In the early morning of March 18 in the Western calendar, the 1st Battalion of the 7th Regiment of the Liaodong Brigade of the Anti-Japanese Army stormed Yingkou City.

In less than half an hour, all 103 Japanese city defenders were annihilated, and none of them escaped the net.

On the same day, the 1st Battalion of the Cavalry Regiment, under the command of Lu Tiejiao, captured Haicheng and annihilated 32 Japanese troops in the city.

The troops directly under the cavalry regiment and the 2nd battalion, under the command of Qu Desheng, successfully captured Liaoyang and completely annihilated 116 people from half a squadron of Japanese troops in the city.

On the morning of the same day, the 3rd Cavalry Battalion arrived in Liaoyang all the way.

At this point, in the entire Liaodong, only the Gaizhou and Fengtian city defense areas were temporarily in the hands of the Japanese army, and there was no trace of Japanese activities in the rest of the area.

At nearly noon, Haicheng went south to reconnoiter cavalry, and encountered the reconnoiter cavalry released by the Liaodong Brigade to the north, and the news was transmitted back to Haicheng, and there was cheers everywhere.

And Liu Mingyang, who got the details of the cavalry regiment, ordered the 7th regiment to send one to continue to clear the Japanese army in Gaizhou, and the rest of the army to repair for one day.

At the same time, he sent a letter to the Haicheng cavalry, hoping to send a team of cavalry to take over Yingkou, and stated that there was a part of the Liaodong Brigade to suppress bandits in Liaodong, and hoped that the cavalry regiment would assist when they met in the future.

At this time, Song Qing, Zhang Gaoyuan, Ma Yukun, Ma Jinxu, and Song Desheng led more than 1,200 remnants of the Beiyang Army to trek along the Liao River for 6 days before they reached the confluence of the Liu River and the Liao River.

And what's even worse is that the food of the remnants of the Nangui army has almost run out, and the barren mountains and mountains along the way are inhabited, and for Song Qing and them, the real test has just begun.

Bohai Haikou.

"Whew-"

At about 8:30 a.m., the flagship of the 3rd Guerrilla Group of the Japanese Combined Fleet, the cruiser Tsukushi, and the gunboat Seabird, rushed to the Beitongji waterway at the mouth of the Bohai Sea.

The captain of the Tsukushi and the commander of the 3rd Guerrilla Squadron, Katsumi Mizen, held a telescope and tried his best to search the sea, but the water was clear and there was no trace of a small boat at all.

"Report to the Commander, there is nothing suspicious in the vicinity."

The soldier on the ship's lookout platform, Ryosaku Takashima, searched for a long time, but found nothing.

"Order the Seabird to conduct a circumnavigation search around Tsukiji Island, and the Tsukushi to conduct a circumnavigation search around Daqin Island!"

Samzen gave the order, but his face was not very good-looking.

An hour earlier, when the warship was conducting a routine boarding inspection of an American merchant ship, the captain of the Marine Corps, Naozo Shiga, who led the team, discovered an unusual situation.

It is the lifeboat carried by this merchant ship, which is surprisingly few.

Shiga Naozo deliberately pretended to be unintentional and asked casually, but the captain of the Hawaii immediately scolded and vomited bitterness, saying that he had lost four first-class lifeboats last night, and that one or two dozen Daqing water thieves were missing from the ship.

After receiving the news, the Tsukushi accelerated to the sea area of the Bohai Sea to find it.

According to the analysis of the warship navigator, if the Hawaii had taken the standard channel line, at this time, these four small ships would definitely not have reached Daqin Island or Tonji Island.

But now in the vast sea, in the vastness, where is there the shadow of a small boat?

"Commander, since there is no trace of the boat at this time, unless the boats are full of strong old sailors, they can row the boat to the island so quickly;"

Deputy Captain Yuzhang Kuwata said with a solemn face: "Or, it has been picked up by other ships." ”

"If it's to pick it up, then where do they go,—— Yantai, or Lushun?"

Sanshan Katsuji suppressed his anger and said: "With so much effort, who is doing it on the boat, and what is the big trick?" ”

Yuzhang Kuwata kept his mouth closed, unable to answer.

"Travel around for a week, if you don't find it, immediately go back to Weihai Port to send electricity to China and report the incident; It has taken too much time for the main forces of the combined fleet to go south to the Taiwan islands! ”

Sanshan said in a deep voice: "Now the main force of the Beiyang Naval Division in Port Arthur on the opposite side still exists, and since the victory in Dadonggou, the 21st torpedo boat with a displacement of 80 tons that has been sunk by the empire in Dalian Bay, the Pancheng gunboat at the mouth of the Bohai Sea, the Chicheng gunboat at Weihaiwei, and the armed merchant ship Xijing Maru at the mouth of the Tang River,—— Zhujun watched the victory of the army in succession and surrounded the capital of the Qing Dynasty, but in my eyes, the terrifying giant elephant of the Qing Dynasty is slowly waking up and regaining confidence. ”

"Commander, in any case, the war is about to end, isn't there already an armistice order in the country?"

Regarding the caution and pretense of self-denial of the three goodness, Yuzhang Watada is actually not very convinced.

"I hope so."

Sanshan Katsumi raised his eyes and looked at the tentacle continent stretching out of the Liaonan Peninsula to the south, and said with a bitter mouth: "The Beiyang Naval Division that did not capture Lushun and failed to completely annihilate the Qing Dynasty has always been the two biggest regrets of the empire in this national war!" ”

"Woo-"

At this time, a cargo ship of Beiyang China Merchants Co., Ltd. sailed out of Bohai Bay, and the ship was loaded with high-grade eight-channel anthracite from the Luanzhou Coal Mine.

This was the first Qing steamship to sail out of the Bohai Sea after the armistice agreement was signed between the Qing and Japan.

It was a test of the effectiveness of the Qing Dynasty armistice agreement between the Qing Dynasty and Japan.

It was also the Qing Dynasty that was about to go crazy and wanted to earn some money to support the family as soon as possible.

The coal carrier, seeing the Japanese warship from a distance, immediately greeted it honestly and began to slow down and wait for inspection.

"Go to a motorboat, as long as you don't have ordnance, don't be embarrassed."

Sanshan Katsuji glanced at the docile Qing cargo ship indifferently, and casually gave an order and no longer paid attention, but continued to stare north in the direction of Lushun.

After the defeat of the Langfang anti-Japanese army, in the eyes of Sanshan Katsuji, Lushun will be the only roadblock in the empire.

There were tens of thousands of elite troops in the Qing Dynasty and Beiyang.

Able to confront the 2nd Army of Dashan Rock head-on, without flinching.

There was the main fleet of the Beiyang Naval Division of the Great Qing Dynasty.

Although it was heavily damaged in Dadonggou, it still has good combat power, and the Empire's naval power has still not achieved absolute crushing strength.

Although the Qing Dynasty was defeated in this war, it seems that their real core military strength did not suffer a devastating blow.

After the war, since the empire was able to extract the indemnities and resources of the Qing Dynasty, it was able to monopolize Korea and control Taiwan.

However, the huge body of the Qing Dynasty was able to quickly re-establish a powerful armed force based on the Lushun Naval Army.

Under the skies of East Asia, continue to compete with the Eastern Empire!

At this moment, Sanshan Katsumi suddenly felt that the sea in front of him was vast, and the future of the Oriental Empire seemed to be boundless.

Liaonan.

At 6 o'clock in the morning, He Changying and his entourage boarded the torpedo boat Fulong, and at the same time pulled four stolen boats onto the ship.

Then the torpedo boat formation, amid a cheer, quickly turned back to the sea.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the torpedo boat formation sailed to the coast of Laotieshan on the headland of the Liaonan Peninsula, and the formation stuck to the coastline and sailed towards the Lushun Military Port in the wind and waves.

At 9:15, the torpedo boat formation approached Manzi Mountain outside Port Arthur.

"Tick-tock-"

At this time, a loud and clear military horn sounded in the Manzi Mountain Fort, and He Changying and others looked up excitedly.

A platoon of buglers, standing on the edge of the southeast cliff of the fort, was blowing the military horn vigorously.

Red flag hunting, stretching on the top of the mountain.

"Boom!"

An empty cannon burst out.

"Boom!"

"Boom!" ——

Immediately afterwards, the security cannons on the barbarian battalion fort were fired one by one.

Celebrate the return of He Changying, commander-in-chief of the anti-Japanese army.

Towards the entire Port Arthur and towards the vast sea, the final battle in southern Liaoning was officially staged.

Minister of War of the Japanese Army, Iwawa Oyama (Aritomo Yamaguchi is the Speaker of the Privy Council), Lieutenant General Motoji Yamagi, Commander of the First Division of the Japanese Army, Noshinori Nogi, Nishikanjiro, Hasegawa Yoshimichi -

As well as the entire 2nd Army of the Japanese Army.

Their end is coming!