After about 20 minutes, the train arrived in the administrative area, and everyone got off the train and went their separate ways. Shang Jinfeng and his entourage came directly to the wartime headquarters.

Last night, except for Shang Jinfeng, who led the fleet on the expedition, the other seven members of the wartime command group did not go home, and waited until 5 o'clock in the morning, when the two battles on land were basically over, before they went to the commander's lounge to rest, and at 7 o'clock in the morning, they all got up again to continue to discuss the next step of the war.

Although the KPA achieved great success in last night's battle, the situation facing the KPA on these two fronts is not optimistic, although the 2nd Army captured Liaozhong, but now it is facing the situation of being attacked by the Japanese army on two fronts, and Japan did not dare to start the war lightly, so it did not take the initiative to attack, but now the balance has been broken, and the Japanese army may cross the Liao River in other places at any time and burn the flames of war to the western Liaoning region to contain the actions of the KPA.

The problem on the part of Arthur is that the landing KPA has insufficient troops, only one division, and because the geographical environment of the landing site is not good, a large number of heavy weapons cannot be transported ashore, and can only rely on the fleet to provide fire support, so now the marines can only hold on to the area they are currently occupying and have no strength to attack Port Arthur.

At this time, Qiu Yahui, commander of the 2nd Army, sent a battle plan to the wartime command group to solve the current dilemma of the Liaohe battlefield, that is, to eliminate one army on the northern and southern fronts of Japan as soon as possible, so that the dilemma could be resolved.

Qiu Yahui put the target of the attack on the southern line of Shaling Fort, although the northern line of Ping'an Fort only has two reserve brigades, and the 10th Division is stationed in Shaling Fort, but Qiu Yahui's consideration is that Ping'an Fort is close to Liaoyang, if the People's Army chooses to attack Ping'an Fort, the Japanese army in Liaoyang will definitely send troops to support, and in contrast, Shaling Fort is actually a lone army, there are basically no reinforcements around, and after capturing Shaling Fort, the People's Army can take advantage of the situation to capture the two estuaries of the Liao River. Yingkou, so that the follow-up troops and materials of the People's Army can be sent to the vicinity of Liaoyang through the Liaohe River, and there are great convenient conditions for the next stage of the People's Army's operations.

The 17th Division was still stationed on the west bank of the Liao River to prevent the Japanese army from crossing the Liao River and burning the flames of war to the west bank of the Liao River, and there were armored trains to coordinate the operations in these two directions, while the 2nd and 9th Divisions, together with two reserve regiments, attacked Shalingbao and were supported by self-propelled artillery units and automobile-towed artillery units.

After discussion, the command group believed that Qiu Yahui's battle plan was feasible, and that Qiu Yahui was the commander of the front line, and he had a better understanding of the situation on the front line, so it also decided to approve Qiu Yahui's plan, and at the same time, it was also decided to let the 3rd Army prepare to land in western Liaoning, and once the 2nd Army was successful, it would immediately cross the Liao River and enter eastern Liaodong to participate in the battle, so as to continue to expand the results of the battle.

The top priority in the Lushun area is to immediately send additional troops to Lushun, of course, this has long been within the plan of the East China government, and now that the marines have avoided a landing zone in Lushun, it is completely possible to send troops to the Lushun area. The CMC's plan was to send the 1st Army to land in the Arthur area and fight in coordination with the Marines.

The 1st Army was formed on the basis of the 1st Division, and the Marine Corps was formed on the basis of the 1st Division, and Luo Yue himself was originally the commander of the 1st Division, and most of the middle and lower-level officers knew each other, so it was much more convenient for the 1st Army to accept Luo Yue's command in this kind of coordinated operation. The 1st Army, now stationed in Yantai, will be deployed immediately, and is expected to arrive at Lushun and land at about 3 p.m.

In addition, because heavy weapons cannot be landed, so in the battle into Port Arthur, the marines also need the fire support of naval warships, the existing 4 Zhenyuan-class warships are not enough, and the ships are too old, slow to take on the big responsibility, it is better to have 1-2 battleships to support, but this still needs to be negotiated with the navy.

Of course, the navy is not without trouble; although in yesterday's war, the navy won a complete victory, basically annihilating the Russian fleet, and the Japanese combined fleet was also hit hard, and the East China government obtained the right to control the sea in the Far East, but this does not mean that the naval fleet can stay in the port from now on, but must continue to attack, because the sea supremacy is embodied in the control of the sea area by warships.

Generally speaking, Russia has now been firmly confined to land and has withdrawn from the need for the sea, but Japan itself is an island country, and most of the materials need to be transported from outside, and there is no land connection between Japan and the Liaodong battlefield, so the battlefield's troops, weapons, and ammunition must be transported by sea, and the East China government must first cut off Japan's material delivery to the Liaodong battlefield, and secondly, destroy Japan's external sea lines of communication and isolate the Japanese archipelago.

Moreover, the strategic goal of the East China government to enter the war was to defeat Japan and Russia, seize the northeast region, and at the same time weaken the influence of Japan and Russia in the Far East, but in this way, both Japan and Russia were listed as hostile targets of the East China government. However, from a tactical point of view, fighting Japan and Russia at the same time is of course unfavorable to the East China government, but if Japan's sea transportation line to the Liaodong Peninsula is cut off, Japan will actually be excluded from the Liaodong battlefield, so that Russia can be dealt with with with all its might. Further, the complete isolation of the Japanese archipelago was to end the war in the future and create favorable conditions for the East China government to strive for greater interests at the negotiating table.

However, although the Combined Fleet has suffered a major blow, it still has a certain amount of spare strength, and there are at least two armored cruisers, although they are not enough to confront the KPA naval fleet, but in the local battlefield, they can still create some trouble for the East China government, so how to cut off Japan's sea transportation line to the Liaodong Peninsula, and even blockade the Japanese archipelago, requires a detailed plan and arrangement.

At this moment, Shang Jinfeng and his entourage came to the headquarters and first made a brief report to the headquarters on the course of the war, in fact, the battle report had already been transmitted back to Qingdao, and the other members of the wartime command group had seen it, and the details of the war had been written down and bound into a book, which could be read again slowly, and the main purpose of Bi Jing's meeting was not to listen to the report of the navy.

Shang Jinfeng first expressed his stance on supporting the Lushun operation, and decided to send two battleships, the Ocean and the Yang, to rush to the Lushun waters to support the Marine Corps in the operation, and the two battleships did not suffer any damage in yesterday's naval battle, and they were both equipped with 6 main guns, with strong firepower, and the caliber of the main guns was the same as that of the 4 Zhenyuan, and the shells could be used universally, which could reduce the difficulty of logistics. The two battleships were to depart at 2 p.m. and were expected to arrive in the waters off Arthur around 5 a.m.

As for cutting off the sea transportation line from Japan to the Liaodong Peninsula, Shang Jinfeng has already considered it. Since the Korean Peninsula is now under the control of Japan, the sea transportation route from Japan to the Liaodong Peninsula is roughly divided into two parts: one is to Lushun directly, and then the materials are transported to Liaoyang and Shenyang by the China Eastern Railway, and the other is to transport materials to the Korean Peninsula and then to the Liaodong region through the Korean Peninsula.

Before the start of the Russo-Japanese War, Japan had planned to build two railways on the Korean Peninsula - the Gyeongbu Line and the Gyeongui Line, which was centered on Seoul, the capital of South Korea, connecting the port of Busan in the south and Sinuiju on the border between China and North Korea, so as to be more conducive to transporting supplies to Liaodong through the Korean Peninsula. However, until now, only the construction of the Gyeongbu Line has been completed, and the Gyeongui Line has been suspended due to the influence of the Russo-Japanese War, so the transportation of materials in Japan is still mainly on the Lushun line.

However, as far as the East China government is concerned, cutting off the sea transportation line from Japan to the Liaodong Peninsula is, of course, to cut off the sea transportation line from Japan to the Korean Peninsula, otherwise it is meaningless to cut off the sea transportation line from Japan to Lushun. Therefore, the actual blockade line is about 7,000 kilometers from the Tsushima Strait as the core, southwest to the southern entrance of the Tsushima Strait, and northeast to the middle of the west coast of Japan's main island of Honshu.

Cutting off the sea lines of transport is generally done by protective cruisers and destroyers, and now there are four detachments of protective cruisers and destroyers in each of the KPA, and the number is completely sufficient. The first is yesterday's battle, although the combined fleet escaped two armored cruisers, but both armored cruisers were badly damaged in the war, and it will take at least two months to repair, so in a short time, both armored cruisers are not to worry.

However, the distance from Qingdao to the southern entrance of the Tsushima Strait is about 700 kilometers, which is not close, so it is best to have a temporary anchorage point for warships to temporarily rest, replenish, and shelter from wind and waves.

The preferred temporary anchorage is of course Tsushima Island, because Tsushima Island is located in the middle of the Tsushima Strait, the geographical location is also the best, but considering that Tsushima Island is Japanese territory, if the East China government occupies Tsushima Island, it will inevitably invest a lot of manpower and material resources to maintain its rule over the island, because Japan will not sit idly by and watch the East China government occupy Tsushima Island, it will inevitably try to destroy, because the inhabitants of Tsushima Island are Japanese, Japan does not need to invest too many resources, only need to send a small number of military personnel to the island, organize the island's residents to adopt guerrilla tactics, it is enough to cause huge trouble to the People's Army。

Then the next best option is Jeju Island. Jeju Island is located at the southern entrance of the Tsushima Strait, about 600 kilometers away from Qingdao and about 260 kilometers away from Tsushima Island, which is also a suitable location, and Jeju Island is a territory belonging to South Korea, and the residents of the island do not have a good impression of Japan, and relatively speaking, the Koreans of this era have a better impression of China, so that after the East China government occupies Jeju Island, the cost of ruling is of course much lower than the occupation of Tsushima Island.