On June 9, 1904, Tang Yun, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the First Chinese Empire, personally convened a press conference, at which Tang Yun made a series of responses to the war between Russia and Russia, and finally on the eve of the end of the press conference, on behalf of the entire Chinese Empire, announced that the Imperial [***] team would destroy all enemies who dared to attack at all costs.

Tang Yun made a little word here, although this statement has already indicated the attitude of the Chinese Empire, but it has not started a war with any country, we just said that we will destroy all the enemies who come to attack, you are the enemy, if you don't come, we are still friends.

However, after hearing these words, the Russian side was even more surprised, they did not believe that China dared to interfere in their own war so strongly, but at the same time they had to carefully plan for this war. In the end, the territory of Russia and Russia defeated everything, and continued to ignore the opposition of the Chinese Empire, and resolutely increased the number of troops in the northeast.

At this time, every time a large number of troops from both sides arrived at the battlefield, the strength of the two sides doubled sharply within a month, and the total strength of the two sides was as high as nearly one million at this time.

The troops of the Imperial Chinese Defense Force, which only had more than 300,000 troops, could not help but feel a little nervous when facing an enemy army of nearly one million men, because this was the first time they had fought against the armies of other powers other than the British army, and they were also facing an enemy several times their own.

The Red First Army and the Red Second Army, which were lurking near Tongliao, immediately stopped their original plans and continued their hidden missions after receiving instructions from Wang Lin to change their orders. This morning, the commanders of the First and Second Red Armies received an order from Wang Lin, asking the soldiers of the First and Second Red Armies, and the two armies, to completely cut off the rear route of the Russian army through the line of Siping, Liaoyuan, and Tonghua, and to block the Russian troops entering Liaoning, and at the same time to stop the Russian troops in Liaoning who want to withdraw.

As the most elite combat unit under Wang Lin, the New Eleventh Army is also the first unit that Wang Lin included in the reorganization. The other party almost bluffed and ran, how can there be any kung fu to fight?

Therefore, before planning to carry out the second large-scale reorganization of the whole army, Wang Lin was very anxious to know what the combat effectiveness of the troops was.

The mission of the New Eleventh Army was to follow Qinhuangdao, Huludao, Jinzhou, Panjin, and Yingkou, and finally go to Lushun to meet with the troops who had registered there. Of course, this does not mean that the New Eleventh Army had to rush to Lushun, but that it had to follow this line until it joined forces with the troops coming from Lushun.

Outside Port Arthur, a fleet consisting of two Chinese warships, five small and medium-sized warships, and dozens of troop carriers was speeding to Lushun. At this time, Lushun was under the cover of artillery fire. As long as Arthur remains in the hands of the Russian [***] fleet, its fleet can threaten the sea lines of communication of the Japanese army at any time.

Without the occupation of Lushun, the army would not be able to conduct large-scale ground operations in the northeast. Therefore, for nearly one month, the side actively prepared for the first attack on Lushun, specially organized the 3rd Army to carry out this task, and appointed Nogi Noshinori as the commander. This person served as a brigade commander during the First Sino-Japanese War and conquered Lushun in one fell swoop. The 3rd Army was equipped with mostly siege artillery.

If you use Wang Lin's words to evaluate Nogi Noshinori, it is two words, crazy, a complete madman. A madman who didn't care about anything for the sake of victory, the historical Nogi Noshinori, in order to compete for a 203 heights, finally lost nearly 100,000 undead. In the face of such an enemy who didn't care about anything for the sake of victory, when Wang Lin thought of him at first, he really had a headache, and even had the idea of assassinating him for a while, but in the end, he let it go, and it was not a good way to use Nogi Noshinori to train his troops.

Sitting on the troop carrier are more than 1,000 marines, of course, their names are still amphibious combat units so far, and this group of people is the first batch of people that Wang Lin fancies, and they will officially form a marine corps after the end of this war.

With the rapid advance of the fleet, the soldiers of the Russian Navy, who are currently outside Port Arthur and proudly surround the Russian Navy, are still staring at the Russian Navy not far in front of them with a serious expression, as long as they dare to come out, then the Yamaben Navy will deal them a heavy blow.

Nearly 10 years have passed since the First Sino-Japanese War, and after 10 years of development, the combined fleet, which has been silent, is now growing in scale, and although the scale is still not large, the number of ships is far from being comparable to China's, but it is still inferior to China in terms of total tonnage.

It is said that the ships in this area are still mainly small and medium-sized ships of 1,000 tons, and there is not a single 10,000-ton ship, and it is usually said that the total tonnage of medium-sized ships needs to be searched four or five times before they can be compared with Chinese ships.

On the watchtower of the flagship, a naval lookout soldier was watching around with a telescope, and all naval ships that wanted to raid them could not escape his eyes. Suddenly, I found that in the distance behind the fleet, far on the other side of the coastline, several thick black smoke suddenly appeared.

According to the experience of perennial sailors, with such thick black smoke, it means that there is a huge ship on the opposite side that is moving forward in full force. For a while, some panicked naval lookouts looked into the distance in horror, as if their bodies were frozen by something, and they didn't know what they should do at this time.

After a pause of about ten seconds, the sailor reacted and hurriedly sounded the alarm. For a while, the sound of the entire alarm spread throughout the entire fleet.

"Ozawa, what's wrong?" An officer on duty at the foot of the watchtower hurried out as soon as he heard the alarm and shouted at Ozawa, the lookout man standing above the watchtower.

"Report to the sir, an unknown fleet has been spotted in the distance, and it is rapidly approaching us." Ozawa replied aloud, a little frightened.

Unknown fleet? It seems that there is no other fleet in this empire to come here, could it be the support fleet of the Russian Navy? For a while, the officer on duty was also in a trance, and hurriedly shouted loudly: "Ozawa, can you be sure if the other party is a fleet?" How many ships do they have? ”

Taking advantage of the time to speak, Ozawa continued to lie on the telescope and observe carefully, but because the distance was too far, coupled with the line of sight, Ozawa had not been able to see clearly whether the other party was a warship or not? But the number of other ships, Ozawa could see clearly.

"Sir, the number of ships on the other side doesn't seem to be much, but it is certain that their tonnage is definitely larger than ours." Ozawa replied hurriedly.

When the officer on duty heard this, his body was suddenly stunned, and he hurriedly ran to the command room, he wanted to report the situation to His Excellency the commander immediately, and an unknown fleet suddenly appeared in the rear of the fleet, which was a great threat to the fleet that was about to fight.

"Report to the captain, discover the fleet!"

(To be continued)