On 16 April, more than 1,500 Japanese hot-blooded youths arrived at Langshan Harbor along with the cruiser Takachiho and four other Japanese warships, and they were arranged into the Chinese Wing. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoAfter all, the Chinese wing is composed of all Japanese, and these young people are integrated into the Japanese unit and have been taken care of.

The commander-in-chief of the Japanese crusade against China, Yokota Hajiro, was very excited, especially the arrival of the four warships made him full of confidence, and even Suzuki Thirty-two, who had never looked at this war, was full of hope for the battle, but he said cautiously: "Although I don't know much about this Li Shirui, I know that Wang Yongan, this person is a doer, and he will never arrange a nobody in such an important post, I think Li Shirui must have arranged a lot of precautions." ”

"You mean they're going to dig tunnels?" Hajiro Yokota asked with a smile.

Suzuki Thirty-two: "I think digging tunnels is just one way, and it's the most common way. ”

At this time, someone suddenly reported that the soldiers of the Chinese Wing and the soldiers of the Taiwan Wing fought, and the two hurriedly went to deal with it, and it turned out that some soldiers of the Chinese Wing used Japanese to mock some of the Fan Society members of the Taiwan Wing for not wearing shoes like wild boars on the mountain, and their Japanese was heard by a Fan She soldier who could understand Japanese, and immediately translated it to other Fan She people, so it immediately aroused the anger of the Fan people, and then fought, and as a result, the thin Japanese young man was beaten half to death by the Fan people.

Yokota Hajiro was about to punish Fanren, but was stopped by Suzuki Thirty-two, who smiled and said sinisterly: "The attack on Nantong City that is about to begin, it is better to let these energetic Fanren fight." Immediately after that, he said: "The Chinese Brigade originally had only 1,000 people, but after losing some people, it has now increased to 2,500 people, and its combat effectiveness has seriously declined. In particular, most of the members of the Chinese Wing are young students, sixteen or seventeen years old, and they are the future of Japan, and they cannot be sent to death. ”

Of course, Yokota Hajiro could not bear to send the Japanese youth to death, since the Taiwan Wing had been thrown into the Chinese battlefield, then the war against China would be inevitable, and it would be a matter of time before the Chinese were killed.

On 18 April, Yokota Hajiro and Suzuki 32 were planning how to attack Nantong City in their headquarters, and they planned to divide their troops into two routes, with the Taiwan Wing and the First Artillery Brigade attacking the Old City of Nantong, and the Second Brigade of the Taiwan Wing attacking the Nantong Railway Station under construction. (According to the Jiangbei Railway Development Plan, the Nantong Railway Station is already under construction, and it was originally expected to be completed within two years of the Nantong to Yangzhou and Nantong to Qidong County Railways) Although the foundation of the railway station has been built, it has not yet waited for the platform to be built, and now it has become a bunker.

What people didn't expect was that at seven o'clock in the evening of April 18, when the sky was about to get dark, there was a sudden fog on the river. The Japanese were also taken aback, although they knew the weather in Nantong, they were defenseless against this fog, and Yokota Hajiro shouted that it was not good, and immediately ordered martial law for the whole army.

At the same time, Li Shirui had long been prepared for a decisive battle against the Japanese army at Langshan Port. Although Wang Yongan did not make any demands on him, everyone knows that only by seeing real kung fu on the battlefield can we support the length of the negotiation table, and the eyes of the 30 million people in Jiangbei have looked at Nantong, the eyes of the whole country have looked at Nantong, and even the eyes of the whole world have looked at Nantong.

Li Shirui, a junior who was unknown before, has become the most concerned person in China, and his previous rumors have also been dug up, but no matter what kind of rumors, it seems to say that he is a Zhao Kuo who talks on paper, and even his experience of leading troops to fight the Mexicans in Mexico is easily brushed aside. Indeed, not to mention that Li Shirui is not famous compared to Feng Guozhang and other fierce generals, even within the Jiangbei Army, Li Shirui's reputation is not significant.

It is rumored that Wang Yongan, the king of Jiangbei, has thirteen Taibao and four King Kongs, and the thirteen Taibao are Gong Wuyuan, Huo Diange, Li Zuzhi, Chen Jian, Liu Hui, Han Linchun, Fan Wentai, Fang Xianwu, Shao Yongqin, Li Yao, Jiang Yanxing, Huang Zan and Li Shirui, and the four King Kongs are Jiang Dengxuan, Feng Heng, Xiao Xiangshan and Luo Yinxian. Among the thirteen Taibao, the youngest is Li Shirui, and the oldest editor is Shao Yongqin, these thirteen people have been entrusted with important tasks and are unique in their respective fields. It's just that everyone only knows that Li Shirui is one of the thirteen Taibao, and was appointed by Wang Yongan as the right commander in the battle of Xuzhou, the second route of the Qing army with Yuan Shikai.

But in the final analysis, the battle of Xuzhou was fought by Li Zuzhi, Liu Hui and Chen Jian, and when Li Shirui went, he just picked up a bargain, he was far inferior to Zuo Shuai Fang Xian to lure the enemy layer by layer, and almost cut Feng Guozhang's army into several sections along the Jinpu Railway. Therefore, everyone thinks that Wang Yongan is really crazy with Li Shirui, and they have deduced by themselves, if they are the coach, what should they do, and even many people propose that if it were themselves, they would have driven the Japanese into the sea a long time ago. Newspapers across the country also criticized Li Shirui, saying that he was conservative, that he was cowardly, and that he was afraid of the enemy.

The people in Jiangbei also criticized Li Shirui's army for more than ten days, but Wang Yongan said to everyone: "We are sitting in the rear and don't know about the suffering ahead, so don't criticize it, I believe that Li Shirui will definitely not be a cowardly person." ”

Of course, Li Shirui is not cowardly and fearful of the enemy, he is just a person who likes to hit with one blow, and he prefers to seize the enemy's weakness rather than sacrifice soldiers to force the onslaught.

This trait is related to his long tenure as a junior officer, who does not like the excessive losses of his soldiers and is not willing to make unnecessary sacrifices. Therefore, after he came to Nantong, in addition to sending thirty-six sharpshooters to fight and harass, but were surrounded and suppressed by the Japanese, he did not continue to send personnel to harass the Japanese, and the two sides seemed to live in peace for a while, but they were scouting each other's strength.

These days, Li Shirui has not moved, and he is trying all kinds of ways to try to wipe out the Japanese fleet. In Li Shirui's view, the weakness of the Japanese army is precisely their strongest point, that is, the gunboats of the Japanese Navy. If the Japanese defenders in Langshan Harbor were to be stormed, they would certainly be bombarded by six gunboats, and if they attacked the Japanese defenders regardless of casualties, it would take at least three days, and in these three days, the Japanese naval guns did not know how many Chinese soldiers they would kill, and Li Shirui did not dare to easily fill in his own soldiers.

Therefore, the first problem that Li Shirui had to solve was how to destroy the Japanese fleet, and if the Japanese gunboats could be left or sunk into the water, it would be easy to eat the Japanese forward troops.