Liaodong gave himself such a hand this time, which made him too passive, that is, the next day, he was actually called to the palace and was severely reprimanded by the emperor, Ito Hirobumi was angry, for so many years, except for the United States when he came to the mainland, he was not threatened by anyone, but now, not only was he threatened, but even the shells were smashed into Tokyo, which is an unforgivable act. And it's still Tokyo. This is a huge loss to morale and people's hearts.

"Prime Minister, there is no news yet, but it is estimated that they should return to Lushun?" Inoue Xin said quietly after thinking for a while.

It should be, the last thing Ito Hirobumi wants to hear are these two words, which is obviously equivalent to not saying it, but he did not show dissatisfaction, after all, in the vast ocean, where to find those fleets.

Just as he was about to let Inoue go down, Ito Hirobumi saw his lieutenant walk in and handed the telegram in his hand to Inoue.

"What did you say?" Waiting until Inoue finished reading, Ito asked.

"Prime Minister, our second batch of 20,000 army troops retreating from North Korea, near Jeju, was ambushed by the Liaodong fleet, and the escort fleet was forced to withdraw to North Korea."

"Eight Ga Ya Road." Upon hearing the news, Ito Hirobumi scolded angrily, then turned around and overturned the documents on the table to the ground.

The 20,000 troops did not withdraw, which is doomed, and the 20,000 troops are about to face either surrender or be annihilated by Ding Ruchang's First Corps, no matter which one takes over, this is unfortunate news for themselves.

In the Yellow Sea, in the scorching sky, the sun shines on the surface of the sea with a silver light. On the sea, the huge fleet was moving in the direction of Lushun, and at a distance of less than two hundred meters, the German naval flag and the Liaodong Yellow Dragon flag were whirring under the sea breeze.

A small celebration was being held here on the battleship Hongzhang, and in addition to the captains of the ships, the rest were officers of the first mate and above on the German side.

Bang. Dozens of people raised their wine glasses, and after colliding with each other, they drank the red wine in their hands.

"Lee, how did you come up with the idea of waiting for the Japanese escort fleet near Jeju Island?" Putting down the wine glass in his hand, William, who was wearing a black navy uniform, walked up to Li He and asked.

Li He smiled slightly, he knew that William came back to him to ask this question.

Yesterday evening, the First Fleet led by himself, fifteen nautical miles west of Jeju Island, after waiting for nearly six hours, finally waited for the arrival of the Ilben escort fleet, as soon as the two sides started a war, the Ilben escort fleet knew that it was not an opponent, so it withdrew to North Korea while fighting, and that was the case, the three torpedo cruisers that escorted the escort were still sunk, and the rest were several transport ships of the escort fleet back to North Korea.

Actually, this is not an unusual thing. The nearest route is here, and now the Japanese side has determined that the main forces of Liaodong are going to Vladivostok, so the escort fleet will inevitably take this route. Before that, 30,000 people had already withdrawn, so this batch, that would take this opportunity, just withdraw.

After listening to Li He's speech, William nodded convincingly, picked up his wine glass again, and clinked glasses with Li He.

Lushun Headquarters, Liu Jun looked at the distance from Japan to Lushun in a daze with a puzzled face, Li He's fleet has not come back until now, which makes his heart full of doubts, he doesn't understand, with the current speed of the Beiyang Naval Division, why has he not returned to Lushun until now, this is simply a strange thing.

"Where did you go?" Shaking his head, Liu Jun asked lightly.

"What?" Zheng Yiqian, who was on the side, raised her head and asked blankly.

"I said, this First Fleet, according to the estimated time, they should have returned to Lushun a long time ago, but if you look at it, they haven't come back until now, you don't feel strange." Liu Jun said after looking at Zheng Yiqian.

Indeed, Zheng Yiqian nodded, this is a problem, but Zheng Yiqian knows that the First Fleet will definitely not have an accident, not why, with the current strength of the First Fleet, the combined fleet will not be able to gnaw.

Just as she was about to say a few words of comfort, Zheng Yiqian saw Zhong Lin walk in and handed a telegram to Liu Jun.

"Head, Ding Ruchang called, and the last group of evacuated Japanese troops suddenly returned to Seoul."

What? Liu Jun took the telegram at once, picked it up and looked at it.

Returning to Seoul, didn't the Japanese army retreat, shouldn't this be, the Japanese have tofu in their heads, how could they drive out such a fool to do something,

"There must be some reason for this? Thinking of this, Liu Jun raised his head and looked at Zhong Lin: "Send a telegram to your intelligence department to confirm the authenticity of this incident again." ”

"Understood." Zhong Lin nodded, turned around and walked out.

When Zhong Lin was far away, Zheng Yiqian walked to Liu Jun's side, lowered her head and thought for a while, and then asked, "Do you think it was because of what happened to the Japanese evacuation fleet on the way, so it returned to Seoul?" ”

With this possibility, Liu Jun nodded without rejection and began to walk in front of the map.

From the map, there are only a few routes that the Japanese army wants to evacuate, and now that Tokyo has been bombed, Japan will definitely know the news, so it is normal to withdraw troops to Tokyo, and the nearest route is also a safe route, that is, to take the Jeju area.

Jeju, who remembered something, suddenly fixed his gaze on Jeju, and after thinking for a while, Liu Jun shifted his gaze to Tokyo again and watched it back.

Liu Jun, who was looking at the map, suddenly burst out laughing.

"If anything happens here, it is that Li He must have turned back to the Jeju area on the way back and ambushed the Japanese transport fleet." After Liu Jun finished speaking, he picked up the command from the side and pointed at it and said.

This explanation is very reasonable, and Zheng Yiqian on the side nodded, acknowledging Liu Jun's statement.

However, all this is Liu Jun's inference, and if you want to know the specific situation, you can only know by waiting for the telegram sent by Zhong Lin's intelligence bureau whether it was Li He's First Fleet that ambushed the Japanese transport fleet.

Wait, what I can do now is not to worry, even if I want to worry, it will be until I get Zhong Lin's information, that is to say, if the Japanese transport fleet is not a single ship at that time, this proves that there is a problem with Li He's first fleet, and if the Japanese escort fleet is less by then, then there will be no big problem.