Dalian Bay.

"Boom, boom—"

Night gradually fell, and the entire Nanguanling, Jijiatun, and the war on the eastern and western fronts had stopped.

Only the artillery group of the Lushun Corps to the west of Nanguanling and the artillery group of the Liaodong Brigade to the east of Jijiatun continued to clean up the military points in the hinterland of Dalian Bay one by one.

The Cotton Island depot of the Japanese Second Army was bombarded by the fleet's high-explosive bombs in the morning, which caused a raging fire, and Oyama Iwa simply did not have enough strength to put out the fire, so he let it burn.

At this time, the fire that had been burning for a day was almost extinguished, but the red light of the pile from a distance showed that the military rations, cotton cloth, munitions, and other materials were still in the final burning.

The Japanese army's Songjiacun headquarters had been completely destroyed by high-explosive shells fired from the east of Jijiatun, and the temporary headquarters was set up in Houguancun, and in order to prevent shelling, the entire village did not even dare to light open flames.

In the various settlement sites in the village, there was a hissing of seriously wounded soldiers everywhere, and the field doctor was busy fainting from time to time, and then was woken up by cold water and continued to grit his teeth to save him.

Oyama Rock, Mountain Genji, Hikaru Inoue, Hasegawa Yoshimichi -

A group of Japanese generals gathered in a hut lit with a faint oil lamp, and everyone looked gloomy.

"According to rough statistics, since last night, the 1st Brigade has lost nearly 2,000 people, the 2nd Brigade has killed nearly 1,000 people, the 12th Brigade has killed nearly 2,500 people, the baggage soldiers have killed 200 people, the engineers have killed 250 people, the artillery has killed 400 people, the cavalry has killed 200 people, and half of the 5,000 soldiers are left——"

The generals in the house were shocked, although they knew that the battle damage was definitely not small, who expected that just last night and one day, the 18,000 army would kill more than 6,500 people, and half of the soldiers were directly killed.

Now there are only more than 11,000 army left, and more than 2,500 soldiers and cannon fodder!

If in tomorrow's battle, the Qing army on the east and west sides still maintains this kind of attack intensity, according to this subtraction, at this time tomorrow, wouldn't it be that the soldiers are killed in battle, and the army of the second army will have a maximum of five or six thousand people left?

A chill that penetrated deep into the bone marrow spread on the body of every Japanese general.

"——Major General Nogi Noshinori was killed in a cannon, the body was torn apart and could not be pieced together, Kono Osa was killed, Uchiyama Osa led a group of soldiers into the ruins of Jinzhou Castle to resist, and then the Qing army shelled Jinzhou, and then the whole army was destroyed, Imatsu Takashi was killed in battle, and Kishiyo and Shaosa were killed,——"

"The military depot on Cotton Island was completely destroyed, a large amount of military rations and ammunition were not rescued in time, according to the reserves of various departments, just like today's combat losses, logistics can provide ammunition support for a day and a half at most, and military rations can last for up to three days."

Listening to Hikaru Inoue's report, everyone, including Oyama Iwa, changed color.

In other words, if we keep fighting like this, not to mention whether the army has finished fighting, there will be no bullets to fight the day after tomorrow.

Could it be that he held a rifle as a wooden stick to fight against the Qing army?

"At two o'clock in the morning tonight, all the units of the Western Front quietly broke away from the Nanguanling battle line, and then quickly assembled at Jijiatun, and at five o'clock tomorrow morning, the whole army broke through from the Eastern Front; Remember not to dwell on it to avoid being dragged down by the Qing army on the Eastern Front! ”

Dashan Yan roared with blood-red eyes: "After the army breaks through, there is no need to look for the original formation, with the highest officer in the vicinity as the leader, stride straight to the Yalu River, and then immediately cross the river and defend along the river!" There is no food on the road, and the Qing Dynasty along the way - no, now Liaodong is already the territory of my Great Dongyang! ——Collect food along the way, and kill all the people who dare to resist! ”

"Hey!"

The hut was full of yelling, although it was a shameful escape, but after all, there was a way to live.

Nanguanling, the No. 2 highland occupied by the New Army.

Nine o'clock in the evening.

He Changying, Lin Yunyu, Wu Weiyang, Shen Zhaoao, Hao Tiansheng, Mao Chao, Li Bohu, Cheng Moyi,——

A group of high-ranking generals of the New Army stood on the ridge, looking out at Dalian Bay, which had fallen into darkness.

At this time, the artillery fire of the new army had stopped, and there was silence everywhere.

Shen Zhaoao looked at the corpses of the Japanese soldiers on the mountain under the moonlight, and couldn't help but shudder: "This Nanguanling Battle is too tragic!" ”

"Nearly two thousand were killed and nearly three hundred seriously wounded, of course, tragically; But it's worth it! ”

He Changying said tenaciously: "There is only one battle today, and the Japanese army is already frightened!" After the bombing of the arsenal on Cotton Island, tomorrow morning is their last chance to break through, otherwise they will be doomed to annihilation. ”

"Report, the fireworks are ready!"

Major Luo Dali, the leader of the engineer brigade, strode over.

He Changying nodded and said in a deep voice: "Let's go!" ”

"Bang, bang, bang—"

"Smack, smack!"

Brilliant fireworks explode in the sky and bloom beautiful flowers.

"Yaga, pig!"

"Bastard!"

"Fireworks again, is there any trick!"

In Dalian Bay, on the position controlled by the Japanese army in Nanguanling, all the Japanese soldiers cursed one after another, and they all clenched their rifles in their hands in panic.

"Nanguanling is setting off fireworks, these little bastards!"

Li Hongzhang stood on the Righteousness and grinned.

"Father, why don't we go to Lushun now and ask what's going on?"

Li Jingfang was very enthusiastic when he saw it.

"What are you going to do? To reprimand them for breaking the contract? The contract signed by the old man himself, can it be said that they played well? Left and right, inside and out, they are slapping my old face! ”

Li Hongzhang laughed and said: "Our father and son just watch from this Haikou, and watch our New Beiyang Army in Lushun how to annihilate the Second Army of the Japanese Army!" ”

Jijiatundong, Liaodong Brigade, Changbai Mountain Regiment Defense Line.

"Order the central troops to retreat, list the 'eight-character array', and annihilate the second army of the Japanese army tomorrow!"

With Liu Mingyang's order, more than 12,000 new troops immediately got busy.

At two o'clock in the morning on the 9th, all the 7,000 Japanese troops in Nanguanling quietly left the battlefield.

At half past two in the morning, the 1,000-year-old road covered the Japanese army and began to withdraw from Nanguanling.

At three o'clock in the morning, the Lushun Army began to enter Nanguanling on all fronts, quietly advancing eastward in the dark.

At 4:30 a.m., more than 11,000 Japanese troops and 2,500 soldiers were all concentrated in Jijiatun.

At five o'clock in the morning, the sky was slightly bright in the east, and the Japanese cavalry opened the way with their horses and broke through with all their might.

"Rush!"

"Stride, stride!"

"Dazuo, there is no Qing army on the Qing army's position, there is no Qing army!"

"Leave them alone, break through and move forward!"

In the dark night, all the Japanese troops, including Daiyama Rock and Mountain Genji, fled desperately east with a blank face.

"Tick-tock-"

"Boom!"

"Shoot!"

"Da Da Da-"

Just when the Japanese cavalry rushed to the 'Bazi Mouth' of the 'Bazi Formation', military trumpets, artillery shelling, shouts of killing, and gunfire sounded.

Suddenly there was a bang.

"Yu—"

"Ahh

"In the middle of the ambush, in the middle of the ambush!"

Especially in the twilight of the night, four red 'bullet whips' fired by four Makqin machine guns at the 'Bazikou' immediately knocked the nearly 400 cavalry of the Japanese First Cavalry Brigade on their backs.

"Yaga, Yaga!"

Dashanyan rode on a war horse and roared angrily, and at this time, a grenade bomb exploded in the sky above his head, directly beating Dashanyan into a broken sieve covered with rotten flesh.

However, at this time, all the Japanese soldiers were desperately fleeing separately, and who cared about the lives of others?

"Tick Tick Tick Tick-"

At this time, a loud trumpet was heard in Dalian Bay to the west, and the Lushun Corps of the new army began the final attack on the Japanese Second Army.

Port of Incheon.

Five thirty in the morning.

"Warship, warship of the Qing army!"

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!"

The Japanese coastal brigade stationed at the port of Incheon shouted in shock.

However, in addition to the mountains of military resources and coal, there is not even a single coastal defense gun in the entire port of Incheon.

There was only one cruiser, the 1,372-ton Tsukushi, and the unfortunate Yaeyama fast cruiser that had come to the port of Incheon to see off the new Oriental ambassador to North Korea, Miura Olou.

"Woo-"

'Tsukushi', Yaeyama, immediately raised the anchor and raised the pressure, and quickly rushed towards the outside of Incheon Port, in a delusional attempt to escape.

"Boom, boom, boom-"

Dingyuan, Laiyuan, Pingyuan, Guangbing, Zhennan, Zhenbei, Zhenxi, Zhendong, Zhenzhong——

Lined up outside the port of Incheon, calmly shelled.

At a quarter past six, the Tsukushi burst into flames and began to sink.

At 6:35, Yaeyama desperately recoiled the warship back to the dock, delusionally hoping that the soldiers would land and escape, and was easily sunk in the middle.

"Boom-"

Immediately, the new army went south to the fleet and began to completely destroy the port of Incheon.

"Haha, happy, these dogs didn't expect to have this day!"

On the Dingyuan ship, Liu Buyun laughed heartily.

Dalian Bay.

Seven o'clock in the morning.

By this time, the fighting in the east had largely ended, with only the occasional sporadic gunfire as the troops carried out a carpet-like raid of the surrounding areas.

He Changying, Lin Yunyu, Wu Weiyang, and Shen Zhaoao came to the Monk Island Fort, the broken fort, the cracked sea defense cannon, and the blackened blood stains on the ground seemed to be still telling the tragedy of the Dalian Bay naval battle.

He Changying lit a cigarette, and the green smoke curled up, which was blown away by the slight spring breeze in the morning.

"Woo-"

The three steamers at the mouth of Dalian Bay sounded their horns, then lifted anchor and left, heading west.

"It's finally over!"

Shen Zhaoao exhaled lightly and said, "I can finally sleep peacefully tonight." ”

"No!"

He Changying's gaze looked in the southeast direction, her eyes flashed brightly, and she said firmly: "It's just the beginning!" ”