In the face of Song Biao's questions and questions, Brusilov did not immediately answer, perhaps even he did not know.

He turned his face to ponder the question, dusted off the gray sand from his boots before replying, "I think it should be the reason why the situation is very urgent, but it can't be urgent!" Because I had just come from Moscow, I knew some news, in short, very unfavorable to His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, many bureaucrats thought that he was too weak and cowardly, and failed to seize the opportunity to annihilate the army in one fell swoop, especially the close ministers around His Majesty, and the slander always gave us upright soldiers a headache. Fortunately, after the First Battle of Heigoutai, His Majesty also had more confidence in His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief. It's just that judging from us mid-level officers, His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief does not seem to be the best candidate for our army at present. I think he may also know very well in his heart that the current war is ostensibly beneficial to our army on the one hand, but in fact it is much worse, and he cannot truthfully report to the higher-ups, so he has to gamble on local tactics and adopt a more extreme tactic. I think so, but I don't know what the news is from your side? ”

There is a class in this world at all times.

Both of them are colonels, they are one class, everyone else is one class below them, and others have to tilt their heads to talk to them. Although Song Biao and Brusilov had never met before, let alone had any friendship, they had a sense of mutual identity as a class when they sat together.

This situation has always been ubiquitous in the human world.

Song Biao replied calmly: "I have been clearing bandits in Tonghua for the past two months, and I know very little about this information, and I am afraid that I am even less clear about those things inside Russia, or I will not care too much." ”

Brusilov sighed: "Yes, since you are in command of this particular infantry division, I am relieved, if it is really to let the cowards of General Bilderlinger and the old nobles who only know about corruption [***] be in charge, I think I will definitely go back to be the head of my cavalry officer school." ”

Song Biao laughed funny, and then he remembered Alekseevich. Brusilov was a long-time instructor at the Russian Cavalry Officer School, and did not become a military general until he became its headmaster.

This is a good thing and a bad thing, the good news is Alexievich . Brusilov belongs to the more upright school of academics, and the bad news is that he doesn't have much practical experience.

Brusilov continued: "In the order I have received, there is hardly any excessive description of your special infantry division, and I have always wondered how this unit was conceived in the commission given to you by Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin. ”

Song Biao said: "My proposal is to try to flatten the management, one division at the same time to manage ten to twelve regiments, in the form of a miniature version of the group army to raid the enemy's vital points. So, we need to build a special cavalry unit, which cannot be like the previous Cossack cavalry. In fact, I was also inspired by the 1st Cavalry Brigade of the Japanese Army, which placed a large number of machine gunners and infantry, as well as artillery, so that a brigade could quickly and maneuverably penetrate into the enemy's vital points. This tactical design obviously broke the previous cavalry model, and I thought it was very meaningful, so I wanted to try it, and the original idea was two cavalry regiments, and after consulting with His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, we decided to directly form a similar brigade. ”

Brusilov pondered these words carefully, seemed to be very enlightening, and muttered for a while before saying: "Do you mean to link the cavalry with the convoy, mainly to use the rapid action of the cavalry, strengthen the fire equipment of the cavalry, and suddenly insert into the rear of the enemy at a critical moment, or to carry out positional warfare in the flank and rear, as well as a quick war of annihilation?" ”

Song Biao praised: "Sure enough, I deserve to be the principal of the military academy, that's exactly what I mean." ”

Brusilov also praised: "This should be a very important innovation, and it may be able to hit the opponent hard." ”

Song Biao said: "Then let's keep our eyes open and see clearly!" Before that, I want to let me take charge of the camp planning first, and I plan to give the locals a resettlement fee, so that they can quietly accept the requisition of our army. In order to maintain effective secrecy in the formation of our army, it is necessary to send cavalry guards to increase the patrol and alert area around the perimeter. ”

Brusilov agreed, and said, "Then I'll go and arrange the following things." ”

Song Biao bowed slightly, got up and left the room with Brusilov, each taking charge of a part of the work.

After building his temporary office first, Song Biao called Lao Guo Tou over to help, traded the Russian army's military rations, and first appeased the local villagers in Zhujiatun, lest they collude with those bandits who worked for him to report the news, and of course, he should also be careful of those strange intelligence spies sent by Yuan Shikai.

Li Dayun was urgently sent back to Tonghua County, and asked Chen Wu and Xue Changqing to do what Song Biao had instructed them to do, and quickly brought a part of the troops over.

Major Kornilov's 1st Far Eastern Infantry Regiment was also to be transferred, leaving only one Cossack cavalry regiment in Tonghua County, which would be responsible for guarding the county town together with Zhao Tingzhu's troops.

The regiments led by Zhang Yahu, Chen Wu, Yang Tiesheng, Xue Changqing, and Hu Dalin all arrived in Zhujiatun in the shortest possible time.

In the afternoon of that day, two infantry regiments from Seudinsk arrived in the Zhujiatun area, and the officer in charge of leading the team was Feng Biao, who was very familiar to Song Biao. Major Esker, on the last day of the transfer deadline, three infantry regiments and artillery regiments of the Siberian Infantry Division also arrived at the division headquarters one after another.

With the arrival of five infantry regiments, a cavalry brigade, an artillery regiment, and a makeshift engineering regiment, Song Biao had gathered 25,000 Russian soldiers in Zhujiatun.

When these officers and troops arrived in Zhujiatun one after another, and met with Song Biao, Song Biao generally understood the mind of Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin, who intended to gamble a game in his own low-key way.

The artillery commander sent this time was a man named Andrei. Pakinov's senior artillery lieutenant colonel, who was the vice-principal of the Kazan Artillery Non-commissioned Officer School before being transferred to the Far Eastern Army, compiled the "Plan for Coordinated Operations and Tactical Exercises of Artillery and Infantry" in the Soviet Union, which became the Soviet Union's artillery training textbook before World War II.

During the period of the Tsarist Empire, cavalry was always valued above all else, depending on the excessively large territory of the empire. Pakinov will definitely be on one of this lists.

Lieutenant Colonel Maltos, temporarily appointed commander of the Engineer Corps, was a staff officer of Polish origin, known for his keen erudition and expert in the field of fortification construction of the Russian Far Eastern Army.

Under this special circumstance, Major Tuvanier was also sent to temporarily serve as Song Biao's logistics supply officer, responsible for coordinating all aspects of military supplies with the General Staff of the Far Eastern Army. Vladimir. Colonel of the Song Infantry".

Half of them are old comrades-in-arms that Song Biao is familiar with, half of them are academics worthy of the admiration of the soldiers, and they are not young, and there are three of them are senior generals who are over fifty years old, this situation makes Song Biao very embarrassed, he was originally going to give these people a vigorous radical method, but now it seems that the lack of morality that is too exciting to say is really unspeakable, because his subordinate lineup is luxurious enough to represent Russia to fight World War I.

That night, after the personnel arrived, Song Biao urgently convened a regular military meeting and summoned all the front-line commanders to his operations conference room.

The conditions of this war conference room were so shabby, it was only a Westinghouse house with a large courtyard on the west side of the earthen fort, and the room was still pasted with old New Year's paintings of Fu Lu Shou Samsung, because it was in disrepair, and the windows full of holes were only temporarily pasted with rough yellow brown paper containing explosives.

Four kerosene lamps were lit, but the room was still dim and had a pungent musty smell of swishing.

Song Biao was talking with Colonel Brusilov, who was sitting next to him, while paying attention to the other generals who were arriving one after another, and swept away at a glance, seven majors, four lieutenant colonels, two colonels, and one more general could form a group army.

On the table, Song Biao has asked Jiang Fangzhen to spread out a newly marked operational map, this confidential map of the Russian army actually has the credit of Lao Guo Tou and Sun Shiyong, and it is through them that the General Staff of the Russian Far East Army secretly hired a group of horse gangs and bandit spies to operate in the Liaozhong and Liaoyang areas to collect all kinds of intelligence for the Russian army, and the same is true for the army, and there are even bandit spies who do things for both sides at the same time.

Song Biao stood up quite solemnly, pointed at the Liaoyang outpost area with his baton, and was about to speak, when Major Tuvaniel hurriedly walked in and told him: "Colonel, Your Excellency Brigadier General Samsolov is here?" ”

"Who?"

Song Biao was a little dazed very rarely, he only felt that all this was too much like a Ding Ding adventure for him, who was still a base sentry half a year ago.

Major Tuvanier could only repeat again: "Colonel, His Excellency Brigadier General Samsolov of the First Army has been ordered to come to your regular military meeting. ”

Song Biao rolled his eyes, if you add Denikin and Major Kornilov, his commanders here can already represent Russia in World War I in ten years, and the commander-in-chief of the Second Army and the Southwestern Front of the Tsarist Empire are here. Lieutenant Colonel Pakinov was the most prominent artillery general of the Russian army in the middle and late stages of the First World War.

By this time, Brigadier General Samsolov had already entered the conference room with his lieutenant, who was tall and had a thick beard that looked more like a butcher, but fortunately he was wearing a heavy military uniform, so as not to make people think otherwise.

The other Russian generals seemed to be equally surprised, and everyone stood up at the same time to face Alexander. Vasilyevich. Brigadier General Samsolov saluted, and Song Biao could only salute first: "Welcome, Your Excellency Brigadier General Samsolov, I am the commander here Beo. Colonel Song Infantry! ”

Brigadier General Samsolov was even more surprised than everyone else, probably because he did not expect the legendary Colonel Beo to be of Asian descent, just like Colonel Brusilov.

He couldn't help but ask an equally stupid topic: "Song, did you defect from the Yue Army?" ”

Although he was one level lower than his military rank, Song Biao still felt that this guy was too rude, and looked very unhappy with a straight face, and said: "Your Excellency, I am just a native of the Far East who studied in a Russian church school, because my uncles once fought against Yue himself and were defeated by them, so he appeared here, and he tried his best to defeat Yue himself. ”

Brigadier General Samsolov suddenly came to his senses, looking more and more surprised, completely unaware of his rudeness, but said: "What a meaning...... Let us then get down to business, for I have come to your regular military meeting on the orders of His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, and if possible, I will need to give a separate report of opinion on your plans, but it will be of no avail, for I will soon be returning home to recuperate. ”

At this time, Colonel Brusilov sighed slightly provocatively: "I heard that you were ordered to return home because you fought with General Rennankampf and caused the old guy's nose bone to be fractured?" ”

Brigadier General Samsolov couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed and said, "I really didn't expect the news to spread so quickly. Yes, I had a fight with that bastard, and to put it bluntly, I could have a more formal duel with him at any time, and it wasn't going to end here. ”

Regarding the fight between the two generals Samsolov and Rennankampf in the Russian War, which resulted in the fracture of General Rennankampf's nose, this is absolutely the following, in fact, this broken incident even led to the defeat of the Russian army in the Battle of Tannenberg in World War I, and General Samsolov could only commit suicide in the grove in embarrassment, and General Rennankampf was discredited in his old age, and became a sinner of the Russians for 10,000 years.

Song Biao was not interested in this kind of gossip incident, and he categorically did not want this kind of incident to become the subject of mutual attack and annihilation at regular military meetings, so he immediately invited Brigadier General Samsolov to sit down.

Everyone sat down, and Song Biao stood alone at the conference table, looking at the military map in front of him, and couldn't help but feel a little confused.

At this time, as a subordinate of the commander-in-chief of Kuropatkin, Song Biao finally realized how annoying it was to be a "suspicious" and "indecisive" commander-in-chief. The arrival of Brusilov was due to the importance that Kuropatkin attached to this, Alexander . Samsolov's arrival can no longer be described as simply "attached".

This is simply one of the worst situations for a front-line commander, and even worse than that is when the enemy forces capture your last line of defense.

Under the light of the dim kerosene lamp, Song Biao couldn't help but look up and sigh in anguish, thinking that he was really looking for a draw, and it was better to let the commander-in-chief of Kuropatkin be pushed to the ground by the army, although he knew that this commander-in-chief was definitely not a bad person.

(To be continued)