Outside the city of Jinzhou, on a hill standing near the river, Xu Bangdao, the chief soldier of Zhengding Town, stood with a knife in his hand. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 He watched a team of fifty horses galloping toward the north at the bottom of the mountain. There are old men in the horse team who have followed him to the north and south of China for many years, and the mission of this sortie is to lure the enemy deeper.

Xu Bangdao's choice to build a peripheral position in Shimenzi, four kilometers outside Jinzhou City, was really a helpless move. Lian Shun, the deputy governor of Jinzhou, strongly asked him to join forces to defend the city, saying that the city of Jinzhou was fortified with high walls, and there were thirteen cannons at the head of the city, which would definitely be attacked by the Japanese.

It's just that Xu Bangdao understands that there is no chance of winning in trapping Jinzhou City, and the two of them have less than 3,000 men together. This Jinzhou city is nearly six miles long and has four walls, how can it withstand the siege of 20,000 Japanese troops. As for the thirteen cannons on the head of the city that Lian Shun said, it is even more of a joke. Most of those cannons are still iron cannons cast in the Daoguang period, not to mention the bulky and unbearable, and the power of the round solid bullets fired is limited.

Watching the horse team disappear, Xu Bangdao couldn't help but be gloomy. There were many veterans in the team who had followed him for many years, and I don't know how many more people he could meet after this battle.

The wind rose, Xu Bangdao coughed lightly, and his body was not as good as before for many years, and the old injuries on his body often ached faintly at night. The soldier brought him a cloak and tried to put it on him, but he waved his hand to stop him.

A few days ago, a letter from his wife to his family repeatedly told him to take care of his health and not to go into battle. Xu Bangdao didn't know that a hundred years later, it was this letter from his wife who cared about her husband that became the evidence that Chinese trolls criticized him for being cowardly and avoiding war. In vain, he ignored the bloody battle of Shimenzi, retreated to Jinzhou City, and then defeated the enemy in Tuchengzi, and finally assisted in defending Lushun until the fact of the tragic street battle. With a letter from home that seems to be a "show of affection" in modern times, he was sprayed to the fullest.

In fact, after the fall of Lushun, Xu Bangdao retreated to Niuzhuang in the lower reaches of the Liao River, and Tianzhuangtai continued to fight the Japanese army until the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki. In order to shake off the pot and seal the mouths of the countrymen, the Qing court dismissed a large number of military generals, and Xu Bangdao was one of them. In 1895, after learning of the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki, Xu Bangdao died of grief and anger in the barracks.

At this time, when Xu Bangdao was worried, the batch of recruits under his command had only been put together for three months, and the weapons in their hands were also varied. The new weapons and equipment were insufficient, so they used guns, broadswords, and spears to make up.

In this regard, Xu Bangdao had no choice but to lure the enemy deep and give him a thunderous blow to take the lead and boost his morale. If the recruits are negligent in training, if their morale is low, they will only be defeated.

The hill where Xu Bangdao stands is called Taishan, and there was a lookout platform built here in the Ming Dynasty to prevent the Japanese, so it was named Taishan. And the hill opposite him is called Roe Deer Mountain. Taishan and Roe Deer Mountain echo each other from afar, like a gateway stuck on the road to Jinzhou City, so this place is called Shimenzi.

Shimenzi is already the most favorable place in the vicinity to stop the Japanese army, but Shimenzi is four kilometers away from Jinzhou City, which is not conducive to logistics and supply. The most lethal thing is that if the Japanese army who detour through Fuzhou Avenue arrives to encircle it, this place will be Jedi.

Placed in Shimenzi, Xu Bangdao had already had the heart to serve the Qing court. I only hope to take advantage of the steepness of this place to delay the time of the Japanese army's attack and buy time for the defense of Jinzhou and Lushun. It's just that the God Party and the Hou Party are still fighting openly and secretly, and the generals of Lushun are still fighting each other, so what can he do if it drags it on, and he has no bottom in his heart.

On the Jinzhou Avenue, Major General Nogi Noshinori of the Japanese Army was urging the Japanese troops of 1,000 men to set off and pursue the Qing cavalry who had been coming to reconnoiter and harass.

In fact, Nogi Noshinori had set off from the Japanese landing site at Huayuankou two days earlier, on November 3, the day of the Tianchang Festival, and they marched along the line of Piziwo towards Jinzhou City.

It's just another group of Japanese troops, detouring to Fuzhou, the Qing army has already retreated, and drove the people along the way, filling the wells. The logistics of the Japanese army along the way were very tight, and a large number of mules and horses were occupied.

The Japanese troops on the Fuzhou Avenue occupied a lot of resources, so Nogi Noshinori's assault plan had to be delayed pending the logistics to follow up. And he didn't dare to complain too much, the Japanese army that detoured to Fuzhou was the headquarters of the 1st Division, which was commanded by his superiors.

It was already November 5th, and Nogi Noshinori's troops finally met with the Qing army. The Qing army actually sent a cavalry of 50 people to reconnoiter the approach, and Nogi Noshi, who was holding back his anger, immediately ordered a Japanese army composed of 1,000 people to pursue.

The Qing army's horse team retreated in an orderly manner, shooting at the pursuing Japanese cavalry from time to time. The cavalry of the Qing army of this horse team used a fast rifle made by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, which was a replica of the Austrian Manlixia 1888 straight-pull rifle. To put it bluntly, this gun had a magazine, which was commonly known as a repeating gun at that time.

The Japanese army was a Murata Type 13 single-shot rifle, which fired one shot and was reloaded once. In this kind of chase game, the Qing army with fast guns really took advantage. The Japanese troops, whose fire was suppressed, did not dare to get too close.

The Japanese cavalry bit this arrogant Qing army horse team tightly, and in this way, you chased after me, and the Japanese army plunged headlong into the range of the artillery of the Qing army's position in Roe Deer Mountain.

The gunners on the Qing army's position on Paozi Mountain, their palms were full of sweat while pulling the hair rope, and they looked nervously at the signal flag on the opposite mountain. Waiting for the order, as soon as the signal is received, immediately give the pursuing Japanese troops a heavy artillery attack.

I saw that on Taishan Mountain, the flag was waving, and the artillery of the Qing army position on Paozi Mountain was loud. Two Grusen-type steel guns fired incessantly at the Japanese cavalry.

The Shimenzi section of Jinzhou Avenue is built along the river, sandwiched between the robe and Taishan. The road was relatively narrow, and there were rocky walls on the side of the road, so the Japanese cavalry had nowhere to hide for a while, and many people were injured by shrapnel and flying stones.

Naoyoshi Ohno, the adjutant of the second brigade of the Japanese army, was wounded by shrunnel and fell from his horse, and two cavalrymen immediately dismounted and dragged him to a hidden place. Receiving a sudden and heavy artillery fire, coupled with the wounding of officers, the pursuing Japanese troops quickly retreated along the road they had come from.

On the positions of the Qing army in Taishan and Roe Deer Mountain, there was thunderous cheering. The morale of these Qing army recruits rose greatly because of this small victory.

Xu Bangdao looked at the horse team that had returned from completing the task of luring the enemy, silently counting the number of people in his heart, and saw that all the familiar faces were still there, so he let go of his heart.

The Japanese army folded for a while, but soon it would come back again. The morale of the recruits, as Xu Bangdao expected, has been greatly improved. At least there will not be any recruits who will be shaking their hands holding their weapons because of the rumors they heard before the war about the undefeated Japanese army.

In the sky, Hao Dajian and Li Sifeng were driving a North American Mustang to conduct aerial reconnaissance. Although the war was about to start on the side of the Traverser Base, no one was worried about the outcome of this battle. Zhao Yi had already staked almost all the heavy weapons on the ground, and it was certain that they would be killed with one blow, and now they were most worried that this outer defensive position that the Qing army had built outside Jinzhou City would collapse at the slightest touch.

After all, everyone knows the final result of the Jinzhou Lushun Battle on the Liaodong Peninsula in history, but Yang Xiaodong can't say a word or two about the specific details of the entire battle. I have the impression that the Qing army was defeated, defeated, and defeated again. Zhao Yi had no choice but to let the plane closely monitor the movement of the battlefield here, lest when the traversers on this side concentrated all their forces to pursue the Japanese army, the pig teammates on this side had been completely defeated, and the chrysanthemums of the traversers were completely exposed to the Japanese.

The North American Mustang's high-definition camera system clearly recorded the battle of the Qing army. As a result of the retreat of the Japanese army, Li Sifeng immediately told the command center through the radio.

One of the Zhao who learned of this result thought that this Xu Bangdao was still a bit of a doorway, at least he dared to fight, and he would occupy the terrain and use strategies. Not a pig teammate, at least for now.

This is the advantage of the historical novice, and a little surprise can always inspire him. If he knew that the Qing court had bought a lot of mines on this Liaodong Peninsula and arranged a lot of pig teammates, it is estimated that he would not be happy.

Not to mention, Zhao Huaiye, the commander of the Dalian Bay Fort next to Jinzhou City, is at the moment "supervising Yongding to run Li Shiwu to cross the sea" on the horse head of Dalian Bay, looking like he is running away from the stance. In fact, in history, after the fall of Jinzhou City, he abandoned the fort, and the Japanese army occupied Dalian Bay without wasting a single shot.

After occupying Dalian Bay, the Japanese officers looked at the strong forts and those powerful heavy guns, and said with emotion, Give me a squadron of troops, and I will resist the attack of millions of soldiers and horses of the Qing army.

If Zhao Yi was lucky enough to read these historical materials before crossing over, I am afraid he would not be so optimistic at the moment.

It's just that at this time, he has no intention of estimating anything else, and his first battle in this plane is about to start.