After dawn, Dong Liu, the platoon commander of the fourth platoon of the guard company who participated in the second half of the defense of the second battalion and the third company, could see the situation at the front of the position. At that time, the guard company had all been put into battle, and the four platoons were reinforced to the four companies of the second battalion, and the company commander Xu Gongzhi acted as the commander of the third company with heavy casualties, and he left Dong Liu's platoon in the third company under his command.

"My mother, I haven't seen so many dead people since I was a child......" The one who spoke was Niu Xiaodao, a soldier in the fourth platoon, he and Dong Liu are from the same village, and they are a bit stupid, although they have joined the South Manchurian detachment for more than a year, and now they are still a soldier - they used to be squad leaders, but they were withdrawn again. However, Niu Xiaodao is optimistic and admits that he is not the material for being an official, and it is quite good to be a soldier to eat food and receive salary. However, this kid had a big life, and the Chen family's shack battle participated in the general assault and was unscathed. Last night's bloody battle was fought for more than half of the time, and eighteen people were killed and wounded in the four platoons, but this kid was still unscathed.

Dong Liu looked at the scene in front of him and fell into a state of delirium. Although he has chosen to work hard for several years, he has even taken murder as his profession in the year he joined the detachment, especially in the Chen family's shack, where he has seen dead bodies everywhere. But it is nothing compared to the scene in front of you.

Indeed, the scene at the front of the position was simply unhuman: from the position of the Third Company, a gentle slope was covered with corpses in dark uniforms, and the density of dead bodies almost covered the hillside. Jet-black blood stains make up the main color and are painted all over the place.

In many places, the corpses are overlapped, like a human flesh bun is piled out of corpses. Just about 100 meters in front of Dong Liu, a Makqin machine gun actually fell crookedly on the pile of corpses! It's covered with yellow bullet casings! The Japanese actually built machine-gun emplacements out of the corpses of their own companions!

The nearest corpse was less than a meter away from the trench. The golden hook rifle was still clenched in his hand, and the corpse's face was intact, and he was actually smiling. Dong Liu looked over carefully and saw that the corpse's stomach was in a mess, and it was estimated that he had been shot in the abdomen and fell in front of the trench - he was not dead at that time, he was frozen to death, because he had seen people who were frozen to death, and he actually had a smile on his face, as if he was very happy. However, this Japanese soldier was wounded first?

The woods in the distance had been completely destroyed by artillery fire. There was still half of the body hanging from a stake - the lower half of the body was missing. The upper body was lying on the stump, indescribably weird.

Dong Liu finally couldn't help it, felt nauseous, squatted on the ground and began to vomit. There were many officers and soldiers who vomited like him. Desperately resisted last night. I can't see the opponent's miserable situation at all. Now I finally see my "masterpiece" clearly.

"Get up and eat! It's not promising! There's a quest coming down soon! "The higher-ranking officers kicked and tore the soldiers. The food had been delivered, but few people took the initiative to receive it.

"Get up, get up. The commander came. "The officer kicked the ass of the soldiers who were squatting in the trenches in a daze,

In the trenches came a group of Russian officers in blue tweed coats with unnamed medals, and the soldiers of the independent regiment leaned against the walls of the trenches and looked at them blankly, and their own supreme commander was among them, pointing to the dead bodies on the pillows, thinking that the generals of the Russian army would introduce the bloody battle of last night.

The deputy chief of staff of the Russian Far Eastern Army, General Artemyev, smiled in stark contrast to the gloomy face of the commander of the 4th Siberian Division behind him. He was a high-ranking general of the Russian army who recognized the strategic significance of Heigoutai and assisted Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin in formulating a campaign plan for the counterattack of the Second Army on the right flank. General Gripin Berge always looked unconfident, and he held 126 infantry battalions of 5 armies (excluding the 5 combat battalions of the South Manchurian Independent Regiment) under his command. This led to the defeat of the 10th Division southeast of Heigoutai and the crisis of the loss of Heigoutai. If the Japanese Eighth Division captures Heigoutai, the siege of Shendanbao will be solved, and the right-wing offensive carefully planned by itself will be a complete failure! The most serious consequence of losing Mukden is that the main forces of the Far Eastern Army will be encircled and annihilated. The series of defeats since the beginning of the war, especially the loss of the fortress of Arthur, led to an extremely unstable situation in the country, which was full of anti-war petitions, and a revolution was brewing...... Major General Artemiev couldn't think about it anymore, and all these consequences depend on whether Heigoutai can be defended!

It's good now! The defenders of Heigoutai thwarted the arrogant Japanese army, and this strategic place was safe and sound! And it was won by the South Manchurian Independent Regiment that it was valued by itself! This will be a great credit to yourself! Therefore, General Artemiev was in a good mood, praised Lu Shan along the way, and agreed to Lu Shan's request for the Independent Regiment to clean up the battlefield and collect Japanese weapons, not only promising to give priority to replenishing the battle-damaged weapons of the Independent Regiment, but also promising to persuade General Kuropatkin to expand the Independent Regiment into an independent Manchurian division.

"Dear Lu, your regiment has performed extremely well! I will personally report to the Commander-in-Chief the merits of your troops! What are your suggestions for next steps? Later today, there will be a military meeting where you can say what you think. Major General Artemiev looked at Lushan with a smile, and the more he looked at it, the more pleasing it became.

"Of course, we must attack Shen Danbao and pull out this nail." Lu Shan muttered, "But before launching the attack on Shendan Fort, the Eighth Division should be further expelled, their blood is about to run dry." ”

"Good, exactly what I thought. Lu, can your troops take on the task of counterattacking? ”

"General," Lu Shan glanced at the commander of the Russian division hiding behind Artemyev, "No, I need to reorganize the troops and let the troops breathe." Last night's bloody battle cost our troops thousands of casualties, and the loss of weapons was also extremely serious," Lu Shan deliberately exaggerated the casualty figures, "and when the replenishment is in place, I promise to participate in the attack on Shendan Fort." ”

"Okay, that's it. After cleaning up the battlefield, your troops hand over their positions, retreat and rest, and wait for new orders. By the way, you have to carefully count the number of corpses, understand? Major General Artemiev patted Rushan on the broad shoulder. The Chinese's demand for a sweep of the battlefield is completely reasonable and cannot be refused.

After breakfast. The cavalry battalion, which had been left unused, was released by Lu Shan and began to guard and reconnoiter the movements of the Japanese army and cover the battlefield. Soldiers from the baggage battalion (many of them untrained farmers) were brought in to clean up the battlefield and collect weapons and ammunition abandoned by the Japanese army. Some of the infantry also joined the ranks of cleaning up the battlefield, but they did not care about weapons and ammunition, but went to collect the belongings on the corpses of the Japanese soldiers.

The Japanese troops who retreated to the area around Long Beach did not react, and at noon, the independent regiment safely cleaned up the battlefield, according to Lu Shan's order. All weapons. Including the broken guns were collected, this is his capital, which can be sold for money, but also for his own strength.

Inventory the battlefield. According to statistics, 2,880 corpses were abandoned on the battlefield by Japanese soldiers. There was no careful inventory on the other side of the Heigou River. Many of the corpses were incomplete, fragmented and rotten flesh that could not be counted. Taking into account the corpses and more casualties brought back by the Japanese army. Lu Shan judged that the attack of the 8th Division last night had cost more than 7,000 men. Coupled with the losses of the independent regiment and the Russian offensive the day before yesterday, the total battle losses of the 8th Division were more than 8,000 people! Lu Shan still can't figure out the exact establishment of the Japanese division, but these 8,000 people are the loss of combat personnel, even according to the large establishment of 20,000 people in one division, this loss is enough to cause the division to lose its combat effectiveness! After receiving the statistics of the baggage battalion, Lu Shan admired the tenacity of the Japanese army, and did not dare to guarantee that his troops would maintain their strong attack power after paying such a proportion of battle losses. On the other hand, Lu Shan was very contemptuous of the stupidity of the Japanese commanders, and he would never send soldiers to the killing ground like expelling cattle.

Lushan quickly wrote a report to General Artemiev, in addition to reporting the losses of the 8th Division, he also wrote a list of supplementary weapons, Lushan asked the Russian headquarters to replenish six Makqin heavy machine guns, four 76mm guns, six small-caliber guns, eight mortars, 2,000 Mosinagan rifles and 100 pistols, and ammunition was equipped according to four bases. The artillery played a crucial role in this brutal defensive battle, and without the artillery blocking and firing and the suppression of the Japanese artillery fire, the Independent Regiment would have been unable to resist the "pig sudden" suicide attack that the Eighth Division had learned from the Lushun Attack. However, if these cannons are in place, the establishment is not an artillery battalion. Anyway, General Artemiev has already promised to expand the independent regiment into an independent division, and it is appropriate to form an artillery regiment.

According to preliminary statistics, more than 2,500 rifles, 35 pistols, 17 sabers, and two Maxim and Hatch Chase machine guns were seized on the battlefield. Ammunition and other military supplies have not yet been accurately counted, but Zhao Hongsheng, who is a fan of money, even took off the relatively intact coats and leather boots from the corpses of the Japanese soldiers and brought them back.

These things are all profitable.

The report to the Russian army was sent out after Deng Qinghua was colored. Lu Shan suppressed the sleepiness after the end of the war, and after asking about the treatment of his wounded soldiers, he began to think of a report to Long Qian. Although this battle was a great victory, the backbone from Shandong also suffered a lot of losses, and this must be reported. Moreover, Long Qian repeatedly emphasized that he would not fight a head-on decisive battle with the Japanese army, which of course had the meaning of preserving strength. However, the battle of the Chen family's shack was an out-and-out frontal decisive battle, resulting in heavy casualties for the detachment. And last night's bloody battle once again broke the detachment. Lu Shan didn't feel sorry for the losses of those recruits, and he just recruited them again, but the backbone transferred from Shandong was the essence of supporting the organization and combat effectiveness of the troops in any way. Governing the army first and governing the school is really a wise saying. Now it seems that it is still necessary for the hometown to continue to send officer corps to Kanto, and if the army is expanded, the demand for officers will be even higher. All these must be reported in detail to the Shandong side.

So far, the commander's strategic plan to enter the Kanto region and create a new situation has been preliminarily realized. Lu Shan believed that the Battle of Heigoutai would shake southern Liaoning, and apart from the Russian army and the Japanese army, no Chinese armed force would dare to touch the tiger whiskers of the detachment. The commander had an accurate prediction of the Russo-Japanese War, and until now, it cannot be said that the Japanese army was defeated. Long Qian repeatedly emphasized that the detachment's tactics of suppressing bandits, sabotage, and ambush could not be said to be incorrect, but Lu Shan firmly believed that the detachment would not establish its own artillery without experiencing the battle of the Chen family's shack! Without last night's bloody battle, the detachment would not have expanded to a divisional scale! More importantly, the troops will not become a real strong army without a real decisive battle! Just like when the Qinwang detachment fought hard for the multinational coalition army in Xigu, although the battle lost a large number of excellent officers and soldiers, it also cultivated more backbones.

Lu Shan firmly believes that his decision is the right one! Shandong has been working hard for a few years, isn't it just a town? And the detachment has only been in Kanto for more than a year, and it will be a complete division in no time! Lu Shan has set his sights on the Qiushan Cavalry Brigade trapped in Shendan Fort, and if Shendan Fort is defeated, a large number of war horses will be captured! According to the combat process in the past year, Lu Shan strongly felt the importance of cavalry! Fighting in the sparsely populated land of Kanto, cavalry is the most powerful! If, in accordance with the instructions of the headquarters in advance, the detachment was taken to the North Manchurian base area at the right time, it would not have been possible without a strong cavalry. But in this way, it is necessary to fight head-on with the Japanese army, and it is a fortification! These should be explained in detail to the headquarters.

After the battle of the Chen family's shack, the headquarters affirmed the results of the battle, but the reply letter also revealed a little dissatisfaction...... Lu Shan really wanted to talk to Long Qian in person about the Northeast War Situation and the development ideas of the detachment, but Guan Shan was thousands of miles away and could only pass on the news through the intelligence station.

Before Lu Shan could conceive the content of the letter, and before he had time to convene the battalion commanders for a post-war summary meeting, the Russian army's operational meeting was held, and Lu Shan and Deng Qinghua attended the meeting. Leaving Fan Deping, who had just recovered from a serious injury, presided over the follow-up affairs.

The Russian army's reaction this time was very fast, and the Russian high-level who had already shifted their attention from Shendanbao to Heigoutai was extremely excited about the great victory in the Heigoutai defensive battle, and two infantry divisions were quickly transferred, one of which was to take over the defense of Heigoutai, and the Fourth Siberian Division, which was originally stationed in the western part of Heigoutai, would launch a counterattack against the Japanese army together with a newly arrived division, with the aim of further expelling the Japanese Eighth Division from the battlefield. Completely dispelled the dream of the Japanese army to relieve the siege of Shendan Fort. In this way, they concentrated their efforts to annihilate the Akiyama Brigade that had been besieged for several days, and strive for a far-reaching victory.

The South Manchurian Independent Regiment, which had made great contributions, was allowed to withdraw from Heigoutai for rectification and repair from the afternoon, and its position was taken over by the Fourth Siberian Division. The independent regiment will be incorporated into the 1st Siberian Army under the Russian 2nd Army as a reserve to participate in the general attack on Shendanbao. Although the Russian army won a rare victory at Heigoutai, the situation was still urgent, because intelligence showed that the third and fifth main divisions of the Japanese army had pressed up, and the right flank front had become a decisive battlefield that decided the Battle of Mukden.

The relevant operational plans for the Second Army are being drafted and require the approval of the General Headquarters of the Far Eastern Army.

At the meeting, the commander of the 2nd Army of the Russian Army, General Gripinberg, praised the South Manchurian Independent Regiment as a reliable force, and the relevant rectification and replenishment will be listed as the highest priority. (To be continued......)