30 miles southeast of Yutian Town, Yahongqiao Village.

After a day's rapid march, in the vast twilight, the main force of the anti-Japanese army arrived at Yahongqiao Village.

The troops will camp here for the night and then continue westward on the morning of the 17th.

It is expected that the 17th will be able to reach the vicinity of Da'an Village near night, in the southern part of the Jizhou defense line of the Gan army, which has not yet collapsed, and the rear flank of the Japanese 1st Army.

Yahongqiao Village is still crossed by the locusts of the 1st Army of the Japanese Army, and the ruins of the village are all deserted, or they are all filial piety, crying and moving the sky.

The anti-Japanese army did not have the face to enter the village, but only set up a garrison outside the village and erected a red flag raised in the evening breeze.

The soldiers silently fetched water and chopped firewood, and lit fires for cooking.

On the periphery of the anti-Japanese army camp, there were about 2,000 young and strong men gathered everywhere in the east and west, all of whom were ordinary people who had come to join the army with blood and family hatred.

Because the anti-Japanese army refused to accept it, and these men were unwilling to leave, they were around the camp to collect firewood, roast sweet potatoes, corn, nest potatoes, and what messy grains to satisfy their hunger.

"Changying, I think these men are really good, all of them vowed to kill the Japanese with a sea of blood and hatred, and taught them how to put them with guns, they are definitely a group of good soldiers who are not afraid of death in battle."

Xu Bangdao also wanted to persuade He Changying.

"It's just that I didn't see that Liu Kunyi was erecting a big banner there, and he couldn't recruit people when he opened boxes of snowflake silver recruitment; People have recognized the brand of our anti-Japanese soldiers, but don't chill the hearts of these warriors. ”

Xia Qingyun, who was sitting on the side, also persuaded bitterly.

"No, no, we are now marching lightly, and the surplus ones will carry about 2,000 rifles and 300,000 rounds of ammunition, and when they are trained along the way, all the bullets will be gone; Moreover, there are no clothes, bedding, water bottles, military rations, and military boots required for forced marches, and it is easy to have problems recruiting them to join the army, and they have no combat power at all when they become an army alone,——"

Sitting by a large pile of blazing bonfires, He Changying was talking when he saw Lu Zhaomei and Luo Minglei striding over.

"Report!"

Lu Zhaomei and Luo Minglei stood up and saluted.

He Changying stood up and returned a military salute, and when he saw Lu Zhaomei's eyes, he knew what he was for.

And now this guy actually pulled Luo Minglei in, so that He Changying had the urge to kick Lu Zhaomei's ass at a glance.

"What's the matter, didn't you already say it, if you really want to participate in the anti-Japanese army, go to the Dagu military station?"

He Changying said with a smile on his face: "You have time to worry about this, it is better to integrate with the team and think about the upcoming battle!" ”

He Changying's words made Lu Zhaomei and Luo Minglei so much that they couldn't speak.

In the successive battles at Shanhaiguan, the anti-Japanese army seized supplies from Lushun Sea, and stockpiled about 2,300 rifles before the decisive battle at Shanhaiguan.

After the decisive battle, he divided equally with Liu Kunyi, who had a red face and a thick neck, and got more than 2,500 rifles.

In this way, the Shanhaiguan Regiment of the Anti-Japanese Army stored a total of more than 4,800 rifles.

This time, the Jinmen Brigade went south to return to Tianjin and took 2,000 with it.

The remaining 2,800 rifles, except for a part of them as the daily combat wear and tear of the troops, the rest of He Changying are ready to be equipped for the Gan army that will be incorporated soon.

He Changying transferred it from the Tongzhou Telegraph Office to Luanzhou, and the words of the generals of the Gan army, he knew that the Gan army would be defeated and collapsed by the Japanese army at any time.

There is no chance of a fluke!

You must know that five years later in history, Dong Fuxiang led the armed guard rear army reorganized by thousands of Gan troops that was "corrupt in discipline, active and fierce, good in gambling and drinking, and rampant in the city", equipped with modern breeched rifled guns, and underwent Western-style drills.

As a result, they attacked Dongjiaomin Lane in the embassy area, and they could not be attacked for more than 50 days after intermittent fighting. It can be seen how rubbish combat power is.

In the current situation of the Gan army, breech guns against breech guns, plus the three artillery wings of the Japanese army, there is still a gap of nearly three times the strength between the two armies.

Although the confession of the Japanese prisoners at Shanhaiguan was that they were 10,000 soldiers, the 10,000 Japanese soldiers were originally reservists, and they walked four or five thousand miles from Seoul and Pyongyang to Shanhaiguan, and they were already qualified soldiers.

Under such a huge gap in absolute strength, it is simply impossible to change the general trend of crushing under the imbalance of power by relying on only one or two small partial victories.

Just like last year on the Korean battlefield, the weak reinforcement army fought the 'Sherenguan Victory', the 'Shun'anyi Victory', and the 'Planting Songwon Victory', but tens of thousands of Qing troops were still easily driven out of Korea by the Japanese army.

He Changying has always unswervingly believed that many soldiers in the Qing Dynasty were good seedlings, but the generals of the Qing Dynasty were too wasteful, and almost all of them were 'eating, drinking, gambling, and cowardly', and 'eating and waiting for death' to drag their feet into dung-making machines.

Otherwise, in every reorganization of the army, he would forcefully expel all the Qing generals above the sentry officer from the army, just to eliminate these tumors and purify the ranks.

And in the later wars, he was completely proved right.

Therefore, according to He Changying's assumption, the anti-Japanese army will soon find an opportunity to eat about 2,000 'usable' Gan troops.

No matter how much there were, the anti-Japanese army did not have any weapons to provide them.

On one end is Gan Jun, who has experienced many years of military career in the northwest, and on the other end is a group of ordinary people who have never touched a gun.

The choice between the two, if it is a long-term war consideration, or even a city defense war, He Changying will choose the latter.

However, he is now facing an upcoming field war, and even if the Gan army is unbearable, it will be much stronger than this group of people in a short time.

"Changying, listen to what they want to say, how can there be a reason that people like you have not spoken, and you will beat them to death with a stick?"

Seeing Lu Zhaomei, Luo Minglei blushed and didn't dare to speak, and Jia Qisheng hurriedly smiled and played a round.

In the unconscious time, He Changying's power became heavier.

Now except for Xu Bangdao and Li Jingfang, these bigwigs with transcendent status in the anti-Japanese army, not to mention Lu Zhaomei and Luo Minglei, Liu Mingyang, Li Fengrui, and other regiment-level officers, dare not laugh at will in front of He Changying.

He Changying thinks that he has not changed all along, nor has he deliberately shown his authority, or is different from others.

However, a bottom-up sense of love, trust, and reverence that started from ordinary soldiers has begun to imperceptibly penetrate into the body of the anti-Japanese army and thrive with it.

"Say it."

He Changying stood and looked at the two loving generals who didn't dare to say anything, and let them speak.

"Uh-huh-"

The idea was proposed by Lu Zhaomei, and Luo Minglei was also pulled over by Lu Zhaomei, but at this time, Lu Zhaomei was 'um' for a long time, and she couldn't speak.

He Changying was too lazy to take care of this guy and looked at Luo Minglei.

"Report to the commander-in-chief, and the subordinates guess that the reason why the commander-in-chief is unwilling to accept these young and strong people, but let them go to the Jinmen military station to join the army on their own, is nothing more than a reason;"

Luo Minglei stood straight, looked at He Changying and replied loudly: "And almost all of these people have never been born out of the gate thirty or fifty miles away, and many people have never entered Yutian in their lives, and the city gate of Qiaoshan Town, it seems difficult to let them go to Jinmen, two hundred miles away, to join the army alone." ”

After listening to Luo Minglei's answer, He Changying's mouth had a hint of a smile on the corner of his mouth, and he looked at him and asked, "You mean, no one in these two thousand young people can go to Jinmen to join the army alone?" ”