After the defenders of Anping Ferry repelled this Japanese attack, Chen Bai, the commander stationed here, realized that it was time to retreat, because only one-fifth of the people on the position could still stand up at this moment, and almost all the soldiers at the front were dead.

Including Lao Wang, who was the first to realize that someone had crossed the river, and Ergouzi, who was startled by the Japanese bullets, all these soldiers died on the battlefield.

Duan Qirui, who was in charge of the battle situation, learned of Wang Bin's combat intentions, and once again ordered the commander of the ferry, Chen Bai, to retreat at night, and with the retreat order, there was also a battalion of support to the Anping Ferry position to prevent the Japanese from attacking when retreating.

The evening supper was the last for the defenders of Anping Ferry on this position, and after the bloody battle of the afternoon, these soldiers were left with nothing but grief for their fallen comrades and hatred for the Japanese.

Although they did not know about the attack in the afternoon, they had such an impressive record of defeating an entire wing of the Japanese army, and even the Japanese respected them.

In fact, in the evening, the Japanese still had time to make another charge, but they realized that this fearless defender could not be defeated by a single charge.

Therefore, everything was so calm when the defenders of Anping Ferry had dinner.

At the beginning of the night, the bright moon slowly rose, but the defenders of Anping Ferry were packing up their things and preparing to retreat, the light of the bright moon sprinkled in the river reflected the positions on both sides of the riverbank, and the soldiers on the position of Anping Ferry slowly lined up to leave the position The scene was naturally seen by the Japanese soldiers on the other side of the riverbank.

However, the Japanese soldiers and Japanese officers did not make a position to seize the Anping ferry after seeing it, but reported the situation to the above.

Soon the news that the Qing defenders of the ferry were leaving the ferry reached the ears of Tachimi Shangwen, and Limi Shangwen's first reaction was not to order his army to attack, but to show due respect, and under the order of Limi Shangwen, a strange phenomenon appeared under the moonlight.

The Qing troops at Anping Ferry retreated in formation, while the Japanese troops on the other side of the river lined up to watch the departure of these Qing troops.

The bloody battle in the afternoon made these Japanese soldiers realize that these Qing troops were able to repel their own charges under the huge superiority of forces, which all reflected that this was a Qing army that should be respected as it should be.

Even Lijian Shangwen had to admire these Qing troops, which were enough to block the repeated charges of a wing.

In the face of such an army, anyone should maintain the most basic respect, and in the eyes of the Japanese, the defenders of Anping Ferry officially withdrew, and the defenders of Anping Ferry, who had held out for a whole day and gave the Japanese army a wing of great casualties, officially left this place that created glory.

"Your Excellency, I think we should cross the river now and occupy the position at the mouth of the Anping River to prevent accidents at night."

After the defenders of the Anping estuary withdrew, the staff officer of Tachimi Naomun immediately suggested to Tachimi Naomun that in the eyes of this staff officer, since the enemy had withdrawn, his side must take advantage of this opportunity.

What this staff officer didn't expect was that Tachimi Shangwen directly rejected his suggestion, for Limi Shangwen, a person who admires bushido incomparably, brave warriors have always been worthy of respect, and the defenders of Anping Ferry belong to brave warriors in the eyes of Limi Shangwen, so Limi Shangwen directly rejected his staff member's suggestion.

In the words of Naowen Tachimi: "In my opinion, the Qing army on the opposite side is not like the Qing army we have encountered before, so such an opponent deserves our respect, and since they have withdrawn from the position at the ferry, there will certainly be no accidents at night." ”

Having said that, Tsumi Shangwen was still worried in his heart what would happen if he sent the army over at night and was attacked by the enemy?

Therefore, what Lijian Shangwen said sounded good, but in fact, he was also afraid of a sneak attack, so he found such an excuse.

After the defenders of Anping Ferry were evacuated, according to the order given by the headquarters, the standard commander Chen Bai took the remaining soldiers to garrison Hushan, and for the battle losses of Chen Bai's subordinates, a thousand people will be drawn from the supplementary standard to fill the vacancy of this target first.

There are also soldiers who were ordered to come to support Chen Bai, and Chen Bai is also responsible for it for the time being, as for the huge price paid by Chen Bai's subordinates at Anping Ferry this time, Wang Bin directly waved his hand to reward each person with two taels of silver, and then gave each of the surviving soldiers a credit first.

For the rear of the fallen soldiers, there will naturally be a generous pension, and the army led by Chen Bai arrived at the destination of the evacuation: Hushan.

Tiger Mountain is located in Jiulian City only 12 kilometers away, it can be said that Tiger Mountain is the right wing of the Jiulian City defense line, as long as there are enough artillery and infantry stationed on Tiger Mountain, it can be said that the Japanese army has to divide a large part of the force to pay attention to Tiger Mountain, and in order to take the city of Jiulian City, Tiger Mountain is a stronghold that the Japanese army has to pull out.

Otherwise, as long as the Japanese army bypassed Hushan and attacked Jiulian City, the artillery of Hushan could launch an artillery attack on the Japanese army from a high position, which was undoubtedly fatal to the Japanese army, especially when they attacked, the artillery of the Hushan position continued to open fire, so there were still heavy troops stationed in the Hushan area to consume the strength and morale of the Japanese army.

Because of the important geographical location of the Hushan position, Ma Longbiao directly transferred an artillery battalion directly under his command, and a quarter of the heavy artillery of the entire Jiulian City defense line was arranged in Hushan, and the garrison of Hushan plus artillery also had more than 3,000 people.

In addition, since most of the soldiers in the Hushan position did not belong to the same town, in order to be able to suppress the scene, Wang Bin also specially sent Xu Dajun to lead a battalion of veterans to sit in Hushan and coordinate the Hushan battle situation.

It can be said that the current Hushan defense line can be described as impregnable, with artillery, infantry and a large number of pillboxes and light and heavy machine guns.

And just as the Battle of Hushan was about to begin, Wang Bin suddenly learned that the arms supported by the Russians had arrived in Mukden, and that an important figure of the Russian army had come to transport them, so Wang Bin had to rush back to Mukden at night and lost the opportunity to observe the Battle of Hushan. (To be continued.) )