The meeting was rested for 15 minutes, and the subsequent arrangement was to let the heads of each regiment talk about the difficulties. If they could be solved, they should be arranged to solve them on the spot.

At this moment, the air in the conference room and people's emotions were like the waves on Lake Baikal, rising and falling. While talking and laughing, a man knocked on the door and walked in. Everyone suddenly fell silent again and focused his eyes on a young female soldier who came in.

There are very few female soldiers in the North Navy. At present, except for field hospitals, everyone else is in the telecommunications room. Liu Sheng’s wife Wu Xiha is no exception. She is only 22 years old this year. Although she has been married to Liu Sheng for several years, she is still the most lively and active. Since the kidnapping incident two years ago, Liu Sheng is afraid that something will happen to his little wife again, so he discussed with Zhao Xin and let Wu Xiha be a confidential officer.

When the officers were serious and nervous before the war, they suddenly saw a female soldier. What's more, Wu Xiha's appearance became more and more handsome, with two big black eyes moving on her white and slightly red face. She had short shoulder-length hair and dark green military uniforms, which not only did not detract from her beauty, but instead became a kind of beauty decoration.

As soon as she entered the room, she immediately frowned by the smoke inside the room, coughed a few times, and then felt the powerful threat in full view of everyone.

So Wu Xiha lowered her head, passed through the gaps of the crowd lightly, and walked to Liu Sheng. The more she showed a little shyness, the more the officers who had never seen her looked at her; the heroic female soldiers seemed to have a strong magic, seducing the male's eyes.

She took out a handwritten telegram from the clip in her hand and handed it to Zhao Xin, so everyone turned their eyes and attention to the faces of Liu Sheng and Zhao Xin, and the telegram that they were looking at carefully.

Although everyone had no idea about the content of the telegram, the heads of each regiment were still trying to observe the changes in the expressions of the two immediate bosses, guessing what the telegram would bring to the battle. Some even carefully observed Wu Xiha's face and tried to find a basis for judging the content from her.

After reading it, Zhao Xin signed the name on the telegram, 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, eyes and expressions of the officers present followed the expressions of these people, and their movements changed.

The rest time was extended by another ten minutes, but the tension of these ten minutes was even worse than the situation when he listened to Zhao Xin's speech at the beginning of the meeting.

Jiuzang patted Pan Xiucheng, gestured to Zhao Xin with his chin, and whispered: "The situation seems wrong. Look at the look of the adults!"

Pan Xiucheng threw the cigarette butt on the ground, crushed it with his feet, and said to himself: "It's not that the Qing Dynasty in the south has had an abnormal movement, right?"

At this time, Chen Jishan next to him clenched his fists and said firmly: "No matter whether he is a Manchu or a Russian, just fight!"

Huji took a cigarette from Mislang, lit it and said, "I wonder if our mission will change?"

Mislang interrupted, "It's just north, west, and south..."

"Don't talk! It's a meeting!" Sheng Haizhou suddenly loudly reminded the officers in the room, and everyone suddenly became quiet.

Wu Xiha, who was waiting to retrieve the original text of the telegram, received a message from Zhao Xin and left the telegram here for the time being. She walked along the wall and walked around the crowd, stood at the door and looked at Liu Sheng, then turned around and walked out.

Liu Sheng, who was holding a telegraph in his hand, was like a soldier holding a grenade and was about to throw it out, with a majestic look on his face. He cleared his throat, his eyes shot through the crowd, and his lips curled up.

"This is a telegram from our people in Lower Ukinsk. The Russian Marshal Rumentsev has left Krasnoyarsk and is heading towards Lower Ukinsk. He is accompanied by a unit of ten thousand people." He bit every word clearly and read it vigorously, with a hint of excitement in his tone.

The people stationed in Xiawujinsk in the North Navy were the first to surrender, Mali Igor, who was also the uncle of Fan Tong's fiancée Polya. Last summer, Igor, who had been trained, and two North Navy dressed as Mongolians, went to Xiawujinsk and opened a grocery shop as a cover-up.

After Liu Sheng finished speaking, after about a few seconds of silence, a burst of warm applause suddenly sounded in the room. What should come finally came. It was a sign that the enemy was weak for so long that all the enemies on the Western Front finally came out!

Zhao Xin was satisfied with the applause, as if he had a shot of stimulant before the battle. He took a sip of cigarettes, sprayed out a smog, dispelled a few annoying mosquitoes in front of him, and then announced in a brisk and firm tone:

"The original plan remains unchanged! You will be mobilized immediately when you return to the station. For specific tasks, you will go to Sheng Haizhou to receive written notice after the meeting."

The pair of Liu Sheng and Zhao Xin started to cooperate before Beihai Town was established. The two cooperated tacitly and complemented each other.

Liu Sheng is decisive in his work and speaks simply. In his eyes, there will never be an invincible enemy.

Zhao Xin was meticulous and always had strong incendiary in his words. However, he never underestimated any enemy and always had to make preparations. If he did not understand everything on the preset battlefield before the war, he would feel at ease to sleep and eat. However, it was precisely because of this that after he asked him one by one, the officers below felt much more at ease.

On August 17, Pan Xiucheng's fourth regiment led by a small team of scouts, headed west along the Belaya River, bypassing the upper village of Beelsk from the south, and then crossing the vast forest. Their goal was the village of Jima, 160 kilometers northwest of Usolier, which is an important node on the Siberian post road.

The command of the General Staff was to let them lurk in the forest west of the Oka River, and wait for the Russian troops to pass through, quickly capture Jima Village, and then rely on the Oka River east of the town to build a blocking position to cut off the Russian army's passage to flee north.

On the same day, the second regiment of Kuzang, Aoye Camp and Hagi Camp entered the plains north of the Belaya River and the Angara River through the pontoon bridge that was built in advance.

This is an alluvial plain 11 kilometers long from north to south and 22 kilometers long from east to east. Due to abundant water flow, lush vegetation and high organic matter content in the soil. Since the establishment of Usolier in 1669, exiles and settlers have not only fished and cooked salt here, but also planted rye, oats and barley near the river bank in the eastern part of the plain; vegetables include peas, cabbage, radish, onions and garlic.

Unlike many people imagined, Siberia was not able to be cultivated at will at the end of the 18th century. Due to the prosperity of fur trade, many mountains and jungles were officially set up as "sable hunting grounds". The settlers who came here only had five acres of land to cultivate, that is, the area of ​​three football fields was equivalent to the thirty acres of later generations. In history, after the 19th century, with the decrease of fur trade, a large area of ​​land was released for farming. By the way, Tsarist Russia exempted settled and farmer land for ten years.

According to the task letter issued by the General Staff, the main position of the Northern Navy was located in the southeast of this plain, and was located on both sides of the road from Lower Ukinsk to Usolier. The Belaya River, which flows from west to east, flows into the Angara River, has a large pocket shape here, forming a slanted area with a width of 2.9 kilometers from east to west and 4 kilometers from north to south.

When it comes to building fortifications on the battlefield, you must distinguish between the primary and secondary according to the manpower, material resources, time and purpose of the fortifications. The resistance levels of the fortifications in different locations must be different. There is no point in the fortifications that do not distinguish between the primary and secondary, and pursue high resistance. The stronger the resistance, the more manpower and materials you invest.

Generally speaking, the resistance strength of battlefield fortifications is divided into five levels. The fortifications of command posts are stronger than those of personnel, while the resistance of personnel is stronger than those of hidden fortifications of materials and equipment.

For personnel, the standards of earthwork must be determined according to the different weapons. For example, the trench used for individual shooting is one meter wide at the top and 0.5 meter wide at the bottom, and the depth is generally 1.1 meter. However, if it is a fortification used for bazooka shooting, the accumulation of soil in the chest wall and shooting boundary must be 10 to 20 cm lower than the mouth of the cylinder, and the height of the rear wall cannot exceed the tail of the cylinder, and no one or materials can be arranged 10 meters behind the cover; otherwise, once the fire is opened, it will be a disaster.

For machine gun fortifications, it should be determined based on the type of machine gun, the size of the shooting boundary, the shooting posture and personnel. It is generally an annular area with a diameter of 1.8 meters, covered with logs, soil and leaves above; the perforation hole should be determined based on the direction, high and low shooting angles and the thickness of the fortification wall, namely the outer eight characters, the inner eight characters and the inner eight characters.

As for the artillery position of the Northern 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 stationed by Chen Jishan's Fifth Regiment. If necessary, you can cross the river through a pontoon bridge to provide support to Jiuzang's troops.

Liu Sheng started preparing this artillery fortification almost half a year ago. Neither local residents nor new immigrants were used, and they were completely built by soldiers of the North Navy themselves. In order not to be discovered, all the artillery beds were semi-underground cover fortifications, and camouflage was also laid on top. Each artillery position consists of three parts, the middle is a shooting room, the left side is an ammunition cover room, and the right side is a personnel cover room.

Because there is no village or shop in front of the village or behind, no one comes here normally, and Liu Sheng has set up many secret sentries on the periphery, so the Russian spies cannot go deep into it to find out.

In order to allow Russian cavalry to enter the cross-fire area of ​​anti-aircraft guns and machine guns, the North Navy laid out layered obstacles on the periphery of the main position and artillery positions, and trenches and barbed wire became the undisputed choice.

The layout of barbed wire cannot be as simple as building a livestock fence, otherwise you can turn over by putting a straw curtain. This thing has a high technical content when erecting, so the General Staff sent someone to provide special guidance.

The barbed wire of the North Navy is a hot-dip galvanized blade barbed rope purchased by Zhao Xin from another time and space. When used, it can be directly laid. Each group of barbed wire is divided into two channels, high piles and low piles, with two groups of them, which are arranged 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.

The high piles need to be drilled into two rows of wooden piles on the ground. The exposed height on the ground is 1.2 meters, and the pile distance and column distance are both 3 meters, which are arranged interlaced. Five horizontal piercing lines must be drawn between each two wooden piles.

Low piles should be laid in grasslands and shallows, with the ground at the height of the wooden piles 30 to 40 cm. The pile distance and column distance are two meters, and the depth is 4 to 6 meters. When setting up a piercing line, first horizontally, then obliquely, and then fix the two claws of the wire to the top of the pile; finally, a loose tension between the horizontal lines is set up to prevent the enemy from leaving room for crossing.

Because the periphery of the artillery position is woodland, a deer fort made of trees was set up in front of the barbed wire. The Northern Navy's method was to cut down trees interlaced, but the trunks could not be removed from the stump; then cut off the fine branches and fix the trunks to the ground with iron wire.

Of course, tied empty cans on the barbed wire, tripped grenades and other things were all right.

On August 19, two thousand Russian vanguards arrived north of the Belaya River along the Siberian Post Road. After some reconnaissance, they soon discovered the main position of the Northern Navy. After Kuzang discovered this situation, he immediately sent Aoye Camp and Hagi Camp forward to prevent the Russian vanguard from exploring the position arrangement of the Northern Navy.

Although the height of the islanders is not very good, the Qingye Camp, who has had many combat experiences, is not afraid of the Russians. They hold "Type 90 front-mounted rifled rifles" and stand in three rows of fire-shot shooting at a distance of 200 meters away from the enemy cavalry. With a saturated rate of fire of four shots per minute, they beat a Russian cavalry squadron upside down.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! In contrast, Hagi Camp, which has never participated in actual combat, has performed poorly. The soldiers were extremely nervous when reloading and made frequent mistakes. Many people opened fire without even pulling their sticks.

Since the Russian army's war horses were much taller than the southern horses that the islanders usually rode, some soldiers from Hagi Camp were frightened when they saw the Russian army rushing towards them with sabers. If these people were not vassals rather than farmers, the leader of Hagi Camp, Yoshitsun Oshima, would have to order the supervisory team to chop people.

After that, the defeated Russian troops retreated and camped five kilometers away from the Northern Navy.

On August 21, a large Russian army of 60,000 finally arrived. They set up the camp near a hill 15 kilometers northwest of the main position of the North Navy, and the position was on a gentle slope 4 kilometers away from the North Navy. On the right is a large area of ​​gentle hills and bushes, on the left is the alluvial plain between the Angara River and the Belaya River, and the Siberian Post Road interspersed in the middle.

The day after the arrival, the Russian army sent a large number of military and civilians to enter two kilometers away from the Northern Navy under the escort of two regiments of hunters, to build a fort and a platform that is convenient for observing the enemy situation. The entire battlefield suddenly became a large construction site.

On the same day, Rumentsev led his army to Lower Ukinsk on the banks of the Uda River. He only stayed here for one day and then advanced towards Blatt Fort on the Oka River. After receiving the war reports from the front, the old marshal believed that the Russian position was quite good, but he was puzzled by the establishment of the main position of the Northern Navy and faced the river three times. Is he planning to fight for the waters or have another conspiracy?

The Russian army's combat plan was to attack the right wing of the Northern Navy, attract enemy artillery fire, and then carry out powerful assaults from the center and left wing with a large number of cavalry and infantry to find and eliminate artillery, and at the same time cut off the connection between the Northern Navy and Irkutsk, encircle it on all sides and press it to the Belaya River.

In the early morning of August 24, a group of 8,000 Russian troops quietly crossed the river from the Uzkiluge settlement on the north bank of the Belaya River and arrived at the village of Sosnovka, five kilometers west of the Northern Navy artillery camp. They immediately had a fierce exchange of fire with a battalion of the Fifth Regiment of the Northern Navy stationed here.

Under the fierce shooting of a large number of light infantry (hunters) and mortars, the Russian army launched three consecutive attacks on the small village, and tried to use two cavalry squadrons to detour to the flank of the village.
Chapter completed!