"Woo-"

In the sound of the whistle, Hiroyuke Ito on the bridge of the Matsushima, the flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet, was far away, and Omoto knew-

Prince Akihito Komatsumiya, Koho Oku, Yasumi Oji, Chikosuke Iji, Yoshimon Kurose on the landing transport ship Edo Maru-

A group of Japanese army generals on land and sea stood under the bright night sky, looking at the black and boundless outline of the continent in the west.

Where is, Naoli, Jinmen!

The night is late, and everything is quiet.

In the vast land of Zhili in the Qing Dynasty, both sides of the Qing Dynasty have different dreams, and they are both accumulating the power of tomorrow in the dark night.

On this day of February 18 in the Western calendar, a lot of things happened in the province of Zhili in the Qing Dynasty.

The 1st Army of the Japanese Army easily defeated the Qing army in Tongzhou, scared away Cheng Wenbing's troops in Zhangjiawan, and trapped Yanjing City.

Emperor Guangxu ordered Nie Shicheng, the scapegoat, to be locked, and once whimsically ordered his uncle Zhirui to attack Dongjiaomin Lane.

Cixi Lafayette appeared strongly, once again lowered the curtain to listen to the government, and ordered the court to beg for peace with his bare feet.

Liu Kunyi held a lively and lively all-day 'swearing-in king' ceremony in Luanzhou, and the oath-swearing essay written by his staff member Yi Shunding was full of flowers and blood, which could simply move the heavens and the earth.

After the oath is completed, the generals are ready to drink a glass of Zhuangxing wine in the evening, and they will officially set off for King Qin tomorrow morning, and they will receive a call from Tongzhou.

'Peace is imminent, and the Luanzhou armies are on standby in place and must not move without permission'.

Liu Kun immediately called Tongzhou in anger, "The soldiers of the three armies are sharpening their soldiers and horses, waiting for the day, killing the widows to serve the emperor's heart, and they must not start to negotiate peace lightly." ’

The Gan army guerrilla Wang Hua, leading 1,800 unarmed soldiers who were about to run out of food, stayed in eight or nine villages around Hongqiao Village, waiting for the arrival of Liu Kun's army.

For this reason, Wang Hua also deliberately wrote a long memo, preparing to play the emperor after going to Beijing, and sued He Changying, the deputy commander of Lushun, for the crime of forcibly embezzling the Gan army.

He Changying led the expanded Shanhaiguan Legion, after two days of rapid marching, all the way to Niudaokou Town, about 100 miles away from Tongzhou.

It is expected that the anti-Japanese army will arrive in Zhangjiawan Town, south of Tongzhou City, on the afternoon of the 20th.

The southbound Jinmen Brigade had just arrived at Ninghe County with a large number of baggage, wounded, and 14 artillery pieces, when it received an urgent order from Liu Kunyi, the assistant minister of the Beiyang Military Affairs Department of Jinmen.

'The imperial court decreed, peace is imminent, all departments must not be reckless when they return to the camp, Liu Gangzhi's department is temporarily stationed in the camp of the Wuyi Army in Ninghe, and the soldiers are strictly restrained in the camp to wait for orders. ’

Liu Gangzhi thought about it and felt that now was not the time to turn his face, so he scolded a few words of 'special mebi' and ordered the troops to enter the Ninghe camp.

Li Jingfang led the wounded soldiers, the corpses of the Qing generals, and a large number of captured Japanese nameplates, flags and other trophies, and continued to march south.

On his way yesterday, Li Jingfang received a handwritten letter from his father, Li Hongzhang, in which Li Hongzhang was extremely happy to know that he was safe and sound, and asked when he would return to Tianjin.

This time to return to Jinmen, it is not only Li Jingfang's task, but also he wants to go home to have a look, and then have a good discussion with his father.

On this day, among all these things, there were two small details that did not seem to be very turbulent at the time, and many people did not pay attention to them.

However, the people who should be remembered, or the people who really shouldn't be remembered, have firmly remembered these two small details.

As a result, two have been produced, which have deeply affected the great changes in the geopolitical pattern of China and even the world in the future.

One of them is Ou Ge Gong, and Hei Mu Weizhen, who previously swore to the Qing Dynasty that 'the Oriental army will immediately retreat east to Ninghe' and "will not attack Yanjing".

Formally based on this very formal assurance, the Qing royal family did not flee quickly before the Japanese army besieged Yanjing, but was blocked by the Japanese army in the city, falling into extreme passivity, and letting it go.

This assurance, which was later hyped by He Changying, gave rise to two well-known proverbs in later generations: 'Ogerg's promise' and 'Kuroki's lie'.

It is used to describe a person or a national organization that does not keep its promises, goes back on its word, and deceives and deceives.

It was also through this incident that the intellectuals from top to bottom in the Huaxia Kingdom began to doubt the Western axioms and treaties that they believed in before.

And then truly realize the essence of the bloody law of the jungle hidden under the glorious image of the West.

Thus the honeymoon period between China and England came to an end, and they no longer believed in any British treaties and assurances, as they had done before.

And began to change the previous attitude towards the blind reception of 'Western civilization', criticizing the superfluous acceptance.

The other is the "Liaodong, the Qing army of Korea" in Article 3 of the fire suspension conditions in Yama County, which aroused Cixi's vigilance.

In the eyes of the Qing royal family, any army that does not know and is not controlled is an extremely dangerous sign for the Eight Banners of the Great Qing Dynasty, which has been struggling for decades.

At this point, no matter how disgraceful the Qing Dynasty was, it seemed that it had come to an end.

And He Changying's Tibetan troops in Anzhou, Liaodong, and Lushun's military strength are about to be gradually exposed.

At that time, he and his anti-Japanese army had to face more than just murderous Oriental soldiers.

On February 19 of the Western calendar, at 6 o'clock in the morning, the sea surface of 15 nautical miles northeast of Beitang Fort in Bohai Bay.

The Japanese fleet was a mixed ship group.

"Woo woo,——"

Under the banner of Rizaburo Ishii, the signalman of the Matsushima, the flagship of the Combined Fleet, the mixed fleet began to sail separately.

One team sailed to the Beitang Fort, preparing to attack the Qing army's fort position at the mouth of the Ji Canal, and the other team sailed to the mouth of the Tang River fifteen nautical miles to the north to carry out an infantry landing.

At this time, the defenders of the Beitang Fort, who had already been alarmed, rushed to the Beiying Fort and the Nanying Fort on both sides of the mouth of the Ji Canal.

Everyone looked at the eastern sea like a forest, and the pillar of smoke that went straight to the sky, all of them were shocked and changed color.

This Beitang was originally the defense area of Wu Yuren, the chief soldier of Zhengding Town.

Since the Korean incident, Li Hongzhang has twice dispatched the Renzi army to Asan for reinforcements, but the second group was attacked on the Gaosheng and eight or nine hundred people died.

The first batch of the 3rd Battalion Renzi Army followed Jiang Zikang to retreat all the way from Asan to Pyongyang, and then fled to the Yalu River, and finally went to Lushun with He Changying's anti-Japanese army.

And in the last two battalions of the Renzi Army garrisoned by the Beitang Battalion, when He Changying rushed to Shanhaiguan, Guangxu crossed the military department to intervene and allocated all of them to He Changying.

In discouragement, Wu Yuren, the commander of the light pole, went back to his house in Jinmen to recuperate, and the empty Beitang barracks and the north and south forts became the training stations for training water warriors in Jinmen Road.

And since these Shui Yong came to Beitang, and the imperial court had no supply of guns and ammunition, they symbolically gave two hundred old breech guns.

All the soldiers were doing nothing with their salaries, eating and waiting for death every day.

Not to mention the coastal defense, not even a few buckshot shots.

"What are these dogs going to do, didn't the imperial court just call Jinmen yesterday saying that it was a truce and peace talks, and it was not allowed to provoke things, why are you calling again?"

Mu Changcai, the battalion officer responsible for guarding the Beiying Fort, jumped to his feet in a hurry: "Even if you really want to fight, why don't you go to Beitang to fight blindly and don't see the Dagu Fort thirty miles to the south?" The swing wheel is gone, and that's where you should go! ”