Immediately returned to Lushun, what happened, thinking of this, Li He opened the telegram, only glanced at it, he put the report on the table and looked at the adjutant standing beside him: "l Immediately notify the battleship Hongzhang, the armored cruiser Ruojing, the armored cruiser Buchan, and the Flying Eagle." The torpedo cruiser Exocet, immediately raised fire and set off half an hour later, the target, Arthur. ”

"Yes." The adjutant replied loudly, then turned and walked out after saluting. After seeing the adjutant walk out, Li Hecai picked up the telegram from the table again, and the money on it was not the usual intelligence department, but Liu Jun.

He knew that the orders issued from the headquarters were usually issued by Zhong Lin's intelligence department, but today, the telegram was signed by the marshal Liu Jun, which can only prove that Lushun summoned himself for an important matter, otherwise, Liu Jun, as the marshal, would definitely not give the order in person.

Whining whistles sounded from time to time, Li He, who had already come to the dock, looked at the rows of warships moored inside and outside the port, and his heart was excited, he never thought that he would command a huge fleet of nearly eighty warships.

In the port of Vladivostok, the flag of the mast on the warship was blown by the sea breeze.

Outside the harbor, several warships ordered to set sail have begun to raise soot. Looking at the harbor filled with warships near the port, Li He sighed in his heart. He did not expect that he would be able to command nearly 80 warships in battle, which he never dreamed that he would be able to command so many warships.

"Commander, get on board. The Hongzhang could not enter the port, but could only be in the open sea, and hoped that the commander could make a torpedo boat to go over. The adjutant finished his sentence and pointed to a torpedo boat that had been moored to the dock.

Li He nodded, turned around and looked at Lin Taizeng, who came to see him off, and Yan Fu, chief of staff of the Navy, and said: "After I leave, the fleet will be commanded by Lin Taizeng and William, and Yan Fu will assist from the side, and you must not relax your vigilance. ”

"Commander, rest assured." Several people nodded.

Eun, Li He, who nodded, took the lead in getting on the torpedo boat.

The torpedo boat had already ignited its fire, and as soon as Li He got on the warship, the torpedo boat immediately began to cut through the sea and galloped away towards Hongzhanghao in the distance.

In Tokyo, Japan, the breath of war has quietly arrived, and on the streets, Japanese soldiers who rarely appear have begun to appear gradually, and even outside Tokyo, there are already soldiers who are beginning to build positions.

In the Prime Minister's Palace, looking at the soldiers outside who wanted to pull out of the city from time to time, Ito Hirobumi, who was standing in front of the window, sighed helplessly, he never thought that there would be such a day in Japan.

Lowering the curtains in annoyance, Ito Hirobumi returned to his place, and before he could pick up the document next to him, he saw Inoue Shin walk in, and his face was also pale.

"What's wrong? Inoue-kun? When Inoue walked in front of him, Ito asked quietly.

"Prime Minister, something is wrong."

This sentence suddenly made Ito Hirobumi chuckle in his heart, and then immediately stood up from the chair and looked at Inoue Xin with a confused expression, not understanding what Inoue Xin meant.

"Prime Minister, the telegram that has just been intercepted, the night before yesterday, Liu Jun of Lushun urgently ordered Li He, commander of the Liaodong Navy in Vladivostok, and the commanders of the ten corps concentrated in Weihai, Lushun, Lianyungang, and Korea to recall Lushun.

"What?" Ito Hirobumi opened his mouth wide in surprise, and after being a little stunned, he took the telegram from Inoue Xin's hand and looked at it twice, then looked at Inoue Xin with some disbelief and asked, "Is it reliable?"

"I'm not sure at the moment, after all, this is just deciphered intelligence, but I have ordered the intelligence officers in the above places to keep a close watch and report back as soon as there is a situation."

Eun, Ito nodded, he agreed with Inoue's statement.

After looking down and thinking for a while, Ito Hirobumi raised his head again and looked at Inoue Xin: "How is Qingguo's side?" ”

Qingguo, as soon as she heard this, Inoue Xin showed a confused look, this Liaodong army is about to fight, why did Ito Hirofumi mention this Qingguo?

"Have you forgotten that we signed an agreement with the Qing State that if any side is attacked by Liaodong, we will send troops to help."

Forget it, as soon as I heard Ito Hirobumi shamelessly bring up this matter, Inoue Xin felt a toothache.

At the beginning, when the Qing State was attacked by the Liaodong Army, the Qing Minister was urging the Japanese Ben to send troops to attack Lushun five times a day, and he also reminded Ito Hirofumi that he should immediately seize this opportunity to attack Lushun, but at that time, Ito Hirofumi thought that the time was not ripe, and he did not send reinforcements, so he forced the Qing State, which had the strength to compete with Liaodong, to be beaten and lost hundreds of thousands of troops and lost most of the territory. An ally won't help you.

Sighing, Inoue Shin took a step forward and looked at Hirobumi Ito and said, "Prime Minister, you don't have to think about it in Qingguo. ”

What do you mean, Hirobumi Ito frowned and looked at Inoue Shin.

Seeing that Ito Hirobumi didn't understand, Inoue said: "Your Excellency Prime Minister, according to the news, just the day before yesterday, all the Qing troops stationed on the front line retreated ten kilometers. ”

With a squeak, Ito Hirobumi, who heard this, sat on the chair, and from Inoue Xin's words, Ito Hirobumi already understood that Qingguo had to stand by and watch, otherwise he would not let the troops retreat ten kilometers, which was clearly telling Liaodong, you fight, I will not interfere, and I will not launch any attack on you.

"Eight Ga Ya Road." After a while, Ito Hirobumi, who was scolding, angrily flipped all the documents on the table to the ground at once.

Ito Hirobumi was angry in his heart, he didn't expect that the Qing people were so untrustworthy, and they actually stabbed themselves in the back at this time.

Hey, seeing where Ito Hirobumi was going crazy, Inoue Xin sighed helplessly in his heart, he understood very well that the reason why Qing Guo was doing this was more or less to avenge the reason why Japan sat on the mountain and watched the tiger fight and saw death and could not save it, but this is not an important reason, the most important reason is that Qing Guo no longer has any ability and strength to launch an attack on Liaodong.

Seeing that Ito Hirobumi had finally adjusted his emotions, Inoue Shin stepped forward and asked in a low voice, "Prime Minister, do you want to convene an emergency meeting?" ”

"No, no." Ito Hirobumi waved his hand, he was not confused, and now he has not received accurate information at all, once he recklessly convenes a meeting, it will be an order for a national mobilization, and when the time comes, it will be a disaster for Japan itself.