8th Corps South of the River Hun on both sides of the railway. 10th Corps At Bai-ta-pu village on the Mandarin road. 1st Siberians Behind the right flank of the 1st Army. The right of the 2nd Army between the 5th Siberians and the River Hun was only protected by cavalry, while a separate column of five battalions and two cavalry regiments under Kossagovski was on the right bank of the river. Notwithstanding the instructions issued that these dispositions were to hold good as long as possible, in order that we might conceal our intentions from the enemy, and also that the 10th Corps—intended to act as a reserve in the event of their striking at our centre—was not to be moved from its place without my knowledge, on January 14 Grippenberg transferred the 14th Division over on to the left bank of the Hun, and on the 16th, without letting me know, moved the 10th Corps closer to the right of the 3rd Army. These movements, of course, at once disclosed our intentions, and information soon came in that the enemy had, in their turn, commenced moving their troops westwards and fortifying opposite our new dispositions. The strength of the army was: +--------+-------+----------+-----+-------+-----+-------+-------+ | | Bat- |Squadrons |Field|Mortars|Siege|Machine| Sapper| | |talions| and |-Guns| |-Guns| -Guns | Bat- | | | | Sotnias | | | | |talions| +--------+-------+----------+-----+-------+-----+-------+-------+ |2nd Army| 120 | 92 | 412| 24 | 4 | 20 | 3 | |3rd Army| 72 | 18 | 294| 54 | 56 | 12 | 3 | |1st Army| 127 | 43 | 360| 12 | -- | 8 | 5 | |General | | | | | | | | | Reserve| 42 | -- | 120| -- | -- | 4 | -- | | +-------+----------+-----+-------+-----+-------+-------+ | Total| 361 | 153 |1,186| 90[84]| 60 | 44 | 11 | +--------+-------+----------+-----+-------+-----+-------+-------+ By the middle of January our numbers were, as regards rank and file, almost up to the authorized war strength, except in the Composite Rifle, 8th and 16th Corps, which had arrived short, so that the total of our forces was about 300,000 rifles. Although the establishment in officers was not fully complete, we now had some 5,600 in the infantry, which gave us on the average 15 per battalion.