I really want to go to Heigoutai to block the Eighth Division of the Yue Army.

After the 1st Cavalry Brigade of the Chinese Army stationed in Shendanbao was encircled, the 8th Division of the Chinese Army was quickly transferred to the front line from Liaozhong as a rescue force, and engaged the Russian army in Heigoutai.

Subsequently, the 3rd and 5th Divisions of the Japanese Army continued to rush from Liaoyang and Liaozhong to the surrounding areas of Shendanbao, and three divisions plus a cavalry brigade attracted the offensive of the entire Russian army's right flank.

Although this early decisive battle was launched by the commander-in-chief of the Russian army, Infantry General Kuropatkin, but he was only forced by the pressure of Tsar Nicholas II, he himself knew that the time for a decisive battle had not yet come, and the actual attack was just a strong offensive posture. As a result, the Russian army made a major mistake in the layout of the main force, and was tragically surrounded and annihilated by the right flank of the army.

Song Biao obviously didn't want to fight the Yue army to the death, he really couldn't do it, he just wanted to grasp the world's largest bayonet offensive of the Eighth Division, and use the machine gun and shotgun in his hand to beat the largest bayonet offensive in the history of the Yue army into the greatest humiliation in history.

After the battle, no matter whether he made money or lost money, he would immediately find a way to withdraw from the front line of the Russian War.

As far as the training level of the army in his hands is concerned, if the only end of stumbling with the Yue army in a fair environment is to die out, his only chance of winning is to make full use of all kinds of unfairness, fight against the Yue army in the most unfavorable situation, and if he wins a battle, he will immediately leave, and he must not let the Yue army catch him and besiege him, then he will really die as soon as he attacks, and he will be defeated when he attacks.

Before officially going to Heigoutai, Song Biao asked Lao Jintou to lead the team back to Shenyang City to buy some other materials, including tung oil and cotton yarn, which always made Lao Jintou puzzled.

The Manchurian infantry regiment itself did not have many combat units, the point was to haul a large amount of ordnance for the Kuban Cossack cavalry of General Mishuchenko, and the only combat units existed to protect this batch of supplies.

In order to avoid the surprise attack of the Yue army as much as possible, Song Biao chose to take advantage of the opportunity of the freezing of the Hunhe River to cross the river at night, bypassing the wicker mouth defense line of Shendanbao, and re-crossing the Hunhe River at Heigoutai after a long road of ten kilometers.

In the place name of the Kanto region, where there is a word "Tai", there will basically be some natural large mounds, and even the entire tunzi is more than ten meters higher than the surrounding area.

Heigou Terrace is like this, this place is close to the Hunhe River in the west, there is a low-lying Heigou River on the south side, the terrain itself is about 20 meters higher than the surrounding area, there are several large mounds, in the plain area of the south of Shenyang, it is a very special place to have this geographical location, it can be attacked and defended.

The Second Army of the Russian Far Eastern Army had just defeated the 2nd Cavalry Brigade of the Japanese Army stationed in the local area on the 24th, and sent a Siberian Fourth Infantry Division to be stationed here, which was actually a temporary patchwork of 15 infantry battalions, with Colonel Tishenlins as the commander, and this colonel was also a defeated general who had just fled from the Liaoyang battlefield in embarrassment, and had been frightened by the Yue army, and was only nested in the fortifications during the entire Battle of Heigoutai, and even allowed the Fifth Division of the Yue Army to pass through his defense line and insert into the Wicker Pass defense line. As a result, the Russian army was divided into multiple units, which could not be connected from end to end.

Song Biao mobilized very quickly, and rushed to the Heigoutai defense line overnight without a formal order.

Almost at the same time, the eighth division built a trench nearly a kilometer long on the northeast side of Toupao Village, and the Russian Siberian Fourth Infantry Division was also intensively deployed along the east bank of the Hunhe River, and the two sides continued to extend forward, and a larger-scale battle of Heigoutai was already on the verge of breaking out.

Because it was the outpost of the Kuban Cossack cavalry, after Song Biao arrived at Heigoutai, he immediately led his troops to go deep into the southern front and build fortifications on the north side of Sumabao to cover the left flank of the Fourth Siberian Infantry Division, and at the same time completely exposed himself to the front of the Eighth Division of the Yue Army.

Everything came so quickly, whether it was luck or the smile of death, it seemed that even Song Biao himself could not answer, and it was the first time he was so confused in the more than two months since he returned to this era.

The whole regiment was building fortifications according to his requirements, but sadly the vast majority of the soldiers did not know why they were being repaired, let alone how, and all the soldiers of this Manchurian infantry regiment were recruits, and they did not even have military training for recruits, and all the non-commissioned officers did not have any formal military training and education base, in fact, they were not even as good as bandit troops.

Song Biao knew very well that his troops had almost no combat effectiveness at all, and he tried his best to come here, but in fact, it was just for this big gamble related to the fate of the three nations.

Hu Dalin's engineer brigade recruited more than 400 people in various coal mines in the Fushun area, among the four squadron leaders, Zhang Dafu was a brother of the Hunjiang Ma Gang, who had experienced the battle of Qiandongling and had previously done the rough work of Niva craftsmen, and the other three squadron leaders had two of them from the Niujiabao copper mine and one was the head of the local miners in Fushun.

At least in terms of skills, they are very skilled, having previously been trained in fortification construction while in Niujiabao.

Zhao Tingzhu, the commander of the 1st Infantry Battalion, and Zhang Yahu, the commander of the 2nd Infantry Battalion, also had experience in this area, as well as some follow-up training.

A distance of one kilometer to the west from their front line was the village of Toupao, and the army was also building fortifications on a slope around the eastern end of the village, and the distance between the forward positions of the two sides was only no more than 750 meters.

In German military practice, 750 meters was just the usual distribution distance between two infantry battalions.

It's very short.

Even without binoculars, Song Biao could see the construction site-like scene in the fortification area, and he thought, the other party would definitely be able to see them.

Song Biao found a villager abandoned old dry firewood pile as a bunker, squatting next to observe the movement of the entire army, although the distance between the two sides is very close, but no one will take advantage of the opponent's fortifications to attack the other party rashly, because the army has already arranged several simple fortifications before, and Song Biao's north is the defense line of the Fourth Infantry Division of the Russian Siberian Army, where more than 14,000 people are stationed, and it is absolutely impossible for the army to rush over at this time.

The two sides could only stare at each other.

Through his binoculars, he observed the entire movement of the army very clearly, it was the real trump card of the army, the momentum was strong, the will was high, the experience was rich, the equipment was excellent, the soldiers were brave, and the officers at all levels were elite, which was by no means comparable to this motley unit in his hand.

The Eighth Division of the Army was established on October 1, 1898, after the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, the Eighth Division was determined to have a war in Russia, and the Eighth Division was used as the main mountain force for assault training. If he hadn't been born in the shogunate faction, I am afraid that this gentleman would have already ascended to the throne of the general of the army, and it would not have been the turn of Oyama Iwa to command the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War.

If it weren't for the critical time, General Dashanyan, commander-in-chief of the Manchurian Army, would never have sent him out, and the facts finally proved how smart Dashanyan's choice was, and it also proved that Lijian Shangwen was indeed not a master of military strategy that the rigid senior generals of the Russian army could deal with.

Immediately saw that Shang Wen's strength lies in his extremely accurate and sophisticated grasp of the fighter, and the opponent will be caught and beaten to death by him if he has the slightest flaw. Because he was once beaten by Lijian Shangwen in the Fall War, his nose and face were swollen, and Dashan Yan naturally knew that this person was powerful.

The Russian army certainly does not know.

Standing next to the dry pyre, Song Biao quietly peeked at the elite army opposite, and was also thinking about countermeasures in his heart, he came, but he didn't come to die, he came to earn a vote and left, but this ticket is not easy to earn.

Fortunately, the main focus of the 8th Division is currently focused on the 4th Siberian Infantry Division of Colonel Tishenlins, and the two divisions of the 2nd Army of the Tsarist Far East Army are also rapidly moving here, plus the possible arrival of the Kuban Cossack cavalry, the Russian army will concentrate more than 40,000 troops in the Heigoutai area at this time tomorrow, twice as many as the 8th Division of the Lijian Shangwen.

The Russian army is basically an escort here, twice as large as the Eighth Division, which is seriously short of ammunition, and it is also a mess by Lijian Shangwen, and it is precisely because of the bravery of the Eighth Division that the command of the Tsarist Far Eastern Army once again tried to postpone the decisive battle and shrink most of its forces back.

Fighting the strong with the weak, in fact, it is not completely without countermeasures, soldiers, tricks, Zhou Yu can defeat Cao Ying in the Battle of Chibi, Xie Xuan can defeat Fu Jian in the Battle of Weishui, which is enough to show that strength is not the only factor that determines the outcome of the victory.

Song Biao thought quickly in his head, turning, like a student in the examination room suddenly approaching to hand in the papers, but there were still more than half of the questions not answered, and his head was hot.

He seems to have found a solution, but he is not quite sure.

After weighing it carefully, carefully, and more carefully, he finally decided to continue to take the risk of gambling, because he was already standing on the front line that he had dreamed of in his life, and he had no choice but to gamble.

He also peeked more carefully at the deployment of the army, the Eighth Division was temporarily dispatched this time, and came to rush to the rescue, but the ammunition was not enough, and the army was seriously in a situation of insufficient artillery shells throughout the Russian War, and they failed to bring a few more artillery pieces over.

This situation roughly determined the overall characteristics of the Eighth Division's deployment around Toupao Village, their defensive line actually had a clear line of aggression, cutting the entire defense line into more than a dozen sections, through this way, they could constantly move each section of the small defense line forward, either by attacking forward at night to dig trenches, or under the cover of fire.

In short, such a characteristic is obvious, they will move forward little by little like a crab with a hard shell, as the army did in the Battle of Arthur, they will eventually extend the line of defense to less than a few hundred meters from the enemy position, and then look for a weak point in the Russian line, and crush the opponent with a bayonet attack in the night.

Throughout the First World War, the bayonet offensive was still a major means of determining the outcome of the battle, and it was very common, and it was not only the Japanese army that liked to do it in this period, but also the Russian, German, and British armies...... Even the U.S. and French armies did this, and now the most famous ones are basically not the turn of the army, but the Russian army and the German army, which are known for their bravery, and the reason why the U.S. army was able to defeat the opponent with inferior rifles in the Spanish-American War was also by powerful bayonet offensive at the last moment.