This is Wuniuling, a very ordinary mountain ridge on the border between China and North Korea, the Yalu River to the east of the mountain range, and the Tuchengzi to the west of the mountain range, a banner soldier camp in the former Qing Dynasty, but it has long been abandoned.

Now, Zhang Zuoshuang is leading a group of cavalry to march at the foot of the mountain of Wuniuling, and the number of cavalry is not large. There were only more than 500 people, but they were very well armed, and in the ranks you could see submachine guns, light machine guns, and even a few light mortars. These new equipment had just been transferred from the Army General Staff, and the cavalrymen were very fond of these weapons.

Zhang Zuoshuang came from Tuchengzi. Now, Tuchengzi is his headquarters, and since he led his troops to Shichengzi five days ago, he has renovated the long-abandoned banner barracks. The battle flag was erected on the earthen fence, and since then. He sat in Tuchengzi.

Tuchengzi is only more than ten miles away from the Yalu River. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, like many places in South Manchuria, the so-called "garrison" of Japan was also stationed here, and when the Beiyang government was in power, it did not dare to be tough on Japan, so it could only be handled in accordance with the "practice" of the former Qing Dynasty, and still let the Japanese army be stationed near the border, but later the United Front came to power and immediately took a series of tough actions against Japan, and the final solution to these "illegal garrisons" was the "Northeast Asian crisis" due to heavy losses in guerrilla warfare. Plus the mediation of Britain and France. As well as the fall of Russia, the Japanese government finally withdrew all the illegal garrisons in the South Manchurian region, and since then, the garrison on the Chinese side of the Sino-Korean border has been completely Chinese troops, and across the Yalu River, the two hostile armed forces have created friction from time to time. Finally, a decisive battle was ushered in, and the Japanese troops stationed in Korea could have rushed across the Yalu River in one go. However, it was held back by the actions of the "Goryeo Independence Army", and now the main force of the Japanese army stationed in Korea is still competing with the "Goryeo Independence Army" in the direction of Anju.

In this. Under the premise, Zhang Zuoshuang was able to lead the cavalry troops of the 16th Division of the Liaoning Provincial Army to successfully advance to Tuchengzi.

The 16th Division of the Liaoning Provincial Army is the team that Zhang Zuoshuang commanded in the green forest back then, but since accepting the reorganization of the center, the green forest spirit of this army has gradually faded, and some of the green forest generals who could not stand the discipline of the army have already left the army automatically, leaving only Zhang Zuoshuang and his group of old subordinates who were born and died are still in the army. However, due to the stationing of political propagandists and the replenishment of new soldiers, Zhang Zuoshuang could no longer say anything in the army, and this green forest armed force was gradually transformed into a real local army.

The reason why Zhang Zuoshuang refused to leave the army for a long time. On the one hand, he wanted to find a good way out for the old subordinates who followed him from birth to death, on the other hand, he was indeed reluctant to abandon this army created by him. He Zhang Zuoshuang has the ambition to win the supreme power of the three eastern provinces, but it is a pity that the strong have their own strong players, and when Chairman Zhao of the United Front becomes president, those local tyrants will not restrain their edges and obediently bow down to their subordinates. If he refuses to be tamed, then Xu Baoshan, the overseer of Jiangsu, is an example.

Although it is known that it is impossible to break the land and seal the territory. But Zhang Zuoshuang still feels that it is safer to stay in the army, after so many years of fighting in the green forest, his friends are all over the world, and the enemy is also all over the world. This is probably another reason why he refused to leave the army.

Of course, if you stay in the army, you must assume the responsibility of a military commander, and this time the Sino-Japanese war began. To Zhang Zuoshuang's surprise, he never thought that the center would really have the confidence to fight against Japan, if it weren't for seeing Lan Tianwei and Jiang Fangzhen's henchmen on the battlefield, Zhang Zuoshuang would only be afraid that he would wonder if this move was the center's plan to kill people with a knife.

It turns out that the center is not borrowing a knife to kill. Although Zhang Zuoshuang had not encountered a battle since he was stationed in Tuchengzi, he also knew that China's air and naval forces had already made great contributions to the country at the beginning of the war. Although the 16th Division of the Liaoning Provincial Army is a local unit, there are so many radio stations. In the past few days, the headquarters radio station of Tuchengzi has forwarded all the good news, one by one. Let Zhang Zuoshuang really open his eyes, and he really understands that the era of separating and claiming hegemony has passed, and as long as the center has superior military and financial resources, then it is absolutely impossible for local powerful factions to confront the center.

In fact, when he learned that the center had declared war on Japan, he was even a little excited, if the center suffered a defeat in this war, the united front might not be able to continue to hold the central power, once the situation really developed like this, then Wu Xu Zhang Zuoshuang still had the possibility of making a comeback.

But Zhang Zuoshuang's wishful thinking was smashed by those good news, and he finally realized that the United Front government is definitely different from the Beiyang government, and Zhao Bei is definitely not an ordinary politician. There is absolutely no good end to going against such a character, so Zhang Zuoshuang is now somewhat retiring, but he has not yet thought about how to withdraw from the military world and what to do after quitting the military world.

Led a cavalry unit to patrol at Wuniuling. What Zhang Zuoshuang was thinking about in his heart was also the question of his whereabouts, and the empty mountains and valleys were also suitable for him to think about.

Zhang Zuoshuang set off in the morning, and it is said that this kind of patrol is to read the latest children's day to wash the stream books and dry the fine concave Shan) Qi umbrella small with a worry line The division commander personally came forward to hold it, but it was boring in Shichengzi for a long time. The enemy Zuolin was not happy, and he took advantage of the patrol to take a break and look at the scenery, but now the battle on the battlefield in Liaodong is in full swing, but the silence by the Yalu River is weird. There were only some cold guns and cold guns, and no one knew what the Japanese troops on the other side of the river were thinking, perhaps they wanted to eliminate the "Goryeo Independence Army" and then turn their attention to the other side of the Yalu River.

The patrol reached noon, and Zhang Zuoshuang had not yet thought about what to do, so he ordered his subordinates to rest on the spot, bury the pot and make rice, and after lunch, rest for an hour, and then continue to take this huge patrol team around the area of Wuniuling.

When he arrived at the Yalu River, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon, and because he was worried that the Japanese troops on the other side would shoot coldly, Zhang Zuoshuang deliberately changed into the military uniform of a junior officer. Mixed in with the soldiers, stand by the river and look out at the other side. Didn't even use a telescope.

In the "Northeast Asian Crisis," the Japanese army carried out a brutal sweeping war against the Korean guerrilla zone, especially in the area along the Sino-Korean border, most of the Korean people who were not killed by the Japanese army had fled to the Chinese side, and the riverside on the other side was basically no man's land.

Looking at the ruins of a village by the river on the other side, Zhang Zuoshuang felt a little emotionally that when he was crisscrossing the green forest, some parts of the northeast were also like this, but it was the work of robbers and bandits. However, Japan, as a self-proclaimed "civilized" country, can also do such a thing, which makes Zhang Zuoshuang further realize what it means to be "the jungle of the jungle"

"The law of the jungle" is a term that Zhang Zuoshuang learned with the political commissar in the army, who once studied in Japan and came into contact with many Western theories, according to him, Westerners rely on this theory of "the law of the jungle" to colonize the world, and they are not ashamed of this hegemonic logic at all, compared with the "golden mean, courtesy, righteousness, and shame" in traditional Chinese culture. Western culture is obviously more aggressive, and it is this loss that the Chinese have suffered and become the "sick man of East Asia".

In order to get rid of the fate of "weak meat", the Chinese must learn to be strong, even if they do not eat others, at least they should have the power of self-defense, and it is precisely for this reason that the central government will so urgently strengthen the construction of armaments and decisively launch a continuous attack on Japan.

To be honest, Zhang Zuoshuang fully agrees with this theory of "the weak eat the strong", when he crisscrossed the Northeast, it was by relying on "big fish eating small fish" that he was able to develop the team, speaking of which, this is all a truth, the strong decide everything.

But the current strong man is not him Zhang Zuoshuang. It is President Zhao Bei Zhao who sits in the presidential palace, as long as President Zhao gives an order, he Zhang Zuoshuang must serve the president on the battlefield.

People are more popular than people.

Zhang Zuoshuang was upset, and the more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became, so he simply didn't think about it, and just as he was about to lead his troops back to the Tuchengzi Headquarters, he heard a roar of machinery.

It was a shallow-water gunboat, flying the Japanese flag, and was now sailing downstream from the upper reaches of the Yalu River. Since there were no Chinese warships on the Yalu River, the Japanese gunboats were particularly proud. Just yesterday, a Japanese shallow gunboat opened fire on a village on the Chinese side of the Yalu River, where an infantry unit of Zhang Zuoshuang was stationed, although the casualties were modest. But it made Zhang Zuoshuang very annoyed.

"it! Ambush Lao Tzu, wait for the ship to come, and shoot it a few times with mortars. Otherwise, I really think we are soft ornaments. ”

Zhang Zuoshuang held back the fire in his belly, and was nowhere to vent, when he saw the Japanese gunboat sailing over. So he hurriedly ordered the soldiers to set up an ambush and set up mortars.

But before they could open their guns, they heard the roar of machinery coming from downstream, and one gunboat was easy to deal with, if it was against two gunboats at the same time. I'm afraid that the one who suffers is Zhang Zuoshuang, Zhang Zuoshuang is a smart person, so Lixuan gave the order to retreat, but before the mortar mount was mounted on horseback, he heard several officers shouting.

"Look! That's not a Japanese gunboat, it's our Chinese gunboat coming downstream! There's a national flag on the ship! ”

Zhang Zuoshuang hurriedly raised the telescope and looked downstream. Sure enough, the gunboat that sailed from downstream to upstream was a Chinese gunboat, and the nameplate hanging on the hull indicated that it was the Chinese Navy's "Chuguan" shallow water heavy gunboat.

"This gunboat came in from the mouth of the Yalu River? But he was bold enough to come here. ”

Zhang Zuoshuang was a little puzzled, he didn't know how this gunboat ran into the Yalu River, because the Japanese fleet seemed to have the control of the Yellow Sea, and it was not easy to sail the warship into the Yalu River.

Of course, Zhang Zuoshuang did not know that the "Chuguan" gunboat had been secretly lurking in the area of the sandbar at the mouth of the Yalu River long before the war, and there were also several torpedo boats lurking there; like the torpedo boats of the detachment at Huludao in Liaodong Bay in the northern part of the Bohai Sea, these torpedo boats lurking at the mouth of the Yalu River were very light in weight and could be directly towed ashore and transported by train if necessary.

This fleet, codenamed "Wild Duck Force Chuguan", ambushed in the Yalu River Hill, is the flagship of this pocket fleet.

Now, the gunboat "Chuguan" has spotted the Japanese gunboat coming from upstream. So, without any hesitation, there was a "boom". The ship's millimeter gun opened fire, and at the same time, the millimeter gun on the open bridge also began to fire at the Japanese gunboat.

A surface battle began on the narrow channel of the Yalu River.