"The big eagle has planted a flag!"

The gendarmerie captain didn't wait for permission, and ran straight into Stexel's office and shouted.

When the attendant officer heard this, he first jumped up, and then sat back in his chair, Wei Lan? Alekseev's hands clapped his hands, and he hugged his head and cried, and the general's private residence suddenly fell into chaos, and the heralds ran out of the door, and the sound of doors opening and closing echoed again and again.

"Where did go?"

The general's wife shouted frantically.

"Taking advantage of the fact that I have not yet entered Lushun and killed everything, I must immediately start peace negotiations. Anatoly, you're going to send someone to Renres right away! ”

Only a minute later, the chief of staff, looking flustered and anxious, came running.

"Victor? Aleksandrovich, to immediately write a letter to Nogi and raise the issue of the surrender of Arthur! ”

Weilan? Alekseev said as soon as he saw him.

"I've got the manuscript ready!"

The colonel pulled out a piece of paper from his waist pocket.

"But we haven't received a report from the commander of the city defense, General Sminov, or the commander of the land defense, General, about the situation of the troops!"

Reis mentioned.

"I don't need Sminov to get involved in this, but, no matter what, we have to find it immediately!"

Stessel commanded.

"He just came home!"

A few minutes later,, dressed in an overcoat, wearing a white belt, and hanging a command knife and pistol, strode into the office, where he reported to Stexel:

"Report to Your Excellency Commander, all the units of our army have now retreated to the last line of defense under the attack of the superior commander, the ammunition is exhausted, and our army is exhausted, and it is no longer pointless to continue to resist!"

Stessel stood and listened to his report, then nodded.

"I fully agree that we cannot continue to resist, but what do you think will happen in the future?"

The chamberlain's inquiry was actually to put the blame on for proposing surrender.

"I think negotiations on the surrender of Port Arthur must begin in the northern hemisphere!"

Fu Ke replied firmly.

Stessel stood there, his face pale, his expression anxious, and his usual look of resignation completely gone.

"I have decided with the powers of the Russian Emperor's attendant general, who is also the supreme military commander of Lushun...... Surrender! ”

"Colonel Reis, on this point, please bother to negotiate with General Baron Nogi, the commander-in-chief of the besieging Lushun Army!"

After giving the order in a formal tone, he slumped down in his chair.

"O Lord! Please save me from all kinds of disasters! Now I can't help but go up......"

"Fortunately, there is no precedent in Russia for the hanging of a squire general, even if it is to be punished, it is only submitted to the State Council for adjudication!"

Weilan? Alekseevna comforted her husband and said.

"Anatoly, you should remember that this helpless choice you have taken has saved the lives of tens of thousands of our brave officers and soldiers, thousands of mothers, wives, sisters, and waste to bless you before God!"

"Please let me read the official letter of the commander-in-chief of the army!"

As he spoke, Lacey read the surrender.

"The commander-in-chief of the Lushunkou army is under the command of Baron Nogi! In order to avoid needless losses, I am willing to negotiate surrender to you, and if accepted, I would like to appoint a plenipotentiary to negotiate the disarmament of the armed forces, and to indicate the place where the representatives of both sides will meet for negotiation.

His Majesty the Tsar of the Russian Empire was the head of General Sterselton"

At night, the rumbling sound of explosions suddenly broke the dead silence in the air.

On the left, two fires burned, the entire northeast battlefield was illuminated red, the raging fire was connected with low fog, the battle line was silent, the usual guns and cannons of the fierce battle between the two armies of Russia could not be heard, the light of the searchlight shot down from the high mountain, and the inner harbor of Lushun was probing, there was a house on Baiyu Mountain burned red, and some bright fires rose in the Lushun port under the mountain, and faintly heard the sound of continuous explosions, in the east port near the artillery city, a cluster of fire suddenly appeared, and the fire reflected the figure of a warship.

This is the middle and lower house officers and naval officers and men of the Russian army who are unwilling to surrender in the mouth of Arthur ordering the troops to blow up the artillery, and the shells and gunpowder are also destroyed at the same time.

In the darkness before dawn, the flames of explosions continued to appear, the exploded cannons fell to the ground, shrapnel flew horizontally in the air, flames continued to rise in the night sky, and the rumbling explosions continued to be heard throughout the battlefield.

"This is Lushun's suicide!"

A naval officer, listening to the explosion in the air, sighed.

The 155-day offensive and defensive battle of Arthur ended with the extraordinary heroic tradition of the Russians in "defending the dirt".

It was late at night on January 2, 1905.

In the private residence of Stexel in Lushun, a solemn banquet is being held here. Lekseyevna, dressed in a long silk dress, glanced one last time at the furnished table with a skilful and executive eye.

The attendant general himself, along with his close friends -, Nikkin, Reis, and Ho Jiage - entertained the guests in the living room, only waiting for the arrival of General Nogi and his chief of staff, General Ichiji, the "victor of the Lushun Pass", but they did not arrive in time.

In the face of the delay of the two generals, Stexel seemed a little anxious, this phenomenon of being late carried a kind of insult, just when he became more and more anxious, suddenly, a two-horse carriage came, and two soldiers wearing military uniforms were occupied in the carriage, and the attendant general and his wife hurriedly ran to the door to greet the distinguished guests, but unexpectedly, it was not Nogi, but General Tanaka, who was full of joy, and next to him was Lao Xiang, who was wearing a major's uniform.

"General Nogi and General Ichi ask for your forgiveness, because the two of them are not in good health and cannot come, so I hereby entrust a contemptible person to be the representative!"

Tanaka said that for the most part he could not understand Stessel and the Russian generals, who, after their surrender, had hosted a banquet for the "victors" if it had been for the officers to face the scene...... It is not said that the Imperial Army will never surrender, and it is impossible to hold an executive banquet for the victors, as if to thank them for their occupation.

Faced with this situation, the Stetsels had nothing to do, they could only express their regret, and then they invited the guests to take their seats, because there were many seats, in order to fill the empty seats, Tanaka had to invite two or three officers from the street who had met by chance, one was Mr. Xu, a watch repairer in Arthur City, he was now Major Matsushima, and the other was Lao Xiang, a barber from the former Far East Governor's Palace, who was now a Navy Major Kobayashi, and they were spies themselves.

Gbatowski, Banasov, and Koschenko were all absent for no reason, and for the first time, Stessel felt that he was starting to run out of luck.

In order to raise the mood of the people at the banquet, Nikkin desperately poured the wine into his glass, first raising a glass to wish the Russian Tsar and Emperor Momoto, then blessings to the warring Russian armies, and finally blessings to Nogi and Stexel, and finally praised each other and praised each other's heroes.

Mr. Xu, who is now Major Matsushima, was discussing practical matters with, who was still drinking a little water as usual, and after the two of them got permission, they got up and went to the office.

"According to the amount we have agreed upon, I now present to you a cheque from this bank, which bears the signature of the Duke of Konoe himself!"

Fu Ke took the check, looked at the numbers on the check, and nodded in satisfaction.

"As you hope, the pounds in this money can be withdrawn from the bank at any time!"

Tanaka added, I want to get more than this money, I said that Ben got more in Lushun, not only did they get those uncompletely destroyed warships, a large amount of ordnance and supplies, but also won this war!

The recovery of Lushunkou has paved the way for Yuben to win this war, and at what cost? The blood of hundreds of thousands of people, and such a check.

It was exactly the number mentioned in their agreement, and both of them laughed at this point.

After the feast, the guests went to an adjoining room, and it was only then that Stexel remembered that it would be the time when the captured defense troops had left Lushun to serve their hard labor in the prisoner-of-war camp in Born.

"I want to say goodbye to the soldiers!"

Stessel said as he looked at Tanaka.

"Maybe everyone is willing to go and see our heroes in Lushunkou!"

"The contemptible has seen enough for a long time!"

Tanaka recalled how he was beaten by the soldiers after he was captured in Lushun.

"Anatoly, you can't go there, the soldiers are now completely unrestrained, and if they see you, I'm afraid they'll kill you!"

Weilan? Alekseevna hurriedly stopped, those soldiers were saying that they had sold Arthur, and if they saw their husbands, they were afraid that they would really kill this traitor.

"Your Excellency the General is already under the protection of the Imperial Army, please rest assured, no danger can deter him!"

But in the end, for safety reasons, Stessel sent the drunken Nickkin to say goodbye to the soldiers on his behalf.

At dawn, as the morning sun rose over the ridge, several cargo ships carrying prisoners to the mines of Yuben for hard labor were set out, and on the Golden Mountain, on the towering signal flagpole, the Russian flag was lowered and the flag of Yuben was raised.

The sound of the salute shook the heavens and the earth, and the heavens and the earth were full of soldiers waving their arms and shouting.

"Ban Zai...... Class in, class in ......"

In this cheer, the old page of Lushunkou has been turned over, what about the new page? With the sound of this class echoing in the air, the smell of Lushun's blood is still permeating the sky above this port, and the bay of Lushunkou under the morning sun is as red as if it has been stained red with blood......

(To be continued)