On January 5 of the Western calendar, Nie Shicheng, the governor of Zhili, after arranging the defense of Jinmen. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

With the 2,000 Lu Yong (salt merchant Wang Yizhai, please donate to recruit new recruits), as well as two battalions of training troops and a sentry artillery from the garrison Gubeikou, he hurriedly arrived at Shanhaiguan with the veteran general of the Huai Army and the commander Mei Dongyi.

Nie Shicheng immediately convened the generals to discuss the military situation.

At the meeting, Nie Shicheng, who was an excellent general, saw at a glance the weakness of the troops of the three cities outside the Guanwai.

Jia Qisheng's department of 1,500 people, Xu Bang's Daoist department and He Changying's battalion totaled 1,900 people, guarding Dongluo City and Xiluo City with a length and width of 400 meters.

He Changying's 1,700 people guarded the north wing of the city with a length of 400 meters and a width of 200 meters.

If the Japanese choose to concentrate their forces to attack one city, pointing at the three cities outside the Guan, they will definitely lose one or the other, and it will be easy to lose the city gate.

Two hundred and fifty years ago, when Wu Sangui of the Ming Dynasty guarded Shanhaiguan, there were walls connecting the Great Wall in the east and west of Luocheng, just like the two arms stretched out by Shanhaiguan to protect the city.

The north wing city, which is independent at the front, is the awl head of the front flood distribution of the city.

Two hundred and fifty years have passed, and the two city walls have long been demolished cleanly, and there is no trace of the original ones as the roof bricks of the rows of houses in the city.

If the two city walls are still the same, then Nie Shicheng will be heavily deployed in the northern wing of the city, and then the rest of the army will flow back and forth between the East and West Luo City, the main city of Guannei, Huanxi Ridge, and Jiaoshan to resist the enemy.

Now the three cities outside the pass have become three lonely cities, which one of them has to be defended, and the loss of any of them will make the Japanese use it as a stronghold, continue to deepen the results of the war, and attack the other two cities.

"Xia Qingyun, you led two battalions of the Luyu Defense Army into Dongluo City, and General Jia was temporarily under the command; Nie Pengcheng, Shen Zengjia, your two battalions are stationed in Xiluo City, and they are temporarily commanded by General Xu; General He, your battalion in Xiluo City will be transferred back to the northern wing city to defend. ”

Nie Shicheng continued to arrange it like this, and the troops of the three cities outside the gate reached more than 2,300 people, and in his opinion, in the face of the concentrated attack of the Japanese people, they should be able to barely support it.

The 1,000 Luyu Defense Army brought back by Nie Shicheng from outside the Guan, and the two battalions of training troops transferred from Gubeikou were all first-class Western Mauser fast guns and Beiyang Bureau Seiko's fast guns.

It can be said that the three cities outside the Guanguan have concentrated nearly half of the troops in the Shanhaiguan Defense Area, and they are all real elite veterans, which are the core of the defense of Shanhaiguan.

The rest of the two battalions of flag soldiers in Baiji in the rear, that is, the businessmen who usually bully and bully the past, the people are still successful.

Looking at those flag soldiers, everyone has a cigarette gun pinned to their waists, and it is simply a joke to say that they are fighting.

Wang Liansan's six battalions, the veterans of the third battalion were barely able to do anything, and they were holding old single-shot rifles that had been eliminated by the Beiyang armies in the past and were given to Lu Dong by Zhongtang.

However, he was a veteran of the three battalions, one battalion was placed on the Great Wall at the Nine Gates in the north of Changshou Mountain, two battalions were placed on the Shimenzhai Great Wall at the back, and the remaining three battalions of recruits were used to guard Jiaoshan.

Nie Shicheng was still very satisfied with this arrangement of Jia Qisheng, a veteran of the Sheng Army, and if the Japanese army could not break through the Shanhai Pass for a long time, it was likely to choose a detour to break through.

And the Great Wall of Nine Gates, the Great Wall of Shimenzhai, is the best of the last days, and it seems to be the only choice.

Now two hundred miles away at Gubeikou, the army is empty, and only one battalion is guarding it.

However, if the Japanese soldiers have the courage to climb over the mountains and mountains, it is estimated that they will reach Gubeikou, not only will the spring of next year begin, go to a hundred Japanese soldiers, climb the mountains and cliffs in this ice and snow, and survive thirty, they are all considered to be capable.

As for Lian Shun's two battalions of recruits, Tang Renlian's three battalions of the Thunder Army, and Mei Dongyi's 2,000 Lu Yong, not only are they all recruits, but they also lack a lot of guns, and they basically don't have much combat power.

The three cities outside the Guanwai, a total of 7,100 people, 7,100 good guns, seven or eight out of ten are Beiyang veterans for many years.

In the various places of Guannai, a total of 8,500 people, nearly 4,500 rifles of various types, the rest are armed with guns, birds, and even bows and arrows, long hair, and large blades.

Most of them were new soldiers, and among the 3,000 veterans, there were 300 Fengjun who fled from Pyongyang and 1,000 smoke flag soldiers.

"Generals, whether Shanhaiguan can be defended depends on the three cities outside your pass; Food, ammunition, I have enough, what else do you need, just ask me for a slip and go to Lord Zhou to get it. ”

Nie Shicheng looked at He Changying and the others sincerely, his eyes were full of ardent hope.

He Changying was a little surprised by Nie Shicheng's approach, and thought about it again, as a famous general in the dark world in the late Qing Dynasty, he should naturally have his extraordinary.

Before, He Changying had always had a headache and had too few troops, complaining that Tang Renlian was too selfish and lacked courage and determination.

Now that Nie Shicheng is here, and when he comes up, he has added 2,000 elite soldiers to the three cities outside the Guanwai, and He Changying can't help but be impressed.

He silently calculated in his heart, as long as he could hold this first period of time, he could withstand the attack of the Japanese 3rd Brigade and Heavy Artillery Wing.

Reinforcements from all over the country are coming in the future, as well as a large number of firearms and ammunition from the Western Beiyang Bureau, this Shanhaiguan defensive battle seems to be really good to fight.

After the meeting that day, Nie Shicheng began to inspect the various defensive positions one by one, except for the Great Wall of the Nine Gates and Shimen Village, which were too far away, the rest of Nie Shicheng walked to them one by one.

Finally, when Nie Shicheng came to the North Wing City, night had already fallen.

"Anzhi, you are right to remove the cannons, the red-coated cannons are better to bombard at a close distance, and the artillery of the Japanese will definitely concentrate their artillery to defeat these cannons first; However, the Tang Army's collection of artillery is not completely useless,-"

Nie Shicheng had already talked to his staff Feng Guozhang about this matter before: "Guancheng is two miles away from the North Wing City, and the range of our old cannons is about three; Before coming to Shanhaiguan, I specially consulted the German military attaché that the Krupp Artillery Field sold the fortress guns to the Japanese with an effective firing range of seven miles, which could cover the northern part of the eastern and western cities. ”

Hearing Nie Shicheng say this, He Changying couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and even Li Jingfang, who was accompanying him, laughed in surprise.

"I really hadn't thought about this before."

He Changying admitted honestly.

"It's not that you haven't thought about it, but you have an opinion about them, and you don't think that they will take the initiative to fight with you, so in An Zhiyou's heart, naturally you haven't considered this possibility."

Nie Shicheng hit the nail on the head and said, "An Zhi, you still don't believe them." ”

He Changying was silent, and those veterans in Guancheng hid far away one by one.

Pushing himself and Xu Bangdao and Jia Qisheng out, he didn't scold them for making girls, he was already very tolerant.

How is it possible to trust them?

"It's okay, as long as you can trust me; I can hold the emperor's Shang Fang sword, there are really people who don't listen to orders, greedy for life and afraid of death, I really dare to sacrifice the king's sword to behead him. ”

In Nie Shicheng's voice, there was no hint of joke.

In the past few months, he has been defeated all the way, and Nie Shicheng has almost been exhausted by his own inner torture.

On the thousand-mile journey from Fengtian to Shanhaiguan, he has been thinking repeatedly about why he occupies the time, location, and people.

The guns and cannons in their hands are also more advanced than those of the Japanese, and the army is not less than that of the Japanese.

Why did they lose?

And it's a complete defeat!