The fourth volume is not the same as the thirty-fourth chapter of the first day

More than 2,000 Huai soldiers with disheveled uniforms and scattered banners gathered in their camps.

It is said to be a camp, but in fact, it is also very scattered, and there are not many tents. Although according to the Huai military camp system, trenches were also dug and fences were erected. But the trench is only shallow, less than half a person deep, and the fence is sparsely pulled, and the breastwall is not reinforced, and it can fall down with a slight bump.

This Huai army is Nie Shicheng's department, named in the army, but has been training in the four battalions of Baoding, because in Baoding Zhili Governor Yamen, every year will be personally read by Li Hongzhang, known as the most elite part of the Huai army. But since Asan, it has resisted and retreated, and it has been fought badly. It is impossible for a defeated army to have too high morale, and in the process of retreating, it has lost all the military resources such as camping equipment and tents and stoves, and it is good to be able to set up a camp.

The army was stationed in front of the key pass of Phongsan, which leads from South Korea to Pyongyang Province in North Korea. Fengshan is strangled in the Pyongyang Avenue of Seoul, this area is densely covered with mountains, the elevation is mostly about 1,000 meters, the mountain that directly controls this main road is called Dongxian Ridge, the spacious avenue from the north of Kaesong is suddenly narrowed here, after passing the most dangerous Sheren Pass of Dongxian Mountain, the front is Huangzhou.

After Huangzhou, it is a relatively gentle hilly area, and the base operated by Xu Yifan, with Pyongyang as the core, in the Datong River area has been opened. To take Pyongyang, you have to pass through the mountainous area of Dongseon Mountains!

This Bong army originally planned to retreat to Seoul and join the main force. However, Nie Shicheng received a report from Zuo Guifei that Ye Zhichao had abandoned the two of them and withdrew from Seoul with his own main force, ready to sacrifice them to cover the back road, so that he could retreat safely. He can die in Seoul, but he Nie Shicheng can't, he has to go to Zhongtang, the emperor, and the queen mother alive to fight this lawsuit!

After Nie Shicheng heard the news, he cried in the direction of Seoul and retreated. They also grabbed ahead of Ye Zhichao, who was watching the wind, and retreated all the way north. The North Korean Huai Army had no operation, and it was impossible to take the relatively remote eastern front, where there was no response, so it could only retreat to Pyongyang. In any case, there is also a Janissary here surnamed Daqing, and their commander Xu Yifan is still Chinese no matter how he does not deal with the Huai army! The Datong River Estuary, which he guarded, was also the most convenient supply route that Zhongtang could use.

Whether it is being shot by Xu Yifan or being monitored, as long as he can struggle out of this life, he must seek justice for Zuo Precious and the thousands of Huaijun brothers who died in battle!

As a result, after the defeated army retreated for hundreds of miles, it ran into the sentry line of the Praetorian Guards in the area of Dongxian Ridge, and the cavalry of the Praetorian Guards made contact with them along the road. Although the officers and soldiers of the Praetorian Guard wearing Western-style military uniforms are polite, they are also very resolute, they can be temporarily contained, but Lord Xu Jun ordered that before the future, they should not be allowed to disrupt their defense system!

Nie Shicheng's troops had to stop in front of Dongxian Ridge, and the Praetorian Guards replenished them with some food and supplies, allowing them to camp here temporarily, and promised to quickly report back to Lord Xu and let him deal with this containment problem.

In the past, how could these Huai officers with eyes on the top of their foreheads still stand this? Now that they are newly defeated, they are watching this team of well-equipped Praetorian Guard officers and soldiers who are guarding the danger, moving neatly and slaughtering, only to take down first and wait for news.

Now it's time to start eating, and the stoves are all up. The Huai army lost all its own pots and pans, and now they are using cauldrons provided by the Praetorian Guard, and metal lunch boxes like telescope boxes. Hearing the whistle of the meal, these soldiers, who were lazy and vigilant, rushed over and lined up to eat.

The grain was also provided by the Janissaries, and there was no other miscellaneous grain mixed with Xingluo rice or Korean rice. Cans of tinplate with foreign characters on them are opened, and the cauldron is hot, wafting with a rich aroma. Each person's lunch box was full of rice, plus a spoonful of hot beef and soybeans in the soup, and they were ready to eat.

Bursts of discussion floated over.

"These Praetorian Guards, they're so fucking well fed!"

"Scraping the land of North Korea can't scrape this kind of food, as a soldier a month three taels of three silver salary, all deducted before eating this every day, we rely on the middle hall, and only 38 starts, 38 eat meat...... That Xu Yi ...... Where did Lord Xu get the money? ”

"Look at their soldiers, they are a bit like those devils we have fought with, neat and quiet, we have to practice like this, how can we not be so miserable defeated, right?"

"Fuck, change into a tiger skin, where can't you be a soldier? This defeat is so miserable, I'm afraid that the Huai Army will not work, I don't know if the Praetorian Guards can do it? ”

"Pull [***] down, if you can't win, this devil will be given, everything will be given for nothing! We fought really badly, I'll see if they can kill the majesty of the little devils! If I can win, I am willing to lead the horse for a good man, and I don't want to rely on a man to recognize Lao Tzu as an ancestor! ”

These words spread from the camp to a hill outside, and Nie Shicheng sat on the horse in a daze, holding the horse whip in his hand, just looking at the position of the Cave Immortal Ridge opposite.

The entire mountainous terrain around Sheren Pass has been transformed. The gentle slopes suitable for climbing are all cut into vertical cliffs, the horizon is all cleaned, and the layers of deer have been laid up, and there are some gentle places, and tangled wires are laid on the ground, and the discerning person knows at a glance that it is a good obstacle.

There was no breastwall on the position, but there were trenches dug downward, and these trenches were not used as obstacles like the Huai army, and they seemed to be directly defensive positions for shooting! Nie Shicheng looked around, facing this mountainous area, and every attack terrain that could be used seemed to have a firing position waiting for him. He, Nie Shicheng, is already one of the few masters in the Huai army who relies on positional defense, and Cheng Huan has all the way to Ashan, and his defense has also made the army suffer a lot. But as a general who has been fighting for a long time, he can see at a glance that the defense system here is a hundred times more clever than his!

That's it, you can fill it out with manpower, and the most important thing is those soldiers, those officers!

On the entire position, there is not a trace of human activity, and the layers of deer like wolf's teeth and strange stones seem to be waiting to be devoured. Every soldier of the Praetorian Guard, he saw that he was armed to the teeth, neat and quiet, agile and standardized, to say unconditional obedience to military orders, it can be seen from the discipline of this position!

It can be seen from the eyes of the soldiers that their complete and unconditional obedience to the orders of those young officers seems to have penetrated into the marrow of their bones - speaking of those officers, they are really too young!

How long has it been since you have seen such a young and energetic group of officers? They were equipped with the finest equipment, from officers' riding boots and armed belts to tailor-made Western-style uniforms, toses, pistols, and sabers...... Everyone's eyes were shining, and there was no trace of fear. This kind of audacity is not the kind of ignorant arrogance, it is obvious that everyone has received a good education, whether it is basic education or military professional education - these terms, maybe Nie Shicheng can't say them, but he can feel them completely. With such a brave, educated, confident in himself and the group, and eager for the future, Nie Shicheng was first surprised, and then afraid!

The officers of the Huai Army are already in the twilight, and they are just content with the status quo, taking errands, holding children, getting some hobbies, and by the way, they are jealous that their colleagues are rising faster than themselves...... Even in its heyday, the Huai Army never had such a backbone officer corps, let alone now. In the entire history of the Qing Dynasty, and even in some dynasties, how could there be such a group?

How did Xu Yifan arm and raise them? What are you going to do with such a group?

He just thought deeply, and Goshha behind him had already walked over quickly, holding a lunch box in his hand: "Junmen, it's time to eat." ”

Nie Shicheng was taken aback, looked back at his Goshha, shook his head and sighed.

Forget it, what do you think of so much useful and useless? Now that North Korea is in flames, the situation is erosive, and the existence of this strong army can save the situation a little, which is the most important thing! Now it's just that I'm afraid this Praetorian Guard is not strong enough!

Just as he was stretching out his hand to take the lunch box, he heard the sound of the Praetorian Guard's position in the distance. A number of soldiers seemed to have emerged from the ground, and they were rapidly pulling the deer bars that had been opened in the passage. Nie Shicheng stopped there, and saw a group of people and horses emerging on the dangerous road of Sherenguantian, as agile as a dragon. All of them were dressed in the half-cut cloaks of Western-style light cavalry, and each of them carried German cavalry spears on their backs, and the straps of their military caps were tightly tucked on their chins. The horse is also a tall Yanmar, with a neat mane, compared to Huaijun's own hair, the hair is bald, short, and the old teeth are flat, and the military horse is really heaven and earth. Just came out of the mountain pass, and it showed a compelling momentum!

Dozens of horses huddled around a man, and a flag was at the front.

"Haidong Ping Domain, Qing Xu Yifan!"

Nie Shicheng shook his hand, this has never been masked, but he is already famous all over the world, and now it is their last reliance, Xu Yifan has arrived!

Even the Huai soldiers who were eating in the camp stood up, just looking at the dozens of horsemen.

"Lord Xu!"

"So majestic, so evil!"

"From Nanyang to North Korea, the top of the blood stained red, and the Qing Dynasty will kill him again...... That is, he can resist the little devils of the East! ”

This Xu Yifan's self-made banner is very loud and rebellious. But only in this way can these newly defeated Huai officers and soldiers be shocked, as if they were numb from the top of their heads to the soles of their feet, their eyes turned, just looking at the big banner that swooped down from the mountain pass and hunted in the summer sun of North Korea!

Before the horse team rushed to the Huai army camp in a blink of an eye, the first knight came out of the crowd, still holding the big flag in his hand. As soon as he reined in his horse, the tall horse neighed, and the tall man stood up, his hind legs holding the ground and spinning. The horses are tall and the men are majestic. The knight shouted loudly: "Xu Junmen pays a visit to Nie Shicheng Nie Junmen!" Where is Nie Junmen? ”

Nie Shicheng had already run down from this hillock, Xu Yifan put up this shelf, Nie Shicheng felt uncomfortable, but under the low eaves, how could he not bow his head. I had to meet the horse and said lightly: "I am Nie Shicheng, greeting Lord Xu." ”

Behind him, Goshha shouted: "Bold! Why don't you get off the horse and greet Nie Junmen? The knight had already stopped the horse and sneered: "In terms of subordination, I am not on an errand under Nie Junmen, in terms of identity, I am a serious Aixin Jueluo family yellow belt, the youngest son of Prince Melxian, and the emperor is my cousin...... Which rite do I see? ”

This kid has a bone-scraping face and a proud face, who else can there be besides Pu Yang?

Xu Yifan was in the crowd surrounded by the horse team, and he deliberately took out this style.

The Beiyang forces have been entrenched, and they have made concessions and retreats, and officialdom has long been extremely proficient. He doesn't have the kung fu to fight with Nie Shicheng and the Beiyang defeaters who are coming one after another, and now he just wants to let these people know who is in charge of North Korea now! And who is the mainstay they can count on! He must take advantage of the defeat in Beiyang and take the dominance of the Korean war in his own hands, anyway, he is also famous for his domineering, and he doesn't care about another such time.

This is the prestige of killing Nie Shicheng as a Beiyang veteran first, this is a big stick, and he still has carrots to tempt behind.

In front of his horse team, he saw Nie Shicheng's face change and change, and finally let out a long sigh and saw that Pu Yang had already circled the horse and walked back. Finally, he put on the etiquette of his subordinates meeting his boss there, and called a thousand times: "Mark Nie Shicheng, see Qincha Xu Dashuai!" ”

Xu Yifan is a four-qin chap, and Nie Shicheng's etiquette is not too much of a loss.

Seeing Pu Yang come back with a wicked smile, Chu Wanli, who was following behind Xu Yifan, immediately hammered him on the shoulder and punched him: "Good boy, that is, you can make this majesty!" ”

Xu Yifan doesn't care about them, he has enough shelves, it's time to win them over. The deceived leg jumped off the horse: "Gongting! Gongting! Why bother with this ritual? I don't deserve it! I just hate that I'm late! ”

He strode out, and the Goshkhas dismounted and gathered behind him. Xu Yifan has been in front of him, and he helped Nie Shicheng up.

Nie Shicheng also looked at him, when they were in China, the two of them had never been masked. At this time, Nie Shicheng was surprised by Xu Yifan's youth! In summer, Xu Yifan was already tanned, looking thin and sturdy, with a thin waist and a straight back, that kind of vigorous appearance, how could Li Hongzhang, who was already in his old age, compare?

Xu Yifan looked at Nie Shicheng's gaze, but with a little sadness.

"My lord, Nie is ashamed and led the defeated army to vote, and I hope that the adult will contain him...... The Huai army has been defeated! Half of North Korea has been eroded out of control, and now the two armies of Ye Zuo do not know...... I beg my lord to quickly let the standard contact Zhongtang and inform North Korea of some fiction and reality! ”

Xu Yifan patted him on the shoulder and shook his head slightly: "Zuo Guanting...... Martyred. ”

With so many horse teams and North Korean puppet teams, he is far more informed than Nie Shicheng or even Ye Zhichao, who has been defeated all the way.

"Seoul has fallen, and the Yi army has defended the city with more than 4,000 people, and most of the casualties are part. Zuo Guanting ran to Gyeongbokgung Palace to go on patrol with Concubine Min of North Korea, and the puppet minister of North Korea, Park Yong-hyo, colluded with people to infiltrate him, set up an ambush and shot Zuo Daren...... And Lord Zuo also killed Park Yonghyo! The fierce and awe-inspiring atmosphere of the Hero's Day, although it is still alive and dead! ”

"Zuo Guanting...... He's dead? ”

Nie Shicheng's hand shook, and the whole person seemed to be hunched down, slowly taking two steps back, and looking south. The two have supported each other since North Korea, and when the First Sino-Japanese War began, he was in Asan and Won in Zuo. When they broke up, they were all motivated by integrity, thinking that the imperial court raised soldiers for a long time, and they couldn't lose their prestige in front of Xiao Xiaoben.

He was defeated by Asan, and it was Zuo Guigui who asked him to retreat north quickly, and he took cover in Seoul. He is now in a hurry like a lost dog, and he has a surname to save his life in Benbei...... And that Zuo is precious, but he has maintained his integrity as he wished, and for thousands of years to come, Duyong Town will be in Seoul!

"Ye Junmen...... What about Ye Zhichao? ”

Xu Yifan said softly: "Ye Zhichao did not respond to Lord Zuo, but instead withdrew the main force from Seoul, and watched from a distance of more than 200 miles, so that the people could surround Seoul and attack calmly, not only did they not respond, but they did not even have the effect of containment!" He took the main force of 10,000 thousands of troops stationed in the DPRK, and when he heard that Hancheng had fallen, he turned around and ran, saying that he had already sent a detachment to pursue him closely. Maybe in two days, his defeated army will be here......

Not only that, Ye Zhichao has always said that the Korean war is going well, and asked Li Zhongtang to supply him, and the domestic news that the Beiyang Naval Division has attacked and asked me to answer at the mouth of the Datong River...... And his own large fleet may be waiting for the Beiyang Naval Division in this area! ”

Xu Yifan's voice fell, and Nie Shicheng had already made a halberd: "Ye Zhichao...... You traitor! Shame on you! ”

He clenched his fists and let out a long howl, almost a long howl, which shocked all the people, just watching this sturdy general grieve to the extreme, howling to the silent extreme pain, as if it was squeezed out of the chest.

"Guanting...... I deserve to die with you! The Beiyang cause, the national fortune of the Qing Dynasty, is so defeated! The Lu division has collapsed, and the sailor is no more, what else will the Qing Dynasty do to stop this devil? What to take? Zhongtang, you are also confused! Why did you use Ye Zhichao? Still believing him? Who else in the Qing Dynasty can turn the tide? ”

His roar came from afar, and some people in the Huai army in the camp already understood it, and many officers who had survived their lives immediately wailed and cried bitterly, beating their chests and feet. They were all brought out by Li Hongzhang, and now they all understand that Li Zhongtang's work is about to be put into water! Goshha, who was beside Nie Shicheng, also lowered his head, and helped Nie Shicheng as if he was about to cry with him.

Nie Shicheng's tall body had shrunk into a ball of pain, and he didn't even have the strength to stand up straight.

Xu Yifan glanced at it lightly, grabbed Nie Shicheng's shoulders fiercely, straightened him up, and looked at his face fixedly: "And me!" Xu Yifan! Now I'm Haidong Ping Domain! The screen of the Qing Dynasty! ”

He pointed to the mighty mountains and rivers behind him, pointed to the tigers under his command, and pointed to his big banner: "Nearly 20,000 soldiers of the Praetorian Guard have been ready to fight, and we will fight wherever this devil comes from!" If you can't fight a battle, you will fight again, and if you don't fight again, you won't succeed in three wars! If there are not enough guns, use white blades, and if there are not enough white blades, flesh and blood...... Good boy, what a funeral! As long as I, Xu Yifan, don't die, you can watch it! ”

His roar was even louder, shaking the Korean mountains behind him with a faint echo. Nie Shicheng glanced at him, and knelt down with a plop: "Xu Junmen, please call the shots!" Report all the news of North Korea's hypocrisy, Lord Zuo's martyrdom, and Ye Zhichao's shamelessness to China, tell Zhongtang, and let the court be vigilant! Ask Lord Xu to preside over a justice for Zuo Guanting! I, Nie Shicheng, can't wear it with Ye Zhichao for a day! ”

Xu Yifan just looked at him coldly, and didn't help him: "If the imperial court and you Li Zhongtang believed in me Xu Yifan, I wouldn't have been oppressed everywhere at the beginning, if I was still in Seoul, how could I say it today?"

If the imperial court and Li Zhongtang didn't believe in Ye Zhichao, how could they send the Beiyang Navy Division to risk all dangers and give up the strategy of protecting ships and controlling the enemy to help Ye Zhichao?

I speak, is it useful? Ye Zhichao defended himself in a telegram...... You know, you ran ahead of him and came to me Xu Yifan first! In the end, you are the only one who will be used as a scapegoat for the fall of Seoul! ”

Nie Shicheng stood up suddenly, just staring at Xu Yifan blankly. Xu Yifan said word by word: "Maybe now on the pale black sea, the Beiyang Navy Division is heading for the most tragic sea disaster...... Maybe now Li Zhongtang is still thinking about gambling and relying on Ye Zhichao to support his last decency...... Li Zhongtang has been operating for decades, training these soldiers, and buying these ships, but in the end, this road has come to an end, what is it? The land division will go to the center, and the water division will go to the school...... It is said that Ben's warships will pounce on the various seaports of the Qing Dynasty, covering their elite soldiers who have been gathered for 20 years to pounce on the hinterland of the Qing Dynasty! Can Li Zhongtang turn the tide? Can he still call the shots for you? Now it's just me, Xu Yifan, leading my self-made 20,000 tigers, in front of this mountain and huge waves! Master Nie, I'll just ask you a word. If you just want to talk to Ye Zhichao about this lawsuit, I will send you back, and you will struggle yourself. I don't bother to have a lawsuit with people like Ye Zhichao! If you want to fight this devil with me, keep the homeland where the ancestral gods live, and keep the last bit of dignity for us Chinese, follow me! A hundred years later, I will give you back a tablet of a national hero! And Ye Zhichao, you can also see his end! ”

Nie Shicheng retreated north before Ye Zhichao, and he couldn't win this lawsuit even if he was killed, he had no choice, Xu Yifan had already thought it out for him. It is Li Hongzhang, and now he is like a candle before the wind, as long as the Beiyang Naval Division is defeated miserably, the army appears in Daqing Haikou, and a soldier goes to land, no matter what the final outcome of the war is, he will be finished!

Or do you still follow yourself and do your duty as a [***] official?

Xu Yifan looked at Ye Zhichao, whose face was pale, fixedly, and suddenly felt a pain in his heart for no reason. He turned his head to look out of the northwest clouds. It was as if a roar that had traveled through thousands of years sounded in my ears just now: "Crash into Yoshino!" ”

Or is it on the sea where the waves are rolling and the black waves are surging, and the hundred-year-old sea is slowly ending?

Or are these people thinking about the Beiyang Sailors and Deng Shichang, thinking too much, so that under the emotional turmoil, they hallucinate?

Subconsciously, he had already taken off his military hat and pinched it in his hand. Nie Shicheng only found out at this time that under the military hat, Xu Yifan had short hair!

You have fulfilled your responsibilities, so it's up to me to see if I don't live up to your trust!

Nie Shicheng lowered his head, quickly raised it again, and solemnly hit the ground: "Nie is willing to follow the lord and screen the Haidong." As long as the adults can give us justice! If...... Adults can really turn the tide, why should Nie die for someone? ”

(To be continued)