Because of its proximity to the Taedong River, the air in Pyongyang is always wet in the morning, and the south and west of the city are even shrouded in a white morning mist. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

As soon as the sky was hazy, Qin Chuan appeared at the door of the main house in full gear, but he was not the first to come out, and Xu Tong, Yu Guangxi, Li Guohua, and Xin Delin were busy sorting out their bags with the soldiers in the courtyard. With the sound of pots and spoons clattering, the kitchen also wafted from time to time with the enticing aroma of meat.

Last night, Qin Chuan went to Ye Zhichao to ask for a fight. At the beginning, Ye Zhichao resolutely disagreed with Qin Chuan to follow the brigade to meet the Japanese army, but Qin Chuan repeatedly explained that he needed such a field battle to observe the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army on the spot, and Ye Zhichao reluctantly agreed. Ye Zhichao also considered that Qinchuan only had less than one outpost of troops, and he was afraid that something would happen to Qinchuan in the fight, so he sent someone to call Gao Jishan back, and personally arranged for Qin Chuan to take Gao Jishan's two battalions the next day.

Gao Jishan is not a person with little energy, not only is he grateful to Qin Chuan for saving his life, but he also admires Qin Chuan's military ability in his heart.

The time when the army set off was Yinshi, and Gao Jishan's two battalions were pressed into formation as the rear team.

Seeing that it was not early, Qin Chuan was about to beckon Xu Tong to open dinner, when the door of the wing room opened, and Jin Jiu, who was dressed in Xian costume, led two young people out.

Jin Jiu entered the city in the middle of the night last night, and it was already a child when he was brought to Qinchuan by the people of the Sheng army.

In accordance with Qin Chuan's request, Jin Jiu took people to Hwajin-ri, west of Pyongyang, to look for salt balls to receive ships. Jin Jiu brought the news that Gao Ying quietly came to Huajinli with the "Surprise" two days ago, because the Surprise was too eye-catching, Gao Ying also brought more than a dozen three-masted fishing boats, and the boatmen were all dressed as North Korean fishermen. During the day, they were on the sea near Huajinli, fishing while sending people on the shore to wait for Qin Chuan to contact.

Seeing Qin Chuan, Jin Jiu walked a few steps in front of Qin Chuan, and said apologetically.

"Lord Qin, we are too tired these days, we will lie down and sleep until this time, it's not early, let's go back and report the news."

Qin Chuan shook his head and said with a smile: "It's not bad at this time, I'll leave after breakfast." ”

Jin Jiu shook his head resolutely: "Lord Qin, your subordinates who are waiting in Huajin are so anxious that they are going crazy, if you don't hurry back, you won't be able to find them after dark, and they will have to worry about it for another night." Besides, the important matter that Lord Qin explained cannot be delayed, and after reporting the letter, I will also arrange for the brothers to hurry up and deal with that matter. ”

Seeing Jin Jiu's resolute attitude, Qin Chuan didn't keep it anymore, reached out and took out a letter from his jacket pocket and handed it to Jin Jiu, and instructed Xu Tong to ask someone to prepare a horse for Jin Jiu and the three of them.

After bringing three Mongolian horses with full saddles, Qin Chuan asked Xu Tong to wrap three stewed fat chickens, a few large pieces of sauced beef and a dozen steamed buns in oiled paper for Jin Jiu and the others, and finally asked Xu Tong to bring Jin Jiu a bag of silver. Jin Jiu did not shirk, hurriedly said goodbye to Qin Chuan, and left the city accompanied by Xin Delin.

Seeing Jin Jiu away, Qin Chuan also immediately greeted him for dinner.

The breakfast of the salt ball has always been very good, although it is in Pyongyang, but yesterday Qinchuan sent people to purchase a lot of things, and it is about to depart, so naturally it will not be bad. In addition to the stewed chicken and duck, a few pots of sauce meat were also cut, and the main food was gruel and steamed buns. After breakfast, Xu Tong took out the dozens of Japanese ponies, wrapped the ammunition and a large amount of sauce meat that had been cooked overnight last night in oiled paper and packed them into the empty ammunition box, leaving only three soldiers to guard the station, Qin Chuan took Xu Tong's platoon, as well as Yu Guangxi, Li Guohua, and Xin Delin out of the city.

Qinchuan came out of Nancheng, crossed the Datong River along the pontoon bridge, and came to the riverside in the boat bridge to wait for Gao Jishan and the two battalions of men.

Although the time for the army to start was set at Yinshi, Qin Chuan still led the team to the bridge half an hour early. At this time, the bridge was still empty, except for the noise and the clashing of weapons from the fort of the Yi Army, there was no team in the bridge.

Qin Chuan didn't care about this scene on the surface, but he secretly sighed in his heart.

In Qin Chuan's memory, he knew that he had taken the initiative to attack, but he didn't know why he withdrew again. In Qin Chuan's opinion, this is a good thing, because he is not optimistic about the encounter of the Qing army and the Japanese army in the field, and the reason is obvious.

First of all, in this sortie, although Ma Yukun, Wei Rugui, Zuo Guigui, Jiang Zikang, and Feng Sheng'a were all dispatched, Ye Zhichao did not accompany him, which is the consistent practice of the Qing army. In the event of a war, these self-righteous commanders will not be able to act together, and they will all fight separately. How could such a group of stragglers be the opponent of the disciplined Japanese army. Moreover, Qin Chuan estimated that even if Ye Zhichao personally went to battle, these general soldiers might not necessarily obey Ye Zhichao's command.

In Qin Chuan's view, if a single unit was taken out to fight with the same number of troops of the Japanese army, it was estimated that the effect would be much better than if these people led the team to fight together.

Of course, Fengsheng's "duck egg soldiers", that is an exception.

Secondly, this Qing army's attack, in Qin Chuan's view, was completely an errand, not to mention the lack of careful deployment, and even the position of the Japanese army on the march was not clear, just when it encountered the Japanese army, it was fighting, and there was no order at all. The best result of such an encounter is that both sides have casualties on each other, and it is impossible to inflict heavy losses on the Japanese troops. Even if it is not good, the Qing army may be scattered and defeated by the other side.

It's just that Qin Chuan took the initiative to ask to come out this time, but he didn't just come to make soy sauce, he already had his own plan, and now he just needs to wait for the opportunity.

Since he had this thought, he naturally didn't take other things to heart, Qin Chuan instructed Xu Tong to pull the team to the side of the road, and each person led the horses they were responsible for to stand in line, Qin Chuan himself also stood in front of the team with his hands behind his back The fiery red military flag that was hunting and flying in the river breeze was on the ground, under the golden glow of the rising sun, the battle flag waving in the wind was like a red flame with a raging flame, tumbling in the air, and under the reflection of a red light, Qin Chuan, who was dressed in military uniform, seemed to be covered with a layer of fiery red halo.

When he was about to arrive at Yinshi, Ye Zhichao, surrounded by a group of personal soldiers, appeared at the gate of the city on horseback from afar. Ye Zhichao obviously also saw Qin Chuan and his troops, looking at the officers and soldiers of the Salt Regiment with a stern appearance and a solemn queue, Ye Zhichao just stared blankly, not knowing what he was thinking.

As soon as the time arrived, in the big fort on the right side of Qinchuan, three horns sounded, and then several bulky gates made of logs were slowly pushed open, and then a group of resolute soldiers with triangular flags of various colors loosely walked out of the fort, walked on the main road and drove south. Under the maintenance of more than a dozen horseback soldiers, Ma Yukun, who was walking in the middle of the team, glanced at Qin Chuan and his subordinates of more than thirty people with some surprise, and then glanced at Ye Zhichao, and left without looking back.

Subsequently, Zuo Guigui's Feng army and Wei Rugui's Sheng army, as well as Jiang Zikang and Gao Jishan's four battalion leaders of Renzi came out of the city in turn, and these teams were also the same as the Yi army, all of them walked sparsely, without a trace of nervousness, and many people even sat on a cart full of sacks, pots and pans, and bundles of logs and thick planks, giggling and talking. Zuo Guigui and Wei Rugui only bowed their hands to Ye Zhichao expressionlessly on the horse, and then took their subordinates out of the city. Only Jiang Zikang and Gao Jishan walked in front of Ye Zhichao's horse and exchanged a few words of greeting before crossing the river with the team.

As soon as the procession of thousands of people walked along the main road, it was also mighty and impressive.

These teams out of the city, when they passed in front of Qin Chuan, they all pointed at the team of the salt group curiously, but their commanders all turned a blind eye to this, and ran past Qin Chuan's eyes at a trot with a blank face. Only Gao Jishan led the two battalions of Luo Peide and Wu Bingwen to stop in front of Qin Chuan.

Gao Jishan and the two battalion officers turned over and dismounted, and walked a few steps in front of Qin Chuan.

Gao Jishan arched his hand to Qin Chuan, and said apologetically: "It's a sin to keep your adult waiting!" Sin! ”

Lopet and Wu Bingwen, standing behind Gao Jishan, also accompanied the smiling face to confess again and again.

Qin Chuan said with a smile on his face: "Where is there any sin, I have just arrived." ”

Gao Jishan saw that Qin Chuan didn't care, and didn't say much, he looked at the backs of Jiang Zikang's two battalions who had gone farther and farther away, and said, "My lord, are we going to pull out?" ”

Qin Chuan shook his head and said, "Okay, we are the rear team, and the Shengzi training army has not left the city yet, let's wait." ”

Hearing that Qin Chuan was going to wait for Fengsheng's troops, Lopet couldn't help laughing.

"My lord, if you want to wait for them, it will have to wait for a while, and when we passed by their station, we saw many of them lying on their deck chairs in the courtyard smoking big cigarettes."

Wu Bingwen pursed his lips contemptuously and said: "The banner people are all that virtue, and they want to 。。。。。。 ”

Wu Bingwen didn't finish a word, but was stopped by Gao Jishan waving his hand.

Gao Jishan glanced at Qin Chuan and said to Wu Bingwen and Loped: "What Lord Qin said is that since the line has been set last night, we have to follow the military order, not to mention that President Ye is still watching there." ”

As soon as Gao Jishan said, Wu Bingwen and Lopet had to stop, and the two glanced at each other and walked to the side to talk in a low voice.

Sure enough, after another half an hour, Feng Sheng'a led eight or nine hundred listless soldiers of the two battalions except for the city gate, Feng Sheng'a just gave up his hand to Ye Zhichao, who had been waiting at the city gate for more than an hour, and urged the pro-soldiers who led the horse to leave quickly and leave Ye Zhichao there.

Seeing Feng Sheng'a walking by with his two battalions of "smokers", Qin Chuan also ordered the troops to be deployed, with the Lo Peide battalion as the front team, Qin Chuan and Gao Jishan with more than a dozen personal soldiers and Xu Tong's platoon in the center, and Wu Bingwen's battalion was delayed. Seeing Qin Chuan pull a Japanese pony that was a head shorter than him, Gao Jishan hurriedly smiled and blocked Qin Chuan. He also called a personal soldier to give up a Mongolian horse, and he had to ask Qin Chuan to change horses.

Looking at the Japanese pony that was much shorter than the Mongolian horse and about the same height as the donkey, Qin Chuan also felt that it was ungraceful to ride on this Japanese pony, so he smiled self-deprecatingly and did not refuse, turned over and was about to urge the horse to move forward, but suddenly remembered Ye Zhichao again, and couldn't help but look back at the city gate across the river, only to see Ye Zhichao still riding on the horse lonely, silently looking at his side.

Looking at the lonely Ye Zhichao, and thinking of Ye Zhichao's tragic second half of his life, Qin Chuan couldn't help but respect Ye Zhichao in his heart, turned his horse's head, raised his right hand on the horse, and gave Ye Zhichao a military salute from afar.

Qin Chuan's actions were obviously beyond Ye Zhichao's expectations, he was stunned for a moment, Ye Zhichao turned around and said something, the soldiers behind him who were riding on horses were busy jumping off their horses, Ye Zhichao turned around and raised his right hand at Qin Chuan and swung it for a long time.

Although the team in front of him had long since disappeared, Feng Sheng's team still walked unhurriedly, and some people in the team even laughed loudly while marching. They dragged on, and Loped, who was following behind, had no choice but to hold down the team and didn't dare to go too fast. The angry Lopid sent people back several times to ask for instructions to pass them first, but Qin Chuan stopped them.

After finally walking for an hour, Fengsheng's team can no longer be described as just procrastinating, and the bannermen and soldiers in the team are sweating and staggering, and many of them even have snot and tears.

Feng Sheng, who had been sitting on the horse and was drowsy, seemed to know the appearance of his own soldiers who were following him, and when he saw several farmhouses on the side of the road, he ordered the soldiers leading the horses to go straight to the farmhouse. Feng Sheng'a walked down the road, and the soldiers behind him dispersed with a hula sound, and ran to the farmhouse in twos and threes, or found a clean grass and lay on the ground and took out their smoking guns.

The appearance of this group of "duck egg soldiers", Qin Chuan couldn't help frowning, such a group of smokers can also fight?

Gao Jishan really couldn't stand it, and asked Qin Chuan: "My lord, do you think we are one step ahead?" ”

Qin Chuan was helpless, so he had to nod in agreement.