"You are well-deserved heroes, the patron saints of this country, and I am proud of you!"

"This country has to be worthy of your efforts and sacrifices!"

"We can't let the heroes shed blood and sacrifice and shed tears! You are the greatest, loveliest, most glorious, most heroic and fearless people in this country! ”

"You are the iron backbone of the Chinese nation, and the soul of the Chinese nation, which is endless, passed down from generation to generation, and immortal!"

"Stand upright!"

"Smack!"

"Salute!"

"Wow!"

The unified movement of the phalanx of more than 3,000 people, with the hardness of iron and blood, made people hold their breath and become serious unconsciously.

"Ready,"

"Put!"

Liu Yufu's one-armed right hand waved down fiercely.

"Bang"

"Bang"

"Bang"

600 13-shot Mauser guns, nine shots in a row, fired 7,800 bullets into the sky in an instant.

Gunshot. 、

It roared and reverberated among the mountains and the earth.

On January 12 of the Western calendar, Nie Shicheng came up with the final distribution plan, and the three cities outside the gate were divided into 800 Mauser repeating guns, and 9 artillery pieces were left on a hillside high ground behind the gate to form an artillery battalion and use it centrally.

As for the 6 Krupp mountain cannons in the northern wing city, Nie Shicheng also intended to pull them back to the pass and use them together with the 9 cannons, but he Changying refused.

He Changying, who had already died of his heart for the imperial court, seemed that since the Nineteenth could not hold the Shanhaiguan, then he had to seek self-help first.

If you want to save yourself, you have to strike iron with your own hard stick!

The most basic premise of a hard stick is that there must be soldiers, guns, cannons and food.

In He Changying's calculations, the Japanese army may roughly choose three offensive methods at Shanhaiguan.

The first is that the army concentrates its forces, without any tricks, and honestly starts to uproot the three cities outside the pass, and then the next step is to attack Shanhaiguan and break through.

Then He Changying can only accept his fate, and honestly fight with friends in Shanxian County, and fight cleanly, eighteen years later, he is a good man's way of playing, and his blood stands to the end.

The second is to rush to the Great Wall at the Nine Gates and break through from there.

So He Changying's backhand left in the independent camp will make a deep impression on Youpeng in Shanxian County.

But that's all, the Japanese army below will break through Jiumen City and Shimen Village in a row, and then either attack the mountains and seas from behind, or directly attack the Jinjing area.

The third is to directly bypass the three outer cities, or feint to contain the three outer cities, and then the main force of the Japanese army will break through from the rest of the positions.

So what He Changying wants to do is how to survive the three cities outside the Guanshang after the defeat of the Qing army in Guanshang.

If He Changying was a friend of Shanxian County, if he chose the second combat plan, it would be impossible for him to allow these eight or nine thousand elites to easily escape back to Jinmen and participate in the subsequent defense battle.

In the three cities outside the Guanwai, there are anti-Japanese army, Gongwei army, Sheng army, Renzi army, Luyu defense army, as well as a large number of recruits, Lushun deserters.

If the Qing army in Guannai collapses and retreats towards Guannai, it is likely that the Pyongyang tragedy will be repeated, and it will be even more serious.

For the sake of the eight thousand soldiers in the three cities, and for the next step of the Zhili War, He Changying can only make the three cities a nailed nail, a dead wedge here.

Therefore, He Changying wants to save herself, and wants to connect the three cities outside the gate together, become one, and build a fortress.

Otherwise, once the Japanese army breaks through the pass, the three cities outside the pass will become a lonely dead place, and as far as the eye can see, He Changying cannot find a force that will come to the rescue.

From the 12th, the three cities outside the gate began to demolish a large number of houses in the city, and built three defensive breastwalls mixed with ice, mud, grass and bricks between the east and west cities and the north wing of the city.

According to He Changying's assumption.

From the northwest corner of Dongluo City to the southeast corner of the North Wing City, and from the northeast corner of Xiluo City to the southwest corner of the North Wing City, these two sides are 430 meters long, 1 meter thick, and 1.5 meters high.

From the southwest corner of Dongluo City to the southeast corner of Xiluo City, this side is 500 meters long, 1 meter thick, and 1.5 meters high.

In order to complete this arduous project as soon as possible, 8,500 soldiers in the three cities carried out high-intensity construction in four shifts.

The abnormality of the three castles outside the gate was immediately discovered by the Japanese army in the north, and Yamaguchi Sotomi soon appeared at the front of the position of the three major teams of the 16th Wing of the Japanese army.

From this vantage point, the view is just right to see the gap between the three cities.

"These idiots want to build the city walls, do they think the Imperial soldiers will watch them build them?"

Sakurai Kuzaburo's face was filled with a hint of mockery and joy, these busy Qing soldiers were all natural targets!

Yamaguchi Suchen's face was serious, and the telegram order given to him by the base camp was not to take the initiative to attack the Qing army without authorization, and set up a camp to wait for the commander of Yama County to lead the main force of the First Army to come.

Give the Hiroshima base camp a call and see what they say?

Thinking so, Yamaguchi Suchen was about to give an order, when he suddenly heard the division chief of staff next to him, Okubo Toshisada, say, "Why don't you let them repair?" ”

Seeing that the eyes of the generals looked over in surprise, Okubo Risada smiled and asked with a sympathetic smile: "I've been thinking about it for the past few days, why do you have to break through the three cities outside the pass first?" It's not 200 years ago, and it doesn't seem to be a problem at all whether it's climbing the Great Wall with a ladder or blasting a section of the wall with explosives. ”

Yamaguchi Suchen's eyes lit up, and he no longer looked at the three cities outside the Guanwai that were in full swing, and turned his gaze to the winding Great Wall.

On January 12, the three cities outside the gate repaired the chest cavity for a day, but the Japanese troops on the opposite side turned a blind eye and did not make a trace of movement.

That night, 2000 soldiers continued to sweat on the torch-lit construction site.

The Japanese positions on the opposite side were still quiet enough.

So, He Changying felt that she understood.

Soon, Nie Shicheng, who had just returned from Shimen Village, came to this construction site.

With the generals behind his back, He Changying quietly said his three guesses cryptically, but He Changying estimated that Nie Shicheng was not in a rut.

With such a garbage court on the stall, all the generals have their own thoughts and scattered sand, and no one can do anything.

Nie Shicheng was silent for a long time, and asked He Changying for a cigarette to light it, and in the light of the fireworks, the two went up to the south wall of the North Wing City alone.

The starlight above his head is shining, like a diamond in the sky.

"The Hunan and Chu reinforcements, the six battalions and three outposts of the Wuwei Army of Wei Guangtao, the old domain of Zuo Zongtang, will arrive at Jinmen tomorrow; Li Guangjiu's command of the fifth battalion of the Lao Xiang Army will also arrive on these two days; The two departments have a total of more than 6,000 people. ”

Nie Shicheng looked at He Changying and said: "There are also the 10th battalion of the Fushou Army of Chen Xiang, the former division of Zeng Guoquan, Liu Shuyuan led the 6th battalion of his own soldiers, Wu Yuankai led the 4th battalion of the Chu Army Artillery, and Tan Biaozhong led the 1st battalion of the escort army; I filled these fifteen or six thousand people in this Huanxi Ridge, Guancheng, Jiaoshan, Changshou Mountain, and Nine Gates, plus the original more than 9,000 troops, these 20,000 or 30,000 people, can they always be stopped? ”

"I don't ask for anything else, as long as you can defend the three cities outside the gate!"

This is what Nie Shicheng said when he was leaving, looking at his slightly carrying back, He Changying didn't believe that Nie Shicheng didn't understand the truth that a group of sheep can't win a hungry wolf.

What's more, it's still a pack of hungry wolves!

But Nie Shicheng had no other way, he could only hope that the Japanese army could still fight in a straightforward way like they did in Korea and Liaodong.

First hit the three cities outside the customs, and then break the mountain customs.

In that case, Nie Shicheng pointed to the three cities outside the Guanwai, which was the last elite of Beiyang, so that he could die with the Japanese army.

Other than that, there seems to be no other way!