"Zhi Jing is reasonable, but the emperor has repeatedly ordered to go out of the customs and fight lightly, you and I have just arrived and it is advisable to think about it in the long run, and train the soldiers to arrange the formation; Wouldn't it be beautiful to wait until the main force of the Japanese arrived, and you all fought in one go! ”

After all, Liu Kunyi fought with the Taiping Army thirty years ago, although he has been comfortable and deserted for decades, but he still knows the dangerous truth of soldiers.

How can you be so 'innocent' to Wu Dacheng, a layman.

The 32 battalions, 3 sentinels, and 14,000 Hunan and Chu soldiers brought by Wu Dacheng this time, nearly eighty percent of them are recruits, and most of them have not even let go of their guns until now.

Not to mention any military discipline and coordinated operations.

Moreover, in addition to the new ration of 2,000 Mauser repeating rifles, these Hunan and Chu soldiers also had about 300 old Austrian Manlisha rifles, 800 old German Mausers, and 2,000 imitation fast guns from the Jiangnan Beiyang Ordnance Bureau.

The rest are spears, birds, spears, bows and arrows, broadswords.

In Liu Kunyi's opinion, only using the 2,000 Jiangnan elites he brought, a charge, can cripple this group of rabble in one battle.

Three cities outside the gates.

After six days of intense construction, the three breastwork walls connecting the three cities outside the gate were basically completed, and then the construction of the anti-artillery clamp wall and firing bunker inside began.

On the section of the wall enclosed by three chest walls, more than a dozen fir ladders were erected towards the bottom of the city, so that the rapid flow of soldiers of the three cities in the chest positions between the three cities and the cities was well realized.

He Changying, Xu Bangdao, Jia Qisheng, and Li Jingfang set up a table on the south wall of the north wing of the city under the warm sunshine, and one of them ate a big bowl of sauerkraut pickled pepper and shredded pork noodles, and drank tea and chatted.

When Nie Shicheng presided over the Shanhaiguan battlefield, as long as he was free, he would come to the three cities outside the customs to discuss the war situation with the generals of the three cities.

Huanxiling Weiyuan City, the main city of Shanhaiguan, the anti-artillery wall inside, the pine wood on the wall bricks on the Great Wall, and a two-meter-high breastwall built in the Shanhaiguan City Gate.

It was Nie Shicheng who was inspired by the three cities outside the pass and ordered the armies at the pass to build anti-enemy facilities.

However, now that Nie Shicheng has been transferred to Yanjing, everything has changed a lot.

When Nie Shicheng came to Shanhaiguan to preside over the defense before, he first gathered all the generals together to discuss military affairs.

Instead of being like Liu Kunyi, according to the size of the official hat, he first compared it with those officials who drank and ate and bragged.

"If Nie Junmen presides over the Shanhaiguan defense line, looking at these thirty or forty thousand troops, I still have some confidence; Now—"

Jia Qisheng was obviously hurt by Liu Kunyi's indifference today, and his face was defeated, thinking melancholy in his heart, could it be that as soon as the battle was over, he would have to return to his hometown honestly and honestly, which was the only way to preserve?

The old man is still young, and the old man is unwilling!

"It is a taboo for soldiers to easily change generals in battle; And transferred an excellent general who had experienced the Battle of Keelung, fought the French Lonely Fleet, and fought a bloody battle with the Japanese army in Tiger Mountain and Dagu Mountain, in exchange for a big smoking gun, An Neng——"

The war was imminent, He Changying endured the boredom in his heart, picked up the teacup and took a sip of hot tea, put the word 'undefeated' together with the tea, and swallowed it.

Although He Changying's words were not finished, none of the people present were fools, how could they not understand He Changying's words, they all drank tea silently with a heavy face.

The headquarters of the 3rd Brigade of the Japanese Army, Madian.

After arranging the defense of the various departments, Yamaguchi Suchen led several staff adjutants, escorted by a squadron of cavalry, to Wangfu Stone Village, five miles north of Madian.

There, the vanguard of the 10th Brigade has arrived, and according to the itinerary, this afternoon, all the more than 6,500 troops of the 10th Brigade will arrive here and camp in the area of Wangfushi.

Although they are all major general brigade commanders, it stands to reason that Yamaguchi Suchen does not need to make a special trip to meet him.

However, for the fierce man who immediately saw Shangwen, the general of the mountain county, who took a detour and dared to directly rebuke the general of Dashanyan, Yamaguchi Suchen thought about it again and felt that if he wanted the two sides to cooperate amicably before the arrival of the main force of the 23rd Army, he still had to take the initiative to meet him.

"Drive-"

Under the sound of urging horses, nearly 300 Japanese soldiers rode towards Wangfu Stone Village.

At this time, on the Jiujiang River, nine miles northeast of Wangfushi Village, a large group of more than 300 Manchu men with Mauser guns on their backs and wearing torn leather jackets of northeastern mountain people were sitting on the river panting and resting.

"TM's, it's a hundred times better than going back and being beheaded, and it's a hundred times better than freezing to death, starving to death and exhaustion along the way!"

Nie Guilin leaned weakly on the embankment of the river, his body was paralyzed from hunger, and he felt that he would be half tired and half dead when he said a word.

"Nie Junmen, now the problem is that there are tigers in front and wolves in the back, how can we go back, is it difficult to climb Jiaoshan and climb the Great Wall? Pointing to the current situation of the brothers, they are all dead halfway up the mountain. ”

Yuan Shikai, who has always been wide and fat, has been hungry for a month and a half of marching, and he has already become a thin man with a sigh: "Now I want to smoke a bag of dry tobacco and drink a sip of hot tea." ”

Of the more than 300 soldiers, in addition to the more than 30 Yi soldiers who escorted Nie Guilin, the remaining 100 were in the Qinqing army that had followed Yuan Shikai for many years in North Korea, and nearly 200 were 1560 Ludong soldiers who were wrapped up in Liaoyang's rout, more than 20 Xinfeng troops, and more than a dozen banner soldiers.

After the fall of Liaoyang, Yuan Shikai and Tang Shaoyi did not retreat to Fengtian, but went west to Liaozhong County, and went south to Tai'an County to meet the team of Yi Army cavalry escorting Nie Guilin, and the two sides joined forces.

Then seeing that the road ahead was Panjin and Jinzhou was blocked, Yuan Shikai did not have the courage of Nie Shicheng to force his way through the noses of the Japanese army, but chose to detour to Yixian County further west, Xiaoling River, Daughter River, and then to Huludao.

If it weren't for these horses, these three hundred people would have starved to death a long time ago.

Today, it finally looked like it was about to enter the pass, but it was blocked by the Japanese army's 3rd Brigade in the north.

"I don't know where the upper reaches of this river lead?"

Tang Shaoyi sat on the ice, holding a wooden staff in both hands to support her soft body, looking at the Jiujiang River winding into the mountains to the west, speculating hopefully.

"I'm afraid that after walking dozens of miles, going north and north, and standing in the mountains twice, then I don't have the strength to go back; Paralysis is estimated to be a death anyway, let's wait for it to get dark and rush once, Lao Tzu doesn't believe that he can't rush over! ”

Because of the concern of his family, Nie Guilin didn't dare to run away along the way, but going back like this, how did he face his parents.

In the past month and a half, Nie Guilin, who has figured out a lot of truths, has a fierce face at this time.

In the depths of his heart now, it is a hundred times better to die in battle than to go back to prison and humiliate his parents and children.

Everyone was silent, thinking that you went to death like this because you made a big mistake, but Lao Tzu worked hard all the way and finally came back, and he didn't live enough!

"Soldiers, soldiers!"

The soldier standing guard on a high slope by the river ran over in panic and shouted: "A large number of black and oppressive Japanese soldiers have come from the north! And cavalry! ”

When they heard that there were cavalry, everyone panicked, if the Japanese cavalry found out, the hungry half-dead legs would not be able to outrun these war horses.

"Run west along the river!"

Yuan Shikai stood up abruptly and gave a loud order.

Since it is a large group of Japanese soldiers, they will definitely conduct a large-scale search when they come here, and now there is a Japanese defense line in the south and the sea in the east, so you can only survive by running westward.

And they can only escape along the river and on the ice, otherwise once they climb the mountain, this black pressure will crush more than 300 people, and it will be easy to be discovered by the Japanese soldiers.

"Run!"

With the shouts of the soldiers, the half-dead guys just now immediately fled towards the upper reaches of the Jiujiang River.