Chapter 282: Beginning to cut off the beard
When Lord Zhongtang, who was in Tianjinwei, first received the news of the Japanese navy's attack on Weihaiwei, he was still confident that the Beiyang Fleet would rely on the fort to hold on. This time is not as good as the last battle in the Yellow Sea, the army guarding the Beiyang battery can use heavy shore guns to support the Beiyang ships fighting in the coastal battle, and in turn, the Beiyang fleet in the military port can also move around and use naval guns to support the batteries attacked by the Japanese army.
The plan was confused, and the people who carried it out were even more useless, especially the Shandong governor Li Bingheng and Li Hongzhang had a gap, and after the Battle of Weihaiwei began, they also caused trouble for the Beiyang armies, and only symbolically sent militia regiments to support each battery when it was in an emergency.
Before the start of this battle, Beiyang's chances of winning were already very small, and the Beiyang Fleet, when it was equal to the Japanese navy, actually gave up its sea control and retreated into a military port, and there were very few examples of naval battles that could still be won in this situation. Coupled with the Qing court's misjudgment of the entire battle situation, the focus of the defense was placed around Tianjin, Gyeonggi and Mukden, and many defensive omissions in Shandong eventually led to the attack of Weihaiwei after being bypassed.
After the Japanese occupied Weihai Port, some people proposed to hold a capture ceremony and plant the Japanese flag on the 10 warships that surrendered, including Zhenyuan and Jiyuan, to announce their conquest of the Beiyang Fleet. However, as soon as the Japanese army planted a few flags, the commander of the combined fleet received a small note from the Great Song Military Observation Group, which was watching the battle, which read, "Enough is enough." The footbasin chicken sailors had to climb the mast again and tore off the plaster flag that had just been hoisted.
"These officials of the Great Song Dynasty have gone too far, and we have lost a large number of loyal soldiers in order to win this battle, and we have the right to celebrate the victory." Ito's adjutant grumbled.
"This is the homeland of the Great Song Dynasty, hundreds of years ago they first teamed up with the Mongols to destroy the regime established by the Manchu ancestors, and finally they were destroyed by the Mongols. A few hundred years later, the Manchu Qing Dynasty took over the control of the Great Song Dynasty's homeland. Now that they are back to claim the land that belonged to them hundreds of years ago, how can they let us celebrate the victory in their territorial waters? "Since the appearance of this army, which claims to belong to the Great Song Dynasty, Ito Youheng has also made up for the history of the Song Dynasty.
"They want their homeland, we only need the homeland of the Manchurians, why do they always have trouble with us, the Liaodong Peninsula has never been in the territory of the former Song Dynasty, right?" The adjutant said.
"Reclaiming the homeland is just an excuse, the strategic position of the Liaodong Peninsula is there, and no one with a little military acumen will give it up." Ito Youheng only knows one thing but doesn't know the other, and even if the Liaodong Peninsula has no military value at all, they will not give up because there is a green paint area there.
The Beiyang training ship Kangji was disarmed by the Japanese Navy and returned to the surrendered Beiyang officers and men. At this time, the Kangji carrying the coffins of Ding Ruchang and other generals who committed suicide left Weihai Port and sailed towards Yantai under the gaze of An Yanxin and others of the Great Song Military Observation Group.
Over the past 10 days or so, several torpedo boats of the Great Song Military Observation Group have accompanied and watched several important military operations of the Japanese army at close range in the name of supervising humanitarian implementation, and the high-definition camera equipment hidden on the ships has recorded a lot of video footage of the Japanese army's operations. With the end of the Battle of Weihaiwei, these torpedo boats converged on the port of Weihai and prepared to return to the Liaodong Peninsula.
At night, An Yanxin and his men transferred the modern equipment from one torpedo boat to another torpedo boat and installed explosives in the fitting. They were preparing to begin the implementation of the "Hu Cutoff" plan, which had been shelved before, and the earlier call to stop the Japanese capture ceremony was also a foreshadowing for this operation.
The next day, on the pretext that the Great Song Military Observer Group had completed its humanitarian rescue and supervision tasks, several torpedo boats sailed in formation to Weihai Harbor. When this small ship formation passed by Blangu. In the vicinity of the Enkarada, a 6-inch/40x Armstrong rapid-fire gun on the fast cruiser's side suddenly opened fire on a ship at the end of the torpedo boat formation.
At that time, the other ships of the Japanese army were based in Blangu. On the other side of the Enkarada, you can't see what's going on here. Many Japanese officers and soldiers described hearing a cannon shot, followed by a violent explosion, and then saw a torpedo boat of the Great Song Military Observer Group catch fire and sink.
Now that the Great Song Military Observation Group is gone, the Japanese Navy must give an explanation. The commander of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, Ito Youheng, was also drunk, and finally the plague military observation group left Weihai Harbor, who knew that this kind of thing would happen at this time.
At first, Ito thought that it was a cannon fired by a few radical sailors, after all, the Great Song Military Observation Group had stopped their celebrations a few days ago, which made many officers and men of the Japanese Combined Fleet deeply dissatisfied. However, then he thought that it was wrong, just fired a shot and hit the opponent's ship, and it also hit the fatal vital point, how much luck must it be? Although the ships of the two sides are very close, it is difficult to hit the soul at once. If their gunners had this level, they would have fought with Da Song a long time ago, and they would still have to suffer from this nest!
But it is indeed his own Bai Langgu. The fast cruiser Enkarada fired at someone else's torpedo boat, and their ship sank immediately, and you can't explain this by the fact that our gunners didn't have this kind of shooting. Ito Yuhyung vaguely felt that there was something strange in this, but he couldn't find a clue. Their ship did not have any excuse for striking a mine, it caught fire and sank after being shelled by your warship, and it was difficult for the Japanese Navy to get involved.
"Your Excellency, the Great Song Military Observation Group has requested to board the Bailangu. The cruiser Enkarada investigates the shelling. "The adjutant reports to Ito Yuhiro.
"Tell them no, we'll give them a reply when we look into it." Of course, Ito Youheng didn't know that there was a plan to "cut off the beard" through the crowd, he just instinctively felt that the Great Song Military Observation Group could not be allowed to board the cruiser that caused the accident at this time.
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"Continue to put pressure on Ito Youheng, you can't blow up a torpedo boat for nothing, right?" An Yanxin said.
At this time, An Yan didn't have much confidence in it, the Japanese had already controlled Weihaiwei, and there were no troops left on the Liaodong Peninsula, and even the landing point at Huayuankou had been withdrawn. Search for "Vertex 208xs" on this site, or remember the URL of this site: .