Morning, September 22, 1900. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The deputy capital of Morgan is under the jurisdiction of Xigang Mountains.

The morning sun in the east is dewing, and the rays of sunlight shine on the mountains, and the mist is kind and peaceful.

However, in such a peaceful natural environment, inside and outside the Xigang mountains, it is full of gunpowder, as if the war is about to break out, speaking of which, since two days ago, the Heilongjiang Xigang Military Division, under the leadership of Yue Weiyun, gave the Tsarist Qing court the Western Route Coalition Army a dismount in Moziling and Bawangtan, and the entire Morgan City has entered a strange period of calm.

The entire city of Morgan, including the people within a radius of twenty miles around it, was empty, and the people all moved their families into the mountains, fortified and cleared, or chose to take refuge in the countryside.

On the side of the Black Dragon Army, the officers and men of the Xigang Army Division, in addition to the scattered intelligence personnel, also retreated to the mountains of Xigang, and in the past few days, with the help of a large number of young men and women recruited and more than 2,700 prisoners of the Qing army, they are rushing to repair the fortifications.

Although Xigang is dangerous and surrounded by mountains, the fortifications built by the Xigang Military Subdivision before are mainly from the foot of the mountain to the old nest in the depths of the mountains, and its purpose is mainly to ensure the safety of the old nest.

The Western Coalition Army of the Tsarist Qing Dynasty moved into the empty city of Morgan and successfully converged with the Tsarist Qing Imperial Coalition Army from the direction of the Hulun Beier steppe yesterday morning, and after the two armies converged, the total number of the Western Route Coalition Army exceeded 50,000 again (the Tsarist side added a cavalry brigade and an infantry brigade, and the Qing army also supplemented the two joint soldiers and horses, including a target Mongolian cavalry. ）。

After the two armies converged, in addition to entering the city of Morgan, they also began yesterday afternoon, and successively sent large armies to start seizing the commanding heights in various passes outside the Xigang mountains, building fortifications, etc., but neither side chose to start immediately, so a very strange scene appeared inside and outside the Xigang mountains, the Black Dragon Army side was desperately building fortifications in the Xigang mountains, and the coalition army was not in a hurry to establish a stronghold outside the Xigang mountains, build fortifications, and one night passed, there was no misfire, This has to be said to be very weird.

Of course, if you want to say weird, it's actually easy to understand.

For the side of the Black Dragon Army, the main purpose of the Xigang Army Division is to drag down the Eastern Route Coalition Army of the Tsarist Qing Court, try to eliminate the opponent's living forces, and preserve their own strength, it is obvious that the Xigang Army Division is not yet fully prepared, and the other party has suffered two big losses in a row, and Nikola Cage should not make a third mistake, so Yue Weiyun chose to wait.

For the Western Route Coalition Army, it is because they are still tired, they have just joined the reinforcements in the direction of the grassland, and there are also some power transfer and run-in problems, and more importantly, they can no longer fight unprepared battles, especially to attack one of the old nests of the Black Dragon Army, the steep Xigang.

"Hey, Brother Damin, those guys on the other side seem to be grinding foreign workers? Don't they know the importance of fortifications? How could this suddenly happen? ”

Erzhuzi pushed Lu Damin, who was napping next to him, Lu Damin woke up immediately when he heard it, and directly snatched the telescope in Erzhuzi's hand with one hand, and then quickly looked towards a high ground a few hundred meters away, and sure enough, he found that on the position that was still in full swing last night, not only was there a lot less manpower, but even those guys who stayed there were mostly dressed up and did not work hard.

"It's a little weird, it really shouldn't be like this." Lu Damin was puzzled: "Erzhuzi, I remember that at two o'clock in the morning, when I changed you, the opposite side was quite energetic, did you find out that their manpower, when was it short, and when did the rest of these people grind foreign workers?" ”

"This, this?"

Erzhuzi was speechless suddenly, both of them were from the reconnaissance company directly under the Xigang Military Division, and they were assigned here last night to keep an eye on the forward positions of Tsarist Russia opposite, obviously, after the change of guard at two o'clock, as Lu Damin fell asleep, Erzhuzi seemed to fall asleep soon, so he slept until dawn, and then discovered the abnormality on the opposite side, so now Lu Damin's question, Erzhuzi naturally can't answer it.

"You, hey, you're so angry with me."

Lu Weimin stretched out his hand and wanted to slap Erzhuzi, but as soon as his hand was stretched out, he stopped again, sighed helplessly, a little angry, but helpless, and remembered Uncle Li's entrustment before his death, and his heart was even more depressed.

Lu Damin, Erzhuzi, and Uncle Li are all workers who built railways for Tsarist Russia in Qihar, and they all came out of a certain village in Zhili, and even Erzhuzi is Uncle Li's own nephew.

More than a month ago, at the Qihar Fularji Railway Station, the Tsarist Russian road guard detained 3,000 Chinese migrant workers who were building the railway, and finally under the leadership of Yue Weihua, successfully annihilated the three battalions of the Tsarist Russian road guard team and successfully rescued the 3,000 migrant workers.

There are about two or three hundred of the three thousand migrant workers, who enlisted in the army under Yue Weiyun's recruitment, including Lu Damin, Erzhuzi and Uncle Li, in the first battle of the rich county, Uncle Li was unfortunately killed in order to save Lu Damin, and before he died, he asked Lu Damin to take care of Erzhuzi, because Erzhuzi is only fifteen years old this year, and his brain is relatively stupid, and Lu Damin is eighteen years old this year, and his mind is much more shrewd, and after the training of the Black Dragon Army, he is becoming more and more mature, because of his meritorious service, he is now the squad leader of the second platoon and third squad of the reconnaissance company, in order to be able to better take care of Erzhuzi, Lu Damin asked someone to get the second pillar into the reconnaissance company, and got them to their class, so that he could take care of himself more, but after all, he was still a child, and he could stay up all night.

"Okay, Erzhuzi, you are staring at the point here, this situation may be a little abnormal, I have to go and react to the platoon commander." Lu Damin said.

"Brother Damin, did I make a mistake again?" Erzhuzi touched his head and said guiltily.

Looking at the appearance of the second pillar, Lu Damin is not easy to blame, but he secretly made up his mind to find someone to transfer the second pillar to the guard team, the reconnaissance company is really not suitable for him, after all, he is too young, and he blames himself for not understanding the situation of the reconnaissance company at the beginning, so he rashly brought the second pillar over, well, let's go to the guard, usually just stand guard, the battle is not until the last moment, and it is rarely involved, hey, it would be great if the second pillar could be sent home, but I heard the commander mention it, it seems that Zhili is also fighting, I don't know what's going on at home, and I don't know what's going on with my parents, younger siblings.

Lu Damin was a little distracted when he thought about it, and after half a ring, he patted Erzhuzi's shoulder and said with a smile: "It's okay, I'll come when I go, you look at it." ”

……

Xigang Army Divisional Headquarters.

"Commander, Fang Xuan, the commander of the reconnaissance company, has just sent a telegram, saying that there are some suspicious situations on the many Tsarist positions they monitor, it seems that there are a lot fewer people on the positions, and most of the people left behind are grinding foreign workers, and they have no enthusiasm to rush to work last night."

Yin Lili, head of the intelligence sub-department of the Xigang Military Division, took a telegram and came to Yue Weiyun to read, Obviously, the situation that Lu Damin discovered was not independent, but a universal situation.

"What do you mean?" Yue Weiyun frowned and wondered.

"What the specific situation is, it may need to be carefully understood." Yin Li paused, and suddenly said: "Commander, in the early hours of this morning, there was an intelligence officer in our intelligence department, and he found that there seemed to be signs of a large-scale movement of troops and horses in Morgan City, but because I suspected that the other party might be sending troops to attack our Xigang in the future, I didn't think much about it." ”

Because of the limited strength of the Intelligence Department, the Xigang Military Division is not like the Wolf Domain Headquarters, where the intelligence inside and outside the battlefield is the responsibility of the Intelligence Department, after all, the Wolf Domain Headquarters is the lair of the Black Dragon Army, and the Intelligence Department naturally has sufficient strength, however, the situation of the Xigang Military Division is that the Intelligence Department is responsible for intelligence work outside the battlefield, and the intelligence in the front-line combat area is generally handed over to the field troops' own reconnaissance personnel.

Of course, there will often be overlap between the two, and naturally there will be mutual communication, and because of the mobilization of troops and horses in Murgen City, Yin Lili naturally thinks that once the other party is really mobilizing troops and horses, it should also enter the Xigang battlefield, if so, the reconnaissance company responsible for monitoring the periphery will naturally be able to get first-hand information, and the result is no, then Yin Lili naturally thinks that the intelligence officer's intelligence may be wrong.

"What?"

The brows on Yue Weiyun's face furrowed into a Sichuan character, because he suddenly thought of a situation, that is, did the Tsarist Qing court Western Route coalition army plan to abandon Xigang and choose to take a detour to Aihui to help in the war?

Thinking of the battle report received from the headquarters of the Wolf Domain last night, the Eastern Route Coalition Army of Tsarist Russia fought several battles in a row, suffered setbacks one after another, and suffered heavy losses, and in any case, the Black Dragon Army of the Wolf Domain is the real enemy of Tsarist Russia, and it is the main force, and Xigang is just a division of the Black Dragon Army, and it is obviously not worth it to involve more than 50,000 people and horses of the entire Western Route Alliance Army for the sake of a division.

There is a more important point, that is, the mountains of Xigang are dangerous after all, rather than gnawing hard bones here, it is better to avoid the heavy and light, and lure the snake out of the hole, because, if the Western Route Coalition Army chooses not to attack the Xigang Lair, but to make a detour to Aihui for reinforcements, then the Xigang Army Division is bound to attack, to pursue the West Route Coalition Army, so as to turn passive into active in one fell swoop.

"Oops."

Yue Weiyun shouted after thinking about this, and then quickly ordered: "Yin Li, quickly notify the intelligence officers lurking outside the city of Mergen, let them find out at any cost whether the main force of the Western Road Coalition Army is still in the city, in addition, telegraph the teams stationed in several small towns from Xigang to Aihui, let them try their best to find out the news, and at the same time immediately mobilize the people along the way to clear the wilderness,......。 ”

"Yes, Commander, my subordinates will do it."

……

About forty miles north of the Xigang Mountains, and the town of Nong.

Just when Yue Weiyun gave the order, the town of Henong had been slaughtered by the Tsarist Russian forward troops, and more than 1,000 people in the entire town, plus a platoon of the Black Dragon Army garrison, without exception, were all bloodbathed, and the entire town was not alive.

"General Cage, how can you allow your soldiers to slaughter civilians, how can you do that, they are just innocent people?" Jiang Youxiao, the leader of the Qing army of the Western Road Alliance, said angrily.

"Jiang Dutong, I can only say I'm sorry for this." Nikola Cage's tone was flat, although he said sorry, but he didn't feel guilty, and said: "When our forward troops arrived at Henong Town, they were met with fierce resistance from Henong Town, if you look closely, you will find that almost all adults in Henong Town have guns in their hands, even teenage children are no exception, for this we have sacrificed more than 300 soldiers, and the lives of more than 300 soldiers in our Tsarist Russia are not worth the lives of more than 1,000 people?" ”

The Black Dragon Army has repeatedly defeated Tsarist Russia and seized a large amount of equipment, especially the Shui Lianzhu rifle, which is definitely tens of thousands, and the Black Dragon Army itself does not look down on Shui Lianzhu, and has been unswervingly changing clothes, so so much equipment can not be wasted, so the Black Dragon Army distributes equipment everywhere, hides soldiers in the people, and can protect itself once bandits attack, and once Tsarist Russia invades, it can also resist.

In fact, if it weren't for the early morning when the Tsarist Russian forward troops attacked the town, because the sky had not yet dawned, and the people in the town and the garrison of the Black Dragon Army were not prepared in the slightest, the number of casualties in the Tsarist Russia would have been even greater.

"General Cage, you can't kill the powerless children and the women anyway, can you?" Jiang Youxiao said angrily, no matter what you say, he is also a general of the Qing court, and these people are also the people of the Qing court, if they don't see it, it's just that, now it's happening under their noses, how can they not be angry, and what's even more odious is that it is their allies who do this.

Seeing the angry Jiang Youxiao, Nikola Cage was silent for a long time before he fainted: "I will issue an order to the forward troops, and no innocent people shall be injured." ”

"Hmph."

Jiang Youxiao turned around and prepared to leave, he also knew that it was useless to talk more, it was okay to be able to get Nikola Cage's promise, if he said anything about punishing the murderer or something, it would be purely self-inflicted.

"Jiang Dutong, don't be in a hurry to leave, I just have something to discuss." After Nikola Cage stopped Jiang Youxiao, he continued: "Jiang Dutong, I was in a hurry last night, and there was no chance to discuss on the road, our main force arrived here, I'm afraid the Black Dragon Army will soon find out, and once it is discovered, the Black Dragon Army will definitely pursue with its main force, and it will not let us easily reach Aihui."

"There are still more than 160 kilometers to go to Aihui, and we are mainly infantry, even if we rush overnight, I am afraid it will take two days and two nights to arrive, and this is probably still based on the absence of the Black Dragon Army along the way, so on the way, the battle with the Black Dragon Army is also inevitable."

"In this case, I am going to set up ambushes along the way, and Henong Town is the first and most likely to succeed, but this requires Jiang Dutong's strong cooperation, I wonder if Jiang Dutong is willing to cooperate?"

cooperate, of course I am willing to cooperate, no matter how I say that the Black Dragon Army also killed my own soldiers and horses, what is even more odious is that in Moziling, there was also an empty city plan, which made me lose face, of course, it can also be said that I let myself pick up a brigade's equipment for nothing, but if I think about it carefully, Jiang Youxiao found that the slaughter of the town was probably the result of this son-of-a-'s connivance, and even an order issued in secret, because only in this way can the news not leak and be able to better set up an ambush.

…… (To be continued.) )