The officers and men of the Guards Division marched out of Shenyang City along the street under the farewell of the people of Shenyang City, and joined up with the Second Division of the Dingbei Army stationed outside the city, and then the two divisions, under the leadership of Lin Daxin, marched along the highway army built in the northeast in recent years, and went straight to Dongning City, an important border town between Heilongjiang and Russia.

In addition, before Lin Daxin left, he had already ordered the First Fleet, Second Fleet, and Third Fleet of the Northeast Navy, which had completed the reorganization, to blockade the Russian Vladivostok naval base, and if the Russian Pacific Fleet dared to go out of the port of Vladivostok and fight a decisive battle with the Northeast Navy, then try to destroy the main force of the Russian Pacific Fleet.

If the Russian Pacific Fleet retreats in the port of Vladivostok, the three fleets of the Northeast Navy will blockade the sea area of Vladivostok, wait for the Dingbei Army to attack the fortress of Vladivostok, cooperate with the army to take Vladivostok, and then advance by sea to destroy the Russian defenders in Vladivostok and the Russian Pacific Fleet.

On August 26, the day after the official start of the war between the Russian army and the Dingbei Army, the Russian First Siberian Front Army outside the city of Outer Mongolia continued to launch an attack on the forward positions outside the Dingbei Army, and today the Russian army's attack force was replaced by the 31st Army.

"Boom-boom-boom-" The heavy artillery division of the Russian 6th Army and other artillery of the 1st Siberian Front, which had been replenished with shells, began to shell the forward positions of the Dingbei Army.

Immediately, the artillery positions of the Russian army were bombarded by 155-mm howitzers and 105-mm howitzers of the third division of the Dingbei Army, so that the Russian artillery did not take long to stop, on the one hand, because of the shelling of the Dingbei Army's artillery. On the other hand, the Russian army did not have many shells from Irkutsk to Haktu last night, and it was bombarded for a while. The Russian artillery is running out of shells, and it is not possible to carry out a long-term shelling of the positions of the Dingbei Army.

Seeing this predicament of the artillery, Ivanov, commander of the First Siberian Front, could only smile helplessly, seeing that the Dingbei Army had not weakened in the slightest compared with yesterday, and he knew in his heart that relying on the strength of the artillery units of the First Siberian Front Army at present, it would not be able to defeat the artillery of the Dingbei Army at all. Moreover, his own artillery background could not compete with the artillery of the Third Division of the Dingbei Army, so Ivanov was bombarded by the artillery of the Dingbei Army shortly after the Russian artillery was bombarded. He quickly ordered the artillery to move back and stopped the shelling.

After the Russian artillery stopped, the Russian 31st Army began to withstand the artillery fire of the Dingbei Army and the dense bullets fired from the forward positions of the Dingbei Army. An attack was launched on the positions of the 31 brigade.

In the first fortification on the 306 heights, the leper continued to hold the rifle in his hand, and in the position of his own fortifications, he continued to carry out his headshot against the Russian troops attacking the 306 heights.

The leper was still muttering in his mouth: "If you don't avenge the clansmen today, you will avenge the squad leader first, you must kill 100 old hairymen, and you forgot how many you counted when you were done......"

Without the cover of artillery fire, it was even more difficult for the Russian army to attack. One by one, the soldiers, shouting about Ula, fell in front of the positions of the 31 brigade.

The commander of the Russian 31st Army, Charedoev, rushed to the temporary command of the 1st Siberian Front and said to the commander Ivanov: "Commander. The losses of such an attack were too great, and it was impossible to attack the positions of the Dingbei Army, which were equipped with a large number of machine guns, and it was necessary to provide sufficient artillery fire to the attacking troops before it was possible to capture the positions of the Dingbei Army. ”

Ivanov's temporary headquarters was located in a trench on a hill, and from the observation post in the tunnel, the positions of the Northern Army could be seen in front of the city. Ivanov kept looking through the 31st Army with a telescope from the observation port.

Hearing Caledoyev's construction, Ivanov nodded in agreement and said: "Such an attack is indeed too many casualties. Pay for one's whistle. Charedoev, order your 31st Army to stop attacking! We must ask for help from the commander of the Siberian theater of operations, the Minister of War, Field Marshal Kuropatkin, because our 1st Siberian Front needs more artillery fire, especially large-caliber heavy artillery. In addition, we also need more troops, according to intelligence, there is only 1 division of the Dingbei Army in the city of buying and selling, and there are 2 divisions of the Dingbei Army behind the city of buying and selling. You must know that the 1 division of the Dingbei Army is more than the number of our 1 Russian army. Now that we understand the combat effectiveness of the Dingbei Army, I think we still need more troops to defeat the main force of the Dingbei Army in Outer Mongolia. ”

Under the order of the commander of the front, the Russian 31st Army immediately stopped the offensive and retreated to the improvised fortifications dug by the Russian army opposite the position of the Dingbei Army, after which the Russian army never launched an offensive again.

After the Russian army retreated, the leper followed his comrades into the anti-artillery hole, waiting for the next attack of the Russian army, but after waiting for several hours, the Russian army did not attack again, and the leper muttered dissatisfiedly: "Why don't you fight Lao Maozi, I haven't killed enough 100 to avenge the squad leader!" ”

Since the attack of the 31st Army, the First Siberian Front has never sent troops to attack the positions of the Dingbei Army, but has continuously strengthened its own positions to prevent the Dingbei Army from launching an attack on the First Siberian Front.

After sending a telegram asking for help to the commander of the theater of operations in Irkutsk, the important town of Siberia, Field Marshal Kuropatkin, the Minister of War Marshal Kuropatkin, he honestly took the First Siberian Front and stood opposite the position of the Dingbei Army outside the city, waiting for reinforcements and artillery to arrive.

Ivanov decided to stop the attack on the forward positions outside the city of Dingbei Army without receiving reinforcements and artillery.

On August 26, under the cover of the heavy artillery division of the 5th Army, the 2nd Russian Far East Front sent 3 divisions of the 37th Army to launch a fierce attack on the outer positions of Fuyuan City, and then met with stubborn resistance from the 11th Division of the Dingbei Army, and the heavy artillery units of the 11th Division inflicted heavy losses on the heavy artillery division of the 5th Army and other artillery units of the Second Front Army of the Russian Far East in the artillery battle, so that the attacking 3 divisions of the Russian army basically lost the cover of artillery fire.

Without the cover of artillery, it was impossible to even take the offensive method under artillery bombardment, and the offensive of the Russian 37th Army became weak and pale, like a queue to die in front of the position of the Dingbei Army.

What kind of attack is that, isn't this sending you to death? So the commander of the Second Far Eastern Front, Reseklov, immediately ordered the attacking three divisions to retreat to the positions dug by the Russian army, and Reseklov and the other two army commanders discussed, and their Far Eastern Second Front Army did not expect the strength of the Dingbei Army to be so strong, and they had only heard that the combat effectiveness of the Dingbei Army in the northeast was not weak, but now it was really face-to-face, and after a hard fight, they found out that this combat effectiveness is not weak, and the combat effectiveness is against the sky.

The artillery firepower of one division of the Dingbei Army is more than that of the entire Second Front Army of the Far East, and the Dingbei Army is equipped with a large number of machine guns, and the number of machine guns of one division is far greater than that of the Makqin machine guns of the entire Second Front Army of the Far East.

Now that the artillery of the Second Far Eastern Front has suffered heavy losses, and there is no way to fight the next battle, the three army commanders decided to abandon the attack on Fuyuan City, retreat to Boli, and wait for the Far Eastern Governor Aleksayev to increase the strength and artillery of the Far Eastern Second Front, and then attack Fuyuan City again.

So in the afternoon of the same day, the Second Far Eastern Front withdrew from the border between the two countries and returned to the city of Boli in Russia.

On August 26, the 1st Far Eastern Front, which had lost nearly 45,000 men, did not continue its attack on Dongning City, but retreated to Twin Cities.

Before the start of the war, the fierce Russian army swooped down on the Dingbei Army from the three directions of Outer Mongolia and Heilongjiang, but just two days later, all the attacks of the Russian army in all three directions were not smooth, and the Russian army on the 2nd Route in the Far East had retreated to Russian territory, and the 1st Siberian Front was waiting for reinforcements and artillery support from the theater outside the city.

The Russian army, which was ready to defeat the main force of the Dingbei Army on the border line of the two countries in one fell swoop, died down and deflated.

After receiving a telegram from Ivanov, the commander of the Siberian Theater of Operations and Minister of War Kuropatkin, who was in Irkutsk, invited Oleglev, chief of staff and deputy commander of the Siberian Theater, to the headquarters.

Kuropatkin handed Ivanov's telegram to Oleg Lev, and said: "Look at it! The 1st Siberian Front, which we have formed, is in trouble on the outskirts of the city! ”

Oleg Lev read the telegram and said: "It's too bad that the war has just begun, and the 1st Siberian Front that we formed has lost so much!" Commander, what are your plans? ”

Kuropatkin frowned and said: "I didn't expect the combat effectiveness of the Dingbei Army to be so strong, it has far exceeded my imagination, the 150,000 people of the First Siberian Front Army attacked for 2 days, and suffered 20,000 casualties, and even the edge of the position of the front line of the Dingbei Army was not touched, and the artillery also suffered heavy losses, but the defense was only 1 division of the Dingbei Army, and His Majesty and I underestimated the strength of the Dingbei Army a little. Now it was only necessary to increase the artillery fire and strength of the 1st Siberian Front, hoping that they would break through the positions of the Dingbei Army and occupy the city of Maimai. ”

As a supporter of this war, Kuropatkin, the first person to advocate turning the northeast of the Qing Dynasty into yellow Russia, knew that the combat effectiveness of the Dingbei Army in the Qing-Japanese War was not weak, but it was the army of Japan, a small country in the east, and the powerful Russian army could not be compared with it at all, so before the war, Kuropatkin always thought that the Russian army would push the Dingbei Army all the way over, showing the majestic posture of a European steamroller.

As a result, I didn't expect that as soon as the war started, Russia's powerful army would let the Dingbei Army break its head. (To be continued) R580