Listening to his son-in-law's words, Li Hongzhang's eyebrows raised, and he asked suspiciously: "Do you mean that the Japanese are clearly referring to Jinzhou, but in fact, they are secretly plotting Shahezi?" ”

"Zhongtang, what a secret thing is it for the army to start a battle and attack that city, but now that the Oriental Kingdom is going to land in southern Liaoning and attack Port Arthur, it is spread all over the world?"

Zhang Peilun shook his head, looking proud, with a great strategy, and the arrogance of balancing the world like a chess game: "Before, the son-in-law secretly suspected that there was fraud in this, but now when he saw that the Japanese landed at the entrance of the garden, he suddenly saw through the ridiculous tricks of the Oriental children. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

Li Hongzhang wore reading glasses and carefully looked at the "Map of the Unification of China and Foreign Countries" in his hand, and felt that it seemed to be the truth, and the expression on his face couldn't help but ease a lot.

The defense line of the Yalu River, even if He Changying, Nie Shicheng, and Ma Jinxu joined forces to fight a big victory this morning, and they kept saying that thousands of enemies were annihilated.

But in Li Hongzhang's view, even if he really annihilated thousands of enemies, there were still 30,000 or 40,000 Japanese troops in Yizhou City on the other side, and the Japanese had already occupied the mouth of the Anping River in the upper reaches, dividing the connection between the Beiyang Army and the left-wing banner soldiers.

It is foreseeable that the collapse of the defense line of the Yalu River will also be a matter of time.

Now Li Hongzhang has already completely picked the defense line of the Yalu River, and he is tossing around with Song Qing and the little emperor.

And all his energy was put on the body of Ludagang and Beiyang Naval Division.

As long as Luda, Weihaiwei, and Beiyang Naval Divisions are not lost, the soldiers of the Japanese can only nest in the white mountains and black waters of Liaodong, and will not shake the foundation of the imperial court and the foundation of Beiyang.

So even if he, Li Hongzhang, 'dies of old age' soon after, at least he can barely be regarded as worthy of the imperial court in ,—— and worthy of the people in Beiyang who have followed him for many years.

"Now Anton is only guarded by the 6,000 Sheng army, and after Wei Rugui was imprisoned, he is even more complaining; These three sides are surrounded by enemies, and they are in danger! ”

Li Hongzhang sighed faintly.

For so many years, Wei Rugui has controlled the Sheng army stationed at the small station, and has always been his proud elite; However, when he had to give up Wei Rugui, it also announced the irreparable rift between this strong army and him Li Hongzhang.

Unless the henchmen are re-elected after the war in the future, and the middle-level generals of the Sheng Army are re-elected inside and out, they can restore their combat strength and be re-controlled by themselves.

But apparently I don't have this opportunity anymore!

"But in this way, once Anton falls, Song Qing and Yike Tanga can only choose to retreat to the Phoenix and Kuandian lines; Then the Wu Yi Army and the North Korean Aid Army can also take advantage of the situation and retreat. ”

Zhang Peilun knew that in the entire defense line of the Yalu River, the two people that his father-in-law valued most now were He Changying and Nie Shicheng, and he couldn't help but say with a smile.

Li Hongzhang nodded slightly and did not make a sound.

"Sister, my sister is tired of walking, let's go to Daddy's signing room to rest for a while."

At this time, there was a sudden sound of faint footsteps from outside the door, accompanied by Li Jurong's soft whisper.

Li Hongzhang and Zhang Peilun glanced at each other at the same time, and shut up the topic of Liaodong.

"Daddy."

"Daddy, brother-in-law."

A gust of fragrant wind blew into the signing room, and Li Jurong and Li Jingpu, who was carefully supported by the maid Liu'er, walked in.

"Pu'er, why did you come out and not rest in the house?"

Li Hongzhang looked at his little daughter with pity, she was seriously ill for no reason a few days ago, and her original melon seed face looked even more sharp and thin, and only a pair of big and distinct eyes were left on her whole little face.

And the thin body bones, as if a gust of wind can blow down, it makes people feel distressed to look at.

"Daddy, it's stuffy in the house, my sister and I came out to breathe."

The corners of Li Jingpu's mouth barely squeezed out a smile, and he was supported by Liu Er to sit on the chair.

It's just that after walking this short distance, there is already fragrant sweat on her face, and her small mouth is slightly panting.

Zhang Peilun and Li Jurong quietly glanced at each other.

On the day Li Jingpu fell ill inexplicably, Li Jurong still tortured the truth from Liu Er's mouth.

However, the two of them had nothing to do about it, so they could only sternly tell Liu Er not to say it, and they also hid it from Li Hongzhang.

Thinking of his father's heroic life, the power of the world, but when he is old, he will be angry because of his children, Li Jurong and Zhang Peilun can't help but be full of gloom.

There is also an innocent second sister, who gave her so much hope before, that the entire Governor's Mansion knew about these things, but now there is such a change.

She is a yellow flower girl who has not been out of the cabinet, how can she not be embarrassed and haggard?

"Qiyu Zhongtang, Song Admiral of Jiulian City."

At this time, Wang Xizhi, who had made meritorious service in Pyongyang and was newly transferred to the governor's Yamen telegraph commissioner, strode outside the curtain to give a message.

"What's the matter?"

Li Hongzhang couldn't help but feel a little bored in his heart, and according to his temper, he really wanted to order that in the future, all telegrams from Song Qing's side would be directly forwarded to Jingshi.

"Admiral Song sent a telegram to infer that the Japanese soldiers who landed at Huayuankou were to attack the flank of Shahezi, and asked Jiang Yichang to help command the Renzi Army, the Sheng Army, the Feng Army, and the various units of the Korean Army downstream; In Andong successively rejected the enemy. ”

Through the curtain, Wang Xizhi briefly recounted the contents of the telegram.

"Song Qing actually thinks so-"

Li Hongzhang said in surprise: "Didn't Gang'er still say in the war report that the Korean reinforcement army had a great victory in Hushan, why did it go to Shahezi in the blink of an eye?" ”

"Admiral Song said in the telegram that it was the reinforcement army that took the initiative to ask to go to Shahezi to fortify, and that General He also proposed the division of Jiang Yichang's assistant commander."

Wang Xizhi outside the curtain said in a low voice.

Li Hongzhang and Zhang Peilun in the signing room were both shocked and surprised.

"Send it in!"

Li Hongzhang said with a look of anger: "This He Changying, what does he want to do?" ”

Li Jurong secretly glanced at her sister, but saw Li Jingpu bowing his head slightly as if he was unconscious, and the hair curtain hanging down from his forehead covered most of his pretty face, only seeing that little bit of white and distressing pointed chin.

At this time, Zhang Peilun had no heart to pay attention to the children's affection of these women, stood up and walked behind Li Hongzhang, and read the message carefully.

"Good, good, good character, good hero; This is to use the blood of my Beiyang cadet soldiers to dye his top red! ”

Li Hongzhang patiently read the telegram, laughed angrily, and slapped the table.

"Song Qingzhen is a smart person, he talks things thoroughly, and he pushes things cleanly inside and out; But what good can he do if he runs out of reinforcements; ”

Zhang Peilun said puzzledly: "The tens of thousands of troops in Huayuankou went east to Dagu Mountain, and then went straight down to Shahezi, as well as the Japanese soldiers in Yongchuan on the south bank of the Yalu River, and the Japanese warships in Dahaikou, he He Changying won't see the danger in this, right?" To put it mildly, he is going to take his life to plug the gun's hole, it's really a bad brain! ”

"As the so-called wealth and wealth are sought in danger, if this battle is won, how can he be promoted to become rich, even if he is defeated, doesn't he still have Jiang Zikang on his head?"

Li Hongzhang Senran said: "It seems that the time when he and the Wu Heng Al allied army at the mouth of the Anping River were tied to other lines, otherwise the emperor would actually carry the flag for him?" ”

"Zhongtang, what should I do now?"

Zhang Peilun was furious when he heard this, this is really using the massive resources of Beiyang, but a white-eyed wolf has been raised.