Time in Tonghua County always passed very quickly. Life in the second-line defense zone during the war was so comfortable. There were military pay to collect, business to do, and his own territory. Song Biao's life was about

Never been so happy.

If he were a warlord, he would definitely be extremely satisfied with this kind of life, but if he is a soldier, the difference is still huge.

He is a person who is willing to give up the opportunity to go to college to become a volunteer. He is born with a Patton-like admiration and desire for war. He is a natural warrior. When he was born, he had this kind of love from ancient ancestors.

The genes inherited there are always keen on war, with an infinite desire to prove one's worth as a man in war.

Even during these days when he was far away from the front line, he still had a map of the front line hanging in his conference room. He learned about the deployment and news of the front line through various channels every day. When he had nothing to do, he would sit in the conference room thinking about this incident alone.

war.

On this day as usual, Song Biao continued to be unable to gather the personnel to convene a regular meeting of military cadres. After assigning the work of each unit today through Lieutenant Polev and Li Fugui of the Russian Army, he went to the military headquarters outside Tonghua County.

After directing the training of new recruits at the Mushan campus, he left the training work to the Russian army's chief instructor, and then returned to the conference room to ponder the frontline combat deployment map.

Away from the war and lonely, he played pretending games here, sometimes pretending to be the shrewd and adventurous Oyama Iwa, sometimes pretending to be the indecisive Kuropatkin. Sometimes, he also played Nogi Nogi and Nozu Kanchi.

No matter how he calculated, based on his understanding of the Russian commanders, the Russian Far East Army would still be unable to escape, especially Lieutenant General Korbas. It should be a very disastrous fall, unless Kuropatkin

The commander-in-chief will suddenly copy Song Biao's previous plans wisely and mobilize two reserve armies to support the Russian right wing.

If the situation develops into this situation, it will really be a complete strangulation war. Both sides will have to roll around in the meat grinder of war. No one can fucking try to take advantage of the fertile land of Kanto.

It will take another 70,000 to 80,000 deaths to stop.

No matter how interesting the game is, it is boring to play it continuously for a month. After noon, Song Biao took out the Russian version of Clausewitz's "On War" that Brigadier General Mardenidoff had recently given him, and carefully

of study.

"On War" is a very complete military science work. It has the most systematic analysis from the strategic level to the tactical level, except for trench warfare. It basically covers the anatomy of all types of war before World War I. It also gives extremely

Exemplary various tactical planning and response strategies.

As soon as he finished reading the preface of the opening book, Li Fugui hurriedly walked in and saluted and reported: "Teacher, a few people have come. They actually said they were international students from the Japanese Military Academy, and they also had a letter of recommendation from Nobujun Aoki, the old turtle.

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Upon hearing this, Song Biao was a little surprised and happy, so he stood up and said with a smile: "Okay, let's go, I'll go see what it looks like."

Li Fugui replied bitterly: "They all look like human beings. They wear suits and have a very arrogant attitude. They seem to look down on us a little bit."

"oh?"

Song Biao was a little surprised and looked at Li Fugui carefully, trying to figure out the truth and intention of his words.

Time flies and it is already warm spring. Although the Manchurian Infantry Division is not the main force of the Russian army, and even the mercenaries are in the second line, it has a network in the headquarters, and the supplies and equipment are shipped in time. Now it has begun to replace the Spring and Autumn Period.

Russian military uniform.

The Russian army's military uniforms themselves are very diverse, and they can be said to come in various styles. The m1897 cavalry spring and autumn uniforms they received this time are dark black and blue short clothes with yellow edges, and there are twelve yellow stars on the chest of the jacket.

It has copper-colored buttons and a very special Polish-style yellow V-shaped armband on the cuffs. At first glance, it looks a bit like the horseshoe cuffs of the Qing army.

How an infantry division received such a cavalry uniform is a very strange thing in itself, but at this time in the Tsarist Russian Empire, the 1905 Revolution had begun in the country, and it was a mess. Weird things could happen. The troops had to

Ammunition and a load of saddles are all normal.

Li Fugui was wearing such a military uniform, with a rather large Russian-style military cap, a Mosin-Nagant M1891 rifle on his back, and a shell gun on his waist. He also had a very common and fine-quality rifle.

Chakshi's brass-handled saber, which he bought in a deal with a noncommissioned officer in the Russian army.

Song Biao received a new white French high-collar military uniform, made of fine thick canvas, with twelve brass cuffs on the chest, scarlet military trousers, and expensive French deerskin boots.

Cavalry boots, it is said that the staff of the Far Eastern Army Headquarters are now like this, and His Majesty the Tsar specially approved them.

Because the Russian army has never had a rank convention like Manchurian infantry colonel, his shoulder insignia is actually customized for the Russian infantry colonel.

As a soldier, wearing such a military uniform can be regarded as an extraordinary appearance.

Song Biao observed Li Fugui's indignation and wondered in his heart what actions and remarks those Japanese students had made that made Li Fugui so unhappy. He could probably guess something, which was nothing more than the awakening of nationalism.

Here comes the traitor theory.

Song Biao walked out of his conference room with a rather disdainful sneer. When he reached the door, he told Li Fugui: "Let's go, let's go meet these gentlemen who have drank foreign ink."

"Bah, they have drank foreign ink, so what do you mean by Master, have they drank a river of foreign ink?"

Li Fugui looked extremely excited, becoming more and more dissatisfied, but with a bit of a gloating smirk, he quickly followed Song Biao out, and on the way he called to Li Dayun's security company to follow more than a dozen people.

In this way, Song Biao led a dozen guards all the way to the reception room on the east side of the military camp. His military camp was a few large houses requisitioned on the spot at the north gate of the county. It was very close to the Maoshan camp. The so-called meeting room

The guest room is the front hall of a country gentleman's house.

Because the other party had a letter of recommendation from Nobuzumi Aoki, Li Fugui invited them to the reception room and asked them to sit down and wait.

When Song Biao came here, several recruits from the command camp were bringing tea and melon seeds to those people, which was a warm welcome. He asked Li Fugui to take over the errand and followed him with a teapot and melon seed plate.

Enter the main hall.

As soon as he entered the door, Song Biao looked up and saw two people who were theoretically impressive. These were two very young and handsome people. They could also be said to be handsome young men. They were both a bit thin and looked like

They are two white-faced scholars. The other one is not tall, but is stronger than the first two. His skin is slightly sallow, and his eyes are shining.

Song Biao guessed that the two people in front were Jiang Fangzhen and Cai E. Mr. Cai E's appearance. Song Biao couldn't guess right, but Mr. Jiang Fangzhen was right because he had read this gentleman's "On National Defense", although he

Personally, I feel that the standard of this "On National Defense" is not that high, but its judgment on agricultural and industrial countries is simply spot-on.

If there are really two heroes in civil affairs, then Song Biao really hit the jackpot.

His mood suddenly became very good. He smiled and nodded to the three officers in front of him. Just as he was about to speak, he realized that there were several others in the study next door. When those few saw him coming, they hurried in panic again.

Come out and meet.

The few people inside were probably seniors, they were all older, and they all seemed to be around thirty. After waiting for a while and seeing no one to entertain them, they ran to the study to take a look at the excitement.

What kind of liveliness is there? The hangings are all looted goods that Song Biao bought from the Russian army, calligraphy, painting and calligraphy that can be bought for more than a dozen oceans. As for whose work is it, Song Biao himself doesn’t know.

Just hang it there for decoration.

In the crowd, Jiang Fangzhen and Cai E had just graduated in the past two years. They were the most junior among the classmates and did not speak. The leader was a strong man in his thirties who had already regained his Manchu power.

He has big braids and wears the sixth-grade Manchu military attaché uniform.

The military attache took a step forward, raised his hands and said in greeting: "I was promoted to the Beiyang Armed Forces Accelerated School, and I am the candidate for appointment as Commander-in-Chief Jiang Yanxing. I wonder what I call this general?"

Without waiting for Song Biao to reply, Li Fugui, probably because he had suffered a loss in front of these people before, immediately pointed fingers and yelled: "Didn't you see the rank of colonel of our division? In Tonghua City today, who else is there except our division?

Do you have this military rank?"

Everyone was shocked when they heard this. Everyone knew about Colonel Song's reputation and everyone said he was powerful, but they didn't expect that he was so young.

Jiang Yanxing was the most surprised, and hurriedly raised his hand and said: "We are all foreign students who graduated from the Japanese Military Academy, and we are all classmates. This time, we were recommended by Colonel Aoki and came to see you. We have admired the general for a long time.

I just never thought General Song was so young, so rude, so rude!"

Everyone here is talented and there is no need to be careless.

Song Biao chuckled cautiously and said, "Since they are recommended by Colonel Aoki, they must be among the elite graduates of our country's military academy in Japan. Please sit down, everyone. You don't have to be too polite."

After saying this, he also raised his hand to invite everyone to sit down, and then told Li Fugui: "Tell the kitchen to prepare a banquet and see if there are any steaks. If so, prepare a few more.

The chief instructors, Major Denikin and Major Legovich, are also invited here. Well... let Zhang Futian prepare six meeting gifts for me."

Li Fugui scratched his head and said: "There are still a lot of steaks, so I'll prepare some for the Russians. What are you preparing as a meeting gift?"

Song Biao thought for a moment and then ordered: "Go and prepare six Mauser pistols."

Li Fugui felt a little uncomfortable and said: "No, Master, we don't have many Mauser pistols in the warehouse. We asked Major Tuvarnier for help last time to transport a batch. Our reconnaissance company and

Didn't the Universiade's security company say it needs to be equipped, but it hasn't been fully equipped yet."

Song Biao smiled and said: "Don't be so stingy. I have asked Tiesheng to buy a few boxes in Vladivostok. This time I will definitely fill up your reconnaissance company first. Don't be wordy, go ahead.

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Li Fugui laughed out loud and immediately turned around and ran out to do some work.

Song Biao continued to greet Jiang Yanxing with cupped hands and said: "Sorry, I, the junior company commander of the reconnaissance company, was the first caravan brother to follow me. We have suffered hardships and suffered hardships together, and we have endured hard days in caves. I am sorry for the others.

The subordinates have always been very strict with their requirements, but he is an exception. He always likes to talk nonsense with me. I treated him more than a dozen times but he still has no memory. Now I have given up and let him go."

Jiang Yanxing replied with an increasingly serious expression: "The general manages the army very strictly. I will notice it when we enter the camp. He is indeed the Tiger General of Kwantung. Even the Japanese army is vulnerable. I admire him so much."

Song Biao said modestly: "I basically used the Russian army to fight the Japanese army. I didn't really use my own men on a large scale, so it's not really a skill. Everyone, please take a seat. You are all heroes among our countrymen.

, it’s rare to meet here, everyone really doesn’t need to be formal and polite, please take a seat, please take a seat!”

After several invitations, Jiang Yanxing and others sat down one after another.

But as soon as he sat down, Jiang Yanxing immediately stood up and handed in the recommendation letter from Aoki Xuanchun. He and Song Biao introduced them one by one: "General Song, we came here on the recommendation of Colonel Aoki, and these two are from the same class as me."

The three young people opposite Xu Baoying and Shu Fangde in the first phase were Cai E, Jiang Fangzhen and Zhang Xiaohuai who had just graduated in the two phases. Originally, the colonel had strongly recommended a few of them, and they were among the middle batches of graduates. Their grades were very good.

Yes, there are some positions in various places, and I am busy with official duties, so I can't come for the time being, but I have been asked to say hello to the general, and I have long admired the general's reputation."

Song Biao looked at the six graduates of the Japanese Military Academy in front of him with a smile. He felt very interesting and laughed with Jiang Yanxing sitting next to him: "Why, do I, a guy who helps the Russians fight, have a reputation?

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Upon hearing this, Zhang Xiaohuai, who was not tall but quite brave, couldn't help but snorted softly. Several other people looked over and signaled him not to be presumptuous here.

After all, Jiang Yanxing was older. He had not done well in the Beiyang Army in the past few years. He had experienced ups and downs in his life. He had rich experience and immediately praised Song Biao: "The general is now a powerful figure in China, and everyone in the country knows it."
To be continued...