Shi Jianfei agreed without much thought.

On the one hand, he still firmly believes in his heart that the army will not be child's play. It wasn't one or two hundred, but tens of thousands of people dispatched, but what a serious decision, who would dare to go back on their word?

In addition, he was also aware that Yang Hao Chiguoguo looked down on the Qing army, and as one of them, he had to maintain the dignity of the group. Even if the troops are really not decent in nature, they are far worse than the great powers. He can't follow the path of others and criticize indiscriminately.

They bet, and the people next to them stared at each other.

What's what? 100,000 taels, bet on this kid's future? Boss Yang's handwriting is also generous, right?

Including Ding Weifen, everyone thought that Yang Hao had lost. There is no joke in the army, and since it is determined that the troops will be mobilized, there is no reason to give up halfway. If they really want to do that, they won't laugh to death all the countries of the world!

No one believed that Yang Hao was real, they were more willing to think that in order to recruit Shi Jianfei, a rare talent, Boss Yang made a lot of money. 100,000 taels of silver, although it is said that there are 100,000 snowflakes of silver in the Qing prefect's mansion in three years, what kind of official is the prefect's mansion? How can a big-headed soldier be compared?

They didn't know that if there was really a high-level talent who graduated from the Berlin Military Academy, Yang Hao would give it without blinking an eyelid. A regular staff officer in these years, an absolutely scarce resource, is not easy!

In addition, they also didn't know that Yang Hao's understanding of the Qing court inside and outside, and the ugly performances of the bureaucrats in this war, could not be clearer. Needless to say anything else, a Ye Zhichao who is bent on escaping; A Li Hongzhang who commands indiscriminately from thousands of miles away, what tricks can't they play?

Not to mention, ridiculous things. It's still to come!

That same evening. The Japanese still did not take a frontal attack. It's a little bit of progress, though. Began to continuously discharge squad-based men and horses, taking turns to spy on various battlefields.

They didn't deliberately want to attack, they just kept firing from a few hundred meters away, so that the defense above did not stop at all.

In the words of Yoshimasa Oshima: "No matter who the defenders are and where they come from, no matter how powerful their equipment is, they will surely get tired." After fighting one battle after another, they must be tired and persevere. There must be a chance! ”

Yang Hao couldn't lift his spirits, and said in his heart, why did you go earlier? I made my brother wait all day! If you can't wait, you should feel good!

He sent all the rested candidates into the trenches, and Shi Jianfei also stuffed the men and horses he brought into them. For the first time, the two sides mixed together, pulling out a stance along the curved line of defense, and under the care of a few veterans, they practiced one by one.

At night, it is still cloudy and starless, the light is dim, and you can't see anything when you see it for 100 meters with the naked eye.

It was under such conditions that the Japanese army dared to make a fuss upward. But then it was discovered. Flares rose in the sky at intervals, and there was no hope of a sneak attack.

Shi Jianfei felt very novel. With his professionalism. Immediately notice the beauty of this thing. Although I didn't see the artillery position in the rear, I could tell from the sound that it must be caused by a very advanced weapon. Yang Hao's views are becoming more and more unfathomable.

The sporadic gunfire continued into the second half of the night. The casualties between both sides were small and did not change radically.

In the early morning of September 7, a sentry soldier subordinate to Shi Jianfei and a sentry led by Fu Diankui were picked up by a large convoy sent by Yang Hao halfway up, running all the way directly to Dongxian Ridge and entering the position from the rear.

But at this time, an extremely funny thing happened behind them!

The army of 7,000 people led by Ye Zhichao drove out of Pyongyang, and only arrived in Zhonghe at night, and each battalion was stationed separately. At the third watch, I don't know who shouted "The Japanese army is coming"!

Good guys, they blew up the camp right away!

When they set up camp, they all set up a strict defense, and as soon as they heard the movement, they panicked and immediately opened fire!

As soon as the guns rang out, no one could control the form, and the tired soldiers were so dazed that they couldn't distinguish anything at all, and they hit when they touched their weapons! It took a full hour to realize that something was wrong.

When the battalion commanders suppressed everyone, they saw that good guys had killed more than 20 people and injured more than 100!

This is also thanks to their marksmanship getting worse and worse one by one, they all shoot indiscriminately, and most of the casualties are beaten by their own family members next to them...... Death is called a wrong!

Originally, the overall morale was not very high, and after such a whole, there was no spirit at all.

Ye Zhichao could be regarded as a reason, and immediately ordered to stop advancing, and then reported the matter to Li Hongzhang.

At the critical moment, Master Li's indiscriminate command was powerful again, and he asked them: "Sending troops to intercept head-on, have you considered the possibility of being attacked by enemy troops in the rear?" ”

Ye Zhichao immediately seized this and categorically ordered all of them to retreat to Pyongyang, and they didn't come out if they were killed!

Not only that, but he took out two battalions of Sheng Army and rushed to Suzhou to help keep an eye on the back road.

This news reached Huangzhou on the evening of September 7, and when Shi Jianfei heard it, he was stunned and didn't know what to say.

Yang Hao was proud in his heart, and he didn't have to work hard to get a talent, this deal was really worth it! However, for Shi Jianfei, he still comforted him: "Brother Shi should have known that the Qing army was old and decaying. It is only a matter of time before such an outcome occurs. You don't have to be discouraged, isn't the imperial court also planning to train new troops? Presumably by then, with your great talent, there will still be a place for use after all! ”

Shi Jianfei shook his head with a wry smile: "Why should Mr. Yang be tempted? Shi has already agreed and will never break his promise. You and I are very aware of the shortcomings of the court. The new army? It's just another group of private soldiers. Inside and outside the government and the opposition, no one has the great righteousness of the country in his heart. Hehe, there's nothing to be nostalgic here. ”

Yang Hao patted him on the shoulder and didn't say anything more.

In this era, if you can go out and see what foreign countries are like, you will inevitably come into contact with the theories of the country and the nation. Compared with the traditional backward concept of allegiance to the emperor and loyalty to the boss of a certain powerful group, the kind of devotion to the great cause of saving a nation and a country can make their hearts surging and their blood rushing.

It can be said that among the first awakened young talents in this era. The rationale for the revolution is not clear, though. That kind of driving force. But it has accumulated to a considerable extent.

Shi Jianfei was born as a scholar and has the belief of governing the country and securing the country. He studied military strategy only to participate more directly in that great cause. Compared with the torture of the imperial examination for ten years and decades, the intrigue day after day in the officialdom, it seems that the army can do some practical things.

As a result, it was still so disappointing.

The people behind had little hope, and there were a total of about 300 Qing soldiers in front of them.

Fu Diankui's position is not high, but he is slippery. As soon as I heard that, the adults in the back all pulled their legs and left, so they simply had to pick their sons.

Shi Jianfei finally became angry, and glared at him with a knife on his waist and asked, "If you want to go, you can leave the soldiers for me!" When he went back, the official would naturally explain to Zuo Junmen. ”

Fu Diankui's eyes rolled, and he immediately put on a generous face: "What did Assistant Shi say!" Fu is not talented, but he can't fall into the prestige of Zuojunmen! You are not afraid of the Japanese army, so why should you bear the infamy of being a cowardly battle! I'll stay too! ”

…… He seemed to have forgotten that when he said goodbye to Yang Hao in Huangzhou before, he was so neat and tidy.

Shi Jianfei was helpless. This old oilman is everywhere, and there is not one more of him. As long as you don't mess with yourself and find trouble. If you stay, you will stay, and you will not be able to take his share of the credit.

More than 200 people also joined the position. And so it goes. There were more than 600 front-line soldiers scattered in the trenches. On the top, there is a complete company, the entire battalion headquarters, fire company and other troops. The total strength of the Dongxian Ridge defense line officially exceeded 1,000 people.

Yang Hao didn't let them be idle, and immediately joined the recruits to clean up the corpses of the Japanese soldiers below.

In the September weather, the corpse can change its flavor overnight, and it will begin to decompose in one day and one night, and it will be ...... in two or three days I can't smell it, and I can't see it.

Although each of them was equipped with gas masks and disposable plastic gloves, the Qing army, who had never seen this scene, still vomited!

The people brought by Shi Jianfei are okay to say, and under his personal example, he stepped forward head-on. In addition, because of "spitting and spitting, you get used to it", you can't smell the smell in your nose, and you can slowly get started.

But the other group of Qing soldiers refused to go over even after being killed, and the surnamed Fu himself was even more disgusting, twisting his nose and not seeing it.

So, a corpse carrying team of more than 500 people slowly dragged the corpses of the Japanese soldiers on the surface to a ravine for burial along the hillside.

This scene fell in the eyes of Oshima Yoshimasa in the distance, and it was a little comforting. In any case, it is much better than exposing the corpse in the wilderness and not being buried. As for packing up and burying it, it will have to wait until the war is over. Because of this, he didn't let people harass the whole operation.

It lasted all day, and it was almost busy.

On the evening of September 7, the first marching team of the headquarters of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, under the leadership of Shibata Masataka Artillery Nakasa, rushed to the front of the battle.

Seeing the battalion full of wounded soldiers and His Excellency the Major General, who had lost several laps, Masataka Shibata, as the temporary commander, couldn't help but exclaim: "How did you get like this? Is the guy on the other side really that strong? ”

He was taken aback when he got the news, and he arrived at the same time, more than a day earlier than planned.

Yoshimasa Oshima smiled bitterly: "It's more troublesome than you imagined!" Especially today, we also found traces of Qing army reinforcements. ”

The appearance of the Qing army's gown is too distinct, and it can't be covered up at all.

"That's right! So, Your Excellency, do you have a detailed offensive strategy? Please rest assured, our troops should be enough this time! ”

Shibata Masataka is not boasting, he has two brigades of infantry and a brigade of artillery. There are more than 2,000 people, can't they still clean up the guys above?

Yoshimasa Oshima has mixed feelings, but with this new force, the chances of attacking should be higher.

At the moment, he dragged several major officers to redeploy the offensive strategy at the brigade headquarters.

At the same time, the 12 70mm mountain guns of a brigade also cautiously began to lay out offensive positions under the guidance of the original artillery.

At around 4 a.m. on September 8, a shell thundered into the mountains in the distance. (To be continued......)

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