
The matter has come to this, the only plan now is to fight to the death with the Japanese army in Liaoyang City, and use 40,000 people to resist the strong attack of one or two Japanese armies. No matter how many more, it is impossible. After all, the Japanese army has to block the Russian counterattack. Is it really serious?
Do the 400,000 gun-toting peasants of the Russian Far Eastern Army live on dry food?
In short, although Song Biao still doesn't know what the situation is in Liaoyang, nor does he know the whereabouts of Oyama Iwa and Kodama Gentaro, nor does he know how many Japanese troops there are in Liaoyang County, he does know one thing.
, as long as he can block the attack of three or four Japanese divisions in Liaoyang, the 270,000 elite Japanese troops will be left here.
Perhaps it won't be long before Japan and Russia will completely fall into the embarrassing situation of "Japan has no army and Russia has no navy", and this situation is precisely the most beneficial to China.
Song Biao's heart was already bright.
He folded the Russian report from Colonel Brusilov. From this moment on, he was determined to create a bloody tomorrow with the Japanese army in Liaoyang. To be continued...
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