As the supreme commander of the front, Song Biao personally arrived on the battlefield to inspect it, not to command the army to fight, but to further accurately confirm the combat effectiveness of the Yue Army and the Northeast Army.

War is the only practical criterion for testing the level of combat effectiveness of the armed forces.

On the Chunniling Heights, Song Biao carefully inspected all the fortifications of the Yue Army, probably because of the heavy losses suffered in the Battle of Liaoyang, compared with the period of the Russo-Russian War, the construction of fortifications in the theory of the army has obviously made great progress, and the fortifications in Chunniling and the entire Qingcheng defense line have an obvious point, line, and surface depth system.

The army built multi-layer trenches and more than 20 earthen ramparts on the 700-meter-long slope on the Chunniling Heights, and there were several strong pillboxes made of cement, the barbed wire was very wide, and the fire of more than 20 heavy machine guns was deployed to strangle the large-scale attack.

Offense and defense are always a pair of spears and shields in modern warfare, and if fortifications are used for stronger defense, how to attack a stronger fortification system are important indicators for testing the level of positional warfare of troops.

As soon as the Battle of Chunniling Heights ended, the corpses of the Northeast Army were scattered everywhere on the hillside, the corpses that had been blown up were scattered all over the place, and the blood stained the ground red, and the surrounding area of the military fortifications was also bombarded by artillery Layers of new soil and broken rocks, the fire was still burning, and the smoke was billowing out.

Experience told Song Biao that this battle was not cruel, and the fortifications of the army did have a certain level, but in terms of defensive design, they still failed to effectively prepare for large-scale artillery attacks, and their trenches were relatively shallow, there were too many earthen ramparts, and there were too few pillboxes, especially the lack of cat's ear holes, which made the infantry easily injured in the covered attack of grenades.

On this high ground, the Northeast Army killed about 600 soldiers, but it still relied on the way of artillery and infantry coordinated operations, under the cover of artillery fire and machine guns, and quickly pressed on without fear of sacrifice, using Popnin submachine guns and shotguns to solve the enemy in the trenches, using artillery bombardment and grenade blasting methods for the relatively strong cement pillboxes, and even using 37mm rapid-fire machine guns, aiming at the hole to shoot phosphorus smoke bombs, suppressing the enemy's machine guns, and the final solution still relied on the soldiers to rush up and kill and injure the enemy inside with grenades.

Next to a blasted bunker, the soldiers were carrying their comrades who had died on the battlefield, and when they saw the emperor appear on the battlefield, everyone was very happy and sad at the same time.

Some of the soldiers couldn't wait to run over, and the non-commissioned officers got up to stop them, while Song Biao raised his hand to greet them from a long distance, signaling them to continue their work and not care about his arrival.

War is a predictable empiricism, and it is usually necessary to consume a high ground and ammunition to capture a high ground, a pillbox, which is a relatively stable number, unless the opponent's morale drops significantly in the later stages, or the ammunition is depleted.

When Song Biao inspected Chunniling, he had a more appropriate estimate of the combat strength level of the Northeast Army and the Yue Army, and it was always when the real war started to estimate the level of the opponent and prove his level, according to the performance of this battle, Song Biao roughly guessed that if he wanted to complete his operational plan, about 50,000 soldiers of the entire Northeast Army would be sacrificed about 50,000 people.

If he was willing to pay such a price, the five divisions of the Yue Army would basically have to be accounted for within 100 kilometers of the south side of the Yalu River and the Tumen River.

Hearing that Song Biao was coming, Chen Wu and Sun Shulin, the commander of the 14th Infantry Division, dared to come in a hurry, both of them rushed all the way on horseback, and saluted in front of Song Biao, Sun Shulin's situation was fine, Chen Wu was obviously personally commanding on the front line, and his face was full of dust, and he looked a little embarrassed, but the joy was really true.

Song Biao shook hands with them happily and praised: "This battle is very good, continue to work harder, I don't think it's good for Fukuda Yataro." ”

Chen Wu laughed and said: "Your Majesty, we are really killing chickens with a knife, the troops of two divisions besiege one of their brigades, and they can easily take it." ”

Song Biao snorted and said, "More troops are one thing, and you really fought well." ”

After saying this, he and Sun Shulin asked, "Is the situation on the 14th Division's side still stable?" ”

Sun Shulin nodded and said: "Stable, the training level of the 14th Division is still good, after adjusting the equipment and establishment, a new batch of officers, including the establishment of the staff office system, is currently better reorganized." I fought with an infantry regiment and a wing of the 21st Brigade of the Japanese Army, and we had the upper hand and kept them on the periphery of the 158th Ridge. ”

Song Biao praised: "Okay, the 14th Division is stable, if the 14th Division is stable, the 15th Division and the 12th Division are not unstable, the Northeast Army, the New Army and the Patrol Army can all carry out the order steadily and move forward, and the army has no reason not to lose." ”

Sun Shulin said: "Your Majesty Shengming." ”

The 14th Infantry Division was reorganized from the Fourth Town, which was Yuan Shikai's descendant unit, and in order to reorganize it, the War Department first exchanged a number of troops and officers with the 20th and 22nd Towns, and then transferred a large number of recruits and non-commissioned officers from the Northeast Patrol Army to supplement it, and the division commander was Sun Shulin, the former instructor of the First Cavalry Division, and Guo Yuchi, who was born in the Far East, was sent to serve as the instructor.

At this time, Song Biao was not very sure about the combat level of the Yue Army, so he asked Chen Wu and Sun Shulin: "What do you think of the current level of the Yue Army now?" ”

Chen Wu immediately said: "Poor, worse than the period of the Russian War, Your Majesty, let's just say so, if I am replaced to defend this Chunniling, the same infantry wing is here, even if others are attacked by three infantry regiments, I can defend it for at least three days." This time, not only is the level of equipment worse than ours, but the soldiers are not as brave as last time. Let's put it this way......! ”

He gestured with a grin, pointing from the trench left by the Yue army to the position of a temporary fortification in front, and said: "There is a distance of 300 meters from that point to this defense line of the Yue army, first the artillery fired 6,000 shells, and blew up the two pillboxes hidden in the middle, I personally transferred 110 light machine guns, more than 200 Popning submachine guns and more than 20 heavy machine guns to suppress the opponent, while the opponent's infantry wing has less than 10 heavy machine guns, I not only machine guns and submachine guns, but also grenades, mortars and machine guns, pressing them to fightThe Yue army did not dare to shoot at all, but our two charging companies easily tore the openings from both sides, and I suppressed this wave for only twenty minutes, and the Yue army had no time to react at all. If it had been left in the past, even if we rushed up, wouldn't all the army have bayonets and fight with us? No, there was nothing, and they surrendered directly, so I said that the army was not as capable of fighting as before, otherwise we would be stunned. ”

Song Biao nodded slightly, he also felt that the attack was very smooth.

In his analysis, he always felt that the military quality of officers at the third level of generals and lieutenants was still very good, and that there was a large gap between the Northeast Army and the Northeast Army in this respect, mainly by employing Russian military advisers and implementing the staff headquarters system.

In terms of soldiers, the quality, spirit, and combat level of both sides are similar, but on the side of non-commissioned officers, the veterans of the Yue Ben suffered heavy losses in the Russian War, and the follow-up replenishment is insufficient, while the Northeast Army is relatively better than the Yue Army because of a large number of non-commissioned officer accelerated education mechanisms and continuous training in the war against bandits.

As for equipment and theory, the Northeast Army is obviously much higher than the Army.

After the real fight, the question of which is stronger and weaker, how much stronger and how weak, will really appear.

Song Biao turned to ask Sun Shulin, "Then what do you think?" ”

Sun Shulin was obviously not as flamboyant as Chen Wu, and replied: "The strength and weakness are all relative, and for the 14th Division, the army is really not weak, and there are only two key differences, one is the speed of our army's attack and action, and the other is that our army has a large number of troops, and other reasons are secondary." ”

Song Biao replied noncommittally: "Perhaps, the fast-forward onslaught is the consistent requirement of our army over the years, and the army is not yet suitable for such a speed, before they sort out their ideas and countermeasures, the armies must continue to speed up the offensive, continue to quickly encircle and annihilate the opponent at all costs, and continue to attack and close the encirclement." The time is not early, you go back first to continue to command the troops, and at night you must also take the opportunity to advance forward, and strive to completely annihilate the Fifth Division of the Yue Army before 12 noon tomorrow, and then the three divisions will encircle and annihilate the Sixth Division and the reinforcements of the Korean Righteous Army, stabilize Shuozhou, and go south to attack Taichuan County, so as to prepare for a decisive battle with the Third Army of the Manchurian Army in Taichuan. ”

"Yes!"

Chen Wu and Sun Shulin listened to the order at the same time and left Chunniling together.

Song Biao continued to study in Chunniling for a period of time, carefully checked some details of the fortifications of the Yue Army, and asked the translator to sort out the documents and materials of the 9th Brigade of the Yue Army as soon as possible, so that the General Staff could more accurately estimate the combat level of the Yue Army.

From 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., in 12 hours, Song Biao used three infantry divisions and seven newly formed infantry regiments, plus the Northeast Artillery Corps, to encircle and annihilate the 9th Brigade and the 5th Field Artillery Wing directly under the 5th Division, as well as the 3,000-strong Korean Volunteer Army.

This kind of fastness and fierceness is a stable habitual surname gradually formed in the adjustment of training and equipment, just like a person with quick hands and feet can do everything quickly, when the Northeast Army attacks quickly according to this habitual surname, the army is stunned as soon as it comes up.

It is said that the level of General Yoshimasa, commander-in-chief of the Manchurian Army, is indeed inferior to that of the likes of Oyama and Yan, and such a scattered arrangement seems to be exhaustive, and it is really impossible to defeat a unit like the Northeast Army, which pursues rapid maneuver and quick attack and encirclement and annihilation.

After determining that the army could not adapt to the operational characteristics of the Northeast Army for the time being, Song Biao also seemed much more relaxed, and after returning to the temporary command headquarters at the front, he did not make too many adjustments, but still let the whole army advance forcibly according to the original plan.

In order to avoid the superiority of the Navy, Song Biao and the General Staff conducted a great deal of analysis and decided to set the main direction of the Northeast Army's offensive in Shuozhou, attack Taichuan all the way south from Shuozhou, and make use of the passages between Shuozhou, Guicheng, and Taichuan to build a 100-kilometer-long supply line on this line.

In the section of the Yalu River between Taiping Bay and Jiulian Town, the Northeast Army would sink a number of steamers to block the river channel, prevent the small warships of the Navy, and take the opportunity to build a number of bridges in the vicinity of Hekou Island to improve the supply lines of the entire Northeast Army.

Before seizing Taichuan, the 4th Infantry Division would also make a detour to the south, leaving only the 1st Infantry Division and the 12th Infantry Division to flank the 3rd Division of the Yue Army stationed between Uiju and Sinuiju, encircling but not annihilating, so as to avoid a hasty retreat of the 3rd Army of the Manchurian Army when the general situation had already passed.

After the main force divided the Third Army, the 1st and 12th Infantry Divisions should annihilate the 3rd Division as soon as possible with the support of the 2nd Artillery Brigade, and the whole army should converge to the south and fight a decisive battle with the 3rd Army in Taichuan.

All of Song Biao's tactical planning was based on one point, that is, to make full use of the Northeast Army's characteristics of good equipment, large supplies, fast speed, and fierce attack, not afraid of sacrifice and damage, and to fight a decisive battle quickly, and constantly achieve the operational goal of encircling and annihilating the enemy army with several times the number of troops.

…… As everyone knows, Suvorov's military theory did not really gain real attention in the Soviet Union until the 20 th century, and the military general who really carried forward this theory and effectively resolved the balance between "fast" and "fierce" before the 50 s of the 20 th century was General Su, and General Su's method was also very simple, that is, to break through the traditional thinking habits of military establishment, greatly expand the number of columns, emphasize the ability to fight quickly and mobilely, and use the superiority in numbers to solve the constraints of "fast" and lighter troops.

The Northeast Army is basically implementing this policy, and on this basis, it emphasizes three major specialties: First, the basic skills of artillery and infantry coordinated operations are very solid, and it can be said that the army can be formed without artillery in steps, and if there is artillery, it will win; Second, it has a strong ability to conduct mobile raids and outflank operations in a large area and large forces; Third, the small and small elite units have strong combat capabilities in penetrating and penetrating defenses.

In addition to the three major specialties, the Northeast Army also emphasized the expansion of the baggage troops, paid attention to organizing the militia to participate in the war through recruitment, propaganda, and forced conscription, and made full use of China's manpower superiority to greatly increase the supply and transportation capacity.

The strength of this army is not weak, it is stronger than the Northeast Army in many aspects, but it is extremely unsuitable for the new tactics under the Northeast Army's combat style and new theory in the initial stage, and the command organs of each unit have no time to make any response, and the troops have been surrounded by more than four or five times their own troops. The general strategic planning made by the Northeast Army on the Korean battlefield is also very similar to the Huaihai Campaign and the First Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.

According to the experience of the Russian War, especially the experience of the Battle of Liaoyang, such a defensive posture can hold the position for three to five days even in the face of four or five times the enemy's army, which is enough for the headquarters to send reinforcements, but in the actual battle, it usually only takes two hours, and the entire defense line will be constantly broken through, infiltrated, and finally cut off, the entire defense line is outflanked and besieged, and the reinforcements are intercepted, and hundreds of doors must be topped. Even the pressure of thousands of artillery pieces faced the siege of two or three divisions of the Northeast Army.

In the face of such a special offensive of the Northeast Army, the army lacked sufficient understanding and corresponding experience from top to bottom, and originally thought that it could block the offensive for three days, but it was annihilated in one day, and it was thought that it could still hold on, but it was hit to the headquarters within a few hours, and it was thought that the reinforcements would arrive soon, but it turned out that it was not annihilated, and the reinforcements were defeated halfway.

In such a complicated situation, all the generals and colonels of the army did not know how to command and dispatch the troops, how to guess and evaluate the opponent's attack, and the middle and lower sergeants and soldiers did not know what was wrong with their troops.

Since the Northeast Army took the initiative to launch an offensive on April 5, 1911, in just three days, the Northeast Army defeated the Fifth Division of the Yue Army in Shuozhou, the Third Division of Yizhou, and the Sixth Division that came to reinforce it, the Fifth Division, the Third Division and the First Artillery Brigade were directly surrounded and annihilated by many units, more than 4,000 officers and soldiers of the Yue Army and Korean soldiers surrendered as prisoners, and only one brigade of the Sixth Division withdrew to Bochuan County in embarrassment.

The Third Army of the Manchurian Army, which was stationed in Pyongyang, Anju, and Jiechuan, did not have time to make any adjustments, and the Third Infantry Division quickly advanced to Yongbyon, while the Fourth Infantry Division advanced to Dingzhou, forming a two-front flank attack.

The military deployment of Oshima Yoshimasa once again put the Yue army in an extremely embarrassing state, and neither the Korean rebel army stationed in Jiechuan nor the Fifth Reserve Brigade of the Yue army stationed in Anju could retreat, and the 2nd Division, the main force of the Yue army, stationed in Pyongyang, could not be easily brought forward, and the situation was as awkward as the previous arrangement on the Yalu River line.

The speed of the Northeast Army's attack was too fast, and the rout of the army was beyond all previous estimates, so that the navy was completely unprepared, and at this time it arrived at Dingzhou from Port Arthur and Nanpu Port belatedly, intending to use the guns of warships to assist the remnants of the army in Dingzhou.

It was said that the army was defeated all the way on the western front, and it was also besieged many times quickly on the eastern front, with heavy losses and a speed of rout, which completely exceeded everyone's expectations, and even Song Biao did not expect that the army would be defeated so quickly.

…… Eastern Front Tumen River Battlefield.

At 9 o'clock in the evening of April 4, 1911, the fifth, sixth, and twenty-seventh divisions of the Eastern Front Group Army, the Third Artillery Brigade, and the 12 newly formed regiments of the Yanji and Jilin patrol armies, with a total of 37 regiment commanders and regimental instructors, arrived at the front headquarters of the Eastern Front Theater Theater.

Jiang Yanxing, in his capacity as deputy commander-in-chief of the Central Army's Northeast National Defense Revolutionary Army, concurrently served as commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front and commander of the Eastern Front Group Army, as well as the highest local military commander.

Wu Yuanze, commander of the Sixth Division, Shan Qipeng, commander of the Third Artillery Brigade, and Jiang Yanxing were both graduates of the first class of Lu Shi students. General Eske served as the top military adviser on the Eastern Front.

Feng. General Eske did not attend the meeting, and Jiang Zuobin, the first-class chamberlain, secretly arrived in Yanji with a handwritten edict from His Majesty the Emperor to convene this secret pre-war general mobilization meeting on behalf of the Emperor.

In the theater of operations on the Western Front, such a meeting was presided over by the emperor himself two days earlier.

Seven people, Jiang Yanxing, Wu Youzhen, Chang Wanchun, Wu Yuanze, Shan Qipeng, Zhang Liangyuan, and Wan Tingxian, were in the first row, representing the chief and deputy commanders and chief of staff of the theater, while 74 regiment commanders and instructors, including Li Fugui, Li Zhaoyun, Zhu Zhaoxiong, Zhang Ceping, Liu Liao, Liu Tingwu, Huang Benpu, Xia Zhankui, Yuan Zonghan, and Gao Quen, stood in the back rows.

The atmosphere in the war hall was solemn.

Jiang Zuobin walked into the hall wearing the black military dress of a first-class chamberlain, holding a gilded yellow envelope printed with the red and red dragons winning pearls with a solemn expression, and turned to face the generals.

He opened the envelope, took out the letterhead from it, and reminded you: "Generals, this is the handwritten edict of the Holy One, and I will read it here in place on behalf of the Holy One. ”

Hearing these words, the generals immediately bowed to Jiang Zuobin with the etiquette of facing saints, under the leadership of Jiang Yanxing, the commander-in-chief, and Wu Youzhen, the chief of staff.

Jiang Zuobin then began to read aloud the emperor's edict, and said: "The soldiers of all armies are working hard to serve the country in Yanji, and I deeply think that it is a blessing for the country, because I command the three armies on the Western Front, I cannot go to the Eastern Front in person, so I can only write this codex as a proclamation, hoping that all the monarchs will look at and believe in the monarch, and know the intentions of me and the people." The current situation is that the British are colluding and bullying our country, vainly trying to make our country unable to reunify, divide the nation, and weaken for a long time, give it what it takes, and let it be humiliated and exploited. The three armies can win the commandery, but the horsemen cannot win the ambition, and the nation cannot take away the dignity. Five thousand years ago, there was the Yan and Huang Alliance, since then there is our Chinese nation, multiplication, repeated brilliance, ambitious thousands of miles, since the Xia and Zhou Dynasty and there is a written history, since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period and there is the foundation of Chinese civilization, 5,000 years of history, 3,000 years of glory, inheritance. As a nation, our Chinese nation should be the best in the world, but now it is humiliated and oppressed by foreign thieves, it is really the humiliation of our husbands, life is precious, family is important, parents should be supported, children should be raised, but if we endure humiliation and steal life for this, let the country be divided, let the nation be bullied, let foreign countries trample on my compatriots, slaughter my own clan, how can our husbands be born in the world? What's more, what about us soldiers? The history of the nation, the past is 10,000 years long, and the future should be 10,000 years long, how can it be destroyed in the hands of our generation, because everyone in our generation is selfish and cowardly, and the nation is dying in the hands of the small country of Yuer, if this is the case, why should we be human, 20,000,000 Chinese men should commit suicide to thank the ancestors and descendants, since the beginning of the me, everyone should be self-judged, why live in the world, trying to waste rice and millet. ”

Reading until this, Jiang Zuobin paused for a moment to glance at everyone, and waited for a moment before continuing to read: "Therefore, I hope that all the kings will fight with me on the battlefield, and fight to the death with Yueben, at all costs, even if the corpses of the whole army are all over the field, and the soldiers of the army will die all their brothers and uncles, they should also annihilate the Yue army." ”

After hearing these words, the generals of all departments were full of anger and excitement in their hearts, and finally knew that the news of the emperor's personal expedition was indeed true, and they really wanted to compete with the army.

Jiang Yanxing didn't know how long this letter was, but seeing that Jiang Zuobin had not officially handed over the emperor's edict to him, and it was estimated that there would be a follow-up, he was nervous.

He has been following the emperor for six years, and has been deeply cultivated and taught by the emperor, and has repeatedly had the opportunity to lead various regiments to participate in the battle of encircling and suppressing bandits.

It's just that at this moment, he doesn't know if he can take on the heavy responsibility entrusted to him by the emperor.

He was really worried that he would be defeated, which would really harm the country, the nation and the emperor, and at that time, he would not be able to forgive himself even if he committed suicide a thousand times, let alone recover the losses he had caused to the country and the emperor.

Listening to this edict, Jiang Yanxing was only more apprehensive in his heart.

Just when the generals of the armies were waiting for the emperor to give the final general instructions on the Eastern Front battlefield, Jiang Zuobin put away the edict, continued to fold it back into the envelope, and said: "For the sake of secrecy, Your Majesty's last instructions for the Eastern Front Theater are not written in the edict, and I will dictate it on my behalf, please keep it in mind with all colleagues." ”

Jiang Yanxing and the others bowed again and said, "There is Your Excellency Lao Jiangnei!" ”

Jiang Zuobin said: "Your Majesty said that since the Anti-French War to the Russo-Russian War, there has been no major breakthrough in the army's military combat theory in the past 100 years, especially in the case of the Russo-Japanese War, although a large number of new combat methods have appeared in the war, such as trench warfare and machine-gun blockade and suppression, and other tactical advances, but in the sorting out of operational theory, it is still the same as in the past, with linear passive deployment as the main body, and both warring sides have imitated the operational thinking of the Napoleonic era, arranged defensive lines on the front line, and shrunk part of the main forces to the rear as the total mobile force. Whether it is a two-front operation or a three-front operation, it emphasizes the principle of frontal advance and the confrontation of the main forces, and military thinking emphasizes the advance of modern military and the coordination of multiple arms, as well as the suppression and counter-suppression of artillery superiority. At present, the PLA is still implementing this thinking, and the basic principles of this classical military combat theory have been completely retained in both the Western Front and the Eastern Front, and our army's offensive on the Eastern Front and the Western Front has broken through the shackles of traditional operational theories. Taking the Eastern Front battlefield as an example, the general guiding ideology of this war is 'attacking at multiple points and advancing with key points', and these eight words are the point that Your Majesty emphasizes the most, and they are also the general principles that your colleagues must firmly keep in mind, and you must have absolute confidence in the new operational thinking, and you must never lose confidence because of heavy casualties in the middle of the journey. ”

After a pause, Jiang Zuobin continued to add: "In addition, Your Majesty dictated that the battlefield on the Eastern Front is related to the dispute between Yanji and the so-called Jian Dao, and the stakes are very high, and there is no room for mistakes, and all divisions and regiments on the Eastern Front are temporary organizations, and all divisions and regiments have large-scale adjustments in equipment and large-scale training of new tactics in order to adapt to this operation. Therefore, all the generals must be prepared to make heavy sacrifices, and at the same time, they must strictly abide by all the orders of the General Staff Headquarters and the Supreme Commander of the Western Front Theater Group Army, must not have any selfish motives, must have absolute trust in each other, and must also be a division worthy of the trust of other departments. At the same time, His Majesty decreed that after the victory of this war, all units that performed well, even the newly formed regiments of the patrol army, would be officially transferred to the official establishment of the Central Army. Finally, Your Majesty has asked me to convey my wish that under the leadership of the General Headquarters of the Western Front Theater Army, you will win a victory and annihilate the two divisions of the Chinese Army in one fell swoop. ”

"Obey the Divine Commandment!"

When all the generals and officials present heard these last words, their willpower became more resolute.

If the Eastern Front is a copy of the Huaihai Campaign, then the Western Front is a copy of the Russian Army's Brusilov offensive in the German-Russian battlefield in World War I, and the guidelines behind the two tactical plans are completely different.

In the Western Theater of Operations, in the mountainous area from Maoshan to Hunchun, the Chinese Army, the Korean Army, and the Northeast Army each controlled dozens of important highlands and confronted each other, and their military deployments were intertwined, making it difficult to adopt large-scale and large-scale military movements.

From March last year to March this year, the Shenyang Arsenal and the Benxi Arsenal produced a total of 1400000 Popnin submachine guns, half of which were installed in the Western Front Theater, in order to make the Western Front Theater more reliable to fight this Brusilov offensive battle.

Considering that the quality, qualifications, prestige, experience, and ability of the Northeast Army at the level of generals were lower than those of the Yue Army, and that Jiang Yanxing also lacked the prestige of dispatching various divisions, Song Biao could only adopt this kind of tactical planning, reducing the basic combat units to the regimental level, organizing 14 elite infantry regiments to serve as the main force, and each regiment matching a second-level regiment and a newly formed regiment, as well as an artillery battalion and militia team, organizing multi-point attacks at 14 points in separate time periods, and fighting two key advances at Hedongling and Liudonggou on the north side of Tianfozhi Mountain. Divide the troops into two ways to clamp down on the troops of Maoshan and Huining.

From the war against France to the Russo-Russian war, modern military has developed more and more in a more scientific direction, especially in the Franco-Prussian War, the system of advancing operations at all levels implemented by the German army has long become the mainstream of the world's military.

In this war, both the Eastern Front and the Western Front adopted operational ideas that completely exceeded conventional theories, freed themselves from the shackles of the "Theory of War"; on the basis of the rapid onslaught that the Northeast Army traditionally adhered to, the Western Front adopted General Su's theory of mobile encirclement and annihilation, and the Eastern Front adopted General Brusilov's theory of all-out offensive in the German-Russian theater of World War I.

Brusilov's offensive is Russia's most successful tactical innovation in World War I, and it is also the most creative and decisive large-scale battle of the Russian army in World War I, if it were not for the main force of the German army, the 450-kilometer defense line built by Austria-Hungary would be quickly torn to pieces by the Russian army, this theory is first of all to grasp the defects of the theory of late-mover superiority in the traditional "Theory of War" military thinking that emphasizes the retention of the main mobile force, and through large-scale military assault, the enemy army cannot distinguish the specific direction of the main attack, It is impossible to mobilize reserve forces to support the front line with a specific surname, and then achieve a breakthrough in key areas, crush multiple enemy defenses, tear through the defense line, and insert into key areas such as command and material transit behind enemy lines, forcing the enemy army to completely rout.

In this offensive, the artillery units no longer require concentrated large-scale attacks and in-depth attacks, but disperse the artillery units into various infantry regiments, each regiment controls a small number of artillery, and adopts more flexible, accurate and short artillery bombardment, which is different from the traditional large-scale and protracted artillery bombardment, because long-term large-scale artillery bombardment can always be easily detected, so that the enemy has ample time to carry out the construction of fortifications against the surname, as well as the destruction of communications, battlefields, etc., while short and flexible artillery bombardment is difficult to defend, Infantry units require the organization of a large number of more elite small commandos, with companies as the basic units, concentrating firepower and machine guns to find weak areas of the opponent in the battlefield.

This tactic was actually the predecessor of the German army's infiltration tactics (Huthier's tactic), and the German army also absorbed many advantages of this offensive after the end of the Brusilov offensive, and put forward the theory of infiltration tactics, which changed many basic principles in the thinking of infantry warfare after that.

Compared with the Brusilov offensive, the Northeast Army first strengthened the training and equipment improvement of infiltration tactics on the Western Front, and the whole army reduced the equipment of body-barreled artillery on a large scale, and even the number of heavy machine guns was reduced, each squad was equipped with a Madsen light machine gun, a Popnin submachine gun, each row was equipped with a 60mm mortar, each company was equipped with a new and improved 80mm mortar of the M1910 type, and the battalion level also replaced the body-barreled artillery with mortars.

In the main assault force, each squad is usually expanded to 20 people, equipped with three Popnin submachine guns, grenades, or grenadiers, and a Madsen light machine gun, and the troops' penetration capability is greatly enhanced.

In the artillery battalions of each regiment, the barrel artillery has also been replaced with M1908 75mm light field guns, and the Third Artillery Brigade has been split and integrated into various units, and only the Sixth Artillery Regiment has been retained to maintain 32 M1898\1909 105mm Krupp light howitzers and some 9 cm bronze mortars and cannons, which are under the direct command of the military department.

Although Song Biao could not personally go to the Eastern Front battlefield to boost morale, the first-class chamberlain Jiang Zuobin still successfully completed this task, and after the outbreak of the Western Front Campaign, at 6:10 a.m. on April 6, 1911, Jiang Yanxing commanded the Eastern Front Group Army to officially launch a multi-point offensive against the Yue Army and the Korean Army.

Unlike the Northeast Army, which has made great progress in military theory, equipment, and tactical training over the past six years, the Army is still not as good as it was during the Russo-Russian War six years ago, and there has been no progress in military theory. Each division and regiment has a reserve infantry brigade and regiment, and the headquarters also has a general reserve division regiment and brigade.

This kind of post-emptive combat deployment is a typical static defense, which appeared from the Napoleonic era, was carried forward by Germany during the Franco-Prussian War, and was torn apart by the German army with Huttier tactics during World War I, and was gradually eliminated after World War I, while France continued this tradition during World War II, and as a result, the entire defense line was broken by the German army before the main force could react, and all the war forces were destroyed before they broke out.

In modern warfare, the progress of theory and the progress of equipment are synchronized, and new equipment gives birth to new theories, and new theories give birth to new equipment.

(To be continued)