"Bang-"

A long bridge board stretched out from the Dingyuan ship and rested on the cement platform on the edge of the dock of Dagu Military Port, and the cement floor smashed by the heavy sandalwood planks trembled slightly.

In the dark night, Luo Fenglu saw that standing on the side of the boat seemed to be Ding Ruchang and Liu Buyun, but they did not get off the boat first according to the rules.

Instead, a group of soldiers carried something in pairs, swaying down the bridge.

"It's over, it's over!"

An old scrivener who was standing beside Luo Fenglu who was in charge of checking the food and salary logistics said with a grim face: "It is absolutely all corpses, and there are so many warships missing, and it is another big defeat; Didn't you see Ding Junmen and Liu Junmen have no face to get off the ship? Our family has been out of food for half a year, and this time at the end of the year, it will be another pot of water! ”

"Old Zhou, what kind of eyes are you, you are blind when you check the account books, and you don't see them carrying the corpse of a white navy uniform?"

Luo Fenglu's heart was beating violently, and at this moment, countless conjectures were generated in his heart, making him sometimes go up to the clouds and sometimes fall into the abyss.

——

"Victory, victory!"

Soon, there was cheering from the docks.

"Boom-"

"Boom-"

"Boom-"

The dock battery began firing a gun salute.

The people at Dagukou had not yet rested, and when they heard the sound of cannons, they were all frightened.

Could it be that the big ship of the Japanese is coming?

How can this be?

"Great victory, great victory! The Beiyang Naval Division sank a large warship! ”

A fast horse, roaring all the way to the streets and alleys, delivering this great news.

At the beginning of the night, the news that the Beiyang Naval Division had sunk a Japanese cruiser at the mouth of the Bohai Sea quickly spread.

Everywhere I went, there was an uproar.

The 59 corpses dressed in Japanese naval uniforms salvaged from the sea are the most indisputable evidence, adding a touch of magic to the festival on the 23rd of the lunar month of Daqing.

"Haha, okay, the water masters are really raising our faces; Put all the artillery in the house into the yard and congratulate us for the big Qing! ”

Immediately, the sound of firecrackers that had been silenced in the entire Tianjin Gate sounded again, overwhelming the world, and those expensive fireworks that were ready to be set off on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month also rushed into the dark sky one by one to explode beautiful flowers.

Ding Ruchang, Liu Buyun, Yang Yonglin, Qiu Baoren, Ye Zuqi——

All the generals and sailors of the Beiyang Naval Division looked up at the sky with tears on their faces.

"Paralyzed, but sinking a walnut ship, Lao Tzu blushed for them when he looked at it."

Liu Gangzhi, who was standing on the Dingyuan ship and waiting for the arrival of the transport carriage at the Dagu Military Station, looked disdainful.

"In any case, the Marines are much stronger than most armies; In the face of a strong enemy in Dadonggou, they did not flee in the wilderness, but bravely responded to the battle. ”

Wang Shizhen's eyes also contained splashes, and he couldn't help but think of his benefactor Ye Zhichao, if he defended Pyongyang that day, even if he died in battle, it would be passed down through the ages, and it was not destined to be stinking for thousands of years like today.

On the 24th day of the lunar month, the main force of the first army of Youpeng in Shan County left Huludao and continued south.

At noon on the same day, Yamaguchi Aritomo was on his way south when he received an order from the Hiroshima base camp conveyed by Yamaguchi Sutomi's herald.

Shan County Youpeng only thought about it slightly, so he ordered the herald to return to Shanhaiguan to send electricity, and asked Komatsuzaki to ensure that Fengtian was not lost and block the southward path of the Fengbei Qing army.

Youpeng in Shanxian County, who has always liked to gamble, still chose to gamble this time.

He could even ignore the Qing army that broke through and recapture Gaizhou, Liaoyang, Yingkou, Panjin, and Jinzhou, and was unwilling to send two or three thousand infantry to encircle and intercept them.

In his opinion, it was the right choice for the First Army to concentrate all its military forces to go down to the mountains and seas, and then to capture Jinmen, and then to capture the emperor and Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty alive.

In this way, don't say that the empire only needs Korea, Taiwan, Liaodong and these lands.

Even if it is the entire Northeast, Mongolia, or even the Yellow River as the boundary, it is not impossible to rule by rowing the river.

On the same day, Emperor Guangxu, who heard of the great victory, issued an order to commend the generals of the Beiyang Naval Division, and at the same time asked the Beiyang Naval Division to go to Shanhaiguan to assist in the battle.

Ding Ruchang said that Shanhaiguan is not only thin ice than the mouth of Dagu in Jinmen, but the ice on the ocean surface is more than ten miles wide into the sea.

The three cities outside the Guanwai attacked by the Japanese army were more than five miles away from the coastline, and the two combined were more than 16 miles, which was already at the limit of the range of the main artillery of more than 20 centimeters, and the rest of the secondary artillery was even more beyond the reach of the whip.

Moreover, the mountains and forests along the coast of Shanhaiguan are undulating, which obstructs the field of vision, and it is impossible to carry out effective and accurate bombardment. Even if the ice melts in the future, unless the city is bombarded at a fixed point, it is completely equivalent to blind shooting.

I implore the fleet to cruise around the Bohai Bay and seek opportunities to engage in a fierce battle with the Japanese fleet at sea.

Only then did Emperor Guangxu know that this year's Bohai Bay actually encountered a cold winter that occurred once in several years, and he had no choice but to play.

Ding Ruchang, who was in a hurry, immediately ordered all the mechanics of the Dagu dock to board the ship after receiving Guangxu's permission in the afternoon, and those who did not obey were permanently dismissed.

attracted a helpless curse from the craftsmen of Beitang Water Camp, all of them were celebrating the New Year, and they tossed a few handfuls.

However, for the sake of a mouthful of food, he had to honestly board the ship.

"Woo-"

In the early morning of the 25th of the lunar month, the entire Jinmen sub-fleet of the Beiyang Fleet set sail and sailed towards the Bohai Sea in a race against time.

At this time, the huge detachment led by the commander of the First Guerrilla Group of the Combined Fleet, Kompasu Sameshima, had already received the news that the Musashi had arrived later, and the fleet immediately lifted anchor at full speed and rushed to Weihaiwei Garrison Port.

In the opinion of Sameshima Kompasu, who regretted that he wanted to slap himself in the face, the Beiyang Naval Division came out with all the troops this time, and it was the best time to annihilate it.

When the Beiyang Fleet entered the port of Arthur, it was impossible to stay longer according to the treacherous situation in Lushun, and the detachment must completely block the way into the port before the Beiyang Naval Division returned to Weihaiwei.

Once the combined fleet blockaded Weihaiwei, the Beiyang Naval Division had only two ways to go, either to seek a decisive battle on the sea, or to retreat into Port Arthur and wait for Arthur to run out of food, and the naval and land armies attacked and annihilated in one fell swoop.

On the morning of the same day, the cruiser Yaeyama set sail to the waters of Yingchengzi without waiting for the gunboat Pancheng to cruise back to the waters of Daqin Island as usual.

It's just that the sea area of Yingchengzi is boundless, and there is a trace of the Pancheng number.

The captain of the cruiser Yaeyama, Tojiro Hirayama, immediately changed his face, and immediately returned to Daqin Island, ordering Amagi, Yamato, and Takao to gather together and go to the sea area of Yingchengzi to search.

"Osa, find a floating wreck of table wood, with traces of fire on it; - It seems to be the dining table on the Iwajo. ”

In the setting sun, a large half-cut wooden table with charcoal black was hoisted from a sampan ship that had been lowered into the sea, and at a glance it was a pine dining table specially made by the United Fleet.

"Baga, the Qing army fleet has really come out! Baga, it's a few days apart! ”

Hirayama Tojiro's face turned blue with anger, and he didn't care about the death of the 120 imperial sailors of the Pancheng, so he hurriedly ordered loudly: "Order all the fleets to assemble immediately, speed up the sailing at the mouth of the Bohai Bay, and leave this sea area!" ”

Now the remaining four ships, except for Yaeyama, the Kaohsiung is a steel-framed double-layer steel-bottomed unarmored cruiser, and the Amagi, Yamato, is a sailing wooden iron-bone gunboat.

Whether it is Yaeyama, Kaohsiung, Amagi, or Yamato, as long as they are hit by a giant cannon of the Beiyang Naval Division, it is estimated that they will become half-crippled if they are not dead.

As for the confrontation with the Beiyang Naval Division, Hirayama Tojiro Daisa simply didn't dare to think about it.

In his opinion, unless the nine warships of the United Fleet and the First Guerrilla Force can fight against the big ships of the Beiyang Naval Division, the rest of the ships will make no difference if they send hot meat buns to hungry dogs.