"This Fang Boqian, it wasn't for him to escape with the ship, and Wu Jingrong, how could the Japanese fleet have enough firepower to sink Jingyuan!"

Luo Fenglu, the general office of the Navy Division's camp office, privately communicated a telegram with Ding Ruchang at the Tanggu dock, and according to the old tradition of the Qing Dynasty, this defeat had to find a scaperobe to calm the anger of the imperial court. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

And with what Fang Boqian and Wu Jingrong did in the Dadonggou naval battle, they deserved it!

"There is also the sinking of Zhiyuan, the rescued sailors of the Zhiyuan ship complained that the reason why the ship sank was because the rubber blocking the water door was old and tattered, and it was not replaced, and the water potential could not be controlled, so it sank."

Hearing Luo Fenglu's words, the signing room suddenly became cold, and the scalps of the cold people were chilling.

Li Hongzhang raised his old face and glanced at Luo Fenglu, and Luo Fenglu's heart trembled.

The central hall, which felt old, became as tall as a majestic mountain again at this moment.

Those two lightly flicked gazes were as sharp as knives, pointing directly at the darkest things in the depths of people's hearts, so that they had nowhere to hide.

"Deng Shichang, Lin Yongsheng, Lin Luzhong, Huang Jianxun, these people are all loyal ministers of the imperial court; Old man, I am very relieved that in this time of crisis, there are still these men who can kill themselves for the country! ”

After Li Hongzhang said these words slowly and oldly, he stopped speaking, lowered his eyes, and continued to lower his head and smoke hookah.

"Deng Shichang's performance, no matter how you look at it, is 10,000 times better than Fang Boqian, who is greedy for life and afraid of death!"

Li Jingfang said with an angry face: "Even Ma Jifen, an American, knows that he will fight to the death and will not retreat to serve the imperial court, and he is seriously injured and almost blind; But he Fang Boqian is good, the spineless escape of the Battle of Toshima and the white flag are hoisted, and this time the old trick is repeated! ”

It took his father decades of hard work to establish this water master, who argued and wrestled with Weng Tonggong again and again, and spent tens of millions of taels of silver.

As a result, I went out for a trip, and in less than half a day in Dadonggou, I let most of these losers lose most of them, how can this not make people angry and distressed.

"Regarding the matter of the Jiyuan ship, Lord Zhongtang has asked Lord Wen Jue to go to Lushun Military Port to check the situation of the ship's hull, whether the ship's cannon is damaged, and it will soon be revealed."

Sheng Huaixuan explained to the people in the signing room: "This matter will eventually be truthfully reported to the imperial court; The top priority now is just as Weiting said, how to dispatch troops to control the war in Korea, and not to Liaodong? ”

Hearing Sheng Huai announce that Zhongtang asked Wu Tingfang to go to Lushun to check the situation of the Jiyuan, everyone knew that Fang Boqian was finished.

If Zhongtang wanted to protect him, he wouldn't do it at all.

However, everyone's hearts are relieved, with a scapegoat, the following things will be easy to do.

It's nothing more than moving from east to west to play Tai Chi, and in the end, it won't work.

"I have already asked the court to ask for guilt and return home, this matter, who can bear it in the future;"

Li Hongzhang suddenly raised his head and said angrily: "When the sky falls, when the quilt is covered, people die and birds are facing the sky!" Let's all disperse, go back and rest. ”

"Zhongtang!"

Everyone in the room was shocked.

"Zhongtang, Anzhou call-"

At this time, Qin Yuefeng, a member of the Governor's Yamen Telegraph Room outside the signing room, said loudly.

"Anzhou?"

The people in the room were confused, didn't it mean that Ye Zhichao had already withdrawn to Yizhou with all the Qing troops, at this time, there were still ghosts in Anzhou who could call?

"How?"

Li Hongzhang Mouran raised his head, and his eyes swept to the door of the signing room.

"Zhongtang, Anzhou aid to the Korean army urgent."

Qin Yuefeng walked into the signing room, knelt neatly on half his knees, and presented the telegram with both hands.

"Reinforcements? Why are they still in Anzhou! ”

The room was full of screams.

Zhang Peilun was just about to get up to get the telegram, but Li Jingfang over there had already bounced up and stood up, rushed over and grabbed the telegram, his big hands were trembling.

Pyongyang was defeated, Dadonggou was defeated, and the water and land armies were eroded to this point, how could my father not be heartbroken.

For so many years, in Li Jingfang's memory, how could his father have been on any 'guilty folds'?

As an old man in his seventies, what a humiliation this has to endure!

The most important thing is that once the court agrees and orders the father to return to old age, what should I do if I still have this big family.

Could it be that they all returned to the poor countryside of Hefei.

Leave a lifetime of infamy?

"Haha, father, a great victory, another great victory; What a He Anzhi! ”

After just one glance, Li Jingfang laughed happily.

This great victory is tantamount to a long drought and a rainstorm, which is particularly precious to my father and the entire Beiyang group at this time.

"Lord Bao Zhongtang, the first part of our Korean reinforcement army crossed the south of the Datong River on the 16th, attacked the artillery position of the 9th Brigade of the Japanese Army, and at the same time divided troops to occupy Toulao Island and blocked the bridge with the Green artillery on the island. In this battle, 116 people of the three major artillery teams of the Japanese army were annihilated, and the captain of the brigade Nagata Kameshozo was killed; The bridge was killed by the Green gun, and the Japanese artillery fire accidentally broke the bridge and fell into the river, and there was a squadron of no less than 200 people. In addition, our aid to the DPRK army is now controlling the city of Anju, gathering nearly 1,000 follow-up troops from Pyongyang, and temporarily integrating them into the reinforcement army and the Japanese army to continue to maneuver. - He Changying. ”

"Boom-"

As Li Jingfang read aloud, there was an uproar in the signing room.

Luo Rongguang shouted in surprise: "Dongxian Ling, Shun'an Station, plus this time, the reinforcement army annihilated nearly 2,000 Japanese soldiers, more than the entire Pyongyang Sixth Army!" ”

A room full of people twisted their faces and didn't answer.

The number of reports of the reinforcement army has always been a stone and a pit, and when they say how many people they have killed, they all take out the nameplates and rifles of the Japanese soldiers.

Not to mention offering so many prisoners in advance, there is a serious young man in the middle of the Japanese soldiers.

But listening to Ye Zhichao's boasting, they killed hundreds and thousands of Japanese soldiers, and they couldn't even take out a nameplate, a Japanese gun, or a prisoner.

Everyone knows it and knows that it is all a fool, but Beiyang is one, and the imperial court and Beiyang also need this face, so everyone doesn't publicly expose their lies.

Li Hongzhang's old hand trembled and took the telegram, put on reading glasses and looked at the telegram over and over again.

"Report it to the Prime Minister's Yamen."

Li Hongzhang's voice trembled slightly and said: "It's still the same sentence, everyone should go home and rest and wait for the will of the imperial court." ”

Hearing Li Hongzhang's words, the minds of the Beiyang Wenwu who had been raising just now were a little calmer, and everyone heard it, and the tone of Zhongtang was no longer as decisive as just now.

Thinking of this, with this good news, the imperial court still has to rely on the Beiyang armies on the land route in Liaodong, and it will not do so much.

Otherwise, Zhongtang really let go back to Feixi, wouldn't the huge Beiyang become a tree and scattered?

Not to mention the future prospects and official careers of everyone, but in the life-and-death competition with various factions in the imperial court over the years, it is estimated that everyone will not have good fruits to eat in the future.

"This great victory should be publicized immediately, so that the people of Jinmen know that I am not a tiger general without Dinghai in Beiyang!"

Hearing He Changying's victory, Yuan Shikai couldn't help but feel sour in his heart.

Intuitively, this kid estimates that it won't be long before he will become a competitor of his own power Beiyang forces, just like Sheng Huaixuan.

Although in Yuan Shikai's heart, he was extremely reluctant to build momentum for He Changying at this time, but in the current situation in Beiyang, it really needs a big victory to calm people's hearts, and the people are angry.

A ship, only let it sink first, and then the brothers on the ship can show their talents to compete for the helm.

Otherwise, if the ship sinks, everyone is done playing, and then you still make a fart!