Super Dictator

In the following days, the entire army was actively preparing for war. Wei Jichen also stayed with the soldiers all day long, digging trenches, building mounds of earth, and pouring cold water. He was so busy that he couldn't even touch the ground every day, and he won the respect of most of the soldiers.

Before going to bed every night, Wei Jichen would spend 18 points of prestige to enter the system to practice his marksmanship. In battlefield scenes, Wei Jichen usually chose the King of the Forest, because his next battles would take place in this high mountain.

Five days passed like this, and Wei Jichen's defensive position had begun to take shape.

Trenches are criss-crossed, foxholes, and air-raid shelters are all connected by communication trenches. If the soldiers defending the foxholes are hit, the rear can immediately provide support and treatment through the communication trenches.

Wei Jichen stood on the top of the mountain, proudly looking at his masterpiece over the past few days, and sneered in his heart: "Little Japan, grandpa will let you see it this time."

Wei Jichen's various fortifications also opened the eyes of other sentry officers in Yongzi Camp. Hu Dianjia also specially sent several sergeants to learn from them. Wei Jichen was naturally optimistic about the success.

Hoof-clack, hoof-clack.

Two horses galloped rapidly on the road below. Wei Jichen looked around and saw that they were his own communications troops.

The two signal soldiers looked nervous and tired, but they did not slow down their horses at all.

After raising the token and passing the command, the signal soldier hurried towards the commander's tent.

It seems that the Japanese are not far away, Wei Jichen secretly guessed as he touched his chin.

In the handsome tent.

Nie Shicheng sat at the top, and the other commanders were separated into two columns.

"Report!" The signal soldier arrived before the signal came.

"Report, the enemy's 10th brigade has broken through Lianshan Pass and is coming towards our army's position at Dakaoling."

The signal soldier staggered in. As soon as he entered the door, he knelt down and reported loudly.

Nie Shicheng stroked his beard with his hand, his face slightly angry. Although he knew that Lianshan Pass could not be defended, he did not expect that it would fall so quickly.

This Jiang Zikang is too incompetent. Before the war, he vowed that he could hold on for half a month. Unexpectedly, news came yesterday that the Japanese troops were approaching the ninth company, and today news came again that they had lost the battle.

"Everyone, now that the troops are approaching the city, it is time for us to be loyal to the Qing Dynasty. The Japanese are coming with great force, but with the natural dangers of our Dagaoling, it is not so easy to break through."

After Nie Shicheng finished speaking, he glanced at the generals with a pair of tiger eyes, and said coldly: "Everyone, although I, Nie Shicheng, am the new commander-in-chief and do not have enough prestige, I know very well that if the military order is not good enough, defeat is not far away. Therefore, I, Nie Shicheng, am here today. I hereby give an order: no order, no retreat. Anyone who violates this order will be killed without mercy. I hope you will remember this sentence after you go down, fight against the Japanese together with Nie, and be loyal to the court and the emperor."

Liu Shengxiu, the commander of the Ming Army, suddenly said in a strange voice: "I am afraid that someone will leave the most difficult tasks to friendly forces to complete in order to preserve their strength."

Nie Shicheng looked at him directly, and then said firmly: "Nie's troops have always been at the forefront, and this time it is no different. They go into battle to kill the enemy. You can preserve your strength and report it to the higher authorities, but if someone violates Nie’s orders, Nie will never let him go.”

Lu Benyuan, the commander-in-chief of the Sheng army, smoothed things over and said, "Commander Nie, everyone, the Japanese attack is very fast, I have to go down and prepare."

Nie Shicheng raised his hand, the generals dispersed, and the military meeting ended like this.

Feng Guozhang waited until everyone walked out of the camp, then frowned and said worriedly: "Shuai Nie, the last battle at Hushan was because Liu Shengxiu refused to save him, which led to heavy losses for our Luyu defense army. This time, he We will not repeat the same tactics to preserve our strength.”

Nie Shicheng said coldly: "Liu Shengxiu doesn't have the slightest idea of ​​the overall situation, but even if I lend him ten courages, he doesn't dare to do it this time. Last time, General Song responded to the court and took the biggest responsibility for the failure of the battle. Pushing Liu Shengxiu on, Zhongtang was criticized by many people in the court. Zhongtang was very angry. He had already called Liu Shengxiu and scolded him, and he also gave me an order. If Liu Shengxiu refused again this time. , I can take him directly.”

Nie Shicheng was different from Song Qing. Song Qing was outside the Huai Army system. He could only report it to Li Hongzhang, but did not dare to punish those Huai Army generals, because once he punished them, he would be destroying the face of most Huai Army generals. The military generals must work together to secretly disobey his orders.

And Nie Shichen himself was a member of the Huai Army system. If he took action, others would only say that Liu Shengxiu deserved his punishment, but would not form a group to resist.

Not long after the signal troops left, Wei Jichen urgently mobilized his soldiers to get everyone ready for battle.

All the soldiers were convinced by him. After receiving the order, they did not dare to neglect. They all cheered up, loaded their guns, and looked nervously at the road in the distance.

"Zijie, has the situation changed? The Japanese are coming?" Li Yunfei walked to Wei Jichen and asked softly.

"I'm just guessing. There's nothing wrong with being prepared first." Wei Jichen smiled bitterly. His status was too low. He didn't know when it would be before the confirmed news arrived.

"Lianshan Pass was broken so quickly!" Li Yunfei said with disbelief.

Wei Jichen said with a solemn expression: "This time the vanguard of the Japanese was the 10th Brigade commanded by Tachimi Naofumi. Tachimi Naofumi has always believed in the speed of soldiers. He often makes many arrangements before the battle, and then suddenly attacks violently, completing the victory in one battle. It is not impossible for Shangguan to fall so quickly."

The solemn expression on Wei Jichen's face also affected Li Yunfei. He knew that Wei Jichen would not act without aim.

While the two were silent, suddenly there was a loud sound of people and horses on the road below, and hundreds of broken soldiers rushed toward Wei Jichen's position, shouting for their fathers and mothers.

Do you know why Wei Jichen thought they were defeated? Because this group of people looked depressed and had low morale. Some people even lost their firearms and even their bare feet and shoes were thrown away.

This group of people came running from a distance, shouting as they ran: "The Japanese are coming, the Japanese are coming."

That way, it was obvious that he was extremely frightened.

Wei Jichen couldn't help but change his expression. Damn, if this group of defeated troops were allowed to charge, it would definitely cause chaos in the position, and then the Japanese would take the opportunity to capture it.

Behind the defeated troops, more than 2,000 soldiers of the 10th Brigade followed closely. They immediately saw Naofumi in the middle of the team. He led a group of staff officers and officers on horseback to a small hillside, and then raised the telescope in his hand to carefully Check the situation of the Qing army's defeat ahead.

When he saw the group of defeated soldiers rushing towards the enemy's position regardless of their own safety, a faint smile could not help but appear on his lips.

Takeda Hideyama, a commander next to him, saw the cooked duck fly away like this. He couldn't help but became anxious and asked nervously: "Your Excellency, Major General, the Qing army is running back to the position. Should our army speed up the pursuit?"

Not long ago, Naofumi immediately gave an order to chase but not attack, which left his commander confused.

After taking Lianshanguan, Naofumi immediately divided the 10th Brigade into two groups: one was commanded by another commander of his unit and went to attack Saimaji. Heilongjiang General Yiketang'a led the troops to garrison at Saimaji. Dakaoling is only a hundred miles away; the other group was personally commanded by him to attack Dakaoling.

After Li Jian Shangwen conquered Lianshanguan, the army did not even take a rest, but closely followed the retreating Qing army.

Chief of Staff Komasa Shuto smiled faintly and said to Takeda Hideyama: "Your Majesty the Major General's order must have deep meaning. All you have to do is wait and see."

In fact, Xiao Masakito already understood what Tachimi Naofumi meant, but he had to leave the limelight to Tachimi Naofumi. He didn't want to be like Yang Xiu during the Three Kingdoms. He dug a grave for himself with a useless sentence. Being mysterious, if everything can be guessed by his subordinates, what fun would he have?

Immediately seeing Shang Wen raise his whip, he said boldly: "Gentlemen, a defeated army of hundreds of people is nothing. They are really insignificant compared to Dagaoling. The purpose of our trip is to quickly tear apart Dagaoling." The defense line of the ridge opens the way for the empire’s follow-up troops.”

The generals were all shocked. Your Excellency, the brigade commander, fought really fast and fiercely. He had just captured Jiulian City this morning, and now he was thinking about how to capture Dagaoling.

He really dared to think about breaking through two lines of defense of the Qing army in one day.

"Gentlemen, I understand your concerns, fearing that the soldiers will be tired and that the Qing army will be waiting for work. But you may wish to think about it. If we make some repairs, wouldn't the Qing army be waiting for work? Look at the expressions of the imperial warriors. Aren't they extremely excited? Moreover, if we attack Dakaoling at this time, the Qing army will definitely be caught off guard. They never expected that our army would advance so quickly." Immediately Naofumi gave the reason impassionedly.

After hearing this, all the generals of the 10th Brigade nodded involuntarily. Since the Japanese army broke through Lianshan Pass effortlessly, now is the time when their morale is blazing.

After Li Jian Naofumi finished speaking, he raised his binoculars to check the situation of the Qing army's retreat, but saw that the group of retreating soldiers were less than 500 meters away from the Qing army's position, and there was still no one on the Qing army's position to stop them. Seeing this, He couldn't help but feel reassured.

"Takeda Hideyama!" Tachimi Naofumi shouted excitedly.

"Hi!"

"You lead your alliance to attack in five minutes." Tachimi Naofumi ordered.

"Hey!" Takeda Hideyama hurriedly came down after accepting the order.

Immediately Naofumi looked at the other commander, Nishijima Sukei, and after a slight hesitation, he still ordered: "Nishijima-kun, your team is ready to attack. Once the attack of Takeda Major's team is frustrated, you will lead The soldiers continued to attack."

Although Tachimi Naofumi did not believe that the defenders of Dakaoling could withstand Takeda Hideyama's first wave of attacks, his good military literacy allowed him to make preparations after the defeat.

He would not give the opposing defenders the slightest chance to breathe. He would use wave after wave of fierce attacks to quickly tear open the Qing army's defense line.