The cold wind was shy, blowing the snowflakes in the sky from the outside into the room where Liu Jun lived in the back hall of the Lushun County Ya.

Wu Xiaoyan, who was sewing clothes there, saw that Liu Jun had been sitting there since last night, without rest all night, and put down the work in her hand with a heartache, got up and went over to close the window, and then draped the cloak that Liu Jun hung on the wall on Liu Jun: "What's wrong?" What makes you think about it? ”

Liu Jun was awakened by Wu Xiaoyan's words: "Ah...... Oh...... The big mountain rock hangs. Liu Jun said depressedly.

Wu Xiaoyan smiled lightly: "It's not a good thing to die, are you still sad when your opponent dies?" ”

Liu Jun is not sad because of where Dashanyan hangs up, but is thinking about a question, whether it is the time to fight Dalian.

Dashanyan is the commander of the three armies of the Second Army, and even the entire Liaodong battlefield, he is in charge, and the death of Dashanyan will make the Second Army in Dalian unstable, if it is not stable, then Liu Jun will definitely attack Dalian and expand the space for Lushun, and the province is always tortured by more than 10,000 Japanese troops in Dalian.

"How can I be sad, I won't shed a single tear when he is all dead." glanced back at Wu Xiaoyan: "I'm thinking, now that this big mountain and rock is hanging, is it the best opportunity to attack Lushun, I don't dare to make a decision now, after all, I have more than 20,000 troops on hand, and there are still 7,000 in Yingkou." If I send troops to Dalian and can't attack it, and the Japanese army bites me back, it will not be cost-effective. ”

Wu Xiaoyan listened to Liu Jun's words: "I don't understand this, but I can tell you a trick of my father's business."

No, what does this war have to do with doing business, if the business loses, it will lose a little Qian, and if the war is lost, it is not a matter of money but the life of the entire Lushun people.

Although Liu Jun said so in his heart, he loved his daughter-in-law very much, and showed a smile: "Tell me, how does my father-in-law do business?" ”

Okay, then I'll tell you. Wu Xiaoyan dragged a chair, sat next to Liu Jun, and pillowed her head on Liu Jun's lap, "When my father was doing a certain business, sometimes he didn't know whether to invest or not, he would first take out the money to invest a little, if he thought it was okay, he would buy a large number of them, if not, he would stop in time, so over the years, he has almost never lost." He glanced at Liu Jun: "In addition to making clothes for your soldiers." ”

Woke up with a word, in a dream, Wu Xiaoyan's words woke up Liu Jun, throwing stones to ask for directions, what Wu Xiaoyan wanted to tell Liu Jun was definitely throwing stones to ask for directions.

There is only one way to think about whether Dalian can be fought or not, and there is only one way, that is, to send troops to attack once, and to know the result when the situation is tested, and then you can decide whether to attack Dalian and carry out a Dalian counteroffensive.

If the Japanese army is like a sick cat and can't withstand the attack, then take Dalian in one fell swoop, even if the Japanese army is beaten out of Dalian, it will also give Lushun more room for maneuver, at least when the Japanese army attacks Lushun in the future, it will not record a direct threat on land. Then the main forces will be concentrated against the Japanese navy.

"Good daughter-in-law, I love you so much." The excited Liu Jun suddenly held Wu Xiaoyan's tender white gunpowder smoke in his hand, kissed him on his red face, got up, picked up his military hat and ran outside. He was going to find Zhong Lin and ask Zhong Lin to investigate the current situation in Dalian in the shortest possible time. Then drain the strength of a brigade and launch a feint attack on Dalian to see the effect.

In the living room of Lushun County, Liu Jun, who had been waiting in Lushun for a day, waited for Zhong Lin's information, and now he is listening to Liu Jun's report in the living room.

"The two wings of the 12th Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army are now stationed three kilometers away from Dalian, and the 1st Brigade is defending the port of Dalian. The main forces of the 9th Brigade and the 2nd Division are in the city, the two brigades of the 2nd Division are at the north and south gates of the city, and there is a wing of troops outside the city, the 9th Brigade is divided into two parts, guarding the west gate and the east gate, and there are two brigades of the 12th Brigade outside the city, and there are five to seven field guns on the wall of each city gate. After Zhong Lin finished speaking, he stood there waiting for Liu Jun's order.

After listening to the report, Liu Jun closed his eyes, and after a while, he stood up and came to the war room where the battle map was hung, saying that it was a war room, but in fact it was a wing room, which was originally the room of Wu Datong's maids.

In addition to a map of the Liaodong region that Liu Jun specially asked Wu Datong to find, there are also some maps of the situation of both the enemy and us.

Walking to the war room, Liu Jun quickly found Dalian. After taking a closer look, Liu Jun applauded and asked, "The closest to Dalian is that brigade." ”

Zhong Lin thought for a while: "Wu Hao's third division and second brigade. ”

The Third Division and the Second Brigade seem to be a brigade composed of the Dengzhou Army and the Hubei Army, and the brigade commander Liu Jun also knows that his name is Yu Hualong, who is a student of the Tianjin Wubei Academy. As if having made up his mind, Liu Jun smashed his fist at the place in Dalian: ordered the Second Brigade to set off immediately to attack the two wings outside the city of the 12th Brigade Regiment, and to find out how morale was in Dalian. ”

"Okay, I'll give the order immediately" Zhong Lin turned around and left after saluting.

"Wait a minute" Liu Jun thought for a moment and called back Zhong Lin, who had already walked to the door.

"Head, what else is there to command." Zhong Lin turned around and asked Liu Jun, who was standing in front of the map......

"Tell Li Rong to draw a brigade from Tuchengzi and cooperate with the second brigade to attack the second division defending the city. Tell Li He. The Navy's Hashitachi and Hepingyuan left the port and moved in the direction of Dalian, creating the false impression that our Lushun was attacking Dalian by sea and land.

After looking at the map and finishing the order, Liu Juncai asked Zhong Lin to go out to make arrangements, and then he looked at the map to think about what else was not in place.

If you really do a fake show, since you want to throw stones to ask for directions, you must make the stone bigger, a brigade is a small stone, if you add a brigade and a naval detachment, then the weight of this stone will definitely overwhelm the Japanese army.

While putting pressure on the Japanese army in Dalian, Liu Jun decided to send the navy and a brigade of Li Rong's second division, and there was another reason, that is, he was worried that the Japanese army in Dalian would concentrate their forces and swallow Yu Hualong, who was testing Dalian.

If the Japanese army swallowed Yu Hualong's second brigade, Liu Jun would lose thousands of soldiers and horses at once, but if the navy and the second division were dispatched as a brigade, the situation would be mostly the same. The Japanese could not concentrate their forces against Yu Hualong's Second Brigade.

Dalian, the headquarters of the Second Army of the Japanese Army, the current acting commander of the original Second Division, Sakuma Zuo Matthew, was facing the map of Dalian Lushun, holding a pen and pondering where.

If he hadn't listened to the fool's suggestion of Nogi Nishinori, sent the Sixth Division to attack Yingkou and ordered the slaughter of the city, he would not have provoked Liu Jun in Lushun, and Liu Jun would not have sent troops to destroy the Sixth Division at once. Let the 11th Brigade be alone in Jinzhou.

Now that Oyama Iwa is dead, I'm afraid that Sakuma Zuo Matthew will be responsible for this responsibility, and if you want not to be cleaned up by the base camp, you must fight a victorious war in the shortest possible time to reduce the responsibility.

Looking at the earth castle that was drawn into a circle by the red line, Sakuma Zuo Matthew was thinking about how to annihilate the Qing army here. If it had been, Sakuma Zuo Matthew would definitely concentrate his forces to swallow Tsuchijoko, but now he didn't dare.

If he concentrates his forces to attack Tuchengzi, the Qing army in Yingkou will take advantage of the loophole and attack Dalian. That's really......

Kuroki is a fool, and he actually let his family be annihilated. Let Yingkou fall into the Qing army again, and this falls into other Qing troops, it is better to say, what is terrible is Lushun Liu Jun's troops. That's a huge threat. Sakuma Zuo Matthew threw down the pen in his hand and cursed the dead Kurogi for Zhen.

After venting, Sakuma Zuo Matthew looked at the map again, moved the target to Lushun, and said to himself after a while: "It seems that the decision of the big barracks is right, if you want to take Lushun quickly, you must attack by sea and land at the same time." in order to complete the tasks of the base camp.

Thinking of this, he began to call the chief of staff and began to speak his mind.

The chief of staff also agreed with Sakuma's suggestion, and after the two discussed, they began to draft documents, telegraphed to the base camp, and asked for naval assistance to attack the navy together.

After the telegram was sent, the two began to talk about where. However, before he could say a word, he saw Ono, the head of the Intelligence Section, walk in.

Seeing Ono's fast pace and anxiety on his face. Sakuma Zuo Matthew stood up: "What's wrong?" ”

Ono walked in, saluted and said, "Your Excellency, Lieutenant General, the reconnaissance report shows that the defenders of Lushun are attacking Lushun in two ways, and . . And ......"

"And what?" The chief of staff also stood up.

"According to the report, Lushun's two Beiyang Naval Division warships, the Hashidate and the Pingyuan, are filling coal and bombing to attack the port."

Hearing this news, Sakuma Zuo Matthew's face twitched.

He didn't expect that the Qing army would start attacking Dalian so soon, and it would also be dispatched at the same time, and what made Sakuma Zuo Matthew even more angry was that the Hashidate, which was originally a warship of the Combined Fleet, had only been launched for less than half a year, and it changed its flag and became a hungry warship of the Beiyang Naval Division. Now people are swaggering to beat themselves with warships bought by the emperor and the common people who have saved money and vegetables, which is a real slap in the face, and even a slap in the face of the emperor.

The Hashidate is the main warship of the Combined Fleet, and he knows the power of this warship, especially those 120 mm rapid-fire guns, which are not what his Second Army's artillery can withstand now, not to mention the main artillery that is 320 mm in order to deal with Zhenyuan Dingyuan. Sakuma thought sadly.