At 9:30 a.m. on March 8, the fog finally dissipated, and the fog left a little white frost on the treetops, although it was a cold winter, but there was no movement in the treetops seemed to remind people that today was a good day, the sky was cloudless, the sky was windless, and it was definitely a warm day.

Suddenly, the calm treetops moved with a roar, on the flat rammed earth runway between the trees, a two-winged "Flyer" plane, the engine roared to drive the wooden propeller, the speed of the propeller became faster and faster, and finally the plane moved along the runway, taxied more than 100 meters, and jumped into the blue sky as light as a bird.

The aircraft's linen tail and wings are stamped with a striking blue, yellow and red flag, which is the aircraft's identification band. After the two-seater plane took off, it quickly climbed to an altitude of 1,000 meters and flew towards the east.

In 1905, as the United States, Britain, Germany, France and even Russia have manufactured all kinds of aircraft, breaking China's monopoly on aircraft, but the use of aircraft is unique to China.

At the outbreak of the Liberation War, the Liberation Army had only 36 aircraft, but now, 10 months after the uprising, China has built up the world's largest air fleet of 538 Aviator series aircraft, which are widely used for military intelligence reports, reconnaissance, and even emergency dispatch of officers.

Flyer-3 is a reconnaissance aircraft in the Flyer series of aircraft, in front of the linen fuselage, there are two seats, the front is the pilot, and the rear is the scout, the scout's seat is surrounded by a circular wire ring, in addition to a pair of binoculars, there is also an MJ02 light machine gun.

When the pilot is flying at low speed, the scouts in the rear can use the telescope to observe the ground target while marking the enemy's deployment on the map, and the Flyer-3 aircraft is the aircraft with the largest number of equipment in the army and naval air force, and is widely used in various battlefields.

There is nothing in the world more enjoyable than flying freely like a bird in the blue sky, everyone has had the dream of flying into the blue sky, and in China there are 913 young officers who have realized this human dream, Li Jiejun is one of them, he is the brain of the "bird", Wei Guofu is also one of them, he is the eye of the "bird"!

The brain and the eyes are what these air scouts jokingly call themselves, the brain is the pilot, and the eyes are the scout. Watching the buildings and forests on the ground continue to pass by at a rapid pace, this feeling is everyone's dream, and for Li Jiejun and Wei Guofu, although they have been flying for two months, they are still immersed in this dream every time they fly.

Sou...... The faint wind whistle from the ground made Wei Guofu, who was standing in the back seat, holding the telescope, and marking the target while observing.

"Lao Maozi is starting to fart and blow us!"

As he spoke, he did not forget to add a few new gun emplacements to the map, and aerial reconnaissance did not need to provide accurate maps, but if possible, they still wanted to provide as accurate information as possible.

"Anyway, I can't blow it, I'm afraid they're birds!"

Li Jiejun replied.

"Junqi, fly closer to the south!"

Wei Guofu pointed to the battlefield in the south shrouded in thick gunpowder smoke and said, where the Russian army was fighting fiercely.

The plane once again flew towards the battlefield in the south, when the plane was still more than ten kilometers away from the battlefield, the two people on the plane were stunned by the scene in front of them, what is the defeat like a mountain, perhaps the scene in front of them is that although the two armies in front of the battle, but more than a kilometer away from the front line, tens of thousands of Russians are driving carriages, riding war horses, or retreating in the direction of Mukden on foot, the artillery has lost its artillery, and the baggage soldiers have lost the ammunition on the wagon.

Although the main force of the pursuing force was blocked by the blocking enemy's troops, there were still small groups of cavalry pursuing the Russian army, and it was very simple to identify the two armies from the air, the army was wearing a blue military uniform, while the Russian army was wearing a white military uniform, one white and one blue.

"Did the Russians shrink their lines, or did they rout?"

"It's definitely a shrinking line!"

The bottom looked at the map drawn when he just flew in, a few kilometers behind the front line of the Russian army, the Russian army had already built a new line of defense, and now the reason why they are retreating must be that a certain section has been broken through, so they have to shrink the defense line.

"Let's go back, hurry up and report this news to the headquarters!"

Although the pilots claimed that they were the brains, but on the reconnaissance plane, the scouts with binoculars were the real brains, and they decided where the "bird" flew and when it would return, and none of the soldiers of the two armies on the battlefield noticed the plane overhead, and only a very small number of [***] officers, when they saw the plane that suddenly appeared on the battlefield, coiled for a few minutes, and suddenly left, they couldn't help but shake their heads and sigh, any officer understands that for the squadron that has the plane, The battlefield seemed to be completely open to them.

According to the agreement between China and Russia, after the Russian Anti-Volunteer Army withdrew across the Liao River and gave up resisting the Russian [***] team, China incorporated it into a regular army to restrain it, and the Second Army of the Empire was born, and Xinmin County is the location of the headquarters of the Second Army after withdrawing from the Liao River, which is also a bridgehead connecting Fengtian with the railway inside and outside the Guan, although the end of the railway inside and outside the Guanxi is five kilometers away from Fengtian City.

The Diwang Temple in Xinmin County is the headquarters of the Second Army, but now, the sign of the headquarters of the First Army is hung outside the Diwang Temple, but the people in it have changed as early as a week ago, and the headquarters of the First Army quietly withdrew from Xinmin in the middle of the night on March 3 and quietly entered the Horqin grassland.

As a matter of fact, since five months ago, after the Guannei dispatched troops to the Guanwai Gates, eight of the 15 divisions of the Second Army Corps under the pretext of "entering the customs and accepting reorganization" have changed their old professions and disguised themselves as horse bandits, the Righteous Army, the Advance Brigade, and other anti-Russian groups, and stationed in the Horqin Grassland.

As for the First Army Corps transferred from Shaanxi, it took over the defense of the Second Army Corps and was responsible for "maintaining neutrality by force" and maintaining it by force in the northeast region, and this was perhaps the biggest difference between China and the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

At this time, in the headquarters of the Second Army, Xiao Xinren, who was wearing a lieutenant general's uniform, was staring at the latest changes in the battle situation on the sand table, and in just a few hours, the situation in the theater had changed far beyond people's imagination.

"I really don't know if I can fight, or if the Russians are incompetent!"

"It's the incompetence of the Russians, just before the Battle of Mukden, you see what kind of formation Kurobatkin put up, he was afraid that the army was almost scared to the extreme, and the troops were completely deployed on the front line, like a linear horizontal formation, which made the bottom very wide, the frontal width of the position in Shahe was 100 kilometers, but it was not conducive to the rapid change of the deployment of the troops, and at the same time the thin defense line made it easy for the army to tear the breakthrough from the weak link, once the breakthrough was torn, the Russian army did not even have time to mobilize the troops to deal with the counteroffensive of the Japanese army's roundabout attack, The battle line was too long, and the reserves were transferred away by the voice of the people, and they could only retreat! From the very beginning, tactical mistakes decided that the Battle of Mukden would not last long! ”

"There is also the artillery of the Russian army, which is also deployed in a line, and the light artillery companies equipped with rapid-fire guns are almost all equipped in the first line, but the heavy artillery companies are deployed in depth, and there are very few on the first line, even if the artillery with the maximum firing range is used, it cannot suppress the artillery of the army and destroy the fortifications on the forward positions of the army, so the army can calmly mobilize all the light and heavy artillery to attack one point and break through the Russian position!"

“…… It is said that the army does not have an advantage in all parts of the country, but because the Russian army has pulled a large front, it has concentrated relatively superior forces on both flanks......"

"Moreover, they also carried out operational deception and spread false information that the Third Army was moving in the direction of Vladivostok, and Kurobatkin got this information, because there were only two divisions in the Vladivostok direction, so they were worried that after the occupation of the Ussuri region, the army would advance to Jilin and Harbin, and fall into the dilemma of closing the door and fighting dogs, so they drew part of their forces from the battlefield to strengthen the defense in the Ussuri direction, and further weakened the line defense in the front......"

"There are also armed spies and small units that go deep into the rear and buy bandits from the northeast to attack the Russian railway, like the Yongnuma Advance Team, which destroyed the railway between Gongzhuling and Changchun on the 10th of last month, and blew up the ......railway south of Siping 4 days ago."

While Xiao Xinren was thinking about the battle situation, the staff officers and unit commanders of the First Army Corps were there talking about the mistakes of the Russian army and the successes of the army, the First Army Corps was different from the Second Army Corps, which had been fighting in the northeast battlefield for a long time, they were not familiar with the terrain and did not understand their enemy, and they had to use limited intelligence information to analyze the tactical characteristics of the enemy army they were about to face.

"So, in short, it's not that the army can fight, it's that the Russian army is incompetent!"

This will Xiao Xinren made a conclusion for the big guy in a surprising voice, saying that he was holding the edge of the sand table with both hands, staring at Fengtian directly on the line of Anshan.

"The army has 260,000, we have 220,000, the army is a long-term tired division, we are a cutting-edge division, the army only has 992 cannons, our division is 60/82/100 mortars, there are 124, as well as 18 75 mountain guns and 18 88mm field guns, in terms of extreme firepower, our 16 divisions are almost three times that of the army, all the machine guns of the army are combined, and there is not more than one regiment of us, if we say that we can't win this battle, we will lose our face in the Pacific Ocean!"

As he spoke, he slapped the case.

"Okay, let's not talk nonsense, I don't have time to talk about anything else, withdraw the 126th Regiment and the 127th Regiment from the Liaohe defense line, we have to give the Russians a place to retreat, and a place for me to attack in a roundabout way!"

To be precise, it is to create a suitable reason for starting a fight.

(To be continued)