"General, you are too pessimistic; Now the second army of the Japanese army was firmly dragged to death here by our Lushun Corps, and the first army was just a lone army stuck in the quagmire, and when our anti-Japanese army Shanhaiguan Corps annihilated the Japanese army besieging them, it was the time to enter the pass and counterattack in a big way! - In terms of time, the battle of annihilation of the three cities outside the gate should have begun, and even the Japanese army had been eliminated. ”

Shen Zhaoao smiled and said: "Our anti-Japanese army has to frankly admit that you and your fleet have blocked the Bohai Sea and avoided a great crisis for our Shanhaiguan Legion, for which we are sincerely grateful. ”

"Are you convinced?"

Philimantle looked at Shen Zhaoao with a smile on his face with some suspicion.

Shen Zhaoao's eyes lit up with an inexplicable luster, and he said to Philmantle, as well as Ding Ruchang, Liu Buchan, and Yang Yonglin, who were listening attentively to the group of naval generals: "I am completely convinced of this!" ”

"Well, although I don't know where your confidence comes from."

Philmantle shrugged his shoulders and said, "I'm still not optimistic about your line of defense; - Your artillery does not have high-explosive shells, and it has almost no real lethal effect on the infantry, if the Japanese army transfers the infantry of Weihaiwei and unites the ships at sea to attack from the Bohai Bay in the back, even if they cannot occupy the Lushun fortress, they will always trap your navy. - until you run out of ammunition and food and surrender! ”

Philimantle looked at Ding Ruchang very seriously and said: "As long as there is a glimmer of possibility, the Japanese army will definitely not easily let the Beiyang Naval Division exist and threaten their absolute superiority in the Qing Sea. The best choice is to take advantage of the Japanese warship group still in Weihaiwei, tour Hong Kong to the south to preserve its strength, and wait until the treaty is signed before returning north. ”

All the generals of the Lushun Anti-Japanese Army Corps were silent, waiting for the decision of the sailor himself.

Ding Ruchang looked around at the sailor generals around him, and they all understood their minds from their eyes.

With a smile of relief and perseverance, he said bitterly: "Don't run anymore; The Beiyang Naval Division will either be reborn in Lushun, or we will all die here! ”

"Yes, or we'll die here!"

Liu Buyun, Yang Yonglin, Ye Zuqi, Qiu Baoren, Lin Guoxiang——。

A group of admirals, all yelling with sad faces.

Then they looked at each other and smiled, thinking about the colleagues who sank to the bottom of the Dadonggou, all of them had sad faces and were desolate.

Changli County, county hall.

When the troops marched to the county seat of Changli, they found that the city was full of corpses of Qing people who had to flee in a hurry.

Men, women, old people, children –

This tragic scene stunned everyone, although everyone already knew the cruelty of the Japanese army, but they did not expect that they would not be as good as beasts to the point of losing their conscience!

"Cao Nyima Dog!"

"Lao Tzu and you are incompatible, if you don't kill you beasts, Lao Tzu swears not to be a man!"

The city was filled with roaring and angry curses.

Tears poured out from the eyes of every Chinese with a conscience.

Soon, the searching soldiers found the bodies of two Qing soldiers, and searched for a telegram sent from Jinmen, the time of which was marked as the 16th day of the first month of the day before yesterday.

Hu Liaodian immediately sent a whistle to Shanhaiguan to investigate the truth and report quickly; If you encounter the various departments of the mountains and seas, you should also return to Luanzhou as soon as you see this telegram. - Beiyang Deputy Minister Wang. ”

At this time, the generals sat in the cold hall in a sad mood, although they guessed one by one, and they couldn't understand the current war at all.

This telegram shows that not only is Tianjin unharmed, but also Tangshan and Luanzhou are unharmed.

But where have these beasts gone?

"One team is the spies we sent to Tangshan to explore the outposts, and the other team has 'Dingwu Army' embroidered on their clothes, and the telegram will not be fake, indicating that the Dingwu Army has also come to Tangshan from Jinmen to garrison;

Liu Kun twisted off a few beards, why couldn't he understand the Tao inside, and said with a sad face: "Where did the Japanese soldiers go?" ”

"It's not going to be the Japanese people bypassing Tangshan-"

Wang Lian San guessed half a sentence and didn't say anything, such a low-level mistake, it stands to reason that Wu Yi is not stupid.

"Could it be that the Japanese soldiers are marching slowly and have not yet arrived in Tangshan, otherwise our spies can meet the Japanese here? This team of whistles of the Dingwu army must have bypassed the Japanese army, and as a result, they were not ambushed here! ”

He Minggao's words shocked all the generals in the hall, and a few timid people even felt that the ghosts around them were forested, and it seemed that the entire Changli County had been quietly surrounded by the Japanese army from a distance.

"The Japanese army will not be here, they will go all out to Yanjing, although I don't know what kind of oolong this 'Dingwu Army' is on."

He Changying stood up, her eyes were slightly swollen, and she said in a hoarse voice: "After lunch, the troops outside the border will continue to set off, and when they arrive in Tangshan, they will naturally understand everything." ”

"Then go to Tangshan!"

Liu Kun made the final decision one by one, then looked at He Changying and said, "Your cavalry camp still needs to expand the search along the way, don't give the Japanese a chance to take advantage of it." ”

"Yes, but there's a request—"

He Changying stood straight, staring at Liu Kunyi.

"You say."

Liu Kunyi was very uncomfortable with this kind of young and vigorous sharp eyes, but after seeing the tragic situation in Changli County, everyone was a little bad-tempered Liu Kunyi could also understand it, and he was also curious about his request-

Liu Kun stopped thinking about it, and looked at He Changying's murderous eyes, and he understood.

"It's up to you!"

Liu Kun nodded in agreement for a while, and secretly said in his heart that it was a pity, there were seven or eight hundred live prisoners, and there was a major general and two Dazuo among them.

Can't bear it, and wait until it's sent to Jinmen to sacrifice prisoners, can't you kill it?

Zhili, Jizhou, Da'an Town.

Around 4 p.m.

The post road in the snow was lined up with the corpses of soldiers of the 7th Squadron of the Japanese Army.

Most of the two hundred and three corpses had their heads cut off, and all of them had their ears cut off.

Most of these severed heads have now been recovered, but the trouble is that it is impossible to distinguish which head belongs to which corpse.

Youpeng of Shan County stood in front of these corpses with a gloomy face, and only after a long time did he say angrily with blood-red eyes: "Order all the troops to stop marching, set up camp tonight, and start sweeping the surrounding villages, leaving no chickens and dogs!" For the Qing prisoners, the road below will be easier and better,—— kill two thousand and thirty Qing prisoners, and pay tribute to the warriors of the empire; Tomorrow morning, we will march to Jizhou and slaughter all the Gan army! ”

"Hey!"

A group of Japanese generals with wolf-like red eyes roared in unison.

Soon after, Da'an Village, Gushan Village, Zhao Village, Taitai Village, Bokou Village-

Everywhere there was fire, and black smoke rose to the sky.

Dozens of miles can be seen!

And in the valley where the 7th Squadron of the Japanese army was ambushed, 2,000 and 30 Qing prisoners were escorted over and stabbed to death by Japanese soldiers with rifles and bayonets.

Corpses, stacked on top of each other.

Blood, staining the entire valley red!

At night, the moon is bright and the stars are shining.

Zhugezhuang Village.

There is still not a trace of human population that has been plagued by the Japanese army like locusts crossing the border.

In the snow.

Torches like a forest!

Yamaguchi Susen, Okubo Toshisada, Nakaki Nokiue——, were all gagged and tied to the snow.

These Japanese soldiers, all with eyes full of pleading and despair, many of them have become incontinent, and some have already fainted to death.

"From now on, the anti-Japanese army does not want any prisoners! For any beast that intrudes into our Chinese land and does evil, we will never be merciful anymore, and we will kill them cleanly! ”

He Changying's face was cold, and his blood-red eyes ordered loudly: "Shoot!" ”

"Bang, bang, bang—"

Dense gunfire echoed through the wilderness.

The 836 Japanese soldiers, from Yamaguchi Suchen to the lowest rank soldiers, were all judged justly, and none of them escaped the net.