In the three days beginning on January 26, the units of the western flank of the Japanese army fought bloody battles, and immediately saw that Shang Wen's 8th Division was short of ammunition and was forced to carry out the world's largest white-knives assault, but it successfully broke through the Russian army's encirclement of the Akiyama brigade. By 29 January, even the 5th Division, which was in reserve, was fully engaged in the battle, attacking the enemy's positions in multiple directions from the northwest direction from Wicker Pass to Long Beach, with a view to breaking through the enemy south of Heigouhe. This time the commander-in-chief of the Russian front, Kropotkin, lacked decisiveness and lost a once-in-a-lifetime good fighter. Because he was worried that the Second Army of the Russian Army might be divided and surrounded, he did not actively expand the results of the Heigoutai side. In particular, due to the diversionary activities of the Japanese troops deployed in the central position (mainly the Japanese Second Army), the sense of crisis in the front of the operation was further increased, so much so that the commander of the Russian Second Army twice refused to request reinforcements.

Originally, this battle should have ended with the active retreat of the Russian army, but with Wu Chenxuan, a troublemaker, especially when there are still 20,000 tigers in the hands of this troublemaker, it is obvious that Lao Maozi will not be able to get out so easily.

Heigou Tai is close to the Hunhe River in the west, and there is a low-lying Heigou River on the south side, which is about 20 meters higher than the surrounding area, and there are several large mounds.

The Second Army of the Russian Far Eastern Army sent only one 11th Infantry Division to the western defense line of Heigoutai. In fact, it was a makeshift patchwork of several infantry battalions rebuilt after the attack, with Major General Zelinsky as the commander, and this major general was also a defeated general who had just escaped from the Arthur battlefield, and had been frightened by the Japanese army, and only nested in the fortifications during the entire Battle of Heigoutai, and even did not fire a single shot when the 5th Division of the Japanese reserve passed through his line and inserted into the Wicker Pass defensive line.

Almost at the same time, the Eighth Division of Limi Shangwen also arrived at Heigoutai after a hard battle, the Eighth Division built a trench nearly a kilometer long on the northeast side of the Russian defense line, and the Russian Sixth Infantry Division was also intensively deployed along the east bank of the Hunhe River.

Just when both sides were in urgent need of reinforcements, in the headquarters of the Japanese army's dispatch army, Marshal Oyama Iwa shouted "Wonderful, victory!" ”。 The staff officers, who hadn't slept for a few hours in days, almost fell to the ground in fright. Lieutenant General Gentaro Kodama had just returned from Lushun and hurried over to see the marshal, but he didn't expect to see Marshal Oyama in ecstasy as soon as he entered the door.

After waiting for Marshal Oyama to calm down from the violent cough after laughing, Kodama leaned in and asked, "Marshal, what is the good news, can you let me and others share it with you." ”

"Hehe, Kodamama-kun, it's really God bless the Imperial Kingdom." Dashanyan's white beard happily stirred, "Look at this telegram. As soon as he shoved the telegram into Kodama's hand, he snatched the pencil from the staff officer's hand and sketched it on the battle map, leaving the combat staff officer with a stunned face and stood on the spot like a wooden seal. However, seeing the marshal's work on the map, the surrounding officers were surprised, and a staff officer came over to the marshal with the courage to say: "Your Excellency Marshal, our army does not have more than a large number of troops in the Liaozhong region. Aren't you on this line? ”

"Your Excellency Marshal, the overall situation is decided." After reading the telegram, Kodama was also smiling, but there was no big surprise: "Yamamoto-kun, Your Excellency Marshal is right, this is not a division of our army, but the department did not participate in the war in the early stage, and the soldiers and equipment are very neat, and the actual combat effectiveness is probably not inferior to any of our standing divisions." ”

"Your Excellency Chief of the General Staff, could it be that the armies of the great powers have entered the war?" The bold Yamamoto staff officer asked.

"It's the Manchurian Volunteer Army, but this is their third phase of participating troops, they did not land from Lushun a week ago, but chose to land at Yingkou, and they have been marching rapidly for five or six days, and they have arrived in Liaozhong County late last night, and it is estimated that they will be able to enter the Heigoutai theater in the afternoon. This is stabbing the Russian army in the waist, unless there is a miracle, the Russian army in Mukden is already gone. ”

"Manchurian volunteers? How could they have such a powerful cluster of heavy troops. Yamamoto didn't believe that in his impression, the volunteer army with the same bandit quilts everywhere in the northeast actually had more than 20,000 troops, and the combat effectiveness was actually equivalent to the same number of imperial standing divisions, which made the staff officers who had always looked down on Qing slaves embarrassed.

At this time, in the area around Mukden, the Japanese army had assembled five armies, 270,000 people, 1,000 artillery pieces, and more than 200 machine guns on a front of more than 100 kilometers. According to Marshal Oyama's original plan, the newly arrived 3rd Army and the 5th Army were to detour the Russian flanks respectively, and the 1st, 2nd, and 4th armies would use a frontal attack to contain the Russian army in the Shahe area, and to ensure the roundabout movement of the 3rd and 5th armies. The main attack was directed at the right flank of the Russian army, with Nogi's Third Army as the main force, but the Third Army suffered huge casualties and had to replenish and rest, so the opportunity to enter the battle was delayed.

At the same time, the Russian troops assembled along the line of the Sand River formed three independent field groups: the right flank was the Second Army (commanded by Kaulbas), 25 kilometers from the front; in the center was the Third Army (commanded by Bilderlinger), 20 km frontage; On the left flank was the 1st Army (commanded by Linevich), 45 km from the front. The exposed flanks were covered by separate units. The total strength of the Russian army amounted to 330,000 people, more than 1,200 artillery pieces, and more than 50 machine guns. At the urging of the tsarist government, which feared a revolution, Kuropatkin had to decide to launch a long-brewing offensive. The attempt to crush the main Japanese force on the Shahe line before Nogi's Third Army moved north, resulted in the two armies being mixed up in Heigoutai and the nearby area, and it was already a situation of endless death.

The fall of Arthur and the annihilation of the main forces of the Russian Pacific Fleet gave Japan complete naval supremacy (at least until the arrival of the Russian European fleet). Taking advantage of this favorable situation, the Japanese side decided to encircle and annihilate the Russian army in the Mukden area in the northeast, with a view to ending the Rilu War victoriously (indicating that the combined fleet at that time was not very sure of defeating the Russian Second Pacific Fleet). Therefore, the Japanese high command strictly ordered Nogi Noshinori's Third Army to quickly end its rest and rush to the Fengtian front to participate in the battle, and at the same time, the newly formed Fifth Army (Yalu River Army) also rushed to Mukden while reorganizing.

At this time, 70,000 or 80,000 Russian troops and two and a half divisions of Japanese troops near Heigoutai were stirred into a pot of porridge, and trench warfare was carried out on the scale of a brigade or even a squad. Both sides have used their forces to the limit, and it depends on which of the two sides has foreign aid first, or who has the better resilience. Wu Chenxuan, who already knew this history, shamelessly used the prophetic skills to let the third batch of 20,000 troops who went out of the customs wheel battle land from Yingkou with more than 100 large and small artillery pieces and a large number of light and heavy machine guns and grenadiers, and rushed to Liaozhong for five days along the marching route of Yingkou-Haicheng-Anshan-Liaozhong, and arrived at the place to rest for a night. The next morning, the mixed town of the new army of the dragon spirit and tiger waved the banner of the volunteer army, all the way to the southwest of Heigoutai.

"Commander, our army is already in place, please instruct." Xiao Mingfeng is the main general, and Lan Tianwei is the deputy general because of his qualifications, and the six targets are all standing on both sides of the command platform.

"This is the third round of battle for our army, and it is also the first battle for all of you here." Wu Chenxuan said that all the officers raised their heads higher in order to show their confidence in winning the victory. "Since you are all senior generals of our army, I believe that the significance of the battle out of the customs does not need me to repeat it here, and I will directly assign the task below. Zhongzhen first marked He Yongqing, Zhongzhen second marked Bai Mingli, your task is to start the attack from the starting position, break through the Russian army's defense lines, and strive to penetrate the enemy camp within two hours, continue to attack and advance from the northeast, and go straight to Fengtian City. Nie Ziliang, the first standard of Qianzhen, attacked northeast from Huangbei Village, captured Tutaizi within an hour, and cut off the retreat of the Russian army. and block the Russian army for more than eight hours, and not let go of the Russian army's formed units. Three standards in the former town...."

"The mission is like this, as long as the mission requirements are not violated and the ministries are allowed to decide on their own actions, the tasks are clear, right?"

"Yes, Chief."

"Have faith?"

"Resolutely complete the task!" These young senior generals all shouted loudly, and the sound came out of the tent, which lifted the spirits of the guards outside.

"Now to the watch, 10:47. All note: The attack was launched at 13:45 p.m., and all units were in place in advance to launch an attack in a covert manner. ”

"Yes! Total seat. All the officers stood and saluted, then turned and left to return to their respective units. The independent artillery battalion and the subordinate artillery battalion have already set up firing positions. At this distance, the artillery can completely cover and shoot without dead angles.

More than 100 mountain artillery, field artillery, and howitzers of caliber of 75 or more "boomed" roared at the same time, and the second-line fortifications of the Russian positions had been clearly observed by the artillery scouts on the planes, and the shells were not wasted, and they were almost densely arranged in the center of the fortifications. The Japanese army was also stunned by this sudden artillery fire, and did not receive the order to launch a general attack? The captains and wing commanders of the brigades and divisions hurried to inquire about the brigades and divisions through field telephones, but they did not know that the division headquarters was also at a loss. It was not until the military headquarters of the Second Army received a telegram from the headquarters of the Volunteers, informing them that the Volunteers would launch an attack in 30 minutes, and the location was the western defense line of the Russian army at Heigoutai.

Several front-line brigades of the Japanese army were ordered to make a gap, and in less than ten minutes, a mighty iron-gray army arrived from the direction of Liaozhong. Take a short break in the positions relinquished by the Japanese. Then the grenadier shot out a smoke * bomb, in the smoke one company after another rushed towards the Russian defense line, the Makqin machine gun was placed on the small trailer of the iron wheel, the four soldiers dragged and ran wildly, not much slower than the charging soldiers, and soon the Makqin roared loudly, and the soldiers at the front had not yet rushed into the 100-meter front of the Russian army. The grenadiers followed closely behind the infantry, stopping and squatting from time to time to fire one high-explosive grenade after another, and one by one the Russian machine guns that had just woken up were blown into the sky. As long as the fiery hole of a bunker spits out a fire snake, within five seconds, a Maxim and several grenadiers will be aimed at it, and even if it cannot destroy the fortifications, it will block their continuous fire with fire and smoke. These iron-gray soldiers are tactically skillful, bending quickly from crater to crater, always with a Madsen light machine gun at the core, unfolding in an inverted triangular formation, even in motion. Those soldiers with rifles with mirrors will fall down at any time, and there are always Russian machine gunners or bomb-throwing soldiers falling on the opposite position, and the Russian officers who dare to stand up and shout are the first to shoot a bloody arrow out of their heads, and they are dying.

A group of Japanese officers who watched the battle originally had the mentality of watching the excitement, but now they looked at each other in shock, is this still the Qing slave they have always despised?