Under the surveillance of the damn airship in the sky, it is really difficult to move on a large scale. Moreover, before withdrawing from the city's troops, you cannot fire first. Even if a damn bastard can't control his emotions and fire a shot outside the city, it will inevitably trigger a large-scale artillery fire counterattack from the enemy's naval fleet. It is really difficult to play this game of chess well.

Nogi Hinomi was even more difficult. What he faced was a three-dimensional battle where any previous knowledge and accumulation could not give him any help.

Times have changed.

For an hour, this was the agreement between Nogi Hinomi and Yamane Nobuma. It was him who met with the commander of Yamane's brigade in person and finally persuaded the brigade headquarters to change its decision after a fierce argument. The central point of Nogi Hinomi was that rushing out of the city was no different from committing suicide, and it could not change the fate of Nagasaki becoming a fire city at all.

This mixed division is full of talents. Even Nogi Kidun, a brigade commander of the infantry brigade, has the rank of major general. Yamane Nobuma, Oyama Iwa, and Nishiki Kidokori are all heroes in the military. Now, after trying to suppress the anger, Yamane Nobuma's division is moving his huge army of 15,000 people, and under the cover of Nagasaki citizens, he is completing a conspiracy to remove firewood from the bottom of the pot.

Nagasaki, if you cannot avoid the fall of destruction, then let your fall of destruction bring some glory to the Emperor!

Yamane Nobuma looked at Nagasaki in front of him and muttered silently. He closed his eyes and muttered for a while. When he opened his eyes, he was already calm. He looked up at the airship in the sky, angrily snatched the rifle of the soldiers beside him, raised his gun and aimed it, his fingers trembling with the trigger, but did not fire for a long time.

The soldier looked at his brigade commander nervously. Although he knew that it was impossible to shoot down the airship, he still felt lucky. Perhaps, the person who shot was the commander of Yamakeshi's brigade, and the ending would probably be different.

"Haha---" Yamane Nobuma suddenly grinned and turned the Mauser rifle purchased from Germany beautifully in the air with both hands, then ended with a standard gun-standing attentive action, and his face was solemn: "Stand at the moment! Turn back! Salute! To His Majesty the Emperor!"

With his right hand lifted, he lifted the rifle over his ankle, bent his elbow and sent the rifle flat to his chest. At the same time, he burst out from his chest with everyone in the division: "Salute! His Majesty the Emperor is full of stuff!"

"After the gift!" Yamane Nobuma's face was extremely fierce, and she roared and asked everyone to finish the salute. Yamane Nobuma's rifle was flat and said to the guard beside her in a very short tone: "Shishiro! Hold your gun away! Your division commander saved you a bullet, tell me! What will you repay!"

The boy named Shishiro's eyes were filled with excitement mixed with fierce light, and he roared panting: "Secretary Commander! It's the life of the Chinese people! The life of the Chinese people!"

All people's blood is thriving. This is the effect that Shangen Xincheng wants.

"Report!", the communications soldier rushed in quickly and wiped the sweat from his head panting: "Report to the commander of the division! Nogi brigade has moved to the front line of Iimoyama and Fankan Mountain in Tobikimachi, and ask the commander of the division to retreat to Saga Prefecture as agreed!"

"Okay!" Yamane Nobume slapped on his thigh and said seriously: "Tell the Yamane Division! Abandon the baggage and immediately retreat to Saga Arita Town to set up defenses on the Arita River line. The First Brigade left two teams to disturb the enemy on the Matsuo Hill. The division headquarters targeted the Jinshan Mountain two kilometers east of Matsuo Hill! Set out!"

(The Japanese place names are a bit strange, so let's just look at them. For example, in Nagasaki, there are two broken mounds, Iimoyama and Fankan Mountain. In fact, they are almost the same as they read...)

Outside Nagasaki, Duan Qirui's anger was hard to contain, and it had been a quarter of an hour. The dozen or so Japanese soldiers in front of him were bent over and said repeatedly from time to time: "Please accept the surrender of the heavenly soldiers." But the only thing they could say was this, and the others, no matter what they asked, were like this.

I was really angry. The Qing army on Duan Qirui's side wanted to kick these flies hard, but they couldn't get out of their feet. The dozen or so disarmed Japanese soldiers kept falling to the ground with tears. It looked quite bitter. Besides, they were here to surrender, so why bother bullying them again?

The machine gunners in the simple bunker behind the Japanese soldiers occasionally turned around and sighed a little pitiful.

The people from the command center were back, and they were furious. They ran and shouted, "There is a fraud, guard Duan is careful!"

Duan Qirui was stunned. What else could be cheated? He had surrendered his weapons and searched them. He was bare-handed and had his swords and guns in his hands, so he was afraid of them. But this Nagasaki...

Thinking of this, he not only turned around and looked at the direction of Nagasaki Castle. It would be fine if he didn't look back, but when he turned around, Duan Qirui couldn't help but say, "Oh my God!"

In front of him was a ferocious face that could not be more ferocious. His red eyes were staring like copper bells, with bloody mouths wide open, revealing white teeth, and were rushing towards him. Duan Qirui reacted quickly and showed his skills in military training over the years. He kicked the man in the stomach with his right hand and pulled out the pistol at his waist.

"Bang!" A muffled sound came from the direction of Nagasaki at the same time, and a gorgeous firework bloomed in the sky. A small team rushed out of the city gate.

"The Japanese are going crazy!" Before Duan Qirui could recover from the shock just now, he felt a cold sweat behind him. He raised his hand and slammed a Japanese man and roared: "Kill these dog gods!"

Of course, it would not take too much effort to solve these fool-headed soldiers who had been bent down and bent to death. Duan Qirui, the hangman, immediately chopped over the dozen Japanese soldiers to the ground, and lie down on the ground, crawling towards the simple fortifications in front.

Of course, these people will not ask them to do anything. The machine guns in the outer guard circle began to spray fire tongues when the Japanese approached, and dozens of wheat were harvested quickly this summer. So fast that even the navy people didn't react.

Of course, the Japanese army's charge of dying did not stop. Seeing that after this band of wheat, a group of slow-moving civilians came out of the city gate. Each of them looked ragged and almost fell down when the wind blew. They hunched over and slowly came towards the Qing army's position. Several people in the crowd occasionally shouted a few motivational slogans such as "For the Emperor!" and "The Emperor is full of stuff!", and a group of people ignored the bodies under their feet and slowly walked forward.

It is obvious that the charge of the armed soldiers just now was not driven by the Japanese command, but seemed more like the spontaneous behavior of a group of soldiers. They paid the price for their stupidity with their lives.

The machine gunner was busy using water to cool the barrel, while looking at Duan Qirui nervously. At the front post of this landing field, Duan Qirui was the highest-ranking military officer. The nearly 100 people in this machine gun shed and two infantry sheds saw the large number of Japanese people who looked like the people gradually approaching, and they would not shoot, nor would they not shoot.

On the airship in the sky, Hu Sangen was also nervously watching the abnormal movements in Nagasaki Castle. His temporary negligence just now made him lose his observation target, but he was surprised to find that those targets have appeared again. The Japanese army in the city is retreating orderly towards the southeast suburbs. According to the map, it was in Hasamima Town, southeast of Sasebo City, Nagasaki Prefecture. It was adjacent to it, which was a plain suitable for infantry to retreat quickly. From the distance, it exceeded the fire range of the naval guns. The Japanese civilians who fled one after another seemed to have never stopped.

"Dog Damn Japanese pirates are about to run away!" Hu Sangen cursed and quickly passed the situation back to the ground.

The sentinels in front fell in Nie Shicheng's eyes. If they were put in the past, he would send infantry to release the horse and order those who crossed the line to kill them. After killing a few people, no one would dare to cross the line again. He had not taken this mob seriously. In his opinion, Duan Qirui had a hundred and ten people there, and he could not make any tricks.

What made him care about was the urgent report of the airship that had just been decoded. The large Japanese army had begun to evacuate to the southeast. It seemed that he was willing to give up Nagasaki. This was the best. In such a city, unless he was willing to massacre the city and did not care about civilian casualties, it would be difficult to eat it with his troops of more than 12,000 people.

There is no way, who made this the first battle? If the first battle was all about the incendiary bombs of naval guns, a torch burned Nagasaki clean, it was refreshing, but what would he do? Moreover, this was not good for the image of the Qing Dynasty, and it would easily allow the British and French to find reasons to interfere, which would cause trouble to the emperor's plan. Thinking of this, Nie Shicheng stood up and issued an order slowly: "One hour later, Lord Ye Zhichao's troops will arrive. Brothers, please cheer up the general, prepare to enter the city, and make some houses for Lord Ye's soldiers behind to live!"

"Zha——" When the staff and correspondents in the central army tent heard that the Japanese were going to escape, they were all smiling. They could pull out a heavy city without spending a penny of effort, and they would not lose any credit. The emperor has always been generous to the Dragon Flag Army. This was simply a wealth that fell from the sky and hit the head.

However, Wang Shizhen and Feng Guozhang never put down the telescope in their hands. Wang Shizhen murmured: "Master, please look down. You have to take action quickly and kill him a few to stop."

Nie Shicheng didn't raise his head, and hurriedly looked at the map on the table for a while, and moved his fingers randomly on the map, knocked it from time to time, and raised his head and ordered: "Feng Guozhang, your cavalry battalion, come out a shed of people to stop the civilians, and those who go two hundred steps, kill them! All the rest of the central army will stand by me outside the tent! The commander of the navy to aim at Nagasaki Castle and fire hard! If you want to mess up, let him mess up enough! Damn, don't eat toast and drink. After all, there is more than 30,000 people missing! I want to put such a big pocket for me toast, but I have no way!"

Nie Shicheng's judgment was based on the original concept of 45,000 troops stationed in Nagasaki. Now 10,000 people are heading east. According to his calculations, there should be 35,000 Japanese soldiers in the city. Based on this judgment, it is obvious that the Japanese wanted to use 10,000 retreat troops as suspicious soldiers to try to leave Nie Shicheng the illusion that there is no soldiers in Nagasaki City, luring Nie's troops into the city to fight street battles. The two sides faced close forces, so the navy's heavy artillery could not play its advantage.

Nie Shicheng's judgment was certainly correct, but in fact, the two Japanese divisions had 30,000 people now moved to Oita Prefecture. What awaited them was the Tokyo Garrison Fleet and the Mitsubishi Transportation Company's fleet. The 30,000 people would cross the Seto Inland Sea from Oita to Hiroshima in three times, and then marched on land to cooperate with the train to rush back to Tokyo.

Unfortunately, the Qing army did not have large strongholds in Japan to take off and land large reconnaissance airships. Since Yuan Shikai's Qing army camp had moved south, North Korea could not take off from North Korea. At present, the air reconnaissance could only rely on four small airships on the front and rear decks of the Dingzhen two ships. Therefore, it was impossible to know that a large sea retreat was taking place on the other side of Kyushu Island. Otherwise, a massacre would inevitably be a massacre.

"The communication team sent me a report to the login ship behind me. Please ask Ye Zhichao to change the login and ask the navy to send a ship to escort them directly to Kumamoto login! The third group Dai Zongqian went to Fukuoka to log in!" Nie Shicheng issued orders to the communication team one after another, and said a lot of orders in one breath, saying hatefully: "I like to hit me with ambush, fuck, I will make your dumplings!"

Nie Shicheng developed a big temper when he was a teenager. When he joined the army and fought, he was also famous for his deep penetration behind enemy lines and rapid movements. He was loyal and righteous. Although he was a little rude in the military, he had nothing to say when fighting. Now that he saw the Japanese in the East playing this trick of putting condoms on him, his temper suddenly became aroused, so he changed his login plan immediately and he wanted to play a big game on Jiuzhou Island.

However, his mistake in judging Nagasaki's troops also led to the tragedy of Nagasaki citizens. There was a book in Japan called "Nagasaki's Demon King", which directly compared Nie Shicheng and Liu Buchan with Oda Nobunaga who burned Yanli Temple during the Warring States Period in Japan. It was called Nie Demon King on the Sixth Day and Liu Demon King on the Sixth Day. It is said that until many years later, whenever Japanese children cried at night, their mothers would silently stop crying when they mentioned the names of these two people, which was extremely effective.

The Jiyuan ship was originally arranged to escort the landing ship, but the sailors, who were worried, were reluctant to leave, squeezed on the back deck and watched Nagasaki getting farther and farther away. Their captain Fang Boqian did not control them, but instead stood with them, looking at the once familiar land in a complicated mood.

"Sir Guandao!", an excited voice: "It's going to fire! It's going to fire! It's going to fire! It's going to ask Mr. Liu for love! We want to stay!"

Fang Boqian was also excited and nodded. He knew that Liu Buchan would give him this face.

On the Dingyuan ship, the giant cannons that had already been calibrated to shoot the world began to roar, and the shells roared towards Nagasaki. The sticky turtle oil burst out from the incendiary bomb began to burn in a typical Japanese city like Nagasaki.

Nie Shicheng's telescope was always watching the situation in the city. To his surprise, there was no sign of the large-scale soldiers he wanted to see in the city.

Where did 30,000 people go? How can I hide?

Feng Guozhang's cavalry could not control the more and more civilians. Although the sharp sabers were slashing in the air, nothing seemed to be able to stop the Japanese who seemed to be a little crazy. Behind was the fire city that was gradually igniting, and in front was the Qing army's machine gun position, and it seemed that they would die wherever they went.

Feng Guozhang had ordered the killing of more than a dozen people. These people seemed to be afraid and still squeezed forward. Looking at the hundreds of unarmed civilians in front of him, Feng Guozhang quickly called Wang Shizhen's infantry battalion to send people to take down these people first.

This made this group of civilians. Those who stayed in Nagasaki City were basically trapped in a sea of ​​fire. Under the constant shelling, no one dared to come out to put out the fire. Half of Nagasaki City was burning, but Nie Shicheng still found no sign of the existence of a large-scale armed force.

"Damn it, let's see when you Japanese slaves hide!" Nie Shicheng scolded angrily: "Send an order to Liu Buchan! Hit hard until the shells are all shot!"

He paused and said, "The civilians who ran out, the injured sent military doctors to treat them, and left five hundred people to build a refugee camp for those who were not injured. Prepare to shelter refugees in the city!"

There are more than 20 military doctors, managed by a man named Sun Wen. He was directly recommended by the Secretary of the Military Department Li Hongzhang to serve in the Longqi Army. Because he studied in Hong Kong, his English was also good, and he happened to be used in mixed with the original Chinese medicine. He was good at some surgical matters.

Sun Wen originally suggested some reform strategies to Li Hongzhang. Li Hongzhang did not take his own time to meet this student from Hong Kong, but he listened to a bunch of suggestions for reforms that were already underway or were about to be carried out immediately. It was very funny. However, considering that the army would introduce more Western medical talents in the future, he greeted Nie Shicheng and asked Sun Wen to go to the Longqi Army to build a military medical bureau and give him a guerrilla rank first.

"Sun Guerrilla!" A soldier riding on the horse shouted respectfully, jumped off the horse and brought several wounded people over, saluting Sun and said, "The General has an order. Please show these Japanese people if they are injured. If you pretend to be injured, you will say hello, and brothers will come to deal with them. If you are slightly injured, you will send them to help there. You are busy..."

"Hey——", Sun Wenweiweihan said in a first glance: "I heard of the accent, are you from Hunan? Have you never seen you before? They all know that you don't have to be polite to me."

"Reply to the guerrilla master." The young man looked upright, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and was a little restrained and said humbly: "Sir, you can hear that, yes, I am from Hunan, and I just arrived a few days ago with Lord Li Chengzong. Because I like riding horses, I arranged it under Lord Feng. My surname is Huang and I am Huang Xing. You are so nice."

Sun Wen smiled silly and said, "Oh, Huang Xing, a good name, do you have the word "bian"? However, I am not an adult. My name is Sun Wen, and my courtesy name is Yixian. I am from Guangdong."

"Hey, guerrillas are also an adult." Huang Xing touched the short hair on his head, and smiled honestly and said, "I have been reading this for a few years. You are so kind... polite. Lord Sun, let's see you back!"

"See you back!" Sun Wen smiled, looked at the young Huang Xing's far away back, and sighed softly, thinking that he had dreams and vitality like this young man. He originally hoped to attract the attention of Li Hongzhang, a giant in the middle of the court, but he did not expect that when he came to Beijing, he realized that his ideas were already in progress.

Well, it seems that we have to think about other opportunities in the future. The indomitable factor of Guangdong people gave Sun Yat-sen's character of fighting repeatedly. Looking at the wounded people with broken hands and arms, Sun Yat-sen smiled and decided to say, "You can't deal with such people all your life."

As he thought about it, his face became serious, he raised his hand to attract a Japanese man and started to move quickly.

The tent of Nie Shicheng in the army had already been opened. The 12,000 Dragon Flag Army left behind 1,000 people, and the remaining 11,000 people were divided into two towns under the command of Nie Shicheng. The command of Feng Guozhang and Wang Shizhen respectively went to the north of Sasebo City, where Nagasaki Castle was located. Due to the return of the airship, the area of ​​Hatsumimachi in the south had a complex terrain and Japanese soldiers passed by, so there might be ambush. So Nie Shicheng chose the north of Sasebo City, intending to intersperse from Sacho and Matsuura City, directly enter the adjacent Saga Prefecture, and then ordered the fleet to stop the artillery attack, and the large army entered Nagasaki directly to search for the hidden Japanese troops he thought were hidden but did not actually exist.

There is a airship in the sky watching, and there is no fear of any accident. Even if 30,000 people attacked the 1,000 people on the landing ground, under the protection of the naval guns and the seven or eight Maxim left behind, they would not have been able to rush to the beach without leaving behind a thousand eight thousand people. Of course, the Japanese were not that stupid. Did they rush over and jump into the sea to commit suicide?

Under such circumstances, the situation where there is no battle yet is developing in a better direction.

But things in the world are so strange. Sometimes the one who brings the greatest harm to oneself is often his own people. If the situation continues to develop as Nie Shicheng imagines, then Nagasaki Castle will definitely avoid that catastrophe. However, the movement of Nie Shicheng's troops to Saga caused Yamane Nobumasa Division to misjudgment the situation. It was his reckless behavior that led to the tragedy of burning Nagasaki.

Let us shrink our attention to the strategic level of Kyushu Island. At about 2 pm that day, Nie Shicheng's troops began to move to the rear of Nagasaki Castle, trying to avoid what Nie thought was hidden troops in the city. At the same time, the second wave of landing ships arrived at Kumamoto under the escort of the fleet, easily occupying the empty city, and commanding the troops, Ye Zhichao, the admiral of Zhili.

On the sea, the Shandong New Army Dai Zongqian's troops were looking forward to the east, and were wasting time excitedly and bored.

On the Japanese side, 10,000 Yamane Nobuma's troops had retreated to the Arita River (called Arita's Little River) to deploy defenses. This place was far away from the range of the Qing naval naval guns. Yamane Nobuma's goal was to teach the Chinese people a lesson here. For this goal, he even gave up Nagasaki.
Chapter completed!