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The commander of the 4th Wing of the 3rd Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army, Infantry Osa Nakaki Nosuke, and the chief of staff of the 2nd Division, Infantry Osa Okubo Toshisada, sat in the empty Mengjiang Nu Temple, waiting for their subordinates to prepare meals.

There was a raging flame burning inside the temple, and the thick resin of the Northeast pine made a sizzling sound in the flames, and a faint rosin fragrance floated in the air.

The temple door was pushed open, and a pot of steaming fish soup was brought in, which turned into the smell of fish all over the temple.

"Yo Xi, it's really fresh and delicious fatty fish."

Okubo Risada took a big sip of fish soup, and although he was scalded, he still praised it repeatedly.

"Dajiu-kun, you haven't eaten the famous West Lake vinegar fish, steamed sea bass, squirrel osmanthus fish-"

Nakaki Zhizhi said that his mouth was full of saliva, and he hurriedly drank a large mouthful of fish soup to satisfy his hunger, and he was so hot that he was angry.

"Haha, no hurry; The commander said that sooner or later, this stupid and backward Qing Dynasty was the pasture of the empire, and at that time, you and I went to Suzhou and Hangzhou with bayonets to eat their West Lake vinegar fish, squirrel osmanthus fish, and when they were drunk, they played with their flower girls in vain; Haha-"

Okubo Sasada laughed triumphantly.

"Boom-"

Suddenly, in the distant sky, there seemed to be a thunderbolt, which shook this Mengjiang Nu Temple to a 'buzzing' sound.

"Nasty!"

Okubo Toshisada scolded and yelled at the orderly beside him, "Go out and see what's going on?" ”

"Report, it's the Qing army in the northern wing city that put the earthen cannons on the city wall."

Ordinary Japanese soldiers naturally did not understand the prestige of the red-coated cannon hundreds of years ago, and contemptuously called it an earthen cannon.

"Are these Qing pigs still alive two hundred years ago?"

Although Nakaki Zhizhi had never seen the German Krupp steel-cast shore defense cannons arranged by the Qing army in Dalian Bay and Port Arthur, he had seen some Western field guns captured in Yingkou and Liaoyang.

Now when I heard that the defenders of Shanhaiguan were actually trying to fire a red-coated cannon that had been outdated for hundreds of years, I couldn't help but laugh with contempt in my eyes.

With a pig-like opponent, will victory be far away?

"Legend has it that Meng Jiangnu looked for her husband and cried down the Great Wall; We imperial men, we don't know what to cry all our lives? Besides, it's winter, and it's only snowing, not raining, haha-"

Okubo Toshisada thought that he was very funny, and laughed out loud a few times, and then his face suddenly sank, with a wolf-like ferocity in his eyes, and said with a cruel smile: "We will only use the giant cannon of the empire to destroy it!" With the iron hooves of the Empire, crush it! -- The Great Wall of the Great Han! ”

"Our emperor has been passed down for thousands of generations, until eight thousand generations; Until the fine stones turn into rocks, until the rocks grow moss. ――”

Outside the gate of the Mengjiang Women's Temple, the singing was loud, and more than 1,200 Japanese soldiers, although they were frozen to the point of sores on their hands and feet, and were full of exhaustion and pain, they were all shouting at the top of their voices.

This is an animal people called 'chrysanthemums and knives'.

Since the Tang Dynasty and even more distant times, this nation has been tirelessly dreaming of yellow sorghum.

Troops approached Korea and conquered China.

From ancient times to the present, even when they are weak, deliberately humbling their greed and hiding their greed in a flattering smile can never change the shamelessness, cruelty, and ambition that have precipitated in their bones.

So, today they are coming.

Came to the Mengjiang Temple.

Came to the front of Shanhaiguan.

On January 3, 1895, the 3rd Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army arrived at the Mengjiang Temple, and then the troops turned southeast along the post road, continued to travel five miles, and arrived at Madian Village.

At this time, Madian Village was only about five miles away from the northern wing of the bridgehead of the Qing army's mountain and sea defense line.

In today's bright sunshine, even without a telescope, Yamaguchi Suchen can clearly see this mountain and sea majestic city standing on a high slope of the village.

There are also various colorful flags on the city wall, the stubby red-clothed cannons on the city wall, and the faint Qing army on it.

Today, I heard Nakaki Noki's report about the test firing of the red-coated cannon by the Qing army in the northern wing city last night, and Yamaguchi Suchen decided to move the position and headquarters forward.

In this way, it was not only convenient for the imperial soldiers to attack the Qing army at Shanhaiguan, but also to grasp the course of the war more clearly.

"Order, the artillery immediately look for a suitable position, and it is required that the distance from the Qing army's position must be more than six miles, and a brigade of the fourth wing is responsible for guarding;"

Yamaguchi Suchen ordered: "The rest of the Fourth Wing is to camp in the area of Lujiagou in the west, and establish a position on the northern flank of Xiluo City; The 16th Wing was stationed in Madian, and the 2nd and 3rd Brigades established positions in front of the Qing army's northern flank and on the flank of Dongluocheng; The third cavalry squadron established a cordon in the north of the brigade to prevent a sneak attack by the Qing army. ”

Yamaguchi Suchen took out his pocket watch and looked at it: "It's now a quarter past ten in the morning, the staff has drawn up a battle plan, and at three o'clock in the afternoon, the forces of two wings will be mobilized to carry out an attack." ”

Yamaguchi Suchen did not have the ambition to capture Shanhaiguan in World War I, and since this gate city is known as the 'first pass in the world', it naturally has its strong heritage.

He just wanted to take a look at the reality of the Qing army on the other side.

Of course, if the Imperial forces could bring him some surprises, he would be more than happy to accept them.

However, Yamaguchi didn't expect much from this.

He is also half a China expert, familiar with Chinese history, two hundred and fifty years ago, it was not Wu Sangui who released the pass, how could he knock on the gate so easily with Dolgon, these border barbarians.

Can it be so easy to knock on the level, what did the Ming Dynasty spend a hundred years of time and countless financial resources and manpower to build the Great Wall?

After the Qing army entered the customs, it slaughtered at least 168 million Ming people in the 18 years of the Shunzhi Dynasty.

More than 42 million people died indirectly from famine and plague.

In the so-called 'Kangxi Prosperous Era', in the 20th year of Kangxi, the population of the Qing Dynasty was only about 46.51 million.

That is to say, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were more than 300 million Ming people, and by the 20th year of Kangxi, there was only less than one-sixth of the population left.

What beastly and fierce it is!

When Yamaguchi Suchen looked at Shanhaiguan from afar, the generals of Shanhaiguan also stood at the head of the city and looked at the Japanese army opposite, and their mouths were full of swearing and swearing words in the true colors of military generals.

I really hate each other, but I have to watch it.

He Changying, Xu Bangdao, and Li Jingfang sat in the Beicheng Tower of the North Wing City, with a wooden table in front of them, and three cups of hot tea on the table.

Li Jingfang is familiar with the Three Kingdoms, and Zhuge Liang sang "Empty City Strategy" on the piano in the city tower to scare Sima Yi away.

Let him be fascinated all the time.

Although he can't retire the Japanese soldiers with a clear sound today, drinking a cup of West Lake Longjing that he specially brought from home and looking at the Japanese children in the distance can be regarded as a kind of comfort to his childhood dreams.

"I don't know how the Japanese army will fight?"

Xu Bangdao deliberately went to the North Wing City at this critical time, just to hear He Changying's opinion.

At this time, the Qing Dynasty, through the ambassadors and friends of Western countries, more or less figured out the foundation of the Japanese army that went south first.

The 3rd Brigade of the 2nd Division of the Japanese Army, the commander of the brigade was Major General Yamaguchi Sotomi.

The unit is also equipped with 26 105mm caliber cannons of the 1st Heavy Artillery Wing of the Japanese Army, which are all steel-cast cannons purchased from the German Krupp Artillery Factory not long ago, with long range and great power.

Listening to Xu Bangdao's inquiry, thinking of the name Yamaguchi Suchen, a smile appeared on He Changying's face.

Cold, with a mocking smile.