262 Flowers in the center
Major General Alekov looked at the troops of the Great Black Mountain, and couldn't help but be a little confused, their combat effectiveness was too strong, they broke through three railway stations along the way, and they were almost approaching the provincial capital! And he himself didn't even know the number of this army!
A sneer appeared at the corner of Alevkov's mouth, no matter how strong your combat power is, you have made the most fatal mistake, you are so arrogant and arrogant, you dare to come under my nose, you don't look at it, how far away your reinforcements are from you, the Great Black Mountain is where you bury your bones!
Alekov immediately mobilized the second and third brigades on the railway line near Jilin to move towards the Great Black Mountain, with the help of the railway, the Russian army moved very quickly, and three days later, more than 12,000 people from the two brigades had gathered in the villages and towns around the Great Black Mountain, ready to attack the Great Black Mountain at any time.
During the build-up of the Russian army, in order to cut off the road for Lin Yuan's reinforcements, Alekov ordered to blow up the railway and send troops to destroy the post road.
Alekov didn't care what Lin Yuan did for him, the day after the Russian army was assembled, that is, on May 14, he ordered all Russian troops to launch a general attack!
Daheishan is a big mountain covering an area of ten square kilometers, with an average altitude of 500 meters, from here you can overlook the post road and railway line from Jilin to Changtu, it stands to reason that in such a place, the Russian army should have built a fortress and garrisoned it heavily, but the Russian army did not do that, there is only one reason, that is: the road up the mountain is too difficult to walk.
Alekov had never been to the Great Black Mountain, he had always looked at the map to fight, he saw on the map, the Qing army was surrounded by the Russian army, and he thought that the victory was in his hands, but when the Russian army came to the foot of the mountain, he found that if he wanted to go up the mountain, he had to spend a lot of time.
The path that can go up the mountain is guarded by machine guns, and how many people have to die when they go up, where there is no road, the mountain is steep, the strange forest is thick, but the ground is covered with moss, it just rained last night, it was extremely slippery, and when you walk on it, you can only grab the shrubs and weeds around you, and climb up with the force of pulling up.
However, this grass is overgrown with a strange grass, this grass is called "Lala Seedling" among the local population, and the "Lala" here is the meaning of "scratching" in the Northeast dialect, this grass is full of thorns, or barb-shaped, and it is a blood mark on the body, and it is even more unfortunate that ordinary soldiers happen to have gloves that they bring in summer, and they are thrown in the barracks in winter because the weather is warmer.
When they climbed up the mountain with great difficulty, the bullets arrived in front of them, and they were so angry that they scolded: "The yellow people are all yellow-skinned monkeys, how did they get there?" ”
So the Russian army made no progress in the offensive on the first day, but at this time Alekov found that Lin Yuan's troops suddenly appeared near the Great Black Mountain, and the forward troops were less than ten kilometers away from the Great Black Mountain!
Alekov angrily yelled at the staff officer: "Lin Yuan's troops were still more than 200 kilometers away from us the day before, how could they arrive in one day?" Will they fly? ”
What Alevkov didn't know was that Lin Yuan walked slowly and leisurely before, waiting for the railway to be repaired, and after Lin Yuan captured Shenyang, he asked people to pave the railway from Panjin to Shenyang, and after arriving in Changtu, he heard that the Russians had blown up the railway, so he asked the technicians to carry equipment to repair it.
When the Russians left, they only blew up the rails, and left the tools for laying the rails at the station, and the technicians pulled the rail-laying cars out of the warehouse, walked on the railways, and repaired them wherever they saw if they were broken.
At that time, the capacity of the railway was limited, so Lin Yuan only brought three companies of the First Brigade in the first batch, only more than 600 people, and these people immediately rushed to build fortifications outside the railway station, preparing to resist the attack of the Russian army. If the Russian army's reaction speed was a little faster, perhaps the outcome of the battle would have been rewritten, but the Russian army once again missed the opportunity, and when the more than 2,000 people of the first brigade and more than 3,000 people of the Dingwu Army arrived, the Russian army continued to attack the defenders on the Great Black Mountain.
It was not until about seven o'clock in the evening, when it was completely dark, that Alekov ordered the 3rd Battalion of the 2nd Brigade in the outermost part of the Great Black Mountain to move near the station to block the Qing troops who were coming, but the commander of the 2nd Brigade postponed the departure to the next day on the grounds that it was too late and the troops were vulnerable to ambushes.
At one o'clock in the morning of 15 May, most of the Russian troops who had been tired for a day had already fallen asleep, and what they did not expect was that the sharp knife company of the 2nd Brigade of the New 1st Division on the mountain had quietly slipped down from the mountain.
It was easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down, and the soldiers of the Sharp Knife Company finally came down from the mountain, and the thick gloves on their hands were torn, and everyone was covered with mud, and they quietly touched the mountain pass, and were surprised to find that there was no one there! A slightly more cautious commander will let people deploy sentry posts on the mountain road to prevent the enemy above from coming down to sneak attack, but the Russian commander did not do this, the original task of the sharp knife company was: to solve the Russian sentry in front of the mountain junction and create conditions for the large army to go down the mountain, but the Russian army did not set up a sentry, which made them very regretful. The large army quickly came down from the mountain, divided into three directions, and broke through outside the encirclement of the Russian army, and at the same time, Lin Yuan, who was on the periphery, ordered the troops to attack the Russian army outside the Great Black Mountain.
This is the true intention of Lin Yuan's order for the new 1st Division and 2nd Brigade to go deep alone, and the center is blooming! This is the classic tactic of the People's Liberation Army, when attacking the enemy in a defensive state, first send a sharp knife unit up, tear open the enemy's defense line, desperately hit the enemy's core, and then fight from the inside out, and the outside troops to form a two-sided attack on the enemy, if the enemy's combat effectiveness is not strong, under this style of play, the whole line will soon be defeated.
But this central flower is not so easy to bloom! Punching in and then fighting out requires extremely high combat effectiveness of the troops!
There are more than 10,000 Russian troops, and the camp range is about 5,000 meters, such a depth and width, if you fight well, you can block the troops on both sides of the forest, and the quality of the Russian soldiers is not too bad, some historians evaluate them, they are as persevering as cattle, in history, Suvorov, Bagration led them to defeat Napoleon; Zhukov led them to defeat Guderian!
But the bad luck fell on the officers, these officers and their predecessors could not be compared, for them, drinking vodka and flirting with women was much more interesting than studying and fighting, so when Lin Yuan's first brigade rushed up, they did not organize resistance, nor did they report back, but retreated in the other direction.
So the first brigade quickly broke through the first line of defense and stabbed into the depths of the Russian army like a knife, and the new 1st and 2nd brigades inside fought even more fiercely, and soon the Russian army could not resist and retreated in all directions! The Battle of Great Black Mountain ended with Lin Yuan's great victory.
After the great victory, Lin Yuan did not order the troops to rest, but ordered them to speed up their march towards the provincial capital of Jilin, because there was what he had always wanted.