"No wonder the Japanese army in Pyongyang has always taken a defensive position, it turned out to contain the main force of our army and cover the landing of the Japanese army at Weihaiwei." Ren Chao suddenly understood why the Japanese army was so stubborn and insistent, before Ren Chao was proud to think that the little devil was afraid of himself, but now it seems that it is not so simple. Before, Ren Chao was still speculating about the Japanese army's intention to hold Pyongyang, but now he understands it. Thinking that he had fallen for the little devil, Ren Chao rushed to the top door with a burst of anger, eager to kill the three islands of Dongying right now and slaughter all the little devils.

As a traverser, Ren Chao naturally knew that during the First Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese army had landed in Weihaiwei, and the calculation time was about the same as now, but the main purpose of the Japanese army landing in Weihaiwei at that time was two, one was to annihilate the main force of the Beiyang Naval Division hiding in Weihaiwei, and the second purpose was nothing more than to occupy a place as a bargaining chip. And now the Beiyang Naval Division is in Lushun, and the current war situation The Japanese army does not occupy much advantage, and it is probably wishful thinking to use this to coerce the Qing government to surrender, so what is the purpose of the Japanese army's landing in Weihai?

"What was the purpose of the Japanese army in capturing Weihai?" Ren Chao frowned and muttered to himself.

"Well~!" Nie Shicheng couldn't help frowning when he heard this, Ren Chao couldn't figure it out, and he couldn't guess the purpose of the Japanese army for a while.

Ren Chao ignored Nie Shicheng, couldn't help but scratch his head, and almost scratched off his fake braid due to too much force. In order to blend into Seoul before, Ren Chao had already lost his braids, and now in order to avoid some unnecessary trouble, he can only wear a fake braid. Suddenly, Ren Chao remembered a person, that is, a rare strategist in Japan, who had been killed by himself, and Ogawa, who was known as Imakenshin. To be precise, I remembered this guy's strategy of conquering the Qing Dynasty, and in the article, Xiaochuan once again proposed to send troops to land in Zhili Bay, and then attack Huanglong to capture Beijing, capture the Qing Emperor, and force the Qing Dynasty to surrender. Now the Japanese army did not annihilate the main force of the Beiyang Naval Division, not only that, but the combined fleet was also heavily damaged, and the Qing side had another Jiaolong fleet. The Japanese army could not control the sea power at all, so naturally they did not dare to risk landing in Zhili Bay, in case someone cut off the back road, so the Japanese army landed on the Jiaodong Peninsula, but their purpose was the same, that is, to capture Beijing and force the Qing government to surrender. The defeat in Korea had minimized the possibility of a Japanese victory, but Japan apparently did not give up and resorted to this all-out approach. This kind of behavior that seems a bit brainless, and only the little devils can do it, the Japanese are undoubtedly gambling, this kind of gambling seems risky, but once it wins, it can completely turn the tables. Looking at modern history, we can clearly see that the rise of Japan was due to the fact that it won several such adventures, which created the future Great Japanese Empire. The First Sino-Japanese War was, the Russo-Japanese War was, the same was 918, and even the later Pearl Harbor was a gamble, but they lost the last gamble.

"If my guess is correct, the real purpose of Japan's landing in Weihai this time is to directly attack Beijing while the main force of our army is pinned down in Korea and Liaodong." Ren Chao couldn't help but sigh and said.

"What attack on Beijing? This Japanese is too self-conscious! Nie Shicheng smiled, as if he had heard the biggest joke of the century.

"You don't know the Japanese, they are a bunch of brain-dead gamblers, they are gambling, as long as the bet wins, they can completely turn the tables, if you don't believe it, let's see!" Ren Chao knew that it would be difficult to convince Nie Shicheng for a while, and he didn't bother to explain it to Nie Shicheng. Now Ren Chao is thinking about what to do and continue to attack Pyongyang, which seems to have little significance at all, because Japan's strategic focus has shifted to the Qing Dynasty itself, even if all the Japanese troops in Korea are annihilated, it will not have much impact on the entire war situation.

"Now there is no point in attacking Pyongyang, not to mention that without the cooperation of Liu Dashuai, it will be somewhat difficult for us to capture Pyongyang alone. Although our army is numbering in the tens of thousands, those Koreans are not vulnerable at all. Therefore, I built a temporary withdrawal to Seoul, and if the Jiaodong war was lost, we would also ship Shandong to participate in the war. Ren Chao said after thinking about it.

"This~!" Nie Shicheng was also a little embarrassed for a while.

"Junmen, Pyongyang is Korean, and Shandong is our own." Ren Chao looked at Nie Shicheng and said firmly.

"Then let's retreat to Seoul first!" Nie Shicheng sighed and said, "It's just that our army is retreating, and we must strictly prevent the little devils from pursuing our army." ”

"I wish they were going to go out of the city and chase them!" Ren Chao sneered, the little devil has been shrinking in Pyongyang, which really made Ren Chao breathe a sigh of relief. But Ren Chao has no time to waste time with them now, that night Ren Chao led the army to retreat south one after another, the little devil didn't find it at first, and after finding out, he thought that this was Ren Chao's trick to lure the enemy, and only sent a small force out of the city to investigate, but this small army was eaten clean by Ren Chao, and the little devil couldn't help but secretly rejoice that he didn't rush out of the city to pursue, and when the little devil knew that the tiger army was really retreating, it was too late to chase.

Just as Ren Chao led his army to retreat to Seoul, the battle situation in Shandong was out of control. After the Japanese army occupied Weihai, they then attacked Yantai, and the Yantai defenders fled without a fight, and the Japanese army captured Yantai. Subsequently, the Japanese army divided its troops to attack the interior of Shandong, and then Weifang was lost. At this time, the Qing government could see the intentions of the Japanese army, and the government and the opposition were shocked. Emperor Guangxu sternly punished Li Hongzhang for supervising the war, and Liu Kunyi transferred troops from Liaodong to Shandong to resist the Japanese army.

Liu Kun did not dare to slack off after receiving the order, and immediately dispatched 30,000 soldiers and horses to rush to Lushun, preparing to take a boat to Shandong in Lushun. But at this time, the main forces of the Japanese Combined Fleet suddenly appeared outside Port Arthur. In order to keep his Beiyang Naval Division, Li Hongzhang refused to leave the harbor of the Beiyang Naval Division. In fact, the strength of the Japanese Combined Fleet has been greatly damaged, and if the Beiyang Naval Division fights desperately, it may not be defeated, but Li Hongzhang has already been frightened, for fear that the Beiyang Naval Division that he has worked hard to forge will be damaged again. The Qing government hurriedly dispatched troops from all over the country to fill in the area around Tianjin and Dezhou to defend the Beijing division.

Shandong's troops were empty and defeated in successive battles, and the Japanese army was like a bamboo, attacking the city and pulling out the village, and the Qing army fled in despair, and the war in Shandong was rotten in just ten days. To add insult to injury, more than 20,000 people from the Japanese Guards Division and the reorganized Third Division successfully landed in Weihaiwei, making the total strength of the Japanese army in Shandong exceed 50,000.