Thinking of Gao Jishan, Qin Chuan couldn't help but feel a little anxious, and hurriedly searched for the black shadow of the Renzi camp who was shooting at the Japanese army, but there was no trace of Gao Jishan. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After a long time, Qin Chuan finally saw Gao Jishan's vague figure behind a big rock, and at this moment Gao Jishan was lying on the stone, using the revolver in his hand to "snap" at the Japanese troops on the riverbank, regardless of whether the revolver bullet could hit so far.

Qin Chuan bowed and ran in front of Gao Jishan: "Cipu, Cipu." ”

After shouting a few times, Gao Jishan heard the shouting, turned his head and saw that it was Qin Chuan, and couldn't help but grab Qin Chuan's arm excitedly.

"Minghong, we've won! We've won! ”

Qin Chuan saw that Gao Jishan was excited like a child, knowing that Gao Jishan, a literati, participated in the battle for the first time, and it was a big victory, so he was naturally very excited.

Qin Chuan also smiled and said: "Cipu, don't fight anymore, if you continue to fight, we won't be able to see any of us." ”

Gao Jishan blurted out excitedly: "Yes, yes." We can't fight anymore, let's catch a few alive and send them back to be sacrificed. ”

After Gao Jishan finished speaking, he stood up and called out to his own soldiers, so panicked that Qin Chuan pressed Gao Jishan down again. At such a long distance, although it was not easy for the Japanese army to shoot the Qing army in the dark, stray bullets could also hurt people.

Gao Jishan instructed the soldiers who ran over: "Go and give an order, tell Luo Yingguan and Wu Yingguan, as well as our people here, don't shoot again, we have to capture a few prisoners." ”

After the soldiers ran away for a while, the Yamaguchi side first stopped shooting, then Wu Bingwen's side, and only Lopet reluctantly fought for a while before stopping.

"Jin Jiu."

Qin Chuan shouted Jin Jiu's instructions: "Shout to the little devils and tell them that if they resist any longer, what awaits them is death, and they are asked to surrender." ”

Sure enough, as soon as Jin Jiuyi shouted, the sparse gunfire of the Japanese army quickly stopped.

Qin Chuan waited for a long time without seeing any movement, and let the grenadier hit two more rounds, at this time the Japanese troops on the opposite side finally moved, first someone shouted in Japanese not to shoot, and then someone slowly stood up, waving a white shirt in his hand.

Seeing that the Qing army really did not shoot, the rest of the Japanese soldiers also threw their Chuntian-style rifles in their hands on the ground and stood up.

The next thing was much simpler, after putting up another Kong Ming lantern, the shelling also quickly stopped, and the officers and soldiers of the Renzi Battalion on three sides swarmed up, collected the guns of the surrendered Japanese troops, and began to clean up the battlefield.

Qin Chuan asked Jin Jiu to ask the prisoners, the Japanese army that crossed the river was the 21st Wing and the 2nd Brigade of the 21st Wing, which lacked a squadron with Yamaguchi Keizou as the captain, and only one squadron was needed to cross the river.

According to the statistics of the results, 342 Japanese soldiers were killed or killed, 456 prisoners including wounded soldiers, 478 intact rifles and 38 American-made Wesson revolvers were captured. Keizo Yamaguchi, the commander of the 2nd Japanese Brigade, was killed along with most of the officers of the group during the first round of shelling, which was also an important reason for the confusion in the Japanese army.

By the light of the fire in the Japanese camp, Qin Chuan patrolled the Japanese camp.

The pier had been blown up by shells, and the flames were still flickering with dark red flames, reflecting the light and darkness of the vicinity of the ferry. On the ground, there were craters and mutilated corpses and broken limbs of the Japanese soldiers, and the dozens of tents set up by the Japanese army, almost none of them were intact, almost all of them were burned to the point that only some charred fragments remained.

"Wow"

Gao Jishan, who was following behind Qin Chuan, had never seen such a scene, his face was pale and his steps were vain. From time to time, I closed my eyes, not daring to face the cruel scene. Watching Qin Chuan casually step over a dead Japanese corpse, Gao Jishan couldn't help but feel a little flustered, thinking about bypassing from the side, but he didn't want to step on the half-blown stump, his feet slipped and sat on the ground, and one hand happened to press on the neck of a Japanese corpse whose face was covered with black and purple blood clots, and suddenly Gao Jishan vomited.

It is normal for people who are on the battlefield for the first time to feel nauseous and vomiting when they see this kind of scene, not to mention Gao Jishan, even Qin Chuan. During the more than a month of fighting with the Japanese army in Seoul, many people in Qin Chuan and Xu Tong's row had this feeling.

Qin Chuan hurriedly turned around, wanting to pull Gao Jishan, but his two personal soldiers had already rushed up to help Gao Jishan.

"Jiura."

Qin Chuan smiled bitterly and said, "If I don't let you come, you just won't listen, it's okay now。。。。。。 ”

Halfway through speaking, Qin Chuan suddenly stopped, because his gaze was attracted by what was under the corpse of the Japanese soldier that Gao Jishan had pressed. Qin Chuan squatted down and reached out to pull the corpse away, revealing a cowhide bag underneath that had been stained black with blood. This leather briefcase is the standard equipment of the Japanese army, and it is generally used to hold important things such as documents.

Qin Chuan opened the bag and reached into his hand, only to feel that the things inside were very soft, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed when he pulled out his hand. Because in Qin Chuan's hands, a folded square Japanese military flag has appeared. Qin Chuan, who was excited, quickly took a closer look, it was the military flag of the 21st Wing.

How could the flag of the 21st Wing of the Japanese Army be here?

You must know that the military flag above the wing of the Japanese army is the most important thing for all units of the Japanese army. The Japanese army's wing flag was personally awarded by the Japanese emperor, so it was stipulated that if the military flag was there, the wing would be there, and if the military flag was lost, the wing would be cut. Such an important thing, so that it will not be with the captain of the 21st Wing of the Japanese Army, but will run to this 2nd Brigade.

With a stomach full of questions, Qin Chuan found Jin Jiu again and asked Jin Jiu to ask the captive again.

Jin Jiu asked, and Qin Chuan figured out that only the first and second brigades of the 21st Wing of the Japanese Army arrived in Korea, and the first brigade stayed at Incheon, and the commander of the 21st Wing would wait for the landing of the follow-up troops in Inchon before taking the main force of the wing north. The commander of the Japanese wing was worried about losing the credit for the capture of Pyongyang, so he asked Keizo Yamaguchi, the commander of the second brigade who had set out in advance, to come with the flag of the wing. Unexpectedly, his selfishness directly led to the abolition of the 21st Wing.

At this time, the sky was already dark, but every morning, a white mist would rise on the surface of the Datong River, which just helped Qin Chuan to give the people of the Renzi battalion time to clean up the battlefield, and then escort the prisoners away. Qin Chuan did not take any of the wounded soldiers of the Japanese army, but directly left them still on the riverbank.

Due to the heavy fog on the river, the Japanese troops on the other side could not see the situation on the other side clearly, and they did not open fire.

Before evacuating the battlefield, Qin Chuan also did one thing, he wrote a handwritten letter to Ye Zhichao, sealed it and handed it to Gao Jishan, and asked Gao Jishan to take his own soldiers on horseback and gallop to Pyongyang to report to Ye Zhichao.

In fact, Qin Chuan did not tell Gao Jishan all the content of the letter, because in addition to informing Ye Zhichao of the results of the battle, Qin Chuan also specifically stated that he Qin Chuan led the Renzi battalion to intercept the Japanese army, and he was given a separate order by Ye Zhichao before leaving.

Qin Chuan's meaning is obvious, he wants to help Ye Zhichao, so as to reduce the responsibility of the imperial court to investigate Ye Zhichao's abandonment of Pyongyang in the future.

The reason why Qin Chuan is like this is because Qin Chuan does not agree with the view of the mainstream historical materials of later generations, that is, it is completely Ye Zhichao's fear of the enemy and cowardice, and when the so-called strength is on par with the Japanese army, and even says that Pyongyang has already stockpiled food and ammunition for a month, he does not want to hold on, but gives up Pyongyang and flees all the way back to the Yalu River, causing China to lose hundreds of years of barriers.

Judging from what Qin Chuan has learned now, it is not like that at all, and the current fact is that the strength of the Qing army is not about the same as the Japanese army at first, but about sixty percent worse, and now it is outnumbered; Secondly, Pyongyang does not have the so-called January grain bombs at all, and the so-called January grain bombs are either still on the way, or they have not yet been shipped, and Pyongyang's existing grain bombs are not enough to use for a month, and they are not even enough to pay for a big war. In this case, Ye Zhichao can act arbitrarily, regardless of the loss of his official position, and still bring the main elite of the Beiyang Army back to China, not only should Ye Zhichao not be blamed, but Ye Zhichao should even be commended.

It's just that Qin Chuan, who knows the direction of history, knows that not only the Qingliu people in the imperial court who talk about misleading the country will not spare Ye Zhichao, but also under the instigation of the Qinglius, Guangxu will not let Ye Zhichao go. Ye Zhichao is a tragic hero, not only will he become the scapegoat for the fiasco of the First Sino-Japanese War, but he will also bear the infamy of a lifetime.

Now that he has come to this era, Qin Chuan wants to correct the name of Ye Zhichao, who dares to take responsibility.