"Yaga, is it so difficult to think of a way? Raise your heads, don't lose the face of the Imperial officers! The chief of staff scolded loudly with a posture of hatred that iron does not become steel. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

After scolding, he directly named and said: "You say, say whatever you want, don't hide it, I want to listen to the truth!" ”

The commander of the named division thought for a minute before answering: "Without artillery, I can't think of a way, after all, the powerful firepower of the Liaodong Army is there!" ”

"Also, the counterattack that the Liaodong Army is launching in front of us is obviously aimed at weakening our forces and using meat-cutting tactics to eliminate us little by little. Before sending troops, the commander-in-chief repeatedly explained that casualties must be controlled! In order to keep more soldiers alive, we must avoid the edge for the time being! ”

Although the chief of staff looked embarrassed, he had to admit: "One thing you said is right, we have to control the casualties. The troop losses are already big enough, there can be no more losses! ”

"The whole army has it, immediately retreat, withdraw from the range of the mountain artillery battalion of the Liaodong Army, they will not be able to cut meat from us with artillery!" The chief of staff decisively ordered.

However, none of the more than a dozen subordinates left, and all of them showed an incredible expression, looking at the chief of staff.

Soon, one of the division commanders asked: "Then we will not attack, we will not retreat?" ”

"There's a way to talk about offense! Now there is no choice but to avoid the edge for the time being, and the soldiers can't be allowed to stand here and wait for death.

The Japanese army retreated suddenly, although Wu Xin's idea of wanting to kill a good battle was frustrated, but the Japanese army retreated three or four times at once, which is also good news worth celebrating.

Although it is not clear whether the Japanese army is planning any new conspiracy, the Japanese army has retreated so far all at once, at least Li Zhilong and Wu Xinneng are sure that within three or four hours, the Japanese army will never launch a new attack.

Three or four hours later, the main force led by the commander was not far from the battlefield, even if it could not reach the battlefield.

Because they carried a large number of artillery, Yang Xingguo and his more than 10,000 soldiers marched very slowly.

When Yang Xingguo stayed in and urged the troops to speed up the march again, the heralds sent by the cavalry division arrived.

"Report to the commander, our division commander asked me to report that the Japanese army left all its baggage artillery and advanced lightly. In order to hold them back, except for one battalion of the cavalry division, which left behind to guard the baggage artillery, all the rest abandoned their war horses and pursued on foot, reinforcing Division Commander Li, who had already arrived in front of the Japanese army! ”

One or two hundred artillery pieces said to give up, and when they heard the news, Yang Xingguo was also taken aback.

Of course, he also admired the decisiveness of the chief of staff of the Japanese army very much.

At this time, Zhou Qiangsheng next to him suddenly said with a worried face: "Commander, although the Japanese army is advancing lightly, they still have more than 30,000 or nearly 40,000 elites after all, and there are also a large number of light and heavy machine guns. ”

"The cavalry division plus the people of Division Commander Li have 10,000 people in the sky, and half of them are old Maozi, I am worried that they will not be able to stop the Japanese army for too long!"

"We must speed up the march, this speed is too slow at the moment......" Li Xiaohu, the commander of the guard division, agreed.

"Commander, if it really doesn't work, we will divide the troops, the infantry will march forward in a hurry, and the artillery will follow. Anyway, the Japanese army has now lost the artillery, we don't have it, they don't have it, they can't help us at all! ”

"Yes, it's a good idea to divide your troops!" Zhou Qiangsheng, who was afraid that the cooked duck would fly like this, immediately agreed.

After listening to the report of the cavalry division scouts, Yang Xingguo had the idea of dividing the troops in his heart.

Listening to them now, Yang Xingguo didn't want to divide his troops.

Under the incredible gaze of his subordinates, he decided: "No, we don't divide our troops!" The artillery and infantry marched together to reinforce Division Commander Li and destroy the Japanese army! ”

Zhong Hu, the commander of the heavy artillery division, was anxious at this time, and hurriedly replied: "But, commander, the speed of the heavy artillery division is already the fastest march in front of you, and it can't be fast at all!" You better divide your troops, I promise that the heavy artillery division will not lag behind, and will definitely rush to the battlefield in the shortest possible time! ”

"Nope! The speed of the Heavy Artillery Division can be at least doubled, if not more! Yang Xingguo shook his head and replied.

"How is that possible! I'm the commander of a heavy artillery division, how did I not know? Zhong Hu retorted with an incredulous expression.

Yang Xingguo did not explain, and directly ordered: "The heavy artillery division leaves all the baggage and artillery, follows the infantry and advances lightly, and the baggage troops leave to protect the artillery!" ”

Zhang Shaozeng, who was next to him, immediately understood and replied: "Commander, you are planning to let us shell them with the artillery abandoned by the Japanese army...... This method is good, there is no artillery and baggage dragging, and the marching speed is more than doubled! ”

Yang Xingguo nodded and replied, what are you still doing, go and prepare immediately! ”

When they arrived at the battlefield several hours in advance, the Japanese had just retreated less than an hour.

When Yang Xingguo appeared in front of Li Zhilong, Li Zhilong directly showed an incredible expression on his face.

Before Li Zhilong could speak, Yang Xingguo preemptively said: "Don't talk nonsense, tell me the specific situation first!" ”

In less than ten minutes, the battle before Yang Xingguo came was simply told by Li Zhilong.

"You did the right thing, I will definitely give the more than one million taels of silver. In this battle, the three Russian regiments performed well, it's time to give them some rewards! Seeing the worried expression on Li Zhilong's face, Yang Xingguo hurriedly replied.

Subsequently, he continued: "Of course, it is definitely unrealistic to let the headquarters compare this to silver. My idea is that the wool comes out of the sheep. ”

Zhou Qiangsheng, who had just experienced the battle of Liaoyang, immediately reacted.

"Commander, you want to negotiate with the Japanese...... As long as they are willing to give money, can we let them go? ”

"Why not? Now the Japanese attach the most importance to the battle of the Liaohe River, in the battle, the more troops on both sides, the more fierce the fight, the longer the battle will be fought, for us who are ready to reap the benefits, why not do it? Yang Xingguo said confidently.

"However, if you want the Japanese army to be willing to take out the money, you must also let the Japanese know that we have enough strength to destroy them. They have no other way out of here than to negotiate! ”

It didn't take long for the Japanese army to receive news that reinforcements from the Liaodong Army had arrived.

In the command headquarters, the faces of many officers turned pale in an instant.

Of course, there are also officers who are not afraid of death, shouting at the chief of staff: "It's a big deal to fight with the Liaodong Army!" Chief of Staff, give the order, the valiant Imperial Army of Japan is invincible. ”

"Fight, how to fight, didn't you see that the Liaodong Army has set up hundreds of light and heavy machine guns around us?" A fairly calm brigade commander immediately retorted.

In this way, all kinds of quarrels immediately sounded in the small tent.

Seeing that everyone was getting more and more noisy, the chief of staff, who couldn't stand it, had to scold: "Baga, shut up for me...... Woooooo ”

Just as the chief of staff was about to continue scolding, the scream of shells across the sky rang out again.

This time, the face of the commander of the heavy artillery brigade turned pale in an instant.

As soon as the violent explosion reached their ears, the frightened voice of the brigade commander rang in their ears.

"Baga, it's heavy artillery, more than a hundred heavy artillery pieces are shelling us!" (To be continued.) )