In Chase County, Kuropatkin had already received a telegram from the Russian cavalry who had broken through. -

Kuropatkin was not surprised and exclaimed: "Good, good! The Qing army has all gathered in the Mudanjiang River, then Lao Tzu will go to the Mudanjiang River to have a decisive battle with them, and this time the main force of the Qing army must be annihilated! The order was given to the first and second divisions to assemble, send troops to Mudanjiang, and send an urgent telegram to the Cossack cavalry division in Jiamusi, ordering them to hurry south and rush to Mudanjiang within ten days! We've got to compete with the Qing army this time, fuck, we can't let them run away! ”

The entire Mudanjiang two integrated infantry divisions immediately took action and marched rapidly in the direction of the Mudanjiang River.

Datong County is more than 300 miles away from the Mudanjiang River, and even if it marches with all its might, it will take three to four days to arrive, and as for the cavalry division, it is still far away in the Jiamusi area, and the distance is nearly 700 miles, and it will take five days to arrive.

Kuropatkin is also anxious now, although he got the opportunity to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Qing army, but Kikhorov has to be supported by Mudanjiang alone for five days, at least for more than three days, if the whole army is really annihilated, then the two sides will face a difficult decisive battle, Kuropatkin with two divisions plus cavalry divisions, will face a lot of difficulties, after all, listening to the intelligence shown by Kikhorov's telegram, the Qing army has gathered thirty or forty thousand troops, such a strong force, All of them are the 'elite' under the command of the Chinese tiger, this is not a soft bone, even if the Russian army wants to gnaw it down, it has to break a few 'incisor' teeth.

In two days, Kuropatkin led the main force of the two divisions to march more than 200 miles, and there was only a hundred miles away from the Mudanjiang River, and at this time it had reached the border of the Mudanjiang River, Longtou Mountain, and there was a military fortress here that was close to desertion, at least it had been abandoned for hundreds of years, and the distance from Ningguta was not far.

Kuropatkin was on the march, when suddenly there were a series of explosions in front of him, and the front army was in a 'chaos' and 'chaos', and the army stopped its advance.

Kuropatkin was taken aback and exclaimed, "What's the matter? What's going on ahead! ”

A Russian captain galloped over on a fast horse and said: "Your Excellency the Governor, the forward troops have encountered an ambush in front, and there are no more bombs laid on the road ahead, and our soldiers stepped on them, and there was an explosion, and now dozens of soldiers have been killed, and more than a dozen people have been seriously injured, and the army is blocked there and cannot march!" ”

Kuropatkin urged the horses and led a group of generals to the position of the Russian army's striker.

The staff officer on the side said: "Your Excellency Governor, I have long heard that the Chinese tigers of the Qing army have mastered a kind of bomb laid on the ground, they call it a mine, as long as a person steps on it, it will explode. ”

Kuropatkin asked in a deep voice, "What if we get around here?" ”

The staff officer replied: "If we detour, we need to bypass the entire Longtou Mountain, our marching distance will increase by more than 100 miles, not to mention the increase of a day's journey out of thin air, and the other roads are small roads, and now in the middle of winter, many roads are covered with snow, which is not conducive to our army to hurry, and the delay will be more, but we are afraid that we cannot afford to delay." ”

Kuropatkin gritted his teeth and said: "I don't think the Qing army will have too many of these mines, after all, if this kind of thing is mass-produced, the technology required is very advanced, and they in China probably do not have such advanced production technology." Someone, order a troop to open the way in front, use some long wooden sticks to test first, and pass through the area in front as soon as possible! ”

Kuropatkin's method is indeed a stupid method, but it is still relatively effective, although it still brings some casualties to the Russian army, but it is greatly reduced, but it seriously delays the speed of the Russian army's advance.

On the hill in the distance, three people are holding binoculars to watch the actions of the Russian army, it is Cai Yi, Jiang Baili and Zhang Xiaohuai, these three people have brought a large number of mines since Mukden, and at the same time, when they set off from Harbin, they asked for nearly a thousand mines from Zhang Yihu's hands, but the three of them also know that it is difficult to stop such a large-scale Russian army with mines alone, and even they did not expect that the Russian army in Datong County almost poured out, this is the rhythm of the decisive battle.

Cai Yi wiped the sweat from his forehead, it was already frozen, and said nervously: "Baili, the Russian army's posture is too big, I'm afraid that we will really be unable to stop the Russian army for too long, so immediately send someone to send a letter to Tang Keqiang's division commander and commander, telling them to get ready, we can't do it this time to fight a decisive battle!" ”

Jiang Baili nodded, also with a solemn face, this time it may be too big, looking at the appearance of the Russian army, at least two divisions, more than 30,000 people, this is too ruthless, we also estimate that the other party will come to one division at most, and there will be two at once!

Jiang Baili replied: "I'll arrange it, Songpo, Xiaohuai, you have to keep an eye on it!" ”

At this time, the Russian army has advanced almost four or five hundred meters, and only these four or five hundred meters have consumed more than an hour of their time.

Another hour passed, a distance of a thousand meters, and at this time the minefield had almost been cleared, Kuropatkin was overjoyed, and shouted: "The whole army will advance immediately, be more careful, we don't know if there are still mines in front of the other side!" ”

Kuropatkin gave the order, and the two divisions of the Russian army rushed in and began to 'advance' forward, and when the Russian army had entered the minefield, Cai Ye suddenly raised his hand and shot it into the air.

This is the signal to attack!

Cai Yi's independent regiment is not covered, when it comes to individual combat strength, it is absolutely above the soldiers of the first division, the independent regiment is equipped with an artillery battalion, a machine gun battalion, two infantry battalions, an armed police 'elite' infantry battalion, a regiment actually has 2,000 people, and at the same time, such firepower even two regiments may not be able to be stronger than the equipment of the independent regiment, and they are all well-trained military students, and the technology is 'fine'. In this way, an artillery battalion attacked the Russian army with a powerful attack, and the Krupp heavy artillery, infantry artillery, and mortars fired together and attacked the Russian army. At this time, the Russian army was only concerned about the road, and suddenly a hundred artillery shots were fired in unison, completely enveloping this valley, and the forward troops in front of them were unlucky enough to have just experienced the baptism of mines, and then ushered in the experience of artillery!