The city of Bodebo is on the north side of the Yablonov Mountains, backed by the Vitim River, which meets the Lena River, and the attack of the 5th and 12th divisions on the city of Bodebo can only be launched from the plain to the east, so the 2 divisions took advantage of the night to quietly move to the east of the city of Bodebo, and suddenly launched a surprise attack on the Russian army in the city of Bodebo at dawn.

However, the Russian army in Bodaibo City has 4 heavy artillery divisions, and soon after the artillery of the Dingbei Army opened fire, it reacted and started an artillery battle with the artillery of the Dingbei Army, and the heavy artillery units of the Dingbei Army had no choice but to shift their attention to the Russian artillery, and the task of bombarding the Russian barracks had to be handed over to the 75mm field artillery and 75mm mountain artillery of the artillery battalions of each regiment, as well as the mortars of each battalion and company.

However, the Russian army in Bodaibo City did not expect that the Dingbei Army would suddenly attack, and the Russian officers and soldiers in the barracks outside Bodaibo City suffered heavy casualties from artillery bombardment.

The infantry of the Dingbei Army first launched an attack on the Russian barracks outside Bodaibo City after the artillery bombardment for half an hour, but the Russian artillery has not been suppressed by the artillery of the Dingbei Army, so that when the infantry of the Dingbei Army attacked, it was intercepted by the Russian artillery, although the Russian barracks outside Bodaibo City were occupied by the Dingbei Army little by little, but the casualties of the officers and soldiers of Dingbei were increasing, so that the surprise attack of the Dingbei Army became not sudden, and it became a serious offensive and defensive battle. This is what the Dingbei Army does not want to see.

Zhang Zuolin, the commander of the 12th Division, saw from the telescope the increasing casualties of the attacking troops from behind, put down the telescope and said to Zhang Limin, the commander of the 5th Division beside him: "Brother, we can't fight like this, the casualties are too great!" ”

Zhang Limin nodded and said: "Our goal is not to occupy Bodaibo City, but to contain the Russian army, prevent the Russian army from launching an attack on our occupied area, and even affect the principal's plan for large-scale migration to the occupied area." If we can't fight hard with the Russian army in Bodaibo City, I think we can let the attacking troops retreat first, anyway, as long as we are near Bodaibo City and continue to harass the Russian army, they will not have the energy to launch an attack on our occupied areas. ”

Zhang Zuolin nodded and said, "What my brother said is reasonable, come on!" Order the attacking troops to retreat, order the artillery to continue firing to cover the infantry retreat, and we return to the small town of Anris! ”

The 5th Division and the 12th Division have been building fortifications in the small town of Anlis, which is less than 10 kilometers away from Bodaibo City, and soon after Zhang Zuolin's order was issued, the officers and soldiers of Dingbei who attacked the Russian barracks outside Bodaibo City retreated one after another, and under the cover of artillery, they have been out of the range of Russian artillery, and then the artillery also retreated, and the two divisions returned to Anlisi Town.

In the attack on April 10, the Russian army in the three cities of Yakutsk, Zhigansk and Oreokminsk west of the Lena River suffered heavy losses due to the lack of artillery support and the lack of preparation for the surprise attack of the Dingbei Army, which caused heavy losses to the six Russian corps defending the three cities, with a total loss of more than 60,000 people, while the casualties of the Dingbei Army attacking the three cities did not exceed 5,000.

Although the city of Bodaibo on the north side of the Yablonov Mountains was also attacked by the two integrated divisions of the Dingbei Army, relying on the four heavy artillery divisions of the Russian army in the city of Bodebo, the surprise attack of the two integrated divisions of the Dingbei Army was not very successful, and the loss of the city of Bodaibo was less than 10,000 people, while the two divisions of the Dingbei Army also suffered more than 6,000 casualties.

Since April 11, the cities of Yakutsk, Zhigansk and Oryokminsk, the Dingbei Army has been taking advantage of the advantages of artillery, placing its artillery on the other side of the river in Russian cities, shelling three Russian cities every day for a period of time, and not launching infantry attacks, only so that the Russian troops in the three cities do not have the energy to launch an attack on the east coast of the Lena River.

Since then, the troops of the Dingbei Army have never stepped on the Lena River in this war with Russia, but only used artillery to shell 3 cities where the Russian army is heavily armed, until the end of this war, while the city of Yakutsk, Zhigansk and Oryokminsk have been completely destroyed, and the 3 cities have almost become ruins, causing a large number of casualties among Russian troops and civilians, and the Russian army in 3 cities is even more tragic, afraid that the Dingbei Army will cross the Lena River, so they can only send troops to guard the fortifications of the 3 cities, In this way, they can only be bombarded by the artillery fire of the Dingbei Army every day.

For Bodaibo City, the Russian army has more than 100,000 troops, especially 4 heavy artillery divisions have been in Bodaibo City, the 5th and 12th Divisions of the Dingbei Army have adopted the tactics of constantly sending small units to harass Bodaibo City every day, holding light mortars, sneaking close to Bodaibo City, facing Bodaibo City is a mortar shell, especially at night, this kind of harassment is more frequent, so that the 4 armies of the Siberian Third Front Army in Bodaibo City are overwhelmed, So the commander of the Russian army, Ivanov, sent Russian troops to clear the small units of the Dingbei Army, but the effect was very small, the number of Russian troops was small, and they could not defeat the small units of the Dingbei Army.

Ivanov, commander of the Russian Siberian Third Front in Bodaibo City, has always been worried that if his army leaves Bodaibo City, it will fall into the encirclement of the Dingbei Army, so the 4 armies and 4 heavy artillery divisions of the main force of the Siberian Third Front have been honestly staying in Bodaibo City, and they have to be forced to suffer dozens of mortar shells from the Dingbei Army every day.

The Russian Third Siberian Front has not launched an offensive against the occupied area of the Dingbei Army, also because when the commander of the Siberian Theater of Operations, Kuropatkin, came to the outskirts of Darkhan, and received a surprise attack from the troops of the Dingbei Army on the cities of Yakutsk, Zhigansk, and Oryokminsk west of the Lena River, as well as the city of Bodaibo on the north side of the Yablonov Mountains, and considered that his First Siberian Front was about to launch an attack on the city of Darkhan. So a telegram was sent to Ivanov, commander of the 3rd Siberian Front.

The meaning of the telegram from Kuropatkin was that now that the battle of Darkhan was about to begin, he hoped that the area west of the Lena River would be stabilized, that the Siberian Third Front would postpone its offensive on the area east of the Lena River occupied by the Dingbei Army, and that the Siberian Third Front would hold on to the west bank of the Lena River, and that it would be enough to wait for the battle situation in Darkhan before making the next plan.

Later, the commander of the theater of operations, Kuropatkin, sent another telegram to Ivanov, secretly mobilizing some units of the Third Front to support the front line in the city of Darkhan, so that Ivanov completely cut off the plan to counterattack the area occupied by the Northern Army.

Ivanov, who received the commander's telegram, sent 1 division of the Russian army out of the city to encircle and suppress these small units harassed by the Dingbei Army, attracting the attention of the Dingbei Army, so that his troops supporting Darkhan City could evacuate Bodaibo City unnoticed, but the division that went out of the city to encircle and suppress was led by a small force of the Dingbei Army into the ambush circle set up by the 5th and 12th Divisions of the Dingbei Army, so that the number of the Russian infantry division of nearly 10,000 people who finally fled back to Bodaibo City was less than 1,000 people.

However, until the end of this war, the Fifth and Twelfth Divisions did not launch a large-scale attack on Bodaibo City, and the two division commanders of the Dingbei Army did not know that the Russian army in Bodaibo City quietly withdrew half of their troops to support Darkhan City under their noses, otherwise they might immediately wave their troops to capture Bodaibo City.

But that's it, Bodaibo City did not escape the fate of being captured by the Dingbei Army in the end, of course, this is a later story.

Because the special forces brigade of the Dingbei Army blew up many sections of the Russian European railway line to Irkutsk by airship, the supply line of the Siberian theater was suddenly interrupted, and Kuropatkin had to do his best to launch an attack on Darkhan City, so the 650,000 Russian Siberian First Front Army near Raktu City and Maimai City successively came to 10 kilometers north of dozens of mountain fortifications outside Darkhan City and established a large Russian battalion.

Guarding the city of Darkhan were three integrated divisions of the 3rd, 7th and 8th Divisions of the Dingbei Army, and three divisions of the 21st, 22nd and 23rd Divisions, with a total strength of 165,000 men.

As the commander of the entire Darkhan City fortifications, the commander of the 3rd Division, Ni Fan, summoned the commanders of the other 5 divisions to the headquarters of the 3rd Division in Darkhan City after the 650,000 Russian 1st Siberian Front Army came to the north of the mountain fortifications in Darkhan City.

Ni Fan smiled and said to the five division commanders: "We have been busy in Darkhan City, built a huge group of mountain fortifications outside the city, and built Darkhan City into a big fortress, and now it can finally be used, and the commander of the Siberian Theater of Operations, Kuropatkin, led his newly formed First Front Army of 650,000 troops. ”

Hu Desheng, the commander of the Seventh Division, said: "Now our pressure is not as great as before, we have annihilated 720,000 Russian troops in the inner city of Svobod, the Russian army in Vladivostok has also surrendered, and the other troops of our Dingbei Army can have hundreds of thousands of troops to mobilize, and they can be dispatched to the battlefield in Outer Mongolia at any time to support our Darkhan city." ”

Wang Peng, the commander of the Eighth Division, said confidently: "Even if there is no support, with the fortifications of our Darkhan City and our 6 divisions, I don't believe that the Russians can capture Darkhan." ”

This is to the hearts of the other division commanders, so the other 5 division commanders nodded one after another, the troops of the 6 divisions have been busy in the city of Darkhan for several months is not in vain, the mountain fortifications outside the city are covered with criss-crossing trenches and a large number of light and dark bunkers built with reinforced concrete, and below are well-developed tunnels, not inferior to the mountain fortifications outside the inner city of Svobod.

A large fortress was built inside the city of Darkhan, every house was built into a small fortress, and even tunnels were dug up, and if the fortifications outside the city and inside the city were lost, the remaining troops of several divisions were ready to retreat to the tunnels below the city of Darhan and continue to fight.

Ni Fan smiled and said to the other 5 division commanders: "The principal knows that Kuropatkin has come to our Darkhan City with an army of 650,000 troops, and has already made arrangements, and even the headmaster has personally rushed to our Darkhan City with the army!" ”

Fan Wubo, the commander of the 21st Division, said excitedly: "It seems that the principal is determined to annihilate the main force of the Russian Siberian theater in one fell swoop in the city of Darkhan, so that the victory in this war with the Russians will basically belong to us!" ”

Several division commanders present couldn't help but nodded, and everyone was a little excited in their hearts, the war with Russia, a European power, was about to end, and the victorious side turned out to be the four northeastern provinces that were not favored by all countries in the world before the war.

Ni Fan said to the other five division commanders: "This time I brought you here to let everyone understand that the battle of our Darkhan City is very important, and it will directly affect the outcome of the entire war with the Russians, and now it seems that everyone is very clear in their hearts." Our divisions must resolutely hold the city of Darkhan and wait for the other Dingbei armies to come to the city of Darkhan, and then it will be the time for us to divide the victory with the Russians! ”R1152