After calculating the money clearly, Song Biao went to arrange the defense of the entire Liaoyang.
He had absolutely no time to rest that night. Although he had not slept for a moment all day and night, fortunately, he had just received the 10,000 yen in compensation for the defeat from the Japanese, and he was very energetic.
Throughout the night, he was checking the Liaoyang defense map provided by Lieutenant Colonel Martos, as well as the military intelligence of various Japanese armies temporarily translated by Jiang Fangzhen and others.
Liaoyang is surrounded by mountains on two sides and backed by water on one side. Only the west side is a flat river. Lianjimuling and Datupo can become crucial highlands on the west side of the defense line. Liaoyang County is still two kilometers away from the Taizi River in the north.
, but the north, northwest, and east sides are all mountainous.
Although the Taizi River is only an upstream section in Liaoyang, the average width on the north side of the county is two hundred meters, and the narrowest point is in Lushan. After being divided into two parts, they are only ten meters wide each. During World War I,
Even during World War II, the two-hundred-meter-wide river was basically a natural moat. It was basically impossible for Japan to cross the river in a short time. The only bridge across the river was the Jiahe Bridge. To cross this bridge
First, the Beiling position of Lushan must be captured.
Merely seizing Lushan's Beiling position is not enough, because I can still destroy the bridge by firing artillery at Nanling and use artillery fire to attack your rear supply troops. If you capture Beiling and send troops to attack the county seat, I will destroy the bridge.
Blast the beams to pieces, then use artillery fire from behind. As many as you rush in from the front will die.
Therefore, if you want to attack the county town through Jiahe Bridge, you must capture the entire Lushan Mountain. There are three large highlands and more than 20 small highlands. The defenses are as strong as copper walls and iron walls. They are all reinforced concrete left by the Russians.
Fortifications, if the Japanese army wanted to storm Lushan, they would have killed and injured tens of thousands of people and shed blood for three kilometers.
Song Biao, Lieutenant Colonel Martos, and Colonel Brusilov made several calculations and agreed that the only way for the Japanese army to win was in a small and inconspicuous place like Liumuling.
Starting from Weita Town, they stormed Lushan to attract the main force of the Mantan Infantry Division. Another army attacked from Liaozhong County, focusing on the west side of Liaoyang.
In addition, the Japanese army lacked sufficient confidence no matter how they calculated. If they really launched a hundred thousand troops to attack the entire Liaoyang from the front, they would really be seeking death. The Japanese army would not be so stupid just because Marshal Dashanyan died.
Not to mention Gentaro Kodama and Kando Nozu, Japan's countermeasures to defeat Song Biao with troops are naturally very simple. First, strengthen the defense line on the north bank of the Taizi River. This was a point of omission in the Russian army's previous defense fortifications in Liaoyang. After the Japanese army took over
They just started to build multiple lines of defense. Song Biao must strengthen the fortifications, forcing the Japanese army to adopt the strategy of attacking from the east and attacking from the west to attack the defense line on the west side of Liaoyang: Song Biao wanted to absorb the Japanese army in this seemingly undefendable Qiaoling area.
He came over with a bow, peeled off the skin and flesh layer by layer, and cut the Japanese army into a human stick: His plan was to use Japan's original fortification foundation to build a seven-kilometer-long defense line in the Liumuling area within two days.
Reinforce, attack both sides, continue to repair the rear, and then use a large number of machine guns and ammunition to crazily weaken the opponent here, turning the western suburbs of Liaoyang into a crazy meat grinder, ruthlessly attacking a place that seems to be undefendable for today's army.
Educate them and let them know who is the real God of War.
Wrong: Who is the real God of Death?
After Song Biao and Lieutenant Colonel Martos designed the preliminary sketch of this defense line overnight, Hu Dalin led an engineering regiment of more than 3,000 people to the battle. The other regiments also mobilized all the troops they could, going from house to house in the city and surrounding areas. Find people, and recruit them as long as there are still people for construction and transportation work.
Song Biao did not embarrass the folks in Guandong. He asked Xue Changqing and Jiang Yanxing to do the work in person and distribute more rations to the folks. Anyway, the Japanese's grain depots were so full that they were not afraid of eating them up.
It's just that this battle almost turned the Liaoyang area into a no-man's land. Those who could escape fled to Benxi, Shenyang, and Liaozhong areas.
It wasn't until dawn that Song Biao took the time to sleep for a few hours. When he woke up at noon, the thousands of remnants of the Japanese army in the county were also killed one after another, or surrendered, and the captured prisoners Naturally, they continued to be sent out to build fortifications.
Song Biao had just woken up and was still eating his first meal of the day. Jiang Fangzhen hurriedly handed him a piece of newly compiled intelligence and said: "Master, according to the statistical data, we have captured The amount of supplies is very astonishing. There are 224 artillery pieces of various types, including 18 15cm howitzers, 42 15cm Italian bronze mortars, 12 9cm Italian bronze mortars, Russian-made Lucia 54 three-inch field guns, 4 10.5cm German-made semi-rapid-firing cannons, 6 German-made 28cm mortars and Japanese-made 28cm imitation Italian howitzers, 24 Japanese-made Sanyi field guns, and Nikki-made 18cm In addition to the mortars, there are five fixed 15cm cannons and four 28cm mortars on each defense line. Some of the German-made artillery were shipped from Japan and have not yet been used on the battlefield.
Song Biao put down his chopsticks and asked cautiously: "Are the number of shells enough?"
Jiang Fangzhen said: "It should be enough, especially the number of shells for the Lucia three-inch field gun, plus the original 16 of our army, the average number of shells reserved for each gun is 346."
Song Biao thought about it and said, "There should be enough gunners, right?"
Jiang Fangzhen said: "There are enough gunners. Our army had a reserve of gunners before coming here from Shenyang. Plus our division's original gunners who were trained by Russia during the Tonghua Jizu period, the number is sufficient. As for the artillery issue, I really don’t have any big doubts. It’s just that most of the fort positions in front of me are familiar to the Japanese army. If they need to be moved, especially our army’s 28cm howitzers and six heavy guns are all placed in the center of the position on the south side of Lushan, the Japanese army may As soon as they come up, give them a more concentrated artillery strike."
Song Biao thought for a while and said: "Those things are too heavy and have a long range. If the Japanese army wants to carry out a concentrated attack on them, they must prepare enough artillery fire. They might as well use them as inducements to expand the surrounding positions." , If it can be moved in actual combat, then move it appropriately, if not, just leave it where it is."
Jiang Fangzhen said: "It's too heavy. I'm afraid it will take four or five days to relocate and reorganize:"
Song Biao waved his hand and said: "Then we won't move it. We will deliberately use it as a bait to lure the Japanese army to place artillery positions in a more forward area. Our army will concentrate all three-inch Lucia field artillery to provide a sudden counterattack. Surround it. The entire road in the southern suburbs of the county must be leveled to facilitate the transportation of artillery. If it is too late, then directly demolish all the houses around the main road of the county. Demolish a few more places to prepare artillery positions. Remember to give enough demolition to the local folks. Demolishing the house without paying money will greatly damage our reputation and be detrimental to the long term. "You can't save small amounts of money:"
Jiang Fangzhen praised: "Master, I have an opinion: Another thing is that the Japanese army has material depots in Anshan, Benxi and Liaozhong. The Japanese army carried out a large-scale forced food requisition in the Benxi area. They should have hoarded a lot of military rations, and they have reserves in Anshan."
A batch of spare ammunition. There are about six infantry brigades in Benxi, semi-publicly using the designation of the Fifth Division. In fact, it is the infantry brigade of the General Military Station prepared by the general. On the Anshan side, it is about the logistics infantry brigade of the General Affairs Station.
There are four brigades of troops, do we need to send troops there?"
Song Biao thought for a moment and said: "You will go and invite Colonel Brusilov and Lieutenant Colonel Pakilov later. Lieutenant Colonel Martos. I will hold a temporary regular military meeting to discuss this matter. If possible,
I hope to send a cavalry brigade to attack the Japanese Anshan defense area. As for Benxi, we will discuss it later."
Jiang Fangzhen nodded silently, then put the new statistical summary report on all aspects of intelligence data on the table, and went out to prepare for a regular military meeting.
Song Biao continued to eat while looking at the list of the large quantities of materials seized in Liaoyang this time, as well as the summary of Japanese military intelligence compiled by Jiang Fangzhen and others: the Japanese army's defeat of the Russian army in Liaoyang and the Battle of Port Arthur made a lot of money in Liaoyang.
The Japanese army actually only had more than 300 artillery pieces before the Russo-Japanese War began. After that, it increased to more than 600 pieces through emergency purchases from Britain, France, Germany, and Italy.
The number of artillery captured by the Japanese army was even more astonishing. By the end of the Fengtian Battle, the Japanese army had captured more than a thousand Russian artillery pieces.
The loss of 218 artillery pieces in Liaoyang is not very painful, but the Russian army's inventory of materials they left in Liaoyang is really great. The materials that the Russian army had given them in Liaoyang were almost intact and given to them in vain.
Song Biao had more than 40,000 rifles in stock alone, most of which were Mosin-Nagant rifles that Song Biao needed most. The amount of ammunition reserves was enough for Song Biao to hold out in Liaoyang for two months.
The Japanese army had made two arms transactions with Song Biao before, giving Song Biao more than 40,000 Mosin Nagant rifles. However, those were old goods selected by the Japanese army, and the batch stored in Liaoyang was basically brand new.
of.
As the main reserve of military supplies for the 270,000-strong Japanese army, it was quite risky for the Japanese army to retain more than 15,000 troops in Liaoyang, and their luck was not good.
An infantry brigade was lost.
Song Biao almost burst out laughing after reading the statistical list. Now he has 240 machine guns in his hand, half of which are divided between Maxim and Hotchkiss, and 332 artillery pieces of various colors. The ammunition reserve is enough for him to shoot two rounds.
Months later, the food reserves were more sufficient, and medical supplies and so on were sufficient. He really didn't know how Kodama Gentaro could counterattack Liaoyang at this time.
He really felt that he would really eat the little Japanese to death in his life.
After waiting for half an hour, Song Biao went to the combat conference room to meet with Colonel Brusilov and others. Lieutenant Colonel Pakilov and Lieutenant Colonel Martos had not arrived yet, so it was just him and Colonel Brusilov.
Arrived early.
When he saw Colonel Brusilov, Song Biao handed him the list in his hand and said, "You should also read it. The next one is the Russian version of the general list:"
Colonel Brusilov thanked him very seriously: "I have seen it in advance. I think that not only have we won another miraculous victory, but we will also fight a third one. This will be the decisive battle for the empire."
This is the place of destiny. On behalf of all the Russian soldiers in this department, I must thank you for your command: Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, I believe that after this battle is over, if our department can defend Liaoyang to the death, you will become a figure like Napoleon Ahom.
.”
Song Biao replied calmly: "Thank you for your compliment, Colonel. A reputation like Napoleon's is still too exaggerated for me now. Let us face reality, maybe we will face it at the same time.
The Japanese army is launching a counterattack on the scale of three divisions. I don’t know when they will complete the deployment of this aspect, but this fierce battle is inevitable.”
Colonel Brusilov sighed: "Yes."
In this matter, Colonel Alexeevich Brusilov no longer had any doubts about Song Biao's supreme command, although he had always doubted the continuity of victory before. The victory was always the best proof that he was even now
It is a pleasure to work with such a military genius as Infantry Colonel Beov Vladimir Song.
Apart from "military genius" and "Yahon Napoleon", he could hardly find any more suitable words to describe the Yaton man in front of him. In short, it was a very magical thing, and he had encountered it.
Song Biao and Colonel Brusilov smoked French cigarettes among the Japanese trophies together, thinking about some things, and did not care about the changes in Colonel Brusilov's thoughts in the past few days.
After a while, he said to Colonel Brusilov: "I want to send the cavalry brigade to raid Anshan again to seize the supplies there and prevent the Japanese army from raising the issue of strengthening defense and transferring those supplies: this is our current strategic goal.
They have been constantly forcing the Japanese army to provide supplies. On the one hand, they must cut off their supplies, and on the other hand, they must constantly reduce their supplies. At this level, they will lose their minds and must fight to the death with us.
We only need to use stronger defensive fortifications to continuously deplete their numbers and strength, and the final victory must be entrusted to Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin. Only he can complete the final blow against the Japanese army."
Colonel Brusilov said: "Yes." Your predictions on grand strategy are always amazing. I have experienced this many times. Then I will continue to lead our cavalry personally.
Brigade to attack their defenses in the Anshan area. According to Major Tuvanier's report, in addition to Anshan, the Japanese army also has certain supply stations in Benxi and Liaojin counties. Do they also need to be solved? If they are solved together, we
How should we allocate such huge supplies?"
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