Night.

Kailuan Coal Mine, Kaiping Town.

Jin Manlou.

"——Guan Yun guarded Xiakou for a long time, standing still, and there were 10,000 enemy wings De Zilong; The children protected the land and joined the army bravely, and Liu Zhijun ascended to the heights, and the shadows of the eight directions followed. ——”

The building was steaming hot, like cooking oil on a blazing fire.

Liu Kunyi, under the compliments of the civil and military forces, smoked a big cigarette, drank a little wine, ate delicious food, and was very happy with pride.

"He Changying is indeed a rare good general, but he is too young and vigorous, and his mouth is hairless; As for the division of troops to guard the Tianjin Gate, according to the old man's wishes, he sent a battalion of soldiers over, and connected with the two thousand new troops at his Dagu military station, two or three thousand soldiers and horses were resting there, and no one could say anything. ”

Liu Kunyi took a sip of spicy wine into his stomach: "However, I didn't listen to the old man's good words, and I forced out the 8 battalions of the army and 14 artillery pieces, what is the result now?" The emperor issued an edict to make a wedding dress for Wu Hongluo in vain, and even the military station he built at a cost of hundreds of thousands of taels of silver became the fruit of the Luo army. ”

"This is simply harming oneself and others!"

Yi Shunding smiled and quipped, 'admiration' from the heart.

"Duxian, this kid has transferred three or four thousand troops at once, and our troops have been greatly reduced, especially those rapid-fire guns; Tsk, what a pity! ”

He Minggao's face was full of worry.

"It doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt; The 10,000 Gan troops in Jizhou are all northwestern men who lick blood from the knife all the year round, and their marksmanship is sharp and can penetrate the Yang in a hundred steps. ”

After smoking two bags of cigarettes that he hadn't seen for a long time, Liu Kunyi's dimension became unprecedentedly sensitive:

"If you say that the first time you killed one by one thousand against two hundred, you only killed thirty people, and you won more than you few; This second battle is seventeen against thirty-two people, and they are all cavalry against cavalry, these seventeen Gan soldiers slaughtered the Japanese soldiers, and only three people died! ”

The private room was quiet, and listened to Liu Kunyi's words: "This kind of great victory, even the anti-Japanese army has never fought out, maybe we haven't arrived in Jizhou yet, and the Japanese soldiers will be completely exterminated by Dong Junmen!" ”

"Duxian said it clearly, and the Ganjun brothers are mighty!"

There was a sudden shouting in the restaurant.

For the sharp ferocity of the Japanese soldiers, and the brutality of killing people at every turn, the civil and military forces present are unwilling to face that group of beasts in their hearts.

At this time, hearing Liu Kunyi say this, his drunken head felt that what he said was simply reasonable, and they shouted one after another.

Liu Kunyi's face smiled indifferently, and the clouds were light.

It seems that the extermination of the Japanese is just a matter of talking and laughing.

In fact, in Liu Kunyi's heart, he also had a lot of opinions about He Changying's transfer of troops and artillery at the beginning, otherwise he would not have sent a telegram to Tongzhou to complain.

However, when he got the battle report from Jizhou, his heart calmed down.

Now the anti-Japanese army has gone 8 battalions at once, and there are only 5,000 troops left, and with the addition of 4,500 Dingwu troops here, the military strength has reached 6,700 people, which has completely surpassed the anti-Japanese army.

Then, you can also suppress this kid steadily!

Liu Kunyi has not forgotten a series of 'dirty' between him and He Changying, but as a veteran and important minister who has stood for decades, he has naturally learned to forbear.

It's not that you don't report it, it's just that the time hasn't come yet!

At the same time, in Liu Kunyi's heart, he also secretly praised the emperor for becoming wise and sophisticated.

The imperial family has always been extremely jealous of the civil and military ministers below to control the heavy army, and the emperor spent such a big price to bring down Li Hongzhang, of course, he did not want to see another towering tree grow on the ruins of Beiyang.

In particular, the relationship between 'this tree' and Li Hongzhang is so close.

I heard that He Changying, Li Jingfang, and Zhang Shiheng are brothers, and it is privately rumored that Li Hongzhang intends to marry his second daughter Li Jingpu to He Changying.

If these are true, then it is simply provoking the bottom line of the royal family, and sooner or later this kid will be 'rectified' into 'Zhang Peilun's second'.

This time He Changying transferred troops back to Jinmen, this kid was originally wishful thinking, Liu Gangzhi, the commander of the 2nd Regiment, was born in Dagu Fort, and he was the nephew of General Luo who had been served, so it was easy to 'eat' Dagu Fort.

Nie Pengcheng's department of the 3rd regiment, nearly half of the officers and soldiers are Nie Shicheng's old department, He Changying did not let them go to Jizhou, because he was afraid that Nie Shicheng would regain military power.

He didn't expect that the emperor would use his gradually maturing imperial means to take advantage of the situation to strip away his five or six thousand troops in one fell swoop, and eat up the Dagu military station he had painstakingly managed.

The 2nd and 3rd regiments are not He Changying's descendants, and if they come in a few days, they will have nothing to do with He Changying's kid.

It's just stealing chickens and rice!

Just thinking about it makes people happy to want to 'float a big white'.

"Ziyo-"

So, Liu Kunyi, who was in a good mood, raised his wine glass again and 'soothed' a glass of spicy wine.

It's so enjoyable!

The boundary of Jinmen, five miles northeast of Hanfeng Town, on the east bank of the Coal River.

Angus, Bruce, Bert, Bill, Shi Weicheng, and six soldiers of the independent battalion, after marching all the way, tired and tired, finally approached the town of Hanfeng in the night.

The horse team walked slowly on the river embankment post road, and you could see the warm lights of the town, and it made people anxious to look at it, and they wished to step there in one step.

Then find an inn, hand over the war horse to the guys, and everyone will eat and drink lively, then take a hot bath, and then sleep beautifully.

Get up early tomorrow morning, and strive to be able to get to Tianjin Gate as soon as possible.

After arriving in Tangshan this morning, Li Yuanyang and a few soldiers stayed behind to find a suitable camp site for the main force to arrive in Qiaoshan Town in advance, so Shi Weicheng escorted the next safe journey.

"Aha-"

Bruce's drunken body on the horse shook: "God forbid, I finally arrived at a place free of blood and war, and the corpses I saw along the way will become a nightmare that I will never forget for the rest of my life!" ”

At this time, the horse team walking on the post road passed by a wheat field where most of the snow had melted, and the wheat seedlings that were not colorless under the lights grew very pleasantly.

A scarecrow with a wooden pole was erected on the side of the road.

"Lieutenant colonel, what kind of country is your Austro-Hungarian Empire, is it big or not?"

At this time, Shi Weicheng, who was walking in front of the team and holding a torch to light the way, slowed down his horse very casually, looked back at Lieutenant Colonel Angus with a smile, and seemed to be waiting for his answer.

"How did this weird guy become so curious?"

Angus was slightly surprised, but he slowed down his horse, ready to answer Shi Weicheng's question, telling him that his country was rich, powerful, and beautiful.

——

"Wang Yitong, are you allowed? Don't-"

"Bang!"

——

"Bang!"

A gunshot rang out, and Angus's world was plunged into permanent darkness.

At this point, he didn't have time to say a word.

"There is an ambush, there is an ambush!"

There was a shout in the ranks.

"Bang!"

"Yu—"

Another shot came, and a horse neighed and was shot and overturned.

"Extinguish the torches, extinguish the torches!"

With Shi Weicheng's shouting, the soldiers threw away the torches in their hands one after another, and the torches were immediately extinguished in the snow.

It was dark all around.

The cold guns then stopped firing, so that it was impossible to determine the enemy's position through the muzzle flames.

At 20 o'clock on the night of February 15, 1895 in the Western calendar, Angus, a lieutenant colonel of the Austro-Hungarian Mountain Chasseur Regiment who came all the way to the Qing Dynasty to serve as an instructor of the anti-Japanese army, was sniped by an unknown cold gun on the way back to Tianjin.

Dead!

When the news came out, the anti-Japanese army and the mountain naval regiment all shouted.

National wars, in a great era, for greater purposes, sometimes have nothing to do with right or wrong, nothing to do with small kindness, little justice.