In the early morning of November 15, 1894 in the Western calendar, when the Beiyang Navy Division was escaping into the Wei Navy Port, the Zhenyuan ship accidentally touched the underwater reef, and the bottom of the ship was cracked into a huge opening, and the ship sank and ran aground. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

On November 16, the left wing of the Beiyang Naval Division, Lin Taizeng, the commander of the Zhenyuan ship, committed suicide by taking poison.

The news came out, "On the day of death, knowing or not knowing, salty is a chokehold." ’

In the afternoon of the same day, the Japanese Combined Fleet's reconnaissance ship 'Yaeyama' appeared in the waters off Yantai Port in a bravaful manner, and demonstratively launched an artillery bombardment of Yantai Port with high-explosive shells.

Dozens of houses were blown up, and 13 people were killed and burned, six were seriously injured, and countless people were slightly injured.

A fishing boat on the pier, a family of four, including two young children, died in the sea, and there are no bones left.

The Xiaoxiang Island Fort east of Yantai immediately fired back.

The 'Yaeyama' ship ignored the attack of the Xiaoxiang Island fort, and when it saw the fierce heavy artillery of the Qing army's shore defense, it immediately turned around and drove away.

On November 17, Li Bingheng, the governor of Ludong, telegraphed Emperor Guangxu about the matter, and said that Ludong's defense was beyond its power and could not supervise the war in southern Liaoning, so please choose another talent.

In desperation, Guangxu had no choice but to order the war in southern Liaoning, and Liu Kunyi, the new governor of Zhili, was in charge.

At this time, Liu Kunyi, who had just arrived at the Yamen of the Governor of Zhili, and had not yet sat on the hot ass, received an urgent report from Liaoyang, the Japanese army occupied Xiuyan, and the Nie Guilin Department of the Fengjun Army retreated to Yingkou.

Liu Kunyi, who got this amazing news, hurriedly sent several telegrams, while asking the court for troops.

On the one hand, he ordered Song Qing to immediately garrison the Dashiqiao Pass, which is twenty miles south of Yingkou, and after the soldiers of the eighth battalion of Zhang Gaoyuan's department landed at Yingkou, they divided their troops and stationed them at Dashiqiao and Haicheng.

At the same time, he telegraphed with Shengjing General Yulu to transfer a total of 2,500 troops from Cheng Zhiwei of the Datong Army and Tong Maoyin of the Jiesheng Battalion to Gaizhou, completely blocking the northward advance of the Japanese people.

Liu Kunyi also sent a telegram to Yuan Shikai to ensure the supply of military materials to all armies on the Liaoyang defense line in Beiyang.

As soon as the left and right were turned upside down, Liu Kunyi simply ignored the war in southern Liaoning.

In his opinion, Lushun is the first military fortress in East Asia, with a large number of artillery groups and 30,000 elite soldiers stationed, which is certainly not so easy to capture.

I don't dare to say anything else, it is not a problem to persist until the beginning of spring next year.

Now I am still committed to the war in Liaoyang, don't let the Japanese occupy Yingkou and Haicheng, the next step is to go to Fengtian, the old nest of the Daqing Dynasty, or go straight down to Shanhaiguan and run to Zhili.

That's the real thing.

These feudal officials all made a fatal mistake at this time, forgetting Gong Zhaoxi, the logistics director of Lushun, who was being escorted to the Bohai Sea in Jinmen at this time.

The logistics system of the armies in southern Liaoning has been completely paralyzed.

In this intentional or unintentional oblivion, in the early morning of November 17, the battle for Nanguanling between Qing and Japan officially began.

Dalian Bay, South View Ridge.

At 7 o'clock in the morning, the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Wing of the Japanese Army and the 3rd Brigade of the 15th Wing began to assemble in front of the Nanguanlingkou defense line, waiting for the attack after the artillery battle.

The co-captain of the 15th Wing of Takasaki, Kono Tsuyoshi Osa, was standing on a small hillside at this time, with extreme hatred in his eyes, looking at the Qing army's defense line three miles away.

The first brigade of his 15th Wing, Saito Tokumei, fell for the tricks of these Qing troops and was wiped out.

The 2nd Brigade was directly split by Commander Dashan Yan and stationed in various key passes in the east, in front of the shameful vigilance troops.

A good wing, the structure has been dismantled, and now it is the first to attack Nanguanling, and he has to borrow the strength of a brigade from the first wing.

How can he not be humiliated and angry?

"There are high and steep mountains on both sides of the Nanguan Ridge, the jungle is messy and dense, extending to the coast, only on both sides of the post road with a width of less than three miles, the slopes are gentle, which is conducive to the breakthrough of the imperial army, so the Qing army will be heavily guarded."

Captain Yoshiichi Tanaka, a staff officer who was transferred from the military headquarters to assist, looked at the continuous Nanguan Ridge and gave advice to Kono Tsuyoshi Daisa, who was beside him.

This army staff officer, who was only 30 years old, wrote the infamous "Tanaka Song" in the space of He Changying in the future, and became the prime minister of the future Oriental Empire.

At this time, Tanaka Yoshiichi looked at the Qing army defense line opposite, as well as the 2,300 Imperial Army troops behind him who were on standby, and couldn't help but have a pride in his heart to point out the country and cross the country.

"Captain Tanaka, you're talking too much nonsense; The General Staff didn't send you here to let me listen to you explain to me something that these idiots can understand. ”

Listening to this little young man's rambling in his ears, Kono Tsuko Dazuo looked extremely unhappy, and loudly reprimanded this little captain with a brain problem.

"Hey!"

Tanaka Yoshiichi was taught a lesson, and he didn't dare to show off anymore, so he went directly to the topic: "The length of the Qing army's defense line on the north flank of Nanguan Lingkou is about 1.3 li, and there are four hills and highlands with little difference in height, which are too close apart to be suitable for the empire to quickly occupy one of the highlands and then gradually encroach on both sides. ”

Kono Tonghao held the binoculars, looked at the defense line of the northern flank of the Qing army that he had looked at countless times before, and nodded slightly, which was regarded as agreeing with Tenaka Yoshiichi's statement.

Seeing Kono's nod, Tanaka Yoshiichi suddenly lifted his spirits and continued: "And the southern flank, which is a five-mile Qing army defense line, has only three hilltop heights, and the No. 2 highland is obviously higher than the other two; As long as the Imperial Army captured Heights 2, they could condescendingly shoot Heights 1 and 3, increasing their forces until they finally completely captured the Qing Army's defense line on the southern flank of the post road. ”

"Yo Xi, the little guy has a future, it's very good!"

Kono Tsuyoshi happily praised Captain Yoshiichi Tanaka.

Before, Kono was very unhappy that the staff sent a small captain to assist in formulating the battle plan, but now after listening to Tanaka Yoshiichi's analysis, he was immediately impressed by Tanaka Yoshiichi.

"Dianjing, your department is responsible for attacking the 2nd Heights, and you must occupy it at all costs!"

Kono Tsuyoshi pointed to the middle of the southern flank of Nanguanling, the highest hill and ordered.

"Hey!"

The captain of the three major teams of the 15th Wing, Takashi Diani, received the order loudly.

"Kuriyagan, your department is responsible for dividing troops to attack the No. 1 and No. 3 heights on both flanks of the No. 2 heights to contain the Qing army."

"Hey!"

The captain of the second brigade of the first wing, Kuriya Ganshaosa, received the order loudly.

"Captain Miyazawa, your artillery concentrated its fire on the No. 2 heights, trying to destroy the Qing army's breastwork defense and the horse rejection stakes behind."

"Hey!"

The leader of the 3rd Squadron of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Wing of the Japanese Tokyo Field Artillery, Captain Gunzaburo Miyazawa, who was on standby, received the order loudly.

Kono took out his pocket watch and glanced at it: "All units returned and immediately prepared, at 8:30, the artillery began to bombard, and after 30 minutes of bombardment, the infantry attacked. ”

"Hey!"

Takako Mikai, Mitsuya Mikan, Miyazaburo Junzaburo, and Tanaka Yoshiichi all shouted in unison, and their voices were full of pride and determination.

- Nanguanling, today must be a battle.