It was not until close to noon, after the last outpost of the Qing army on the left flank of Iktanga disappeared into the reckless mountains on the left bank of the Danghe River, that Song Qing, the assistant of the Beiyang military affairs who had been surveying the terrain in the lower reaches of the Yalu River for the past two days, returned to Jiulian City. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

At this point, the machinery of the Beiyang armies fighting against Japan on the banks of the Yalu River can be regarded as really starting to operate.

At noon on the same day, Song Qing held a separate banquet for Liu Shengxiu and Nie Shicheng to solicit and discuss the issue of the defense area.

In the afternoon, after a short nap, Song Qing gathered all the generals of the Beiyang army and began to divide their respective defense areas.

"The imperial court has a will, and our Beiyang and Iketanga are divided into two armies, the left and right; The left wing takes Changdian City as the main camp, and the army is trained in Qizi, and the army is trained in Jilin by the Wuheng Front, which is divided into Anping River Estuary, Gulouzi and Pushi River Estuary; The town border army, under the direct command of Yiketanga, was divided into the Dongyang River Estuary and the Suxun River Estuary. ”

Song Qing drove away the eye-catching fly of Iktanga, and felt that his whole body was refreshed, and there was not a single pore that was not comforting.

He laughed and said: "Let's talk about our defense area, as long as our brothers work together, this Yalu River is an impregnable wall, let him come over, he will definitely return!" ”

"I am willing to listen to the army!"

All the generals of Beiyang agreed in unison, and the sound shook the house.

"Good, good, good!"

Seeing that the military heart was available, Song Qing suddenly slapped his thigh with joy.

Song Qing shook his head and proudly lit a dry tobacco pouch, comfortably swallowed two mouthfuls of clouds, saw He Changying's itchy mouth, and immediately took out his cigarettes.

After coming to Jiawu for such a long time, He Changying's first skill was finally practiced.

Seeing that He Changying, a hairless little rabbit cub with a hairless mouth, was also swallowing clouds and spitting fog, the admirals and lieutenants in the room took cigarette pouches and cigarettes.

Liu Daguan even took out his cigarette gun, and smoked it beautifully under the service of the orderlies with fine skin and tender meat.

For a while, the Beiyang Military Affairs Conference, which should have been serious and iron-blooded, suddenly became a smokeground for smokers, and the smoke was filled.

In it there were only three generals who did not smoke.

Wu Weiyang, Jiang Zikang, Nie Shicheng.

As a seventy-four-year-old man, three years older than Li Hongzhang, even Song Qing still has a lot of ambitions, but after all, time is not forgiving.

Admiral Song, who has been peaceful for decades and has always developed a good habit of taking a lunch break, couldn't help but feel sleepy as soon as he reached this point.

However, state affairs are important, so as soon as Song Qing came to this point these days, he had to smoke cigarette pouch by cigarette bag to relieve his difficulties.

There was a quiet chatter in the room, and when the crowd had enough of smoking, Song Qingcai put down the cigarette pouch in his hand, yawned deeply, and prepared to continue the meeting.

"Brothers, do you think it's okay for me to arrange it like this? The old man is going to use Weizigou as the camp of the Chinese army, and I will lead my own troops to be stationed here; Liu Junmen was stationed in Jiuliancheng, Nie General Commander led the Luyu Defense Army, stationed in the area from Hushan to Liziyuan, Jingshan was stationed in the area from Yushugou to the right bank of the Aihe River, Song Desheng was stationed in the area from Weizigou to the right bank of the Aihe River, and General Lv and Sun General Soldiers led the Sheng Army to garrison the Shahezi area. ”

Because Song Qing had already discussed with Liu Shengxiu and Nie Shicheng before, the Ming Army, the Yi Army, the Luyu Defense Army, and the Sheng Army under the command of Nie Shicheng were not a problem with the defense area arrangement of these training armies.

And the following arrangements for He Changying's reinforcement army, Nie Guilin's Feng army, and Jiang Zikang's Renzi army are the focus of Song Qing's military discussion.

In Song Qing's view, there were roughly three landing points for the Japanese army.

One is Changdian City in the upper reaches of the Yalu River, where once the Japanese army crosses the river, they can directly pounce on Liaoyang.

But now that the land has been assigned to Yiketanga, there is no need for him Song Qing to worry about salty radishes.

One is Toudaoqiao Town, which is twenty miles downstream from Hushan to Jiulian City, and the river surface of this line is thirty-five miles.

The upper reaches of Hushan to Changdian are all steep and rapid rapids, and there are cliffs on both sides, and it is impossible for the military horses of the Japanese to choose to cross the river from there.

The downstream of Toudaoqiao Town is near Shahezi, the river is not only wide, but also densely covered with aquatic weeds and swamps, which is obviously not an ideal place to cross the river.

Only the 35 miles of the river in the area of Jiulian City are divided into three rivers on the left, middle and right by the highlands in the middle of the river during the dry season, which is the most ideal crossing point.

Therefore, at the critical points of these thirty-five miles, Song Qing used teams that were 'sure', 'accurate', and 'moving'.

As for the third place, that is, the Shahezi area at the mouth of the Yalu River, Song Qing believed that if the Japanese army dared to cross the river by ferry and pointed at the 6,000 soldiers of the Sheng army, it would be completely easy to 'come over a boat and annihilate a boatload of Japanese soldiers'.

In this way, Song Qing thought that through the defense of the Ming Army, the Sheng Army, the Yi Army, and the Luyu Defense Army, with a total strength of 17,000 troops, the defense line on the right flank of the Yalu River was absolutely impregnable.

No matter how many Japanese soldiers come, they will be bled on the head.

Now that everything is arranged, all Song Qing has to do is how to arrange the reinforcement army, the Feng army, and the Renzi army, these three miscellaneous troops of nearly 7,000 people.

In Song Qing's opinion, among these three teams, the Renzi Army is completely a showmanship, and it is not vulnerable at all.

In the team of 2,500, nearly 2,000 people were mud-legged people who had only joined the army for a few days, and they had hardly even touched a gun before coming to Jiulian City.

If such a weak army is allowed to be mixed into its own vital defense line, it may be frightened and collapsed at some point, and not only will it not work, but it will shake the morale of the army.

As for Fengjun, Song Qing is also very unoptimistic.

For this team that has been outside the Beiyang forces all the year round, in Song Qing's heart, he has the same dislike for the Jingbian Army, Jilin, and Qizi Training Army, and he has no sense of identity at all.

Although Nie Guilin now brought the Feng army back to Beiyang, in the Battle of Pyongyang, it was because they lost the Peony Terrace and Xuanwu Gate, which made Ye Zhichao have to withdraw his troops overnight.

Just because of the name of this 'army of defeat', Song Qing couldn't help but be taboo, and only hoped to send them away from afar, so as not to ruin his luck.

And then there is this extraordinary reinforcement army.

Based on the cadet soldiers of Beiyang, the Renzi Army that absorbed Wu Yuren, the defenders of Luo Rongguang's forts, and their own Yisheng Army, more than 1,000 Feng troops from Zuo Guigui, plus the new army recruited from Jinmen, formed a new army subordinate to Beiyang.

Song Qing is still very fond of it.

He Changying, the commander of the Korean aid army, was in Korea for only two months, killing thousands of enemies in three battles and three victories, and made a great reputation.

In two months, from a small sentry with an official hat, he was beaten to a general with a positive third grade, which is simply rare in the country.

And these days, Song Qing has also silently watched the military appearance and military discipline of the Korean aid army, and the meticulous desperate training.

All this made Song Qing have to praise 'the future is terrifying'.

However, appreciation is appreciation, and the aid army does not kneel between superiors and subordinates from military uniforms to military songs, but performs the military salute of foreigners who do not distinguish between dignity and inferiority.

all made Song Qing look very unpleasant.

However, none of this is the most important thing.

The important thing is that when all the senior Beiyang generals watched the Pyongyang campaign in detail, they all had a deep question in their hearts.

"Why did He Changying appear in Shun'an Post when the Japanese were besieging Pyongyang with heavy troops?"