The Huguang battalion was very well-trained and well-equipped, and their only drawback was that it had been formed for too short a time, and they had not experienced the test of war.

Hu Chuyuan was not sure, but he could only gamble on it.

Since it is gambling, it should be gambled a little bigger.

After the Huguang camp was turned around one after another, he began to secretly transfer Liu Jintang's troops to Gushan according to the follow-up plan, secretly hoarded supplies and ammunition in Gushan Port, and transferred the transfer center to Gushan, and planned with Liu Jintang to land in Longyanpu and cut off the plan of the retreat of the Second Sendai Division.

With the preparation of this year, he has secretly hoarded a sufficient amount of new equipment, especially Jiangnan rifles, and produced more than 60,000 in the United States, the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, and the Fuzhou Shipbuilding General Factory.

These rifles began to be reloaded in a large area in mid-June to Liu Mingchuan's department, followed by Huguangying's department and Ye Bojun's department, and now Liu Jintang's department.

The 2nd Sendai Division and the 6th Kumamoto Division were both the most elite main forces, and they were also the vanguard of the planned invasion of China, and the two divisions were surrounded in Yiju and ready to cross the Yalu River at any time.

Dashan Yan is a smart man, he believed from the beginning that only by stepping on the bones of the "Shina people" can he reach the peak of the world and conspire with the strong.

Therefore, whether it is the Lushun massacre, or many cruel tragedies later, were born in the hands of this person.

It was under his auspices that the 6th Kumamoto Division became particularly bloody, which eventually led to the Nanjing Massacre.

This is Dashanyan's thinking - slaughtering the Zhina like the Manchurians will definitely make the Zhina people afraid, because the Zhina people are a cowardly and death-fearing nation, and it is precisely because the Zhina people are cowardly and afraid of death that they will fail forever.

This sentence is so famous that it can almost be engraved on the tombstone of Dashanyan, and now, Hu Chuyuan has compiled this sentence into Chinese characters as the first complete sentence in the Huguangying literacy textbook.

The seated statue of Oyama Rock is also the only photograph that appears in the entire textbook.

In the Great Yali of the North Sea Combined Fleet, on every warship, this sentence will be clearly displayed in the most conspicuous position.

The decisive battle is about to begin.

The battle that decided the fate of Hu Chuyuan and the battle that decided the fate of the two countries is coming.

Liu Jintang's troops had already secretly traveled to Gushan on a steamer, and before Wang Debang led six Hunan army battalions in the south of the Yangtze River arrived in Dalian to replenish the defense, and before more than 60 steamship ships arrived at Dalian Port, they .......

That night, Hu Chuyuan wrote an article entitled "On the Sino-Chinese War," in which he clearly wrote down the reasons for the outbreak of the Sino-Chinese war, the objectives of the war, and China's bottom line, and he expounded on the problems that the entire Sino-Chinese and Chinese governments would inevitably face in the course of their respective developments, described the current situation, and the situations that might be encountered in the future, and also expounded in great detail the reasons why China must persist in fighting a protracted war.

China can win a quick victory, and as long as it locks up its control of the sea, it will fight at all.

China can also opt for peace talks...... But it doesn't make sense, for the sake of China's future, for the sake of the children's future, there must be a real fierce battle in their generation, and all the elites that Yuben has cultivated in the past ten years will be exhausted.

If there is a war in the future, maybe it is the hatred and continuation of this war, and the book at that time is not enough to care about at all, without the elite of the middle and upper classes, even if it has good equipment assisted by others, it is impossible to win the war.

The fundamental reason why the German army was terrible was not the equipment of the German army, but the elite commanders in their middle and upper ranks.

Before China surpasses Britain, the United States and Germany, no one will completely let China control this chain, so it is the best choice for Hu Chuyuan to cripple it once and let it lose its due role as a chain.

This is also the reason why Hu Chuyuan deliberately made the navy shrink, he wanted to skillfully use the struggle between the two forces within the book, and use the gambling psychology of the book, to force the army to the front line, so that he could also kill the elite of the army at one time.

Even if the Qing army has to pay several times the price for this.

Hu Chuyuan is also a master of infighting, he very much needs to use himself to destroy his enemies and potential enemies, through the army to fight against him in the Huai army and the Hunan army, to fight Li Hongzhang, and take the opportunity to support his own strength, isn't this the best infighting?

I am still very proficient in the political infighting of the Chinese, and probably, they also dare to take advantage of this issue to gamble.

Hu Chuyuan published this article "On the Battle of Zhongzhong," which deliberately downplayed the superiority of the navy, in the "Oriental" weekly, and reprinted it in the "Guardian Newspaper," "Declaration," and "Jiangnan Yuebao," so that all newspapers that published the articles were sold at zero prices, and the printing volume was increased to the maximum, and it was fully distributed and distributed within the army.

He wants to use this article to completely ignite China's ambition and defeat it at all costs for a better China.

"On the Battle of Zhongshu" was published on October 3, 1890, and 600,000 copies were published in Jiangnan Yue Bao and 110,000 copies in The Guardian alone.

Almost in this short period of time, the anti-Japanese sentiment in the whole country began to rise, and the squires from all over the country went to the yamen to petition, demanding that they kill Yueben to vent their hatred of the country, and everyone donated money and materials to enthusiastically support the imperial court and Yueben in the long-term war.

In such a situation, Yue Ben decided to deal a severe blow to the arrogance of the Chinese, to make their fears come true, to learn to be afraid, to learn to adapt to their own rule, just as the Mongols and Manchus did.

At 3 o'clock in the morning of October 24, the 6th Kumamoto Division took on the task of assault and forcibly crossed the Yalu River by building pontoon bridges, and the 13th, 14th, and 23rd Infantry Wings moved forward to divide their troops in three ways and stormed the defensive fortress of Jiulian Town.

The person sitting here is Liu Mingchuan, he is not Song Qing, let alone Ye Zhichao.

From 3:15 a.m., the two artillery battalions located between Jiulian City and Zhendongshan began to return fire, this is an artillery battalion funded by Hu Chuyuan, a complete battalion, equivalent to the same artillery regiment, with 54 heavy firepower 155 mm new howitzers, 30% larger than the ordinary battalion in terms of staffing.

Such an integrated artillery battalion was the only one in the entire Qing army, and there was only one in each of the two armies in Xianghuai, and Song Qing had also lost two artillery columns, and all the artillery was forced to be blown up in order to prevent Yue Ben from getting artillery.

The artillery columns and artillery companies under the jurisdiction of the other battalions mainly used 75mm and 122mm mountain guns, which were much smaller in scale, but they also fired at the ferry port to prevent the successful breakthrough of the capital.

He said that he is relatively wealthy now, and he also seized a large number of firearms and materials from Song Qing and Ye Zhichao, and used the new Korean kingdom to organize the so-called Korean Reading Division Regiment, and charged together with Yue himself.

Liu Mingchuan was even more stupid, the so-called half-crossing attack is an old saying, he waited until most of the opponent's troops began to break through the river before issuing an all-out artillery command.

In the same way, the artillery brigade of the Huai army had already launched an attack, and because the Huai artillery battalion had retreated and the ridge battery, which itself had greater firepower, the artillery brigade of the artillery brigade could not directly attack the Huai artillery battalion.

In the continuous entanglement between the two sides in the explosion, Dashanyan had already personally pressed the formation, forcing all the armies to pounce, striving to rush across the Yalu River before dawn and capture Jiulian City.

When the sky was getting brighter, the 2nd Sendai Division also began to rush to Zhen'an Town and disperse the artillery deployment of the Qing army. On the other side, the 6th Division had already pressed through the front line and began to storm the defensive fortresses of the 9th Company town.

Since the nearby residents had long since dispersed, the two sides fought to the death in this area.

The troops guarding the Jiulian Town are the three battalions of the Yi Army led by Nie Shicheng, as Liu Mingchuan's most relied on descendants, Nie Shicheng and the Yi Army dare to fight more than anyone else, and Nie Shicheng personally sat at the beach mouth of Jiulian Town, and resolutely did not let him cross the Jiulian City defense line composed of the stone wall around the river and two cottages.

They were equipped with Jiangnan rifles at the earliest, and with this reliable, concise and easy-to-use rifle, the Yi Army was not weak in rifle firepower to the Yue army equipped with Lebel rifles.

The army relied on the cover of artillery fire to make a strong charge, but instead was met with a frantic counterattack by the Yi army.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the Sixth Division of the Yue Army made three strong charges, leaving more than 3,000 corpses outside the Great Wall of Jiulian City, and the third battalion of the Yi Army stationed in Jiulian City was also very badly damaged, and there were not many dead, but many were injured.

On the Zhen'an side of Zhen'an Town, Zuo Guigui, who was in charge of guarding the Zhen'an defensive line, and his Feng army also withstood the first round of attacks, because they were not the main attack point, and the damage was even less.

The first day of fighting seemed to be over.

Sitting in Loufang Town, Liu Mingchuan, who was guarding Wulongkou, neither breathed a sigh of relief nor felt nervous, he had long been accustomed to such an atmosphere after a hundred battles.

He has his habits and ways, although he doesn't expect Hu Chuyuan to understand, but he believes that he only needs Hu Chuyuan's money and materials, and other ...... Nothing.

Because he is Liu Mingchuan.

He admires Liu Jintang, the current number one general of the Xiang Army, who is all from the old Liu family, and can be called Xianghuai Erliu, which is also a kind of fate, but he doesn't need Liu Jintang's help.

Because he is Liu Mingchuan.

The temporary yamen of the governor of the three eastern provinces and the minister of the plenipotentiary Qinchalian Supervisor was located in Wulongkou, which was originally a temple, and he lived here to command the overall situation, and with the help of Hu Chuyuan, he installed a complete set of telegraph and telephone, as well as new things such as pocket sand tables.

Even if there was no sand table, Hu Chuyuan provided him with a very detailed set of Western-style maps to command the battle, which was really like a god's help.

Very good, with the help of these foreign gadgets, this battle is much easier to fight.

Liu Mingchuan is a person who has really experienced a hundred battles, and of course he understands what battles cannot be fought, what battles can be fought, and how to fight if he can fight.

After seeing Ye Zhichao's defeat, he quickly adjusted his thinking, and camped in Tangshan City, Wulongbei, Bianmen and other towns, as well as the entire Fengcheng County and Donggang County, half hoarding and half practicing, preparing for a long-term battle.

Along the shore pass, he built blockhouses and wide low city walls, and built large-caliber forts on the top of the hill in response to his repeated tried and tested method of first shelling and then attacking, so as to make plans to defend Dandong to the death.

The people he called, except for Song Qing, were all his old descendants, all of whom were good generals who were not afraid of death, and superfluous waste...... He doesn't want any of them.

In Fengcheng County and Donggang County, as well as in Yingkou County, Anshan County, and Kuandian County, he organized at least 40,000 regimental training to supervise the training of new soldiers.

He thought about it, how much he lost in the front, how much he would replenish from the back, he had enough artillery, enough supplies, enough guns and ammunition, enough people, how could he fight?

The way to use soldiers is to first be invincible.

In terms of strategy, he didn't think that those on the other side said that he was very powerful, and he only came and went with one move, that is, the artillery went first, and then he used the infantry to charge after the indiscriminate bombardment.

Good.

When he arrived in Dandong, he and Hu Chuyuanshen transferred 60 heavy guns of 240mm-275mm caliber and built eight forts, two on Fort Ridge, two at Wulongkou, three at Lianchengkou, and one at Yuanbaoshan.

These were artillery units specially designed to deal with the enemy, and he bombarded them with batteries wherever he set up their artillery units.

Even so, Liu Mingchuan did not dare to be careless.

Careless.

He paid too heavy a price for this word, and accidentally caused his Ming army to mutiny, and after ten years of cold reception, he had to resign and return to his hometown...... The price he paid was too great.

is old, and there is still such a chance.

Li Hongzhang refused and did not want to use him, but Hu Chuyuan, who controlled the Fujian and Zhejiang factions, proposed that the court use him, which was really interesting.

(To be continued)