Kawamoto Daisa was shocked, and the oncoming cavalry of the advance army meant that the Fujimoto squadron acting as the rear guard was finished, and it was either routed or annihilated. The biggest possibility is that the Fujimoto squadron has been completely wiped out by the opposite branch of the Chinese cavalry, and once the infantry is defeated by the cavalry, it has become a luxury to escape. How can a two-legged man outrun a four-legged horse?

"Immediately line up in a defensive formation!" Kawamoto gave the order to fight at the first time.

The army orderly set up the artillery position, the only five mountain guns of the whole brigade were placed in the rear of the brigade, the four Hatch Chase heavy machine guns were placed on the commanding heights, and the infantry opened their distance from each other according to the requirements of the Commandery, lying on the ground and aiming at the vanguard battalion in the distance, each locking on a target, without being affected by the cavalry units rolling like spring thunder in the distance. The Second Garrison Brigade, although only a local force, was well trained.

Zhang Shuyang ran with the team for a while, and found that the opponent's array had gradually taken shape, knowing that there would be no good fruit to eat if he rushed hard, so he hurriedly grabbed the reins and ran down the side of the war horse. Seeing the battalion commander retreating from the side, the other cavalry also went down to the sides and stopped at a distance of one kilometer from the army.

Chai Dongliang and the instructor of the military academy told all the cavalry officers that it was not the Middle Ages anymore, and the machine guns and artillery that were ready for battle were the nemesis of the cavalry. Zhang Shuyang is not stupid, he didn't plan to suffer this loss, besides, he has already completed the task. Kawamoto's brigade turned around and returned, and set up a position five kilometers away from the valley, preparing to fight with the advance army.

In that case, then tease them, the cavalry fights the infantry, can they still run and win if they can't fight? As long as it is delayed until the main force arrives, it will be smashed to death with cannons!

"The first company, the third company, went around to the two flanks of the army, and the second company followed me and rushed forward five hundred meters, keeping a distance from each other, and retreating to both sides with a row of guns, remember, at least twenty meters away from each other! Don't be a machine gun target! Zhang Shuyang gave an order to the three company commanders beside him.

In the northeast at the end of autumn, the dusk sun hangs lazily in the sky, and the sparse trees have begun to lose their leaves. With the sudden sound of gunfire, the cavalrymen of the forward battalion wearing grass green camouflage uniforms and dark green steel helmets appeared in twos and threes around the army brigade. These cavalry were roughly divided into three cavalry companies of about one hundred men. There was still a distance of about 500 meters from the Yue army, and they immediately formed a formation and began to shoot at the troops that were obstructing and disturbing the Yue army. None of these cavalrymen dismounted, galloping back and forth in parallel with the attack of the Japanese army, constantly firing with their rifles. Although the hit rate is not high, the power of hundreds of rifles firing at the same time is quite powerful. Many cavalrymen rushed two or three hundred meters, suddenly jumped off their horses, set up grenadiers on their knees on the spot, fired two grenades, and then jumped on their horses and ran back.

In response to such a harassing attack, the troops of the Yue army were very experienced in dealing with it, and they began to counterattack by lying on the spot. The soldiers of the Second Brigade of the Railway Garrison are all elite soldiers who have undergone long-term and rigorous training, and although their marksmanship is not as good as that of regular field divisions, it is still quite good. They returned fire with platoon guns, and the Hatch Chase machine guns also spread out the line of fire, chasing the butt against the cavalry of the pioneer battalion. Seeing that the situation was not good, the cavalry hurriedly retreated out of the range of the weapons of both sides.

Kawamoto Osa secretly cursed Captain Fujimoto's incompetence in his heart, and although the cavalry on the opposite side did not hear the trumpet of the army and fled in all directions, they did not have the courage to attack their own battle columns. Kawamoto Daisa ordered the whole army to press forward and force the cavalry on the opposite side to fight a decisive battle??? Of course, if they don't have the courage to fight, it's still an acceptable situation to drive them away.

The Kawamoto brigade began to advance, and the 75-millimeter Guanhui mountain guns provided cover for the infantry with artillery fire, but the vanguard battalion had already taken precautions, and the cavalry had already distanced themselves from each other, and the casualties were not large. Zhang Shuyang saw the movement of the Yue army clearly in the binoculars, drew his sword in his hand, and rushed out again, the cavalry of the second company followed him again and rushed to the Heben brigade, and the first and third companies made a semicircle, attacking the two wings of the Yue army from both sides.

The Kawamoto brigade lay down again and aimed its rifles at these pesky cavalrymen. The pioneer battalion once again stayed 500 meters away, fired a volley of guns at the army, and then went down to the sides and retreated again. Kawamoto watched the two hundred cavalry provoking at the front of his position like fleas, and he regretted letting the Xizhu squadron rush to Mukden alone, otherwise he could use the cavalry to kill all the people in front of him, even if he couldn't kill them, he would have to make them suffer, and his legs trembled when he saw the imperial flag.

The biggest advantage of cavalry against infantry is that they can fight when they want and leave when they want. Zhang Shuyang's command of the pioneer battalion is also becoming more and more numerous, and he keeps teasing and guiding the Kawamoto Brigade forward and forward. With every step forward, the Kawamoto brigade was one step further from the valley. After more than an hour of repeated teasing, Kawamoto's brigade had advanced more than a kilometer.

Kawamoto Osa is like a mad bull teased by a red cloth, walking step by step towards the trap set by the matador.

Gu Nanshan led the main force of 2,000 people and marched on the official road unhurriedly, because he carried dozens of cannons and a large number of baggage, and dragged two "Feng Rusan" reconnaissance planes behind the two carts, and several blonde and blue-eyed British pilots sat on the carts, munching on beef jerky and chatting proudly. With so many things, the speed of progress must not be fast, it has been six hours since departure, and it has only been less than forty miles.

At this moment, Gu Nanshan's heart was full of self-blame, if he didn't suspect Wu Junsheng's identity and rush through the whole army as soon as he received the report, then the Second Brigade of the Railway Garrison, which was unguarded, would definitely not be able to withstand his powerful firepower attack, perhaps, at this moment, he had already arrived at Fengtian City. The task he gave Zhang Shuyang was to use a battalion of cavalry to entangle the main force of the Yue army, so that they could not enter the narrow mountain road smoothly. However, with more than 200 cavalry to attack more than 1,000 troops, the losses of the forward battalion will definitely be huge, and Zhang Shuyang, the battalion commander, was promoted from the line of fire and did not have any previous war experience. In fact, there were very few people in the advance army who had combat experience, and that poor combat experience was accumulated by the horse bandits who fought in Utai.

Ahead a fast horse galloped forward, and above it was a cavalryman dressed in grass-green camouflage uniform. Gu Nanshan rode on the sweaty BMW, and suddenly his heart rose to his throat.

The scout ran to a place ten meters away from Gu Nanshan, turned over and dismounted and ran over, saying: "Report to the deputy commander, Battalion Commander Zhang and the pioneer battalion have already exchanged fire with Yu himself five kilometers ahead!"

"How's the battle going?" Gu Nanshan asked eagerly.

"The battle situation is under our control, and the soldiers have been transferred back by us, maybe the deputy commander will wait here for a while, and Xiao Yueben will be automatically sent to the door!" The scout was in a good mood and said with a smile.

Gu Mazi laughed: "Good job!" The scout continued, "We just annihilated a squadron of infantry in the Zoben, and you can see the corpse of the Legion about a kilometer further on!" ”

Gu Mazi was overjoyed: "Zhang Shuyang, this kid has two hits?" After Lao Tzu saved Fengtian, he was promoted to be the head of the regiment! ”

It's as simple as that to be promoted to an officer on the battlefield, and a word from the chief officer becomes it.

"Order the whole army, speed up the advance, leave a company, set up a wireless telegraph on the spot, and maintain contact with Mukden at any time, it's been so long, I don't know what happened to Mukden!"

The telegraph operator hurriedly set up the antenna, the wireless telegraph made by the Italian company Marconi was installed, and the telegraph operator began to call several newspaper offices in Mukden non-stop. Gu Mazi led the army to speed up the pace of advance, and the cattle pulling the artillery cart were whipped by Herod's scream, and the dry road was dusty.

Gu Mazi on the front line rushed forward anxiously, and Chai Dongliang in the rear was not idle. He contacted Gu Weijun in Mongolia by telegram and ordered him to rush to Yanjing. At the same time, Kuang Haishan was asked to lead troops to quickly reinforce Manchuria. In this battle, political issues are more important than military issues.

The U.S. Minister, Mr. Galle-Heng, had mixed feelings about what was happening in Manchuria at the moment. Chai Dongliang was unstable in the overall situation in the country, and when the elections for the Senate and the House of Representatives were imminent, he sent an advance army to the north. As a senior diplomat, Jia Leheng knew very well that the Xinminfu bombing case would never be done by the advance army, and the suspects were not only Russians, but also those middle- and lower-ranking officers who feared that the world would not be chaotic.

Although the attitude in the country is still very warm and ambiguous. Perhaps behind everything, there are also fierce quarrels between various forces. But will the obvious ambitions for Manchuria in their own country really lead them to finally come to an agreement and get more involved in the Manchurian incident? Even to make this political axe take a risk, risking war with the Russians to occupy the whole of Manchuria? It is said that Prime Minister Xiyuan Temple Gongwang is not a tough guy, but Youpeng of Shanxian County, who has retreated into the background, is ambitious and powerful.

Jia Leheng is thinking about what can be done to gain more benefits for the United States in this East Asian crisis. But he also knows very well that President Taft is also not a strong-willed man, and that isolationism is rampant at home, and that the United States cannot go to war for China. Even if this is of great interest to the United States, it will not be able to do so, and Congress will not approve a war against it.

In the eyes of the American people and congressmen, China is a poor country far away from the horizon, and China's life or death has nothing to do with the United States. They will not understand how much of a threat they pose to the Philippines and the entire Pacific Ocean, and they will not understand how important it is for the security and interests of the United States to form an alliance with China and use China to balance it in the Far East.

Chai Dongliang had to seriously consider and take out a part of his interests as a quid pro quo in exchange for the support of the foreign powers to curb his own ambitions. The 1st Division of the Jianghuai Army has already set out, and if these 12,000 men successfully reach Manchuria, plus Kuang Haishan's 6,000 advance army, it will be a force of 18,000 men, and the equipment of heavy weapons has reached the standard of the European powers, especially in the weapons to support the infantry, one grenadier per squad will play a huge role.

Eighteen thousand men can fight against the Hiroshima Division and the six garrison brigades scattered along the railway, and the victory or defeat should be five or five, and even the Jianghuai army has a greater chance of victory, because the army in Manchuria is relatively scattered, while the Jianghuai army can form a partial superiority in strength.

However, once it turns into a full-scale war, the Jianghuai army will have difficulty in supplying, and the weakness of the limited force will undoubtedly be exposed. The Jianghuai Army really has 18,000 people, there are still two divisions of 24,000 people who have not completed their training, and the 100,000 people who have just been recruited have not even learned how to hold a gun.

Among the great powers, the Russians and Yue himself have a secret agreement to divide Manchuria, although Russia hates Yue himself, but it does not mean that they will take the risk of fighting with Yue Ben, unless the Russians cannot refuse, but Chai Dongliang can't afford it, he can't afford it, and he can't give it, and he doesn't want to give it??? Russia is a bear with a dissatisfying appetite, and once the Russians are involved, there will be endless troubles.

Although Britain was very dissatisfied with Yue Ben because of the exclusion of capital from Manchuria, after all, there was an alliance between Yue and Ying, and they were allies with each other, and the relationship between the British and Yuan Shikai was very good, and they would not openly support Chai Dongliang, at most they would regret Yue himself's violation of Fengtian.

France and Germany, whose focus has always been on Europe, are tense and neither is interested in the affairs of the East, or even if they are interested, they do not have so much energy.

The only thing that can be counted on is the United States, Chai Dongliang and the United States have established a relationship similar to an ally through the "Bethlehem Contract", and the Americans are particularly wary and hateful of Yueben. The Bigu Burning and Beating Incident was mainly aimed at the Americans. After the Russo-Russian War, there were only two imaginary enemies of the Combined Fleet, one being Germany and the other being the United States.

At this time, the Yankees are really needed to come forward, even if it is a threat that symbolizes the surname, it can make the bigwigs of the political axe a little scrupled.

If Chai Dongliang's guess is correct, what happened in Mukden should have been caused by the ambitions of the middle and lower-ranking officers, rather than the long-planned actions of the political axe.

Military and diplomatic, Chai Dongliang feels like he is fighting on two fronts at the same time! At this time, the attitude of the great powers will be very important!

When Chai Dongliang thought of this, he couldn't help but feel gloomy, when will China be able to get rid of the fate of others and hold up its chest and let the Chinese decide it themselves!

This old-fashioned trick is really annoying!

(To be continued)