"Lord Admiral (Do you have any poison here?) Lan Jianshu's hungry body couldn't stand steadily, staggering, trying to stabilize himself with his sword, and asked Sa Zhenbing.

Sa Zhenbing raised his head and looked at Lan Jianshu, a close friend who studied with him and interned on the Yangwu ship, his heart was extremely bitter, and he shook his head, he was also weak, "I don't have it here." If so, can you still talk to me? ”

Lan Jianshu grinned, like a smile, and said slowly: "Hengqi, where are you?" ”

"Nope." Cheng Bi didn't raise his bald head, and said lazily.

"I didn't expect that it would be so difficult to end up with a whole corpse." Lan Jianshu licked his split lips and sat beside Sa Zhenbing and Cheng Biguang.

At this time, it was the afternoon of February 11, the 21st year of Guangxu (1905), and the defeated Beiyang Naval Division was besieged by the Japanese army on Liugong Island, which was already the eighth day. At this time, the ammunition and food are exhausted, and the reinforcements are exhausted. In the morning, Taylor, an Englishman, in order to survive, joined forces with other foreigners to mobilize the soldiers and force Ding Ruchang, the commander of the naval division, to surrender to the Japanese army. Ding Ruchang was unwilling to be humiliated and committed suicide by taking poison; Everyone immediately agitated the protector Zhang Wenxuan, but Zhang Wenxuan also committed suicide and martyrdom; Everyone was stunned for a while, but then went to instigate the Zhenyuan ship to take Yang Yonglin.

Lan Jianshu and Sa Zhenbing sat beside the fort, looking at the people below from a distance, pestering Yang Yonglin there, but they didn't dare to go up to relieve the siege. It's just that he keeps looking for poison from relatives and friends. It's come to this, and I'm dead.

Unable to find the poison, Sa Zhenbing, Cheng Biguang and Lan Jianshu put the war knife across their knees, gently pulled it out, wiped it back and forth, glanced at each other, and waited quietly.

In the distance, Yang Yonglin's face gradually turned pale, and he shouted loudly at everyone, but he was swept away by a louder wave. Yang Yonglin's face turned blue and white, and gradually turned red, raised his eyes, glanced at Taylor and the foreigners, turned his head again, looked at Sa Zhenbing and the three of them, and with just one glance, he pulled out his war knife and killed himself with a horizontal knife!

"One less!" Lan Jianshu said lightly, "How about it, let's go together?" ”

Sa Zhenbing raised his head, the sky was still as blue as ever, "Okay!" It's not in vain for our classmates, and when we go to the underworld, we also have a companion. ”

The three of them smiled bitterly, and saw that everyone was like mad dogs, ignoring Yang Yonglin's corpse, so they immediately searched for officers everywhere, and a few people had sharp eyes, had already seen them, were pointing, and were about to come over.

Sa Zhenbing sighed, stood up, and took a closer look at the war knife in his hand, which was across his neck, and he was about to kill himself!

"Do you dare to die, but not to live?" A voice said coldly.

Sa Zhenbing slowly turned his head over, but saw that it was the main gunner of the fort who spoke, and he had been leaning on the running pier with his eyes slightly narrowed.

"I, Sa Zhenbing, have been in the army for 25 years, and I want to serve the country and promote the prestige of my country. At this moment, the army is defeated and trapped, and you don't want to be humiliated, what do you know about a little gunner? ”

"Saguan Belt is really a noble person, don't you recognize me anymore?" The gunner asked coldly with his hands on his chest.

Hearing this, Sa Zhenbing tried to keep his eyes open and carefully looked at the main gunner, although the man was full of dust, Sa Zhenbing still vaguely identified his identity.

"You are the chief sailor of the Jiyuan ship, Ma Lei?"

"It's rare to have a sa pipe belt, remember me!" Ma Lei said, "I thought that after Fang Guan Tie was executed, you would no longer recognize us brothers on the Jiyuan ship!" ”

"Yitang is confused! But you want to make a scapegoat! Sa Zhenbing's expression was gloomy. If it weren't for the Jiyuan ship pipe leader Fang Boqian, he would have been executed immediately after the Battle of the Yellow Sea. Liu Buyun and others will not be so eager to commit suicide in shame.

"I only ask the lord one word, this is also a square pipe belt, before you die, ask me to convey it to you," Ma Lei still said coldly, "If you pipe belts all die on this Liu Gong Island, Zuo Shen Ergong has worked hard for several years, and lost all the battles, in the future, who else can support the navy of the Qing Dynasty?" Who else can tell future generations about the gains and losses of this battle? ”

"The story of the Zhao orphan, Sa Guan Belt, haven't you heard it?"

After saying this, not only Sa Zhenbing, but also Lan Jianshu and Cheng Biguang all wanted to cry without tears.

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"Sa Gong, do you remember the old man on Liu Gong Island?" Mare stood on the bow of the ship, made a barrel with both hands, and shouted loudly.

Today's Qing Navy was rebuilt by Sa Zhenbing in the past few years, and most of the officers in the fleet are old naval veterans who survived the First Sino-Japanese Naval War. Although some people didn't recognize who Ma Lei was, everyone recognized the dragon flag standing in the wind on the boat at a glance, and it was the flag on the Jiyuan ship back then.

"Let him come!" Sa Zhenbing ordered. After the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing court disbanded the navy, and everyone scattered and lost contact with each other. A few years later, when Sa Zhenbing rebuilt the navy and reunited with the deceased, he also sent people to look for Ma Lei, but he never found it. Unexpectedly, we will meet again here!

"Sa Gong really hasn't forgotten the old man!" Ma Lei laughed, took off the dragon flag on the ship, wrapped it around his arm, grabbed the soft ladder, and boarded the Chu You ship neatly.

"Iron Rope Fishing Song, you did it, right?" In the command module, Sa Zhenbing has returned to his usual composure.

"I'm afraid that the nobles of Sa Gong will forget more," Ma Lei was very polite at this time, "The heart of the villain made Sa Gong and Brother Zhu laugh." ”

"You're in the party?" Zhu Shenggang looked at his colleagues who shared life and death in the past, but today he was a little vague.

"After the Fist Rebellion, I went to Japan," Ma Lei said lightly, "and then I joined the Liberation Society, and then I entered the Hongmen in Hawaii." ”

Hearing Hawaii, Zhu Shenggang and the others' eyes lit up, and they looked at each other, "A few years ago, the Han people in Hawaii had an incident, could it be that you were among them?" ”

Marley smiled, "It's just leading people to let out some smoke and capture the American navy." The inferior means on the rivers and lakes are nothing to say. ”

He said it easily, but Zhu Shenggang and others admired it very much, for more than 70 years, the Qing Dynasty has been defeated repeatedly, ceded land and paid compensation, and the country's strength has gradually declined. This Hawaiian incident really made the Han people raise their eyebrows.

"The matter of Xunyang City, you also did it?" Sa Zhenbing asked suddenly.

"It's not my credit at all. It was the 53rd standard Ma Yu Baoma, who couldn't bear to see the land lost and China humiliated, so he led the brothers of the 53rd standard to occupy Jiujiang City, and was willing to obey the order of Zhu Chongzhen, the king of the Han Dynasty in Wuhan. ”

"Then you're here to be a lobbyist?" Sa Zhenbing smiled a little self-defeatingly, as if he had drunk several cups of bitter tea.

Ma Lei shook his head, "I just passed by Jiujiang and learned that Sa Gong and his brothers were here, so I came over to catch up on the old days." The troubled times have been turbulent, and the first day of the first day has passed, and today, sixteen years have passed. I missed it today, and I don't know when I'll see you again. ”

"We are all people who should have died in that war, and now God is blind, and those who have died are extraordinary heroes, leaving us mediocre people to survive in this world. What is the difference between seeing and not seeing? ”

"I heard Ma Yubao say that you are now the commander of the navy, and in the navy, it can be said that you are under one person and above ten thousand. If Sa Gong really thinks so, how can he appear on this Chu You ship? Mare asked softly.

This is a heart-wrenching word.

Seeing that Sa Zhenbing was just silent, Zhu Shenggang explained for Sa Zhenbing: "Back then, Ye Lao was invited, but Sa was not very affectionate, and the navy was really lacking in people, so he had to agree to go out of the mountain......

"Needless to say." Sa Zhenbing suddenly interjected, "Back then, you persuaded me to be lonely, and today you are probably not just to catch up with the past." Last year, I visited the United States with the town of Kuogong, and I also heard about Hawaii. If you don't stay in Hawaii, why did you go back to China and get involved with the party? What are you doing today? What does it mean to cross the river with a rope? ”

Sa Zhenbing suddenly turned his face, and a series of questions were thrown over, Zhu Shenggang was stunned, but Ma Lei's expression was still the same.

"Since Sa Gong said so, I asked Sa Gong one thing. Was Sa Gong loyal to the Manchus or to the navy? ”

Sa Zhenbing's eyes narrowed slightly, "Oh? I don't know how to say that this is loyal to the Manchus, and how to say that it is loyal to the navy? ”

Ma Lei stood up and looked at the mighty river in the distance, "When the Hawaii mutiny, I followed Zhu Chongzhen, the king of Han, to negotiate in the United States, and I saw the Great White Fleet in the port of New York. That's when I finally understood what a navy was. Sa Gong has also traveled around various countries with Zhen Guogong, I don't know which one Sa Gong thinks is stronger in today's Chinese navy compared with the First Sino-Japanese War? ”

Without waiting for Sa Zhenbing to answer, Ma Lei said to himself: "Don't hide it from Sa Gong, I, Ma Lei, think that the navy you rebuilt today is far inferior to the naval divisions of the North and South Oceans of that day. Back then, Zuo Shen Ergong worked hard and worked hard to create a sailor from scratch in order to protect my sea frontier and protect my country's land; And now, the relatives and nobles of the Manchu Qing Dynasty rebuilt the navy not at all to defend against foreign aggression! They just want to raise an eagle dog to suppress civil strife. In the final analysis, what those princes in Beijing are thinking about is not to strengthen our navy and threaten China, but to keep their glory and wealth. ”

"The navy, founded by Zuo Shen Ergong, is to bless my China! The navy is my Chinese public weapon! Not a barrier to his Manchu dictatorship! Therefore, I have come today to ask Sa Gong, do you want to be loyal to the Manchus or the navy? ”

After listening to Ma Lei's words, Sa Zhenbing laughed out loud, and after laughing, he asked Ma Lei: "You were also a member of the navy in the past, and you also know the blue threads of the navy when it was founded. Without the Manchu Qing in your mouth, where can there be two oceanic sailors? When the navy left the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it was rootless driftwood, and there was nowhere to stay! ”

Ma Lei shook his head and replied: "Sa Gong, the Manchu Qing is dying. When the news of Wuchang's recovery came out, all parts of China responded one after another. Do you think that last night there was only this Jiujiang City attached to it? I won't hide it from you, just last night, Changsha and Xi'an were attached to Yi, and Hunan and Shaanxi have also broken away from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, following the orders of my Ming King. At this time, the change of dynasty is unstoppable. Where to go for the navy, Sagong must make a plan earlier! ”

When Ma Lei said this, everyone in the command cabin looked at each other. Although I can't believe it, I know that what Ma is saying must not be false. Sa Zhenbing's brows were twisted, and there were all kinds of feelings in his heart, but it was indescribable.

"I'm Sa Zhenbing, and I'm not confused today. Over the years, the country has been deeply gracious, and it is absolutely impossible for me to rebel against you! ”

Sa Gong was wrong. We have just said that the navy is the public weapon of the country, and it should resist foreign aggression and protect China. At this moment, the regime is changing, the world is repeated, if the navy takes a wrong step, the hard work of Zuo Shen Ergong and Sa Gong for many years will be ruined. Therefore, for the sake of the navy's 100-year plan, I hope that Sagong can maintain neutrality, not let the navy get involved in this civil strife, and retain this vitality for China. ”

Sa Zhenbing stared at Ma Lei deeply, and for a long time, he said: "If I don't help each other, in the future, I'm afraid that no matter who wins, I will be a sinner!" ”

"Sa Gong, please rest assured, the north-south negotiations will start soon. At that time, I am afraid that both parties will be deeply convinced of Sa Gong's decision at this time. Not to mention ......"

When Ma Lei said this, he suddenly walked up to Sa Zhenbing, leaned into his ear, and said a few words softly.

"Is that true?"

"I vouch for my life!" Mare swore to heaven.

"Okay, I'll believe you again!" Sa Zhenbing has finally made up his mind.