Chapter 167 We Are All Rookies

Several Japanese soldiers, led by soldiers from Hunan, strode in with their heads held high and their chests high.

Li Guangjiu didn't think they wanted to surrender.

The Japanese man walked to the middle of the big tent. Instead of saluting, he looked at everyone in the tent with contempt.

"Where is General Wei?" One of the Japanese asked a little respectfully.

"Humph, there is no General Wei here, only Li Daoyuan and the Wei vassal." The camp officer in the tent was already angry when he saw the Japanese being so arrogant. When he heard him ask this, one of the camp officers snorted coldly. , replied unhappily.

"Daoist Li, the Wei vassal?" The Japanese who just spoke tilted his head and thought for a while, then curled his lips and said, "I haven't heard of it, but as a representative of Japan today, I have something to see General Wei. If you It’s okay if they are all General Wei’s subordinates.”

Li Guangjiu couldn't help but reprimanded: "If the General Wei you are talking about refers to Wei Jichen, he is in Gaiping now. If you have anything to say, just say it. Don't make noise here."

The Japanese looked like they suddenly understood, and said with disdain: "It turns out it's not Wei Zijun. No wonder our Japanese Empire only has two thousand troops in Ximu City, and you can't attack it. In this case, I'll take my leave."

Li Guangjiu saw that the other party was sarcastic and deliberately irritated himself and others. He couldn't help suppressing the anger in his heart and said coldly: "Although we are not Wei Zijun, we can also do what Wei Jichen can do. Five In the future, our Hunan army will break up the wooden city."

"Well, we are waiting for you to attack!" The Japanese raised his feet and started to go out.

"Wait a minute! Now that you're here, why don't you finish talking! Tell me, what's the purpose of Osaka Shangmin sending you here?" Wei Guangtao was more mature and prudent, and he spoke out to persuade the Japanese to stay.

The Japanese was just pretending, but when he heard him speak, he also took the opportunity to stop and said in a leisurely manner: "My brigade commander, Your Excellency, thinks that Ximu City is worthless, it is a pity to abandon it, and it is meaningless to occupy it. Originally, we thought that the two armies could temporarily Cease fire, our army will withdraw, and then hand over Ximu City to your Wei Zijun. However, since you are not Wei Zijun, our Imperial Japanese Army cannot afford to lose that person. Only Wei Zijun who has defeated us is qualified. You are not qualified to accept this city from our Imperial Japanese Army without firing a shot."

The Japanese's words made Li Guangjiu's face turn ashen and he shouted angrily: "How dare you, a little Japanese pirate, be so rampant? People came from left and right to push him down and kill him."

The two soldiers surrounded them from both sides like wolves and tigers. When the Japanese saw this, they were not afraid. Instead, they laughed loudly and said: "The two countries are fighting. If you don't kill the envoy, you are really far behind General Wei. He dares to fight on the battlefield." Defeat us head-on, but you only dare to let people kill me, an unarmed person, huh, just kill me, you just wait for the crazy counterattack of more than 2,000 warriors in Ximu City. After killing me, the imperial warriors We will never retreat until we fight to the death of every soldier.”

Wei Guangtao has been fighting hard with the Japanese in the past few days. He knows that the Japanese are brave people and what they say may not be true. If he kills him, his army will really have to pay a huge price, and it may not be able to capture the analysis. wooden city.

Wei Guangtao thought of this, waved his hand to stop the sergeant who came forward, turned to Li Guangjiu and said, "Let's see what tricks this Japanese is playing."

Li Guangjiu originally only threatened and intimidated him, but now he took the opportunity to step down and nodded.

"Did Shang Min come here just to let you use your words? What you said is nothing more than to sow discord between our Hunan Army and Wei Zijun. But you miscalculated. I admire Wei Jichen's character as much as you do. "Wei Guangtao touched his beard and said lightly.

The Japanese's eyes flashed, and he said calmly: "Whether it is to sow discord between you and Wei Zijun is another matter, but we will only hand Ximu City into the hands of Wei Zijun. Only the strong can win." With the respect of our brave warriors of the Japanese Empire, not only will the brigade commander be able to accept it, but His Excellency Nozu Michizuki, the commander of our First Army, will definitely agree to hand over Ximu City to the hands of Wei Zijun. , Not to mention whether the Commander will agree or not, even our imperial warriors in Ximu City will not accept it, so we have no choice but to continue fighting. "

When Li Guangjiu heard these words, he was so angry that his lungs almost exploded. It was so insulting. It clearly showed that he looked down on our Hunan Army. Among the ranks of the Qing army, he only looked up to Wei Zijun.

"Since you want to fight, let's continue fighting!" Li Guangjiu stood up, said these harsh words, and walked out angrily.

Li Guangjiu said this, so Wei Guangtao naturally couldn't keep any more Japanese envoys.

Immediately, the two men led the Hunan army to attack again for a whole morning. Naturally, they did not gain any advantage. Instead, they lost a lot of troops and had to take a break.

Wei Guangtao was depressed and saw that this was not going to work, so he discussed with Li Guangjiu: "Guangjiu, although the words of the Japanese are a fallacy, they are also quite reasonable. Rather than hurting both sides like this, it is better for us to report the news to the sea." Li Yunfei of the city invited him to come to the front line of Ximu City. As long as we capture Ximu City, it will be a great achievement. Then the world will care about how we captured it? "

Li Guangjiu said nothing with a gloomy face, but reluctantly nodded after a while.

The two were about to send someone to Haicheng, but unexpectedly a sergeant came in to report.

"I would like to report to you two adults that Wei Zijun Li Yunfei has captured Ximu City and sent people to invite you two adults to enter the city." The soldier said with a surprised look on his face.

The soldiers wouldn't care about that much. As long as there was no more fighting, they would be happier than anyone else, no matter who took it.

Li Guangjiu and Wei Guangtao were furious and depressed after hearing this.

They had tried their best and spent a lot of money to attack for several days, but they still couldn't take Ximu City. But Li Yunfei showed up in time and went to pick peaches alone. Anyone would be annoyed.

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In fact, Li Yunfei didn't understand what was going on more than the two of them. Not long ago, a Japanese envoy claimed that he was willing to hand over Ximu City to the Xiang Army and the Wei Army, and asked him to come to the west gate to take over at noon today.

Li Yunfei was naturally happy. It was a good thing for everyone to be able to take Ximu City without blowing the trumpet.

Without saying anything, he rushed to the west gate of Ximu City overnight with hundreds of soldiers and sent soldiers in to see that the Japanese had indeed retreated.

Although he didn't understand why the Hunan Army hadn't entered the city yet and seemed to be gathering at the east gate, Li Yunfei thought it would take some time for their army to move out, so he led his troops happily and stepped into Ximu City.

Who would have thought that this would become a performance of the Wei Army wanting to win credit.

It seems that the Wei Army and the Hunan Army really have a lot of grudges.

Yamaji Motoharu in Jinzhou also used the same trick to provoke the relationship between Wei Jichen and Song Qing.

Yamaji Motoharu instructed the commander of the second brigade stationed in Fuzhou, Nishi Kuanjiro, to send people to Gaiping, expressing his willingness to hand over some small towns around to Wei Jichen intact.

Wei Jichen, who already understood that Kawakami Soroku wanted to deal with him, immediately saw through this trick of Kawakami Soroku to sow discord, and immediately told Song Qing the details.

Wei Jichen understood that the most important thing for people to get along with each other is to communicate in time, and many people fell into mutual suspicion and distrust.

"The Japanese really tried their best to destroy the relationship between you and me. Unfortunately, I didn't expect that you and I have become close friends regardless of age." After hearing Wei Jichen's explanation, Song Qing couldn't help but laugh, and his white beard trembled.

The generals were holding a military meeting to discuss the matter of sending troops, and Wei Jichen said it openly.

Seeing him so happy, Song Qing's trusted generals Ma Yukun and Song Desheng couldn't help but admire Wei Jichen's good conduct in their hearts.

Ma Jinxu was even happier. Originally, when he learned that Wei Jichen had lost his position as assistant military affairs, he was worried that Wei Jichen would have a grudge with Song Qing, and it would be difficult for him to be caught in the middle.

"General Song, since the Japanese are willing to return these small towns to us, should we send some troops to occupy this place?" Song Desheng suggested with a smile on his face. How could he not be happy to recover the lost land without a single soldier?

Seeing that Song Qing was about to nod his head and agree, Wei Jichen hurriedly persuaded him solemnly: "Marshal Song, I think it is unnecessary to send troops to occupy those small towns, and it may not be worth the loss."

According to the Qing army's usual tactics of "relying on strong fortresses to defend against the Japanese army", a large part of the troops were used for garrison, coupled with the need for other garrisons, although the Qing army far exceeded the Japanese army in total strength, it was actually not much different from the Japanese army in local strength, so the Japanese were able to rely on a quick battle and a quick decision to drive all the way.

Now, as the counterattack party, Wei Jichen naturally did not want to see Song Qing disperse his troops again. The Japanese retreated from those small towns, and only one or two hundred people were sent to maintain order. If too many people were sent, they would be like the Japanese now, with less and less troops on the Liaodong battlefield, and had to shrink to a few large cities.

Wei Jichen quickly told his concerns, and then said: "On the battlefield in Shandong, the Japanese had more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, while our side had far more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, but they were defeated by the Japanese one by one, so that the army was demoralized, the soldiers fled, and had no intention of fighting again. Now our army should aim to annihilate the Japanese's living forces."

When Wei Jichen said this, he looked around at everyone and saw that everyone looked serious, so he continued: "Killing one Japanese means one less Japanese in Liaodong. It is far less convenient for them to replenish from the country. In this way, even if all the cities in Liaodong are occupied by the Japanese, the final victory will still belong to us."

Song Qing applauded at first and said: "You are worthy of being a famous scholar who can write on protracted war. Zijie's words have opened the eyes of the old man and others. If it were not for the order of the court, the old man would have abdicated."

Ma Yukun and others looked at Wei Jichen with admiration. It is true that there is no false reputation under the reputation.

"Don't say that. You are just a talker. General Song is very experienced. How can a rookie like me compare to you?" Wei Jichen replied modestly.

"Hey, Zijie, what is a rookie?" Song Qing asked with a puzzled look.

The generals around him also looked at Wei Jichen with curiosity.

Wei Jichen realized that he was so happy that he said something too fast. At this time, he had to rack his brains and said, "Rookie is a slang in my hometown. It means someone who has little practical experience and can only talk about war."

Song Qing touched his beard and sighed, "Zijie is too modest. Even you think you are a rookie. Aren't we all rookies?"

"Yes, we are a group of rookies." The generals all agreed with Song Qing's words and sighed in unison.

Wei Jichen was embarrassed.

After everyone finished expressing their feelings, Song Qing said solemnly: "Everyone, I plan to send out the army tomorrow, and the target is directly towards Fuzhou City. I also ask all the generals to work together with me, Song Qing, to capture this city in one fell swoop."

"We will follow the orders of General Song!" All the generals shouted in unison to show their determination.