Except for Song Biao, the brothers in the entire Manchurian Infantry Regiment basically don’t understand how significant the Battle of Heigoutai is, and how much impact the annihilation of the Japanese Eighth Division had on the entire Russo-Japanese War and the two countries. Two days have passed since this incident, and everyone still doesn't understand how a Japanese division was wiped out, or whether the Japanese commander was kicked in the head by a donkey.

Song Biao knew it very well, and so did the Russians.

The Battle of Heigootai not only annihilated the Japanese Eighth Division, but Song Biao actually appeared in the Russo-Japanese War as a recognized expert in cracking the pig surprise tactic. He basically gave the Russian army a very complete victory in the Battle of Heigootai. The standard answer is that as long as he responds according to his method, the Japanese army's night offensive will kill as many as they come.

For the Japanese army, this will be a very embarrassing new problem. What's worse is that the Shendan Fort stronghold can no longer be defended, and how the cavalry brigade should retreat is still a more complicated problem at the moment.

In the past two days at the Heigoutai position, Song Biao was often invited by General Mishuchenko to discuss Suma Fort's defense plan. The Russian military officers who attended the meeting together, regardless of their rank, looked special when they saw Song Biao. Friendly, after several combat meetings, General Mishuchenko finally chose Song Biao's plan, resolutely defended Suma Fort, continued to deepen the construction of fortifications along the trenches around Suma Fort, used artillery to continuously attack the opponent, and sent a The infantry division occupied the Japanese army's original position at Toubaotun and formed a flanking attack on the Japanese fifth division, one attacking and one defending.

From the selection of positions to the specific planning of various fortifications, as well as the deployment and distribution of troops, Song Biao was almost entirely responsible for it. He basically replaced Lieutenant Colonel Sheyensky as the senior frontline staff officer.

After the day's combat meeting, General Mishuchenko asked Song Biao and Major Kornilov to stay alone, and asked someone to invite Major Baron von Eske over.

After a few minutes, a young officer wearing a dark green military uniform walked in. This man was about thirty years old, had a short and thick golden beard, and wore a very unique Ekismoo fur coat. He was wearing a white tall hat, a Winchester repeating lever-action rifle on his back, and only wore a pair of snow boots similar to those of Eskimos.

Like all Russian military officers, the saber is their status symbol, and this officer wears a very short German-made hunting knife, which is extremely beautifully decorated.

Seeing him, General Mishuchenko introduced him enthusiastically: "This is our Cossack hero from the Transbaikal region, Major Baron von Eske. At the beginning of this war, he was only a lieutenant. , but the Cossack reconnaissance battalion he led has repeatedly made outstanding achievements, and is now the commander of the 2nd Seudinsk Infantry Regiment."

Song Biao had heard of this man. He was not the kind of hero who changed history, but he did perform very well in the Russo-Japanese War.

He took the initiative to extend his hand to shake hands with Major Baron von Eske and introduced himself: "Commander of the Manchurian Infantry Regiment, Biao Song!"

Major Baron von Eske was shocked, looked at Song Biao strangely, and soon praised loudly: "It turns out to be you, Your Excellency Song. I have always heard them mention your name, and I always thought you were a very good person." What a strange guy, you can actually come up with so many strange ways. Now it seems that you are such a shrewd person."

Song Biao smiled and said, "Thank you for your compliment."

Faced with the harmony and happiness between the two, General Mishuchenko seemed very happy, and introduced Major Kornilov to Major von Eske, and formally proposed: "I have already talked with Commander Korbas.

I hope to transfer a regiment from the Second Siberian Army to make up for the critical situation of insufficient strength and combat power of the Manchurian Infantry Regiment. Both of you are commanders of your regiment. You can work together. In principle, there is no hierarchy.

High or low, but I hope... Baron Esker, I hope you can maintain a good cooperative relationship with Captain Song."

Major von Eske replied: "No problem, I think this will be a very good cooperation, and I will accept all deployments from Commander Korbas!"

General Mishuchenko didn't want to sound too harsh. He knew that for any Cossack general, it would always hurt his self-esteem to accept the command of an Asian and other Russian ethnic minorities. This was also the case for Baron von Eske.

The main reason why a major can be quickly promoted to the commander of the 2nd Seudinsk Infantry Regiment and promoted to major.

He knew, and he believed that Major von Eske must also understand in his heart that Song Biao was a very rare military commander with special talents. At least on the Heigoutai front, no Russian military officer could compare with him.

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Since what Major von Eske said was accurate and beautiful, General Mishuchenko didn't want to add a few more words. He directly turned to the topic and asked Song Biao solemnly: "Song,

How many troops do you think we can use to deal with the Japanese troops in Shendan Fort now?"

Song Biao thought for a moment and was not in a hurry to answer. In fact, he had been thinking about this question for the past two days. Without taking Shendan Fort, the significance of the Heigoutai Battle could not be further expanded. It only dealt a blow to the Japanese army's continuous victory.

Arrogant morale and the destruction of a Japanese division.

He lit a cigarette for himself and thought about the problem carefully. He looked at the battle map on the table and thought more.

In the past few days, he has fully used his words and deeds to prove his strength to all the senior Russian generals and staff officers on the Heigoutai front line. There are always a lot of debates in combat meetings, and everyone

Everyone has their own ideas.

When Song Biao encountered an unreasonable general, he would use Jomini's "Introduction to the Art of War", Clausewitz's "On War" and Suvorov's "On Victory" to argue with the opponent, and

Being able to cite all the classic battles in the history of modern European warfare is almost his specialty.

Although most of the time the dispute would end under the mediation of General Mishuchenko, the Russian army staff officers had impeccable admiration for Song Biao's Russian proficiency.

In fact, it is extremely difficult to gain a foothold among this group of Russian officials. The deep-rooted discrimination against Asians will never disappear. Song Biao actually only won over General Mishuchenko.

support, but he still proved to others his military qualities.

Song Biao thought for nearly ten minutes, and when General Mishuchenko was about to lose his patience, he suddenly replied: "We can't use many troops, and actually we don't need to use many troops. Let's do it."

To analyze the problem, we must first analyze their leader. Commander Dashanyan is a general who is as good at strategy and layout as Commander-in-Chief Kuropatkin. His advantage is that he knows people well and uses them well, and he is well aware of the advantages and disadvantages of each unit.

Therefore, he assigned the task of quickly occupying Shendan Fort to the Japanese First Cavalry Brigade. However, he also believed that this brigade did not have the ability to hold its position, so he equipped the brigade with a large number of machine guns and tried to use a large number of

machine guns to buy time so that he can subsequently dispatch the 8th and 5th divisions. If he continues to insist on holding Shendan Fort, he may dispatch another division later. I personally think that our current troops are not suitable for deployment.

Too many people go to besiege Shendan Fort, otherwise, once the Japanese army takes the opportunity to send two or three divisions to attack us, we will quickly lose the two important positions of Suma Fort and Toupaotun."

General Mishuchenko knew that his wait was worth it, and sighed: "Song, your hypothesis is what worries me and General Korbas the most. If you don't send more troops, what kind of troops are you going to use?" How to deal with the Japanese troops in Shendan Fort?"

Song Biao continued to answer: "The Chinese have a classic strategy saying, which is called 'treat the other person with his own way'. Translated into Russian, it means to use the enemy's method to deal with the enemy. Since the beginning of the war, Since then, the Japanese army has always been good at cleverly using night assassination offensives to determine the final outcome. Especially in the Battle of Lushun, their performance was extremely brave. In the area around Shendan Fort, the Second Army had two infantry divisions and more than four There are ten artillery pieces, and what is guarding here is exactly a cavalry brigade that is not necessarily good at holding on and fighting infantry. I suggest that the Second Army Headquarters increase the number of troops besieging Shendan Fort to three divisions, mainly from the north side. To attack the three positions, our army will send another division to attack from the rear. Especially the three divisions on the front, we should conduct night offensives as much as possible to avoid the Japanese machine gun advantage and gradually dig in the trenches. However, we must directly use The spear offensive requires a special purpose to create a spear of at least ten feet, and use the numerical advantage to attack at night. In this aspect, it must be carried out very forcefully, causing the Japanese army to suffer excessive casualties at all costs, and at the same time forcing the Shendan Fort to The Japanese army will use all its reserve forces. On the other hand, our division will attract the Japanese army to build a new position on the southeast side of Shendan Fort, leaving them with a gap in tactical defense on the southwest side. My actual countermeasures remain the same. It is necessary to launch a raid at night, but its scale should not be too large. It is necessary to mobilize the best elite troops, about a few hundred people, to suddenly capture the small fort and force the Japanese army into chaos. As long as they make mistakes, they will cooperate with the front With three divisions, we can actually annihilate this cavalry brigade by using two more regiments."

After saying this, he quickly picked up the pencil on the table and continued to draw a circle around Hetuozi, saying: "War is always a deception. The function of deceiving the opponent is always to make the opponent make mistakes. Only the opponent makes mistakes. Only then can we defeat them easily. We don't know now whether the Japanese army will continue to forcibly hold Shendan Fort. No matter what they think, I suggest taking the opportunity to use our new plan to deceive the opponent and gradually draw away the troops from Suma Fort. This gave the Japanese army the opportunity to seize the Suma Fort position through a strong attack. In this way, they would be in a dilemma, because it seemed possible that they could rescue the Shendan Fort brigade. Once they decided to give it a try, we must quickly "We must seize the Japanese Hetuozi position at all costs, creating the effect of a two-sided attack and continuing to surround the Japanese Fifth Division."

At this moment, Major Kornilov asked: "What if they don't continue to storm Soma Fort?"

Song Biao said: "Then they will let the 1st Cavalry Brigade break through forcibly. This is another issue we need to consider. From the current point of view, the best direction for them to break out is Jinshan Tunhe, which we had previously considered stationing. Therefore, I ask the Second Army to continue to add an infantry division and be sure to defend Jinshantun and Yapotai, and we send a division to further block the two retreat routes of Datai Village and Yaobao. Yaobao is a relatively In particular, if the Japanese army sends another division, they are likely to choose to directly insert the waist fort. On the one hand, they can rescue the first cavalry brigade, and on the other hand, they can continue to suppress the Russian left and center wings. Of course, the strategic significance of the waist fort is far greater. It's not as good as Shendanbao. It all depends on how the top commander of the Japanese army weighs the trade-offs. They are the attacking party, and the initiative is in their hands. We can't predict it at all, because it's a difficult choice. The individual inside The factors are a bit too big. The same person can make two different decisions in the morning and evening. All we can do is try our best to consider all the enemy's options and deal with them one by one. For us, the best The situation must be that the Japanese army storms Sumama Fort, giving us the opportunity to continue to surround their fifth division."

At this time, General Mishuchenko had nothing to say. He personally felt that there were very few generals of Song Biao's level in the Russian Far East Army. He also lamented that it was great to be young, with a more flexible mind and more energy, and could generals like Song Biao.

He has repeatedly thought and analyzed a problem dozens of times, but he can no longer do it.
Chapter completed!