Woowoo...... Woowoo...... This time, it was the armored cruiser Shichang who was responsible for escorting Liu Jun to Yingkou.

As soon as Ye Zugui saw Liu Jun and the others on board, he immediately asked the first mate next to him to send a signal to take aim.

Since it was late at night. The port was dark and dark, and the Shichang suddenly turned on the lights, and a port, like a hungry arrow from the string, took advantage of the dark night, rode the wind and waves, and ran to Yingkou.

It didn't take long to reach Yingkou from Lushun, and it took less than five hours for the Shichang to move at full speed, and when it arrived at Yingkou, the sky was bright.

After Luo Dacheng was promoted to deputy commander of the Second Corps, the commander of the Yingkou Garrison Command was assumed by Ran Xu, commander of the First Division.

Ran Xu had long known the news that Liu Jun was going to land from Yingkou and go to Outer Mongolia, so he had been waiting at the port since last night, waiting for Liu Jun casually, and more than a thousand fast horses that were urgently dispatched.

At this time, there were no cars, and if you wanted to get to Outer Mongolia quickly, the fastest means of transportation was horses.

As soon as the Shichang put down the pedal, as soon as Liu Jun stepped ashore, Ran Xu immediately greeted him, saluted and shouted solemnly: "Handsome." ”

Liu Jun is not very unfamiliar with Ran Xu, since the second Battle of Lushun, Ran Xu has been signaling the appearance of a strong general.

Yingkou Siege, as the commander of the First Brigade at that time, was the first to attack Yingkou, Dalian Siege, and it was also this Ran Xu who was the first to enter Dalian and dragged Nagi Nishinori, who was about to run.

Liu Jun always trusts capable people, at least on the surface. Today, Ran Xu is not only the commander of the Yingkou garrison, but also the commander of the garrison of Jinzhou and Shanhaiguan.

Look at this one with a dark face. From time to time, Ran Xu, who loves to show a big mouth and laugh. Liu Jun nodded slightly, accepting Ran Xu's question mark.

A glow appeared in the distant sky, and it wasn't long before that. The sun will pierce the clouds and break through the horizon.

"Are the horses ready?" The situation was urgent, and Liu Jun didn't talk superfluously, but went straight to the topic.

"It's ready." After Ran Xu finished speaking, he stretched out his hand and pointed to the official road that was faintly visible behind the dock.

Liu Jun looked around, and sure enough, he vaguely saw that there were many vague shadows on the official road, and the fast horse in front was even more white in the purple bushes. It was a white horse.

Ran Xu is a coarse and fine person, he knows that Liu Jun usually loves white horses when he rides horses, so this time, he just thought about buying a horse as white as snow from the horse dealer.

Seeing the white horse, Liu Jun nodded with satisfaction, which was an affirmation of Ran Xu's work.

Turned around and looked at Zhong Lin, who was standing in front of him: "Greet brothers, let's go immediately." Rush to Outer Mongolia as soon as possible. ”

In Outer Mongolia, in the upper reaches of the Klulun River, there is a dense forest of cypress trees, according to the locals, this forest is the largest dense forest around the entire Klulun River, undulating for more than ten kilometers.

Although the herdsmen of Outer Mongolia often pass by here, they do not go in, but sometimes, the people living nearby go back to collect some firewood and go back to cook rice and boil water. However, in recent days, there has been a terrible rumor among the local people that the forest is haunted, and it is still an evil ghost, no matter day or night, as long as anyone enters, no one comes out. It's like evaporating from the world.

Several times, more than a dozen brave herdsmen picked up knives and guns and went in, but no one came out, and the locals were afraid. Every time I pass here, I go underground, and then pass through here quickly, for fear that I will suddenly see a demon come out and devour myself.

If these simple people can be more bold and careful, they will find a very important problem, that is, the birds that used to chirp all day and night in this forest. The animal howled, but now it has disappeared without a trace, let alone barking, not even a shadow can be seen.

Deep in the cypress forest. In a room that had just been built from cut trees, Li Rong and Iketanga were sitting in a daze bored. They've been in it for five days. In the past five days, there were nearly 100 herdsmen and surrounding people who strayed into this forest.

In order not to leak the news. Li Rong and Iktanga had no choice, and gave an order that all those who came in should be detained until the troops left.

Seven kilometers in range. Nearly 50,000 Liaodong troops are hidden, and it is no wonder that so many people, even the birds are not frightened, it is impossible.

"The marshal is too, now the Tushetu Khan Department and the disguised Russian army are less than two hundred kilometers away from us, why do you want us to suddenly converge and hide in one place?" Li Rong looked at the dense forest in the distance, his heart was full of grievances and discomfort, these days, because he was afraid of making a fire to attract attention. Eating flatbread every day makes Li Rong feel like a flatbread when he eats it.

Iktanga, who was sitting on the ammunition box next to him, was obviously calmer than Li Rong, after all, in terms of age. Li Rong is only 22 years old this year. And Iktanga is already past the age of six.

Looking at Li Rong walking back and forth impatiently, he pouted and complained. Iktanga smiled slightly, stood up from the ammunition box, and said with a smile that seemed to be answered: "Why, the Russians sent more than 10,000 soldiers to disguise and assist the foreign ******** this time, you know more about the marshal than I do, don't you really know why the marshal let us stand still?" ”

Li Rong suddenly glanced at Yi Ketang, and said that he understood the marshal, it was simply wronged, after he started the army from the marshal, he was almost outside, and he had not been in contact with the marshal for a long time, if you want to say that he understands the marshal, this person is none other than Zhong Lin.

"Don't be a shabby, if you understand Dashuai, this is Zhong Lin, not me." Li Rong waved his hand impatiently.

Seeing that Li Rong was a little impatient, Yi Ketanga was not teasing Li Rong, stroked his beard, and pulled Li Rong: "If I guess correctly, Dashuai is already on his way here." ”

"You said the big man was coming." Li Rong opened his mouth wide all of a sudden, and looked at Iktanga with some incredulity.

Nodding sincerely, Iktanga said his analysis.

Dashuai has a characteristic, that is, every time he encounters a foreign entry or is bullied, then he will definitely hit the front line. This was the case with the war against Japan, and it was like this with Lower Manila.

This time, it was no exception, originally, the two armies marched well, but after Li Rong suddenly surrounded and annihilated the disguised troops of the Russian army last time, Liu Jun let the two armies converge and stop advancing, and also clearly stipulated that they would be stationed to resist without giving any reason, then there was only one explanation, Liu Jun would personally go out and clean up this group of Russian troops.

"Okay, okay, the handsome man is here, and I have the bottom in my heart." After all, Li Rong is young, and many times, he feels that he has too much responsibility on his shoulders, after all, there are more than 40,000 people in this corps, and he has to let him master it, and he is a little powerless.

"Come, old Tang, we are walking two games, Li Rong, who suddenly opened his heart, suddenly pulled up Iktanga, and walked to the chess placed on the ammunition box again, since the big man is coming, then he doesn't have to copy so many hearts, anyway, when the time comes, where the big boss points to, he will play.

"Commander, there's a lot of dust coming from the northeast. It is estimated that there was a lot of cavalry activity. A soldier with a backpack and a Mauser on his back burst in and shouted anxiously to Li Rong, who was playing chess.

To the northeast, Li Rong and Iktang suddenly frowned. With a few clicks, the two of them threw away the chess pieces in their hands at once, and immediately grabbed the telescope that was put aside and ran to the top of the mountain, which was the most conducive to observing the outside situation.

About a cup of tea, after the two of them soaked up to the top of the mountain one after the other, they raised the binoculars in their hands before they had time to catch their breath.

Sure enough, the dust was rolling in the northeast, and looking at the formation, there were at least thousands of cavalry galloping.

"Old Tang, something is wrong, the northeast direction is where you marched some time ago, why did there be cavalry?" Li Rong put down the binoculars and looked. Puzzled, he looked at Iktanga who was standing beside him.

Iktanga is also in doubt, it stands to reason that if it is an enemy, then the direction of origin should be west or northwest, and definitely not northeast.

The person said that in the past few days, the various ministries have not revealed any news in the dense forest, and even if there are people who have entered, they have been detained here, and the leakage of secrets will hardly exist.

"Tell the ministries to get ready for battle." Seeing that Iketang Aryan didn't answer himself for a long time, Li Rong, just in case, took the lead in giving the order to get the troops ready.

"Slow." Iktanga immediately stopped the staff officers who were about to inform the troops to prepare? ”

"Old Tang, what are you doing, if it's an enemy, then we will be passive." As soon as he heard Iktanga say slowly, Li Rong suddenly stomped his feet in anger.

"Don't prepare, the big man is here."