The conditions given to Song Biao by Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin must be very gorgeous, for Song Biao, this is simply the best choice, if he can hit Tonghua City by the way, and keep the transportation capacity of the Tonghua line, his journey to sell grain from Hunjiang to Shenyang can be shortened to about ten days.

A few days after the meeting with Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin, Song Biao stayed in Shenyang to discuss with Brigadier General Madenidov on all aspects of the preparation for the establishment of the Manchurian Infantry Division.

As he had initially predicted, the Third Army suddenly intensified its assault on the Russian Third Army, and although both sides suffered heavy casualties, the commander of the Third Army, General Bilderlinger, quickly took advantage of the low level and cowardly intelligence of Lushun's commander Stasell, and recklessly withdrew his troops, resulting in the successful completion of the counter-encirclement of the Russian Second Army that the Army itself could not have imagined.

Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin had just been happy for a few days, but he had to give up the encirclement and annihilation of the Third Division of the Yue Army, and let Kirbas's Second Army then withdraw to the Shendanbao area and abandon the Sumabao position, so that Song Biao's Manchurian Infantry Regiment suddenly became a front-line force.

Fortunately, Song Biao was active in the General Staff of the Far East Army, and he was also very well-informed, so he urgently returned to the Yujiayao position as soon as possible.

On February 7, 1905, Song Biao returned to Yujiayao, and as General Mishuchenko retreated his troops to Heigoutai and Shendanbao, Yujiayao, which Song Biao held onto, was located between the two positions.

For this reason, Song Biao directly advanced the position to Jiangjiayao, but fortunately, he had expected it, and sent Hu Dalin and Zhao Tingzhu to be stationed in Jiangjiayao in advance, and built a strong and complex fortification in advance.

With the comprehensive pressure of the Second Army of the Yumoto Army, he was really very fortunate to face the General of the Yumoto Army Okubogong and the Fifth Division known as the "Steel Army" again after fighting with Tachimi Naowen and Akiyama Yoshiko.

This division has two main infantry brigades, each with two infantry wings, and one field artillery, cavalry, engineer, and baggage transport wing directly under the division headquarters.

General Mishuchenko's troops did not have time to retreat, and the main force was trapped in Heigoutai, once the army captured Jiangjiayao, these main forces of the Russian army were basically waiting to be surrounded and annihilated.

In the evening, Song Biao hurried back and forth to the front line again, at this time he was only two days away from being specially appointed Colonel of the Manchurian Infantry, and if it were not for the drastic change in the front line, he would have stayed in Shenyang City to attend the Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin's original plan to personally hold a celebratory banquet for him to reward him for his miraculous achievements in defeating more than 20,000 troops before and after the battlefield.

Standing on the sentry tower of the forward position of Jiangjiayao, Song Biao used a telescope to observe the movements of the army from afar, and the army arranged the two infantry brigades separately, the 9th Brigade was located in Sumabao, and the 21st Brigade was arranged in the forward position on the northeast side of Sumabao, which was less than 1,200 meters away from Song Biao's Jiangjiayao position, and happened to be located in front of and behind the big ditch between Sumabao and Jiangjiayao.

The two elite infantry wings of the Yue Army pointed their bayonets and guns at him, and Song Biao's heart was also up and down.

The Fifth Engineer Wing under the Fifth Division was frantically building fortifications, and it was crawling forward step by step, advancing layer by layer, setting up multiple fortress points along the road, and the communication trenches were directly inserted into the line, penetrating many defense lines.

This fortification feature was basically abandoned after World War II, but it was still crazy at this stage, and the advance speed was extremely fast, and the Japanese army used this very aggressive attack fortification in large numbers throughout the Russo-Japanese War, constantly opening up the defensive line forward.

Song Biao was more worried about the kind of urgent-made mortars made by the army, and on the position, it seemed that one or two could be vaguely found, this kind of urgent-made mortars were a kind of wooden mortars presided over by Yoshio Saimazawa in the military engineers, and the outer perimeter was wrapped with a circle of bamboo hoops and thick hemp rope, and the caliber was 12 millimeters.

Although it is a very failed mortar, and the danger of self-use is extremely high, it can still play a headache value on the battlefield.

Song Biao also had six of these tattered things in his hands, and he was a little afraid to use them, so now he had no choice but to use them.

Standing on the two-storey Tulou sentry tower, Song Biao pondered the solution of this battle in silence in his heart, this time, he did not deliberately let the brothers wear Russian [***] clothes, nor did he deliberately wear the big sheepskin jacket of the bandits, the brothers can wear it very casually and messily, even wearing the dark blue military uniform of the army.

His messy arrangement actually has to make the opponent take it lightly.

In the face of the situation of the large army pressing the border, that tense atmosphere spread to the entire Manchurian infantry regiment, not to mention that a regular infantry regiment will feel nervous in the face of a brigade strength, they are an infantry regiment after all, how can they compete with the main force of the army?

Zhao Tingzhu hurriedly walked up to the tulou and reported to Song Biao, who was observing the movements of the army: "The big boss, Brigadier General Madenidov has arrived at the regiment headquarters. ”

"Oh?"

Song Biao was a little surprised, then turned around and went downstairs, just walked to the door of the tulou and saw Brigadier General Madenidorff arrived here directly on horseback, a group of dozens of people in the entourage, saw Song Biao, Brigadier General Madenidorff jumped off the horse, and Song Biao said: "I didn't expect that you have moved the position forward, I came urgently this time to be ordered by the commander-in-chief, asking you to move the position forward to Jiangjiayao, and resolutely hold this position at all costs, for this reason, the Far East Army Command can meet all your requirements." ”

Song Biao nodded, he estimated that Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin should also be aware of the important surname of the Jiang Jiayao position by now, he invited Brigadier General Madneydorf into the tulou, and then asked people to pour tea and water.

Waiting for Brigadier General Madenidov to sit down, Song Biao spread out the battle map, drew a circle on the position with a pencil, and said: "I have already made arrangements before, and built a 1.5-kilometer-long defense line in Jiangjiayao, with two layers of trenches in front and back, both equipped with bulletproof craters, and two communication trenches dug all the way to the wicker mouth, which are connected to Shendanbao. In addition to the fortifications on the east side of Yujiayao and Heigoutai, the three lines are linked and cooperate with each other, and as long as our will to fight is strong enough, the army will need at least three times as many troops and firepower as ours to seize the position. Therefore, my request is very simple, that is, we must provide sufficient troops and artillery support, if there are not enough troops, even if our fortifications are built well, it is absolutely unrealistic to expect my bandit army to defend the frontal position, and when the time comes, when I am disabled, the Russian army in Heigoutai can only sit and wait for death. ”

Brigadier General Madenidorf nodded silently and said to Song Biao: "Since you have been prepared, it will be really much better." The defense line here is very important to our army, and the commander-in-chief has asked me to sit here myself, and I must do everything I can to hold this place until our army has prepared reinforcements. Before coming to your headquarters, I have consulted with General Kirbas to prepare to transfer the 2nd Infantry Regiment from the 2nd Infantry Regiment of Ssk, and to merge a part of the reserve forces of the 2nd Army into your 3rd Infantry Battalion, to temporarily add one regiment and garrison it here with the strength of two regiments, and with your strength, we will certainly be superior to our opponents in strength. If the army is further strengthened, we also have a reserve of infantry divisions for this line of defense, and on the other hand, it would be great if you could find a way to recruit some more locals. ”

Song Biao thought for a moment and said, "Now it's a real big war, and it's too late to recruit temporarily, and it has no practical significance." Let's send as many artillery units as possible, without the assistance and suppression of artillery units, no matter how good the fortifications are, they will not be able to hold on. ”

Brigadier Madenidorff continued to nod and asked, "What about the others?" ”

Song Biao said: "I have a lot of machine guns in my hand, and now I want bullets, ammunition for the Hatch Chase heavy machine gun, and more Maxim machine gun bullet chains and Nagant bullets, the more the better, at least to ensure a reserve of six million rounds of machine gun ammunition, in addition, I have no other way to hold here." ”

Brigadier General Madenidov said: "There must be bullets, we will go to Fushun to transfer the inventory of the First Army of the Left Wing, but this will require a lot of transport troops along the way, you have to find a way to solve the transportation problem by yourself." If you expect the headquarters and the Second Army to help you solve the problem, with my understanding and experience, then it will take half a month, and when they send the ammunition, I am afraid that we will not be able to explain to His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin. ”

Song Biao was very confident and said, "These are all small problems. ”

He didn't dare to guarantee anything else, the transport team was definitely not a problem, after saying these words to Brigadier General Madenidorf, he immediately called Xue Changqing over, and followed Major Turgenier to Fushun to transfer supplies, as much horsepower as he could, he could pull as much as he could, and he couldn't use it to help the surrounding friendly troops solve the problem, in case the friendly troops retreated in a panic, they would die even more miserably.