In Lushun, the apprentices of several blacksmith shops were constantly pulling the blower, but the master was constantly watching the temperature in the furnace.

Early this morning, they received an order from the barracks lord to make a small hole in these iron piercings. And as mentioned above, it must be completed by noon.

At this time, Liu Jun was holding an emergency meeting with some members of the county office.

Zhong Lin came back in the middle of the night last night to report the situation.

It is not optimistic, the Japanese army has now occupied Jinzhou, Xu Bang Daobu was defeated by the Japanese army, and has now withdrawn from Jinzhou, Zhong Lin also said that the advance team of about 400 Japanese troops is heading towards Lushun, and it is estimated that there will be a day to reach the periphery of Lushun.

The Japanese army invaded Lushun, but Liu Jun was not sufficiently prepared, and the newly recruited soldiers had only been trained for less than two days, and now some of them could not even use guns and bullets, let alone shoot. Moreover, according to intelligence, the Japanese army was well-equipped this time, not only with artillery, but also with cavalry.

Liu Jun had no cavalry, only a dozen horses, Liu Jun handed them all over to Zhong Lin, and asked him to organize a communication class.

Seeing that the few people below didn't speak, Liu Jun knocked on the table: "Comrades, now that the Japanese army has come to rob us in Lushun, you should talk about it, what should I do?" ”

Now Liu Jun has more than 1,500 people in his hands, so Liu Jun also carried out an expansion, and directly organized a regiment, Liu Junren regiment commander and first battalion commander, Zhong Linren second battalion commander also serves as the communication reconnaissance squad leader, Li Rong is now the third battalion commander, and the other nine company commanders are divided into the original several veterans and the son of the fat county commander, Liu Jun also gave a company commander. He felt that the word head was not domineering, but the group seat was domineering, except for Zhong Lin, who couldn't change his mouth. The others called him Tuanza.

Although the fat county is fat, but his son is still thin, I heard that there are people who have stayed in the ocean and drank foreign ink, I saw him stand up and say: "Tuanza, the Japanese army is attacking, we are not fully prepared at present, whether to withdraw from Lushun first is in the long run." ”

Paralysis, if you can withdraw from Lushun, I still need you to say that because you can't evacuate, if you want to evacuate, more than 20,000 people in the whole city will have to die under the bayonets of the Japanese army. Then what did I dare to stay in the first place? Liu Jun dismissed his suggestion.

Li Rong pondered for a while: "Tuanza, according to the reconnaissance at present, the Japanese army is only an advance force that has failed, and according to our strength, it is possible to conduct a battle. ”

"The crux of the matter is that some of our current soldiers can't even use guns, so how can they fight?" Zhong Lin asked rhetorically.

This problem is also considered by Liu Jun, this battle, not only to fight, but also to fight well, as far as possible to annihilate this Japanese army. In this way, the confidence of the people of Lushun can be restored.

After closing his eyes and thinking for a while, Liu Jun opened his eyes and asked lightly, "How many people will we use the money at present." ”

"Six hundred." Li Rong was in charge of this piece, and when he heard Liu Jun's culture, he immediately said.

: Immediately separate these people who can use guns, form a special battalion, go with me, eat this group of Japanese troops who dare to advance, and the rest of the people will be caught and trained by each company, and they can complete the shooting action in three days. ”

Liu Jun didn't dare to expect that these people could shoot well, and now when he drove it, the people who could put the guns were good soldiers, and as for whether they could kill the Japanese army, only God knows.

After the meeting, Liu Jun handed over the training and transportation of supplies to Li Rong and the county commander respectively, but in case the old boy was disobedient, he still put a squad next to him in the name of protecting him. carried out surveillance, and Liu Jun confessed to Li Rong when he left, as long as this person was anti-volatile, he would be shot immediately, and there was no need to report it.

Back in the barracks, the troops of six hundred men had been combined. Looking at this group of people who had just turned from peasants to soldiers, Liu Jun didn't say anything, just waved his hand and let everyone go.

The location of blocking the Japanese army is more than 50 miles away from Lushun City, where is a terrain that is very suitable for blocking, and there is a not very spacious road sandwiched between the mountains on both sides, which is the most convenient road for Jinzhou to enter Lushun.

Liu Jun believed that less than a day after the Japanese occupied Jinzhou, they immediately sent troops to attack Lushun, and it seems that this time they were ordered from the street to find a place for the navy to anchor and refuel and rest. This place must be Lushun, who called Lushun a natural naval base. In addition to Li Hongzhang's meticulous opening up for more than ten years, it is also ranked first in Asia.

Liu Jun deduced that since the Japanese army entered Liaodong, it had not encountered an enemy, so it would have a proud thought, otherwise, it would not have allowed a team of about 400 people to occupy Lushun.

After a rapid march, Liu Jun led his troops to the ambush site in the afternoon, and then began to dig trenches.

After scattering the scouts, Liu Jun came to the back of the team, which was a special task force of about 30 people, which directly belonged to Liu Jun's management.

These thirty or so people had more than a dozen large iron buckets around them, and there was a small hole not far from the bottom of the barrel. And the things dragged by a dozen wagons are being carried by some soldiers and put here.

This is Liu Jun's artillery.

Liu Jun saw the iron bucket and those medicinal powders yesterday, and remembered that in the great battle in the later generations, one side of the army used discarded gasoline to transform the artillery, that thing is actually a kind of earth cannon, but the power is huge. A single shot can directly flatten the house, not to mention, it will also shatter people's internal organs. Seven orifices bleed. Let the opponent be horrified and call it a "conscienceless cannon"

Liu Jun found someone to call one of the iron buckets over that night, drew a pattern, and asked people to get it, and then blew up the gunpowder and explosives according to his memory, and drew the pattern, and asked Li Rong to find someone to quickly get two samples. Then I took the experiment.

The experiment was a success, and the loud thunder made many dogs in the city bark all night. And a deep crater was blown out of the place where the explosion occurred. It's just that the firing range is very short, only about 200 meters.

After looking at some of the crooked roads under the mountain, Liu Jun estimated the distance, took this Hill to choose a few locations, and began to dig with a hoe. This thing has a lot of recoil, and if you don't put it well, even the iron bucket won't know where to fly after a shot.

After half an hour, more than a dozen iron buckets were placed in the corresponding positions, and the explosives and fuses were placed. The crowd sat down.

Before the scouts returned, Liu Jun picked them out, and even some of them were Lushun shore defense artillerymen and started chatting.

"Tuanzao, this is a cannon, why are you running? How is it the same as a small pot? A dark-faced soldier who was wiping the sweat from his face asked.

"Of course it's a cannon, it's called a cannon without conscience."

"I originally thought that the cannon on the Dingyuan ship of the Navy Division was the largest, but I didn't expect that there was a bigger cannon here than that one in the regiment, and it really had a long face." A tall soldier was carrying explosives and heard their conversation. After turning his head to show a row of teeth, he began to carry the explosives that had been placed next to him.

Liu Jun saw that this person kept moving the explosives next to him and putting them more than ten meters behind, he was very bored, and when the man came back, he asked, "Why do you want to move these things so far?" It's not very convenient to reload when you play."

The man put down the work in his hand, it will be Liu Jun asked him, and he got busy and said: "Tuanzao, these things are too close, and it is easy to ignite the sparks that come out when the cannon is fired, there should be a big hole here to put these things, but without this condition, I will put it behind, so it is safer." ”

After listening to this, Liu Jun thought about it carefully, it was this truth, he glanced at the young man in front of him again, he asked him to sit down and asked, "What are you doing, you are familiar with these things, and what is your name?" ”

The man was right: "Tuanza, I turned out to be a leader of the Lushun artillery, I heard that the Japanese army was coming, they all ran away, and I also went home, I didn't hear that Tuanza was going to fight the Japanese, so I signed up." Then he answered another question from Liu Jun, his name, Zhang Yi.

Liu Jun nodded, at present, he is still short of artillery talents, I heard that Zhang Yi is an artilleryman, he directly ordered Zhang Yi to be the head of the artillery on the spot, and command the current artillery.

After explaining a few words to Zhang Yan, Liu Jun got up and went to see the situation in the place.

These people are not the material for being soldiers, but they are good at digging soil, you see that this trench is dug, it is decent, not worse than the army of later generations.

Get everything done. After Liu Junyou made some encouraging words on the spot, he asked some veterans to quickly teach some soldiers who still didn't know how to use guns, and strive to be more proficient before the arrival of the Japanese army.

Usually don't burn incense, temporarily cramming, Liu Jun can best understand the meaning of this now, but this can't be blamed on him, who calls himself the idea back, people travel through a year and a half before the war breaks out, there is plenty of time to prepare, even if it is poor, it is also in the rear, but he suddenly came to Lushun, which is still a few days away.

With the sound of horses' hooves, Liu Jun stood up and looked at the place where the sound came from. I saw a few fast horses galloping here.

"Tuanza, the scouts are back." A soldier pointed down the mountain.

Liu Jun saw that the horses coming down the mountain were Zhong Lin. However, in order not to make people think that he was superior, he nodded to the soldier he had just pointed out.

Three minutes later, Zhong Lin came to Liu Jun, jumped off the horse, handed the horse to the soldier next to him, ran over and said, "Head, here, there are still about two miles." ”

With a long breath, Liu Jun's heart tensed.