The smoke of war, which had been shrouded in Lushun for more than a month, finally left temporarily, and the streets once regained their former vitality.

Although it was already winter, the streets were still full of festive smiling faces and the sound of vendors shouting and selling.

When the people of Lushun walking on the street saw that it was Liu Jun, they all consciously got out of the way. Let these two fast horses go first.

"Mom, why do we have to raise them?" A little girl asked, crooked in a woman's arms, with a cute smile.

"Silly boy, that's Mr. Liu, our patron saint, he must be in such a hurry to run so much for us, so we have to give way and let Mr. Liu go first."

"Oooh." The little girl giggled with a clear smile, and looked at Liu Junhe, who had gone away, with a pair of lovely eyes, and the dust raised.

When he came to the telegraph office, Liu Jun sent the telegram.

At sunset, Liu Jun received a telegram from Li Hongzhang, in which he only praised Liu Jun and asked Liu Jun to make persistent efforts, and nothing else mattered. Liu Jun didn't pay attention to these either.

The sun had already set on the horizon, and Liu Jun stood alone in front of the window, looking at the two bare poplars in the courtyard in a daze.

After this attack, the Japanese Second Army could not pose much maintenance to Lushun in a short period of time, and the main task now is not to fight, but to train soldiers, and to expand the strength of Lushun while restoring Lushun, after all, the strength of 20,000 or so troops is still too small. The point is that the soldiers in Lushun are now close to withering. Almost all those who can be soldiers have joined the Lushun Army, and they can't let the old people pick up guns and go to the battlefield, what is the difference between this and death.

Hey, Liu Jun sighed, turned around and closed the door. Come to the lobby.

There is a portrait of Confucius hanging in the middle of the lobby, and a black incense case below, how long has the incense in the incense case been extinguished, there are only a few laughing incense sticks left, and I don't know when it was plugged in, anyway, it is covered with a layer of ash.

Liu Jun didn't believe this Confucius, he came to the portrait and looked at the portrait of Confucius in a daze.

Forget it, today I will give you the old man and the incense stick, looking at the portrait of Confucius, Liu Jun took out three small red incense sticks from the table.

Yes, Liu Jun stopped what he was doing and looked at the yellow cloth on the ground in a daze.

After a while, Liu Jun patted this piece on the head: "By the way, why didn't I think I still had such a big right." ”

happily picked up the yellow dragon cloth on the ground that was almost moldy, Liu Jun threw away the incense in his hand and walked out.

That yellow cloth was a holy decree issued by Guangxu when he went to Beijing at that time, and the holy decree was very simple, that is, to let the military and government in Liaodong be controlled by Liu Jun.

After returning to Lushun, Liu Jun threw this holy decree on the incense case, and added the battle in Dalian to make Liu Jun forget about this matter. If it weren't for the ghost envoy who lowered his head to get incense today, maybe Liu Jun would have forgotten about this matter a long time ago.

As soon as he walked to the lobby of the county office, he saw Zhong Lin where he was, called Zhong Lin, and Liu Jun gave him the task and asked him to go and find Zhang Yi and Li He.

After Zhong Lin left, Liu Jun picked up the crumpled holy decree with a happy look on his face. After all, the problem of soldiers has been solved.

In the area of Liaodong, now the Japanese army has occupied Haicheng, Dalian Jinzhou, that is, Dandong, and the Japanese army has not intervened at present, and the current First Army is still fighting with Song Qing in the Haicheng area. Not to mention the Second Army, it was already a little powerless to hold Dalian and Jinzhou, and it could not draw troops to attack other places again, which was an opportunity for itself. Opportunities to expand maneuvers and expand forces.

Zhong Lin's speed was very fast, and in less than an hour, several people came to the lobby, and after greeting each other, Liu Jun asked straight to the point what the three people sitting next to him thought, that is, to send troops to Fuzhou to land, stationed in Gaizhou, and tile houses.

Entering the tile house, Liu Jun was well thought out, the tile house is located in the northwest of Dalian, as long as the troops in between enter the tile house, it will be a huge threat to the Japanese army in Dalian.

After listening to Liu Jun's statement, the three of them all nodded and agreed.

Liu Jun was very satisfied with his plan, and he confidently picked up the teacup in his hand and asked Li He, who was sitting next to him: "How many troops does the warship transport at one time?"

Li He thought for a moment: "One thousand." ”

One thousand, Liu Jun, who was still confident just now, suddenly looked helpless.

The entry of 1,000 troops into the tile house did not play much role at all, and it could not deter the Japanese army and the Qing army in the area of the tile house.

Closing his eyes, Liu Jun fell into deep thought.

After a while, Liu Jun smiled, stood up and said, "Go and call Wu Datong." ”

"Junzao, you look for me," Wu Datong, who was handling official business in the front yard, heard Liu Jun call him, hurriedly put down the official business in his hand, and followed Zhong Lin to the backyard.

Looking at Wu Datong, who had now lost a lot of weight, Liu Jun nodded: "Old Wu, you go and issue a notice to collect the fishing boats in Lushun, how many can there be?" ”

"Okay, I'll handle it right away." After receiving the order, Wu Datong turned around and ran out.

Looking at Zhang Yi, Liu Jun smiled: Zhang Yi, now the battery will not be attacked by the Japanese army for the time being, I'm afraid I will remove you from the position of battery commander, don't blame me. ”

"Whatever the military seat says, as long as I can do things with the military seat, even if it is a small soldier, I am willing." Zhang Yi stood up and said solemnly.

Liu Jun raised his hand, motioned for Zhang Yi to sit down, and then said: "It's too condescending to be a small soldier, I plan to draw a brigade from the first division, a brigade from the third division, plus an artillery regiment, to form the fourth division, and let you be the division commander." ”

"Xie Junza." Zhang Yixi stood up with a smile and interrupted Liu Jun's words.

"Don't thank you first, your fourth division will land in the Fuzhou area under the escort of Li He's navy, and then quickly take over the tile house."

Saying this, Liu Jun took the crumpled decree from the table. handed it to Zhang Yi: "You bring this, I will hand over all the Qing troops in the area of the tile house to you at present, who dares to disobey your deployment." Liu Jun looked coldly at the snow-covered road outside: and then said coldly: "Kill"

At the port of Arthur, the Hashidate and the Hepingyuan had already burst into flames, and huge smoke was rising from the huge chimneys and rushing into the sky.

In the harbor, countless fishing boats were shuttling back and forth on the sea, and from time to time a fishing boat full of Qing troops and ordnance rowed out of the dock, and then an empty fishing boat arrived on the shore to load new soldiers and ordnance.

Li He stood on the bridge, looked at the busy green dock, looked up at the gloomy sky, and turned his head to ask the first mate next to him: "How much time will it take for the army to load?" ”

The first mate looked at it and looked down: "Three hours." ”

"Urge, let them hurry up, we must send them to Fuzhou overnight."

"Okay," the first mate nodded, and walked off the bridge.

Three hours later, when the last soldier boarded the boat, Li Rong immediately gave the order to pull out.

A strange task force composed of fishing boats and ironclad ships slowly sailed out of the harbor and sailed out to the open sea under the cover of dusk.

Lushun County Office, Liu Jun stared at the map on the wall, and from time to time threw the pastries on the plate in his hand into his mouth.

"How's it going, they're all on their way?" Stuff the last piece of pastry into your mouth. Liu Jun handed the plate to Wu Xiaoyan and asked Zhong Lin, who was standing next to him.

"It's been two hours since we left." Zhong Lin wiped the pastry from the corner of his mouth with his hand. ”

"Yes." Liu Jun nodded, picked up the pen in his hand, and marked the tile house on the map. Then, silently, looking at the map.

Hehehehe, Liu Jun laughed.

"Head, what are you laughing at?"

Hehe, Liu Jun turned his head, "I'm thinking about something, can Sakuma Zuoma get a good night's sleep tonight?" Saying this, Liu Jun glanced at the two people standing next to him and found their confused eyes.

Laughing, Liu Jun made it to the chair: "What the Second Army is most afraid of now is that I attack Dalian, such a big movement today, I think Sakuma Zuoma will get the news soon, Lushun's navy is full of thousands of troops, and I don't know where to go." I think he must have thought that I was going to attack Dalian by sea. ”

"The head is wise."

"My husband is so good."

Hehe,:"Thank you for the compliment" was modest, Liu Jun stared at Dalian coldly, with a hint of ridicule on his expressionless face: "Wait, I'll let you wait enough." ”

As Liu Jun thought, the current headquarters of the Second Army in Dalian has become a mess, and a tense atmosphere fills the entire command headquarters. Busy green figures everywhere.

Sakuma stood in front of the map, his brows furrowed, looking at Lushun in a daze.

Before Li He set off, he had already received the news from the Lushun intelligence officers that the Lushun defenders were boarding the ship.

After being treated like a monkey by others last time, he thought that Liu Jun would be a person who played cards out of common sense, and this time he suddenly concentrated thousands of troops. Except for the port of Dalian, he really couldn't think of any other places that would be the target of Liu Jun's attack.

The chief of staff walked in, saw Sakuma Sakuma frowning, picked up the tea on the table, and handed it to Sakuma Sakuma.

Sakuma Sakuma saw that it was the chief of staff, took the teacup, and was about to take it up when he asked, "What's going on on with Tsuchijoko?" ”

"There was not the slightest movement." Very simple answer.

"Strange, what is this Liu Jun going to do?" Sakuma Sakuma put down the teacup and closed his eyes at a painful thought.