Akiyama Yoshiko picked up the order from the ground and looked at it: "Navy...... How could the Navy fail? It's only been a few hours? Brigade commander, what should we do? ”

The temple closed his eyes weakly: "Retreat." ”

"But, but there are still our soldiers on the mountain?"

"Retreat, boy, do you want to go court-martialed?"

Coo, the horn of the retreat order sounded, and the attacking Japanese troops heard the order, reacted immediately, turned around and ran down the mountain.

Seeing the Japanese retreat. Liu Jun, who had seen the Japanese attack, was already disheartened. Who knew that at the critical moment, the Japanese army actually retreated like the tide.

What's going on, Liu Jun looked at it for a while, and then he understood, paralyzed, the Japanese army wanted to run.

Now the Qing army on the mountain is fighting with the Japanese army on the mountain, and it must not be pursued, so Li Rong's can only be watched. Li Rong is also worthy of being a material, and when he handed over the rapid retreat of the Japanese army, he actually launched an attack and chased all the way to the direction of the Japanese army's retreat. Anyone can beat up a water dog.

Tuchengzi, when the last Japanese soldier fell to the ground, the Japanese army under the mountain was gone.

Liu Jun asked Wu Xiaoyan to help herself up. Looking at the mountains full of corpses of the Qing army and the prostrated Qing army who were tired of karma, he knelt down all of a sudden. Non-stop pain.

The rest of the Qing army didn't know why their brigade seat was crying bitterly, and they all looked at him in surprise.

After a while, Liu Juncai raised his head from fashion, looked at the Yellow Dragon Banner that had already been beaten and the sun that had been hidden in the dark clouds, and with enough strength, he shouted loudly: "We won." ”

There was silence at first, and then the Qing army reacted, and they all howled and hugged each other. Screaming and roaring.

After seven hours of fighting, with more than 1,000 killed and more than 800 wounded, Liu Jun finally repelled the Japanese army's attempt to attack Lushun. Saved Lushun.

In the first Battle of Lushun, which began on the 14th and ended on the 19th, in five days, the Qing army lost more than 2,200 people, wounded more than 1,000 people, annihilated more than 900 Japanese troops, and more than 600 marines, sank one naval warship and captured one. Won the first victory since the start of the Qing war.

On the mountainside of Tuchengzi, Liu Jun sat there, looking at the bloody mountain, and the corpses of soldiers on both sides were layered on top of each other, covering the entire mountainside. The blood that flowed out had already been frozen into blood ice. The cold wind howled, pointing to where the tattered Yellow Dragon Flag was still flying.

Wu Xiaoyan sat next to Liu Jun, and couldn't stop looking at this one-year-old person with a banknote, and she found that this person, who had never shed tears since she met, actually shed tears, but they were erased by Liu Jun in an instant.

The living Qing army was looking at the bodies of both sides and loading the bodies of the Qing army into the carriage. On the second day of the Japanese army, Liu Jun didn't bother to let the Qing army dig a pit casually, so he buried it like this. The dirty land of the province will not grow a single grass at that time.

Li Rong, who was chasing the Japanese army, finally returned, and this time, they followed behind the Japanese army, chasing fiercely all the way, and only stopped after more than 10 kilometers, not only capturing a large amount of ammunition, but also capturing 10 field guns. These equipment originally belonged to the Qing army, but in the first battle of Pyongyang, all of them were seized by the Japanese army, and now they are just returned to their original owners.

The number of wounded was counted, three regiments, more than 3,000 people, and now there are more than 1,000 left. Although it was a disastrous victory this time, it still saved more than 20,000 people in Lushun.

Tianjin, Li Hongzhang's official office is directly under the study in the back garden of the Governor's Mansion, where Li Hongzhang deals with government affairs on a daily basis.

On the table next to it, there was a telegram of 100,000 urgent, which was sent from the border with North Korea, and the sender was Song Qing.

Song Qing was originally the governor of Sichuan, because of Ye Zhichao's cowardly performance during the war, Li Hongzhang removed Ye Zhichao according to the will of the imperial court, put the soldiers in prison, and quickly promoted Song Qing, the governor of Sichuan, to command all the Qing troops on the front line to fight against the Japanese army.

Song Qing said in the telegram that the Japanese First Army is currently gathering on the Korean border, and it seems that it has the posture of crossing the Yalu River and approaching Jiulian City.

Jiulian City is not very conspicuous in normal times, but now, tens of thousands of Qing troops transferred from all over the country are stationed.

After the defeat of Korea, the Qing army did not have the courage to fight with the Japanese army in Hehe, so they retreated and did not attack the Japanese army. Due to the supply line, the Japanese army does not have enough military rations at present, and it is not capable of supporting a battle to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Japanese army, and the two sides seem to be in harmony.

It would have been no surprise that the First Army suddenly drew a division yesterday. I don't know where to go. The sudden disappearance of a division, that is, nearly 10,000 people, is certainly not good news.

Li Hongzhang is now trying to find out where the division of the Japanese army has gone, and he will not believe the nonsense of successful mediation by foreigners, because he believed in foreigners too much, he did not seriously prepare for war, and as a result, he can't raise his head now, and the only explanation is that there is one, but Li Hongzhang just passed by in a flash, and he didn't think about it.

That is, the Japanese army hit a nail in Lushun, and the strength was insufficient, and a division was currently being sent precisely to alleviate the defeat of the Japanese army's attack on Lushun.

"My lord, Weihai is in a hurry." Li Hongzhang's staff Yang Shixiang did not have the politeness and calmness of the past, but directly handed the telegram in his hand to Li Hongzhang. Seeing Yang Shixiang's expression, Li Hongzhang's heart trembled, and after hesitating, he still took the telegram.

After reading it, he raised his head and looked at Yang Shixiang, who had already returned to his senses. He asked indifferently, "What do you think?" ”

"My lord, Ding Junmen's meaning is already very clear, three Japanese warships attacked Lushun, and only one wounded warship came back, they don't know the situation at present, let us find out the situation."

After listening to Yang Shixiang's answer, Li Hongzhang did not express his position immediately, but handed the telegram on the table next to him to Yang Shixiang: "Are you looking at this?" ”

Yang Shixiang took the telegram, looked at it, frowned, and said in surprise: "A division? Don't know where to go? What's going on? ”

"When you didn't come in, I was thinking about where a main division would go back, and now the navy has also sent a telegram, there must be a reason for this, but we don't know where it will appear."

Yang Shixiang nodded and hesitated slightly: "My lord, do you see if it is in the direction of Lushun" Li Hongzhang interrupted Yang Shixiang: "The old man also thought so just now, but after thinking about it, this is not very likely." Seeing Yang Shixiang, he didn't understand. He continued: "Our Qing army of tens of thousands of elites, not only lost Pyongyang, but also killed a general soldier, forced to withdraw from Korea, retreat to the country, can not effectively resist the Japanese army Lushun only about 1,000 people, how can resist the Japanese army by land and water. ”

Yang Shixiang seemed to understand a little, and nodded, agreeing with Li Hongzhang's opinion, but he still thought of it: "Why didn't I contact Lushun?" ”

Li Hongzhang smiled bitterly: "Lushun has lost contact yesterday, and it is estimated that Lushun has been captured by the Japanese army yesterday." ”

"Lost contact?" Yang Shixiang questioned again. The day before yesterday was still in contact, why did I lose contact yesterday.

Seeing Yang Shixiang's question, Li Hongzhang explained that he had already asked Yang Fengchun to go to the telegraph room, but the telegraph room staff replied that since last night, Lushun has lost all contact.

It seems that the Japanese army did capture Lushun. Yang Shixiang thought in his heart.

Li Hongzhang took the telegram in his hand and looked at it again: "Call back, the sailors are not allowed to go out to fight, and the top priority is to hold Weihai and keep our sailors, which can deter the Japanese army." Don't take the liberty of engaging the Japanese navy. ”

Lushun, it actually snowed lightly in Lushun today, and Liu Jun, with the support of Wu Xiaoyan, was looking at the corpse that was about to be buried with the people of Lushun.

When leaving, Liu Jun left Li Rong and 500 men to defend Tuchengzi, and the rest of the officers and soldiers did return to Lushun at sunset. The people of Lushun looked at the corpses of more than a dozen carts and the Qing army in tattered clothes, and they all consciously moved out of the way, so that these people could go first.

I don't know who started it, but Liu Jun, who was on the stretcher, found it. These people actually knelt on both sides of the road, and even the three-year-old children, with the help of their mothers, knelt on the ground in a decent manner, letting this group of soldiers who were both Lushun and soldiers go first.

This move overwhelmed the soldiers. The front army stopped, not knowing what to do.

Liu Jun saw this. Let Wu Xiaoyan help him up. Sitting on the stretcher, looking at the people of the city for a long time, Liu Juncai issued an order: "Let's go, the people are like this, prove that you are doing the right thing." Dead brothers, it's time for the name, they are not scum, they are heroes. ”

Lushun at night. There were weeping voices and sad looks everywhere. The barracks were even more crying, and the parents of the dead children and the women who had lost their husbands shook the stiff corpses of the corpses that had long since closed their eyes, hoping to wake them up. However, no matter how they shook and shouted, these Qing soldiers still closed their eyes peacefully.

Wu Xiaoyan, who was standing next to Liu Jun, had moist eyes, he couldn't stand such a scene, but in order not to be told by Liu Jun, she still didn't cry.

Liu Jun glanced at Wu Xiaoyan: "If you want to cry, cry, they wow, Liu Jun cried."

Wu Datong's efficiency was still very fast, and when the corpses of the Qing soldiers had not been completely redressed, the pensions had already been carried to the barracks and had to be distributed to the families of the deceased families. However, what moved Wu Datong and Liu Jun was that these people did not accept the money. It's not because it's too little, but because they all think that their children and husbands died to defend their families and the people of the city, so they don't want the money, but hope that the money will be used in a useful place.

An old man with white hair said this: "We old men, we are all half-cut into the ground, what do we need money for, my son died for everyone, I believe that everyone will treat me well, will not let my son lose in vain, adults still give this money to the living, to those soldiers." ”