Wang Jundao said with a smile: "Then how many troops do you think we should use to block the Russian troops reinforced from Manchuria and the Russian troops who returned to Jilin from Mukden?" ”

Lin Zhengnan said: "With the advanced weapons of the Dragon and Tiger Army, coupled with the Daxinganling defense line, we can completely use only 30,000 to 50,000 troops to block the Russian reinforcements from Manchuria, as for the Russian army that has returned to Jilin from Mukden, it is enough to block it with 50,000 to 80,000 people, because the First Front Army can completely eliminate more than half of the Russian army in Mukden Province." ”

Wang Jundao smiled and said, "You mean that the Second Front Army and the Third Front Army will use 80,000 to 130,000 people to block the Russian troops from the Southern Front and the Western Front?" That is, to use 20 to 250,000 troops to fight the 60,000 Russian troops entrenched in the Harbin area? ”

Lin Zhengnan nodded and said, "Yes, Commander!" ”

Wang Jundao said flatly: "Don't you think it's useless to do this?" Moreover, this will greatly increase the combat time, and in four months at most, it will snow in the northeast, and when the time comes, the difficulty of logistical supply and combat will be greatly increased. ”

Lin Zhengnan's heart was shocked, and he asked tentatively, "What does the commander mean?" ”

Wang Jundao said lightly, "It's only 60,000 Russian troops, I can completely annihilate them with 100,000 dragon and tiger troops, why do I need 200,000 troops?" I want the Russian army to tremble when it hears the Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army in the future, and it will be afraid, you can directly record the order. ”

During the Russo-Russian War in history, the Russian army's weapons and numbers were superior to the army, and it was more advantageous than the army in terms of logistics and supply, but in the end it was a fiasco, both the army and the navy suffered from serious 'phobia', how could such an army confront the Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army?

Lin Zhengnan took the pen and paper and said respectfully: "Yes." ”

Wang Jundao said in a deep voice: "The First Army of the Guards Corps, the Division directly under the First Army Corps, the 67th Division, the 68th Division, the 69th Division, and the 'Sharp Arrow' special forces under the command of the Second Front Army will be led by the commander-in-chief Yang Poyu and the chief of the general staff Qin Xiao to attack Changchun to the north, opening up the second main battlefield in the northeast, as the second theater of operations. Attacking Tieling in the south, the troops pointed directly at Shengjing.

The cavalry units of the Fifth Army of the Guards Corps, the Iron Cavalry Corps, the divisions directly under the Second Army Corps, the divisions directly under the Seventh Army Corps, the 70th Division, the 71st Division, the 72nd Division, and the 'Divine Sword' special forces under the command of the Third Front Army were personally led by the commander-in-chief Xu Jian and the deputy commander-in-chief Yue Fengxian, extending the western line of the Eastern Railway, to the northwest, crossing the Daxing'an Mountains, directly attacking Manchuria, burning the flames of war into Russia, and opening up the third main battlefield, which is the third theater of operations. The rest of the troops, including the infantry units of the Fifth Army of the Guards Corps, the 79th Division, the 80th Division, the 81st Division, etc., were personally led by Long Zhan, chief of the General Staff of the Third Front Army, after capturing Qiqihar, they quickly attacked Harbin, and together with the main force of the Second Front Army, captured Harbin, and then together with the main force of the Second Front Army, occupied Heilongjiang Province and Jilin Province, exterminated bandits in various places, and extended the main force to the eastern line of the Eastern Railway, out of the Suifen River, and burned the war into Russian territory.

The goal was to recover Jinzhou and drive the Russian army to Shengjing, and then join forces with the southbound troops of the Second Front Army to attack Shengjing. ”

After recording the order, Lin Zhengnan read the order again, almost word for word, before closing the folder and saying loudly: "Yes, commander, I will let the communications office send a report." ”

The top-secret wireless telegraph was soon sent to the general headquarters of the First, Second, and Third Fronts.

On August 19, at 7:30 a.m., 150 large-caliber cannon guns, 30 howitzers, 350 heavy mortars, a total of 530 cannons, simultaneously launched an hour-long artillery bombardment of the positions of the Russian coalition forces on the north bank of the Xingcheng River.

Joining the shelling were the artillery divisions of the Guards Corps and the artillery brigade of the 3rd Corps, which fired phosphorous shells and TNT shells, as well as a small number of newly developed shells made of HMX explosives.

The infantry positions of the Russian coalition forces were replaced by ruins and a sea of fire in an instant, the artillery positions were also destroyed, and the screams and wails of tens of thousands of Russian soldiers were completely drowned out by the roar of artillery shells.

On the south side of the Xingcheng River, countless officers could see through the telescope the soldiers of the Russian coalition army on the north bank, and their wailing and screaming could be heard in a trance, and no one had pity or sympathy.

Because this is war, the most tragic war.

The sea of fire almost completely submerged the positions of the Russian coalition forces, and a large number of Russian coalition soldiers were killed and maimed by artillery shells, and they were torn apart, and a large number of Russian coalition soldiers were attached to their bodies by phosphorus fires and could not be extinguished at all, and finally they were slowly burned to death in screams and pain.

Most of the soldiers of the Russian coalition who were lucky enough to hide in the anti-artillery holes were buried, and many of the soldiers who were not buried began to suffocate after the fire spread for more than 10 minutes.

In a whole hour, at least one-third of the soldiers on the positions of the Russian coalition forces died, nearly one-third of them were crippled and completely incapacitated, and only one-third of them had been completely bombed by artillery fire and lost their heart to resist.

The shelling stopped, and the battle of crossing the river of the Dragon and Tiger Army began, and the bamboo rafts and rafts carried countless warriors of the Dragon and Tiger Army across the Xingcheng River under the cover of heavy machine guns.

The war went surprisingly smoothly, and the Dragon and Tiger Army lost only more than 300 men before occupying the forward positions of the Russian coalition army, and then began to expand the results.

The battle lasted from morning to afternoon, and when the last firing point of the Russian coalition was solved by special forces with rocket launchers, the battle of Xingcheng ended completely.

In addition to the more than 20,000 Russian coalition troops who fled back to Jinxi, more than 70,000 Russian coalition troops were all killed by the Xingcheng River, of which more than 50,000 were directly or indirectly killed by the artillery shelling of the Dragon and Tiger Army in the morning for an hour, and in the confrontation and positional warfare, most of the Russian troops also died under the weapons of the Dragon and Tiger Army's mortars and grenades.

The Dragon and Tiger Army did not leave a single prisoner, because Wang Jundao had a military rule: Anyone who invades China, on the battlefield, do not take prisoners!

The news of the defeat of the Dragon and Tiger Army at Xingcheng and the Russian coalition army reached the general headquarters of the Russian coalition army in Jinzhou at the same time as it reached Yanjing.

The commander-in-chief of the front line of the Russian coalition forces is General Gentaro Kodama, commander of the Russian army in northeast China, and the deputy commander-in-chief is Lieutenant General Linevich, deputy commander of the Russian army in northeast China.

Gentaro Kodama who received the news no longer had the complacent calmness of his ambition, and he was anxious and shocked, and he hurriedly found Linievich to discuss countermeasures.

Kodama Gentaro said: "In the middle of Lynevich, the Northeast Army surrendered to the Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army, its strength is not what it used to be, and now it has defeated our 100,000 coalition troops, what do you do now?" ”

Linevich said: "Your Excellency Commander, we have deeply understood the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army, through the intelligence transmitted from the battlefield, their weapons are more advanced than ours, especially their artillery, which has brought us too many casualties, and the number of the Dragon and Tiger Army is far more than ours, I think in such a situation, desperate resistance is not a wise move, so I suggest that the army in Jinxi be withdrawn to Jinzhou as soon as possible, shrink the battle line, concentrate forces, hold Jinzhou, and then ask Shengjing for help." ”

Kodama Gentaro doesn't have a good way now, but he is still unwilling: "But Jinxi County was occupied by us for more than 10,000 soldiers, so it's a pity to give up like this." ”

Linevich said: "Your Excellency Commander, you must know that there are only more than 40 miles from Xingcheng to Jinxi, and there is no dangerous fortress between them, and the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army can reach Jinxi in less than half a day, do you think that 30,000 soldiers, of which 20,000 are defeated soldiers, can they hold Jinxi City?" Also, do you think we can send troops from Jinzhou to Jinxi before Jinxi City is lost? Even if our reinforcements arrive, do you think the tired soldiers can beat the Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army, which is at its peak in morale? ”

Linievich asked several big questions in a row, which made Kodama Gentaro's face extremely unsightly, and he could clearly feel the disdain for him in Linievich's tone, in fact, why didn't he take these questions into account? It's just that he's not reconciled.

But what if you are unwilling? The Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army will not give up attacking Jinxi because of his unwillingness.

After a short period of thought, Kodama Gentaro made up his mind: "Send an order to let Jinxi's 30,000 troops withdraw to Jinzhou immediately, and at the same time, send a telegram to Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin in Shengjing, saying that the Northeast Army has surrendered to the Dragon and Tiger Army, and now there are 300,000 troops attacking us, and our 100,000 front-line troops have been defeated, and request urgent support." ”

An hour later, Sheng Jing called back, and when he learned what was on the telegram, Gentaro Kodama and Linievich were completely dumbfounded.

The reason why he was dumbfounded was because he said that the telegram from the commander-in-chief of the Russian coalition forces, Kuropatkin, to Gentaro Kodama and Linevich was not to reinforce them, but to ask them to abandon Jinzhou as soon as possible and return to Shengjing.

The reason is very simple, the north of Fengtian was fiercely attacked by the Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army, which had already captured Kaiyuan County and Tieling County, and was driving towards Shengjing City along the South Manchurian Branch of the Middle Eastern Railway.

Moreover, Changchun has been captured by the Dragon and Tiger Army, and most of the 10,000 Russian troops stationed in Changchun fled to Harbin when a small number of them were killed in battle.

What's more serious is that Qiqihar is also occupied by the Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army, and most of the 3,000 Russian troops stationed in Qiqihar have lost most of them, and the rest are also fleeing to Harbin, while the Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army is attacking Harbin, the core of the Middle East Railway, along the west line of the Eastern Railway, and the strategic points along the way have been captured by the Dragon and Tiger Army one by one.

At most, the Chinese Dragon and Tiger Army will be able to encircle Harbin.

Gentaro Kodama was shocked, and so was Linievich.

Did the Dragon Tiger Army fly from the sky? (To be continued.) )