Everyone looked at Dashan Yan, and Yamachi Motoji asked, "What method did you think of?" ”

Dashanyan said: "We might as well take offense as defense and directly attack Jinzhou. ”

Shandi Yuanzhi said: "The Qing army still has 3,000 defenders in Jinzhou, and in Ningyuan, Shanhaiguan can still mobilize about 10,000 troops. ”

Dashanyan said: "The road from Lushun to Jinzhou is long, and I am afraid that the transfer will not be able to catch up, so I think that the second division of Lushun will attack Jinzhou directly from the sea, and the location is Jinzhou Bay." ”

Nogi Noshinori said: "Why don't we attack Dagukou directly from the sea, so that we can capture Tianjin and kill all the way to Beijing!" ”

Imatsu Takashi finally found an opportunity and said disdainfully: "If we defeat Beijing, those Western ghost animals should jump out and point fingers again!" I don't know what happened to Lu Dao, but after the British defeated the Beiyang Fleet, they went to Hong Kong to hide, and they did not put forward any harsh conditions to the Qing government. ”

Nogi Noshinori looked at Imazu Takanori and thought: "You still dare to answer my questions as the captain of an artillery wing, artillery, hum, if you don't have the protection of the infantry, you will be finished on the battlefield soon!" ”

Motoji Yamagi also said: "According to our intelligence, the British fleet is missing a monarch-class battleship, and I don't know where the road went, and in the battle with the Beiyang Fleet, no British fleet sank." ”

Dashanyan said: "Not only the British are strange, but also the French and Germans are also strange, it stands to reason that the Germans have coveted Jiaozhou Bay for a long time, and a while ago they also fought a battle with the Chinese people, a few months ago they said that they would send troops to teach the Chinese people a hard lesson, but they don't know what the road is for, and after entering the South China Sea, they have gone home." ”

What they don't know is that this is also the credit of the self-propelled mines on the Beijing ship.

Dashan Yan said: "We don't care about them, now I will announce the order!" ”

The crowd stopped talking, straightened up, and waited for his orders.

Dashanyan said: "I ordered the 1st Infantry Brigade to march in the direction of Jinzhou, waiting for an opportunity to attack Jinzhou, and ordered the 18th Wing under the command of the 1st Brigade to hold on to Panjin for rest and recuperation, and wait for the attack. The 2nd Division was ordered to prepare and wait for the opportunity to land from Jinzhou Bay, cut off the connection between Jinzhou and Ningyuan, and attack the 1st Brigade from the north and south to take Jinzhou. ”

Imatsu Takashi said: "General, only the first brigade will attack Jinzhou, will there be insufficient troops, do you want to transfer the second brigade of Changtu as well." ”

Dashan Yan said: "The Second Brigade should not be transferred for the time being, I am afraid that the Russians will take advantage of the fire to loot. ”

Dashanyan looked at the commander of the Second Brigade, Xikuan Jiro, and said: "You go back to Changtu now and closely monitor the movements of the Russians, if the Russians attack Mukden along the post road from Changchun, then we will be very passive." ”

Nogi Noshinori had already heard the voice of Imazu Takanori, and he wanted to transfer the second brigade, which was clearly saying that the combat effectiveness of our first brigade was not good!

Nogi Noshinori stood up and said, "Your Excellency, General, I will definitely guarantee to conquer Jinzhou in the next place!" ”

Dashan Yan nodded with satisfaction and said, "This is the courage that a samurai should have." ”

As soon as the meeting ended, Da Shanyan silently thought, "That Lin Yuan! You have to think of a way to get rid of him! ”

In Jinzhou City, Lin Yuan was looking at the map and pondering, Chen Fei said, "Captain, how do you see my mission completed?" ”

Lin Yuan didn't raise his head, and said with a smile: "It's very good." ”

Chen Fei said: "I don't understand, why don't we send planes to blow up their leaders." ”

Lin Yuan said: "I've thought about it for a long time, but it's not that easy. The Japanese have learned wisely this time, and their telegraphs are turned on very irregularly, sometimes for a while, and sometimes for a long time. ”

Chen Fei asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "The last time we succeeded in beheading, it was largely because the Japanese telegraph department was with their command department, and they were defenseless against our method of using telegraph signals to find them, but this time, I suspect that they have laid a lot of false signals to confuse us, and we are short of ammunition, so it is impossible to blow them all up." ”

Lin Yuan sighed again and said, "Moreover, in the course of our aerial reconnaissance, no Japanese artillery was found, and I think the Japanese used camouflage measures. ”

Chen Fei said with a smile: "I understand this, in the Kosovo War in those years, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia used a large number of camouflage means, and the army's heavy weapons suffered almost no losses in the US army's air strikes. ”

Chen Fei said: "I think the Japanese army will definitely attack Jinzhou in a big way in the next step, what should we do?" Passive defensiveness has never been something we advocate. ”

Lin Yuan said: "The first division of the Japanese army is stationed in Liaoyang, the first line of Fengtian and Changtu, and the second division is stationed in Dalian, Lushun, and the border between China and North Korea. ”

Chen Fei said: "I don't think it's easy, the two divisions of the Japanese army have almost 20,000 people, and our troops are too small. ”

Lin Yuan said: "Although the Japanese army has a large number of troops, its deployment is scattered, and if our troops are sufficient, we can completely break through each one." ”

This difficulty left both men pondering.

In the following day, the Ningyuan defenders came to reinforce, with a total of four battalions and more than 2,000 people, led by Xiong Tiesheng; Another batch of weapons and ammunition was sent from the rear, including 400 "Ghost Howling Bombs", 100 imitation Mauser 1871 rifles, and some shells from Grimm's machine guns.

On the Japanese side, the Japanese troops stationed in Jinxian retreated to Panjin, and the 1st Brigade set out from the garrison Mukden and marched towards Jinzhou; The Japanese base camp ordered the 3rd and 5th Divisions stationed in Korea to enter Manchuria and unify them under the command of Dashanyan, and the Japanese army in Manchuria increased to more than 40,000 men.

On 4 February, the 1st Cavalry Brigade under the command of the 1st Division had taken the lead in crossing the Liao River, and this cavalry unit of about 1,000 men took two hours to cross the ice of the Liao River, which was less than 200 meters wide.

It turned out that in order to prevent something like the Daling River, the captain of the brigade, Akiyama Yoshiko, actually divided the troops into several batches and crossed the river in batches, and before crossing the river, he also sent soldiers to carefully search the ice surface, so it took a lot of time.

After crossing the Liao River, it was only more than 100 kilometers away from Jinzhou, a distance that would take less than two days for the Japanese cavalry.

The Japanese artillery was widely equipped with 75 mm caliber artillery, and when the Japanese army attacked the northeast, it was found that this kind of artillery was not powerful enough, especially difficult to break through the city wall, so Imatsu Takashi came up with a method.

After the Qing army lost Lushunkou, it did not destroy the artillery on the fort, which left an opportunity for the Japanese army, so Imatsu Takashi ordered that the artillery on the Qing army battery be dismantled, transported to Panjin by sea, and assembled for the army.

When the war was about to break out, Lin Yuan, who was in Jinzhou, also thought of a way to deal with the Japanese army.