"Minister Song Qing, Yi Ke Tang'a, Wu Heng'e, He Changying, Wu Weiyang played: This morning, there are Japanese cavalry swaggering and marching on the south bank of the Yalu River, as if no one is there; The reinforcement army and the Qizi training army Chunzi battalion Ximeng's forehead, the cavalry sentry Wuerdu department, angrily and decisively crossed the river at the mouth of the Anping River to attack it head-on; The enemy cavalry was defeated, and the cavalry sentry Urdu shouted 'Serve the emperor, kill the Japanese people', and immediately the whole army fought hard and bravely took the lead, killing all the Japanese and the rest of the horses; killing 30 enemies, seizing 28 horses, Murata fired 30 quick guns, and 30 nameplates. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info——"

"Good, good, good Urdu! and Simon's forehead; I didn't expect the bannermen to have such loyal and brave people. ”

Guangxu laughed and said: "Wu Heng's forehead is also very good, he knows the general situation, and he is not complacent; And this He Changying, who is really a wise general, a brave general, and a lucky general of our Qing Dynasty! Li Hongzao, you call Li Hongzhang and ask the Governor's Mansion to report He Changying's situation, and I want to raise the flag for him! ”

"The emperor is wise!"

Li Hongzao and Weng Tongyi chanted at the same time.

Then the two important ministers glanced at each other lightly, and immediately staggered their gazes.

Before, they thought of many kinds of methods of the emperor's courtship, but they didn't expect the emperor to come to the means of 'raising the flag'.

This kid is really lucky, and he has a bright future!

Weng Tongyi and Li Hongzao both sighed secretly in their hearts, and they couldn't help but feel a little jealous.

On October 17, after the battalion of Li Zhenhua of the Korean reinforcement army annihilated half of the Japanese cavalry, the 10th Brigade of the Japanese army changed its previous rampant and unscrupulous, and the army shrank back to Yiju City.

7,000 troops were deployed inside and outside the city of Uiju to prevent the reinforcements from attacking again.

It was nearly ten minutes dark, and an old man who cowered secretly entered the city of Uiju from the south gate.

A huge topographical map of the banks of the Yalu River hangs on the wall, and the old beard stands on a high stool, with his back to the crowd and a pencil in his hand.

Attentively marked the Jiulian City and its upper reaches that he knew, the Ming Army, the Yi Army, the Wu Yi Army, the Left Wing Training Army, and the deployment of the Korean Army detachment along the river.

After marking these, Lao Xuzi began to mark the various hydrological conditions of the section from Jiuliancheng to Hushan River, the section from the Anping River Estuary to the Pushi River Estuary, and the Changdian River section.

Naofumi Tachimi, Mizo Tomioka, Jinobu Tomoyasu, Harubi Tomita, Shigeki Kimura, Hataro ,——

A room full of Japanese generals stood quietly, looking at the back of the thin old man with a sheep's beard in front of them with admiration.

It is the selfless forbearance and dedication of these warriors that can make the imperial army

"Okay, in this Tiger Mountain, Lieutenant Miki Kamio and I have been hiding for seven years, and it was finally not in vain."

The old beard jumped off the stool, and the old man had a smile on his face: "The people in the stockade are still in Saliva Town, and I have to go back tonight; Lieutenant Miki asked me to tell the general that once the time of attack and the place to cross the river were decided, there were still 100 people in the stockade and about 40 earthen guns, which could always make a little contribution to the empire. ”

"Lieutenant Shinji Matsui, please tell Lieutenant Miki that the Empire thanks you for the sacrifices you have made over the years!"

After saying this, he immediately saw Shang Wen's 'snap', and made a standard military force towards the old beard.

"Smack!"

In the war room, all the Japanese soldiers stood upright and saluted the old beard in unison.

"Smack-"

The old beard's face flushed, and he returned a military salute awkwardly, and said with a smile: "Commander, I haven't saluted for seven years, and I'm almost about to forget." ”

The 10th Brigade received information from the spy Lieutenant Matsui Shinji on the Yalu River from Jiuliancheng to Changdian, and in the next few days, it did not send a single cavalry out of the city, and the whole army repaired and quietly waited for the arrival of the general of Shan County.

And the Qing army units on the other side of the river were also silent, always vigilantly watching the city of Yiju and the river they defended.

In the early morning of October 18, it was still a good sunny day, but the temperature dropped again, and before 9 p.m., there was a vast fog everywhere.

In the early morning of October 18, the Yalu River was still full of fog, and there was no one ten meters away.

Seeing this situation, Song Qing, Nie Shicheng and the others couldn't sit still, but they still had no choice.

One could only pray that the Japanese army would be stationed in Uiju, not to attack the Yalu River, but to close the Korean gateway and prevent the Qing army from entering Korea.

In the afternoon of the same day, the headquarters of the 3rd Brigade of the Japanese cavalry, which was annihilated by the Korean reinforcements, and the remaining two squadrons, with nearly 600 Japanese cavalry, appeared in the south of Yiju City as the advance team of the headquarters of the 1st Army of the Japanese Army, and then stationed in Yiju City.

After that, the three cavalry brigades left Yiju City and stationed in the town of Suokukan in the south of the five miles.

On October 18, more than 7,000 troops of the Fifth Brigade of Major General Shang Min of the Japanese Army appeared in the south of Yiju City and camped directly in the String Pavilion.

So far, the Japanese army has a strength of 15,000 people in Yizhou City on the other side of Jiulian City, and the strength ratio of the Sheng Army, Yi Army, and Luyu Defense Army on the other side has reached a 3:2 advantageous ratio.

And the Japanese army is still coming!

Seeing the battalion-like strength of Yizhou City, Song Qing, Nie Shicheng, Liu Shengxiu and other generals have begun to change color.

The senior generals of the Qing army in the previous Pyongyang defensive battle, Ye Zhichao and Wei Rugui were imprisoned, Zuo Guigui died, Jiang Zikang, Nie Guilin, and Sun Xianyin were all driven to the lower reaches of the river.

Song Qinghe, Nie Shicheng, Liu Shengxiu, Song Desheng, Zhang Xiluan, Tan Qingyuan, Ma Jinxu and other generals looked at the cloud-like horse formation on the opposite bank at this time, a cannon that respected the river bank, and the Japanese army flag like a forest, and began to really intuitively feel the strength of the opponent.

"Do you want the Renzi Army, the Feng Army, the Korean Army, and the Sheng Army to come and reinforce them?"

Nie Shicheng said worriedly: "On the thirty-mile river surface of this Jiulian City, we divide our troops everywhere, and the Japanese will concentrate on attacking one place, which is not easy to defend, and it has been foggy for the past few days. ”

"A telegram came from Shahezi Lu Benyuan, and a brigade of Japanese Yi appeared on the opposite riverbank, with no less than 20,000 troops, and it seemed to be the main force of the Japanese army; Moreover, there are three Japanese warships directly anchored there on the large and small Kashima Islands in the Great Eastern Ditch. ”

Song Qing sighed with a gloomy face: "I guess that the Japanese army will most likely not choose a river crossing point, and their gunboats can even directly drive to the mouth of the Yalu River, bombard Shahezi, and cover the Japanese crossing the river; This battle—"

Song Qing now regrets that he died and didn't listen to Zhongtang's opinion, so that now he is not only difficult to ride a tiger, but also looks like he is about to be devoured by a tiger.

"Call the imperial court, ask for soldiers!"

Yalu River estuary, Jiangzuo.

After the troops were stationed in Yongchuan, Youpeng of Shan County deliberately rode a horse north for several miles and came to the Yalu River.

It was the first time he saw the Yalu River.

Immediately, the commander of the First Army of the Qing Dynasty, 57-year-old General Yama Youpeng, couldn't help but burst into tears.

And we finally did it,

——Drink the Yalu River!

"Commander, the Imperial Army can directly cross the river from here and attack the Qing army on the other side; With the suppression of the firepower of the naval gunboats, the county town of Andong on the opposite side is simply brittle and vulnerable! ”

Lieutenant General Katsura Taro, commander of the Third Division, stood beside the general of Yama Prefecture, his eyes flashed with essence, and he excitedly proposed.

Lieutenant General Michikan Nozu, the commander of the Fifth Division next to him, nodded again and again when he heard this.

"Without the navy, wouldn't the Imperial Army be at war?"

The general of Shanxian glared angrily at his unsuccessful disciple: "Crossing the Yalu River and stepping on the territory of the Qing Dynasty, this supreme glory, why should the navy be involved?" Over the years, these damn navies have shared the military spending of our army! ”

Seeing the surrounding generals showing a look of sudden realization, Yama County Youpeng nodded with satisfaction and ordered: "Nozu, your Fifth Division has left a brigade to garrison Yongzhou and wait for future orders; The rest of the armies will set off for Uiju City tomorrow. ”

"Hey!"

All the Japanese generals shouted in unison.