A few people followed, and saw that Liu Jun was already riding on the horse, and without any expression, he slapped the horse's buttocks, and then went to the northeast gate of Dandong.

Seeing this, several people hurriedly got on their horses and followed Liu Jun closely, and a dozen horses left Dandong City after a while, and then crossed the pontoon bridge by the river.

Liu Jun is indeed angry now. He didn't expect the Qing army to be so indiscriminate.

Song Qing's 50,000 troops, it is understandable to say that the Japanese army is shameless, and let the family take Liaoyang.

However, now, with the flames of war, everyone on both sides knows that the armistice agreement is waste paper.

Since it is waste paper, then they are all ready for battle, who would have thought that if they are prepared, they will let people fight this miserable, more than 50,000 people. It did not hold even two days, allowing the Japanese to break through the defensive line. Then he slammed all the way, and now it is less than two hundred miles away from Shengjing.

Although Liu Jun did not stay in the imperial court for long, he knew the ruler of this empire, Cixi.

Cixi, in Liu Jun's view, although she is awesome and coaxing, is in charge of the life and death of hundreds of millions of people, but this is on the surface. In the final analysis, she is also a girl, a girl, so she has a weak and superstitious side.

Shengjing, not only the location of the Shengjing General's Mansion, but also the dragon vein of the Qing Dynasty, where the emperor's ancestor is buried, the wild boar Pinurhachi, and the emperor's Taiji and other tasks. Cixi could not care that other places were occupied by the Japanese army. But that doesn't mean he will sit idly by and ignore Sheng Jing.

Now Liu Jun is worried that if Cixi knows that the Japanese army is approaching Shengjing. Would Cixi have gone crazy and let Li Hongzhang sign the armistice treaty?

Fortunately in the misfortune, Li Hongzhang obviously also knew Cixi's temper, so now he pressed this information in Tianjin and did not send it to Beijing, but he also reminded Liu Jun to hurry up, after all, he can't hide this matter for a long time, and the imperial court will know sooner or later.

Liu Jun knew that Li Hongzhang was doing this kind of thing this time. A few people Li Hongzhang can trust this, and Liu Jun can be so slack. So I was going to Sinuiju tomorrow, but I had to go overnight.

Now I am in a race against time, and no one knows how long this time is.

Sinuiju, the military headquarters of the 4th Army. Everything was so silent.

Bang bang, bang bang, Shoushan's room was knocked to the sky all of a sudden.

Shoushan, who was sleeping in Zhengxiang, was suddenly woken up by a knock on the door, and reluctantly got up and put on his clothes, and opened in a daze.

Seeing that it was Lin Zun, Shoushan rubbed his eyes: "What are you doing, you don't let people sleep." ”

Lin Zun looked at his hand with a frightened expression, and then stammered, "Still sleeping." The handsome man has entered the military department, and you are still sleeping. ”

Like a bucket of cold water poured on his body, Shoushan stayed there all of a sudden.

"Oh my god." Shoushan exclaimed, then dressed everything as fast as he could, picked up his waist, and ran to the hall as he ran. Before he could run to the hall, Shoushan was pulled by a person. was scared, but after taking a serious look, he saw clearly that it was Zhong Lin. Haven't spoken yet. Zhong Lin leaned close to Shoushan's ear: "Be careful, your head is in a bad mood." ”

With a grunt, Shoushan's heart suddenly jumped. Frightened, he walked into the conference hall, and then stood in front of Liu Jun, bowed his head, and waited for Liu Jun's storm.

Now, he has changed from disdain to awe of Zhong Lin. So when I heard Zhong Lin say that Liu Jun was in a bad mood, I was really a little scared in my heart.

But fortunately, it wasn't a raging storm that awaited.

"What are you doing with your head down, like a. Lift it up and let my brother look at one. Seeing Shoushan's twisted expression, Liu Jun had the intention to tease.

With a poof, Zhong Lin, who was following behind, laughed, and even Ding Ruchang and Duan Qirui, who were behind, couldn't help it and covered their mouths.

Shoushan said in this sentence with red ears and red ears. Raise your head: "Da Shuai, I don't know Da Shuai is late at night"

"Okay, don't say polite words, now tell me about the situation on the front line." Liu Jun waved his hand and motioned for Shoushan to get down to business.

Shoushan nodded, and gave a general overview of the situation.

After the capture of Sinuiju, Li Rong led the 3rd Division, the main force of the 2nd Army, and a brigade of the 4th Army. Under the leadership of the Korean rebels, they took Jeongju and are now facing the 12th Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army in that area. The Fourth Army and the Fourth Division of the Second Army, under the command of division commander Ran Xu, have now advanced to the Xinjin River and confronted the Ninth Brigade on the opposite bank. The main forces of the 2nd Army have now returned to Pyongyang.

After listening to Shoushan's words, Liu Jun nodded: "Damn, they're all old acquaintances." Speaking of this, Liu Jun stood up, came to the map and looked at it for a while, and then said, "I won't say much nonsense." Now the 1st and 15th Divisions of the Japanese Army have now advanced to Shengjing, and Shengjing will fall at any time, as you know, we are now negotiating with the Japanese, if the Japanese army occupies Shengjing, our parity with the Japanese army will decline, and only by taking Pyongyang can this situation be reversed, so Lord Nakado ordered our Lushun Army to take Pyongyang as soon as possible. So. Liu Jun said here, looking at the few people standing in front of him. Taking a deep breath, he began to give orders loudly.

Commands

There was a snap, and everyone straightened their waists and put their feet together, waiting for orders

"Order Ding Ruchang and Shoushan to immediately rush to the front line of the Xinjin River, converge with Ran Xu, and then immediately launch an attack on the enemy, repel the Ninth Brigade, and then quickly advance towards Pyongyang."

"Order, Duan Qirui, take over Sinuiju, be responsible for all military and political affairs in Sinuiju and concurrently serve as transportation, and be responsible for all grain and grass dispatching on the front line."

"Understood," everyone replied loudly, and then began to act separately.

After all this, Liu Juncai looked at Zhong Lin: "Send a report to Li Rong and tell him, don't nest in Dingzhou, attack with Lao Tzu, be sure to break through the Japanese defense line within three days, and then join the Fourth Army and encircle Pyongyang." ”

"Okay, I'll send it right away." Looking at Liu Jun walking towards the back, Zhong Lin asked, "Head, where are you going?" ”

"Sleep. Recharge your batteries and go to the front. ”

At dawn, the forward positions of the Lushun Army and the Japanese army were now silent, except for the whirring cold wind and the sporadic gunfire from time to time.

In the past few days, more than 10,000 people from the Fourth Division of the Second Army and a brigade of the Fourth Army, together with the remnants of the 12th Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army, have been fighting here for three days and five days for a large battle. But there is an unwritten expensive point, and in the evening, everyone rests. The next day, at dawn, the battle began again.

However, now, the forward position of the Lushun Army is indeed unusually busy. The artillery kept moving the field guns and the unconscionable guns forward, and the powerful infantry was rapidly moving to their respective positions.

A simple command post built with a few tree farms and a few bags of sand and some branches on top of it as cover, Li Rong was crawling in front of the bunker mouth, observing the movements of the Japanese troops on the opposite side.

It seemed that everything was quiet, except for a few patrolling soldiers, everyone else seemed to be asleep.

Putting down the binoculars in his hand, Li Rong asked his chief of staff, Mei Linhai: "Sister, what time is it?" ”

Mei Linhai was also one of the dozen or so people left behind when Liu Jun was a sentry chief.

The earliest people who followed Liu Jun at the beginning, in addition to Zhong Lin, Li Rong, and Mei Linhai, the rest was Wu Dalong from the training office. And the rest has been sacrificed everywhere.

What Mei Linhai hates the most is that Li Rong calls him an old sister, which sounds particularly awkward.

Mei Linhai's eyes flickered: "Can you call it well, can you call it well." ”

Hehe, Li Rong said a few times: "I forgot, this is not kind," Seeing Mei Linhai's face stretched, he stopped laughing: "Chief of Staff, what time is it?" ”

"Forty-thirty-five." Mei Linhai didn't look at it, and directly reported the time and picked up the telescope.

4:35 a.m. Li Rong lowered his head and began to ponder.

When I received Liu Jun's order, it was one o'clock, and now three hours have passed. Liu Jun's order was to attack immediately. Li Rong also carried out a special execution, so he immediately ordered the whole army to fight, and the attack began at five o'clock. Then quickly take the first-line position, strive to break through the Japanese position tomorrow, and join Ran Xu as soon as possible.

"Report, artillery ready"

"Report, the Fifth Brigade is ready."

As the time approached, Li Rong began to receive reports that the troops had been prepared.

"Report, the commandos are ready."

"Okay." Li Rong clapped his big hands.

Commando, he learned it from Liu Jun, although it is clearly a commando, it is actually a death squad. The death squad of more than 100 people believed that after the shelling was over, they would quickly arrive at the position and then quickly intersperse.

card, the time jumped to five o'clock at once.

"It's time." Mei Linhai raised his head and looked at Li Rong, who was standing motionless beside him.

Turning around slowly, Li Rong tidied up the military uniform on his body, and said lightly: "Let's start." ”

Boom, with a cannon shot, dozens of artillery pieces emitted earth-shattering sounds and smoke at the same time. One after the other is a constant explosion.

The Japanese army never dreamed that the Qing army would attack at this time, let alone such a large-scale attack. Many Japanese soldiers were bombed into the sky before they could figure out what was going on, or they were buried alive in the mud of the bombed bunkers.

The 10-minute artillery bombardment made the Japanese forward positions billowing with gunpowder smoke and dust.

"Kill, the gunfire just stopped. The shouting Lushun army was like a tide, and began to launch a powerful attack on the forward positions of the Japanese army.