The officers of the Korean reinforcement army in the tent were all the best in the Qing Dynasty for a while, and they all understood the meaning of He Changying's words, and they couldn't help but feel chills in their hearts. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"it!"

Mao Chao reacted at this time, and couldn't help but scold in his mouth.

He Changying took out the Western gold watch that Li Jingfang gave him when he was leaving, glanced at it and said: "It is now a quarter past three o'clock in the afternoon, and there is still some time before dark. ”

Except for Wu Weiyang, Shen Zhaoao, Lin Yunyu, and Peng Qianyan, the rest of the generals were stunned.

I don't understand why the battalion commander led the reinforcement army to leave Pyongyang since the big war was about to start.

"I still say the same thing, I'm not afraid of losing when I play cards, I'm afraid that my teammates are pigs! If these friendly forces in Pyongyang had been able to fight for some momentum, I would not have dragged everyone out to eat and sleep in the open. ”

"Haha-, battalion commander, it's not hard!"

He Changying's words made the generals of a tent laugh, and the solemn atmosphere couldn't help but relax a little.

"The hope of the Korean reinforcement army is in the future, not to fight hard with the Japanese army under the city of Pyongyang; As the saying goes, the army is amorphous and the water is amorphous, why the reinforcement army was able to achieve the victory of Dongxian Ridge is because we can go out and actively look for fighters; In the same way, the Korean reinforcement army sent troops to Pyongyang this time, but also to go out to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese army in the opposition and destroy the enemy in the movement! ”

He Changying now instills the idea of guerrilla warfare in his subordinates as long as he seizes the opportunity.

In He Changying's view, in the era of the late Qing Dynasty, there were no anti-heaven weapons such as aircraft and tanks, and it was the right choice to fight the Japanese army and Tsarist Russia, including the possible future operations with the Western coalition forces, to carry out harassment guerrilla warfare along the way, and to carry out surprise blitzkrieg like Mount Tai's overwhelming peak, rather than fighting siege warfare and positional warfare.

"How do you tell Ye Zhichao?"

Wu Weiyang, who is a little older, feels that this matter is a little tricky: "Ye Zhichao has placed half of his troops on the front line of Suzhou, Anzhou, Guicheng, and Yizhou, and now everyone in Pyongyang can see that he wants to escape, and he is not as good as a pig and a dog; If the reinforcement army leaves Pyongyang now, once Pyongyang falls, will he shirk his responsibility and pour dirty water on us? ”

"We don't retreat to the north but to the south, what excuse does he have for framing the Korean army?"

He Changying looked at the simple sand table placed on the ground, looked over the small branch that symbolized the Datong River Boat Bridge, and then looked northeast, sixty miles away from Pyongyang City, in Gangdong County.

If history had not changed much, today, September 12, 1894, the Japanese army led more than 2,400 troops of the Shuoning detachment under Major General Lijian Shangwen, passing through Jiangdong City and arriving at the Yuanshan Avenue ferry on the Datong River.

The Qing troops of the Zuo Gui Division, who were guarding the ferry, saw that the Japanese army was strong, and only a few shots were fired across the river, so they hurriedly withdrew to Pyongyang.

It is estimated that by noon tomorrow, Zuo Guigui and Ye Zhichao will get the news, so the army aiding the DPRK must cross the river with all their divisions tomorrow morning and get out of the quagmire of Pyongyang.

At this time, a mixed brigade of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army, with a strength of about 4,700 troops, under the leadership of Masadasa, commander of the 18th Infantry Wing, had already crossed the river in the upper reaches of the Taedong River yesterday, arrived at Pyongseong on the back of Pyongyang today, and would arrive at the Shun'an Post tomorrow, completely cutting off the road of the Qing army's northward retreat.

He Changying thought about the scope of his butterfly's wings, which should only be Oshima Yoshimasa's Ninth Brigade now, and indirectly affected the headquarters of the Fifth Division of Michikani Tsuno, which followed behind.

And for the Shuoning detachment and the Yuanshan detachment, there should not be any impact yet.

In this era, the flow of information is extremely slow, and human beings, who act with foot power and horsepower, are divided into independent areas that do not affect each other in a certain unit of time.

And He Changying is ready to use the independence of this time fragment at this time, like a tiger hidden in the dense forest, looking for an opportunity to bite down a large piece of fat on the bodies of the Shuoning detachment and the Yuanshan detachment.

"Staff Officer Shen."

"Here!"

"Twenty-five horses were allocated to each company of the first and second companies, twenty horses to each of the third and fourth companies, fifteen horses to the medical hall, six horses to each of the reconnaissance platoon and sniper platoon, ten horses to the battalion headquarters, three Grimm guns and six heavy mules were all allocated to the first company; ――”

Hearing this, the company commanders of the second, third, and fourth companies all pouted unhappily.

"-- All companies and platoons were to be lightly armed, and they were to carry enough dry rations for three days' march; All horses and heavy supplies were temporarily handed over to the cavalry company for transportation; The 60,000 rounds of ammunition that were obtained from the arsenal today were immediately distributed and distributed equally among the various departments. ”

"Yes!"

"Wu Weiyang!"

"Here!"

"Your cavalry company is responsible for escorting all the horses, carts, and all kinds of supplies, and will leave the Xuanwu Gate tomorrow morning, arrive at the destination, and carry out lurking."

"Yes!"

After saying this, He Changying frowned and glanced at the sand table on the ground again, and sighed in his heart Ye Zhichao, Li Hongzhang, these guys, what have they been doing for so long?

Today, when Li Jingfang was leaving, he gave He Changying a piece of criticism, but when He Changying went to the arsenal of the Qing army in Pyongyang City, he was immediately dumbfounded.

300,000 rounds of ammunition, 500 shells, ninety-three repeating rifles, one hundred and sixty breech-loading single-shot guns.

This is all the ammunition stockpiled by the Qing army in Pyongyang.

He Changying was surprised and asked Zhong Yilin, the assistant of the Pyongyang battalion, and learned that nearly 10,000 defenders in Pyongyang now carry about 300,000 rounds of ammunition, and with the inventory, each person can shoot an average of 60 shots.

About 600 shells were stored in each walled fortress, and each of the 38 guns could hold 25 shells.

These arms reserves, if only a few positional battles, are definitely more than enough, but for a long siege, it is obviously far from enough.

Although the Japanese Fifth Division came in a hurry and carried even less ammunition, they could continue to transport it from the country to replenish it and fight with the Qing army in Pyongyang.

The Qing army, on the other hand, had one shot and one less shot.

What's more, in the long and difficult battle to defend the city, the damage to the firearms was also extremely serious, pointing to the two hundred and fifty-three rifles in the arsenal, it is estimated that they will be exhausted after half a month.

This is also why He Changying intercepted the 2,000 Mauser guns and three Green guns, and all the generals in Pyongyang were very unhappy.

It's not Li Jingfang, it's not the victory of Dongxian Ridge, He Changying really has to spit it out obediently.

He Changying retracted her thoughts, no longer thought about this matter, looked around at the officers of the Korean aid army around her with a serious expression, and said in a deep voice: "From now on, the Korean aid army will be closed, and no one will be allowed to enter or leave without the permission of me, Deputy Battalion Commander Wu, and Staff Officer Shen; Ladies and gentlemen, for the sake of our new victory in aiding the Korean army, work hard! ”

He Changying roared: "Disband!" ”

"Kill! Fight the enemy! ”

In the big tent, the generals roared in unison.

"Kill! Fight the enemy! Fight the enemy! ”

Outside the tent, the soldiers of the Korean reinforcement army who heard the roar all followed suit, and then the roar of 'kill the enemy, kill the enemy' shook the entire Changqing Gate.

Ye Zhichao, Wei Rugui, and the generals of Zuo Guigui came to Datong Gate at this time, looked at the surging river, and lined up the generals for the Qing army fortress on the other side of the river.

Fight the enemy!

Ye Zhichao sneered in his heart, is this Japanese army so easy to kill?

This Pyongyang City, there is no such dangerous terrain as the Dongxian Ridge Sherenguan, you can use it for He Changying!

Originally, I thought of the face of the same Feixi Township Party, and put your troops to aid Korea in the city and not suffer from the war, but if you He Changying really don't know how to send you to death, there is really no one to stop you.

"Happy!"

Zuo Guigui didn't care about the faces of a group of Huai Army generals around him, and said with a laugh: "This is the heroic soldier of our Qing Dynasty, this is the heroic spirit of the Beiyang Huai Army when it fought the Taiping Army, fought the twister, and fought the French army!" ”