"In the eyes of the emperor, ministers and hundreds of millions of people in the world, they always think that Shanhaiguan is the first male pass in the world, but the era is different, and the ——, in the hands of the Japanese are no longer holding big swords and spears."

Liu Kun sighed and said angrily: "This brick wall, which is dozens of miles long and no more than six or seven meters high, where can it block the flowering cannons and explosives bags of the Japanese people?" ”

"Governor, immediately let all the soldiers go up to the city wall and set up guns to prevent the Japanese soldiers from raiding! ——From the old dragon's head to the eastern slope of Jiaoshan Mountain, the twenty-mile city wall, Huanxi Ridge is high and dangerous and difficult to attack, and the north of the main city is blocked by the three outer cities, and these five miles are expected to be safe; The rest of the city walls can be broken through the wall, especially to the east of Huanxi Ridge, where the old dragon head is close to the sea wall. ”

The literati Yi Shunding, after listening to Liu Kunyi's heartfelt words, his legs trembled, and he was a little unsteady.

He looked at the Great Wall that was empty and there were few Qing troops on guard, and his face turned pale: "There are still 16,700 soldiers and horses at our pass, and there are two soldiers on average in one meter of the fifteen-mile city wall, and it is not impossible to hold it with 10,000 guns!" ”

"It's not time to go to town yet!"

Liu Kun looked at the sky-high beacon fire in Jiaoshan and the abnormal movement of the Japanese army in the north, and forcibly endured the panic in his heart, and said with a blue face:

"See, He Changying's artillery battalion is setting up horse-drawn cannons; This kid can get out of the way, at least in terms of vision, much better than those veterans in us. ”

"He Changying wants to run! Where did he get so daring, didn't he want to die? ”

Yi Shunding was furious when he heard this, hating and admiring.

"He didn't dare to run, the court had killed so many fugitives, he was not a madman or a fool!"

Liu Kunyi said in a cold voice: "Not surprisingly, he will soon send someone to remind the old man of this 'mediocre', the Japanese want to avoid the three cities outside the Guan, mainly attack Shanhaiguan, persuade the old man to order the retreat, and take the initiative to carry this black cauldron!" ”

As soon as Yi Shunding heard that he had withdrawn from the army, he couldn't help but feel strong in his heart, and suppressed the strangeness in his voice and asked, "Duxian, what should we do?" ”

"He is so beautiful that he thinks about it! Once the old man orders to retire, Ming'er will have to go to prison, raid his home and ask for 10,000 years, following in the footsteps of Ye Zhichao; On the contrary, these villains are cheaper! ”

Liu Kun's face was distorted and said: "If he dares to propose the withdrawal of the army, he said that the Japanese want to fight Shanhaiguan and not attack the three cities outside the Guan, so the old man will take advantage of the situation to mobilize the troops of the three cities outside the Guanhai to defend Shanhaiguan!" ”

There are still some words, Liu Kunyi did not make it clear to Yi Shunding, and said it thoroughly.

As long as He Changying takes the bait, then he must return to the city to guard the city.

And once the barrier is broken, Liu Kunyi will be able to stab the emperor about He Changying's sneaking out of the artillery camp before the war and persuading him to withdraw from the army.

said that He Changying 'fled before fighting', and put all the responsibility for the loss of Shanhaiguan on his 'battle'.

And in the morning, Wu Dacheng, the assistant of military affairs, said, "With our Hunan army here, even if the Japanese really break through Shimen Village and dare to come to Yongping to provoke, they will definitely not be able to eat and walk around, and kill him cleanly!" ’

Liu Kunyi also left the text unchanged, and the telegram that did not change a word was played to the Tongzhou Telegraph Bureau, which was to give Wu Dacheng a trap in advance, and once he lost Yongping Mansion, it was his responsibility for Wu Dacheng.

"The Governor—"

Yi Shunding suddenly remembered something, and said anxiously: "What if He Changying doesn't come to report?" ”

Liu Kun was stunned for a moment, and only after a while did he say viciously: "Then they will let the old man stay outside the gate honestly, don't think about withdrawing into the gate and a single soldier!" Waiting for the Japanese to break through, the three cities outside his pass will become a lonely city, a dead city! ”

January 3 of the Western calendar, the seventh day of the first lunar month.

It was 12 o'clock sharp.

Nanshuijing, Japanese position.

"Report, the 22nd Wing has entered Jiangzhuang Village to stand by."

"Report, the 18th Wing has entered Wangjialing and is on standby."

"Report, the 6th Wing is assembled on the front line of Beiyingzi and Mengzhuang."

"Report, the 7th Wing has been assembled in Xiguanmen Village."

"Report, the 16th Wing, the 4th Wing, have been assembled in the East Battalion."

"Report, the second and third cavalry brigades, assembled in Mengzhuang and standby."

"Report, the 1st Heavy Artillery Wing, the 3rd and 5th Artillery Wings, entered the designated positions and stood by."

"Report, the squadrons of engineers have arrived at their respective predetermined points, waiting for the order to assault and blast."

Youpeng of Shanxian stood at the top of the slope and looked at the line of the Great Wall in the south: "After the breakthrough, except for the third brigade to continue to besiege the three cities outside the pass, the rest of the troops went straight to Yongping Mansion to eliminate all the routs along the way!" ”

Then, he frowned and looked at the three cities outside the gate like a turtle shell and ordered: "After that, the third brigade and the 19th wing, enter the defensive state,—— quickly inform Kuri Iihara not to entangle with those mountain rats anymore, and garrison the camp at the mouth of the two rivers to block the dead north road; The 3rd Brigade is responsible for blockading Shanhaiguan and the three cities outside the Guan, waiting for the 12th Brigade to arrive and completely annihilate it! ”

Yama Prefecture Youpeng has just received the battle report of the 12th and 19th Wings, which are attacking a hill at the mouth of Qiupi Lake, and although the results are remarkable, the casualties are also extremely staggering.

At this time, Shan County Youpeng took the time to understand that he had made a mistake in a fit of rage yesterday.

A group of mountain rats who had been hiding in the ice and snow for several months, but they themselves sent troops into the mountains to entangle them, which was simply to send meat to the mountain rats to eat.

So he immediately corrected his mistake.

"Hey!"

On the hillside, there was a roar of Japanese generals.

"Heavy soldiers, soldiers, field hospitals, and all departments of the corps should immediately prepare for the southward transfer of military funds; At two o'clock in the afternoon, the shelling began! ”

There are friends in the stinky poetry basket of Shanxi, and he roared loudly: "The 30,000-strong army to Yongping is the Dongfeng Tao Li Chen." The star envoy begs and I don't allow, Yanjing will belong to the spring in his hands! ”

Cockscomb Mountain.

At nine o'clock in the morning, after a jungle pursuit, after losing nearly 100 soldiers, the original department of Uri Rice returned to the Jiulong River in vain.

At this time, Kuri Iihara had already learned of the huge losses of the cavalry in the battle of Jiguan Mountain, and he was so angry that he shouted "wow wow" and waved his army to surround Jiguan Mountain.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, Kurihanhara took the remainder of the Fifth Cavalry Brigade, plus three infantry squadrons, as the perimeter guard, and dispatched the remaining five infantry squadrons, nearly 800 infantry to attack Jiguan Mountain.

For a time, gunfire erupted on Jiguan Mountain, and the Japanese attacking troops were immediately fiercely blocked by Huang Bojie's anti-Japanese army on the top of the mountain.

At about 10:30, when the Japanese attacking troops had suffered a lot of casualties and were about to reach the top of the Cockscomb Mountain.

Luo Minglei led the four platoons of infantry and battalion headquarters personnel of the independent battalion, nearly 300 troops, and suddenly launched a surprise attack on the eastern side of Jiguan Mountain, and immediately crippled a missing infantry squadron of the Japanese army.

Twenty minutes later, Luo Minglei's troops withdrew from the battle.

To the west of the mouth of the Jiujiang River, Shi Weicheng led three infantry platoons and more than 120 soldiers to appear in the forest belt on the west bank of the river and carry out a fierce attack on the remnants of the cavalry in the west river of Jiguan Mountain.

When Kuri Rice was so angry that he vomited blood, he concentrated the army under the mountain and attacked westward, and Shi Weicheng relied on the familiar jungle warfare, fighting and retreating.

And Luo Minglei's department in the east suddenly screamed and killed a horse gun, once hit the halfway of Jiguan Mountain, and Huang Bojie's department on the top of the mountain jointly attacked the Japanese army in the area around the top of Dongshan.

Kuri Iihara vomited a mouthful of blood at that time, and the order to shout 'Wow Wow' had already rushed to the troops in Hexi and immediately returned to the aid of Jiguan Mountain.