Except for Song Biao, the brothers of the entire Manchurian Infantry Regiment basically did not understand, in fact, two days have passed since this incident, and everyone still does not understand how a division of the Chinese Army was wiped out, nor do they understand whether the commander of the Yue Army was kicked in the head by a donkey.

Song Biao knew it very well in his heart, and the Russians also understood it.

The Battle of Heigoutai not only annihilated the Eighth Division of the Yue Army, Song Biao actually appeared in the Russian War as a recognized expert in cracking pig attack tactics, and he basically gave the Russian army a very complete standard answer in the Battle of Heigoutai.

For the Yue army, this will be a very embarrassing new problem, and what is worse is that it is absolutely impossible to hold the stronghold of Shendanbao anymore, and how to retreat that cavalry brigade is still a more complicated problem at the moment.

In the past two days on the Heigoutai position, Song Biao was often invited by General Mishuqinko to discuss the defensive battle plan of Sumabao, and the Russian [***] officers who held the meeting together, regardless of the rank, everyone looked very friendly when they saw Song Biao, and after several combat meetings, General Mishuqinko finally chose Song Biao's plan, resolutely defended Sumabao, continued to deepen the construction of fortifications along the trenches around Sumabao, used artillery to continue to attack the opponent, and sent an infantry division to occupy the original position of the army in Toupaotun, The Fifth Division of the Chinese Army formed a two-sided attack, one attack and one defense.

From the selection of positions to the specific planning of various fortifications, as well as the deployment and distribution of troops, Song Biao almost single-handedly handled it, and he basically replaced Lieutenant Colonel Sheyenisky, a senior staff officer on the front line.

After the day's operational meeting, General Mishuchenko left Song Biao and Major Kornilov alone, and asked them to go and send von Khnilov. Major Esker, please come.

After a few minutes, a young officer in a dark green military uniform entered, probably about thirty years old, with a short, thick golden beard, a distinctive white tall hat made of Ekismo fur, a Winchester repeating lever rifle, and only a pair of snow boots similar to those of the Akismos.

Like all Russian [***] officers, the saber was their status symbol, and this officer wore a very short German-made hunting knife, which was extremely beautifully decorated.

Seeing him, General Mishuchenko enthusiastically introduced: "This is our Cossack hero from the Transbaikal region, von Murphy. Major Esker, who was only a lieutenant at the beginning of the war, led a Cossack reconnaissance battalion that had done many miraculous things, and was now the commander of the 2nd Seudinsk Infantry Regiment. ”

Song Biao has heard of this person, he is not the kind of hero who changes history, but he did have a very good performance in the Russo-Russian War.

He took the initiative to reach out and von. Major Esker shook hands and introduced himself: "The commander of the Manchurian Infantry Regiment, Beo. Surname! ”

Feng. Major Esker was shocked, looked at Song Biao a little strangely, and quickly praised loudly: "It turned out to be you, Your Excellency Song, I have been hearing them talk about your name, and I always thought that it was a very strange guy, who would come up with so many strange methods, and now it seems that you are such a shrewd person." ”

Song Biao smiled and said, "Thank you for the compliment." ”

In the face of the harmony and happiness of the two, General Mishuchenko seemed very happy. Major Esker introduced Major Kornilov and formally proposed: "I have already talked to Commander Kirbas, I hope to transfer a regiment from the Second Siberian Army to make up for the critical situation of some of the existing insufficient strength and combat strength of the Manchurian Infantry Regiment...... Baron Esker, I hope you can maintain a good relationship with Captain Song. ”

Feng. Major Esker replied, "No problem, I think it will be a good cooperation, and I will accept everything from Commander Kirbas!" ”

General Mishuchenko did not want to speak too badly, he knew that it was always a pride for any Cossack general to be under the command of an Asian and other Russian minorities. The main reason why Major Esker could quickly rise to the rank of commander of the 2nd Seudinsk Infantry Regiment and be promoted to major is Baron Esker.

He knew that he believed in von. Major Esker must have understood in his heart that Song Biao was a very rare military commander with special talents, at least on the Heigoutai front, there was no Russian [***] officer who could compare with him.

Since Feng. Major Esker's words were in place and beautiful, and General Mishuchenko didn't want to add a few more words, so he directly turned to the topic and asked Song Biao very solemnly: "Song, how many troops do you think we can take out to deal with the army of Shendanbao now?" ”

Song Biao thought for a moment and didn't rush to answer, in fact, he had been thinking about this question for the past two days. If Shendan Fort could not be taken, the significance of the Heigoutai Battle could not be further expanded, and it only dealt a blow to the arrogant morale of the Yue army's successive victories and eliminated a division of the Yue army.

He lit a cigarette for himself and pondered carefully, looking at the battle map on the table for more thought.

In the past few days, he has fully proved his strength to all the senior generals and staff officers of the Russian army on the Heigoutai front with his words and deeds, and there are always a lot of debates in combat meetings, and everyone has their own ideas.

When Song Biao encountered unreasonable generals, he would choose Jomini's "Introduction to the Art of War", Clausewitz's "On War" and Suvorov's "Theory of Victory" to argue with the other party, and he could quote all the classic battles in the history of modern European warfare.

Although most of the time the controversy will be ended with the mediation of General Mishuchenko, the Russian army staff officers have impeccable admiration for Song Biao's Russian language proficiency.

In fact, it is extremely difficult to gain a foothold in this group of Russian [***] officials, and the deep-rooted discrimination against Asians will never go away, and Song Biao actually only won the support of General Mishuchenko alone, but he still proved to others that he has military qualities.

Song Biao thought for nearly ten minutes, so much so that General Mishuchenko was about to lose patience, before he suddenly replied: "We don't have many troops, and we don't actually need to show many troops. Let's analyze the problem, first of all, analyze their leader, Commander Dashan Yan is a general who is extremely good at strategic layout like Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin, his advantage is to know people and make good use of them, and knows the advantages and disadvantages of each unit, it is precisely for this reason that he handed over the task of eagerly and quickly occupying Shendanbao to the First Brigade of the Cavalry, but at the same time he believed that this brigade did not have the ability to hold the position, so he equipped the brigade with a large number of machine guns, trying to use a large number of machine guns to buy time, so that he could send the eighth and the second The fifth and second divisions, if he continues to insist on keeping Shendanbao, he may send another division in the future. Personally, I don't think it is appropriate for us to send too many men to besiege Shendanbao at the present time, otherwise, once the army takes the opportunity to send two or three divisions to flank us, we will quickly lose the two important positions of Sumabao and Toupaotun. ”

General Mishuchenko knew that his wait was worth it, and sighed: "Song, your assumption is exactly what General Kirbas and I are most worried about. If you don't send more troops, what kind of way do you plan to deal with the army of Shen Danbao? ”

Song Biao continued: "The Chinese have a classic strategic saying, called 'treat others with their own way', which translated into Russian means to use the enemy's methods to deal with the enemy. Since the beginning of the war, the Yue army has always been adept at skillfully using the night assassination offensive to settle the final victory, especially in the Battle of Arthur, and their performance was extremely brave. In the area around Shendanbao, the Second Army had two infantry divisions and more than forty artillery pieces, and it was precisely a cavalry brigade that was not necessarily good at holding on to the infantry itself. I suggest that the command of the Second Army increase the strength of the siege of Shendanbao to three divisions, mainly from the three positions on the north side, and that our army send another division to attack from the rear, especially the three divisions on the front, and should take a night offensive as much as possible, avoid the machine gun superiority of the Japanese army, and gradually dig into the trenches, but we should directly use spear attacks, and we must specially manufacture a spear of at least ten feet, and use the advantage of numbers to storm the past at night. On the other hand, our division must attract the army to build a new position on the southeast side of Shendanbao, so that there will be a gap in their tactical defense on the southwest side, and my actual countermeasure is still to launch a surprise attack at night, but its scale is not too large, and the best elite troops must be drawn, about a few hundred people, Suddenly, the surname seized the small fort and forced the army into chaos, as long as they made a mistake and cooperated with the three divisions in front, we could actually use the strength of two more regiments to annihilate this cavalry brigade. ”

After saying this, he quickly picked up the pencil on the table and continued to draw a circle around the river, saying: "War is always a deception, and the function of deceiving the opponent is always to make the opponent make mistakes, and only when the opponents make mistakes, can we easily defeat them." We don't know now whether the Yue army will continue to forcibly hold Shen Danbao, no matter what they think, I suggest taking the opportunity to use our new plan to deceive the opponent, gradually drain the forces of Su Ma Fort, so that the Yue army has the opportunity to seize the Su Ma Fort position through a strong attack, in this way, they will be in a dilemma, because it seems that it is possible for them to save the brigade of Shen Dan Fort, once they decide to give it a try, we must quickly seize the Yue army's Hetuozi position at all costs, forming a two-sided effect, The 5th Division of the Japanese Army continued to surround it. ”

At this moment, Major Kornilov asked: "What if they don't continue to storm Sumaburg?" ”

Song Biao said: "Then they will let the First Cavalry Brigade forcibly break through, this is another problem we need to consider, from the current point of view, the best direction for them to break through is the Jinshantun and Yapatai that we have previously considered stationing, so I ask the Second Army to continue to add an infantry division, be sure to defend Jinshantun and Yapatai, and we will send a division to further block the two retreat routes of Datai Village and Waist Fort." Waist Fort This place is more special, if the army sends another division, they are likely to choose to directly insert the waist fort, on the one hand, they can rescue the first brigade of the cavalry, on the other hand, they can continue to clamp down on the left and center flanks of the Russian army, of course, the strategic significance of the waist fort is far less than Shen Danbao, it depends on how the supreme commander of the army weighs the trade-offs. They are the attacking side, the initiative is in their hands, we can't predict it at all, because it's a difficult thing to choose, it's a bit too personal, and one person can make two different decisions in the morning and in the evening, and all we can do is try to consider all the options of the enemy and deal with them one by one. For us, the best situation would definitely be for the Japanese army to storm Sumabao and give us the opportunity to continue to encircle their 5th Division. ”

At this time, General Mishuchenko had nothing to say, he personally felt that there were very few generals of Song Biao's level in the Russian Far Eastern Army, and he also sighed that it was good to be young, his mind was more flexible, and his energy was more vigorous, and he could think about and analyze a problem dozens of times, but he could no longer do it.