Kuroki Weizhen's composure quickly calmed down the little surprised emotions of the surrounding generals, after all, the volunteers did not have the capital to panic them.

Kuroki Weizhen said to Fujii Shigeta, who had been following him: "Give the order immediately, Lieutenant General Inoue's 12th Division will stop advancing, and the 11th Division will speed up its march and advance towards Huinan with a rapid attack, and be sure to arrive at the battlefield in two hours to defeat the Shina people who are besieging the Naogami Matsubara Brigade." The reserve infantry brigade closed the distance between us and us, and the 2nd Division moved closer to the infantry brigade to ensure the safety of supplies. The reserve 1st Division of Lieutenant General Shigeki Sakai quickly occupied Shuangfeng Township according to the original plan. ”

Nishikuan Jiro, who was beside Kuroki Weizhen, was a little stunned after hearing this order, and said, "General Kuroki, is it a little inappropriate for you to do this? The enemy has already appeared in the front, but you only let one division go up to attack, in case the rescue is not effective, I think we will not be able to explain to the military headquarters. ”

Kuroki Weizhen smiled slightly: "One division is enough, and I haven't found out where Yang Dagui is, General Xikuan, Yang Dagui is not a stupid person, I don't believe he only has this trick, I want to keep enough troops to see what else this guy can play for us." ”

Nishikuan Jiro didn't say anything more, in terms of tactical arrangement, the Japanese army did this but there were some flaws, but war is like this, there is never the most perfect plan, everyone has their own opinion on a war, although their own ideas are not the same as Kuroki Weizhen. But the First Army was Kuroki who had the final say.

Lieutenant General Nobuyuki Asada of the Guards Division asked at this time, "Commander Kuroki, what should we do now?" ”

Kuroki Weizhen said very calmly: "Order the soldiers to be vigilant in battle and ready to enter the battlefield at any time. ”

When his strategic adjustments were all set up, Mark and an American war correspondent were allowed to come and interview.

In the midst of this war. It is clear that the Japanese have done a much better job of diplomacy and propaganda than the Russians. They allowed Western countries to send military observers to their armies, and even American and British journalists to accompany them, which caused some inconvenience to the military but also won them the support of more European countries.

In particular, the Japanese army's humanitarianism in its treatment of Russian prisoners of war won them a round of applause, and many European countries have regarded Japan itself as a member of their civilized society.

Seeing the two reporters coming over, Kuroki Weizhen's face was piled up with a friendly smile: "Do you two have anything to ask?" ”

The Yankee said, "May I ask you, Mr. Commander, when do you think this battle will end?" ”

Kuroki thought for a moment. The military department instructed him to meet the needs of these reporters as much as possible and to convey to them positive news about the Japanese military.

"Oh, you asked me a very difficult question to answer. Sir, war is never up to one side, and if we were to make the decision on our own side, we would rather that the war had not happened and that there would still be peace in this land. ”

That's a very good answer. The American reporter hurriedly recorded it, believing that those who are advocating peace in the West will definitely like this sentence.

Mark immediately asked, "Your Excellency, I would like to know if you have any comments on the fact that the Japanese army used this scorched earth policy to force Yang Xiaolin out. After all, this is a very barbaric act. ”

Mark asked a little sharply, but Kuroki Weizhen was not angry at all: "Yes." I admit that this method is very disgraceful, and we are very sorry for the harm caused to the civilians of the Qing Dynasty. None of this is what we want to do, we just want to eradicate that beast. I can assure you that after the war we will be responsible for what we have done now, that all the destroyed houses will be able to be rebuilt, and that those who have been injured will receive a certain amount of compensation, but only if the beast is gone! He shouldn't have survived in this civilized shijie! ”…,

This is the politician, and the scorched earth policy of the Japanese himself has been best explained, and it is because of Yang Xiaolin that the current situation has been created. Mark recorded it all, he was a journalist and his job was to report. And he dared to believe that Kuroki Weizhen's words would definitely be endorsed by the Western newspapers.

Does Yang Xiaolin really deserve to die? Mark doesn't care about these things, there are too many unfair things on this shijie, if there is really justice to preside, human weishenme wants to invent guns? If Yang Dagui really died, then he was a damned beast.

"Commander, Zuihou, can I ask you a very personal question?"

Mark looked at Kuroki Weizhen, and Kuroki Weizhen smiled: "Oh? Mr. Mark is also interested in me as a person? Well, you just ask. ”

Mark immediately asked, "I want to ask you, when do you think you'll be able to catch that beast?" ”

After hearing this, Mark asked almost the same question as the American reporter's question, but the difference was that Mark said that this question was a private question, which meant that he wanted to hear Kuroki Weizhen's private opinion.

This is a very clever way, and Kuroki Weizhen appreciates it very much: "Well, then I'll make a bold guess, four days!" Within four days, Yang will show all his tricks, and when our army will break his children's tricks one by one, he will not be able to escape. ”

"Is today the first day?"

"Well, the battle has begun, the first day, of course. The results we will achieve today will not be too rich. ”

Kuroki didn't seem to be wrong at all, the Japanese 11th Division was blocked on the way to rescue the Naogami Matsubara Brigade, but Lieutenant General Kaoshima Takao quickly broke through the line of defense and arrived outside Huinan Castle on time.

The volunteer troops that were attacking Naogami Songyuan were attacked, and the two sides fought for two hours, and the volunteers suffered more than 2,000 casualties.

Qian Yao's four regiments withdrew to the county seat again, and these people were the targets that Jiaodao Chongxiong wanted to eat.

It is worth mentioning that although the small Japanese are not as good as the Russians in terms of weapons and equipment this time, their artillery fire is more powerful than the Russians, especially when it comes to the division and regimental units, the number of artillery has increased significantly, and it is only a lot more than the old Maozi who has always believed in the power of artillery.

Although it was almost dark after the siege of the volunteers was defeated, Jiaodao Chongxiong still launched a round of fierce artillery bombardment on the county seat of Huinan, and all the artillery fire smashed to the head of the city and the city gate, and it did not take long to smash the city wall.

The day itself then carried out an attack, trying to occupy a place behind the city wall as their foothold, the direction of their impact happened to be the area defended by Shi Xiaowu's squad, the battle was not very fierce, and after the stubborn resistance of the volunteers, the army withdrew.

After all, it is very unwise to engage in street fighting in the dark, and Kaoshima decided to surround these guys first, and wait until dawn tomorrow to clean them up.

After the troops of the attack retreated, Shi Xiaowu squatted in his individual trench and gasped for breath, the bullets flew sideways during the battle just now, he felt his scalp numb, and now he felt a little uncomfortable on his face, and when he touched it with his hand, it was already a face of blood.

He didn't want to stay in a lone trench, which scared him a little. There are two trenches behind him, there are four or five people in those two trenches, the one closest to him is seven or eight meters behind him, and the machine gun of the stuttering and the big man is in there, Shi Xiaowu originally wanted to be with them, but it was really impossible to let himself and Sun Youwen hide behind and shoot cold guns, but Tian Dayong let him squat here by himself. …,

Seeing that the enemy really withdrew from the city gate, Shi Xiaowu sat in the trench weakly, he had a feeling of wanting to cry, he wanted to find someone to talk to him, but now the brothers in the other trenches were silent and silent, even Tian Dayong, who was still shouting loudly just now, quieted down, I don't know if they are still alive.

After a simple bandage of his wounds, he checked his equipment, a rifle with thirty-eight rounds of ammunition remaining, five grenades and one useless, a bayonet, a foreign steamed bun from the Russians, and a pot of water.

At this time, I heard Tian Dayong's deep voice next to me: "Are the brothers all there?" Start with me, report the number! One! ”

"Two!"

"Three!"

“……”

"Li Feng, Li Feng!"

Tian Dayong shouted a few times, no one returned, the surrounding atmosphere seemed to be silent for a while, and it took a while to hear the big man next to him then report down: "Five!" ”

There were also twelve brothers, and three of them had lost their lives in the battle. Tian Dayong, who was not far away, said: "Little Five, go to the No. 4 bomb crater!" ”

The No. 4 crater is Li Feng's location, Shi Xiaowu quickly put on his equipment after hearing this, and then jumped out of the fortification, and jumped into Li Feng's single fortification in a few steps. He saw Li Feng, a bloody hole in his head, and the whole person was lying in the fortifications, his eyes were wide open, but his eyes were already rigid.

Shi Xiaowu searched Li Feng's body, kept everything he used, and then pushed Li Feng's body out of the fortification. Shi Xiaowu knew very well that the result of pushing Li Feng's corpse out was that in tomorrow's battle, the corpse would be gone.

Isn't it cruel? Don't talk about cruelty on the battlefield, these two people can't be considered human anymore, let alone a dead person.

After waiting for a while, it was really dark, and Xiao Ri still didn't attack, it looks like this is it tonight, tomorrow, will he still be alive? Shi Xiaowu didn't know.