Looking at the colonel's puzzled eyes, Yang Rui said again: "There are only more than 3,000 Japanese troops there, and we have the strength of a division, and the battle will soon end if four fights are one." ”

You said it easily, this is not a retreat, this is an encirclement. According to the colonel's understanding, the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army is very strong, and in many cases it is even much stronger than that of the Russian army, which is certainly not the main force, and in this mode of warfare with the earth as a barrier, it is extremely difficult to annihilate any unit or more than one regiment, and the artillery of the independent army is also insufficient, and without a sufficient number of artillery, they cannot even rush to the Japanese position.

"I'd better report the situation to the headquarters first." The colonel insisted.

Yang Rui nodded and stopped talking, but he thought in his heart that when the Russian army headquarters gave the order, it was estimated that the Japanese army had already eaten cleanly, and now they had started fighting.

In the final encirclement position, Lei Yizhen stood on the top of a hill a thousand meters away from the position, looking at the Japanese position in the distance through a telescope. The Japanese still did not have the means to dig out the trenches, but they had already killed a lot of them, and they built several trenches with corpses, and then everyone hid behind such trenches of dead bodies.

Lei Yizhen asked the signal soldier who came to report to the front, "How many more strongholds do the Japanese army have, how many people are there in front?" ”

The signal corps who was sent over seemed to have rarely seen a big official, or maybe it was such a great victory on his side that made him excited, and he stammered: "Long... Official... Officials, that's it, that's it, there are always six or seven hundred, and their big and big officials are in it. ”

"Official?" There's something strange about Lei Yizhen.

The signal soldier nodded violently, this time without stammering, "Yes, senior officer." What a big official. ”

Pei Shoutong said with a smile, "It should be the brigade commander of the Japanese army." Look at that flag......"

Lei Yizhen moved the binoculars to the tattered military flag, only to see that there were only a few Japanese officers under the brigade flag. In fact, an old man with a mustache should be the brigade commander, and he couldn't help but regret it, "It seems that it is very difficult to capture him alive." ”

Bei Shou said, "It's difficult. According to Japanese custom, when he finally breaks through their position, he will cut himself, and you may be able to get the command knife. ”

Lei Yizhen was not interested in commanding the knife, he said, "When will you attack?" Whose troops? ”

Bei Shoutong looked at his pocket watch and said, "The attack is advanced to half past one, and there is still half an hour left." Below is Huang Dajun's battalion. "Huang Dajun was still the company commander of the miners' company before, but when the second brigade was formed. The miner units were all transferred and expanded from a company to a battalion, and he was also promoted from company commander to battalion commander at once.

"Oh. Those miners. "Lei Yizhen knew what happened to the miner army before, and before the army didn't distribute the land, it was all like a dead father. Later, the ground was very proactive, and this time in battle. They were the fastest to break through the position and the fastest to tear apart the internal defenses of the Japanese army. "Old troops. There is something to see. Those juniors and disciples should be gathered together to see how Big Brother fights. ”

Pei Shoutong smiled, "Don't be kidding. In half an hour, the general attack will begin. Where to find someone, besides, those juniors are no worse than us. ”

"Then let Huang Dajun stop," Lei Yizhen decisively said, "We have completed the task more than half an hour ahead of schedule. It's okay to push back now, and the Japanese reinforcements and cavalry have stopped it. Adjutant, the order was sent to the company commanders and platoon commanders of each department to come and watch the battle. "In order to train his students, Yang Rui has granted Lei Yizhen full authority for this battle.

Lei Yizhen's whim surprised Bei Shoutong very much. But thinking that the situation was indeed as he said, he nodded and added: "Explain to them, an hour of good drama starts, except for Peng Qingpeng's battalion on the outermost side, all the other troops will be notified, and the nearest platoon commander can also come." ”

The whims of the two commanders made the siege and annihilation battle move back for half an hour, and if Okami Masami of the Eighth Brigade knew that Lei Yizhen was playing like a monkey, he would not let him go. More than 50 minutes later, the top of the hill was full of dense independent army officers, more than 100 platoon commanders, dozens of company commanders, and Zhang Zongchang of the 5th Regiment was also fooled by Wu Baodi. As soon as everyone arrives, Huang Dajun's show is about to start.

Okami Masami, who was on the other side of the hill, also felt the slaughter before the attack, he stood on an ammunition box, faced the tired and hungry soldiers around him, and began to speak: "Gentlemen, what surrounds us is a group of Qing Guokees. You know, it's a Qing Guoyan! Ten years ago, the Qing State had been defeated by us, and their bravest general, Nie Shicheng, fled in front of me, and since then, Great Japan has stood on the side of the Qing State. Today, will we be defeated at the hands of the Qing Guoyan? Could it be that the national fortunes of Great Japan will be reversed by the Qing Guoyan, who can only smoke opium and comb braids? No! They can't do it, they can't do it! Today we are surrounded here, but this is a sneak attack, a shameless sneak attack, and it is something that only the despicable Qing Guoyan can do. Ladies and gentlemen, today we are going to teach them a lesson in the spirit of bushido, so that they can know why Great Japan is Great Japan. Ladies and gentlemen, today, for the sake of Great Japan, let's die in battle! Glorious death! ”

Okami's words brought out the last bit of strength of the Japanese army, and some excited soldiers rushed out of the battle line and shouted, "Despicable Qing Guoyan! Shameless Qing Guoyan! …… Let's fight! Let's fight! ”

The soldiers of Huang Dajun's battalion under the restraint of military discipline did not shoot, and the officers on the hill looked at the Japanese soldiers on the opposite side and roared like crazy. Lei Yizhen asked left and right, "What did Japan say just now?" ”

I didn't know left and right, only a company commander who had studied in Japan in the fifth phase who was standing at the bottom of the hillside said, "Sir, he said we ...... Despicable, it's a sneak attack, they're challenging us! ”

Hearing this, Bei Shoutong smiled and said: "Despicable, their own battle didn't start with a sneak attack. Lao Lei said that only the victor has civilization! ”

Lei Yizhen muttered to himself: "Despicable? He chuckled softly and asked all the nearby Independence Army officers aloud, "Do you say we are despicable?" ”

Everyone was silent in thought, and although the German education had enabled them to master the most advanced military skills, the chivalry of the Middle Ages had also penetrated into their souls. was silent for a while, but Zhang Zongchang spoke. "To tell you the truth, more than 12,000 people beat more than 3,000 people is not enough, but who calls us inferior to them, we were tens of thousands of people chased by them in the first afternoon...... How can there be any fairness and exquisiteness in this war, isn't it just that there are many people and few people fight. ”

Zhang Zongchang's words made everyone's hearts tremble. Especially the sentence "Not as good as them!" It made everyone's expressions solemn.

Lei Yizhen was silent for a while, and suddenly said: "Raise our military flag!" ”

The report number of Weng Quanling is a mountain carving, so there is a mighty Haidongqing on the flaming red flag -- this is the most suitable thing that the master who sews the flag can imagine.

Under the flaming red carved flag, Lei Yizhen began to speak, this passage has been passed down in later generations, he said this: "The Japanese dare to fight hard. We don't dare to fight hard?! If the Japanese dare to fight to the death, we will not dare to fight to the death?! What are we afraid of the Japanese?! What are we inferior to the Japanese?! Mr. said, we are going to be an eagle! Mr. also said that in the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, we were an eagle! Can be thousands of years down. Everyone forgets that they are eagles and thinks that they are chickens that eat in the soil. If there is a benefit, it will be on. Run if you're in danger! Is this still us? Where did the former pride go? Today, here, right here, we will fight with the Japanese in an open and honest manner, and completely subdue them for everyone to see. Who is inferior to whom! Then he yelled, "Signal soldiers, send people to bring water and dry food to the Japanese, and tell them." Fifteen minutes later, the decisive battle was due. Let's fight white-knuckle battles, the same people, to see who wins and who loses! ”

Everyone present was shocked by Lei Yizhen's order, but strangely no one said anything to stop him, not because he was the supreme commander of this battle, but in everyone's hearts, they all wanted such a simple and uncalculated duel, and they all thought: just fight happily and happily to see who is inferior to whom.

Although many of them were puzzled, Lei Yizhen's order was resolutely carried out, and the Japanese did not say anything to the Qing people who sent dry food and water, but their brigade commander Okami Masami bowed to the captain who passed the message, and then said: "Take me to greet His Excellency the commander, thank him for letting me die in a glorious battle!" ”

Fifteen minutes later, the 700 soldiers who volunteered to participate in the battle, holding bayonets, followed behind Lei Yizhen, and walked in a long horizontal line towards the Japanese position, and the 700 Japanese soldiers who faced it all crossed the trench made of corpses, and lined up in a long line in front of the trench to wait for Qingguo. The arrival of the army. The wind and snow that had stopped for a long time suddenly became violent again, and there was no human figure at all fifty meters away, and the distance between the two sides was shortened little by little in the advance of Lei Yizhen, and finally, when the two armies were only thirty meters, the soldiers on both sides broke out into a shout almost at the same time, and then ran violently, rushing towards each other with bayonets, and the collision of 1,400 people flew into the falling snow, and the blood spilled from the stabbed wounds stained the earth red. In the snow, it seems that this battlefield is no longer 1905, but in an instant, it has returned to the ancient wilderness, and the warriors of the two tribes roared angrily, fighting fiercely for the survival and reproduction of the race.

The snow will eventually fall, and the battle will eventually end, and when the snow stops, the last Japanese soldier falls. Lei Yizhen held the bayonet and looked at the corpses falling everywhere, some of his own people, some Japanese, and some of them were entangled and inseparable...... At this time, the ambulance team had already entered and began to rescue their wounded, and a lieutenant who had been left in the tent by Okami Masami came over with a command knife in both hands, and he leaned down and said in stiff Chinese: "This is the ancestral sword of General Okami, he said that the general is a samurai, and asked me to dedicate it to the general." ”

Lei Yizhen reached out and took the gold-inlaid command knife, held it on the hilt, rubbed the cotton cloth wrapped around the hilt, and then pulled out a dazzling blade and closed it back. He handed the sword to the lieutenant beside him, and then asked, "What about Masami Okami?" ”

The lieutenant said, "Your Excellency Okami has already taken his own decision. ”

Lei Yizhen thought that he would end his life in this way, and he nodded and said, "You pack up his body, and you can send him back later." ”

"Nani?" The lieutenant had been reluctantly taken prisoner by the Major General, but now he was surprised to hear that Lei Yizhen wanted him to send the Major General's body back.

"Yes. You take his body back. Lei Yizhen said softly. He now has no pride and no joy of victory, war is the end of countless lives, he now wants to see the soldiers who died because of his impulse, he only hopes that more people will survive.

At three o'clock in the afternoon of the 26th, the ambush near the Jiang family's shack finally ended. The 3,850 people of the 8th Brigade of the Japanese Army were completely annihilated, 743 people were killed and 1,185 wounded by the Independent Army, of which about 540 were able to recover and return, and the rest basically had to be amputated, while the casualties of the 5th Regiment of the 2nd Division were about 600. At the same time, of the 743 people killed, 221 were killed in the final white-knuckle battle, and there were nearly 300 or so wounded in this battle.

Lei Yizhen came to the headquarters after the war because of his wrong order, and Lei Yizhen was removed from the position of division commander on the grounds that he violated the battlefield rules. It's just that later, with Yang Rui's acquiescence, Lei Yizhen still managed the first division in the name of acting division commander.

Many years later, Chen Ximin's granddaughter interviewed Lei Yizhen as a reporter, "Marshal, I heard that you made an unexpected decision at that time. Someone was sent to deliver water and dry food to the besieged Japanese troops, and then made an agreement with them. Have a warrior duel. What did you think at the time? Now very Japanese say. At that time, the Japanese army was already at the end of their crossbow power, and although they had water and dry food, they could not compete with the independent army that surrounded them. ”

After listening to her questioning, the elderly Lei Yizhen took a long time to echo this memory from his mind, and he said: "At that time, the situation of the fourth regiment and the third battalion was also very bad, because the ambush plan changed halfway. The logistics were not considerate, and they also stayed up all night in the wind and snow, and the next day they fought little by little into the encirclement, and they were exhausted when they got there. So at that time, their situation was the same as that of the Japanese army, except that the morale of the Japanese army was low and their morale was high...... I was still very young at the time, and I was arrogant, and when I saw the Japanese inviting to fight, I was excited and gave such an order, and I thought, what are the Japanese to be afraid of, I just want to fight openly and honestly, and tell everyone that we are better than them...... Hehe, people today may not imagine the fear of the Japanese, Russians, and British at that time. It's good not to be afraid, it's good not to be afraid, that's how it should be......"

*

On the night of the 26th, when Lieutenant Tian Guangnemasa, Captain Tian Guangneshi, an adjutant of Okami Masami, appeared at the headquarters of the Eighth Division, a room full of officers were stunned, and Yubi Guangwei Nakasa pulled him by the collar in public and roared angrily: "Qing Guoren? You say it's Qing Guoren?! You say it's Qing Guoren?! You're lying, you must be lying. How is this possible, how is this possible? ”

Tian Guangneng looked at the chief of staff with a look of disbelief, and defended again: "It is indeed the Qing people, they are completely regular troops, and in the end, their commander and Major General Okami agreed to have a samurai duel, and then we ...... Failed. Speaking of this, he lowered his head, "These Qing people are formally trained soldiers, they don't have braids, they must be the newly trained Beiyang New Army of the Qing State." Your Excellency, the Qing have broken their promises, they are helping the Lucians. ”

Yubi Guangwei Zhongsa kicked Tian Guangneng to the ground, but he still roared angrily, "The Qing people dare to duel with our soldiers? How dare they fight in the white-knuckle? They will run away at the sight of our flags, and they are a swarm of rats that will burrow into their burrows at the slightest noise. If you're not lying, it's a conspiracy of the Lu people. ”

Yubi Guangwei's speculation did not make the division commander immediately see Shangwen's thinking confused, and now what Limi Shangwen is worried about is that the fourth brigade that went to rescue the eighth brigade is also surrounded, and it is Misychenko's cavalry army that surrounds them, but fortunately they took the opportunity to hide in the nearby hillside, Misichenko has no way to encircle and annihilate them for a while, but now a Qing army has eaten the eighth brigade in a few hours, so will this free Qing army turn around and annihilate the fourth brigade? If there is really only one, then the situation will be very bad, not only will he not be able to rescue the Akiyama detachment, but he will also have to be dragged here by the Fourth Brigade because of the siege. What to do? Immediately saw that Shangwen did not ask Yubi Guangwei, although he was the chief of staff of the division, but he felt that he was very unqualified.

He stopped Yubi Guangwei's movements, helped Tian Guangneng to his feet, and then asked, "Qingguo. How many people are there in the army? How did they attack? Why was the 8th Brigade annihilated by the enemy so quickly? ”

Lieutenant Tian Guangneng Zheng saw that His Excellency the Lieutenant General was so kind, and he tried to recall and then said: "Qingguo. I don't know how many people there were, but I feel that the mountains are full of their people, they have many cannons, and they are very brave in battle. I... I don't know why they were able to annihilate us so quickly......"

Seeing that his answer was useless, Limi Shangwen quietly made a gesture to the adjutant, and a few minutes later, Lieutenant Tian Guangneng Zheng, who was arranged to rest, was stabbed to death by Lijian's adjutant outside the tent.

Hearing the screams outside the tent, the officers of the headquarters were stunned, and they looked at the adjutant who came in from the outside and were very surprised, according to the normal procedure, even if Tian Guangneng is guilty, he should be handed over to the Military Justice Department for trial. Immediately saw that Shangwen looked at the surprised officer, and said calmly, "I asked him to kill him." Although he has returned, his soul has been left out, and he will still treat this kind of Qingguo. The panic of the army brought to all the soldiers, which was not tolerated at the moment, and the losses of the 8th Brigade could only be reported to the command, and it was forbidden to disclose this information to the soldiers in the division. Ladies and gentlemen, now is the time for us to work together, so we must work hard to deal with the current crisis. (To be continued......)