Chapter Forty-Nine: The Stars in the Sky

He Tianci led a team of more than 9,000 people from the Fengtianzhou Independent Division, and hurried towards Sujiatun in the southwest of Fengtian, although his independent brigade was not a cavalry division, but the cavalry of the two regiments, even the infantry were on horseback, and more than 9,000 batches of military horses were even spectacular. The sound of horses' hooves and the neighing of horses was filled with the sound of horses' hooves, and everywhere they passed was a puff of yellow dust.

When it was close to dusk, the troops arrived at Sujiatun and stationed on the spot, and everyone was very hard to rush for an afternoon, He Tianci let everyone rest on the spot, and He Tianci led the guard company to be responsible for guarding and reconnoitring the surroundings.

After continuing to join up with the Cossack cavalry corps of General Mischenko, because of the urgency of time, he left Sujiatun at two o'clock in the morning and went to Shendan Fort, and stationed in Shendan Fort in advance to do a good job of fortification and reconnaissance work.

A full moon hangs above the sky like a huge silver plate, and the sparkling silver light of the stars falls down to the left and right of the sky, rendering the snow on the ground that has not yet fully bloomed into a beautiful picture.

He Tianci looked at the stars in the sky, it turned out that the stars could be seen in the sky above Shenyang more than a hundred years ago! I can't help but think of the 21st century I live in, Shenyang is dominated by heavy industry, and the pollution is very serious, and every time the top ten cities in Shenyang are always among the best, and even many times Shenyang people say that the sky in Shenyang is dim, and basically there are no stars! Maybe you must pay attention to it when you develop Fengtian in the future, but you can't take the old path of polluting first and then treating it!

The sky has just dawned, the residents around Shendan Fort have not woken up in their sleep, there is silence around, on the path through this poplar forest, to Shendan Fort, vaguely remembered the sound of horses' hooves, followed by a large number of soldiers wearing gray Russian military uniforms, one wearing a dogskin hat, and this military uniform seems extremely incongruous, this is the Fengtian Independent Brigade arrived at Shendan Fort.

After arriving at Shendan Fort, the independent division was stationed on the spot and built simple fortifications and garrison areas in accordance with the orders of the General Staff of the Far Eastern Army, creating conditions for the Kuban Cossack cavalry to travel lightly and raid the army. This is the real front-line position, where the two sides are about to station hundreds of thousands of troops, and the Second Army of the Tsarist Far Eastern Army is stationed here with a regiment of troops, which belongs to the Fourth Siberian Infantry Division, and is also a reserve force temporarily drawn up.

Before dawn, He Tianci decided to take the guard company and Major Alpha to change into civilian clothes to spy on the situation of the Japanese army in front, in fact, the position of the front line of Shendanbao is very close, and one kilometer ahead is the frontline position of the Japanese army, and the garrison of the army in Shendanbao is the first cavalry brigade of Akiyama Haogu, more than 8,000 people, adopting a decentralized arming strategy, trying to control more defense points, and building a large number of fortifications to assist each other.

Speaking of this Akiyama good ancient but has a great background, known as Japan's first and last cavalry general, from the beginning of the Sino-Japanese First Sino-Japanese War, began to do evil in China, because of the First Sino-Japanese War in the Tucheng battle, the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties, this guy moved the idea of massacre, participated in the planning of the Jinzhou Massacre. He was the vanguard of the Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of China, and then became the commander-in-chief of the Japanese garrison in China.

And the really famous battle is the current Heigou Tai Hui Station, which defeated several times the Cossack cavalry corps with machine gun cavalry tactics, and this battle was also the disastrous defeat of the Kuban Cossack cavalry corps led by Mischenko, which eventually became a historical joke, and indirectly led to the Cossack cavalry withdrawing from the dance of history, and finally even the commander of the Second Army, Kaulbas, was forced to lose his officer.

But now that he has joined the battle, how can such a Japanese who has a deep blood hatred against the Chinese people let him go? The so-called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent, a hundred battles will not be lost, at the moment your Akiyama Haogu cavalry machine gun tactics are useless to themselves, history is about to be rewritten, this battle is no longer the battle that you Akiyama Haogu became famous, but the land of the Yellow Spring, the blood debt you owe to the Chinese people should also be repaid!

Shendanbao is 40 kilometers away from Shenyang in the north and 35 kilometers away from Liaoyang in the south, just in the middle of the staggered military strength of the two sides, during this period, the army has gathered the strength of five armies in the Liaoyang area, with a total strength of 270,000 troops, 1,082 artillery pieces and 200 machine guns, scattered on the attack line of 100 kilometers, while the total strength of the Russian army is about 330,000 people, 1,266 artillery pieces, and 60 machine guns.

He Tianci wore a straight sheepskin jacket, wearing a dogskin hat like most people in this era, don't you say, this dogskin hat is warm when worn on the head, He Tianci and Major Alpha took a few soldiers to crawl on the snow, spying on the situation of the Japanese army in front. He Tianci took the binoculars and looked at the opposite side through the lens, the army had been stationed here for a month, and the fortifications were very solid and perfect, less than a thousand meters apart, and he could even clearly see the soldiers standing guard on the trenches and tower posts.

On the forward trenches, the army arranged a large number of firing points and a long line of wire to resist horses, and the trenches were very perfect, with hidden trenches, bunkers, and communication trenches. You can even see a typical machine-gun fortification, surrounded by a circle of coarse sacks of filled soil, filled with high and tamped around the perimeter, with a very strong strafing ability, from the density of distribution, it is estimated that on the one-kilometer-long defense line around Shendanbao, the army has arranged more than 15 heavy machine guns.

After He Tianci almost saw the situation of the defensive line clearly, he turned his head to look at Major Alpha, who was lying on the ground very seriously, looking at the Japanese defense line carefully.

After half a ring, Major Alpha turned his head and looked at He Tianci, and asked with a straight face, "What is the situation you see?" ”

He Tianci said confidently: "Just like the information I gave you before, the army has deployed a large number of machine guns, I estimate that there are more than fifteen, this scale seems to be a bit too much, the frontal impact will be very disadvantageous, and more artillery must be deployed to strike." ”

After listening to He Tianci's analysis, after combining what he saw, Major Alpha nodded several times in a row, expressing his recognition of He Tianci, although this Major Alpha is sometimes a little stubborn, but compared with other Russian troops, the attitude towards Chinese is quite good, probably because he is also an Asian person.

On the position east of Shendan Fort, the Yue army actually only deployed the strength of an infantry wing, and such a long defense line was only 1,500 people, which shows that the deployment is very scattered, the strength is limited, and it can only be supplemented by the powerful firepower of machine guns, or it is the only choice for the Yue army to defend Shendan Fort to the death, and at the same time it is difficult to draw a large number of troops.

The main position of the army is around the old side of Shendanbao, Beiyingzi, and the wicker mouth defense line, and a part of the troops is reserved as a reserve force in Shendanbao, where the army uses the original houses to build dozens of horse farms, and about five or six thousand war horses are hoarded there, and the scale is so large that it can be seen from a long distance.

Considering that the army may still have a defensive point in Zhujia, in the final stage of the Armageddon of the Russian War, a division of 8,000 people wants to hold a strategic area within a radius of 10 kilometers, this plan is really very gambling, very lucky, if the Russian army's will to fight is resolute and smart, it can completely tear a hole here, directly cut the two main forces of the army in Liaoyang and Liaozhong, and use Shendanbao as a mobile deployment, and concentrate the main force to encircle and annihilate the one with fewer troops.

So this is the time for me to show my skills, my little butterfly is about to set off a earth-shaking change, a Russo-Japanese War that belongs to He Tianci.