The color is dull. Cold Moon Sensen. The sea breeze is gentle. The city is immersed in tranquility and privacy.

This is Yingkou, a coastal city in central Liaoning, which is actually one of the most important treaty ports in Liaoning due to its close proximity to Liaodong Bay in the northern part of the Bohai Sea.

Yingkou, also known as Yingzikou, because it is located on the south bank of the Liaohe River, can go deep inland along the Liaohe River, has the potential to become a commercial port, but Yingkou really becomes a commercial ping, it will be as late as the nephew, when the Qing court was forced by the threat of gunboats, and Britain and France signed the "Tianjin Treaty", stipulating that Liaoning Niuzhuang was opened as a commercial port, but later because of the inconvenient transportation of Niuzhuang, Yingkou was changed to a treaty port. It was from then on that Yingkou truly became the commercial port of Liaoning, and gradually developed into the most important commercial city currency in central Liaoning.

Although the British and French regarded Yingkou as an important commercial interest, there was a public concession here. But this can not make Yingkou avoid the invasion of war, in the Sino-Japanese War, Yingkou became a battlefield, although the Qing army had been in Yingkou with the fortress defense, but the army has no fighting spirit, will not have the will to fight, in the end, the Japanese army only with a small number of casualties to occupy Yingkou, and Japan immediately took a fancy to the importance of Yingkou, so in the "Treaty of Shimonoseki" signed with the Qing court, the Japanese government clearly classified Yingkou into the cession area, if it were not for the later "three countries to interfere and return Liao" perhaps Yingkou has long become a Japanese colony like the island of Taiwan.

After the First Sino-Japanese War, the situation in the Northeast was chaotic. Yingkou's commerce also declined for a few years, and it was not until the eve of the Russo-Japanese War that prosperity gradually regained . The Feng transfer station. With its geographical advantages, it has established a convenient sea route with Tianjin and landed from Yingkou. It is easier for immigrants to travel to the Northeast.

After the Russo-Japanese War, the South Manchurian region became Japan's sphere of influence, and Yingkou was once suppressed by Japan because it was a coastal commercial port with Lushun and Dalian. Commercial superiority was gradually replaced by Dalian, and it was not until the establishment of the republic that Yingkou was once again valued by the Chinese central government, where port facilities were repaired and a small military port was established near the mouth of the Liaohe River north of the commercial port to provide logistical supplies for the medium-sized ships of the Chinese naval fleet.

This military port is called Tiantaizhuang Military Port because of its proximity to Tiantaizhuang.

Now, in this Tiantaizhuang military port, a small gunboat is sailing from the south to the north of the breakwater, and the passengers on the gunboat are all high-ranking officers, among whom Wu Luzhen, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy, is the most noble.

Wu Luzhen rushed to Tiantaizhuang Military Port from Yingkou Commercial Port, and those who came with him were basically high-ranking officers and staff officers of the former enemy headquarters, and the reason why they rushed to Tiantaizhuang overnight was mainly to welcome a distinguished guest.

This distinguished guest is none other than Mr. President of China, and just tonight, Mr. President is about to rush to Tiantaizhuang with a group of "front-line condolence groups" to form this "front-line condolence group." The members are not ordinary people, they are not high-ranking officials of the central government, or high-ranking officers of the General Staff and the Army Staff, and they are of a very high rank, which is why the task of defending is also very important.

In order to ensure the safety of Mr. President, Wu Luzhen had already issued an order in the afternoon, and Tiantaizhuang was put on alert. There was no order from him. No one is allowed to enter the military port as long as it is not dark. Fighter jets must carry out combat patrol missions in the air, and even if the weather is bad, the Air Force planes must take off.

It was now nine o'clock in the evening, and there were no fighter planes patrolling in the sky, but the sea was still heavily guarded, and several artillery ships were fighting on the sea outside the Tiantaizhuang Military Port. When the gunboat that Wu Luzhen was riding on came from the south, he greeted it, and after confirming his identity, he released the gunboat, and Wu Luzhen led his subordinates to land, and then stationed at the Tiantaizhuang Garrison Headquarters.

The Tiantaizhuang Garrison Headquarters was located in the military port, very close to the wharf, and Wu Luzhen got off the ship. He went straight to the garrison headquarters and asked about the current whereabouts of the president's fleet, but he was told that the president's fleet was still at sea, and it would take more than an hour to arrive at Tiantaizhuang, out of the need for secrecy. At present, the garrison command does not know the specific location of the presidential fleet, and all Wu Luzhen can do is wait.

Although there was still some time before the president arrived at the military port, Wu Luzhen couldn't sit still, he kept walking around the garrison headquarters, and often stopped in front of the map, looking at the map, he couldn't help but feel a little anxious.

The president led a "front-line condolence delegation" from Beijing to Jinzhou in the western Liaoning corridor, where he met with all the senior officers of the army staff, and then boarded the ship on the Daling River north of Jinzhou, first to the mouth of the river, and then crossed Liaodong Bay from west to east. Although aerial reconnaissance showed that the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy was still cruising in the Yellow Sea east of the Liaodong Peninsula and had no intention of entering the Bohai Sea, out of caution, the president decided to keep his itinerary a secret until the fleet left the mouth of the Daling River and officially sent a telegram to Wu Luzhen. The president will travel to Tateezhuang in a torpedo boat.

To tell the truth, after receiving this telegram from the president, Wu Yixun said in a book that he was "really shocked." He originally thought that the president would take a train from Jinzhou to Shenyang, and then go south from Shenyang to Yingkou through Liaoyang, although this route is a little farther, but after all, it is safer, but now, the president suddenly changed his itinerary. The decision to go straight to Tiantaizhuang by sea made Wu Luzhen a little hurried, and had to change to meet Jili.

The president is now suddenly inspecting the front line, which is indeed much beyond Wu Luzhen's expectations, but since the president has already come, he cannot turn a blind eye. Therefore, after learning the news that the president was about to inspect the front line in Liaodong, Wu Luzhen Lixuan rushed to Yingkou from the Gaiping front, and now, he rushed to Tiantaizhuang from Yingkou.

The president chose this time to go to the front line to inspect, and he was indeed very measured, at this time. The front-line troops had just finished the Battle of Gepin. is in a state of rest, and coming over now will not have a serious impact on the deployment of the troops, but Wu Luzhen is still a little worried, he is worried that the president will not come over to "drive the expedition in person"?

At the beginning, the president promised that he would never interfere with Wu Luzhen's front-line command, but now, Wu Luzhen is indeed a little worried about whether the president is ready to overstep his responsibilities. It's not that he doesn't believe in the president's strategic vision, but when it comes to tactics, he has to say something wrong. I'm afraid the president can only be a student of his commander-in-chief Wu, not to mention that only Wu Luzhen knows the battle situation on the front line best, and even Lan Tianwei has no excuse to interfere. On the one hand, he was worried about the president's safety, after all, it was a night flight, and it was a torpedo boat, which was not as safe and comfortable as a large warship, and on the other hand, he was worried about whether the president was here to snatch the command of the front line. At that time, any small interference could cause drastic changes in the battle situation on the front line, and Wu Luzhen did not dare to take this risk. He must remind the president to be cautious.

While Wu Luzhen was standing in the Tiantaizhuang Garrison Headquarters and wandering, a staff officer hurriedly came from the telegraph room and handed Wu Luzhen a telegram from the front that he had just received.

"Report to the commander-in-chief, the East Road Column has adjusted its deployment and can be put into attack at any time. In recent days, the weather in the eastern region has remained bad, the Air Force has not been able to take off to carry out aerial reconnaissance missions, and the eastern column can only rely on ground reconnaissance, therefore. Commander Zhou hoped that the time of the general attack could be adjusted, so that the East Route Column could complete a more detailed reconnaissance and find out the reality of the main Japanese army. ”

The staff officer submitted the transcript of the telegram and briefly introduced the contents of the telegram

"Got it, you call back to Zhou Dao.com right away, telling him to be cautious, I don't want to see any more heavy losses, especially the armored forces. The president and the General Staff can say that he has an iron army under his command, but I will not say that. It seems to me that the loss of that armored reconnaissance detachment could have been avoided, and I don't want to deal with him about it now, but I don't want to hear anything about it later. said. ”

Wu Luzhen's reply was very unkind, and he was not to blame for this, because in his opinion, the forward reconnaissance plan formulated by Zhou Daowang a few days ago was too presumptuous, and put the armored reconnaissance detachment in a lonely situation. It's too unusual, and all of this seems to be out of Zhou Daowang's psychology of grabbing merit, but now no one wants to compete with him Commander Zhou, and Zhou Daowang is doing this, which is inevitably a bit mountaineous. Exactly what the president hated so much.

The staff officer hurried to the telegraph room, Wu Luzhen continued to walk around the garrison headquarters, and the main question he was thinking about had been concentrated on the next offensive plan, and now that the elite unit of the Japanese army in Dagushan had been mobilized, it was a good opportunity to destroy it in one go, and it was up to Wu Luzhen to arrange the attack, although the General Staff Headquarters and the Army General Staff had already formulated the corresponding combat plan before the war, but that was only a summary, and how to fight this battle still had to depend on the situation and Wu Luzhen's decision. This is also the meaning of his existence as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy.

Wu Luzhen holds the pen. He marked several directions on the map, then called the staff officers, compared them with the telegrams of the previous days, carefully studied the map, and soon forgot all about the president's inspection of the front line.

An hour later, just as Wu Luzhen and the staff officers were too busy to lose track of time, a naval officer walked into the garrison headquarters.

"Commander-in-Chief Wu, hurry up and go to the dock, the fleet you were waiting for is coming!"

Wu Luzhen looked up, and the officer was the commander of the military port.

After Wu Luzhen landed, Ding instructed Ding to pass through the military port, once the fleet arrived at the military port. He was told to meet him, but he did not tell the Commander of the Harbor who the passengers of the fleet were.

The president's whereabouts are classified, and only a few people know about them. Wu Luzhen didn't say who the "distinguished guest" sitting in the fleet was, so the commander of the military port naturally didn't know the details of the fleet, and he thought it was the fleet that transported arms and materials.