Chapter 281: The Beiyang Fleet is destroyed
Now the time has come to May 1895, in the history of the original time and space, the "Treaty of Shimonoseki" has already been signed, and Tsarist Russia is pulling together France and Germany to return the Liaodong Peninsula. However, in this time and space where the Crossing Crowd appeared, although the defeat of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was obvious, the Japanese army suffered great losses due to several blows by the Crossing People, and failed to force the Manchu Qing to the negotiating table.
According to the news from the Japanese traitors sent to Japan by Inukai Kazuo, the huge consumption brought about by the war further increased the burden on the common Japanese people, and since the end of 1894, peasant revolts broke out in many parts of Japan, and social unrest was unstable. Of course, this is also indispensable to part of the credit of the traversal, just Huang Xiaolei forced the low-cost copper purchase contract signed by Anjun Daiji to be executed within a limited time, which made the bronze Buddha statues of many temples in Japan enter the furnace.
So when the people crossed the mountain and blew the wind to the big mountain rock to let the Japanese army speed up the course of the war, he didn't dare to shirk anything, because if he dragged it any longer, the footbasin chicken would catch fire in his backyard. Ogener was also worried that the Great Song Dynasty's fleet would arrive in the Far East before Maozi's fleet and would scare Maozi back to Europe, and he also hurriedly urged Japan to speed up the attack.
Judging from the information sent back by Rong Lu, the Manchu Qing were still optimistic that they could drag the Japanese army to death outside the pass, after all, the Japanese army's excessively long supply line caused them to stop the offensive on the west bank of the Liao River. Guangxu was optimistic that as long as they held the ancestral land of Fengtian and kept harassing the supply lines of the Japanese army, they could slowly drag the Japanese down, and he believed that as long as it dragged on, it would be the same victory as the Sino-French war.
And Li Hongzhang didn't know the news that the "Yoshino" was sunk by the Crossing Crowd at this time, and even he didn't know that Lushun was controlled by the Crossing Crowd, and those routs only reported the news that the Japanese army had captured Arthur, and did not bring back the news that the Japanese army was destroyed by the Crossing Crowd again.
The old fox felt that the number of warships of the Beiyang Fleet and the Japanese Navy Fleet had now returned to the ratio before the Battle of the Yellow Sea, and that the Beiyang Fleet would definitely be able to block the Japanese attack by relying on the Weihai batteries. Therefore, he repeatedly ordered the Beiyang Fleet not to attack, and the turtle was entrenched in the military port.
This is really no wonder the old fox is conservative, if there is no Great Song Dynasty inserted on the Liaodong Peninsula, and the Japanese army has also lost two main ships (Li Hongzhang does not know the news that the "Yoshino" has sunk), he can give it a fight, let the Beiyang Fleet fleet wait for the opportunity to attack, and annihilate the lone Japanese ships. However, now the situation is different, even if his Beiyang fleet loses a decisive victory in the battle with the Japanese Navy, this Qing Kingdom is not guaranteed!
The Beiyang Fleet suffered too many losses, what did the Qing Dynasty use to resist the fleet of the Great Song Dynasty? By the wrecked ships of the South Sea Fleet? If the Beiyang Fleet was exhausted in the naval battle with the Japanese, and the Great Song Dynasty picked up the advantage of the fisherman, landed in Dagu and went straight to the Beijing Division, then the Great Qing Dynasty would really be finished in his lifetime.
Li Hongzhang's conservative tactics allowed Japanese supply ships to reach Yingkou along the coastline of the Liaodong Peninsula, where Oji Yasuchun was building a new supply base and was busy preparing for an attack on Jinzhou. Once the Japanese army hoarded enough supplies and troops at Yingkou, they really completed the "leapfrogging" tactic. The Japanese could abandon the long supply line from the Korean border through the Liaohe Plain and recycle all their forces to the Yingkou area, which was the starting point for a new offensive.
Once the Japanese army did this, the Qing army outside the pass would be completely wiped out. The Japanese army, which did not need to guard the long supply lines, concentrated its forces in one place, and its combat power would be qualitatively improved. Moreover, once the Japanese army captured Jinzhou and attacked Shanhaiguan in the southeast, they could get fleet support along the way, and the disadvantage of the Qing army was even more obvious.
To crack this "frog jump" tactic, the Qing army could only let the Beiyang Fleet attack and seek a decisive battle with the Japanese navy, so as to cut off the supply of the Japanese army in Yingkou, otherwise Guangxu and the old witch would not be far from hunting in Beijing.
In the history of the original time and space, when Li Hongzhang came to the negotiating table, the Qing army could still fight with the Japanese army on the Liaohe Plain, because the Japanese army on the Liaohe Plain had to allocate a large number of troops to guard the supply line. Now the foot basin chicken, which is forced to be urgent, sacrificed the "frog jumping" tactic, and decisively shrank his troops to the front line of Yingkou, Tianzhuangtai, and Niuzhuang. Every time the Qing army fought, it basically encountered a large number of Japanese troops, and it was no longer cheap. Although on the map, even Shanguan, Phoenix and other places fell into the hands of the Qing army, but the situation of the Qing army was even worse.
The Japanese navy, which could not wait for the newly purchased warships, did not dare to rashly launch an attack on Weihaiwei, but the Great Song Dynasty and the British benefactor father were in a hurry, and the Japanese base camp made a plan to "leapfrog" the camp and attack Shanhaiguan to force the Manchu Qing to negotiate, and history seemed to be developing in a different direction from the original.
The Japanese navy escorted the merchant ships, and after carefully sending supplies to Yingkou several times, it was found that there were no warships of the Beiyang Fleet to stop them. Therefore, after completing a stage of material transportation tasks, the Japanese Navy sent small ships to the vicinity of Weihaiwei to reconnoiter the provocation. In the face of the provocation of small ships, the Beiyang Fleet still scrupulously obeyed Li Hongzhang's order to stay in the military port, and only let the shore defense guns on the battery open fire and expel the small Japanese ships.
This situation made the Japanese navy very excited, and they submitted to the Japanese base camp a plan to restart the attack on Weihaiwei and annihilate the Beiyang fleet, and in their opinion, this low-spirited fleet was not to be feared.
The crossing of the crowd was also worried that the Manchus would pull Mao Zi in, and suspended the interception of Hu Bai Langgu. The plan for the fast cruiser Enkarada allowed the former second-hand warship of the Chilean Navy to reach the Japanese mainland without any problems.
At this time, the Japanese base camp was forced by internal and external pressure, and also agreed to the Japanese Navy's plan to attack Weihaiwei. The cruiser Enkarada was also sent to the waters of the Bohai Sea. The Japanese sailors who would board the warship had not yet had time to familiarize themselves with the situation on the ship, and a large number of positions on the warship were still manned by hired foreigners with Japanese sailors, and many of these foreigners were nails planted by the vampire family.
The Japanese attack on Weihaiwei was a complete replica of the battle in the original time and space, the difference was that it was already May, and the Japanese troops who landed at Rongcheng did not suffer large-scale frostbite due to the cold wave, and their non-combat attrition was even less.
The defenders of the Qing army on land were still the same and abandoned the forts, causing the Beiyang Fleet in the harbor to be bombarded by heavy coastal artillery. The traversers who came to watch the battle in several torpedo boats saw the tragic scene of the Beiyang Fleet sending marines to land on the counteroffensive battery.
In the end, many generals of the Beiyang Fleet committed suicide, and the American foreigner Haowei drafted a surrender document, and in the name of Pseudo Tuoding Ruchang, he sent Guang Bingguan to send Cheng Biguang to the Japanese ship. The Japanese army finally landed on Liugong Island, and the entire Beiyang Fleet was destroyed.
The old fox thought that Beiyang could escape by hiding in the Wei Navy Port, and could be used to resist the Great Song Dynasty and renew the life of the Qing Dynasty, but the Beiyang Fleet, which had repeatedly avoided the war, still failed to escape the fate of annihilation. Search for "Vertex 208xs" on this site, or remember the URL of this site: .