Chapter 781: For Whom the Salute Was Fired
"Whew-"
The torpedo boat Fulong sounded its whistle, which should coincide with the roar of the cannons between heaven and earth, rippling far away between the mountains and the sea.
Immediately, the left team of the formation was No. 1 and the left team No. 2,ββγ
All torpedo boats have their whistles sounded.
"Boom-"
Amid the roar of the barbarian battalion's artillery group, the torpedo boat formation sailed lightly past Mantou Mountain, began to adjust its direction, and prepared to enter the lion's mouth.
"Boom!"
At the same time as the cannon sound of the barbarian battalion just fell, the Weiyuan Fort, the Golden Mountain Fort, the Mozhujiao Fort, and the Old Oyster Mouth Fort on both sides of the Shizikou Waterway in Lushun Harbor.
Artillery roar began.
"Haha, I'm home."
He Changying's heart was filled with joy, since the end of the first Wu Dynasty went to Zhili, and then held the Japanese 1st Army in the three cities outside Shanhaiguan, then entered Zhili, and finally trapped Langfang.
There is not a day that He Changying is not overwhelmed like a rock, and she is frightened.
At this moment, the loud trumpet and the roaring cannon seemed to suddenly shatter the boulder in his heart and turn into smoke.
Looking at the rippling lion's mouth in front of him, He Changying had a premonition and a kind of confidence.
When he entered this golden waterway, he and his anti-Japanese army, his like-minded comrades-in-arms, and colleagues, we would not be as aggrieved and difficult as before.
The glorious avenue has been slowly unfolding in front of him, revealing an extraordinary grandeur.
"yes, I'm home!"
Xu Bangdao, Jia Qisheng, and Tang Shaoyi next to him all smiled.
The captain of the Fulong, Cai Tinggan, the Sipindu Division, smiled and said to He Changying: "The military gate returned to Lushun, and everyone in the army was in high spirits, and the military gate annihilated a brigade of the Japanese army at Shanhaiguan and sank the Xijing Pill at the mouth of the Tang Riverββ, haha, this warship sank well!" β
When it came to 'Xijing Pill', Cai Tinggan's face couldn't help but have a different color.
During the Battle of Daidonggou, the Fukuryu pursued the heavily damaged Saikyo Maru's armed merchant ship, and the torpedo boat carried three launch tubes fired three torpedoes at the Saikyo Maru.
The first two missed, and the last one failed to work because the waterline of the Saikyo Maru was too shallow, and as a result, the torpedo drilled through the bottom of the ship.
This incident has always been a great regret for the officers and men of the entire Fulong.
He Changying glanced at Cai Tinggan.
The torpedo boat formation and the Beiyang ship group belong to the remaining two systems, and the top commander of the torpedo boat formation is Cai Tinggan, the pipe band of the Fulong, and Wang Ping, the former commander of the left No. 1.
Therefore, in the original time and space, when the Japanese combined fleet besieged Weihaiwei Military Port, Cai Tinggan and Wang Ping led thirteen torpedo boats and two motorboats, ignoring Ding Ruchang's orders, and forcibly broke through and escaped.
After being captured, in order to avoid being sent back to China after the war, Cai Tinggan wrote a letter to Northrop, his teacher when he was in the United States, and through another female student of Northrop, Yamakawa Shematsu, the wife of Oyama Yan, left the East and fled to the United States.
It wasn't until 1901 that Cai Tinggan took Yuan Shikai's path, 'The sea and land officials who were deposed due to the First Sino-Japanese War were reinstated to their original positions, and most of them were collected under Yuan Shikai's curtain to serve as the backbone of the new army (small station training). Cai Tinggan was recommended by Tang Shaoyi to enter the shogunate for Yuan, and he was increasingly reused. β
Now that Wang Ping was accepted by Chen Shijie's gendarmes into the 'Chinese Confucius and Mencius Culture Research Institute', reciting every day and familiarizing himself with the great history of the great Chinese nation.
to help him shape the understanding of the three views.
And for Cai Tinggan, who is very 'knowledgeable about current affairs', although He Changying can't see anything on his face, he can't help but feel a little disdain in his heart.
To Zuo Guigui, Ding Shichang, Zhang Wenxuan, these people, He Changying only respects.
Even Lin Zengtai, even Dai Zongqian, these people, He Changying can express regret.
However, for people like Fang Boqian, Zhao Huaiye, Liu Shengxiu, Gong Zhaoyu, and Wang Ping, what He Changying can give them is a 'bah!' β
"The Chinese nation has always been great and splendid, and it should not only be the core of Asia, but also the leader of world civilization, the formulator of world law, and the supervisor and enforcer of world justice. The temporary backwardness is not terrible, but I am afraid of being depressed and sinking, not only do not want to make progress in the quagmire sauce jar stinky ditch, but are willing to eat. β
He Changying said loudly in the continuous cannon roar: "Everyone, as long as you and I work together, I should be sure of the prosperity of the Chinese nation!" β
"Commander-in-chief, as long as China can rise, I, Lu Wenjie, will give up my life, and I have no regrets!"
Lu Wenjie, who was standing on the side, greedily looked at the Lushun Military Port that was slowly unfolding in the Lion's Mouth, the dense anti-Japanese army formation at the wharf of Naxi Port, the black smoke from the cannon ports rising from the mountains, and the ships in the harbor like a forest-
This is the first time he has entered the mouth of Lushun in southern Liaoning, just this glance, he fell in love with this place, the base camp of the anti-Japanese army, Lushun Fortress.
"Commander-in-chief, so am I!"
He Changying's chief of guard, Captain Liu Pingyun shouted loudly.
"And me!"
Deputy Liu Yu, the one-armed lieutenant colonel of the Anti-Japanese Army who was missing his left arm, also yelled with a resolute face.
"And me!"
Artillery Major Xiao Ligang shouted excitedly in the wind.
"I'm not a bad breed either!"
Infantry Major Lu Zhaomei also shouted with a bull's eye.
"And me!"
Scout Lieutenant Platoon Commander, Sharpshooter Wang Yitong also replied in a deep voice. ββ
"Boom!"
The group of torpedo boats sailed past the tiger's tail. The two 210mm caliber Krupp guns on the Tiger Tail Fort exploded one after another.
Except for a few artillerymen who fired the artillery, the rest of the artillerymen were wearing anti-Japanese army uniforms, standing straight and standing on the curved land surface of the tiger's tail, saluting the torpedo boats.
After the roar of the tiger's tail artillery, the sound of the cannon in the military port stopped, only reverberated back and forth among the mountains, and gradually dissipated.
"Whew-"
"Boom!"
At this time, the Zhenyuan ship, the flagship of the Beiyang Naval Division, suddenly sounded a long and dull whistle.
At the same time, the 305-mm twin-mounted cannon in the bow of the ship suddenly roared, and the sound shook the sky.
After the welcome of the shore defense land artillery, the welcome from the sailors was just beginning.
Lushun Beiyang Navy Admiral Yamen.
After the anti-Japanese army banned the Admiral's Yamen, soon Pan Jinshan, Jiang Muchen, and about a dozen officers in the old-fashioned army were sent to the Admiral's Mansion.
As for Wang Ping, the commander of the capital, who tried to trick the torpedo boat formation into quietly escaping Port Arthur, and some other waterway officers who had too wrong views and were extremely hostile to the Japanese army, were sent to the research institute for further study.
With nothing to do all day, the officials and generals in the Admiral's Mansion often stayed up all night 'building the Great Wall' for recreation.
Especially after receiving telegrams from Tongzhou and Jinmen, and learning that the Qing Dynasty had begun a peace truce, the generals were even more optimistic about the show, building the Great Wall, smoking belts, and spraying cattle.
are all in various moods, watching how the anti-Japanese army will end.
"These little rabbit cubs, they really don't stop for a moment today, ringing the bell in the middle of the night, and now it's the military horn and air cannon, and the boat is honking, juggling!"
Jiang Gui has lost a lot of money these days, so that Li Yuanhong, who is in charge outside, has been borrowed and does not dare to show up, and now General Jiang, who has no gambling funds, can only watch the excitement on the side, and he is not even qualified to 'run down' (guess the winner in advance, guess the loser's gambling money).
At this time, Jiang Gui's hands itched so hard that he listened to the endless sound of military trumpets, cannons, and whistles outside, and he scolded irritably.