Seeing Feng Guozhang's expectant face, Duan Qirui nodded. Taking a deep breath, Duan Qirui turned around: "Order." The 6th Division and the 5th Regiment of Victoria were ordered to launch an attack at 12 o'clock with the 1st Dead Brigade of the 11th Division of the 11th Division, interspersed with the front line of the breakthrough, and occupied the high ground on the right. Again, the 12th Division of the Tsarist Russian Army cooperated with the 3rd Army of our army to build a position in the east of the village fort to prevent the 11th Division from ****.

This to the order. Duan Qirui blocked all the roads in the east, west, and south of the 11th Division at once, except for the west, and not a single soldier did not shoot. He had a deep understanding of Liu Jun's order, that is, as long as the Japanese army went west, the rest of the places should not be thought about.

To the east, it was Vladivostok, this Duan Qirui couldn't do it, and Liu Jun wouldn't allow it. To the north, even if you don't send troops to intersperse. The Japanese army will not go either, barren land. To the south, that was the place where tens of thousands of his troops were stationed, and there was no need for the 11th Division to come and seek death. The only way is to go west, anyway, there are seven or eight divisions of the Japanese army in the direction of Siberia now, and they don't care about this one.

According to the agreement of the Tsarist army in Liaodong, the troops east of Boli are all planned to be commanded by the Liaodong side, that is to say, nearly 30,000 Tsarist Russian troops and 10,000 cavalry east of Boli are under the command of Duan Qirui, and they are not under the command of the governor of the Far East of Tsarist Russia who has fled to Siberia.

"Lao Feng, why don't we go to the front and have a look." Duan Qirui was a little worried in his heart, after all, this was the first battle fought in Tsarist Russia, if it was not fought well, it would be a loss of face for the Northern Advance Corps, and also a loss for Liu Jun's face.

Feng Guozhang nodded slightly, agreeing with Duan Qirui's idea, the two grabbed their military caps from the side, turned around and walked out of the headquarters, and under the protection of the guards, they went to the forward position of the village fort.

There was only less than 20 kilometers from Boli to the village fort, and the two of them rode fast horses, and after changing horses along the way, they finally came to the forward position of the headquarters of the 6th Division of the village fort when there was still an hour before the start of the battle.

As soon as Duan Qirui came in, he immediately startled the soldiers who were in the forward position. It is not uncommon for the commander-in-chief to come to the front in person, but it is always a great danger.

The recruits all looked at Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang who were picking up binoculars and observing the opposite side accompanied by the division commander, but the veterans were not surprised, after all, this kind of thing, the commander has not seen it for the first time.

Duan Qirui ignored these glances, but looked directly at the situation on the other side. From here, the Japanese positions are all built according to the trend of the mountain, with a large number of firepower bunkers and positions.

"Lao Feng, the Japanese army is very well arranged, you see, their machine gun fire is at a higher place, attacking from here, their firepower will play the greatest role."

Well, Feng Guozhang nodded, he admitted that the Japanese army's deployment was very good, however, Feng Guozhang turned his head, looked at the artillery position not far away and smiled: "The deployment is very good, but they would never have dreamed that we would have three 110mm howitzers, and this kind of position is not enough to resist their shelling." ”

This? Duan Qirui turned around and looked in the direction pointed by Feng Guozhang, indeed, in the distance, more than thirty artillery pieces were quietly placed there, and around them, a lot of branches were used as shelters.

"I forgot, we have this kind of artillery, this artillery, Wang Shizhen, Wu Peifu and others have already run away, and today it is finally us." After Duan Qirui finished speaking, he looked at Feng Guozhang: "Let's go, go to the artillery position and have a look." ”

The artillery position, located a kilometer behind the infantry, was tasked with smashing nearly a thousand rounds of shells at the Japanese position in the shortest possible time when the time was up, covering the attack of the troops.

Time passed little by little, and the hands were still a minute away from twelve o'clock.

The artillery soldiers who were hiding in the trenches began to quickly use the trenches, tearing apart the branches that were hidden from the guns.

"All in place." The gun commander held the red flag high in his hand.

The clanging sound continued, and the gunner put the shell into the chamber, then closed the bolt and waited for the order to fire.

card, the hands point to twelve o'clock at once.

"Put." At the same time as the artillery commander let out a loud shout, the red flag in his hand instantly slid down.

Boom Boom

Thirty-two guns, juxtaposed in two rows, began to smash at the forward positions of the Japanese.

The village fort, which was originally very peaceful, suddenly became a sea of blood and fire. The slightest explosion of the shells and the smoke of gunpowder were enough to cover the sky over half of the village fort.

Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui, who were standing in the bunker, could even clearly see that the firepower points of the Japanese forward positions were hit by artillery shells and then carried into the sky. Then it fell heavily.

Stones can kill people, Feng Guozhang saw it clearly, a flying stone hit a fleeing Japanese soldier at once, and cut off half of his head on the spot.

The shelling, which lasted for almost an hour, finally ended with the sound of the last shell being disarmed and falling to the ground.

In less than ten seconds, the deafening sound of killing sounded throughout the position, and the soldiers of the Liaodong Army wearing gray-green military uniforms and steel helmets and the Tsarist Russian troops wearing gray clothes and dogskin hats on their heads began to attack the Japanese positions.

In fact, it is not an attack, this artillery bombardment, the Japanese army's forward position has to spread an average of one escape order per meter, almost a horizontal push of intensive artillery bombardment, such a big attack, not to mention the Japanese army, I am afraid that the ants will be killed. Therefore, more than 10,000 people attacked the forward position, it was better to travel, less than five minutes, Duan Qirui, who was in the bunker, saw that the Yellow Dragon Flag had been fluttering in the forward position of the Japanese army, and then less than ten minutes, the flag of the Russian army also began to flutter in the Japanese position.

"Tell the troops not to stay and immediately launch an attack on the second position of the Japanese army." Duan Qirui put down the binoculars in his hand and gave the order to attack again to the staff officers around him.

"Yes, after the staff officer next to him finished saluting, he turned around and ran out of cover and began to go to the front line to give orders.

"Is it to let the troops rest and recuperate?" Seeing Duan Qirui give this order, Feng Guozhang stepped forward and asked, after all, this has just occupied the position, and then attacked the Japanese army, is this too hasty. ”

Feng Guozhang was not worried about anything, after all, the forward position had not yet been consolidated, and once the Japanese counterattacked, it might immediately enter the encounter.

"No, I just don't want to give Gangcun a time to react, so that he can tear open his mouth before he reacts." Duan Qirui glanced at Feng Guozhang and said seriously.