The battle went very smoothly, as the British were far outnumbered by the Traversers, and their flanks were completely undefended and unmotivated, so they were almost instantly defeated, and a swift rout.

However, the British defense line was close to the sea on one side, Weihai Acropolis was behind, and the front and side were the troops of the traversers, so there was no place to escape, and as a result, a group of soldiers were killed, and the remaining soldiers retreated to the sea, and found that there was no way to escape, so they could only abandon their guns and surrender. And after dawn, when cleaning up the bodies of the fallen British soldiers, Weihaiwei was found

Xiao Jianjun and Shang Jinfeng received the news of the capture of Weihai Acropolis and the total annihilation of the British army on the Kunming ship, although this had been expected for a long time, but the two were still very happy, after all, it only took one night to fully capture Weihaiwei, which is also worth celebrating.

On the other side, the transport ships anchored in the Wei Bay fled from the south entrance of the Wei Bay after the fire was raised. However, the Yueyang and Sanya warships were already waiting at the south entrance of Wei Bay, and when they saw a British transport ship fleeing, they immediately opened fire and bombarded them. ALTHOUGH THE PJ26 SINGLE-BARRELED 76MM STEALTH NAVAL GUNS OF THE YUEYANG AND SANYA SHIPS ARE THE WEAKEST NAVAL GUNS AMONG SEVERAL PASSING WARSHIPS, THE TRANSPORT SHIPS ARE NOT WARSHIPS AFTER ALL, NOT ONLY DO THEY HAVE NO ARMOR PROTECTION, BUT ALSO SOME OF THEM ARE WOODEN STRUCTURES, SO THE NAVAL GUNS OF THE YUEYANG AND SANYA SHIPS ARE MORE THAN ENOUGH TO DEAL WITH THEM. MOREOVER, THE PJ26 SINGLE-BARRELED 76MM STEALTH NAVAL GUN ALSO HAS THE ADVANTAGES OF FAST RATE OF FIRE AND HIGH ACCURACY, AS A RESULT, IN 10 MINUTES, THREE TRANSPORT SHIPS WERE SUNK IN A ROW, AND TWO WERE HIT INTO FLAMES, ILLUMINATING A LARGE AREA OF THE SEA.

Seeing this, the rest of the transport ships did not dare to run again, so they had to turn around and return to Wei Bay, but fortunately, the Yueyang and Sanya ships did not rush to kill them all, and when they saw that these transport ships had retreated, they also stopped the pursuit. After all, these transport ships are not armed, and it is better to persuade them to surrender after dawn and take these transport ships for their own use.

However, the crew of the transport ship did not know the plans of the traverser, only knew that it was not safe in Wei Bay, although there was still a Japanese island battery guarding at the south entrance of Wei Bay, but the north entrance was completely open, so the other party could break into Wei Bay at any time and sink all these transport ships, and they had no power to resist, so they were also very worried at this time.

But after waiting for a while, there was no warship to launch an artillery attack on them, and the crew on board was also puzzled, but they did not dare to act rashly, and waiting is often the most difficult, because they are waiting for death, and some crew members even muttered: If the other party wants to do it, it is better to hurry up and sink their ship as soon as possible, so as not to wait and suffer in this way.

Having said that, Bi Jing didn't want anyone to die, so he could only suffer while waiting. As the time passed, the dark night gradually passed, and the day slowly fell, and the crew of the transport ship realized that four silver-white painted and huge warships had been anchored in Wei Bay, and the muzzles of their guns were all pointed at themselves.

At this moment, I saw a small warship sailing towards the transport ship, and it made a sound, and carefully listened to the English that was still shouting, and persuaded the crew of the transport ship to surrender. And declared that if they did not surrender, they would sink the transport.

After a while, one of the transports signaled that it was willing to surrender, and the other ships saw it and said they all surrendered. So under the command of the opposing warship, they docked and anchored in turn, and the crew all got off the ship and went ashore to accept the inspection of the army, and all the transport ships, as well as the materials on board, were handed over to the army of the traverser.

At the same time, the crossing army surrendered to the Ridao Fort, and the British troops guarding the fort could only give up resistance and surrender to the traverser, and then the headquarters ordered to transfer a company of troops from the marine battalion of the crossing army to land on Liugong Island, surrender and clean up the remnants of resistance on Liugong Island.

At about 10 o'clock in the morning, the crossing army was considered to have completely controlled the entire Weihaiwei area, and after counting, a total of 188 British soldiers were killed in this battle, 3 warships and 5 transport ships were sunk, 273 British soldiers were captured, 217 crew members were captured, 11 transport ships, 8 shore defense guns of various types, and more than 200 rifles of various types. Only 69 people were wounded and not a single person was killed.

Although the results achieved in this battle were not great, it was not easy to achieve zero casualties, given that it was a landing operation and that there were new troops participating in the battle. In the Battle of Dagukou, the first time the crossing army was damaged. Of course, such a result is also related to the fact that the British army is not strong and completely unready for battle.

But in any case, the first step of the plan to attack Shandong has been a perfect success, Xiao Jianjun sent the news of victory to Tianjin, and then landed by boat, came to the Weihai Acropolis, and arranged for the traverser to take over the work of the Weihai Acropolis, because there was a battle plan to attack Qingdao next, and Weihaiwei was the forward temporary headquarters of the traverser.

At this time, after Xia Bohai and Qin Zheng, who stayed in Tianjin, received Xiao Jianjun's report, they immediately ordered the follow-up troops who had already been ready to go at Dagukou to board the ship and set off for Weihaiwei. After the order reached Dagukou, twelve transport ships loaded with five battalions of troops, along with the corresponding ammunition and supplies, rushed to Weihaiwei under the escort of six small warships that had passed through the army prisoners.

Subsequently, in the name of the Tianjin Provisional Government, the traverser officially telegraphed and announced that the traverser had recovered Weihaiwei.

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"Lord Zhongtang, you must have received the call from overseas Chinese. ”

Li Hongzhang looked at Huo Bilan, the British Consul General in Shanghai, who had a calm face in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh bitterly, nodded, and said, "Of course I received it." ”

Huo Bilan said: "Now that Lord Zhongtang has known, I will not say polite words, I have to tell you that the behavior of overseas Chinese cannot be described excessively, but completely provocative, provoking the dignity of our British Empire, I can tell you clearly that the British Empire will never tolerate the provocative behavior of overseas Chinese, and will use all measures and any means to retaliate against overseas Chinese, including means of war." ”

Li Hongzhang sewed his eyes and said, "Your Excellency Consul's statement just now represents the attitude of your government?"

Huo Bilan nodded and said, "Of course, I have sent the news of the capture of Weihaiwei by overseas Chinese back to China as soon as possible, and I have been authorized by the country to express the attitude of our British government to Lord Zhongtang. ”

Li Hongzhang said: "So has your government decided to take military action against overseas Chinese? ”

Huo Bilan said: "This is not yet, but this issue will be submitted to the parliament for discussion, and in my personal opinion, the parliament is very likely to pass, because the dignity of the British Empire cannot be violated." ”

Li Hongzhang has been in charge of foreign affairs for a long time, and he also has a certain understanding of the domestic operations of various countries, and knows that although Britain is also a monarchy, the power of the monarch is constrained by the parliament, and major matters must be passed by the parliament before they can be done, and the monarch cannot do whatever he wants, while the power of the monarch of other monarchies, such as Germany, Russia, and the country, is much greater. Even if the British Parliament has not yet passed a resolution to send troops, it means that there is still room for maneuver. In addition, it cannot be ruled out that Huo Bilan is bluffing. Because Zhang Peilun went to Tianjin, he learned from overseas Chinese that Britain was now fighting a war in Africa, but the war was unfavorable and costly, so it was difficult to say whether it could start another large-scale war.

To be honest, Li Hongzhang was really shocked when he learned that the traverser captured Weihaiwei, but he didn't expect this group of overseas Chinese to really dare to do it, after the breakdown of negotiations and contacts, the first thing was to take the United Kingdom, and Britain as the world's first power, naturally will never give up, although now Britain is fighting in Africa, may not have the strength to send a large army, but it can call other countries to jointly send troops, and this war starts, its scale will not only expand tenfold, no matter who wins or loses, then only the Qing Dynasty will be unlucky, and the stability of the south can not be maintained。

However, although Li Hongzhang was worried, and at the same time very dissatisfied with the traverser, feeling that the traverser's behavior of challenging Britain was too reckless, but his attitude towards Huo Bilan was also quite slight, because Huo Bilan was simply a tone of asking his own teacher for sin, and the overseas Chinese occupied Weihaiwei, and I was not instructed by Li Hongzhang.

Of course, now Li Hongzhang belongs to the weak side, although he is unhappy, he can only endure it, and he has to accompany him with a smiling face, and said: "Then what does Your Excellency Consul mean by saying this to me, Your Excellency Consul knows, these overseas Chinese are not my subjects of the Qing Dynasty, and we can't control them." ”

The telegram of the traverser reached Shanghai, which caused another earthquake, and it was the British, who had been slapped in the face, and since Napoleon, no country had dared to despise the dignity of the British Empire in such a way. And the British Consul General in Shanghai, Huo Bilan, will also bear an unshirkable responsibility. Since the occupation of Tianjin by overseas Chinese, Shanghai has replaced Beijing as the center of communication between China and foreign countries, and all countries obtain information about China through Shanghai, and this information is naturally collected and sorted out by the consuls of various countries in Shanghai, and even personal opinions and attitudes will directly affect the judgment of various governments on China's situation.

And in this sense, Huo Bilan is obviously unqualified, because the information he sent back to China, as well as his personal opinion, did not mention that the traverser would attack Weihaiwei, so no matter how Britain dealt with Weihaiwei in the end, Huo Bilan's negligence in his duties could not escape.

Huo Bilan received the news of the attack on Weihaiwei in the early hours of this morning, but he failed to confirm the enemy's body at that time, and after the high-profile power of the traverser, Huo Bilan also realized that his political future had been greatly discouraged, so he came to Li Hongzhang in a hurry. Of course, he didn't look for Li Hongzhang to be angry, but Li Hongzhang was the only person who could directly contact the traverser at present, but after seeing Li Hongzhang, he couldn't suppress the fire and spoke a little too much.