Standing on the edge of the four-hundred-meter lake, he held a telescope to observe the situation of the water city at the nine gates on the opposite side, as well as the Great Wall of the two mountain ranges in the north and south.

This water city is very cleverly built, with the city tower and the two wings of the four or five hundred meters of the ridge city wall, firmly protect this pass, and then look at the north and south sides, is a steep and unclimbable cliff.

On the top of the Great Wall on a cliff in the south, there are more than a dozen Qing soldiers, among the rows of colored flags, there is a brocade silk with the word "Lu" written on it, which is particularly conspicuous.

Behind the bunting, a thick cloud of smoke was rising.

Seeing Shang Wen look at the telescope at the Nine Gates of the Water City Tower again, looking at the 'bang' explosion of the guns above the Water City, the bird system, and the four century-old bronze antique cannons that spit out long tongues of fire from time to time, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a contemptuous smile.

"Commander, the troops have made a large number of wooden ladders, which can immediately attack the city."

The 2nd Brigade of the 12th Wing of Handa Takashi Shaozo, which was responsible for the attack on the Great Wall of the Mountains on the north flank of the Nine Gates, rushed over to ask for orders after urging the soldiers to make more than 20 wooden ladders.

Standing beside Tachimi Nafumi, the military staff officer Fukushima Yasumasa, the brigade adjutant staff officer Hayashi Taro Shaosa, and the 12th wing commander Tomoyasu Yenobu Nakasa, looked at Tachimi Naofumi and waited for him to give the order for a general attack.

Immediately saw that Shangwen did not hesitate to veto the invitation of Takashi Handa, and said resolutely: "Continue to make a large number of them, and the rest of the soldiers will rest in place and wait for dinner; Those who are afraid of bullets to dodge and fall backwards and flee will be shot on the spot! ”

Looking at the group of officers around him with a confused face, he immediately saw Shang Wen smile and said conceitedly: "You must think again, since the reinforcements of the Qing army must be coming in the brigade, why don't the imperial army occupy the Nine Gates in one go?" ”

"Hey! Commander, please. ”

Lin Taro has been following Tachimi Shangwen for more than a year, so he naturally knows the 'itch' point of his brigade commander, and he really can't figure it out and wants to know.

"Open the map."

Immediately saw Shangwen pick up a branch and pointed to the water city at the nine gates: "This is the nine gates, this is the Shanhaiguan, this is the Yongping Mansion, this is the Shimen Village; Breaking through the nine gates is only the first level of the flank entry, and the key stone gate village thirty miles behind is the last barrier to break through! ”

Lijian Shangwen said in a deep voice: "If the imperial army is exhausted when it occupies the Nine Gates and can only suspend the attack, then the retreating Qing army at the Nine Gates will join the reinforcements of Shanhaiguan and the heavy army in Shimen Village; This surprise attack on the flank is likely to turn into a long tug-of-war. ”

"Commander, do you mean that after breaking through the Nine Gates, continue to move forward and directly capture Shimen Village?"

You'an Yeyan looked excited.

"Whoa—"

A sharp cannonball screamed by the eardrums of the generals, and although the corners of everyone's eyes jumped, they all stood on the edge of the lake and did not move at all.

"Boom!"

The shell went over the heads of the generals and landed on the surface of the near-shore lake more than 60 meters behind, causing shrapnel and ice chips to fly all over the sky.

"A blind man rides a blind horse! - When you have a full meal, you will have the strength to chase the enemy; ”

Immediately saw Shang Wen coldly disdain the artillery fire of the Qing army, then took out his pocket watch and glanced at it, and ordered: "Now at 7:06, notify all departments, at eight o'clock, launch a general attack." ”

"Hey!"

Knowing the brigade commander's battle plan, a group of Japanese soldiers were in high spirits and shouted in response.

"Bang, bang, bang—"

On the Great Wall, the Qing army's shooting continued violently, and from time to time there were still unlucky Japanese soldiers who were shot and fell to the ground, but the cheers of the Qing army had gradually subsided.

The contemptuous attitude of the Japanese army in ignoring the indifference and methodical cooking, logging, and building ladders deeply frustrated the joy of the Qing army on the Great Wall.

And they knew that it was impossible for the Japanese army to keep the ink on the ground, and after dinner, when they built a wooden ladder, it was time for them to launch a general attack.

"Yao Xiaoqi, you go to the mountain of the Lu army to take a look, why haven't the reinforcements come yet? The rest of the brothers, take turns to eat, and continue to kill these beasts! ”

Mei Dongyi looked at the beacon tower of the Great Wall on the top of a cliff in the south, and the warning wolf smoke was burning on it, soaring into the sky.

And farther south of the mountain, there are also several alarm wolf smoke, which are rising into the sky.

At 7:55, Yao Xiaoqi, a descendant of Mei Dongyi's township party, climbed up the cone mountain ridge with a tired pant like an ox, sat on the ground with his buttocks, and roared breathlessly: "The military gate, the military gate asks, you, what, where are the soldiers?" ”

"You mean that one of the soldiers you Lu Yong sent?"

Huang Mengshan, the sentinel commander stationed at the Cone Mountain Range, pointed to a hill in the southeast Wanshou Mountain and said:

"Well, I have been climbing intermittently since the middle of the night last night, if it goes well, it is estimated that I will be able to climb to the main peak of the Great Wall of Jiaoshan in three days; However, it is estimated that these brothers were not tired to death at that time, and they had to shed a layer of skin alive. ”

Yao Xiaoqi was dumbfounded when he heard this, jumped up and gasped for breath, and looked carefully in the direction pointed by Huang Mengshan.

It took a long time to be surprised to see that a few small red dots were climbing a steep Great Wall.

"Wangshan runs a dead horse, that's the truth; General Mei's order, we are humble and dare not talk much, but the reinforcements still have to count on the side of Shimen Village, although the mountain roads are rugged, but they are all smooth post roads. ”

Huang Mengshan said speechlessly: "It is estimated that the Shanhaiguan side should send troops now, even if our army has a letter and wants reinforcements, we have to go down the mountain and go to Shimen Village; Otherwise, if you climb the Great Wall, let alone fight, you will be exhausted to death. ”

Both Mei Dongyi and Liu Kunyi made the one-sided mistake of subjectivism at this time, only seeing the Great Wall from Jiaoshan to Jiumen similar to a straight line, and ignoring its ups and downs.

You must know that climbing a small Huanxi Ridge before made the Qing army half dead tired, and the general Tao Weiquan was even more because he refused to climb the mountain, and was sent back to the West by a high-explosive bomb by the Japanese army, 'heroic righteousness'.

Only when Lu Dongjun climbed the Great Wall in practice did he understand the hardships inside.

"Bitter, bitter!"

Seeing this scene, Yao Xiaoqi stomped his feet again and again, and he couldn't cry or laugh.

"Tick-tock-"

Suddenly, the loud sound of the military horn sounded at the bottom of the peak, and everyone on the peak shut up and looked at the bottom of the peak in unison.

"The Japanese have attacked!"

With the exclamation of the Ludong Qing army on the beacon tower, outside the Great Wall at the Nine Gates, nearly 3,000 Japanese troops were swinging on the ice surface of the lake, on the slopes on both sides, carrying wooden ladders and rifles, shouting wildly and rushing towards the Great Wall 400 meters to the west.

"Hit, boys, give me a hard beating!"

Mei Dongyi, who was standing on the top of the city tower, looked at the Japanese soldiers rushing from 400 meters away, felt his scalp tingle, his heart was beating violently, and he yelled with a blood-red old face: "Kill this group of beasts!" ”

"Kill these brutes!"

There was a roar on the Great Wall, but looking at the brave flow of Japanese soldiers, the voice of the shouting was obviously much weaker.

"The first squadron covers the shooting, and the second and third squadrons go to the city wall!"

"The sappers immediately blast the gates of the Water City and blow it up!"

"Sixteen and seventeen squadrons attack and cover, and eighteen squadrons set up ladders to go up the city wall!"

The attacking Japanese troops soon rushed to the 150-meter firing line outside the Great Wall, and some of the Japanese soldiers continued to run wildly with ladders, and some of the Japanese soldiers knelt on one knee and aimed their guns at the city wall.