It's not that hard to win.

Observe, fast, storm.

Song Biao's choice was to use four times the opponent's strength to make a fierce and rapid surprise attack at night, making sure to annihilate the opponent's military headquarters before dawn, knock out the opponent's command center, and destroy the opponent's artillery and baggage wing.

After that, he had to organize a tighter defensive position and force his opponents to storm the high ground he had chosen.

For military commanders, the more insidious is the more sophisticated.

After the artillery position determined the coverage of the artillery, the bombardment of the command post of the military headquarters and the infantry wing of the army assisting in the defense immediately began, which was different from the bombardment of the front-line position, where there were no suitable bunkers and trenches, although it needed to strike a wider area, but it could produce a better effect of covering bombing.

The screams from the sky became more and more intense, and a large number of shells fell into the enemy's command post and the surrounding wing camps, and the army had no time to evade and evacuate, and the surrounding area was already surrounded by the 1st and 2nd Infantry Regiments of Seshantinsk, and there were enough troops to continue to besiege the infantry brigade in the middle of the mountain range.

Kornilov's 1st Infantry Regiment in the Far East had already eliminated an infantry brigade of the Yue army in advance in front of Song Biao's eyes, and in accordance with the established tactics, quickly intercepted the way out to the northwest of the command post of the Yue army, set up obstacles on the spot, and began to intercept the Yue army that might come back for reinforcements.

After three rounds of intensive artillery bombardment, von. Colonel Eske finally launched a white-knuckle attack, and two regiments plus two battalions of the 1st Kornilov Far East Infantry Regiment attacked the positions in the barracks area.

Although the army retained a whole infantry wing here, after continuous fire strikes, the casualties were very large, and the morale could not sustain this kind of night battle, not to mention that these infantry regiments of Song Biao had undergone special infantry night combat training, and their weapons and equipment were re-improved.

According to Song Biao's design, the shotgunners are at the front, each gunner is equipped with two sabers, and the back is the spearman, which has been a regular rifleman, and each regiment is specially equipped with two companies of shotguns and two sabers, so each company must have a platoon equipped with Cossack spears and conventional rifles.

The lethality of a long spearman who suddenly rushed out at night was very amazing, and this was clearly demonstrated in the Battle of Heigoutai, especially when encountering a soldier who used the three-three style backrest to fight with a bayonet, it was the truth to directly stab two with a spear.

On the contrary, the army was extremely unsuitable for this kind of night raid warfare, and there was no momentum of the previous night assassination offensive, and it was quickly beaten in pieces, and the guns were not of great use at all, and no one knew about it ten meters away, so it was necessary to rely on the fight of cold weapons, and when encountering dense opponents, they would directly release shotguns.

The smoothness of the whole raid also exceeded Song Biao's expectations to a large extent, and the unprepared Yue army was crushed everywhere, and before three o'clock in the morning, the command post of the Yue army's military headquarters and the auxiliary defense infantry wing were annihilated, and shortly thereafter, Chen Wu and the Siberian Infantry Regiment also annihilated the reserve infantry wing of the Yue army, occupied the artillery position, and the 3rd Manchurian Infantry Regiment and the 5th Siberian Infantry Regiment cooperated to attack the Baiqing Village where the baggage wing and the barracks and storage area were located from the left and right sides.

The dark night is always the realm of death.

How many people died in this night, in the ignorant sleep, in the terrifying confusion, in the screams of ghosts and wolves, in the madness of hysteria, in the fear of cowardice...... They were killed as soldiers.

Except for their families, they didn't care where they came from or where they were going.

At the moment of dawn, the earth was red, and bright red blood stained everywhere as far as the eye could see, on the branches, on the mud and stones, on the walls, on the grass, on the flags, everywhere there were those already dark bloodstains, shocking cruelty.

The early summer morning light fell in the mountains and forests, and there were corpses everywhere, different from the soldiers who had long been accustomed to the impression of the army, they were wearing black and blue military uniforms, but there was no shortage of soldiers in the crowd who began to wear khaki spring and summer military uniforms.

They fell to the bloody ground in batches, covered with all kinds of wounds, all of which were caused by shotguns, and almost half of the soldiers died from shotgun attacks, although the Manchurian infantry division was only equipped with 3,700 shotguns, an average of only one for every eleven soldiers, but it was enough for tens of thousands of soldiers to die in the messy shotguns.

Their wounds were so hideous, many of them were beaten and festered half of their bodies in an instant, and their whole bodies were covered with blood holes, exuding a burnt smell.

Song Biao looked at all this coldly, as a front-line commander, he was happy that he led the New Manchurian Infantry Division to win the first large-scale battle victory since its establishment, and he had nothing to be sad about looking at the thousands of corpses of the Chinese army, Russian army and Chinese soldiers in front of him.

They are soldiers, and the day they become soldiers, death is already our best destination.

The military is a noble, sacred curse.

Hu Dalin and Lieutenant Colonel Martos had already arrived at the front line with a large engineer regiment and built fortifications on the south, north, and east sides of Hou Xiaoyu and Qian Xiaoyu.

Chen Wu's 3rd Manchurian Infantry Regiment and the 4th Siberian Infantry Regiment suffered the greatest sacrifices, and they fought three fierce battles before and after, without the support of artillery, and even the mortars of each company could not be brought into play.

Before the transport regiment snatched the baggage away, the three infantry regiments had to defend on the spot to prevent the 11th Division and the 1st Reserve Division from counterattacking.

The reserve 1st Division of the Fifth Army did not have an artillery wing, so the Fifth Army could only form a half-sized artillery wing, and all the artillery was concentrated in the three artillery positions in Houxiaoyu and the surrounding areas, and all of them were captured at one time.

This was probably the second largest damage of the Fifth Army of the Japanese Army, and the first major was the annihilation of the military headquarters, and the Fifth Army of the Japanese Army General Kawamura Keiaki and Chief of Staff Kojiro Uchiyama both died from an artillery shell that accidentally hit their hiding place.

More than 1,000 shells were fired at a headquarters the size of a football field, and their death by shells was both an accident and an inevitability.

Song Biao was here at the headquarters of the Yue Army, and was checking the captured battle map of the Yue Army to confirm the deployment of the various units of the Fifth Army. Lieutenant Colonel Pakinov's level can basically bomb all units of the Japanese army.

He had an intelligence officer who was proficient in the Chinese language drawn from the General Staff of the Russian Far East Army, and he was translating the information into Russian as quickly as possible, and then he was going to send a liaison to quickly pass it on to General Linevich of the First Army.

It is estimated that before the information was transmitted, they were already going to carry out an artillery bombardment here.

The 2nd Infantry Regiment of Manchuria was responsible for cleaning up the battlefield, and Zhang Yahu excitedly carried the body of General Kawamura Jingming over on a stretcher, and smiled and gave Song Biao a look.

Song Biao glanced at it indifferently, and found that this person should belong to a burly old man in himself, and he had just been promoted to army general in January this year, which made a heroic sacrifice, and it is said that this person is the kind of commander who cares about the soldiers' subordinates very much, and is deeply loved and praised by his subordinates no matter which unit he is in.

It's a pity, it's just a soldier.

Song Biao waved his hand lazily, signaling Zhang Yahu to find a place to clean up first, and maybe he could return it to Yue Jun in the future, so that they could send it back to the Tokyo Spiritualist Society to worship. Although this was the first time he had killed a general, it didn't have any special significance, and in his heart, it was still not as enjoyable as a headshot with his own hands.

Major Tuvaniel suddenly took a letter temporarily translated into Russian to Song Biao, and said, "Colonel, this is a letter from Oyama Yan to Senior General Kawamura, and the time of sending the letter was only yesterday. ”

"Oh?"

Song Biao was very surprised, took out this translation and read it carefully, and couldn't help but be speechless.

The intelligence value of this letter is simply too high.

Because he had a very deep personal relationship with General Kawamura Keiaki, in this letter, General Oyama Yan, the commander of the army, not only emphasized the tasks of the Fifth Army of the Japanese army, but also unexpectedly talked about some of his own worries.

Although Dashan Yan did not explicitly point it out in the letter, the meaning in it could be deduced, but it was a little difficult to deduce after the Russian translation.

Song Biao remembered that Jiang Fangzhen had returned from studying at the Non-commissioned Officer School, so he hurriedly took the original manuscript and called Jiang Fangzhen and Shu Fangde over and asked them to read it separately.

Because Jiang Fangzhen had just returned from Yuben, Yuyu was naturally very good, not to mention that Yuyu basically copied Chinese in writing.

This is a smart person, and he also has a certain skill in textual scrutiny, and after a general glance, he noticed the special information inside, and immediately took a closer look, and waited for a while before saying to Song Biao: "Colonel, if nothing else, the army did not reallocate reserve forces to rebuild the Eighth Division at all, they just falsely claimed that the Eighth Division would be deployed in the Liaoyang area after reconstruction. In other words, the current base camp of the army should be completely empty, from Liaoyang to Benxi, there are no troops stationed at all, Dashanyan is falsely claiming to have increased the number of troops to 300,000, but in fact it may be less than 270,000. ”

Song Biao nodded slightly, and asked Shu Fangde again: "What do you think?" ”

Shu Fangde took the letter and read it carefully, and said: "Teacher, I have been back to China for a long time, and I have been studying English hard for the past few years, and I have forgotten a little about the text. Even so, I can understand the kind of worry that Dashanyan revealed between the lines, he did falsely claim that he had reorganized the Fifth Division and the Eighth Division as general preparations, but in fact, there were no troops in Liaoyang and Benxi at all, and even if there were, they must all be temporary patchwork recruits, which is not worth mentioning at all, at least compared with the combat strength of the regular divisions of the army. ”

Song Biao nodded cautiously again, and said: "Yes, you can find out all the letters of General Kawamura Jingming and Chief of Staff Kojiro Uchiyama now, and systematically analyze them, maybe you can dig out the current strategic priorities and other military deployment intelligence of the army, as soon as possible, and let Jiang Yanxing and Cai Yi come over to help." ”

Jiang Fangzhen said: "Yes, Shizuo." ”

Song Biao's heart was very shocked, on the one hand, he was amazed by the courage and strategy of Dashanyan and the Yue army, and he was willing to take such a big risk for victory, and on the other hand, he also realized that he could completely change his previous tactical plan and directly attack Dashanyan's headquarters.

He had a 60-kilometer journey from here to the headquarters of the Manchurian Army in Liaoyang, and if he used his cavalry brigade to force a surprise attack, he would be able to reach it within one day, and the size of his transport regiment was excessive, which would ensure that he could also arrive within two days.

The ancients said that the thief captures the king first, isn't that the truth?

Although Song Biao could not immediately confirm the total strength and deployment of the Yue army, he already had a strong premonition that his plan for a surprise attack on Liaoyang was very feasible, and when Jiang Fangzhen and others compiled the information, he immediately sent Alexievich to Liaoyang. Colonel Brusilov invited him over to discuss, and asked Colonel Brusilov to quickly adjust his plan and prepare to lead the 1st Manchurian Cavalry Brigade to raid Liaoyang.

In order to ensure that there was enough ammunition and supplies to support a few days after the raid, Song Biao transferred Xue Changqing out and was solely responsible for bringing a transport brigade to follow the cavalry brigade.

Just when the cavalry brigade was rapidly reorganizing and hurriedly making preparations for large-distance mobile operations, Jiang Fangzhen and others had already sorted out enough information and came up with a very astonishing piece of information.

It turned out that after the Eighth Division and the Fifth Division were inflicted heavy losses in succession, the General Staff Headquarters of the Chinese Army did have a plan to quickly rebuild these two divisions and regiments, and to recruit and transfer a large number of retired noncommissioned officers, but most of these noncommissioned officers had already retired from the army before and after the First Sino-Japanese War, and they did not meet the needs of modern warfare at all.

Due to the shortage of funds and guns and ammunition, the difficulty of recruiting soldiers is also difficult.

At this time, Kodama Gentaro, chief of staff of the Manchurian Army, persuaded the Minister of War to double the number of newly recruited soldiers and non-commissioned officers in the newspapers, so as to boost the morale of the people caused by the defeat in the Battle of Heigoutai on the one hand, and deceive Tsarist Russia on the other.

The decisive battle originally scheduled for March could not be held, and with the reinforcements of the Russian army to 420,000, the army continued to claim that it had 300,000 troops, and it was completely possible to fight.

As a matter of fact, the Eighth Division was not reorganized, but only rebuilt the Fifth Division with reserve brigades, and as the reserve strength of the Fourth Army, the division was deployed less than 30 kilometers away from Song Biao's area.

The army lied that it had more than 300,000 troops, but in fact it still only had about 270,000 troops, and most of the troops were deployed on the right flank, and the most important artillery wing moved left and right between Ciyutuo and Tong Erbao, presumably to facilitate a quick turn to the right flank battlefield.

Coupled with the grasp of history, the entire battle plan of the Yue army was already about to come out on Song Biao's side, and only half of the information and intelligence could be collated, and the other half was all speculation.

(To be continued)