At 3 a.m. on the 8th, Songjia Village, Dalian Bay.

The headquarters of the Second Army of the Japanese Army.

"The 14th and 2nd Brigades suffered heavy casualties and were retreating together with the 3rd Brigade that met along the way; The 1st Wing and the 2nd Wing are forming defensive positions in Nanguanling, the 3rd Wing is assembled in Xujiashan and on standby, and the 24th Wing is on standby in Erdaogou. ”

The new chief of staff of the Second Army, Major General Hikaru Inoue, is reporting the temporary corresponding layout of the staff to Da Shanyan, who is full of iron-faced faces: "The 15th Wing, all of which are sent to Jinzhou Avenue and Fuzhou Avenue in Jinzhou, will be on alert in the east. ”

"In this way, on the front line of Nanguanling, the Second Army of the Empire will gather nearly 8,000 troops, and the 6,000 troops of the 3rd and 24th Wings behind will be invincible at any time to provide powerful firepower reinforcements."

Uchiyama Kojiro Osa, acting chief of staff of the First Division, said with a lot of arrogance, but from the words 'invincible', the subconscious fear of the Qing army in Lushun was reflected from the words 'invincible'.

At this time, the Second Army had long since lost the bullish coaxing when it captured Jinzhou and Dalian Bay last year, and it had already acquiesced in its heart to the powerful southern entanglement of the Qing army opposite.

"Well said! These cunning Qing army wooden stakes with wire shrapnel are indeed sharp in their horse rejection piles; Now the First Division has placed three such horse-rejecting piles on the entire Nanguanling line, as long as the Qing army dares to come and send them to death, they will definitely be killed! ”

The commander of the 1st Division of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Motoji Yamagi, had a confident face.

"Baga, kill all these treacherous dogs!"

Nogi Noshinori, the commander of the 1st Brigade of the Japanese Army, shouted angrily: "They are looking for death, looking for death!" We must kill them all, not a single one will be left! ”

"What should I do in the direction of Golden State, only with the more than 1,500 remnants of the 15th Wing to defend with troops, who has such a tacit understanding to cut off the telegraph line at the same time? Don't forget, two months ago, nearly 2,000 Qing cavalry broke out from here! ”

General Dashanyan roared angrily with a gloomy face: "Haven't you idiots seen it yet? The west is attacking on all fronts, and the troops in the east are blocking the enemy, they are vainly trying to eat the 20,000 troops of our second army! ”

"Yaga, they're dreaming!"

"Delusional, Qinggou is delusional, the iron fist of the Imperial Army must crush them!"

"Commander, give an order, our cavalry will go to the east of Jinzhou now to find that group of rats and defeat them!"

Suddenly, there was a shout in the war room of the Second Army of the Japanese Army, although every Japanese general was angry, but in fact, deep down in their hearts, each of them knew it tremblingly.

What the Commander said may be true.

This Qing army's counteroffensive came with the heart of the decisive battle in southern Liaoning!

"On the night of the 6th, the Imperial Combined Ship Group escorted the First Army back to the East, which should now be in the Yellow Sea south of the Ludong Peninsula; The Qing army just wanted to take advantage of this time difference to annihilate the second army, otherwise once the imperial navy entered southern Liaoning, they would have no chance! ”

The second guerrilla group of the Japanese Combined Fleet who stayed in Dalian Bay, Captain of the cruiser Tenryu, Ryo Seroda Ryo Nakasa, said with an angry face: "Before the 12th at the latest, the Imperial Fleet will not be able to rush to Dalian Bay at all!" ”

"The Tianlong immediately went to Weihaiwei to inform the country of the shameless attack of the Qing army in Lushun; The 1st Squadron of the 6th Cavalry Brigade cooperated with the telegraph corps to inspect and repair the telegraph line in the east of Jinzhou City. ”

Dashanyan glanced at his pocket watch, the time was already four o'clock in the morning on the 8th, and time did not allow any further hesitation: "The cavalry brigade is on standby at Xujiashan, sappers, baggage soldiers, and reinforcements to Erdaogou; Send all captured rifles to the Imperial Soldiers and send them to the Golden State to assist in the defense of the 15th Wing. ”

Dashan Yan roared with red eyes: "Warriors of the empire, this is the last dying counterattack of the Qing army, as long as the imperial soldiers can firmly hold the battle line and wait for domestic reinforcements to arrive, it will be their end!" ”

"Yu—"

At this time, there was a neighing of war horses outside the door, and a Japanese herald strode in and reported: "Report to the commander, in the mountains west of Nanguanling, there is a long line of torches. ”

"It's coming!"

The hearts of the Japanese generals who were full of people were shocked.

"Whew-"

At 4 o'clock in the morning, the Japanese cruiser Tenryu, anchored in Dalian Bay, lifted anchor and began to sail out of Dalian Bay.

At this time, the 1st Brigade and the 2nd Brigade of the New Army had already entered the western front of Nanguanling, nervously making pre-war preparations.

The 14,000 troops of the New Army and the nearly 8,000 troops of the 1st Wing, the 2nd Wing, and the remnants of the 14th Wing on the Japanese mountain line confronted each other from a distance of about two miles from a hilly distance.

The telegraph corps is nervously erecting telegraph lines, the artillery regiment is also nervously arranging artillery positions, and the gendarmerie troops, baggage troops, and personnel directly under the military headquarters of the Arthur Corps are still marching towards Nanguanling between the mountains.

"Woo-"

At this time, Zhenyuan, Jiyuan, and Jingyuan, which were responsible for bombarding Dalian Bay, had just sailed out of Lushunkou.

"Captain, there are warships, warships of the Qing army!"

"Japanese ships, Japanese ships, are Japanese ships in Dalian Bay, they want to escape!"

At 4:23 a.m., the Tianlong, which had just sailed out of Dalian Bay, and the new military sub-ship group, which had already sailed to the old remote island, discovered the opposing ships less than two nautical miles apart.

"Turn the rudder, turn the rudder, and disengage at full speed to the east!"

The captain of the Tenryu, Shiliang Tian, looked at the huge hull of the Zhenyuan ship in a faint light, and his face turned pale with fright, and he didn't have the courage to fight at all, so he yelled and ordered the warship to flee with all his might.

Not to mention that there are other warships behind the Zhenyuan ship, just the behemoth of the Dingyuan ship can easily crush the Tianlong, an old cruiser with a displacement of only 1,500 tons, only six old guns on the ship, and steel and iron sheets.

"Full pressure to accelerate the pursuit! Load all artillery fire with armor-piercing solid shells, attack immediately and sink it! ”

As Yang Yonglin, the captain of the Zhenyuan ship, roared excitedly, the guns on the Zhenyuan ship roared, smashing one shell after another into the Tianlong, which was desperately fleeing.

"Boom!"

In the process of fleeing, the Japanese artillery on the Tianlong also opened fire one after another, trying to block the pursuit of the Qing warships.

"Boom, boom!"

And the Zhenyuan, Jiyuan, and Jingyuan ships went hand in hand, grabbing the Tianlong and bombarding it to death.

For the three ships of Zhenyuan, Jiyuan, and Jingyuan, it is to stop as a target, let the Tianlong bomb casually, and if you want to sink it, you can exhaust the Tianlong to death.

However, the hull of the ship was only a thin layer of iron, and wherever an armor-piercing bullet was hit, it was a huge hollow.

"Boom!"

Before the Tenryu could escape two nautical miles, a 150mm armor-piercing bullet easily broke through the iron sheet of the ship's armor on the left side.

However, the armor-piercing projectile carrying huge kinetic energy did not stop the momentum, but pierced through several layers of bulkheads in a row, and finally smashed into the boiler room of the Tianlong.

"Boom!"

A huge tongue of fire, mixed with billowing black smoke, erupted from the broken wall of this cannonball, and could be seen for dozens of miles on the sea.

The cruiser Draco suddenly lost power, and the fire in the cabin was still burning violently.

"Boom, boom!"

After a few more shells, the Tenryu, which was smashed through the deck of the ship, surged out of the hole with a roar of fire below, and the Japanese firemen jumped into the sea one by one.

"Stop shooting and turn to Dalian Bay!"

With the issuance of Yang Yonglin's order, the Zhenyuan, Jiyuan, and Jingyuan ships immediately turned around and sailed towards Dalian Bay in the twilight sky.

Only the flame on the surface of the sea was left, and the black smoke was left in the sky.