Chapter 250: Return to Tianjin
Early in the morning of November 18, 1894. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
When the Japanese Second Army began to attack on all fronts, at 6 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese troops on the southern flank were outside the 500-meter anti-Japanese defense line, looking at the defense line that had been repaired overnight.
But they are all helpless.
The news then spread to Dashan Yan.
Because I got a telegram from Yamaguchi Aritomo last night, especially since it also has the signature of Prince Zaihito.
Facing the hard bones in front of him, Dashan Yantie blushed, pinched his nose and ordered all his troops to stop attacking and retreat to their respective defense lines.
On November 19, the scouts of the Japanese Second Army roughly figured out the basic situation of the Nanguanling defensive line.
The people in charge of guarding Nanguanling are the elite of the Korean aid army, all of whom are uniforms in Western-style military uniforms, and they are either Mauser repeating fast guns or Mauser single fast guns, and today they actually set up the big killing weapon of the Green Cannon.
In charge of guarding the northern front was a mixed army of the Korean reinforcement army and the Qing army.
The natural danger is sharp, the guns are sharp, and the fighting spirit of the army does not seem to be weak, and it is obviously not easy to overcome.
The Qing army in charge of the northern front was all the same, but the other side seemed to have sufficient military strength, and nearly half of the guns in their hands were quick shots, and it was extremely difficult to capture with the high mountains and dangerous obstacles.
Looking at the information obtained, Dashan Yan wanted to hit the wall with a headache, but there was nothing he could do for a while.
If it weren't for the attack on the artillery wing, or if there was no telegram from Youpeng in Shanxian County, Dashanyan would not hesitate to send troops to attack Nanguanling.
However, the current situation, coupled with the fact that he transferred the telegram from Aritomo Yamaguchi to the Hiroshima base camp, and still has not returned the call, makes Oyama Iwa have to wait anxiously.
What he didn't know was that the Hiroshima base camp was also noisy at this time.
Because of the Lushun Massacre in that time and space without He Changying, without the tough intervention of Western countries, coupled with the defeat of the Second Army in Dalian Bay, the losses were heavy.
It made the Toyo high-level, including the emperor, suspicious of Ito Hirobumi's plan before.
Began to vacillate between Aritomo and Hirobumi Ito in Yamaprefecture.
On November 21, the Japanese base camp in Hiroshima sent a telegram to Oyama Rock, and the troops suspended all attacks.
At the same time, it prevented the Lushun Qing army from breaking through to Liaoyang.
The Combined Fleet will arrive at Dalian Bay in early December to assist in the attack on Nanguanling.
In addition, a large number of supplies and a batch of large-caliber heavy artillery will be unloaded in Dalian Bay, which is the last seaborne material before Dalian Bay freezes.
After getting this telegram, Dashanyan couldn't help but lift his spirits, with the participation of the fleet, the Nanguanling defense line was simply like paper paste.
And with large-caliber heavy artillery, it is possible to attack the positions of the Qing army from a long distance, and it will not be so easy to be raided by these cunning Qing troops.
Now it's just a matter of waiting.
In just a few days, the Liaoyang defense line has begun to collapse rapidly.
On the afternoon of November 18th, the Japanese army Tachimi Division, Oshima Hisashi Division, began to storm Motianling and race horses.
The fighting was extremely fierce, and both sides suffered heavy casualties on that day.
Song Qing hurriedly told Liu Kunyi about his urgency, so Liu Kunyi ordered Zhang Gaoyuan's department, who had just landed at Yingkou, to change the order to garrison Haicheng and immediately go to Motianling for reinforcements.
And Shengjing's general Yulu and Jilin's general Changshun, seeing that the horse race was tight, also hurriedly tilted their troops towards the east road.
No. 19, No. 20, No. 21, the entire Liaoyang East Road was beaten into a pot of porridge, in the mountains and rivers and deep forests, the guns and cannons of the Qing and Japanese sides rumbled, and the repeated snatching and see-sawing of one mountain after another, the battle was extremely tragic.
The top of the mountain, the cliff valley, was full of soldiers who had been shot and killed.
And Yingkou on Liaoyang West Road, Haicheng generation, is quiet.
It gives the illusion of being forgotten and of paradise.
At this time, the front station of Yingkou, Dashiqiao, and the Ximu City in front of Haicheng, were only defended by Nie Guilin's 2,000 Feng troops.
The forces are extremely weak.
On November 22, under such circumstances, the battle of Ximucheng on Liaoyang West Road suddenly began.
Nie Guilin's troops faced the swarming Japanese troops of the Fifth Brigade, and almost did not resist at all, and fled in a hurry.
The Japanese then took advantage of the victory and pursued them.
In the afternoon of the same day, the Japanese occupied the Great Stone Bridge.
In the middle of the evening of the same day, the Japanese soldiers arrived at Yingkou in two ways, under the city of Haicheng.
The telegram was sent out, and the world was terrified!
On the night of November 22, Nie Guilin's subordinates ignored Liu Kunyi's strict orders and abandoned Yingkou and Haicheng, one retreating in the direction of Panjin and the other retreating into Liaoyang City.
On November 23, the Japanese army occupied Yingkou and Haicheng without blood.
The whole world is amazed!
At this point, nearly 20,000 Qing troops in the entire northeast were completely suppressed in the Liaoyang and Mukden areas.
In addition, the more than 2,500 troops of Cheng Zhiwei and Tong Maoyin in Gaizhou retreated to the 1,000 Feng troops in Panjin and became a lone army.
On November 24, the Japanese army attacked Gaizhou in the south, and Cheng Zhiwei and Tong Maoyin fled without a fight.
Perished in the midst of a hundred thousand mountains.
And Panjin's Feng army, because Nie Guilin fled to Liaoyang, everyone elected Zhou Zhongsheng as the commander, and under the leadership of Zhou Zhongsheng, retreated to Jinzhou.
Song Qing hurriedly ordered Zhang Gaoyuan to garrison Liaoyang, and also drew Ma Jinxu's troops to Liaoyang for defense.
Yulu, the general of Shengjing, ordered Zhang Xiluan's nearly 10,000 regiments to train and Changshun's Jilin to train the army, and rushed to Liaoyang to defend Fengtian.
And the mountain county Youpeng, who got the news, immediately ordered the troops to assemble towards Haicheng, and at Motianling, Saimaji, leaving only the Lijian Department to carry out a containment attack.
The decisive battle of Liaoyang is in a situation that is on the verge of breaking out.
When the news reached the Hiroshima base camp, it immediately caused a round of cheers, and the whole country immediately celebrated.
The Japanese military headquarters immediately changed the previous order, postponing the postponement of the reinforcement of the Second Army in southern Liaoning, and instead prepared to increase the strength of one more brigade to reinforce the First Army.
Dashan Yan, who got the order, had to accept this embarrassing order depressedly.
Let the sappers of the Second Army and the sapper brigade of the First Army who have just arrived build the defense of Qipan Village, Sujiatun, Laolong Island, and the first line.
Then, a second line of defense will be built on the Jijiatun line.
At this point, in a short period of time, the tranquility of the southern Liaoning defense line has been unavoidable.
Lushun.
The southern Liaoning defense line, seven days of tranquility, gave all the Qing troops in Port Arthur an illusion, the Japanese army already knew the solidity of Port Arthur, and chose to avoid its edge and go to Liaoyang, a soft persimmon.
So all the people in Lushun were overjoyed, thinking that the world would be peaceful from now on, and they could spend this rare winter in peace.
Port Arthur's taverns, gambling houses, kilns, and smoke houses have begun to become lively again.
At this time, a telegram arrived at Port Arthur.
Emperor Guangxu, the new governor of Zhili, Liu Kunyi, telegraphed He Changying, Xu Bangdao, and Lian Shun.
The Lushun war was led by Jiang Zikang, He Changying, Xu Bangdao, and Lian Shun, who immediately returned to Jinmen to discuss the military.
And on the telegram, Emperor Guangxu specified that he would face He Changying, a victorious general.
In the afternoon of the same day, He Changying, Xu Bangdao, and Lian Shun took a small boat in Laotieshan, a headland in southern Liaoning, boarded a gunboat issued by Weihaiwei, and sailed to Jinmen.
A new chapter is about to begin.