Chapter Seventy-Nine: Encirclement and Annihilation 1

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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 still dispatched overnight, he seemed to smell the smell of 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 you wait for them to be exhausted from a long night's walk, and then give them a surprise attack at dawn, it will be very profitable.

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 waved the role of the communicator again, and immediately called the headquarters of the army group and asked for permission to plan this surprise attack, hoping that the command would send Missichchenko'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. ”

Seeing Leo get up, Yang Rui stopped him and said, "It's okay." Never mind. 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. Fortunately in peacetime, as soon as a hard battle is fought to the death, it will immediately collapse, which is much better than violating military orders, and it is difficult to hold the commander accountable afterwards.

Leo saw Yang Rui and said, and dispersed. frowned, and said: "Although this is a method, it will form bad habits for the troops if it is too many times." ”

Yang Rui grinned and said with a smile, "I know, I know." It doesn't break up often," Leo frowned deeper. He added: "This time we are attacking, it is impossible to break up, if you can't move, won't you fight." ”

After the determination was made, the troops were quickly mobilized, and the independent army was divided into two groups, one group was the garrison troops, which were composed of the first, sixth, seventh, and eighth regiments, which were stationed in Sumabao, Sanjianpao, Tongerbao and other places; The other group is an ambush force. Composed of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th regiments (belonging to the 2nd Division), the division 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 Heigoutai from Yantai (now Dengta City), and the ambush force was in the south. One was in the north, and the 8th Brigade was flanked in the north and south. 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. The independent army will eat the western section, and the cavalry army will eat the eastern section, if their movements are slow, it will just block the 8th Division.

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, you must know that Missichko'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 and nearly 50,000 people on his side. And the Eighth 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 there was an army in Lu Guo attacking the Heigoutai area, and they rushed to Heigoutai to rescue after the order of Lieutenant General Shangwen of the 8th Division, completely unaware of how many enemy troops were attacking in front. And the defenders of Heigoutai have all broken jade.

Brigade commander Major General Okami Masami is a veteran of the same period as Tachimi Naofumi, but his qualifications are average, and he is only a junior in ten years, and then he was promoted to Zhongzuo in the Fifth Wing of the Taiwan Garrison. He had been to the Northeast since the first day of the year ten years ago. At that time, he was still a captain of the 10th Division to which Tatsumi belonged, and under the command of Tachimi Naofumi, he captured Saimaji. He knew Lieutenant General Lijian very well, and he always obeyed his orders to the end, and after receiving the military order, he urgently assembled and went out, leaving behind the baggage and logistics.

The cold wind was blowing, the snow was fluttering, such a cold winter night was something the soldiers of the 8th Brigade had never experienced, and the ground was extremely frozen in the wind and snow. The snow that has just fallen during the march will stick to the soles of the shoes, and the ice on the soles of the shoes will become thicker if you don't take a single step, and you have to kick off the ice on the soles of your shoes after walking a few steps, because the baggage is all behind, and the rice balls and water bottles that the soldiers carry with them are frozen, so they 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 winter clothes of the Japanese army were different from those of the Russian army, and they were not perfect and were mainly made of leather, which was completely useless at minus thirty degrees, especially at such temperatures. The head has seven times the hypothermia of the body, and there is absolutely no way to guarantee 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-tip bubble area instead of Heigoutai, after 6 Dream Bear occupied Sumabao, the connection between Heigoutai and the rear had been severed, and when attacking the three-pointed bubble, because of bypassing several 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, now the Japanese 6th Army is in the alternation of experience and academy, many generals like the Eighth Division of the Tachimi Shofumi, the commander of the First Army Kuroki Weizhen, and the commander of the Second Army Okuho Gong are all samurai born rather than military cadets, and the reason why they are in their current positions is honed from the civil war. It was precisely because of this that the base camp appointed Gentaro Kodama as the chief of staff of the Manchurian Army, and it is said that he was the best of all the students of Colonel Merkel, the father of the Japanese 6th Army.

The 8th Brigade's last chance to avoid danger was thus cut short, after a short break. The team continued to stagger westward, only more slowly.

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, the more dangerous the area, the more focus of attention, and to ambush a large army. Generally, there are only two options, the first is to hide yourself at the ambush site and prevent the enemy outpost from showing you, or you can quietly kill the enemy outpost after being present, and then wait for the enemy to come to the door after they are eliminated; 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. In terms of security, the second approach is more secure. But ambushes aren't always ideal. The first option chosen by the ambush mine town, he thought that with his own camouflage and night wind and snow, he could avoid the detection of the Japanese outpost, 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, in order to hide the fortifications had been dug at the ambush point, people just left but those fortifications were still there, once they saw these fortifications, then the Japanese army would also be alert. What to do? Lei Yizhen couldn't make up his mind.

"Let's get the people out first. Now the wind and snow are raging. Leaving the snow early is likely to hide those 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. "Alright then, withdraw the ambush troops first, and be careful to let the company cover the fortifications with snow. And the retreat should not be too far, and the order must be rushed to the ambush point as quickly as possible. Also inform the command. Report the changes to 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.