A few small fishing boats float lightly on the water. A little farther away, smoke curls from the rooftops of the village farmhouses, rows of straight poplar trees flourish, and three or five snow-white sheep gnaw grass under the trees. Looking into the distance, Xiao Jinshan is faintly visible. The faint shadow of the mountain seems to be a masterpiece painted by the gods on the canopy, which is both magnificent and deep and quiet. Suddenly, a strong red light illuminated everything in front of him.

This is the afterglow of the setting sun through the last clouds. The sunset is so beautiful, it is big and round, blood red and blood red, and the clouds around it are illuminated by it in colorful and bright colors. When it temporarily said goodbye to the world, it was so brilliant and so magnificent, which really made people feel that it was incomparably noble and incomparably great.

"Manchuria...... It's a great place! ”

Standing on the ruined city wall of Jinzhou, Ao Baogong looked at the already calm battlefield with a telescope.

"Okay, Yamaoka-kun, the Russian army has now completely withdrawn from the green mud pool, and now, the 15th Wing of the 1st Brigade is marching at full speed in the green mud pool."

Staff Officer Yamaoka Shaosa, who was standing behind the commander, received the telegram from the messenger and reported to the commander.

In the middle of the night two days ago, after receiving the news of the withdrawal of Russian troops from Dalian, Obaogong excitedly called "Long live the emperor" several times to celebrate the recovery of "Dalini" without a fight.

"Your Excellency, the Emperor's commendation has arrived!"

Respectfully receiving the commendation telegram from the emperor from Yamaoka's hand, Okuhogong's expression was extremely respectful, and after reading it carefully, he carefully handed it back to Yamaoka, and then looked at the Golden State Castle.

"Yamaoka Shaosa, really, the credit of those disheartened and timid Russian generals deserves more credit than me!"

Yamaoka nodded in agreement.

When the two were about to go down the city, a staff officer led a man to run up the city wall in a panic.

"Your Excellency, Commander, something has happened!"

"Say myself!"

With an exclamation, on the position more than ten kilometers outside the city of Dalian, Lizheng was boiling, and in the trenches behind dozens of barbed wire, soldiers with rifles were leaning on the breastwork, aiming ahead, and from the nearest hill, a large group of soldiers appeared, and after passing through the open field on the top of the mountain, they quickly hid in the sorghum and corn fields.

"Call the headquarters, the little nose has arrived!"

Li Dongyun looked through the binoculars, and said to the communication soldier beside him. At the same time, he glanced at the surrounding soldiers, and in his company, except for the thirteen veterans, the rest of the people were all migrant workers from Shandong, Henan, and Hebei who were working in Qingniwa.

This will make them hold Russian-style rifles and aim ahead like veterans, but only Li Dongyun knows that these people's aim or not is the same, and they can't hit it at all.

Hope...... Looking at the dense barbed wire fence in front of him, as well as a few machine gun positions, he knew whether he could hold the green mud puddle, all relying on these barbed wire and machine guns, but what about artillery? They didn't have any artillery except for a dozen or so guns left behind by the Russians.

In the center of the mud puddle, Nikolaev Square is in the shape of a circular radiation, from which 10 main roads radiate in all directions. The layout of the square is very different from the traditional Chinese and Russian square architectural layouts, and is completely Parisian with a nuclear radiant layout, as is the overall urban design style of Dalian.

Due to the center of the Nikolaev Square, it became a great honor for Russian designers to design buildings around the square, and the elite of designers left their mark on the Maiden sketch of Nikolaev Square five years ago.

At this time, in front of the city hall on the edge of the square, there was a person who gave a notice, and he beat the drum on the one hand, and on the other hand, he preached the contents of the "Treaty of Dalini" signed by Liu Tongzhi, the governor of the Jinzhou Hall and the Russian Dalini authorities, to the citizens.

The spacious square was noisy and crowded, and people sometimes crowded in front of the people who read the notice, to get close to the pillar where the notice was pasted, and sometimes retreated to the edge of the square, and then the people who spoke the notice beat the drum desperately, and everyone did not believe in the upheaval of the night, first the Russians withdrew from the city, and just when they were happy, this green mud pool actually returned to the rule of the Qing Dynasty, and even the green mud valley Dehe Zhang Delu, Liu Zhaoyi of Shunfa Zhan, Guo Jingyi of Fushun Zhan, and Tongxingde, Tongshengde, Fushunzhan, Gongshunzhan, Hong Chengxing and other eight masters discussed the situation with other members of the Wakou Public Council in the early morning, and finally the notice posted by the Public Council Bureau "He Daqing rebuilt the green mud pool".

The notices of the Eight Masters and the Public Council made the citizens calm their minds a little, but when the humiliation came, when a warship appeared in Da Ya Bay, it still made the atmosphere in the market tense, who knows what those people will do?

"Alright, the Second Army has finally arrived!"

Lin Yanzhi stared at a plaster flag marked on the map, took out his pocket watch and looked at the time.

"At 18:21 p.m. on May 30, the vanguard of the Second Army of the Army, the vanguard of the 15th Wing of the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division, arrived at ......."

As a series of words came out of his mouth, the skinny former Jinzhou Tongzhi Liu Lingzhi next to him squeezed out a dry smile on his thin face.

Liu Lingzhi glanced at the officials around him, it was these people who rescued him from the Russian hard labor camp on Kuye Island, four years ago, when the Gengzi Kingdom was changing, the Russians in the concession Lushun and other places took the opportunity to arrest the officials of the Jinzhou Tongzhi Yamen and the Jinzhou Co-Leader Yamen in Jinzhou City, not only banned the Jinzhou Department, but also escorted a group of officials to Kuye Island to serve hard labor.

For Liu Lingzhi, there was no hope for Liu Lingzhi to leave Kuye Island alive, but sitting here at this time, he had a feeling of being in a different world.

"Lord Liu, it's about to act!"

"Please rest assured, Chief Lin, Ling Zhiding will live up to the high expectations of the chief!"

Standing up and bowing, Liu Lingzhi said with a straight face, these officers in front of him are not the officers and soldiers of the Great Qing Kingdom, but the anti-Russian volunteers, they designed to bring back the green mud puddle here from the hands of the Russians, but whether they can keep this green mud puddle in the mouth of this tiger and wolf depends on Liu Lingzhi.

Four years ago, the Golden State Hall was lost, and now it ...... These places must be recaptured, Liu Lingzhi said in his heart.

"Do I want to storm the mud puddle?"

Liu Lingzhi frowned and thought about it, he knew what it would mean if the negotiation with the people failed, it meant that Qingniwa would be in the flames of war again, and at that time...... Be a loyal servant!

In the commercial port of Dalini, the chimneys of fifty merchant ships abandoned by the Russians are smoking, and the merchant ships of different sizes are driving in the commercial port under the influence of the crew, and after reaching the predetermined position, they will anchor, and when the crew leaves the barge and leave the ship, there will be soldiers on board, and explosives will be placed in the merchant ship, and each ship will press more than 100 kilograms of explosives, and the explosives will be pressed at the keel, and the wires that start the explosives will be lowered from the ship and extend to several rooms in the commercial port.

Even on the wharf, there are migrant workers who dig up a large number of stones on the wharf according to the drawings, press explosives on the wharf, and thousands of migrant workers are desperately busy working on the wharf, the only thing they need to do is to put up to nearly 400 tons of explosives on merchant ships, wharves and wharf equipment, although the Russians have done part of the work, but their work is more thorough.

Cao Shijun, who was standing at the pier, put down the phone and added a dot to the map on the desktop.

"Either it doesn't blow up, or if it is blown up, it will completely destroy the entire port, and without three years of work, the commercial port will never be put into use!"

"Sir, are you really willing to blow up the whole of Dalian?"

"Of course we have to bomb it, if I want to storm Dalian, we have to completely destroy this place!"

Cao Shijun nodded, and at the same time walked a few steps forward, looking at the busy dock.

"All the ships will be blown into two or three, the docks will be flattened, and all the facilities will be destroyed, fortunately, the Russians have left us a thousand tons of explosives, otherwise we can't blow up the city with only our two hundred tons of explosives, I want this city, I can ...... it"

Looking back at the young ensign behind him, Cao Shijun's expression was grim.

"Then what they get will be a city that has completely lost its usefulness!"

On the sorghum ground, two horses ran forward one after the other, the red horse was in front, Kenji Oshima, who was riding on the horse, looked at the "devil's thorn wall" that appeared in two days, his brows furrowed into a small ball, in Jinzhou he had seen the Russian barbed wire between the tragic deaths of officers and soldiers, the soldiers trapped in the barbed wire, even if they were not hit by bullets, were often covered by thorns on the wire.

Closer, when he left the barbed wire fence only more than 100 miles of horses stopped, Oshima Kenji looked at the barbed wire nearly 100 meters deep with the eyes of a soldier, in front of the barbed wire was the wooden beams he had seen and four or five barbed wire mesh walls, about two or three layers, and in the rear there was a kind of barbed wire similar to a snake's belly, the distance between the barbed wire was only one meter, and the distance was only a few meters, and this endless barbed wire seemed to clearly tell him how much it would cost the army to break through here.

"Qing people!"

Looking at the dragon flag fluttering behind the barbed wire, Kenji Oshima's brow furrowed.

Darini's intelligence is too chaotic, first two days ago on the night of the 28th, the Lucia army stationed in Dalini began to retreat, and at the same time the expatriates in the city also retreated to Lushun, the fifteenth wing after the reorganization, that is, towards Dalini, two days along the way to defeat many interceptions of the Lu army, and now to Dalini, the legendary "give up resistance" city, did not open the door to the fifteenth wing, but ...... used the barbed wire in front of him to welcome the arrival of the 15th Wing, but the dragon flag behind the barbed wire made Kenji Oshima have some doubts in his heart.

After waiting for a while, he heard the sound of horses' hooves coming from the left, he looked to the left, and saw two horses running towards him at high speed, and after the two horses stopped with the sound of "hoo", Kenji Oshima saw two Oriental people wearing Russian [***] clothes on the horse, and the braids on the back of their heads revealed their identities.

"You are ......"

Yu Ziqi, who was riding on the horse, clenched his fists.

"In Xia Yu Ziqi, I have seen Mr. Captain!"

After speaking, Yu Ziqi took an official document from the cowhide bag on his waist, and handed it over with a smile on his face.

"Mr. Captain, please tell your patriarch that now that the Qingniwa has been returned to the Qing Kingdom by the Russians, please stop your army!"

"Hmm!"

With his eyes open, Kenji Oshima looked at the Chinese in front of him in surprise.

"I also ask your army to abide by the statement issued by your country, this official document is handed over to ......General Ao by Liu Tongzhi of the Jinzhou Department."

After that, Yu Ziqi's face was pale.

"Before Your Excellency hands over the official document to General Ao, I hope that your army can maintain restraint!"

After that, as soon as his legs clamped the horse's body, Yu Ziqi and the entourage behind him rode away from the front line together, leaving only Kenji Oshima who was surprised.

"Qing Guo...... How is that possible, Qing ...... Country, Lu Guo returned Dalini to Qing Kingdom! ”

Ao Baogong looked at the official document sent by the herald in his hand, the official document was written by Liu Lingzhi's five-grade official, and he slapped a few words of sycophants in the front, and praised what is the same kind of text in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, in short, he repeated the excuse of the reason for declaring bell, and slammed the book.

But in the end, it reminded Obaogong that now that Dalini had returned to the Qing Dynasty, and asked the general to make a detour to the south, and finally mentioned in the official document how he arranged for the destruction of the commercial port, to be precise, if other countries invaded, how he would carry out the responsibility of defending the land and use the scorched earth to resist the enemy.

"With millions of pounds of powerful Western explosives, put them everywhere on merchant ships and docks, and wait for foreign enemies to knock on the edge, this official will scorch the earth, turn the harbor into a reef, and turn the dock into ruins!"

There was no threat in the words, but Obaogong clearly knew that in order to merge with Dalini without blood, they even spent tens of millions of yuan to bribe Russian officials, so they spared no expense, the reason was to be able to use the commercial port of Dalini, according to the plan of the base camp, to capture Dalini is directly related to the victory or defeat of the whole battle.

“…… The commercial port of Dalini has a direct bearing on whether or not our army's follow-up troops and combat materials can be smoothly landed, and it is impossible to meet the needs of our army to continue fighting by relying only on small boats to transport troops and materials. ”

"Yes! Your Excellency, Commander, if there is no commercial port of Dalini, our attack on Arthur will be empty talk! ”

In the battle of Nanshan outside Jinzhou City, the Second Army consumed a total of more than 2.19 million rounds of rifle bullets and 34,000 shells, due to the strong wind and waves at sea, it was difficult for the arms to be sent to land in small boats, and the lack of ammunition has always limited the combat strength of the Second Army, and even finally issued an order praised by domestic newspapers as "attack until the last bullet", in the eyes of reporters and citizens, this order is so exciting, However, the root cause was that the Second Army, which was fighting on the mainland, was seriously short of ammunition.

It is not that there are no bullets and shells, but that there is no port to transport these ammunition, and it is precisely because of this that the General Staff will not hesitate to bribe the officials of Lu Guo to protect the commercial port of Dalini, and now the officials of Lu Guo have fulfilled their promise, and they have not destroyed the commercial port, railway station, warehouse, telephone, power plant and other equipment of Dari.

Two days ago, when the Lu army was withdrawn, Ao Baogong had even planned to start the port of Dalian as soon as he entered the city, so that weapons, ammunition, food, and soldiers would arrive at the port in a steady stream, and the army would also profit from the best advance base throughout South Manchuria.

But now?

It was just a dream, and after receiving the money, Lu Guo fulfilled his promise not to destroy, but handed over the city to the Qing people, who in order to keep the city, they must call it "scorched earth" there.

“…… The Qing people used the 1,000 tons of explosives left in the warehouse by the Lu [***] team, not only according to the explosives on the merchant ships in the port, but also to the merchant ships at the berths in the port, and also buried the explosives deep in the wharf and breakwater, power plants, railways, railway stations and even most buildings, and also put a large amount of explosives, Liu Tongzhi told me clearly, all the explosives are connected by wires, once Dalian ...... The Qing people called Dalini so, Dalian is attacked by the Lu people or us, then they will completely blow up the whole Dalian, and then Dalian will be in ruins......"

Raising his eyes at General Okubogong, there was some helplessness in Ito Ryutaro's voice, in the past two days, that Liu Tongzhi had taken him to the dock, and he had seen with his own eyes how explosives were buried several meters deep underground.

"Liu Tong knows that although Dalian is a city of the Qing Dynasty, in the final analysis, this is still built by the Russians with money, although it was blown up like this, it is a pity in my heart, but instead of letting foreigners occupy it, it is better to blow it up directly, completely blow it up!"

"Your Excellency Commander, we have calculated that if the information brought back by Captain Ito is convinced, then our plan to use the port of Dalini may come to naught, just the salvaged wreckage of the shipwreck, it will take at least half a year, and after the breakwater and pier are blown up, the entire port will lose its use value, and the repair of the port is almost equivalent to rebuilding a port, which will take at least two years!"

The words of Engineer Major Sato Sai made the atmosphere in the room tense, and General Okubo Gong frowned even more.

"Two years!"

"Baga!"

After a curse in the room, an officer cursed hatefully.

"These damn Qing slaves, are they trying to threaten us?"

It's an idiotic question, and they're threatening it.

"Guys, can we attack Dalini?"

Obao Gong asked rhetorically, but in exchange for almost everyone's shake of their heads.

"Your Excellency, Commander, there is no problem in conquering Dalini, but what we have obtained is a ruin, and even if we get Dalini who has become a ruin, for us, nothing has changed from the facts!"

"Commercial port, there is no difference between Dalini without commercial port and any bay in Liaodong!"

"Wait for a diplomatic solution!"

His heart sank, and Ao Baogong said helplessly.

"Order the Fifteenth Wing to exercise restraint and not show any unfriendly behavior towards Dalini, inform the command of what is going on here, and tell them that if they still want to win this war, let the Qing Kingdom hand over Dalini."

(To be continued)