After the madness, the Yue army finally began to gradually regain its senses, and the officers and men of the 10th and 14th Divisions, as the first troops to attack Chengde and shed the most blood and sacrifice here, also began to realize that this was a battle with no hope of victory.

Even if they win, the vast majority of them are destined to not see the victory coming, the nineteen-year-old private Takakura Name, like most of the soldiers of the Imperial Army, cowered in a ruins with an empty stomach with a cold rifle, forty minutes ago there were seven people including the Great Friendly Army Cao, but they were all targeted by the sharpshooters of the [***] and soon went to Kudanzaka to meet, and the Takakura Nome Private did not want to die, so he kept lying on the ground motionless, occasionally looking at the stars through the gap between the two corpses.

Since childhood, Takakura Namo, who accepted the so-called motto of the so-called young man who was born for the imperial kingdom, did not cultivate the so-called true bushido surname, and the ancestors of Takakura Narumi were all peasants, and belonged to the target of venting their anger and slashing after being conquered by the samurai, so Takakura Name did not have a good impression of the samurai, thinking that they were a group of fools and madmen who dreamed all day long for nothing.

However, he didn't dare to make such a statement publicly, he could only scratch his hair after being beaten, and now that Cao Chang and the veterans who bullied him were all hung up, Takakura had a trace of joy and happiness.

Like the name of Takakura, many officers and soldiers also learned from this tragic war? It seems that they were all raised by their own parents, and they have nothing to do with the emperor who has never seen a real person, but they also have to bear a variety of taxes such as the breathless naval ship tax, and without money, the pigs, cows, sheep, and even chickens and dogs raised at home will be taken away, saying that they are contributing to the revival of the imperial kingdom?

Pigs, cows, and sheep can be sold, chickens can eat meat or lay eggs, these are not difficult to understand, what can dogs do? Can a dog build a warship for the Navy? Or can you make guns for the army? What does the emperor need his own dog for? The emperor needs the loyalty of a dog?

When the two armies in Chengde fought fiercely all night, Song Zheyuan of Xifengkou was also ruthless, and during the day, the field artillery of the army completely cut off the strength of a battalion of the 29th Army, and the 29th Army, which lacked counterattack artillery and even had insufficient rifles, decided to take advantage of the exhaustion of the army overnight to adopt a roundabout night attack tactic to attack the enemy.

Therefore, Song Zheyuan personally ordered Brigade Commander Zhao Dengyu to lead two regiments as one way, from the left flank out of Panjiakou, around the enemy's right back, to attack the army on the high ground on the west side of Xifengkou, and ordered Brigade Commander Tong Zeguang to lead the other two regiments to the other way, from the right flank through Qinmen Pass out of Dongjiakou, around the enemy's left back, to attack the army on the high ground on the east side of Xifengkou, and ordered Brigade Commander Wang Zhibang to serve as a frontal defense, and after the left and right roads were launched, he would attack from the front.

That night, the officers and soldiers of the Zhao Brigade carried big knives on their backs and stepped on the snow in the darkness of the night! At dawn on the 26th, they arrived at the cavalry positions of Beishantu and Sanjiazi and the artillery positions of Caijiayu and Baitaizi. The officers and men of the 29th Army took advantage of the fact that the army was asleep to slash and kill with broadswords, and blew up and burned up the army's position with fire, baggage, and grain.

After hearing the news, the army stationed in Laozhan Mountain immediately rushed to the rescue. So the two sides fought in the darkness of the night. At this time, Tong Zeguang's brigade, which attacked from the right flank, rushed to reinforcements, and Wang Zhibang's brigade, which was responsible for the frontal countermeasures, also began to storm the northeast highlands of Xifengkou. Under the combined attack of the two brigades of Zhao and Tong, the Yue army was finally repulsed. The night raiding troops returned triumphantly by the same route.

After a fierce battle all night, the 29th Political Department, together with the report and the reporters of the Nanjing Daily, arrived at the front line to count the troops, and in this battle, they killed 68900 people, killed the commander of the No. 1 No. 1 Zhongzuo detachment of the Yuejun Army, and destroyed 18 75-mm field guns of the 38th type. Two additional troops, Catfish and Saga, attacked and occupied Panjiakou at dusk on the 26th to confront the 29th Army.

For a time, domestic newspapers reported that the 29th Army had won a great victory at Fengkou, and the 29th Army had become a hero in the minds of the Chinese people after the new 1st Division, and the news of the 29th Army's great sword and prestige occupied almost all the headlines. A staff officer told him that the condolences were all brought to the 29th Army, the heroes who fought against and killed the enemy, and Xu Tingyao didn't even have the face to receive the condolences!

However, behind the brilliant results, I am afraid that only he knows the pain in Song Zheyuan's heart, although the attack troops have achieved brilliant results, but only the regimental and battalion officers have lost 14 people, and the casualties of officers and soldiers are more than 3,000.

In the end, for the sake of the face of the people and the morale of the troops, Song Zheyuan simply reduced the casualties by zero, knocked out the front teeth and swallowed the blood, and swallowed tears into his stomach.

Song Zheyuan knew that since he had concealed the casualties, the pension of the more than 2,000 officers and soldiers who had died in battle would definitely not admit it, and there was no way to solve it by himself!

After the army suffered a setback at Xifengkou, Muto Nobuyoshi immediately urgently transferred the 4th Infantry Brigade and the 3rd Cavalry Brigade of the 8th Division to attack Luo Wenyu from the flank, in an attempt to threaten the left rear of the 29th Army's Xifengkou position. Defending it was Liu Ruming's Division of the 29th Army's Provisional Second Division.

At dawn on the 27th, the army tried to seize the high ground of the three forks of Luowenyu with a large brigade, and the defenders ran around the Yellow Cliff Pass with a regiment, intercepted the enemy, and repulsed him. In the morning, under repeated temptations and with the support of artillery, the army attacked Luowenyu, Shanzhayu and Shabaoyu on a large scale. The defenders lured the enemy to approach, charged in hand-to-hand combat, and the battle lasted until the evening, the army suddenly changed its tactics and advanced with a barrage of infantry and artillery, and the 29th defenders were very unsuitable for the barrage tactics of the army, so they could only brave the artillery fire and rely on the city walls and watchtowers to resist stubbornly.

Lieutenant General Xiyi 1st Division of the Eighth Division of the Yue Army personally led two fully manned infantry brigades to reinforce them, and with the support of heavy artillery fire, some of the main and secondary divisions of the Yue Army repeatedly attacked the defenders, and the officers and men of the 29th Army waited for the approaching of the Yue Army, drew their broadswords, jumped out of their positions and fought with the enemy in hand-to-hand combat, fought until late at night, and repelled them.

Liu Ruming attacked the flank of the Yue army with one regiment from Shamuryu, and the other regiment attacked the rear from the left flank, and the frontal defenders also attacked on all fronts, and the two armies fought until dawn, and the Yue army began to retreat due to excessive casualties and the depletion of artillery shells, and Liu Ruming's division of the 29th Army's provisional second division also suffered huge losses and retreated back ten miles to re-fortify.