When everyone looked back, they were all taken aback, Liu Dart first squeezed out of the crowd, knelt in front of the man, and kowtowed: "Lin Shuai, it turns out that you are not dead." ”

Everyone knelt down one after another, and Lin Yuan hurriedly said, "Hurry up." ”

When everyone stood up, Lin Yuan asked Liu Dart, "What is the black and red stick?" ”

Liu Dart replied: "The black and red stick is a wooden stick, and it hits the body so vigorously that the wounds are red and purple, so it is called a black and red stick." ”

Lin Yuan nodded and asked, "Then why don't you ask what's going on before punishing you?" If the military law prohibits brawls, then both should be punished, how can only the recruits be punished? ”

Liu Dart replied: "The rules in the army are like this, if there is a conflict between a recruit and a veteran, no matter what, the recruit will be punished. ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "Veterans bullying new recruits, this can be regarded as a chronic disease of the old-style army. So he smiled and said, "What kind of rule is this, the punishment should be a matter of right and wrong, call those two soldiers and ask what happened?" ”

When Liu Dart heard this, he immediately ordered his subordinates: "Bring those two brawling things up." ”

Soon someone brought the two little soldiers up, and the two knelt down in front of Lin Yuan, Lin Yuan asked, "What are you fighting for?" ”

The veteran didn't speak, and the recruit replied: "Lord Hui, today he said that you are dead, we can't fight this battle, and sooner or later we have to withdraw from the army, and my subordinates don't believe that you are dead, so I argue with him for a few sentences, and he is a veteran, and he said a lot of ugly things, and his subordinates are angry for a while, so they start with him." ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "Is it worth fighting for such a small thing?" ”

Neither of the two soldiers spoke, and Lin Yuan said with a smile: "Today's matter will not be investigated." Then he said sharply: "If anyone dares to fight again in the future, he will be severely punished!" ”

The veteran heard from Lin Yuan's words that he was very dissatisfied with the veteran bullying the recruit, and originally thought that Lin Yuan would punish him heavily, but he didn't expect Lin Yuan to spare him, and he also kowtowed to thank him, Lin Yuan helped the two people up, and said with a smile: "Is it that there has been no war these days, your energy is full of strength and there is no place to put it, now it's okay, we will soon have to fight with the Japanese." ”

Lin Yuan called the two co-ordinators to the conference room to discuss the battle plan.

Lin Yuan saw that only Chen Fei and Liu Dart were coming, and couldn't help but ask Liu Dart: "Didn't the co-ordinator of the Right Association come?" ”

Liu Dart replied: "Back to my lord, the Right Association for Unification stayed in the capital for a long time and did not follow, so the post of the Right Association was temporarily vacant, and his subordinates acted as the co-ordinator. ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "This Right Association must be afraid of war and dare not come. So he nodded and said, "Okay, we won't care about him, Lord Liu, tell me, how do we lay down these two heights?" ”

Liu Dart said: "This method of attack, there is a positive attack, that is, the large army attacks from the front; There is a flank attack, that is, one team feints in the front, and the other team takes the opportunity to detour behind the enemy; The two heights were not far from each other, and they responded to each other, and the Japanese army built fortifications at the foot of the mountain and on the mountainside, defending the mountain, whether it was a direct attack or a flank attack, it would be attacked up and down, so neither of these methods could be used. ”

Liu Dart continued: "Today's plan, only siege, our army strength is far greater than the Japanese army, so the attack from all sides, so that the Japanese army can take care of the east and not the west, but this style of play is not perfect, the terrain of the Japanese army is easy to defend and difficult to attack, if you attack strongly, it is inevitable to suffer heavy casualties." ”

Lin Yuan asked: "Which unit is the Japanese army stationed on the high ground, and what is the weaponry?" ”

Chen Fei replied: "We have already reconnoitred clearly, this is the 18th Squadron under the command of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division of the Japanese Army, about 500 people, equipped with Murata 22-year rifles, and also equipped with four 70mm mountain guns developed and produced by Japan. ”

Lin Yuan nodded, thinking: "It seems that my strategic deception is still very useful, the Japanese army thought that I was dead, and the Qing court would not continue to attack, so they did not withdraw the defenders on the west bank of the Liao River, or okay, let me eat them and give Ito Hirobumi a greeting gift." ”

Lin Yuan turned to Liu Dart and asked, "How is the equipment of our artillery battalion?" ”

Liu Dart replied: "Our Dingwu Army has three artillery battalions, two of which are equipped with the 7 li 5 split mountain guns produced by the Krupp factory, and one is equipped with the 5 li 7 land guns produced by the Grusen factory, and each battalion is equipped with 18 guns. ”

Lin Yuan interrupted him with a wave of his hand and said, "Wait, what do you mean by mountain splitting cannon?" ”

Liu Dart said: "It's that this cannon is very powerful, and the cannonball seems to be able to split mountains." ”

In the Qing Dynasty, the Qing court introduced various types of Western artillery, breech-loaded, breech-loaded, with rigid gun mounts, with initial elastic gun mounts, the officials of the Qing court did not know how to name these guns, often according to their performance and appearance to give a name, such as splitting mountain guns, field chicken guns, mortar guns, etc., sometimes, the same kind of artillery is likely to have two names because of the different names of the people.

This does not seem to be a problem, but in fact it is infinitely poisonous, there is no standardized name for weapons and equipment, which will naturally bring great problems to logistics transportation, and there are often a lot of parts for weapons and equipment, so in the process of logistics and transportation, it is necessary to make a lot of labels and fill in various forms.

Lin Yuan continued: "In the future, when the order is passed down, when writing the names of weapons and equipment, the whole army must be unified, understand?" ”

Liu Dart didn't understand that Lin Yuan wanted to mention this matter, but he only nodded in agreement, Lin Yuan said: "When writing the name, it must be concise and clear, such as the 75mm gun of Krupp, just write the 75 type." ”

Lin Yuan said again: "How are these cannons used? ”

Liu Dart said: "We have discussed before we came, these cannons will be assigned to various infantry battalions to support the infantry attack!" ”

Lin Yuan said: "Gather all these artillery pieces and give them my unified command." ”

Liu Dart hurriedly said: "My lord, do you want to concentrate artillery to bombard the Japanese position?" This is also very difficult to do, the Japanese fortifications are built in a very clever position, all built on the mountain, there are many hiding places, their trenches, machine gun positions are also built behind the rocks, our shells are difficult to blow up the rocks, so we can't hit the Japanese army. ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "I already have a way to this, Lord Liu, you don't have to worry, what is the situation of the troops now, can you fight at any time?" ”

As soon as Liu Dart heard that he was fighting, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said: "Lord Lin, you can fight at any time, and besides, your subordinates are not talented, and they are willing to lead the death squad to capture the high ground." ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "You don't need to call the death squad such a tragic name, believe me, you can't kill many people." ”

Looking at Liu Dart with a blank face, Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Come here with your ears." After listening to Lin Yuan's words, Liu Dart suddenly realized and said: "The subordinates understand, the subordinates will prepare!" ”

This day was March 4, 1895, the beginning of the second phase of the campaign to regain the Northeast, and in the afternoon, thirty-six Krupp 75-mm guns arrived on the Japanese heights, and the war was about to begin again!