"What if you need to change your artillery positions, or retreat?"

He Changying stretched out his hand and stroked the smooth satin-like cold body of a cannon, looked at Song Zhanbiao and said, "You go to Jinmen again, or go to the nearest Yongping Mansion to hire mules and horses and carts!" ”

"The military gate, the position is in the people, and the position is dead!"

Song Zhanbiao said with a very proud face, but none of the anti-Japanese soldiers cheered for him, but they all looked stupid and slanted at him in the dark night.

In particular, you are not an infantry defending the city, and you are especially good at artillery.

Don't move your positions around and hide your bearings, seek the best shelling points, and take root here to wait for bombing?

Idiot!

"Poof—"

Although it was night, the bright and sparkling eyes of everyone in the second quarter of the moon still hurt Song Zhanbiao, and he was afraid of the prestige of the anti-Japanese army and He Changying's official authority, so he just let out a long whistle fart in anger to express his dissatisfaction.

This fart is smelly enough, even He Changying couldn't help but retreat, and his mind remembered the small ripples in Xiaoman in Jinmen and Shanxian like a flash.

"Are you interested in taking your camp head to the three cities outside the Guanwai to have a look; Look at how the Japanese artillery was placed? ”

He Changying looked at the nine-colored pennant that was planted all over the hilltop position, and now in the three cities outside the Guan, in addition to the red flag of the anti-Japanese army standing in the northern wing of the city, there are only two Qing land dragon flags standing in the east and west Luo cities.

Unlike the armies on the gates, from the old dragon head, to Huanxiling, to the main city of Shanhaiguan, the Great Wall of Jiaoshan, and all the way to the Great Wall of Jiumen, the road is full of colorful silk flags.

He Changying estimated that it was more than enough to make the belly pockets of 100,000 innocent girls in the Qing Dynasty.

"What a waste!"

He Changying retracted her gaze and saw Song Zhanbiao with a surprised face, so she asked with a smile, "Don't you want to?" ”

"Junmen, when our artillery battalion Nie Junmen went to Jizhou, he explained that he was temporarily under the command of General Xia; However, the war belongs to Liu Duxian, who is in the Guannai, and he is afraid that he will not let us pull the cannon out. ”

Song Zhanbiao replied cautiously.

"Oh, I didn't know there was anything else to say? That's better, I'll go and talk to Xia Guerrilla that your artillery battalion and the soldiers in the three cities will conduct a short adjustment of defense, and go to see how the Japanese artillery shoots accurately. ”

He Changying knew this time that this artillery battalion actually belonged to Xia Qingyun's temporary command, and he originally wanted to secretly play a side ball, but now it seems that as long as Xia Qingyun has no problem there, he will directly change the defense of these three hundred artillerymen, and Liu Kunyi is also helpless.

Song Zhanbiao hesitated a little, He Changying is not Nie Shicheng, it is not worth him to take his brothers out of the customs to fight, but this matter is that his arms can't reach his thighs, if Xia Qingyun agrees, he really can't disobey.

And he didn't dare to complain to Liu Kun, once that happened, it would be tantamount to him betraying Nie Shicheng and being spurned by the entire Beiyang.

Not to mention that he Song Zhanbiao is not such a white-eyed wolf, even if he turns his face and doesn't recognize people, he offends this He Changying, who even Liu Kunyi dares to beat, and in the future, in the gap between the two behemoths, it is estimated that he will end miserably.

"Junmen, according to Liu Duxian's order, we have to blow up the sea every day, and we have replaced ordinary soldiers, I'm afraid-"

The words were not finished, but the meaning of the glossy prevarication in it was already very obvious.

After Nie Shicheng took over the Shanhaiguan defense area, he saw that the ice in the Laolongtou Sea was getting thicker, so he ordered the ice to be broken to prevent the Japanese army from bypassing the sea and entering the pass.

And sent a large number of troops to guard along the line.

In the beginning, the soldiers pecked the ice nests with a pickaxe in a straight line, and then loaded them into explosives packs to blast them, and then began to complete the shelling, with one round of shelling in the morning and one in the evening.

At present, the ice in the Laolongtou Sea area, which is six or seven miles wide, has been bombarded by artillery, and there are ice mounds that are three or four meters high and slippery without leaving their hands, and the bottom is often as thin as a cracker.

If the Japanese army really took a detour from anywhere, it is estimated that if a cannonball fell down, a large area of Japanese army would have to be reclaimed as ice sculptures.

"This is not a problem, not to mention the sentry artillery of Luo Huafei of Dagu Fort, the three cities outside my border have just incorporated 300 Lushun's coastal defense artillery; Xiao Ligang, you lead a group of soldiers out of the city immediately, and Liu Mingyang will arrange to receive the artillery of that battalion. ”

"Yes!"

Xiao Ligang stood straight and saluted and strode down the fort position.

Xiao Ligang, the former head of the Huang Jianxing Artillery Battalion of the Gongwei Army who came from Lushun, was originally a child of a poor family, but after coming into contact with the propaganda team of the Anti-Japanese Army, his thinking changed greatly, and he actively joined the 'Weiying Society', and this time he was also selected as a backbone officer.

It's really bitter!

Song Zhanbiao's face was bitter, it was the New Year, it was coarse tea and light rice, and it was not paid military salary.

Who wants to go to the gate and die?

However, before the huge difference in the rank of the official hat, he didn't dare to make a sound.

"I have to work with Brother Li for this."

He Changying said to Li Jingfang with a smile.

"It shouldn't be a problem, I've met Mr. Xia a few times, and I'm quite familiar with it."

Li Jingfang has his own pride, as the eldest son of Li Hongzhang, who single-handedly founded Beiyang, if he can't even do this little thing, he can directly find a piece of tofu and die head-on.

He Changying has no friendship with Xia Qingyun, although now the three cities are united, and the staff department composed of Angus is unified and coordinated.

However, the subordinate relationship of the various armies in private is still divided into four parts: He Changying, Jia Qisheng, Wu Yijun, and Xu Bangdao.

Especially Nie Shicheng's 2nd Battalion Luyu Defense Army, Jia Qisheng's 2nd Battalion Sheng Army, 1st Battalion Renzi Army, and Jia Qisheng's newly compiled 1st Battalion 'Shengzi Army'.

Although he belongs to the same Beiyang lineage, He Changying also provides military salaries, grain and grass, and the eldest son of the 'boss' is still messing with He Changying.

Jia Qisheng and Xia Qingyun pinched their noses and endured the dream talk of the soldiers listening to idle books like "The Scream" and listening to the lecturers of the anti-Japanese army talking about "loyalty to the monarch and patriotism", "officials and landlords who break the law and are guilty of the same crime as the common people", and "let everyone be fed and clothed, and everyone can enjoy happiness".

However, the right to appoint and dismiss officers, enforce military law, and distribute military salaries, grain, and grass logistics is still firmly in the hands of Xia Qingyun and Jia Qisheng.

That is, Xu Bangdao of Xiluo City, although he has the right to appoint and dismiss the officers of the 4th Battalion Gongwei Army, but against the ideological infiltration of the Japanese army, not only is he completely blind, but he has also taken the initiative to propose that the military judges, clerks, enter the Gongwei Army.

Nie Shicheng's 2nd battalion of Gubeikou soldiers in Xiluo City, although they belong to Xia Qingyun's division, but Xia Qingyun is stationed in Dongluo City after all, and the battalion officers of Xiluo City, Nie Pengcheng and Shen Zengjia, are only the battalion commanders of Liupin.

Moreover, Gubeikou is bitter and lonely, it is better to say that he is being an official than to be exiled and tortured, and the two are from poor backgrounds, dealing with Mongolians all the year round, and they have developed the boldness and uprightness of Mongolian men and not playing scheming.

Therefore, for the preacher's lecture, the two people who were sent to the bitter cold land in disguise listened to it with great interest, and often drew inferences from one another to ask a lot of truths that the preacher was afraid to say.

He Changying talked to Li Jingfang for a few words, and said to Song Zhanbiao, who had an unfortunate face: "I won't let you stay often, after two attacks, I will let you come back; From leaving the customs to returning to the customs, including food and shelter, seven silver dollars a month, and the final settlement will be given to you on a daily basis.