But in fact, after the massacre of 800 prisoners of war, the people of Jiangbei became more and more supportive of Wang Yongan, and it seems that foreign countries were not abused as Yuan Shikai and others expected, but everyone expressed their incomprehension that he did not hesitate to offend military traditions for the sake of the people. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info but just a few days later, the telegrams sent back from Mengcheng and Yingzhou by reporters from various countries mentioned that the soldiers of the patrol battalion were really too much, causing the anger of the heavens and people, their slaughter in Mengcheng was still small, and in Yingzhou, these people were simply inferior to beasts. Not to mention that nearly half of Yingzhou's sturdy women were killed, almost all Yingzhou women were raped.

A month later, photographs taken in Yingzhou were published in domestic and foreign newspapers, clearing Wang Yongan's injustice, a pregnant woman who was tied to a stone mill with a thick stick stuck in her lower body, and it is unknown whether she was tortured to death or frozen to death. It is said that the woman's husband was one of the leaders of the city, and the woman was nine months pregnant, and she was about to give birth, but she did not expect to be treated so viciously.

The Jiangbei Army's retaliation against the 800 prisoners of war was also surprising, they stripped them naked and tied them to trees, and all of them were watered and frozen to death. Liu Hui hated these people so much that he did not shoot them or cut them with a knife, but froze them to death. The forest didn't have a name, but it got a new name, the Devil's Forest.

From a distance, there was a naked figure under every tree in the demon forest, and their bodies were stiffly bound to the trees, naked and hugging the trees tightly, and the snowflakes covered their bodies, freezing them all into ice sculptures. After seeing it, reporters from all over the world vomited one after another, looked like a ghost, took a few photos and didn't want to see them anymore, and left Yingzhou one after another.

The people of Yingzhou naturally did not forget the hatred of this massacre, and they did not allow the corpses to be put down, just to let everyone see that those who killed the people of Yingzhou would definitely not end well.

Liu Hui was also not polite to the other prisoners of war, who were not guilty of death, but after all, they were involved in the massacre, and after he brought the prisoners back to Huaibei, he used them to mine open-pit coal mines. The prisoners of war knew that if they wanted to live, they had to work honestly, waiting for the negotiations between Yuan Shikai and Wang Yongan to stop, so they had a way to live, so these people prayed day and night for the truce of the Jiangbei War, and they could go home after the truce.

Just when Liu Hui led the army to Yingzhou and Ni Sichong's troops were completely annihilated, the fourth division led by Chen Jian arrived in Bozhou and began to attack the 6,000 Zhili patrol battalion of Tieliang's department.

Tie Liang was a good general among the banner people in the late Qing Dynasty, and his ability was stronger than that of many Han officers, otherwise he would not have replaced Yuan Shikai and became the lord of the six towns of Beiyang, but because of the failure of the struggle for power with Zaifeng, Tie Liang was demoted. After Tieliang was demoted, no banner man could control the six towns of Beiyang, which was also an important reason for the rapid collapse of the Qing government.

Therefore, Tie Liang saw that the enemy was coming, and saw that the enemy was all cavalry, so he defended the city, as long as he held on to Bozhou, he could resist the fourth division of the Jiangbei Army, which was dominated by cavalry.

Chen Jian led the army to attack, the army was beaten back by Tie Liang's troops, and the Jiangbei army lost more than 300 people. Later, the artillery arrived at the front line, but the fourth division only had a dozen cavalry guns, and it was difficult to form an effective threat to Bozhou City, and Chen Jian had a headache. Hearing that Liu Hui completely annihilated Ni Sichong's troops, Chen Jian only felt that he was embarrassed, and he was not good at attacking the city, he fully realized that he was too reckless, and he didn't even investigate the opponent clearly, this Tie Liang is not an ordinary person.

Just when Chen Jian was anxious, a good news came, there was a team of Qing soldiers who wanted to surrender, Chen Jian didn't know if it was true or not, but this was his best chance to break the deadlock. Chen Jian boldly sent three hundred death squads into Bozhou City, opened the city gate overnight, and entered Bozhou City.

Tie Liang never expected that the Zhili patrol battalion led by him went wrong and actually betrayed him, Tie Liang saw that the general trend had gone, so he had to take advantage of the chaos to escape. But he didn't want anyone to take credit for his head, so after sending someone to surround him, he attracted the Jiangbei army to capture Tie Liang alive. After Tie Liang was arrested, the Shilu Zhili Patrol Battalion immediately stopped resisting and chose to surrender.

Chen Jian won the battle in this way, which made him very uncomfortable, he knew that Liu Hui had killed 800 prisoners, so he asked if the Zhili patrol battalion had also slaughtered the people, but the people of Bozhou said that the Zhili patrol battalion had not slaughtered the people, but only extorted the people, and at the same time forcibly requisitioned military rations from those rich households. After all, this Tie Liang was born as an officer, and he would not act like Ni Sichong without a bottom line, so Chen Jian had no choice but to escort them to Huaibei and did not abuse these people. Tie Liang was captured, and it also announced the destruction of the Qing army's third route, and Yuan Shikai's fourth-route army was defeated on both sides.

At the same time, Yuan Shikai did not care about the fourth road but made progress, led by Wang Tingzhen the forbidden army (after the establishment of the Republic of China, it was reorganized into the 16th Division of the Beiyang Army), five battalions of patrol battalions in Shandong, ten battalions of eight banner soldiers, a total of 30,000 troops, in the early stage after encountering Haizhou military and civilian resistance and then retreating to Shandong, Yuan Shikai was furious.

Previously, Japanese staff officer Koichiro Tachibana asked for a Japanese instructor to supervise the war, but Yuan Shikai refused at the dinner, because Yuan Shikai still did not like foreigners to intervene in the civil war. But with the fourth road retreating to Shandong, and the reason was that the Eight Banners were not far away from the Jiangbei Army, Yuan Shikai was angry enough, Lao Tzu gave you bannermen to guard the country, you are not willing to fight, so pay it back?

So Yuan Shikai rediscovered Tachibana Koichiro, and Tachibana Koichiro had long known that Yuan Shikai would look for him, and directly told him that in fact, 300 Japanese instructors had already gone to Shandong, and as long as they got orders, they could assist Wang Tingzhen in commanding the battle. However, Yuan Shikai believes that the number of 300 Japanese instructors is too much, so it is better to reduce it to 30.

Koichiro Tachibana smiled and asked if you invited us to watch the play, or did you come to assist in supervision, if you are watching the play, you don't need 30 people, let's assign three reporters with the army.

"Japanese soldiers are not gods, and they cannot command 30,000 Chinese with 30 people." Koichiro Tachibana finally concluded.

Yuan Shikai could only agree to their request, but then demanded that they must change into the uniforms of the forbidden army and not wear the uniforms of the Japanese army, so as not to be known by outsiders and make irresponsible remarks. Tachibana Koichiro sneered in his heart, the Japanese instructors supervised the war, which was the result of consultations between the ambassadors of Japan, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and other countries, and the purpose was to eliminate the Jiangbei Army led by the ultranationalist Wang Yongan and eliminate the rising Chinese consortium, and they would definitely not say anything. However, because of the complexity of Sino-Japanese relations, Tachibana Koichiro still agreed to Yuan Shikai's request, and the 300 Japanese instructors could only wear the uniforms of the forbidden army to command the battle.

With 300 Japanese instructors supervising the battle, the Qing army's fourth route had to regain its spirit and march to Haizhou.