"Report, order from the commander of the military headquarters in the county county."

A herald cavalry captain walked in and handed over a letter.

"General Lijian, the 10th Brigade is stationed in a firm position, it is strictly forbidden to attack the Qing army, wait for the next order! - Shan County. ”

Seeing that Shangwen read the order, he judged it very imposingly: "It seems that at the time of the huge victory, this guy in Shanxian has not been carried away, otherwise I will have to give him a good touch." ”

In the face of the 'veteran' who fought all over the Toyo Satsuma and the two feudal domains of Cheung Chau in the 'Boshin War', everyone in the courtyard was silent.

By noon, the main forces of the Japanese 1st Army reached the Jizhou defensive line.

The headquarters of the 1st Army, the headquarters of the 3rd Division, the headquarters of the 6th Brigade, and the 7th Infantry Wing are stationed in Xiaomanhe Village, 4 miles east of the camp of the Chinese Army in Shangcang Village, Gan Army, just south of the 10th Brigade Regiment.

The regimental headquarters of the 5th Division, the 2nd Cavalry Brigade, and the 1st Brigade of the 12th Infantry Wing were stationed in Xidingfu Village, east of Xunzi Town and south of Cuiping Mountain.

The regimental headquarters of the 5th Brigade, the 18th Infantry Wing, and the 3rd Cavalry Brigade were stationed in Nianyugu Village, northeast of Xiacang Village and 5 miles east of Xiawotou Village.

The Japanese 1st Heavy Artillery Wing, the 3rd and 5th Artillery Wings, were hidden behind several slopes and forests two miles behind Xiaomanhe Village, and were guarded by the 6th Infantry Wing.

The front lines of the Qing and Japanese armies were generally fixed.

Nearly 10,000 Gan troops, 17 battalions of 8,500 infantry, 3 battalions of 1,100 cavalry, 6 80 rapid-fire guns, 28,000 Japanese troops, 5 infantry reinforced brigades, 2 cavalry brigades of nearly 1,300 cavalry (Tangshan captured nearly 300 batches of high-quality war horses), 3 artillery wings, 83 mounted guns.

The artillery shells of the Gan army were solid shells with almost no substantial damage.

Oriental artillery used grenade shotguns and high-explosive shells.

The Gan army only has the vanguard cavalry battalion and the vanguard broadsword team, which is equipped with imported Mauser fast guns, and the rest include Dong Fuxiang's pro-military battalion, which is holding antique breech guns in their hands.

This time, the vanguard battalion of the Gan army attacked the 7th Squadron of the Japanese army in Da'an Village, and Dong Fuxiang's pro-military battalion was only half reequipped with a Murata Type 18 single-shot rifle.

In the hands of the Japanese infantry, they were equipped with a large number of Murata Type 18 single-shot rifles and captured Daqing Mauser rifles, fast guns, and cavalry were all equipped with Murata Type 22 repeating rifles.

Although he didn't start the battle, in the eyes of people with a clear eye like Nie Shicheng, the end was actually doomed!

At 3 p.m., the 1st Army held a meeting of the military headquarters by a pond in Xiaomanhe Village, where more than 100 Japanese engineers were smashing ice and fried fish.

Commander of the 1st Army, Senior General Aritomo Yamayama, Commander of the 3rd Division, Lieutenant General Katsura Taro, Commander of the 5th Division, Lieutenant General Michikani Nozu, Commander of the 10th Brigade, Major General Naofumi Tachimi, Commander of the 5th Brigade, Major General Naotoshi Osako, Commander of the 6th Brigade, Major General Kuroda Hisada, Minister of Artillery, Engineer Shuichi Yabuki, Engineer Osaji, Chief of Staff, Major General Mataji Ogawa, Deputy Chief of Staff, Yoshimura Masa and Samanakasa, Minister of Supervision, Major General Naoyuki Yoshizawa, Station Supervisor Major General Shinoya Katatsu, Field Administrator Komura Shoutaro,——

At this time, a group of core generals of the 1st Army gathered on the shore, basking in the sun and drinking tea.

Seeing the power of the Gan army's shells and the breech rifles above the long line, everyone no longer had a little pressure on this battle.

"The troops are repaired today, and the artillery bombardment will start at 5 o'clock tomorrow morning, and a general attack will be launched at 5:30 to defeat the Qing army in one fell swoop!"

Youpeng in Shanxian drank a cup of hot old tea and began to give orders: "Artillery pay attention to artillery fire, don't bombard their artillery positions,—— it is the heavy artillery of the empire, in order to save silver, it is also an old-fashioned rack artillery, and it must be preserved." The 2nd and 3rd Cavalry Brigades formed a temporary cavalry wing, with Okawai Shinaka as the wing leader, and did not participate in the battle; Take the map of Yanjing. ”

Yama Prefecture Youpeng motioned to his adjutant Fukushima Anakasa, and then pointed to the map and said: "The sappers infiltrated outside Jizhou City tonight, and the telegraph line must be cut off before 5 o'clock tomorrow morning, after the infantry broke through the Qing army's line, the cavalry went straight through, took Sanhe, Shunyi, and took the squadron as a unit, cruising and burning and plundering Changping, Fangshan, Daxing, and Majuqiao Town, creating a terrifying scene, and deterring the Qing royal family from fleeing from Yanjing City!" ”

Speaking of this, Yama County Youpeng stared at the new Wing Commander of the Cavalry Wing, Nagaoka Gaishi, and said loudly: "Terrible! Do you understand? To scare the imperial ministers of Yanjing to death as turtles in the city, and to scare that no one in the Qing Dynasty dares to resist the imperial army of the empire! ”

"Hey!"

With the loud response of Nagaoka Waishi, the first cavalry wing of the Japanese army, which should have been captured alive by Qi Zhongcheng, the commander of the anti-Japanese army company in Pulandian, and who was imprisoned in the prison of the Yanjing Criminal Department at this time, appeared in front of the defense line of the Ganjun army in Jizhou nearly ten years in advance.

In the dark of the night, the Japanese army Kuroki Weizhen and his entourage finally arrived in Tongzhou after changing stagecoaches all the way and running the Qing cavalry were all dying.

What Kuroki didn't expect was that he was greeted by a closed door that was completely opposite to the enthusiasm of Jinmen.

The officials and generals of the Qing Dynasty did not see Hei Mu Weizhen's face directly, but ordered all these Orientals to be locked up in a dilapidated thatched house courtyard, surrounded by Qing soldiers.

made Kuroki Weizhen and the three of them all look at each other and are worried.

The Qing army has changed its face like this, is it a big victory? - Just how is this possible!

That night, Kuroki Weizhen, Mitsutomi Kamio, and Fujii Shigeta, one of them gnawed on a coarse grain nest that was as hard as a stone, and the three of them were huddled on a cold kang and covered with a dirty tattered thin quilt.

I was so cold that I guessed all night, and I didn't understand what the Qing army was cramping again, and what happened to the 1st Army of General Shanxian County.

On the second day, when the roosters crowed, the three people who talked all night with bloodshot eyes couldn't guess the slightest reason, and in the Ji Canal, 160 miles north of Tongzhou, the war between Qing and Japan had broken out.

At 4 o'clock in the morning, in the vast night, Japanese sappers climbed the telephone pole outside Jizhou and cut the communication line between Jizhou and Tongzhou.

At 5 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese artillery began shelling the positions of the Gan army in the Yinzi, Shangcang, and Xiacang defense lines.

The rampant grenades first attacked the three cavalry battalions of the Qing army, and the Qing cavalry and war horses, who only relied on a layer of sheepskin tents to protect themselves from the cold, died in pieces under this sudden bombardment.

The three cavalry battalions then broke up and fled.

At 5:10 a.m., in the twilight of the day, after the Japanese artillery broke the cavalry camp of the Gan army, the artillery immediately shifted the bombardment target and began to clear the Gan army camps.

The soldiers of the Gan Army, who had long been frightened by the continuous artillery fire, were all running around shouting on the position, or lying on the ground to avoid bullets in what they thought was right.

Under the ploughing of the Japanese artillery fire, in less than 10 minutes, a large number of Gan troops began to flee, and Major General Ogawa Matsuji, who had been closely monitoring the battle situation, immediately ordered to stop the shelling, and the Japanese attacked on all fronts amid the sound of military trumpets.

The entire defense line of the Gan army immediately collapsed, and the army was defeated like a mountain!

"Let's go, the Japanese army has definitely cut the telegraph line, we have to inform the emperor of the matter here as soon as possible, and let the Jingshi prepare as soon as possible; - The emperor immediately went out of Beijing to hunt, which is the only way! ”

During the shelling, Nie Shicheng led his own soldiers to hide in a slope valley that had been planned in advance, and before he returned to the position of Shangwozi Village after the shelling, he saw the Japanese army surging like a black tide in the east, and the Gan army that had collapsed on the whole line.

Nie Shicheng's face was full of painful color, and he took a long breath of cold air and ordered: "All get on the horse, and immediately go back to Tongzhou to report the emergency!" ”