When the cannon fire of the Zhenyuan ship sounded, the entire southern Liaoning, from the mainland to the sea, was in an uproar, shocked, and happy!

While the Japanese warships were chasing and shelling, the Righteousness, Liyu, and Cardinals were on the sea three nautical miles to the east, and saw this crisp and neat chase on the sea to the west and west.

The roar of artillery fire, the blazing 'torch' of the Tianlong, and the Qing warship that sailed to Dalian Bay after its success. Let Li Hongzhang, Li Jingfang, Luo Fenglu, Ma Jianzhong,——

A group of Qing officials were full of blood and tears when they saw it.

This is the style and pride that our Chinese sailors should have!

"Zhongtang, Zhongtang, I see, I see! ——Including the division of troops in Suzhuang before, He Changying They want to annihilate the second army of the Japanese army! ”

Li Jingfang trembled with excitement: "As long as the Second Army is defeated, the Beiyang Naval Division has flattened the port of Incheon, and Weihaiwei is the last stronghold of the Japanese army in the Qing Dynasty. ”

On the bridge of the Righteousness, Li Jingfang shouted excitedly: "At that time, our Qing soldiers were strong and strong, and the East Ocean was already sunset, haha, happy, happy, what a He Anzhi!" ”

The Qing officials on the Righteousness, everyone was shocked: "Defeat the second army? The anti-Japanese army is really heroic! ”

"Haha, it's really lively now, it turns out that the Lushun Qing Army is not only going to bombard Incheon Port, but also wants to annihilate the Second Army of the Japanese Army! Haha, Toyo must be mad now! ”

On the Cardinal, Vice Admiral Fremantle, commander of the British Far East Fleet, laughed merrily.

"You and the German captain have discussed, the merchant ship will go to Dalian Bay, I want to see it with my own eyes!"

Li Hongzhang's face was complicated, and he turned his head to Luo Fenglu and said undoubtedly: "Since I have met it, the old man wants to take a look at how the anti-Japanese army turned the sky this time?" ”

"The Japanese warship is finished, it's finished!"

He Changying hurried all the way, and finally arrived at the west line of Nanguanling at about 4:30, listening to the rolling cannon roar in the east, he didn't have to think about it to know what was going on.

"In order to prevent our land artillery from destroying their defense line of rejection piles, in addition to the two blocking lines on the western mountainside and the top of Nanguanling Mountain, our artillery can be destroyed in a concentrated manner, but they have built a third line in the dead corner of the artillery fire field on the southern slope. It's a good calculation. ”

Major General Shen Zhaoao, chief of staff of the New Army, said with a smile: "I think that now that I hear the sound of artillery on the sea, Dashanyan's heart must be very complicated, right?" ”

"Haha-"

A group of generals of the New Army laughed happily.

Dalian Bay, the headquarters of the Japanese Second Army.

When the cannon roar on the southern sea was heard, the entire Japanese military headquarters, which was busy and extraordinarily busy, suddenly became silent.

Everyone's face is as gray as ashes!

At this moment, everyone remembered that in Port Arthur, there was also a Qing Beiyang fleet.

It's just that this fleet either lost the battle or fled before, so the Japanese generals who have always been big have ignored this fateful existence.

"I really want to annihilate the second army of the empire, I have such a big appetite!"

Dashan Yan endured the panic in his heart, and roared: "The second army still has nearly 20,000 elite troops, and Port Arthur is just a miscellaneous Qing army of 10,000 or 20,000, you are timid, you are afraid, the Qing army is also a human being, there are no three heads and six arms!" You are still not the heroic and invincible army of the Empire! ”

"Hey!"

Listening to the roar of Dashan Yan, the Japanese generals in the war room suddenly began to regain a little bit of courage.

They are all shouting at the top of their lungs to cheer themselves up.

After yelling, the generals looked at General Dashanyan silently, waiting for his corresponding orders.

"Boom—"

At this time, suddenly there was a rolling thunder cannon from the east, although it was relatively weak here, but the stormy and coherent cannon roar still let the generals know clearly:

There's a fight on the Golden State side!

Didn't you say that nearly 2,000 cavalry ran out? And where did these rapid-fire guns come from!

"Yaga!"

Da Shanyan spit out these two words with a blood-red face, feeling his heart stuffy, his brain dizzy, and he fainted as soon as it was dark in front of him.

"Commander, Commander!"

In the war room, there was an exclamation.

Golden State, Big Tree Village, Golden State Avenue.

"Boom, boom them, haha, happy!"

Liu Mingyang, commander of the Liaodong Brigade, couldn't help but laugh when he saw that the Japanese soldiers on the Shimenzi Heights were crying wolf under the grenade bombs one after another.

At the same time, the 6th Regiment of the Brigade, the New 22nd Regiment, and the Changbai Mountain Anti-Japanese Regiment, with nearly 8,000 troops, were also attacking the Japanese troops along the way, and had already reached the Chenjiatun Heights east of the ruins of Jinzhou.

The Second Army of the Japanese Army has become the turtle in the urn of the new army.

"Boom!"

At six o'clock in the morning of the 8th, with the roar of the Zhenyuan ship anchored in Dalian Bay, the battle to catch turtles officially began.

When the naval division shelled Nanguanling and concentrated its firepower to destroy the defense line of the horse-rejecting pile on the southern slope of the Nanguanling Mountains with high-explosive shells, the artillery group of the field artillery regiment of the Lushun Regiment also exploded immediately, bombarding the first two horse-rejecting piles of the Japanese army's Nanguanling position.

Under the furious artillery fire, the three lines of defense line that the Japanese army had painstakingly built were suddenly blown up, and the 8,000 Japanese troops in it were all lying dead on the turbulent mountains, suffering from the invasion of artillery fire.

At 6:30, the 1st Brigade and the 2nd Brigade of the New Army immediately launched a fierce attack, and the Japanese infantry in Nanguanling knew that they had fallen into a desperate situation, and they were all fighting hard and not retreating.

The battle lasted until 8 o'clock in the morning, when Shen Zhaoao ordered the 3rd Brigade to enter the battle, and with the input of the new forces of the new army, the positions of the Japanese Nanguanling defense line began to be lost one by one.

Seeing that the situation was critical, Dashan Yan ordered the 3rd Wing and the 24th Wing to go into the battlefield, and fight for the new army from hill to hill.

The entire Nanguanling front was already a mess at this time, and the new army, the Japanese Second Army, invested a total of more than 36,000 troops, and fought bloody battles to the death.

Dalian Bay.

After blowing up the Japanese army's defense line of rejection piles, because the distance was too long, in order to prevent accidental injury, the warships immediately stopped shelling Nanguanling.

Under Yang Yonglin's order, the three warships began to clear the Japanese army's cotton island military depot, Liushutun barracks, and some Japanese facilities in sight.

At eight o'clock, Yang Yonglin ordered the shelling to stop and turned out of Dalian Bay.

The next target is Weihaiwei!

He Changying said in the military order: "There is no need to enter Weihaiwei, and there is no need to attack Liugong Island to the death, just let the entire Qing Dynasty hear the sound of our artillery in Weihaiwei!" ”

"Woo-"

Seeing the three warships of Gongyi, Liyu, Cardinal, Zhenyuan, Jiyuan, and Jingyuan, which stayed at the mouth of Dalian Bay and Xiaoshan Island, sounded their horns and left the port to go west.

"Commander, since they have an absolute advantage, why did they sail back?"

The captain of the Cardinal, Colonel Miller Lagres, said he couldn't understand.

"It's not a return voyage, how can this stupid waste happen? Now the Japanese army is in Korea, and the Daqing occupies three seaports, Incheon, Dalian Bay, and Weihaiwei. ”

Vice Admiral Philmante looked westward and speculated.

"Just these few warships, are they crazy?"

Major Lagres exclaimed in disbelief.

"Not the capture, but the symbolic shelling, Incheon, Dalian Bay, Weihaiwei, so that a greater propaganda effect will definitely be achieved."

Philmante smiled and said, "It's a good thing that my family didn't buy Toyo's bonds, otherwise they would have bled after the carnival!" ”

On the whole day of the 8th, the Lushun Corps of the New Army and the Second Army of the Japanese Army were in a dead stalemate in Nanguanling.

On this five-hill plateau, which is nearly ten miles long, and above four small hills, the gunshots, shouts, and cannons barely stop for a moment.

After the Japanese army invested in the 3rd and 24th Wings, it also invested in the 5th Engineer Brigade and the Baggage Brigade.

In the afternoon, in order to recapture the high ground, he even ordered the 1st Cavalry Brigade to counterattack the hill and high ground.

And the new army also put in the baggage troops, the gendarmerie troops.

Although at three o'clock in the afternoon, the Zhou Fan Regiment of the 2nd Brigade of the New Army finally captured the northernmost No. 5 heights.

However, nearly 3,000 Japanese troops blocked the east and south sides, fought to the death, and forcibly prevented the 2nd Infantry Brigade of the New Army from continuing to expand the depth of the results.