Super dictator.

In the next few days, the whole army was actively preparing for the battle. Wei Jichen also stayed with the soldiers all day long, digging trenches, building mounds of soil, and pouring cold water. He was too busy to touch the ground every day, and won the respect of most soldiers.

And every night before going to bed, Wei Jichen would spend 18 prestige points to enter the system to practice marksmanship. For the battlefield scene, Wei Jichen usually chooses the king of the forest, because his next battles will be fought in this high mountain.

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

The trenches are vertical and horizontal, the foxholes, and the air-raid shelters are all connected by traffic trenches. If the soldiers defending the foxholes are hit, the rear can immediately use the traffic trenches for support and treatment.

Standing on the top of the hill, Wei Jichen looked triumphantly at his masterpiece over the past few days, sneered in his heart and said, "Little Japan, Grandpa will let you see it this time."

Wei Jichen's various fortifications also opened the eyes of the other sentry officers of the Yongzi Battalion. Hu Dianjia also specially sent a few soldiers to come to learn from them. Regarding this, Wei Jichen was naturally optimistic.

Hoof, hoof.

Two fine horses were galloping rapidly on the road below, Wei Jichen looked around and saw that it was his own messenger.

Both signal soldiers looked nervous and tired, but they didn't slow down their horses.

Raised the token, and after passing the password, the messenger hurriedly galloped towards the commander's tent.

It seems that the Japanese are not far away, Wei Jichen rubbed his chin and secretly guessed.

Inside the handsome account.

Nie Shicheng sat in the first place, and the other leaders were divided into two rows.

"Report!" The communication soldiers arrived before the sound.

"Report, the enemy's [-]th Brigade has broken through Lianshan Pass and is coming towards our army's position, Da Gaoling."

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

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

This Jiang Zikang is too unreasonable. Before the war, he swore that he could hold out for half a month. However, the news came just yesterday that the Japanese soldiers were approaching Jiulian Pass, and today there was another news that they had lost their defense.

"Everyone, now that soldiers are approaching the city, it's time for us to be loyal to the Qing Dynasty. The Japanese are coming in menacingly, but our Great Gaoling is so easy to break through due to the natural danger."

After Nie Shicheng finished speaking, he glanced at the generals with a pair of tiger eyes, and said coldly: "Everyone, although I, Nie Shicheng, is a new commander and lacks prestige, I know that the military order is not good enough and I am not far from defeat. Here is an order: No order, no retreat, if you violate this order, no matter who it is, you will be executed, I hope you will remember this sentence after you go down, and fight against the Japanese with Nie, and be loyal to the court and the emperor."

Commander-in-chief of the Ming Army Liu Shengxiu suddenly said in a strange voice: "I am afraid that someone will hand over the most difficult tasks to the friendly army in order to preserve their strength."

Nie Shicheng took a straight look at him, and then said firmly: "All along, Nie's army has always been at the forefront, and this time is no different. Going to the battle to kill the enemy. After Nie thinks he is unwilling, if anyone finds Nie To preserve your strength, you can report it to the higher authorities, but if someone obeys Nie's order, Nie will never let him go."

Lu Benyuan, commander of the Sheng Army, smoothed things over and said, "Nie Shuai, everyone, the Japanese are attacking so fast, I have to go down and get ready."

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

Feng Guozhang waited until everyone walked out of the camp, then frowned and said worriedly: "Nie Shuai, the last battle of Hushan was because Liu Shengxiu refused to save him, which caused heavy losses to our Luyu Defense Army. This time, he We will not repeat the old tricks in order to preserve our strength."

Nie Shicheng said coldly: "Liu Shengxiu doesn't have the slightest sense of the overall situation, but this time even if he borrowed ten courage from him, he would not dare to do so. Pushing on Liu Shengxiu caused Zhongtang to be questioned by many people in the court. Zhongtang was very angry about this, and he had already called and scolded Liu Shengxiu severely, and Zhongtang also gave me an order. If Liu Shengxiu shirks again this time , I can directly take him down."

Nie Shicheng was different from Song Qing. Song Qing was outside the Huai Army system. He could only report to Li Hongzhang, but he did not dare to punish those Huai Army generals. The generals must hold together and secretly disobey his orders.

And Nie Shicheng himself is a member of the Huai Army system. If he makes a move, others will only say that Liu Shengxiu deserved his crime, and will not form a group to resist.

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

All the soldiers were convinced of him, and after receiving the order, they didn't dare to neglect, cheered up one by one, loaded their guns, and looked nervously at the road in the distance.

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

"I'm just guessing, there's nothing wrong with being prepared first." Wei Jichen smiled wryly, his status is too low, and when the confirmed news arrives layer by layer, he doesn't know when it will be.

"Lianshan Pass was broken so quickly!" Li Yunfeiyou said in disbelief.

Wei Jichen said solemnly: "This time the Japanese vanguard is the [-]th brigade under the command of Lijian Shangwen. Lijian Shangwen has always believed in the importance of military speed, and often makes many arrangements before the battle, and then suddenly attacks violently. It is not impossible for Lianshan Pass to fall so quickly."

The dignified expression on Wei Jichen's face also affected Li Yunfei, he knew that Wei Jichen would not be aimless.

While the two were silent, suddenly there was a loud noise of people and horses on the road below, and hundreds of rout soldiers yelling for their fathers and mothers rushed towards Wei Jichen's position.

Do you know why Wei Jichen thought they were a rout, because this group of people looked sluggish and their morale was low, some even dropped their guns, and their bare feet didn't even know where to throw their shoes.

This group of people came running from afar, shouting as they ran: "The Japanese are here, the Japanese are here."

In that way, it is obvious that he is extremely afraid.

Wei Jichen couldn't help but change his expression greatly, "Fuck, if this group of rout soldiers are allowed to charge, it will definitely cause chaos in the position, and then the Japanese will take the opportunity to attack and attack."

Behind the rout, more than 2000 soldiers of the [-]th Brigade were closely followed. Shangwen was 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 binoculars in his hand to take a closer look. The situation of the defeat of the Qing army ahead.

When he saw the group of rout soldiers rushing towards the enemy's position with no regard for their own safety, a faint smile could not help but emerge from the corner of his mouth.

Seeing the cooked duck flying away like this, Takeda Hideyama, a regiment leader next to him, couldn't help feeling anxious, and asked nervously, "Major General, the Qing army is about to return to the position. Will our army speed up the pursuit?"

Not long ago, Lijian Shangwen gave an order to chase and not to attack, which made the team leader under him puzzled.

After winning Lianshan Pass, Li Jianshang divided the Tenth Brigade into two parts: one was commanded by another regiment leader to attack Saimaji, and Saimaji was garrisoned by Heilongjiang General Yiketang'a. Dakaoling is only a hundred miles away; the other part is commanded by him personally to attack Dakaoling.

After Lijian Shangwen conquered Lianshan Pass, the army did not even take a rest, but followed closely the retreating Qing army.

Chief of Staff Xiao Masaki smiled faintly, and said to Takeda Hideyama: "Your Excellency Major General's order must have a deep meaning, you just have to wait and see."

In fact, Xiao Zhengshu already understood the meaning of Lijian Shangwen, but he had to leave the limelight to Lijian Shangwen. He didn't want to be Yang Xiu in the Three Kingdoms period. As a mystery, if everything is guessed clearly by his subordinates, what fun would he have?

Lijian Shangwen raised his horsewhip and said boldly: "Masters, what are the routs of hundreds of people? They are really insignificant compared to Da Gaoling. The purpose of our trip is to quickly tear apart Da Gaoling." Ridge's line of defense opened the way forward for the empire's follow-up army."

All the generals were shocked. Your Excellency, the commander of the brigade, fought so swiftly and fiercely. He just captured Jiulian City this morning, and now he is thinking about how to capture Da Gaoling.

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

"Gentlemen, I know your worries. You are afraid that the soldiers will be exhausted, and that the Qing army will wait for work at leisure, but you may wish to think about it. If we make a little renovation, won't the Qing army wait for work at leisure? Look at the expressions of the imperial warriors. They are not very excited. Moreover, when we attack Dakaolin at this time, the Qing army will definitely be taken by surprise. They never expected that our army will move so fast." Lijian Shangwen said the reason impassionedly.

All the generals of the Tenth Brigade nodded involuntarily after hearing this. Since the Japanese army broke through the Lianshan Pass effortlessly, now is the time when the morale is at its peak.

After Lijian Shangwen finished speaking, he raised his binoculars to check the situation of the Qing army's rout, but saw that the group of rout soldiers were less than 500 meters away from the Qing army's position, and there was still no one coming out to stop the Qing army's position. Seeing this, he I can't help but decide in my heart.

"Takeda Hideyama!" Lijian Shangwen shouted excitedly.

"Hi!"

"You lead your alliance to attack after 5 minutes." Lijian Shangwen ordered.

"Hi Yi!" Takeda Hideyama hurried down after receiving the order.

Lijian Shangfu looked at another team leader Nishijima Suyoshi, hesitated for a while, and ordered: "Nishijima-kun, your team is ready to attack, and once the attack of Takeda Shaozuo's team is frustrated, you will lead The soldiers continue to attack."

Although Lijian Shangwen did not believe that the defenders of Otakaling could withstand the first wave of attacks by Takeda Hideyama, his good military quality allowed him to take preparatory measures after the defeat.

He will not give the defenders on the opposite side the slightest chance to breathe. He will use wave after wave of fierce attacks to quickly tear through the Qing army's defense line.