When everyone was arguing, Zhang Yi led the Qing army in the old front camp to storm the Japanese camp, and more than a dozen Green guns opened fire together, suppressing the Japanese firepower, and quickly approaching the front of the Japanese position. The Japanese army was arguing endlessly about whether to fight or retreat, and the soldiers below were even more leaderless, not knowing what to do.

Seeing that the Qing army on the opposite side was attacking, the leaders of the Japanese army were no longer in the mood to make noise, and they returned to their camps to respond to the battle, relying on the superiority of troops, and suppressed the offensive momentum of the Qing army in Maoershan in a short time.

However, the good times did not last long, and only about 10 minutes passed, and the situation on the battlefield underwent earth-shaking changes. Nie Shicheng saw the signal of Zhang Yihu and others, and immediately ordered the Qing army in Kaicheng to pour out, open the way with a small group of cavalry, and the large group of men and horses followed, and killed directly towards Maoer Mountain.

From Kaesong to Mao'er Mountain, but more than ten miles away, only a few dozen minutes, the Qing army rushed to Mao'er Mountain with a rapid march, and saw that a fierce battle was raging here. Nie Shicheng directly ordered an attack, outflanked from the rear of the Japanese army, two flanking attacks, the Japanese army had no fighting spirit, the organization was chaotic, and the Qing army behind was shocked, the formation was in chaos, and it could no longer be supported, and began to break out.

Nie Shicheng and Xu Huaijin stood on a high slope to watch the battle, Xu Huaijin said: "Lord Junmen, now that the Japanese army still has an advantage, it is not the best strategy for us to attack hard. Now that the supreme command system of the Japanese army is completely out of control, and there is no connection between the various departments, we can concentrate our forces, attack one of them, and hold on to the others. In this way, all units of the Japanese army will inevitably take the opportunity to break through and escape far away, so that we can break through each and win in one fell swoop! ”

Nie Shicheng nodded and praised: "Okay, it is indeed the best policy to encircle three and lack one, and give an order to Li Gang, let him bite the Japanese army, and the rest of the troops, don't stare too hard." The herald hurried down to give the order.

Li Gang, who was commanding at the front, received the order, immediately adjusted his deployment, gave up blocking other Japanese troops, and began a siege against the main wing of the Japanese army.

In the fierce battle, the Japanese army saw an opportunity, and they broke out of the encirclement one after another, and were defeated to the south, leaving only the main force of the 13th Wing that was bitten.

Zhang Yi, who was on the other side, saw the changes in the battlefield, so he could give an order and fully cooperate with the brother troops to encircle and suppress.

In less than an hour, the headquarters of the Japanese drama wing, which had no intention of fighting, was beaten to the ground and suffered heavy casualties, and the Japanese army wing captain Komaki Kazukiyo had to disarm and surrender.

Zhang Yi came to Nie Shicheng and said hurriedly: "Lord Junmen, now that the Japanese army has no desire to fight, we must speed up the march and give the Japanese army a severe blow before most of the Japanese army in the south comes to help." ”

Nie Shicheng nodded and said, "Okay!" Immediately, Zhang Yi commanded the three armies to pursue and defeat the fleeing Japanese army! ”

The Japanese army was defeated like a mountain, and the generals of the retreating units could no longer restrain their men and horses, and scattered and fled, unable to organize a decent counterattack at all. Zhang Yi chased the scattered Japanese army out of more than 50 miles like a duck before collecting his troops and returning to Kaesong.

Nie Shicheng asked: "Zhang Yi, how is it, what are the results of today's battle?" ”

Zhang Yi said with a smile: "Lord Junmen, in this battle, nearly 2,000 Japanese soldiers were killed, countless Japanese burdens were harvested, the brigade commander Oshima Yoshimasa was captured alive, and the remnants of Komaki Ichiqing surrendered, and our army won a complete victory. In a short period of time, the Japanese army was no longer able to launch a large-scale attack on our Kaesong. ”

Nie Shicheng laughed loudly: "Okay! Good! Zhang Yi, thanks to you, without you and the Blue Wolf Brigade, if we want to be as stable as a rock, we will definitely ascend to the sky. ”

The crowd laughed in unison.

Zhang Yi replied: "Lord Junmen, such a big victory, you should quickly report to the imperial court and the Lord Zhongtang." At the same time, he ordered a team of men and horses to escort the Oshima Yoshimasa Kai to the court. ”

Nie Shicheng smiled: "Yes." Since the Sino-British War, in the past 50 years, our Qing Dynasty has never achieved such a great victory in the confrontation with foreign invaders. In this way, we can show the majesty of our Qing Dynasty. ”

While everyone was talking and laughing, a personal guard came to the mansion to report: "Lord Admiral, Gaozhou General Soldier Zuo Junmen, Taiyuan Town General Soldier Ma Yukun Military Gate, Henan General Soldier Wei Rugui, and Feng Sheng'a, the commander of the Han Army with white flags, led reinforcements to arrive, and the vanguard has arrived in the city.

Nie Shicheng was overjoyed and said with a smile: "Since Brother Guanting and the others have arrived, the city will be open in a short period of time, open the city gate quickly, and everyone will greet me together!" ”

Li Gang and other family managers and commanders accompanied Nie Shicheng to the north gate of Kaecheng.

At this time, the four generals Zuo Guigui, Wei Rugui, Ma Yukun, and Fengsheng A had already dismounted and waited outside the city gate.

Nie Shicheng hurriedly stepped forward, and greeted the four of them from afar: "Brother Guanting, Third Brother Da, Brother Jingshan, Commander Feng, thank you for coming to help, Shicheng has thanked you here, you have worked hard all the way, hurry up and follow me into the city to rest." ”

Zuo Guigui and Nie Shicheng have known each other for a long time in Fengtian, the two have a resolute personality, they are both heavy generals of the Huai Army, and they have a deep friendship, so they hurriedly caught up, hugged Nie Shicheng, and said urgently: "Gongting, congratulations, congratulations!" On the way here, we have already received a telegram from the imperial court and an order from Lord Zhongtang that Jin Gongting is the commander of Zhili and has full authority to control the Korean war. Now that I have just arrived in Kaesong, I heard that Gongting has won many victories and defeated the Japanese army in one fell swoop, which is really a masterpiece of the world! ”

Ma Yukun and others also came up to greet him, congratulating Nie Shicheng on his promotion to the governor of Zhili, and Nie Shicheng thanked him again and again.

And they all went into the city together.

Coming to the temporary mansion in Kaesong, Nie Shicheng ordered someone to serve tea, and Zuo Guigui just sat down and asked urgently: "Brother Gongting, what is the specific harvest of today's battle?" Tell me about it. ”

Nie Shicheng smiled proudly and said: "Everyone, in the first battle of Kaesong, our army captured the Japanese Major General Brigade Commander Oshima Yoshimasa, and the wing commander Komaki Ichiqing was forced to surrender, capturing more than 600 of his generals and colonels, and destroying nearly 3,000 enemies, and the remnants of the Japanese army fled to the vicinity of Seoul with heavy losses. It will no longer be possible to organize a large-scale military operation in the near future, which has bought our army sufficient time. ”

Zuo Guigui laughed and said, "Okay! All right! This is another big victory after the battle of Zhennanguan, the commander of the Major General Brigade? This is a big man who is no less than a provincial governor! Gong Ting, just this one, you can go down in history! ”

Others were also amazed.

Nie Shicheng waved his hand and said with a smile: "Everyone praises it." In this battle, one is the emperor and the queen mother Lafayette are blessed to the sky, and the other is helped by the virtuous and talented, and the soldiers are united. How can you succeed in a war just by virtue of the dull skills of the soldiers? ”

Zuo Guigui was puzzled: "Virtuous? Isn't there any rising talent under the Gongting account? ”

Everyone also looked at Nie Shicheng.

Nie Shicheng laughed, pointed at Zhang Yi with his finger, and said, "Everyone, this is our army's newly rising genius, my right-hand man, Zhang Yi!" ”