Although the commander of the Russian army, Volkov, had his own calculations, the commander of the 2nd Brigade Major General Strech also had his own calculations. After receiving the order, Strech also made some calculations on the subsequent war process. When he set out now and arrived at Xiyang Mountain, it was basically in the evening. It was impossible for both sides to fight at night, so they could only wait until dawn tomorrow morning before launching a full-scale war. At that time, his artillery troops would definitely reach the battlefield. If it were just the regiment in front of him, of course they could defeat them.

If the People's Army deliberately lures the enemy, there will be enough time to arrange defensive positions overnight. Even if it is attacked by the People's Army the next day, it will be no difficulty to hold on until the subsequent reinforcements arrive. Bi Jing only needs to persist until 11 o'clock, which is 4 or 5 hours. At that time, you can attack the reinforcements and defeat the People's Army.

After calculating the success or failure, Strich no longer hesitated and immediately ordered the entire army to set sail and march towards Xiyangshan.

After more than an hour of march, at 5:40 pm, Lu Ji arrived at about 3 kilometers west of Xiyang Mountain and chose a better area to arrange his position. At about 8 pm, the artillery troops arrived, and the Russian positions had been arranged. During this period, the People's Army did not launch an attack on the Russian army. Strich breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that his worries were a bit too worrying, but it was always better to be cautious.

At 5 a.m. the next day, most of the Russian logistics personnel had already stood up to prepare breakfast for the combat troops, but at this moment, a series of huge roaring sounds of "boom boom boom boom boom boom" came, and countless artillery shells fell continuously into the Russian positions and exploded. Moreover, the Russian army could feel that the power of the artillery shells fell this time was much greater than the artillery shells that were in battle with the People's Army two days ago. The huge waves of air generated within the explosion range could destroy all the tents, buildings, and defense facilities in the Russian positions. The Russian soldiers were even more casualties. Many soldiers were still sleeping at this time and lost their lives inexplicably.

Strech was also awakened by the explosion in his tent, and immediately realized that he was attacked by the People's Army. The People's Army is now bombarding his position with artillery. But what Strech couldn't understand was how the People's Army transported artillery. When he set up his position, he also sent scouts to reconnaissance at the Four Outsiders. Within a radius of 10 kilometers, no whereabouts of the People's Army except for the defenders in Xiyang Mountain, they did not find any of the People's Army's whereabouts. It is difficult for them to arrange the artillery positions overnight. But no matter how the People's Army completed the arrangement of artillery positions in the dark, how did the People's Army aim in this dark night.

However, as long as you carefully observe the direction of the shells, you will soon find that all the shells were fired from one direction, that is, the Binsui Line Railway, so Streach immediately understood that the railway would certainly not fire shells, but the People's Army had a weapon called armored train.

It can be said that armored trains are the weapon of the People's Army that the Russian army is most jealous of. Therefore, there are many legends of armored trains circulating among the Russian army, but they all exaggerate the power of armored trains, such as "land battleships", "movable cannons", "movable free fortresses", "indestructible oriental dragons", etc. In addition to people's instinctive awe of new weapons, the first is that in previous battles, the People's Army's armored trains did play a considerable role, and secondly, the concept of transplanting heavy artillery on the land of armored trains is also very popular with the Russians. There is a lot of talk about armored trains.

Although Strich is not as ignorant as ordinary soldiers, he does have deep jealousy about armored trains. However, Strich still has common sense, that is, armored trains must rely on railway operations. Although the Binsui Line and the Harbin-Da Line are mutual, from Shenyang to Harbin and Mudanjiang, they are still under the control of the Russian army. It is impossible for the People's Army's armored trains to arrive, so they dare to boldly march along the railway. However, they found that the direction of the shells was Binsui Railway. On the other side of the road, Stry immediately thought of the People's Army's armored train. It seemed that the People's Army might have landed the armored train in Vladivostok by sea, and then followed the Siberian Railway into the Binsui Line of the Middle East Railway to get here. I didn't expect that I had a lot of calculations, but I didn't think that the People's Army also had an armored train here. No wonder the People's Army retreated and retreated to Xiyang Mountain. It turned out that there was an armored train here.

In fact, Stridge's idea of ​​armored trains is basically accurate, but his estimate of the purpose of the People's Army fighting and retreating is completely wrong.

When the People's Army encountered Strich's reinforcements, it had already reported to the division headquarters of the 1st Division. After discussion, the division headquarters decided to adopt the tactic of gradually retreating and luring the enemy into depth, and reported it to the headquarters for approval. Therefore, the 2nd Regiment was ordered to gradually retreat towards Xiyangshan. The 1st Regiment and the 3rd Regiment went up from the left and right wings. About 5 or 6 kilometers ahead of the left and right sides of the 2nd Regiment, the three regiments lined up in a "V" shape, like a big mouth that had been opened towards the Russian army. Because the People's Army's rapid action and attention to concealment, the Russian army was also a little careless and only reached to pursue the 2nd Regiment. As a result, it had gradually fallen into the "big mouth" of the People's Army, but it was still unaware of it.

However, after the Russian army stopped, they immediately arranged defensive positions, as if they wanted to fight a defensive battle, which was somewhat beyond the expectations of the People's Army. Because in this way, although the Russian army could still be encircled and annihilated, the people would definitely bear certain losses, and the time for annihilation of the Russian army would be extended, because the left and right wings of the People's Army entered the predetermined position at the last moment, and it was impossible to carry artillery. The firepower could only be supported by mortars. This ability to improve the firming will be greatly weakened, and soldiers can only use their flesh and blood to attack the enemy's positions.

Instead, before dusk, the reconnaissance plane discovered during the last reconnaissance that the Russian brigade was found at a distance of about 40 kilometers, and the direction was also Xiyang Mountain. It is expected that it can reach the battlefield between 10-12 am tomorrow. This makes it easy to understand that the Russian army will set up defensive positions in front of Xiyang Mountain. If the People's Army cannot end the battle before 10 am and drag the Russian reinforcements to come, it will be very dangerous.

So at 10 o'clock in the evening, Luo Yue decisively ordered the armored train to send reinforcements. Although the train was at a certain risk at night, the train slowed down and drove at a speed of 10-12 kilometers per hour. He also sent a cavalry company to advance with the train, holding up torches along the road to shine the train high, which could reduce the danger to the lowest line.

The armored train troops were stationed at Suifenhe Railway Station, and the train was always full of water and coal, and the boiler was constantly on fire, and they were on standby to attack at any time. Therefore, Luo Yue ordered at 10 o'clock and the armored train departed from Suifenhe Railway Station at 12 o'clock.

After driving on the railway for more than three hours, the armored train finally arrived at the Xiyangshan section, about 10 kilometers away from the Russian army's position. The armored train immediately entered the state of combat. The soldiers of the train guard company got off the train and arranged defense. In addition to two 280mm heavy artillery, various other things! The large and medium-caliber artillery also removed the cannon suits, opened the cannon bolts, and prepared the cannon shells. After all, the Russian army did not build solid fortifications. After all, there is no need to deploy 280mm heavy artillery to deal with such a Russian army. Only other armored trains, such as 155

Cannons with caliber, 125 mm, 105 mm are completely sufficient. Because the cannons equipped on armored trains are all naval, with a relatively large diameter, usually between 30 and 40 times, while the diameter of the army cannons generally does not exceed 25 times, and most of them are within 20 times, so the range of cannons assembled on armored trains is relatively large. Because they use large-angle curve shooting, except for the 75 mm cannon, the range of other caliber artillery is more than 10 kilometers, which is more than enough to attack this Russian army.

At the same time, the armored train released drones to determine the specific location, distance, altitude, wind direction and speed of the Russian military position, calculate and set each firing unit, and then ordered the artillery to adjust the angle and direction of the artillery barrel, which would be almost filled with shells in the barrel chamber.

At 5 a.m.! The armored train troops received the order to open fire, so all the cannons on the train moved together and launched a slam bombardment at the Russian position at the fastest rate of fire.

Although only 16 artillery can be used at this time, and the number is not large, the smallest one is 105 mm, and its power is still quite considerable. Moreover, the Russian army was not prepared at night, so even if it was prepared, it was useless because the Russian army did not have strong fortifications to resist the People's Army's artillery bombardment. Therefore, in just over 10 minutes, the armored train had fired nearly a thousand shells at the Russian position. Although it could not form a covered artillery density, it also caused considerable damage to the Russian army.

At this moment, the People's Army, which had entered the left and right wing formation, rushed out and launched a fierce attack on the Russian position. The 2nd Regiment, which attracted the Russian army in front, also broke out and attacked the Russian army, and three arrows were launched at the same time to encircle Russia. At this time, the Russian army's positions were in chaos, and the left and right military army entered from the rear of the Russian army. Therefore, the Russian army could not hold its own position. As a result, the three people's army did not spend much effort, and they entered the Russian position one after another and launched hand-to-hand combat with the Russian army.
Chapter completed!