Chapter 473: Here It Is
On the same day, Guangxu issued a sternly worded telegram through the Military Affairs Office of the Tongzhou Supervision, asking why the Weihai division not only did not leave the port for Shanhaiguan, but also watched the Japanese warships commit murder at the mouth of the Bohai Sea.
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It is said that the Japanese navy is powerful, and the stranded Zhenyuan has still not been repaired, and Dingyuan will go to sea, and the Japanese will be tricked in the nineteenth meeting, and there is a risk of annihilation of the whole army.
If it was Ding Ruchang's electric performance, Guangxu would mercilessly scold him for 'fearing the enemy', but with the foreigner's electricity, Guangxu couldn't help but be cautious.
Although the Beiyang Naval Division was unbearable, defeated Fengdao and Dadonggou again, and suffered heavy losses, the foundation is still there.
Especially with the combination of Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, Guangxu believes that the two ships, which are now equipped with Western flowering bombs, will definitely be invincible.
The most important thing now is to repair the Zhenyuan ship, otherwise a ship in Dingyuan will enter the sea, like a tiger entering the wolf pack, without a strong hand, it will obviously not work.
So Guangxu had no choice but to telegraph Ding Ruchang and Ma Gelu to speed up the repair of the Zhenyuan ship, and after repairing the bottom, wait for the opportunity to go to sea to the Lushun dock for reinforcement.
At this point, the Yellow and Bohai Sea routes connecting the north and south of the Qing Dynasty were suddenly paralyzed, except for a small number of Western-flagged merchant ships, all the ships of North Shanghai could dock in Ludong Qingdao by land, or land in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province and take the canal.
If it is said that the Korean and Liaodong wars between the Qing and Japanese dynasties only touched several provinces in northern China such as Ludong, Zhili, Rehe, and the three eastern provinces.
Now the closure of the Japanese army has suddenly affected most of China.
In the following days, the Qing and Japanese sides fought separately.
The main fleet of the Japanese navy, which controls the Bohai Sea.
The first guerrilla unit was stationed on Changshan Island and the first line of the Miaodao Islands, and the main force of the unit blocked the areas of Dangji Island, Daqin Island, Xiaoqin Island, and Nanhuangcheng Island.
The weak gunboats of the Second Guerrilla Force were cruising in the headland of Laotieshan in Port Arthur, the city of Houhai Camp in Port Arthur, and the sea area around it.
The Yaeyama Express continued to reconnoiter the Ludong Peninsula and cleaned up the Qing ships on the channel along the way.
In just three days on 26, 27, and 28, there was a merchant ship, three grain ships, and two cargo ships, which were captured by Yaeyama and sunk directly because they did not get news from the sea.
Men, women, and children, countless people died, and innocently died in the fire and shelling.
The Second Army of the Japanese Army, under the auspices of Dashanyan, continued to build the Nanguanling fortifications, and built 19 simple fortresses on the high mountains on both sides of the Nanguanling Ridge.
It seems that Dashan Rock is not only an attack, but it can be repaired vigorously.
Waiting for the tens of thousands of Qing troops who had long been "out of food" in Port Arthur, after 'grabbing' the people's food, they either starved to death in Port Arthur, or desperately broke through and fled from Nanguanling.
The first army of Youpeng in Shanxian County, after three days of repairs in Mukden, mobilized 20,000 troops and began to move south.
On the 23rd, the Japanese army moved south to the vanguard, and the 10th Brigade of Shangwen arrived at Guchengzi.
On the 26th, they arrived in Liaoyang and carried out a day of repairs and replenishment of military rations.
On the 28th, the 10th Brigade left Liaoyang and went straight to Panjin.
On the 31st, after four days of forced march, the 10th Brigade entered Panjin with only infantry and cavalry.
Since then, on the last day of 1894, the Ministry of Letters and Letters of Lijian was still 900 miles away from Shanhaiguan.
According to the agenda, they were to arrive at Shanhaiguan by January 23, 1895 in the Western calendar.
The weather is cold and frozen, and the dripping water turns into ice.
With a large number of soldiers suffering from frostbite on their hands and feet, and the troops began to develop a large number of 'beriberi', the 10th Brigade had to maintain a forced march of forty miles a day in order to arrive on time.
At this time, the 3rd Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army, the headquarters of the 1st Heavy Artillery Wing and the 2nd Brigade further south, had crossed the Jiujiang River and came to Dabaozi Village on the south bank of the river.
It is less than twenty miles away from Shanhaiguan.
The approach of the 3rd Brigade of the Japanese Army was soon discovered by the scouts released by the Anti-Japanese Army, and Pegasus returned to the city to report.
At this time, the internal anti-artillery fortifications of Xiluo City and the North Wing City jointly defended by He Changying and Xu Bangdao had also been basically completed.
The old method was still used, ice water was boiled in frozen soil, and then straw was added, and sorghum poles were used as tendons to build anti-artillery guns in the city.
The sandwich wall is two meters high, one meter thick, and the width between the two walls is one meter five or six.
If it weren't for the hard frozen soil, He Changying would even want to dig a tunnel between the two cities to carry out the flow of troops between the two cities, but unfortunately he was just thinking about it.
On the walls of the two cities on the north wing of Xiluo, there are eleven old-fashioned bronze cannons, but in He Changying's opinion, it is basically an ornament.
There was no artillery in his hand, nor did he have a grenade with huge lethality, and he smashed out solid bullets one by one, probably just listening to a sound.
At the meeting a few days ago, He Changying also suggested that all defense areas should build this kind of improvised clamp wall to defend against the howitzers of the Japanese army.
However, in the eyes of Tang Renlian and Bai Ji, Shanhaiguan City has thick walls, and they are most afraid that the solid bullets of the Japanese army will collapse the brick houses in the city, and this one has never heard of a grenade bomb that can automatically explode overhead, and he is really not afraid.
It's a big deal for everyone to hide in the house, afraid of a bird feather?
Although Xia Qingyun knew the sharpness of the Japanese army's grenade shotguns, he was now in a light position.
Since Tang Renlian vetoed it, why should he make trouble?
And Wang Liansan relied on the steep danger of the Great Wall of Jiaoshan and the distance of Shimen Village, and did not take He Changying's words to heart at all.
Lian Shun also thought that he was away from danger, relying on the steepness of Huanxi Mountain, and he didn't take it seriously at all.
Only Jia Qisheng listened to it, and specially took a few subordinates to the North Wing City to learn the scriptures.
Seeing the ice and mud grass wall of the anti-Japanese army, Jia Qisheng took a gun and fired a shot on the spot, but he only hit a small pit, and he couldn't help but be amazed.
Immediately, Jia Qisheng also began to build a sandwich wall inside Dongluo City, which was freezing cold, and the soldiers below couldn't help complaining, and also attracted ridicule from other ways to train soldiers.
However, under Jia Qisheng's toughness, the inner wall around the city is still taking shape day by day.
When He Changying received the news that the Third Brigade of the Japanese Army had arrived in Dabaozi Village, he convened the generals to discuss the matter, and hurriedly sent the news to Tang Renlian in Guancheng.
The whole Shanhaiguan was in an uproar at first, and then fell into a deathly silence.
The Japanese soldiers finally came.
What can I do?
The news was then telegraphed to the Governor of Zhili's Yamen, and to the Military Affairs Office of the Tongzhou Governor's Office, and then flooded and dispersed like a flood embankment.
Jinmen disturbance.
Jingshi disturbed.
Naoli perturbation.
It's time to come, it's still coming!
At this time, a batch of German munitions purchased had to be unloaded in Qingdao because the Japanese fleet blocked the Bohai Bay, and then loaded and reloaded for land transportation thousands of miles away.
So far, that is, the last batch of high-explosive ammunition purchased from Germany, more than 3,000 Mauser repeating guns have successfully entered Tianjin, and then this batch of 10,000 Mauser repeating guns arrived not long ago, and 65 80mm caliber Krupp field guns.
The rest of the large quantities of arms purchased from Britain have not yet been loaded into ships, and have been pressed down by a long time ago.
In the last batch of high-explosive bombs, Liu Kun gave one point to the Wei Navy Port Fort, the Beiyang Naval Division, and the Dagu Fort.
promised He Changying's cannonballs, but as a result, he didn't give a single hair.
And the 3,000 Mauser fast guns were decompressed into Beijing by Guangxu's telegram as training equipment for Zhirui to enter Beijing this time.