After calculating the money clearly, Song Biao went to arrange the defense of the entire Liaoyang.

He had absolutely no time to rest this night, although he hadn't slept for a moment for a day and a night, but fortunately, he had just received 21.58 million yuan in compensation for his defeat, and his spirits were very high.

Throughout the night, he was checking the Liaoyang defense map provided by Lieutenant Colonel Maltos, as well as various military intelligence of the Chinese army temporarily translated by Jiang Fangzhen and others.

Liaoyang this place is surrounded by mountains on both sides, one side is backwater, only the west side is a horse Pingchuan, even the big soil slope of Liumuling can become a vital highland in the west side of the defense line, Liaoyang County is two kilometers away from the Taizi River in the north, but the north, northwest, and east sides are all mountains.

Don't look at the Taizi River in Liaoyang is still only the upstream river section, the average width of the north side of the county is 200 meters, the narrowest place is in Lushan, after being divided into two, each is only more than ten meters wide, in the period of World War I, and even in the period of World War II, the two-hundred-meter-wide river channel is basically a moat, it is basically impossible to rush across this river in a short time, the only bridge to cross the river is the Jiahe Bridge, to cross this bridge first have to take the North Ridge position of Lushan.

It's not enough to just seize the North Ridge position in Lushan, because I can still break the bridge by firing artillery at Nanling, and use artillery fire to pinch your rear defense supply troops, and if you capture North Ridge, send troops to attack the county seat, I will break the bridge, and then use artillery fire to fire from behind, and you will have to die as many as you rush in front.

Therefore, if you want to attack the county seat through the Jiahe Bridge, you must take down the entire Lushan, three large highlands, more than 20 small highlands, the fortifications are as solid as copper walls, all of them are reinforced concrete fortifications left by the Russians, and the army wants to storm Lushan, and tens of thousands of people have to be killed and wounded, and three kilometers of blood will be shed.

Song Biao, Lieutenant Colonel Martos, and Colonel Brusilov calculated several times, and agreed that the only way for the Yue army to win was in such an inconspicuous small place as Liumuling, and that the best countermeasure for the Yue army was to divide the army into two routes, one starting from Dengta Town to storm Lushan to attract the main force of the Manchurian infantry division, and the other way of the army to attack from Liaozhong County, mainly attacking the west side of Liaoyang.

In addition, no matter how the army calculates, it lacks sufficient certainty, if it really launches an army of 100,000 to attack the entire Liaoyang from the front, it will really be looking for death, and the army will not be stupid to such a point immediately because of the death of Marshal Oyama Yan, not to mention that Kodama Gentaro and Nozu Kando are all soldiers who use the army.

Song Biao's countermeasures are naturally very simple, first strengthen the defense line on the north bank of the Taizi River, which is the omission point of the Russian army's construction of fortifications in Liaoyang, and the army began to build multiple defense lines after taking over, Song Biao must strengthen the fortifications, forcing the army to only adopt the strategy of attacking the west of Liaoyang.

Song Biao wanted to attract the Yue army in this seemingly undefended area of Liumuling, ruthlessly peeling the skin and flesh layer by layer, and cutting the Yue army into a human stick.

His plan was to build a seven-kilometer-long defensive line in the area of Liumuling within two days by using the original fortification foundation, strengthen it as much as possible, fight in front while continuing to repair in the rear, and then use a large number of machine guns and ammunition to frantically weaken the opponent here, turn the western suburbs of Liaoyang into a crazy meat grinder, and fiercely educate them in a place where the Yue army seems to be in no danger to defend, so that they know who is the real god of war.

Wrong.

Who is the real Grim Reaper.

After Song Biao and Lieutenant Colonel Martos designed the preliminary sketch of this defense line overnight, Hu Dalin went into battle with an engineer regiment of more than 3,000 men, and all the troops that could be drawn from the rest of the regiments also went into battle, looking for people from house to house in the city and the surrounding areas, and requisitioning them to build fortifications and transport work as long as there were still people.

Song Biao didn't make it difficult for the villagers in Kanto, he asked Xue Changqing and Jiang Yanxing to do this work in person, and give the villagers more rations.

It's just that this battle made the Liaoyang area almost a no-man's land, and those who could escape fled to Benxi, Shenyang, and Liaozhong.

It wasn't until dawn that Song Biao seized the time to sleep for a few hours, and when he slept until noon and woke up, the thousands of remnants of the army in the county town were also killed one after another, or surrendered, and the captured prisoners naturally continued to be sent out to build fortifications.

As soon as Song Biao woke up and was still eating his first meal of the day, Jiang Fangzhen hurriedly handed him a copy of the newly sorted out information, and said: "Master, according to the current statistical data, the amount of materials we have seized so far is very amazing, there are 224 artillery pieces of all kinds alone, including 18 15 centi German howitzers, 42 15 centi Italian bronze mortar guns, 12 9 centi Italian bronze mortar cannons, 54 Russian-made Lucia three-inch field guns, and 4 10 centi-and-a German half-rapid-fire cannons. A total of 6 German-made 28 centi-mortar guns and 28-cl imitation howitzers, 24 Trinity field guns, 28 18-cl mortars, and 32 fixed 15 centi-cali cannons and four 28-centi-German mortars for each defensive line. Some of the German-made artillery pieces had just arrived from the city and had not yet been put into use on the battlefield. ”

Song Biao put down his chopsticks and asked cautiously, "Is the number of cannonballs enough?" ”

Jiang Fangzhen said: "It should be enough, especially the number of shells for Lucia's three-inch field artillery, plus the original 16 shells of our army, an average of 346 shells per gun." ”

Song Biao pondered for a moment and said, "The gunner should be enough, right?" ”

Jiang Fangzhen said: "The gunners are sufficient, our army has a reserve of gunners prepared before coming here from Shenyang, plus the gunners of our division headquarters who were originally trained from Russia during the Tonghua intensive training period, the number is sufficient, and as far as the artillery issue is concerned, there are indeed no major doubts." In particular, our army's 28 centimeter howitzers and six heavy artillery pieces are arranged in the center of the position on the south side of Lushan, and the army is afraid that it will give a relatively concentrated artillery strike as soon as it comes up. ”

Song Biao thought for a while and said: "Those things are too bulky and have a long range, if the army wants to concentrate on them, it must prepare enough artillery fire, you might as well use them as bait, you can expand the surrounding positions, if you can transfer it in actual combat, then transfer it appropriately, if not, just leave it in place." ”

Jiang Fangzhen said: "It's too heavy, I'm afraid it will take four or five days to relocate and reorganize." ”

Song Biao waved his hand and said, "Then don't move, deliberately use it as a bait to lure the army to arrange the artillery position in a more advanced area, and our army can concentrate all the three-inch Lucia field artillery to give a sudden counterattack." Around the southern suburbs of the county to the whole road to flatten, conducive to the artillery back and forth, if it is too late, then directly the main road around the county around the houses are demolished, more demolition of a few more places to prepare the artillery position, remember to give the local villagers enough money for demolition, do not give money to demolish the house, to our reputation is very damaging, not conducive to the long-term, small money is not saved. ”

Jiang Fangzhen praised: "The master is high. In addition, there is another thing, the army has material depots in Anshan, Benxi and Liaozhong. It is said that the army has forcibly requisitioned grain on a large scale in the Benxi area, and it should have hoarded a lot of military rations, and in Anshan, it has reserved a batch of spare ammunition, and there are about six infantry brigades in Benxi, and the number of the Fifth Division is semi-openly used, which is actually the infantry brigade of the general station, and the Anshan side is the logistics infantry brigade of the general affairs station, and there are about four brigades of troops. ”

Song Biao thought for a while, and said: "You will go and invite Colonel Brusilov, Lieutenant Colonel Pakilov, and Lieutenant Colonel Martos later, I will hold a temporary military meeting to discuss this matter, if possible, I hope to send a cavalry brigade to assault the Anshan defense area of the army, as for Benxi, we will discuss it later." ”

Jiang Fangzhen nodded silently, and then put the new statistical summary report of intelligence data in all aspects on the table, and went out to prepare for the regular military meeting.

Song Biao continued to eat, looking at the list of a large number of materials seized in Liaoyang this time, as well as the summary of military intelligence compiled by Jiang Fangzhen and others.

The army in the Russian army's Liaoyang rout and the battle of Lushun is to make a lot of money, the loss of Liaoyang, and really lost to the grandmother's house, the army before the start of the Russian war actually only more than 300 artillery, and then through Britain, France, Germany, Italy and other countries to increase to more than 600 guns, but the number of artillery they captured from the Russian army is more amazing, until the end of the battle of Mukden, the army captured a total of more than 1,000 Russian artillery.

The loss of 218 artillery pieces in Liaoyang is not very painful, but the Russian army's stockpile materials they threw in Liaoyang are really powerful, almost intact The materials that the Russian army had previously fed them in Liaoyang were given to Song Biao in vain, there are more than 40,000 rifles in stock alone, most of them are the Mosin Nagant rifles that Song Biao needs most, and the amount of ammunition reserves is enough for Song Biao to hold on to Liaoyang for two months.

The army had already made two arms deals with Song Biao before this, in exchange for more than 40,000 Mosin Nagant rifles to Song Biao, but those were all old goods selected by the army, and the batch stored in Liaoyang was basically brand new.

As the main reserve of military supplies for the 270,000 troops on the front line of the Yue Army, it was really risky for the Yue Army to keep more than 15,000 troops in Liaoyang, and it was not very lucky, and as soon as it got started, it threw away one of the most elite infantry brigades in it.

Song Biao almost laughed all the way through this statistical list, and now he has two hundred and forty machine guns in his hand, half of each of Makqin and Hatch Cash, 332 artillery pieces of various colors, enough ammunition for him to fight for two months, more adequate food reserves, medical supplies, etc., he really doesn't know how Kodama Gentaro should counterattack Liaoyang at this time.

He really felt that he was really eating the goods of Xiao Yuben in his life.

After waiting for half an hour, Song Biao went to the combat conference room to meet with Colonel Brusilov and others, Lieutenant Colonel Pakilov and Lieutenant Colonel Martos had not yet arrived, so he and Colonel Brusilov arrived in advance.

Seeing Colonel Brusilov, Song Biao handed him the list in his hand and said, "You can read it too, the latter is the general list in the Russian version." ”

Colonel Brusilov thanked him very seriously: "I have seen it in advance, and I think that we will not only fight another miraculous victory, but will also fight a third one, and this will be the place where the fate of the empire will be decided, and here, on behalf of all the Russian soldiers in my headquarters, I must thank you for your command." Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, I believe that after the end of this battle, if our troops can defend Liaoyang to the death, you will become a Napoleon-like figure in Asia. ”

Song Biao replied flatly: "Thank you for your compliment, Your Excellency Colonel, such a reputation as the Napoleon of Asia is still an exaggerated praise for me now. Let's face it, maybe we will face a counteroffensive on the scale of three divisions of the army at the same time, and we don't know when they will complete this deployment, but this vicious battle is inevitable. ”

Colonel Brusilov exclaimed: "Yes. ”

The matter of Alekseevich . Colonel Brusilov no longer had any doubts about Song Biao's supreme command, although he had always been very skeptical before, successive victories were always the best proof, and he was now even very happy with Beo. Vladimir. Military geniuses like Colonel Song Infantry cooperated.

He could hardly find a more suitable word to describe the Asian in front of him other than "military genius" and "Asian Napoleon", in short, it was a miraculous thing, and he met it.

Song Biao and Colonel Brusilov smoked the French cigarettes in the trophies of the army, thinking about some things, and did not care about the changes in Colonel Brusilov's thoughts in the past few days.

After a while, he said to Colonel Brusilov: "I want to send a cavalry brigade to raid Anshan again and seize the supplies there, so as to prevent the army from strengthening the defense and transferring those supplies in advance." Our current strategic goal is this, we have to keep forcing the supply of the Yue army, on the one hand, we must cut off their supply, on the other hand, we must keep reducing their supply materials, at this level, they will lose their minds, and must fight us to the death, and we only need to use stronger fortifications to continue to consume their numbers and troops, and the final victory must be entrusted to His Excellency Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin, who is always the only one who can complete the final blow to the Yue army. ”

Colonel Brusilov said: "Yes, your predictions in grand strategy are always amazing, and I have learned this many times. Then continue to let me personally lead our cavalry brigade to attack their defense in the Anshan area, according to Major Tuvaniel's report, in addition to Anshan, the army also has certain material stations in Benxi and Liaozhong County, should it also be solved? If we have to solve it all together, how should we deploy such a huge amount of materials? ”

Song Biao said: "I have already considered this issue, in Liaozhong, the army has a reserve 13th brigade to garrison, and the current strength is limited, so I can only not think about it." As for the Anshan and Benxi areas, my plan is still for you and our transport group to partner up, and the important materials will be transported back first, and the unimportant materials will be dispersed on the spot, even if they are burned. I will arrange for the locals to cooperate with you, organize a large number of laborers on the spot to join the transportation work, and in return for the army's military rations, recruit 20,000 laborers in the vicinity in return. I even considered temporarily recruiting a part of the local militia to join the fight, even if it was an emergency organization of three or four thousand people, which would help us get through the most critical moment! ”

Colonel Brusilov asked: "What is the combat significance of such a soldier?" ”

Song Biao thought for a while and said: "My plan has always been to directly use our transport regiment and engineer regiment to replenish the loss of troops at the most dangerous moment, and then use the newly recruited local militia to supplement the engineer regiment and transport regiment, so I have prepared a large-scale transport regiment and engineer regiment for us, and have always given them relatively strict combat training." ”

Colonel Brusilov praised: "You have once again shown me what it means to be a genius in strategy, and this arrangement is really peculiar. ”

Song Biao sighed: "My understanding of war is like this, it is always a military operation that consumes each other, and the final winner is often not the bravest person, but the one who can support it longer." ”

Colonel Brusilov bowed slightly, and said, "I reserve my thoughts on this, but I believe that you will become a very pioneering military general because of this." Military theory is like this, different ideas have different tactics, different tactics will produce different eras, the era determines the tactics, and the tactics will actually determine the times. ”

Song Biao smiled and said, "Interesting saying, I was taught." ”

The more time he spent together, the more Song Biao felt that he had learned a lot from the really good senior generals of the Russian army, such as Brusilov and Martos, and their team was constantly running in, and would play a more brilliant value during this period of time.

After the arrival of Lieutenant Colonel Pakilov and Lieutenant Colonel Martos, the four of them exchanged views on the current situation and worked out new plans, especially on the issues of positions, artillery, logistics, and reserves.

The four of them basically represent infantry experts, cavalry experts, artillery experts, and fortification experts, and each of them has come up with a set of plans that are superior to others in their own areas of expertise, and constantly enrich the entire plan of the general defense to the limit.

During the entire period of the Russo-Japanese War, the idea of artillery engagement between the two armies of the Russian army has always been the expansion of the German and French artillery thinking, and the German artillery reading system, the ability of mobile coordination among various artillery units, and the idea of concentrating superior artillery fire to suppress were implemented by the Russian army, while Russia implemented the French idea of infantry leading artillery and artillery serving infantry offensive.

Throughout the war, Russia was suppressed by the artillery of the Japanese army, although it had better artillery, improved the command system of the infantry commander to guide the artillery by means of telephone contact, and adopted new combat methods such as concealed bunker positions.

In order to reverse this situation, Lieutenant Colonel Pakilov proposed to concentrate all artillery on his control, and given that he and Colonel Brusilov had almost zero understanding of artillery, Song Biao also agreed to this proposal.

In order to make effective use of the advantages of the artillery in his hands, Lieutenant Colonel Pakilov arranged a unified telephone line in each artillery position and the infantry front line to facilitate his unified command, and at the same time designed a circular emergency passage to facilitate the turnover of artillery in the two-line positions, and kept a number of ready-to-use bunker artillery positions along the way.

He used 70 three-inch Lucia field guns as the core of his mobile deployment, followed by 18 15 centi-made howitzers and 42 15-centi-Italian bronze mortars, and used these guns to form an artillery brigade with two artillery regiments and a 15-centimeter heavy artillery battalion to maneuver in positions on the east and west.

The principle of artillery brigade combat that he proposed to Song Biao was very simple: when the artillery of the Yue army fired a salvo, his artillery gave priority to suppressing the opponent's artillery, and when the infantry of the Yue army attacked his own infantry position, his artillery gave priority to suppressing the opponent's infantry offensive.

The word "suppression" was not originally used by Lieutenant Colonel Pakilov, he used the word "ralization", which comes from the idea of French artillery, which directly translates to mean "neutralization" and "regulation", and Song Biao revised the word and suggested that Lieutenant Colonel Pakirov clarify the tactical word "suppress", that is, "suppress the development of the other side".

Two different words, but they represent very different ideas of artillery tactics, the latter more precisely stating their tasks to all artillerymen.

On the cavalry side, after consultation and coordination, Brusilov's cavalry brigade did not attack for the time being, but prioritized the concentration of 30,000 men to repair the western fortifications. Before the early morning of tomorrow, the cavalry brigade will attack Anshan first, and then go to Benxi, if it can recruit enough people to engage in transportation work, then transport all the materials back, if not, then directly burn it, or blow it up, and absolutely cannot leave it to the army.

In addition, Song Biao decided to take out more than 2 million kilograms of military rations, urgently recruit more than 10,000 people in the surrounding counties, and recruit about 3,000 militiamen from them.

(To be continued)