In order to commemorate the Qing soldiers who died in this war, Liu Jun forcibly ordered that all places in Lushun be closed for two days, whether it was a brothel or a restaurant, a vegetable market or a telegraph office.

Today is the last day of the closure, and it is also the day of the burial of all the fallen Qing soldiers, early in the morning, the residents of the city consciously came to the barracks and lifted the corpses of the Qing soldiers covered with white cloth on the ground. Consciously carried it out of the city. Both sides of the street were already filled with people who had come to see them off. Everyone had a white cloth wrapped around their heads, which was supplied free of charge by the cloth village.

The location was chosen not far from the city, where you can see the Lushun Fort, Lushun and Tuchengzi in the west.

Liu Jun wants these people to protect Lushun and defend Lushun together.

There were too many corpses, and there was no time to make so many coffins, so I could only put a white cloth on my body. There were already people waiting on the hillside, and when they saw the person carrying the corpse rushing over, they immediately put down everything they were in their hands and went down to help carry it uphill.

On the hillside, more than 2,000 well-laid pits are neatly lined up, which were dug by the Qing army and local people overnight. All the corpses were placed on the ground, and Liu Jun looked at them as white cloths all over the ground. Biting his lip. Without further ado, he raised his hand and signaled that he could begin.

An officer saw Liu Jun's signal, pulled out the saber on his waist and put his feet together, and said loudly: "Salute the dead heroes." ”

Boom, there was a thunderclap, and the fifteen field guns lined up on both sides let out a roar. The battery in the distance heard the cannon sound of the hill, and under the command of Zhang Yi, all the defenders of the battery began to open fire.

All the artillery, firing three shells in succession, stopped firing.

The cannonade stopped, and for a moment calm returned, and everyone watched in silence. Liu Jun, supported by Wu Xiaoyan, came to the side of a corpse and looked at the Qing army, who was only sixteen years old. He was stabbed seven times by the Japanese soldiers, and when he was dying, he slashed with the machete in his hand. Hack to death a Japanese soldier.

Putting the Qing army down in the pit, Liu Jun picked up the shovel handed over by the soldier next to him, filled it with three shovels and vomited, and then stopped and stood aside.

Liu Jun stood aside, and all the soldiers were buried one after another and began to fill in the earth.

The clouds were thick, and a light snow began to fall in Lushun, and in a short time, the goose-feathered university fell from the sky, covering these new mounds with a layer of white dew.

After the funeral, Liu Jun returned to the county government with Wu Xiaoyan under the attention of everyone, he originally lived in the military camp, but because of his injury, Wu Datong discussed with everyone and moved Liu Jun into the county office, after all, the conditions here are much better than the military camp.

After eating a little, Liu Jun talked to Wu Xiaoyan about some things again, and then went to bed early. He also deserves a good day's rest. Replenish your sleep.

I slept until dawn the next day. As soon as he woke up, Liu Jun saw two plates of pickles, a few steamed buns, and a bowl of millet porridge on the table. Knowing that this was made by Wu Xiaoyan's maid, he smiled, got up and put on his clothes, slowly walked to the table, and did it. In the past few days, I have been busy with the military, and I haven't eaten a good meal, and a few steamed buns will be eaten clean by Liu Jun in a while. Wu Xiaoyan had been washing clothes outside, and when she came in and saw Liu Jun eating the things inside, where she was still licking her mouth, she covered her mouth with her hand and laughed.

Liu Jun glanced at Wu Xiaoyan, who was laughing there, and glanced at him: "What are you laughing at, I just saw that this thing was delicious, so I ate it cleanly, but I am not a foodie." Wu Xiaoyan said with a smile: "Traveler, I didn't say that you are a foodie, if you still want to eat, I will ask Xiang'er to cook with you." ”

"Yes, okay." However, thinking that if he was eating, he would really be recognized as a foodie by this beautiful girl, Liu Jun still shook his head: "I won't eat it." You go and ask Wu Xianling and Zhong Lin to come over, and we will go to the telegraph office. ”

The telegraph office was not far from the county office, and a few people said hello, and under the leadership of Liu Jun, they came to the telegraph office.

The telegraph office was still far away from the original two telegraphs, and when they saw that it was the patron saint of Lushun, the two hurriedly took Liu Jun into the telegraph office. And stand aside and wait for orders.

Liu Jun also carefully looked at the white color of the telegraph office this time, except for a few tables and chairs, with those equipment, there was nothing superfluous in the real room. It was a house cut out of masonry, all paid with white ash. It looks very white.

"Turn on the telegraph and connect to Tianjin." Liu Jun, who had finished looking, gave an order lightly.

Two telegraph operators received orders to turn on the telegraph machines, which had been closed for several days, and connected to Tianjin. Waiting for the report.

Tianjin, Li Hongzhang is not in a very good mood today, today the emperor called again to reprimand why he cowered, did not dare to drink the enemy confrontation, and did not know who spread rumors, saying that he did not send troops to Lushun, resulting in the fall of Lushun, and let the court have nothing to do after a day of food, and knew that the imperial history of the complaint seized the opportunity to join him in the emperor and the empress dowager. said that he had a self-respecting army.

The sudden appearance of this high hat made his already emaciated body even thinner, and even the one behind him, who never showed up now, sent a telegram asking if there was such a thing. It can be seen that the imperial court has begun to be vigilant.

Since ancient times, what the imperial court was most afraid of was that local officials had their own troops, so they were on guard everywhere. The imperial historians are also ruthless enough.

Distraught, he wanted to write a few words to calm himself down, but no matter what, today's handwriting was not as good as usual, and he threw away the pen in his hand. Li Hongzhang simply walked out of the door, accompanied by Yang Fengchun, and walked to the garden.

Defeated, defeated, reinforcements and reinforcements, all the telegrams received all day long were like this, and Li Hongzhang felt that he was about to become two halves.

Yesterday he issued an order to the governor of Shandong, to transfer the 3rd Mabu Battalion from Dengzhou, Shandong to Weihai to deploy defenses, but the governor of Shandong just pushed and pulled, and did not allow the 3rd Battalion of Dengzhou to go north. In this way, Li Hongzhang has the heart to remove the governor of Shandong.

Looking at the white dew on the ground and the ice on the lake, Li Hongzhang closed his eyes and wanted to take a good rest.

Yang Fengchun, who was next to him, saw that Li Hongzhang closed his eyes, and hurriedly draped the mink cloak in his hand on Li Hongzhang's body, and then stood quietly aside.

"Where's Nakado-sama? Where is Nakado-sama? A man's voice could be heard in the distance. Yang Fengchun looked up and saw that this person was Yang Shixiang.

Just looking at Yang Shixiang's actions today, I don't know what happy things I encountered. I didn't know how to walk steadily, and when I saw a person, I grabbed the other person's arm and asked where the adult was. And the image of the past is simply another person.

Li Hongzhang didn't fall asleep, he heard Yang Shixiang's voice, opened his eyes, and motioned for Yang Fengchun to call Yang Shixiang.

Before he arrived, he heard Yang Shixiang shouting loudly with joy on his face: "Zhongtang, Zhongtang is a great victory, a great victory." ”

Li Hongzhang glanced at Yang Shixiang, this front line is losing, where will the big victory come, even if it is a big victory, it is just the annihilation of dozens of Japanese troops, what is there to be happy about, look at Yang Shixiang's appearance now. Simply yes

Li Hongzhang said with some dissatisfaction: "Shixiang, pay attention to the system, what makes you worthy of being happy like this, it's ridiculous." ”

After Yang Shixiang heard this, he also felt that he was indeed insulting just now, he calmed his mind for a moment, adjusted his mood, and then said: "My lord, Lushun is a great victory." ”

"What did you say?" Li Hongzhang stood up from the chair all of a sudden, his face full of surprise, and his expression was not much better than Yang Shixiang's appearance just now.

"Great victory, great victory in Lushun, the defenders of Lushun annihilated 1,800 Japanese troops under the command of Liu Jun, and more than 200 people were captured."

"Tell me what else." This time it was Li Hongzhang's turn to be rude.

"He also sank the Japanese Navy warship Naniwa and captured the Hashidate."

With a bang, Li Hongzhang estimated that he was in a hurry, and brought the teacup on the table to the ground, but none of this matters now, he snatched the telegram in Yang Shixiang's hand and looked at it

Liu Jun, commander of the Lushun garrison, kowtowed, and from the 16th, he defeated the defenders of Lushun and the people of the whole city, fought for three days and nights, smashed the Japanese attack on land and sea, annihilated 1,800 Japanese troops, and captured the ships of the Japanese Combined Fleet. Sink the Japanese ship at wave speed. Itsukushima was wounded and fled. Today, I am still here. The military is still there. ”

After reading it again, Li Hongzhang was still absolutely not addicted, and after reading it here, he laughed out loud and said continuously: "Okay, hahahaha."

Lushun did not lose it, which Li Hongzhang did not expect, Lushun annihilated more than 1,000 Japanese troops, which made Li Hongzhang even more unexpected.

Whoever said that his Huai army was broken, who said that his Huai army was corrupt, this is the best example. This time, he wants to let those people in the court take a look and slap these people in the face.

After a long time, he felt that he was so inattentive to his image, so he coughed softly a few times to hide his embarrassment, and hurriedly walked towards the telegraph room. ”

On the way there, he had already learned that at about ten o'clock this morning, the direction of Lushun was suddenly connected, and he received telegrams from Lushun from time to time. The telegraph staff hurriedly translated it, and then handed it over to Yang Shixiang. Yang Shixiang didn't dare to slack off, such good news, he wanted to be the first to send it to Li Hongzhang, only in this way can Li Hongzhang, who had already had no smile, be happy and relieve his sorrows in the past few days.