Chapter 769: Looking North to Siberia
At this moment, whether it is Aritomo Yamaguchi holding a telescope on the high slope of Kokaiko Village, Katsura Taro, Ogawa Mataji, Hikaru Inoue, Naotoshi Osako, Kuroda Hissataka, Katsuka Tsukamoto, Masa Sato, and Shuichi Yabukiββγ
Or the Lijian Shangwen of Beiwangzhuang Village, Yuan Yeyan, and Uehara Yongsaku.
These Japanese generals all looked pale, and they couldn't say a word in a daze.
-- This series of unbelievable military actions of the Qing army was carried out with small fights and large blows, advancing with layers of blows, and the entire battle process was concise and rude.
Like an antelope hanging its horns, like chestnuts in the fire.
But they have all calmly achieved these miracles, and they can't help but be jaw-dropping.
On the battlefield, you can still play like this?
The 86 guns of the entire 3 artillery wings have become a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron!
"Command!"
Shan County Youpeng's face was like a cold and hard rock for ten thousand years at this time, and he didn't show any more expression.
"Hey!"
On a barren slope on the edge of the wheat field at the head of Xiaohaizi Village, all the Japanese generals stood upright and shouted in unison.
The lava of the volcano roared in the heart veins of every Japanese general, almost spewing out, about to burn everything in front of him!
"Order all the troops to stop resting at once, build ladders to climb the city, raise fires and cook; An all-out offensive at 11 a.m.! β
Youpeng in Shan County suppressed the anger in his heart like a mountain, and said coldly: "In this battle, I don't want a prisoner, and there will be no chickens and dogs in the city!" β
"Kill, burn!"
Lieutenant General Katsura Taro, the commander of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army, his face trembled, and his eyes roared with fire: "Let Langfang City become a huge tomb!" β
"Kill, burn!"
The Japanese generals on the small barren slope all roared in unison.
The north city wall of Langfang City.
"Hero, hero! What a group of warriors who are in the midst of thousands of troops and horses, taking the head of the enemy! β
After the battle outside the city began, Wang Wenjin heard the news and took a large number of officials from Langfang City to the north city wall to watch the battle.
After seeing the reconnaissance company raiding the prisoner of war camp and annihilating all the Japanese troops, I saw the reconnaissance company and the Qing prisoners of war holding rifles and clubs, fighting bloody battles with 3 Japanese reinforcement squadrons.
After seeing the six thunderous attacks of the cavalry regiment in the Japanese artillery position, and seeing that under the cover of the cavalry, more than 2,000 infantry successfully returned to the direction of Langfang City.
Wang Wenjin, Hou Bolin, Wan Benhua ββ, a group of Qing officials, all shouted excitedly, all of them were like drinking alcohol, shaking their heads, and admiring the knots.
In the midst of the horses running back, Zhao Dabang, the commander of the cavalry regiment, suddenly drove away from the horses, turned to the westward of the longitudinal horses, fished down on the horses, and pulled out the 'tiger' flag that was still planted on the earth to hunt and fly.
Then Zhao Dabang mallet bounced on his legs, and in the gallop of the war horse, he stood straight on the horse's back, holding the scarlet flag high with both hands, and ran to the north gate of Langfang.
"Good!"
There was a roar on the city wall, especially Wang Wenjin, who patted the city bricks with his hands to express the joy in his heart.
"Lao Xu, congratulations! You've got a good son-in-law. β
Jia Qisheng, who was standing beside Xu Bangdao, smiled and said to Xu Bangdao: "What a rare tiger general!" β
"The sharpest thing about Captain Zhao is not his courage and boldness, but his vision; He can always find the loopholes in the seemingly tight layout of the enemy, and choose the most appropriate offensive means to deliver a coherent and deadly blow! β
Major Yin Wenxin, a military staff officer on the side, also wanted to add points to his good brother in front of He Changying and Xu Bangdao at this time, with a look of admiration on his face, and said loudly:
"The hidden attack in the snow valley of Jizhou is also the most obvious example, there are so many small roads, Commander Zhao concluded that the advance squadron of the Japanese army would go there, and the result was that all the Japanese troops were completely annihilated in that snow valley!"
Listening to Yin Wenxin's words, Xu Bangdao smiled even more proudly.
He Changying was still a little dizzy at this time, but fortunately he drank low-alcohol wine (the Qi family only mixed it with water), otherwise he would have to get drunk on the ground now.
After listening to Yin Wenxin's words, he looked at Yin Wenxin and said, "You describe your resume before joining Gan Jun." β
"My lord, ββ, lowly position"
Yin Wenxin was looked at by He Changying's unangry and powerful eyes, and was hit by a word of the secret hidden in his heart, and he couldn't help but feel a little panicked in his heart, and his knees were weak and he couldn't stand.
However, when Yin Wenxin's eyes flickered, seeing He Changying frowning slightly, he immediately reacted, and he also knew that this was a rare opportunity.
So Yin Wenxin stood straight and looked at He Changying's eyes, and said loudly: "Report to the commander-in-chief, I was a bandit before joining the Gan army. β
Although the generals on the city wall were all slightly surprised, they were still smiling and understanding.
The officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty and the bandits have always been inseparable.
Many of the generals in the national training army were bandits and monks, and they were later recruited by the imperial court, and they became watchdogs for the Qing Dynasty to protect their families and defend the country.
Just like the current Ludong and Northeast China, you don't need to think about it to know that when the Japanese retreat in the future, they will definitely be bandits all over the mountains and the land.
Of course, these bandits were soldiers who were defeated by the Japanese army, roaring in groups of grass in twos and threes, fighting houses and robbing houses, while waiting for the court's recruitment.
"But beforeβ"
Yin Wen Shinichi gritted his teeth and continued: "The subordinates used to be Vladivostok people in Tsarist Russia, and the number of people building railways in Vladivostok in Tsarist Russia was extremely short, so they deliberately attacked the Chinese living in the Far East, threw them into prison, and then forcibly built the railway as coolies. The subordinates were not angry, so they united with dozens of workers, and together they killed more than 30 Tsarist soldiers, a second lieutenant, and two Tsarist engineers, fled to Heilongjiang, and finally joined a group of roving bandits, from Heilongjiang along Mongolia, to Shaanxi. β
Wang Wenjin and Hou Bolin on the city wall stared at Yin Wenxin in a daze when they heard this, but they didn't expect this black and thin tall bamboo pole to have such a 'glorious' origin.
"Vladivostok?"
He Changying looked at Yin Wenxin thoughtfully and said, "Your name is also fake, right?" β
Everyone looked at Yin Wenxin.
"Report to the commander-in-chief, his subordinate's original name was Tong Wenyin, but because he was killed by 26 members of his family, he had no shame to face the surname 'Tong'."
Yin Wenxin's face was calm, his eyes were as deep as an ancient well, and his tone was extremely light.
However, when everyone heard this, they were all chilled.
"Tsarist Russiaβ"
He Changying stood on the north wall of Langfang City, looking north.
His eyes seemed to cross thousands of miles of mountains, rivers, and primeval forests at once, and he was focused on the great railway that was traversing the land of North Asia.
Trans-Siberian Railway!
The railway was built in 1890 by order of Tsar Alexander III of Russia in order to connect East Asia with Europe and then completely annex the Far East.
In May 1891, Nicholas II, who had just succeeded to the throne but had not yet ascended the throne, came to Vladivostok to preside over the groundbreaking ceremony of the railway and began to build the great railway, which attracted worldwide attention.
At this time, it has been repaired for almost four years.
The extreme cold weather in North Asia has left the railway full of the corpses of slave laborers.
There were criminals and poor people in Tsarist Russia, as well as a large number of enslaved Chinese people.
In He Changying's memory, after the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese Qing Dynasty, Tsarist Russia took advantage of the "great merit" of forcing the East to 'return Liaodong', when Li Hongzhang participated in the coronation of the tsar in May this year.
Li Hongzhang was forced to sign the "Sino-Russian Secret Treaty" and began to build a branch line of the Trans-Siberian Railway in China, which was named the Dongqing Railway.
Officially touched Northeast China.