Chapter 219: Fierce gunfire came from Seoul

In the early morning of April 14, 1895, the Imperial Royal Navy, advancing at full speed, accompanied by the morning glow in the east, faced the subtropical monsoon, dragging the exhaustion of the whole body. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info came to Bohai Haikou.

Looking at the plaster flag fluttering in front of him, this is a cruiser of about two thousand tons. Behind them are some gunboats of about 800 tons, and there is nothing with these ships. But when the ships behind appeared in the eyes of the Imperial Navy in this way, all the fighters were stunned.

Clusters of small boats, hundreds of tons of fishing boats, and even wooden fishing boats. When I saw that these were the civilian boats of the Japanese fishermen themselves, I did not expect that the Japanese had become so mad.

Seeing the fleet of the Chinese Empire's navy, the Japanese officer led by him did not show any flinching, and he raised two red flags on the flagpole, which meant that all the Japanese ships could attack at all costs.

When Deng Shichang saw such a Japanese, his heart swelled with infinite sorrow! What kind of power has turned Japan, which had its own family, its own life, and its own thoughts, into a group of animals with no sense of individuality?

Unexpectedly, this Japanese cruiser actually fired at the Dingyuan ironclad ship first, and Deng Shichang reluctantly ordered; "Sink all Japanese ships that do not surrender, no matter what they are, as long as they resist, sink them on the spot!"

The two main Japanese cruisers that rushed up, under the blows of the four ironclad ships Dingyuan, Yiyuan, Yongyuan, and Xinyuan, did not have the opportunity to turn their bows again and face each other again. He was sunk in one of the encounters.

The battleships led by Dingyuan separated after Weihai, and although there were many Japanese ships in front of them, there were thousands of them, but they could not do any damage to the main warships of the Huaxia Empire at all, and the two were not on the same platform or the same level.

The Dingyuan ironclad ship commanded by Deng Shichang began to wipe out these small boats such as Japanese fishing boats or gunboats like psoriasis near Weihaiwei and Liugong Island. The Xinyuan ironclad ship commanded by Lin Luzhong went north to Port Arthur, and the Yiyuan ironclad ship commanded by Qiu Baoren went north to Dalian Port to clean up these Japanese who did not know the height of the sky.

The Qinglong battleship commanded by Liu Buyun and the Yongyuan ironclad ship commanded by Cheng Biguang were directly defended in Tianjin. This is not a joke, the current emperor is in Beijing. If the army of the people is attacked, it will reach the capital division.

Then the entire navy of the Kyoshi will take the blame and resign! So as soon as he entered the Bohai Strait, the whistle on the Qinglong never stopped, and Liu Buyun's heart was very clear. These Japanese simply did not have the ability to break through the forces of the two regular armies deployed in the vicinity of the Beijing Division.

But the words of the line can be described as ah! Especially the edict issued by the emperor!

The current emperor is still patient with the branch, maybe that day, the emperor will be unhappy. What the Navy is doing now, there were too many places to prosecute at that time. In particular, there is a question of military spending.

The Ministry of the Interior's monthly allocation of military spending to the Navy is an astronomical amount. I don't know anything else, Liu Buyun knows that the Nanjing government will never be able to take out this money. Now the prices of goods in the Chinese Empire are quite stable. There are no major fluctuations, it is all the Ministry of the Interior that is constantly adjusting, otherwise it seems that the empire's economy would have collapsed long ago.

Liu Buyun is not very clear about the economy, but Liu Buyun knows that coastal cities must not have any mistakes, especially these industrialized cities. There is a large amount of goods imported and exported every day.

If the interests of the people are lost, even if the emperor sends an edict of 10,000 in the future, it will have no effect at all. At that time, the people will not give the navy any chance to explain.

Now many people don't know that the cost of the navy is very huge, and if they know that the navy spent so much money, and finally let the Japanese fight the Kannai, this is definitely an unforgivable mistake.

In the second year of Guangming, on April 14, 1985, at about 17 o'clock in the night, the battleship Qinglong and the ironclad ship Yongyuan, the flagship of the Central Command of the Chinese Empire, finally arrived at Tianjin Wei Port after many difficulties and dangers.

So in the hearts of all the naval officers and men, they hated these Japanese people who didn't know each other, and when they nagged about the outside of the port of Tianjin Wei, Liu Buyun ordered; "Don't give me nonsense from any officer, these Japanese will definitely not surrender, just send them all back to their hometown!

The battleships Qinglong and Yongyuan, which were about to arrive at the military port, did not worry about saving shells, and began to clean up these Japanese ships on the main channel, and many ships still rushed to the hull of the Qinglong battleship very bravely.

Like a moth to a fire, like a rabbit hitting a tree. But the navy of the Chinese Empire, which was guarding the stump, did not take these rabbits into account at all. But looking at the Japanese ships in the distance, both the Seiryu and the Yongyuan felt their scalps tingle.

That's why the Blue Dragon began to use incendiary bombs, and most of the Japanese merchant ships were made of wood. So the ships began to catch fire under the burning of the incendiary bombs thrown by the Qinglong and Yongyuan. Under the effect of the sea breeze, the ships that were still rushing up in Japan began to burn in patches.

The firelight lit up the entire sea, and the Bohai Sea was like the sunset at sunset. Half of the sky is red, connected to the ocean, and connected to the sky. The Blue Dragon and the Yongyuan are like two greedy snakes on the sea, spinning back and forth, searching for any Japanese ships that have slipped through the net.

The smell of burnt feathers permeated the sky with smoke and dust, and the sound of screaming and screaming across the sea made all the warriors feel very uncomfortable. At this time, Liu Buyun ordered the battleship to dock at Tianjin Wei Port.

There were still some Japanese troops resisting in the port of Tianjinwei, and the defenders of Tianjinwei were still fighting to the death with the remaining Japanese troops. The Japanese did not surrender without any hope of victory, which caused a lot of headaches for the militia and police of Tianjinwei.

In the following years, historians overturned the case for the Japanese army at that time, and the Tianjin garrison at that time did not give the Japanese army a suitable way to surrender at all. These Japanese troops did not dare to surrender at all, they all thought that surrender was death.

Therefore, these Japanese soldiers did not dare to surrender at all, so they could only resist helplessly in the small place of Tianjin Wei. With the determination to die, the defenders of Tianjin paid a heavy price.

But when the battleship Seiryu and the ironclad ship Yongyuan arrived, the end of these Japanese forces had arrived. All the artillery fire was covered along the Tianjin harbor, and no matter where the Japanese troops were hiding, there was no way to escape the blow of the navy's huge artillery.

At this time, three yellow signal flares were raised in the direction of the Tianjin Guard Guard, and the battleship Qinglong fired three red signal flares at this time. Fifteen minutes later, the battleship Blue Dragon had already dumped all the shells.

At this time, three green signal flares were raised in the sky above the battleship Qinglong, and after the green signal flares were raised, the Tianjin defenders on land began their final attack. At this time, the Japanese army had almost no resistance shots.

At the last moment of the whole campaign, it was really difficult for the Chinese Empire to find a single prisoner of war. Not even a single seriously wounded Japanese prisoner was gone, and it was a very strange war, but it was very much in line with Japanese culture.

The battleships Qinglong and Yongyuan have replenished their ammunition and supplies in the port of Tianjin, and the navy has no time to take a vacation, and the war is not over yet! Including the hatred and love of the people of the Chinese Empire for the entire navy, there is no time to pay attention to it at this moment.

After the battleship Qinglong and the ironclad ship Yongyuan docked, Sheng Xuanhuai, the chief executive of Tianjin Wei, immediately sent his cronies to transport supplies at the navy's supply warehouse, and the two battleships left Tianjin Wei Port in less than six hours.

At this time, most of the Japanese ships at sea had sunk. There were still a few ships floating, but the resentful sailors searched the warships carefully, and did not miss any sign of life in the sea. With a flick of the trigger, hundreds of heavy machine gun bullets hit the seawater.

When the two warships sailed out of the sea, there was no sound or anything alive except for the sparkling fires on the sea. With the safety of the sea, the ships that were originally hidden in the Tianjin Wei Neihe River came out.

There are nine rivers in Tianjin Wei, almost all of which lead to the Bohai Sea, and there is not much pollution from heavy industry at this time, so there are still a lot of crabs in the river water, and now the price of crabs in Tianjin Wei is cheaper than rice.

The gunboats, torpedo boats, and anti-smuggling boats of the armed police force that rushed out were all at full speed, looking for opportunities to make war exploits. The people of the current Chinese Empire are gradually digesting the news of the naval victory.

Because things were so tortuous, the calculations of the Japanese really caught the navy by mistake, and in the face of a dilemma, the imperial navy finally won the victory. Although the price of victory was the distrust of the navy throughout the empire.

In order to dispel the resentment in the hearts of the Imperial Navy, Li Hongzhang ordered in Weihaiwei to bomb Tokyo.

At noon on April 15, 1895, the battleship Qinglong and the ironclad ship Yongyuan were waiting in the middle of the Bohai Strait, and the other warships arrived.

At 15 o'clock in the afternoon, the Dingyuan ironclad led the two ironclad ships of Xinyuan and Yiyuan, a total of three ironclad ships, to the back of the central flagship. At this time, Deng Shichang's Dingyuan ironclad ship consciously lowered the flagship command flag and raised the blue and red naval battle flag of Shenglong.

At 16 o'clock in Dayue, the battleship Xuanwu led, and the four battleships of Renyuan, Jiyuan, and Jingyuan appeared in Liu Buyun's sight. Seeing these warships, Liu Buyun's heart finally settled.

The four warships were replenished with coal in Lianyungang, but they had not yet replenished their ammunition. As long as you arrive at the Weihaiwei naval base, you can replenish the ammunition. Because Jia Zhongshan knew that the current Japanese Combined Fleet no longer existed.

So it went a little slower, because in the current sea area of the Chinese Empire, there was nothing that could threaten the navy of the Chinese Empire. The officers and men of the cruisers Pingyuan and Zhiyuan also did not have the opportunity to take vacations.

After they disembarked from Lianyungang, they received an order from Li Hongzhang of the Navy Headquarters, and except for those who were seriously wounded, the other soldiers immediately went to the Shanghai Shipyard and the Guangzhou Shipyard, where the new-type ironclad ships had already been launched.

Three months later, the Pingyuan battleship commanded by Ye Fusha was upgraded from a cruiser with a displacement of only 2,100 tons to an ironclad ship with a displacement of 8,100 tons. So far, the main battleship of the Chinese Empire "Pingyuan! "Reborn in Guangzhou!

The battleship Zhiyuan commanded by Xia Weishan was also upgraded from a cruiser with a displacement of only 2,300 tons to an ironclad ship with a displacement of 8,100 tons. At this point, the main battleship of the Chinese Empire "Zhiyuan! "Reborn in Shanghai!

In the second year of Guangming, on April 15, 1895, at about 17 o'clock in the evening, two battleships of the Chinese Empire met in the Bohai Strait. Two sister battleships, both of which are of the same displacement, stand facing each other! According to the plan of the Imperial Navy, the Chinese Empire will build the "Six-Six Fleet!" ”

Each fleet will have a central flagship, a battleship of the same displacement as the battleships Qinglong and Xuanwu. Theoretically speaking, the current Xuanwu and Qinglong are both of the same level. But Cao Zhongshan knew that his identity and status were completely incomparable with this navy boss.

When he came to the side of the battleship Qinglong, Cao Zhongshan ordered the flagship flag to be lowered, and like the other battleships, the blue battleship flag was raised!

Because of the need for coastal defense, the battleship Xuanwu remained in the coastal waters of the empire for defense. Li Hongzhang will never make the same mistake again, and it is equally important for coastal defense, and it is even more important to maintain good relations with the broad masses of the people.

The ironclad ship Renyuan led by the battleship Xuanwu, the cruiser Jiyuan, the cruiser Jingyuan and the battleship Qinglong led the ironclad ship Dingyuan, the ironclad ship Xinyuan, the ironclad ship Yiyuan, and the ironclad ship Yongyuan. The four main ironclad ships first headed for the North Korean port of Incheon.

When the two fleets met, the whistles whistled at each other. Every warship can't do all the tasks, and if you want to stay and defend the port, you can't go out and make achievements. If you want to go out and make contributions, there is no way to protect your hometown fathers and villagers. So the Imperial Navy can only entrust what it has not done to its comrades-in-arms!

The loud whistle rippled on the gradually calming surface of the Bohai Sea, and the melodious sound drifted far away.

At about 4 o'clock in the morning on April 11, Heilongjiang Province at this time has almost reached the season of melting ice and snow, but the night is still very cold, experienced locals. I prepare thick clothes for advice again at any time.

The army of the Chinese Empire, huddled in the trenches, smoked cigarettes and ate cigarette lock biscuits. This compressed biscuit has a lot of fat and is accompanied by seasonings such as salt and sugar. It tastes the same thing, and many soldiers hate eating it.

But there was no way, the troops on the front line retreated too suddenly, Zhang Zhidong ordered Prince Zeng Greenqin's troops to retreat on the whole line, and Zhang Zhidong used more than 500 heavy artillery to provide air cover for Zeng Greenqin's troops.

In two days, the 130,000 army led by Seng Lingqin began to retreat from the entire defense line set up in Nenjiang City, Suihua City, Jiamusi City, and even Laha City, the capital of Heilongjiang Province.

Even the oil-producing area of Daqing City was left behind by the Japanese, which made the people of the Chinese Empire very incomprehensible, and even Zeng Greenqin did not understand Zhang Zhidong's order. It wasn't until Zhang Zhidong showed the sword body of the sword rewarded by the emperor and the Shang Fang sword made of gold that Zeng Greenqin reluctantly ordered to retreat.

In fact, Zeng Greenqin also has in his hands, the "Sword of Lu Wei" given by the Emperor of Light! "The hilt of this Lu Wei Sword is also made of gold. If it really fights, Zeng Greenqin will not necessarily lose!

But Zeng Greenqin gave up, and now his reputation in Mobei Province is too high, and too many officials in the Ministry of the Interior and the government of Nanjing are very unpleasant to look at him. He had already been deprived of military power before, and this time if it weren't for the urgency of the war and the emperor's repeated orders, the Ministry of the Interior and the General Staff would not have agreed to him to command the army at all.

The emperor appointed, the General Staff agreed, and Nanjing agreed, but he was stuck when he was in the Senior Administration, so Zeng Greenqin was very angry with these people in the Senior Administration, but there was nothing he could do!

Zeng Greenqin's army retreated to the area south of Jilin to establish a defensive line at the same time, the current defense line is commanded by Mentu, in Songyuan, Fuyu line, behind is Zhang Zhidong's lair, if it is lost here, Zhang Zhidong can only be martyred to thank the world!

At night, the whole line of defense was silent, the sky was half a ray of light, the moon was piled up behind the thick clouds, and even the stars were lazy.

At this moment an officer with the rank of lieutenant bowed down to the soldier's side, and when he saw that the soldier was still smoking, he scolded; "Keep your head down!" The soldier immediately threw away the cigarette butt in his hand and came to his post to observe the situation ahead.

The officer looked at his watch, it was already 22 o'clock, and then he ordered the soldiers around him to fire flares into the sky, with two clashing sounds! Two green flares rose in the sky!

The officer observed the situation ahead through the periscope, and the scene in the periscope was very vague, but it seemed that there was a feeling in his eyes that was both familiar and unfamiliar, in short, very strange.

The flaming flares in the sky were getting weaker and weaker, knowing that the light was completely gone. But the officer's eyes did not take off the periscope, and after a pause of five minutes, the officer ordered the flares to be fired.

At this time, the officer understood that some Japanese soldiers had just stood up, and some Japanese soldiers had begun to advance with guns.

Although it has long been expected that this moment will come, as an officer. I have long imagined countless times in my heart how to stay calm, not panic, and organize effective resistance when all this happens!

As the flares were raised, these Japanese soldiers began their habitual movements again, and once again lay on the ground, motionless. Many of the Japanese soldiers were very rusty, and at first glance they looked like recruits who had just approached the troops.

The officer said; "Shoot the red flare now!"

Then, red flares began to appear on the entire defensive line, and flares were lifted into the air. Like the lotus flowers blooming in the lotus pond, the pink and gorgeous eyes are particularly dazzling. There were also gunshots and artillery sounds on the front!

Zhang Zhidong in Jilin also heard the sound of guns, thinking back to the Jin Ge Iron Horse forty years ago, the old man felt as if everything happened yesterday, so real, it was the best time in the old man's life, even better than he was named the marshal of the empire!

But when the war report arrived, in front of his case, Marshal Zhang Zhidong actually fell asleep!

On this night, the Japanese left the corpses of 150,000 people on the front line of Buyeo and Matsubara, but they could not move forward!