The quartermaster said, "Some of our food conscription teams have returned, and some have not. ”

Nogi Noshinori said angrily: "You are a samurai under His Majesty the Emperor, how can you talk and spit out!" What do you mean that some are back, and some are not coming back! ”

The quartermaster hurriedly stood up and said respectfully: "Yes, the subordinates know their mistakes." Recently, the people of China seem to be reluctant to cooperate with us, they are not willing to sell us food, and it seems that there have been more bandits recently, often on fast horses, and some bandits, disguised as ordinary people, to attack us. ”

The quartermaster gritted his teeth and said: "It's all the fools in the cabinet, full of thoughts about negotiating with the Qing State, so they won't let us kill the civilians of China, if they hadn't intervened in a bar, we would have killed all the people in China a long time ago." ”

Nogi Noshinori sneered: "What do you know, do you know that we occupy Shengjing, how greedy those Western ghost animals are?" And the Russian ghost animals, who have always been sandwiched between us and the Qing Kingdom, and want to be profitable fishermen, if it weren't for them, would we have kept so many samurai in the Changtu area? ”

The quartermaster stood up and said, "Yes!" Then he stopped talking.

Nogi Noshinori finished selling his knowledge, was in a good mood, and asked again: "Isn't there still a grain collection team back?" ”

The quartermaster said, "Why don't they come back?" The grain they collected was not enough, and some of the grain collection teams were still eating to their own death on the way back, so that there was even less food, and many troops made a lot of trouble because of the distribution of grain, and a few were injured, but fortunately no one was killed. ”

Nogi Xidian said to himself: "Why did these people suddenly change so much, could all this be related to that Lin Yuan?" ”

In fact, all this is due to Chen Fei's activities behind enemy lines, they not only taught the villagers how to make landmines, gave them raw materials, but also gave them the truth of resisting Japan and saving the country, Chen Fei and they did not say anything about the rise and fall of the country, and the husband is responsible, because they are facing the peasants who have only known the road all their lives and faced the loess with their backs to the sky, and they may not have heard any of the words in that sentence.

So Chen Fei told the people how the Japanese killed people, set fires, raped, and robbed people in the territory of the Qing Dynasty, and Gao Jin sent a housekeeper to follow Chen Fei, and the people were convinced of Gao Jin, and when they saw that Chen Fei was Gao Jin's cronies, they were naturally very convinced of his words.

What's even more coincidental is that the Japanese grain conscription team came at this time, and the arrogant and unreasonable Japanese soldiers happened to add a perfect footnote to Chen Fei's words.

Chen Fei also knew that the strength of the common people could not compete with the Japanese army, so he specially instructed the common people not to try not to clash with the Japanese army head-on, if the Japanese came to grab the grain, they would hide the grain, and the people would be transferred out of the country, so as not to be caught by the Japanese, if the Japanese used the Huairou policy and wanted to buy grain, they would increase the price, in short, on the basis of not hurting themselves as much as possible.

Chen Fei and his team also organized a lot of people on the green forest road, this group of people pretended to be bandits, from time to time to harass the Japanese army, their equipment and the Japanese army was very far behind, Chen Fei still used the basic idea of guerrilla warfare, specifically looking for those who left the camp, only a dozen or so Japanese troops to fight, dozens of battles, although did not cause much casualties to the Japanese army, but the Japanese army was worried and exhausted.

The common people are grateful to Chen Fei and them, and naturally their impression of the Qing army has improved a lot, coupled with Chen Fei's promotion of Lin Yuan's deeds everywhere, many young and middle-aged people found Lin Yuan's military camp and wanted to join Lin Shuai's army, Wu Yuankai and Xiong Tiesheng naturally raised their hands to welcome, and even their feet were eager to raise their feet, but Lin Yuan politely refused them, because the Qing army is now underequipped, and it is difficult for guns and ammunition to meet the needs of veterans, and it is even more difficult to equip new troops.

But they all came, if Lin Yuan didn't agree, they would not leave, when he was in a dilemma, he wanted to start the Huaihai Campaign all of a sudden, after the Huaihai Campaign, General Chen Yi said when summing up the reasons for the victory of the battle, "The Huaihai Campaign was pushed out by the people with a small cart", from this sentence, Lin Yuan seemed to have found a way to achieve victory with them.

So Lin Yuan left them behind, and to their surprise, the weapons they got were not rifles and bullets, not even broadswords and spears, but shovels and pickaxes.

It turned out that Lin Yuan had been thinking about how to break the Japanese army's fortifications outside Panjin City these days, if he insisted on asking the soldiers to go up and charge, it would definitely not work, the Japanese soldiers had excellent archery skills, and this would kill and injure many Qing soldiers.

More importantly, judging from the Japanese telegrams intercepted by the Beijing ship, the 2nd Infantry Brigade of the 1st Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Liaoyang and Shengjing was about to reinforce Panjin, and the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army stationed on the Yalu River was also moving to the area of Liaoyang and Shengjing.

What made Lin Yuan feel the most uncertain was that at the moment when the Japanese army was losing and retreating, Japanese Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito actually went to Moscow to talk with Tsar Nicholas II, and the results of the talks were not announced to the public! After that, the tsar announced: Russia spent 200 million rubles to speed up the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway!

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "I don't know if Tsarist Russia wants to join forces with the Japanese to deal with us, but unfortunately we don't have a spy agency in Moscow, so it's impossible to hear first-hand information." If the army of Tsarist Russia enters the territory of Shengjing from Kuanchengzi, Jilin to Changtu post road, and joins forces with the Japanese, then the tide of the war may be reversed in an instant! ”

Lin Yuan made up his mind, for the sake of today's plan, the only way to defeat Nogi Noshinori in front of him is as soon as possible, but how to defeat Nogi Noshinori, now the biggest advantage that the Qing army has is artillery, facing the Japanese army without artillery support, its own mortars can take advantage of it!

Originally, the design range of the mortar could reach 2,000 meters, but the Qing army lacked advanced optical reconnaissance equipment, and the measurement distance and angle were problematic.

Lin Yuan thought of a way to use earthwork, get close to the Japanese position, and then use mortars to hit the Japanese army, but it was not easy to do so, it was winter, the place was frozen, and earthwork required a lot of manpower, so Lin Yuan thought of those young people who came to join the army.

He wants to use a shovel to dig a victory!