Chapter 52: The Path
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Siyuan, Siyuan is forty acres, that is, if your family comes to plant, if you don't have big livestock, you can't plant so much land. In addition, he doesn't have to guess to know that these lands should be good land, and Fengtian has spared the land before, but for a foreigner like him who has nothing to do with it and just came to the northeast to try his luck, even if the Buddha blesses him to be able to get the land, it is the worst raw land, and the fat cooked land and good land have already been taken away by the old man in advance.
The notice of the division of land was sent to each company in the evening of the same day, and the company commander led the team to gather the soldiers of the whole company for a meeting to announce the matter of dividing the land. Different from the company commander's attitude towards the division of land, the soldiers and non-commissioned officers had already discussed on the way to the meeting, but now that the detailed rules for the division of land had been announced, there was a commotion in the meeting hall of the company headquarters, and everyone was discussing the truth of the matter and the specific content of the division of land. "It must be a coaxing of you, how can there be such a good thing......" said many soldiers.
Company commander Huang Dajun frowned and looked at the group of soldiers below, and his heart was anxious, this is a soldier who has been trained for four months, it is too undisciplined. In fact, as a talented man who came out of a well-off family in Yongfu, Fujian, Huang Dajun did not understand the importance of land to these peasants who broke into the eastern part of the country, just as these recruits did not know the importance of the revolution to Huang Dajun.
Huang Dajun looked around the audience, waited for the noise to be quieter, and asked, "Quiet!" The rules have been announced, and you can raise any questions you have now, and you can raise any difficulties now. β
Seeing the boss's words, the voice in the room immediately dropped a lot, half loud. One of the soldiers stood up and asked, "Company commander." Is it really given to us? Is it official land or private land that is given to us? "This is one of the biggest concerns of the big guys, and the previous bylaws did not specify the nature of the land. Because Guanwai is the fundamental land of the Manchurians, basically only for the banner people, not for the Han people, so in the northeast there are many lands that are privately cultivated by outsiders, these lands are not recognized by the government, if such private land is divided, then the value is very limited.
It seems that these guys didn't listen to what they just said. Huang Dajun thought to himself. In fact, as soon as I said that the soldiers divided the land, there was chaos in the barracks, and everyone didn't have the heart to listen to what was said below. He looked at his paperwork helplessly, so the paperwork picked up the paper that seemed to be pierced by the eyes of more than two hundred people and read:
ββ¦β¦ The cultivated land is all official land, and the government releases the land deed...... If the family is in Heilongjiang, the family can be taken from Heilongjiang to Fengtian, and the logistics department will receive and arrange the territory matters; If the family does not want to come. It is possible to divide the arable land in its location. The cultivated land divided above is official land; In addition, if any member of the army has meritorious service, he will also be rewarded with cultivated land, third-class meritorious service, and three rings of land; Second-class merit, divided into five rings......"
The matter of dividing the land was tossed around in the barracks for more than a week before it slowly calmed down. Of course, this has a lot to do with the start of the pre-war mobilization of the troops. Unlike before, the miners' troops, who were skeptical about the division of land, finally began to get angry, and the Chinese people were the most simple group of people, and many soldiers returned their money when they were paid before. clamoring to go home; And now the land is divided, although it is half-true, but no one says that they want to go home. Since you want the land. Then you have to sell your life, this is the most simple moral law in the heart of every soldier, in their eyes life is just a commodity, as long as the price is right, it can be exchanged, especially land, this kind of "hard currency" can be worth a life 100%, for a while, the morale of the whole camp was boosted.
Yang Rui looked at it with satisfaction that the average person used less than thirteen yuan to achieve such an effect, which is still the price of licensed goods; If you use some tricks to buy off the governor, the Taoist platform, and the people of the reclamation bureau, then the price can be reduced by half; Of course, if you save some more, go to the reclamation first and then report to the reclamation bureau, the price will be even lower, and it is estimated that you don't even need one-third. Land, land, there are so many people who are willing to die for you, how much magic you must have.
At the same time as the military camp was mobilized, on the land of Liaodong, the two armies that had licked their wounds began a second round of tragic fighting. In accordance with the operational policy of "feints on the right flank to contain and outflank on the left flank" formulated by the commander of the Russian army, Kurobatkin, the Russian army is in the East Manchurian cluster, with jurisdiction over the first, second, and third armies of Siberia and the Kampv detachment of Liannian Kampf, with a total of 86 infantry battalions and 50 cavalry companies, totaling more than 70,000 people, attacking the Japanese army in the direction of Benxi Lake, attempting to break through the defense line of the Japanese First Army, detouring back to the flank of the Japanese army from the eastern mountains, and encircling the Japanese army in the Hunhe River. The area between the Taizi River was annihilated.
The day before the Eastern Cluster operation, the left-wing force under the command of Colonel Madlitov marched from Nanzamu in the direction of Huairen and Kuandian, and in view of the intelligence superiority of the Baath Army in the whole of Liaodong, in fact, the most important thing was the help of the old Zhang family, as soon as this force drove out of Nanzamu, specific information about it came.
There were about 1,000 troops of the Flower Arms, most of whom were under the command of Li Huchen of the Hu bandits, and most of the others were small beards bought by Madlitov from various places; The rest were three battalions of regular Russian troops and three Cossack cavalry companies; In terms of heavy firepower, there were no machine guns, and the artillery was probably because the attack area of the East Manchurian cluster was mountainous, and most of the artillery was requisitioned by the main force, so it carried very little, only six.
Judging from the description of the intelligence, it is estimated that this artillery company is not the regular artillery unit of the Russian 6th Army, but should be a Cossack cavalry artillery battery - unlike the artillery battery of the 6th Army, which is equipped with eight 76mm field guns weighing more than a ton each, in order to pursue mobility, or because of the scarcity of mountain artillery in the Russian army, the Cossack cavalry artillery battery is only equipped with six 76mm mountain guns. Each of these mountain guns weighs only more than 300 kilograms, and their power is smaller than that of field artillery, and the firing range is generally only five kilometers, which is only half of that of field artillery; The firing per minute was only six instead of eight of the field artillery, but in the mountainous terrain of Dongbiandao, this mountain artillery played a much stronger role in battle than the field artillery.
As soon as this information came out, the eyes of the officers who participated in the pre-war meeting turned red, and their minds were thinking about how to get these six mountain guns. In fact, the power of mortar shells is indeed too small. Even the largest 80 guns weighed only about three kilograms. The power and rifled artillery shells of six or seven kilograms are not at all of a grade. Although the mortar pressed the mountain artillery on the fire, the output of artillery shells in Tonghua is not optimistic, and even the gunpowder is not necessarily sufficient - it is a good way to transport raw materials as cement, but because the Japanese army occupied Andong in the early stage, it is not a wise choice to rashly fill a large amount of explosives into the cargo under the condition of unknown checkpoint inspection.
In the huge war room, there was a huge map hanging on the innermost wooden wall - these were copied according to the map in Yang Rui's computer, the computer screen was too small after all, and Yang Rui used countless photos to basically get out the entire Fengtian topographic map. Why do you say basic, because some places like Liaoxi have not been completed, and there are too many cities in later generations, and the changes in the terrain can only be supplemented by intelligence personnel. Yang Rui was already planning to find a few henchmen to do this extremely laborious thing instead of him, and according to the current situation, he felt that he could still control the current situation.
The map is densely marked with the situation of the Japanese and Russian armies. Of course, the area around the Sand River can be ignored, and now it is the eastward advance troops led by Madlitov, the leftmost flank of the Russian army, that have to be dealt with. Leo looked at the Russian army's marching route. Pointing to Huairenhua Jianzi Town, he said to Yang Rui: "Yang, do you think the Russian army will go east or south after arriving here?" β
The rightmost flank of the Japanese army is the alkali factory on the east side of Benxi Lake, and the rear is Fengcheng and Andong, and now the Japanese army has built a simple railway to connect Andong, Fengcheng, Benxi, and Liaoyang. If Madlitov really wanted to attack and outflank the rear of the Japanese army, then the shortest route would be to reach the town of Huajianzi and go south, after passing Balidianzi. or go west to capture the alkali plant, or continue to go south behind enemy lines without leaving a back road, make trouble in the rear of the Japanese army, and disrupt the Japanese army's logistics line; If Madlitov was only pretending to contain the Japanese army, then it was very likely that he would not go to Balidianzi after arriving at Huajianzi Town. Instead, they went eastward until they were encamped under the city of Huairen.
Although countless novels about the Russo-Japanese War have invariably mentioned the low morale of the Russian army. However, none of the novels mentions the battle between the leftmost flank of the Russian army and the Japanese army in the Battle of Shahe, and Yang Rui has no information to judge the movements of this Russian army, so he has to say: "I have no way to judge." We have collected too little about this Madlitov, we only know that he has been in the Northeast for many years, is a lieutenant colonel of the Russian General Staff, and has been in charge of the Yalu River Timber Company before, and has a very good relationship with the local beard. After Yang Rui finished speaking, he remembered something and added, "But what we have to pay attention to is that the Russian army has retreated from the Yalu River to Mukden, and the morale is now very low." According to the information from the previous battle of Liaoyang last month, nine Russian troops carried a wounded soldier to the rear to retreat, just to escape the battle. β
The morale of the Russian army was low and Leo also knew that there were many Russian soldiers who had been captured by the Ba'ath Army before, but he had never seen a unit with such a bad morale, even the British army, which was beaten by the Boers in the early stage of the South African War, still had a positive spirit after rectification.
Since it is impossible to judge, it can only be estimated according to the conservative plan, Leo pointed to the county seat of Huairen and said, "Whether they are going south or west, the commander will hope that he has one more way to retreat, occupy Huairen, then they can either retreat to Xinbinbao or retreat to Tonghua." Our troops could only assemble in the area of Hongmiaozi and Gucheng, north of Huairen, to prevent them from retreating northeast into Tonghua. β
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When Yang Ruileo was looking at the map to discuss the movements of the Russian army, in the town of Huajianzi, the commander of the Russian army, Colonel Madlitov, was also looking at the map, thinking about the marching route and attack direction of the troops. The order he received before was also extremely unclear, and it did not explicitly tell him to attack the right-wing alkali factory of the Japanese army, but only asked him to contain and attack the right flank of the Japanese army according to the situation, and protect the left flank of the East Manchurian cluster commanded by Lieutenant General Shtakliberg.
In Madlitov's view, the large-scale attack of his own East Manchurian cluster, the more than 40,000 men of Kuroki's First Army on the far right flank of the Japanese army had to garrison the 50-kilometer defense line in the Benxihu area was very weak, and the battle of Liaoyang had just ended less than a month, and the Japanese army simply did not have enough time to replenish personnel and all kinds of materials...... Thinking of this, Madlitov couldn't help but curse in his heart, "Coward! Coward Kurobatkin. Russian despicable conspirators! β
Unlike Madlitov's thoughts, the commander of the infantry regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Leonid, did not pay attention to the alkali plant at all. Instead, he moved his eyes to the county seat of Huairen, and if he was stationed near the county seat, then even if the attack on the alkali factory was not smooth, he could still keep two ways of retreat - either a detour to Xinbinbao, or a retreat to Tonghua, which was farther away from the battlefield.
"Colonel, I have built that we should first secure the camp here before attacking the Japanese." Lieutenant Colonel Leonid, commander of the infantry regiment, pointed to the county seat of Huairen and built a road.
He spoke. The commander of the Cossack cavalry, Major Zahar, laughed, "Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, you should be in the reserve, I really can't imagine how His Excellency Lieutenant General Shtakli Berbeg sent you out." As soon as he finished speaking, several cavalry company commanders next to him burst into laughter.
Lieutenant Colonel Leonid was flushed with rage - just by looking at his bulging belly, it was clear that he could not duel with these Cossack cavalry company commanders. So he turned his head to stare at Madlitov. Madelitov was a completely intelligent man, and during these years in China he knew very well what it meant and what effect it was, Leonid commanded a regiment of more than 2,000 infantry, and if he wanted to achieve anything in this sortie, then he must get his support, and the brave Cossack cavalry alone would not do much.
So he cleared his throat. Yan SΓΉ said seriously, "Lieutenant Colonel Leonid is completely right, the Japanese like to attack the flanks in war. During the last Battle of Liaoyang, if it had not been for the Japanese First Army forcibly crossing the Taizi River and outflanking the left flank of our army. Then the commander-in-chief would not have given the order to retreat. In addition to attacking the right flank of the Japanese army, our purpose this time was to protect the left flank of our army. β
Take the last battle of Liaoyang to talk about it. Madlitov's words were so eloquent that several Cossack cavalry company commanders suddenly lost their smiles. In fact, in their opinion, the kind-faced Colonel Madlitov is not comparable to such a straw bale as Leonid. At the time of the opening of the South Zomu, it was Colonel Madlitov's iron will that the troops were able to fill up enough carts and rations without paying a single rouble - all the money allocated above went into the pockets of all the people present, and of course, it was Mr. Colonel who took the most.
Seeing that he had suppressed the scene, Colonel Madlitov began to issue an order, "The troops will be camped directly at the Liudaohe River under Huairen City tomorrow, and the cavalry troops will conduct reconnaissance in the direction of the soda factory in the west, Kuandian in the south, and Ji'an in the east......"
Hearing that there was still a need to reconnoiter the direction of Ji'an, Major Zakhar couldn't help but glance at Colonel Madlitov, who understood what he meant, and said: "Let's not forget JΓ¬, there are still many Japanese troops on the Korean side, and if they come from the direction of Ji'an, then there will be danger behind our flank, so the reconnaissance in this direction must not be relaxed." β
"Yes! Mr. Colonel. Seeing that Colonel Madlitov had thought so carefully, several of his subordinates happily carried out the order. Madlitov saw a few people going out, and hurriedly asked the interpreter to speak Li Huchen and invite him in. Although he had spent some time in the Yalu River Timber Company, he was still familiar with the terrain of Liaodong by Chinese, and this time he wanted to figure out that GuΓ² Li Huchen's gang of beards would lead the way and take an unexpected path to attack the alkali factory, so that the Japanese army could be defenseless.
When Li Huchen came in, Colonel Madlitov had already put away the previous map, and a cup of tea was made on the table according to the Chinese custom. After asking Li Huchen to sit down, Colonel Madlitov said: "Dear Li, how is your new unit? β
At the beginning of the year, when fighting in the Yalu River, more than 1,000 of Li Huchen's men were scattered by the Japanese army, and when they were withdrawn to Huairen, there were only five or six hundred.
Li Huchen originally wanted to show his beard in a serious way, but when he asked him what he was most happy about, he couldn't help but narrow his triangular eyes, couldn't help laughing, and then hugged his fists and said: "Thank you Lord Ma for taking care of me, otherwise I wouldn't be in this situation today." β
Colonel Madlitov looked at Li Huchen and smiled like a toad, and said with a smile on his face despite his disgust: "Dear Li, now that we are going to attack the Japanese in the alkali factory, I want to take a hidden path, which will catch the Japanese off guard." You know, now the Japanese are bribing the Chinese guys everywhere to tell them the news, and as soon as we make a move, those damn Chinese spies will sneak up on the Japanese and sue the Japanese. β
After listening to Colonel Madlitov's words, Li Huchen did not resist Colonel Madlitov's words at all, and thought deeply -- if you want him to take the lead in attacking the Japanese, he will not kill them, but if you want him to think of a path, then he will 100% come up with it for you.
Sure enough, Li Huchen finished thinking about it after half a ring, and he said: "Master Ma, there is indeed such a road, but I don't know if the Japanese know it." β
As soon as he heard that there was indeed a path, Colonel Madlitov was overjoyed, and asked the map to be opened, and then asked, "Where is the road?" β
PS: Note 1: Because of the different translations of various sources, the previous chapter, Chapter 51, Lieutenant General Glebeberg, who was newly sent by the Tsar to the Far East, was later changed to Colonel General Billy Gellinger (encyclopedic term).
Note 2: Li Huchen accompanied Madlidov in his attack on Huairen, from the records of the county chronicles of the Republic of China, it is very suspected that this Li Huchen is Li Hanchen, a subordinate of the Han family in Jiapigou, who was bought by Madlidov, but there is no evidence, and the text is written as Li Huchen according to the county annals.
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