There was a 15-minute break in the middle of the meeting. The next arrangement was to let the chief officers of each regiment talk about the difficulties. If they could be solved, they would be arranged to solve them on the spot.
At this moment, the air and people's emotions in the conference room were like waves on Lake Baikal, rising and falling one after another. There was a lot of chatting and laughing, but when someone knocked on the door and walked in, everyone suddenly fell silent again, and everyone focused their attention on a young female soldier who came in.
There are very few female soldiers in the North Navy. Currently, except for the field hospital, all others are in the telecommunications room. Liu Sheng's wife Ushiha is no exception. She is only twenty-two years old this year. Although she has been married to Liu Sheng for several years, she is still the most lively and active time. After the kidnapping incident the year before last, Liu Sheng was afraid that something would happen to his little wife again, so he discussed with Zhao Xin and let Wu Xiha become a confidential officer.
When the officers were serious and nervous before the battle, they suddenly saw a female soldier. They were really surprised and relieved. What's more, Wu Xiha's appearance became more and more handsome, with two big black eyes moving on his round white and reddish face. Her shoulder-length short hair and dark green military uniform did not detract from her beauty, but instead became a beautiful decoration.
As soon as she entered the room, she immediately frowned due to the smoky atmosphere in the room, coughed a few times, and then felt the powerful threat in front of everyone.
So Wu Xiha lowered his head and nimbly passed through the gaps in the crowd and walked up to Liu Sheng. The more shy she showed, the more the officers who had never seen her looked at her intently; the heroic female soldier seemed to have a strong magic power that seduced the eyes of men.
She took out a handwritten telegram from the folder in her hand and handed it to Zhao Xin. Then everyone turned their eyes and attention to the faces of Liu Sheng and Zhao Xin, as well as the telegram that they were looking at intently.
Although no one knew the content of the telegram, the chief officers of each regiment were still trying to observe the changes in the expressions of the two immediate superiors, guessing what the telegram would bring to the battle; some even carefully observed Ushiha's face, trying to Find the basis for judging the content from her.
Zhao Xin signed the telegram after reading it, with no expression on his face; Liu Sheng took it and looked at it, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth. Then he handed the telegram to Sheng Haizhou and Li Rui. The eyebrows and expressions of the officers present all changed following the expressions and movements of these people.
The break was extended for another ten minutes. As a result, the intensity of these ten minutes was even more intense than when Zhao Xin's speech was heard at the beginning of the previous meeting.
Jiuzang patted Pan Xiucheng, gestured to Zhao Xin with his chin, and whispered: "The situation seems to be wrong, look at your expression!"
Pan Xiucheng threw the cigarette butt on the ground, crushed it with his foot, and said to himself: "Is there something strange happening in the Manchu and Qing Dynasties in the south?"
At this time, Chen Jishan, who was standing next to him, clenched his fists and said firmly: "It doesn't matter whether they are Manchus or Russians, just fight!"
Torogyoshi took a cigarette from Mishiro, lit it and said, "I wonder if our mission will change?"
Mi Shilang interrupted: "It's nothing more than three directions: north, west, and south..."
"Don't talk! It's a meeting!" Sheng Haizhou suddenly reminded the officers in the room loudly, and everyone suddenly became quiet.
Wu Xiha, who was waiting to retrieve the original text of the telegram, was told by Zhao Xin to leave the telegram here temporarily. She walked along the wall to the back of the crowd, stood at the door and glanced at Liu Sheng, then turned around and walked out.
Liu Sheng, holding a telegraph newspaper in his hand, looked like a soldier holding a grenade and preparing to throw it, with a majestic look on his face. He cleared his throat, glanced around the crowd, and raised the corners of his mouth.
"This is a telegram from our people in Nizhniyutinsk. Marshal Rumyantsev of the Russian army has left Krasnoyarsk and is heading to Nizhniyutinsk. Accompanying him is a force of 10,000 people. ." He enunciated every word clearly and pronounced it forcefully, with a hint of excitement in his tone.
The person stationed by the Northern Navy in Nizhny Uginsk was the horseman Igor who was the first to surrender. He was also the uncle of Fan Tong's fiancée Polya. Last summer, after some training, Igor and two Northern Marines dressed as Mongolians went to Nizhniutinsk and opened a grocery store as a cover.
After Liu Sheng finished speaking, after a few seconds of silence, a burst of warm applause suddenly sounded in the room. What is supposed to come has finally come. After showing weakness to the enemy for so long, the enemies on the Western Front have finally come out!
Zhao Xin was satisfied with the applause, which was like a shot of stimulant before the battle. He took a puff from his cigarette, blew out a puff of smoke, and drove away a few pesky mosquitoes in front of him, and then announced in a brisk but firm tone:
"The original plan remains unchanged! You return to the station and immediately carry out emergency mobilization. For specific task arrangements, go to Sheng Haizhou after the meeting to receive a written notice."
Liu Sheng and Zhao Xin have been working together since before Beihai Town was established. The two have a tacit understanding and complement each other. Liu Sheng is decisive in his actions and straightforward in his words. In his eyes, there is never an enemy that cannot be defeated.
Zhao Xin is thoughtful and always has a strong inflammatory tone in his words. However, he never underestimates any enemy and always makes preparations. If he didn't understand everything on the preset battlefield before the war started, he would feel sleepless and uneasy. However, it is precisely because of this that after being asked by him one by one, the officers below felt a lot more at ease.
On August 17, Pan Xiucheng's fourth regiment, led by a small group of scouts, followed the Belaya River eastward, bypassed the village of Bielsk in the upper reaches from the south, and then passed through the vast dense forest. Their target was the village of Zima, 160 kilometers northwest of Usolye, which was an important node on the Siberian Post Road.
The order from the staff was to let them lurk in the forest west of the Oka River. After the Russian army passed, they quickly captured Bratt Fort and Zima Village, and then built a blocking position based on the Oka River east of the town. Cut off the Russian army's escape route to the north.
On the same day, Jiuzang's Second Regiment, Aoba Battalion, and Hagi Battalion entered the plain area between the north of the Belaya River and the Angara River through the pontoon bridge built in advance to build positions.
This is an alluvial plain that is 11 kilometers long from north to south and 22 kilometers long from east to west. Due to abundant water flow, luxuriant vegetation and high organic matter content in the soil. Since the founding of Ussolye in 1669, in addition to fishing and cooking salt here, exiles and settlers have also grown rye, oats and barley in the eastern part of the plain near the river bank; vegetables include peas, cabbage, Radish, onion and garlic.
Contrary to what many people imagine, Siberia at the end of the 18th century could not open up wasteland for farming at will. Due to the prosperity of the fur trade, many mountains and jungles were officially designated as "sable hunting grounds". The settlers who came here only had five acres of land to cultivate, which was the area of three football fields, or thirty acres in later generations. Historically, it was not until the 19th century that, with the decline of the fur trade, large tracts of land were released for farming. By the way, Tsarist Russia exempted those who settled in farming for ten years.
According to the mission statement issued by the staff department, the main position of the Northern Navy is located in the southeast of this plain, just on both sides of the road from Nizhny Uginsk to Usolye. The Belaya River, which flows from west to east into the Angara River, carves out a large pocket shape to the south, forming an oblique strip 2.9 kilometers wide from east to west and 4 kilometers long from north to south.
When it comes to building fortifications on the battlefield, we must prioritize them based on manpower, material resources, time and the purpose of the fortifications. The resistance levels of fortifications at different locations must be different. It is meaningless to pursue high-resistance fortifications regardless of priority; the stronger the resistance, the more manpower and materials will be invested.
Generally speaking, the resistance strength of battlefield fortifications is divided into five levels. Command post fortifications are more resistant than personnel and personnel, and personnel and personnel are more resistant than hidden fortifications of materials and equipment.
Specific to personnel and personnel, soil work standards need to be determined based on different weapons. For example, a trench used for individual shooting is one meter wide at the top, 0.5 meters wide at the bottom, and generally 1.1 meters deep. However, if it is a fortification used for rocket launcher shooting, the breast wall and the soil within the firing range must be 10 to 20 cm lower than the mouth of the barrel, and the height of the rear wall cannot exceed the tail of the barrel. No people or materials can be placed 10 meters behind the bunker; Otherwise it would be a disaster if fired.
As for machine gun fortification, it must be determined based on the type of machine gun, the size of the shooting area, shooting posture and personnel. It is generally an annular area with a diameter of 1.8 meters, and the top is covered with logs, soil and leaves; the perforation is determined according to the direction, high and low shooting angles, and the thickness of the front wall of the fortification, that is, there are three types: outer splay, inner splay, and inner and outer splay.
As for the artillery position of the North Navy, it is located in a dense forest five kilometers away from the main position. It is located on the south side of the Belaya River and is garrisoned by Chen Jishan's fifth regiment. If necessary, the river can be crossed via a pontoon bridge to provide support to Jiuzang's headquarters.
Liu Sheng started preparing this artillery fortification almost half a year ago. Neither local residents nor new immigrants used it. It was completely built by soldiers of the Northern Navy. In order not to be discovered, all the gun beds are semi-underground cover fortifications, and they are also covered with camouflage. Each gun emplacement is composed of three parts, the shooting room in the middle, the ammunition bunkering room on the left, and the personnel bunkering room on the right.
Because there is no village or shop here, no one usually comes here. In addition, Liu Sheng has also set up many secret posts on the periphery, so the Russian army's spies cannot go deep into it to find out what's going on.
In order to allow the Russian cavalry to enter the intersection of anti-aircraft guns and machine guns, the North Navy set up layers of obstacles around the main positions and artillery positions. Trench and barbed wire became the inevitable choice.
The layout of barbed wire cannot be as simple as building a livestock fence, otherwise it can be climbed over with a straw curtain. The technical content of erecting this thing is very high, so the staff department sent people to provide special guidance.
The barbed wire in the Beihai Navy is hot-dip galvanized razor wire purchased by Zhao Xin from another time and space. When in use, it can be laid directly open. Each set of barbed wire fences is divided into two lines, high piles and low piles. There are two groups, which are laid out at 200 meters and 100 meters in front of the trench. A two-meter deep trench must be dug in front of the barbed wire fence.
High piles are driven into two rows of wooden piles on the ground. The ground exposure height is 1.2 meters. The distance between piles and rows is 3 meters, and they are arranged in a staggered manner. Five horizontal barbed wires are drawn between every two stakes.
Low piles should be laid out in grasslands and shoals. The height of the wooden piles is 30 to 40 centimeters above the ground. The distance between piles and rows is two meters, and the depth is 4 to 6 meters. When setting up the barbed wire, first horizontally, then diagonally, and then fix the two claw nails of the iron wire on the top of the pile; finally, lay the slip-knot barbed wire loosely between the horizontal lines, leaving no space for the enemy to step in and cross.
Because the periphery of the artillery position is woodland, a deer village made of trees was set up in front of the barbed wire fence. Beijun's method is to chop down the trees in staggered steps without letting the trunks break away from the stumps; then chop off the twigs, and then fix the trunks to the ground with wires.
Of course, tying some empty cans to the barbed wire, trip grenades, etc. are all things that should be done.
On August 19, the leading Russian army of 2,000 troops arrived north of the Belaya River along the Siberian Post Road. After some reconnaissance, they soon discovered the location of the main position of the Northern Navy. After Jiuzang discovered this situation, he immediately sent the Aoba Camp and the Hagi Camp forward to prevent the leading Russian troops from exploring the Northern Navy's position layout.
Although the height of the islanders is really not that good, the Aoba battalion, which has had many combat experiences, is not afraid of the Russians. They held "Type 90 front-loading rifles" and stood in three rows 200 meters away from the enemy cavalry to concentrate fire. The saturation rate of fire of four rounds per minute knocked a Russian cavalry squadron off their feet.
In contrast, the performance of Hagi Camp, which had never participated in actual combat, was unsatisfactory. The soldiers were extremely nervous when reloading and made frequent mistakes. Many of them opened fire without even pulling out their sticks.
Because the Russian war horses were much taller than the southern horses that the islanders usually rode, some soldiers in the Hagi camp turned around and ran away in fear when they saw the Russian troops rushing towards them brandishing their sabers. If it weren't for the fact that these people were feudal lords rather than farmers, the leader of the Hagi camp, Oshima Yishun, would have ordered the war team to kill them.
After that, the defeated Russian army retreated to camp five kilometers away from the North Navy.
On August 21, 60,000 Russian troops finally arrived. They set up camp near a hill 15 kilometers northwest of the North Navy's main position, and the position was set up 4 kilometers away from the North Navy's main position. On a gentle slope; here is a large area of gentle hills and bushes on the right, and on the left is the alluvial plain between the Angara and Belaya rivers, with the Siberian Post Road running through the middle.
On the second day after their arrival, the Russian army sent a large number of military and civilian soldiers, escorted by two regiments of hunters, into a position two kilometers away from the Northern Navy, and built forts and high platforms for observing the enemy's situation. The entire battlefield was immediately transformed. It turned into a big construction site.
On the same day, Rumyantsev led his army to Nizhny Udinsk on the Uda River. He only stayed here for one day and then moved towards Bratt Castle on the Oka River. After receiving the battle report from the front, the old marshal thought that the Russian army's position selection was pretty good. However, he was puzzled by the arrangement of the main position of the Northern Navy. It faced rivers on three sides. Was this a plan to fight to the bitter end or was there another conspiracy?
The Russian army's combat plan is to conduct a feint attack on the right and center of the Northern Navy to attract enemy artillery fire, and then use a large number of cavalry to launch a powerful assault on the left wing. After crossing the river, they will eliminate the enemy artillery and cut off the Northern Navy from Irkuts. With the help of the enemy, they were surrounded on all sides and pressed towards the Belaya River to be annihilated.
In the early morning of August 24, a group of 8,000 Russian troops quietly crossed the river from the Uzkilug settlement on the north bank of the Belaya River and arrived at the village of Sosnovka, five kilometers west of the Northern Naval Artillery Camp. There was a fierce exchange of fire with a battalion of the 5th North Navy Regiment stationed here.
Under heavy fire from a large number of light infantry (chassers) and mortars, the Russian army launched three consecutive attacks on the small village, and tried to use two cavalry squadrons to flank the village.
In order to attract the enemy to this battlefield, the artillery of the North Navy did not fire, but relied on rifles and mortars for defense. The battalion of the 5th Regiment endured the bombardment of Russian howitzers and mortars. After a day of blocking, they withdrew from the village of Sosnovka at night and returned to the outer defensive positions of the artillery position.
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