On February 10, 1905, the Independence Army finally received the official order from the group army, which ordered the entire army to set up to the Sifangtai 50 kilometers west of Fengtian. At this time, all kinds of materials needed for the army's logistics were already replenished. The day after receiving the order, Yang Rui led his troops to set off. Although it was cold, if the First Division came to walk for more than 50 kilometers, it would be a day before the First Division was able to grit their teeth and arrive. However, with Zhang Zongchang's second division, the march was delayed, which made the entire army extremely slow. After walking for a day, it took him to Shaling Fort, which only took less than 20 kilometers. Even so, Zhang Zongchang and his group were still tired. When they set up their camp, the First Division had already been settled. Hundreds of tents were arranged neatly in the snow. The camp was silent, and sentries could only be seen patrolling everywhere.

People can die, and goods can be thrown away. No matter how optimistic people are, they shake their heads at the Second Division. This is a big burden. Zhang Zongchang is also a wise man. He came to accompany him that day and kept saying that he was illiterate and had no education, so he dragged down the army. Yang Rui slowly understood his temper. He was a gangster. All loyalty was the most important thing, which means he did not blame him. Instead, he sent a group of officers to the Second Division to bypass Russia. The officers helped the troops train.

In order to better train them, Yang Rui miraculously walked for three days on this road with the remaining 30 kilometers, and he also had some rewards for spending time. At least the second division of the camp was marching and camping routines began to look a little. He walked for four days on a 50-kilometer journey, but fortunately he drove the next day after receiving the military order, so although the road was long, it was still within the regulations. Marine was actually one of the good ways to train troops. If it was not limited by the military order, he wanted to continue walking.

On the evening of February 16, the pre-war meeting began. The Eighth Army, the Tenth Army, the Independent Army commander and chief of staff were all appearing at the Second Army Command. Lieutenant General Misichenko of the Cavalry Army was also going to participate, but he was ordered to lead his troops to harass the Japanese rear to block the Third Army from Nogi to the north, so there was no regular meeting. Yang Rui was not in the scope of the meeting notice, but considering that the intelligence against Japan basically came from the cavalry battalion of the Independent Army, and the troops had to launch a second wave of attacks, and the troops did not coordinate the troops before the war, so he could only command by phone once the war started. Therefore, he was also notified. A yellow man in his twenties appeared among the participants in his forties and fifties. The generals swept their eyes from time to time, with some confusion, some disdain and even more uneasy.

Yang Rui was not moved by these eyes. For a time traveler, the Russian army was too old. The generals here fought very old-fashionedly. They usually fought for three days. The first day was to dig trenches, the second day was artillery bombardment, and the third day was to engage in intensive charges. If they could not fight, then shell again and then rush again. Yang Rui estimated that under the same firepower, a mature division of the Revival Army would eat two Russian divisions, and two divisions would eat five Russian divisions. Of course, the premise was that the mature Revival Army would be mature and mature. It was really hard to bear when it was mature.

General Billy Jerlinger was an old soldier with a long beard with a long beard in his eyes. He had a Cossack wildness, his speech was short and powerful, and his movements were strong. Every sentence was projected out like a dagger. The content of this meeting was different from what Leo said last time - that is, after each unit occupied Shendan Fort, Heigoutai, and Sanjianpao, the Russian troops and the cavalry army went east together. They occupied the junction of Shuliantun and Dadongshan Fort, and then attacked Shilihe. While the troops attacked Shilihe, the Third Army would start to launch a frontal attack, capture Linsheng Fort and Hongling Fort, and finally advance to the backstage highland.

During this period, Yang Rui knew the map of the right wing of Chenyang. He only felt that this plan seemed to be in cooperation with the Third Army, but the premise for the Third Army to launch the Second Army was that the Second Army was attacking Shilihe. This Shilihe was already the core position of the Japanese Second Army. The Japanese Second Army was not the 8,000 people of the Akiyama Detachment, but 50,000 people. Moreover, if you attack Shilihe, you must occupy Dadongshan Fort. This is the left wing of the Japanese Second Army, with at least one division, and the Japanese army of one division was waiting for their hard work. How could the Russian army with a long battle win? It seems that Billy Gerlinger was fooled by Kuroparkint in the name of the cooperation of the army. If you follow the previous opportunity, you can directly let Misichenko's cavalry army make a fuss behind the enemy, and the results will be better than now.

After introducing the combat plan, the Minister of Operations announced that in order to support the attack, the headquarters specially sent four additional siege artillery companies. The distribution of these four companies was also announced: the 10th Army responsible for suppressing the Japanese army at the top of the arc was assigned to a company, and the other three companies were all given to the Eighth Army. Thinking that although these siege artillery companies also used scatters and had limited power, they were 150mm artillery after all, Yang Rui immediately whispered in Madlitov's ear, and then the colonel said to the commander: "Genius General, after the Eighth Army occupied the Heigou Platform, can a company of siege artillery be mobilized for use by the Independent Army..." Seeing the ridiculed gazes of everyone, Madlitov immediately said, "We only need one day, and the artillery company will be returned immediately."

Before Madlitov finished speaking, Major General Rusanov, the commander of the 14th Division of the 8th Army, laughed, "Andri, they walked for four or five days in fifty kilometers. Can they reach Sanjianbu in one day? I think the siege cannon company will give you ten days, otherwise you will return the cannon company to me before firing the cannon company." After that, everyone laughed.

The offensive plan for Sanjianpu had been done long ago, and he had no idea to fire 150mm cannons. Now Yang Rui was happy to see Lie and wanted to get a few 150mm cannons to open his eyes to the students, so he asked Madlitov to ask for it. Who knew that this guy was too soft and he would not say it for a day and was ridiculed by others. Seeing a bearded and laughed, Yang Rui couldn't understand Russian, but only heard the word "monkey" in his words. After the translator translated his words, he bit his teeth. Yang Rui stood up and said lightly to Rusanov: "If you think the Independent Army has no combat power, then we can make a bet. Whoever loses will admit that he is a monkey."

The translator was stunned for a while before translating the words under Yang Rui's close gaze. Hearing a yellow-like man speak wildly, all the eyes of the room swept over, including General Billy Geerlinger. Yang Rui continued to say lightly, "According to the plan, the Independent Army will only attack after the Eighth Army occupied Heigoutai. Then I will bet on the time to occupy Chendan Fort and occupy Sanjianpu. Whoever is slow will be a monkey." Yang Rui was obviously cheating people. The farming detachment stationed in Sanjianpu was originally responsible for the defense of the Heigoutai area. However, the Fengbian Detachment on the Chendan Fort was Fengbian Detachment, and this team had several artillery pieces. In other words, the Independent Army faced a semi-destroyed detachment, and the Eighth Army had to face a new detachment after the hard battle.

Rusanov seemed to feel something was wrong, but before he could figure it out, he was trapped in by Yang Rui's light words, "If you don't dare, then let's bet on the time to occupy the Heigou Platform and the time to occupy the Sanjian Bubble. Whoever is slower will be a monkey."

He was invited to bet by a yellow-skinned monkey again, and he was questioned by him for being timid. In addition, the condition was that he had the advantage this time - the first attacker had a sudden nature and then the attacker did not. Rusanov shouted: "Okay, let's bet, whoever loses will be the monkey."

Seeing this guy getting on the trap, regardless of everyone's strange gazes, Yang Rui sat down happily, and Madlitov asked next to him, "Wang, why do you have to read with him? If you lose..."

Yang Rui smiled and said, "It doesn't matter if you lose. Don't you think we are monkeys? Losing is the same as not losing; if you win, you will make a profit."

The colonel didn't understand Yang Rui's logic, "You are such a strange Qing Dynasty."

Although the bet between the two major generals at the meeting was very rude, the matter developed too quickly and the dispute ended in a few words. After this, General Billy Jerlinger began to have a bad impression of Yang Rui. Although he is short of military strength and needs the assistance of the Independent Army, he still believes that the yellow people are born lower than the white people, which is God's will. Now there is a second-class person who wants to pull the white people into the water, which is really uneducated.

Yang Rui, who returned to the barracks, did not take the bets seriously at all, and even asked Madlitov not to tell his subordinates about this. He did not want his soldiers to die in vain because of the unnecessary bet. He summoned all the officers at the battalion level and above overnight, and then conveyed the content. He heard that Cheng Zhiwang was a little disappointed when he heard that he wanted a 150mm cannon and said, "First play with what he had in his hands. You will have any cannons in the future." He asked again, "How is the coordination and cooperation between the infantry cannons?"

Previously, the Fuxing Army mainly used mortars and thunder cannons. These two types of artillery were short in range and could achieve a coordinated 100 meters without telephone or radio communication. However, the range of mortars was too close and the value of coordination was limited. Now they had breech guns. Considering that future wars were still the world of breech guns, Yang Rui made up his mind to play the real Infantry Cannon Association, so as long as he had time, the First Division would practice the infantry cannon coordination tactics - of course, it was not live-fire shooting, but the storm-formation of the infantry troops during the training of the Infantry Cannon Association.

When the commander asked this question again, Cheng Zhiwei was a little nervous. Indirect artillery shooting was already the latest technology, and infantry and artillery coordination was completely a heavenly book. Although this tactic was created by von der Thenn in the Pakatani War, the real large-scale popularization of this technology was still at the end of World War I. Under the covered firepower of machine guns, the German Storm Commando carried forward this tactic. Although the entire artillery team is the essence of the entire army's artillery, these people have not fired a few guns on average. You should know that there are not many Russian artillery shells seized by themselves.

"Sir," Cheng Zhibing begged for mercy and called Mr. Yang Rui, "I am not sure yet. The artillery regiment has too few actual combat and has fired too few artillery."

The key to infantry and artillery coordination is not only the infantry dares to rush, but the key is to see how the artillery masters the extended shooting technology. In this era without detection radar and poor artillery accuracy, it can only rely on the artillery’s experience to play this technology. Alas, the more advanced the tactics, the more advanced the talent is, the more difficult it is to cultivate it. It seems that it is still not possible to play infantry and artillery coordination this time. Do you have to admit that it is a monkey? Yang Rui thought so.

As if seeing Yang Rui’s loss, Cheng Zhili said, “Sir, this can be achieved by following the old method.”

"You mean to use mortars? But the range of mortars is too close. If it is far away, the accuracy cannot be guaranteed. Although it is snowy now, the Japanese outposts are arranged very prominently, and they don't know whether they have artillery. If they are within one thousand meters of their position, the artillery will be very dangerous." Yang Rui also thought about using mortars.

"I don't need to attack unexpectedly. Once the Heigou Platform is occupied, the Japanese army will be alarmed. What we want is to let the infantry touch about 200 meters of the front line, and the artillery advance to about 500 to 800 meters, so that coordination can be achieved. As for the Japanese artillery, the mortar fires very fast, and ten minutes of artillery shooting time is enough. As for the flying thunder cannon, it will be left to the infantry themselves." Cheng Zhiyi had long planned for this. He was also forced by Yang Rui and had to rack his brains to find a way.

It seems that this is the only thing. Yang Rui was sure in his heart and said, "Okay, you can discuss with Beishou according to this tactical arrangement and see what needs to be coordinated with the infantry. I hope the other party does not have artillery."

On February 20th, the exact attack time and plan came. With the order, Leo said goodbye to General Billy Jerlinger and came to Yang Rui again. He looked carefully at the plan formulated by the General Staff, and did not find any fork, so he put the plan aside. He said, "I heard that something happened to you and Lieutenant General Rusanov of the 14th Division of the Russian Army?"

"Lieutenant General? Isn't it a major general?" Yang Rui said, "He said the yellow-skinned monkey in front of me, and it was very unfriendly. So I just made a bet with him."

"He is a lieutenant general. He was promoted in December last year, but his military uniforms have not yet come down. The general said you are very...he now regrets having you included in the Second Army." Leo said.

"Haha. It's too late to say this now. The attack is about to begin. If this attack does not work, Kuropatkin will definitely complain to the Tsar. As a friend, do you care so much about me? Is there no good news to me?" Yang Rui said.

"Good news, of course," said Leo. "Last time, Lieutenant Colonel Von Toftav had seen our wireless telegram, and he reported it to the country. Now, people have sent to the Far East to fully evaluate the value of this technology. If it is appropriate, they are willing to pay for it."

Finally someone took the bait. I thought that the time travelers sold technology and sold it all over, but they had no use to make anything. They finally made a wireless broadcast, but they only got a stack of stocks without the money to buy it. Of course, Yang Rui thought the price was low. If he let it go, there would be hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. But the price was too low. So Yang Rui chose to hold it.

"When will they arrive?" Yang Rui asked, "Are you Germans generous? Will you buy technology, drawings, etc. for tens of millions of marks?"

"Ten millions or tens of millions?" Leo was stunned, "This is a joke. The German army has always been poor. His Majesty the German emperor still likes the navy more. He has always been stingy with the army. I guess I can't buy your wireless telegrams at any price. You should ask them to give you the latest Mauser rifle drawings or the latest IS rifle bullets." (Chapter 44, the IP should be IS)

"What is IS rifle bullet, Leo?" Yang Rui asked.

"Karl told me that because the army used round-headed bullets before, with low initial velocity, near range and bent ballistics, in order to improve this situation, the German army will be equipped with pointed bullets starting this year," said Leo. "We got this news too late. The round-headed bullet production lines ordered in Germany before."

There is also this problem. Indeed, when Leo said that Yang Rui discovered that the bullets and bullets are round now, and what we saw later generations are all sharp. He also noticed this problem at the beginning, but he didn't know when the round-headed bullet turned into a pointed bullet. "Can we change it now? Or just change to a pointed bullet of the same diameter?" Yang Rui asked, wanting to make up for the loss.

"No, the chamber pressures of the two bullets are different. And the rifle's ruler is also different. If you want to use it, the entire rifle must be changed, especially the ruler and chamber pressure must be found." Leo said.

I didn't expect that things were so troublesome. It seemed that they were cheated. No wonder the Germans sold cheaply. However, bullets and guns were matched. Round-headed bullets were not considered wrong. The key is that the equipment designated by Germany was to produce round-headed bullets, so I don't know if it could be changed. Since the trouble was caused and there was no way to solve it for a while, I could only put it aside. Yang Rui put aside the bullet problem and turned the topic to the war. "You have read all the plans formulated by the General Staff. Are there any problems with such an arrangement?"

"The plan about ours is perfect, nothing to be corrected. Bei is very good and an excellent staff officer. But I find it difficult to understand the plan of the Second Division. Are you planning to put them on the battlefield?" Leo asked.

"Yes. They also need the training of war. I hope that after the war is over, the Second Division can be included in the organization. For them, there is no warm-up match, and they can only be the finals as soon as they come." Yang Rui expressed his true thoughts, and he did not hide many things about Leo.

"For farmers who have only been trained for ten days, this is still very cruel." Leo and Yang Rui are different. They have less emotional colors to consider, but Yang Rui is not. They have feelings for the students, so even if they have been trained, they don't want to be sent to the battlefield. This is not the case for those who have no feelings, such as the Second Division.
Chapter completed!