After Zhang Zuolin and Chen Ergou left the office, Lin Daxin said to Jiang Hui: "I am ready to dispatch the Marine Corps to rescue the captured Qing prisoners of war!" ”

Jiang Hui didn't feel any strange about Lin Daxin's idea, Lin Daxin had originally sent four large armored cruisers of the Second Fleet to the Korean Strait to look for the Japanese transport ships escorting the Qing prisoners, but unfortunately the Japanese army did not choose to transport the Qing prisoners back to Japan in the end, and the four large armored cruisers did not complete the task of intercepting the prisoner transport ships.

However, 4 large armored cruisers hugged the grass and beat rabbits, and even cooperated with the Marines to rob the 2 ironclad battleships of the Japanese army!

Jiang Hui then said: "General Office! So what does it take for our Second Fleet to cooperate? ”

Lin Daxin looked at the map and said: "Zhennanpu is close to the sea, your Second Fleet sent warships to escort the marines to raid here, and quickly withdrew to Weihaiwei after rescuing the prisoners of war, don't let the Japanese combined fleet entangle!" ”

Jiang Hui nodded very strictly, now the strength of the Japanese Combined Fleet, after purchasing a large number of active warships from the British, has greatly increased, that is, it has concentrated all the main forces of the Navy of the Naval Academy, and the Japanese Combined Fleet is also a victory or defeat.

Soon after, the commander of the Marine Corps, brigade commander Ju Peng, came to Lin Daxin's office.

"Hello Headmaster!" Ju Peng saluted.

"You're here! Come and take a look at the map! Lin Daxin greeted Ju Peng and said.

Ju Peng walked to the table, and Lin Daxin pointed to a point on the map and said, "This is the town of Nanpu in North Korea!" We got the news that Qing soldiers captured by the Japanese army in several battles were imprisoned here! But the specific strength of the Japanese army is unknown! Now I ask your entire brigade of marines to take a transport ship, with the cooperation of the Second Fleet, to raid Zhennanpu and rescue the captured Qing troops! Are there any difficulties? ”

Ju Peng glanced at the location of the map, and then said loudly, "Report to the principal!" We, the Marines, are determined to complete the mission! ”

Lin Daxin nodded, and then said to Jiang Hui: "The transport ships that go with you this time are all newly built in our shipyard!" Thanks to the high-power steam engine, these carriers can reach a maximum speed of 18 knots! Even more than many of our warships! If you encounter the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet this time, don't get entangled, quickly rely on the advantage of speed to get rid of the Combined Fleet! ”

Jiang Hui nodded and said, "Don't worry, the general office!" I know how to do it! ”

Jiang Hui and Ju Peng then left Lin Daxin's office.

When the outsiders are gone, the two ladies in the office have become the same again!

"You're a vixen!"

"You're an ugly girl!"

……

Lin Daxin felt that his head was getting bigger and bigger!

In the afternoon of the next day, Weihaiwei Port became busy, and all the main 8 warships of the Second Fleet of the Navy began to light the boilers to increase the pressure!

Nearly 5,000 marines, who had just been expanded into brigades, boarded three transport ships with a displacement of 700 tons.

Eight of the capital ships of the Second Fleet, escorting three transports full of marines and seven empty transports, headed for Jinnampo, North Korea!

Zhang Zuolin, who had just defected to the Dingbei Army, also volunteered to be a guide, and also followed the Marines on the transport ship.

In the evening, a lifeboat on the Xinghai, the flagship of the Second Fleet, was rowed by several people to the sea outside Nanpu Port, on the lifeboat, Zhang Zuolin took advantage of the afterglow of the sunset, after observing the situation in the port with a telescope, he said to Ju Peng, the commander of the Marine Corps who was also on the lifeboat, with certainty: "Brigade Commander Ju, there is nothing wrong!" This is it, although there are no prisoners of war working in the port now, but I have been building the port here for 2 months, and I will never admit that I am wrong! A few miles east of this port is where our prisoners of war are held! ”

Ju Peng nodded, observed Nanpu Port for a while with the telescope in his hand, and then ordered several Marines on the lifeboat: "Since it is definitely this place!" Let's paddle back now! When it gets dark, we'll come back! ”

At about 10 o'clock in the evening, on the sea not far from the port of Nampo, the ship-borne lifeboats unloaded from the warships and transport ships of the Second Fleet were put on the sea.

The first Marines rowed their lifeboats to Nampo Harbor, and soon the Marines were on the shore.

There were not many Japanese soldiers in the entire Nanpu port, only a small group of Japanese soldiers were stationed here, and because the prisoners of war who built the port here returned to the prisoner of war camp at night, there was nothing to take care of here except ice and snow and stones, and the Japanese soldiers of this squad even secretly complained about why the superiors sent them to guard this port where there was nothing.

As a result, the Japanese troops of this squad did not even send sentry posts, and as soon as the temperature dropped at night, they all slept in the stone room repaired by the prisoners of war!

Ju Peng was also among the first troops to land, and he was relieved to see that the Japanese army did not even have a sentry. Originally, Ju Peng was going to land from other places around the port, and then go straight to Zhennanpu to raid the Japanese army and rescue the prisoners of war!

Unexpectedly, near the port of Nanpu, I looked around and found no other suitable places for landing! Moreover, the Navy's Second Fleet and the marines on these transport ships stayed in the waters around Korea, the more likely they were to encounter the warships of the Japanese Combined Fleet.

If it arouses the alarm of the Japanese troops in the prisoner of war camp, storm the prisoner of war camp! Ju Peng didn't believe that an elite Marine Brigade wouldn't be able to fight a prisoner of war camp!

Now that he landed in Nampo without a battle, Ju Peng's heart was relieved, and when he saw a few stone houses, he made a gesture to a company commander of the Marine Corps beside him.

The company commander and a group of veterans of the Marine Corps surrounded several houses without making a sound. With a gesture from the company commander, several soldiers opened the door of the stone house, and dozens of marines quickly rushed into the stone room.

With the elimination of a small group of Japanese troops in the port, the transport ships on the sea sailed to the Nanpu Port wharf, which had completed most of the port construction, and the remaining marines also boarded the Nanpu Port. At the same time, 12 75-mm mountain guns assigned to the Marines were also pulled ashore!

Ju Peng looked at Zhang Zuolin, who was excited, and said, "Brother Zhang, you lead the way, let's immediately attack the prisoner of war camp!" ”

Zhang Zuolin, who was carrying a rifle, nodded and said, "Done!" I'll lead the way in front! ”

At this time, in a shack in the prisoner of war camp where Qing prisoners of war were held, a 16 or 7-year-old young prisoner of war looked at the prisoner of war in his early twenties who was lying on the straw and was covered with bruises, and said in a low voice: "Brother! Do you hurt! ”

The prisoner of war lying on the straw was pale and frightened, and there was no blood at all, and when he heard the young prisoner of war ask himself, he forced out a smile and said with difficulty: "Little brother! Elder brother...... Nothing...... What's up! Tomorrow...... I'm sure I'll be able to work tomorrow! ”

In fact, the prisoners of war lying on the straw knew in their hearts that it was not easy for them to even move now, let alone go to work tomorrow! The Japanese soldiers who held them prisoners of war of the Qing army were extremely cruel, there were prisoners of war who could not work in the past, and the Japanese were bayonets no matter what reason you had.

The commander of the Japanese wing who held them could speak some Chinese, and according to his instructions to the prisoners of war, these Qing prisoners of war were guilty of great sin against the Japanese Imperial Army, and they had to work hard to atone for their crimes! If you don't work, you can't atone for your sins, then prisoners of war have no meaning in living!

Therefore, there is only one way for the Japanese soldiers to treat prisoners of war who cannot work, and they stab them to death with a bayonet!

Today, because I complained to other prisoners of war that the food was not eaten by people, I didn't expect to be heard by a Japanese soldier who passed by and could understand Chinese, so he beat himself up with two other Japanese soldiers. At least several of my ribs were broken, and my internal organs may have been injured, so now I don't want to work, even if I move, I feel the pain like my internal organs are cracked.

The prisoner of war lying on the straw smiled bitterly, it seems that he will not be able to escape death tomorrow! The only thing that I couldn't let go of was my own brother, looking at my brother's red and swollen eyes, and said with difficulty: "Little ...... Younger brother! You...... You have to ...... Keep it up! Back...... Back to Daqing! ”

Sixteen or seventeen-year-old young prisoners of war are not stupid, and their brother's current situation will not be able to work at all tomorrow, which means that tomorrow he will definitely not be able to escape the bayonets of the Japanese soldiers!

The young prisoner of war looked at his brother, who had depended on him since childhood, and a fire appeared in his eyes! His parents both died when he was 5 years old, and when he was a child, he almost relied on his brother who was 4 years older than him to ask for food, plus his brother stole chickens and dogs from time to time, so that he could support the two brothers.

2 years ago, when I and my brother were asking for food, we encountered the recruitment of the Huai Army, and the two brothers discussed it and felt that it was not a way to always ask for food, so they joined the Huai Army! I didn't expect to follow Nie Shicheng's general army to North Korea last year and be captured by the Japanese army in the Pyongyang rout!

The two brothers were later escorted here with 15,000 Qing prisoners of war, doing heavy labor every day, eating food that is not as good as pig food, and the prisoners of war around them are decreasing day by day, and now it is their brother's turn!

Could it be that he watched his brother being stabbed to death by Japanese soldiers! No! Never! The young prisoners of war looked resolute at this time!