Anger is anger, but as a division commander, he still has to deal with the things he should deal with, took two deep breaths, and adjusted his emotions. Gangcun sat back in his position, waiting for the cavalry to arrive.

"Report, Chief of Staff wants you to return to command immediately." The cavalrymen ran over, and before they had time to wipe off their sweat, they said to Gangcun, who was sitting on the ammunition box.

The ability of the chief of staff, Gangmura knows this highly talented student who graduated from the Imperial Military Academy. He is a very cautious character. Ordinary things can be handled, but now, actually let the signal soldiers come to find him to go back, Gangcun already has a bad premonition in his heart.

Bang, put the command pole on the map, and after the commander of the 14th Brigade explained the words of consolidating the position, he turned around and walked out of the bunker, turned over his horse, and returned to the village fort headquarters under the escort of the guards.

As soon as he entered the gate, he saw his chief of staff walking back and forth in the war room, as if he had encountered something important and tense.

"Division commander, emergency, our retreat is blocked."

What? Gangcun Weng's pause. looked at the chief of staff who said such a sentence to himself for no reason, and didn't understand what he meant by the blocked retreat.

The chief of staff estimated that he was too nervous and did not say the whole thing, so he immediately walked to the sand table and picked up the commanding officer: "Division commander, I just got the news that in the east of the outside, the number of the Third Army of the Liaodong Army has appeared, and it is moving towards us, and the Fifth Division of the Liaodong Army has appeared outside and behind it, and it may attack us at any time." ”

This means that it is surrounded, listening to the words of the chief of staff, Gangcun thought with a frown.

"West, what's going on West?" After thinking about it carefully, Gangmura found that the chief of staff did not mention the situation in the west.

At this, the chief of staff was stunned for a moment, lowered his head and thought for a while, and the command in the hands of the chief of staff circled in a large circle in the west: "It's strange, outside to the west, there is no trace of the Liaodong Army." ”

What does this mean, why has the Liaodong Army appeared on three sides, but not in the west, could it be said that this is the Liaodong Army on purpose, think about it. Gangcun slowly shifted his gaze to the west.

Soon, he showed a very satisfied smile, if he was not mistaken, he had already figured out why the Liaodong Army was not found in the west.

Quite simply, less than a hundred kilometers to the west, there was the 13th Division.

"Division commander, now we are surrounded by Liaodong on three sides, you see?"

Needless to say, Gangcun is not the kind of person who wants to save face and suffer crimes, and he knows very well what the situation of the 11th Division is now.

In the east, there is an army moving towards him, and the 5th Division of Liaodong and the 15th Regiment of the Tsarist Russian Army interspersed in the north have detoured behind him, and in the south, it is a force of nearly 20,000 people, he knows that he will definitely not be able to resist, and the only way, and the reason to preserve his strength, is to withdraw to the west, and then join the 13th Division.

However, now, Gangcun looked outside, it was at least nearly six hours before dark, and it was unknown whether the Liaodong Army would give itself six hours.

It seems that there is only a gamble, betting that the Liaodong Army has not received the news that the Fifth Division has been interspersed today, and then it will take advantage of the darkness to withdraw from its position and retreat to the west.

"Order, the 14th Brigade and the 15th Brigade, after dark, blow up all the heavy weapons, withdraw from the position, retreat to the west with the division headquarters, and join the 13th Division to the west."

This order was issued very quickly, and the speed at which it was issued was very fast, and in less than half an hour, the division and regiment headquarters in Gangcun had already begun to clean up.

In the front headquarters of the Liaodong Army, a shell that did not fire in the distance would reach the ears from time to time. Duan Qirui, who had just poured a cup of tea, was about to drink it, when there was a burst of artillery fire nearby, and then a lot of dust fell into his tea jar like rain over the position.

"Damn." scolded in a low voice, but Duan Qirui didn't pour out the tea, after all, it was a pity, that tea was a high-quality Longjing tea, which he bought with nearly a month's salary.

Dang, handing a cup of tea to Feng Guozhang, who was standing in front of the map, Duan Qirui took a sip and said, "Do you think Gangcun will retreat west when the Fifth Division is interspersed behind him?" ”

Feng Guozhang was actually thinking about this question just now, and without answering Duan Qirui's question, Feng Guozhang took a sip of the tea next to him: "If I were Gangcun, I would definitely not fight the three-way army here, I would definitely go west, and then converge with the 13th Division, thus forming a large corps." It's not easy to be surrounded by divisions. ”

En, Duan Qirui has no objection to Feng Guozhang's analysis, but now, the question Duan Qirui thinks about is, if he says that the first signal for the division to retreat, does he need to pursue or whether he should mobilize troops and eat it. asked him not to join the 13th Division, but he was a little unsure, so he wanted to refer to Feng Guozhang's opinion.

After listening to Duan Qirui's speech, Feng Guozhang already knew what Duan Qirui was worried about, lowered his head and pondered, Feng Guozhang raised his head: "The marshal meant to let us block the road for the Japanese army to return to the east, but not let us annihilate the 11th Division." “

Understood, Duan Qirui smiled slightly, what he was thinking was actually what Feng Guozhang said, cutting off the way to retreat.

"Okay, then let's stop fighting for a day and see what kind of decision Tagang Village makes." After Duan Qirui finished speaking, he slapped the logo of the 11th Division on the sand table and pinched it into a ball.

At the Lushun Headquarters, Liu Jun, who had just signed a document, had not had time to put down the pen in his hand when he saw Zhong Lin panting and running in without saying anything, and the telegram in his hand was swaying from side to side.

"Head, good news, good news."

Forget it, during this time, I said that all I heard was good news, and I was not surprised, I slowly put down the pen in my hand, Liu Jun looked up at Zhong Lin: "What makes you become this virtue." ”

"Head, the 11th Division has withdrawn westward." After Zhong Lin finished speaking, he excitedly handed the telegram in his hand to Liu Jun.

Retreating, as soon as he heard the news, Liu Jun stood up at once, came to the huge Far East map in a few steps, and began to find the location of the 11th Division.

Bang, the commander in his hand violently knocked twice on the position of the 13th Division of the Japanese Army, Liu Jun turned around and looked at Zheng Yiqian and Zhong Lin, who had come to his side: "Let Li He come to see me." ”