After the news of Tian Wufa becoming the standard commander spread in Jiulian City, the soldiers in the entire position were happy for a few days, and when they went to brag in the future, they also had the capital to say that they had fought with Tian Wufa before.

Even Tian Wufa himself did not expect to step into the sky and step into the ranks of middle-level officers, but this joy was only temporary for the soldiers on the front line and Tian Wufa himself.

Because the crisis from the Japanese had not yet been removed, Duan Qirui began to pay attention to each position from the day Tian Wufa recaptured the position, and allowed mortars to be put into battle.

As soon as the mortars were put into battle, they caused a lot of casualties to Rikumi Naowen, especially after the failure of Rimi Naowen's "bulletproof" tactics, he could only start to rely on a steady stream of attacks and artillery to attrition.

Lijian Shangwen's "bulletproof" tactics only succeeded once, and since that time Lijian Shangwen successfully used "body armor" to break through Duan Qirui's position, Duan Qirui also began to pay attention to Lijian Shangwen's bulletproof tactics.

As long as Lijian Shangwen sent the "bulletproof troops" to the battlefield, Duan Qirui's convenient method of using artillery attacks at all and grenade attacks at close range made Limi Shangwen's "bulletproof troops" do nothing.

can only be reduced to consumables on the battlefield, and in the next few battles, the attacks launched by Shangwen using the "bulletproof troops" had no effect, but consumed more than 1,000 pieces of body armor.

These were the senseless confrontations between Duan Qirui and Lijian Shangwen for seven days after these iron armors were consumed, and both sides also lost a lot of soldiers.

Up to now, more than half of the soldiers in Duan Qirui's hands have been killed or wounded, and the soldiers in his hands are only in the early 20,000s, and there are nearly 10,000 wounded soldiers in the city.

The position had to shrink a lot because of the large battle damage, and only defended some particularly important positions, and it was not very comfortable to see Shangwen's side, although it had the military strength of three divisions, but it had lost a brigade before the forcible occupation of the ferry and the attack on Hushan.

Now the attack on Jiulian City has been confronting each other for more than a week, because of the attack on Jiulian City, it is immediately seen that the three divisions under Shang Wen, the fifteenth division has been completely disabled.

The Eighth Division also lost more than half of the battle, and only the 19th did not suffer much loss because it was a later reinforcement and participated in relatively few battles.

At this moment, the comparison of the military strength of the two sides is Duan Qirui's 20,000 combatable soldiers, and Lijian Shangwen's 60,000 combatable soldiers, and in terms of the situation, Lijian Shangwen occupies a numerical advantage.

As long as Shang Wen was willing to send his soldiers to attack Duan Qirui's position continuously, even Duan Qirui could only defend it for two or three days with the artillery and heavy machine guns in his hands.

Although the army of Li Jian Shangwen was inflicted heavy losses, the end was at the cost of the death of all the 20,000 soldiers and nearly 10,000 wounded soldiers under Duan Qirui.

The result of such a battle was very different from the combat intentions of Duan Qirui and Wang Bin, so in order to preserve the living force, it was already necessary to abandon the place of Jiulian City.

After Wang Bin gave the order to give up Jiulian City to Duan Qirui, Duan Qirui knew that he had to retreat, and it was already a meaningless thing to fight here, but now what Duan Qirui had to do was how to do a good job in the ideological work of these soldiers after the order to retreat was issued.

These soldiers can be said to have made great efforts to hold the defense line of Jiulian City, and now suddenly letting them leave this position that has been fighting with the Japanese for a period of time will make these soldiers think that they are afraid of the Japanese before they will give the order to retreat, so Duan Qirui has to comfort these soldiers first.

As Duan Qirui thought, after the order to retreat was issued, there were some voices in the barracks that the soldiers did not understand, it was clear that their side was evenly matched with the Japanese, and the casualties of the Japanese were even greater than their own side, why did they suddenly have to evacuate.

These soldiers did not understand the meaning of this order at all, and some of the officers did not understand why they were retreating, and some of the officers and soldiers put forward the slogan that they would fight a bloody battle with the Japanese in Jiulian City to the end, and that the people in the city would die in the city.

Duan Qirui did not reprimand these officers and soldiers in this regard, because he knew that this phenomenon was normal, and anyone who fought with the Japanese most fiercely, and suddenly came with an order to retreat from above, would be a little incomprehensible.

In response to this situation, Duan Qirui began to do ideological work on these soldiers and officers on the battlefield at night.

"I knew that the order to retreat must have been handed down by some people who did not understand, and thought in my heart: Why retreat?

It's true that I don't want to retreat either, how can we retreat now that we are fighting so fiercely with the Japanese, but what is the outcome we face if we don't retreat? ”

After Duan Qirui's words came out, he first told the soldiers below that he didn't want to retreat, and then put aside the question of what would happen to his people if he didn't retreat.

After putting this question down, he was speechless for a long time, and then Duan Qirui continued.

"The outcome of not retreating is very simple, one is the total annihilation of the army, and the other is the total annihilation of the Japanese."

"But in my opinion, the former is the most likely, and the latter is possible but the probability is relatively small, I know that some people will say that I Duan Qirui is afraid, for such a thought, I Duan Qirui only have two words to answer, that is: fart!"

"If I'm scared, will I take you here to fight the Japanese? I want you to retreat for the sake of the overall situation, I don't expect you to understand what the overall situation is, here I, Duan Qirui, will have a good talk with you. ”

"If we don't retreat, we will die here, our family will get a death notice, and if we retreat, we will be able to gather more strength to defeat the Japanese, and you won't need to die here at that time, maybe you will be able to see the time to win the Japanese."

Duan Qirui's words can be said to have all kinds of possible results, so that these soldiers know where they need to retreat.

"So I need you to retreat, the same here, I, Duan Qirui, swear to the sky that although we will evacuate here today, but in the future, I, Duan Qirui, will come here again with you with the power of great victory to witness the glory, but at this moment I need you to carry out the order and the whole army retreat."

Especially after saying the word retreat, Duan Qirui instantly seemed to be much older, to be honest, no one wanted to retreat, and the same was true for Duan Qirui, but retreat could lead to a greater victory, so Duan Qirui still chose to retreat.

After the order was officially issued, no one raised any objections, and one by one began to retreat silently in the night, although these soldiers evacuated Jiulian City today, but in the coming day they will return here as victors, and live up to the oath they made here.

This oath is also a promise made by Duan Qirui to these soldiers. (To be continued.) )