Zou Heming didn't dare to make a claim, and reported the situation encountered by Lao Zhangtou to the command center through the radio. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Considering that the caravan's armed escort team did not have advanced weapons and lacked heavy firepower support, Zhao Yi decided to let the base continue south and return to the base. Let Tian Buzi negotiate with Liu Kunyi through Li Hongzhang in Tianjin, asking for the release of Lao Li Tou's son.

At this time, Lord Nakado had paid 100,000 taels of silver to the traversers, and promised to pay off the remaining 200,000 taels of silver within seven days. The 100,000 taels of silver was won by him in a lawsuit with Weng Tongshu in Beijing, and Master Weng seemed to feel that the war situation had improved slightly, and then deliberately stuck Beiyang's neck financially in the future, in case the war was unfavorable in the future, and finally it was the iron rooster who plucked the feathers and allocated 100,000 taels of silver for military expenses.

It took a lot of time for Lord Zhongtang's staff to remove the 100,000 taels of silver from the account and hand them over to Tian Buzi, so that the relationship between Lord Zhongtang and the Crossing People eased slightly. However, whether this kind of relaxed relationship can allow Lord Zhongtang to come forward to cross the crowd for the people, Zhao Yi has no bottom in his heart. Li Hongzhang is a person who cherishes feathers, and he is obviously reluctant to have any entangled relationship with this group of people who claim to be the Great Song Dynasty. Lord Zhongtang knows very well in his heart that he dares to call himself the Great Song Dynasty, that is, he claims to be orthodox in China, and the anti-Qing Dynasty is certain, he has served the Manchu Qing Dynasty for a lifetime of dog and horse work, this will be a seventy-year-old man who is about to enter the wood, and he is still mending the wall and mending the window for the Qing court, but he doesn't want to have a reputation as an anti-minister when he is old.

Although Zhao Yi is a novice in history, he is still very clear about Li Zhongtang's mentality, so he asked Tian Buzi to negotiate with Lord Zhongtang with a mentality of doing his best to obey the destiny of heaven. To be honest, for the family of a peripheral intelligence officer of the Military Intelligence Service, he really didn't dare to risk the lives of more than 200 people in a caravan and the safety of the cargo.

However, how can Lao Li Tou understand this, I heard that the owner has sent someone to negotiate with Li Zhongtang, and hope also rises in my heart, I only hope that my son can stay up in the Qing army camp until the moment when the note handed by Lord Zhongtang arrives.

The caravan was still in the war zone, and Lao Li Tou did not dare to linger on the news that his son had been rescued, so he could only return to Thirty Mile Fort with the caravan. At present, the Qing army is attacking the Japanese army occupying Haicheng, and the caravan is detouring from the Japanese-occupied area east of Haicheng to the vicinity of Liaoyang. After all, the Japanese were frightened by the crossing crowd, and their military discipline was better than that of the Qing army, and it was more appropriate to pass through their occupied areas than the tens of thousands of patchwork troops close to the Qing army.

However, when the caravan reached the road between Fuzhou and Haicheng, it was in the area of melee between the Qing army and the Japanese army. The Japanese wanted to control this place, but their First Army spread the battle line a little too long, and almost opened up battlefields with the Qing army in Haicheng, Lianshanguan and other places, and they were really unable to draw troops to go south.

And the Japanese Second Army, which occupied Fuzhou City, used most of its troops to defend the First Volunteer Brigade, so how could there be any extra troops to go north?

However, even so, Wu Dayi, the commander who would go down in history as the name of the Jinshi family in the future, did not fully control the road between Haicheng and Fuzhou, but was able to hold the two cities of Yingkou and Gaiping, and the area outside these two cities was a melee between the Qing army and the Japanese army.

When the caravan came to the avenue between Gaiping and Haicheng, it was suddenly attacked by a group of Qing troops. This group of Qing cavalry, about 2,000 people, attacked the caravan from the direction of Haicheng.

The caravan's armed convoy was limited in number, and they were all recruits of the security forces who had never been in battle, and they were only equipped with bolt rifles, so they did not have much of a firepower advantage in the battle with the Qing cavalry. The Qing cavalry charged, and the escort team killed and wounded more than a dozen people, which was the result of their focus on rehearsing the defense against the impact of the cavalry before setting off, and it seemed that it was still very difficult to defend against the cavalry impact in the open field without automatic weapons.

However, the discipline of this Qing army was also worrisome, and when the caravan dropped some wagons and retreated, their offensive slowed down, and many cavalry dismounted to coax the goods.

Of course, Zou Heming would not let go of this God-given opportunity, and hurriedly organized the team to retreat to a nearby grove, relying on this grove and the remaining trucks to form a defensive line. By the time the Qing army had finished looting the discarded wagons and pasting them up again, the caravan had already stabilized its position and began to shoot back in an orderly manner.

The Qing army, apparently believing that the caravan had taken refuge in the woods and had no way to escape, began to spread out and surround the woods, intending to annihilate the caravan in order to obtain all the goods. However, without the advantage of charging with horses, these Qing cavalry, who were usually slack-trained, were obviously at a disadvantage in the shooting game with these bullet-fed recruits of the security army. In addition, the caravan had trees and wagons as shooting bunkers, and the Qing army, which was outnumbered for a while, had no way to deal with these people hiding in the woods.

The Qing cavalry obviously did not know that they had stabbed the hornet's nest, and they were still organizing people to pile up wood and other debris on the wagons discarded by the caravan, intending to use these wagons as mobile cover to attack the caravan hiding in the woods.

"This is Camel Bell No. 1, we were attacked by a cavalry force of about 2,000 people of the Qing army, repeating, we were attacked by the cavalry of the Qing army." Zou Heming used the radio to report to the command center of the green paint district that the caravan had been attacked by Qing cavalry.

"This is the command center, Camel Bell No. 1, to report on your situation." Zhao Yi was shocked that the caravan had been attacked by such a large number of Qing troops.

The traversers were mentally prepared for the caravan to meet the enemy in the north, and the routs, bandits, and fanatical militarists in the Japanese army made targeted plans for the enemy they expected to encounter. But the sudden attack by such a large number of Qing troops was something they did not expect.

The caravans basically made a detour through the Japanese-occupied areas, and only a few short distances were in the areas where the Qing and Japanese troops were fighting. According to the consistent urine nature of the Qing army, it is unlikely that a large army will haunt the melee area without any strategic points, where did the cavalry of the Qing army that suddenly launched an attack on the Great Song caravan come from? Is it from Haicheng Wu Daxi's command, or Yingkou Song Qing's troops? What was the purpose of their attack on the caravan? Is it for possessions?

Zhao Yi couldn't figure out for a while whether the Qing army had taken the wrong medicine, and it had been three months since he crossed the crowd to the Liaodong Peninsula, and their notoriety must have spread to the north. Even if the Qing army here thinks that there will be no direct conflict between the two sides separated by the Japanese, they can not buy the account of the Great Song Dynasty. But Jinzhou Lushun can be right under the nose of the Great Song Dynasty, and the Beiyang Army can be beaten to death by raising his hand, and the Qing army in the north does not need to risk losing Jinzhou Lushun for tens of thousands of taels of northern goods, right?

If Zhao Yi was not a historical novice, he would know that Wu Dashi was a very unreliable person, and he would send a document to inform the Japanese army of the specific attack time before launching an attack on the Japanese army. It is estimated that his cognition of the Liaodong Peninsula is even more confused than that of Li Jingfang, the "eldest son" of Lord Zhongtang, this kind of fool who holds military power in his hands is the most dangerous person, and you can't guess what stupid things he will do.