In the early morning of the 14th, in the battle between the two armies of Jizhou and Gansu, the Japanese army first disabled Dong Fuxiang's three cavalry battalions with artillery, making it lose the ability to quickly assault.

Then he used artillery fire to cut the entire defense line of the Gan army, and the grenade scattered bombs focused on 'taking care' of Dong Fuxiang's Gan army commander's battalion, so as to make up for Dong Fuxiang's previous regret that Dong Fuxiang had contemptuous of Shangwen.

The high-explosive bombs that exploded in the positions of the Gan army, as well as the grenade bombs that detonated overhead, not to mention that the Gan army had never seen them, and they had never even heard of them.

They had only seen the cannon fill with explosives, and if they filled in a large number of cannons, a group of bandits rushing from the opposite side would be blown into a hornet's nest.

If you fill it with iron eggs, buckshot, and shoot it over, the bandit bunker on the opposite side will be smashed into a hole the size of a table.

And for this kind of sharp and brutal modern artillery torture, it directly frightened all the courage of the Gan army, and when the Japanese infantry attacked, it instantly pecked through the position of the Gan army.

Triggering a rout on all fronts.

And those commanders, commanders, adjutant generals, staff generals, and guerrillas who fled in clusters and wore flowers on their bodies, suddenly became the focus of the Japanese army's pursuit.

Except for the generals who hung directly in the artillery fire, the rest of the generals were chased and killed, and only a few who were smart enough to take off their robes escaped with their lives.

After the Japanese 1st Army defeated the Gan army, the cavalry wing passed directly through the Gan army position and went straight west. 、

After chasing for a mile or two, the infantry immediately stopped the pursuit, pressed the captives who surrendered, and returned to Shangcang Village to assemble.

Then, the Japanese army began a large-scale massacre of Gan prisoners, nearly 2,000 Gan prisoners, and they were directly slaughtered, and none of them were spared.

After doing all this, the Japanese army repaired a little in the morning of the same day, and at the same time sent three infantry squadrons to burn the city of Jizhou, looting dozens of wagons and returning with a full load of supplies.

For the nearly 6,000 breech guns that were captured, the Japanese army all piled them together, piled up a large amount of chopping wood, and set them on fire.

At 1 o'clock in the afternoon, only 6 80 naked guns, dozens of horses, nearly 200 Mauser guns, and a large amount of military rations were carried with the army, and the whole army set off for the west.

Leaving behind the corpses of the Gan army all over the field.

In this battle, the Gan army was killed by artillery 7800 troops, and then the Japanese pursued nearly 1,000 troops, and slaughtered nearly 2,000 prisoners, and 10,000 Gan troops were killed in less than two hours.

The Japanese First Army was seriously wounded, with less than 100 killed.

These Gan soldiers all walked thousands of miles to Jizhou, where is there any good place to go in this foreign land?

By the afternoon, the remaining 6,000 or so defeated troops, except for more than 5 or 600 high-ranking people who were bold or completely frightened, the rest of the soldiers actually surrounded back one after another.

And all the generals were either blown up and killed, or killed in a concentrated manner after surrendering, or they just looked at the wrong posture, so they directly took a few township party members, nephews and soldiers back to their hometown in Ganshan.

Anyway, after being an official for all these years, I have made enough money, even if I stay here, even if I don't say that the court will condemn the crime, and then I am forced to fight the fierce widows, I may not have such a good escape from fate today.

Why bother to kill yourself, why not be happy?

At this time, the more than 5,000 Gan troops who were regrouped, the highest rank was Wang Hua from the travelogue of the third grade, Yin Wenxin of the fourth grade, Zhao Dabang, Li Feifei, and more than a dozen garrisons, battalion thousands.

Everyone gathered around and discussed in horror what to do next.

Garrison Ma Yushu proposed to simply return to his hometown in Ganshan.

Yin Wenxin said that there was no money and no food for thousands of miles, and the soldiers on the road were looted by bandits, and before everyone arrived home, the team became bandits; The soldier said that his people had to be robbed and imprisoned.

Zhao Dabang roared and roared the whole army to find the Japanese to fight again.

Yin Wenxin said that you can move these camp heads, who can you move? Even if they did, they would give meat to the wolves.

Wang Hua reluctantly proposed, or just wait here first.

Yin Wenxin said again that all the food had been paid, the radio station had also been seized by the Japanese soldiers, and five or six thousand people were squatting here without a general, hungry and without direction, and they said that they would blow up the camp if they said that they would blow up the camp.

So a group of people gritted their teeth and looked at Yin Wenxin with hatred, and threatened to beat him to death if he didn't have an idea!

Yin Wenxin proposed that a battalion of wounded soldiers be left here to recuperate, collect the corpses, and the rest of the 5,000 troops would march east to Tangshan to find Liu Kunyi, the minister of the Qincha.

This proposal immediately won the unanimous approval of all the generals, and they did not fight, but also relied on, of course, why not?

In this way, 5,6700 left behind 3,400 soldiers who were injured and could not easily travel far, led by Li Feifei, the capital division who broke his calf and pretended to be dead and confused in the escape, and temporarily stationed in Shangcang Village.

The rest of the people all set up camp and marched eastward.

Yahongqiao Village.

"—There were about 300 remaining Gan troops in Jizhou, all of whom were wounded, and were temporarily led by Li Feifei, the battalion officer of the capital who broke his calf; There are about 5,000 remnants of the Gan army in the area of Hongqiao Village, and the supreme military general is the guerrilla Wang Hua, but there are about 500 people in his descendants, and the rest of the generals do not listen to his orders. ”

After the cavalry battalion of the anti-Japanese army met with the eastward rout of the Gan army, You Dajiang, the staff officer of the cavalry battalion, took advantage of the darkness to come to the main camp of the anti-Japanese army overnight, and the guards woke up He Changying, who was already asleep, and began to report the preliminary situation of the Gan army.

"About seventy percent of the soldiers have guns in their hands, but except for the pioneer infantry battalion Yinwen new battalion and the pioneer cavalry battalion Zhao Dabang mallet battalion, the two battalions of more than 700 people make all Mauser fast guns, and the rest are breech guns; The three battalions of the Horse Pioneer Battalion had 500 cavalry, the remaining two battalions had 200 cavalry each, and about 700 cavalry remained. ”

Soon, Xu Bangdao, Jia Qisheng, Xia Qingyun, Tang Shaoyi, Liu Mingyang, Lu Wenjie, Li Fengrui, Jia Rongchun, Chang Yuqi, Liu Yufu, Huang Bojie, Qian Yugang, Luo Minglei, Lu Zhaomei,——

A group of core officers of the anti-Japanese army rushed over and sat down by the rekindled fire to discuss.

"Anzhi, although everything our anti-Japanese army did was for the sake of the imperial court, would the imperial court think so? The Shanhaiguan Army, including this recruitment and expansion of the camp, did not have the will of the imperial court; Liu Kunyi of the Hejun temporarily made a round for us, and recruiting these homeless people can barely make sense, but if the Gan Army is incorporated this time, it will not be a trivial matter to spread it. ”

Tang Shaoyi's face was slightly pale and said: "Just like the Jinmen Brigade and the Dagu Military Station, An Zhi spent so much effort, and as a result, the court made a wedding dress for others." ”

As soon as Tang Shaoyi's bitter persuasion came out, he immediately became cold.

Xu Bangdao couldn't help but open his mouth and said: "The imperial court, the imperial court, the Japanese army of 30,000 is estimated to be in Tongzhou, do you think you can stop the Japanese army by pointing at those soldiers?" ”

"The reason why the imperial court rebelled is because our army has entered the customs with great victory, and there are great expectations for the Gan army, and now the Gan army has collapsed, and when the Japanese army appears in Tongzhou, the imperial court will naturally not dare to ——, well, it will naturally be inclined to peace talks;"

Tang Shaoyi talked eloquently: "Now the Japanese General Kuroki is waiting in Tongzhou to seize the military power of Youpeng in Shanxian County, and the British Consul General Bowshide is also monitoring Tongzhou. ”

Then, Tang Shaoyi looked at He Changying earnestly and said: "Anzhi, whether we want it or not, in fact, as long as this Qing-Japanese war is over as soon as the Japanese soldiers appear in Tongzhou, it will basically be over, and the following is how much money the court will lose; When the war is over, it is time for large-scale disarmament, in that case, why do you want to do it now, and put a thorn in the eyes of the imperial court? ”