A chief came over and asked, "What's going on?" Didn't you say go to two? What about the other brother, Little Tartar, is it called Little Tartar, Old Ma? ”

The old horse nodded, sighed, and said, "The little Tartar is only nineteen years old, and he is as old as my son, alas, ......"

"He was a year older than me, and I thought he was younger than me. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Meng Qingfu said.

"How many devils did you kill?" The chief asked, turning his head.

Meng Qingfu said: "I hit eighteen of them, but I don't know how many were killed." ”

"That's killing eighteen devils." The commander shouted excitedly, turned around and shouted at the soldiers in the city and the trenches: "Meng Qingfu, the Nantong garrison, shot and killed eighteen devil soldiers by himself!" ”

"Well done!"

"Okay!"

The remnants of the defeated generals in Nantong immediately cheered, before taking over the position, this news for the Nantong garrison was more exciting than any other news, at least they had a warrior who killed and wounded a large number of Japanese troops, they were not defeated and cowards. The 1st Brigade of the 1st Division of the Jiangbei Army, which took over the position, did not believe in this battle report very much, and it was a myth that one person single-handedly killed 18 Japanese landing troops, right? Besides, he came back alone, not to mention killing eighteen, that is, killing thirty-eight, it was up to him to say it.

The Japanese landing force was indeed hit, not eighteen people, but twenty people, and the little Tartars shot two of them, but only thirteen Japanese soldiers were killed. After landing at the port of Langshan at such a small price, Suzuki Thirty-two ordered the search for the bodies of the Japanese soldiers who had been killed the previous night and a thick burial. He was in no hurry to move forward, and the other soldiers could not disobey this order, after all, if they died in the future, they also hoped that someone would find their body.

In the distance, the soldiers of the Chinese Brigade began to turn over the corpses of the dead, and Suzuki Thirty-two was walking on the Chinese soil with Araki Sa, looking at the green water and plains in the distance with great interest. If it weren't for the tragic sight of the corpses of the soldiers next to him, Suzuki Thirty-two would have composed a poem to express his feelings about leading his army to land on Chinese soil.

After the corpses were sorted out, Suzuki 32 ordered to continue the march, and under the leadership of the squadron leaders, the brigade advanced three kilometers with high morale, and then Suzuki 32 ordered the troops to stop and build positions.

"What? Not moving forward? ”

"On the other side is Nantong City, why don't you move forward?"

"We can occupy Nantong when we walk into the city, isn't the chief too cautious?"

"I have to say, our chief is a little too soft."

This aroused the opposition of many high-morale soldiers, but the Japanese were accustomed to obeying orders, and although Suzuki's military orders made them privately slander, they did not dare to react openly to their superiors.

Everyone had no choice but to start building positions with their heads down, but there was a lot of discussion in private.

Suzuki saw everyone's doubts, summoned the squadron leaders and said: "Everyone, I know you are complaining, but please remember that our brigade is only a temporary wing, and we don't even have a single artillery, so what do we use to attack Nantong City?" Is it really for us to storm fortified castles with machine guns and rifles? Previously, our advantage was only due to the cover of naval guns, but what if there was no cover of naval guns? If our battleships are behind us, I can give the order with confidence, but there are only a few gunboats behind us, how can I be relieved to let you attack, don't be stupid, stupid, just stay honest with me, repair my position within the range of the ship's guns and wait to meet the troops coming from Taiwan. ”

"Taiwan United?" Araki asked excitedly.

Suzuki Thirty-two said: "There are four troops about to arrive, the 16th and 17th Divisions, the Taiwan Wing, and the North Korean Wing. ”

"The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Divisions?" Araki was shocked, "Aren't you not sending the army to fight?" Why...... Why did they come back? ”

Suzuki Thirty-two said with a smile: "It's not because of the prestige of Saionji, he strongly asks for the abolition of these two divisions, he thinks that only sixteen standing divisions are enough, so the sixteenth and seventeenth divisions can be abolished, just like the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth divisions." (Fifteen divisions and guards divisions, a total of sixteen divisions.) ）

Araki said, "So in order to avoid being dismissed, Prime Minister Katsura Taro sent them here?" ”

"Yes, the 16th and 17th Divisions were stationed in Korea before, saying that they were guarding against the Russians, but in fact they were guarding against the Gongwang of Xionji Temple." Suzuki Thirty-two said with a smile, "There have been many heated debates in the cabinet about whether the 16th Division and the 17th Division should be set up as standing divisions. ”

"I see, this is really a high-level secret, if you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known this kind of secret." Araki sighed.

Suzuki Thirty-two said: "So I said that the military department is a bunch of stupid people, what is there to argue about, the prince of Saionji Temple must not dismiss all the imperial troops, in his opinion, money is the most important, but if there is no martial spirit of the Great Japanese Empire, what is money?" Don't forget, the Black Boat Incident made us a puffer fish to be slaughtered. ”

"You're right." Araki Samasa immediately said that at this time, he was already convinced by this commander whose knowledge and ability far exceeded his own. The Japanese army began to build barracks, building artillery positions, machine gun positions, trenches, etc. for the next troops, and everyone was in a state of fire, okay, he was an infantry wing, not an engineer brigade, and Chief Suzuki was not doing too much. So in the midst of a lot of complaints, the Japanese began civil engineering work......

The Japanese no longer attacked, Gao Zhaokui was a lot more relaxed, and at noon Shao Yongqin led the army to Nantong, and the garrison increased to 18,000 people, and the people who did not leave Nantong City were relieved a lot. In the evening, Li Shirui finally arrived in Nantong, took over the task of the commander of the Soviet and Eastern garrisons, and became the commander of this operation against Japan.

Li Shirui knew that the reason why the Japanese no longer advanced was because of the range of the gunboats, but he also understood that the Sino-Japanese war was not on the battlefield, but at the negotiating table, so he had to ensure that the Japanese would sit at the negotiating table honestly before the negotiation. However, it was not Li Shirui's style to let the Japanese build positions so honestly, and he began to organize marksmen to make it difficult for the Japanese to sleep, so he began to select sharpshooters for the whole army to harass the Japanese army at night.