Chapter Eighteen: When the Famous General Met Ye Shao

  Ye Zhi Kui didn't receive the news of Oshima Yoshimasa's seppuku until the third day after the war, and couldn't help but sigh, "How can this guy be so narrow-minded? I was just joking with him, did he have to go to such extremes?"

  At this time, Ye Zhiqi had already separated from Ma Yuqun's Yi Army, and the two men led their respective troops to support the right and central routes.

  Ye Zhi Kui rode a fine horse, took a sip of wine, hummed a little tune, the person leading the horse in front also hummed a little tune. Ye Zhi Kui was happy and that's understandable, Jian Ren Shi Wu being happy also had its reasons.

  Originally, a few days ago, the Qing dynasty officer, Jian Shi, was curious about the surrendered See In Time, and surrounded him to observe. See In Time seized the opportunity to display his Osaka merchant spirit, posting a notice: "Those who want to touch his upper body, three copper coins; those who want to touch his whole body, five copper coins; those who want to have a special relationship, negotiate separately." At that moment, he made a big profit.

  This is not all, he also "sold" a white radish at the price of fifty taels of ginseng to a Yi army officer. The officer was Cao Kun, who had gone bankrupt selling cloth before. When he returned to China with joy, preparing to resell it, he was told that it was just a white radish. As a result, Cao Kun went bankrupt for the second time. Later generations even made this incident into a song: Radish! Ginseng! Foolishly can't tell them apart. This is another story, let's not say more.

  But the outcome of the battle has already been counted, and in this campaign, more than 3,000 devils were annihilated, the Japanese 11th Brigade was destroyed, with one lieutenant colonel and dozens of lieutenants below, hundreds of horses were captured, ten large cannons, and countless rifles. The Qing army itself suffered over a thousand casualties, including those who sprained their feet while chasing the enemy, and those who bit their tongues while shouting. It can be said that they won a great victory, which is rare in recent years. Suddenly, news of the victory spread rapidly, and telegraph business surged, causing several telegraph operators to die from overwork. The profession of telegraph operator became extremely popular for a time.

  Of course, our Ye Shao is still completely unaware of all this for now.

  When they were less than twenty miles away from Suoning, the scouts sent out reported that about ten miles ahead of the main army, our defeated soldiers appeared. Ye Zhi Kui's heart thudded, no way, could it be? The 2,500-strong troops had been messed up by Feng Sheng A and Jiang Zi Kang?

  Ye Zhi Kui hastily ordered his soldiers to build defensive positions and prepare for battle.

  About an hour later, hundreds of people fled in a hurry. If Ye Zhi Kui hadn't seen their military uniforms, he would have thought they were a group of Iraqi refugees. The weapons in the hands of this group of people had long been thrown away, and some even lost their shoes and ran barefoot. However, among these people, there was one person who was so cool that it was hard not to recognize him - he was like a firefly on a dark night. He was Feng Sheng A, who surprisingly escaped by sitting in a sedan chair. Ye Zhi Kui was speechless.

  This group of defeated soldiers ran to the front of Ye Zhiwei's defensive position, and Ye Zhiwei ordered them to retreat from both sides. They refused, and Feng Sheng'a even cursed loudly: "You little yellow-mouthed kid, how dare you block this general's retreat? This general will definitely impeach you in front of the empress."

  A cold glint flashed in Ye Zhi Kui's eyes, "What the...". He ordered his soldiers to open fire and shoot, instantly killing over a dozen people. Feng Sheng Ah stood still, not daring to speak, and followed Ye Zhi Kui's orders to pass by from the side.

  Feng Guozhang said in a low voice to Ye Zhiwei, "Ye Shao, this Feng Sheng'a has some power in the capital. Do you want to find someone to take care of him?" Feng Guozhang made a killing gesture. Ye Zhiwei smiled and replied, "This kind of clown has plenty of time to be dealt with, now is not the best time." Feng Guozhang closed his mouth and did not speak again. As an aide, he was very aware of his place, knowing when to speak and when not to speak.

  Feng Sheng was placed in the rear, and soon another group of defeated soldiers retreated. This group of defeated soldiers was much better off, at least they still had their weapons and were led by Jiang Zikang's Tiger Battalion. As soon as they saw Ye Shao, they looked like orphans who had found their father, each one listening obediently to his orders like a well-behaved child.

  Ye Zhi Kui invited Jiang to inquire about the situation, and it turned out that Feng Sheng Ah was too proud of his achievements, thinking he was wise and powerful. He didn't know that some things could be done by others but not by himself. Due to his greed for merit and recklessness, he fell into Li Jian's ambush. At this critical moment, if they had retreated properly, it wouldn't have ended in defeat. However, Feng Sheng Ah was afraid of death and retreated without order, being the first to flee. In the end, only over a thousand men from the 2,500-strong troop returned, with many others disappearing without a trace.

  Ye Zhi Kui let go of the Jiang self-Kang to rest for a while, the Japanese army Shao Ning branch team rushed over, shouting and scolding. This Japanese army had only fought with Feng Sheng A, thinking that all the Qing troops were like this, not worth fighting. Suddenly, he saw Shang Wen scolding Daisho Goto as a white idiot, actually being defeated by such an army, it's really the empire's shame. At this time, he still didn't know that Daisho Goto had already seen the great god.

  Ryōta Masuda is a renowned general known to the Japanese as the "Invincible Hand that Conquered All of Japan". Even Yamagata Aritomo, the elder statesman of the army, would avoid him on the streets until his death. During the Russo-Japanese War, he led 10,000 soldiers in a bayonet charge, successfully breaking through the encirclement of 100,000 Russian troops and turning defeat into victory. Unfortunately, due to his origins from the shogunate army, he was put on hold for some time and now holds a lower position than many people he defeated, only as a lieutenant general. Therefore, he is holding back his breath waiting for an opportunity to vent. To sum it up, what I want to say most is that he is really awesome, truly awesome.

  Unfortunately, Ye Shao gave him a stick this time and told him that being a person should be low-key, and pretending to be forced is costly.

  Li Jian saw the Qing army rushing towards him, it was really too easy. In his eyes, the Qing army were just a bunch of heads, and each head was a military merit. The Qing army was truly too weak, there was no need to resort to any conspiracy or trickery, they only needed to march forward with dignity and victory, pursuing and attacking again and again.

  Li Jianliang is also brainwashed, having stayed in Japan for a long time. After leaving that small place in Japan, he still thinks he's a military god, winning one or two small battles and thinking he's invincible.

  Seeing the Qing army's defensive position in front, Liang Wen didn't even think about it and directly dispatched a brigade. He only threw one sentence to the brigade commander - Let them see why the Empire's flowers are so red. The brigade commander immediately understood the leader's instructions, opened a meeting to promote the spirit of not being afraid of death as the XX party, using Japan's famous wave-style attack method, one wave after another, rolling in continuously.

  Lian Ye Zhi Kui couldn't help but sigh, the Japanese are really reckless. Lian Ye Zhi ordered his soldiers to hold their posts firmly, not even allowing them to return home during holidays, and to carry forward the spirit of enduring hardship and fatigue as if they were the 250th division. They launched wave after wave of attacks against the Japanese. After a while, the regimental commander took a look and thought this wasn't right - the waves behind were pushing forward, but the waves in front had all died on the beach, not even their teeth remained to be withdrawn.

  The Japanese first attack left two or three hundred corpses and retreated without success. The team leader hurriedly reported to Tatsuhiro Nomura, requesting tactical guidance, and Tatsuhiro Nomura decided to suspend the attack for half a day to rest, hold a meeting to summarize the experience of failure, and prepare for the next PK.