On November 28 of the Western calendar, Fang Daebu sent nearly 20 teams to monitor the gates of Pyongyang, Bozhou, and Anju. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

A total of six Heavenly Bless Ronin squads that followed up the city, all of them were annihilated, and none of them escaped the net.

When the news reached Pyongyang, Oshima Yoshimasa was so angry that he smashed the cup, while Toyama used the katana in his hand to split the golden sandalwood coffee table in the house.

On November 29, the Japanese troops in Pyongyang, Bozhou, and Anju cities, as well as the Japanese ronin, went out of the city in large numbers to sweep away, but found nothing.

In the afternoon of the same day, Bozhou City, which left only half an infantry squadron and nearly 100 people, was raided by a special company, during which it even occupied half of the city for a time, because the nearby Japanese troops came to reinforce it, and the special company immediately withdrew from the battle ahead of schedule.

In its battle, the special company lost 19 people and seriously wounded 7 people, and the Japanese Bozhou garrison suffered nearly half of the casualties and suffered heavy losses.

On the same day, Toyama sent a telegram to Tokyo, calling on a large number of oriental ronin warriors to come to Pyongyang to participate in the national war.

And Oshima Yoshimasa also began to change his strategy, forcibly recruiting people, and began to build a bunker every ten miles along the Euiju Avenue, and it is expected to build twelve, passing through Bozhou until the outside of Anju City.

Trying to connect the three cities with one line, and then rely on this to join forces to fight the guerrillas of the special company.

For a time, the people around the three cities complained, and a large number of people were forced to be called by the Japanese army in the cold winter with their own dry food.

And the special company was willing to let Oshima Yoshimasa's conspiracy succeed easily, and constantly sent small forces to harass, attack, and build the Japanese fortress.

Central Korea, which had been quiet for nearly two months, suddenly became chaotic.

At three o'clock in the morning on the night of November 29, the Japanese ship Yaeyama passed through the waters of Daqin Island at the mouth of Bohai Bay and quietly entered Bohai Bay.

This was the first time in thousands of years that a Japanese warship had intruded into the Bohai Bay without entering the Bay.

Yaeyama then turned due north, and finally hid in the bay between Pig Island, Yakniu Island, Kohei Island, and the three islands, thirty miles north of Yingchengzi.

Quietly waiting for the arrival of the prey.

At 9:30 a.m. on November 29, four warships of the First Guerrilla Group of the Oriental Combined Fleet arrived in the waters of Daqin Island and anchored on alert.

At 1:23 p.m., the Beiyang Dingyuan, Jiyuan, Laiyuan, and Jingyuan ships, which were responsible for escorting troop transports in Yingchengzi, discovered the Japanese fleet blocked at the mouth of the Bohai Sea.

The Beiyang Fleet immediately stopped advancing, and the two sides faced each other at a distance of nearly eight nautical miles.

At 3:15 p.m., Zengoro, a lookout soldier on the Yaeyama, saw more than a dozen pillars of black smoke rising in the clear sky due west.

The Yaeyama was immediately fully prepared for battle, but did not raise the boiler pressure and continued to wait.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, when the night in southern Liaoning was about to fall, the Yaeyama was confirmed that there were more than a dozen merchant ships, and the target was Yingchengzi.

"Woo-"

The cruiser Yaeyama immediately boosted the boiler, billowing smoke billowed from the chimney, and the whistle made a palpitating sound.

On that day, at the moment before the sun went down, the 120mm rapid-fire cannon on Yaeyama, separated by two nautical miles, chased and escaped all the way, sending all 18 steamers of Beiyang China Merchants into the sea.

Because of the arrival of night, the small sampan that was lowered from the steamer escaped the eyes of Yaeyama, and about 100 crew members were rescued and fled to the coast of southern Liao.

The rest of the crew either sank to the bottom of the sea with the burning steamer, or jumped into the sea and froze to death in the icy water.

That night, the Lushun army and the people of Lushun who got the news bought all the firecrackers on the street for the New Year, and set off fireworks and firecrackers to celebrate the demise of the Qing fleet.

At seven o'clock in the evening, the Beiyang Naval Division, which was facing the Japanese fleet, was afraid that the Japanese army would attack at night, and returned to Weihaiwei Military Port.

Soon, Yaeyama sailed to the waters of Daqin Island, and the first guerrillas of the Japanese army sounded their horns in unison to celebrate.

It was at this time that He Changying's convoy went all the way in the snow, passed through the door without entering, and returned to the Dagu Military Station.

"Xiaoshunzi's family in Yingchengzi is short of food, and Jinjin Niang wants to send him food."

He Changying listened to Chen Shijie's telegram, but he didn't make a sound for a long time, Chen Shijie's office was silent, only the sound of singing outside was loud.

Chen Shijie and Xiong Kaiyu were silent, their eyes flashing and they didn't know what to say.

When the Dagu Military Station was expanding and half-surrounding the Dagu Beiyi Fort, Liu Lu, who graduated from the Telegraph School, quietly connected a branch line on the telegraph line that extended into Luo Rongguang's General Military Mansion and led it into the Dagu Military Station.

This time, He Changying returned to Jinmen from Lushun and brought back the telegraph machine in Andong County, thus realizing the anti-Japanese army's own telegraph network.

And this telegram sent to the dark line of Surabaya in the East in the name of Shen Chuan was secretly sent directly from the Dagu Military Station, bypassing the Zhili Governor's Mansion and Luo Rongguang's General Military Mansion.

"How many crew members are on board?"

He Changying's throat was a little dry.

"About two hundred and thirty or forty."

Chen Shijie personally went to the dock that day, because he knew this secret, so he paid more attention to the number of people.

"Knock knock, knock knock."

In the hidden hut, which was only separated by a wall from the office, there was the sound of three long and two short tapping.

"Lushun's telegram."

Chen Shijie stood up, opened a secret door, and soon returned with a telegram.

"At five o'clock in the afternoon, a Japanese ship attacked the convoy in the waters north of Yingchengzi and sank, and the crew had 39 people ashore."

"Get out for a walk."

Watching Chen Shijie burn the telegram, He Changying stood up and said, "Go to Beishan Fort." ”

On top of the fort, only an old 75mm caliber field gun was placed for the time being, and the rest was empty.

"Lushun must not be lost, send troops to Shanhaiguan, and before they get out of the customs, Mukden may have fallen;"

He Changying looked at the sparkling sea, and said softly and undoubtedly: "Then the only thing that the tens of thousands of troops in the past can do is to block the Shanhaiguan Pass and prevent the Japanese First Army from going south along the pass. ”

Chen Shijie and Xiong Kaiyu listened quietly and looked at the sea.

"Once Lushun falls, the next step is that the Japanese ship group will use Lushun as a base and frequently attack the coast of the Bohai Rim and the Ludong Peninsula, instead of rushing thousands of miles from Inchon and even the port of Tokyo every time. Moreover, the liberated Second Army of Dashanyan could cross the Bohai Sea, attack Weihaiwei and Yantai, completely destroy the Beiyang Naval Division, and then go north to Zhili to realize the army's north-south coercion warfare. ”

"Commander-in-chief, you did the right thing, for the sake of the overall situation, for more people to survive, for the ultimate victory, what you did is beyond reproach!"

In the past two days, Chen Shijie's heart has been pressing, and when he heard He Changying's explanation, there was a starlight above his head.

"This court, while fighting for the country, has to calculate with those idiots in the court; Alas, this tragedy could have been avoided. ”

Xiong Kaiyu let out a long sigh of depression.

In any case, this telegram caused China Merchants to lose eighteen ships at once.

And what is even more serious is that it is not known how many innocent crew members will die in the sea tonight.

If the news of the telegram spreads, they will be the national sinners of the whole nation!