In the anxious waiting of Shiki Kayama and Yuhiro Ito, the affectionate distant gaze of Nozu Michikan, and Ye Zhichao's dilemma, the mixed fleet that had been suspended at Shayuzui began to set sail again. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The three ironclad cruisers 'Zhenwon,' 'Jiwon,' and 'Pingwon' turned their rudder due east and headed straight in the direction of Pyongyang.

The rest of the merchant ships of 'Yangwei', 'Chaoyong', 'Guangbing' and China Merchants continued to sail north, heading towards the mouth of the Yalu River.

"Whew-"

In the whistle, He Changying slowly fell asleep.

At the turn of the summer night on August 18 and 19, 1894 in the Western calendar, the new soldiers of the Beiyang Cadet Battalion of the Great Qing Dynasty, on the merchant ships "Jiangyu" and "Jiangshun", under the escort of three warships with a displacement of about 1,300 tons, "Yangwei", "Chaoyong" and "Guangbing", went all the way north along the long coastline of the Liaodong Peninsula.

During the period, in the insomnia of the trainees, on their backs or in deep sleep, the fleet lightly swept over Sanche Island, Hulu Island, Changshan Island, and Wupython Island,——

Slowly leaving the territory of Huaxia, heading towards its last, soon-to-be-lost domain.

These students, who have a beautiful heroic complex for the country and their family, do not know what kind of dangerous and difficult situation they will be greeted by.

I don't know how many young and enthusiastic lives will remain in that foreign land forever after the baptism of war.

At five o'clock in the morning, in the light white morning light, the sharp whistle sounded almost simultaneously on the coal carriers of 'Jiang Yu', 'Jiang Shun' and the three coal ships transporting mules and horses.

As a time-traveler, He Changying certainly understands the importance of accurate time, so he spent a lot of money to equip all the company and platoon commanders in the new military camp with Western pocket watches.

Therefore, when it was time for morning exercises, the company platoon commanders of the new barracks puffed out their cheeks, and while they were in a hurry to put on their clothes and shoes, they were desperately blowing the whistles in their mouths.

Soon all the new troops stood straight and neatly on the deck of the ship, singing the first military song that must be sung every day:

"Singing the Motherland"

The song rang out.

"The five-star red flag flutters in the wind, and the victory song is so loud;

Sing about our dear motherland, from now on to prosperity and strength.

Sing about our dear motherland, from now on to prosperity and strength.

Over the mountains, over the plains, across the rushing Yellow River and the Yangtze River;

The vast and beautiful land is our dear hometown.

The heroic people have stood up!

We are united and fraternal, strong as steel.

The five-star red flag fluttered in the wind, and the victory song was so loud;

Sing about our dear motherland, from now on to prosperity and strength.

Sing about our dear motherland, from now on to prosperity and strength.

We are industrious, we are brave, and our 5,000-year history is brilliant;

We have overcome all suffering to achieve today's glory!

We love peace, we love our homeland, and whoever dares to violate us will perish!

The five-star red flag fluttered in the wind, and the victory song was so loud; ——”

He Changying stood straight on the deck of the bridge, facing the reddening sky in the east, singing loudly.

Every time he sang this song, he couldn't help but be full of blood and tears, with a deep pride:

I am Chinese and I am proud!

I am the grandson of Yanhuang, I am proud!

Although this Qing Dynasty is corrupt and dark, corrupt and shameless and despicable, the imperial court does not represent this country, and the Qing Dynasty, a bloodsucking worm lying on the flesh and blood of the people, is not worthy of representing this country!

In history, the Tang, Song, Qin and Han dynasties were all passing by?

Only the people are passed down from generation to generation.

In this filthy and rotten Qing Dynasty, my Chinese sons and daughters will one day also smash it to pieces, and all those powerful officials, beasts who suck the people's fat and people's ointment, human-like dog-like moths, garbage, and scum will all be knocked down to the clouds and burned to ashes!

At the same time, 'Yangwei', 'Chaoyong' and 'Guangbing', including the idle crew of China Merchants, all woke up from their sleep and quietly listened to the passionate military songs.

At the end of the afternoon, the flotilla finally sailed into Dadonggou, crossed Oshikashima, and then headed for the mouth of the Yalu River.

Standing on the side of the boat, He Changying's face was pale and she looked at the blue water of Dadonggou, her eyes were cold and terrifying.

If the history of the three escort warships beside him does not change much, in the near naval battle, the sister ships of 'Yangwei' and 'Chaoyong' will both sink into this sea.

The 'Guangbing' ship surrendered in the Battle of Weihaiwei.

In the future Battle of Daitogou, the 'Yangwei' ship was first crippled by the combined efforts of the Oriental fleet, and Shimose gunpowder burned a mess on the deck.

Lin Luzhong, the pipe band, ordered the ship to sail to the shallow water area to save himself, but it was hit by the escaping 'Jiyuan' ship and destroyed the rudder blade, becoming a fixed live target at sea, and was sunk and stranded alive by the Oriental Fleet, and all 57 people on board died.

Lin Luzhong committed suicide by throwing himself into the water in anger, when the 'Zuo Yi' torpedo boat rushed over to throw a long rope to rescue, Lin Luzhong refused to get on the boat, and finally sank with the waves.

The 'Chaoyong' ship was also buried in this sea, and a total of 125 people including Huang Jianxun and the crew of the ship died heroically, and only 12 were rescued.

These cold figures, 120 years after He Changying, as a nameless errand boy, may seem like a graduate of the Department of History, maybe it is just a sigh: If the country is weak, it will be beaten!

But now standing in front of him are living, flesh-and-blood lives.

He Changying took out a cigarette and lit it.

Sometimes a lot of things are like this, watching the tragedy happen step by step, those people and those things are sliding into the abyss little by little, but there is nothing you can do!

"If Pyongyang can be held, although the decisive battle between the Qing and Japanese navies is still inevitable, at least the Battle of Daedonggou should not break out, right? The more this naval battle can be delayed, the better it will be for China. ”

He Changying whispered to himself, and suddenly a lightning bolt pierced his mind, at this moment, he had never seen this war so clearly!

In mid-September, 16,000 Japanese troops of the Fifth Division were concentrated in the East and forced Pyongyang menacingly in four directions, killing two birds with one stone:

- Capture Pyongyang, expel the Qing army, and occupy the entire territory of Korea; At the same time, he forced the Beiyang Naval Division, who had been hiding in Lushun Military Port as a shrinking turtle, to come out for a decisive battle.

Li Hongzhang, who felt the grim situation in Pyongyang, in order to achieve the goal of controlling the war in Korea even if it was the worst of the worst, hurriedly withdrew 4,000 troops from Jinmen to train troops, intending to deploy troops on the front line of Jinju and Jiuliancheng on the banks of the Yalu River.

In order to be in a hurry, Li Hongzhang had no choice but to use the Beiyang Naval Division, which had only symbolically dispatched once in nearly a month and a half after the Battle of Toshima, to escort the troops to Andong County.

For the first time, Ding Ruchang took the sailor to hang out, because he was directly dispatched from Lushunkou without warning, so of course the spies on the Jinmen side did not know the news, so Ding Ruchang was lucky not to meet the combined fleet of the East.

And this time the troops were installed in Jinmen, so the Oriental spies immediately transmitted the news back to Nagasaki, so as soon as the Beiyang Naval Division led by Ding Ruchang arrived at Dadonggou, they were blocked by the Dongyang Combined Fleet that came in a hurry!

For example, this time, He Changying dared to be 100% sure that the news that the fleet had set off from Jinmen to transport troops to the Datong River would definitely know about it in the East.

And at this time, the Datong estuary was also absolutely full of the combined fleet of the Orientals!