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Weihai, also known as Weihaiwei, also known as Weizhen Haijiang, is located at the easternmost point of China's coastline and is the closest place in China to Japan and North Korea. Weihai strategic location is prominent, the southeast and north are bordered by the Yellow Sea on three sides, the east and the Korean Peninsula and the Japanese archipelago across the sea, across the Bohai Strait and the Liaodong Peninsula Lushun Kou into a horn of the trend, a total of the Bohai Sea lock key, the arch guard Beijing-Tianjin sea gateway, Song Xiaofei as the Beiyang Navy Commander, has strengthened the coastal defense of Weihai, built heavy forts and ports.

In the late Qing Dynasty, Weihai was the capital of Dengzhou, the political envoy of Shandong, Song Xiaofei set up the wartime command post in the Dengzhou Mansion, 50,000 new troops, 30,000 were stationed in Dengzhou, and 20,000 troops were stationed in Port Arthur. Ye Zhichao was defeated and retreated to the Jinzhou Peninsula, and Song Xiaofei put Ye Zhichao in prison again and ordered Nie Shicheng to take over the remaining nearly 50,000 coalition troops and defend Jinzhou.

At the beginning of the sixth year of Guangxu, Song Xiaofei met with Wu Changqing from Dengzhou City, and went to North Korea together. At this time, China and Japan had not officially declared war, but everyone knew that China and Japan were going to war, and Dengzhou City, a former prosperous treaty port, had few pedestrians on the street, and it seemed deserted.

At the entrances of these schools, foreign stores, and pharmacies, there is also a blue sky and white sun flag, which is the spiritual flag of the Japanese military spy organization Genyosha. This kind of flag is similar to Japan's sun flag, if you don't look carefully, you think it's Japan's sun flag, Song Xiaofei is very sensitive to this flag, because the blue sky and white sun flag have caused huge controversy in history. When Song Xiaofei rode a high-headed horse and led the army into the city, he found this unusual detail, not only the Japanese academy, foreign stores, and pharmacies hanging this small flag. Similar flags have been planted on the lintels of some Chinese people's homes.

As the so-called "outside first settles inside", Song Xiaofei knew that these merchants were actually sent by the Xuanyang Society to China to spy on intelligence, and the first thing he did after entering the city. He ordered Feng Guozhang to immediately lead troops to seize all Japanese academies, foreign firms, and pharmacies, and arrested more than 100 Japanese ronins on the same day, as well as more than 20 Chinese families with blue sky and white sun flags at their doors.

The three middle-aged Japanese ronins in the lead are named Ichiro Yamazaki, Ichiro Kanesaki and Ichiro Fujisaki, known as "Misaki" in the Genyosha Society, and after being tied up by the Five Flowers, they shout that they are "good citizens." There are wives, children and parents at home", Song Xiaofei sat on the lobby of Dengzhou Mansion and was shocked. Said: "What a good citizen! Ben Shuai will not wronged a good person, and he will never let go of a bad person! Come on, rip off their kimonos, and see if they are still hard-mouthed! ”

Six Shandong-owned soldiers with tall cattle and horses ripped off their kimonos. Sure enough, they all had lifelike tattoos, a green dragon with teeth and claws coiled on their upper body, and the dragon head on their chest was still slightly raised, which was the symbol of the Xuanyang Society, revealing their identities.

Song Xiaofei snorted and said, "Do you still dare to say that you are a good citizen?" If I'm not mistaken. The dragon claws on your tattoos represent your rank in the Xuanyang Society, you are all three-clawed dragons, and your position is not low. ”

Ichiro Yamazaki also quibbled and said: "The dragon tattoo is just a custom in our hometown..."

Song Xiaofei said: "It seems that there is no need for torture, you will not tell the truth." ”

Song Xiaofei ordered Feng Guozhang to let them beg for death first, and then used the original Manchu torture in the Dengzhou Mansion Yali, as the so-called "under the five trees, why can't you beg", the cruel punishment finally broke the will of the three, and they actually confessed to the Japanese army 20,000 Japanese troops to attack Mukden and plot the plan of Manchuria.

It turned out that after Youpeng defeated Ye Zhichao's army in Shanxian County, the 10,000 new troops guarding Seoul resisted desperately, and the Japanese army could not take Seoul in a short time.

Song Xiaofei then interrogated the Chinese Shang Kun, and they shouted grievances one after another, including a middle-aged rich businessman, Chen Deming, knelt down and kowtowed: "We don't know that this flag is the flag of the Japanese people, and it was the people of the Fumin Party who asked us to hang it, saying that the Japanese are about to fight, as long as this flag is hung on the lintel, they are good citizens and can avoid the scourge of war." ”

Song Xiaofei asked: "What else did the people of the Fumin Party say?" ”

Chen Deming said: "They also let us help with fundraising! ”

Song Xiaofei was furious: "Let you raise money, and then pay the Japanese army to invade China?" ”

Chen Deming said: "I have a cousin who is doing business in Japan, and the FDP is also looking for overseas Chinese everywhere in Japan to raise money. I heard that the Japanese spent more than 700 taels of silver to buy warships, and the funds are tight! However, the overseas Chinese ignored this group of crazy people, we don't understand what a democratic republic is, but raising money for Japanese soldiers to kill Chinese is not as good as animals! ”

Song Xiaofei said: "You are good citizens, Ben Shuai knows, you immediately go back and take down the blue sky and white sun flag and throw it into the pit, Ben Shuai will never let a single Japanese soldier enter Weihai." Also, you helped the New Army to arrest the FPU bandits, and the government rewarded each bandit with five taels of silver! ”

After interrogating these Japanese ronins and Chinese Xiangkun, Song Xiaofei immediately telegraphed Xu Shichang, asking him to send capable generals to send troops from Sichuan to recover Yunnan within a month. Xu Shichang ordered Zhang Xun to lead the new army with 2,000 troops in charge of the new army engineering battalion, and set off to Kunming on the same day to exterminate Emperor Zhu Xiang's rebellious party.

Then, Song Xiaofei summoned Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang, Wang Shizhen, Cao Kun, Lang Weili, Ma Jifen, Liu Buyun, Deng Shichang, Lin Taizeng and other generals to a meeting at the Dengzhou Mansion. Hannagan was later hired by Song Xiaofei to check and balance Lang Weili and Ma Jifen, responsible for the design and construction of Lushunkou, Dalian Bay, and Weihaiwei forts, and he also served as a military instructor at the Beiyang Military Academy, and recommended his excellent student Li Yuanhong to Song Xiaofei, and Song Xiaofei ordered him to be the captain of the "Guangjia" warship.

Zhan Tianyou also hurried to Dengzhou from Tianjin, Song Xiaofei smiled and said: "Brother Chengcheng, aren't you busy repairing the railway with Sheng Xuanhuai?" How do you have time to come to Weihai? ”

Zhan Tianyou said: "Fighting against the Japanese is the responsibility of the husband. Don't forget that I am also from the Beiyang Naval Division, and I also asked for the 'Dongting' pipe belt. ”

Song Xiaofei said: "To deal with the Japanese navy, you don't need a big engineer." If you have three long and two short, China's plan of 2,000 kilometers of railways in ten years will not be completed! ”

Zhan Tianyou resolutely asked for war, saying that now the railway is temporarily suspended, and the funds are used as military salaries, "The sooner you drive out the Japanese, I will also repair the railway with peace of mind one day." ”

Song Xiaofei said: "Don't worry, it won't be long before the Japanese are defeated." However, the 'Dongting' already has a new pipe belt. You have been building railways for a few years, good at calculations, we have just bought four ironclad warships from the British, which are now the fastest warships, with a speed of more than 26 knots, named 'Yangtze River No. 1', 'Yangtze River No. 2', 'Yangtze River No. 3', 'Yangtze River No. 4', with a displacement of more than 4,000 tons, armor thickness of 110 mm, in addition to the advantages of speed and armor, they are also equipped with special artillery rangefinders that have just come out, aiming and ranging will be more accurate and convenient, and the combat power will be doubled. ”

Zhan Tianyou was overjoyed, and Song Xiaofei asked him to also sit at the round table of the conference to discuss the battle situation together. Wang Shizhen took out a military surveying and mapping map and used a military baton to analyze the battle situation for everyone: The Japanese army has forcibly crossed the Anping River estuary on the Yalu River, captured Hushan, Jiuliancheng, and Andong City, and is very likely to attack Lushunkou and Weihaiwei in the next step.

Song Xiaofei said: "At this time, the Japanese army, from Korea to the present, has been fighting for a long time, and the logistics supply cannot keep up, we will immediately organize a counteroffensive of 20,000 new troops, and the Japanese army will retreat." Telegraphed to Tang Shaoyi, asking the 10,000 new troops who were holding Seoul to also take the initiative to attack and flank the Japanese army, and the Japanese army would be defeated. However, Yama Prefecture Youpeng will certainly not withdraw his troops here, and with the information we have received from the Japanese ronin, the Japanese army may attack Mukden and plot Manchuria in the next step. ”

Duan Qirui said: "Then we want to enter Manchuria to support the Manchu royal family?" Although Manchuria was part of the Federal Republic, Manchuria had declared independence after President Li Hongzhang declared a constitutional monarchy. ”

Song Xiaofei said: "Manchuria will always be the territory of the Chinese!! And there are plenty of minerals there, so of course we can't give it up to the Japanese. However, now that the Northeast is icy and snowy, and the Japanese army is alone in Manchuria, we can first borrow Japanese soldiers to get rid of the Manchu Qing State, and then blockade the East China Sea, besiege the Japanese army in the Northeast and kill two birds with one stone. ”

Deng Shichang asked, "Then what do we do in the Beiyang Fleet?" ”

Song Xiaofei said: "The Japanese navy is now far weaker than ours. So I want to adopt the strategy of 'encircling Wei and saving Zhao'. ”

Lang Weili asked, what does it mean to 'encircle Wei to save Zhao'?

Liu Buyun laughed and said, "What our commander means is to let the Beiyang Fleet go straight to Tokyo!" In recent years, our Beiyang Fleet has firmly strangled the neck of the Japanese Navy, and the warships that Japan can fight with are the four newly purchased warships of the Chilean Navy and two 3,000-ton cruisers. In addition, there are 21 wooden gunboats of about 1,000 tons produced in Japan, and there are also warships converted from commercial ships. I saw the ranking of a British magazine before, and the Japanese Navy was ranked twenty-sixth in the world. ”

Song Xiaofei said: "Liu Buyun is right, our newly trained army does not have an absolute advantage over the Japanese army, but it has a complete advantage in naval warfare, so we will give full play to this advantage." But we can't underestimate the enemy, ranking this thing, can only be used for reference, the key is to rely on actual combat! ”

So, Song Xiaofei ordered the troops to be divided into two routes, Duan Qirui led 20,000 new soldiers, besieged the Japanese army in Jiulian City and Andong City, and he himself took nine ironclad warships such as "Dingyuan" and "Zhenyuan" of the Beiyang Fleet to take the port of Nagasaki in Japan, first go down to Nagasaki, then attack Maguan, and finally go straight to Tokyo.