After receiving the news of the failure of the breakthrough from the direction of Goi, Nogi Noshinori immediately ordered to stop the attack and withdraw to the vicinity of Shifodian, and an hour later the Japanese troops withdrew in the direction of Goi, and the two sides summed up, losing a total of more than 7,000 troops, and there was little ammunition left. The route to the north was cut off, and Nogi began to reconsider the possibility of entering the mountains to carry out guerrilla warfare.

"The resources in the Yimeng Mountains are simply not enough to provide supplies for guerrilla warfare, and even if you can't return to your homeland, you have to fight to the death to serve the emperor!"

"There is no ammunition, and there are bayonets, I propose to destroy all heavy weapons, and all soldiers such as staff officers, clerks, and engineers should join the attacking force, and launch a general attack from the direction of Yeyuan, which is relatively weakly defended, to break through the Chinese defense line at one time!"

"Yes, attacking from three sides of the Haifu Mountain position, we also joined the charge, with a force of more than 12,000 people, if it is not successful, it will become a benevolent!"

His subordinates were indignant, and he didn't look at Nogi Noshinori at all, he felt that he had lost control over the officers, and it was not easy to maintain order in the troops at this time. A general who always leads his troops to defeat a battle has no prestige.

More than 1,300 Chinese marines defended the Haifushan position, which was about to face a desperate attack by ten times the Japanese army's troops, but fortunately, the Chinese army's position was complete, the ammunition was sufficient, and the firepower was strong.

Haifu Mountain, which was originally densely vegetated, became bare, and after the attack began, the artillery fire of the Chinese army shattered the rocks, and the power of the broken stones was not much less than shrapnel. The Japanese soldiers, under the supervision of the officers, screamed shirtless and bayonets, and a Japanese brigade took the opportunity to bypass the valley on the right side of Haifu Mountain and try to sneak up on the water supply point behind the Chinese position.

There is not only the Laolongwan Spring formed by the gushing of groundwater, but also the logistics supply line of the Marine Corps. This move by the Japanese army finally put a little pressure on Cai Songpo, who commanded the operation.

"Ten rounds of artillery rapid fire, the second battalion, one company, three companies for me to intercept the Japanese army!" The headquarters located on the north side of Haifu Mountain, the first and second companies of the reserve were ready to go, and under the fierce attack of the Japanese army, Cai Songpo still had the spare strength to retain a part of the reserve with strong firepower, which came in handy at this time.

"Let the first regiment and Major Shen Yuxue's division and reconnaissance battalion go around to the Stone Buddha. Blocking the retreat of the Japanese army from behind, Lao Tzu wants to wipe out all the Japanese troops here, and can't let them escape into Yimeng Mountain again! At three o'clock in the afternoon of the 25th, the 1st Marine Regiment and the divisional reconnaissance battalion detoured from the west side of Linqu to the Japanese flank, and surrounded more than 10,000 Japanese troops who were completely using cold weapons.

Nogi Noshinori and other high-ranking Japanese soldiers took the lead in the first wave of charges, and all of them died, and the remaining soldiers continued to fight under the leadership of middle and lower-ranking officers, but surrendered to the Chinese army after the rear road was cut off and the ammunition and food were exhausted. The Battle of Linqu was the first large-scale surrender of the Japanese army to the Chinese army. It was also the first time that the Chinese army did not massacre Japanese prisoners of war, and more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers were strictly guarded and became a member of the Shandong road construction army, engaged in the road construction work in the rugged terrain of the Yimeng Mountains. Three years later, because of their excellent performance, these prisoners of war were released by the Chinese government and sent back to Japan, but only about 1,000 survived.

After this battle, all the Japanese troops in Shandong were wiped out, and the Chinese army completely controlled the Shandong Peninsula, and the front of the army was directed at the Beijing-Tianjin area. and threatened the Beiyang Army in the Hebei and Henan regions on the east and west sides of the mountain, and the First Group Army of the Beiyang Army led by Duan Qirui was surrounded by the Chinese army on both sides. The Second and Third armies of the Chinese Army were planning a strategy to encircle and annihilate the Beiyang Army's Duan Qirui Division. However, before that, the battle on another battlefield attracted the attention of the outside world, and the battle of Liaoxi was about to begin.

On the morning of the 24th, the busy port of Qinhuangdao welcomed a convoy carrying mountain brigades, and the arrival of long-lost reinforcements gave the Chinese army in western Liaoning an offensive capability. One marine division, two mountain brigades, and one main army force, with a strength of more than 80,000 troops, made Lu Hua, commander of the First Army, who was the commander-in-chief of the Western Liaoning Theater, ambitious, inflated, and he was previously unable to attack due to the width of the defensive line and the lack of troops. Now the offensive force has increased significantly after the arrival of the two mountain brigades.

Pajerov was equally ambitious, and the more than 100,000 troops of the Russian Far East Army led by him were all withdrawn from Hebei to the Tianjin area. After careful study, it was found that the quickest way to withdraw to Manchuria was through the Liaoxi Corridor, and the other two were to return from the mountainous areas along the line of Chengde and Chifeng, but this route was long, the terrain was rugged, and supplies were difficult. The other is from Zhangjiakou. Returning to Siberia from the Mongolian steppes, this route was rejected at the first time. Pajerov's three Cossack cavalry regiments might have been able to return there, but the remaining infantry could not have passed through the steppes, the Gobi, and the desert unscathed.

The Chinese army is currently gathered near Qinhuangdao, with more than 40,000 troops, and Chengde and Chifeng each have about two infantry regiments. Before sending troops, he asked Yuan Shikai to help provide a batch of ammunition and materials, or the Second Army of the Beiyang Army to assist the Russian army, but Yuan Shikai refused. Pajerov hated so much that he almost fought with the Beiyang Army, but fortunately, he was dissuaded by the dying Allied commander-in-chief Gentaro Kodama, and for the sake of the seriously ill commander-in-chief, Pajerov could only fight this Liaoxi campaign alone.

The reconnaissance of the Russian army was not sufficient, and the biggest loophole was that the two mountain brigades of the Chinese army were not discovered. In the case of insufficient intelligence, Pajerov made a hasty decision to attack, and at the same time, Lieutenant General Lu Hua of the Chinese army also transferred troops to the Beijing-Tianjin area, and the unanimous decision of the two sides caused the two armies to encounter 10 kilometers east of Tangshan.

From the very beginning, the Chinese army seized the initiative in intelligence, and the reconnaissance planes all over the battlefield made the Russian army have nothing to hide, and the 12th reconnaissance squadron of the Air Force taking off from the field airfield provided intelligence support for the first army of the Chinese army.

After discovering the 17th Army of the Russian army that took the initiative to leave Tangshan, the Air Force sent two bomber squadrons to bomb the Russian baggage troops, and the Russian troops who found the Chinese reconnaissance planes continued to advance, so when the Chinese bombers arrived in the sky, the baggage troops that had nowhere to hide suffered heavy losses, and the Russian army, which was already short of ammunition, suffered a heavy blow again.

This was a precursor before the Chinese army launched an offensive, but the Russian army still did not stop advancing, and the commander of the 17th Army, Lieutenant General Andrei, requested to stop the advance and build fortifications on the spot, but Pajerov refused. He believed that the Russian army had superior strength and insufficient supplies, and that it was necessary to defeat the Chinese army in the fastest time, so he ordered Andrei to speed up the march and ordered the fifteenth and thirtieth armies on both flanks to follow at the same time.

As for the Russian army's operational arrangements, Lu Hua couldn't ask for it, and in the case of a disadvantage in troops, if the Russian army hid in Tangshan, Tianjin and other big cities to defend, it would bring a lot of trouble to the Chinese army. However, the whole army was dispatched to fight in the field with the Chinese army, which just gave full play to the superiority of the Chinese army's firepower and mobility.

At eight o'clock in the morning of the 26th, the 17th Army of the Russian Army crashed headfirst into the defensive line that the Chinese army had already prepared, and Lu Hua let the elite infantry of the 1st Mountain Brigade and the 2nd Mountain Brigade give full play to their best defensive operations. That is, the troops on both sides of the defensive points east of Qian'an and Changli held out, and the troops under attack in the middle slowly retreated, attracting the attacking Russian troops in, thus forming a salient.

The biggest advantage of adopting this tactic is that it can firmly attract the Russian army and create conditions for the final counter-encirclement of the Chinese army. After the battle began, the 1st and 2nd Mountain Brigades showed excellent quality, the officers were highly tactically accomplished and resolute in carrying out orders, and the soldiers defended their reputation as the "king of infantry".

In the direction of the main battlefield, Andrei, commander of the 17th Army, ordered the precious Cossack cavalry regiment in his hand to first use high mobility to test the firepower of the Chinese army's position, and after concluding the judgment that the opponent's position was only about one regiment, Lieutenant General Andrei sent 3,000 infantry to attack the front of the Chinese army, and then sent Cossack cavalry to break through from both flanks of the position. The Chinese army seemed to be unable to withstand this offensive, and took the initiative to abandon its position and retreat back, and the cavalry regiment that took advantage of the situation to pursue did not get much benefit, and the retreat of the Chinese army was steady but not chaotic, and a battalion of the Chinese army, which was responsible for the rearguard task, even repelled the cavalry regiment twice before slowly retreating, bringing more than 300 casualties to the cavalry regiment.

He had never heard of such a thing as the Chinese army taking the initiative to retreat, and Andrei, who had been in battle for a long time, had seen all kinds of conspiracies and calculations on the battlefield, and if the Chinese army had no conspiracy, Andrei would never believe it. After sending a battalion of cavalry out and reconnoitring the left and right flanks, Andrei sent a telegram to Commander Pajerov in the rear for instructions on his next steps.

Half an hour later, Lieutenant General Andrei drove all the staff officers out of the tent and vented himself in it, fed up with this stupid commander. If it weren't for his aristocratic status and good relations in St. Petersburg, how could Pajerov, a famous fool, be the commander of the Far Eastern Army! (To be continued.) )