Chen Bai's retreat can be said to have brought an opportunity for Lijian Shangwen, and in the early morning of the next day, when Wang Bin was still talking to Kuropatkin about the issue of arms, Lijian Shangwen had already set foot on the land on the other side of the Yalu River with the second group of troops who landed at the Anping Ferry.

At this moment, he immediately saw Shang Wen looking into the distance, and the shadow of Jiulian City was faintly visible, but now he didn't have enough mind to attack immediately.

The existing position has not yet been consolidated, where is the time to launch an attack on the defense line of Jiulian City, especially at this time the army under his command is still crossing the river, the only role of the first few groups of soldiers who have crossed the river is to be on alert, to prevent the follow-up troops from suddenly launching an attack when crossing the river.

Originally, Lijian Shangwen didn't have to guard against the Qing army like this at all, because Lijian Shangwen had always easily defeated the Qing army in the battles with the Qing army, but this time it was different, just a battle at Anping Ferry made Lijian Shangwen realize that this Qing army was not the same as the Qing army in the past, and had a certain combat ability.

After all, Lijian Shangwen has never dealt with the Beiyang Army, and in history, the Beiyang Army only participated in some internal civil unrest suppression and civil wars, and did not fight with the Japanese army, so the Japanese are not very clear about the actual combat ability of the Beiyang Army.

But there is no doubt about one thing, the combat effectiveness of the Beiyang Army is far superior to that of the ordinary Qing army.

Lijian Shangwen's defense was correct, after learning that the Japanese army crossed the river, Duan Qirui did have the idea of attacking it halfway, but then this idea was canceled because of Lijian Shangwen's defense, and in the invisible view Shangwen's vigilance saved himself an unnecessary loss.

The two divisions had a strength of nearly 60,000 troops to cross the Anping estuary, and although there was no need to erect any pontoon bridges, it still took a day to cross the Anping estuary.

After crossing the Anping estuary, it took another day for Tachimi Shangwen to rebuild the military camp, and it was the third day since Limi Shangwen crossed the Anping estuary.

Nothing happened to either side for three days, and everything seemed to have calmed down.

When Shangwen led his army across the mouth of the Anping River, Wang Bin, who was far away in Mukden, also negotiated the price of the ordnance he purchased from Kuropatkin.

"Your Excellency Kuropatkin, I am ready to accept the purchase of rifles at the price of five silver dollars per rifle, I wonder what the intention of Your Excellency the General is?"

What could Kuropatkin want, he himself had no idea what the price of a rifle would be, and besides, he didn't need to care about that.

Wang Bin is different, he has an arsenal under his command, so Wang Bin still has a little understanding of the cost of the rifle, a Mosin Nagan rifle made by his own arsenal costs about fifteen taels of silver, which is equivalent to the price of about seven silver dollars.

But the Mosinagan that I bought from Kuropatkin is basically second-hand, so it is natural to reduce the price, and Kuropatkin doesn't know this, but he knows that in this way, he can make a good amount of extra money.

"Well, I naturally believe the price given by the Governor, so we will trade at this price."

"Okay, in that case, Your Excellency General, then we can make a deal now!"

As soon as Wang Bin's words came out, Kuropatkin naturally answered, and then Kuropatkin asked Wang Bin how many firearms he needed, so that he could go back and prepare.

"Your Excellency, I think we need a total of 10,000 rifles at the moment."

As soon as Wang Bin's words came out, Kuropatkin was taken aback, in Kuropatkin's opinion, Wang Bin would only ask for a maximum of three or four thousand rifles, but he didn't expect such a large number as soon as he opened his mouth, he was really a little surprised.

Surprised to be surprised, with the number of rifles in the arsenal of the Russian army in the Far East, it was naturally able to meet Wang Bin's needs, and soon Kuropatkin got Wang Bin's advance payment, and Kuropatkin also said that he would personally hand over this batch of arms to Wang Bin within a week.

After getting Kuropatkin's words, Wang Bin immediately dismissed his plan to go to Jiulian City after completing the handover of arms, and instead waited for the 10,000 rifles in Mukden.

In the direction of the defense line of Jiulian City, the busiest thing these days is the Hushan position, the altitude of Hushan is not too high, if it is too high, there will be no need for garrison defense here, the mountain is too high, put the artillery on the top of the mountain and fart!

It is precisely because the altitude of Tiger Mountain is not too high that it is possible to erect an artillery position, and at the foot of the mountain is an infantry position around Tiger Mountain, which is surrounded in a semicircle in front of Tiger Mountain.

Originally, the infantry positions in Hushan were not like this, but crisscrossed like the positions at the mouth of the Anping River, but after Xu Dajun came here, he dug an additional circular trench on the outer position, connecting the entire trench together.

Although the criss-crossing trenches are conducive to mutual fire support, they are not passable here in Hushan, where there is artillery support, so there is nothing to worry about in terms of fire support, the only thing to worry about is the problem of personnel replenishing the front of the position.

The narrowness of the position at Anping Ferry allows it to be well replenished by the soldiers behind, but it is different in Hushan, where the front is relatively vast, so the defensive line of the position is relatively large, and the criss-crossing trenches make it difficult to replenish the soldiers.

Therefore, after Xu Dajun arrived at the Hushan position, he dug a semi-circular trench on the periphery, which allowed the soldiers behind to pass through this semi-circular trench and continuously support the front from the rear of the position.

During these three days, when the ring trench digging in Hushan was in full swing, the two divisions under Lijian Shangwen finally settled down in this section of the Anping River estuary and began to prepare for the next round of attacks.

"Your Excellency, if we want to attack the defense line of Jiulian City, then the Hushan position on the right flank of Jiulian City will be a position we must fight."

The staff officer in the command headquarters who immediately saw Shangwen pointed to the map and said.

Lijian Shangwen has also seen Tiger Mountain, and the importance of Tiger Mountain was highlighted as early as the Russo-Japanese War, but the Russian army did not attach importance to Tiger Mountain.

This time, Duan Qirui attached great importance to Hushan, and the information that the defenders of Hushan had been digging trenches in the past few days was also known to the Japanese, so he realized that there might be a hard battle in Hushan. (To be continued.) )