Chapter 358: Seven Telegraphs One
Captain Masatsugi Inoue, who had gone to Uiju to ask for guilt this time, was marching rapidly eastward along the river on the south bank of the Yalu River, when he saw about half a wing of imperial troops coming down from the other side of the river. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
was so frightened that Inoue Masatsugu suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.
At this time, in the area of Andong City downstream, the Qing army gathered the Sheng army, the Korean army, and the Qing army of other departments.
It is estimated that the total number of troops is no less than 10,000.
If this half of the empire goes down suddenly, it's not a meat bun beating a dog, and there is no return?
Inoue Masatsugu hurriedly shouted and fired his guns across the three or four miles wide river, and finally stopped the army on the other side of the river with all his might.
At this time, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon.
At the mouth of the Pushi River in the upper reaches of Hushan, the Qing and Japanese armies, which had been facing each other for a whole day and a night, finally began to exchange fire.
The left bank of the Pushi estuary.
Near noon, Yongshan and Wu Heng'er finally waited to bypass Hushan and go to the Weizigou camp to investigate the report brought back by the soldiers.
The camp of Weizigou was in a mess and empty.
Jiulian City, the mouth of the Shan River, and the bank of the Hushan River, are full of Japanese military flags, and there are dense Japanese soldiers everywhere.
In the section of the Jiulian Chengjiang River, the Japanese are reinforcing and widening the bridge in preparation for artillery vehicles to cross the river.
When the news came, everyone in the camp on this side of the Pushi River changed their faces.
He was about to lead his troops to retreat north, but he was tried his best to stop Yongshan, saying that he would retreat rashly, which would likely allow him to take the opportunity to attack and turn into a rout.
When the two were arguing, Iktanga personally led the troops from Changdian to rush over.
After listening to the words of U Heng and Nagayama respectively, Iktanga chose to support Nagayama's proposal to paralyze the Japanese army by advancing and retreating.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, Ishida Masajin, who was closely monitoring the Qing army on the left bank of the Pushi River, was surprised to see a large force of Qing infantry and cavalry wading through the mouth of the Pushi River and rushing towards Tulouzi on the right bank.
At this moment, Ishida felt that his brain was completely 'dead'.
Previously, Ishida Masajin was instructed by Wing Commander Sato Masadasa to closely monitor the Qing army on the other side of the river to prevent them from escaping, and wait for the downstream to settle down a little, and then a large army would move east to annihilate this Qing army.
However, he would never have thought that this Qing army was so arrogant that it dared to counterattack the imperial army.
Now the 3rd Brigade of Ushijima Mufan has all gone to the north of Hushan to search for alerts.
Wing Commander Masato Masadasa, went to Jiulian City for a military meeting.
Of his six squadrons, only three squadrons were fortified in the Tulouzi area.
Of the remaining three squadrons, two were guarding at the mouth of the Anping River, and one participated in yesterday's Battle of Chestnut Garden, and was still camped in the area of Chestnut Garden.
In an instant, these thoughts flashed in Ishida's mind, and he shouted the order: "Enemy attack, enemy attack, each team enters its own defense zone and annihilates them!" β
"Bang, bang, bangβ"
Suddenly, there was a loud burst of gunfire in the Tuzilou area, and the four mortars placed by the Qi army at the mouth of the Pushi River also roared and shot projectiles and smashed into the Japanese position.
Under the leadership of Yongshan and Shoushan, the Jingbian Army used a total of two infantry battalions, three cavalry battalions, and a total of 1,600 military horses to kill the Tulouzi position defended by less than 600 Japanese troops.
Half an hour later, seeing that the Japanese army was gradually exhausted, Wu Heng suddenly had the courage to lead five battalions of the Qi Army and the Jilin Training Army, with a total of 1,500 troops, to cross the river to support.
With more than five times the absolute superiority of troops, the Japanese Ishidabe was miserable, and had no choice but to leave more than 50 corpses behind and hurriedly retreat to the mouth of the Anping River.
"The Japanese escaped, the Japanese escaped!"
Seeing the Japanese army fleeing from Tulouzi in embarrassment, the Qing army shouted excitedly.
Then, under Yongshan's order, the whole army immediately returned to the left bank of the Pushi River, packed up, and calmly withdrew towards Changdian Town.
In the sunset on October 27th, Youpeng in Shan County received a report from Matianpu and Tulouzi, and he was extremely angry.
Immediately, Youpeng in Shan County began to mobilize military forces overnight.
More than 2,100 troops of the two brigades of the 9th Brigade, under the leadership of Komatsuzaki Rikuma, led an artillery squad and the 18th Wing Anping Estuary to change defenses, and the troops pressed Tulouzi.
The 6th Brigade Regiment of Oshima Jiuzhi, more than 7,000 troops of the whole army returned to Jiangzuo overnight, the 1st Brigade of the 5th Artillery Wing of the Allied Army, and the 2nd Squadron of the 5th Cavalry Brigade went to Changdian Ferry along the east of the river and crossed the river to attack the Jingbian Army of Iketanga.
The 18th Wing, which had been replaced, returned to Jiulian City overnight, and tomorrow the 5th Brigade Regiment Daqi Shangmin Division went down the river to join forces with the 6th Wing Division that had assembled at Toudao Bridge downstream.
More than 6,900 troops of the Fifth Brigade, plus the second and third squadrons of the Third Cavalry Brigade, the Third Artillery Brigade, the Third Engineer Brigade, the First Baggage Brigade, the Field Hospital, and a brigade of the 22nd Wing of the Tenth Brigade, with 11,000 troops, attacked the county seat of Andong.
"We must completely annihilate the reinforcement army and wash away the shame of the empire!"
Shan Shan Youpeng slapped the table with a 'bang' sound, showing the great anger in his heart.
Jinmen, Zhili Governor's Yamen.
A telegram from the county seat of Andong in the early morning was like a shock, shaking the entire governor's yamen in silence.
"It's just one day, it's just one day!"
"Bang dang!"
Li Hongzhang slapped the table 'pop', and the cup of bullets spilled the tea all over the table: "Didn't he Song Qing report a big victory yesterday?" It's only been a day's work, and he actually lost the entire Jiulian City, Tiger Mountain! He was determined to take away Iktanga, the Renzi Army, the Sheng Army, and the Feng Army, what is the result now! β
In the entire hall, Li Hongzhang roared angrily.
Although this kind of outcome has long been expected, but the tens of thousands of troops in Hushan have only been a day and night, and there has been such a huge reversal and change, these tens of thousands of elite soldiers are his Li Hongzhang's family background, how can he not feel distressed?
This time, He Changying sent seven telegrams to Phoenix, Fengtian, Lushun, Dagu Fort, Jinmen Customs Road, Weihai Weijun Port, and Zhili Governor Yamen.
A telegram was sent to Dao Yilin on the east side of Phoenix City, asking them to prepare in advance to meet the defeated and retreating Yi Army, Wu Yi Army, Feng Army, Ma Jin Xu Army, and Ming Army.
At this time, He Changying didn't know that the facts had changed a lot from the original history, and Liu Shengxiu's troops no longer abandoned the city and fled, but were directly wrapped in dumplings by the 6th Brigade of the Japanese army Oshima Hisashio.
The telegram sent to Zhou Fu, the assistant of the 'Prime Minister's Former Enemy Camp Office and the Rear Road Grain Station' in Fengtian, told him to immediately transport a large amount of military supplies to Phoenix City and Xiuyan, otherwise it would be extremely troublesome to transport military funds due to heavy snow blocking the mountains in the future.
Zhou Fu, who got the telegram, immediately regretted it and stomped his feet.
Because he believed in Song Qing's 'ability', Yuan Shikai waited in Fengtian for more than ten days, Zhou Fu just didn't submit the matter, and Yuan Shikai was not in a hurry, and he hunted and played with Tang Shaoyi and a team of cavalry in the suburbs all day long.
Now Zhou Fu wants to hand over the errand to Yuan Shikai immediately, but how can he pull down his old face?
In the telegram sent to Lushun, He Changying directly told Gong Zhaoxi, a Taoist officer of the Lushun Water and Land Battalion Office, that the target of the Japanese Huayuankou Army was Lushun.
He Changying didn't expect Gong Zhaoxi's puss to do anything, he was just doing what he had to do.
The telegram sent to Dagu Fort and Sheng Huaixuan said that He Changying was going to transport the materials purchased from Western Europe to the Lushun Military Port, and more than 800 recruits in the fourth phase would also board the ship to southern Liaoning.