Under the influence of Chai Dongliang's relaxed attitude, the thinking of the staff officers began to become organized. First of all, it is necessary to judge in what direction the situation will develop after the army occupies Mukden? Then the question was whether the advance army could defeat the 2nd Railway Garrison Brigade on the front. On the first question, everyone is very unanimous, saying that I will definitely expand the scale of aggression, and Longwangshu is the original surname of this nation. The second point is that everyone's opinion is also the same, Gu Mazi has more than 2,000 people under his command, the strength is twice that of Yue himself, and the weapons and equipment are many times stronger than the second railway garrison brigade.

However, it was impossible to judge whether the attack on Mukden was a provocation by the middle- and lower-ranking officers of the Ministry of Justice or a premeditated action by the Ministry of Justice and the Military Department.

If it is the spontaneous action of the middle and lower rank officers, then a tough counterattack is the best option, what if it is not? If it is really the beginning of a full-scale war between the political axe and the military department, then the fate of the advance army is in jeopardy. The advance army consisted of only 6,000 men, and had to face the attack of more than 30,000 troops from one division, six garrison brigades, and most of them were the elite Hiroshima division. Kuang Haishan and Gu Mazi, even if they are the reincarnation of Sun Wu and Li Guang, I am afraid that they will be more than lucky.

Perhaps, it is a wise choice to withdraw from Manchuria to Guannai, to stay in Qingshan without worrying about running out of firewood, and to maintain the first place in strength.

But can it really be withdrawn? Once the troops are withdrawn, the morale of the army will be shaken, from Manchuria to Anhui, supply along the way is a big problem, will it be attacked by the Beiyang, which is eyeing the tiger?

This series of questions made Chai Dongliang's head hurt. But he still has to pretend to have a calm attitude that is light and light, and even behaves unhurriedly when eating.

After carefully filtering every detail in his mind, and considering the current foreign powers' China policies again, Chai Dongliang made a decision, he concluded that this would not be an order from the political axe and the military department, but definitely the risky actions of some ambitious middle- and lower-ranking officers. If the adventure succeeds, the political axe will inevitably bend to their will, and the war will inevitably expand, but if they fail, the military headquarters will also unceremoniously cut off their heads to calm the situation.

The fox crosses the glacier, takes a step by step, and finds that there is a cheap advantage, and his courage will be greatly increased, which is a surname that is difficult to change himself.

"Colleagues, fellow robes, give me a telegram to the whole country, the Jianghuai army will never sit idly by and watch the atrocities of invading our country and killing my compatriots, even if the Jianghuai army occupies a single soldier, it will not withdraw to the pass! A telegram was sent to the War Department, asking them to cooperate with the 1st Division's dispatch to Shanhaiguan and to be responsible for the safe delivery of supplies outside the customs. At the same time, all citizens are warned that anyone who dares to take the opportunity to attack the Jianghuai army and grab supplies at this moment will be regarded as Han annihilation and will be dealt the most brutal blow by the Jianghuai army??? Even if all the Jianghuai troops are sacrificed this time and our group disappears completely, as long as we can arouse the national feelings of the Chinese people and the great rejuvenation of the country, we will all write a strong stroke in the history of China! ”

The young officers of the Jianghuai Army were suddenly stimulated and their blood boiled, and they were eager to go out of Shanhaiguan in person to fight to the death with the army.

Chai Dongliang continued: "The troops of the 1st Division have arrived in Tianjin, and they are quickly assembled, and the troops that have not yet set off will be rerouted by land to prevent them from being attacked by this fleet at sea!" Inform the legations of the countries of the actions of the Benben in Mukden, and in addition, transmit our telegram to the Provisional Senate??? Inform the presidential palace that as long as Yuan Shikai guarantees our supplies, I will personally write a promise to him, and all 70 votes in Jiangxi and Anhui will be voted for the Progressive Party! Let Tang Xiangming send electricity to his brother Tang Hualong, and as long as the provisional Senate passes a bill condemning the invasion, I will give him a million funds for him and Liang Qichao's Progressive Party??? I'm afraid they won't dare to go to war, and they should always have the courage to condemn it, right? ”

After Chai Dongliang finished speaking, he stood there and didn't sit down for a long time, he didn't know if his judgment was right, and whether this decision would bury his current good situation cleanly. The situation in the future will get better or worsen with its own intervention.

But if he were given another choice, he would still do the same, the nation had been weakened for too long, and the spirit of the people had calmed down to the point of insensitivity, and perhaps only the most violent potion could cure this chronic disease that had been brought about by thousands of years of [***].

Kawamoto Daisa was very angry, it was an unacceptable shame that there was an army of Shina who dared to attack the army of the Daishimoto Empire. At the same time, he was very contemptuous of the audacity of the squadron leader Fujimoto. It is really a waste to not be able to pass the "Wutian Group" of Lu University, and the Chinese army has always run away without a trace when they hear the sound of gunshots, and the most troublesome thing to deal with the Chinese army is to capture prisoners. Often, as soon as the army drove over, they saw an empty city, and everyone ran away.

The advance army and the 2nd Garrison Brigade of the South Manchurian Railway confronted each other in Xinmin Mansion for half a month, although the Chinese army was quite well equipped, but this did not mean anything. Kawamoto Dazuo personally participated in the attack on Yanjing City in the year of Gengzi, in Tianjin, in Yangcun, every time the Qing army's strength and firepower far exceeded the Yue army, and even many of the new artillery used by the Qing army, the Yue army had never even seen it. But when was it not as soon as the gun went off, the Qing army threw off their armor and fled in embarrassment?

In the Beiyang Army warehouse in Tianjin alone, the allied forces captured 36 87-millimeter Krupp cannons, 60 70-millimeter Krupp cannons, and more than 100 Nordenfeld rapid-fire machine guns of 37 to 57 millimeter calibres. There are 30,000 Mauser and Manricher rifles with the latest markings! From Mauser 92 to Mauser 95, these guns did not even have a large-scale equipment for Germany itself, and the latest Manricher cavalry rifle was also something that Austria-Hungary was not willing to equip its own troops. As for ammunition, it was even more piled up, and so many guns and artillery were not even opened in boxes, and they were bought back for three years, and they were not sent to the troops. This one warehouse alone is enough to re-equip the Eight-Nation Alliance according to the unified system.

Yanjing City, armed with hundreds of new artillery pieces and hundreds of thousands of Qing Boxers, was considered by the German General Staff to require 100,000 well-trained troops with a large number of artillery pieces to capture it in three months, but in fact, it only took half a day for the coalition forces to occupy Yanjing City.

The army of China, only at the parade, looks like an army, on the battlefield is nothing more than peasants with rifles!

After thinking about it, Kawamoto Dazuo made up his mind, and ordered the second garrison brigade of the railway to rush to Mukden to support, and now the forward Xizhu cavalry squadron is already fifteen kilometers ahead, and it is estimated that it will be able to enter Mukden City in three hours at most. He can be regarded as carrying out the order, and all that remains is to teach the people of China a harsh lesson, so that they can understand that the army of the Great Empire is not to be offended.

Kawamoto ordered that the rear team become the front team and go back to support Fujimoto's squadron. The 2nd Garrison Brigade had more than 1,200 men, and excluding the 200 men of Fujimoto's squadron and the 150 men of Nishitake's squadron, there were nearly 900 soldiers left. With 900 men against 2,000 squadrons, Kawamoto thought it was too extravagant, and in his judgment, 500 people could defeat 2,000 Chinese soldiers, and if he had 1,000 people, he could completely annihilate more than 2,000 people of the advance army.

It is customary to use the surname of the commander as the common name of the troops, so the Second Railway Garrison Brigade is also known as the Kawamoto Brigade.

More than 900 soldiers under the command of Kawamoto trotted all the way back the same way. Of course, although Kawamoto was arrogant, he did not forget to follow the infantry rules and sprinkle a cavalry squad in front of the troops for reconnaissance.

After annihilating the Fujimoto squadron, Zhang Shuyang and the forward battalion did not stop and quickly rushed forward. Two hundred men and four hundred war horses galloped on the black earth in late autumn. The original war horses of the advance army were all produced locally in northern Anhui, and a large number of Mongolian horses were replaced after arriving in Mongolia. The weakness of the lack of endurance of the Anhui horse has been greatly compensated, although the Mongolian horse is not fast enough, but the endurance is long, the more and more vigorous, the open plain swings the dust and smoke.

After running for about five kilometers, the pioneer battalion and the cavalry collided head-on, and the cavalry team of more than a dozen people saw that the situation was not good, so they turned around and ran back. Where is the pioneer battalion willing to go, and they are catching up, but the distance between the two sides is getting bigger and bigger. The Oriental horse was crossed by the reformer of the cavalry, Akiyama Yoshiko, with a tall Arabian horse and a local horse, and it was tall and fast, and it disappeared after a short time. Zhang Shuyang couldn't help but feel a little regretful, but he was ordered to open a gap in the defense line of the Kawamoto brigade, so the order was not changed and continued to rush forward.

After another five kilometers, the Scouts on the tall horses of the East Ocean reappeared, and their speed slowed down significantly. In the long run, the advantage of speed was offset by the weakness of the lack of endurance, and they were overtaken by Zhang Shuyang's pioneer battalion.

Seeing more than a dozen cavalry in front, the vanguard battalion was immediately interested, and they beat their horses and whipped their horses, slammed their horses' stomachs with spurs, and squeezed their horsepower to the limit. When the two sides were still 200 meters apart, the pioneer battalion opened fire first, and several cavalrymen fell from their horses while rolling, and were cut off by the cavalry of the vanguard battalion chasing after them and hung on their horses' necks as evidence of their merits. The soldier also took off his rifle and turned back to shoot back, but when he saw the dust and smoke behind him, he was already frightened, and the hand that fired the gun also trembled, and he fired more than a dozen shots but none of them hit.

The cavalry ran for a while, and the Oriental horse was already covered in sweat, and its speed slowed down significantly. Seeing that there was no way to escape, the squad leader made a sharp whistle, and the eight cavalrymen who were lucky enough not to die pulled the reins of their horses, turned around and drew their sabers in the direction of the advance army.

The vanguard battalion, which was in hot pursuit, saw that the army had drawn out their swords, grabbed the reins of their horses, and looked at the trapped beasts in the distance with interested eyes. A squad leader slung the Hanfeng I-type short rifle to his back and said with great interest: "Brothers, let's play with Xiao Yueben!" With that, he drew his sabre and lined up in a horizontal line with a dozen cavalrymen.

The squad leader raised his knife and gave a signal, and the cavalry of more than a dozen pioneer battalions slowly urged their horses, about three meters apart from each other, and advanced in small steps, and gradually the war horses ran faster and faster, first in big strides, and then at full speed. The army on the opposite side let out a beastly howl, and also urged the horses to meet them.

Zhang Shuyang rushed up from behind, and when he saw that the two sides were preparing to decide the outcome with a saber, he was immediately furious: "Bastard, whose order is this?" Quickly settle the battle with a gun! ”

A staff officer behind him smiled and said, "Battalion commander, since it's already wrong, don't change it!" The honor of the cavalry cannot be lost! ”

Zhang Shuyang glared at him and sighed helplessly. In the world of the beginning of the twentieth century, airplanes had taken to the skies, battleships had amazing guns, and machine guns were even more urgent, but the cavalry still stubbornly believed that a duel with a saber in the medieval way was a heroic move.

This is not just the consensus of China, but the cavalry of the whole world. Although the Jianghuai army trained cavalry, disrupting communications and communications, and attacking the opponent's supply lines, it was powerless to change the concept of cavalry. The honor of the army is above all else, and the cavalry believes that the honor of the cavalry lies in the immediate confrontation of swords and swords.

The cavalry of the pioneer battalion thought so, and so did the cavalry, two armies equipped with advanced rifles, and coincidentally chose to use sabers to fight to the death.

The cavalry confrontation was the fiercest and most masculine battle of the war, and the theme of both sides was always the sabre and the blood bursting.

The cavalry of the army is a noble army, and the war horses are all excellent Oriental horses, and many officers and soldiers have extraordinary family backgrounds, and the training of the cavalry is very strict. It is said that the father of the cavalry, Akiyama Yoshiko, once led the cavalry unit that had just been formed, and killed the Russian Cossack ghost crying wolf. The Cossacks have always been the most powerful cavalry unit in Europe, and Napoleon once said with envy that if he was equipped with 20,000 Cossack cavalry, he could easily conquer the world.

However, the Cossacks were defeated by the cavalry, and in a dignified horse encounter, they were defeated by the swords of the army.

Although the cavalry of the Jianghuai Army is also well-trained, after all, it has been formed for a short time, and it does not have the glorious historical inheritance of the cavalry, coupled with the huge gap in horses, it should be reasonable for seven or eight cavalrymen to defeat more than a dozen cavalry of the Jianghuai Army. However, this is a battle under normal circumstances, and today it is a very abnormal situation.

The cavalry clashed, and the impact of the horses was the first element, and the cavalry of the Kawamoto brigade set off this morning without eating, and they didn't even have time to feed the horses, and they ran 20 kilometers after starting from Xinminfu, and they were ordered to reconnoiter just now, and turned back more than 10 kilometers again, and then turned back and ran 10 kilometers again after meeting the advance army.

The speed advantage of the Oriental horse was lost, and the disadvantage of insufficient endurance was undoubtedly revealed, and the long endurance of the Mongolian horse was further accentuated after the long-distance pursuit. After running for dozens of kilometers, the Mongolian horse not only did not show fatigue, but became more and more energetic.

Both sides sped up at the same time, like two violent rivers, violently colliding together!

(To be continued)