"Tiger Mountain is located between the Zanghe River and the Anping River, looking at the Yalu River, the mountain shape is steep and easy to defend and difficult to attack; There are twenty or thirty miles of this section of the river in Jiulian City, and bridges can be built to cross the river everywhere, I don't know why the generals just concluded that the Japanese would cross the river from Hushan? ”

Nie Guilin saw that he had refuted He Changying to the point that he had nothing to say, and secretly exclaimed happily in his heart, but he still caught He Changying unrelentingly, and said with a slight mockery: "If the Wuyi are really so stupid, then they must have no return!" ”

"General Nie said it well!"

Hearing Nie Guilin's words, Song Qing couldn't help but applaud. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Hehe, I'm just glancing upstream, Nie Junmen is thinking too much."

He Changying knew that Nie Guilin was unhappy with himself for snatching food from the tiger's mouth in Anzhou and intercepting more than 1,000 Feng troops, but didn't he Nie Guilin also take advantage of Zuo's precious death to take advantage of it?

He Changying actually couldn't understand why Youpeng in Shan County would cross the river in Hushan, because no matter what point of view, choosing to cross the river in Hushan was a stupid choice.

In He Changying's view, the second brain of the martial artist in the mountain county is simply missing a string, and he has always liked to 'take an unusual path'.

Otherwise, he would not have fought to the death with the Hiroshima base camp in the near future, and left the base camp to ask the First Army to retreat to Jiulian Castle, waiting for the order to carry out the spring offensive, ignoring it, and forcing the army to attack Haicheng.

Emperor Meiji, Ito Hirobumi had no choice, so he had to euphemistically dismiss him and recall him back to China.

As for why the Japanese army chose to cross the river at Hushan, but it still succeeded?

In He Changying's view, the reason is very simple.

For the Qing Dynasty, a group of intrigues, fighting their own battles, and being an insider and an outsider in the civil war, you are giving him a Maginot Line to defend, and it must be a group of fancy decorations that will collapse at the touch of a button.

Defended by these Qing troops, the entire defense line of the Yalu River is really full of loopholes, and the river can be crossed everywhere.

"What about the upper reaches of Tiger Mountain? Although there are many cliffs on both sides of the river, and the current is fast, it is not possible to use boats, but there are two exceptions. ”

Liu Shengxiu had specially asked the local fishermen before, and said: "One is the Anping River estuary by the busy cattle whistle, which can directly wade across the river, but after crossing the river, both sides of the river are full of cliffs and it is difficult to pass, but it is necessary to prevent a small force of Japanese from crossing the river and harassing it; The other is Changdiankou, which is ninety miles upstream, where there are ferries to cross the river, and there are no troops guarding it, and there is a post road at Changdiankou that can go directly to Liaoyang. ”

Liu Shengxiu's words surprised Song Qing.

That Anping estuary is a trivial matter, but if the Japanese cross the river from the upstream Changdian Pass, and they are still here to guard against stupidity, everyone is about to run to Liaoyang, it will be a big joke.

Tomorrow Iktanga will lead the army, so I have to discuss with him the division of the defense zone and the problem of defense.

He Changying nodded slightly when he heard this, and Xu Ru before, including Liu Guangyan, who went up the river a few days ago, sent letters to talk about the ferry boats at the mouth of the Anping River and Changdiankou, as well as the problem that Changdian has a post road leading directly to Liaoyang.

However, He Changying still judged that the Japanese First Army would cross the river in the area of Jiulian City.

Because the current military operations of Youpeng in Shanxian mainly have two purposes, the first is to annihilate the Qing army along the Yalu River, and then march to the inland of Yingkou, Liaoyang, and Fengtian in the northeast.

Finally, the land of Longxing in the Northeast Qing Dynasty was completely occupied, and then the army went out of Shanhaiguan to attack Zhili.

Another purpose was to attract Qing troops from all over the northeast as much as possible, so that the Qing army's defense in southern Liaoning would be completely empty, and create conditions for the Second Army to open up a second battlefield.

In order to achieve these two goals, the best decision of Youpeng in Shanxian County was to choose a decisive battle with the Qing army along the Yalu River and completely defeat the 30,000 Qing army.

As long as the 30,000 Qing troops are annihilated, and then the Second Army captures Dalian Lushun, then the entire Northeast will be broken without attack, and the Northeast of Korea will completely become the pocket of the East.

If the Japanese army chooses to cross the river from Changdian, it will completely refute these two purposes.

It can be said that this time Song Qing violated Li Hongzhang's hint and decided to follow Guangxu's instructions and chose to stick to the Yalu River.

It is completely in line with the plan of Youpeng in Shanxian County.

On the morning of the next day, Yiketanga led 4,000 Jingbian troops to Jiulian City.

These days, the deputy capital of Shanhaiguan, who has been outside the Beiyang Tribes, immediately invited Yiketanga into the military camp for a secret talk.

When the news reached Song Qing, Song Qing's face became ugly at that time.

Although Song Qing didn't look down on the 3,500 people under the command of Wu Heng, these two military horses were assigned to him by the imperial court to be commanded by Song Qing.

Isn't this kind of behavior of Wu Heng openly slapping him in the face?

At noon on the same day, Song Qing set up a banquet for Yiketanga, and all the generals in the room gathered, and the admiral's general and deputy generals sat at four tables.

Originally, according to the top of He Changying and Wu Weiyang's three-rank generals, they were not qualified to sit at the table, but the reinforcement army was an independent army, and it was too dazzling in North Korea, so the bigwigs couldn't help but pay attention to it.

"General Yao has worked hard all the way, brother, I will toast you."

Song Qing raised his wine glass with a smile, as if he didn't know that Yi Ke Tang'a and Wu Heng had been plotting all morning.

"It's all for the emperor!"

Iktanga arched his hand to the west, and said with great righteousness and awe.

"Exactly, exactly, all for the emperor."

Song Qing stood up, raised the cup in his hand and said, "Come, generals, as long as we can unite as one and twist into a rope, we will definitely be able to level this Oriental child and let them be wiped out!" ”

"Obey the orders of the army!"

On the four tables, the generals of the Beiyang Department and Nie Guilin, the commander of the Feng army, all stood up proudly and responded loudly.

And the generals of the Jingbian Army, the Jilin Army, and the Qizi Army, all looked at Yiketanga who was sitting firmly on the chair.

Song Qing had a smile on his face and waited for Iktanga with a smile.

There was a sudden silence in the house, and the saying 'one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers' suddenly appeared in everyone's heads.

Seeing that everyone's eyes were on him, a hint of gloom flashed on Iktanga's face.

- Song Qing is forcing me to make a statement, TM's dismount is coming too quickly, right?

And in this old guy's words, there is no problem at all, if he doesn't drink this glass of wine and passes it to the emperor, wouldn't it mean that I, Yaoshan, deliberately embarrassed Song Qing and dragged him back!

"Haha, Song Junmen and the generals are so proud, if you want to come to the emperor to know, you must be very appreciative."

Iktang laughed and stood up with a glass and said: "Song Junmen and the generals only lead the army to go on the expedition, and these nine cities are guarded by our Jingbian Army and the Japanese capital, ensuring that the city is in the people, and the city is dead." ”

The smiles in the room suddenly froze, and everyone was dumbfounded.

Even Song Qing didn't expect that this Yaoshan not only calmly took over his moves, but also immediately counterattacked with a punch, and actually wanted to compete with him for Jiulian City.

"He is in Jiulian City, so where is my Song Qing going to squat? It's just too deceitful! ”

Song Qing's face changed suddenly.