Kailuan Coal Mine.

Before the troops arrived in Luanzhou, telegrams from Tongzhou were sent to Luanzhou one after another, and then quickly delivered to Liu Kunyi.

That night, Zhang Yi, the general office of Kailuan Coal Mine, held a banquet in the restaurant, accompanied by Hu Liao and Hannagan, and invited the generals of the triumphant army to enter the customs.

In addition to the absence of the original generals of the three cities, Liu Kunyi, Yi Shunding, Wang Liansan, Mei Dongyi, He Minggao, Chen Guiren, a group of generals were happy to go to the appointment, wine, meat and delicacies, and it was not lively between the staggered plans.

This time, the imperial court asked for 2,000 troops to be transferred to Jinmen to defend.

Liu Kunyi, who had only withdrawn a total of 2,000 people from Guanshang, was of course unwilling to send a single soldier to guard the door for Beiyang, so he directly kicked the ball to He Changying.

Jinmen is the foundation of Beiyang, whether it is the Mountain Navy Regiment or the Lushun Regiment, many soldiers and officers' families live there.

What's more, the anti-Japanese army station was built next to the Dagu Fort, and there were not only a large number of wounded soldiers living in the station, but also a training team and 2,000 new troops recruited a year ago.

Moreover, many of the officers of the company and battalion regiments, under the instigation of Xiong Kaiyu and them, have moved to a large area of newly built brick houses between the Beiyi Fort and the Beijia Fort.

Therefore, in public and private, He Changying must send troops to defend it, and he will defend it to the death!

He Changying agreed without hesitation at that time, and ordered the 2nd and 3rd regiments of the Shanhaiguan Corps, Xiao Ligang artillery battalion, Song Zhanbiao artillery battalion, and Luo Huafei Whistle, with a total of more than 3,500 troops, to form the Jinmen Brigade.

Lieutenant Colonel Liu Gangzhi was appointed brigade commander, Lieutenant Colonel Nie Pengcheng was appointed deputy brigade commander, Shi Weicheng was appointed major intern staff officer, Captain Li Yuanyang was appointed brigade law chief, and Li Jingfang was appointed logistics director of the Dagu Military Station and Jinmen Brigade.

The troops will carry 13 80 guns, 1 78 guns, and a large number of wounded, as well as those adjutant generals, generals, guerrillas, and garrisons from the Military Council who were not called away by Liu Kunyi, and march south to Dagu, Jinmen.

At the Dagu military station, the Jinmen Brigade will receive 2,000 new soldiers and veterans who have returned from the wounded, and the strength is expected to be close to 6,000.

The rest of the 1st and 4th regiments, independent battalions, cavalry battalions, guard companies, reconnaissance companies, engineer companies, and personnel directly under the corps, totaling nearly 5,000 troops, will leave for Jizhou early tomorrow morning.

Liu Kunyi expressed his opposition to He Changying's transfer of so many troops to Jinmen, and quickly sent a telegram to the Military Affairs Office of the Tongzhou Supervisor on the way to Luanzhou.

The urgency of the Battle of Jizhou, and the Dagu Fort in Jinmen, the 'first fort in the world', 'only a few hundred artillery, it will be as good as a rock!'" ’

The telegram reached Tongzhou, was sent to the Forbidden City by a fast horse, and called back near night.

In the telegram, Guangxu first enthusiastically eulogized the victory of the Gan army in destroying 200 enemies and losing 30, and informed Liu Kun that the sharpness of the mountains and seas was good, and the Gan army was also sharp and abnormal!

Later, Guangxu issued an order that the Jinmen Regiment of the Anti-Japanese Army, as well as the recruits of the Dagu Military Station, would all be assigned to the Dagu Fort Group in the future, and Wu Hongluo would control them.

And in the telegram, he promoted Liu Gangzhi, the chief of the garrison, and Nie Pengcheng, to the rank of the chief of the five products.

In the telegram, Guangxu encouraged the new Dusi Liu Gangzhi to fight bravely like his uncle Luo Zongbing, and to die loyally.

Johnson Town.

In the night, Qiaotou Town (Tangshan) was full of torches, and more than 8,500 anti-Japanese soldiers held torches high in the ruins of the broken wall ravaged by artillery fire after having dinner in a hurry, cleaning up and searching for the corpses of the Qing army.

A few days ago, the Dingwu Army cleaned up the corpses of the Qing soldiers in Qiaoshan Town, and all the corpses that were shot and killed were cleaned up in the streets and alleys of Xicheng and Beicheng.

As for the area around the southeast corner of the city, where 4,000 Jinsheng troops and 2,000 Dagu artillery were concentrated, and they were razed to the ground by the Japanese heavy artillery, they simply avoided and ignored them.

At this time, in this 200,000-square-meter ruin, more than 6,000 corpses of Qing soldiers were buried, as well as at least 1,000 corpses of ordinary people.

With an average of less than three square meters, an area the size of a bed, there is a corpse!

Inside the broken bricks and stones, there were broken limbs everywhere, and the blood stained the ruins a dark red color, like the hell of Shura.

The telegram from the imperial court was sent from Luanzhou by Kuaima, and Goshha, who was in charge of delivering the letter, was still smiling and congratulating Liu Gangzhi and wanted to ask for money.

However, seeing Liu Gangzhi, who was sitting in a pile of rubble, surrounded by broken corpses, and had blood-red eyes that wanted to devour blood, Liu Kunyi's personal soldiers were so frightened that they didn't dare to let go of a fart, so they hurriedly got on the horse and ran away after sending the letter.

You must know that even Liu Duxian's personal soldier leader and nephew Liu Zhiquan were shot in the head by the guards under He Changying, and even if the new Dusi with fire in his eyes exploded himself, it is estimated that he will die in vain!

"Phew, what the hell!"

Liu Gangzhi endured it until the Qing soldiers left, and then he scolded viciously, 'What is the wall', and crumpled the telegram into a ball and threw it away.

"Brewing the drip wall, these bastards, they will calculate every day? Uncle has guarded the sea gate for the imperial court all his life, but he was sent to die, these thousands of Dagu brothers, no one came to collect the corpses when they died, Zhang Yi and the four thousand Dingwu army waste are special pigs? And the imperial court, he is the wall! ”

Luo Huafei, who had been injured for a few days, was still covered with bandages, and at this time he was sitting beside Liu Gangzhi in pain, anger and sadness, talking in a hoarse voice.

Looking at the broken corpses under the light of the torches, the tears in Luo Huafei's eyes couldn't hold back anymore, and began to flow down: "It's just that where is my uncle's corpse!" ”

"Cry a few times! There is a debtor who is wronged, who is the murderer, who forced him to come over and die in vain, and who is the one who doesn't care if he dies, don't you know? ”

Liu Gangzhi's eyes were like spitting fire, and he twisted his face and said angrily: "With the main master, you are still afraid that you will not be able to take revenge!" ”

The sound of masonry came, He Changying, Xu Bangdao, Jia Qisheng, Xia Qingyun, Li Jingfang, Tang Shaoyi, and walked over with torches.

The soldiers cleared out a clearing stained with black blood, and He Changying took a stack of yellow paper from Qi Jiacai beside him, squatted on the ground and lit it with a match.

Soon, a large bright flame burned.

He Changying's eyes looked straight at the flames, and he said in a dull voice: "Everyone let's burn two." ”

Xu Bangdao, Jia Qisheng, Xia Qingyun, Li Jingfang, Tang Shaoyi, Liu Mingyang, Nie Pengcheng——

A group of senior generals of the anti-Japanese army came over silently, took a few pieces of yellow paper from Qi Jiacai's hand, and put them into the fire to light them.

Only Liu Gangzhi's bloody eyes were red, and he sat still.

He grew up fostering in his uncle's house since he was a child, and he has always regarded Luo Zongbing as his father, because of his lawless personality, he doesn't know how many boards Luo Zongbing has suffered.

Just last summer, because I didn't want to go to North Korea, I was beaten purple by my uncle, and my aunt blushed with my uncle for this.

Since then, no one has been furious, roaring and spanking his ass.

The tears that had been holding back finally flowed out of Liu Gangzhi's eyes at this time.

"Whew-"

In this moonlit and quiet night sky, a wind suddenly blew, and the unburned yellow paper was lifted high into the night sky by the wind with flames, and drifted away far west.

Looking at the jumping flames, He Changying couldn't help but think of the few intersections between him and this heroic and straightforward general soldier.

"Good boy, good, good! What's your boy's name, which battalion head yamen? The old man looks at you, the more pleasing it becomes,——"

"What's wrong, since this is our Qing Dynasty, then this rule is up to us."

"That's why you only sent me fifty taels of ginseng, I can't eat five hundred taels, do you still want to be my ——??"

"This is atmospheric, when it is white!"

——

He Changying just squatted in front of the fire, and seemed to be crazy for a while.