Under the city of Chengde, Wu Junsheng crawled on the ground with a steel helmet on his head, took advantage of a tree that was blown off by a cannonball, and picked up the telescope in his hand to look at Chengde that was clearly visible.

"Hey, hey, Lao Liao, what's wrong with this, why is the sound of the cannon quiet." Wu Junsheng turned his head to look at Liao Ning, the chief of staff of the 15th Division who was crawling beside him.

"I found out too." Liao Ning, who is dressed in a major general's uniform, is only 35 years old this year. It is a typical general who started from a soldier.

What's the matter, Wu Junsheng frowned, pulled out the tender grass around him and stuffed it into his mouth, and kept thinking.

"it, the enemy has to run." Wu Junsheng, who understood it all of a sudden, suddenly spit out the tender grass in his mouth

"Order all regiments to launch a general attack immediately, but don't let Guarhazig run away for Lao Tzu." With a roar, Wu Junsheng suddenly got up and shouted at the communication soldiers beside him.

In Yutian County, the people around Yutian stood far away, looking in amazement at the Liaodong Army wearing green military uniforms, steel helmets on their heads, and running with rifles in their hands from time to time.

Yutian County, already at dusk the afternoon before yesterday. It was taken by the vanguard of the Seventh Army commanded by Wang Shizhen, and then when Wang Shizhen arrived, the Liaodong Army had already controlled the county seat, and after cleaning up the original county office, it was used as a temporary headquarters.

In the command center, the public hall where the county lord handled the case has now become a temporary war room, and several maps have already been laid under the plaque that was originally fair and honest, and the place where the county lord once sat has now been put on the sign brain.

In the county office, Wang Shizhen stared at the map motionlessly, while Luo Dacheng on the side kept walking back and forth in the lobby.

"Oh, Lao Wang, you said that we attacked well, and the vanguard has already fought with Tie Liang, but I don't understand, what did the marshal think about earlier, and actually let us stop the attack and stand by in place." Seeing Wang Shizhen sitting there in a daze, he immediately stepped forward and began to ask Wang Shizhen the doubts in his heart.

A few days ago, after the Shaheyi was broken through, Wang Shizhen asked the river-crossing troops to give up rest and tightly bite the remnants of the Tieliang First Association in front. The two days were stopped, and Tie Liang was chased all the way to Yutian.

I thought that Tie Liang would block the attack in Yutian County, but I didn't expect that by the time the vanguard arrived, Yutian's army had already been empty, and there were only surprised and panicked people in the city.

After entering Yutian, Wang Shizhen, after ordering the people to be appeased, launched an attack on Caiting Bridge, the front line position of the Qing army, the next morning.

Yesterday morning, Wang Shizhen, who was commanding the operation against the first town of the Qing army at Caiting Bridge, suddenly received an urgent telegram from Lushun, that is, to stop the attack and stand by in place.

This order Ran Wang Shizhen was puzzled, but when he saw that it was Liu Jun's order, he did not dare to disobey, so he could only ask the troops to stop the attack after occupying the Rainbow Bridge at noon at all costs, and then return to the county seat and wait for the order. But it's been a day now. There was no order to attack from the marshal at all.

"You ask me, who do I ask?" Wang Shizhen glanced up at Luo Dacheng, who was staring at him, and asked aggrievedly with both hands.

This one? Seeing Wang Shizhen answer like this, Luo Dacheng was stunned at first, and finally began to mumble.

"Paralysis, this battle is so breathless, look at the Eighth Army, the one fighting in the north is called a fiery, it's too enviable."

Lushun, Liu Jun stood quietly in front of the map, in front of him, several red thick lines had been drawn from Shanhaiguan decibel inserted into Yutian, Chengde, and Tangshan.

"Head, I don't understand, why did you want Wang Shizhen to stop attacking Yutian." Zhong Lin is still a little puzzled, why Liu Jun would order to take Shaheyi, and Wang Shizhen, who had already advanced his troops to the periphery of Yutian, stopped the attack and waited for the order.

Liu Jun turned his head, looked at Zhong Lin, and then at Zheng Yiqian, and found that both of them had puzzled eyes, and smiled slightly, Liu Jun returned to his position, and did not answer the question of the two, but asked about another matter. "What's going on in Beijing?"

"According to intelligence, in the past few days in Beijing, the imperial court will hold court meetings from time to time, and even Cixi will be present to preside. : Zheng Yiqian on the side walked over and said lightly.

Smiling slightly, Liu Jun nodded, this is what he needs.

"Head, what does this Wang Shizhen's attack on Yutian have to do with Beijing?" Zhong Lin didn't understand, and he didn't know.

"Absolutely." After Liu Jun finished speaking, seeing that the two of them were still so confused, he said his thoughts lightly.

In Liu Jun's view, Beijing City has been a big city for hundreds of years, since Ming Chengzu set the capital here, hundreds of years, how many things in it are national treasures, especially the Forbidden City, which took a lot of hard work of working people to build, he does not want this place that can represent one of the symbols of China to be destroyed in the war.

"Head, you mean to let the imperial court automatically abandon Beijing." Zhong Lin seemed to understand.

Nodding slightly, Liu Jun said that he recognized Zhong Lin's statement.

"Husband, I'm afraid this is impossible, now that the Qinwang troops in Shanxi and Shaanxi and Gansu have arrived near Baoding, how can the imperial court give up Beijing." Zheng Yiqian understood Liu Jun's thoughts and took a step forward, she didn't believe that the imperial court would be so stupid and give up Beijing.

"Didn't you find out that I asked the Eighth Army to step up the attack on Chengde, and asked Wang Shizhen to stop the attack." Looking at Zheng Yiqian, Liu Jun said the answer with a slight smile.

Zhong Lin and Zheng Yiqian glanced at each other, and they guessed what Liu Jun meant.

Attack Chengde in the north, after taking Chengde, the north gate of Beijing will be opened, at this time the Liaodong Army may go south at any time and attack Beijing, and in the direction of Yutian, if Yutian is taken, it will prove that the Liaodong Army can pass through Sanhe, Tongzhou, and then according to the route of the Anglo-French alliance army in that year, enter Beijing, not to mention, but also cut off the road to the south, once that time, the besieged imperial court is bound to break the net with the Liaodong Army under the city of Beijing, at that time, not to mention that the city of Beijing can not be saved, and even the Liaodong Army will suffer heavy losses......

So they understood that Liu Jun asked the troops in the direction of Yutian to stop attacking, which was to give the imperial court a way out, as for this road of life, how long it can be, and where to go, these can not be thought about for the time being, as long as the imperial court can withdraw from Beijing, then everything is easy to say.

Seeing that the two of them understood, Liu Jun stood up, picked up the teacup from the table, came to the map, and looked at the direction of Chengde in a quiet daze. He had already sent a telegram urging the Eighth Army to quickly take Chengde.

"Head, what are we going to do now?" Zhong Lin, who understood Liu Jun's purpose, saw Liu Jun in a daze in front of the map, and stepped forward to ask.

After looking at the map, Liu Jun turned around and glanced at Zhong Lin and Zheng Yiqian on the side: "Wait,"

Wait, Liu Jun wants to wait for the news of taking Chengde.

Chengde is the north gate of Beijing, and as long as he takes the north gate, then he will open the way to attack Beijing from the north.

Once Chengde was taken, he could order the Eighth Army to change its original plan, abandon the resistance to the Qing army in the Longhua enclosure area, and hand it over to the 1st Cavalry Division that went south from Outer Mongolia to complete. And the Eighth Army, marching south immediately after resting, gave the imperial court a kind of news that the army was pressing the border, forcing the imperial court to make a decision.

From Zheng Zheng Yiqian's report just now, he estimated that what the imperial court is discussing now is nothing more than two issues, one is Zhang, fight to the death with himself outside Beijing.

And secondly, that is to retreat, to the south, or even to the west.

"Director, the Eighth Army has an urgent telegram." A telegraph officer wearing the rank of captain walked in and handed the telegram in his hand to Zheng Yiqian.

Zheng Yiqian picked up the telegram and looked at it, nodded slightly, walked up to Liu Jun and said with a smile: "Chengde has taken it." ”

What the? Liu Jun turned around and took the telegram from Zheng Yiqian's hand.

After taking a closer look, Liu Jun smiled slightly, he knew that if the imperial court got this news, it would not be so easy.