Gangcun's head is not pretending to be tofu, the words of the chief of staff, coupled with the reaction of the Liaodong Army in the past few days, Gangcun suddenly analyzed a terrible answer.

He faintly felt in his heart that the Liaodong Army's launch of such a big attack on the 14th Brigade was a feint, an attack launched for a kind of cover, or in other words, the Liaodong Army's attack on the 14th Brigade was just to transfer the 15th Brigade from its original position, if this was really the case. Thinking of this, Gangcun suddenly walked in front of the map and began to link the 15th Brigade and the 6th Division of the Liaodong Army.

With a snap, Gangcun punched the map, and just now, he figured out that he had been tricked. The 14th Brigade of the 6th Division of Liaodong is just a cover, and the real purpose is to cover the 5th Division's detour.

Smack, throwing the command in his hand on the map at once, Gangcun glanced at the chief of staff, and said coldly: "Immediately let the reconnaissance cavalry touch, search along the left side of our army, and find the location of the Fifth Division of the Liaodong Army and the 15th Regiment of the Tsarist Army." “

"Hey." The chief of staff bowed his head fiercely and was about to go out, when he came to Gangcun, he immediately stopped the chief of staff who was about to leave: "In addition, the 24th and 25th Wings of the 15th Brigade immediately broke away from the position of the 14th Brigade and retreated. "Understood." The chief of staff nodded. Turned around and walked out.

Looking at the back of the staff officer, Gangcun took a deep breath, he hoped. Everything can still be in time, otherwise, the 11th Division will fall into a situation from which it will never recover. In the dead of night, the whirring north wind blew on the positions of both sides of the village and fort, perhaps because the two sides were very tacit, but the battlefield two days ago when the artillery shook the sky is now very quiet.

Smack, Liaodong Frontier Command Headquarters, Duan Qirui threw the pen in his hand on the table, rubbed his sour eyes with both hands, and then picked up the tea jar from the side and took a sip of the cold tea to sober up.

"Why don't you go get some rest?" On the side, your Feng Guozhang saw that Duan Qirui had not rested for nearly a day, so he stepped forward and asked.

After looking at his concerned eyes, Duan Qirui shook his head. He put the teapot in his hand on the table, thought about it for a while, and then stood in front of the map and looked at it.

"Is there any news about the 5th Division and the 15th Regiment?"

No, seeing Feng Guozhang shaking his head, Duan Qirui sighed, now, whether the whole battle situation can go smoothly depends on whether the Fifth Division and the 15th Regiment of the Tsarist Army can be smoothly interspersed.

"Old Duan, I think tomorrow we are going to attack the Japanese position on the opposite side, seeing where Duan Qirui is looking at the map in a daze, Feng Guozhang stepped forward and said,.

What do you mean? Duan Qirui looked at Feng Guozhang with some incomprehension. He did not understand why the attack was being launched.

Seeing that Duan Qirui didn't understand, Feng Guozhang took the command from the side: "You see, since the day before yesterday we launched an attack on the enemy's 14th Brigade at noon and attracted reinforcements from the 15th Brigade, we have not organized an attack. When the time comes, it will be detrimental to our plans. ”

Feng Guozhang's worries were not unreasonable, it had been two whole days, and he had not launched a single attack on the Japanese army, so quiet would inevitably make Gangcun suspicious.

Duan Qirui pondered for a while, agreed with Feng Guozhang's statement, raised his head, and looked at the fruits beside him: "Look at how this is, there are still three hours before dawn." Tomorrow at eight o'clock, let the strength of a brigade launch an attack on the Japanese positions after the shelling. So as to eliminate the doubts of Gangcun.

Very clear way, Feng Guozhang nodded, and picked up the teapot from the side. Three hours, not too long.

"Take a rest, I have to command the troops to attack early tomorrow morning, seeing that Duan Qirui didn't plan to rest, Feng Guozhang stepped forward and persuaded again.

"You go first, I'm looking to see if you have anything missing." Duan Qirui nodded and set his eyes on the map again.

The sky was getting brighter, and Duan Qirui didn't know when he fell asleep on the ammunition box, and when he woke up. Feng Guozhang is already standing in front of the map,

snapped and lifted the quilt, which was probably the guard's cover on himself. Duan Qirui reached out and touched his face, then stood up and walked in front of Feng Guozhang: "What's the situation?" ”

"Not at the moment, the Japanese army is still fighting us against this, do you think we should attack with that brigade?" Feng Guozhang briefly explained the situation and then began to ask for instructions, who to let go of today's attack.

Duan Qirui was about to answer, when he saw the reconnaissance state sent out come in and hand over a document to Feng Guozhang.

"What's the matter?" I saw Feng Guozhang and finished reading. Duan Qirui stepped forward and asked. "Forward positions are returning, and the Japanese army is intensively mobilizing." After Feng Guozhang finished speaking, he handed the information delivered from the forefront in his hand to Duan Qirui.

Intensive transfers? How is this possible, Duan Qirui took the information in Feng Guozhang's hand and looked at it, then began to ponder after putting the telegram on the table aside. Extrapolating from common sense, this is an impossible problem, now that the armies of both sides are fighting, once they are mobilized at this time, is he Gangcun not afraid that I will attack on all fronts at this time.

"Old Duan, something is wrong?" Feng Guozhang lowered his head and thought for a moment, then stepped forward and said.

Without any objection, Duan Qirui nodded and walked to the map in a few steps, and after taking a closer look, he frowned, could it be that Gangcun found out his intention and wanted to mobilize the army to defend it, thinking of this, Duan Qirui took the ruler from the side and began to measure carefully

Before this matter was completed, several people with branches stuck in their bodies came in outside the door again: "Report, the strength of the two wings of the 15th Brigade of the Japanese Army is retreating.

Smack, Duan Qirui threw the ruler in his hand on the map all of a sudden, don't think about it, Gangcun already knows or discovers the Fifth Division and the Fifteenth Regiment that are interspersed, and is mobilizing troops to return to defense.

Thinking of leaving, it's not so easy, thinking of this, Duan Qirui looked at the map: "Immediately notify the artillery to block the retreat road of the Japanese army, the 8th Brigade of the 6th Division, immediately attack from the front, and the 3rd Regiment of the 9th Brigade of the 6th Division, attack from the flank, attract the vitality of the Japanese army, and be sure to delay the retreating Japanese army." ”

Duan Qirui understood that no matter if Gangcunfa didn't find the Fifth Division interspersed now, he couldn't let the 15th Brigade, which he had so hard attracted, go back like this, not even a single wing.

"Looks like they've discovered the Fifth Division." Feng Guozhang thought for a moment, and took a big step forward.

It's hard to say, Duan Qirui can't judge now whether this is a normal transfer of the Japanese army, or whether Gangcun discovered the interspersed Fifth Division. , but no matter what, he has to drag it out here, so that the Fifth Division can be smoothly interspersed, and once the Fifth Division reaches the designated position, then the fate of the Eleventh Division will be decided.