It had been two months since Song Biao had been away from Shenyang City, and when he saw Lieutenant Colonel Sheenissky's Kuban Cossack cavalry again at the mouth of the Hunjiang River, he couldn't help but recall many of his memories and adventures in the Battle of Heigoutai.

Lieutenant Colonel Seyenisky was still the typical Cossack hereditary officer, his ever-shaved cheeks and two thick beards with a strong upturned beard were among their most classic symbols, while the St. Anne's saber on his chest and the richly decorated ancestral silver dagger remained unchanged, except for a dark black cavalry general, and the silver medal on his chest was decorated with the white knight of the Romanov family emblem.

After the two met, Song Biao dismounted first, and Lieutenant Colonel Xie Yenisky also dismounted and saluted.

Although Song Biao, the colonel of the Manchurian infantry, is an additional miscellaneous rank of the Russian army, he is also a colonel, and time has passed, and it is actually Lieutenant Colonel Seyenisky's turn to salute him, which really makes Song Biao feel that the world is changing so fast.

The two of them are also old "friends" to a certain extent, and after Song Biao returned the salute, he continued to step forward and shake hands with Lieutenant Colonel Sheenissky, and he was about to speak, Lieutenant Colonel Sheyenisky had already opened his mouth and sighed: "Song, with your talent and enthusiasm, you should feel lonely in this kind of second-line defense zone far away from the war, right?" ”

These words really hit Song Biao's mind.

Song Biao shook hands vigorously in response to Lieutenant Colonel Sheyeniski's conjecture, and said, "Yes, but in order to fight better, we always need a period of time for more soldiers to receive the most rigorous training. ”

Lieutenant Colonel Seyenisky proudly raised the index finger of his left hand, raised his chin, and praised the war with great admiration and confidence: "This is the Vladimir I know. Your Excellency Song, as a colonel of the Manchurian infantry, you cannot stop launching an onslaught against the war, and I have come here to ask you to return to the battlefield and launch a final decisive offensive against the army in the spirit of our Cossacks, and this is the invitation that His Excellency General Mishuchenko has asked me to convey to you on your behalf! ”

Faced with the invitation to go to the battlefield again, Song Biao felt a surge of yearning in his heart, but he knew the price of going to the battlefield again.

Sure enough, there is nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace.

Song Biao patted Lieutenant Colonel Xie Yenisky's shoulder like an old friend and said, "Let's go to our Sanhe Fort camp first, where I prepared a sumptuous dinner." ”

Lieutenant Colonel Sheyenisky didn't expect to be able to persuade Song Biao to return to the Mukden battlefield in a short time, so he smiled happily: "Okay, then let me see your real troops." ”

“kupirpraseodymium！”

There are many expressions of invitation in Russian, and Song Biao chose the most serious and solemn formal words and invited Lieutenant Colonel Seyenisky to go with him to the Sanhe Fort camp.

Lieutenant Colonel Seyenisky is naturally a real distinguished guest, Song Biao specially invited Denikin and Major Legovich and other Russian generals and instructors to come over, and it is precisely because Lieutenant Colonel Sheyenisky is here that Song Biao is not convenient to ask Xue Changqing about the business on Fengtian's side, so he can only put it aside for the time being.

After the dinner, Song Biao knew that Lieutenant Colonel Sheyenisky had a lot to discuss, so he arranged for him to return to the camp in Tonghua County to rest, and invited Lieutenant Colonel Sheyenisky to his office in the county town to negotiate.

It was late, and even with a dim kerosene lamp, Lieutenant Colonel Seyenisky could not see the schematic diagram of the front-line combat deployment on the wall. Sitting down at this delicate mahogany desk, the two met like old friends, knowing that the other party had a heavy smoking addiction, Song Biao carefully pushed the maroon red copper ashtray on the table, and took out a box of iron canned cigarettes from the Kazan region of Russia for Lieutenant Colonel Sheyenisky.

Lieutenant Colonel Sheyenisky, who had a special interest in this native cigarette, bowed his head to meet Song Biao as he struck a lit match, his cheeks, which had turned a little pale in the flickering light of the fire.

War, like tobacco, is the devil that indulges men, sucking their life force until it consumes them to the point before they wake up.

Lieutenant Colonel Sheenissky has yellowish eyebrows that are much longer than ordinary people, and a pair of deep green eyes, and in such a dimly lit environment, he looks like a middle-aged general with a somewhat gloomy temperament, and it is true.

He was as gloomy as a pool of inky black water.

When he deeply inhaled a puff of gray-white smoke into his body, at this moment, his cheeks became slightly rosy, and the whole person seemed to have gained a trace of relief under the cruel high oppression.

Song Biao calmly and keenly observed the once unfriendly Cossack cavalry lieutenant colonel, in fact, after a few months, they looked back on the continuous permanent glorious victory, as well as the months of difficult torture and destruction, and realized that the other party was also a comrade-in-arms who had experienced hardships together.

After waiting in silence for a moment, Song Biao asked, "How is the situation at the front line?" ”

Lieutenant Colonel Seyenisky complained dissatisfiedly: "It's just terrible, although there has been some progress on your side, but there is an inexplicable insurrection in Russia, you can't understand what those stupid guys are thinking, those vulgar farmers and workers are simply the stupidest traitors, their riots at this time are really going to make us who are on the front line lose their lives?" Before you left, our morale was very high, but now it's a different thing, it's so bad that our soldiers can barely get enough to eat, and when we need spring uniforms, the brutes in the rear have brought us a lot of women's coats, which is simply an unprecedented insult, and I even feel that the empire is about to collapse. The illiterate and lowly paupers who don't know what honor is are helping themselves, and they will kill us, which is simply a bad thing that all the soldiers on the front know about, and whatever we need, those idiots will find a way to give us some garbage that is completely useless. ”

"So......?"

Song Biao also sighed helplessly, he really couldn't help these things.

Lieutenant Colonel Seyenisky continued to complain: "The worst thing is that His Majesty the Emperor, who has no knowledge of this at all, still gives us several orders to fight for a decisive battle before the navy, to deal a heavy blow to the Japanese army, and to expel them from Manchuria. General Mishuchenko and I both believe that this is a very bad order, and we have no possibility of refuting it, we can only carry out this almost stupid order, I said Song, you are always very leisurely here, and if you also feel idle, then accept the invitation of His Excellency General Mishuchenko, I am afraid that we really need your help now. ”

Song Biao didn't know how to answer, he even felt embarrassed and contradictory, because he personally longed for war very much, and he had always been so stubborn that the value of men could only be revealed on the battlefield.

He was passionate about war, he was keen to defeat any opponent between guns and artillery, especially a once-in-a-century war like the Russo-Russian War, which was like a stage carefully prepared for him.

He has such passion and **, but he can't show it.

In calm thought, he flicked the cigarette in his hand lightly on the iron listening box, and made a faint popping sound in the silence of the barracks in the middle of the night, each of which made Lieutenant Colonel Sheyenisky feel impatient.

After waiting anxiously for a moment, Lieutenant Colonel Sheyenisky couldn't help but ask Song Biao: "Song, if you need some conditions and help, His Excellency General Mishuchenko is happy to give you some special support. ”

Song Biao shook his head and said, "In a real war, material is always second. Let's start with some new news from the front, I think what I know may be a little behind the curve. ”

Lieutenant Colonel Seyenisky said: "Our navy is about to arrive, but this fleet has been adrift at sea for two hundred and twenty days, and I really don't know if they have the ability to fight a decisive battle. According to my friend, the most common thing in his detachment is suicide, not only the soldier, but also the non-commissioned officer and the deputy captain, the guy is clearly not in a good mental state either, babbling gibberish in the letter, damn it. Even if we don't talk about the navy, the situation of our army is very bad, ostensibly increasing the size of the army to 400,000, and adopting your proposal to add two armies as reserves, but in terms of supplies, everything is simply terrible, guns and ammunition may not be the most serious problem, food and all kinds of strange diseases are the problem. Almost everybody was worried about riots in the country, really, I think everybody was in a terrible mood, it was the worst war I've ever had. ”

Only then did Song Biao light the cigarette in his hand, smoke calmly, ponder, and after a long period of time, he reminded Lieutenant Colonel Sheyenisky: "War is like this, Your Excellency Lieutenant Colonel, do you think that my situation is much better than yours?" Maybe in the navy, your situation is really bad, maybe in terms of morale, you also have some problems, but I believe that I am not doing very well. ”

Lieutenant Colonel Sheyenisky said: "The worst problem is that Your Majesty and those guys in the palace know nothing, no matter how His Excellency Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin explains, those guys who have not seen war at all will rudely blame everything on the incompetence of His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, and can't wait to remove him, and then replace them with someone from them." They even thought that everything was so easy, no matter how many problems there were on the front line, it would be as easy as if we were smoking this box of cigarettes, hell. ”

Song Biao spread his hands helplessly and said: "This is the real trouble, we have an old saying, called 'If you want to fight with a foreign country, you must first ensure domestic unity and stability." ”

Lieutenant Colonel Sheyenisky said: "Song, we urgently need a victory now, even a small victory can restore the confidence of the soldiers, this is very important, take this infantry division of yours back to the battlefield with me, I think, His Excellency Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin will definitely welcome you with open arms." Prior to coming here, His Excellency General Mishuchenko had personally submitted an application to the Commander-in-Chief to call you up, and the Commander-in-Chief had agreed to it for a time, only to change his mind when prevented by that bastard of Madenidorff. If you are willing to return to the battlefield, even if you go back to serve as a staff officer to His Excellency General Mishuchenko, this is simply good news. You know, the general has always admired your talents, and there is something we don't understand, and that is that you know you yourself, and you know them better than you do yourself, and even I am convinced that this is the key to winning this war. ”

Song Biao nodded without denial, and said: "I need to think about it for a while, and I have to discuss this matter with my subordinates, if I want to return to the battlefield, I think it is best for me to bring the strength of two infantry regiments, and continue to bring the engineer regiment and baggage regiment with the specialties of our Manchurian infantry division." If my subordinates are not willing to return to the battlefield, then I really can't help, after all, this is not our Chinese war, although we hope that this is our war. ”

Sensing this glimmer of hope, Lieutenant Colonel Seyenisky immediately added: "Song, before coming here, I actually had a meeting with His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, and he said that you have a very high war talent and talent, far better than his performance at your age, and he just thinks that you lack the will to continue fighting on the front line for the Empire, and if you yourself are willing to return to the battlefield with the Manchurian Infantry Division, he is personally very welcome. I am sure that if you are willing to return with me to the battlefield of Mukden, I think that His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief and His Excellency General Mishuchenko will give you all the support you need. You must rest assured that I will personally do my best to help you. You're a colonel now, and my Cossack cavalrymen have to be under your command, aren't they, my friend? ”

In the face of everyone's desire and appreciation, Song Biao also has a special vanity, in all fairness, a soldier of Asian descent can be recognized by the Russian army in this era and on this battlefield, which in itself is enough to show his value.

Of course, all this is actually based on his mastery of Russian language and Russian culture, just as the Chinese have a special love for Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd; if he did not know Russian, had not read almost all Russian classics and poetry, could not casually chat with those high-ranking Russian generals who were born in the nobility, and could not use the war history and war theory of the Russians to explain his operational concept, he would never have received such high attention and praise from the Tsarist Far East Army.

It is said that the Russo-Russian War is a very good stage and a good vanity fair, which can make Song Biao and his troops reap a lot, even an unprecedented harvest.

Song Biao didn't know how to answer for a while, and after smoking the Tsarist cigarette in his hand, he was very restrained and fiercely snuffed out the end of the cigarette in the red copper ashtray, and then said to Lieutenant Colonel Sheyenisky: "Give me two days, maybe tomorrow, we can seriously talk about some more in-depth issues." ”

Lieutenant Colonel Sheyenisky spread his hands regretfully and sighed: "Okay, then let's talk about it tomorrow." By the way, let's talk about your recent situation, I heard that you have bought a lot of land deeds in the Mukden area, and the man Tuvaniel was drinking with me a few days ago, and he said that he helped you deal with the matter of the Fushun coal mine, saying that you have bought the 30-year franchise of the coal and iron mine in the Fushun area through our help. I remember that place, it was a very good open-pit mine, it was huge, and I thought that after this war was over, you would make a lot of money enough to feed your troops. Right, that's important, isn't it? ”

Song Biao did not deny it, and said: "Yes, that's very important. ”

Lieutenant Colonel Sheenissky said: "Just to tell you something, that guy Stecel stole a large number of treasures from your royal palace during the Boxer Rebellion, and his wife is selling these things in Harbin, I have a friend who is very familiar with his wife, Tuvaniel said that you seem to be very interested in these things." If you really want it, it's very simple, just send me a telegram to a friend and he will buy it for you. ”

Song Biao asked, "How much does that lady need?" ”

Lieutenant Colonel Seyensky said: "She is a very contradictory woman, on the one hand, she claims that they are all treasures of your country's royal family, and on the other hand, she says that she is in a hurry to use money, so she only needs 600,000 rubles, who knows if it is true or not?" If you want, I think you can buy it all for only 400,000 rubles, and she herself says that she is in a hurry to use the money, isn't she? ”

Song Biao said: "I have a subordinate recruiting people in Harbin, but he may not have so much money in his hands. ”

Lieutenant Colonel Sheyenisky said: "It doesn't matter, I can help you, my friend works at the Daosheng Bank in Harbin, and he can lend you a huge amount of money." ”

Song Biao said: "That's good, let's just settle it." ”

400,000 rubles may buy a batch of fakes, but this possibility is not big, everyone knows that the bastard of Stessel robbed a large amount of jewelry during the Eight-Nation Alliance, and it is still somewhat valuable.

Of course, Song Biao will also make it clear to Zhao Tingzhu, who is in Harbin, and ask him to find an antique dealer to help identify it.

After sending Lieutenant Colonel Sheyenisky to rest, Song Biao did not sleep, he had a lot of questions to think about this night, and he was very confident in himself, because he had studied the deployment of the front line very thoroughly, and combined with the progress of history, he could even guess every step of Dashanyan's follow-up plan.

If he wanted to, he could completely reverse this battle of Fengtian and defeat the main force of the Yue army in one battle.

If this is the outcome, then in the next ten years, China will not have to worry about the poor strength left in its own army, but how will it deal with the Tsarist Empire after the victory of the army?

It's really an unknown.

In the quiet of the night, in the courtyard of a private house in the northern district of Tonghua County, far away from the Fengtian battlefield, Song Biao kept lighting the dim kerosene lamp in his office, calmly thinking about all the possible names in the future.

With the outbreak of the revolution at home and the intensification of competition and preparations among the European allies, it would be difficult for Russia to continue its large-scale expansion in the northeast in the future, even if Russia won a great victory in the Battle of Mukden.

In the entire international world, even if the army is defeated, the British and American camps will not really give up their interests in the northeast and their determination to check and balance Russia, and if the situation deteriorates like this, not only will the army continue to benefit from the competition with Russia, but the Manchu regime will even be able to get a certain degree of support from Britain and the United States, and this support may even be extended to Song Biao.

The most important result may be three points: first, the army has suffered heavy losses; Second, he was unable to continue to expand his influence to the entire Kwantung region, and even ensured his rights and interests in Korea at most, but could not set foot in the Northeast; Third, Britain and the United States must jump on the stage and negotiate directly with Russia.

As for the Russian Empire's delusional attempt to create another yellow Tsarist Russia, it is simply delusional, unless the Tsarist Empire expells tens of millions of northeasterners from the Kanto region, or even kills them all.

The Russians would do such a shameless thing, but they definitely did not have such a chance.

After weighing it in his heart, Song Biao felt more and more that it was a good thing to annihilate the Yueben Army in advance in the Russo-Russian War, so he used the Russians to fight with Yueben himself to the end, and then defeated the Yueben Army.

In this process, Song Biao believed that his gains would be very amazing, and the best result he hoped to achieve was "no army, no navy in Russia", ending the entire Russo-Russian war, which is called the most embarrassing situation!

(To be continued)