Lushun, early in the morning, Liu Jun got up early, and after training with the Qing army, he came to the room alone. Looking at the charcoal fire, a little carbon was added to it, and Liu Jun tightened the cloak on his body. Eyes move back and forth on the map.

More than 4,000 people, more than a dozen conscienceless cannons, this is Liu Jun's capital, and the capital of the Japanese army to gamble the lives of the whole city. Liu Jun can't afford to lose.

Looking at the tortuous road from Dalian to Lushun, Liu Jun knew that if he wanted to keep Lushun, he had to block the Japanese army outside Tuchengzi.

Thinking of this, Liu Jun asked people to call the current leadership team, Li Rong, Wu Datong, Zhong Lin and Zhang Yi.

Liu Jun said his thoughts, to send troops to defend Tuchengzi, and several people generally had no opinion, but Zhang Yi thought that if the main force was placed in Tuchengzi, if the Japanese army attacked from the sea, it would be a big threat.

The reason why Liu Jun dared to fight most of the people were concentrated in Tuchengzi was that Liu Jun made a wrong calculation of the Japanese Combined Fleet based on some memories of later generations, and in his opinion, the current Combined Fleet was under the command of Ito Yuheng and was fighting to the death with the Beiyang Naval Division in the Weihai area, and would not go north to attack Lushun.

Patiently persuaded Zhang Yi, Liu Jun ordered the troops of the three regiments to be deployed to Tuchengzi at noon and handed over to Li Rong to speed up the repair of the fortifications. Always ready to fight the invading Japanese army.

Bang bang, the knock on the door woke up Liu Jun, Liu Jun didn't know how he fell asleep last night, but when he opened his eyes, it was just dawn this day, who didn't have long eyes to disturb his rest.

"Head, you're not here, Wu County has an emergency to look for you."

As soon as he heard that there was an emergency, Liu Jun quickly got up and put on his clothes casually.

I saw Zhong Lin and Wu Datong anxiously waiting at the door, looking at the expressions of the two of them, it was definitely not a good thing.

Let the two of them enter the door, Liu Jun asked directly, "What makes you so flustered?" ”

Wu Datong glanced at it and said, "My lord, it's bad news, our fishermen in Lushun went out to sea to fish, and many were killed by Japanese warships. ”

"What? Liu Jun stood up suddenly, thought for a moment and asked, "Are you sure that the Japanese warship did it?" ”

Where could Wu Datong still tell lies at this time, he nodded hurriedly: "My lord, it was really the fishermen who were alive who told me that they had encountered several Japanese warships in the open sea. When the warships saw them, they opened fire, killing many civilians. Perhaps he didn't understand, he added: "They drifted for hours before they got to the beach."

Several hours, which means that they did not encounter the Japanese warships for a very long time. And ......, Liu Jun thought of this, his face began to turn pale, and sweat began to stay below: And the Japanese army was already on the sea coming to Lushun.

As soon as this idea appeared in his mind, Liu Jun was restless, and he had thousands of people, and he had the roots to protect Lushun, but he didn't expect the Japanese to come to this hand. Attack by land and sea. It's not a thing.

Liu Jun wiped the beads of sweat from his face with his hand, and said to Zhong Lin: "Immediately send someone to Tuchengzi and urgently transfer back a regiment, and then I will personally surrender the fort with Zhang Yi, and Tuchengzi, I will hand it over to you and Li Rong." ”

Zhong Lin knew that this was not the time to joke, so he nodded, and returned to Liu Jun's side after arranging the order. As for Wu Datong, he had other things, and he had already retreated after reporting the situation, and in his opinion, fighting a war was a soldier's affair and had nothing to do with him.

"Is that telegraph room you found last time still working?" Liu Jun, who had been silent, suddenly asked.

Zhong Lin nodded: "Head, it can be used, okay, where are the two people now?"

Before Zhong Lin finished speaking, Liu Jun stood up and put on the hat next to him and said to Zhong Lin, "Let's go, let's go to the telegraph room." ”

The telegraph room was located in the middle of Arthur, not very far from the barracks. Liu Jun and Zhong Lin were riding horses again, and in just a few minutes, the two came to the telegraph room.

The Qing army, who was ordered to protect the telegraph room, saw that it was Liu Jun, hurriedly opened the door, let Liu Jun in, and closed the door again.

Liu Jun knew the importance of this place, so after expanding his troops, he lined up to protect everything here.

The two telegraph officers did not look very old, and when they saw Liu Jun, who was wearing a black cloak and an official hat on his head. The two of them hurriedly nodded and let Liu Jun enter the room.

Liu Jun, who sat down, just said lightly: "Connect Tianjin, Weihai."

Tianjin, in the study in the back garden of the Governor's Mansion of Zhili, since the start of the Sino-Japanese war, Li Hongzhang, as the supreme commander of the Chinese side, has been sighing and sighing, and no good face has ever appeared.

The news sent from the front line was the news of the defeat of the Qing army, which made Li Hongzhang happy, some time ago, he ordered all the sailors to return to Weihai, saying to outsiders that it was to fill ammunition, but in fact, the real reason was to retreat to Weihai. The Japanese army has landed at Huayuankou and is approaching Dalian, if the Beiyang Naval Division does not decisively abandon Lushun, then what awaits the naval division will be a joint attack by the Japanese army and navy. Such a move undoubtedly saved you from death, but it did discard Lushun.

Li Hongzhang was also forced to do so. The Japanese army attacked, he originally wanted to withstand the Japanese attack in Korea, but he handed over the command to a fleeing general Ye Zhichao, and the battle of Pyongyang was imminent, he actually abandoned the army and ran 700 miles in one night and retreated to the Yalu River.

Li Hongzhang replaced Ye Zhichao in a fit of anger, and instead used the veteran Song Qing, but Song Qing didn't seem to bring him any good news.

Next to the desk, there was a telegram, this telegram had actually been delivered here a few days ago, and he had also discussed it with his staff Yang Shixiang, but he couldn't get an answer at all, so he temporarily pressed it on the desk.

The telegram was sent by Ding Ruchang, the commander of the Beiyang Naval Division in Weihai, which probably meant that the Beiyang patrol ships had discovered that the Naniwa, Itsukushima, and Hashidate in the Japanese combined fleet had suddenly disappeared. It is to be hoped that the Governor's Office will find out the situation. Where the three Japanese warships went, it also prevented unfavorable things from happening.

As soon as Li Hongzhang received the telegram, he immediately found Yang Shixiang, and the two discussed in the study for half a night, but they couldn't come up with a reason. In the end, we had to wait and see. Just tell the sailor to be on guard.

Li Hongzhang now picked up the telegram again and read it.

"My lord, are you studying this telegram again?" Yang Shixiang didn't know when the liquid crystal walked in and stood next to Li Hongzhang.

Li Hongzhang glanced at Yang Shixiang and felt that Yang Shixiang was a little weird today, but he couldn't think of it for a while.

nodded, Li Hongzhang was a tacit.

Yang Shixiang said that Li Hongzhang began to cut the telegram again, he smiled and said: "My lord, I have three news here, two good and one bad, which one do you want to hear." ”

Li Hongzhang finally understood where Yang Shixiang's weirdness was, and his weirdness was happy. He hadn't seen Yang Shixiang's smile and his own smile for a long time.

Annoyed to hear the bad news, Li Hongzhang put down the telegram: "Let's talk about it first." ”

Yang Shixiang nodded, took out a telegram from his hand and said: "Liu Junshu, commander of the Lushun garrison, on the 14th, the 400 Japanese army invaded Lushun, and our Lushun defenders, with the help of the people of the city, completely annihilated the invading enemy. ”

Annihilating the invading enemy, what is this concept, Li Hongzhang's ears are not deaf, he understands that if Lushun can completely annihilate more than 400 Japanese troops, then his elite Huai army will still be chased by the Japanese army.

Li Hongzhang did not show the smile he should have, but asked Yang Shixiang lightly: "How credible do you think this telegram is?" ”

When Yang Shixiang saw Li Hongzhang's face, he knew that Li Hongzhang thought that this was another false report planted by bullying. After thinking about it, Yang Shixiang replied: "Nine layers"

"Ninth layer, you just believe in a telegram like this, and also, what is this garrison commander, where did I come from the garrison commander of the Great Qing Kingdom, and he is not a barbarian foreigner, and foreigners have these vulgar sayings. We are the kingdom of the Celestial Empire."

After Li Hongzhang finished venting, Yang Shixiang took over and said: "My lord, I didn't believe that Liu Jun's telegram for no reason, but his second telegram. Among them, we discussed the issue of the disappearance of the Japanese warships two days ago. ”

Li Hongzhang raised his head and asked, "You said that the Japanese warship disappeared for no reason in order to attack Lushun?" ”

Yang Shixiang nodded and handed over the telegram from Lushun: "The telegram said that Lushun is about to face an attack by the Japanese naval and land forces, and I hope that the overall Zhongtang Lord will quickly send reinforcements for the sake of more than 20,000 lives in the city, that is, the Beiyang Naval Division can fight a battle with the combined fleet and force the Japanese army to withdraw to attack at sea." ”

Li Hongzhang listened and watched, it was indeed exactly the same as what Yang Shixiang said, seeing that he wrote so earnestly, Li Hongzhang also knew that Lushun Brigade was in danger. Whether it can be solved depends on whether he can ruthlessly let the naval division attack the Japanese combined fleet and force its three Japanese warships to return to the north, so as to solve the threat on the surface of Arthur.

The Beiyang Naval Division is Li Hongzhang's root, and now he is really reluctant to ask his root to go out and fight with the Japanese to save a city......

Silently looking at the telegram sent by Liu Jun, Li Hongzhang, who was sitting in the Taishi chair, did not have any reply. Yang Shixiang knew that Li Hongzhang was weighing the pros and cons, so he didn't want to bother. Instead, he stood aside and waited for Li Hongzhang's decision.