Seeing that Zhong Lin and Zheng Yiqian were still puzzled, Liu Jun was not selling Guanzi, and smiled slightly, Liu Jun walked to the map, pointed to Lu Long's map and said.

"Lulong is east of the Luan River. If it were in normal times, there was a natural danger of the Luanhe River, I wouldn't dare to be so sure, but now we are attacking suddenly, and the Qing army is defenseless, so with Wang Shizhen's ability, it is not a problem to fight quickly and repel the First Association, and out of Lulong, Tieliang If he wants to block our army again, there is only Shaheyi, that is, on the other side of the Shahe River, and our army. ”

The two nodded, they finally knew why Liu Jun had so much confidence.

"Order, after the Eighth Army went out of Shanhaiguan through Qinglong, Kuancheng, and Chengde, it divided one division into Longhua, and the Qing army in the area of the enclosure, and the other division converged with the main force of the Seventh Army in Sanhe and went directly to Tongzhou."

"Understood." Zhong Lin immediately took out the papers, wrote down the order, and then turned around and walked out.

Seeing Zhong Lin walk out, Zheng Yiqian, who had been standing on the side, walked next to Liu Jun, and she obviously felt that Liu Jun was preoccupied. Looks like he's worried about something.

"What are you thinking?" Zheng Yiqian made a cup of tea and handed it to Liu Jun.

Taking the tea, Liu Jun looked at Zheng Yiqian: "I'm thinking, what will Japan do?" ”

Japan? Zheng Yiqian frowned, she didn't understand why Liu Jun was worried about the Japanese side now that the army was at war with the imperial court.

I can't help but worry about Japan, although Japan lost the last war, and I forced Japan to compensate 100 million taels of silver, I thought that if I did this, Japan would not want to recover for 20 years, but I was really too tender, and it was only less than ten years. Japan's economy has not only recovered, but also surpassed the first year. None of this is important, what is important is that two years ago, the Imperial Court and Japan revised the Treaty of Tientsin. The Japanese naval restrictions were abolished, and in recent years, Japan's naval tonnage has reached a balance with that of the Beiyang Naval Division. As for the army, it was restored to 630,000 regular troops and 250,000 reserves.

Now that he is at war with the imperial court, Liu Jun is a little worried about what kind of reaction Japan will have after getting the news.

"Call back to Yan Fu to Germany, immediately pick up the ordered battleship, will be Lushun, and be assigned to the naval division." Taking a deep breath, Liu Jun lightly issued an order, he decided that no matter what Japan would do, he would let the Beiyang Naval Division prepare for war, and let the water battleships and armored cruisers ordered in Germany return to China immediately.

"What about the Dalian Shipyard and the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau?" Bowing her head slightly, Zheng Yiqian raised her head and asked softly.

Two years ago, the Dalian Construction Factory and the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau immediately closed the two major docks and sealed the battleships after the Tianji plan ended. Until now, the outside world has not known what is sealed in the No. 2 dock of Fuzhou and the No. 1 dock of Dalian Shipyard?

"Wait for the opening command at any time." Faintly, Liu Jun said his answer.

Japan, the weather in September made the Prime Minister's Office a little stuffy, and Ito Hirobumi, who was standing in front of the window and looking at the cherry blossom trees in the distance, was full of doubts, and until now, he had not figured out what Liu Jun was going to do.

According to the report of Liaodong's intelligence officers, a large number of Liaodong military columns have passed through Dandong and then entered Pyongyang in the past few days. Originally, I thought that the military column must be carrying large-scale troops and military supplies, but according to the intelligence of the military headquarters of the Second Korean Army, there were no troops in the military column at all except for food, and Ding Ruchang's troops ordered to retreat 12 kilometers after advancing on a large scale, and even a Korean division that entered the ancient castle had already returned to its original station.

"What is he going to do?" Muttering to himself, Ito turned and walked over to the huge map of the Qing Kingdom of Liaodong Korea hanging on the wall.

"Your Excellency the Prime Minister." An anxious voice sounded, and Ito Hirobumi, who was pondering in front of the map, turned his head and saw Inoue Shin holding a telegram in his hand and looking at him anxiously.

Inoue Xin has always been steady, but now he showed an anxious and excited look, and he felt that something was wrong again.

"What's wrong, what's wrong?" Indifferently, Hirobumi Ito picked up the tea on the table.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, Liu Jun's Liaodong Army suddenly launched a surprise attack on the First Association of the Qing Army's New Army stationed in Lulong at eight o'clock yesterday."

"What?" When Ito Hirobumi heard the news, he immediately stood up from his position, snatched the telegram from Inoue's hand, and looked at it a few times.

"How is that possible? How is this possible? Ito picked up the telegram in his hand and kept muttering to himself.

A few days ago, the Liaodong Army was still transferring a large number of troops to the Korean border, and it was simply impossible to launch a war against the Qing State in just a few days.

"Is the situation reliable?" Hirobumi Ito looked at Inoue with a puzzled expression.

These words frightened Inoue Xin, this telegram, but it was sent by a spy personally selected by Ito Hirobumi, and the people selected by the prime minister himself did not trust it.

Swallowed a mouthful of saliva: "Your Excellency Prime Minister, this is a telegram from Chrysanthemum." ”

"This great liar, scourge." Slightly stunned, Ito Hirofumi reacted, he understood that he had him, why was he deceived by Liu Jun's thousand knives.

"Immediately notify the cabinet and convene an emergency meeting." Putting down the telegram in his hand, Ito Hirobumi showed a smile, he sensed that the opportunity to eat Liu Jun had come.

Over the years, I have been looking forward to it night and night, just to be ashamed of it, when I was a noon, I won first and then lost, in Japan I was like a dog, I was almost not sprayed to death by the people of my own country, if it wasn't for the later reform of the economy, loans, and the revision of the "Tianjin Treaty", he didn't know, and now he will live in that place.

All this is caused by Liu Jun's scourge, and now, Liu Jun is at war against the Qing State, which proves that now he is facing the result of a two-front war, if he takes the opportunity to attack the Qing State with all his might, attack Liaodong from the flank, then take Liaodong and move westward, then Beijing, Zhili, and even the entire Qing State will be submissive to Japan, it is very possible.

Hehehe. Ito stroked his smiling mustache and smiled smugly.

"Your Excellency the Prime Minister." Inoue's voice suddenly pulled Ito back to reality, and Ito turned his head to see that Inoue was still standing there and did not inform the cabinet members.

"What? Is there anything else you can do? ”

Inoue nodded slightly, took out a document again and handed it to Hirobumi Ito.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, there is news from the German side that Liu Jun has set sail for China after completing the construction of a battleship and an armored cruiser in Germany."

What kind of big deal is this, isn't it just two warships, now that Japan has four battleships, will it still be afraid of the Beiyang Naval Division, Ito Hirobumi is very disdainful of this news.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, this is not the problem, according to intelligence, an armored cruiser and battleship ordered by the Guangdong Navy Division also set sail in less than three hours." Seeing that Ito Hirobumi misunderstood what he meant, Inoue Shin stepped forward and quickly said the problem.

With a pop, the tea in Ito's mouth squirted out.

If the warships of the Beiyang Naval Division return to Lushun, there is no problem, the problem is that the two fleets set sail in less than three hours, then the problem is big.

The Guangdong Naval Division and the Beiyang Naval Division, which belonged to the Qing State and Liaodong respectively, and now the two armies are at war, so it stands to reason that these two fleets, even if they want to leave, will stagger the time, at least for more than three days, but this is only a few hours. That's a big problem.

Could it be that the Guangdong sailors have also submitted to Liu Jun, and in confusion, Ito Hirofumi swallowed his saliva......

In recent years, the relationship between Guangdong and Liaodong has not been generally good, although now Liangguang belongs to the imperial court, but this is only a superficial problem, who knows what will happen in private.

"Telegraph to the Japanese Minister in Great Britain and convey to the Admiralty personnel that all warships should return to China immediately." Amid the roar, Hirobumi Ito gave an urgent order.