At 10:20, the cavalry regiment of the anti-Japanese army arrived at Xiagou and suddenly turned north into the Quanshui River.

"Qing Zhu actually wants to raid the empire's military grain and grass storehouse, it's really stupid and arrogant!"

In the telescope, seeing the move of the cavalry regiment, the big mountain on Xujia Mountain shouted 'wow'.

"Order the 2nd and 3rd Brigades of the 2nd Wing to turn to the southeast of Cotton Island, order the 1st Cavalry Brigade of Tokyo to move south to Cotton Island, and annihilate them with the 14th Coalition Army; Arrogant!

Because of the defense of 4,000 troops of the 14th Wing, Dashan Yan was not worried about the integrity of the heart of the second army's survival, but being fooled like this obviously made him extremely humiliated.

At 10:30, the Zhu Shunping detachment of the anti-Japanese army arrived at the battlefield of Monk Island.

At this time, the three infantry squadrons led by the Japanese army Marui Masaya Shaoza discarded the corpses in one place, and had led the remnants of the army to retreat to the Huangshan Fort of the old dragon's head, relying on the fortifications of the fortifications, resisting to the death.

Immediately, Yuan Sikai's department, Qi Youwei's regiment, Zhu Shunping's detachment, and Zhou Dingchen's battalion, after hurriedly cleaning up the battlefield, retreated towards the No. 1 heights of Nanguanling in the northwest direction.

At 10:45, the cavalry regiment of the anti-Japanese army passed through the Cotton Island Peninsula where the 14th Wing of the Japanese Army was stationed, and looked at the Japanese troops who were waiting for them a mile away.

The two infantry battalions of the 2nd Wing of the Japanese Army, which had just received the order, turned around one after another and rushed towards Cotton Island.

"Cavalry brigade, attack south!"

At this time, the 1st Cavalry Brigade of the Japanese Army, which was stationed in the vicinity of Qipan Village in the Bohai Sea, had just received the task of pincerizing the southward attack from the General Staff and began to march south.

In front of the cavalry regiment of the anti-Japanese army, there were only the Jijiatun defense line and the Chenjiatun defense line in Jinzhou, where three squadrons of the 15th Wing of Gaoqi were stationed.

Whether it is Jijiatun or Chenjiatun, there are only 600 infantry garrisoned on the eight-nine-mile-long defensive line, and only 50 Japanese soldiers defend the average 300-meter defensive line.

For a cavalry regiment with more than 1,600 combat strength, this is simply a chick in front of the horse's hooves, which can be stepped into meat with one hoof.

At this point, after some planning by the anti-Japanese army, a series of dazzling attacks by various armies finally sent the cavalry regiment out of southern Liaoning.

Nanguanling, No. 1 Highland.

Shen Zhaoao put down the binoculars, with a faint, slightly thin and sharp confident smile on his face, and began to give the order to retreat: "Order all departments to retreat in an orderly manner according to the original plan, and return to the defense line of Tuchengzi." ”

At 10:50, with the loud trumpets, the anti-Japanese army stopped attacking on all fronts, and then broke away from contact with the Japanese army and withdrew to the south.

Leaving behind a group of Japanese soldiers who were scolding in a daze.

Xujiashan.

"Yaga, idiot, pig! What are these Qing troops doing? Aren't they short of food, and spend so much trouble just to send this group of cavalry out! ”

At the top of Xujia Mountain, Dashanyan saw that the Qing cavalry in the east swept over Cotton Island without attacking, and the Qing army in the west immediately began to retreat on the whole line, and couldn't help but hold back the anger in his belly.

This inexplicable battle, from early morning to now, has been fought for three and a half hours.

Although the first and second lines of defense of the imperial army on the 1st and 2nd heights, as well as the second ditch and the old dragon's head, suffered heavy losses, the Qing army mainly attacked the imperial positions in the rest of the positions, and the casualties were not small.

According to the information obtained, there are about 30,000 Qing troops entrenched in Lushun Military Port, if there is really a shortage of food, how much military food can be saved by pointing to the one or two thousand cavalry who broke through the siege?

"Not necessarily, nearly two thousand soldiers plus their war horses, this is obviously not a small number; Could it be that Lushun is short of military rations. However, by plundering the people, they can barely survive for the time being, but there is no hay and bean cake left? ”

The chief of staff of the Second Army, Odaiji Yasumun Daisa, guessed and said: "The people of Port Arthur have always made a living by fishing and serving the soldiers of the fortress, and the Qing army in southern Liaoning except for a sentry horse team in Jinzhou, the rest are all infantry and artillery, and they can't raise these war horses at all. ”

After listening to the words of Oji Yasujun, although the generals felt that this explanation was a bit too far-fetched, but what other explanation could there be?

The information asymmetry between the local battlefields made the generals of the Japanese Second Army only know that the First Army of the Shan County General had assembled 34,500 troops in Liaodong.

In Pyongyang and Anju, there are also stationed the Ninth Brigade and the Imperial Ronin 'Heavenly Bless Hero', totaling nearly 5,000 people.

However, what they didn't know was that in order to fight Shanhaiguan and carry out the decisive battle of Zhili, Youpeng of Shanxian County transferred most of the troops of the First Army.

In order to defend Mukden, four infantry squadrons with more than 800 troops have just been withdrawn from the defense line of the Yalu River.

It has caused a military vacuum along the Yalu River and in the entire Liaodong.

On the front line of Pyongyang and Anju, although the 9th Brigade and the 'Heavenly Blessing Hero' had an advantage in strength, they were beaten into a turtle with a shrunken head by the elusive guerrilla brigade.

Especially the 'God Bless Hero', inside and out, the Anju guerrilla brigade has annihilated more than 1,000 people, and the brave ronins of the empire have been beaten to hide in the city and in the bunkers, drinking, drinking and playing with Korean women.

At this time, in the minds of the generals of the Second Army, it is natural to think that this group of Qing cavalry is breaking through and fleeing, rather than going to fight and attack Liaodong!

"It's a pity that I missed the 2nd Wing."

The commander of the Second Army Station, Michiji Umezawa, put down the binoculars in his hand: "The cavalry is now in Qipan Village, and it's too late." ”

"The momentum of the Qing cavalry, even if enough preparations are made in advance, the little strength of the Jijiatun defense army can't stop it, let alone the Chenjiatun side of Jinzhou."

Yamachi Genji retracted his gaze from the north, and instead looked towards the thin line where the gunfire was silent, wondering,——What are these anti-Japanese soldiers thinking?"

Oji Yasumu and a group of staff officers were also bowing their heads in contemplation.

When the Qing army broke through the first and second lines of defense on the 1st and 2nd heights, but did not continue to advance north to break through, but marched eastward, the imperial staff of Xujiashan were confused.

Then the second charging Qing army, also leaving the empty position gap and not escaping, also chose to move east to rescue the trapped Qing army.

The Japanese staff vaguely felt that the Qing army might not be trying to break through this time, and it was very likely that it was a disciplined and premeditated decisive battle to defeat the Second Army of the Empire.

This kind of speculation immediately made all the Japanese generals and staff officers excited.

This is simply something that the Second Army has always dreamed of!

In order to prevent the Qing army from being frightened from attacking, the staff of the Second Army ordered that in addition to the 2nd Wing, troops should be sent to reinforce the old dragon head and plug the gap in the 1st and 2nd heights.

The 14th Infantry Wing and the 1st Cavalry Brigade outside the rest of the positions, as well as the 15th Wing stationed in Jinzhou and Jijiatun, the 6th Cavalry Brigade and 1 Squadron, more than 6,700 troops were on standby.

Only the 1st, 3rd, and 24th on the 30-mile front, and the 13,000 troops of the 2nd Wing, which will be replenished, were entangled with the Qing army.

The battle has been fought to this day, and the 25,000 Japanese troops who landed at the entrance of the garden, plus the 5th Engineer Brigade of Masao Baba, which was replenished from the First Army some time ago.

By this time, the Second Army had lost more than 3,500 men in combat and more than 1,000 in serious illness.

All infantry combat units, plus artillery, engineers, and baggage troops, only have more than 21,000 combat strength left.