An hour later, Wang Shizhen took Qin Chuan, Xu Tong, Yu Guangxi, Li Guohua, Xin Delin and that row of people, led more than 40 Japanese ponies with ammunition boxes and luggage strapped on their backs, and came to the Datong Gate in Nancheng. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Since Qin Chuan wants to lead a battalion of Luo Peide to strengthen the defense of the southern city, it is necessary to stick to the southern city at all times, if you often go back and forth to the west and south of the city, it is easy to say in normal times, but once the fight starts, I am afraid that there will not be so much time. Therefore, Qin Chuan simply moved the entire station to Nancheng.

Looking at the Datong Gate Tower with two-story cornices, Qin Chuan knew that the Jiawu in his heart had only really started from this time.

More than two dozen houses not far from Datong Gate have long been requisitioned as military camps, and a battalion of Lope de has been housed here. When Qin Chuan arrived, several civil and military officials were there commanding soldiers to help Luo Peide place his troops, which made Qin Chuan startled.

This is not for anything else, but most of those civil and military officials Qin Chuan recognizes, and the leader is Sun Xianyin, the commander of the Sheng Army Infantry Brigade, who is dressed in the costume of a second-grade military attaché.

Another five-rank civil official is Wang Xizhi, a member of the Pyongyang Telegraph Office. There is also a young man in eight-grade costumes, and Qin Chuan also recognizes Sheng Xuanhuai's younger brother Sheng Xinghuai. There was only a young man in his twenties who looked like a battalion officer in Sheng Jun's costume and a middle-aged man, Qin Chuan looked at him.

Wang Shizhen told Qin Chuan that this young man was a battalion officer of the Sheng Army Artillery Corps, named Jiang Youqing. The middle-aged man's name is Qiu Fengchi, and he is the ordnance committee of the Sheng Army. Moreover, this Jiang Youqing, Qiu Fengchi, Wei Rugui, Sun Xianyin, and Wang Xizhi are all Hefei people, that is, fellow villagers as the saying goes.

Sun Xianyin, as a second-rank member and the commander of the Sheng Army's infantry team, was able to personally arrange a garrison for his people regardless of the old feud between Qin Chuan and Sheng Jun, which surprised Qin Chuan.

Sun Xianyin is about fifty years old, with a white face and a smiling face, and when he saw Qin Chuan and his party arrive, Sun Xianyin led a few people to greet him with a smile on his face and expressed his condolences again and again. He personally led Qin Chuan to inspect his new camp, and kept asking Qin Chuan if he was satisfied.

Facing Sun Xianyin, who was full of smiles, Qin Chuan also thanked him repeatedly.

A few people exchanged greetings for a while, and Sun Xianyin pointed out to Qin Chuan the section of the city wall on the left side of the Datong Gate that Qin Chuan was responsible for defending, and then after making a series of accusations, he took Wang Xizhi and Sheng Xinghuai to Ye Zhichao for a meeting, leaving Jiang Youqing and Qiu Fengchi to accompany Qin Chuan.

Now that the confession is over, Wang Shizhen is also in a hurry to leave.

Seeing that Lo Peide had already set up the military camp, Qin Chuan called Lo Peide, and took that battalion of soldiers to the city along the road of the city wall along Jiang Youqing and Qiu Fengchi.

Pyongyang is not only the former royal city of Joseon, but also an important town in the north of Korea, the city wall is not only tall, but also very thick and strong, the city is several zhang wide, and it is very convenient for people to walk back and forth.

Sun Xianyin is in charge of the southern city, the city wall is more than ten miles, and the section assigned to Qinchuan is about five miles long, from Datong Gate to the east, and as soon as the battalion of Loped is dispersed on it, it suddenly looks sparse.

Qin Chuan had already known from Ye Zhichao about the defense of Nancheng.

In the three big forts on the other side of the river, Ma Yukun led two battalions of the Yi Army and the first battalion of Nie Guilin of the Fengsheng Asheng Zi Battalion were stationed, Sun Xianyin was led by three battalions of the Sheng army to guard the city wall, and Jiang Youqing's artillery team placed a fort on the river bank outside the city and in the southeast corner of the city wall, and each fort placed four mountain guns. However, Ye Zhichao, who knew about the Shengzi Battalion, always couldn't let go, and instructed Wei Rugui to send a battalion to the fort that Nie Guilin was responsible for in the Shengzi Battalion. This battalion of Sheng was transferred from the three battalions of Sun Xianyin guarding the city wall, so that Sun Xianyin only had two battalions left to guard the city wall, and his strength was suddenly a little stretched.

The city wall of more than ten miles needs to be defended by more than 1,000 people, which is indeed far from enough, which is why Ye Zhichao transferred a battalion of Luo Peide to the southern city.

Qin Chuan led Luo Peide this battalion to defend the city wall, the southwest facing the south bank of the Datong River Qing Army's largest fort, there was originally called Zhisong Yuan, this fort is called No. 1 Fort, by Ma Yukun led a battalion garrison; Further to the west, facing the south earthware shop and Shuiqiao Bay, the forts at the intersection of the two southern intersections were Fort No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, which were garrisoned by the 1st Battalion of the Yi Army and the 2nd Battalion of the Sheng Army and the Shengzi Battalion. The bridge is halfway between Fort 1 and Fort 2.

About one mile west of No. 1 Fort, there is a Jiangxinzhou in the middle of the Datong River, because the shape resembles a sheep's horn, so it is called Sheep's Horn Island, and the Datong River under the city is more than 300 meters away from the city wall.

This section of the river is covered with half-man-high reeds, but there is a small bay in the short section of the river that is more than 30 meters long opposite Giethoorn Island, and five fishing boats are tied to the shore.

It should be said that this section of the city wall that Qin Chuan is responsible for is not directly facing the boat bridge, so even if the Japanese army breaks through the fortress on the opposite bank and rushes to the city, it will basically not attack the city from him, and the defense is obviously much easier, and it can be seen from this point that Sun Xianyin did not hide his selfish intentions to embarrass Qin Chuan.

Qiu Fengchi smiled and said, "Lord Qin, what else do you need?" ”

Qin Chuan shook his head: "Thank you two, I don't have any needs here, just ask someone to go to the camp office to get some more bullets later." ”

Qiu Fengchi said with a smile: "Lord Qin, there are five or six models of rifles for our nearly 10,000-strong army in Pyongyang, which are more complicated, and only your Renzi battalion has the same model, all of them are Winchester, even our Sheng army is not as good as you, although there are still many bullets in the camp office, but there are not many of your 9mm bullets, most of the bullets in Winchester have been taken away by Jiang Fuqing, and there are not many left, and they were all retrieved by me yesterday." Because there was also a battalion in the Sheng army that used Winchester rifles. Lord Qin shouldn't go to Jiang Fuqing to ask for it, I'll ask someone to send some when I go back. ”

Although the guns of the Beiyang Army are advanced, almost every kind of rifle with advanced performance will be purchased by Beiyang, so that the weapons in their hands are now available in the hands of various arms exporting countries of various arms exporting countries.

Although the Beiyang rifle has advanced performance, it has brought irreparable difficulties to logistics. Because of the fact that the specifications of various types of rifle bullets are not uniform in various countries, they are basically one rifle with one type of ammunition. That is, the cartridges of various rifles are not universal. You know, there is no concept of standardization at this time.

For now, Li Hongzhang spared no effort to deliver ammunition and food to the DPRK army as soon as possible, but the ammunition that could be transported was unplanned, and it could even be said that it was a mess. Some rifles are poorly equipped in North Korea, but a lot of them are delivered. And some rifle models are more equipped with these troops, but the bullets that can be transported are pitiful. In particular, the weapons in the hands of these troops are relatively advanced repeating rifles, which have a relatively fast rate of fire, and the firepower in a war is not to be said, but there is also a problem, that is, the ammunition is consumed too quickly. If you fight in the country, it is better, it is easier to replenish, but this is in North Korea, and there is no railway, even the main roads are not easy to walk, and it is not easy to replenish ammunition!

If you really want to fight with the Japanese army, once you run out of bullets, even if you have an advanced rifle in your hand, it will undoubtedly be with a burning stick.

Regarding the mismatch between ammunition and rifle models, Jiang Youqing was not surprised in the morning, and he didn't take this matter as a big deal, seeing that Qin Chuan's face was gloomy and tightened, and the corners of his mouth were tense and he didn't speak, Jiang Youqing misunderstood Qin Chuan, and thought that Qin Chuan was unwilling to take their Sheng Jun's things.

Jiang Youqing smiled bitterly and said to Qin Chuan: "Lord Qin, the last time General Lu had that incident, it was really General Lu Bing's, and Lord Qin suffered a lot, and our Lord Wei also said Lu General Bing in private." It's true that Master Wei has some shortcomings, but he is broad-minded, and those things have long been forgotten. It's just that although Master Wei is also in his fifties, his face is very thin, and he is always unwilling to bow his head in front of others. Lord Wei admired what Lord Qin had done, and a few of us talked about you when we drank yesterday. Please also ask Lord Qin to be sure to have a lot of sea connotations. ”

Seeing Jiang Youqing talk about it, Qiu Fengchi also smiled a little embarrassedly and said, "What Mingyang said is that he really wants to ask Lord Qin to take care of it. Just now, Wang Xizhi brought Li Zhongtang's reprimand telegram, and counted many things in the Shengzi camp to our Sheng army, but he was too stubborn and didn't want to explain more。。。。。。 ”

Jiang Youqing said with some indignation: "It's not all the ghost of the kid surnamed Sheng。。。。。。 ”

Jiang Youqing wanted to continue, but Qiu Fengchi stopped talking with a look.

The villain Jiang Youqing mentioned refers to Sheng Xuanhuai's younger brother Sheng Xinghuai, and Qin Chuan can understand this matter without asking.

However, what Jiang Youqing and Qiu Fengchi said just now made Qin Chuan quite surprised. It stands to reason that these people are Wei Rugui's henchmen, and they should have the same mind as Wei Rugui. Thinking about what Sun Xianyin did today, and the words of the two of them corroborated each other, Qin Chuan believed them. In fact, Qin Chuan had long lost his prejudice against Wei Rugui in his heart, and even kept thinking about how to help him and avoid his death.

It's just that Qin Chuan didn't understand a little, and it stands to reason that these two people don't need to explain this to themselves.

But then Qin Chuan figured it out, this is these two people seeing that they are in the limelight these days, thinking that their "new star" may not be able to make their debut, and they will first make a foreshadowing on their own "potential stocks" to reduce an opponent for Wei Rugui, which is naturally what Wei Rugui's henchmen are willing to do.

Thinking about these clearly, Qin Chuan was thinking about how to comfort the two of them, but he didn't want to suddenly hear gunshots from the other side of the river.

But I saw that at the intersection of the earthware shop in the distance on the opposite bank, I don't know when more than a dozen Japanese cavalry appeared, and the Qing troops in the fort on the opposite bank obviously found the Japanese army, so they began to shoot with rifles in "ping pong", and the gunfire became more and more intensive, as if they were facing hundreds of Japanese troops who were attacking over, and Qin Chuan smiled bitterly.

Qin Chuan said in his heart: "It's okay not to say anything about the Sheng Zi Battalion, but this Yi Army and Sheng Jun are like this, and their military literacy can also be imagined." ”