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Suddenly, impeaching Li Hongzhang, Ding Ruchang's excerpts flew into the Forbidden City like snowflakes, shouting and shouting to kill, and the words were extremely mean, saying that if Li Hongzhang and Ding Ruchang were not killed, it would be difficult to calm the anger of the people in the world.

On the same day, Guangxu telegraphed Zhang Zhidong about Zhang Shiheng's resale of arms and coal to Dongyang, but Zhang Zhidong replied that the evidence was insufficient, and Guangxu's telegram continued to be strictly tried.

Reprimanded Ding Ruchang and Liu Buyun feared the enemy, and appointed Ma Gelu, the captain of the British merchant ship "Golden Dragon," as an assistant to the commander of the Beiyang Navy; Rinnier, a salesman of the former German Krupp Artillery Factory, to assist the Beiyang Navy in combat; and Taylor, a British, to assist in the 'Dingyuan' pipe belt.

Sent a telegram to Luo Rongguang to step up the defense of the Dagu Fort to prevent the Japanese fleet from attacking.

Wang Wenshao, the squire of the military department, went to Tianjin, together with Cao Kezhong, the governor of the country, and Zhang Mengyuan, the secretary of the Fujian domain, to hold a regimental training 'Jinsheng Battalion', planning to recruit 30 battalions and 15,000 recruits.

Hu Liao, the commander of Lu Yanyun, recruited and trained more than 4,000 Dingwu troops in the horse factory, and the German Hannagen served as an instructor to train the new army.

At the same time, Guangxu approved Weng Tonggong's performance and enabled the Hunan army to replace the 'unbearable' Huai army to defend against the enemy.

The general of the Hunan army was telegraphed, Chen Xiang, the envoy of Jiangsu, led the 10th battalion of the Fushou Army, Li Guangjiu, the envoy of Zhejiang, led the 5th battalion of the Lao Xiang army, Wei Guangtao, the political envoy of Xinjiang, led the 6th battalion of the Wuwei Army, Liu Shuyuan led the 6th battalion of the personal soldiers, Wu Yuankai led the 4th battalion of the Chu Army Artillery Corps, and Tan Biaozhong led the 1st battalion of the Protector Army.

A total of 22 battalions of 10,000 troops, carrying 4,600 guns of various types, birds, guns, went to Liao to fight.

telegraphed to Liu Kunyi and Li Bingheng to strengthen the defense of Zhili, Ludong, and the coast, and not to give the Japanese an opportunity to take advantage of; At the same time, he telegraphed Liu Kunyi to supply food, food, guns and artillery for Xu Bangdao and Lian Shun to recruit troops, and provide logistical support for He Changying.

Telegraphed Yulu, Changshun, Song Qing, and Yiketanga to strengthen the vigilance of Liaoyang, and the Japanese will attack Liaoyang in the near future.

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At this time, the 6th Brigade of Hisunao Oshima, with the assistance of the 5th Artillery Wing, was fiercely attacking Tengao Fort and Anshan Station.

At nine o'clock in the afternoon, Changshun and Geng Fengming, unable to resist the back and forth attacks of the Japanese artillery and infantry, asked Yulu for help.

It's just that Yulu has no soldiers in his hands for a long time, so he has to send each regiment to practice holding the bird command, carrying guns, leaving Liaoyang City, and going to Tengao Fort for reinforcements.

At 9:50 p.m., the Japanese infantry pulled out the Qing strongholds on the periphery of Tengao Fort one by one and attacked the south gate of Tengao Fort.

Qing soldiers, regimental training set up ladders, cabinets, lying on the earthen fence to shoot.

The Japanese artillery pulled several field guns to Tengao Fort for flat fire bombardment, and the fragile earthen wall was instantly broken through several large holes, and the Qing army, which was caught off guard, was blown to pieces.

Then, the fence collapsed in sections.

Seeing that the general trend had gone, Changshun and Geng Fengming had no choice but to retreat in a hurry and enter Liaoyang City, which was more than ten miles behind.

The 19th Wing of the Japanese Army, which was responsible for attacking Tengao Fort, after occupying Tengao Fort, set up a new defensive line and sent a large group of troops to attack from the western flank of Anshan Station.

Subsequently, Zhang Gaoyuan, who was afraid of being encircled, had no choice but to order a retreat.

At eleven o'clock at noon, the Japanese completely occupied both forts.

Liaoyang is already close at hand.

At 15 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, when there was a quarrel inside the yamen of Zhizhou in Liaoyang, the Japanese artillery began to bombard Liaoyang City.

The tremor of the earth, the loud whistling sound, and the collapsed mud houses in patches made Liaoyang City feel like it was on the verge of the end.

At 15:35 p.m., Japanese sappers found the telegraph line of the Qing army and immediately cut it with pliers, thus completely cutting off the connection between Liaoyang and Zhili and Mukden.

At this time, Song Qing, who was desperately blocking the attack of the 10th Brigade of Lijian Shangwen in Motianling, got a distress letter from Liaoyang Kuaima, so he had to withdraw 1,000 soldiers from Ma Jinxu's department and return to Liaoyang for reinforcements.

The Japanese artillery bombardment did not slowly stop until the night, and although the city walls of Liaoyang City were still the same, the city was already in a mess, and more than 300 houses were destroyed by the Japanese army's flowering shells.

And the dead and wounded people, the soldiers are innumerable, because there is chaos everywhere, and no one counts them at all.

The atmosphere of pessimism enveloped the hearts of everyone in the city.

That night, a large number of flag soldiers, militia soldiers, and the people in the city, frightened by the horror of the war, forcibly broke through the north gate, and fled out of the city.

The Japanese troops outside the southern city sensed the abnormality in Liaoyang City and began to fire artillery for night blind fire.

The shells that fell into the city not only exacerbated the panic and flight in the city, but also made the Qing generals' attempts to restore order in the city come to naught.

In the darkness, against the flames of the thatched hut 'hula' that had been shot and burned, the nerves of all the soldiers were compressed to the limit.

At this time, all the soldiers had only one thought in their hearts,—— escape from this Shura field!

Immediately, the west gate and the east gate were also washed away by the torrent of soldiers and people, and the great escape of the whole city began.

In the early morning of December 2, the Japanese army bypassed the closed south gate of the city gate, and entered through the east gate and the west gate, which were full of clothes, scattered rice grains, nest heads, and dried vegetables.

The soldiers took Liaoyang City bloodlessly.

Youpeng in Dangshan County looked at the warehouse full of grain, bullets, and shells in the warehouse of Zhizhou in Liaoyang, and smiled happily.

Just this grain was enough for the First Army to eat for more than a month.

At noon on the same day, Ma Jinxu's troops encountered the people and the rout army who had escaped from Liaoyang in Wazigou in the south of Liaoyang City.

Ma Jinxu was disgraced, and while ordering the troops to establish a defensive line along the ravine to block the enemy, he quickly went to Motianling to report Song Qing's military situation.

On December 3rd, fearing that they would be attacked on their backs and cut off the supply of grain and grass, Song Qing and Nie Shicheng immediately withdrew from Motianling, joined up with Ma Jinxu in Wazigou, and retreated towards Fengtian, two hundred miles away.

In the afternoon of the same day, Yiketang'a, who received Song Qing's urgent report, also immediately ordered all units to withdraw from the defense line of Saimaji and retreat to Mukden.

The offensive and defensive battle of Liaoyang in the Qing Dynasty ended abruptly with the drama of 'losing Liaoyang in one day'.

In the next step, Youpeng Youpeng of Shan County led the army to the north for 200 miles, and used the large-caliber fortress artillery that had just been unloaded at Yingkou to blast open the gate of Fengtian, the capital of Longxing in the Qing Dynasty.

At this time, the entire Qing Dynasty and the opposition also fell into great anxiety because of the sudden silence of Liaoyang's telegram.

On December 4, He Changying's department arrived at Shanhaiguan.

Standing at the head of the old dragon, looking at the blue sea, the sea has begun to form thin ice near the shore, and even after most of the day, there is no sign of thawing.

"In less than half a month, thick ice will form on this coastline, and the icemen will cut off pieces of thick ice from the sea and sell them for next summer."

Li Jingfang came to Shanhaiguan several times and became He Changying's guide.

"The Japanese army's sea transport this time should be the last delivery before the beginning of spring next year."

He Changying sighed and said: "If the sailor can resist the enemy in the sea, and Yulu can keep Liaoyang from losing, there is no need to wait until next spring, and the first army of Youpeng in Shanxian will almost collapse; Alas—"

"You mean the two ambushes in North Korea?"

Li Jingfang followed He Changying for a few days, and he also knew a little something, such as yesterday He Changying received a telegram from the Governor's Office of Zhili.

At present, the telegraph communication of the anti-Japanese army, Lushun and Dagu military stations, some of them are in private contact, but they can still go to the radio station of the Governor's Mansion in Zhili with the Jianlong Reservoir in Anzhou.