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In the battle to defend the capital, the troops of Liu Yongfu, Song Qing, Nie Shicheng, Ma Yukun and others were exhausted, and although Ma Shaohao's special combat team was brave, the number was too small to pursue the 100,000 Japanese army.

Moreover, there were tens of thousands of surrendered Qing troops who urgently needed to be detained and reorganized, and they could not be allowed to change and harm the people of the capital, so the Japanese army withdrew smoothly.

When Hu Zhen personally led an army of 20,000 to the capital by airship, there was no longer a single Japanese army in sight.

Although the Huaxia Army did not annihilate a single Japanese army in the capital, the hundreds of airships that covered the sky and the sun dragged the banner of the Huaxia Army and flew over the land of more than 2,000 kilometers from south to north in two days and one night, which had an incomparable psychological shock to the Chinese people.

In the past two days and nights, countless people looked up at the sky, no matter what his position was, they were deeply shocked by the huge group of airships in the air.

Superstitious people say that the true dragon of Great China has appeared, and the Tartars are about to end, and hundreds of millions of Li people in China will be saved in the future.

People with a little new knowledge say that China has a powerful fleet of airships that none of the European powers have, which is a sign that Great China has prospered again two hundred years after the rule of the Tatars.

The officials at all levels of the Qing court were so frightened that although the Huaxia army had not yet arrived, most of the officials had already thought about how to surrender and serve, and now they were quietly looking for a way to surrender their allegiance to the emperor of Great China.

When the Huaxia army captured the Humen fortress, the warships, transports and warships on the sea covered the entire Pearl River estuary, forcibly blocking the English warships that tried to squeeze over to block the open sea, and even more frightened the Qing troops who were guarding them.

The process of marching was very smooth, and neither side fired a single shot, and the Qing troops in the Humen fortress all disarmed and surrendered.

And the Qing army in Guangzhou City, in front of the powerful Huaxia Army, did not fire a single shot, and obediently handed over the defense of Guangzhou City. The railway station and railway line were handed over.

As soon as the troops of the Huaxia Army landed, they rushed straight to the train battle, took over the railway station, and sent 30 trains to the north in one day, transporting 80,000 army troops.

Because of the foreshadowing of a shocking scene in the air. When the Huaxia Army marched on the Beijing-Guangdong Railway, it was also extremely smooth, and even local Qing court bureaucrats came out to lead the way for the Huaxia Army. It was only a little blocked when crossing the Yangtze River, and dozens of Qing troops fired a random shot, which was bombarded by a few shells from the infantry artillery set up by the Huaxia army. Dozens of Qing soldiers ran away.

The 80,000 Huaxia Army, fully armed, advanced day and night to the capital, and it was already late at night on the fifth day after landing in Guangzhou.

Five days and four nights to get to the capital is a long time in later generations, but in this era, it takes three months for scholars to ride a horse to Beijing to catch the exam, and five days and four nights are already fast.

Under the personal command of Hu Zhen, the 100,000 Huaxia Army gained a firm foothold in the capital, while the Japanese army had all withdrawn from the capital, withdrawn to the first line of Shanhaiguan and the Liaodong Peninsula to join the Japanese army, build a position in the local area, and prepare to fight a positional battle with the Huaxia army.

But. The decisive battle began on the ocean.

However, after the signing of the treaty between the Japanese and the Qing court, the commander of the combined fleet of the Japanese state, Henyoke Ito, commander of the combined fleet, and the Fifth Army of the army, commanded by Gentaro Kodama, still refused to let go of the Beiyang Fleet and surrounded the port of Liugong Island in Weihai to the death.

The Beiyang Fleet was fiercely besieged, and all contact with the outside world was cut off, and it did not know that the Qing court had signed a traitorous treaty with the Japanese state, so it could only be supported by hard work.

There were many Qing officers and soldiers who fought bravely, among which Zhou Jiaen, the commander of the new right battalion of the Weihai Gong Army stationed at the Motianling Fort of the Weihai South Gang, was the most heroic. He still fought fiercely with the Japanese army until the last moment of his life.

In the fierce battle, thousands of people died heroically, but the Qing army's weapons and numbers were inferior to the Japanese army, and some people in the Qing army were even more greedy for life and afraid of death. The heroic fighting of some officers and men could not stop the Japanese army, and the artillery positions on the land were lost one after another, and the Japanese army pressed forward step by step, and began to use the large-caliber heavy artillery of the defensive batteries on the land to fiercely bombard the Beiyang Fleet.

Under the sea and land attacks of the Japanese army, the Beiyang Fleet suffered heavy losses. The Dingyuan, one of the two main battleships, suffered heavy damage due to a sneak attack by the Japanese torpedo boats, and could not continue to fight at sea, so it could only move to the shallows and run aground and use it as a battery, which caused the combat effectiveness of the entire fleet to drop sharply, and it was no longer able to continue to deal with the Japanese combined fleet.

The battleship Zhenyuan was also accidentally bruised by the reef, and although emergency damage management measures were taken, it was no longer able to go to sea for battle.

Seeing that there was no way out to escape, many foreign employees and some Qing soldiers who were greedy for life and afraid of death began to waver psychologically, and their will to fight was rapidly reduced to a dangerous level.

Ito Henyou, commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, seized this opportunity and sent a handwritten letter to Ding Ruchang, the commander of the Beiyang Naval Division, in which he talked about his former "friendship" with Ding Ruchang and advised him to lay down his resistance weapons and surrender to the Japanese army as soon as possible.

Ito Hyungyou also mentioned in the letter that the capital had been breached by hundreds of thousands of troops of the Japanese state, and the Qing court had signed a treaty of surrender with the Japanese state, compensating the Japanese state with astronomical indemnities and ceding a large area of territory.

However, Ding Ruchang indignantly claimed to the left and right, "If you can kill me, I will die first, and I will never sit back and watch this matter."

At the same time as writing a letter to Ding Ruchang, Ito Hengyou also arranged to copy thousands of letters of persuasion to surrender and throw them to the Qing officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Naval Division and the coastal defense, tricking them into saying that as long as the Qing army handed over the combat ships of the Beiyang Naval Division, the Japanese army would ensure the personal safety of the Qing soldiers......

Under the powerful military offensive and persuasion of the Japanese army, it really played a little role, and many officers and soldiers were bewitched. (Tyler, William Ferdinad), the beauty Howie, the German Rainer (Schnell, TheodoreH) and the Weihaiwei Water and Land Battalion Office promoted Niu Changyu to plan the surrender together, and conspired to go together to force Ding Ruchang to lead his troops to surrender to the Japanese army.

There were traitors in the foreign reinforcements, and Taylor and Renel persuaded Ding Ruchang to surrender, but they were sternly refused. After the persuasion failed, he plotted with Ma Gelu and Haowei to force the crowd, so that the soldiers of the garrison army of Liugong Island and some local foolish people flocked to Zhang Wenxuan and Ding Ruchang, the commanders of the Weihai Guard.

After denouncing the behavior of the surrender faction, Ding Ruchang put forward the idea of breaking through the fleet, but was unanimously opposed by Niu Changyu and the foreigners, and at this point, the Beiyang Fleet was on the verge of a desperate situation.

The generals of the Beiyang Naval Division had the opportunity to choose to surrender to the Japanese army and survive, but they made their own tragic choice:

In desperation, Ding Ruchang ordered him to invalidate the Admiral's seal and horn, in case someone stole the seal and surrendered, left his last words, and committed suicide by poisoning.

Zhang Wenxuan, the commander of the Weihai Guard, Zhang Wenxuan committed suicide by taking poison and martyrdom.

Lin Tai, the taciturn left-wing general soldier and the leader of the Zhenyuan Pipe, once took poison and martyred himself.

Liu Buyun, the chief soldier of the right wing and the leader of the Dingyuan, also took poison and martyred himself, realizing his oath of "losing the ship and cutting himself".

Regardless of the past merits of these generals, they have proved themselves by destroying their own lives!

After several major generals of the Beiyang Navy Division committed suicide and martyrdom one after another, Niu Changyu, the second rank of the top Daidaotai, had the largest official position, but he was cunning and unwilling to bear the infamy of surrender, and he also pretended to commit suicide, but was stopped.

Niu Changyu, who was secretly triumphant, was still unwilling to come forward to surrender to the Japanese army, and he hit the idea on Yang Yonglin, the acting chief soldier of the left wing and the head of the town far management, to recommend Yang Yonglin to come forward to contact the Japanese army and surrender.

Yang Yonglin sternly refused on the spot, and after returning to the cabin, he closed the door of the room and chanted Wen Tianxiang's desperate poem "Who has not died in life since ancient times, leave Dan to take care of the sweat and youth", raised his revolver and pointed it at his mouth, he wanted to commit suicide in a more heroic and military way than his boss and colleagues who chose to take poison.

When Yang Yonglin raised his pistol and prepared to die heroically, a fierce cannon sound was heard on the sea in the distance.

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