After sending the two militia brigades to the position, Song Biao asked Sun Shiyong to continue to recruit a new infantry brigade, for which he did not hesitate to take out one million silver yuan and two million kilograms of military rations, after all, the grain was a lot, the army was lax in Anshan and Benxi, but a large amount of military rations were hoarded, and after Colonel Brusilov's cavalry brigade quickly attacked, these military rations fell into Song Biao's hands.

In addition, the army was late, so that Song Biao had enough time to transfer most of these military rations to Liaoyang, and those who were too late to be transferred were also distributed to the villagers on the spot to recruit strong men.

There will be brave men under the heavy reward, there are enough military rations in hand, and more than 4,000 people were recruited soon, but there was no time to do it, so they could only train in a hurry for five days, and at this moment they could only be taken out as the last reserve force.

Song Biao knew very well that this battle was likely to be the last fight of the Yue army, for this battle, his deployment was enough, and there was nothing else to deploy, when he came out of the basement, he didn't even hold any meeting, and directly transferred Li Dayun's guard company out to follow him into battle.

It is a moment when heroes shine and lead their subordinates to freedom and victory.

Song Biao is like all tough guys, at the last moment, only when he personally goes to the battlefield can he give his subordinates enough hope and the will to fight, as if everything has returned to the moment when he first came into contact with this era, he walked forward without hesitation with his rifle, but there was a group of comrades and loyal subordinates who swore to follow him to the death.

Because Liaoyang is the location of the ancestral mausoleum of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the specifications of the county city defense are very high, the outer wall adopts the size of three zhang three, that is, twelve meters high, the base is 7.4 meters wide, three kilometers long from east to west, and three kilometers wide from north to south.

This is an astonishing classical defensive achievement, even in this era has a strong deterrent power, Song Biao made small improvements, but to the greatest extent to adapt to modern warfare, set up defensive ramparts at multiple battlements, with sandbags to protect a circle of machine gun points.

He has demolished more than half of the inner city wall, demolished a large number of mansions and mansions in the city, put all the materials on the periphery of the city wall, built more than 120 strong pillboxes, and built the entire defense line more solid and complex, constantly enriching the defense level at the four levels of point, line, surface and height.

Even under the firepower of the 12 centimeters of the field artillery, Song Biao still led his guards directly to the city wall regardless of the danger, and the commander responsible for defending the last line of defense was Lieutenant Colonel Martos, who was stepping up all possible ways to transfer troops and materials to enrich each defense line stronghold.

Seeing Song Biao, Lieutenant Colonel Martos and other commanders hurriedly saluted, Song Biao glanced around and said, "The last fight, comrades-in-arms, let's go into battle together." ”

Lieutenant Colonel Martos seemed to want to persuade, but he still held back, and immediately entered the state and led Song Biao to observe the position of the army in front, looking at the place where the artillery fire flickered, he pointed around and said: "Lieutenant Colonel Pakilov has begun to organize an artillery brigade counterattack, we plan to use 15 centimeter howitzers and 10 and a half centimeter cannons to counterattack the enemy's 12 centimeter field artillery, and there are currently twenty-two 28 centimeter howitzers, which will also be used for counterattacks, on the other hand, we use three-inch Lucia field guns to return fire on the opponent's three-year-old mountain artillery." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the artillery fire on the Russian position also began to roar, especially the huge roar of the 28 centimeter German mortar cannon, which almost shook the entire city wall, and even tore the heavens and the earth apart.

A huge cannonball pierced the sky and landed accurately on the enemy's artillery position, as if it had smashed the opponent at once, making the opponent suddenly fall silent.

Lieutenant Colonel Martos seemed to have expected it, and said to Song Biao: "Here we go." ”

Sure enough, as Lieutenant Colonel Martos predicted, the counterattack of the 1st Artillery Brigade gradually accelerated, constantly following the movement of the artillery of the Japanese army to carry out the fastest countermeasures, and relying on the advantage of range and higher accuracy to snuff out the opponent's artillery fire again and again to cover the attack.

Song Biao is like a calculating rich man, saving all his money to the end, and he still has enough shells and machine gun shells to deal with the Yue army, which is probably unexpected by the Yue army.

The rapid counterattack of the Russian army caught the army off guard, and the entire attack was forced to be postponed, until the sky gradually turned gray, and the army could no longer wait, with a hysterical shout, the soldiers of the army rushed out of the trenches less than three hundred meters apart like a tide, scattered on both sides of the position, and rushed to the last line of defense of Liaoyang County without hesitation.

The scale of machine guns deployed on both sides in positions has reached the level of 200, on the one hand, to suppress the charge, and on the other hand, to counter-suppress.

Song Biao had used up all his mortar shells and could only compete with each other with machine guns, but his fortifications were more complete, his fortress was stronger, and his artillery was still able to suppress his opponents, which was his advantage.

In the night sky, the last of the light bombs were also fired, one after the other tried to illuminate everything, but the pitiful light could only illuminate a small cluster of positions in front of them, and the soldiers were forced to throw homemade incendiary bombs, which were Volga and other foreign liquor, and even bottles of sake with kerosene, or incendiary materials such as gasoline, to illuminate the position.

As the sky was about to brighten, the army did not care about the light of the fire at this time, they were crazy mixed with insults and the last will, rushed out from all directions, the position has dug a lot of shallow pits, making the battlefield extremely messy, the soldiers of the army jumped out of those places, quickly rushed to the position.

The machine guns on both sides tried their best to suppress the opponent, but at this time, twelve meters higher was the best condition, Song Biao's Russian troops did their best to squander ammunition, trying to prevent the Yue army from approaching, but under the crazy impact of tens of thousands of Yue soldiers, a large number of soldiers still rushed to the front of the position.

The soldiers of the Russian army and the Manchurian infantry division suddenly rushed out and used their shotguns to knock the soldiers who were rushing to the front line away, like a wizard's iron broom sweeping across the battlefield, shaving all the enemy soldiers all over the body in an instant.

The dense shrapnel was like an iron curtain, and the soldiers of the Japanese army seemed to collectively crash into the hardest iron wall and fell down together.

The battlefield was filled with the white phosphorus smoke of shotguns.

As always, the thunder became the killing weapon of the Manchurian infantry division, and at this time, they exploded one after another, blasting the soldiers who were charging into battle, and there were stumps everywhere and soldiers screaming for losing limbs, arms and legs would explode apart, and even the entire head wearing a blue-black military cap was blown away from the body, and the blood was extremely bloody and fell more than ten meters away, and then he looked at the direction of the city wall with those eyes, or his own body.

Everything became extremely cruel, as if it had returned to the moment of the Battle of Heigoutai, which was even a hundred times more cruel than the Battle of Heigoutai.

This is the hell of the army and the hell of the Russian army.

Song Biao shot out the only flare grenades in his hand, and then used his anti-personnel grenades to attack the enemy positions at a distance, trying to break up those machine gun positions of the Yue army.

The sky is getting brighter.

The newly transferred 10th Division and two infantry wings were completely destroyed in this short attack of less than 30 minutes, and the crazy Makqin machine gun once again proved that it was the most evil slaughtering chainsaw in the Russian-Japanese War, and more than 20,000 soldiers were killed and wounded in this defensive circle of less than 400 meters, and the corpses were piled up all over the ground, and the blood had already flowed into a sea.

The army had even made hundreds of ladders more than 20 meters long and thousands of explosives bags in an attempt to attack the city wall at the first opportunity, but all of this was discarded on the forward position without any effect, and the corpses were piled up.

When the first rays of morning light shone through the battlements on the positions of the Japanese army, Chief of Staff Gentaro Kodama stood there coldly like an expressionless sculpture, wearing a black military uniform, wearing white gloves, and wearing a delicate saber.

He was so indifferent to this, and the pain in his heart was beyond the comprehension of others, and he had done everything he could to claim to be the best general of the Empire in this era, but he still failed to break through this iron wall.

His student when he was the president of Lu University, Lieutenant General Anton Sadami, died on the battlefield, only two hundred paces away from him, and the blood on his body had long been drained.

Looking at the corpse of the student, there was an inexplicable pain in the depths of his soul.

Major General Shigeta Fujii, Chief of Staff of the First Army, stood respectfully beside Gentaro Kodama and was silent, and only after a long time did he ask: "Your Excellency the General Staff, do you want to continue the attack, our army still has two reserve infantry brigades on standby!" ”

Kodama Gentaro raised his hand to signal that he didn't need to, and said: "Fujii-kun, the battle of Liaoyang has ended, just draw a sentence here with me, our opponent is an extremely clever general, he has firmly contained us from the beginning, and has always made us mistakenly think that we can break through this place with more effort, but in fact, it is always the case." We are only exchanging the most valiant infantry of the empire for the defensive line he has piled up with cheap labor, and I thought that this Beo who was guarding Liaoyang. Vladimir. Colonel Song is the most brilliant general of the Russian army in this war, and if the information obtained by Aoki Daisa is true, this is indeed a Shina general, and it is the worst news for us in this battle. I think that it is unlikely that I will have the opportunity to fight him in my lifetime, and maybe the next person who will be the chief of the General Staff will be you, and if you meet such a famous general, you should stop using conventional tactics, because it will be meaningless. ”

"Hey!"

Major General Shigeta Fujii solemnly said yes.

Gentaro Kodama sighed helplessly, and the moment he turned around to leave, Major General Shigeta Fujii in front of him suddenly shook, and a bullet hole was shot through his chest, and blood splattered out.

Without waiting for Gentaro Kodama to react, his thoughts were suddenly at this moment after all, he didn't even feel any pain, just fell asleep in an instant, and all thoughts stopped.

He was shot through the back of the head with unerring accuracy.

On the opposite city wall, Song Biao calmly faced all this, when the first ray of light shone on the position, he had already locked on the two senior officers of the Yue Army standing in the middle of the position, he changed into his most convenient SVD rifle, and aimed at the opponent accurately.

Although it is his most convenient weapon, after all, it has not been used for a long time, and the feeling is so unfamiliar that the first bullet misses, and the result is shot into the chest of another major general, but fortunately, the second bullet accurately hit the target.

Under the leadership of Major General Katoi I, the commander of the 1st Reserve Brigade, some of the soldiers tried to rush into battle again, but were strafed by machine gun fire from the city walls and pillboxes under the castle, while more soldiers retreated quickly without confusion.

Gentaro Kodama's original plan was that after the final assault failed, the reserve two infantry brigades would remain in Liumu Ridge under the organization of Major General Fujii Shigeta to carry out a broken rear operation, protect the retreat of the Nozu Guandao Department and other Japanese troops on the south side, and in order to prevent the attack of Russian reinforcements, the Japanese army would hold on to the area of Liumu Ridge until most of the Japanese army had retreated to Liaozhong County.

Every war has surprises, and this one is no exception.

From the beginning to the end, this was originally a fierce battle with a very high command and tactical level, but at the last moment, the army suddenly became very messy. When dawn came, the soldiers of the army saw clearly the mountains of corpses on the position, when their supreme commander was killed, when they understood that if they continued to attack, they would only die, and the ** who retreated and fled for their lives grew and spread wildly in their hearts.

The disorderly retreat began to become crazy, such a situation made Song Biao feel overjoyed, since the opponent had made such a big mistake, he naturally could not miss it, and immediately asked Colonel Brusilov to reorganize the cavalry and assemble in the forward position, because the number of war horses was large enough, all the soldiers who could ride horses were organized, and it seemed that the cavalry of a cavalry brigade size was gathered on the front line.

Such a build-up of troops made the army realize that the Russian army was about to send cavalry to forcibly assault the position, and behind the cavalry brigade was the militia brigade organized by Song Biaoxin, although they were wearing Russian [***] uniforms, and there were as many as four or five thousand people, in fact, they only had four or five days of training experience, which was worse than the combat level of the Kwantung bandits, but it made the army despair about the strength of the Russian army.

In just a few minutes, more and more soldiers of the Yue army who were responsible for staying behind began to retreat frantically, and the large-scale rout of the Yue army was already in sight, and the momentum of the frenzied flight could not be stopped.

At this time, Song Biao handed over the responsibility of defending the city to Lieutenant Colonel Martos, and personally took the guard company and Li Fugui's reconnaissance company, and gathered with the cavalry regiment organized by Xue Changqing, and rushed out from the west gate of the county seat.

The counterattack on Liumuling was suddenly launched, although there had been a relevant plan before, but Song Biao really did not expect that there was a real chance to implement it, so there were too many unpredictable surnames in the war, even Napoleon could not control everything, and as for Song Biao, Kodama Gentaro, and Nozu Guandao, they were even more uncontrollable.

This momentum of large-scale rout and escape of the army soon spread to the Nozu Kando Department in the Wangshuitai position, and Nozu Kando didn't know what was going on on Kodama Gentaro's side at this time, but the situation was already so bad.

There are still 14,000 troops under the command of Nozu Kando, but he is located on the south side of the county, and he can't replace Kodama Gentaro at all, even if he leads his troops to stay, the Russian army will not care about him, until the entire army is defeated, and the Russian army will return to encircle his troops.

Nozu Guandao also had no choice, so he could only lead his troops to retreat west along the Taizi River immediately, and tried to leave the troops behind the Shalingtai artillery position, but it was too late for him to retreat completely, and his large army was still in the area of Qijiayao, and the Russian army had already recaptured the Liumuling position.

As the so-called disaster does not go alone, the first of the many reinforcements sent by the Russian army in the direction of Liaoyang has arrived at Shatuoling, which happens to be the Cossack cavalry brigade sent by the First Army, and immediately crossed the Jiahe Bridge to pursue the Nozu Guandao.

(To be continued)