Hutou is a border town in Jilin Province, located on the Hutou Mountain in the Yumai of Wanda Mountain, facing the Ussuri River, across the river from the city of Daline Rechensko, although it is surrounded by swampy wetlands, but to some extent, it is a military place, at least for the Binjiang Garrison Command, this is a military place. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Ten years ago, when the vanguard of the "Korean Army" arrived at this swampy land where the three rivers meet, they immediately sent troops and staff officers to survey and map this area, and the following year began to live here with heavy troops, and secretly built the Hutou underground fortress, but it was said that it was a fortress, but in fact it was only a semi-permanent fortification.

For the Northeast Army Command, which regards Russia as an imaginary enemy, "the tiger's head is like a dagger facing the throat of Vladivostok and Ussuriysk, and like the tip of a spear pierced into the heart of Russia's Primorsky Territory." It is impossible not to see that the tiger head, as a natural bridgehead, can completely resist the enemy's surprise attacks and mobile operations by virtue of the surrounding marshy area."

In one word, the Japanese army broke through the heavenly opportunity, this is the forefront of resistance to Russia, and it is also the bridgehead for attacking Russia. The reason why it was a bridgehead for attacking Russia could not be simpler, according to the operational plan drawn up by the General Staff, the most crucial part of the first phase of the operational plan was not even to capture the Russian fortified area of the twin cities, or even to approach Vladivostok along the railway. For the Northeast Army, the core of the first stage was whether it could occupy the Primorsky Governorate and whether it could cut off the connection between the Primorsky Governorate and the Amur Coastal Governorate.

Why is the Maritime Governorate important?

The numbers tend to speak for themselves: the population of the Primorsky Region is 2.3 million, equivalent to 70 per cent of the population of the Far East. Fifty per cent of the population of the Siberian region is concentrated in the Primorsky Governorate - in addition to that. It also produces 90 percent of Siberia's rice and 40 percent of its wheat. It is also home to 70% of the factories in Siberia.

Of course, it is precisely because of its importance that the Russian garrison in the Far East13. Nearly 110,000 of the 50,000 troops were deployed in the Maritime Governorate. It can be said that the coastal area is the heart of Siberia, and as long as you want to go down the coastal area, it is equivalent to laying down half of Siberia.

It is for this reason that, in the plan of the General Staff, the capture of Primorsky and the severance of the connection between Primorsky and Amur were carried out. It became the most important part of the plan, even more important than the occupation of Vladivostok.

And it is precisely because of this core, will make the position of the tiger head show its importance, its terrain is more important in the military, the tiger mountain in the north of the tiger head is composed of three hills, overlook, there are tiger tail, tiger body, tiger head is divided, such as the fierce crouching tiger state, the image is extremely realistic, the high tiger head. The city of Dalnerechensky, the Dalnerechensky railway bridge, and the Trans-Siberian Railway, are seen across the river. Here you can directly cross the river to attack the Soviet Union; It can support the main forces of the Northeast Army in front of Suifenhe and Dongning to attack in the Vladivostok area; It can stop the Russian army that is reinforcing from Boli to the south; It is possible to cut off rail and water transport to Russia on the opposite side. In other words, the troops attack from here. It was possible to separate the Primorsky from Russia, so that the main force of the Northeast Army could calmly break up the resistance of the Russians.

Since 10 years ago, it has been based on both defensive and offensive needs. The Northeast Army began to build a defensive position in the Hutou area, with the eastern, central, and western hills of Menghu Mountain as the core, surrounded by swampy areas, forming a natural barrier that was difficult to pass. The Tiger Mountain position is the center of the Tiger Head Fortress, and it is also the location of the Tiger Head Border Garrison Headquarters. However, due to limited funds, there has never been a permanent military fortress here, but a simple fortress made of sleepers and earth and stone, only some areas are reinforced with reinforced concrete fortresses, and most areas are the kind of simple semi-permanent fortifications, and the natural vegetation on the fortifications is dense, and there is no trace of artificiality.

However, although this fortress is far from meeting the standards of the fortress by Western standards, the deployment of the 30 mm fortress gun produced by the Shenyang Arsenal has already been completed, this naval coastal defense fortress gun, the actual caliber is 305 mm, and the range is more than 30 kilometers when firing at a 45-degree angle of fire, and the time it was deployed in the Hutou Fortress is only one month different from the time when the railway along the Ussuri River was built, in order to carry out artillery bombardment of the ring railway along the Ussuri River from the Hutou Fortress. In wartime, it is possible to destroy the railway system in the Far East and cut off the land connection between Vladivostok and Bole, so that the Russian army in the Primorsky Governorate will be divided into a lonely army.

On February 3, in the early hours of the morning, more than 300,000 Northeast Army troops and thousands of artillery pieces were waiting for the final moment in the mountains and grasslands of Suifenhe and Manchuria, while in the brightly lit Hutou Fortress, it was 6:15 a.m. at this moment. Everyone inside the fortress was watching the time, everyone felt their throats tighten, and everyone's hearts were pounding.

At this moment, this strange silence was unbearable, and the warriors in the white sheets in the snow and ice by the river were holding their rifles, and although their eyes were resolute, the hands holding the guns were a little pale because of the excessive tension in their joints.

The soldiers were nervous, and the officers were equally nervous.

At 6:09, Lieutenant Colonel Zhou Chengli, the commander of the fortress, looked at his watch nervously again. But as the minute hand moved on the dial, the war against Russia, which lay ahead in silence and darkness, inevitably loomed. And they will fire the first shot of this war!

"Are the measurements accurate?"

Zhou Chengli asked loudly again, as if he was afraid that the telephone operator would not know his orders, and he asked again.

"Is the measurement of the 30 cents cannon accurate?"

The measurements he was referring to were, of course, were the measurements of the Dalnerechensky Bridge, the choke point of the Trans-Siberian Railway, which was less than 20 kilometers from the fortress and was within the range of the fortress's guns, and according to the order, at the same time as the attack on Russia, the fortress carried out an accurate shelling of the Dalnerechensky railway bridge with intensive firepower, thus cutting off the railway communication between the Russian army in Vladivostok and the rear, and then attacked the railway with intensive firepower.

Whether or not the Dalynerechensky railway bridge can be hit with one shot is directly related to the implementation of the entire campaign. As the commander of the fortress, Zhou Chengli naturally looked extremely nervous. He was afraid that the gunners would not be able to measure accurately. Thus the shell was missed.

If they can't destroy the railway bridge, then the 36th Brigade, deployed as a reserve on Black Blind Island, needs to send troops to capture and blow up the railway bridge while attacking Boli.

During Zhou Chengli's nervous questioning, on the fortress gun battery, the heavy cannonball was pushed to the tail of the cannon by a cart. The gunners were loaded into the bore, and while the gunners were busy loading the shells, several artillery officers were under the lights, carrying out the final work on the map, and when they were carrying out the work on the map, in front of the battery, an officer released a balloon, and at the same time, he observed the anemometer to determine the wind speed.

They were all the best gunners. Although, for various reasons, they could not conduct shooting training here. But every year they go to the naval batteries in the south for shooting training, they have long been accustomed to such tasks, but none of them can compare with this one, this is not training, but real combat.

In the long process of preparation, the wind speed and direction were determined one by one, and all these data were collected to the commander of the battery, after strict paper calculations, the parameters of aiming were calculated, and the thick barrel of the fortress cannon was slowly shaken, and the cannon body glowed with cold light in the moonlight, pointing straight to the starry sky, and the cold metallic luster seemed to warn people that it was about to wave the roar of death to the other side of the river.

6:15 a.m. In the weed-filled border swamps, the meter-tall wooden watchtower ghostly reflected in the sky. The first pale dawn appeared on the horizon. A deathly silence still hangs over the entire area. The forest slumbered, and the swamp was silent. In this deathly silence, at the very front of the Black Blind Island, on the wooden watchtower that had existed for many years and was more than ten meters high, an artillery second lieutenant's eyes were close to the artillery mirror, and in the artillery mirror, the railway bridge designed by an Italian engineer and made of Incheon steel twelve kilometers away was faintly reflected in his sight.

"It's almost there!"

Swallowing his saliva, the artillery lieutenant looked at his watch, and on the carefully matched watch, the second hand turned, and at the moment when the hand jumped to 3:20, it was like an electric switch that threw a violent flash of light and tore the night sky, and the cannons of various calibers fired from the Tiger Head Fortress erupted flames at the same time, and the fireworks almost lit up the sky.

The first is the flares, which are fired from the 152mm Fortress Cannon, which is actually a fortified version of the 6-inch naval rapid-fire gun, with a greater angle and a longer range. The flare is a "secret weapon" developed by the Army, which can turn night into day.

Under the illumination of the flares, the railway bridge that was originally hidden in the darkness and faintly visible was instantly illuminated, and when the railway bridge was clearly reflected in the sight, suddenly, near the pier of the railway bridge, a huge water column rose up, and the water column up to hundreds of meters almost blocked the entire railway bridge.

"Missed!"

Without regretting it, the second lieutenant immediately measured the deviation data, and as he reported the data one by one, the telephone operator next to him immediately reported the deviation to the rear battery, at this time everyone on this wooden tower knew very well that they were going to compete with the Russian shells for time, and they had to give accurate parameters before the Russian shells destroyed the watchtower, so as to guide the fortress artillery to shell the railway bridge.

Quick, fast......

Everyone near the watchtower was nervously staring at the railway bridge in the distance, and at this time, the flares were still firing there, and the entire railway bridge, and even the entire city of Boli were illuminated, and perhaps the sleeping Russians would also wonder why the sun rose so early.

In the midst of a nervous wait, suddenly, a huge burst of flames surged in the center of the railway bridge in the cannon mirror.

"Hooray!"

An excited and frenzied cheer burst out of the second lieutenant's voice, and only a loud howl could be heard.

"In the middle of the bridge, immediately contact the battery and let them fight according to this parameter...... Hit ...... hard"

The phone operator over there just shouted "hit the ...... hard" into the phone, accompanied by a sharp whistle, the Russian troops near Boli began to fire back, their shells were very poor, perhaps because of the close range limit here, the shells fell near this watchtower, just set off a ball of fireworks that were not too fierce, and the Russians were obviously using medium-caliber field artillery to return fire.

But it was too late, the heavy artillery of the Tiger Head Fortress had already begun to jubilate according to the previous parameters, 100-pound 6-inch shells to hundreds of kilograms of shells, constantly falling on the railway bridge, the seemingly solid steel beams became as fragile as noodles under accurate shelling, and the steel beams twisted and deformed in the violent explosion.

Suddenly, when a shell accurately hit the pier, the moment the shell that penetrated into the pier exploded, the railway bridge collapsed......

Almost at the same time as the shelling began, in the ice and snow on the Black Blind Island, a pair of eyes stared at the white glacier, and the soldiers, who had been waiting for hours in the extreme cold of minus 30 degrees, finally heard the sound of the artillery that meant the attack.

Almost the moment the cannon sounded, as the commander of the 115th Infantry Regiment Wu Peifu, he kept staring at the air, almost the sound of shells breaking through the air flew overhead, and the moment the order came on the phone, he immediately jumped out of the ice trench, holding Binjiang in his left hand and holding a Western-style saber in his right hand.

"Attack!"

With his roar, a silver light slashed across the night sky and pointed diagonally at the night sky.

With an order, the warriors, who were shivering in the extreme cold in white sheets, immediately rose from the ice and snow. The soldiers shouted frantically, like sprinters, and desperately crossed the frozen Ussuri River with rifles, and rushed towards the land that once belonged to China.

In the face of a sudden attack, the Russian sentries on the border only had time to fire a few bullets indiscriminately with their rifles, and then they were faced with soldiers crossing the glacier like a wave, and the few sentries on the border often had no time to resist at this time, and some of them chose to surrender, but when they raised their hands, the bayonets glistening with the cold moonlight still sank into their chests. (To be continued.) )