February 13 of the Western calendar, sunny, cloudless.

Eighty miles southwest of Yongping Mansion, Changli County, at the southern foot of Jieshi Mountain, had just ended a short attack.

At 5 a.m. on February 12, 76 soldiers of the 5th Squadron of the 1st Brigade of the 4th Wing of the Japanese Army stationed in Yeongpyeongfu, waited for the combined fleet to arrive, and fled south in panic under the leadership of Captain Junmasa Matsumoto, the squadron leader.

On the morning of the same day, when Matsumoto Junmasa fled to the town of Ryuha, twenty miles southwest of Eupyeong Prefecture, he met 12 people from the First Army's intelligence corps, Captain Kaneto, Ochiai, who had been ordered to convey military information to Yamaguchi Sutomi.

At this time, the sergeants of the 5th Squadron of the Japanese Army knew why the Combined Fleet and the 11th Infantry Brigade had not arrived.

- Not only are they overdue now, but they will never come to Shanhaiguan!

These soldiers all scolded the British powers for being arrogant and unreasonable, and only humiliated the weak, and wept and wept for the injustice of the death of six or seven thousand Oriental sons of the 3rd Brigade.

After crying, the combined forces of the two sides hurriedly retreated in the southwest direction, and arrived at the city gate at 10 o'clock in the night, and the county seat of Changli, which had been plagued by the first army of Shanxian County, should have been empty.

As a result, the Japanese army encountered 9 Qing cavalry who were cooking in the city, and after a short gun battle, the Japanese annihilated the 'Dingwu Army' sentry assigned by the imperial court to reconnoiter the situation at Shanhaiguan, and captured 9 Mongolian war horses.

That night, Ochiai Kanechi and Matsumoto Junmasa discussed and decided that 32 soldiers led by Ochiai Kanechi would ride first, in order to inform the Yama Prefecture Commander as soon as possible of the astonishing news of the annihilation of the 3rd Brigade and the 19th Wing.

On the morning of the 13th, Ochiai Kanechi, who felt that his horsepower had almost recovered, was just about to order the cavalry to go first, when he received an urgent report from the soldiers on the north city wall, and a group of more than 20 cavalry came from the north three miles, wearing the red army uniforms of the Qing army.

Then there was an ambush battle to invite the king into the urn, and all 26 Qing cavalry were killed, and none of them escaped.

"Long live the Empire!"

After these two skirmishes, the Japanese annihilated 35 Qing troops and captured 31 Mongolian horses, while only 1 of them was killed by bullets and 3 were slightly wounded.

These Japanese soldiers, who were originally depressed, couldn't help but scream and 'live' again.

"Ochiai-kun cherishes, kill all the dogs!"

"Matsumoto-kun cherishes, kill all the dogs!"

Ochiai Kanechi and Matsumoto Junmasa both bid farewell to each other with the encouragement of killing the enemy.

Shanhaiguan Yongping Mansion, the east wind is coming.

Although it was an early spring breeze, it was still as cold as an ice blade.

The snow-white ice belt of the Bohai Bay, under the light of the early sun in the east, shimmer with dazzling bright colors, making it impossible for people to look directly for a long time.

He Changying, Liu Kunyi, Li Jingfang, Xu Bangdao, Jia Qisheng, Wang Liansan, Mei Dongyi, Xia Qingyun, Tang Shaoyi, Yi Shunding,——

A group of Qing civilians and soldiers faced the wind, stood on the south wall of Yongping Mansion, and watched the brigade return to the south.

The Anti-Japanese Army 8,500 Three-City Coalition Army, Liu Kunyi 2,000 Closed the Coalition Army, a total of more than 10,000 troops, lined up on a long marching line.

Cavalry, infantry, artillery, horses, baggage vehicles, and artillery pointed to the sky came from the direction of Shanhaiguan, passed through the Tang River, and marched towards the Guannai.

Hundreds of wounded and unfit to continue fighting, as well as the corpses of more than 30 high-ranking civil and military officers of the Great Qing Dynasty, will also follow behind the main force and enter the customs together.

On the whole day on the 12th, the Qing army dismantled the door panels of Yongping Mansion, which had long been empty except for the soldiers, and made nearly 2,000 coffins roughly.

The corpses of the eight or nine hundred Ludong troops who died on the Dongdaying Heights have solidified into one with the blackened frozen soil on the mountains and the corpses of the Japanese soldiers.

It's like a huge black tomb, which makes people feel chilled.

There are also tens of thousands of Qing army corpses covered by heavy snow from the line of the Great Wall of Shanhaiguan to the Tang River in Yongping Mansion, which were also frozen and connected with the hard snow of the earth.

He Changying's Three-City Coalition Army only carefully cleaned up the corpses of the soldiers who died outside the Guanwai and the corpses of the soldiers who died fighting on the front line of the No. 11 Great Wall one by one and put them in thin coffins.

It was uniformly transported to a foot of the mountain in the Jiaoshan Cemetery for temporary storage.

He Changying specially sent a platoon of soldiers to take care of him and wait for a proper burial later.

As for the corpses of the Qing army in Dongdaying and the rest of the armies on the front line of Shanhai, pointing to this bit of people in Liu Kun's hand, it was impossible to search for and move them at all.

Moreover, the 2,000 Qing troops under Liu Kun seem to have neither the time nor the energy nor the interest to clean up.

Liu Kunyi just said that when the war stabilized a little in the future, he would report to the imperial court and send people to arrange them one by one.

You must know that in this corpse covered by snow, there are Qing Dynasty commanders, commanders, daotai, deputy generals, generals, and as for guerrillas, garrisons, etc., there are even more like cows.

If you want to come, the imperial court will not sit idly by.

In Liu Kunyi's opinion, the Japanese ship group will appear at any time, and the Beijing division urgently needs to send reinforcements, so there is no need to delay the important affairs of King Qin for the people who are already dead.

Under Liu Kunyi's repeated urging, the troops of Guanshang only cleaned up on the Great Wall for a day, and then hurriedly pulled out the camp and waved their troops into the pass.

"Alas——, old man lost his customs and died a hundred deaths, not to enter the King of Guanqin, he would have been shameless to live a long time ago, and he died on the Great Wall!"

Liu Kun let out a long sigh, stood on the city wall and watched the heroic army march south, with tears in his eyes, and his mood was both excited and terrified:

"I don't know how to transport troops to resist the Japanese in these days, where are the Japanese soldiers blocked at this time? Unfortunately, there is no telegraph, so there is no way to know the details. ”

In the early morning of the 12th, Liu Kunyi sent a team of cavalry to explore the road in the direction of Tangshan and reported victory.

However, even if the itinerary is not delayed all the way, it is estimated that it can only reach the west of Changli County at most, and it will be two days away from Tangshan.

"There is only one battalion garrison in Luanzhou; If the imperial court wanted to protect the coal mines, it could only transfer troops from Jizhou and Jinmen within the scope of time permitting. ”

Jia Qisheng was silent for a long time before he said with a bitter face: "Anyway, it's not easy to fight,—— it's mysterious enough!" ”

"Shhhh

The generals shouted 'boo' in their hearts.

- Which one knows that it's not easy to fight, and you still need to talk nonsense?

"It's not a good idea to draw troops to defend Tangshan, recruits can make do with defending a big city like Jinmen, and Tangshan on the low city wall is the fat in the mouth of the Japanese artillery;"

Mei Dongyi shook his head and said: "Dong Fuxiang's Gan army has been suppressing bandits in the northwest for many years, and they only know how to pursue bandits in the wilderness, attacking and forcing a larger small earthen fort, where will there be any defense?" Tut-tut——, the Ministry of Military Affairs allocated them 6 80 guns, will they be able to fire? ”

"If we draw troops from Jinmen, once we are defeated, won't Jinmen become an empty city? As long as the Japanese take advantage of the victory, they will go south and occupy the ,—— of Jinmen."

Wang Liansan suddenly shouted in surprise: "Could it be that the Japanese soldiers have already occupied Dagu, and the troop transport ships are directly docked at Jinmen, so they have not arrived at Shanhaiguan for a long time?" ”

Wang Liansan's very unpleasant speculation made everyone, including He Changying, feel a heavy jump in their hearts.

Everyone's faces became very ugly. - If that's the case, why don't you go back and spank a fart? If you go, you will die!

"Don't guess here behind closed doors, it's natural to go to Tangshan!"

Liu Kunyi's gloomy face stopped everyone from continuing to speculate.

If he continues to guess like this, maybe the military heart that has been erected with great difficulty will be astigmatized.