No, there are those who do not support this war for one month, those who do not support it for several months, and those who do not support it for half a year and do not give in to death. When the military personnel of the Taixi countries watched the battle, they commented on their gains and losses, and they could not judge their success or failure. ’

This is Zhang Wenxuan's last words before his death, Li Hongzhang.

In the early morning of the 11th, a large number of white flags were erected on Liugong Island.

The American swindler Haowei drafted a surrender document in the name of Dai Zongqian and Zhang Wenxuan, and Cheng Biguang, who had been recuperating from his wounds on Liugong Island in the abdomen in the Battle of Dadonggou, landed on the Weihaiwei land shore on the gunboat 'Zhenbian' and sent it to Prince Akihito Komatsumiya.

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, Niu Changyu, accompanied by Cheng Biguang, landed on the shore and discussed surrender with Ito Akiyo and Izuha Shigeto, Ichi Chikosuke, deputy chief of staff of the Second Army of the Army, and Ariga Nagao, Oyama's international law adviser.

At this point, the Weihaiwei Military Port of the Qing Dynasty completely fell, and the remaining ships of the Beiyang Naval Division, except for the 4 torpedo boats and 2 motorboats that escaped and were sunk, all fell into the hands of the Japanese army intact.

From now on, the Japanese Combined Fleet will be able to use Weihaiwei Harbor as a naval station, control the Bohai Sea, and remotely monitor the Lushun Fortress 600 miles northwest.

What's even more serious is that Weihai Weijun Port is only a little more than a thousand miles away from Jinmen by water.

As long as they want, the Japanese capital ship group can appear at the Dagu Fort and gun the Imjin Gate after less than 15 hours of high-speed endurance.

On the morning of February 11 in the Western calendar, Yan Xisheng, the deputy general of the Ludong River Defense Battalion, who hurriedly rushed from Rongcheng Bay to Longmiao Mountain, inspected Xu Fuchen, Ye Yunsheng, the chief officer, Zhao Defa, and Dai Shouli, the adjutant general, and saw that the rest of the Japanese army was landing on the beach.

More than 2,000 soldiers and horses of these five battalions immediately came out together, shouting and running to attack the Japanese tidal flat position.

As a result, before the shock troops could reach the coast, they were severely beaten by the artillery on the Japanese warships, and more than a dozen Qing soldiers were killed in a few shots.

The tragic situation of the Qing army that was divided by death immediately frightened the five battalions of the Qing army, and they immediately turned around and fled, scattering in a hurry.

In the afternoon of the same day, the dispersed Qing army encountered more than 1,300 reinforcements from Sun Wanling's department who had been ordered to reinforce Weihaiwei, and Sun Wanling persuaded Yan Xisheng to combine more than 2,800 troops of the two armies to march east to Weihaiwei again.

Immediately, the coalition forces gathered at Yangtingji, 20 miles west of Weihai, and encountered the 1st Brigade Headquarters of the 13th Wing of the Japanese infantry advancing westward.

After a very short contact battle between the Qing and Japanese sides, Yan Xisheng believed that since the Japanese infantry appeared here, it meant that Weihaiwei had fallen.

Before the Japanese commander Watanabe could react, Yan Xisheng hurriedly ordered a westward retreat, and the 5th battalion of Qing troops immediately shouted 'Wow Wow' and all left the battle and ran to retreat westward.

Yan Xisheng's department, who fled, directly shook the military heart of Sun Wanling's department in the back road.

The Fuzi Army, which was subordinate to the general Li Ying, and the 700-strong Fuzi Third Team led by the guerrilla Tan Lindu, also fled westward with Yan Xisheng's troops.

Sun Wanling was so angry that he was like thunder, but he had no choice but to order a retreat.

Nearly at night that day, the Qing army of the 6th battalion and the 3rd team crossed the soap mountain, camped in the tavern 40 miles west of Yangtingji, and ordered the arrest of Yan Xisheng in Longfu Temple.

Then, in the early morning of the 12th, the whole army continued to retreat westward, retreating in the direction of Yantai.

At this point, when Li Bingheng, the governor of Ludong, was besieged by the Japanese army in Weihai, Beiyang, a total of 3,300 reinforcements from 6 battalions and 3 teams were mobilized from Yantai to Rongcheng Bay, and from Rongcheng Bay to Yangtingji in Weixi, Weihai.

A total of one charge, one encounter.

2 Japanese soldiers were killed, 1 was seriously wounded, but 6 or 700 people were scattered without a trace, 16 were killed and 5 were killed.

And so it didn't happen!

At noon on the 11th, Li Bingheng learned that Weihaiwei had fallen, and hurriedly led nearly 30 battalions of Ludong Army around Yantai to retreat to Dengzhou (Penglai) in a panic.

When the news reached Jinjing, the whole city was shocked!

On the morning of February 12, the Japanese forces in Weihai obtained a telegram with the East, and were told that the East had reached a preliminary agreement with the British Empire, and that the British promised that the Far East Fleet would abandon the blockade of the Bohai Sea.

The Hiroshima base camp telegraphed the Combined Fleet and the 11th Brigade of the Army to stop the army at Weihaiwei for repairs, receive the prisoners of the Weihai Weiqing Army and their facilities, and not to march without authorization, and wait for the next order.

At the same time, he sent a telegram to appoint Lieutenant General Kuroki as the commander of the First Army, and immediately rushed to Yantai Port on an unarmed merchant ship.

Then he and the British consul in Yantai, Alinger, and the officials of Yantai in the Qing Dynasty, transferred to the British merchant ship and went to Tianjin to meet the British Consul General of Tianjin, Sgunde.

He led the way, went to Tongzhou as soon as possible to wait for the arrival of the First Army, directly deprived Youpeng of Shanxian County's military rights, and then the First Army retreated to Ninghe Town, Jindong, and assembled to wait for orders.

The Hiroshima base camp telegraphed Prince Akihito Komatsumiya that Shosuke Ito and Kuroki Weizhen had formed a peace mission from the Qing Dynasty and would go to Hiroshima to sue for peace in the near future.

The empire has passed through Shanhaiguan and Weihaiwei, and has shown the strength to destroy the Qing Dynasty, and the following is the time to harvest the fruits of the harvest through peace talks, and must not use troops without authorization, especially the emperor who defeated the Qing Dynasty.

In order to control the runaway wild dog of Shan County Youpeng, the three parties of Dongyang, Britain, and the Qing Dynasty temporarily made peace.

After smoothing out the 'burr' of the First Army Yama County, the following is the 'peace talks' between the Qing and Japan under the 'reconciliation' of the British.

At this point, the sudden Battle of Ludong suddenly fell silent again.

Tsumon.

The night of February 12 in the Western calendar.

Dagu Dock, the lobby of the Sailor Camp Office.

Li Hongzhang, Wang Wenshao, Luo Fenglu, Yan Fu, Wang Wenjin, Sheng Huaixuan, Jinguan Dao, Huang Jianjian,——

All of them were dark-faced.

Since this New Year, bad news has been coming one after another.

First of all, the Shanhaiguan defense line completely collapsed, and the tens of thousands of horses inside have not heard at all so far, no matter how you look at it, it is a sign of the annihilation of the whole army.

By means of the Japanese soldiers, they burned and looted all the way to Tangshan.

Although the Luanzhou Coal Mine and Hannagan's 4,000 'Dingwu Army' narrowly escaped, the two or three thousand Dagu artillery, together with the 30 battalions of the 'Jinsheng Battalion', were wiped out overnight.

Now this Japanese army marching westward has captured a large number of Qing troops, and they are forcibly driven like cattle and horses to kill them at will; And looted and burned along the way, doing all kinds of evil.

Go straight to Jingshi.

It is reported that the Japanese soldiers have arrived in Yutian County, or they will meet Nie Shicheng and Cheng Wenbing's 10,000 Hubei troops in a few days.

Now because of this, the entire Zhili is trembling.

The emperor even issued countless stern edicts a day,—— requiring all localities to quickly dispatch troops to serve the king, kill a large number of civil and military escapees, and raid the homes of the most heinous people, and hold their families jointly and severally responsible.

However, Zhili has not found a trace of light in this matter, and tens of thousands of Japanese troops actually landed in Ludong again, and it only took two or three days to take Weihaiwei Military Port.

As long as they want, in less than a day and a night, the enemy ships and artillery of Rulin and tens of thousands of Japanese landing troops will appear in the sea of Dagukou.

And what's even worse is that now Jinmen is equivalent to an empty city.

There are still two battalions of mud-legged recruits in the Dagukou Fort who have not even let go of their guns, let alone firing artillery to resist the enemy, and even the artillery is estimated to be unable to fire.

How can you resist it?