Chapter 50: Eight Thousand Horses, Robbed
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General Mishuchenko and Song Biao discussed for a long time how to deal with Shen Danbao, and they put forward every detail that needed to be considered separately for analysis, and the final battle plan still adopted Song Biao's proposal.
If we really take advantage of the time difference to continue to encircle the Fifth Division of the Chinese Army in the Shendanbao area, gather the strength of the entire Second Army to annihilate it at one time, or severely damage the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army, the balance of victory in the decisive battle will obviously be in favor of the Russian army.
When Song Biao left the command post of General Mishuchenko, the new Feng Biao. Major Esker had already admired him incomparably, and warmly invited Song Biao to visit his group, and Song Biao did not refuse.
The main problem of the Russian army is that the command system is very chaotic, secondly, its reserve strength is not very large, and the temporarily recruited soldiers cannot be compared with the elite of the army in terms of combat quality, and the situation of the 2nd Seudinsk Infantry Regiment is relatively better, this infantry regiment has participated in many battles and its combat effectiveness is very good.
After some contact with their main junior officers, Song Biao continued to return to his regimental headquarters to conduct his training in preparation for war, and his training was carried out secretly at night, and the drill was a night raid operation.
Give someone a taste of their own medicine.
This is Song Biao's strategy.
It is not Song Biao's sincere will to help the Russian army, but in any case, he has indeed gained a lot, if he can take down Shendan Fort and capture those dozens of machine guns, it will really be more perfect.
The reason why Song Biao wanted to fight Shen Danbao was because of those dozens of machine guns.
The next time, according to the order of the Heigoutai Command, Song Biao withdrew from the position on the south side of Heigoutai with the Manchurian Infantry Regiment, and followed the Siberian Second Infantry Division to be transferred to Datai Village and Waist Fort to garrison.
The Kwantung fathers and elders in this area have long since scattered and fled, and the entire tunzi is empty, so the brothers no longer need to camp on the battlefield here.
From a military point of view, if the 1st Brigade of the Cavalry of the Army will use Jiayao as a breakthrough point, it will definitely be the most stupid, because after Yujiayao is the Heigoutai front heavily guarded by the Russian army, but in any case, the basic defensive trenches and bunkers that should be done still need to be set up.
Song Biao's brothers had already had several experiences in setting up camps and building defenses, and after Song Biao made a little arrangement, the squadron leaders led their own teams to build a circular defense line around Yujiayao, and set up separate points on the periphery and the inner line, and the reconnaissance teams also dispersed one after another, collecting information on the activities of the Japanese army in the surrounding areas.
After dark, Song Biao dispatched twenty people from his garrison squadron and followed him along the ditch forest all the way into the dense forest on the dirt slope on the southwest side of Shendanbao to reconnoiter the situation around Shendanbao.
There is a barren forest on the southwest side of Shendanbao, and Song Biao is slowly infiltrating in the forest, and his biggest worry is not that there is an ambush in the forest, but that the army may lay mines here.
If he wants to sneak up on the army at night, he must step out of the way.
Four of the twenty people he selected alone were locals from the area around Shendanbao, and most of the others were from Orion and Horse Gangs, all of whom were smart and nimble, and they had also practiced good marksmanship.
Led by a few local brothers, they consciously detoured a long way and approached the small fort of the army along the south side of the barren forest.
When they reached the end of the barren forest, there was only less than 600 meters left from the small fort of the garrison center of the army, Song Biao took a general look, called Li Fugui, who had followed him all the way, and asked him to take a few local brothers to continue to explore the road with him, while the rest of the brothers were guarding in the forest.
Locals must be familiar with the road, and they can walk through it with their eyes closed.
Song Biao followed behind them, one foot deep and one foot shallow, slowly relying on various covers to touch the small fort, the night was silent, only the Beitaizi defense line in the north there were still sporadic gunshots, the moonlight was cold, silver light and snow.
Less than 100 meters away, several local brothers took Song Biao to a clay kiln, which was the place where the kiln was burned in the past, and it was abandoned after the army arrived at Shendan Fort, which was very special.
Song Biao found a very hidden place on the top of the kiln and carefully observed the small castle opposite with a low-light mirror.
The night was very dark, and the interior of the small fort where the army was stationed was also pitch black, only two rooms had lights, and the surrounding earthen walls and the four corner sentries were even darker, and there were more than a dozen soldiers on the earthen wall who were responsible for guarding, and there was a sentry on each sentry.
Because it was too dark, the place they could see was only a dozen meters, and under normal circumstances, as long as there was no special sound, most of the sentries were hiding behind the wall buttresses to avoid the wind.
Until the sky was getting brighter, Song Biao retreated back into the barren forest, before that, he had already known the time and frequency of the replacement of the military sentry posts, probably because it was too cold outside, out of the principle of protecting the soldiers, the army changed shifts every two hours, and the whole process was very short.
According to this calculation, he basically thinks that half past three in the morning is a better time to get started.
Song Biao continued to hide in the barren forest for a long time, and continued to change binoculars to observe all the deployments of the Yue army in Xiaobaozi and its surroundings, until the Yue army sent a reconnaissance team to patrol the surrounding area, and he returned to Yujiayao with his brothers.
Just when their group had just returned to Yujiayao, there were bursts of fierce artillery trains in the surrounding area of Shendanbao, the density was much greater than yesterday, Song Biao stopped and listened for a moment, knowing that the two infantry divisions of the Second Army on the northern line of Shendanbao had begun to attack with all their might.
The plan discussed by Song Biao and General Mishuchenko was that he would suddenly launch a night attack three days after the Russian army attacked in full force, with the goal of occupying Xiaobaozi, and the Russian army must complete the complete blockade of Shendan Fort before that, and launch a final assault when the army counterattacked Xiaobaozi.
If his night attack plan fails, the Russian army can only continue to fight with all the losses to take Shendan Fort.
At this time, the garrison of Xiaobaozi was still very tight, and the probability of winning the night attack was not high.
A few days ago, before the Battle of Heigoutai, Song Biao successively ate all the beef and mutton purchased from Shenyang, and the Manchurian Infantry Regiment had a good life after a few days, but now it has a hard time, but fortunately, a lot of grain and the kind of soybean paste and pickles in small bags of the army were seized from the Eighth Division, and they could survive in the kiln for half a month.
Knowing that Song Biao would only come back at this time, Major Kornilov and Zhao Tingzhu were waiting in the temporary regiment headquarters, and they happened to have breakfast at the regiment headquarters, Li Dahan didn't know where to toss out a bag of soybeans and cooked a pot of soybean porridge, which turned out to be cheap for these battalion commanders and squadron leaders.
As soon as Song Biao came back, everyone immediately stood up with the bowl and rushed to ask about the situation.
Song Biao waved his hand, signaling that everyone did not need to worry.
Li Dahan immediately ran out with a big bowl of soybean porridge and half a plate of pickles, and complained: "Big boss, they all ran to our garrison to eat, and almost swallowed your share." ”
Song Biao laughed and said, "Don't worry." ”
After saying this, he took the bowl, sat down and devoured all the porridge in this big bowl, and there were two freshly steamed pickle buns.
After freezing outside all night, the whole body was cold like an ice sculpture, and Song Biao felt that the blood in his body was almost coagulated, even he was shivering with cold.
The cold winter night in the Northeast, it is really not something that ordinary people can bear, so those soldiers who stand guard on the wall are also suffering, who doesn't want to find a place to hide from the wind and cold?
It is definitely not a way to stay up like this, Song Biao directly asked Li Dahan to wash his feet with a basin of hot water, and then sat on the kang to talk to the brothers.
When the brothers moved a small table and rested it on the kang, Song Biao took out the layout of the small fort that had been roughly drawn by a few locals, revised it with a pencil, and beckoned Zhang Yahu and Hua Leopard to sit and watch together.
The new arrangement point reconnaissance is in place, everyone can actually see that the small fort is not a good place to attack, the army fired four machine guns on the small fort, not set up on the tower post, because that place is too easy to be shot by the enemy, the machine gun points of the army are all in the center of the four walls of the small fort, the strafing area is huge, and the rest of the machine guns can be transferred at any time.
According to Song Biao's observation, the army put the brigade headquarters here, and the brigade headquarters and a squadron were stationed inside the small fort, about 200 people, and the key was to keep two other squadrons very close to each other on the north and south sides, and there was also a wing that was a reserve force.
If they wanted to capture the fort directly, the reserve wing would have to be transferred.
After talking to the brothers about the deployment of the Yue army in Xiaobaozi, Song Biao did not rush to adjust the night attack plan, but directly said to the brothers: "The Yue army is stationed here is their first cavalry brigade, this brigade has more than 8,000 war horses, all of which are maintained in the private houses of Shendanbao. They may have forty machine guns in total, which is a very terrifying number, and you must know that the number of machine guns in the Russian army is no more than that. Dashanyan's grandson dared to let a cavalry brigade defend a lonely place like Shendanbao, which was obviously very well prepared. Let's do the math, if our regiment can suddenly knock out their brigade command post, and take advantage of the chaos to kill a main position, and take Shendan Fort, this brigade's more than 8,000 horses, 40 machine guns, four 31-year-old rapid-fire guns, and more than 8,000 Golden Hook rifles will be ours. Brethren, let's send it! There are more than 8,000 horses, if we rob these supplies, we can also build a cavalry brigade ourselves. The war horse is actually better than the Don hippopotamus of the Russians, their war horse is a new breed improved with local horses and the French Anglo-Norman war horse, the quality is extremely high, the horse height, speed and endurance are very good, the price is very high, the army actually does not have much, really want to rob him of 8,000 horses, this little day is booming! ”
"Eight thousand?"
As soon as he heard Song Biao's words, Xue Changqing's eyes turned green, and the other brothers were also extremely surprised.
These 8,000 horses are definitely more expensive than 40 machine guns, and they are not so easy to get out, if Song Biao really gets it, his army will really be invincible in the northeast, and Zhang Zuolin, Feng Linge and others will have to bow down, and they can't bear him at all.