The troops of the independent battalion Xiling soon withdrew from the pockets of the Japanese troops on three sides, and fought and retreated towards the mountains to the west.

"Bang, bang, bang—"

"Yaga! Pursuit! ”

"Don't let the Qing army escape!"

In the snowy mountains and forests on the West Ridge, gunfire and shouting were everywhere, rushing in the direction of the retreat of the independent battalion.

"Fight while retreating, cover each other; Speed up! ”

"Bang, bang—"

Shi Weiyuan and Zhu Yanyu led more than forty soldiers of the independent battalion, fighting and retreating, while shouting for the team to retreat as soon as possible and get out of the battle.

However, in the face of the Japanese army in hot pursuit, Feng Baohua's platoon, with the wounded and fallen comrades, could not move fast at all in the snowy mountains and forests.

I had to retreat while fighting a fierce jungle battle with the Japanese troops rushing from both sides in the mountains and forests.

"Feng Baohua, your platoon continues to retreat westward, Zhu Yanyu and Qi Dayu cover and lead the Japanese army south;"

Shi Weicheng shouted with red eyes: "Brothers, sooner or later people are dead, the difference is whether to lie in bed and wait for death, or to be a hero who everyone gives a thumbs up, and die for the country and the family!" Whether it's a hero or a bad seed, it depends on today! ”

"Deputy Battalion Commander Shi, just take a look!"

"It's a big deal, I'm still a good man eighteen years later!"

"What is the commander-in-chief of the old lady and brother and sister in the house, I'm afraid that he is a bird!"

"Kill the Japanese people!"

With Shi Weiyuan's roar, the men of the anti-Japanese army in the jungle also shouted at the top of their voices, and the Mauser gun in his hand exploded.

This bloody jungle chase battle became more intense.

Thirty miles south of the Great Wall at the Nine Gates.

Shimen Village.

After a two-hour rapid march, the 12th Wing led by Tachimi Shangwen arrived at the south exit mountain pass of the Shimenzhai Post Road at 10:30.

On the thirty-mile journey from Jiumen to Shimenzhai, when four or five miles in front, the pursuing Japanese army continued to capture a large number of Qing prisoners.

- The ending is all killed on the spot.

When I arrived at the mountain road post road in the back twenty-five miles, there was no trace of the Qing army.

At this time, the north gate of Shimen Village was wide open, and there was an intermittent sound of cannons inside, as well as the faint shouts of children.

"The Qing army actually no longer set up defenses here, it really deserves to be destroyed!"

Immediately saw Shangwen standing by the river, looking up at the cliffs on the left and right sides of the mountain pass.

On the top of the cliff nearly 200 meters long and 100 meters high, there are also two abandoned stone forts, but there is no trace of the Qing army.

And a hundred meters in front of the mountain pass, there is the stone river that has been frozen up.

On the river, a small wooden bridge was erected with mountain stone as pier and rolling wood as plank, leading to the north gate of Shimenzhai on the opposite side.

The 300-meter-long north city wall of Shimen Village was built on the south bank of the Shihe River with a width of more than 450 meters, which just blocked the road out of the mountain of this post road.

"Commander, this frozen stone river leads all the way to Shanhaiguan, and the reinforcements of the Qing army will definitely not think that the imperial army will march from the river; It was just right to break through the defenders south of the Great Wall at Horn Mountain and blow up the Great Wall in one fell swoop. ”

Fukushima Yasumasa was excited, this 10,000-mile Xiongguan, it was so easy to break through.

"Breaking the Great Wall of Shanhaiguan is always an easy thing, the key is to keep them and annihilate them all; Our target is not Shanhaiguan, but Yongping Mansion in the back! ”

Li Jian Shangwen said proudly: "Now all we have to do is to set up an ambush here and annihilate the reinforcements of the Qing army!" ”

"Da, da, da-"

Wu Fengzhu, the governor of Hubei, and Chen Fenglou, the chief soldier of Xuzhou Town, led six battalions of 1,400 cavalry, and finally arrived at Shimen Village at 11 o'clock at noon after gathering at Shanhaiguan.

Wu Fengzhu's three battalions of 1,000 Eyong infantry were responsible for transporting more than 2,000 military tent rations, and they were also in the camp office in Zhou Fu, Yongping Prefecture, carrying materials and loading vehicles.

"Smack, smack—"

Listening to the intermittent sound of firecrackers in the stone gate where the south gate was greatly open, Wu Fengzhu and Chen Fenglou looked at each other and smiled.

"Even if you really lose the Nine Gates, with the dangerous terrain of Shimen Village, which is not open for thousands of people, you can easily block the mountain post road in Shimen Village, and trap them alive!"

Chen Fenglou rode on the war horse, pointed to the post road pass in the north and said: "Put two hundred soldiers on each side, and hold even the Mauser fast gun in hand, even thousands of troops and horses can't rush out; What's more, there is also the head-on Shimen Village! ”

"Then I will leave two battalions of infantry and hold this mountain pass, so that nothing will be lost; Haha-"

Wu Fengzhu raised his horsewhip, pointed to the south gate of Shimen Village in front of him, and ordered loudly: "The team will not stop for a moment when entering the village, go straight out of the north gate, and enter the post road to the nine gates!" ”

"Da, da, da-"

Horses' hooves knock on the bluestone street of Shimen Village, from the south gate to the north gate is a straight road four meters wide and nearly two hundred meters long, marching in the empty streets and alleys, you can directly see the frozen stone river and wooden bridge outside the open north gate.

"Da, da, da-"

The cavalrymen lined up in a column and drove their horses down the streets.

The doors of every house along the street are closed, but the door painting in front of the door, the crumbs of firecrackers on the ground, the occasional sound of one or two firecrackers behind the streets, the faint green smoke floating out of the chimney, and the smell of gunpowder in the air.

All of this shows that this village is not an empty city, but the people have always been afraid of the soldiers, and they have closed the doors and windows and hid in the house.

"It smells so good!"

Yang Zhongtang, the commander of the cavalry camp, smelled the smell of meat in the air with a pointed nose, and drooled greedily.

"This village is so evil, I feel like the cold hairs on my back are blowing up!"

Yang Zhongsong, the commander of the cavalry battalion, looked up at the sun hanging high above his head, felt no trace of heat, and shivered heavily.

"I just don't dare to come out, I don't believe that you kick open the door of a house with your horse's hooves, and keep a room of people; Paralysis, waiting for us to leave, they will eat meat and drink wine and have a feast. ”

Yang Zhongtang swallowed a mouthful of saliva, it wasn't because of the strict military orders, he really wanted to drink a full meal before leaving.

"Smack!"

At this time, a crisp cannon sound was heard from behind the house on the left side of the street.

"Hehe, this kid is so bold that he dares to shoot a cannon? The adults in the house don't care, since they are afraid of our soldiers, they dare to provoke them? Paralysis! ”

Yang Zhongtang was unhappy with a national scolding.

Yang Zhongsong listened to his cousin's complaints, and suddenly 'groaned' in his heart for no reason, and always felt that he seemed to have missed something?

He remembered what he had seen before, a puddle of congealed blood on the bluestone slabs in the alley.

At that time, he didn't think much about it, just thinking about killing pigs and chickens during the New Year,——

"Yu—"

Yang Zhongsong's face changed color slightly, he pulled the reins of the horse with his right hand, clamped the horse's belly with his legs, and manipulated the war horse that had followed him for four years to run out of the column, raising his hooves and kicking open the door of a house on the side of the street.

"Bang dang!"

As the door of the house was kicked open by the hooves of the war horse, Yang Zhongsong's pupils outside the door shrank suddenly.

In his eyes, there were five or six men and women lying in the room, all of them staring with frightened faces, and the ground was full of scarlet blood.

"There is an ambush, there is an ambush!"

Yang Zhongsong roared in horror.

"Attack, attack!"

"Bang, bang, bang—"

Suddenly, from the forks in the streets and alleys, countless Japanese soldiers rushed out, shouting and raising their guns to shoot.