Chapter 52: Conquering Shendan Fort (2)
Time is approaching second by second, seeing that there are only a few minutes left before the time for the army to change guards, when Zhao Tingzhu's first infantry battalion arrived, Song Biao let out a partridge cry, and the two groups of brothers guarding outside the battlement immediately pulled out the grenade, waited a few seconds and then threw it directly into the earthen battlement, two on one side, in the successive explosions of the boom, a tragic cry immediately came from the battlement, Chen Wu personally led the team to rush in, and a team of three people continuously fired with shotguns.
It was only at this time that the garrison of the Yue army in the small fort suddenly woke up, and Li Fugui's garrison team also rushed up quickly, and their responsibility was to fight directly on the ground, realize cross-fire up and down, and strive to eliminate the Yue army in the shortest possible time.
Song Biao had already set up four machine guns inward on the earthen wall, and when the first team of the Yue army rushed out of their respective dormitories, there was immediately a burst of strafing, while the brothers were half-squatting on the earthen wall and shooting inward, and if there were grenades, they threw them directly, and there were seven or eight handles in a continuous wave.
In order to prevent the garrisons of the army on the north and south sides of the small fort from coming to the rescue, Zhao Tingzhu's 1st Infantry Battalion and Kornilov's 3rd Infantry Battalion urgently set up defensive lines on the north and south sides to block them, and the more than 400 people of the engineer brigade had to quickly dig two rows of shallow trenches.
Although the training level of Song Biao's Manchurian infantry regiment is limited, he has practiced this file more than a dozen times, and he can still be regarded as proficient, but Song Biao himself has no bottom in his heart about the level of follow-up operations.
He can't manage so much, let's take the small fort first, it really can't defeat the follow-up attacking army, so it's not too late to retreat.
Inside the small fort were the brigade headquarters of the First Brigade of the Cavalry and two infantry squadrons, about 400 people, and their situation was naturally in a panic, and there was chaos everywhere.
The small fort is basically a civilian military fortress, with only a dozen dormitories and warehouses, and the middle and north sides were originally large open spaces, and after the army occupied them, some snow shelters were built to stack materials on these open spaces, and the south was the dormitory area and command post.
Song Biao and the others grabbed the open space and the surrounding earthen walls, blocked the Yue army in those dormitories and beat them, and as Zhao Tingzhu's troops followed into the small fort, four machine guns were set up on the wall and four machine guns were set up at the front of the open space in the dormitory area, and a row of sandbag barriers was set up, and they aimed at the Yue army and fired wildly.
The army was completely in the most passive situation, and the most terrible thing was that Song Biao also brought two hundred shotguns and a sufficient number of grenades, which was a very fatal thing, and it made up for the problems of the brothers' low tactical ability and poor shooting level.
Song Biao had been preparing for a whole week, and all aspects were very adequate, each class was equipped with two spears, four revolvers, four shotguns, and six Mosin Nagant rifles, each of them was equipped with three grenades, and two people in each class were carrying torches.
Song Biao personally jumped down, and led Li Dayun and Li Dahan's group to rush on the south side, attacking one dormitory by one, no matter how many people were in the room, directly throwing two or three grenades, and then rushing in and shooting.
Although the soldiers of the army were divided into their respective dormitories and could not concentrate on each other, their will to resist was extremely tenacious, and they directly chose bayonet warfare when the distance was too close, Song Biao was very afraid of this, and the prior arrangement was to shoot if they could, and use revolvers if they were not suitable for shotguns, so as to directly solve the battle as quickly as possible.
Even if the whole battle has been rehearsed many times in advance, it is actually still very chaotic, and it is the Yue army that is more chaotic than Song Biao's department, they are still a little chaotic, and they can't find a clue at all, especially Song Biao took the lead in shooting windows and doors with rifle grenades, and injured the opponent in a large area from a long distance, these divided Yue troops were quickly wiped out in half, and more Yue troops were still fired by the four machine guns on the earthen wall and the surrounding shotguns at the moment they tried to break out of the room, and people died at the door of each dormitory.
It was not until Song Biao led the troops to the last brigade command post that the remaining 50 people of the army chose to surrender.
A row of sandbags was carried by the brothers in front of the command post of the brigade headquarters, a Makqin heavy machine gun was mounted on it, more than 40 brothers were half-crouching and waiting to shoot, and the other dozen brothers stood with guns, and some were holding Russian-style spears and holding Nagant-style revolvers.
It wasn't until these people from the military brigade department walked out with their heads in their hands, and when Song Biao saw the forty-five or sixteen-year-old general in the crowd, he suddenly realized that he had inadvertently stabbed a super hornet's nest.
Akiyama is so ancient!
That guy who is known as the father of the cavalry.
Song Biao looked at the rank of the forty-year-old general of the Yue Army very carefully, it should be a major general, such a rank must be the supreme commander in the first brigade of the cavalry of the Yue Army, except for Akiyama Yoshigu, it is basically impossible to be the second person.
Both sides were amazed.
Akiyama looked up at the troops in front of him, and was very surprised that these people were actually bandit troops from the Kanto region, so well equipped, but wearing the kind of big cotton jackets and leather jackets that only the disorganized local villagers would wear.
In Song Biao's army, the vast majority of people have Qing people's big braids, which is even more direct evidence.
All this discovery made Akiyama very surprised, but also a little ashamed, he had always thought that it was a surprise attack by the elite troops of the Russian army, he carefully calculated everything, but he did not expect that there would be troops bypassing the defense line of the army, rushing over from the crack to raid the location of his brigade headquarters, not to mention that his brigade headquarters still has two infantry squadrons after all.
Song Biao's surprise was that Akiyama looked very bland, without too much shame, nor too much chagrin and frustration, and even when he was captured, the major general of the army clearly put on a posture of resignation, and his expression was almost casual.
Since the other party was so free and easy, Song Biao didn't bother to talk to him, he didn't even want to waste time, he shouted a few words to Li Dayun, and asked Li Dayun to lead the team to detain these army officers and heralds, and then left with Zhao Tingzhu and others, and continued to set up positions outside the small fort, preparing for the possible counteroffensive.
Forty-five minutes before and after, it was still dawn.
Song Biao's department eliminated two squadrons of the army in the small fort, this speed can be called a god speed, even the peak of [***] can not do it, the trick to victory is very simple, sneak attack, gun ruthless, more people, more machine guns, more grenades.
After occupying Xiaobaozi, Song Biao asked each squadron leader to count the casualties, and as a result, more than 70 people were killed and wounded. Xiaobaozi is the location of the military brigade headquarters, and the amount of reserve materials is still very large, which is worthy of this casualty figure.
After counting the specific casualties, Song Biao again dispersed the No. 1 Garrison Squadron as scouts to collect intelligence in the surrounding areas, and the other squadrons dug trenches first as usual to strengthen the fortifications of Xiaobaozi.
The army could not bear the loss of Xiaobaozi, the command system of the entire brigade headquarters was completely torn apart, the pressure on the position on the north side was very great, it was impossible to withdraw troops at all, and it was difficult to organize a counteroffensive when the number of troops was insufficient.
Wait until after dawn, von. Major Esker led the 2nd Infantry Regiment and Xue Changqing's transport brigade to Xiaobaozi, they came from Datai Village, and on the way they would encounter a one-kilometer-long defensive line, because the strength of the army was seriously insufficient, and this defense line itself was relatively scattered.
In the von. Soon after Major Esker launched the attack, more than 600 soldiers stationed on the southern defensive line suddenly retreated to the Dongtaizi position.
Soldiers usually know better than commanders-in-chief about winning or losing wars, but no one cares about their voices, and the trick is that when soldiers think they're going to lose, 90% of them lose, and when they think they're going to win, 70% of them win.
That's morale.
Before Song Biao went to Fushun, he invited Ensign Tonokov and six other Russian soldiers to go on the road together, but they refused, because they believed that staying in Niujiapu and continuing to "recuperate" was the safest choice, and the reason why they thought so was precisely because they believed that the Russian army would only continue to lose the battle.
The ancients said that the thief first captures the king.
This is indeed true, the first brigade of the cavalry of the army has been attacked by several times the Russian army, and the eighth division of the army that came to their rescue has been completely annihilated, and now even the brigade commander has been captured alive, and the brigade, grain depot and ammunition depot have also been ended, and the morale of the first brigade has plummeted to the lowest.
Aware of this, Song Biao immediately decided to use a regiment to raid the main positions of the Yue Army before the main force of the Second Army attacked at the mouth of the Liuhe River.
It's a risky move, but it's always worth the risk.
Song Biao immediately put Feng. Major Esker and Major Kornilov invited them over to discuss, because it was too easy to win along the way, and Major Esker was also very excited, and he was quite passionate about risking a surprise attack on the opponent's main position with Song Biao.
After some discussion, the three unanimously decided that Major Kornilov would stay behind in the small fort, and Song Biao would rush out with Zhao Tingzhu's 1st Infantry Battalion and two garrison squadrons. Major Esker's 2nd Infantry Regiment of Ske, Song Biao's group of brothers can rob homes and houses, attack the enemy camp at night, and attack the army's position head-on.
After making some readjustments, Song Biao transferred two squadrons from Xue Changqing's transport brigade, plus his own two garrison squadrons were temporarily organized into a garrison battalion, and personally served as the battalion commander, plus Zhao Tingzhu's first infantry battalion and the second infantry regiment of Ske, a total of 2,700 people, which rushed straight to the Liuhekou position.
The distance from Xiaobaozi to the mouth of the Liuhe River was less than 1,500 meters, and Song Biao also encountered a group of soldiers who tried to come to the rescue of the brigade headquarters on the way, about two squadrons of troops, but more than 350 people, and were quickly crushed by the Second Infantry Regiment of Ssk, which was in front.
The main source of the Sk Infantry Regiment comes from the hunters, and its biggest feature is that it has accurate marksmanship, strong combat and field combat capabilities, which is exactly the same as most of the main forces of the Japanese army, and the two squadrons of the Japanese army will be defeated as soon as they go into battle.
Song Biao saw very clearly in the back that it was indeed too important for soldiers to have good marksmanship, even if the average hit rate was 15% higher, the enemy troops on the opposite side would not be able to bear it, and dozens of soldiers would panic if they died in a row, and the more chaotic the fight became.
When Song Biao led the 2,700 troops to a place less than 500 meters away from the defense line at the mouth of the Liuhe River Estuary of the Yue Army, and was about to organize the defense line to attack the opponent's position in batches, the 3rd Siberian Infantry Division of the Russian Army opposite the Yue Army also suddenly launched a general attack at this time, bombarding hundreds of shells in a row.
The Russo-Russian War was far from comparable to the wars that followed, and it was a great luxury to be able to shoot hundreds of shells in a battle of this scale.
The industrial productivity is different, and now the cost of a shell is basically not less than 20 oceans, and a cannon is the monthly salary of a soldier of the Manchurian Infantry Regiment, can it not be luxurious?
Without waiting for the Russian army to organize a full-scale charge, Song Biao made a quick decision, and rushed forward directly with the Ske Infantry Regiment and Zhao Tingzhu's 1st Infantry Battalion, and stabbed it from the back of the defense line, and the army was not prepared at all.
Song Biao's original plan was to let the Sk infantry regiment charge in front, and he led his brothers to follow behind to divide the spoils equally.
The worst thing is that the brigade headquarters are occupied by the "Russian army", and there is not much morale to continue to resist, but the Scott infantry regiment at the front has more than 100 people killed and wounded. Major Eske hurriedly sent someone to inform the other side, lest the Russian army continue to fire two artillery pieces.
When Song Biao led his brothers to rush into the Liuhekou defense line with the Sksk Infantry Regiment, his bright eyes swept over, and he immediately knew that he had made the right bet, it was too profitable, more than a dozen heavy machine guns were lined up in a kilometer-long position, one every 100 meters, which was the capital of his revolution in the future.