The Misichenko cavalry army, who was ordered by Commander-in-Chief Kuropargent, raided the Japanese rear for a full six days, and did not withdraw back to Sifangtai until February 20. Although the harassment was strong, the effect was still poor. More than 10,000 people were dispatched to burn some Japanese logistics warehouses and blow up hundreds of ammunition trucks (carriages). As for the cut-off telephone lines and railways, they could be recovered soon. When the Russian army was mobilizing troops here, they were rarely gained, and Japan appeared in the rear of the Russian army.

The cavalry squad of the army, the Yongzuo Detachment, is the most famous, because there are very few people in each Japanese army, usually dozens or one hundred people, but there are many. So many cavalry squads are active in the rear of the Russian army, and Commander-in-Chief KuroPargent's timidity is again in the minds of the Japanese army, believing that there were about 10,000 Japanese troops in the rear, he actually wanted to take away Misichenko's cavalry before the war started. Under Billy Jerlinger's argument, KuroPargent's idea was not realized.

Because Yang Rui was eventually an outsider, he had no idea when the Russian army launched an attack. The order was just to keep him on standby and to join the battle. So the Independent Army had to enter the city and lure him into the state of war. The Second Division had to enter the city and tempted Xiaoyao. With Zhang Zongchang's efforts, the Second Division gathered a whole regiment. These three thousand people were basically beards, and a small number of brave peasants who wanted to fight back and receive the reward. In order to revenge Japan's wanted for him, Madlitov also offered a reward to the Japanese army, killing a Japanese man twenty rubles, and doubled the prisoners; if it was an officer, it would be at least doubled. Although this reward was not as high as that of the Japanese, everyone still flocked to him.

The Russian army was waiting for the attack and was full of fighting spirit, Qiushan Haogu, on the opposite side, seemed to feel something. Lord Li was stationed in the Jade Emperor Temple. Qiushan Haogu listened to the report of the Major General Zhongshan of the Third Cavalry Regiment, and said loudly: "Have your subordinates searched carefully? Did the Luguo army disappear like this?"

Major General Akiyama of the First Cavalry Brigade was a strange man. He was over 40 years old but he was bald. Because he had never had the habit of taking a bath, and he was also an alcoholic. Before the war between Japan and Russia, he bought all his savings and brought him to Manchuria. After drinking the brandy, he drank the local boiled pot in Manchuria. Therefore, his subordinates often stenched away every time they reported. Therefore, he spoke loudly every time, and from time to time he dropped some dust off the roof of the Jade Emperor Temple.

"Yes, your lords have carefully reconnaissed. Misichenko's cavalry army has completely disappeared. There is no movement in the other Luguo troops. The attack of Luguo should be over." Major Nakayama said that every Japanese division has a cavalry regiment, and the Third Cavalry regiment comes from the Third Division. Because it is a large corps combat, the headquarters transferred all the cavalry regiments of each division to Akiyama Haogu.

"Nani? Bastard! Luguo has not stopped attacking, they are preparing to attack." Major General Akiyama is a person who feels very sensitive on the battlefield. Luguo's army was so frequent before, but now it has disappeared. There must be problems here, but now the cavalry reconnaissance cannot find any evidence that Luguo wants to attack. He was very angry.

"Your Excellency, do you want to increase the number of reconnaissance teams?" asked Master Nakayama. On the Russian-Japanese battlefield, the biggest task of cavalry is reconnaissance. The cavalry in Luguo always has dozens of people on one reconnaissance team, while the Japanese reconnaissance team has only a dozen people, and they are always dispersed. For this reason, Major General Akiyama's countermeasure is to reduce the number of Japanese reconnaissance teams to two to three. Major General Akiyama's concept is that cavalry is a concentrated group of troops. The more scattered the enemy, the more concentrated it is.

"Add to increase it." Akiyama Yoko said, then pointed to the location of Sifangtai, "focus on reconnaissance in this area."

Major Nakamura Nakamura, who had been listening to the Ninth Infantry Regiment, said, "Oh, has the headquarters not added reinforcements yet? We have sent information on the large-scale mobilization of the Luguo army last time. They..."

"Pa" Akiyama Yoko slapped the table with a palm, and he was very angry when he talked about the headquarters. The cavalry had already conveyed a lot of information about the attack of Luguo's country to the headquarters. But the headquarters was unmoved by it. It is said that the commander Toshio Matsugawa believed that Luguo could not attack in winter. He was from Miyagi Prefecture, that is, from Japan's northeastern. He always felt that the coldness of Manchuria was incomparable to Northeastern Japan. He would freeze on the spot and the feces piled up with shovels. The ground could not be dug, and the shovels that were dug up would be bounced up, leaving only a trace. It would only be about seven centimeters to be dug after being frozen for a day. Moreover, the once muddy roads would become uneven and difficult to pass.

According to the habits of the Lu army, they would not attack as desperately as Japan, but instead like the large army to advance, dig trenches and pull barbed wire to attack the position. However, in such weather, they could not dig out any fortifications on the ground, so they would not launch an attack until spring. This is Colonel Matsugawa's point of view, and then Chief of Staff Kotaya expressed his agreement. Every time there was information that Lu Country was going to attack on a large scale, he would scold him: "Stop talking nonsense! Lu Country will not attack in winter."

This deliberate view of the General Staff of the Manchurian Army made every report of Akiyama Yogu neglect. In the end, the headquarters had become numb to his report. Akiyama Yogu also knew about this situation, so he could only continue to reconnaise and wait for the battle. He took a sip of the soju in the kettle and said, "We can only defend ourselves. According to the current situation, the enemy has 30,000 people to attack and deal with it. It really doesn't work," he touched the gun hanging under his neck with a rope, and sighed in a low voice, "As long as the enemy's cavalry rushed to my headquarters, I'll punish myself."

Nakamura Nakasa was so uncomfortable that he said it. In the eyes of the Orientals, it was unlucky to say such things before the war. He advised, "Your Excellency, even if the Lu Kingdom attacks, we will definitely be able to resist. We will definitely be able to support the reinforcements sent by the headquarters."

Akiyama Haogu didn't hear any of Nakamura's words. He just held the gun hanging under his neck tightly and murmured to himself: Come on! Lu Guoren!

The wilderness in the northeast is silent in the cold, as if there is only the sound of falling snow in the world. The feeling of Akiyama is so ancient is correct. Taking advantage of the fact that Misichenko's cavalry was looking for trouble in the rear of the Japanese army a few days ago, the Russian army was indeed ready for everything to attack. The 14th Division and the 15th Division of the Eighth Army had moved to the front line of the Hunhe River. This is the forefront of the Japanese army in the Heigoutai area. This is the right bank of the Hunhe River. There are only a few small teams of Japanese troops defending the Japanese army. Commander Bradonovic is preparing to start shelling at 3 a.m. on the 25th. At dawn, the offensive was launched on the Hunhe River.

On February 22, at the last pre-war meeting of the Independence Army, Bei Shoutong introduced the latest orders of the headquarters and the intelligence obtained from recent reconnaissance. "The headquarters orders, our army will start alert today. The Eighth Army will launch an attack at 3:00 a.m. on the 25th. After it occupied the Heigoutai, our army must quickly launch an attack on the Sanjianpao area...

In addition, according to reconnaissance, the Heigoutai area is densely filled with rivers and ravines. The best route for marching is to follow the Jiucai River, Honghe, and other areas to be difficult to walk. That is, after Russia captures Heigoutai, our army should cross the Hunhe River from Huanglatuozi to the west, and travel from Heigoutai to the south to Sanjianpu as the best route."

"Can't the pack horse pass?" said Lu Mengxiong, the leader of the first regiment. He wanted to go on the right path, hoping not to go to the Heigou Platform, and then directly drove straight from Huanglatuozi on the right bank of the Hunhe River to Sanjianbu.

Bei Shoutong glanced at him and said, "It's very difficult. You can only send a small team, and you can only occupy Bahuangdi and Toupo on the right bank of the Lilac River from this direction. The best crossing location on the front line of the Lilac River is near Sanjianpao. It is on the left bank of the river, guarding the Lilac River defense line. It is better to attack from Heigoutai than to fight the Lilac River from the west. In this way, we move faster and have more complete supplies."

"But you have to wait until the Eighth Army occupy the place before the attack can be attacked. Once the defenders flee, they will increase the defensive power of Sanjianpu. And according to my previous experience in western Liaoning, because of the many beards, ordinary villages have trenches and earthen walls around the village. Not to mention the earthen walls, but the trenches are more than five meters wide and at least two meters deep, which is to prevent horse bandits from jumping over. Two days ago, I went to see the Japanese position, and there were also trenches in the village. In this way, not to mention whether the Japanese defense line is solid or not. This ditch alone requires us to drink a pot." After Lu Mengxiong said that, everyone laughed. He got familiar with the beard, and there was a bandit spirit while talking. He was dancing.

Trench had known it for a long time, and this was not the point. The point was that while the Eighth Army attacked Heigoutai, could the Independent Army also attack Sanjianpao? The farming detachment in this area had a temporary cavalry brigade and an infantry squadron, but the troops were very scattered. And another thing was beyond Yang Rui's estimate - he always believed that the First Cavalry Brigade of Akiyama Haogu had more than 8,000 people, but the facts told him that this was extremely wrong and could not understand the Japanese cavalry at all. In fact, the Japanese cavalry brigade was under the jurisdiction of two cavalry regiments, each with only 556 people, and one brigade and logistics personnel would not exceed 1,200 people. Akiyama Haogu, who had a great reputation in later generations, was just a battalion commander. The reason why the Akiyama Detachment now had 8,000 people was formed by the merger of five cavalry regiments, multiple infantry and engineer brigades.

Although Chen Mengxiong's proposal was beyond the military order, it was not impossible. Yang Rui looked at Colonel Madlitov. He was now responsible for communicating with the upper level of the Russian army, and he was the one who answered the phone every time.

"There is nothing wrong with this," the colonel clearly supported Lu Mengxiong's active offensive spirit. In fact, he was still worried that the beards would just take money and not work. "I will report to the headquarters immediately. I think the general will definitely agree."

If the Independent Army wants to launch an attack alone, it must cooperate with the Russian army. Seeing that Madlitov agreed to Lu Mengxiong's proposal, Yang Rui began to arrange an attack plan. "Order, on the night of the 23rd, the First Regiment departed south from Sifangtai to Qibei Village, then crossed west across the Hunhe River, and must arrive at the front line on the 24th, and the attack began at dawn on the 25th. In addition, the First Division was directly under the Light Artillery Battalion, and the Cavalry Battalion was placed under the command of the First Regiment. Other troops crossed the Hunhe River from Huanglatuozi on the 25th, and waited for the Eighth Army to occupy Heigoutai and head south to the Sanjianpao area."

All the officers took the order together. Lu Mengxiong left the headquarters and was surrounded by others. Fang Yanchen, the commander of the Second Regiment, said, "Zhengrui, you have robbed the first prize this time. It's several streets away from us."

Lu Mengxiong, who had grabbed the task, looked proud, "Of course, who told me that the plan was handed over by me? The Russians agreed, and of course the sir gave me the task. Hehe, I won't have dinner with my brothers today, so I have to go back to the camp and prepare to go."

Seeing how proud he said, Xu Jingxi from the Staff Office slapped him on the shoulder, "Tsk, if I hadn't helped you with your advice, your brain would have made plans. It would be really a waste of money to cross the river."

Although Lu Mengxiong was flexible in fighting, he was very troubled when facing charts and plans. In the past, when he was in Nanyang Public School, he borrowed other people's papers to copy every math exam. The military regulations were strict, and the higher the position, the more paperwork he needed. Without the regiment leveling consultant, Lu Mengxiong could not have any formal combat plans, he would have just a flash of inspiration.

Seeing that he seemed to be offending a great man, Lu Mengxiong hurriedly pulled out a cigarette and handed it over, "Oh, how could the Staff Xu Da forget you? We are good brothers. After the war, you will definitely invite you to have fun in Fengtian City. I heard that there is a Russian-Maozi Kiln sister in this city, but I have never seen this before."

In view of the health and espionage issues, the Fuxing Army prohibited prostitution. Seeing Lu Mengxiong using the old jokes of Russian women to coax people, Xu Jingxi did not dare to give him etiquette and scolded, "I owe you this life. Get out!" He is from Hukou, Jiangxi, and after coming to Shanghai, he helped solve the many inconveniences as half of the locals, Lu Mengxiong, so he had a deep relationship. He was not really angry, and finally said, "According to estimates, the temperature will drop in the past two days. You must be prepared for marching at night."

Hearing Xu Jingxi's explanation, Lu Mengxiong nodded and wrote down. He would take action tomorrow night, so he left without stopping. When he returned to the regiment headquarters, he ordered the troops to prepare for some luggage and start pulling out the camp at 6 o'clock tomorrow night. In the afternoon, Xu Zhiyi, the commander of the artillery regiment, came here in person. Lu Mengxiong said, "Oh, Brother Xu is here, please invite me. Haha."

Xu Zhibing smiled and said, "Don't be polite. If you didn't have the lead, I wouldn't have been lazy to come over. Zhengrui. I'll bet on you here."

After hearing Xu Zhibian's words, Chen Mengxiong smiled even brighter, "Haha, hehe. This is hard to say. Lisheng, but your vision is pretty good. I dare to promise that once you bombard me, as long as my soldiers rush up, the Japanese on the other side will be finished. The large army is just taking a walk this time."

As soon as Lu Mengxiong finished speaking, Zheng Lanting shouted outside, "Brother Lu is ambitious. If you want me to say, what do you do with Big Nose? They are just cowards, and they are all afraid of death. Just give the Japanese a knife. If you win, you will rush, and if you can't win, you will run away. In the Liaodong realm, Laojun Lu hasn't been afraid of anyone." Although Zheng Lanting has been trained for several months in the camp, many things he still can't change.

The cavalry also arrived. Although he did not serve as the main attacker, it would be difficult to hide this attack without him covering the battlefield. Lu Mengxiong immediately welcomed Zheng Lanting in and asked, "Old Zheng, have the Japanese cavalry come out in the past few days?"

"Well, there are quite a lot of people coming out, and there are more than a dozen people in each strand. It's not like I was driving away like I did before. They are still very smart and know that the fight will start in the next few days." Zheng Lanting said, he is an old corpse and has a lot of experience. "But my brothers said that their directions were near Sifangtai, and I can't find the Qibei Village."

"Okay, I'll bother Lao Zheng to lead the team to cover up here and reconnaissance in Qibei Village, and help to explore the road. The troops will set off after dark tomorrow. It is expected to arrive at Qibei Village at the third update." It is still a bit far from Sifangtai to Qibei Village, and it is even more difficult to march at night. Although I have been training in the cold before, the temperature has been too low these days.

At around 6 o'clock the next night, when the cold moon just rose, the first ball advanced towards Qibei Village. Lu Mengxiong was riding on the horse. He was not used to the cold outside as soon as he came out. When the cold wind blew over, he felt like it was penetrated into his bones. He had to take out the Erguotou on his body and bleed it twice, and felt that heat was spreading out of his stomach.

The first regiment was short of the organization, and the three battalions had only 2,600 troops directly under the regiment. However, now with one artillery battalion, there would be more than 3,000 people along the way. Ye was invisible and did not use torches. The soldiers who did not have night blindness explored the way, and the soldiers behind followed the front, moving one after another. The march of more than 3,000 people was silent. It was silent that only the sound of the pack horses being sniffed from time to time and the squeaking sound of leather boots stepping on the frozen soil. If you look down from the moon sky, the first regiment wearing white cotton cloth was like a knife that pierced into the night with a cold light.

Except for some officers in the First Regiment, many other grassroots non-commissioned officers were from the former Liaoxi guerrillas. Most of them were rotated by newcomers in October and they entered the non-commissioned officer training class in Tonghua. Those who had good grades were platoon leaders, and those with worse grades were squad leaders. Qi Xiaomao, who was originally a squad leader in the quad leader, was already a squad leader. He could have been a squad leader according to his grades, but he knew that he was worth it and was only willing to be a squad leader. Even the squad leader, many people were dissatisfied at first. After all, he was too young, but after a bayonet stabbing, everyone was convinced. It was not that he could beat him, but that he was like a mad dog and was afraid of life, which scared everyone.
Chapter completed!