The Japanese army, which had performed at a very high level throughout the battle, was in danger at the end of the night. It noticed that the Russian army had a cavalry brigade on each of the northern and southern fronts pursuing them. Even Japanese army generals like Nozu Kanmichi thought it was the Russian army.
When large-scale reinforcements arrived, the troops were withdrawn without any hesitation, and a huge rout was inevitable.
The Japanese army of more than 20,000 people was defeated all the way, abandoning their helmets and armor, and all kinds of baggage. The 2nd Field Artillery Brigade, which had just arrived at Shalingtai, was helplessly abandoned behind. As a result, Major General Toshima Yozo was killed.
The miscellaneous cavalry regiment led by Song Biao captured...
After seizing the Shalingtai position, Song Biao stood up and looked at more than 160 artillery pieces in front of him. Thousands of mules and horses were scattered around, and all the soldiers and generals of the entire brigade were missing.
, in just a quarter of an hour, the Japanese artillery brigade fled on all kinds of military horses.
Li Fugui's reconnaissance company discovered Nozu Kando's large troops in the northwest river area. After reporting it to Song Biao, Song Biao immediately asked the entire army to abandon their war horses and find positions and bunkers nearby, preparing to intercept the Japanese retreat here.
Let Li Fugui lead a team to Liumuling to dispatch more Russian soldiers for reinforcements.
Six Hotchkiss machine guns were abandoned on the Shalingtai artillery position. With ample ammunition, they reused these machine guns nearby. Before the Japanese soldiers could escape to the front of the position, all the machine guns fired at the same time and fired wildly on the position.
The dark crowd of Japanese soldiers were like crows flying all over the sky. They did not organize a counterattack in front of the formation. They just retreated while shooting. They did not have the courage to confront Song Biao's 400-man troops. They retreated again.
The only option is to retreat into the Taizi River.
In the distance, the pursuit of a Russian cavalry brigade was imminent. The endless sound of galloping horse hooves shook the ground with layers of sound and billowing smoke. A large number of Japanese soldiers were forced to jump into the Taizi River. In the two-hundred-meter-wide river
They struggled, only to be greeted by bursts of cavalry fire.
Imperial Japanese Army General Nozu Kanchi had never been so embarrassed in his life, and he made the same mistake as Gentaro Kodama. He really couldn't bear the humiliation and degradation of jumping into the Taizi River, so he could only lead thousands of people with his last courage.
After the soldiers were cut off on the spot, they relied on various embankments and sand piles along the river to resist the Russian army.
All of this was beyond Song Biao's expectation.
Song Biao only led an army of more than 400 men, so he had no intention of competing with the newly reinforced cavalry brigade from the Russian army for military exploits. Compared with the nominal merit of killing and capturing Japanese Army General Nozu Kanchi, he was more
Don't care about the 162 artillery pieces in front of you, even if the Japanese 75mm mountain cannon can only be regarded as a bulky version of a grenade launcher. The 12cm howitzer field cannon they imported from Germany is a real heavy artillery. And there are thirty of them.
many.
The baggage and accessories of a cavalry brigade are very valuable. One artillery shell costs the Japanese army at least ten Japanese silver coins. Heavy field artillery such as the 12-cent field gun requires 10 horsepower to haul. Each gun requires
The artillery shells require 20 horsepower to pull, and the Japanese 2nd Field Artillery Brigade is equipped with a subordinate transportation wing with more than 8,000 horsepower. In addition, the Japanese army also needs to deploy the division headquarters and the military headquarters preparatory transportation wing for coordinated operations.
These are all money.
Song Biao stopped doing anything, so he transferred the cavalry regiment from Xue Changqing's side, and kept looking for horses and baggage abandoned by the Japanese army in the surrounding area, hoping to restore the configuration of this artillery brigade as soon as possible in the future.
As a result, the newly-reinforced cavalry brigade from the Russian army was actually blocked by the remnants of Nozu Kando in front of the embankment on the south side of the Taizi River. The miscellaneous cavalry brigade temporarily reorganized by Colonel Brusilov pursued the Japanese army all the way to the Yellow River.
In Nitan and Liuhao Town, more than 6,000 Japanese soldiers were taken prisoner, and most of the others were killed or dispersed and disappeared without a trace.
When Chen Wu and Jiang Yanxing led the militia brigade to reinforce Shalingtai, Song Biao led more than a thousand troops to reinforce the Russian Cossack Cavalry Brigade and carried the Hotchkiss machine guns discarded by the Japanese to the front line.
General Nozu Kando did not leave the river embankment position at this time. This place was commonly known as Yangjiao Bay. Most of the local villagers had been recruited by Song Biao. There was a slope on the north side of the village, and beyond it was the Taizi River. The river course was about 10 meters long.
One hundred and sixty meters wide, Nozu Kanchi led half of the infantry regiment to make a final desperate resistance on this slope.
Nozu Kanchi's luck was very bad. He happened to be in the southern position to attack Liaoyang County. When the entire army retreated, he was not suitable for the task of cutting off the rear. After being responsible for the Japanese army's great escape, he really
Embarrassed.
Let him run, he can't run away, he should cut off the rear... Even if he leaves all his troops in the southern position to cut off the rear, the Russian army will not pay attention to him. At most, they will send some troops to hold him back and solve the Japanese army's defeat on the west side.
Then surround him again.
The result is really like this.
As the second commander-in-chief of the Japanese Manchurian Army, General Nozu Kanchi was really in a sorry state at this time. However, he bravely decided to leave the opportunity of escape to the young Japanese soldiers, and he personally stood on the south side of the river embankment.
Afterwards, it is probably unknown how many of those young Japanese soldiers who jumped into the Taizi River swam to the other side alive, and how many of them were able to escape back to the Japanese army's headquarters in Liaozhong County.
A smart and cunning old man like Kando Nozu understands the truth of all this very well, so he stays here for the final battle just for the final honor and dignity.
He is the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Manchurian Army. Although such a large-scale defeat is beyond his control, it is not something he can bear. If he does not die on the battlefield and returns to Japan to survive, then he is the entire
The sinner of the Japanese nation.
Therefore, he would rather die here in the most heroic manner.
Song Biao understood the mood of General Nozu Kando very well and realized that Yangjiao Bay would be the final scene of the entire Liaoyang Campaign. Song Biao was not in a hurry to mobilize the entire army to defeat his opponent.
When he arrived at the position, he first met with Colonel Erevsky, the new reinforcement of the Russian army. The other party was a cavalry colonel from the Kuban Cossack cavalry. He also led the Kuban Cossack Cavalry Brigade under the Fourth Army. This brigade was launched in April this year.
They arrived at the Japanese-Russian battlefield in August. In order to support the Liaoyang Battle, they were temporarily assigned to the First Army and were ordered to go south from the Sandaoling area. They bypassed the three blocking forces previously exposed by the Japanese army and broke into the Shatuoling area directly.
Colonel Erevsky must have been very lucky. The two cavalry brigades and mountain brigades of Brigadier General Samsolov and Colonel Salenhorn have been fighting outside Liaoyang for several days, and they have not yet arrived.
At this time, Song Biao's status in the entire Russian Far Eastern Army was quite high.
Both were colonels, but Song Biao was still a no-name colonel who was basically not officially recognized by the Russian army. Colonel Erevsky saluted first when he saw Song Biao. Of course, regardless of whether Song Biao was a no-name or not, he was the commander of the Liaoyang Defense Area after all.
If you are an official of the same rank, you must salute first.
After returning the gift, Song Biao enthusiastically shook hands with the old-school senior cavalry colonel, who was probably in his fifties, and praised: "The Japanese army's blockade on the periphery is extremely strict. Your troops can arrive in Liaoyang at this time. You really saved us!"
Colonel Erevsky was very happy when he heard this and also praised: "Colonel Bio, you are currently the most shining frontline general in our Far East Army and the entire Tsarist Russian Empire. There may not be many people in Russia now.
I don’t know your name. As far as I know, in the long military history of Russia, you will be the fastest general to be promoted to infantry brigadier general in record time. I just came from the headquarters of the Far East Army, so I am relatively well-informed.
, there are even rumors that you may be promoted to infantry major general after this great victory. If the rumors are true, I think you are worthy of such an exceptional promotion. In this war that is not qualified to be called just,
You almost single-handedly saved the critical situation of the Far Eastern Army. As a soldier, especially a Cossack cavalry general. Please allow me to use words such as the most heroic, the most tenacious and the most brilliant to praise you. You deserve it all.
"
After saying this, Colonel Erivsky once again saluted solemnly, and the staff officers and Cossack cavalry generals behind him also saluted Song Biao.
It seems that from this point we can see what position Song Biao already held in the Russian army at this time.
Soldiers speak in terms of war and military exploits.
Song Biao looked at everyone at this time, slowly raised his hand in return, and once again thanked these Russian generals for their respect for him.
Gunshots rang out non-stop on the position. Soldiers from both sides continued to fight fiercely.
The war is not over yet.
Colonel Erivsky immediately asked Song Biao: "Your Excellency Bie'ao, it seems that we still have this last battle left. The Japanese army's will to resist here is still very tenacious. How do you plan to arrange our attack?"
opponent?"
Song Biao thought for a while, pointed to the front line and said: "Let's take a look first!"
After saying this, he personally walked up to the position and used a telescope to observe the position less than 300 meters across. The Japanese army also hurriedly broke up here. They didn't even dig the position, but simply piled up some bunkers and dug some simple
A single soldier pit was used to resist the Russian attack with more than a thousand rifles.
Song Biao could even clearly see several senior generals of the Japanese army, and even these were already involved in the battle. At this time, the Japanese army was digging trenches in the hail of bullets, fighting for the last honor and dignity, killing one more Russian soldier.
It's just earned.
After seeing all this, Song Biao sighed, and ordered Jiang Yanxing beside him: "Contact Lieutenant Colonel Pakilov and ask him to lead the team directly to the Shalingtai position and bombard the position with the 75mm mountain artillery abandoned by the Japanese army.
.”
Immediately, he and Colonel Erlivsky asked: "Did you bring mortars and enough artillery shells when you came this time?"
Colonel Erivsky shook his head regretfully and said: "We were temporarily transferred to reinforce your department. We do not carry these new weapons. We only have brave soldiers and strong horses."
Song Biao chuckled and said: "Then we can only use Japanese artillery to attack first. At this point in the war, there is no need to reduce the number of troops too much. Let the soldiers dig trenches along both sides and advance under the artillery fire.
After the attack, everyone should use shotguns to carry out the final attack."
Colonel Erivsky nodded silently. Song Biao's reputation in the Russian army at this time was extremely strong. As the supreme commander of Liaoyang, the combat method he proposed was definitely not something Colonel Erivsky dared to object to.
That's execution.
All the cavalry dismounted, followed Song Biaoxin's troops to dig trenches on both sides of the slope, and attacked forward step by step. According to Song Biao's design, the trenches were designed at a 10-degree angle, shrinking farther back and farther from the sheep's horn.
When the bay slope was less than 150 meters away, he would order his soldiers to attack in waves.
For this reason, Song Biao transferred the 7th Siberian Infantry Regiment, which already had less than 1,200 people under Major Neznamov, to be responsible for attacking on both sides.
Opposite the Russian position, when General Nozu Kanchi discovered that the Russian army was gradually infiltrating with more rational and correct tactics, he knew that the brilliant commander "Bio Vladimir Song", the infantry colonel, had already
When we reached the other side, the situation was over.
Until this moment, he still could not admit that "Bio Vladimir Song" was a "Chinese", and he was stubbornly unwilling to face this matter.
Due to the lack of complete bunkers and trenches, after a fierce attack by the Russian artillery, Nozu Kanchi's last unit suffered heavy losses. Even his own son-in-law Uehara Yusaku, chief of staff, was killed by artillery fire. As the Russian army attacked from both sides,
When the attack came, twenty machine guns continued to block and suppress the Japanese army from the front. Japanese Army General Nozu Kanchi could only rush out of the position with a gun. He was looking for death and was allowed to be shot by Russian soldiers with shotguns in the most brutal way.
Killed.
He would rather choose to end his duties as the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Manchuria Army in this way than surrender to the Russian army or return to his homeland with a lingering breath.
After his death, less than two hundred Japanese soldiers surrendered, ending the final battle.
The entire Battle of Liaoyang officially ended at around 3 pm on June 23, 1905. Song Biao's Manchurian Infantry Division and the Russian army suffered a total of 33,500 casualties. The Japanese army suffered a total of 94,000 casualties and 7,455 prisoners.
The Russian army captured 310 Japanese artillery pieces and 244 machine guns.
The remaining 137,000 Japanese troops failed to complete the retreat at the last moment and were divided by the Russian army into two areas: Liaozhong and Tashan. The main 113,000 Japanese troops in the Liaozhong area were forced to continue abandoning their baggage and retreating to Panshan County.
Russian reinforcements gradually arrived in the Yingkou area, and the Japanese army could only continue to retreat to the Jinzhou area, which actually exceeded the operational scope designated by the Qing government.
In order to prevent the Russian army from taking the opportunity to send troops to occupy Jinzhou, the Qing government could only send troops to resist the Japanese army. At the same time, it sent Yuan Shikai, the governor of Zhili, to negotiate with the Japanese government, almost begging the Japanese army not to continue to retreat to Jinzhou.
At this time, the Japanese army could not control so much. They forcibly withdrew to the Jinzhou Bay area. With the support of the navy, they tried to gradually withdraw to the Korean Peninsula by sea and continue to fight the Russian army on the Korean Peninsula.
The Battle of Liaoyang was the biggest turning point in the entire Russo-Japanese War. Its significance far exceeded the two major defeats of the Russian army in the navy. In the end, the Japanese army's less than 100,000 troops were besieged in Jinzhou by the Russian army.
After recuperating in Liaoyang for half a month, Song Biao, who had been officially promoted to the rank of brigadier general of the Russian infantry, led the 14th Army of the First Group of the Russian Far East Army and advanced all the way, capturing Gaizhou and reaching Lushun, where he and the Japanese fleet were at the port.
Confrontation outside.
On July 27, 1905, Japan and Russia reached a preliminary armistice agreement with the mediation of Britain and the United States. The Japanese army retreated to the Korean Peninsula with the assistance of the navy. The Russian army withdrew from Jinzhou and reoccupied Lushun, driving the Japanese forces out of the country.
Out of the Northeast.
Except for the final terms of the armistice agreement that still need to be negotiated, the Russo-Japanese War has basically ended. The Japanese army basically has no army and the Russian army has basically no navy. There is no way to continue this war.
Russia really wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to seize the Korean Peninsula, but its domestic situation was even more severe. Continuing to fight would be an extremely unfavorable situation for the Tsarist government, so it could only stop at the Liaodong Peninsula.
After the armistice, Song Biao renovated the Liaodong Peninsula for a period of time, and then led his troops back to Shenyang, where the entire army was stationed at Donglingwei for renovating.
He, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Far Eastern Army, General Kuropatkin, and Chief of Staff, General Madnidov, have reached a gentleman's agreement on the distribution of spoils - the Russian Far Eastern Army agrees in principle to hand over captured Japanese equipment to him
, because the Russian army does not need these things. As for the Russian army equipment that he recaptured, the parts that the Russian army needs will be returned to the Russian army, and the parts that are not needed will be dealt with by him.
Regarding the issue of whether Song Biao is willing to serve as the governor of the three eastern provinces with the support of Russia, Song Biao and General Madnidorf are still in close consultation, and there is no conclusion yet.
Russia now has no navy. Whether it is in Port Arthur or Vladivostok, they have no deterrent capabilities. Including the Russian navy's status in the world has been destroyed by the Japanese. It is impossible to continue to run rampant in the Far East.
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At this time, it was impossible for Russia to continue to appoint a governor of the Far East directly in Lushun as it had done before. A more appropriate method was to "recommend" a candidate who was "barely" acceptable to the Qing government as the governor of the three eastern provinces. At the same time, under this governor
Serve to ensure Russia's special rights and interests in the Northeast.
Song Biao was somewhat interested in this matter, but he also felt that it was a bit tricky and troublesome, so he did not agree immediately. After withdrawing from the Liaodong Peninsula, he had been stationed outside Shenyang for repairs and continued to recruit troops, regardless of what happened next.
No matter what kind of changes we face, having enough troops in our hands is our greatest capital.
As the frontline commander, Song Biao personally recaptured the three strongholds of the Japanese army in Qingniwa (Dalian), Lushun and Gaizhou. Song Biao took over a lot of the Japanese army's military pay and equipment. When he returned to Yangguantun, he already had 43.32 million hidden in his hand.
Yuan's Japanese gold dollar notes, 24.5 million Japanese silver dollars, 11.7 million rubles, and the remaining gold and silver totaled about two million taels of silver. Plus the Russian army's monthly military expenditure of 1.5 million rubles, he was not short of money at all.
He has no shortage of guns and ammunition, not even machine guns and artillery. There are 17,500 war horses and military draft horses alone. When the Japanese army retreats from Jinzhou, it is impossible for them to even transport more than 20,000 horses by sea.
By transporting them away, the Russian army was in vain. Song Biao also reached an agreement with General Madnidorf and planned to buy them all at once at a suitable price.
What else does Song Biao lack?
There is no shortage of anything except a large number of outstanding non-commissioned officers and well-trained soldiers.
As long as he has these, he will become the real king of the Northeast in just one year. The Qing government has long been like a floating cloud to him. With his current equipment level, military strength, and his
His reputation only gave those wimps in the Qing government twenty courages. How could they dare to provoke him?
To put it bluntly, now the Qing government is not thinking about whether to recruit Song Biao, but is worried about Song Biao provoking the Qing government.
Song Biao was not afraid of the Manchu and Qing court, but the Manchu and Qing court was afraid of him. This is true.
It really pissed him off. Based on his level, leading an army of 30,000 to Beijing was not a suspenseful story at all. Even if the Qing government pulled out Yuan Shikai's unformed Beiyang Army, Yuan Shikai might not be able to do so.
Dare to really fight Song Biao.
Song Biao actually considered leading an army to rebel directly, but after much calculation he still felt it was too risky. Although he currently had a sufficient inventory of ammunition, it was not enough to cope with a nationwide war that would last until Beijing expelled the Manchus.
It is not difficult to control the Qing court, but it is more difficult to control the whole country later.
To conquer the world, one must be patient and endure loneliness.
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