Chapter 033 Hirono

On the Golden Mountain Fort, a soldier hurried to Zhou Charter: "Report that Company Chief Guo of Erlongshan sent a Japanese prisoner."

Yao Xi shouted, "Didn't you say not to capture it? Why did you send it here? Pull it to the chest wall and kill it!"

"There was also a Qing woman who came with the prisoner. The woman was seriously injured and unconscious. However, Company Chief Guo said that this woman had some origin. He knew the name of our teacher! Moreover, she protects the Japanese and won't let Company Director Guo kill him!"

Zhou Charter's heart moved, and he vaguely felt something was wrong. He hurriedly said, "Where is the person?"

"In the central bunker."

Zhou Charter walked to the bunker and soon came to the bunker.

The sun is setting, the sky is dark, and torches are inserted on the walls around the bunker, emitting a hazy red light.

Feng Guozhang, the battalion commander of the battalion, hung a bandage on his arm and his face was bloody. He was half leaning on a wooden table. He saw Zhou Charter coming in and hurriedly stood up.

Zhou Charter waved his hand to Feng Guozhang and motioned Feng Guozhang to sit down and rest. During the daytime battle, Feng Guozhang's left arm was injured, but he always fought at the forefront with injuries and did not take a step back.

I saw a Japanese major officer standing by the wall, marching beside **, lying with a woman with a broken arm.

Zhou Charter came to the marching bed, pushed away the Japanese major, squatted down, and looked at the woman carefully with the light of the torch.

The woman's face was bloodless and her breath was weak. Her black hair was twisted into a mess, her whole body was blood-stained, her left shoulder was blurred, and her whole arm was brushed off.

Yao Xi behind him exclaimed: "She is Huang Ying, General Huang!" Yao Xi finally remembered that it was Huang Ying who sent three Mark Qin heavy machine guns to Zhang Jun in Xiaogu Mountain. At that time, Huang Ying was a man. I haven't seen her these days. How did Huang Ying become a woman!

Zhou Charter sighed for a while: "Cherry!" Then he roared: "Cut this Japanese!"

Yao Xi pulled out his sword and grabbed the major's collar.

Lying in the march** Cherry suddenly opened her eyes and made a silky sound: "Brother Zhou, don't kill him. He saved me!"

Yao Xi let go of the major and said angrily, "General Huang, which bastard made you like this? I scraped him!"

"The Japanese devils who hurt me have all been killed by you!" Cherry gave a miserable smile.

"She is not General Huang. Her name is Cherry, and she is a close maid of Shuo Ge!" Zhou Charter leaned over and picked up the cherry and asked urgently, "Cherry, why did you come here?"

"It was Gege who asked me to come to you. Gege is in Haicheng. Together with General Nie Shicheng, he is about to come to Lushun..."

Outside the bunker, there was a earth-shaking explosion. The bunker shook violently, and several torches were inserted into the wall, which were shaken down by the explosion, and the light in the bunker dimmed.

In the violent vibration, the cherry fainted again.

The short truce ended, and the Japanese army launched a fierce attack on the Golden Mountain again.

Zhou Charter stood up and pointed to Feng Guozhang and shouted, "Feng Guozhang, from now on, your position is here to take care of the cherry. Also, this Japanese, if there is anything wrong with cherry, don't come to see me!"

Zhou Charter turned around and rushed out of the bunker.

On the Golden Mountain Fort, there were fires everywhere, shouting and shouting.

A Japanese army of more than 100 people rushed to the fort and fought with Zhang Jun.

"The reinforcements are coming soon! Kill!" Zhou Charter howled and rushed into the Japanese army.

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In the circular position on the Taipei side of Erlong Mountain Cannon, Major General Xikuan Erlang pressed a bloody command knife and stood on the trench, looking at the dark fort of Erlong Mountain.

The blood stain on the saber was the blood of a Japanese lieutenant, and Xi Kuan Erlang cut off the lieutenant's head with his own hands. In the battle that just ended, the lieutenant led a squadron to attack the chest wall of Erlong Mountain, but the squadron all died on Erlong Mountain, and only the squadron leader ran back alive.

The order given to him by the Second Army was to recapture Lushun within three days.

However, the afterglow of the sixth day disappeared in the west, and the Erlongshan Fort was still horizontal in front of him, towering!

Judging from the firepower, the number of defenders of the Erlongshan Fort is not large, no more than 500, but the second brigade with 3,000 troops can't gnaw this hard bone.

Xi Kuanjilang's second brigade was originally incomplete, and half of its troops died in Lushun with the division commander Shanji.

The remaining regiment, together with the artillery and cavalry directly under the division, has a total strength of less than 4,000, which was more than half of the six-day attack.

More seriously, after six days of depletion, the Second Brigade was seriously short of ammunition and drugs.

After the Japanese army captured the Liaodong Peninsula, due to its rapid progress, it did not have time to set up military stations in Jinzhou and the area north of Jinzhou.

Since this morning, the attacking troops began to implement ammunition ration. Each soldier has only five bullets. The bullets have been shot out, and they can only fight with bayonets.

If the supply of such ammunition is defensive, it is barely enough.

Worsely, the second brigade is carrying out offensive missions.

The artillery shells have been burned out, and the assault troops have no artillery support. On the hillside hundreds of meters wide, the Japanese army has to make a lot of unnecessary sacrifices every step forward.

In fact, Nishikuanjiro's second brigade has lost its offensive ability.

The base camp and the Second Army continued to issue urging orders to him, but until now, the boss has not removed him from his post.

The reason is very simple. In the east, there are landing troops with strong naval support, with sufficient ammunition and sufficient troops, but they have failed to seize the Golden Mountain Fort. There is no reason for the base camp to denounce the remnants of Xi Kuanjilang.

However, Xi Kuan Erlang knew that even if the base camp did not remove him from his post, his fate would be in danger.

If Lushun can't be recaptured, his troops and Nomu Xidian's brigade will be isolated to the north of Lushun, lose contact with the main force of the Japanese army, and become a lonely army exiled to Liaodong.

Once the Qing army counterattacks, the Japanese army on the Liaodong Peninsula will face annihilation!

We must capture Lushun and open the way for the Japanese army to the sea!

However, at the foot of Erlong Mountain, the second brigade was exhausted.

Xi Kuanjiro placed his hopes on Nogi Yoshinori.

In the battle to attack Yingkou, Nomu Xidian's first brigade suffered slight losses. Once it returned to Lushun and entered the battle, a small Erlong Mountain would not be a problem.

Nishikuanjiro sent countless messengers for help to Nogi, and Nogi also promised to get close to Lushun immediately. However, six days later, the first brigade disappeared.

From Yingkou to Haicheng, and then from Haicheng to Jinzhou, Naimu Xidian walked for six days!

"What the hell is Nogi doing?" Xi Kuan Erlang roared at the combat staff behind him.

A major officer looked at the furious Nishi Kuanjiro with a bloodless face and shook his head blankly.

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Liaodong Peninsula, Gaiping, Daqing River.

Gaiping is a small city in the middle of the Liaodong Peninsula. For the Japanese army, this is a city of historical significance.

Although Gaiping is not big, it has an extremely important strategic position between the narrow Liaodong Peninsula and the vast Liaohe Plain.

To the north of Gaiping, across the Daqing River and across the Loess Ridge is the Liaohe Plain with a flat river. From the north of the Loess Ridge to the vast land of Shengjing, there is no danger to guard.

After the Battle of Lushun, the Qing army rashly lost Gaiping, causing the battle situation on the Liaodong Peninsula to turn sharply. Nai Mu Xidian broke through the last line of the Qing army's defense in the Liaodong Peninsula in Gaiping. From then on, he took Haicheng and completed all the occupation of Liaodong. The Japanese army entered the Liaohe Plain and show off their power. At the support point of the Qing army in Liaoning, there is only one Qianshan Mountains south of Liaoyang. If Naimu Xidian wants to, he can attack Shenyang to the north, approach the Yalu River to the east, and attack Shanhaiguan to the west.

Of course, in the end, Nokihime chose to develop to the west, occupy the camp, and wait for the opportunity to cross the sea to launch the Shanhaiguan Campaign.

Nomu Hidian's first brigade has two regiments with a total strength of 5,000. Compared with the strength of 60,000 in the three divisions of the Japanese army in Shandong, this is just a small detachment. However, this force undertook the task of attacking the Japanese army in Shandong. Together with the Japanese army in Shandong, they formed an iron pliers that stuck to the lifeline of the Qing Dynasty.

The Japanese army dared to do this, firstly, because the cowardly performance of the Qing army in Liaodong made the Japanese believe that this army was enough to defeat the Qing army; secondly, it was also the most important. The base camp believed that as a famous Japanese general, Nogiori would be able to complete this seemingly impossible task!

Nogi Kisuke graduated from the Japanese Non-commissioned Officer School and accepted the samurai spirit and Confucian loyalty since childhood. Nogi Yoshinori was originally loyal to the Nagakawa clan. In the fourth year of Meiji, Japan implemented the "famida system" loyal to the emperor, formed a directly administered force of the central commander, and selected as the emperor's "famida" from the status of Nogi no Kiken. In 1877, in the Southwest War, which suppressed the rebellion of Xixiang Longsheng, Nokiori firmly stood on the side of the emperor with the idea of loyalty and patriotism. He fought hard to eliminate the rebels and made outstanding achievements. In 1886, Naim Hidian went to Europe to study and completely worshipped the feet of modern German militarism. After returning to China, he immediately submitted a "surge army opinion" to the military department to rectify the army in the way of the German army. The military department adopted the opinion of Nogi and carried out a comprehensive rectification of the Japanese army. Since then, the Japanese Meiji New Army has taken on a new look and has become a modern army comparable to the European army.

Nogi Kisuke once served as the commander of the Second Infantry Brigade of the Guards. In 1890, he retired due to illness and once lived in seclusion in the countryside. After the outbreak of the Qing-Japanese War, Nogisaki returned to the military. As a veteran of the Japanese army, he could have become a senior general of the Japanese army and served in the base camp. However, Nomu Hidian refused the appointment of the military department and insisted on serving as a brigade commander in the combat force.