Dabaozi Village, Jiujiang River. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Knock, knock—"

A few Japanese soldiers were pecking at the ice on the river, while others were sorting out fishing nets from the deserted village of Dabaozi.

Yamaguchi Suchen, Sakurai Kuzaburo and a group of military staff officers stood on the ice of the Jiujiang River, watching the sappers peck the ice and fish.

This was the suggestion of Yamaguchi Suchen, and since the landing at Yingkou, the 3rd Brigade has been marching thousands of miles all the way these days, eating all the rice and dried plum pickles.

Now that the army is about to come to Shanhaiguan, it will be an exciting battle for a period of time, so Yamaguchi Suchen wants to drink this very symbolic, fresh fish soup from the river of the Qing Dynasty.

"Commander, follow the ice of the river to the west, pass by the winding mountain river, and walk all the way to one of the southernmost tributaries, and you will reach the Great Wall at the Nine Gates."

Hayashi Yoshitaro Shaozuo, a staff officer of the Third Brigade, stretched out his hand and pointed to the upper reaches of the Jiujiang River: "As long as the Jiumen Gate is captured, there will be a post road through the mountain behind it, which will go straight to Shimen Village on the west side of Jiaoshan Mountain; Capture Shimen Village, facing east can attack the rear wing of Shanhaiguan, facing south can go straight down Tangshan, Jinmen, Langfang, and the capital of the Qing Dynasty. ”

"These are not things you have to think about now, even if you can bypass the Shanhai Pass, heavy artillery and a large number of vehicles and military assets are left outside the pass, what are you going to do in there?"

Yamaguchi Suchen reprimanded Hayashi Yoshitaro and said: "Now all you staff officers have to do is to come up with a set of feasible plans for the Imperial Army to take Shanhaiguan; Instead of playing tricks on your odd soldiers! ”

"General, although this plan was not mentioned at the right time, it is only through the freezing of the river in winter to communicate between here and the Great Wall at the Nine Gates, where there was no road at all; The backwater becomes a pathway, which is not a wonderful backhand. ”

The commander of the 1st Heavy Artillery Wing, Sakurai Kuzaburo Osa, held the topographic map of Shanhaiguan drawn by the military headquarters, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that Hayashi Fangtaro had a brilliant vision.

"Sakurai, this sentence of yours exposes your lack of confidence in the Imperial Army's frontal capture of Shanhaiguan;"

Yamaguchi Suchen said dissatisfiedly: "In the first war, under Seoul, then in the battle of Pyongyang, to obtain two thousand miles of mountains and rivers in Korea, and then to break through the Yalu River, Yingkou, Liaoyang, and Mukden in one fell swoop, all of them were invincible by the Qing army in the first war; This is the first army led by the general of Shanxian County! Why can't you and I have 9,000 troops, with the heavy artillery of the fortress, be able to capture Shanhaiguan? ”

Sakurai Kuzaburo was silent.

In his heart, he thought of the ambush army encountered in Changshan Temple.

Although it was only four or five hundred men, it blocked his 1st Heavy Artillery Wing and Yamada Tadazaburo's infantry brigade into a quagmire and swamp, and it was difficult to move an inch.

In the end, he had to stop the march at Changshan Temple and establish a position to confront this group of elusive Qing troops.

At Changshan Temple, the imperial army was more than three times the number of the Qing army on the opposite side, but it lost nearly 200 troops inside and out, and the coolies almost fled.

As for the losses of the other party, in Sakurai's opinion, according to the high estimate, it is at most half of the imperial army.

Is it really so easy for such an army to defend mountains and seas to 'fall in a battle'?

"Commander, the Qing army that his subordinates and Sakurai Daisa met at Changshan Temple were wearing Western-style military uniforms, very similar to the supporting Korean army."

As a personal experience, Tadazaburo Yamada naturally knows the difficulties of that team, which is not only to justify Sakurai Kuzaburo and his losses along the way, but also a reminder of duty.

Regarding the Western-style military uniform mentioned by Yamada Tadazaburo, Yamaguchi Suchen had already heard the report of the two before, and now he heard the old things again, and he couldn't help but feel a little unhappy.

With a hint of anger in his mouth, he said: "This team of the Qing army and tens of thousands of Qing troops are being trapped in Lushun by General Dashanyan, and their fleet is also frightened by the imperial fleet and dare not leave the port, where is this army, do they fly over the Bohai Sea with wings?" It's just a trick for some Qing troops to wear Western-style military uniforms, could it be that if they change their clothes, the Imperial Army can't annihilate them! ”

"Yo Xi, a lot of fish!"

At this time, under the ice surface of the Jiujiang River, not long after the net was launched, the Japanese soldiers couldn't wait to get the net up.

Since it was the first net and did not have a long time to go to the net, according to the experience of their hometown, it was not bad for these Japanese soldiers to have a small fish to go online.

As a result, more than a dozen river fish were pulled out in a net, and the largest crucian carp was two or three catties in size, and it was fluttering on the net.

These Japanese soldiers were overjoyed and shouted one after another.

"Yo Xi! This is the Great Qing Dynasty, rich and beautiful, full of treasures; They have an old saying in China, - Qin loses its deer, the whole world chases it, - the fat deer of the Qing Dynasty, in this winter, it is the time for the empire to kill deer and eat meat; Haha, all the armies work hard, God bless the empire! ”

Yamaguchi Suchen's eyes were full of greed, and he laughed loudly.

The sound of laughter echoed throughout the river, in the mountains.

"God bless the Empire, long live the Emperor!"

Suddenly, on the entire Jiujiang River, on both sides, all the Japanese soldiers had red eyes and shouted desperately.

"The troops are here for two days of repairs, and on January 3, the whole army arrived at Shanhaiguan!"

Yamaguchi Suchen stood straight on the ice, looked at the south, and said in an unquestionable tone: "I want to take it before the general of the county arrives!" ”

"Hey!"

The Japanese troops all over the river shouted in unison.

In a mountain forest about a mile away, two anti-Japanese scouts dressed as local hunters stood in the forest, watching the Japanese soldiers in the river valley jump and go crazy.

"These inhuman brutes, Lao Tzu wanted to rush them with a gun; Bah! ”

It was a hunter king in Jinzhou who spoke, he hunted in the mountains, whether it was an alert fox, an agile mountain leopard, or a fierce wild boar, he only fired one shot.

Basically, one shot hits the fatal vital point of the prey, and one shot kills.

Of course, if a shot misses, for Wang Yitong, who has no time to reload the gunpowder projectile, it is the wisest choice to flee for his life when he encounters a fierce beast.

In Songshan Town, Jinzhou, because he hunted a good leopard skin, sold it to the town for a large price, he drank high and slept in a hotel, but was arrested as a coolie, not only suffered beatings and humiliation along the way, but also saw the brutality of the Japanese army.

So after escaping, Wang Yitong did not hesitate to join the independent battalion of the anti-Japanese army and became a scout.

"Brother Wang, don't worry, none of them can run, and the blood debt will be repaid; Our commander-in-chief and the anti-Japanese army are fighting so hard in southern Liaoning, and they will definitely not be let go here! ”

Wang Yitong's side is a recruit Wang Xinliang, who is less than 20 years old and commonly known as 'milky but not dry', a well-known young talent in Tangshan.

A few days ago, when he went to the street to buy New Year's goods, he saw the anti-Japanese army recruiting, he had seen He Changying's "The Scream", and heard about many glorious achievements of the anti-Japanese army in North Korea and Liaodong, so he couldn't help but go over to join in the fun.

Then he was fooled into pressing his handprint and became a recruit of the anti-Japanese army.

"I hope so."

Wang Yitong looked at the Japanese army in the distance and didn't believe a word of Wang Xinliang's words.

With this ability to command an army of tens of thousands, he will run to Shanhaiguan to lead two thousand recruits, well, he is also a recruit, but he is an old hunter, and his marksmanship is extremely accurate, of course, it is another matter, and he still traps himself in the northern wing of the city, waiting for the cannons of the Japanese to bombard?

That is, to fool stupid people like Wang Xinliang who are stupid in reading, who else can they fool?