Chapter 53: Ambush
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Li Huchen was originally a beard, and he didn't know half of the big characters, and he didn't know anything about such a high-level thing as the map, but fortunately, this area was very familiar, and the road was completely imprinted in his heart, so he only said: "From here to the west, more than ten miles to the west is the wooden bowl, and then from the wooden bowl to the west forty miles through the poplar top, birch pidian, you will arrive at Pingding Mountain, Pingding Mountain is the Taizi River, and you can go down the river to Benxi Lake." This road may not be known to the Japanese little nose, and the saddest place on this road is the section from poplar tops to birch pidian, which are all small roads, and the gun trucks are afraid that they will not be happy. â
According to Li Huchen's explanation, Colonel Madlitov finally found such a path on the map, and marked it on the map while listening to Li Huchen. Although the Russian army has occupied the northeast for three or four years since the year of Gengzi, they still don't know much about the geography of the northeast, especially the mountainous and forest areas near the Yalu River and Changbai Mountain.
After dedicating the road, Li Huchen returned to the camp with a full burp at Colonel Madlitov's place, and as soon as he entered the door, the brothers in the house hurriedly asked: "Big boss, why did you go for so long, what did the big nose say?" â
Li Huchen was calm, and sat on the tiger chair without hurrying - the tiger chair made of stone was too heavy, and it took four people to lift it, and it would take less than a few miles to change people, but for the sake of style, Li Huchen still asked the cubs below to carry the tiger chair to march, even if it was so heavy.
Li Huchen raised his eyelids and said, "Everyone." What to do in such a hurry, in case the big nose appears. Then our heads are ......."
Li Huchen's intimidation made everyone involuntarily shrink their necks, this big nose to kill people is not an ordinary murderer, especially this Lord Ma, when he was in the timber company to rectify those disobedient wooden handles that wanted to make trouble, it was four or five days in a row, and the corpse floated from the big chestnuts in Linjiang to the mouth of the Yalu River downstream.
Of course, there are also those who are not afraid of evil, and Wu Laojian, who came from the south, looked at everyone with disdain. He twisted his sparse beard and said with confidence: "The big nose is already a loach in the lane ditch, and it can't make any big waves." The last time in Liaoyang, there were 200,000 Japanese pairs of 300,000 horses with big noses, what was the result? Big Nose is not a loser yet. Now the Japanese Lushun side is about to be defeated, and when the time comes, more than 100,000 soldiers and horses will be transferred over there and drive the big nose out of the northeast. When I came, Hana-sama had already said it. As long as you sincerely take refuge, how can the big nose promise everyone, he will double. Also, there will always be a day when this battle will be fought, and then the big guy will have to have a livelihood, as long as he is sincere. After that day, Lord Hua will definitely ask the Japanese officials to say a few good words to the adults of the imperial court, and let the imperial court recruit all of you. Then I won't wander around the woods anymore......"
Wu Laojian's previous words were useless to mention Li Huchen's interest, in all fairness, this Lord Ma asked for someone to give people and guns to guns, which is still good for himself. It's just that when he heard Wu Laojian talk about the post-war events, Li Huchen's mind began to liven. Although this Master Ma is good to himself, he has never said how to arrange himself in the future. Will you be like that curly-haired beast Tiezi Lin Qi in the future? It's so boring. It's not a way to wander around in the forest like this, there is a way that the clay pot will inevitably be broken, and the general will inevitably die in battle, and making a beard is a business that carries work on the tip of a knife, and it is precarious, but as long as it is recruited by the imperial court, it will be considered a good life.
Wu Laojian knew that he was already tempted when he looked at Li Huchen's appearance, so he didn't speak at the moment, and only looked at him with mouse eyes. Li Huchen knew that he was waiting for his statement, hesitated for a while, and finally said: "If I bring the big nose to the Japanese ambush, what price can this flower lord offer me?" â
Wu Laojian was overjoyed when he heard this, and couldn't help but smile and said, "If you want the big boss to really bring these big noses to the ambush of the Japanese, don't talk about the reward, just say that after that day, Zhao'an, this official must at least be a patrol battalion commander." â
Hearing that he could be the commander of the patrol battalion in the future, Li Huchen and his brothers gasped, and for a while the eyes of the thieves and rats were happy, before taking refuge in the big nose, they didn't want to talk about the patrol battalion, even the patrol police in the county could also chase them like rabbits, if they became the commander of the patrol battalion of the imperial court in the future, wouldn't it be a mouse becoming a cat. Everyone laughed, thinking that he would be the commander in the future, Li Huchen finally made up his mind and said: "Tomorrow, when you go back, you can say the word 'Pingdingshan' to your Lord Hua, and the brothers will do what they should do, but in the future, you let Lord Hua not forget today." â
Although Wu Laojian didn't know what it meant to be worthy of this Pingdingshan, he knew that it was something important, so he just kept it in mind, and then took out a stack of white cloth from his arms, and after opening it, it was a Japanese moon flag, and said: "The big boss, the two armies are fighting without eyes, as long as the big boss hangs this flag on the battlefield, then you can keep the big guy safe." â
Li Huchen was a little disdainful in his heart, saying that he was hanging the flag to ensure safety, but not to let himself accept the name, and as soon as he hung the flag on the position, he would ensure that the guns with big noses should be aimed at himself first, and then at the Japanese. But when he thought that this big nose was indeed a grasshopper after the autumn, he didn't mutter in his heart anymore, motioned for someone to take the flag, and then talked to Wu Laojian for a while, and then sent enough money for the foot to let people send him away.
After three days of grinding, the Russian army finally arrived at the place called Pingdingshan. The road led by Li Huchen is very hidden, after passing the wooden bowl, there are no people on this road, fortunately, although this road is hidden, it is not difficult to walk, and the most dangerous poplar top gun carriage is also easy to pass. Under the autumn sun, Colonel Madlitov rode on his horse, stood on a small hillside, and looked helplessly at the sparse infantry team, the journey of more than 20 versts could be completed in two days according to the plan, but the morale of the troops was too low, and they could only walk less than six versts a day. The slower you go, the higher the probability of being spotted by the Japanese. The more dangerous it will be.
Colonel Madlitov turned his head to look at the valley ahead, and a little further on was the flat-topped mountain. Arriving at Pingdingshan means arriving at the Taizi River, when the time comes, you can take it by surprise and go west along the river valley to the Japanese army's logistics warehouse at Benxi Lake, which is said to have hoarded the food supplies of the entire Japanese Manchurian Army, as long as this warehouse is destroyed, then the Japanese army will be absolutely defeated, and it will be a matter of time before they drive these skinny monkeys into the sea.
While Colonel Madlitov was imagining, the troops finally arrived at the intended camping site. The Cossack cavalry had already set up tents here, and dinner had already been eaten. Leonid twisted his already numb straddle sitting in the saddle, and cursed in his mouth: "These damned Cossack bastards, why are they camping so far away. Ivan......"
Just as he raised his voice to greet the orderlies, a shell exploded on the outskirts of the camp, causing a large mud puddle and gunshots. Leonid's voice suddenly froze. Soon, shortly after the first shell fell, more shells landed in the camp, and the gray animals, tired from a day's work, immediately struggled to their feet, and scrambled to find shelter.
Colonel Madlitov heard the first cannon shot and ran out of the tent, then grabbed the Cossack cavalry commander who was following him, Major Zahar, and shouted. "The Japanese, where did the Japanese run out of nowhere, how did you scout? How many people are there in Japan? As if he had heard Colonel Madlitov's question, Major Zahar had not yet answered it, and the Japanese soldiers who had been hiding in the mountains in advance appeared. It's so dense that I can't see how many people there are.
The location of Pingdingshan Village is the corner of the Taizi River from north to west, counting the road to the east of the Russian army and the alkali factory ditch to the south. This place seems to be a crossroads, now the Russian army is in the middle of this crossroads, the only few heights on all sides have been occupied by the Japanese army, the Russian army is in the crossfire, it seems to be about to disappear, and the flower arm Li Huchen who had been pinned on high hopes has long been holding a Japanese flag and fled far away to the west of Pingdingshan, and after entering the Japanese position, he turned his gun and began to aim at the Russian army.
If ordinary people were faced with such a scene, they would have raised their hands to surrender or take the opportunity to escape, but Colonel Madlitov was a member of the Russian Holy Order after all, and he was a military elite who was personally favored by the former minister Bezobrazov, he looked sideways at the sun that only turned slightly to the west, and then grabbed the frightened Major Zahar, pointed to the flat-topped mountain village to the north and the high ground to the west of the village, and said loudly: "Let the artillery bombard these two heights, bombard these two heights......" Major Zakhar was shaken vigorously by him a few times, It was only when he said it a third time that he understood the order, and hurriedly bent over and ran to the artillery company to personally command.
The Russian army is surrounded at this crossroads, and the only way to break through is to the east or north, as for the south and west, it is not in the scope of Colonel Madlitov's consideration, compared to the east where the guns are chatting, he still decided to break through to the north with fierce fire - this makes no sense, people like to choose their familiar places to flee for their lives in times of crisis, and now the east is the Russian army has walked, and it is normal to turn back when the time comes, but do you not know that the Japanese army is waiting on the way to the east?
Although I haven't walked through the north, I don't know if it's a living road or a dead road, but since the north is the Taizi River, then you can still walk along the river valley, even if you go to the source of the Taizi River and there is no way to go, then if you go straight to the north, you can still reach the official road from Nanzamu to Huajianzi Town before you go through the mountains and forests. According to the map, Pingdingshan is only more than 10 versts away from the official road to Huajianzi Town in the north, and minus the length of the Taizi River valley, it is estimated that the distance to really cross the mountains and mountains should be only a few versts, and the escape probability of taking this road is the highest. It's just that when crossing the mountains and forests, all baggage has to be discarded, but in the choice of saving life and preserving baggage, Colonel Madlitov will undoubtedly choose the former.
The Russian army continued to die in the confrontation with the Japanese army, and finally in the prayer of Colonel Madlitov, the Russian artillery also began to sound. It has to be said that the Cossack artillery company was still well-trained, and in the second round of shelling, one of the machine-gun positions arranged in the Pingdingshan village was blown away, and by the third round of shelling, the machine-gun positions on the high ground west of the village were also muted. Of course, the Cossack artillery battery also paid for this, and the Japanese artillery moved the firing point to the Russian artillery positions after the current Russian artillery, and after several calibrations, when the Russian army played the third round. Finally, two shells hit the position, and two mountain guns were overturned. Nearby artillerymen were killed and wounded.
Just now, when the Russian artillery bombarded Pingdingshan Village, the Japanese commander Hanada Nakanosuke Nakasa, the Japanese commander on the west side of the battlefield, saw that the Russian army was not bombarding his own artillery positions, but bombarding the villages in the north, and he knew the plan of the Russian commander, and he immediately asked the herald to convey the order to the artillery, abandon the Russian infantry and turn the muzzle to destroy the Russian artillery first. However, their own artillery was too inferior, to be exact, those 1898 Alisak artillery guns were too inferior, this kind of artillery could only fire three shells per minute, and it took a lot of time to hit the Russian artillery position.
The ambush of Madletov's headquarters at Pingdingshan was decided on an ad hoc basis. After receiving Wu Laojian's intelligence. Hanada Shaozo immediately reported the ambush operation to Admiral Kuroki of the First Army, although the operation was quickly communicated, but because the big war was imminent, the heavy firepower needed for the ambush was extremely limited, there was not a single mountain artillery, six guns and six machine guns were batched, and the personnel were also extremely limited. In addition to a few hundred Manchurian rebels, there were only more than two brigades of troops, which were more than an ambush than an ambush. And now, the two machine-gun positions arranged in the north were bombarded by artillery, because the Russians did not retreat to the east, as guessed, so half of the brigade and two machine guns arranged there were completely useless. Only the west gate and the south side still have two machine guns, ZĂ i, still strafing the Russian positions.
Seeing that the machine guns in the north were swept away by the Russian artillery, and the Russian army was about to break through to the north, Hanada Nakasa couldn't help jumping out of the trench, standing in front of the trench and drawing his command knife, and then shouted heartbreakingly: "Horn to ...... Yi" suddenly. With Hanada's shouting, a large group of Japanese soldiers jumped out of the trenches. Picking up the bayonet and fearlessly standing up to the Russian camp, behind the Japanese army, Li Huchen, the bearded man who had just surrendered, also gritted his teeth, and rushed up with the Japanese in the shadow of the supervising team behind.
Lieutenant Colonel Leonid, the commander of the infantry regiment, was originally ambushed by the Japanese in this ravine, but now he saw a bright bayonet in front of the position, and immediately lost all courage, bowed down and retreated for a while, turned around and ran for less than two steps when he only heard two gunshots, "pop, pop", and his fat body was more than like being hammered by a hammer, and he collapsed on the ground like a dead dog after two shocks.
After shooting Leonid, Colonel Madlitov threw the smoking revolver to his adjutant, then drew his command knife and stood on the position like a black bear roaring: "Ula, my emperor Ula, Ula......" Suddenly nearly 1,000 Russian soldiers in the western position also roared, shouted "Ula", and went up to the west. Only by repelling this Japanese attack can the Russian army retreat safely, this is the last thing Colonel Madlitov thinks before charging.
Nearly 1,000 Russian troops trapped in the Jedi and more than 1,000 Japanese troops met in the western valley, as soon as they made contact with the front row of Japanese soldiers, they were overturned by the Russian soldiers, and the tall Russians were indeed too short compared to the Japanese, but before the first row of Russian soldiers cut the bayonets and killed the Japanese on the ground, the second row of Japanese bayonets stabbed over, and in a wah-wah-wah-wah-yaw sound, the gray line that rushed to the front was drowned out by a blue line from the hedge, and then the gray and blue colors were mixed together.
Unlike the tall Russian soldiers, although the Japanese army was small, but the fierceness of fighting bayonets was stronger, they were not like the Russian army gathered together and blocked, and the bayonets were opened and closed, but they were scattered and fought separately, and guarded the door, and when they saw the opportunity, they would suddenly step on a stab, and after the stab, the knife was not taken back to the end, ready for the next stab - after several bloody battles, these Japanese veterans on the battlefield completely abandoned the fancy and complicated bayonet skills they had learned from Europe, and began to become flexible and tricky, but even so, the battle loss ratio with the Russian army is still outrageously high, but fortunately, the terrain of the river valley is narrow, and more than 2,000 people are piled up here, and the Russian army is completely unable to exert it.
The gray line of the first two layers was quickly swallowed by the blue, but although the river valley was narrow, it was still a kilometer wide, and the Russian army, which could not be spread out because of the number of people, began their unique way of opening and closing after the death of the first two teams widened the space, and the Japanese army was not sharp after the battle, and it was inevitable that it was exhausted, and it was pressed and beaten by the Russian army for a while. Seeing that the Japanese army could not hold on, Li Huchen's troops, who had shrunk behind, joined in, although these bandits were not used to using awkward spears to fight, but the addition of a thousand people to the battle formation still slowed down the offensive of the Russian army.
Although there is a gun pointed at the team behind him, for an old man like Li Huchen, this kind of pediatric trick is useless - what is the use of the team of supervisors, Lao Tzu just goes into battle, but you can't care if you don't pick up the enemy after you go into battle. According to Li Huchen's original intention, he was ready to be lazy behind the Japanese, but seeing that the Japanese army was going to be unable to hold on, if he didn't help him, let alone the collapse of the battle formation, he would also have losses, and if the Japanese really collapsed, he would definitely find trouble for himself in the future, so he had to rush up with his cubs. Weak countries are always sad, and even the beard of a weak country is not easy to survive.