"In vain, the only force that can compete with the locust army in the Qing Dynasty is Ren Chao's Tiger Army!" Dashanyan said disapprerovingly, when he said that the tiger army, a trace of hatred flashed in his eyes, this is an unforgettable hatred, if there is no tiger army, no Ren Chao, he Dashanyan can wave the army north to easily break through the city of Beijing, but the reality is reality, even if Dashanyan is unwilling to accept it, the tiger army returned to Shandong, not only disrupted the Japanese army's plan, but also completely forced the Japanese army to a dead end.

"Order the Seventh Division to continue the attack and advance, the Second Division and the Sixth Division respectively detour back behind the Ming Army from both flanks, and then flank the Ming Army on three sides and defeat it in one fell swoop!" Dashan Yan ordered with a stern face.

"Hay!" The chief of staff replied respectfully, and then turned to convey the order.

Liu Sheng retired as the third commander of the Ming Army, a young man who studied for farming, and later followed his uncle Liu Mingchuan to set up a group training. In 1862 (the first year of Tongzhi), he joined the "Inscription Battalion" of the Huai Army, went to Shanghai to suppress the Taiping Army, and was promoted to the rank of deputy general. During the attack on Nanhui, Liu Shengxiu went into the camp of Wu Jianying (a native of Hefei), a general of the Taiping Army, and persuaded Wu to lead his army to surrender. Liu Mingchuan thinks that Liu Shengxiu is bold and strategic, and he is deeply important. Subsequently, Liu Shengxiu followed the Ming Army to suppress the Twist Army, and was successively promoted to the rank of chief soldier and commander. In 1875 (the first year of Guangxu), Liu Mingchuan, the commander of the Ming Army, and Liu Shengzao resigned and returned home, and Liu Shengxiu took over the command of more than 20,000 Ming Army. He often led the army to build water conservancy, and successively built the Yellow River embankment in Dongming, dredged the Zhangqiu Canal in Shouzhang, built the Jianhe River in Xingji Town, and repaired the Yongding River in Geyucheng, and was repeatedly rewarded by the Qing court.

When I wanted to suppress the Taiping Army and the Twist Army, the Ming Army was definitely the first elite unit of the Huai Army. But at this time, the Ming army is far from being comparable to the past, the Ming army has been peaceful for 20 years, and it is no longer the old soldiers, and it is known that it is the young son of the Liu clan.

Regarding the current situation of the Ming Army, Liu Shengxiu, the commander of the Ming Army, naturally knew in his heart, but his old boss, Li Hongzhang, had already given a death order to support Cangzhou quickly, and the Japanese army must be blocked near Cangzhou. Before Liu Shengxiu set off from Tianjin, Li Hongzhang pointed to Liu Shengxiu and said in a fierce voice, "The Huai army has been defeated repeatedly, causing the Japanese to attack Zhili, the Beijing division is shaken, and I have lost my old face. At that time, Liu Shengxiu and other generals hurriedly knelt down to plead guilty, and swore that this time they would wipe out all the Japanese in the Jinnan area.

It was precisely because he knew the current situation of the Ming army that Liu Shengxiu understood that it was not easy to block the Japanese army's front, let alone annihilate the Japanese army.

"Report~! Opening Liu Junmen, the Japanese army has entered Cangzhou City, the Cangzhou defenders collapsed on the whole line, and now the rout is coming north along the main road, and the Japanese invaders are chasing after them from behind. Liu Shengxiu was thinking hard about how to break the enemy, and as soon as he rode a horse to break through the dust, the scout jumped down directly from the horse and knelt in front of Liu Shengxiu's horse and said loudly.

"What? Cangzhou is lost! Liu Shengxiu was so shocked when he heard this that he almost fell off his horse directly, "How could it be lost so quickly, isn't there tens of thousands of troops stationed in Cangzhou?" ”

"All of them were defeated, and the entire official road was full of soldiers fleeing for their lives." The scout replied with a sad face.

"A bunch of trash!" Liu Shengxiu couldn't help but scold, "Summoning the order to stop advancing, arrange defensive positions on the spot, and prepare for battle!" ”

"Order!" Several officers of the Ming Army who followed Liu Shengxiu answered loudly, and then turned their horses and ran to convey the order.

Before the Ming army was fully deployed, groups of panicked routs ran to the front of the Ming army's formation, Liu Shengxiu was afraid that the formation of the troops would be disrupted by the enemy, so he sent several battalions of soldiers to be responsible for collecting the rout. But even so, a large number of routs still had a certain impact on the Ming army, first of all, the morale of the Ming army, at this time the morale of the Ming army was not high, when seeing so many soldiers defeated from the front line, it was even more demoralized, and some people already planned to flee with the rout.

"The devil has been killed! The devil is catching up! I don't know who shouted first, and there was an immediate uproar in the ranks of the Qing army, and those routs who had just been gathered up immediately wanted to continue to flee for their lives despite the dissuasion.

"Bastard! Pass the order, and those who dare to escape without permission will be punished on the spot, notify the generals at all levels, and stabilize the formation for me! Liu Shengxiu hurriedly gave an order. Looking up at the south, he saw more and more groups of little devils in black military uniforms in the distance, getting closer and closer, and Liu Shengxiu couldn't help but show a trace of anxiety on his face.

"Someone! Immediately go to inform Song Qing and Song Junmen, and ask him to come and answer quickly. Liu Shengxiu hurriedly called a guard and ordered loudly.

"Order!" The guards bowed, turned their horses' heads, and galloped north.

In the Japanese formation in the south, Lieutenant General Nagayama Tetsushiro, the commander of the Japanese Seventh Division, rode on a horse and held a telescope to observe for a while, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a sneer, "The Ming army is tired of the rout, the formation is unstable, and it is inevitable that the preparation is insufficient. ”

"Hay!" The adjutant beside him bowed in response.

The order was quickly passed to the front-line troops, and the forward troops of the little devils chased and killed all the way, and at this time they were enjoying the killing, and they had no intention of stopping, and now they received the order to attack, and they were excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and the commander gave an order, and the little devils immediately rushed over with a scream.

"Fire! Order the artillerymen to fire at me! Liu Shengxiu held a telescope and ordered loudly while observing the situation of the Japanese troops on the opposite side.

"Qiqi Junmen, our artillery has just arrived, and it has not yet been fully deployed, and it is impossible to launch an artillery bombardment on the Japanese invaders now!" An officer of the Ming Army next to him hurriedly reminded.

"Bastard! Let them speed me up! Liu Shengxiu couldn't help but scold, at this time Liu Shengxiu's face had begun to sweat, this was the first time that the Ming Army and the Japanese army officially fought each other, and only others had mentioned how fierce the Japanese were before, but now after really facing the Japanese Kou, Liu Shengxiu was inevitably a little nervous.

Liu Shengxiu followed his uncle Liu Mingchuan in his early years, but it was more than 20 years ago, in the past 20 years, Liu Shengxiu's Ming army has almost been reduced from the original elite of the Huai Army to an engineering army, in addition to repairing the dam, it is to repair the embankment, and he Liu Shengxiu has long lost his courage after these 20 years of singing and dancing.