Chapter 199 Dandong War 2 Insidious Biography of Liu Ming

The night when Huguang Camp just entered the battle, it was safe and sound, but everyone knew very well that behind the calm was a larger-scale attack of the Japanese army.

Liu Mingchuan was careless for a while. Now he has just transferred more than 6,000 people from Bianmen Town and Tangshan Town to practice, and the rest of the group training has also begun to march to Fengcheng County.

Lu Guang Quan guarded by a low wall at the back, and took people to dig a big pit nearby. As a temporary front-line command post, he connected with the phone with each company.

In the dark night, he also held a Jiangnan rifle, looked at the night sky, and thought silently.

He has experienced many battles and fought a lot of battles with the Spaniards, but it is also the first time he has seen such a bloody scene. There is blood everywhere, scattered soldiers are brave, and some people want to escape from time to time. The tough left precious bet behind with his own soldiers to see who retreats and shoots on the spot.

The most pitiful thing is that the left precious Fengjun did not have a medical aid station, and there were no medical soldiers in the army. Many young lives that should have been saved were so meaninglessly lost.

This made Lu Guang Quan feel special regret. As soon as he arrived here, the medical assistance station opened by Huguangying was full of injured people, and a large number of casualties were shocking.

There is no way, this is war.

Sometimes, Lu Guangxu especially hopes that he can live until there is no war in the world, and China has also stood up.

He wanted to fall asleep. When it was almost dawn, he was suddenly awakened by a cannon.

Then, the shells were vented like a storm, and the explosions were cracking everywhere. It was not clear how many shells were in dense power. The artillery battalion of the Yi Army immediately counterattacked and counted the position of the other party to fight back.

Immediately after that, the Tianbaoshan Fort fired continuously according to the position of the artillery battalion, which seemed to be forcing the Huai army to launch a general attack.

The position of Liu Ming's artillery battalion has been exposed. He must attack and continue to let the artillery battalion bombard Tianbaoshan Fort according to the original plan. Then a large number of Ming soldiers rushed up, up, constantly falling down, and more and more people were rushing up.

At this time, the First Tokyo Division of the Japanese Army began to launch a general attack, and the artillery continued to vent to the Feng army's positions. The flying sand and stones were blown away, and people's wailing everywhere.

War is so cruel and ruthless that life always disappears here in the shortest moment.

Due to the difficulty of supply, it is impossible for Dashanyan to let the Japanese army suppress it with unlimited artillery. After being convinced that the opponent was already difficult enough, he asked Lieutenant General Sakuma Sakuma to lead the second division to rush up and take the opponent's position. Even if he could not take it down, he had to fight for time and space for the charge of the 6th Division. .

I can't imagine what it would be like when more than 6,000 army soldiers spread in front of the position and charged forward quickly.

The low wall in front of it has been mostly blown up and flattened. The first battalion of Huguang chose to dig a new ditch to resist the attack. The soldiers of the Japanese army quickly rushed through the ruins of the low wall. Under the indiscriminate bombardment, the soldiers of the Feng army fled one after another, and the left and right wing of the Huguang camp were quickly exposed.

Of course, Lu Guang Quan did not want to make unnecessary sacrifices. He also planned to retreat. First of all, he had to let people stabilize his left and right wings, but he soon made a new decision to let the reserve second column rush up to guard against his most dangerous southern left wing.

The second battalion of Huguang led by Zhang Shiying made the same choice at the same time, supplementing the most dangerous western right wing with the second column, and the two sides stabilized the defensive front through internal cooperation.

While trying his best to protect himself, Lu Guang Quan called Zuo Baogui and informed Zuo Baogui to lead the soldiers to come up. His people ran away. Now that he can't stand up, everyone can only die.

However, there has been no movement for a long time.

Lu Guang Quan was a very shrewd person. He soon realized what Zuo Baogui was doing - sacrificing his friendly army to build a fortifications in the back and preparing for the second level of defense.

Of course, the order may also be directly issued by Liu Mingchuan.

Lu Guang Quan thought that if he also ran away, Liu Mingchuan could take the opportunity to shift all the responsibilities to Hu Chuyuan. This was really the first trick to save his life. Therefore, there was basically no good result for the troops of different factions of the Qing army to fight together.

Unless it is Hu Chuyuan who can gather all kinds of forces to come to Dandong in person.

Hu Chuyuan definitely can't come.

Lu Guang Quan does not plan to retreat. At least he has more than 7,000 people here, and there are two artillery soldiers in his hand.

He expected that he knew nothing about his arrival and knew nothing about the situation of Huguang Camp. He called one by one to keep each other's positions, leaving only two reserve guards to supplement.

Before the enemy's charge was white-hot, he did not allow everyone to use machine guns, all of which were Jiangnan rifles. The power of this kind of rifle was also very good.

Soon, several infantry regiments and thousands of Japanese soldiers began to cross-cover forward, only a few hundred meters away from the defense line composed of trenches, bunkers and low wall remnants of the first battalion of Huguang.

The soldiers still did not shoot. It was not until the soldiers were only 100 meters away from the position that they all shot together.

Jiangnan rifle is the first rifle to use magazine loading. It is very fast in loading speed. In addition, everyone is equipped with five wooden handle grenades, each of which has its own artillery company.

Even if there was no machine gun, within 100 meters, all kinds of dense firepower intersected, and the soldier still suffered a head-on blow.

Grenade has not appeared on the battlefield for a long time. After new changes, the explosive power has become very amazing, and the impact on the Japanese soldiers is very obvious.

After many forced assaults, the First Tokyo Division was forced to stop the charge and chose to take a detour to attack, and organize a new charge route from the north wing close to the mountain road.

Zuo Baogui should have left at least some troops here, but even the troops here have been withdrawn. Lu Guangzuan could only temporarily let a guard, but only more than 300 people.

There are factions everywhere. It was Major General Ao Baogong, the later Japanese general, who was responsible for charging. He was neither a Changzhou valve nor a Samoan valve. He easily received an order to attack the weak area, with the 49th Infantry Wing, with a total of more than 2, 400 people.

After all, Major General Ao Baogong was a smart man. He always felt that his opponent did not retreat or send someone to strengthen the north wing. There was more or less reason, so he sent a brigade to test first. The result was very unfavorable, and there was an artillery company with fast firepower behind him.

In this way, Major General Ao Baogong knew that he had no way out, and immediately organized the two brigades of the wing to cross attack, and one brigade continued to try to take a detour - he really didn't expect that the first two fierce left preciouss would withdraw, but he soon knew.

In a word, there are many strange events in history.

The pressure of the two brigades is too great. Relying on the convenient surname of the telephone network, Lu Guangqin tried his best not to start a gun, gritted his teeth and pulled a guard from here, so he stared at the other party's wave of attacks.

But it didn't take long for Major General Ao Baogong to find that behind the defensive line in front of him, there was a few miles of blank area undefended.

He was overjoyed and immediately organized the infantry brigade he led to attack forward and directly inserted into the opponent's artillery column... This was a hornet's nest.

Lu Guangzuan happened to have a reserve guard who was not used. He stayed with him as a reserve force. He was in the artillery column and suddenly found that a Japanese infantry brigade rushed in on the rear wing. He was also very surprised and felt that the Japanese soldier was indeed very bold.

In addition to being surprised, he resisted a guard and temporarily organized a defense line. This time, he had to use a machine gun.

Major General Ao Baogong is really a very lucky and unlucky person.

He carefully evaluated the forces of both sides and confirmed that he could win and capture a large number of artillery. He did not hesitate to lead more than 600 third brigades to rush up. As a result, he was personally shot by Lu Guangqin, and the whole brigade fell on the front line without a front.

Finding that a major general of the Japanese army fell here, Lu Guang Quan continued to exclaim, collected information from Ao Baogong, and unexpectedly found an action order of the Japanese army.

Surprisingly, the current tactical policy has not changed, and everything in front of them is an illusion. Their real goal is still Jiulian City, seize Wulongkou, and kill from Wulongkou into Toad Tang Town.

Lu Guang Quan made a little evaluation, and he also understood in his heart that the Second Sendai Army would not attack him today. When Liu Mingchuan attacked Yuanbao Mountain, he concentrated the two divisions to attack from the weakest Jiulian City and went all the way into Wulongkou.

At this point, the battle should be over.

It is said that as long as I guard the exit of Donggang from the south and Wulongkou from the back, Liu Ming's Ministry will die and be imprisoned here forever.

Poor...!

Lu Guang Quan figured this out and then sighed in his heart.

Can you save Liu Ming's biography?

This is really a perverted question. It's really a little difficult for him to answer. If he is still the commander-in-chief of the Philippine Independent Army, he will definitely let Liu Mingchuan eat shit, and then find an opportunity to annex the remnants of Liu Mingchuan's troops and equipment to strengthen his strength.

Unfortunately, considering Mr. Hu's interests, Lu Guangyuan knew that he could not do this. The game of chess between him and Hu Chuyuan was too big, and he would continue to use Liu Mingchuan at present... But he could not let Liu Mingchuan get enough benefits.

Thinking of this, he called Sun Yuanheng to leave the first battalion to Sun Yuanheng, and let Zhang Shiying and Sun Yuanheng shrink the formation first and try to connect with each other as much as possible. He personally took the reconnaissance company to check the situation.

Sure enough, as Lu Guang Quan expected, Zuo Baogui, a so-called famous general, is also very experienced in plotting and tricks. He has moved the second front to Sanli Road, joined with Nie Shicheng's troops, completely gave up their Huguang battalion, and transferred a large number of troops to Liu Mingchuan to attack. Yuanbao Mountain.

It doesn't matter if they retreat, and the whole supply will definitely not keep up. In case there are no bullets, what about Huguang Camp?

Before entering this place, Lu Guang Quan, commanders at all levels, and the reconnaissance company were familiar with the terrain. After constantly investigating the specific situation nearby, Lu Guang Quan generally understood the deployment of Liu Mingchuan.

Although he didn't understand the reason, Liu Mingchuan did give up them, and even gave up the defense line of Zhen'an Town and Jiulian City. The army retreated to Toad Pond and Longyakou, and cooperated with Jiulian City Fortress to defend it. Only thousands of people were arranged in the area where the defense line of Zhen'an Town and Jiulian City were handed over. It is estimated that they were also deceived. The visiting army who came to die.

At the same time, Liu Mingchuan transferred at least three battalions and more than 10,000 regiment training troops to attack Yuanbao Mountain. All the artillery forces were aimed at Yuanbao Mountain and left Lu Guangsuan and other guest soldiers on the outside line alone.

The scouts sent to Li Kaiye quickly returned to report the situation. Li Kaiye found that no one guarded his wings, and he could not find Nie Shicheng. Knowing that he had been fooled, he directly withdrew from the position and hid in the mountain nest.

Huguangying can't afford to lose. This is all the hope for the future of Fuxing Society, gathering almost a group of young generals with the highest education level in China.

Everyone unanimously demanded to withdraw.

So, where to withdraw?

Lu Guang Quan thought in his heart.

It is said that there are only two ways for me to enter Toad Tang Town. The first way is to break through Zhen'an Town and Yuanbao Mountain Defense Area, and then it will enter a small lake surrounded by a crescent-shaped lake, which is Toad Pond. The second way is to break through the Jiulian Town Defense Area first, followed by the Jiulian City Fort Fortress. After passing the fortress, it is a custom. The narrow mountain canyon called Longyakou, through Longyakou, you can go to Loufang Town, and then you can meet the legendary Wulongkou after passing Loufang Town.

Toad Tang is the south gate of Toad Tang Town, and Wulongkou is the northeast gate. Only these two roads can be killed. In addition, from Toad Tang Town to the subsequent Bianmen Town, Tangshan Town, Fengcheng County... There is only one road, just like a sugar gourd string.

Lu Guang Quan sent people to let Zhang Shiying and Sun Yuanheng shrink their troops and reduce unnecessary damage. While sending people to investigate the deployment of the troops of himself and Liu Mingchuan, he crossed the front and went to Li Kaiye's department.

He looked at the past all the way and felt more and more strange. Liu Ming's biography had retreated very deeply. He only threw out a few visiting troops on the front line as a cover-up.

After Song Qing's death, most of the soldiers dispersed and hid in the deep mountains and forests. Only Ma Jinxu gradually withdrew with more than 2,000 people.

Lu Guangzuan noticed a detail that the flag was still the resolute army. In fact, Ma Jinxu took 4,000 to 5,000 people to guard the position. The front line was very open, as if there were more than 10,000 people. This was obviously Liu Ming's strategy of false soldiers.

Lu Guang Quan calculated in his heart that although Ma Jinxu was once a general of Liu Mingchuan, he could never be regarded as a direct descendant at present, otherwise he would not have been placed here.

He went directly to Ma Jinxu's camp. The two talked at first sight, and then they figured out the situation.

It turned out that Liu Mingchuan told Ma Jinxu that as long as he recaptured Yuanbao Mountain, he would immediately return to reinforce the troops. At present, it was only a temporary strategy, so that the Japanese army did not dare to move. Even if he could not resist it, Ma Jinxu could withdraw to the Jiulian Fortress.

The difference in treatment between direct line-line, non-line line-line line and the guest army is so different. It can be seen that Ma Jinxu has at least received a notice that there is a way out, and Lu Guangxuan and others don't even have a way out - to put it bluntly, Liu Mingchuan deliberately let Lu Guangwen's recruits retreat by themselves, preferably with Song Qingbu and Yike Tang Abena. As soon as he dispersed, he was so that he could shift all the responsibility to Hu Chuyuan.

Lu Guang Quan always felt that there were other articles in it. Liu Ming said that he might want to kill people with a knife, but he was not the mastermind, and there were other more powerful people behind him.

After a little thought in his heart, Lu Guang Quan took out the silver ticket prepared for him by Hu Chuyuan in advance, gave Ma Jinxu 50,000 silver yuan, bribed Ma Jinxu, and discussed with Ma Jinxu. He came to help Ma Jinxu defend his position. Ma Jinxu was responsible for preparing him and helping him carry supplies and supplies.

Such a good thing... Of course, Ma Jinxu was very happy. Taking advantage of the day that he had not launched a general attack, the two rearranged the deployment. The three battalions in Huguang fully retreated to the nine-inth city defense line, Zhang Shiying retreated to Zhen'an Zhenkou, and retreated with Sun Yuanheng and Li Kaiye. The three battalions rebuilt new fortifications at the same time.

Lu Guangxu took two infantry troops and was responsible for stationing on the back line with Ma Jinxu, secretly supervising Ma Jinxu's troops. Ma Jinxu sent a regiment training camp back to Toad Tang Town to carry supplies.

At this time, Liu Mingchuan was at Toad Tangkou, not far from the Huguang camp. He had moved the commanding camp here, personally suppressed the formation, and commanded Zuo Baogui and Liu Shengxiu to attack Yuanbao Mountain.

Liu Mingchuan really doesn't know what Hu Guangying means to Hu Chuyuan. If he knew, he would not do it. Otherwise, this is equivalent to a replica of the Bao Wei incident. He offended the whole Hu Chuyuan faction just like Zeng Guofan and Zuo Zongtang.

In today's Qing Dynasty, Hu Chuyuan's faction dared to be the second, and Li Hongzhang did not dare to be the first. Hu Chuyuan's faction is full of practical officials. There are a lot of governors and governors. Hu Chuyuan's direct officials may not have many high-level officials, but he also has the navy and the Jiangxi army, and the relationship with the Guangxi Yunnan army is not the same. Generally, there is also an inexplicable relationship with several princes of the capital, and the emperor does not know that he trusts Hu Chuyuan.

offend him... Just wait to eat shit!

Liu Ming, who has experienced many battles, didn't want to offend Hu Chuyuan. He just didn't know, and he also knew very well that he could not defend the defense line of the Yalu River. He must recapture Yuanbao Mountain and form the second line of defense with Longyakou and Toad Pond.

From then on, he could no longer get supplies through the Yalu River. He could only stay for a day, but he had no choice.

The experienced man never thought that although several leading generals in Huguangying were unknown, they were all shrewd ghosts who were sharpened in the mountains of the Philippines, one by one.

Lu Guang Quan knows what Hu Guangying means in his heart, and there will always be Hu Chuyuan's strongest support. No matter what happens, it will only be Liu Ming's Ministry of misfortune, not them.

He neither plans to retreat, but he doesn't want Liu Mingchuan to be better, let alone himself.

Fortunately, the Huguang battalion was well trained, and the average quality of the soldiers was much higher than that of the Japanese army and Liu Ming. In just a few hours, they re-completed the defense deployment and fortifications, and moved the supplies in place.

Li Kaiye found a place commonly known as Hulukou nearby, which is located at the southern end of Wulong Mountain. It belongs to the mountain nest formed by the combination of two and semi-circular mountains. Lu Guangzhan put the new headquarters and artillery stationed here. The three artillery joined an artillery battalion and was ready to give a head-on attack at any time.

The time gradually came to the afternoon, and it was getting closer and closer to the Japanese army to launch a general attack.

The Japanese army stationed an elite brigade in Yuanbao Mountain, which was to attract the main force of Liu Ming's transmission department to facilitate the strong rush of the other three divisions. They took the toad pond and Longyakou in one go, and then took down the five dragonskou at the fastest speed, annihilating all the tens of thousands of people of Liu Ming's transmission department in Toadtang Town, and made an axe for the whole Qing Dynasty. It has been an unprecedented hit.

(to be continued)