He Kaisheng said: "Please report that Sanders transferred the 1st and 2nd City Defense Regiments from Manila and handed them over to the command of Raceno, and as for where the two regiments are attacking, the intelligence does not explain. ”

Lin Fei thought for a while and said, "Counselor He, you come to analyze and analyze, what is Sanders' purpose in doing this?" ”

He Kaisheng pondered for a moment and said: "One regiment of the Spaniards has more than 2,000 people, two regiments are more than 4,000 people, plus more than 4,000 people in the two regiments that were preparing to attack Cavite before, a total of more than 8,000 people. ”

Lin Fei nodded and said, "That's right, the Spaniards just want to take advantage of our unstable foothold, catch us off guard, and drive us into the sea." ”

He Kaisheng said with some worry: "Your Majesty, then what should we do?" Fight them in a main battle? The troops we have landed now have four regiments, with a total strength of about 5,000 men, and they are obviously no match in terms of troops. ”

Lin Fei smiled and said: "The soldiers are not expensive but expensive, we still have a good chance of winning this battle, let's fight this land decisive battle with the Spaniards..."

He Kaisheng's face showed a look of excitement and fear, and he said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, if we have a decisive battle with the Spaniards, then this battle will be a big battle with more than 10,000 participants, and I have never seen such a big battle. ”

Although He Kaisheng served as a staff member in the Qing army, he had no combat experience, and the only combat experience was only one suppression of bandits, and the number of participants was only a few hundred.

Lin Fei smiled and said, "In the future, you will have to experience a major battle with millions of participants, okay, don't say more, go and invite Li Mingming and Li Tianqian here, and we will discuss this battle well." ”

He Kaisheng agreed, turned around and went out, and found Li Mingming and Li Tianqian in a short time, at this time Li Mingming was Lin Fei's chief of staff, but his strength could not catch up with He Kaisheng and Li Tianqian, after all, they had gone to private school, read military books, and served as staff members in the army, but Li Mingming did not have these experiences, and Li Mingming was also very self-aware, so many times he did not express his opinions, focusing on learning.

The three of them got together, all with worried looks on their faces, after all, none of them had any experience in commanding such a big battle, Lin Fei smiled and said: "The enemy army has sent 8,000 people to attack our army, and now a large-scale battle is about to break out, and the art of war is cloudy: 'Know your opponent and know yourself, you will not be defeated in a hundred battles. If you want to win a battle, you must clearly judge the enemy's strategic purpose, the purpose of the campaign, and the direction of the main attack. ”

The three staff officers Li Mingming, Li Tianqian and He Kaisheng all shook their heads, and Lin Fei smiled and said: "Well, since you don't know, then listen to me, the enemy's strategic purpose is to take advantage of our army's unstable foothold to attack our army, in order to annihilate our army in one fell swoop, the enemy's campaign purpose, I am a little unsure." ”

"I don't know whether the enemy is going to attack Krabi directly or attack the No. 1 height, the purpose of the campaign determines the direction of the main attack, if the enemy's campaign purpose is to directly attack Cavite, then the enemy's main attack direction must be Cavite, if not, then the main attack direction will become the No. 1 height, everyone analyzes and analyzes, what is the enemy's campaign purpose?"

The three of them seemed to be frightened by the name of the "Battle of 10,000 People", looked at each other, and did not speak for a long time, and after a long while, Li Mingming whispered: "Your Majesty, if you want to determine the enemy's campaign purpose, you should need intelligence, right?" If we know the movement of the enemy's troops, won't we be able to determine the purpose of the campaign and the direction of the main attack? Didn't our intelligence officers send back this information? ”

Lin Fei shook his head and said, "The source only said that the enemy army dispatched two regiments, and nothing else was said. ”

Li Ming then asked, "What about our sniper team?" Didn't you send back any information on this? ”

Lin Fei smiled and said, "The sniper team didn't send back the relevant information, and it was too late for them to send back the information." ”

The three of them asked, "Why is it too late?" ”

Lin Fei said: "Assuming that the enemy wants to attack the No. 1 Heights, the sniper team can only know the situation when the enemy attacks the No. 1 Heights, it will take a certain amount of time to reach me, and it will take a certain amount of time for me to send reinforcements out. ”

The three of them looked embarrassed and shook their heads, Lin Fei saw that the three of them didn't have an idea, and said, "Since everyone doesn't speak, then I'll make a judgment." ”

Under the gaze of the three of them, Lin Fei stood up, walked to the front of the map, stretched out his hand and pointed to the No. 1 Height, and said, "My judgment is this, the enemy's main attack direction is on the No. 1 Height..."

The three of them asked in unison, "How do you judge?" ”

Lin Fei said: "I judge from two aspects, first, according to the information sent back by the sniper team and the divisional howitzer regiment, the enemy has sent two regiments to attack the No. 1 high ground, and our army's howitzer regiment has also caused destruction and damage to one of them; Second, the enemy has realized that the lethality of our No. 1 highland artillery is extremely strong, and if they attack Krabi directly, they will definitely be killed and injured by the artillery of No. 1 highland. ”

The three of them suddenly realized and nodded one after another, Lin Fei smiled, thinking that the scale of the battle would become larger and larger in the future, and the level of staff officers would also need to be improved.

Lin Fei continued: "We have judged the enemy's campaign purpose and main attack direction, the next step is to formulate operational objectives for its main attack direction, our combat goal has been thought of, that is, to use the No. 1 high ground as a bait to contain the enemy's main force near the high ground, and then wait for the opportunity to outflank it in a roundabout way to annihilate its living forces to the greatest extent." ”

The three of them nodded again, Lin Fei cleared his throat, and said loudly: "Prepare to give an order..."

Li Tianqian and He Kaisheng immediately took out the pen and notebook when they heard this, Li understood that he was the chief of the general staff and did not need to convey the order in person, so he sat still, Lin Fei said loudly: "Order the first regiment of the first brigade to rush to the No. 1 high ground as fast as possible and build a defensive line near the high ground." ”

"Order the 6th and 5th regiments of the 2nd Brigade to be ready to attack, and to conduct roundabout operations at any time to outflank the enemy; The 4th Regiment of the 2nd Brigade was ordered to strengthen its alert and defend against enemy attacks. ”

After Lin Fei gave the order, he asked the staff officer to convey it, Li Tianqian and He Kaisheng said goodbye, and Li Ming saw that there was nothing to do, so he also said goodbye and left. At this time, Lin Fei had two brigades, so Lin Fei was equivalent to a division-level commander, but he crossed the brigade-level commander and directly commanded the regiment, because Lin Fei's troops were still relatively small, and it was more convenient to command directly.

Everyone walked out, Lin Fei looked at the map, and couldn't help but feel a burst of worry in his heart, he was worried that his judgment of the direction of the main attack would be wrong, although he judged that the enemy's direct attack on the No. 1 high ground was very reasonable, but he was still worried that the Spaniards would take a risk and attack Cavite directly.

Although Lin Fei was worried, there was nothing he could do, he took a deep breath, put this doubt down, and then called He Kaisheng in and asked him to send someone to inform the sniper team that he could carry out the sniper mission.

Lin Fei had not allowed the sniper team to snipe the enemy's senior officers before, this was because Lin Fei wanted to carry forward the powerful firepower of the HP-2 howitzer and kill and injure the enemy in a large area, and now that the HP-2 howitzer has shown its might, Lin Fei no longer has to let the sniper team be silent.

Niu Dalong personally led the First Regiment of the First Brigade to march to the No. 1 Heights, and came to the vicinity of the Heights at 3 p.m. on June 8, Niu Dalong led his men to inspect the terrain, and found that the No. 1 Heights were more than 500 meters long in the north-south direction and more than 300 meters wide in the east-west direction, and the heights were surrounded by flat land with many woods.

The outside of the No. 1 Heights is open and flat, so it is useless to build a section of trenches, because the enemy can easily bypass the trenches and launch an attack from the back and side of the trenches, and if you want to dig trenches, you can only dig a circular trench, that is, dig a circle in the ground, which can defend in all directions, but Heights No. 1 is too big, and with only more than 1,000 people of the First Regiment, it is impossible to dig a circular defensive trench.

Therefore, Niu Dalong decided to deploy the troops on the No. 1 high ground and build a circular defensive position at the intersection of the upper mountain road, and if the enemy wants to attack the high ground, it must first attack the annular defensive position at the upper mountain intersection, and the annular defensive position can form a three-dimensional cross fire network with the hilltop position, and the enemy will pay heavy casualties as long as he attacks.

While Niu Dalong led his troops to build positions, the Spanish army moved to a place about five kilometers away from the No. 1 Heights and built an attack command post.

The Spanish army dispatched four regiments, more than 8,000 troops, these troops must not rush to the No. 1 height, who will attack the main attack, who will play the auxiliary must be clear, this requires an attack command post, where Racello will personally direct the battle, this will also be the rear base of the attack force, hospitals and ammunition storage centers will be set up here.

At 7 o'clock in the evening of June 8, as night fell, Niu Dalong's 1st Regiment completed the construction of the fortifications, and the Spaniards' attack command post was also completed.

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