On March 1 0, the 1st Army, composed of the Guards Division, the 2nd Division, and the 12th Division, officially entered the Korean Peninsula and landed at Dagushan Mountain, the mouth of the ocean west of the Yalu River, and then pointed directly at Mukden. The 9th, 10th, and 11th divisions were to form the 2nd Army, land in Dalian Bay, and attack Lushun. It is also planned to set up the headquarters in Zhennanpu, at the mouth of the Datong River.

On the same day, the Japanese Government sent a diplomatic letter to the East China Government, expressing its gratitude to the East China Government for rescuing 2 9 Japanese soldiers, and informing the East China Government that it hoped to postpone the cooperation between the two sides in the war against Russia, which was originally scheduled for March to be held in March. The East China Government also expressed its understanding and agreed to Japan's postponement of the consultations.

Originally, Japan hoped to hold this consultation after the second blockade operation, and if the second blockade operation was successful, then Japan would gain a greater initiative in the consultations. In addition, now the Vladivostok detachment of the Russian Far Eastern Fleet has also begun to attack, destroying Japan's sea lines of communication, and has sunk two merchant ships, the main force of the Vladivostok detachment is two large armored cruisers: Rurik and Grombowie, and the large protective cruiser Strongman, and now the combined fleet has to go all out to deal with the Pacific Fleet, and cannot divide its forces to deal with the Vladivostok detachment, so the second blockade operation has also become a key part of the war.

The combined fleet has undergone serious preparations, and there are 4 ships moving this time, which are Chiyo Maru, Fukai Maru, Yoneyama Maru, and Yahiko Maru, and 1 less than the first time, because after Akiyama Shinyuki and other staff officers discussed, they thought that with the experience of the first blockade operation, and there was already one ship sunk in the predetermined location, only two more ships were sunk in the predetermined place, and it would be enough to block the channel, so the difficulty of the second blockade operation should not be great, and 4 ships would be enough, after all, as long as there was a 50% success rate. The officers who participated in the blockade operation, the master planner of the blockade operation, Arishi Arima, and the only one to sink the ship at the predetermined location last time, the entire combined fleet was full of confidence in this operation.

On March 23, Togo Heihachiro gave the order to conduct a second blockade operation, and the combined fleet departed from Incheon Port at 2:30 a.m. on March 26 and headed for Port Arthur again, reaching 25 nautical miles southeast of Endo at 6 p.m., and the blockade fleet reached the south of Laoteosan at 1 a.m. on the 27th.

However, this time the blockade operation was unfavorable from the beginning, and before the fleet approached the outer port of Arthur, it was discovered by the Russian coastal searchlights, and the shore batteries began to shell fiercely.

It turned out that the new commander of the Pacific Fleet, Makarov, had arrived in Arthur on 8 March to take up his post, and although Makarov had inherited a mess, after less than 20 days in office, Makarov showed the quality of a famous general, first of all, he quickly dismissed a group of incompetent officers and quickly promoted a group of young and promising officers to key posts. In terms of tactics, Makanov strengthened the operations of the Pacific Fleet, changed the original method of using tugboats, and shortened the fleet's departure time from 12 hours to three hours, laid mines in the coastal areas of the Liaodong Peninsula, interfered with the actions of the Japanese fleet, and frequently sent fleets to the sea to reconnoiter the enemy's situation on the one hand, and on the other hand to attack instead of defend; at the same time, he also telegraphed the Vladivostok detachment to attack and disturb the Japanese sea lines of communication。

Moreover, Makarov's work was not limited to the navy, but also assisted the coastal artillery in perfecting the artillery control system, setting up signal poles on the top of the Golden Mountain, organizing coordinated training between the navy and the army, and so on. It can be said that in less than 2 0 days, Makarov did what his predecessor had not done for several years. And the Russian army in the entire Port Arthur has been completely renewed, and the soldiers have been greatly improved.

In the past few days, Japanese warships have stepped up reconnaissance of Port Arthur, and Makarov also realized that Japan is likely to conduct another blockade operation in the near future, so he has also made full preparations for a battle in Port Arthur. First, it ordered the steamers Hailar and Harbin to sink on the east coast of the central part of the Laohuwei Peninsula outside the harbor to obstruct the movement route of the Japanese fleet, and then arranged for destroyers to patrol outside the harbor on a regular basis, paying attention to concealment, and if they encountered enemy ships, they could carry out a sneak attack if possible, and also arranged warships to guard the outer harbor.

When the closed fleet arrived near Port Arthur, the Russian fleet was on guard duty with the gunboats Boble and Atswagine, and the destroyers Sylne and Lesitrine were stationed in the outer harbor and were ready to dispatch at any time. Therefore, when the blockade fleet approached Port Arthur, it was subjected to joint shelling by batteries on both sides of the strait and warships in the port.

As a result, in just over 20 minutes, all four blocked ships were sunk or forced to self-detonate and sink, but none of them broke through to the outer port of Arthur, let alone blocked the channel.

And unlike the last time, when only one soldier was killed, a total of 15 people were killed in this battle, including the commander Takeo Hirose. Originally, Takeo Hirose had boarded the lifeboat and was about to evacuate, but when the roll call was called, it was found that Sugino Sun Qibing Cao was not there, so Takeo Hirose returned to Fukui Maru to look for him, but he was hit in the back of the neck by a cannonball, * splashed around, his body flew out, and the person next to him did not catch his feet, and the person disappeared into the sea. His men collected the scraps of his minced meat, which was only enough to fit into a wooden box the size of a lunch box.

The Second Blockade Operation was a complete failure, but in order to maintain the prestige of the army, divert the attention of the Japanese people, and keep the people enthusiastic and confident in the war, the fallen Takeo Hirose was also fully used to give full play to the surplus value.

So far, Takeo Hirose is the highest-ranking officer in Japan, but he is only a junior officer, and before that, Takeo Hirose did not have any outstanding performance and established any extraordinary feats. Before Takeo Hirose died, it was his private life that was recognized, it turned out that Takeo Hirose was a Russian student, and his teacher happened to be the newly arrived commander of the Pacific Fleet, Makarov, and later stayed in Russia as a military attaché, staying in Russia for nearly 10 years, and had a wide range of contacts in Russia, and even had a foreign relationship with a Russian girl named Ariazna.

However, Takeo Hirose, as a daredevil, took the initiative to invite Ying to participate in the occlusion operation, and was killed due to the delay in searching for his subordinates. Therefore, when Ogasawara Nagasheng Shaosa, a staff officer of the Naval Command Department, introduced the battle situation on the front line to the media, he greatly depicted the plot of Takeo Hirose treating death as if he were at home and bravely saving his comrades, and then shouted: "That person is the god of war!"

As a result, at the instigation of Ogasawara Nagasei, all the media in Japan opened their mothers to hype Takeo Hirose. In just three weeks, a book entitled "Records of the Russo-Japanese War: The God of War, Hirose" was published. In this way, Takeo Hirose became the first Japanese soldier to be revered as a military god in the Russo-Japanese War, and of course he was not the last. The funeral of Takeo Hirose was held at the Suiko Shrine in Tokyo, and not only the high-ranking officials of the Ministry of the Navy but also the emperor sent people to attend, and decided to raise funds to erect a statue of him.

As a result, the death of Takeo Hirose touched the whole of Japan, and it also further invigorated the Japanese people to support the war feverishly. Moreover, under the promotion of the Japanese government, the influence of Takeo Hirose's death was not limited to Japan, but even European countries praised the dedication of Takeo Hirose promoted by Japan. And Takeo Hirose's body was later found in Port Arthur, because Makarov was Takeo Hirose's teacher, and there were still many people in the Pacific Fleet who knew Takeo Hirose, so the Pacific Fleet also held the highest funeral for Takeo Hirose for the Russian Navy war dead - a naval funeral. Ju said that in Takeo Hirose's coffin there was also a pocket watch given to him by Ariazna.

Although the death of Takeo Hirose succeeded in diverting public attention and maintaining public enthusiasm for the war, the failure of the Second Occlusion War was a considerable obstacle to Japan's military operations.

Because the War Department was quite annoyed, because it failed to blockade the Pacific Fleet, so that the Russian fleet still maintained the ability to move freely, the landing in Dalian Bay became quite dangerous, so the Military Command Department suggested that the War Department revise the battle plan, but the War Department had already made considerable preparations for the landing in Dalian Bay, and this plan was approved by the Admiralty, the consequences will be all the responsibility of the Navy, as a result of which the two sides almost quarreled in the military command department.

Under the mediation of the Japanese Government, the navy and the navy finally reached an agreement, and the navy also knew that it was at a loss, so it was agreed that the plan for the landing of the army in Dalian Bay would remain unchanged, and before the landing of the army, the navy would conduct a third blockade operation, and regardless of the outcome of the blockade operation, the navy would give full assistance to the landing of the army.

Before the third blockade operation, in order to limit the movement of the Russian fleet in Port Arthur as much as possible, Akiyama Shinyuki suggested laying * outside Port Arthur to strengthen the effect of the blockade, and lured the enemy ships out of the range of the fortress guns as much as possible to annihilate the enemy ships in a decisive battle, because after Makarov took office, the actions of the Russian fleet became more active, so Akiyama Shinyuki thought that there might be a chance, and this suggestion was also agreed by Togo Heihachiro, so he immediately ordered it to be done.

However, neither Akiyama Shinyuki nor Heihachiro Togo did not expect that this decision that was better than nothing would actually achieve the greatest result before the start of the war in the later battle.