It has been 6 days since the end of the Jinzhou War, and Lin Daxin stood in the port of Lushun Military Port with a very bad face at this time, waiting for the four large Italian fast armored cruisers that had been repaired to escort the transport ships loaded with the 9th and 10th Divisions of the Dingbei Army to come to Lushun Military Port together. At present, Lin Daxin's old nest Weihai Weishui Division School only has one part of the Fifth Division and the Second Division, and there is also a brigade of marines.

After the Japanese army's southern route army retreated to Pulandian, it did not stay long, and continued to retreat, far away from the attack range of the Dingbei army, according to the cavalry reconnaissance of the Dingbei army, the Japanese army's southern route army retreated all the way to the north, and had retreated into Liaoyang City, which was not far from Shengjing City.

There was no special cavalry in the Dingbei Army, and the horses of these cavalry were all captured by the Japanese cavalry.

Originally, Lin Daxin planned to divide the Dingbei army into two routes after the 9th and 10th divisions arrived at Lushun Military Port. All the way to Dingbei Army was escorted by the naval fleet of the Naval Academy, and landed at Erhekou, not far from Shanhaiguan, in Liaodong Bay, to attack the Japanese Northern Route Army at Shanhaiguan. All the way, the Northern Army went north to attack the Japanese Southern Route Army. In addition, Lin Daxin is also preparing to dispatch the naval fleet of the Naval Academy to attack the military ports on the Japanese mainland, and it is best to wipe out the Japanese combined fleet.

However, before the 9th and 10th Divisions arrived in Lushun, Lin Daxin received a telegram from the imperial court to Lin Daxin, saying that with the efforts of the envoys of Britain, Russia, France, Germany, and the United States, the Qing Dynasty had now begun peace talks with Japan, and ordered Lin Daxin, the governor of Fengtian, to immediately stop a military operation! Don't exchange fire with the Japanese during the peace talks between the two countries!

After reading the telegram from the imperial court, Lin Daxin angrily tore the telegram in his hand to shreds, the battle has been fought like this, even your Manchu people's old nest Sheng Kyoto let the Japanese slaughter the city! It's a fart to talk to!

Lin Daxin decided to continue to attack the Japanese army in two ways according to the original plan, regardless of the telegram of the imperial court, and Lin Daxin was confident that he would defeat or even completely annihilate the Japanese army on both lines.

But then Li Hongzhang sent a telegram to Lin Daxin, and a telegram sent by Ding Ruchang, so that Lin Daxin dispelled the plan to continue to attack the Japanese army, Li Hongzhang's telegram said that Li Hongzhang had asked the envoys of the five countries to mediate between the Qing Dynasty and Japan, so that the Qing Dynasty and Japan began peace talks! Li Hongzhang said that the only premise for Japan to propose peace talks was that the Dingbei Army and the Beiyang Naval Division in Liaodong stopped their military operations! Li Hongzhang patted his chest in front of the envoys of the five countries and the Japanese representatives and promised that the Dingbei Army and the Beiyang Naval Division in Liaodong would immediately stop their military operations! Moreover, Li Hongzhang also said that the imperial court was taking advantage of the peace talks and armistice, to transfer troops to Beijing, Li Hongzhang asked Lin Daxin to focus on the overall situation, give his old man a face, and don't act rashly in Liaodong for the time being!

For Li Hongzhang, the boss of the Beiyang system, Lin Daxin still has some respect in his heart! And Li Hongzhang also took good care of Lin Daxin, a Beiyang junior, and when Lin Daxin was weak, he also sheltered Lin Daxin from the wind and rain. Lin Daxin can ignore the will of the imperial court, but Lin Daxin still has to give Li Hongzhang's face.

And Li Hongzhang asked Ding Ruchang to send a telegram to Lin Daxin, Ding Ruchang said on the telegram that Li Hongzhang knew that Lin Daxin was about to become Ding Ruchang's son-in-law! Let Ding Ruchang also persuade Lin Daxin, don't fight with the Japanese in the near future! Ding Ruchang said that Li Hongzhang was kind to him, and since he asked Ding Ruchang, Ding Ruchang had no choice but to hope that Lin Daxin would do what Li Hongzhang said.

Lin Daxin, who sighed with 2 telegrams, ordered the naval fleet of the Naval Academy to block the sea passage between Japan and Korea and Liaodong to stop the cruise temporarily! The divisions of the Dingbei Army canceled their plans to continue attacking the Japanese army, lifted their first-level combat readiness, and entered a state of rest!

However, Lin Daxin still let the 9th and 10th divisions in Weihaiwei come to the Lushun base, and Lin Daxin considered that if the peace talks failed, then he would immediately send troops to attack the Japanese army in Liaodong!

If the outcome of the peace talks is not good for you! Then he also sent troops to attack the Japanese army in Liaodong, and he would no longer care about the face of the imperial court and Li Hongzhang!

Lin Daxin didn't wait long at the Lushun wharf, when four large fast armored cruisers escorted dozens of transport ships to the shore, and a group of soldiers from the Dingbei Army began to walk off the transport ships.

Jiang Hui, the commander of the Second Fleet, who was standing beside Lin Daxin, saw 4 large fast armored cruisers docked at Lushun Military Port, and the worry in his heart was put down, these 4 warships belonging to the Second Fleet had finally arrived!

The original Anhai medium armored cruiser and 4 fast protection cruisers of the Second Fleet have been allocated to the Lushun garrison fleet, leaving only 5 warships left in the Second Fleet, and now these 4 large fast armored cruisers of the same type as the Great General have arrived in Lushun, making the Second Fleet return to 9 capital ships, and they are all large fast armored cruisers with a displacement of about 7,000, and their strength has reached a higher level.

Jiang Hui asked Lin Daxin, "General Office!" What are the names of these 4 large fast armored cruisers? ”

At this time, because the imperial court and Li Hongzhang asked Lin Daxin to stop his military operations, Lin Daxin was very depressed in the past two days, and when he heard Jiang Hui's words, he said listlessly: "Since these 4 large fast armored cruisers and the 4 'general-class' of the Second Fleet are of the same model, let's call them the Fifth General, the Sixth General, the Seventh General and the Eighth General!" ”

Jiang Hui was speechless for a moment, this name is really simple! However, since Lin Daxin has already chosen a name, the Second Fleet of the Naval Academy will have more than 5 generals, 6 generals, 7 generals and 8 generals, and 4 large fast armored cruisers.

At this time, Li Zhanrong, commander of the 9th Division of the Dingbei Army, and Zhou Jianying, commander of the 10th Division, walked in front of Lin Daxin, "snapped", and saluted a military salute, "Hello principal!" Li Zhanrong, commander of the 9th Division, and Zhou Jianying, commander of the 10th Division, were ordered to rush to the Lushun base! ”

Lin Daxin returned a military salute and said, "How is the situation in the Weihai Weiding Northern Army Recruit Training Camp?" Did I ask the fifth division commander Wang Hongjun to send the recruits to Lushun? ”

The Dingbei Army expanded at the beginning of the year, and Lin Daxin divided the 120,000 recruits into 90,000 army and 30,000 navy. However, the recruitment of troops for the Dingbei Army has not stopped, and the Fifth Division, which stayed in Weihaiwei, has been sending people to continue recruiting troops in Shandong, Zhili, Shanxi, Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui, and other places, and there are still people defecting to the Dingbei Army in Weihaiwei from all over the country.

In this way, there are still a large number of recruits in the Weihai Weiding Dingbei Army recruit training camp that have not been incorporated into the Dingbei Army.

Li Zhanrong, commander of the Ninth Division, said: "Principal! Our Weihai Weiding Northern Army Recruit Training Camp now has at least 120,000 recruits in training! This time, in addition to our 2 divisions coming to Lushun, we also came with 20,000 recruits! ”

Lin Daxin nodded, these 20,000 recruits are to replenish the several divisions damaged in the Golden State War! What made Lin Daxin a little happy was that he didn't expect that there were so many recruits in the Weihai Weiding Northern Army Recruit Training Camp, that is, 20,000 recruits were drawn out, and a few damaged divisions were given to the damaged ones, and there were 100,000 recruits in the recruit training camp.

Because of the truce, Lin Daxin was a little depressed, and he was a little better.

Originally, Japan asked the Qing Dynasty to send people to Japan for peace talks, but Li Hongzhang, who was in charge of peace talks in the Qing Dynasty, resolutely disagreed, saying that the Qing Dynasty was not defeated, and if Japan had to go to Japan, the old man would take the entire Beiyang Navy Division to Japan together!

As soon as the Japanese heard that Lao Li was going to Japan with the Beiyang Naval Division, they immediately coaxed and sent the original Japanese minister to the Qing Dynasty, Komura Shoutaro, to return to the Beijing city of the Qing Dynasty to discuss peace talks with the Qing Dynasty.

Before leaving Japan, Komura Shoutaro was received by Japanese Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito and Japanese Foreign Minister Mutsu Munemitsu, and when Japanese Foreign Minister Mutsu Munemitsu met with Komura Shotaro, he said: "Komura-kun! In addition to striving for the bottom line set by our Great Japan, you also have an important task, which is to delay time for our Great Japanese Army! It will be delayed for at least one month, so that our supplementary troops can enter the Liaodong battlefield and Shanhaiguan to replenish the various divisions and regiments of the army with heavy casualties! In this way, the peace talks will fail, and our army in Liaodong can also resist the powerful Dingbei Army! ”

The reason why the Japanese agreed to the peace talks and did not let the Japanese troops of the Northern Route Army continue to move south and attack the city of Beijing was also because they were afraid that after the Dingbei Army inflicted heavy losses on the Southern Route Army, they could send troops to land near Shanhaiguan by sea.

Although the Northern Route Army has replenished 20,000 recruits, making the total strength of the Northern Route Army reach 55,000, in the face of the powerful Dingbei Army, especially after the Battle of Jinzhou City, the Japanese base camp has no confidence that the North Route Army with this tired army and the new army can withstand the attack of the Dingbei Army!

Therefore, as soon as the Qing Dynasty wanted peace talks, the Japanese base camp was suddenly pleasantly surprised, and immediately demanded that the Qing Dynasty stop the Dingbei Army and the Beiyang Naval Division from military operations together!

Komura Shoutaro said with a stern face that he would definitely delay the time! And try to try to sign a treaty with the Qing Dynasty in accordance with the bottom line set by Great Japan!

After Komura Shoutaro returned to Beijing, he did not immediately start peace talks with Li Hongzhang, but first visited the envoys of Britain, Russia, France, Germany, and the United States, and then told Li Hongzhang that he could start peace talks!

In fact, at this time, the Qing court was not very anxious about the peace talks, and the Qing court also wanted to use the peace talks to delay some time to mobilize troops and increase the defense of Beijing.

When Komura Shoutaro and Li Hongzhang began negotiations at the British Legation in the Qing Dynasty in the presence of the envoys of the five countries, Komura Shoutaro was aggressive at the beginning, demanding that the Qing Dynasty fully accept the conditions initially given by Japan!

This made Li Hongzhang angry and shouted at Komura Shoutaro: "You Japan don't deceive people too much!" You know, now you don't have a few warships left in your Japanese Combined Fleet! Although your Japanese troops at Shanhaiguan can attack Beijing at any time! But our Beiyang Naval Division can also attack your Tokyo in Japan at any time! ”

After listening to Li Hongzhang's words, Komura Shoutaro's face instantly darkened. didn't say anything to Li Hongzhang again, but got up and brushed his sleeves away.

The first negotiation between the Qing Dynasty and Japan broke up unhappily without saying a few words! The ministers of the five countries who were the mediators couldn't help but shake their heads, and they were all not optimistic about the prospects of peace talks!