The Eight-Nation Alliance arrived near the position of Hejiawan Village around 350 pm, more than three hours later than Colonel Otsu Yushu expected. The reason for the coalition was naturally that it was attacked on the way. In addition to the first attack in Kuhe Town, it encountered second consecutive attacks during the subsequent march.

During these three attacks, the coalition forces did not find an enemy. Only two soldiers said they seemed to have seen two figures. The coalition forces suffered a total of 41 people and were injured in 16 people, including sixteen people seriously injured and could no longer continue to participate in the battles later. Therefore, Yuki Otsu had to send them back to Dagukou to recuperate, and also sent a carriage and five soldiers to escort them.

Before the war officially started, more than fifty soldiers had been lost. Although it was not considered a trauma, it was not considered a blow to the morale of the coalition forces. Because he was beaten like this, he had not found the shadow of the enemy. Yuki Otsu had the idea of ​​retreating more than once, but he finally gave up. After all, it was impossible to retreat at this point.

However, Yuki Otsuki also put aside his gaze of this mysterious enemy. No matter whether this army was a Qing army or not, he could not underestimate the enemy. Therefore, when the coalition forces reached about 4,000 meters in front of the landing troops, they stopped advancing. Then Yuki Otsuki drilled into a nearby woods to observe the enemy's positions. Fortunately, telescopes were not rare in this era, and there was no inconvenience.

Of course, many things can be accomplished in more than three hours. With the help of the villagers of Hejiawan Village, the landing troops also used this time to complete the construction of the fortifications of the defensive array. Three trenches were dug out in total, and the soldiers were all arranged in the trenches. Therefore, Qiu Yahui, the commander of the landing troops, was relieved and was waiting for the coalition forces' attack now.

In fact, the position set up by the landing troops is not wide, and it is only about a hundred meters horizontally. According to general common sense, the number of troops guarding this position should be about a hundred people. With the positions covered on both sides and the reserved troops, the total number is only more than 200 people, and there are not many artillery soldiers. Although the arrangement of the positions seems to be quite complete, it should not be too difficult to break such a position with the coalition forces.

However, the attacks encountered along the way made Yuki Otsu instinctively have a bad premonition in his heart, because the opponent's attack was indeed too elusive, forcing Yuki Otsuki to be cautious. Therefore, after observing the enemy's positions, Yuki Otsuki immediately recruited commanders from various countries and suggested that they should not attack the enemy's positions for the time being, but build their own positions first and start attacking the enemy's positions tomorrow.

However, Yuki Otsu's suggestion was opposed by the Russian commander Navy Lieutenant Colonel Mozgov. It turned out that on the way to march, the Russian army was behind the palace. Although the coalition forces were attacked several times, the Russian army was not injured and did not directly experience the terror of the snipers of the landing troops. On the contrary, they felt that the army of other countries was too incompetent. If it were the Russian army, they would never be so passive.

Russia has always regarded itself as a fighting nation, and only the German army can make the Russians look at the army of other countries; although Britain is known as the empire of the sun, it is only a maritime power. As for the army, even the British are embarrassed to mention that the tens of thousands of "Bor" people in South Africa can make the British army mess up, and they are not dealt with now; although France is an ally of Russia, in the eyes of the Russians, it is just a fool and a lot of money. The French army was so glorious in the Napoleon era, fighting all over Europe, and finally fell on the land of Russia. As a result, it was defeated and the huge empire collapsed. After Napoleon, the French army It is even more worth mentioning; the United States is not enough. The army is less than 100,000, but it is lucky and occupied a piece of irrelevant land. If it borders Russia, it would have been destroyed by Russia; while Italy and the Austro-Hungarian Empire were directly ignored; as for Japan, in the eyes of the Russians, it was just a group of yellow-skinned monkeys who could walk, and they were not even considered a human being. And the army of the Qing Dynasty, the Russians believed that it could not be considered an army at all, because Japan could defeat the Qing Dynasty and look at it all over the ground - even monkeys were not as good as monkeys, how could the fighting nations look at it? Therefore, looking at the world, it was Germany that had only risen in recent decades that Russia could look at it right away.

On the other hand, yesterday's battle obviously caused a great loss to the Russian army. More than 60 people died, and even the enemy's hair was not taken away. Although the commanders of other countries were not much when they gathered yesterday, the Russians could also see that they were all gloating, which was quite as if Russia had the same intention as today. Therefore, although the coalition forces were dispatched today to help the Russian army find the place, Lieutenant Colonel Mozgov knew that he could not rely on the coalition forces to fall from there and get up from there. The Russian army still had to rely on their own actions to prove that the title of "fighting nation" was not for nothing.

In the Ninth Russian-Turkish War (also known as the Crimean War) that broke out from 185 to 1855, in order to curb Russia's expansion into Europe, Britain, France, Italy, and Turkey jointly fought against Russia, but it defeated the Russian army, causing Russia to fall from its hegemony on the European continent. It was forced to sign the [Paris Peace Treaty] and return all the occupied Turkish land to Turkey. Tsar Nicholas I, who started this war, committed suicide by taking poison in the Kremlin because he could not face the complete defeat of the Russian army.

The failure of the Crimean War also deepened the domestic crisis in Russia, forcing the successor Tsarist government to carry out serfdom reforms, accelerated the development of capitalism in Russia, and established a number of modern industrial foundations.

After more than 20 years of development, Russia's national strength has been greatly improved. In 1877, Russia once again provoked the 10th Russian-Turkey War. This time, the Russian army, who were fully prepared to defeat the Turkish army and regained all the land lost in the Crimean War. Finally, it avenged this arrow and did not insult the title of "fighting nation".

Now that the enemy is not large, in Lieutenant Colonel Mozgov's opinion, the Russian army only needs to charge - even if it doesn't even need to charge. As long as the Russian army line up and walks by, they can cross the Qing army's defense line. Therefore, Mozgov said: "Colonel, wasn't the Colonel's speed last night? Why are we now in front of the enemy but not attacking the enemy? If so, why did we get up so early this morning and start from Dagukou, it would be better to stay in Dagukou for a while."

Yuki Otsu said patiently: "Lieutenant Colonel, my original plan was to suddenly attack and catch the opponent off guard with lightning speed. But now it seems that our enemies are obviously prepared. They not only set up a miracle army along the way to attack us and delay our advancement, but also arranged a defense line position. Therefore, we cannot underestimate our opponent. I suggest that we should set up our own position defense line first, and then think about how to break through the opponent's position so that we can attack, retreat and defend, and we must..."

But before Otsu Yuki's words were finished, he was interrupted by Mozgov's crazy laughter and said, "Setting up our position defense line is completely useless. Is it necessary to be so cautious when dealing with a group of yellow-skinned monkeys? You are afraid of the enemy, but our Russian soldiers are not afraid of any enemies; if you are unwilling to launch an attack, then our Russian soldiers will open the victory, and you can watch it."

Yuki Otsu's face changed. Of course, he knew that "yellow-skinned monkey" could be used to refer to both the Qing people and the Japanese. Although Mozgov gave this word in front of him, it also touched Yuki Otsuki's nerves. In the hearts of the Russians, it did not regard Japan as an equal teammate.

However, Yuki Otsu was still a calm person after all. Although he was angry, his face remained silent. He just turned his head and said, "Your army is indeed very courageous. Since the Lieutenant Colonel is so confident in the Russian army and believes that it can defeat the enemy, let us see the courage of the Russian soldiers."

It turned out that through the observation of the enemy's positions just now, Yuki Otsu was in a clear mind. Seeing that the enemy opposite the formation would never be vulnerable, it would be better to let the Russian army launch an attack first. If the Russian army could break through the enemy's positions, it would be better. Even if the Russian army failed, it could still test the enemy's strength through the Russian army's attack and provide reference for their subsequent battles. So Yuki Otsu remained calm and happily agreed to Mozgov's request, and the commanders of other countries had no objection. Obviously, they all hoped that the Russian army would try the enemy's strength.

Lieutenant Colonel Mozgov's heart was not as twists and turns as Otsu Yuki, or he found out that Yuki Otsu was not interested in it anymore, because as long as the Russian army won, everything would be fine. In Mozgov's opinion, winning was not a problem at all, so he proudly raised his chest and said, "Very well, I'll be a good audience. Our Russian warriors will stage a brilliant war drama for you."

At this time, Yuki Otsu said again: "I don't know if your army needs artillery support from our Japanese army. If you need it, you can just speak out, and our Japanese army will also support your army with all its strength."
Chapter completed!