Qin Chuan, who was asleep, rolled over from the marching bed to the ground like a conditioned reflex, his right hand had already taken out a pistol from under the pillow, and listened to the gunfire outside, the gunfire under the mountain rang out, but there was no movement on the hill where he was. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Qin Chuan rushed to the door of the tent in a few steps, blew out the candle that had already burned most of it, opened the curtain of the tent and rushed out of the tent.

I don't know when it has been raining heavily, the rainy night is dark and dreary, the line of sight is less than twenty or thirty meters, the autumn rain is cold and swishing, the mountain wind carries the raindrops the size of soybeans and drenches Qin Chuan's face, and Qin Chuan's mind is suddenly much clearer.

Xu Tong led the people of the reconnaissance platoon to follow Qin Chuan and rushed out of the three tents where they were, and surrounded Qin Chuan with a "hula". Later, Yu Guangxi, Li Guohua, and Xin Delin also came out with guns. Only then did the officers and men of the Renzi battalion run out of the tent in a panic with their rifles in a hurry.

The reason why the officers and soldiers of the Renzi battalion came out so quickly was because since last night, Qin Chuan had asked all officers and soldiers not to undress and sleep.

"Get into position!"

"Get into position!"

Lopet and Wu Bingwen stood outside the tent while buttoning their clothes and shouted viciously.

"No noise. Whoever is yelling, who dares to shout and shout, be careful that Lao Tzu cut him. ”

It should be said that the officers and men of the Renzi battalion were also quite well-trained, and amid the shouts and scolding of Loped and Wu Bingwen, they quickly quieted down, and quickly ran to the position arranged last night in the sentry unit, hid behind sandbags in the pouring rain, set up their rifles and nervously observed the situation outside.

"Your Excellency."

Gao Jishan, who hurriedly ran out of the tent, obviously encountered this situation for the first time, and ran in front of Qin Chuan in a panic.

"My lord, the Japanese are calling, what should I do?"

"Don't panic."

Qin Chuan listened carefully to the gunshots that had already sounded like bursting beans, looked at the outside of the dark camp, and said to Luo Peide and Wu Bingwen, who came to him to wait for orders.

"Immediately send an order down and tell our people that no one is allowed to shoot unless the Japanese army attacks."

"In addition, send someone to withdraw all our sentry posts and ask about the situation."

Lopet responded, shouted a few pro-soldiers, gave a few commands, and under Qin Chuan's signal, Xu Tong led those pro-soldiers to rush into the darkness against the heavy rain.

Qin Chuan looked at the luminous watch on his wrist and saw that it was already half past three in the morning.

For this sudden change, Qin Chuan was also very worried, in such a rainy night with a line of sight of only twenty or thirty meters, if the Japanese army suddenly launched a night attack, the Qing army under the mountain would be scattered, and the thousands of Qing troops would immediately be a big rout.

However, I have not heard of any major losses suffered by the Qing army before the start of the war in Pyongyang?

After a while, in the dark, Xu Tong led more than 20 soldiers of the Salt Regiment on duty and a few of Loped's personal soldiers, and climbed up the mountain in the heavy rain with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

"Report to the Commander."

Xu Tong wiped the rain on his face: "I've inquired, the gunfire first rang out from the Fengjun camp, and then the gunshots rang out in each camp, as if all the camps were fighting." The rain was so heavy that it was as if the line had been broken, and I could only hear the sound of gunshots, but I couldn't see anything. ”

"Have you found anything around our camp?"

"Nope."

Xu Tong shook his head and said, "I've asked everything, but there is no situation." ”

Qin Chuan asked with some reluctance: "Did our sentry hear the shouting of killing?" ”

"For example, the sound of shouting in Japanese."

Xu Tong shook his head: "No." I've asked everything, but our people haven't heard anything except gunshots. ”

Seeing that Gao Jishan, Luo Peide, and Wu Bingwen were all looking at him, Qin Chuan shook his head and said.

"It's not like a night attack by a large Japanese army, at most it is a small group of Japanese troops harassing."

Gao Jishan asked suspiciously: "My lord, why didn't you see a large number of Japanese night attacks?" ”

Qin Chuan explained: "On such a rainy night, you can't see anything clearly from twenty or thirty meters away, which is a good opportunity for a night attack." If the Japanese army had attacked in large numbers, they would have rushed into the camp long ago, and they would definitely not just shoot blindly from a distance. Such a random fight did not have much effect. If the Japanese army launched a charge, most of them would chant in Japanese, but now there is no movement, which shows that the number of Japanese troops is very small, which is one of them; Second, I spent more than a month in Seoul with the Japanese army, and the Japanese army used the Japanese-made Springfield-style rifles, which had a somewhat special shooting sound, and I didn't hear the sound of the Springfield-style rifles firing now. ”

Gao Jishan thought for a while and said, "Not really. Now that the gunfire is so dense, it is impossible to distinguish the point, and it is normal not to hear the sound of Japanese rifle shooting. ”

"No, it won't."

Qin Chuan shook his head and said, "Although the gunfire is dense, if the Japanese army has thousands of rifles shooting, they will still hear it." ”

Qin Chuan pointed to the bottom of the hill and said to Gao Jishan: "But listen, the gunshots under the mountain are all the shots of Mauser, Manlisha, Remington, and Lidfield rifles, so even if there are Japanese troops under the mountain, they are only a small group, as long as it is dawn, they will withdraw." ”

Although they heard Qin Chuan's reasoning, the three of them were still skeptical, and Gao Jishan tried to suggest it again.

"My lord, we can't just wait, can we send someone down to find out the situation?"

Wu Bingwen shook his head and said: "This black light is blinding, and it is raining heavily, and our people may be killed by our own people even if they don't meet the Japanese army." ”

Qin Chuan also nodded in agreement with Wu Bingwen's judgment: "Lao Wu is right, if you send someone down now, if you don't do it, you will be accidentally injured by your own people, not to mention, we can't find the attacking Japanese army, so we have to wait." ”

"Boom, boom, boom."

As a flash of lightning crossed the dark night sky, a burst of thunder sounded, and the heavy rain that had been pouring into the air became heavier and heavier, and the raindrops of beans crackled and fell on everyone's faces, and several people had already been drenched in soup Yes, as soon as the cold wind blew, Qin Chuan, Luo Peide, and Wu Bingwen were better, but Gao Jishan, who was frozen, couldn't help but tremble.

Qin Chuan said to Luo Peide and Wu Bingwen: "Send an order to go down and tell the brothers that no one is allowed to go down the mountain without an order, and they are not allowed to shoot at will, and they will hold on to the position for an hour before the sky will dawn, and at that time each person will be given two oceans." ”

"Good!"

Lopet said happily: "It's easy to do now, an hour of rain will give these rabbit cubs two oceans, and no one will be unwilling to do so." ”

Luo Peide and Wu Bingwen both called their own soldiers: "Come on, pass it down everywhere, tell the brothers, just say that Lord Qin said that without an order, no one is allowed to go down the mountain, let alone shoot indiscriminately, and they are all on the position for Lao Tzu to guard, who dares to disobey Lord Qin's military order, Lao Tzu will cut him with a knife." ”

"Also, let those rabbit cubs listen carefully, Lord Qin said, as long as the sky is bright, each person will be given two pieces of ocean."

A group of pro-soldiers excitedly agreed, scattered in all directions, and ran in the mud in the heavy rain to give orders.

"Come on, let's not wait in the rain anymore, let's all go into the tent and wait."

Qin Chuan said, pulling Gao Jishan and walking towards the tent.

Luo Peide was about to follow in, but was grabbed by Wu Bingwen and said to Qin Chuan.

"Although my lord and Mr. Gao's office went first, Lao Luo and I still went around to see and then came back."

Although Qin Chuan basically judged that it was definitely not a large Japanese attack, and it was a rainy night with such poor visibility, the Japanese army should not have discovered their camp, otherwise they would definitely not attack this commanding heights controlled by the Qing army. But Qin Chuan was still very satisfied that Wu Bingwen was going to inspect various positions.

The rain slowly stopped at dawn, and the gunfire at the bottom of the hill gradually thinned out, and finally there was no sound at all.

Although the rain had stopped, a large white mist had risen in the valley, and the visibility was still very poor, and it was still impossible to see the situation below the mountain from the mountainside of this low hill. However, since there was no gunfire, presumably there would be no Japanese troops in the valley, Gao Jishan, who was worried in his heart, didn't care about the danger, so he took a dozen nervous soldiers and couldn't wait to go down the mountain to find out the situation.

It wasn't until the sun rose that the fog in the valley slowly subsided and the scenery under the hills became clearer.

Through the telescope, Qin Chuan, who was standing in front of the camp gate, could clearly see the scenes in the camps of the Qing army at the foot of the mountain.

It rained heavily for most of the night, and the low-lying areas on both sides of the main road at the foot of the mountain had already become a flooded country.

The camps of the Qing army built on the flat ground along both sides of the road under the hill, whether it is the Fengjun's, or the Shengjun, the Yijun and Jiang Zikang's Renzi camp, as well as the Fengsheng Adeshengzi training army's camp, there is a mess everywhere, there are more than half a foot of stagnant water in many places in the camp, and the military flags that were originally densely planted in the camp are not only crooked, but also some are floating on the water, many tents are overturned and soaked in the water, and even some fences are not known whether they are soaked by the rain or pushed to the side. Everywhere in the camp were Qing soldiers in five-cloud coats, drenched in mud and headless flies running around.

What surprised Qin Chuan the most was that in each camp, in the open space, there were still corpses of the Qing army, a few of them and more than a dozen.

However, what made Qin Chuan strange was that he did not see a corpse wearing a navy blue Japanese military uniform inside and outside the camp. If the Qing army was engaged in a battle with the Japanese army last night and fought so fiercely for more than two hours, how could there not be a single corpse of a Japanese soldier?

Could it be that the Japanese army has all practiced the golden bell hood iron cloth shirt, and they all have the magic of invulnerability?

Just when Qin Chuan was puzzled, more than a dozen fast horses carrying the Qing army galloped from the north along the main road, and the galloping hooves of the horses stepped on the puddles on the road, splashing mud everywhere.

Without asking, Qin Chuan knew that these Qing troops on horseback were from Pyongyang. It's not for other reasons, but the clothes of these dozen or so Qing soldiers on horseback are relatively dry, and they must have hid somewhere at night to avoid the rain. If it was the Qing army in the camp, this could not be the case with them.

But the question is, what kind of military orders will the people from Pyongyang come to convey?

Could it be that the Japanese army appeared near Pyongyang in advance?

Just when Qin Chuan was puzzled, he suddenly felt that someone was pulling his shirt behind him, and when he looked back, he saw Xu Tong squeezing his eyebrows at him with a wry smile.

Qin Chuan, who was strange in his heart, was about to ask a question, but when he saw Xu Tong pointing at him, Qin Chuan swept his gaze around, but saw the soldiers of Luo Peide's battalion standing around, looking at him one by one, Qin Chuan came to his senses and couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart.

Qin Chuan deliberately said in a loud voice: "Xu Tong, go and inform Lao Luo and Lao Wu, and ask them to bury the pot and cook immediately, and stew the wild boar that came last night, so that the brothers can drink hot soup." In addition, we brought out all the firewood and grass in the tent, and made more fires so that the brothers could dry their clothes. ”

Seeing that many of the soldiers around him had disappointed looks on their faces, Qin Chuan couldn't help but smile in his heart.

"Also, let the two battalion officers Wu and Luo inform you to go down, and ask all the sentry officers and shed chiefs of the two battalions to come to you to receive the reward, two yuan for each soldier, five yuan for the shed chief, and fifty yuan for the sentry officer."

After Qin Chuan finished speaking, the surrounding soldiers of the Renzi Battalion immediately burst into laughter, and some of them were clever and immediately took the lead in shouting.

"Lord Xie Qin's reward!"

As soon as these people took the lead, the surrounding soldiers immediately shouted. The soldiers who were farther away didn't know what was going on, and they thought that Qin Chuan was in front of the camp gate to give a reward, and many people were in a hurry to run here.

A few soldiers were already impatient, and before Xu Tong could go to find Luo Peide and Wu Bingwen, they had already gotten out of the crowd and ran to report to their own head of the shed. As soon as someone took the lead, the surrounding soldiers also happily ran to their superiors.

Because Qin Chuan had been prepared, he put dry firewood in a big tent last night, so although it rained heavily last night, drainage ditches were dug around the tent, and none of the dry firewood in the tent was wet.

On the other side, the soldiers in charge of cooking at each outpost also lit fires and boiled sliced pieces of wild boar meat and buckets of mushrooms in a large pot, and the smell of meat suddenly wafted in the camp.

The oceans that Xu Tong took out were all captured in Seoul, most of the more than 3,000 oceans were eagle oceans, there were also some Japanese dragon oceans, and only a few Suzaku oceans. Watching those shed chiefs and sentinels happily carrying the ocean back to distribute one by one, Luo Peide and Wu Bingwen, who had already changed their clothes, couldn't help but smile happily, and thanked Qin Chuan, who was also wearing a clean military uniform.

Seeing that the sentry officers and shed chiefs of the two battalions had finished receiving the ocean, Qin Chuan asked Xu Tong to point out a thousand oceans and give them to Luo Peide and Wu Bingwen.

At first, Luo Peide and Wu Bingwen said that they didn't want anything, but in the end, Qin Chuan asked Xu Tong to send Dayang directly to the camp tent of the two, and the two no longer shirked.

After taking Qin Chuan's money, Luo Peide was better, Wu Bingwen was a little embarrassed, stayed for a while, and then pointed to the cold Qing army camp under the mountain without a trace of fireworks and said to Qin Chuan.

"It's still the adults who have foresight, otherwise, we would have to be like them, and our more than 800 brothers would still have to wear wet clothes and not even drink hot soup."

"Hmph."

Lopet snorted and pouted, "It's still hot soup, they can't eat breakfast today, and they still drink a bird's hot soup。。。。。。 ”

"Huh!"

Loped, who was halfway through speaking, stopped, and pointed to Qin Chuan in some surprise.

"My lord, look, how did those duck egg soldiers go back to Fengsheng?"