It wasn't until midnight that Qin Chuan, who was already drunk because of a bad mood, came back from Ye Zhichao, Qin Chuan didn't even pay attention to Xu Tong, who commanded the two guards to bring him washing water, and entered the main room alone, took off his riding boots indiscriminately, took off his armed belt, and fell on the bed, or Xu Tong came over to cover him with the quilt. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the next few days, Qin Chuan's expression was always very melancholy, and he was just accompanied by Wang Shizhen sent by Ye Zhichao all day long, taking Xu Tong, Yu Guangxin, Xin Delin, Li Guohua and his two guards around Pyongyang City, checking the Qing army positions everywhere.

It's just that Wei Rugui, Zuo Guigui, Ma Yukun, and even Jiang Zikang all avoided Qin Chuan, and at the Xuanwu Gate guarded by Zuo Guigui's army, a battalion officer surnamed Zhao under Zuo Guigui was blocked, and even Wang Shizhen moved out of Ye Zhichao, the great god, to no avail.

The battalion officer surnamed Zhao, who was blocking the road, rolled his eyes, just glanced at Qin Chuan contemptuously, and told Wang Shizhen very arrogantly, saying that they said that the Xuanwu Gate and the Peony Terrace outside were both military forbidden areas for their army, and outsiders were not allowed to snoop at will. The angry Qin Chuan could only stand in the Xuanwu Gate, looking at the handsome and upright peony platform next to the city wall.

The more he looked inside and outside Pyongyang, the more melancholy Qin Chuan's face became, not because Wei Rugui, Zuo Guigui, Ma Yukun, Jiang Zikang, and Fengsheng'a were not waiting to see him, but because he was deeply worried about Pyongyang's defense.

The Qing army's defense in Pyongyang was arranged in such a way that a large number of forts and fortifications were built around the city of Pyongyang, all of which were the kind of fortifications seen outside the South Gate, and the fortifications were either based on the city walls or bunkers built on the ground with adobe and stones, or there was not a single trench in sight.

According to Wang Shizhen's introduction, Zuo Guigui built five forts from Peony Terrace to Bingxian Heights outside the Xuanwu Gate to contain the enemy south of Aimei and Kanbei Mountains, built a chest wall in Yimitai, strengthened the city, and equipped four cannons; Fengsheng A's Shengzi training army was stationed in the Xuanwu Gate, specializing in responding to the precious Feng army of the left; Jiang Zikang led two battalions of Renzi and Huyong to garrison the mountain outside the north gate; Gao Jishan led two battalions to defend the northern city wall, equipped with four artillery pieces; In the south of the city, the bridge was defended by Ma Yukun Yijun and Nie Guilin led a battalion of Shengzi training troops, equipped with eight artillery pieces; The southern section of the city and the west of the city, which have the most gentle terrain, are defended by the Gubeikou training army of Sheng Jun and Ye Zhichao, and are equipped with 12 artillery pieces.

This kind of defense seems to be tight, but in Qin Chuan's view, it still stays in the defensive mode based on cold weapons, only attaches importance to the use of the city wall to defend it, and makes insufficient use of the highlands outside the city, completely ignoring the great value of these highlands that can be used as firepower support points for the entire front, and still uses the fortress as the firepower support of the highlands. As everyone knows, such a fort not only does not play much role in wartime, but also becomes a target for Japanese artillery. If you want to say how much effect it can play, at most it is to attract Japanese artillery fire.

In addition, Qin Chuan was also deeply worried about the deployment of the Qing army.

Ye Zhichao arranged his troops in this way, obviously taking the south and west of the city as the main direction of attack of the Japanese army, so he also put the Sheng army, the Gubeikou training army, and the training army brought by Ma Yukun, which had the strongest combat effectiveness, in the south and west of the city. In the north and northeast of the city, not only are the troops insufficient, but the combat effectiveness of the Feng army and Fengsheng'a's Shengzi training army is also weak, especially Fengsheng'a's Shengzi training army makes Qin Chuan look even more staggering.

Qin Chuan saw with his own eyes that not only did the Shengzi training army brazenly lie in the courtyard of the garrison smoking big cigarettes, but also saw a subordinate of Feng Sheng'a robbing the Korean people on the street. Thinking of the night Ye Zhichao's banquet, Ye Zhichao said that someone impeached Wei Rugui's Sheng Army, and now it seems that most of it is Feng Sheng's Sheng Zi training army that has affected Wei Rugui.

In particular, Wang Shizhen quietly told Qin Chuan that Fengsheng A's Shengzi training army was called "duck egg soldiers" by the people in China, which meant that this army could not help but touch. Knowing the nickname of Sheng Zi Lianjun, and then thinking of having to deal with Zuo Precious by this duck egg army, Qin Chuan was even more worried.

Qin Chuan, who was worried, went to Ye Zhichao and reported his worries to Ye Zhichao. Maybe Ye Zhichao thought that Qin Chuan was his confidant, or because of Qin Chuan's record of harassing the Japanese army in Seoul for more than a month, in short, Ye Zhichao attached great importance to Qin Chuan's worries. In front of the Pyongyang city defense map in his study, Qin Chuan repeatedly studied it for a long time, and transferred the two battalions that were originally the reserve of Wei Ruguisheng's army to the north of the city, and specialized in the defense of the two battalions of Zuo Guifeng's army in the northeast of Pyongyang and the two battalions of Jiang Zikang in the north of the city.

It's just that Ye Zhichao was noncommittal about Qinchuan's suggestion to strengthen the defense force of Peony Terrace.

At first, Qin Chuan was still a little puzzled, but Wang Shizhen quietly told him that Qin Chuan knew the reason.

It turned out that Zuo Guigui believed that the main direction of the Japanese attack on Pyongyang must be in the south and southwest of the city, and he had always asked his Feng army and Ma Yukun's Yi army to change defenses, and his Feng army would defend the bridge on the other side of the Taedong River in the south of the city. Although Ye Zhichao also believed that the two directions south and southwest of the city were the main directions of the Japanese army's attack on Pyongyang, he believed that the combat effectiveness of the Feng army was much worse than that of Wei Rugui's Sheng army and Ma Yukun's Yi army, so he naturally would not agree to Zuo Guigui's request.

Zuo Guigui's request for changing guards was not satisfied, and he was very dissatisfied, and he held the dangerous terrain of Peony Terrace, and resolutely refused to allow others to interfere in the defense of Peony Terrace and Xuanwu Gate. Regarding Zuo's stubbornness, Ye Zhichao just laughed at it.

Because Ye Zhichao knew that during the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent the invasion army, when the Japanese army was defending Pyongyang, in the face of the superior artillery fire of the Ming Dynasty general Li Rusong, not only still held the Peony Terrace, but also gave the Ming army attacking the Peony Terrace a heavy loss, and finally Li Rusong succeeded by attacking Pyongyang in the south and southwest directions.

Qin Chuan knew that Ye Zhichao had such a mind, so he naturally wouldn't listen to his advice, and no matter what he said, he wouldn't let Ye Zhichao change his mind. Knowing that it was irretrievable, Qin Chuan could only sigh secretly in his heart.

However, fortunately, knowing that Ye Zhichao would not hold on to Pyongyang for too long, Qin Chuan did not persuade him again. It's just that he thinks that since the army is to be withdrawn, it is necessary to keep the passage for the army to retreat north, and the hill more than 200 meters high outside the north gate defended by Jiang Zikang is particularly important. Therefore, insisting that Ye Zhichao strictly ordered Jiang Zikang to build a trench on the top of the north gate.

Regarding Qin Chuan's suggestion, Ye Zhichao did not insist too much, but went to Jiang Zikang in person, and Jiang Zikang reluctantly agreed. However, what made Qin Chuan cry and laugh was that Jiang Zikang said that his soldiers were too tired and needed to rest to prepare for the Japanese army, and asked Ye Zhichao to find a man for him to dig trenches.

Seeing that the war is imminent, where is there so much time to find the people.

Qin Chuan had no choice but to go to Gao Jishan to discuss, and Gao Jishan's two battalions dug trenches for Jiang Zikang's two battalions on the north mountain outside the city.

For Qin Chuan's request, not only Gao Jishan, but also the two battalion officers of Luo Peide and Wu Bingwen were also 10,000 unwilling, but for the sake of Qin Chuan's life-saving grace, they pinched their noses and reluctantly agreed. Qin Chuan naturally understood the thoughts of several people, and the next day he took Xu Tong's group to Beishan, and dug trenches for Jiang Zikang's two battalions with Gao Jishan's two battalions.

Gao Jishan's two battalions of soldiers were still scolding and scolding at the lively Tiger and Yong battalions at the beginning, but Qin Chuan was seen with his row of people with a sharp short shovel, sweating like rain and digging seriously, and slowly became silent.

The trenches designed by Qin Chuan on the North Mountain are divided into three paths: front, middle and back, the three trenches are all 20 meters apart, and they are connected with zigzag traffic trenches with each other, and each time they go to the trenches, they also dig many shallow holes that can only accommodate one person to hide.

For these shallow holes, Gao Jishan, Luo Peide, and Wu Bingwen didn't understand, saying that it was a Tibetan soldier cave, but this hole was too shallow, and several people didn't understand it after pondering for a long time. In the end, it was Qin Chuan who called Yu Guangxi, Li Guohua, and Xin Delin, and explained to Gao Jishan, Luo Peide, and Wu Bingwen in front of these three people for a while, and they knew that this was an anti-artillery hole. The reason why the anti-artillery hole is too shallow is that it is afraid that the Japanese artillery will blow up the hole and the people inside will not be able to get out. It's shallower, you don't need to be rescued by people outside, as long as people are not injured, you can come out by yourself.

Gao Jishan walked around the cave for a long time, and finally praised Qin Chuan's wonderful concept, Luo Peide and Wu Bingwen were even more surprised, and called the battalion officers of the two battalions of Jiang Zikanghu and Yong, who were watching the excitement, and told them about the anti-artillery hole, and the two people were also very happy, and immediately called their subordinates to take the initiative to participate in digging trenches. With these men joining, the progress of the trenches was immediately greatly accelerated, and by the end of the day, the three trenches had been dug.

Just when Gao Jishan was about to leave Qin Chuan and the others in the camp for dinner, Ye Zhichao sent someone to inform him that Gao Jishan would immediately go to Ye Zhichao's line for a meeting. Gao Jishan didn't dare to delay, hurriedly said hello to Qin Chuan and hurriedly rode on his horse and left.

No need to ask, the meeting convened by Ye Zhichao must be a military meeting. Calling these generals so late, there must be an urgent military situation, Qin Chuan silently calculated, today is September 6th, remember that the Japanese army will not arrive in Pyongyang in more than ten days! What kind of meeting will it be?

Is it that the Qing army wants to withdraw from Pyongyang ahead of schedule and return home?

This thought only flashed slightly in Qin Chuan's mind and disappeared, and the reason why Qin Chuan put this thought aside was because Qin Chuan didn't believe that Li Hongzhang could withstand the pressure and categorically ordered the withdrawal of the army. Unless Li Hongzhang is tired of being the governor of Zhili, and wants to go home early to retire.

But what kind of meeting would it be?

Suddenly, a thought arose in Qin Chuan's mind, and Qin Chuan couldn't help but secretly blame himself.

Grandma's, why did you forget about it?