Looking at the white bird that stopped at the top of the pine tree and looked curiously in this direction, Liu Jun suddenly thought that if he wanted to see the grain and grass of the Japanese army clearly, he didn't have to fly into the sky, and it could be easily solved by agreeing on the ground.

That is, just like the bird, just stand on a high place.

Standing tall in order to see far, Liu Jun, who was on the horse, actually thought of this sentence.

Song Qing next to him was sad and happy when he saw Liu Jun, and he didn't understand what he was going to do.

was about to ask, but he didn't expect that Liu Jun had already turned his head, showed a smile, and asked with a smile: "Old Song, what is there here and there, where you can see everything in Liaoyang City." "See Liaoyang City." Song Qing was puzzled for a moment. I don't understand what Liu Jun wants to ask.

"Well, see Liaoyang City." Liu Jun nodded vigorously.

Oh, Song Qing saw Liu Jun's expression, thought for a moment and said, "Yes, you can see the mountain not far away."

There really is, Liu Jun is secretly happy in his heart, since there is this place, as long as you climb up, you can see everything in Liaoyang, so it is easy to find grain and grass.

Let Song Qing and Iktanga go back first, he decided to climb up and take a look himself, find the location of the grain and grass, and then mobilize all the heavy artillery of the whole army to destroy it.

According to Song Qing's instructions, with the soldiers leading the way, Liu Jun and the others went out of the position, walked three or four miles west, and finally arrived at the place Song Qing said. I looked up and looked at it. It is a relaxed and dense mountain, which looks to be more than 100 meters high.

Did you get down, Liu Jun found a place that was relatively easy to climb up. After tying up the horses, Liu Jun took Zhong Lin Temple An Chun and more than a dozen guards, cut a path at random, and climbed up.

For more than 100 meters, more than a dozen people actually climbed for nearly half an hour.

In later generations, Liu Jun often climbed mountains and traveled, but in this era, he didn't have time to run out of food, and Liu Jun was already out of breath when he climbed for more than 100 meters.

casually sat down under a big wrist pine tree and rested for more than ten minutes.

Liu Juncai stood up and found a place where it was easy to observe. Took a look at the bottom of the mountain.

Liaoyang City is indeed not far away, and it is the same as Song Qing said, you can see everything, but the distance is too far, you can't see clearly at all.

"Paralyzed, can't see clearly." Liu Jun breaks off a branch. He kept muttering.

"Head, with this, Zhong Lin handed over the binoculars.

Damn, I forgot everything when I was excited, Liu Jun scolded secretly, and then took the binoculars.

Liaoyang City suddenly appeared clearly in the field of vision.

In the city of Liaoyang, out of the place where the Japanese army patrolled, the others were empty, although it was broad daylight, there was still the sun, but Liu Jun and Liu Jun always felt that Liaoyang was a ghost town.

I looked all over Liaoyang, but I didn't see the location of grain and grass.

"Strange thing, why not." Liu Jun put down the binoculars and shook his head suspiciously.

"Head, what are you looking for all the way here?" Zhong Lin leaned over and craned his neck to take a look. Then asked.

"Grain and grass for the Japanese army." Liu Jun replied weakly.

It took so much effort to climb up, but he didn't find what he wanted, which made Liu Jun very depressed, and he was a little weak to speak.

He didn't believe that the Japanese army had run out of grain and grass, if so, the Japanese army in Liaoyang had already broken through, where could it be the same as now, stay quietly in Liaoyang and not move, the only explanation is that the Japanese army hid the grain and grass.

"Hey, what time is it, the Japanese army hasn't cooked yet, what do you see." When Zhong Lin heard this, he muttered and said.

That's right, no matter how much he hides, but when it's time to eat, he always has to cook, and then he can find the location of the Japanese army's food and grass. Thinking of this, Liu Jun slapped Zhong Lin excitedly and said happily: "Not bad, yes, he has a long insight, and he will give you urgent work today." ”

I took out the pocket watch in my arms, and at three o'clock in the afternoon, this means that there is still about half an hour, and the Japanese army may burn the fire and cook.

After handing over the binoculars to the guards and asking them to report as soon as they found the Japanese army on fire, Liu Jun found a relatively spacious place to lie down at random and began to close his eyes and recuperate.

"Marshal, the Japanese army is cooking on a fire." As soon as the guards saw the smoke rising from Liaoyang, they immediately woke up Liu Jun.

As soon as he heard the Japanese army cooking, Liu Jun, who closed his eyes, jumped up and took the binoculars.

Sure enough, in the southeast corner of Liaoyang City, where there were more than a dozen private houses, cyan smoke was now rising.

Look at the smoke, it's not burning garbage, if it's garbage, it's going to be billowing black smoke, but now the smoke coming out of those places is cyan.

The cyan smoke is usually formed by firewood. It's summer, and no one has nothing to do with a fire, except for cooking. And the people in the city have all left, and no one will cook in the house at all, and if there is, it must be the Japanese army.

Hmph, I see where you are hiding this time, Liu Jun laughed a few times. He determined that the Japanese army's food and grass were there.

Handing the telescope in his hand to Zhong Lin next to him, Liu Junle smiled and said, "Take a look, draw me the coordinates and directions." ”

Liu Jun thought about it, took the coordinates and directions drawn here, took them back and compared, and immediately mobilized artillery to bombard this place.

At night in Liaoyang, the Qing army camp had already lit a bonfire, and the raging fire illuminated the camp as if it were day. From time to time, a patrol of soldiers with torches in hand and wide-eyed patrolled back and forth.

In the camp tent of the marshal, Zhong Lin held up the candle high, and Liu Jun illuminated it.

Liu Jun looked at the coordinates drawn by Zhong Lin this afternoon in his hand, and then looked at the deployment map of the Qing army hanging on the map.

From the map, to the northeast, is the line of defense of Iktanga. The No. 2 position, which is the closest to the position drawn in the northeast, is also the best position for field artillery.

Standing up and putting down the telegram in his hand, Liu Jun returned to his position and rubbed his sour eyes. Close your eyes.

With a glare, Zhong Lin put the candle on the table and stood aside, waiting for Liu Jun's order.

"Order, so the officers immediately called a meeting." Liu Jun opened his eyes and stared at the sketch.

He will mobilize all the Qing army's field artillery tonight and transport it to the No. 2 position in the northeast overnight, and at dawn tomorrow, he will bombard all the houses in the northeast corner and destroy the Japanese army's grain and grass.

The morning star in the east had already hung in the sky, Liu Jun looked up, there was still an hour, and the sky was bright.

After inspecting the artillery position again and patting the cold muzzle, Liu Jun did not believe that he had concentrated nearly 50 field guns this time, and without 30 shells, he could not blow up a small Japanese army grain and grass warehouse in Liaoyang.

After returning from the mountain, although there were coordinates, the northeast corner was too large to accurately locate the Japanese army's grain and grass, so it could only be roughly estimated. In the end, Liu Jun thought that if the bombardment failed, the Japanese army would scatter and transfer the grain and grass, and it would not be so easy to destroy the grain and grass next time, so he wanted to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle and expand the scope, and the entire houses in the northeast corner of Liaoyang would not be spared, and they could be bombed by mistake, and they would not let go of a little grain and grass.

The person who commanded the artillery bombardment this time was Zhou Rui, commander of the artillery regiment of the Third Division of the Fourth Army.

Zhou Rui was originally Duan Qirui's classmate and has been teaching artillery in Beiyang Academy. During the last negotiation with the Japanese army, Zhou Rui resigned from his teaching and came to Lushun under the persuasion of Duan Qirui's mother-in-law, and was appointed by Liu Jun as the commander of the artillery of the Third Division of the Fourth Army on the spot.

Looking at this Zhou Rui, who was only in his thirties and a little emaciated, Liu Jun said with some anxiety: "Can you keep these shells from blowing up the northeast corner to the ground?"

Zhou Rui looked at the cannonballs arranged in three rows and piled up into a hill, and said solemnly: "Don't worry, the northeast corner of the explosion is uneven, I, Zhou Rui, will come to see you." ”

Okay, since Zhou Rui's words, Liu Jun is also a lot more relieved. After waving his hand and signaling Zhou Rui to be busy, Liu Jun came to the bunker and waited for the dawn to come.

The sun had already shown the horizon, and Liaoyang City was shining golden in the morning light. It's quiet all around.

Artillery positions, now busy all over again. The artillerymen were filling the barrels of the distributed shells, pulling the towing line, and waiting for the order to shell.

"Head, it's time," Zhong Lin saw the second hand go to the seven o'clock position, walked over, and reminded Liu Jun, who was in a daze in the bunker.

"Here we are." Liu Jun stood up and straightened his military uniform. I took another look at the fifty field guns in Liaoyang and the artillery position.

"Let's get started." The faint tone couldn't hide the confident look.

"Ready" Zhou Ruigao raised the small red flag in his right hand.

The red flag of "putting" fell instantly.

Boom...... Boom boom. Fifty guns fired a salvo, and the smoke from it covered the entire artillery position from time to time. There was a loud roar that made the earth tremble slightly.

Looking at the orange-red flames that erupted from the muzzle of the cannon, Liu Jun shifted the telescope to Liaoyang City.

Boom Boom Boom ...... Explosions after explosions. Many of the gravel tiles in the city were lifted into the sky.

However, Liu Jun doesn't seem to have an easy time now. Rather, there was some nervousness.