Chapter 215: Trying to Capture the Past
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Seeing that the remaining Japanese troops even used their strength to eat, desperately rowing out of the river, Xu Tong, Yu Guangxi, Xin Delin, and Luo Peide all shouted anxiously.
"Commander."
"My lord! My lord! β
"Why don't you shoot!"
Among them, Luo Peide's voice was the loudest, and he blushed and shouted at Qin Chuan with a thick neck.
"My lord, why don't you fight! Why did you see the little devil snatch the boat away? β
It's okay that a few people didn't ask, but when they asked, Qin Chuan was even more silent, just coldly watched the remaining few Japanese soldiers rowing the boat faster and faster, and saw that they crossed Giethoorn Island and sailed into the center of the river.
When the Japanese army had not rowed the fishing boat from the river bay into the river, Qin Chuan did not miss the hit, but he suddenly had a new idea.
Moreover, the reason why he had to shoot the last two shots after everyone had fired them was that he didn't want the Japanese soldiers to think that he was intentionally indulgent, but to make the Japanese soldiers think that they were killed in the indiscriminate shooting.
Qin Chuan put down his rifle and looked at a few people and asked with a smile: "You say, what are the Japanese trying to do when they come to grab the boat?" β
Lopet said in a loud voice: "Then there is no need to ask, it must be that they think that they must pull out the fort on the opposite bank first to cross the river from the bridge of the boat, which will delay too much, so they have to transport the troops across the river by boat." β
Qin Chuan nodded and asked, "Then tell me again, if the Japanese army wants to cross the river, where will it choose?" β
Luo Peide pointed to the river in front of him: "The river is the only place in this area where the river is slower, and the river will be fast as soon as you cross the bridge of the boat, so naturally you will cross the river here." β
Looking at the thoughtful Xu Tong, Yu Guangxin, and Xin Delin, Qin Chuan asked again.
"Then tell me how many troops can the Japanese army transport at one time with these five fishing boats?"
Yu Guangxin looked at a few small fishing boats that were getting farther and farther away in the river, and said without thinking.
"Just these five small boats, at most one time, can transport a small team of troops."
Luo Peide patted his head and said to Qin Chuan: "My lord, don't talk about it little by little, tell me quickly, what is your idea?" β
Qin Chuan nodded with a smile and said: "What you said is right, the Japanese army wants to cross the river from here, and then attack the batteries on the river bank along the river, and then cut off the bridge of the boat, and attack the fort on the south bank on both sides." Of course, it would be even better if the city gates could be captured in one fell swoop. However, now it seems that the main purpose of the Japanese army is the first two I mentioned. β
"The Japanese only use these five small boats, and they can only cross one squadron at a time, that is, before we find out, they can only pass one or two squadrons at most, at most the strength of one brigade. If these more than 800 people hit us by surprise, then they may still succeed, but if we are prepared, then they will be the ones who will suffer. β
Lopet suddenly realized: "My lord, you mean that we deliberately let the little devils snatch the boat away, lure them to cross the river, and then we slaughtered all the Japanese troops crossing the river in the north of the river." β
"Yes."
Qin Chuan smiled and said, "That's what it means." β
Cindelin hesitated and said, "My lord, what if there are many little devils coming, not one brigade, but two?" β
Qin Chuan shook his head: "No, the Japanese army will never use too many troops if they risk smuggling across the river, otherwise their troops on the south bank will be insufficient." If they cross the river with too many troops, once we find out, then these Japanese troops will face the bombardment of our artillery. Therefore, the Japanese army will only treat this smuggled unit as a surprise soldier and succeed in one blow, otherwise they will be in danger, at least with heavy casualties. β
Luo Peide clapped his hands: "My lord, what do you say, we will listen to you, this time we have to make the little devil look good." β
Qin Chuan thought for a moment and said to Luo Peide: "Old Luo, you go with me to see Sun Xianyin." β
Although the sky is still sparsely moonlit, the dense reeds cover the river bank tightly.
The river breeze made the reeds more than one person high sway, and the white tidbits of the reeds on the river bank swayed back and forth with the river breeze, just like the tide on the beach, rising wave after wave, and then quickly receding. In the sound of the "tide" of the reeds, the sound of insects is bursting, and the night breeze is blowing, as if playing the "tide song" of nature.
In this noisy autumn night, in the dark reeds half a mile away from Jiangwan, Qin Chuan was lying on a small mound with a reed pole in his mouth, quietly looking at the few sparse stars in the night sky that kept blinking "eyes", although he couldn't see the demeanor on his face clearly in the shadows, but those black and bright eyes showed a little helplessness and sadness.
In the reeds around him, in addition to Xu Tong, Yu Guangxi, Xin Delin, Lo Peide and a platoon of people from the Chuanzi battalion, there were also many officers and soldiers of the Renzi battalion sitting or lying.
Now, it is the early morning of September 15 in the first year of the first year.
Qin Chuan led Lopet to see Sun Xianyin that day, Sun Xianyin heard that the Japanese army was going to cross the river from this section of the river, and he couldn't help but change his face a little, and he didn't wait until he heard Qin Chuan's plan, and then he was a little calmer, but he was still a little surprised. Sun Xianyin didn't dare to call the shots, and pulled Qin Chuan to find Wei Rugui. It just so happened that Wei Rugui and Ye Zhichao were inspecting the city defense in the west of the city, and they told Qin Chuan's plan to capture the old man.
What surprised Qin Chuan was that for this plan, Ye Zhichao thought that it was a bit risky, although he didn't say it explicitly, Qin Chuan could still hear the implicit meaning in his words. On the contrary, Wei Rugui praised Qin Chuan's plan, and even Wei Rugui said some words of admiration for the battle of Qinchuan's ferry under Sun Xianyin's repeated instructions.
Before the crossing, Qin Chuan's impression of Wei Rugui had always been negative, and after the crossing, he had entanglements with Lu Benyuan back then, and he was even more disdainful of Wei Rugui. Although Qin Chuan now gradually thinks that the First Sino-Japanese War failed in Korea, the Qing court made Wei Rugui and Ye Zhichao as scapegoats, and even Wei Rugui was somewhat "stained" with Li Hongzhang before he was beheaded and died, but he only held Wei Rugui's mind.
However, looking at Wei Rugui, who had pale sideburns, his embarrassed demeanor, Qin Chuan's heart was much hotter, and he suddenly remembered the old naughty boy Zhou Botong. Comparing Zhou Botong and Wei Rugui, these two people really acted a little similarly, which made Qin Chuan laugh dumbly in his heart, and he had already released his suspicions for Wei Rugui in his heart.
Ye Zhichao is the president of all military forces in Pyongyang, and Ye Zhichao still has to nod his head in this plan. If it was in other troops, it might be possible without Ye Zhichao's nod, but Sheng Jun is the descendant of the Beiyang lineage, and Ye Zhichao is Li Hongzhang's personal order, no matter how arrogant Wei Rugui is in front of others, he has to give Ye Zhichao face no matter what.
Qin Chuan told Ye Zhichao in detail about his plan, and even some details were explained clearly, which made Ye Zhichao reluctantly agree. Worried that Qin Chuan and Sun Xianyin would have some accidents due to their insufficient troops, Ye Zhichao originally thought that he would add some more troops to them, but Qin Chuan resolutely refused. At this time, the Japanese army was pressing, and the troops were stretched thin, Ye Zhichao was already anxious, and Qin Chuan naturally would not stretch out his hand with Ye Zhichao again.
In order not to worry Ye Zhichao, Qin Chuan just asked the people from the mine battalion of the Renzi Battalion to come over. In addition, ten more mines were taken from warehouses.
Because Pyongyang is an important town in the north of the DPRK, the section of the Taedong River from the mouth of the sea to Pyongyang has a wide river surface and abundant flow, and even in winter, ships can flow upstream, and the mines in Pyongyang's warehouses are ready to be deployed along the river at a special moment to stop the other side's armed ships. Not only Pyongyang, but also Seoul, the North Korean personnel in charge of mines were trained in Beiyang.
The ten mines were planted on the road from Jiangwan to the Jiangyouqing Fort and the Great Wall in front of the city wall, because the mines were too powerful, and the burial site was far away from the fort and the place where the Qing army was ambushed in the Great Wall, the farthest was 150 meters, and the nearest was more than 100 meters. These mines have been changed to pull the hair, which is not a problem for the people of the mine battalion of the Renzi battalion.
Qin Chuan's deployment was like this, he led Loped's battalion and Xu Tong's platoon to ambush in the reeds, and Sun Xianyin led two battalions of Sheng to ambush in the Great Wall. On the side of the Great Wall facing Jiangwan, it was originally open, unobstructed, and a half-human-high sandbag bunker was set up according to Qin Chuan's requirements. On the city wall, only one sentry remained in each of the three battalions.
Qin Chuan had been in the reeds for two nights, and what he didn't expect was that the Japanese army did not move for a day yesterday, but only fired a burst of artillery at the Qing army's fort on the south bank.
Loped's battalion was better, but Sun Xianyin's two battalions of Sheng Jun complained after sleeping out for one night, causing Sun Xianyin to send people to Qin Chuan several times, wanting to withdraw the people in the Great Wall outside the city to a battalion, and change it to rotate between the upper and lower nights. It was Qin Chuan who made a promise that as long as he stayed for one night, Qin Chuan would give him a piece of the ocean, which finally appeased the two battalions of the Sheng army.
However, Qin Chuan was also a little strange in his heart about the delay in the Japanese army's attack, and after thinking about it carefully, he thought that it should be Oshima Yoshimasa waiting for news from several other Japanese troops.
With a rustling sound, a soldier of the reconnaissance platoon, disguised as a straw hat made of reeds, bowed and carefully emerged from the reeds.