After sending both militia brigades to the battlefield, Song Biao asked Sun Shiyong to continue recruiting a new infantry brigade. For this purpose, he did not hesitate to spend one million silver dollars and two million kilograms of military rations. After all, there was a lot of food. The Japanese army was in Anshan
, Benxi's garrison was lax, but a large amount of military rations was hoarded. After a quick attack by Colonel Brusilov's cavalry brigade, all these military rations fell into the hands of Song Biao.%.net
Coupled with the late arrival of the Japanese army, Song Biao had enough time to transfer most of the military rations to Liaoyang. Those that were not transferred in time were distributed to the villagers on the spot to recruit strong men.
There must be brave men under the heavy reward. With enough military rations in hand, more than 4,000 people were quickly recruited. However, they were short of time. They could only train in a hurry for five days. At this moment, they could only get
came out as the final preparation.
Song Biao knew very well that this battle was likely to be the last stand of the Japanese army. For this battle, he had already deployed enough and there was nothing else to deploy. When he walked out of the basement, he did not even convene any
During the meeting, Li Dayun's security company was directly dispatched to follow him into battle.
This is a moment when a hero shines and leads his men to freedom and victory.
Song Biao is like all tough guys. At the last moment, only if he personally goes to the battlefield can he give his subordinates enough hope and will to fight. It seems that everything has returned to the moment when he first came into contact with this era. He held his own
The rifle moved forward without hesitation, but it was surrounded by a group of comrades who were determined to follow him and the most loyal subordinates.
Because Liaoyang is the location of the ancestral mausoleums of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the county's city defense standards are very high. The outer wall measures three feet by three, which is twelve meters high, and the base is 7.4 meters wide. It is three kilometers long from east to west and three kilometers wide from north to south.
This is an amazing classical defense achievement. Even in this era, it has a strong deterrent effect. The improvements made by Song Biao are very great, but they are adapted to modern warfare to the maximum extent, and defensive soil is set up at multiple fortification points.
Build a base and use sandbags to protect a circle of machine gun points.
He has demolished more than half of the inner city wall, demolished a large number of residences and mansions in the city, put all the materials on the outside of the city wall, built more than 120 strong bunkers, and built the entire defense line even stronger
and complex, continuously enriching the defense levels at the four levels of point, line, surface and height.
Even with the firepower of the Japanese 12-centimeter field artillery, Song Biao still led his guards directly to the city wall regardless of the danger. The commander responsible for holding the last line of defense is Lieutenant Colonel Martos, who is stepping up all possible efforts to mobilize troops and supplies.
, enriched at every defense line.
Seeing Song Biao, Lieutenant Colonel Martos and other commanders saluted hurriedly. Song Biao glanced around and said: "This is the last fight. Comrades, let's go into battle together."
Lieutenant Colonel Martos seemed to want to persuade, but he still held back. He immediately entered the state and led Song Biao to observe the Japanese position in front. Looking at the place where the artillery fire flickered, he pointed in a circle and said: "Center Pakilov
The school has begun organizing an artillery brigade to counterattack. We plan to use 15cm howitzers and 10.5cm cannons to counterattack the enemy's 12cm field artillery. There are currently twenty-two 28cm howitzers. They will also be used for counterattacks, and another
On the other hand, we used three-inch Lucia field guns to counterattack the opponent's 31-type mountain guns."
As soon as he finished speaking, the artillery fire on the Russian army's position also began to roar, especially the huge roar of the 28-centimeter German-made mortar, which almost shook the entire city wall. It even shook the sky and the earth.
tear.
A huge artillery shell pierced the sky and landed accurately on the enemy's artillery position. It seemed to crush the opponent at once, causing the opponent to suddenly fall silent.
Lieutenant Colonel Martos seemed to have expected it, and said to Song Biao: "It has begun."
As predicted by Lieutenant Colonel Martos, the 1st Artillery Brigade's counterattack gradually accelerated, constantly following the Japanese artillery movements to implement the fastest counterattacks, and relying on the advantage of range and higher accuracy to eliminate the opponent's attacks time and time again.
Artillery fire covered the attack.
Song Biao was like a prudent rich man who saved all his money until the end. He still had enough artillery shells and machine gun shells to deal with the Japanese army. This was probably something the Japanese army did not expect.
The Russian army's rapid counterattack caught the Japanese army off guard, and the entire attack was forced to be postponed. It was not until the sky gradually turned gray that the Japanese army could no longer wait. With a hysterical cry, the Japanese soldiers came like a tide from a distance of less than 300 meters.
They rushed out of the trenches, dispersed the two sides of the position, and rushed towards the last line of defense in Liaoyang County without hesitation. The machine guns burst out with fierce fire on the positions of both sides at the same time, and the violent rattling sounds were endless.
The size of the machine guns deployed on the positions by both sides has reached the level of 200. On the one hand, it is to suppress the charge, and on the other hand, it is counter-suppression.
Song Biao has used up all the mortar shells and can only compete with each other with machine gun fire, but his defenses are more complete, the fortress is stronger, and his artillery department can still suppress the opponent. This is
his advantage.
In the night sky, the last illumination bombs were fired, one after another trying to illuminate everything, but the poor light could only illuminate a cluster of positions in front, and the soldiers were forced to use homemade incendiary bombs
Throw them out, and they will be bottles of vodka, other foreign wines, and even Japanese sake, plus kerosene or gasoline and other burning materials, lighting up the position.
As the sky was about to brighten, the Japanese army no longer cared about the light of the fire. They rushed out from all directions with a mixture of insults and final will. Many shallow pits had been dug on the position, making the battlefield extremely messy. The Japanese army
The soldiers jumped out from those places and rushed to the position quickly.
The machine guns on both sides tried their best to suppress the opponent, but at this time, twelve meters higher was the best condition. Song Biao's Russian troops did their best to squander ammunition in an attempt to prevent the Japanese from approaching, but under the influence of tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers
Under the crazy attack, a large number of soldiers rushed to the front of the position.
Soldiers from the Russian and Manchurian infantry divisions suddenly rushed out and used shotguns to fly away the Japanese soldiers on the front line. It was like sweeping across the battlefield with a wizard's iron broom, wiping out all the enemy soldiers in an instant.
Covered with bruises.
The dense shells were like an iron curtain, and the Japanese soldiers seemed to have collectively hit the hardest iron wall and fell down together.
The battlefield was filled with white phosphorus smoke from shotguns.
The booby traps, as always, became the lethal weapon of the Manchurian Infantry Division. They exploded one after another at this time. The Japanese soldiers who were charging into the battle were blown to pieces. There were stumps and screaming soldiers with missing limbs everywhere. Arms and legs could fly.
It exploded, and even a whole head wearing a blue-black military cap was blown away from the body. It fell more than ten meters away in a bloody manner, and then looked in the direction of the city wall or his own body with those eyes.
Everything became extremely cruel, as if it was back to the moment of the Battle of Heigootai, even a hundred times more cruel than the Battle of Heigootai.
This is a hell for the Japanese army and a hell for the Russian army.
Song Biao fired out all the illumination grenades he had in his hand, and then used his anti-personnel grenades to attack distant enemy positions, trying to break up the Japanese machine gun positions. He kept changing the stacking points on the city wall to prevent
He was blasted off the city wall by the Japanese army's field artillery, and even the Japanese army might not be able to see him.
The sky is getting brighter.
The newly transferred 10th Division and two infantry regiments of the Japanese army were completely exhausted in this short attack of less than 30 minutes. The crazy Maxim machine gun once again proved in the Russo-Japanese War that it was the most evil in the war.
Using the killing chainsaw, more than 20,000 Japanese soldiers were killed or injured in this defense circle of less than 400 meters. The corpses were piled on the ground. The blood flow had already become a sea.
The Japanese army had even built hundreds of ladders more than 20 meters long and thousands of bomb bags in an attempt to attack the city wall at the first opportunity, but all of them failed to play any role and were abandoned on the forward position.
, bodies piled up like mountains.
When the first ray of morning light passed through the wall and shone on the Japanese army's position, Chief of Staff Gentaro Kodama stood there as coldly as an expressionless sculpture. He was wearing a black military uniform, white gloves, and a
A fine-handled saber.
He stands here with such indifference. The pain deep in his heart is something that others cannot understand. He claims to be the best general of the empire in this era. He has tried his best, but still failed to break through this iron wall.
Lieutenant General Anton Sadami, his student when he was the president of Mainland University, died on the battlefield, only two hundred steps away from him, and the Japanese blood in his body had long been drained.
Looking at the student's body, he felt an inexplicable pain deep in his heart.
Major General Fujii Shigeta, Chief of Staff of the First Army, stood respectfully beside Gentaro Kodama. He was silent for a long time before asking: "Your Excellency, General Staff Officer, do you want to continue the attack? Our army still has two reserve infantry brigades.
The regiment is on standby!"
Kodama Gentaro raised his hand to signal no need, and said: "Fujii-kun, the Battle of Liaoyang has ended. Just leave me a message here. Our opponent is an extremely clever general. He has firmly controlled the general from the beginning.
We have been restrained and have been led to mistakenly believe that we can break through this place if we work harder. In fact, this is not the case. We are just exchanging the most heroic infantry in the empire for the defense line he built up with cheap labor. I thought that if we defend Liaoyang
This Colonel Bio. Vladimir Song is the most brilliant general of the Russian army in this war. If the information obtained by Colonel Aoki is true, this is indeed a Chinese general, and he is the best general to us.
The worst news in this battle. I think it is unlikely that I will have the chance to fight with him in my lifetime. Maybe you will be the chief of general staff next time. When you meet such a famous general again, you should not use conventional tactics.
Tactics, because that makes no sense."
"Hi!"
Major General Shigeta Fujii solemnly nodded and said yes.
Gentaro Kodama sighed helplessly, and the moment he turned around to leave, Major General Shigeta Fujii suddenly shook in front of him. A bullet hole was shot through his chest, and blood spattered out.
Before Kodama Gentaro could react, his thoughts suddenly stopped. At this moment, he didn't even feel any pain. He just seemed to fall asleep in an instant, and all his thoughts stopped.
He was shot accurately through the back of the head.
On the opposite city wall, Song Biao faced all this calmly. When the first ray of light shone on the position, he had already locked onto the two senior Japanese officers standing in the middle of the position. He put on his most comfortable vd.
Rifle, accurately aim at the opponent.
Although it was my most comfortable weapon, it had not been used for a long time. It felt unfamiliar to me, so the first bullet missed and hit another major general in the chest. Fortunately, the second bullet hit the target accurately.
There was a panic on the Japanese position, and the battle that was about to end could no longer calm down. Under the leadership of Major General Kato Ii, commander of the 1st Reserve Brigade, some Japanese soldiers tried to rush into the battle again, but were fired upon by machine guns on the city walls and bunkers below.
, more Japanese troops retreated quickly without confusion.
Kodama Gentaro's original plan was that after the final strong attack failed, the two reserve infantry brigades would stay in Yanagi Ridge under the organization of Major General Fujii Shigeta to carry out rear-end operations to protect the retreat of the Nozu Kandobu and other Japanese troops on the south side.
, in order to prevent the Russian reinforcements from attacking, the Japanese army will guard the Liumuling area until most of the Japanese troops have retreated to Liaozhong County.
Every war has its surprises, and this time is no exception.
From the beginning to the end, this was originally a fierce battle with extremely high command and tactics, but at the last moment, the Japanese army suddenly became very messy. When dawn came, the Japanese soldiers clearly saw the mountains of corpses on the position.
, when their top commander was killed, and when they understood that continuing to attack would only lead to death, the desire to retreat and flee for their lives grew and spread crazily in their hearts.
The disorderly retreat began to become crazy. This situation made Song Biao feel overjoyed. Since his opponent made such a big mistake, he naturally could not miss it and immediately asked Colonel Brusilov to reorganize the cavalry.
The forward position was assembled. Because there were enough war horses, all the soldiers who could ride were organized. It looked like a cavalry brigade-sized cavalry was gathered on the front position.
This concentration of troops made the Japanese army realize that the Russian army was about to send out cavalry to forcibly assault the position. Following the cavalry brigade was the militia brigade organized by Song Biao. Although they were wearing Russian uniforms and numbered four to five thousand people, in fact
Xanadu only had four or five days of training experience, which was worse than the combat level of the Kwantung bandits, but it made the Japanese army despair about the strength of the Russian army.
In just a few minutes, more and more Japanese soldiers responsible for staying behind began to retreat frantically. The large-scale defeat of the Japanese army was already in sight, and the momentum of crazy escape could no longer be stopped.
At this time, Song Biao handed over the responsibility of defending the city to Lieutenant Colonel Martos, and he personally led the guard company, Li Fugui's reconnaissance company, and the cavalry regiment organized by Xue Changqing to assemble and rush out from the west gate of the county town.
The counterattack on Liumuling was suddenly launched. Although there had been relevant plans before, Song Biao did not expect that there would be a chance to be implemented. Therefore, there was too much unpredictability in the war. Even Napoleon could not control everything.
, as for people like Song Biao, Kodama Gentaro, and Nozu Kanchi, they are even more uncontrollable.
This large-scale retreat of the Japanese army soon spread to the Nozu Kando Department at the Wangshuitai position. Nozu Kando did not know what happened to Gentaro Kodama at this time, but the situation was already so bad.
Nozu Kanmichi still has 14,000 troops under his command, but he is located on the south side of the county and cannot replace Kodama Gentaro in the rear. Even if he leads his troops to stay behind, the Russian army will not care about him until the entire Japanese army is defeated.
Only then will the army come back to outflank his troops.
Nozu Kando had no choice but to lead his troops to retreat westward along the Taizi River immediately, and tried to leave behind the troops near the Shalingtai artillery position. However, his complete retreat was too late, and his large troops were still in Qi
In the Jiayao area, the Russian army has recaptured the Liumuling position.
As the saying goes, misfortunes never come singly. The first of the many reinforcements sent by the Russian army to Liaoyang has arrived at Shatuoling. It happened to be the Cossack Cavalry Brigade dispatched by the First Army, and immediately crossed the Jiahe Bridge to pursue the Nozu Pass.
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