At this time, it was already 10:23 a.m., and the sea was calm and the waves were not happy. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Second Lieutenant Tsuneha Sano, the sentry on duty on the Yoshino, was looking around from the lookout to find out what was going on with the enemy.

From the moment the fleet left the port of Incheon, these sentries on duty saw one pillar of smoke after another, and nervously reported the 'military situation' again and again, and in the end it was a false alarm, all of which were passing merchant ships.

Sano Tsuneha was bored on the lookout and thought that after the fleet arrived at Dadonggou this time, it would go west along the Liaodong Peninsula of the Great Qing Kingdom, passing by the Port of Arthur.

If the Qing navy was still serving as turtles in the military port, the fleet would continue to move westward, bypassing the southernmost headland of the Liaodong Peninsula and sailing into the Bohai Sea, the inland sea of the Qing Dynasty.

Then they went to attack their Jinmen throat and forced the Qing fleet to come out of the turtle shell to fight.

"The god of sunshine bless the empire and bless me with a safe return to Kagoshima!"

Tsuneha Sano was leaning against the mast of the watchtower and thinking about his thoughts, when he felt an extremely fine black line flash in the corner of his eye.

"What's that, Pillar of Smoke?"

Sano Tsuneha was slightly shocked in his heart, since the fleet crossed the Datong River Estuary, because it was far away from the waterway, he hadn't seen a pillar of smoke in the past two days.

Tsuneha Sano raised the single-hole telescope and looked for a long time, and finally saw two hair-shaped pillars of smoke in the distance high in the northeast.

Although it is far away, the smell of poverty of inferior coal still comes to the face.

"Baga, such a thick soot, it must be a broken merchant ship of the Qing Dynasty again, these poor ghosts!"

Sano Tsuneha scolded triumphantly, as if he had forgotten that in order to raise money to buy high-quality white coal from the West for the United Fleet, the poor people couldn't even afford to wear fig pants.

Sano Tsuneha had already decided in his heart that there was another false alarm, but the harsh military discipline still made him meticulously report the 'military situation' to the detachment leader below, Captain Otachi Kameyoshi.

Immediately, this information was sent to the commander of the First Guerrilla Force of the Combined Fleet, Rear Admiral Kozo Tsubii.

"Could it be a cargo ship from the Qing Kingdom?"

Captain Shizuka Nakamura, a staff officer of the 1st Guerrilla Brigade, said: "The Yalu River itself is a waterway of the Qing Dynasty, and a large number of mountain goods go to sea by water all year round. ”

"Not necessarily,"

Second Staff Officer Captain Kamaya Tadamichi retorted: "The Qing Army's Beiyang Naval Division has always used inferior eight-slot coal; ——”

However, he immediately changed his tune and said: "But it's wartime, so I think they should change coal in order to get enough power, right?" ”

"The lookout post continued to observe; Captain Nakamura told the rear team that there were unknown ships in the northeast direction, and at the same time informed the ships of the 1st Guerrilla Group to reduce their speed to 9 knots and wait for the team to catch up. ”

Deep down, Kozo Tsuboi also thought that Nakamura Shizuka was right, and after giving the routine order, he didn't even bother to give the order for the whole ship to give an early warning.

The main squadron of the Japanese Combined Fleet, the flagship of the Matsushima.

Vice Admiral Ito, commander of the Combined Fleet, was discussing and deducing with his staff officers, the chief navigator, the captain and deputy captain of the Matsushima, staring back and forth on the map in the war room.

At this time, his heart was extremely heavy.

The day before yesterday, the fleet anchored at Caodao on the south side of the mouth of the Datong River, and sent the gunboat Chicheng into the Datong River Shilipu to wait for a telegram that might come from Ruixing Province.

As a result, the telegram did not wait, but Akagi, who returned from the torrential rain, brought news that shocked him.

In Pyongyang, upstream of the Taedong River, battles were taking place, and before the torrential rains, a large number of corpses of the Imperial Army were washed down from the upper reaches.

So far, the high-speed war machine has drained almost all the blood of the Empire, and if it were not for the British Empire allowing the Empire to issue war bonds in London, the Empire's economy would have been bankrupt.

If this land battle in Pyongyang, the empire will fail to attack the city or will not be able to attack it for a long time.

And this time, the combined fleet cruised the Yellow and Bohai Seas in search of fighters, and the Qing army's naval divisions could not survive the turtle shell in Port Arthur, which was known as the "first heavy fort in the Far East".

It is estimated that when the combined fleet returns to the East, there will not even be any silver to buy white coal!

On land, as long as the Qing army held Pyongyang to the death, it would not be lost.

At sea, as long as the Beiyang sailors are dead turtles cowering in turtle shells, they should not fight.

So, it is estimated that it will not be long before the empire will be defeated undefeated, and the Qing Dynasty will be victorious, right?

Ito Yuhiro sighed lightly, his heart gloomy.

"Report, the first guerrilla group sent a flag letter, and traces of the activity of unknown ships were found in the northeast direction."

"Yo Xi!"

Suddenly, the entire war room was jubilant, and even Ito Yuhiro was overjoyed.

Captain Takeo Zengliang, the commander of the Matsushima, saw the joy on the commander's face and the jubilation in the room, and regretted that he wanted to slap his mouth and slap himself, why couldn't he finish his words in one breath?

But it still has to be said, Captain Takeo Zeng continued to report with a bitter face: "According to the flag of the Yoshino, the smoke column looks like an ordinary cargo ship. ”

The war room suddenly froze, and the smiles of the generals in the room were frozen on their lips, which was very funny.

"Yaga!"

The captain of the Matsushima, Owamoto, knew about Osa, and stared at Takeo Zengra angrily and scolded, really wanting to kick this bastard into the sea.

Soon after, Vice Admiral Shikini Kayama, the head of the Navy's military command department, who was supervising the battle with the armed merchant ships, also received news that there was an unknown cargo ship ahead.

Shiki Kayama angrily lit a low-quality cigarette, full of sadness and depression.

Beiyang sailors, you come out for a walk.

Otherwise, the next time I buy the silver of Western white coal, I can only count on the women of the navy family to sell it in Nanyang~ Spring is coming!

Pyongyang, Suzhou City.

At this time, more than 600 people of the Korean reinforcement army were resting for a short time on a high ground outside the city, waiting for the scouts to enter the city and bring back information.

"Battalion commander, it's all empty, it's a mess!"

Liu Mingyang and the five of them rode back and reported: "Jin Tongyi asked the people in the city that more than 1,000 Qing troops who were guarding the city before dawn today left the city and fled north. ”

"Damn, these grandchildren's rabbit legs are so numb!"

Rubbing against He Changying's side, Li Bohu, who was smoking with Lu Zhaomei, stared at him with round eyes and scolded.

"It's okay, the battalion commander still has soldiers in Anzhou City, and he is specially robbing these forced ~ humanitarians."

Lu Zhaomei was holding a cigarette in her mouth, swallowing clouds and spitting smoke, so uncomfortable.

", battalion commander, you're really good;"

Li Bohu looked at He Changying with admiration: "These cowards should take off their underwear, and then let them go!" ”

He Changying didn't bother to deal with the two guys around him who didn't leave the 'forced' in three sentences, so Xu Ru was reluctant to approach him now.

It's so unpleasant!

At this time, He Changying looked up at the rising sun in the sky, and couldn't help but take out his pocket watch to look at the time.

It was already 10:30 a.m.

Li Bohu looked at the shiny pocket watch in He Changying's hand with envy, and said with something in his words: "Battalion commander, your pocket watch is really good, gold and gems, compared to other platoon commanders." ”

"This was given to me by Li Jingfang; My original one was the same as Lu Zhaomei's, and later gave Yang Guerrilla-"

He Changying's heart couldn't help but feel gloomy, in his own time and space, Yang Jiansheng was shot by the Japanese army with Zuo's precious body on his back, and the bodies of the two were finally discarded outside Pyongyang and died.

I wonder if he can escape this fateful fate this time?