It is expected that the 'Jinsheng Battalion' of 20 battalions will receive 1,000 Mauser guns.

It is expected to recruit 10 battalions of the new army of the horse factory, and distribute 500 Mauser guns.

Hubei Admiral Cheng Wenbing's 19th battalion of infantry horses was divided into 1,000 fast guns and 6 Krupp 80mm mountain guns.

The 18th battalion of Dong Fuxiang of the Gan Army was divided into 1,000 fast guns and 6 Krupp mountain guns.

The banner soldiers of the nine gates of the Gongwei Beijing Division were divided into 1,000 fast guns and 4 Krupp mountain guns.

The 20th battalion of Zhirui's 'Ruiwu Army' was divided into 6 mountain artillery.

In addition to the 20 mountain guns that were previously separated, the Japanese warships frequently harassed Penglai, Yantai, and Ludong armies, and this time they took away 1,500 fast guns.

The battalions of Xiangchu, which were still on the way, were given 2,000 guns.

So far, through Guangxu's division of 'everyone has fruit', only 2,000 of the 10,000 Mauser fast guns finally entered the Tianjin Customs Road, and then Liu Kunyi deployed.

The 65 new guns that should have been used intensively and built into three or four Krupp field artillery battalions, plus the 10 guns that were previously allocated to Weihai Weijun Port, only 13 remained.

In the afternoon of the same day, not long after Guangxu issued the order, Nie Shicheng's telegram sent from Shanhaiguan to Tongzhou was directly detained by the ministers of military aircraft.

Now that the emperor has opened Chrysostom, it is not only useless to send this letter to him without knowing how to do it, but also to annoy the emperor in vain, isn't this a stupid thing?

Nie Shicheng rushed all the way to the Yamen of the Governor of Zhili, and it was already dark at night.

Along the way, Nie Shicheng and Tang Renlian were blown clear by the cold wind, and Zhou Fu couldn't stand this bump in Yongping Mansion, so he got off the horse and took a carriage instead, and he didn't know where he fell at this time.

By the time Nie Shicheng and Tang Renlian walked out of the Yamen of the Governor of Zhili again, it was already full of stars.

The faces of the two were filled with deep disappointment, with a hint of anger in them.

At the governor's yamen, Liu Kunyi told Nie Shicheng and Tang Renlian in a non-negotiable tone that the emperor had ordered 8,000 rifles, 800,000 bullets, and 52 artillery pieces to be allocated to the troops from the Jinhai Customs Road.

The remaining 2,000 rifles, 13 mountain guns, his 2,000 Jiangnan soldiers will take away 500 rifles and 4 mountain guns.

The remaining 1,500 rifles and 9 mountain guns will be distributed by the Shanhaiguan army through consultation.

At that moment, Nie Shicheng was so angry that he wanted to scold his mother!

"Let's go, go back to Shanhaiguan!"

Nie Shicheng stepped on the saddle and got on the horse, he thought that he was a more reasonable and good-tempered person, but today's incident couldn't help but make him angry.

In the first battle on the 10th of the lunar calendar, the Japanese army once attacked Dongluo City, and the city wall of Xiluo City was not early for He Changying to see the opportunity, so he sent reinforcements in time, and it is estimated that Xiluo City will be finished!

In this battle, the troops of Shanhaiguan were killed and seriously wounded, and nearly 2,000 people were killed.

The three cities outside the gate were covered with the corpses of soldiers, and it was terrible to see.

In particular, 2,000 soldiers were mobilized to dig the frozen soil by the Shihe Reservoir on the southern slope of Jiaoshan for three days, and only today have 1,300 simple tombs been excavated.

How tragic this battle was!

At present, nearly 10,000 Japanese infantry of the Third Brigade of the Japanese Army are assembled in front of Shanhaiguan and are eyeing each other.

And the main forces of the Japanese army will also arrive.

That's an elite army of 20,000 or 30,000 people!

Moreover, the Japanese army was originally abundant in firearms, and after a series of great victories in Korea, Jiuliancheng, Haicheng, and Mukden——, a large number of Mauser repeating guns and fast guns were captured.

Thinking that it would not be long before the Japanese infantry who covered the sky and the sun swarmed to storm the three cities outside the pass, and even divided their troops to attack Huanxi Ridge and Jiaoshan at the same time.

And the precise and sharp artillery group, the terrifying grenade.

Nie Shicheng felt the rock pressing down on his heart, making him breathless.

"It's already such a fateful time, the court is still so stupid, and the selfishness of the generals is still so heavy! What are you doing behind Shanhaiguan fighting for these guns? It looks good with might! ”

"Do you want to know that under the nest, Ann has finished eggs?"

At present, the Shanhai armies, especially the three cities outside the Guanwai, have concentrated the 4 battalions of the Sheng Army of Beiyang, the 1 battalion of the Renzi Army, the 2 battalions of the Luyu Defense Army, and the 2 battalions of the Beigukou Training Army, plus more than 1,000 new troops specially recruited by the Dagu Military Station of the Anti-Japanese Army and urgently trained by Western officers.

These nearly 6,000 soldiers from the Beiyang system are the only and last Beiyang Army except for the Beiyang Army trapped in Lushun, the Song Qingbu Yi Army blocked in Fengbei, and the shore guards defending Weihaiwei, the old nest of the Beiyang Naval Division.

Although Nie Shicheng doesn't talk much, as an excellent general, he has eyes and brains.

In his opinion, those Lu Army, Thunder Army, Jiesheng Battalion, Baiji's banner soldiers, Wang Lian Sanxin three battalions.

He was the head of a battalion of the Luyu Defense Army, and a single charge could defeat them.

That is, Wang Liansan's old third battalion, Wu Fengzhu's seventh battalion of 1,700 infantry horse army, still has some combat power.

Not to mention the 'Jinsheng Battalion', 'Machang New Army', and 'Ruiwu Army', which have not yet been recruited, have not undergone basic military training, and they have not fought a few hard battles and blood stations.

It's just cannon fodder for people.

What are you doing with such good guns for this waste?

If the Japanese invade the pass, these guys' guns will not be captured by the Japanese people!

Nie Shicheng's heart was full of anger, and he wanted to pick his son now and go home to retire.

"Gongting, it's not too late to drink a bowl of mutton soup to warm up your body."

From noon to now, Tang Renlian has not eaten anything, his hungry feet are fluttering, and his head is dizzy.

He looked at the soldiers who had been waiting outside the government for a long time, although these guys probably had eaten something, but they were waiting outside the door in the cold this day, and they were all squatting under the leeward wall, shrunk into a ball and shivering.

Now that I went back overnight, it was a hundred miles of overnight travel, and it was normal for me to invite these soldiers to drink a bowl of hot mutton soup to ward off the cold.

Although Nie Shicheng is holding back the anger in his stomach and has no appetite for eating, drinking a sip of hot soup to warm up his body and taking a sip of wine is also a good choice for his current mood.

"Let's go, go drink Lu Lao Wu's mutton soup"

Nie Shicheng waved his horse's head and said: "My brothers are all frozen today, and I won't go back tonight, and it's the same thing when I go back that he is paralyzed; Let's go, drink and go! ”

"Drink mutton soup, drink wine!"

Now that the whole army in Shanhaiguan is forbidden to drink, these wine and meat men have long been suffocating and uncomfortable, and when they heard Nie Shicheng's order, they all drank and shouted.

"Da Da Da-"

It was late at night, the moon was cold, and under the light of the torches, the frost had already fallen on the roof tiles on both sides of the street, covered with a shallow layer of thin white ice crystals.

The streets and alleys were empty, and only the sound of horses' hooves hitting the stone slabs of the streets echoed far away in the alleys, startling countless dogs barking.

"Not for anything else, just for the tranquility of this Jinmen-"

After walking all the way, Nie Shicheng's heart was still burning, and there was a lantern raised high in front of him, with the three big characters 'Lu Lao Wu' written on it.

Smelling the mutton soup in his nose, looking at the swarthy streets and alleys that have been stretching down, walking a mile further, turning left at the mouth of an alley, is his home.

High hall, wife and concubine, children.

"Even for the sake of this family, I have to defend it to the death!"

Nie Shichang sighed, his voice full of grievances, depression, and helplessness.

"Master Nie, you're back; Shanhaiguan, you are always mighty, and the little ones are saying hello to you! ”

At this time, Lu Lao Wu and a few young men, who were about to close, saw Nie Shicheng, who had not been patronizing his shop for a long time, appear, and couldn't help but be surprised and happy, and hurriedly ran out to kowtow and say goodbye.

That night, Nie Shicheng and Tang Renlian were drunk.