At this time, the Manchurian Infantry Regiment could only be described as chaotic, Zhao Tingzhu was the commander of the First Infantry Battalion, Zhang Yahu was the commander of the Second Infantry Battalion, Hu Dalin was the captain of the Engineer Brigade, Xue Changqing was the captain of the Transport Brigade, and Captain Matvey, who was transferred from the Siberian Infantry Regiment by Major Kornilov, served as the commander of the Third Infantry Battalion.

Apart from Captain Matvey, is anyone else really competent?

Half of the fourteen squadron leaders were illiterate, and the other thirteen were all former brothers of the horse gang, except for the leopard who was born in Hibikima, and they had fought two skirmishes to this day.

Song Biao can only cook whatever rice he has now, everyone is a recruit, and all of them have to rely on him, the squad leader, to assign tasks, and all the tasks have to be meticulous to the point of being directly distributed to the squadron.

He took a lot of risks and ran to Jinshan Tunzi at night to build fortifications, and secretly established an improvised defense line, if he really wanted to fight with the Yue army in this area, his only choice was to continue to use the fortifications to attract the Yue army to attack him, rather than him to attack the Yue army.

If he really wants to attack the army, he will die, and with the combat quality of his infantry regiment, he can hold it in the trenches even if he has performed at a super level. The 14 squadron leaders here are basically nothing, the tough battles of the two infantry battalions and the two captains have no combat training, and all the squadron orders are directly issued by Song Biao, and everyone listens to his command.

The next morning, General Mishuchenko's Cossack cavalry arrived at the Tanikou camp before dawn, and his face turned green when he heard that the army had placed more than a dozen machine guns on the arc of the defensive line less than a kilometer long on the outskirts of Dongtaizi.

After carefully looking at the schematic diagram of the defense line of the new army after Song Biao's survey, General Mishuchenko finally realized that the other side was not a regular cavalry army at all, but an infantry brigade on horseback, and its firepower was almost superior to that of a Russian division.

After the defeat of Lushun and the defeat of Liaoyang, the Russian army, which was originally far more than the Makqin heavy machine guns, was captured in large quantities, and now there are only more than 50 heavy machine guns in the entire Far Eastern Army, but the number of the army has increased to more than 200, so that so many machine guns have been deployed in such a critical place as Shendanbao.

To be on the safe side, General Mishuchenko, as the supreme commander of the locality, immediately convened a military meeting attended only by General Mishuchenko, Lieutenant Colonel Seyenisky, Major Kornilov, and Song Biao.

This place in Gukou was originally a large grain store of the government camp, which was a long time ago, and after the war reached Liaoyang, more than 100 households here fled for refuge. Song Biao made full preparations in advance, leaving a very spacious large courtyard of the landlord's house for General Mishuchenko as the command post of the military headquarters, and the four of them sat down in the hall of the landlord's house around a table of eight immortals made of cypress material, on which Song Biao's revised battle map was placed.

Until this moment, General Mishuchenko still doubted the authenticity of Song Biao's new layout plan of the defense line of the army, so he sent another reconnaissance company to find out the situation, and he actually did not want to express too many opinions until his reconnaissance company returned.

It was only when he saw that everyone refused to speak, and General Mishuchenko, who had always been very steady, took the initiative to speak: "Maybe this is the case, do you have any new countermeasures?" Before you express my opinion, I must emphasize that the task of the command must be fulfilled, and this is the honor of our Cossack cavalry. ”

General Mishuchenko, who said this, looked extremely solemn, and his cheeks trembled slightly with his gray beard, probably feeling troubled and flustered in his heart.

After waiting for a moment, Lieutenant Colonel Seyenisky said: "It is stupid to charge such a line head-on, but I really doubt that the army is capable of building such a line, I think they don't even have machine guns, they just put on a show, deliberately exposing a circle of fortifications to make us think they have machine guns." ”

Song Biao immediately reminded: "I have personally gone to investigate, and it is only a kilometer away from the enemy's flank position, and Major Kornilov can testify to this. I don't think the battle plan given to your army by the headquarters is no longer working, and if you attack from the flanks by cavalry charge, it is basically tantamount to sending the army to the door to strafe the army's machine guns, and it is pointless to do so. Now, I have two proposals, the best policy is to directly get in touch with General Kirbas of the Second Army, readjust the battle plan, although Shendanbao is a plain land, its geographical location determines that it is the key point of the confrontation between the two armies, if the Second Army mobilizes two infantry divisions to besiege, the army will definitely draw troops from the southern line of the Taizi River to rescue, and their best surprise point is to connect the entire defense line in the area of Heigoutai and Sumabao, and face the Russian army across the Hunhe River. After annihilating the reinforcements of the Yue army, make a detour to Heigou Tai and Yujiayao, attack from the rear of the garrison of Shendanbao, carry out a strong attack on the defense line of Xiaobaozi of the Yue army, and divide the three defense lines of the Yue army in Shendanbao. This proposal was the best choice, and the second proposal was to abandon the tactics of cavalry storming, advance the defense line to the Jinshantun area, build a defensive line at Jinshantun and encircle the Shendanbao army with the two infantry divisions of the Second Army, and at the same time ask the Second Army and the Far East Army Command to send an artillery regiment to support the operation. ”

General Mishuchenko carefully reviewed the battle map, nodded slightly, and said: "These two proposals are very good, our army's possible surname for storming the Dongtaizi machine gun position is too low, and it is a suitable choice to directly transfer all the troops to Jinshantun for garrison." However, if our army is stationed in Jinshantun, we will actually give up our army's cavalry superiority, and the headquarters may not be able to send artillery regiments to support, so I agree in principle to the first proposal. ”

Lieutenant Colonel Sheyenisky questioned: "Isn't it too risky for us to move so widely?" ”

General Mishuchenko replied simply: "War is always risky!" ”

After many years of experience in the war, General Mishuchenko understood that Song Biao's two proposals were very correct choices, the first proposal was indeed a little risky, but once successful, the Kuban Cossack cavalry would lay down the general situation of the entire right front of the Battle of Mukden in one battle; The second proposal is a decent choice, made on the premise of confirming that the opponent has a strong firepower network.

He carefully glanced at Song Biao again, and there was a gesture of appreciation in his expression, he could say with great certainty that Lieutenant Colonel Sheyenisky, who had followed him for more than ten years, did not have the courage and wisdom to make the first proposal, and he could also say with certainty that with his understanding of Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin, the possibility of continuing to draw artillery from the reserve forces to support Shendanbao was extremely low, even if he had been stationed in a better position in Jinshantun, he would eventually have to obey the battle plan of the headquarters and carry out a strong charge.

Muscovites are a bunch of "Дурак", the only thing General Mishuchenko has learned over the years.

He would rather take the risk of taking a detour and leave all this to General Kirbas to worry about, and he himself cleanly bypassed the heavy machine-gun line and let the Muscovites charge on their own.

After a little thought, General Mishuchenko asked Major Kornilov: "Has the place in Jinshantun been reconnoitred?" ”

Major Kornilov nodded and said, "Song has been there." ”

General Mishuchenko was dissatisfied in his heart, and said secretly: Then you want to have a fart for you, a senior staff officer.

He looked back at Song Biao.

Song Biao replied: "I have already secretly built some improvised defense lines in Jinshantun, which can be regarded as making preparations with both hands, if General Kirbas does not agree with us to quickly penetrate into the Heigoutai area and make a detour to attack the rear defense line of the First Cavalry Brigade of the Yue Army, then we can only garrison in Jinshantun on the spot." ”

General Mishuchenko became more and more surprised, deep in his heart, he even looked down on those guys in the Far Eastern Army Headquarters, and even looked down on these Asians, but this Song Biao in front of him was very surprising.

He pondered silently for a while, and ordered Song Biao: "Song, we must choose the former, even if we have already built a defense line in Jinshantun, we have to treat it as if it does not exist." Hurry up and let your men go to Heigoutai first, your troops are not in the battle plan, you can go one step ahead, I will personally talk to General Kirbas about this, he must agree to my transfer of troops to the south, there is no other choice, because I will not be stupid enough to take the Cossacks to attack the position of twenty machine guns, but if we stay for a long time and the command continues to be stupid, we will have no choice. To some extent, Song, we are all mercenaries of His Majesty the Tsar, and there is still a difference between us and His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief of Kuropatkin. ”

Song Biao nodded silently and said, "Then I'll arrange it now!" ”

Song Biao couldn't ask for it in his heart, and he also consciously guided this Cossack cavalry to go to Heigoutai with him to catch a stupid big fish.