Command of war is an art.

Song Biao completed almost all the necessary preparations in the shortest possible time, led the whole army to Shiwen Town at noon the next day, and continued to march that night, heading towards the deep mountains and old forests of the eastern part of the country.

In fact, neither the army nor the Russian army has a detailed map of this area, and it is full of ravines with glacial structures, which are so intricate that even locals can get lost.

Song Biao's advantage is that his troops have horse gangs who are familiar with the terrain in this area, they have been shuttling here all their lives, and they can find a way with their eyes closed, and they can reach their destination smoothly even if they walk at night.

In order to avoid the eyes and ears of the Yue army, Song Biao has been marching at night with his troops, and during the day they are scattered in groups, hiding in the surrounding mountains and old forests waiting for darkness to come.

The Yue army was not defenseless against this, they deployed an infantry wing in the narrowest ridge of Erdaogou, but the Yue army did neglect the complex terrain of the northeast mountain range, under the leadership of several old gang leaders of the local horse gang, Song Biao led a huge army almost the size of a group army, silently dispersed into six troops, quietly bypassed the garrison of the Yue army from the area of Wangxigou, and finally secretly converged at a place called linden tree ditch.

At this time, they were only 10 kilometers away from Guantaigou, the headquarters of the Fifth Army, the main force of the right flank of the Japanese army.

May 27th.

He won an unprecedentedly brilliant victory in the Battle of Tsushima Gorge.

At dawn on these two days, the Manchurian Army officially launched a decisive offensive on land against the Russian army, and the Kuroki of the First Army took the lead in launching a frontal offensive, followed by the Second Army Obaogong and the Fourth Army Nozu Guandao Division, and launched a fierce attack on the right flank of the Russian Third Army and the First Army at the same time.

Song Biao had no way of knowing all this, he was far away from the Russian command, but he was able to observe the first wave of onslaught launched by the Japanese army on the morning of the 28th.

He had confirmed that the Fifth Army's Kawamura Keimin Division on the right flank of the army was not far in front of him.

The entire Russo-Russian War itself was a bizarre modern war with constant adventures, and the army probably never thought of how Song Biao, a Manchurian infantry division that had expanded to more than 40,000 men, appeared behind the defense line of the Yue army.

If the Yue army defeated the opponent by luck in the Russo-Japanese War, Song Biao secretly advanced his troops to the Lime Shugou area without being noticed by the Yue army, which in itself is also a very lucky thing, for example, the 5th and 7th Siberian Infantry Regiments got lost halfway and had to march during the day, and the Yue army happened to have no deployment in that area.

Song Biao unexpectedly appeared in a place that the Yue army did not expect at all, and he had arrived in advance before the Yue army launched a general attack, which was the worst thing for the Yue army.

The setting sun is obliquely shining on the Xigou Ridge, in front of which is a long and narrow field that has long been abandoned, overgrown with weeds, and further away is the long and stretching Sandaolingzi, and the artillery position of the army is set up on the slope of Houxiaoyu on the westernmost side of Sandaolingzi, and the strength of an infantry wing is arranged on the positions around the front Xiaoyu and Houxiaoyu to defend the artillery position.

Eight kilometers away, as long as Song Biao listened, he could still hear the dense artillery fire in the distance.

Song Biao wore a black horse coat and leggings and hid in Xigou Ridge to personally reconnoiter the enemy's situation, which was his consistent style.

Colonel Brusilov, who was also dressed as a local, followed Song Biao with more than a dozen soldiers from the guard company, who also held binoculars and hid in a forest to quietly observe the surroundings.

The mountain road is not easy to walk, and at the age of fifty-two, he shuttled through this mountain forest, and unfortunately fell on the middle of the road, and his whole body was dirty and embarrassed.

There wasn't much he and Song Biao could see, except that clusters of black smoke could be found over the artillery positions in the distance, and that's it.

They were already forty kilometers away from the headquarters and ten kilometers away from the nearest front-line battlefield, and they didn't know anything at all, and the liaison sent back by Song Biao would not be able to return until at least two days later, or even three days later.

They all believed that the naval battle might have ended, so the army would launch a general attack, but it was unknown which fleet would win.

Quietly groping into the rear of the enemy army, it has not been noticed by the army, Alekseevich. Colonel Brusilov thought it was all amazing, and it was probably only possible for Mukden natives to do such a thing, and it was the first time he had traveled with cavalry through such a place.

Manchuria is really magical, in the mountains all over the sky there are hidden roads that can be shuttled, even roads for cavalry to cross, which really makes Alexievich . Colonel Brusilov was an eye-opener.

He thought, if the front commander of the Manchurian Infantry Division was not a local, who would have thought that such a miraculous thing would happen?

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but put down the binoculars and praised Song Biao: "Your Excellency Commander, I now really understand why you can lead the changes in the entire Heigoutai battle, this is really amazing, it is the first time I have found that there are so many abnormalities in this place in Manchuria, the terrain here is really incomprehensible, as if there are ravines everywhere, roads everywhere, it is as intricate as a spider's web, I think, the army is absolutely unimaginable, It is really ...... that the main forces of the empire, the size and size of our quasi-army group, are hiding behind their artillery positions I don't think there is such a bizarre example in the entire history of world warfare. ”

Song Biao thought for a while, continued to observe the stretching mountains of the three ridges in front of him, looked for a suitable raid route, and replied to Colonel Brusilov: "Before this, the Battle of Waterloo can be regarded as the most bizarre example, as for the final historical evaluation of this battle, we naturally don't know. One thing we do know is that the army really did not expect us to hide here, and the search wing of the army is constantly expanding the search area, and I think we will have to attack the night after tomorrow. ”

Colonel Brusilov said: "Actually, tomorrow will be fine." ”

Song Biao refused: "No, I don't think that the First Army will be defeated so early, if it is possible, we will delay it for a few days, and it will be more appropriate to launch a surprise attack when the attack of the Yue Army is blocked." ”

Colonel Brusilov said: "I'm afraid it will depend on the outcome of the naval battle, do you think that the army is so active in attacking means that their navy is defeated, or is it a naval victory?" ”

Song Biao replied simply: "There is no doubt that they must have won a big victory, so they must take advantage of this high morale to break the Russian army's defense line." Tomorrow night must be attacked, and a few days later, I am afraid that General Linievich may be forced to retreat. ”

Although Colonel Brusilov did not want to believe Song Biao's reasoning, he really did not know how to refute it.

In short, it was gloomy, and the only hope was probably in their elite division.

Before dark, Song Biao quietly left Xigou Ridge with the reconnaissance team and returned to the area of Lime Tree Gully where they were hiding, because the army had reconnaissance balloons, and too many troops were scattered inside the linden tree ditch, which was easy to be detected by the Yue army.

The linden tree ditch is a very secret place, it is a mountain stream ditch with only one exit, three hundred steps wide from north to south, and one kilometer long from east to west, because it has not been reclaimed, the ravine is full of towering linden trees, and the vegetation is dense.

The reason why Song Biao chose to hide the whole army here was because there were many smaller ravines scattered around the linden tree ditch, which was also densely forested and the terrain was complex, and the whole army was scattered and hidden, and all troops were concealed and camouflaged as much as possible according to Song Biao's requirements.

Especially in the matter of camouflage, they have done a very good job along the way.

The only pain is about not being able to make a fire to cook, the whole army can only eat dry food, Song Biao very professionally prepared a kind of fried noodles, which is mixed with sesame seeds, peanuts, fried noodles and bean sauce containing some cured meat is the only ration for the soldiers at present.

However, we also collected a lot of linden flowers here, and the clusters of white flowers can also be eaten.

After returning to Lindenshugou, Song Biao once again made new adjustments to the originally scheduled battle plan, and determined that the exact time of the attack was 1 a.m. on 31 May.

A bad indecision in chief sometimes brought strange luck, because the First Army of the Russian Far East Army suddenly abandoned its forward position on May 20, and the whole army gradually retreated to the north of Erdaogou, and the Fifth Army of the Fifth Army, which had passively caught up, began to expand into this area on the 21st.

To be exact, General Kawamura Jingming actually arrived here only six days earlier than Song Biao, he had just arrived on the front foot, and he had not had time to search all the surrounding terrain, Song Biao arrived on the back foot, and before Kawamura Jingming would continue to search completely, the general attack order was officially issued, and all the main forces of the army rushed forward.

This situation probably only happened on the battlefields of the 19th century.

The fact that most of the enemy army was two kilometers away and that they did not know was common on the battlefields of the 19th century, and the Battle of Waterloo seems to be one of them.

When General Kawamura Keiaki concentrated all his energy and troops on attacking the Russian First Army, he absolutely did not expect that there was another small Russian army group hidden in the mountains ten kilometers behind him.

If he knew, he would have vomited blood.

Song Biao had extremely high tactical command, although this power required Alexievich. Colonel Brusilov and Artur. Krznovik. Lieutenant Colonel Maltos confirmed at the same time at the front.

As the reconnaissance company's feedback became more and more detailed, to the point that he was able to find out most of the detailed information about the deployment of the army's position, Song Biao constantly revised his battle plan.

His initial plan was mainly to attack the opponent's rear supply units and reserves, but the result surprised him, because of the special direction of Sandaolingzi from northeast to southwest, the Fifth Army of the Chinese Army was forced to set up artillery positions in the marginal area in order to give priority to the artillery power, and the headquarters of the Fifth Army was located in the middle of the Guantaigou.

The Fifth Army of the Manchurian Army, which obviously had two divisions, one brigade, and two reserve infantry wings, had only one brigade and one reserve infantry wing in the Guantaigou area, one reserve infantry wing was used to protect the artillery positions, and the other reserve infantry wing was set up in the Kangning Camp area to guard the pass.

The most interesting thing is that the Fifth Army of the Fifth Army is also subject to the terrain characteristics, and the baggage wing and the ordnance department are located in Baiqingzhai.

It seems that the key points of each army in the layers of protection have the same problem, that is, the defensive forces are too weak and can only resist small-scale surprise troops, and in the face of a small-scale group army like Song Biaobu, it is really as easy to pierce as paper.

When Song Biao further figured out the deployment of the army, he could only say that if there was a goddess of luck in the world, this goddess would definitely be his godmother.

As for the situation of the army and the Russian army on the main battlefield on the front line, Song Biao still didn't know anything, and he didn't even know whether the Russian army was defeated or not, so he was very helpless and could only continue to fight for luck.

If the First Army of the Russian Far Eastern Army had already been defeated, and it suddenly hit behind the Fifth Army, it would be tantamount to attracting all the firepower of the entire right wing of the Japanese Army, the General Reserve of the Manchurian Army Headquarters, and the Reserve Army, wouldn't this be an early death and early reincarnation in another sense?

War is like that, always full of chaos and unknowns.

The future is always unknown.

After the night fell again, a large quasi-group army finally tore through the camouflage of the linden tree ditch, Chen Wu's 3rd Manchurian Infantry Regiment scattered in front of the front, and cooperated with the 4th and 5th Siberian Infantry Regiments to attack the artillery positions of the Yue Army, and the 1st Infantry Regiment of the Far East, the 1st and 2nd Infantry Regiments of Ceshantinsk, which were better at mountain warfare, were responsible for attacking the headquarters of the Fifth Army, and the 7th Siberian Infantry Regiment was scattered behind, as a backup force, after completely attacking the headquarters and artillery positions, Two additional regiments will be sent to attack the Army's Baggage Wing.

Song Biao personally led the raiding troops out of the linden ditch and quietly advanced along this place called Sidaogou to the position of the Yue army, the troops were divided into three, Song Biao was responsible for personally leading the 1st Infantry Regiment of the Far East and the 7th Infantry Regiment of Siberia in the center, and the left and right flanks advanced along the forest slopes at the same time.

The army set up four sentry posts in this area, and Song Biao and his reconnaissance company took the lead in groping for the past to eliminate the northernmost one, and the troops continued to advance quietly like three long snakes along the shadows under the ravine.

Feng. Major Eske arrived at the destination first, Song Biao continued to advance with the remaining two troops, and after he arrived at the destination, Chen Wu and the others continued to lead the team forward, heading towards Houxiaoyu.

At a distance of four kilometers from them, Colonel Brusilov was to quickly eliminate the remaining three posts at the appointed time, and lead the large force to advance to the West Ditch Ridge, where a temporary artillery position would be established.

On the twenty-seventh day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, the moonless night was so dark, the warm cool breeze blew along the ravine, and Song Biao, hidden in a bush, quietly waited for the arrival of time.

It would be a long two hours before they could attack, and during that time, they would need to climb over the ridge in front of them and try not to be detected by the army as much as possible, so as to meet the conditions required for the raid.

It must have been impossible for him to avoid being noticed here, because when he crossed the mountain, there was an infantry brigade stationed in the ravine opposite, which was scattered into four camps and arranged around the Guantai ditch, one of which was located halfway up the mountain.

(To be continued)