After the Qing army retreated into the Great Wall, it finally stabilized its position, firstly, there were a large number of reinforcements in the Great Wall, and secondly, the Manchurian army behind it did not pursue further. Although the Manchurian armies in Yanbian occupied Rehe and won a great victory, their situation was not very good. They can't even handle their own internal affairs, so naturally they are not in the mood to pursue the Qing army, they just want to clear their suspicions, and they don't care much about expanding the results of the battle.

The attack of the Manchurian armies was completely spontaneous, that is, there was no order to go to the top, and there was no unified command. They fought separately throughout the whole process, and there were no problems in the battle, but the trouble after the war was not small. The control areas of each department are staggered, and the situation of unfolding is also fragmented, with long snake formations, net-like grids, and all kinds of forms. The most outrageous 13th Cavalry Division actually divided itself into three main regiments, one in Fengning, one in Gubeikou, and the farthest one actually chased to Xinglong.

In addition to the urgent need for the various units to regroup and adjust their garrisons in Rehe, ammunition is also a big problem. Before the start of the war, all the departments were not prepared, the hoarded ammunition did not have time to be distributed, and the soldiers all went to the battlefield with the ammunition prepared by the army. The officers thought that they were making a gesture at the door of their homes, and they could slowly add it in the future, but they all rushed out. At present, the troops in a better situation are still a little rich in their hands, barely enough to meet the enemy. The troops in a worse situation simply ran out, and when the ammunition in the guns ran out, they had to fight with bayonets.

Under such circumstances, all ministries did not dare to act rashly. The current situation is enough for them to clear their suspicions, and they are not guilty of expanding the war. After all, Changchun didn't speak, and they fought indiscriminately, but there was a great risk. What they should do now is to replenish their ammunition, regroup their troops, and assign the territories where the various units are stationed. All the units are not fighting, but there is a group of people who are still holding on, that is, the 31st Division that is storming Xifengkou.

The 31st Division was the first to start fighting, and it was also the unit with the largest number of troops invested and the longest combat time. But Zheng Yong's luck was too bad, he met He Huan, the hardest in the Qing army, and fought fiercely all day, but he didn't get any results. After the Qing army retreated to the border wall, all the departments reported the results of the battle to Changchun, and all of them occupied a large area of territory, and everyone should talk about the prefectures and counties they occupied. Only the 31st Division, Mao did not catch a single one, and even the Kuancheng, which was closest to their defense area, was taken by others. The 31st Division was very abrupt, and Zheng Yong was even more embarrassed. Everyone else has proved themselves through this battle, but Zheng Yong has a bit of a meaning that is getting darker and darker.

"I'll fuck his grandma, the whole division will press it, and within two days, Lao Tzu will attack the pass and take Zunhua!" Zheng Yong kicked all the sand tables of the division headquarters and let out the most angry roar.

The 31st Division was completely insane this time, and all of them rushed to the side wall regardless of it. Yu Siqiang, chief of staff of the division, personally commanded three regiments, and the troops rushed to Longjing Pass, Taipingzhai, and Jielingkou in three directions. Zheng Yong led the troops directly under the division to personally support the main force regiment 313 Regiment and stormed the Xifengkou in the middle. Zheng Yong left a regiment to watch the house this time, and all the other troops pressed up, with a desperate posture.

The three-way army in the top four did not go very well. The Qing army in Taipingzhai and other three places is still the same, but they are all supported by the Zhili Green Battalion, and the strength of each place is more than 5,000. The terrain of the Great Wall is dangerous, and there are strong gates that can be guarded, so it is naturally difficult to attack. Zheng Yong's main force of the Chinese army is also struggling. He Huan, who retreated to the mouth of Xifeng, has already retreated to the bottom line, and if he retreats, he will have to lose his head, so he naturally has to work hard. He Huan's Lezi battalion is a rare strong force in the Qing army, and the two sides were unable to hold each other for a while.

"The heavy artillery battalion should not be in a hurry to bombard the wall, be steady, let the observation post quickly find out the enemy's artillery position, and abolish their artillery for Lao Tzu first!" Zheng Yong, who was on the front line to supervise the battle, became more and more anxious the more he watched, and directly kicked Liu Dascar to the side, and took over the command of the battle himself.

Xifengkou is divided into two parts, the castle is located in the basin surrounded by mountains, the four sides are made of stones, it is very solid, the city wall is more than two zhang high, and there is a four-battle high town tower built on the gate. The castle is built on the north side of the castle, facing the mountain on three sides and the river on the other, and is composed of three sets of castles, which are connected by solid stone foundation walls between the passes. The six contact points of the city wall are all set up with hollow enemy towers, and the west city wall communicates with the main body of the Great Wall. Xifengkou is in the shape of "concave", the Great Wall on the two wings of the mountain, every one thousand meters or so, there is also a beacon tower. The surrounding mountains are majestic, the river lingers, the two peaks confront each other, a valley is opened in the middle, the desolate and majestic Great Wall undulates in the ridge, hovers at the bottom of the valley, the left and right are high mountains arch, the terrain is very dangerous.

He Huan placed all the baggage and camp in the castle in the rear, and the troops relied on the Great Wall and Guancheng to defend. On the nearby beacon tower and the enemy tower in Guancheng, He Huan all deployed Gatling machine guns, constituting the core fire point. According to the traditional habits of the Chinese, artillery must be placed on the walls of Guancheng, but He Huan did not do this. After the heavy artillery of North Manchu arrived, He Huan knew that his artillery was still far worse than others, and the hard steel would definitely die ugly. Therefore, he also dispersed his artillery on the two flanks of the Great Wall, first, to facilitate concealment, and secondly, to condescendingly bombard the attacking Manchurian infantry.

He Huan's scattered deployment of artillery, although it diluted his firepower and increased the difficulty of ammunition delivery, but also made Zheng Yong's plan fall through. The heavy artillery observation posts of the Manchurian army were almost blind, and they did not find the artillery positions of the Qing army. After picking a few suspicious positions and overturning a few artillery pieces, there were still shells that would penetrate the Manchurian army's attacking troops. The terrain and road conditions under the Great Wall caused the troops to attack relatively slowly, and the shelling was also more likely to stir up the gravel on the ground.

"Damn, I can't get him yet! Put the infantry artillery and mountain artillery on top and move forward synchronously with the infantry, Lao Tzu doesn't believe it! Zheng Yong in the command headquarters was even more anxious when he saw that the troops' attack was frustrated.

"Shizao, the road conditions ahead are too bad, either muddy ground or gravel beach, and you can't walk on it with heavy weapons. Barely lifted up, and it couldn't be launched for a long time, it's a live target at all! "Liu Da Scar is very aggrieved, Zheng Yong's method, he used it at the beginning, but unfortunately it didn't work at all.

"Damn, let the brothers on the front line take a breath! All the departments concentrated all the artillery fire, and Lao Tzu aimed at the Great Wall wall on the left wing of the mountain, and collapsed several sections of the city wall. "Zheng Yong brought enough ammunition this time, and he will grind He Huan to death with cannonballs.

The Qing Dynasty has not built the Great Wall much, and the Great Wall used now is an antique left by the Ming Dynasty, although it is still strong, and there are towering mountains to rely on, but in the face of 105 caliber heavy artillery, it is still inevitable to have a sense of being cheap and old. Under the intensive bombardment of heavy artillery, not only did He Huan's soldiers suffer heavy casualties, but the towering city wall gradually collapsed, and finally became a ruin.

"Leave those heavy weapons alone, let the brothers quickly withdraw them!" He Huan wanted to cry without tears, every soldier was his son, every artillery was his blood and sweat, and his heart was so painless.

"Brother He, that's all our family background!" Chen Si was reluctant.

"If you are reluctant, they are all ruined, so let the brothers withdraw quickly!" He Huan has saved up the weapons over the years, he is more distressed than anyone else, but there is no way, there is no way.

"Try to persevere, you can still leave some!" Wu Er didn't believe that the Manchurian army had more shells than the stars in the sky, and when the shelling would eventually end, as long as the soldiers covered carefully, there would still be some left.

"There are people, there is always a way for others, the brothers are dead, what is the use of those Raushs? Evacuate! He Huan also knows people-oriented.

Under the heavy shelling of the Manchurian army, the Qing army finally could not resist and had to withdraw from the Great Wall on the left flank. Even if He Huan withdrew resolutely, the Qing army still suffered heavy casualties. Of the more than 1,100 people in the left battalion of the Lezi battalion, less than 500 were evacuated, dozens were seriously injured, 200 were easily injured, and more than 400 others died on the city wall. Moreover, the troops suffered serious losses in equipment, not a single piece of heavy weapons such as artillery and machine guns were brought back, and most of the rifles were also lost.

"Brother He, if the left flank is lost, the flank of our army will be exposed, the city will be lonely, and the right flank will no longer be meaningful. Do you see if we will retreat to Kannai, or will we ......" Takeji felt that there was no hope of holding on.

"I can't go yet! Even if the Great Wall can't be defended, we can't be the first to lose the pass, otherwise the court will definitely sacrifice our heads to the flag! "He Huan, who has nothing to do and often studies the battle examples of the Manchurian Army, and has learned a lot of Western tactics, knows his situation very well, but he can't withdraw! If he became the first general to lose the pass and let the Manchurian army enter the customs, the court would never let him go. The imperial court will not care how hard you fight, how advanced the equipment of the Manchurian army is, as long as you lose the pass, the imperial court will want your head.

"Big brother, the city walls are lost, how can you defend them?" Chen Si also knew the virtues of the imperial court, but now he really couldn't keep it.

"Let the brethren find a hidden ditch behind the city and hide, and let the Manchurian infantry come up, and we will pick up the blades with them!" his second uncle, fight! "He Huan also came out of the bandit's den, nothing else, there is still ruthlessness.

He Huan broke off his robe and put it on, personally operated a ghost head knife, and returned to the Great Wall on the left wing mountain with Zuo Ying. However, instead of going to the city, he found a place to hide near the ruins. With gravel, weeds, and broken trees all over the ground, it's easy to play peek-a-boo. He Huan didn't hide much, but he saw another person who was on the front line, Liu Da, the commander of the 313th Regiment of the Manchurian Army.

"his grandma!" He Huan scolded angrily, picked up the big knife and rushed out.

"! There is an ambush! "Liu Da's * shuttle knocked down more than a dozen Qing troops, and then he had to engage the enemy with *, and the two armies fell into a brutal hand-to-hand fight.