Li Hongzhang put the letter in his hand on the red coffee table on the side, picked up the tea, and carefully recalled the words of the soldiers who came to deliver the letter just now.

When the Russian army entered Outer Mongolia and changed into the military uniform of the Outer Mongolian Army, it was clear that it did not want to arouse international disgust and accusations. I don't dare to blatantly support ******** outside. That's why this roundabout method was used, using the Russian army to disguise itself as the Outer Mongolian army.

Since this is the case, then this time Liu Jun is fighting the Outer Mongolian army, not the Russian army. Even if Russia knew that this army had been completely annihilated in Outer Mongolia at that time, it could only consider itself unlucky, and no one would admit that the 10,000 people were Russia's army.

Smack, put down the teacup at once. Li Hongzhang suddenly stood up: "Give Xi'an a ...... to generate electricity"

In the steppes of Outer Mongolia, the temperature dropped suddenly at night. The ground illuminated by the moonlight was foggy and dim. A few fast horses came to a mountain bag, sneaked down, and then carefully climbed up the mountain bag. After finding a hidden place, since he climbed down, he slowly picked up the weeds around him. These people are Zhong Lin, Zhang Qing and Liu Jun.

Three days ago, the troops set out from the Tushetu Khan's department and went all the way south, but they did not track down any news of the Russian army, knowing that this afternoon, from a herdsman's mouth, the Tushetu Khan's troops were fighting with the Qing army a hundred kilometers away, and the Qing army seemed to be unable to fight, and had been forced to retreat by that army.

Liu Jun, who heard the news, immediately knew that it was definitely not the Outer Mongolian army, but the disguised Russian army, Liu Jun, who had been looking for this army for a long time, would let go of this opportunity again and immediately let this herdsman lead the way.

After half a day's emergency march, the army finally arrived at a place only a kilometer away from the Russian army when it was dark.

After letting the troops stop advancing, Liu Jun and the others, under the guidance of the guide, took advantage of the darkness to come to the place where the Russian army was stationed.

The ground is high, and the situation below suddenly comes to mind.

Thousands of tents glittered underneath, and every now and then a patrol on horseback walked by with torches. Liu Jun took a look, and these tents illuminated at least a kilometer around them orange and red.

"Head, look there." Zhong Lin, who was crawling on the ground, pointed to a place three kilometers away from these tents, and it was obvious that there were also troops there.

According to Zhong Lin's guidance, Liu Jun saw that there was still another tent on several mountain bags about three kilometers away from these cowhide tents, and judging from the space where the candles reflected, these tents had flat tops, not the same as this cowhide tent, it was a dome, Liu Jun estimated that this should be the big tent of the Qing army.

Head, look below, the Japanese army is burying their heads in cooking, what are you going to do, in the middle of the night? "Zhong Lin discovered the New World,

"Suffered, can you figure out that tomorrow these Russian troops will temporarily launch a general attack on the Qing army?" In the middle of the night, it was either a retreat or a signal to attack the enemy.

What to do, Liu Jun closed his eyes and began to ponder.

"I'll write a letter immediately, you send someone to touch it for me, and after arriving at the Qing army camp, shoot it in, so that they will fight a decisive battle with the enemy early tomorrow morning, and we will attack from behind, and let Tushetu Khan give me where the Russian army is, and let the soldiers and horses of Tushetu Khan's department leave far away for me, otherwise the bullets will not recognize people at that time." After Liu Jun finished speaking, he urgently crawled out of the grass, and after returning to the brigade, he picked up the pen and began to write. This pen was asked for by Klinder when he signed the treaty. Writing by yourself without a brush is like reading a book before and not wanting to hold a book.

A few days ago, he was ordered to hold on to Xi'an's orders, but he would still be attacked by the other party, and Xi'an also let himself cooperate with the Liaodong Army, but after a few days, not to mention the Liaodong Army, he didn't see any shadow, and Dong Fuxiang, who had always been strict with killing people and governing the army, also began to scold his mother.

With a swipe, the curtain of the tent door was opened at once, and a man wearing the uniform of an adjutant general, about thirty years old, with a meaty face, walked away and picked up an arrow shaft with a folded letter on it.

"Sir, the patrol soldier picked it up outside the tent just now. After the deputy finished speaking, he immediately removed the paper.

Dong Fuxiang glanced at it suspiciously, opened it and saw that there were few words on it.

Tomorrow the enemy will attack you, be sure to fight the enemy at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning, and our army will attack after it.

These are nothing, the problem is that Dong Fuxiang was shocked and surprised by the payment in the back, Liu Jun, who is Liu Jun, who dares to fight directly with the imperial court, and compulsorily asks for the lord of the Northeast.

It can be regarded as waiting, Dong Fuxiang, who has been tortured by the enemy and gone crazy, took a deep breath, and his former self-confidence suddenly recovered again: "Order all the armies." Immediately raise fire to rebel and fight tomorrow. ”

"Hurry up, run to me on the rack." Zhong Lin kept running back and forth to command the mortar soldiers who were erecting them, and just an hour before dawn, the 10,000 cavalrymen had all wrapped their hooves in thick cloth and held wooden sticks, and came to the mountain pack in concealment, waiting until the Russian army attacked, and then went out to stab the Russian army in the eye.

The more than 30 mortars brought over, under the command of the artillery and Zhong Lin, ran up the mountain bag quickly, quickly erected and adjusted the orientation.

After everything was done, Zhong Lin wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, and this time he ran to Liu Jun who was crawling in the grass, you don't: "Head, everything is ready." ”

"Okay," Liu Jun nodded, and began to wait for the dawn boringly.

The sky began to brighten, and the distant east was a sign of the sun's imminent appearance.

Woo woo. The horn from below suddenly made Liu Jun open his eyes keenly from napping like a chicken's blood, raised his binoculars, and saw that in the tent below, there were as many Russian troops as many locusts rushing out of the tent and quickly turning over and getting on their horses.

With a creak, the door opened. The cavalry began to march out in formation and began to move in two directions.

"Dashuai, my Tushetu Khan is on the left." He pointed to the crowd of about 5,000 cavalry who were advancing to the left.

Liu Jun took a look, and these cavalry were obviously shorter than the army on the right.

Phew, spit out the grass at once: "Tell the artillerymen to bombard the army on the right for a while, and don't bombard the army on the left, then what are your own people." ”

"Okay." Zhong Lin nodded, got up and bent over, and under the cover of the grass, began to intersperse the artillery groups everywhere to pass orders.

"Marshal, the Qing army has come out." Zhang Qing, who had been observing the movements of the Qing army on the opposite side, pointed to the Qing army camp that was slowly dispatching on the opposite side.

Liu Jun raised the binoculars and looked, sure enough, there was a large gray uniform with a rag wrapped around his head, and only a few Qing troops wearing red, white, and blue Eight Banner armor were raising their sabers, under the leadership of the generals. Come in your own direction.

There was a big Dong character written on it, and Liu Jun estimated that this should be Dong Fuxiang, the boss of the Gan Army, who personally went out.

Dong Fuxiang is a character in the books of later generations, this person's troops, fierce in battle, and military discipline is not much, however, is a very stubborn old man, loyal to the Manchu Qing all his life, and finally even took his life into it, however, this cannot be denied that he made contributions to the peace of the northwest. Without him, the ghost knows what big things will happen in the return of Gansu and Shaanxi.

The two sides had a tacit understanding, and at a distance of about a kilometer from each other, both armies stopped. Look at each other.

"Gone. It's time for us to the guys. After Liu Jun finished speaking, he got up from the ground, patted the dirt on the ground, and turned around and walked down the mountain.

The Qing army camp, Dong Fuxiang, who was in blue armor, looked at the Tushetu Khan Department opposite, and looked into the distance, he wanted to find the shadow of the Liaodong Army, but out of the mountains and swaying grass in the distance, where there was a trace of the shadow of people and horses.

Have we been deceived. Dong Fuxiang's hand clenching the saber increased significantly.

Obviously, there are nearly 16,000 enemies on the opposite side, but they are only 13,000 when they are fully fought, and they have to remove 5,000 infantry. It's just terrible.

Calm, except for the neighing of the horses and the wide eyes of the soldiers on both sides. The rest is calm.

"Kill." A shout suddenly broke the quiet atmosphere of the scene.

The earth began to tremble, the cavalry began to charge, and a great battle was inevitable.