For two days, there was not the slightest progress. The total losses of the infantry amounted to more than three thousand people, including the entire cavalry brigade.

The summary of the battle report in front of Da Shanyan was like a thousand catties of boulder, which made his heartbeat a little unfavorable.

No matter what the previous intelligence said about the Yang family, from now on, Dashanyan will take those statements as. The only thing he found pertinent was that the enemy he was facing was a powerful force that the Empire had never anticipated, and that was rare in the world.

Yes, for the first time in his mind, the word "powerful" was used.

Any force that can lead to more than 6,000 Japanese casualties in several encounters on its own is enough to be called strong without any doubt.

In the face of Ito Yuhiro, who was also at a loss, Oyama Iwa contained an expression of frustration that never showed people: "Our action this time has been called a shameful fiasco. Lieutenant General, we have to think about how to retreat with dignity. ”

Yuhiro Ito sounded like a thunderbolt on a sunny day! He exclaimed, "Your Excellency! Do you also think that there is no way for us to win this battle? ”

Da Shanyan shook his head coldly: "It's very difficult!" I wouldn't say it's completely impossible, but at least for now, the plan we had before is completely unworkable. The enemy is by no means unprepared, in fact, they have been preparing for a similar battle. If we insist on letting the troops attack, the final losses will be heavy that we cannot bear. Lieutenant General, our biggest target is the huge Qing Empire! ”

Yugen Ito was silent.

He had already reflected on the various wrong decisions in the operation, only to find out. Actually, it doesn't matter if it's right or wrong. It was almost impossible for him to achieve victory lightly. A mysterious enemy stationed ahead. There are enough means to achieve a lose-lose outcome. Does the Empire really need such a victory to show off its martial prowess? It's hard to judge.

But he was not reconciled! After paying the loss of many warships, so many people died on land, and so far he has not taken a step closer to the target, and has retreated like this, how will the empire judge his appearance? How will history record that he will be nailed to the pillar of shame from now on, and will not be able to extricate himself?

Da Shanyan looked at him with complicated eyes: "From a strategic point of view, we are more confident of defeating the Qing army. The Empire needs to achieve a phased victory, and perhaps a step back is a good idea. Our 1st Brigade is moving towards Arthur. Lieutenant General, it's time to be flexible. ”

"But what about the enemy in front of you? We put so much effort into it, and this humiliation ....... ”

Ito's hesitation and unwillingness are more like gamblers who have lost the last banknote, struggling in his heart, but he doesn't know whether it is time to decide life and death.

Dashan Yan smiled faintly: "We should not limit our eyes to the imperial side, if our defeat proves the strength of the enemy on the other side, it may attract more ferocious forces to decide their defeat." ”

"You mean, the British, the Russians. And the Qing court? Ito stared in surprise.

Dashan Yan smiled and nodded: "Although in that case, the empire may not be able to obtain the maximum benefits. But rest assured, we won't end up with nothing. ”

Why this attack? Loot ironclad ships, loot shipyards and arsenals, loot workers and labor, and acquire technical equipment and powerful resources. By the way, revenge for the previous series of humiliations.

Success, the empire will reap more benefits. Defeated, proving that the enemy's forces were stronger than expected. Will the British, hiding behind their backs, not be tempted? Will the Qing government, which has always been more wary of internal warfare than external, ignore it?

No, the result is already predestined. As long as Japan forced the Qing to admit defeat and obtain vital war reparations and land cession, it would be enough to lay the foundation for continued strength. Long-term interests are not contradictory!

Ito turned his head to look at the shore unwillingly. In the distance, in the darkness, stood an indestructible enemy. The fleet, which had already been seriously wounded, drove over, only in exchange for the doom of all losses. Can he try to impact again?

Various conditions have been calculated, and the frustrating result is that it can't.

All the capital ships were injured, and the only "Naniwa" capable of quickly entering and exiting the coastal area and delivering an effective strike could be sunk with just one 305mm shell. He simply couldn't afford such a risky result.

"Shall we ...... Is it just a retreat? ”

"How else? In a hopeless battle, a decisive withdrawal is the wisest approach. ”

Dashan Yan, endured the humiliation he had never encountered in his life, gritted his teeth and made a helpless decision.

In the early hours of the morning, the order to retreat was conveyed to the ground attacking forces on both sides by means of a communication ship. Although the two armies that had just suffered heavy losses were unhappy, they still could not compare with the grim reality, and they hurriedly abandoned the enemy in front of them, and took advantage of the gap before they were beaten by the warships, transferred and uploaded, and hurriedly evacuated.

Yang Hao squatted steadily on the front line, waiting for the Japanese army on the opposite side to launch a fierce and decisive attack. In his past, the Japanese army had no room to retreat, and so many people died, and they had to rush up like crazy? That's just the right time to use the lethality of your machine gun and kill the dog.

But until the second half of the night, except for sporadic gunfire and harassment, the expected retaliation did not appear. At two or three o'clock in the second half of the night, the atmosphere of excessive silence finally made him realize that something was wrong.

Using the aerial camera to take a look down, I didn't see the expected Russian enemy who quietly touched the front of the battle and was ready to attack at three or four o'clock, but after the fire was extinguished, there was no devil in the empty camp!

"Huh? Where have all the people gone? ”

Yang Hao was afraid that the Japanese army would play tricks, so he hurriedly called the southern battlefield and Yang Haiwei to report the situation. Yang Haiwei was surprised and contacted the gunboat team to inquire about their observations, and the report was that the Japanese were loading people on the ship.

"Want to run?"

Unexpectedly, the anger in Yang Hao's heart soared. Numb up the next door, when we are here what is the public toilet? Come and go as you want. There is nothing so cheap in the world.

Regardless of the reason for the Japanese to retreat. Just let them run, that's too cheap for him. Bastard stuff killed so many people. Scourge so many houses, if you can't win, you want to leave, you really think that the truth in this world is on their side!

Yang Hao immediately made a decision, ordered the forward defense troops to suddenly fire flares, and under the dazzling light, they suddenly launched a fierce attack on the Japanese troops who stayed in front of them.

On the northern and southern fronts, the troops guarding for a day and two nights suddenly broke out, and mortars and light and heavy machine guns burst out violently. The Japanese soldiers, who had placed their guns in a mess, were suddenly pressed down on the ground and couldn't lift their heads. Taking this opportunity, with the veteran company as the backbone, the recruits with several companies fiercely pounced out of the position and went straight to the battlefield ahead!

After just one face, the remaining Japanese troops fled without a fight! The wild posture of the girl made the defenders unable to catch up for a while.

Yang Hao seemed to have stepped on the air, and was dumbfounded on the spot: "Is this the legendary Japanese army who is not afraid of death?" Mistaken, right? Shouldn't they have rushed up to the guns and fought until the last man fell? ”

Too much time has passed, and too little information is available. The fact is that the Japanese army of this era has not yet become confident because of successive victories over two powerful countries. Overconfidence, arrogance to the point of unreasonableness. Most of them were also recruits who had not been combated. Under the previous artillery and machine-gun fire, it was already strong that he did not escape from the battle.

The black light was blinding, and Yang Hao didn't dare to let the recruits with congested brains chase too much. A part of the Japanese marines desperately fled towards the lower reaches of the Jili River, and went straight to Xinyang Field, where they landed.

Yang Hao led a company of veterans plus a company of recruits, surrounded by the guard platoon, automatic fire to open the way, and kept chasing out a few kilometers away, on the sea, finally encountered the enemy's resistance.

The shadowy figures of ships on the sea, and the boats constantly coming and going on the shore, all indicate the progress of a hasty retreat. This time, the Japanese army really found out that something was bad and wanted to run away.

Yang Hao jumped to his feet in a hurry and scolded: "Bastard King Eight Lambs, you don't come when you should come, you have to leave when you shouldn't leave now, it's not so cheap!" What about the cannon? Pull it all up for me! ”

There were no accompanying artillery, the two companies each carried four 60mm mortars and a small amount of ammunition, and Yang Hao was not too little, and ordered them all to be hurriedly deployed and fire fiercely at the beach at the maximum range.

The sudden explosion startled the boats on the shore and hurriedly dodged, and the Japanese troops gathered on the beachhead scattered as if they had blown up a hornet's nest, looking for a place to hide. The unprepared people watched as the explosion was close at hand, and the violent fireworks and steel fragments cut them to pieces in a blink of an eye, and it was terrible to see!

The Japanese army was completely disorganized.

The order to retreat was given, and the whole army was not ready to fight, and the recruits who were eager to return to their hometowns were even more eager to get on the ship earlier. At this time, the cannonballs falling from the sky were equivalent to adding a life-saving charm to their brains, and many people jumped directly into the sea in panic and swam wildly towards the ship two kilometers away.

"You also have today!" Yang Hao cracked the corners of his mouth, smiled hideously, and ordered coldly, "Hit hard, drive all these dogs into the sea!" If they have the ability, they will swim back to Japan directly, or they will die here to feed the fish! ”

Light machine guns and Bobosha submachine guns cleared the way, and clusters of flames were sprayed with a dense rain of bullets, sweeping and cutting off the overgrown beachhead again and again. The falling mortar shells set off a raging fire, which was blown by the wind and spread along the abandoned salt works and reeds! The blazing flames rushed dozens of meters high, and under the bright light, the figures of wolves escaping one by one became the most significant targets under the muzzle!

"Kill the little devils and kill them all!"

Excited shouts rose and fell on the battlefield. The machine guns that joined the battle one after another brought more and more dense bullet rain, and the Japanese troops who were hard against the interception did not have time to organize an effective counterattack, and as soon as they showed up, they were put down by an overwhelming number of bullets, and the muffled sound of puffs, blood splashed, and the piercing screams made the Japanese officers lying under the Yantian ditch feel like knives, but they were helpless!

Several ships of the guerrilla fleet, while resisting the attack of X-class gunboats, tried to get closer to this side, trying to support the troops on the shore with naval guns, but as soon as they opened fire, their figures were completely exposed, and they immediately attracted several times more fierce bombardment!

They had to dodge and evade, which made the already not very neat retreat suddenly worse.

But fortunately, the basic movement of the bay on this side is the marines, and the movements are much sharper than the army in the distant Guzhenkou Bay, and it is not impossible to swim back to the battleship if you really swim...... Is this a blessing in disguise?

Hundreds of Japanese soldiers dropped hundreds of corpses along the way, drowning in the sea, and in the end, about a third of them successfully boarded the ship and fled in a hurry towards the eastern waters.

Yang Hao was unwilling to put more than a dozen cannons on the beach, and finally reluctantly accepted the result.

Yang Haiwei officially determined that the time of the Japanese rout was later, and the night attack that he was on guard against did not come at all, but the remaining Japanese fleet secretly ran to the south to support the weak guerrilla fleet at some point, and received the thousands of land forces that landed there.

When another early morning dawn came, the remnants of the Japanese army were defeated and ran away at the last bit of night! (To be continued......)