As soon as the Japanese army set out at four o'clock in the afternoon of the 25th, Yang Rui received the information a little later, seeing that the Japanese army was marching separately, and it was also dispatched overnight, he seemed to smell the prey, the eighth division didn't care, it was a standing division, the whole army was 15,000 people, and this eighth brigade was different, they were all reserves, no more than 7,000 people, and they also marched overnight. If they had waited for a long night and were exhausted, and then gave them a surprise attack at dawn, it would have made a fortune.

According to Leo's meaning, if you want to make a surprise attack, then the most suitable is Misichchenko's cavalry army, but this unit is the treasure of General Billy Gerlinger, plus some time ago I went to the rear of the Japanese army to disturb the enemy, and I was very tired, so I don't know if the general will agree to this plan, whether I agree or not, report and then talk. So Colonel Madlidov played the role of a communicator again, and immediately called the command of the army group and asked for permission for this surprise attack plan, hoping that the command would send Misichchenko's cavalry corps to assist.

Because the Independence Army was the first to complete the offensive plan, and the information previously discovered by the Independence Army is now completely confirmed, General Bilgerlinger still attached more importance to the plan of the Independence Army, and he handed over Madlidov's plan to the staff officers for review and quickly gave the Independence Army an order: that is, to send a division of the Independence Army to assist Misichko's cavalry to encircle and annihilate the Japanese army.

Yang Rui saw that the order was very weak, the information that Lao Tzu obtained, Lao Tzu sent a division, but it was to be commanded by Ou Maozi, what does this mean? You must know that he applied to send cavalry to support him, and as a result, he became himself supporting cavalry.

Looking at Yang Rui's helplessness, Leo persuaded: "Let's execute the order first, at least preset the position first." If I call His Excellency the General again, I will say that we have not cooperated with Missichko's troops, and it is better to fight independently. ”

See Leo get up. Yang Rui stopped him and said, "It's okay, forget it." Don't beg for help. If it doesn't work, we'll break up. "Before joining the Russian army, in order to prevent being calculated by Lao Maozi, Yang Rui and Leo came up with an idea - in fact, it was still Commander Yang's idea, and Leo finally agreed - that is, the whole army broke up and escaped alive. This is also the method that Yang Rui came up with in imitation of the Portuguese army in World War I, and that army was also very evil. It's okay in peacetime, but as soon as you fight hard and die in a battle, you will immediately break up, which is much better than violating military orders, and it is difficult to hold the commander accountable afterwards. It means to go on strike with the workers.

Leo frowned when he saw Yang Rui say that he was dissolved. Said: "This is the way to go. However, if there are too many times, it will develop bad habits for the troops. ”

Yang Rui grinned and said with a smile, "I know, I know." It won't break up often," Seeing Leo's brows furrowing deeper, he added, "This time we attack." It's impossible to break up, so if you can't move, you won't fight. ”

Once determined, the troops were quickly mobilized, and the Independence Army split into two groups. The first group is the garrison troops, composed of the first, sixth, seventh, and eighth regiments, which are stationed in Sumabao, Sanjianpao, Tong Erbao and other places; The other group was an ambush unit, consisting of four regiments, the second, third, fourth, and fifth regiments (belonging to the second division), which was divided into two teams, one team rushed overnight to the area of Jiang's shack, two kilometers west of Sanjianpao, and the other team rushed to the forest south of the ancient city three kilometers west of Sumabao. The ambush position was arranged in the wilderness area west of the Wolf Cave Ditch, south of the ancient city, north of the Jiang family's shack, and east of Sumabao, which was the fastest path for the Eighth Brigade to rescue Heigou Tai from Yantai (now Dengta City). As for the cavalry army, this Yang Rui had already calculated that the Eighth Brigade would be cut into east and west under the attack from the north and south, and the independent army would eat the western section, and the cavalry army would eat the eastern section.

Yang Rui's abacus crackled, and the plan was passed to Missichchenko, the Cossack general was confused, although he was a cavalry unit, but in the winter, the northeast land was snow-white, and many landmarks disappeared. Since the friendly forces have "accurate" intelligence, and the reconnaissance capabilities of the friendly forces have been recognized before, then it should be done according to the construction of the friendly forces, so thought the simple Cossack general Misichchenko.

The snow began to fall during the day on the 25th until the night, and the temperature at night was only below minus 35 degrees, Yang Rui's headquarters had moved east from Sumabao to Hetuozi in front, which was already the front line, if the Japanese knew about it, then their terrible artillery could only hit the headquarters with only four kilometers. Originally, the headquarters was not far from the ambush point in Sumabao, but this was the first time that the troops had fought at the division and brigade level, and Yang Rui was very uneasy, and he was even worried that the troops would collapse inexplicably...... Yang Rui shook his head and didn't dare to think about it

Compared with Yang Rui's restlessness, Colonel Madrydov was excited, he was not so much concerned about the victory of the war, but rather about his own importance in the hearts of those big people, the previous total annihilation made his perfect impression in the hearts of the big men in St. Petersburg all collapsed, and today he wants to improve his image with this ambush. If the Japanese Eighth Brigade is really surrounded and annihilated, then I believe that my name will appear in the ears of His Majesty the Tsar again, and I may be a major general at that time.

If Yang Rui and Madelidov are as imminent as fire, then Leo is a piece of ice, he stands in front of the map and keeps drawing, of course, he is not thinking about the ambush battle tomorrow morning, but the follow-up to the ambush war. According to the intelligence, the Eighth Division was five hours late for the Eighth Brigade because of the assembly of troops, and it seemed that his direction was not Heigoutai, but the direction of Wolf Cave Ditch, he looked at the location of Wolf Cave Ditch, and could basically guess the Japanese plan, that is, the Eighth Brigade Regiment was the first to rescue the defenders of Heigou Terrace, and the Eighth Division as the general reserve was divided and strengthened the defensive strength of each stronghold according to the actual situation, so the plan would take the direction of Wolf Cave Ditch as the destination, this place is far from Li Da Datun, Hanshantai, Shendanbao, Heigoutai, The distance between the tricuspid bubbles is moderate.

If the 8th Brigade is surrounded, then the 8th Division, which arrives later, will definitely send troops to rescue when it gets the news, but how much will he send, and how will we deal with it after it is dispatched? Is it possible to encircle and annihilate the troops sent by the Eighth Division again? You must know that Misichchenko's cavalry army has more than 20,000 people, plus the 1st Division of the Independent Army and the 14th Division of the Eighth Army, so that there are 45,000 or nearly 50,000 people on his side, while the 8th Division has only more than 15,000 people, and it is still feasible to eat part of him with three times the strength. I just don't know when the reinforcements of the follow-up Japanese army will come, the nearest Japanese Second Army is more than 20 kilometers here, plus the time to assemble troops, it will take at least 12 hours, and the slowest will be 15 hours. What can you do in ten hours? Thinking of the offensive mode of the Russian army's positional advancement, Leo shook his head, it was too slow!

The 8th Brigade of the Japanese Army had no idea that there was already a net waiting for them in front of it, and the news from the headquarters was that a corps in Lu Guo was attacking the Heigoutai area, and they rushed to Heigoutai to rescue after the order of Lieutenant General Shangwen of the 8th Division. I don't know how many enemy troops are attacking in front of me, and the defenders of Heigoutai have all been shattered.

The brigade commander, Major General Masami Okami, was a veteran of the same period as Naofumi Tachimi. It's just that his qualifications are average. Ten years was just a young commander, and then he was promoted to Zhongzuo in the Fifth Wing of the Taiwan Garrison, and now that Japan is mobilizing the whole country, and there are no weak soldiers, he has become the commander of the Eighth Brigade by virtue of his seniority. He had been to the Northeast since the First Day of the First Day ten years ago, when he was still a captain of the 10th Division to which he belonged. Under the command of Tachimi Naowen, he captured the horse race. He knew Lieutenant General Lijian very well, and he always obeyed his orders to the end, and after receiving the military order, he set off after urgently assembling and leaving behind the baggage and logistics.

The wind is cold. Snow fluttering, such a cold winter night is the soldiers of the 8th Brigade have never experienced, the ground is extremely frozen in the wind and snow, the snow just falling during the march will stick to the soles of the shoes, the ice on the soles of the shoes will become thicker if you don't take a step, you have to kick off the ice on the soles of the shoes after a few steps, because the baggage is behind, the rice balls and water bottles carried by the soldiers are frozen, so you can only eat without eating or drinking and rushing to the destination. It's just that in the middle of the night, the squadrons began to have frostbitten soldiers, the Japanese army's winter clothes were different from the Russian army, and they were not perfect and were mainly made of leather, which was completely useless at minus 30 degrees, especially at such temperatures, the head had seven times the hypothermia of the body, and there was no way to ensure the temperature without a hat made of fur.

At the moment when there were constant reports of frostbite from soldiers, Okami Masami received reports of some of the previous routs, of course, these routs were from the three-pointed bubble area instead of Heigoutai, after Lu Mengxiong occupied Sumabao, the connection between Heigoutai and the rear had been severed, and when attacking the three-tipping bubble, because of bypassing a few small strongholds, many of the soldiers inside escaped.

"Nani? Qing people? It's supposed to be a horse bandit, right? Masami Okami said when she heard the report of the rout. Are you sure it's a horse bandit from the Qing Kingdom? ”

"It must be, I listened to them speak Chinese." Seeing His Excellency the Major General staring at him, Private Yasuo Inoda trembled all over his body, his face turned blue, and he said uneasily, "They didn't attack us, they just directly occupied the three-pointed bubble." We retreated from the south of the three-tip bubble, and they took Tong Erbao as well. ”

Tong Erbao is not the point, the key is not to know whether the Suma Fort in front has been occupied, but the soldiers are from the south of Sanjianpao, and the situation in the north is unknown, and the herald sent by himself before has not returned. Did the army occupy? Major General Okami pondered.

After asking all the questions that should be asked, seeing that the major general was thinking, the adjutant asked Yasuo Inoda to go down. Next to the fifth wing Okada Nakasa, said, "Your Excellency, Lu Guo is a big attack, the previous order of the headquarters only said that there was an army of Lu Guo, but now the Qing State horse bandits have appeared, I think Heigou Tai is afraid ......"

"Baga!" Major General Okami interrupted Okada Nakasa's as soon as he broke his drink, "Qingguo. The army will not fight at all, it will only run away, ten years ago in Phoenix, I only led a brigade to drive away the Qing general Nie Shicheng into thousands of people, as for the horse bandits of the Qing State, they are only worthy of being in the Lu State. Troublemakers in the rear of the army. Because the Qing horse bandits stopped advancing, in this case, we will definitely be laughed at by the whole of Japan! ”

Okami Masami is still in the style of the old school, he has not gone to military school at all, and will only fight according to experience, in fact, the Japanese Army is now in the alternation of experience and academy, many generals such as the Eighth Division's Tachimi Naofumi, the commander of the First Army, Kuroki Weizhen, and the commander of the Second Army, Okuhogong, are all samurai rather than military cadets, and the reason why they are now in their current positions is honed from the civil war. That's why. It was only then that the base camp appointed Gentaro Kodama as chief of staff of the Manchurian Army, and he was said to be the best of all the students of Colonel Merkel, the father of the Japanese Army.

The Eighth Brigade's last chance to avoid danger was thus cut short, and after a short rest, the team continued to stagger westward, only at a slower pace.

When the Eighth Brigade gradually fell into the trap, Lei Yizhen was quite anxious when he received the letter from the front, he did not know that the Japanese had no food or drink, and it was very difficult for them to walk cold and hungry, but he complained that the Japanese walked too slowly, walking only two kilometers per hour on average, and now they have only arrived at Kangguotun. In this way, it will be the next morning when we run to the ambush circle. If the Japanese arrived late, the ambush plan would have to be changed.

Ambushing a large army is different from ambushing a small army, it is not as simple as occupying an advantageous area and then digging fortifications and waiting for the enemy to enter the urn in a daze, the march of a large army is bound to send a large number of outposts in front and on both sides, and the more dangerous the area, the more focus of attention. And if you want to ambush a large army, there are generally only two options. The first is to hide yourself at the ambush site. Don't let the enemy outposts find out, or quietly kill the enemy outposts after being discovered, and wait for the enemy to come to the door after they are killed; The second is to choose an ambush site, lurk a few kilometers away from the ambush point to avoid the outpost, and then wait for the enemy outpost to pass before quickly marching to the ambush point to dig fortifications. The second option is safer in terms of safety, but the ambush is not necessarily effective. This ambush thunder to the town of the first choice. He thought that he could evade the detection of the Japanese outpost by relying on his own camouflage and night wind and snow, but if the Eighth Brigade arrived tomorrow morning, then his camouflage would not be so reliable during the day, and it was not feasible to change to the second type immediately. At the ambush point, the fortifications had been dug in order to hide, and the people just left, but the fortifications were still there, and once they saw them, the Japanese soldiers would be equally alert. What to do? Lei Yizhen couldn't make up his mind.

"Let's get the people out first. Now that the wind and snow are raging, leaving the snow early is likely to hide the fortifications. "Pei Shoutong also knows what the current problem is, or the weather is too bad, and the Japanese army is walking too slowly." And there is a good side to this, if the Japanese army really arrived in the morning, then they would be tired enough, and their combat effectiveness would definitely drop sharply by then. ”

Lei Yizhen listened to the whirring wind outside the tent and said, "Okay, let's withdraw the ambush troops first, and pay attention to let the company cover the fortifications with snow." And the retreat can't be too far, and the order must be rushed to the ambush point as quickly as possible. In addition, notify the headquarters and report the change of the plan. ”

At twelve o'clock in the night, the troops at the ambush point returned to the previous camp, the headquarters of the first division was fine, but the fifth regiment of the second division was terrible, "Damn, play with us." Didn't you say that you hit a small nose, why did you withdraw again? ”

"What, I'm going to come again tomorrow morning, play the uncle as a monkey, I won't come when I'm gone, I'm still marching in a hurry, spicy next door, Lao Tzu was ...... back then"

The beards of the Fifth Regiment were scolding and bustling, and they were very dissatisfied, and it seemed to them that it was enough to order them to keep watch in the earthen nest for half the night, and now to have them walk a few miles back in the wind and snow, and then run over again tomorrow when the order comes, which is nothing more than a trick on them; The beard is like this, and the Russian officers who assisted in the management are also very dissatisfied, they are all old soldiers, their thinking is still stagnant in the era of lining up to shoot and fight, proud of bravery, ashamed of cowardice, and now they only feel like rats sliding around and drilling around, too disrespectful.

Zhang Zongchang was very anxious when he saw that everyone was dissatisfied in the team, but he didn't know what to do. Wu Baodi, a staff officer sent by the 1st Division next to him, whispered a few words in his ear, and he rode a horse and shouted in the ranks, "Brothers, let everyone suffer!" Little Nose arrived late, what are you doing here? I'm going back to have a meal first, and then I'll come back at the party......"

Zhang Zongchang rode a horse and shouted all the way over, and the beard he heard suddenly calmed down, and some of them smiled even more when they heard that they went back to eat, this thief is not afraid of people freezing to death, and he still has to eat a hot meal to make up for it in this weather.

Seeing that the troops were slowly stabilizing. Zhang Zongchang returned to Wu Baodi's side and was even more polite, "Brother Wu still has a way, don't let the team be completely messed up." ”

Wu Baodi said with a smile, "That's the prestige of Master Zhang, and if you were someone else, you would probably be knocked off the horse." "Wu Baodi is a native of Shanghai, the first phase of the military academy, because he is a veteran person, Yang Rui sent him to the fifth regiment. Although this regiment is willing to fight, the discipline is not very good, and Zhang Zongchang lacks a string in his mind many times, so he is sent to supervise. Wu Baodi has the unique shrewdness of the Shanghainese, and he is very good at observing words and feelings, and he is very familiar with the beards not long after arriving in the fifth regiment. (To be continued......)