In an extremely brutal way, the Guards dealt with dozens of Japanese prisoners of war and even skinned a high-ranking officer. This act may seem like an occasional outrage incident, but in fact it is a long-planned action.

Ding Yuntong had secretly issued an order to the senior officers of the Guards before, demanding that they absolutely not talk about civilization and morality with the Japanese army, or use unscrupulous means and do everything they can, and even find an opportunity to torture and kill a group of Japanese prisoners of war.

This was done with three intentions, the first was to stimulate the bloody and murderous spirit of the officers and soldiers of the Guards, so that they could get used to killing to the death.

The second is to show Japan China's determination and will to fight to the death, so that the Japanese can see who is more ferocious and tougher than whom.

The third intention is more important, that is, to make the soldiers of the Guards completely abandon their illusions and cut off all back roads, since they torture and kill Japanese prisoners of war today, no matter how unfavorable the battle situation is tomorrow, they will fight to the death, and no one will want to become prisoners of the Japanese army.

Therefore, Dong Fuxiang would have given such an order at an appropriate time.

The decomposed body pieces were wrapped in oiled paper and thrown at the foot of Tiger Mountain, and some of them were picked up by the Japanese sentry, and when they opened it, they almost didn't vomit.

The brutal scene greatly shocked the Japanese army.

On the one hand, they are extremely arrogant, and on the other hand, they are extremely inferior, bullying the weak, worshiping the strong, not asking about right and wrong, only looking at liliang, and completely pursuing the law of the jungle of the jungle.

On the one hand, this is due to the characteristics of Japan's island country, which began as a well-watched, arrogant, and self-proclaimed place where the sun rises, hence the name Japan. When the country is opened and the shijie is so big, he immediately has extreme inferiority and self-pity, and when the economy develops a little and has some military strength, he immediately expands extremely again, and wants to "open up the territory in the waves of thousands of miles", and the mood is changing back and forth between the two extremes, and there is no intermediate state at all.

On the other hand, it originates from the cultural tradition of Japan, and the Japanese nation is a bandit nation by nature, and there is only bandit logic in its head. In ancient Japanese legends, there is a story of Momotaro, the cute Momotaro with glutinous rice dumplings, defeated a huge monster, and robbed a lot of treasures. This story reflects the character of a robber in Japan, that monster is nothing more than ugly, what's wrong, he was beaten and robbed, and Momotaro is justified as a robber, why? Just because of the cuteness?

The entire history of Japan is divided into two phases, being a robber and preparing to be a bandit.

The robbers didn't last long before they were defeated by the Tang Dynasty and had to stay honest. After admitting it for a long time, he started to grab it again, and was defeated by Qi Jiguang again. endured it and began to rob again, and was defeated by the Wanli Ming Dynasty, so I had to endure it until modern times, and I was not honest again, and the reincarnation of the robbers continued to be staged like this, and I never got tired of it.

When robbers want to rob things, they are naturally afraid that others are braver and more powerful than themselves, and naturally they will only bully the soft and fear the hard. Such peoples believe in only one truth, and that is violence, which is the only language they can understand.

Now, when the Japanese officers and soldiers found out that the Chinese army was not easy to bully, and that it seemed to be more cruel, more rude, more unreasonable, and more unreasonable than themselves, they began to beat a little drum in their hearts.

The Japanese commander was also in a difficult situation, logistics supply was already very difficult, and now they had to cross the Yalu River, and the supply of ammunition was really stretched, resulting in intermittent Japanese artillery fire, suppressed by the Chinese, and all attacks had to face the condescending baptism of artillery on Tiger Mountain, and the difficulty could be imagined.

That's when God started to help.

On January 28, another heavy snowfall swept across both sides of the Yalu River, freezing the river and the rivers in northern North Korea almost overnight. In previous years, the Yalu River began to freeze at the end of December, but this winter's first snow was a month late, and the freezing was also a month late.

On the 29th, the Japanese army began to drive horse-drawn carts and ox carts directly on the ice of the Yalu River, and the speed of material transportation was greatly accelerated, and on the 30th and 31st, both sides were nervously preparing for war, and the battlefield entered a strange calm.

Ding Yuntong, who is in Beijing, is also nervously watching the war on the Sino-North Korean border, and he has already ordered the Korean monarchs and ministers to be sent to Mukden, and ordered the guards to be strictly guarded, and now that Japan temporarily occupies Korea, it is difficult to guarantee what these people will have in their hearts, if they do not pay attention, they will be in trouble if they flee back to Korea and attach themselves to Japan.

There are also two pieces of news, one is that the Emperor Duc of Vietnam has died. In the past few years, Emperor Side has been more like a prisoner, dying of depression. Emperor Duc was born with impotence, more than 30 wives and concubines, but no son or daughter, only three adopted sons: Nguyen Phuc Yingzhen, Nguyen Phuc Yingqi and Nguyen Phuc Yinghu, of which Nguyen Phuc Yinghu has been executed because he was a "puppet king" during the Sino-French War.

Cen Yuying, who is now stationed in Vietnam, was ordered by Ding Yuntong to make Nguyen Phuc Yingzhen the king and called King Yude, but in fact he was completely a puppet.

The second event is the arrival of the surrender mission led by Siam's Minister of Foreign Affairs Dan Long, although the two sides have signed a peace treaty before, Siam has agreed to all conditions, and paid the first year's reparations, and China has also withdrawn its troops from Siam proper, but there is still one thing that remains to be done, that is, the "transfer of war criminals", that is, Chulalongkorn's second son Jiti Yekorn.

Ding Yuntong wants to arrest this person, but he is not so boring, he is too idle to kill someone for fun, he has a deep intention.

Chulalongkorn was the decision-maker of the war in Siam, and everyone knew about it, but in order to shirk his responsibility, he made Jitiyakorn a scapegoat, stripped him of the title of crown prince and prince, and escorted him to China to be punished, and at the same time made the defeated general, the eldest son Vakirus, the crown prince, and so on, this Jitiyakorn will undoubtedly hate his father to the core.

Ding Yuntong felt that as long as he made good use of it, in order to be able to take revenge, Jiti Yagong would become China's most Haode spokesperson in Siam. Therefore, instead of treating this unlucky bastard as a criminal, he ordered to give him the most haode treatment.

After dealing with these chores, he returned his attention to the banks of the Yalu River. According to the report from the front, the Yalu River has been frozen on all fronts, which means that the movement of the Japanese army is greatly convenient, which means that the other side may adopt more flexible tactics, so he sent a telegram to remind Liu Jintang to pay attention.

As it turned out, after two days of preparation, the Japanese army resumed its attack.

At this time, most of the Japanese army had already crossed the Yalu River, and after careful consideration, Yama County Youpeng had to come to a conclusion: the Chinese army was quite combat-effective, so it was necessary to change its strategy.

He believed that Hushan was a hard bone, and even if he swallowed it, he would suffer heavy losses, so it was better to outflank the rear and directly cut off its connection with Jiuliancheng, so that Andong, Jiuliancheng, Hushan and other Chinese positions were all isolated and broken.

Based on this, Shan County Youpeng ordered the suspension of the attack on Hushan, and he personally led the first, fourth, and fifth divisions to attack the chestnut garden that connected Hushan and Jiuliancheng, the second division attacked Andong, the third division feinted to attack Hushan, and the Guards Division made a detour and feinted to attack Jiuliancheng.

He called this strategy "Tiannu scattered flowers", it seems that multiple points are attacked together, it looks like Tiannu scattered flowers, chaotic, but the main attack point is hidden in the chestnut garden, and by the time the Chinese react, the chestnut garden has already been captured in one fell swoop.

Everything was ready, and the Japanese troops, under the cover of heavy snow, secretly moved in all directions.

Chestnut Garden, in fact, is just a small village and town, which is the main transportation route connecting Hushan and Jiulian City, and is garrisoned by the Fourth Guards Division.

In the early morning of February 1, just after sunrise, the cold wind from Siberia, enveloping the endless wind and snow, raged on the entire white land, and the gloomy sun was obscured by the wind and snow, and it seemed like nothing.

It is difficult for people in the south to understand this peculiar "sun snow" scene, where the sun rises while the snow falls, but it is perfectly normal here. In such a cold low temperature, the sun shines on the body, and it is also a cold taste, as if the entire shijie is frozen.

Wu Changqing, the commander of the Fourth Division, was standing on a tall building in the town at this time, looking into the distance with a telescope, and the distant land was dead and silent, as if there was no life. Wu Changqing turned to Liu Yongfu and Xu Zhanbiao next to him and said: "I hate this season, the wind and snow are heavy, if it is a flower in good weather, those newly made hot air balloons can come in handy, get a few and put them on all sides, we can also know if the devil." ”

Liu Yongfu said: "Yes, it's a pity. But this kind of ghost weather, there shouldn't be a big problem. Lying on the snow for a stick of incense, you have to freeze into ice slag. ”

They didn't know that just a thousand meters ahead, in the thick wind and snow, tens of thousands of Japanese troops of the three divisions were lying motionless in the snow, they were not frozen to death, they were staring wide-eyed, waiting for the order to attack.

Their faces were blown pale by the cold wind, their eyes were full of paranoid tenacity, and their lips were pursed from the cold.

This is the Japanese nation, tolerant enough, ruthless enough, persistent enough!