A huge fighter plane appeared in front of Song Biao, and he could grab it as soon as he stretched out his hand, and as long as he caught it, he would be the one who rewrote the fortunes of his country, and he would eventually realize his plan, so that the two sides would fall into an embarrassing situation in which "the army has no army, and Russia has no navy," and this is the most favorable situation for China.

Song Biao immediately summoned all the generals and had a simple military meeting, needless to say, he directly adjusted all the battle plans, so that Colonel Brusilov had to lead the Manchurian 1st Cavalry Brigade to set off before two o'clock in the afternoon, and Xue Changqing accompanied a surprise attack on Liaoyang with a transport battalion and local guides, with the goal of Lushan.

Lushan is located in the northeast of Liaoyang City, and the city across the Taizi River, according to the local soldiers of Liaoyang, the Taizi River in the south of Lushan is divided into two by a similar Jiangxinzhou Shatuozi, the north and south rivers are only 30 meters, the narrowest place is even only about 10 meters wide.

Here, the Taizi River flows in a "Z" shape, and Lushan is directly inserted into the city, and directly opposite is likely to be the Confucian Temple of the General Headquarters of the Imperial Army.

If the defense of the Yue army is relatively weak, Colonel Brusilov needs to make a quick decision and directly attack the base camp of the Yue army, after which Song Biao will arrive in Liaoyang with a large army in two days, and then he will defend Liaoyang and continue to wait for other opportunities.

In addition, Song Biao once again sent a new liaison team, and it was necessary to pass the information to Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin as soon as possible, so that he could readjust his deployment and concentrate his forces to give priority to defeating the main force of the right flank of the army, rather than entangled in the front and left flank.

If it was possible, Song Biao would send troops to insert into the wicker village, separate the left and right wings of the Yue army, and cooperate with the Russian army to besiege the third army of Ximu Naidian on the right flank of the Yue army.

The intelligence is already so obvious, everyone knows that all the decisions made by Song Biao at this time are the most correct and extremely risky, but if he catches it right, Yue Jun will be completely stunned at this time.

After Colonel Brusilov set off first, Song Biao also withdrew from Sandaoling before 7 p.m., bypassing Liuhezi Town, where the Japanese army might have troops to garrison, and detouring from the southern line to Liaoyang, while Zhang Yahu's 2nd Manchurian Infantry Regiment was in charge of the rear of the palace at Taigouling.

Because of the huge number of baggage, it was very difficult for Song Biao to march 60 kilometers in one night, so after Colonel Brusilov led the cavalry brigade to raid Liaoyang, Lieutenant Colonel Martos led Chen Wu's 3rd Infantry Regiment in Manchuria and Kornilov's 1st Infantry Regiment in the Far East followed, and the way of the rapid march was to arrive in Liaoyang before 4 a.m. on June 1 to participate in the battle.

The reason why Lieutenant Colonel Maltos was wanted to go over was precisely because Lieutenant Colonel Martos was the main designer of the Liaoyang defense line and knew very well the layout of the entire defense line.

According to the current situation of the Russian army, in about ten days, the Second Army of the Tsarist Far East Army may be completely defeated by the Japanese army, and the army will be able to outflank the entire Shenyang battlefield, and the operational plan of cutting off the main supply lines and retreat routes of the Russian army can basically be achieved.

If Song Biao continued to stay in Sandaoling and fight a decisive battle with the Fifth Army of the Yue Army, in fact there would be no obvious improvement in the situation, unless he could flank the North and South of the First Army in a very short period of time, and successively defeat the Fifth and Fourth Armies of the Yue Army, forcing the Yue Army to abandon the outflanking and turn to a new round of positional warfare.

The cavalry brigade had already made a sortie for six hours, and if all went well, it might wait another two hours for the cavalry brigade to launch a surprise attack on the command headquarters of the Manchurian Army.

Song Biao didn't have the heart and didn't have the time to fight with the small force of the army, he directly bypassed Liuhezi and Jiguan Mountain, which might have houses for the army, and cut through the middle.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, his troops arrived at a place called Shahu Town, which was only ten kilometers away from the county seat of Liaoyang, with a large amount of supplies and baggage.

Sporadic artillery fire could already be heard in the distance, and it seemed that there was a battle in the area of Longding Mountain, while Lushan Mountain in front was unusually calm.

Li Fugui, who was reconnoitring in front, hurriedly rode back on horseback, and as soon as he saw Song Biao, he couldn't wait to jump off his horse and salute, and said: "Division, Commander Xue has captured Lushan with Colonel Brusilov, the army was caught off guard, and an infantry wing was forcibly eliminated by them, and now the army has reorganized its forces to counterattack, and the positions are ready-made, Colonel Brusilov gave me a detailed report and asked me to pass it on to you!" ”

With that, he took Colonel Brusilov's reply out of his pocket and handed it to Song Biao.

It is certainly better to have a detailed debriefing.

Song Biao opened the letter and read it carefully, only to know that it was exactly 9 o'clock in the evening when Colonel Brusilov arrived at Lushan, and now the two infantry regiments led by Lieutenant Colonel Martos had seized the positions on the east side of Lushan and Longding Mountain, and occupied the east gate of Liaoyang County, and the two sides had launched an offensive and defensive battle in the county seat.

In fact, this raid battle was extremely confused, both sides were very confused, Song Biao's side did not know how many troops the army had in Liaoyang, and the army also did not know how many troops the Russian army had, and what kind of weapons and equipment it had.

Before arriving in Liaoyang, Colonel Brusilov also encountered several search platoons of the Yue Army in the last ten kilometers, and also knocked out a number of sentry posts of the Yue Army, but because it was a cavalry raid, the Yue Army had no time to strengthen its defense and vigilance, and Colonel Brusilov seized the opportunity to launch a white-knuckle battle to seize the two main positions in the north and south of Lushan, and used the batteries on the positions to continuously bombard the headquarters of the Yue Army on the spot.

Dashan Yan did not directly command the troops at the beginning, and he initially thought that it was a bandit army supported by the Russian army, that is, the so-called Manchurian infantry division and the like.

It wasn't until Colonel Brusilov eliminated an infantry wing in half an hour and occupied the two positions in the north and south of Lushan that Marshal Dashanyan knew that something was wrong, and he also knew that it was the Russian cavalry, the size of which was in one brigade, but he still did not know the specific situation of Colonel Brusilov's cavalry brigade at this time.

Because there were more than 40 positional guns on the Lushan position, which were extremely powerful, and they were the key throat of Liaoyang, the army could only organize two infantry wings to attack, and the result was tragic.

Song Biao's design of the Manchurian 1st Cavalry Brigade is a complete copy of Akiyama's ancient ideas, before the raid on Liaoyang, a large number of additional machine guns and shotguns were added, the full strength of this cavalry brigade is 7430 people, plus Xue Changqing's cavalry transport battalion, a total of 9552 people, equipped with 35 machine guns, 1,400 shotguns, 55 7.5 centimeter mortars, and each cavalry regular equipment also has a Cossack spear.

During this month's training, Song Biao specially trained this cavalry brigade in white-knuckle warfare, especially the ability to storm enemy positions after a surprise attack, and the ability to insert the garrison defense into the enemy's rear.

To put it bluntly, this has been trained into an infantry brigade that fights on horseback and maneuver.

Song Biao is an expert in anti-pig assault, and when he designed mortars, he consciously designed new flares at the same time, and Colonel Brusilov did not bring many flares, only more than 150 flares, an average of three shots per mortar, which was enough for one night to save a little use.

Yue Jun did not expect it at all.

Both sides are actually blind and blind.

No matter how clever and experienced in combat could have been, Marshal Oyama could not have imagined this, and he sent two infantry wings out to counterattack, and in less than twenty minutes they were slaughtered by a combination of flares, machine guns, and shotguns.

Dashanyan knew that something was wrong at this time, but Lieutenant Colonel Martos ran very fast all the way, arriving in Liaoyang at 2 o'clock in the morning.

Alexievich. Colonel Brusilov and Artur. Krznovik. Lieutenant Colonel Martos was one of the best mid- and high-ranking generals in the Russian Empire, the former serving as the supreme commander of the Russian army in the latter part of World War I, and the latter serving as Chief of Staff to General Samsolov in the Battle of Tannenberg, which is one of the few bright spots in the Russian Empire.

The former was a more Russian-style cavalry general, belonging to the high generals of the academic school who advocated the theory of Suvorov, while the latter was more Western in his thinking and theory.

As the main designer of the Liaoyang defense line, Artur. Lieutenant Colonel Martos was very aware of the value of this line of defense and the various points of defense, he immediately led two infantry regiments to seize the eastern position of the Yue army in the Longding Mountain defense line, and then sent troops to blow up the southeast corner of Liaoyang County, rushed into the county seat to seize some strongholds, and constantly attracted the Yue army to fight in the county. Colonel Brusilov used the superiority of mortars and positional artillery to attack the army.

Only then did Marshal Oyama Iwa and Chief of Staff Gentaro Kodama know that it was bad, this was the main force of the Russian army, and the vanguard of the first and second waves was the size of two brigades.

Dashanyan was still very confused at this time, the first was that he couldn't figure out where the Russian army was rushing from, the second was that he didn't know the specific strength of the Russian army, and the third was that he didn't know the overall characteristics of this army, let alone that this was Song Biao's Manchurian Infantry Division.

Even if Song Biao had performed very well in Heigoutai before, Dashanyan felt that this was a bandit arm, but it was a little braver, and at the same time, he didn't think that Song Biao's troops would appear here, which was to blame his chief intelligence officer Aoki Xuanchun.

First of all, Senior General Kawamura Keiaki was very unlucky, and he was killed early in the second round of artillery attacks of the Manchurian Infantry Division, and the command of the entire Fifth Army of the Manchurian Army was in chaos, and he did not even send anyone to urgently notify the headquarters.

At this time, Dashanyan did not know that the main force of the Russian army with the size of a quasi-group army had made a detour to the right rear flank of the army, so he couldn't figure out where the Russian army came from.

Judging from Dashanyan's intelligence from the front line, he doesn't know where the Russian army still has a group army or a corps-level unit that has not participated in the war, so that it can sneak attack Liaoyang.

Dashan Yan has been fighting from the war to today, and his forty years of military career before and after have allowed him to accumulate very rich battlefield experience, even if there is no information to refer to, he also knows that the scale of the enemy army is definitely not small, and the two brigades from the other side are without baggage and logistics troops, and the marching tents and so on have not been brought, which shows that there are large troops behind, and these are just vanguard troops in front of them.

In fact, Dashanyan did not have a lot of troops in Liaoyang, he originally had three reserve brigades and 12 infantry brigades of the general station, but the reserve 13th brigade was deployed in Liaozhong County, the reserve 14th brigade was in the area of Dengta County, and the four infantry brigades of the general station were filled to the Fifth Division, pretending to be the establishment of the Fifth Division in the Benxi area, and retaining two infantry brigades in the grain depot center and transfer station in Anshan.

Even so, Dashanyan still has a reserve 1st Brigade and 6 infantry brigades in Liaoyang, plus two guards infantry brigades, and more than a dozen general affairs depot transportation brigades, including staff officers, signal troops, and logistics troops from the headquarters...... He had at least 20,000 troops available in Liaoyang County.

Before dawn, when Dashanyan knew that the opponent had two brigades and was only part of the main force of the Russian army, he had already lost the strength of four infantry wings in a row.

In addition, the main position batteries have been lost, and Dashanyan's best choice is to retreat, but he has no way to retreat.

Liaoyang is only 20 to 60 kilometers away from the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th armies of the Manchurian Army.

Liaoyang is lost, and there is no way to fight this battle.

Oyama Iwa could only hold on, and let the chief of staff, Kodama Gentaro, personally lead the team to surprise out from the west side, first go and transfer back the reserve 14th Brigade stationed in the area of the lighthouse railway station, and then start to adjust the tactics of the entire battle in the Nozu Guandao Department of the Fourth Army of the Japanese Army in the Shahe area.

After all, their opponent was of the rank of Colonel Brusilov, and at the same time as they began to engage in street fighting, Colonel Brusilov simultaneously sent more than a dozen cavalry companies to patrol and guard the north and west sides of Liaoyang County, and attacked the strongholds of the Yue army around Liaoyang County, in an attempt to organize the Yue army to break through.

After being intercepted, Kodama Gentaro redeployed the only two cavalry companies and attacked again, only then rushed out, but was chased by two cavalry companies of the Russian army, and could only go all the way to Liaozhong County, far away from the target.

In fact, the other liaison forces sent by Dashanyan were not going well, because Colonel Brusilov sent Xue Changqing and two transport battalions to increase the blockade on the north and south flanks to fight for the army's strongholds in the surrounding area.

Song Biao could only know part of this information from Colonel Brusilov, and he did not know that Gentaro Kodama had broken through the siege before dawn, and he did not know that Oyama Rock was still directing the battle in the county town and destroying various intelligence materials.

Colonel Brusilov did not know either.

War is like that, if there is not enough intelligence, both sides are like two blind people fighting, and they don't even know what each other looks like.

Through Colonel Brusilov's reply, Song Biao did not know much information, but he was sure that the army would definitely counterattack Liaoyang in the fastest time. Liaoyang is not only the command, intelligence, transportation, and material center of the army, but also the only way for the 270,000 soldiers of the army to retreat.

Song Biao gave the simplest example: How many materials, how much food, ammunition, and artillery shells can the five armies of the army carry on the front line? Liaoyang's geographical location, surrounding defense situation, and the characteristics of being only 20 to 60 kilometers away from the front line determine that it is a material distribution center.

Can the army not know the prophet before the victory of the navy?

In order to attract the best young men to join the army, he has always adopted a very strong policy of giving preferential treatment to the army, and the wartime allowance of the soldiers of the army is very high, even much higher than that of the Russian army, and the average wartime allowance of each soldier of the army was 45 yuan per month during the Russo-Russian War.

During the entire Russo-Russian War, the army's salaries, allowances, and other expenses alone amounted to 200 million yuan, not including the army's disability and bereavement allowances, and after the battle, the total military expenditure was actually as high as 1.4 billion yuan, and it took a full decade to pay off the debt, which was not paid off until after the end of World War I.

If Song Biao deduces, the military headquarters in Liaoyang currently has at least more than 30 million yuan of military salary allowance reserves, and the military rations must be able to last at least three months.

According to the calculation of the normal monthly 13.5 kilograms of rice grain for each soldier in the army, there must be a reserve of 11 million kilograms of grain alone, otherwise this battle will not be fought, so much grain cannot be carried by soldiers, and the reserves of various armies on the front line are also limited, at least half of the grain is still in Liaoyang and Anshan.

Therefore, the army must recapture Liaoyang in the shortest possible time, and they can't afford to lose it, so they will die directly if they lose it.

Now that you have thought about this clearly, what are the doubts behind it?

The matter has come to this point, and now the only way to fight to the death with the army in Liaoyang City, with 40,000 troops to resist the strong attack of one or two armies of the army, no matter how much it is, after all, the army has to block the counterattack of the Russian army, is it really that the 400,000 gun-wielding peasants of the Russian Far East Army are eating dry food?

In short, although Song Biao still doesn't know what the situation is like in Liaoyang, he doesn't know the whereabouts of Oyamayan and Kodama Gentaro, and he doesn't know how many people the Yue army still has in Liaoyang County, but he knows one thing that as long as he blocks the attack of three or four divisions of the Yue army in Liaoyang, the 270,000 elites of the Yue army will be left here.

Perhaps it will not be long before Russia and Russia will completely fall into the embarrassing situation of "saying that there is no army and Russia has no navy," and this situation is precisely the most favorable for China.

Song Biao's heart was already bright.

He folded up Colonel Brusilov's report in Russian, and from this moment on, he had made up his mind to spell out a blood-red Ming with the army in Liaoyang.

(To be continued)