Weihai, Liugong Island, Beiyang Naval Division Admiral Yamen.

Dozens of sailors led the Wu Ben, who were gathered at the door of the admiral's office, these dozens of generals, all of them were fully armed, with swords on their waists, all of them looking angry. Behind this indignation, there is a frustration that I don't know how to vent.

I can't wait, but why should the court descend?

The imperial court is like this, why does Zhongtang also give up our Beiyang sailors?

It's a pity that nearly 1,000 soldiers were martyred in Dadonggou!

Under the gloomy sky, the flag of the admiral of the sailor fluttering in the middle hall of the yamen was lonely and blown by the wind, and the horns of the flag rattled, as if they were whimpering and roaring.

The main force of the combined fleet of the maritime army also attempted to break into Weihaiwei Harbor several times, destroy the remnants of the Beiyang Naval Division, and break through the Longzuimiao Battery, the Yuedao Battery, and the Liugong Island Battery. At this time, the Beiyang Naval Division was already wrecked, and it was difficult for the ships to have the ability to go to sea to fight, but from the scarred Dingyuan Zhenyuan below, they still insisted on resisting at the berth, and constantly fired artillery to resist the advance of the combined fleet.

The Second Guerrilla Group of the Combined Fleet stormed Liugong Island and was repulsed, and the ship "Fusang" was seriously damaged.

The Combined Fleet attacked the Longzuimiao Fort, and the Naval Division attacked with mine boats, and all three mine boats were sunk, but the First Guerrilla Force of the Elite of the Combined Fleet was still repulsed!

The Marine Corps to which the Navy Division belonged was even more fiercely fighting, not only defending the forts, but also participating in the defense of the land routes behind them. Counterattack the Southern Gang Battery, assist in defending the Northern Gang Battery, sacrifice death and forget life when attacking, and never retreat an inch when defending. It is worthy of being the only land powerhouse with the highest level of knowledge and the most complete training and education in the Qing Dynasty at that time!

In these fierce battles, although the army advanced frantically, it occupied an absolute superiority especially at sea. And the main force of the land division behind the Weihaiwei fortress was weak. However, under the desperate resistance of the naval division and the stubborn defense of the three battalions of the army with the assistance of the Praetorian Guard, the will to fight still did not retreat, and the army was unable to replenish and lack military resources, and the land offensive also showed signs of gradually weakening.

Fortress offensive and defensive battles are always extremely difficult for the attacking side. Weihaiwei Fortress is the general base of the Beiyang Naval Division, which has been operating for 20 years, and its strength is second to none in Asia, as long as there is a strong army to defend it, it has always taken great energy, consumed a lot of materials and even human lives, and it is possible to capture it. In the time and space that Xu Yifan experienced, if it weren't for the fact that Lu Shi was really about to collapse, it would have been impossible for Weihaiwei to fall in such a short period of time.

In the current time and space, the Weihaiwei land defense force already has three battalions of the Praetorian Guard as the backbone, and the attacking army is a strategic operation forcibly launched under the condition that the overall situation in southern Liaoning has not been determined and the mobilization preparations for the third army have not been completed. At this time, the defense line of the Beibang fort on land and the fort around Liugong Island on the sea still have the ability to hold on to the garrison!

Beiyang Sailors up and down, since Ding Ruchang, still adhere to a belief that the sailor is the sailor of the middle hall, and the master of the middle hall will not ignore their sailor!

Just when the sailors were fighting with each other, they never thought that it was not them who lost the will to resist in the end, but their imperial court, their middle cousin!

On 20 September, Li Hongzhang had already gathered the last strategic mobile force in Tianjin and the southern part of Beiyang, and the 18th Battalion did not save Weihai, but went to Yanjing.

On September 25, the sailors who wanted to save the urgency sent a report to Tianjin for several days, and after Tianjin Yanjing was embarrassed and silent for a few days, there was a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and the imperial court was ready to negotiate peace with the Emperor, and one of the conditions for the peace negotiation was that the Navy Division would stop resisting in Weihaiwei, and the remnants of the Navy Division, all of which would leave the port with white flags and be handed over to the Yue Army!

What kind of shame is this?

Ding Ruchang vomited blood on the spot when he received the call, and when he heard the lightning, the president of the Weihai Fortress Lu Division, who hurried from Weihai in a small boat, led Dai Zongqian to go to Liugong Island, and before he saw Ding Ruchang, he was already crying!

What kind of court and what kind of end times is this world? The Qing Dynasty has been in the country for 240 years, and the Chinese civilization has been inherited for 3,000 years, at this time, what is it for that it has sunk to such a dark and dreary valley?

In the distance, the sound of artillery was still rumbling, and the army still did not stop the pace of attack, and doubled down on more shells. The sky gradually darkened, and looking westward, the mountains around the Beibang Fort were like blood from the fires of the cannonballs.

The sea breeze blew coldly from the surface of the Yellow Sea, blowing so that the hedgehogs gathered at the entrance of the Admiral's office, and these dozens of naval generals were as pale as iron.

"Deng Zhengqing, Lin Yisheng, Huang Juren, Lin Shaogu...... The princes have spirits in the sky, and you died unjustly! ”

In the deathly silence, Yang Yonglin, the deputy general of the Zhenyuan Ship Gang, suddenly shouted, this Fujian man was already full of tears, his eyes were about to split, and he raised his arms and shouted.

After receiving this telegram, the Beiyang Navy Division repeatedly telegraphed to defend itself. The sailor can fight, but the sailor does not fall! There are still 40,000 people in the imperial court, hundreds of thousands of troops in the imperial court, and there are still invincible commanders like Xu Yifan in the imperial court! The court can fight, but the court cannot surrender!

But Yanjing's telegrams came one after another, and the tone of the rhetoric became more severe than the other.

"The water master is up and down, there is no father and no king, what if you are like this?"

The foreign envoy told him that there was still the sound of cannons in the Beibang Fort, and there was not a single ship going to sea in Weihai. If you insist on going your own way, it will be unbreakable, and it will damage the court and the overall situation of the war, who should be guilty of this crime? ”

"Loyal and patriotic are not on top of this, Ding Yuting Dai Xiaohou should be the body of the imperial court, if there is disobedience, the court can only lock the two members, and severely punish them!"

On September 27, when the people of the navy division were indignant and repeatedly said that Ding Ruchang would fight to the death, Ding Ruchang issued a military order, and the sailor was the sailor of the imperial court, and he could only abide by the laws of the imperial court.

Wei Haiwei, Beiyang Naval Division———— was ordered...... Dropped.

Under the order, the sailor will prepare, and spontaneously gather in front of the Admiral's Yamen, and the Admiral's Yamen is heavily locked. These generals don't know how to vent their shame, blame Ding Junmen? Blame Zhongtang? Even if the Admiral's Yamen is smashed, everyone will die and kneel down to beg Ding Junmen to take back his life. Will the mid-church take back its fate? Will the imperial court take back its destiny again?

I don't know where to spill the blood in my neck!

The cold sea breeze blew everyone cold, and this coldness seemed to penetrate deep into the bone marrow. Everyone wants to shout, but they don't know where to shout. In addition to them, the sailors of Qingbu Baotou also slowly gathered, they got down from the warship, came out of the fort, and concentrated here with a solemn expression.

These officers and soldiers are the best team in China with modern education. Under the complete modern education, it is also a team with the clearest national consciousness in modern times. In addition to modern military talents, in Xu Yifan's time and space, they also appeared translators, novelists, chemists, mathematicians, physicists, factory owners, and big businessmen...... But China's blue-water navy is no more...... Decades of swallows and mud generally accumulated little by little to accumulate modern talents, just like this, the wind and clouds are scattered, and future generations read history so far, all sad from it!

Unbreakable......

After Yang Yonglin shouted, Liu Gong Island fell into a deathly silence again. I don't know how long it took, but suddenly there was a sound in the distance, first small, then bigger, and one after another towards the sailor's yamen.

"Lord Liu committed suicide and martyred the country!"

The generals at the door were all shocked, the first person below Ding Ruchang of the Beiyang Naval Division, Liu Buchan, the chief soldier of the right wing of the Naval Division, committed suicide?

More news came in a blink of an eye, as soon as the official surrender order issued by Ding Ruchang arrived, Liu Buyun cried three times, bathed and changed clothes, stepped onto his own ship, Dingyuan, closed the hatch, and committed suicide with a gun. He was thirty-three in his forties.

"If you lose your teacher, you will cut yourself!" The sailors opened the hatch and left only one copy of the six-character suicide note on top of the official case.

The six-character suicide note was delivered, and there were still blood stains on the snow-white paper. The suicide note was passed around in the hands of these generals, and finally delivered to Lin Taizeng, who was hidden as the leader in the crowd.

Lin Tai, the chief soldier of the left wing of the Beiyang Naval Division, once insisted on the last six words left by his colleagues, but laughed three times: "Good Liu Zixiang, you are walking happily!" We're like children here...... This Qing Dynasty seems to have come to an end! Big guys, find your way! As long as you can get out of this dark and dreary room, you can walk any way! ”

He straightened his clothes and bowed to the north in the eyes of everyone: "Your Majesty, the ministers say goodbye, our Lin family is worthy of the Qing Dynasty!" ”

A few wingmen grabbed him: "Lord Lin, what do you want?" Is it worth it to martyr this court? ”

Lin Taizeng stood up with a smile, glanced at the deeply locked Admiral Yamen, and said with a smile: "My uncle is Lin Zexu Lin Wenzhonggong, and my uncle Shen Baozhen is also the minister of the imperial court. You don't have to be persuaded...... Besides, the court asked us to surrender, I can't afford to lose that person, and I can't disobey the emperor's will, so I have to live and die...... Everyone, see you in the next life, in the next life, we are still dry water masters! ”

With that, he laughed three times, untied his waist knife and threw it on the ground, hiding his face and staggering away. Hundreds of people present just watched his back go away.

It's night. Lin Tai once committed suicide in the official cabin of Zhenyuan, and also raised a gun.

The two major commanders of the water division, one before and one behind, have all been martyred!

The night was getting darker and darker, and Lin Taizeng had just gone, and he heard another commotion from the boat wharf on Liugong Island, and the torches were lit from there, and under the light of the fire, he saw several officers in Western-style military uniforms striding towards here.

As soon as they saw this uniform, everyone knew that it was an officer of the Praetorian Guard. The first one was Zhou Zhanjie's deputy at the beginning, Yang Chenghai, the second deputy of the torpedo on the original Zhiyuan. was fired by the sailor at the beginning, and after being thrown under Xu Yifan, he also became a battalion officer. After Zhou Zhanjie took the officers and soldiers of the third battalion to be martyred in Lushun, he was responsible for commanding the officers and men of the third battalion of the Praetorian Guard in Weihai. The Southern Gang Fort Sui Army, the Gong Army was defeated and scattered. It was he who took the three battalions of the Praetorian Guard, and cooperated with the sailors to participate in the counterattack on the Southern Gang Fort, and now he is even more struggling to defend the Northern Gang Fort, and the army has been unable to attack continuously for several times, defending the safety of the entire Weihaiwei Fortress.

Even after the hard fighting, these officers were all in tattered uniforms, and the blood stains were stained with mud. One by one, they still have straight waists, and their eyes are sharp. On the 25th of September, a telegram from the imperial court came, and they should not have seen it. The morale of the rest of the land divisions was greatly affected, and they could hardly fight again, if they didn't still insist on resisting, stubbornly defending the Beibang forts, and continuing to advance the Yue army, at this time, maybe they would have occupied Weihai! According to Yang Chenghai's words, he had an attitude towards the imperial court's telegram: "Get fucking eggs, let's get here, we only listen to Xu Dashuai's orders, what kind of imperial court, Lord Xu didn't let us surrender!" ”

Walking in front of Yang Chenghai and them was Ding Ruchang's Goshha. One by one, their eyes were red, and they just buried their heads in front of them and took the lead. It seems that Ding Ruchang personally ordered them to cross the sea at night from Weihaiwei to Liugong Island. I don't know what Ding Ruchang asked them to do, do you want Yang Chenghai and them to surrender with the sailor?

When the sailor generals who were so depressed that they didn't know how to vent looked at Yang Chenghai and Ding Ruchang's Goshha coming over, they suddenly surrounded them with a buzz. Some pulled Yang Chenghai and asked.

"Why, you also have to surrender?"

"Didn't you just listen to Lord Xu?"

There were also people surrounding Ding Ruchang's Goshha, as if they were facing Ding Junmen, and their eyes were red.

"How could Ding Junmen give such an order?"

"We want to see Ding Junmen!"

"The sailor can still fight! If the ship sinks, we will fight a land war, and if we can't win a land war, we will be martyred! I have been studying as a sailor for 20 years, but I have never learned to hang a white flag and surrender! ”

"Mr. Liu was martyred, and Mr. Lin will follow, does Ding Junmen know?

"That's the end of our sailor? Ding Junmen didn't say a word? ”

Those Goshkha were surrounded and didn't know what to say, but Yang Chenghai replied [***]: "Surrender? Drop the fucking balls! It was Lord Xu who sent a telegram to Ding Junmen, and we were ordered to go to Liugong Island to receive the order...... Whoever loves to descend will go, Lao Tzu will not go! Lord Xu won't tell us to surrender! ”

Yang Chenghai's words seemed to be thrown into the powder keg, and these officers of the Sailor Division, who were already so indignant as if they were about to explode, were suddenly ignited, and they didn't know who took the lead in raising their arms and shouting: "Lord Xu has bones!" The Praetorian Guard has bones! We're fucking boneless! ”

"We want to see Ding Junmen!"

"Ding Junmen gives a word!"

"What court, what hall, what military gate! We're going to sell our lives, we're going to throw this head, there's nowhere to throw it! ”

The roar grew louder and louder, mingling into a mass of not only the officers, but also the surrounding soldiers shouting into the night sky. The most emotional person has already banged on the door of the Admiral's Yamen.

The roar reached the highest point, and the two deeply locked doors opened from the inside, and under the light of the fire, I saw Ding Ruchang wearing an official uniform, neatly dressed, and walked out slowly!

He was already emaciated and completely out of shape, his face was pale, and he was pinching his morning pearl. Standing there awe-inspiringly, the triangular eyes that looked very similar to Li Hongzhang were shining, and he looked at the angry general Bei Guanben, slowly scanning from left to right.

Ding Ruchang has been supervising the sailor for 20 years, and under the accumulation of authority, the voice of the official Ben paused and slowly retreated, just a pair of eyes, still cast on Ding Ruchang. In front of the entire Admiral's Yamen, the crowd was pressed by the black, but there was no sound, only the sound of torches whirring and being blown by the wind.

"What? Want to rally a crowd to make trouble? Want to be a rebel and thief? The situation of the country is already so difficult, you still want to coerce the imperial court and coerce the army? ”

There was a dead silence in the crowd, and decades of loyal education were not so easy to say. If it weren't for Xu Yifan's beginnings in the army, he would be in a lawless environment, the officer corps and the main body of his subordinates, and he would be a Nanyang intellectual youth who had little affection for the Qing Dynasty, a foreign ruler. In addition, since the birth of the Praetorian Guard, the persecution and suppression of the imperial court have not been broken, and there is no longer any emotion. Under his command, his group categorically would not put his Xu Yifan's orders in a higher position than the orders of the imperial court.

However, for the Beiyang Naval Division, he does not have Xu Yifan's conditions.

Ding Ruchang stood there, and no one forced him to ask again. The generals pressed their sabers, just gasping. I don't know how long it took, but Yang Yonglin, the deputy director of the Zhenyuan ship, suddenly cried and fell to the ground: "Junmen...... All we want is you to take us to death! All we want is a place to die...... The imperial court, the middle hall, why don't you let us die with peace of mind? Why is it so difficult to even die for this country and the court? Deng Zhengqing, I envy you so much, you died as you deserved, leaving us people behind, but you are the king of turtles! You can't enter the ancestral grave, you can't see the ancestors! ”

In the night, Yang Yonglin's cry spread far and wide, causing a sigh. Many officers of the Navy Division were full of anger and cried in unison with their knives!

The country has broken like this, why should I regret this...... But the national court doesn't want our heads, our blood!

Ding Ruchang just looked at these crying men coldly, and his expression did not move at all. After a long time, he slowly raised his hand, starting with Yang Yonglin, and pointed to the past one by one: "Yang Yonglin, He Pinzhang, Cao Jiaxiang, Chi Zhaobin, Chen Chengjie, Yan Fu, Shen Shuling, Dai Xihou, Zeng Chengtai, ......"

He reported his name one by one, these people are the backbone of the Beiyang Naval Division, and they are also the most powerful and capable middle-level backbones. It was also after the surrender order was issued, the essence of the Beiyang Naval Division that caused the most ferocious and unwilling to surrender! Among them, there are many officers who have gone abroad to study.

When these people were called by name, they all subconsciously straightened their backs, and no one knew what Ding Ruchang was going to do.

After waiting for a while, Ding Ruchang finished calling these names, and in the end, he said coldly: "You are inferior soldiers, you are not effective in combat, and you are not from the court law, and you have no respect." This admiral has already folded the imperial court, and you will be impeached and reformed one by one! From now on, you are no longer the people of the Beiyang Naval Division, stay at the top, and everyone will get out! ”

"Military Gate?"

Ding Ruchang remained silent, just sneered: "You don't need to come to surrender, I can come!" Zhongtang is deeply favored by the imperial court, and I, Ding Yuting, are also deeply favored by the imperial court, plus Zhongtang's private kindness is deep. I will be this Qin Hui, when this Shi Jingjiao, when this Wu Sangui! You all roll me as far as possible, and never come back! ”

The faster he spoke, the more he spoke, and under the firelight, his old eyes were full of water. He didn't dare to meet these officers anymore, but he looked at Yang Chenghai: "Your commander's order, I passed it on to you, do you understand?" Tell your lords, let him do it! If we don't do good things, just watch him! Taking advantage of the night, you covered these inferior soldiers who were dismissed, as well as the Beiyang soldiers who escaped without permission, sneaked out of this place of death, you adults said, in Tianjin, in Shanghai, there are people to accept and resettle! Do you understand, go, go, go! ”

Everyone understood, Yang Yonglin was still kneeling on the ground, and he had already cried out in a trembling voice: "Ding Junmen ......"

Ding Ruchang raised his head to the sky, but he didn't want his subordinates to see his tears falling: "This road is desperate, you have to change people to take another path...... Zhongtang and I, we can't turn around anymore, you're still young! In the future, don't forget Liu Gongdao, don't forget the sailor, but don't think of me, an old man! ”

With that, he had already turned around, and was surrounded by the Goshkha into the Admiral's Yamen, and the two gates were closed heavily.

Outside the gate, hundreds of men cried!

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Shanghai, French Concession, Pushi Road.

The entrance of the Daqing Times, which was always bustling at the door, was no longer seen after the Qing Dynasty's edict to sue for peace. There was a cold and deserted atmosphere at the door, and even Annan, who was patrolling in groups at the door, was now only one left, standing here lazily.

The Qing court is ready to sue for peace, what good news do you expect from the Qing Times?

At the beginning, all the armies were defeated, and everyone was counting on Xu Yifan to bring some good news. Now, Xu Yifan has not been defeated, but the court can't take that last breath. Who doesn't feel like the sky is falling apart when the news spreads all over the world? Xu Yifan is not an immortal, he is alone, but he is also a courtier of the court, can he turn the tide?

What everyone can't understand is, why did we lose like this?

We are dozens of times larger, ten times more populous, and ten times more soldiers. There are money, warships, famous ministers, generals, and all these years of self-improvement movement, how can they be defeated? And defeated so badly, defeated so humiliatingly?

Could it be that we are really on the wrong path?

In Shanghai's public concession, the expatriates held a high-spirited lantern procession. Foreign devils are the most snobbish, and whoever wins the battle will look up to whomever they want. In the past, no one looked down on these expatriates. Short and poor, doing some small business of needles and threads, their low-quality domestic products, those foreign fires, iron nails, iron wires, foreign cloth, no one looks down on them, and prefers Great Britain or the Citigroup country Germany. It's the public concession's nest of bitches, and everyone is sometimes happy to patronize it. Although the woman is beautiful, she is good enough to be low and gentle enough - even so, the bitch is not a first-class product, and the uncle with status does not patronize it, and he can't afford to lose that person.

After the First Sino-Japanese War, these people who whispered and kept bowing when they saw people like clockwork came out from all corners of the concession, so crazy and so unstoppable that they held a lantern parade! These little dwarfs seem to have vented their depression for thousands of years, and that night, in the entire public concession, all they heard were the shouts of Qing slaves, Zhina people, and long live the Great Empire!

In their own land, they can only see the citizens of the victorious country celebrating like this, how many people hide in their houses, clenching their fists and feeling tears rolling in their eyes?

Ping said that he didn't think that this was a country, what was going on in the court, and what had anything to do with the common people. Only when the war is defeated, when this kind of bullying appears on the head, does I feel that the country and myself have never been inseparable!

Shame is nothing more than this!

What the hell is wrong with it?

Among the readers, there are already rumors - it can't be said to be rumors, it's just blatant rumors.

The major events in the world are all caused by Cixi and Li Hongzhang! What the emperor wants is to cheer up and fight to the end. But Cixi and Li Hongzhang were afraid that the emperor would take power and lose their glory and wealth - you know, the silver from the navy yamen was used to build the Summer Palace for the Empress Dowager Lafayette! A few days ago, Cixi and Li Hongzhang forced the palace, set up the emperor, and agreed to make peace with the little devil.

Xiao said that the emperor became strong because of his power, and our Qing Dynasty is the opposite!

In the Tongwen Museum in Shanghai, those students who took Li Hongzhang's allowance to study made trouble in the school, and resolutely did not want the allowance of traitors. The Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau also made a stir, wanted to get rid of the general office of Li Hongzhang, and also demanded that the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau be placed under the jurisdiction of the governor of Liangjiang. When it comes to Li Hongzhang, everyone can't wait to die with you. When it comes to Cixi, there are endless scoldings that are impossible to come from. When it comes to the emperor Guangxu, everyone thinks that it is the holy monarch who is covered with dust. Among the rumors, the Southern Governor, headed by Zhang Zhidong and Zhang Nanpi, and even the Liandian Imperial Court, asked the emperor how he was now, saying that the Taoist system of the imperial court could not be changed!

At such a moment of frustration, anger, and everyone scolded the traitor in unison. Who still cares about what news the Qing Times can release, and what else can Xu Yifan do? Not to mention that there is a faint rumor, saying that Xu Yifan was originally the force that the emperor wanted to rely on, and he could deal with Cixi Lafayette Li Hongzhang inside, and he could fight with Xiao Yuben outside. As a result, he was actually not Yue Wumu of the Qing Dynasty, but Cao Ying of the Qing Dynasty! Fighting so hard is to divide Korea and Northeast China. When the emperor was counting on him, he watched the emperor fall. And in order to win him over, Xiao Yueben also promised to give him the Northeast and North Korea, and he was ready to surrender with Li Hongzhang and Li Hongzhang to become his king of the Northeast! If it weren't for Xu Yifan's reputation being high enough, he would have had no news during this time and didn't express his position, otherwise at this time, he would be tied to Li Hongzhang!

Even if people care about the Qing Times, they can't get any news from here.

The Qing Times has been severing the scribes, editorial writers, and commentators hired a few years ago. There was a little panic up and down, and Tan Sitong was nowhere to be seen, and he never went downstairs in his study, but just asked the workers to keep sending wine and food up. He didn't ask anything about the newspaper, he just drank and got drunk every day, and occasionally sang and cried, so that the workers downstairs didn't know what phlegm Mr. Tan was emitting.

Tan Si was depressed in his chest, and no one knew.

As the hope of the clear stream in the field, the vast majority of people don't know about the changes in Yanjing City during the First Sino-Japanese War, and he is so deeply involved. Because of this, the pain in his heart is so great!

The teacher, Weng Tongyi, was locked up. One by one, the excerpts of the plea are written.

Fellow Daoist Wen Tingshi, Zhang Zhongxin, etc., were locked up, and they were also writing an excerpt of pleading.

The Holy Monarch Guangxu, whom he was sincerely looking forward to, was completely empty at this time. is obedient to Cixi's orders, one by one issuing edicts asking for peace.

And Xu Yifan, he always thought that he could trust and rely on this half-benefactor and half-friend. There were so many expectations placed on him, but he did not appear in Yanjing City. Weng Tongyi, but what they were waiting for was Li Hongzhang!

The Great Qing Dynasty has descended.

Huaxia, down.

In the study, the wine and food are messy, and there is garbage everywhere. How many books have been torn apart, how many pens have been broken in two. Tan Sitong, who was neatly dressed, curled up in the chair dirty, just holding his head deeply.

“…… The country has broken like this, why should I regret this...... No one thinks about the emperor, no one thinks about this country! It's down, it's all down...... Xu Yifan, will you descend or not? Now you're all right, North Korea, Northeast is all yours. Isn't that what you want? I want to look down on you myself...... Come down, all down...... Be the king of the Northeast and achieve your own achievements!

What books do I read, what newspapers do I run, and what kind of lackey do you be? I went to Yanjing to confess my guilt, and I died in front of the emperor, and I died with the teacher! ”

Although Tan Sitong is a little bookish, he is definitely not stupid. has enough dealings with Xu Yifan. These sayings are rolling, and Xu Yifan's behavior over the years has turned back and forth in his heart. It's time to figure it out.

No matter how you look at it, Xu Yifan doesn't look like a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty, all the power and fame are gambled by him with his head, and he will never let go of the power he gets. What exactly you want to do, you can guess a lot of the bad. It's Cao Ying, and if it's light, it's just that he wants to be a feudal town. From his point of view, what else is there to start at this time? The weaker the center, the more he can rise. Seeing that the imperial court surrendered, he took advantage of the situation to divide the northeast, the more complete the strength, the better, why bother to fight with himself again? These soldiers were all saved by him with one hand and one foot!

If he wants to continue to fight, fight the entire book with the strength of one person, whether he can win or not is another matter, even if he wins. Aside from his rising reputation, there wasn't much to it about. The strength is exhausted. And in the eyes of the world, Guangxu, who has been fighting the main battle, will have a higher reputation than him. He won the battle, that is, he helped Guangxu Salty Fish turn over. In order to balance Xu Yifan's power, the only way to do this is to bring Guangxu and the so-called imperial party gentlemen out. In the case of Guangxu's restoration of part of his power, Xu Yifan has no possibility of rebellion, otherwise he can only be regarded as a rebellious minister and thief by the whole world. Surrender with Cixi, and in the future, he will be a dog-eat-dog, and no one will bother to care. Maybe I could count on him a little more.

After all, for the sake of his own power, why should he continue to fight? He didn't appear in Yanjing, and he won't fight in Liaonan again!

The more he thought about it, the clearer Tan Sitong's mind became. I wanted to anesthetize myself with alcohol, but the more I drank, the more I understood.

Close this newspaper, don't give Xu Yifan a lackey and pawn anymore, Xiao Ran is alone, go to Beijing to confess the crime, die with the emperor's master, hang his head in the country, watch the Qing Dynasty collapse, watch Xu Yifan triumphantly enter Yanjing City, usurp the world!

He made up his mind and was preparing to shoot the case. At this time, he heard a soft knock on the door, Tan Sitong raised his head with red eyes, and asked loudly, "Who!" ”

The voice of the worker who specialized in running the telegraph office sounded outside the door, there was no news from Xu Yifan, and the worker was about to lose his job, but at this time he knocked on the door again: "Mr. Tan, Liaonan Telegraph...... It's Lord Xu's trumpet......"

Tan Sitong sneered, what else do you Xu Yifan want to play? Do you want me Tan Sitong to continue to advocate for you and continue to support you? Joke!

He exclaimed, "Don't look! I don't look at anything! ”

The worker over there suddenly lost his voice, and after a while, he heard the sound of Suo Suo under the crack in the door, but it was the worker who slipped the telegram in from underneath: "Mr. Tan, take a look...... Your explanation, if you miss a telegram from Lord Xu and drive me out of the newspaper, I will be counted as having delivered it to ......."

Tan Sitong sneered loudly: "What else is the newspaper!" ”

There was no sound outside, Tan Sitong was indignant in his chest, and suddenly walked to the door, picked up the telegram, and was about to pull it!

"The whole world has fallen, you are just a descending word, what else do you have to say?"

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Weihai, Liugong Island.

The gate of the Admiral's Yamen separated the cries and shouts outside the door.

The essence of the water division has been arranged, and those who are unwilling to surrender will be evacuated from this place that is about to become a place of shame for the Qing Dynasty under the cover of the Praetorian Guards.

Walking to the middle hall, Dai Zongqian, the president of Weihai Weilu Division, was also neatly dressed and sitting upright, watching Ding Ruchang come in, Dai Zongqian smiled at him: "Yuting, everything is done?" ”

Ding Ruchang smiled faintly: "Xiaohou, I'm tired of waiting for you for a long time, these old departments have to be resettled...... It's okay now, it's kind of let go, and if you leave it behind, what else can you think? We...... Is this on the road or what? ”

Dai Zongqian smiled, and his expression was also very calm. He was born in the Huai system, and he is one of Li Hongzhang's closest small teams. Later, he was inferior to Yang Shixiang in the internal power struggle of Li Hongzhang's small team, and he was driven out. First in Tianjin, then to Jilin, brought out a Suizi battalion, went around and around, and finally returned to Weihai. The official's guard is ordinary, and the level of fighting is not average, but the last integrity at this time is still kept.

At the end of the day, people are at peace. On the table in front of him, there were two large bowls of raw opium, mixed with wine, the smell was pungent, but he smiled unconsciously: "Xu Yifan finally called to ask for someone, Yuting you gave it?" This Xu Yifan, now he gradually understands that he wants to be Cao Ying...... The court didn't pay attention to it anymore. The current situation is no more favorable to him, can he still think about continuing to fight life and death, beat the emperor back, and continue to press on his head? These hot-blooded men, if you come to him it, it's just a drop in words, I'm afraid that Yuting will not arrange it well. ”

Ding Ruchang smiled: "At this time, do you really expect that even if the emperor is replaced, the Qing Dynasty will still be saved?" ”

Dai Zongqian smacked his lips and smiled: "It's no fun." ”

Ding Ruchang smiled and nodded, as if he wasn't talking about what he was in: "Our Beiyang and Lafayette have already exhausted themselves." Even if the emperor is changed and those clear streams are changed, this road will still be extinct. Xu Yifan just needs to wait and see, for him, it's just a matter of waiting for two more years...... He took it all the way, and he did it all beautifully. In the final analysis, this is still a general trend, he will not go against the general trend, he will create a general trend to come out! It's just that we can't see what kind of new path this kid can get out of......"

Dai Zongqian laughed: "Yuting, can he come out of a new way, we can still follow!" We have long been on the road to death, and Daqing is also continuing to run towards this road! What else can't you put down, ready for our brothers to hold hands and hold white flags to sell two old faces in front of the devil? Please! ”

As he spoke, he lifted the bowl of raw opium on the table, Ding Ruchang laughed, also raised the bowl, and touched him. The two used to have an ordinary relationship, but now they can't go against their hearts.

The Goshkhas around the public hall held wrapped white cloths and waited to take care of the aftermath of the two adults. At this time, they all lowered their heads and cried.

Ding Ruchang slowly turned his head, looked at them, and said in a low voice: "Life and death, death or death......"

On September 27, the fourth year of A.D., Ding Ruchang, the commander of the Beiyang Naval Division, committed suicide at the age of 59.

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At the entrance of the Admiral Ya of the Admiral of Liugong Island, the gathered people gradually dispersed. When everyone rushed to the dock of the boat, he had to kneel down and kowtow at the door of the Admiral's office.

After a few officers said goodbye, they saw Yang Yonglin standing up and walking in the direction of the anchorage of the warship. Zuo grabbed him: "Yuchen, where are you going, the boat dock is in that direction!" ”

Yang Yonglin looked back and smiled: "Let's go, the sailor has to have an explanation!" Do you want our ships to surrender too? How many brothers have died on it, should their souls follow them? The rivers and mountains of the motherland are good, and if they sink here, isn't it also a tomb? Our soul is still guarding the sea frontier! ”

Everyone immediately understood Yang Yonglin's thoughts. Let go without a word.

Yang Yonglin gave them a deep look: "Everyone, all of you. Everyone has a word for that Lord Xu, and don't forget, our sailors, waiting for you to build it again! I'm in the sea, watching everyone! Don't keep me waiting too long! ”

After that, Yang Yonglin walked away.

Some of the officers and soldiers around who listened to these words hesitated slightly, and followed behind Yang Yonglin as soon as they stomped their feet. The rest of the people stared blankly at their backs as they resolutely left, everything around them had been solidified, only the sound of the waves of the Yellow Sea!

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Tan Sitong held the telegram's hand, but in the end he didn't tear it down. I don't know why, but he still took the copy of the newspaper from the envelope.

There were only a few words on the paper.

"Resurrection, Xu will not descend."

At this moment, Tan Sitong's tears burst out of his eyes, flowing irrepressibly, he stood straight, and the sound of crying seemed to be howling.

The country is shaking, the luck is sinking, and there will be no one in the end!

On September 28, the fourth year of A.D., six ships of the Beiyang Naval Division Dingzhen went to sea, which was the last remaining big ship of the Beiyang Naval Division. Under the guns of the combined fleet, after sailing into the deep water area, the ships of the naval division suddenly lowered the white flag, opened the sea valve, and hundreds of officers and men sank with the ships. At this depth, there is nowhere to salvage!

And the Liugong Island that the army immediately took over, there was only one empty island left.

On this day, the Qing Times, which had been silent for several days, issued another call.

Xu Yifan, don't fall!

(To be continued)