"Order the fleet, turn! Withdraw from the battlefield! "Matsumura Tatsuo has long seen that something is wrong, this Nima is not a problem of one or two giant cannons, this is more than fifteen large-caliber guns, and it can only make a noise. A fortress like Qingdao, with only a few guns of more than 200 calibers, is already a tiger's butt that cannot be touched. This will be in Wusong, encountering more powerful artillery fire, and these artillery shots are quite accurate. If you don't retreat, you will really be left behind.

With the order, the Japanese fleet began to turn and do a serpentine walk to avoid artillery fire. It is a difficult thing to hit a battleship in motion. Cannons are not missiles, and after an hour or two of fierce fighting, maybe one or two unlucky guys will appear.

"The destroyer stepped forward and released smoke to cover the retreat!" Matsumura gave the order again, and soon the sea was obscured by a smoke screen cast by the destroyer.

When Ernst and Borem in the headquarters of the fortress saw this formation, they shouted: "The Japanese fleet is going to run, order a battery with 150 cannons to fire, and hit their small battleships." "It would be a bit inappropriate to use large-caliber guns to hit destroyers, shells are very expensive, and the giant guns can only continue to chase the Japanese giant ships.

But luck is hard to say, especially when it comes to Italy, and luck is even more unpredictable. The cruiser Kasuga, produced in 1902 by the Ansaldo shipyard in Italy, commissioned in 1904. In May 1904, it collided with the Yoshino, and the Yoshino sank.

This is an unlucky battleship, and in this battle, its unlucky strength is continued. Seeing that it was about to withdraw from the battlefield, a cannonball that chased the Japanese capital ship landed on the Kasuga's main gun position. The shells of 305, which fell on the light cruiser with a displacement of 7628 tons, still hit the battery of the front main gun.

With a bang, the front main turret of the Kasuga flew up in an instant, and at the same time, the violent explosion detonated the nearest ammunition compartment of the main gun. The Kasuga, which is more than 7,000 tons, is like a normal person who has been hit by a giant's fist, and the feeling is that the entire battleship violently shakes, and this is the kind of tearing explosion.

This cannon actually shot out a small mushroom cloud. Then I saw the Kasuga, surrounded by flames, and at the critical moment, the destroyer came up and released a large amount of smoke, and despite the large number of 150 guns, the shooting effect of the affected sight was very poor. can only be beaten by feeling, the momentum is very big, but the effect is very bad.

Half an hour later, the smoke cleared, and the Japanese fleet was 20,000 meters away from the sea, leaving behind a cruiser Kasuga, which was slowly struggling to escape from this sea area at the speed of a snail. In fact, Tatsuo Matsumura ordered the ship to be abandoned, but the Japanese Navy was under the command of the British, and the captain of the Kasuga, Osa Ide, refused to abandon the battleship and resolutely lived and died with the battleship. So, throughout the Kasuga, except for more than thirty wounded soldiers who got on the boat and boarded a destroyer on the side, everyone else held out on the battleship. The fire had not been completely extinguished, and the smoke had exposed the Kasuga to the sea, and now the battleship was the only target.

Osa Ide commanded his battleship, sits with difficulty in evasive movements, but his speed is too slow. That cannon not only destroyed the front main gun, but also caused the battleship's power system to malfunction, and after a lot of efforts, the battleship could only maintain a speed of about five or six knots and crawl. Ordinary merchant ships run faster than it, and the speed of the Kasuga has been decreasing.

Slow speed for a light cruiser is tantamount to exposing the Achilles heel to the enemy. However, Idaide's choice still insisted, as long as the battleship still had a chance to recover, it could not give up lightly. What Kasuga has to do now is to stick out of this sea area, escape the effective range of the fortress artillery, and let other warships drag it along, which is the only way to survive.

But this only way to survive is now full of thorns. The large-caliber guns on the shore had stopped firing, but the twenty 150-caliber guns, as if they were usually shooting targets, were hitting the hapless battleship. Interestingly, Kasuga's luck was unexpectedly good, and for half an hour, it didn't hit it with a single shot. It escaped alive and out of range.

Li Xiehe, Shen Honglie, Ernst, and Burlem, the biggest officials, were dumbfounded. How could there be such a thing, seeing that they were about to escape from the range of 150 guns, Ernst and Borem were about to order the 240 cannons that had completed the cooling to open fire and must leave the battleship behind, when an accident happened.

This accident was not visible in the fortress, but the Kasuga on the sea could see very clearly that two torpedoes were approaching at a speed of more than 20 meters per second. Under the sea surface of 800 meters near the Kasuga, the captain of the No. 03 submarine, Meng Zixiong, who was diving, said with a triumphant smile: "Lao Tzu has two torpedoes left, and I am worried that I have no chance to use them." ”

The Kasuga's bad luck eventually went to the extreme, as one torpedo unceremoniously plunged into the tail of the hull, and the other drilled into the nose. At the moment when Iide Osa tried very hard to avoid failure, he silently closed his eyes. He and his subordinates seemed to be calm, not thinking about the exaggerated performances of the actors of some films. Many times, our enemies, when they look at war from their own standpoint, consider themselves righteous. He died fighting for the living space of the motherland in a small country. Under such a premise, the enemy can also see death as if it were home.

A brilliant spark blooms on the surface of the sea!

Tatsuo Matsumura closed his eyes in pain, and the defeat came at the last moment. In fact, the Japanese fleet is still within the range of 305 giant guns, but now the 10,000-ton giant ship looks like a small boat. With the existing sighting equipment, trying to hit the target is basically a waste of ammunition.

"Your Excellency, Commander, it's not your fault, it's a mistake on the part of the intelligence services. The 305 and 240 cannons were stored without the intelligence department noticing at all. Jiro Takeuchi tried to comfort Matsumura, but the effect was limited, and Matsumura still felt guilty. If he hadn't insisted, he would have found that the enemy's shore artillery fire was strong enough to justify that he didn't have to move forward and provoke a battle. Then, borrowing ten guts from submarines, even in broad daylight would not dare to launch an attack on a fleet.

This was a completely failed retaliatory operation, according to previous intelligence, the largest caliber artillery of the Wusongkou fortress was no more than 150, and this kind of artillery gave the battle patrol an itch. The Japanese government, once again, paid the price for their rashness. Throughout history, Japan has repeatedly shown its rash side on the issue of China. It's a pity that the government of the Republic of China is too weak in another time and space. Until the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the country was still in a state of fragmentation. An inch of rivers and mountains and an inch of blood, this is a true portrayal of the frontal battlefield of the War of Resistance Against Japan. Who would have thought that seven months before the outbreak of the all-out war of resistance, the nominal leader of the country was held hostage by two local warlords, and he still colluded with the ** armed forces to do something.

The tragedy in another time and space is difficult to play out in this time and space. Although the country was already riddled with holes at the end of the Qing Dynasty, in the early years of the Republic of China, the vitality was still there. In this time and space, there is a forward-looking leader who has led the country down a seemingly unreasonable path, but this path is feasible. Fang Jianxiong's actions are actually driven by a purpose, that is, to preserve the vitality of the nation to the greatest extent and integrate it. At the same time, the so-called traitorous act of guò strengthened the country's armed forces by a single means. Finally, at the end of September 1914, the war between China and Japan entered a period of suspension.

On 30 September, through the mediation of the consuls of Britain, France, Russia, and the United States, China and Japan issued statements one after another to temporarily stop the war. The two sides formed their own delegations to prepare for negotiations. So where is the place of negotiation? This issue has given rise to controversy. The Japanese government advocates that the venue for negotiations be placed in Shimonoseki City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan! When Yijiyuan laid out this condition, Sun Baoqi took the case on the spot and angrily reprimanded: "Now is not the First Wu Year, and the Republic of China is not the Qing Dynasty." ”

Zhu Erdian and others hurried to round the field, and the government of the Republic of China proposed to put the negotiation venue in Baoding. The Japanese minister, Ijiin, resolutely refused to agree. In the end, it was the ministers of the four countries who mediated and decided to hold the negotiations at the U.S. Consulate in Tianjin.

In fact, the British Minister Zhu Erdian was also very unhappy with this final result, and in this way, the Americans played a greater role in the process of negotiating peace, at least in the eyes of the outside world. Otherwise, why not at the consulate of another country?

Even with this result, the government of the Republic of China did not agree to it at first, and finally accepted this condition after some internal consultations. The two sides agreed that the date for formal negotiations would be October 5.

During this period, the two sides did not relax their military preparations, and the Japanese Navy's southward fleet was strengthened, and more than four warships of more than 10,000 tons were added, and they continued to cruise in the waters off Wusongkou. A Japanese detachment stationed in Taiwan also wandered at the mouth of the Min River. At the same time, on October 1, three divisions of the Japanese Army began to land at Dagukou.

The actions of the Japanese army were discovered and reported in time by the aviation of the Republic of China government. The government of the Republic of China has informed various countries in a timely manner and has taken targeted measures. On 2 October, three divisions of the Northeast Military Region moved south along the South Manchurian Railway. The Japanese strongholds along the way were uprooted one after another, and in one day, the vanguard troops arrived outside the city of Gaiping. The Japanese army reacted quickly, immediately retracted the defensive line, abandoned Gaiping, and retreated to the line of Wanjialing.

For the retreat of the Japanese army, the Republic of China National Defense Army did not take advantage of the situation to continue south along the South Manchurian Railway with a large force, but the vanguard regiment outside Gaiping City, the main force is still in Dashiqiao, this place, the starting point of a branch of the South Manchurian Railway, from here to the southwest, can reach Yingkou. Once the Japanese army landed at Yingkou, it could quickly outflank our troops moving south.

Judging from the reactions of China and Japan, the Chinese team is more restrained.

In response to the truce between the two sides, Fang Jianxiong said meaningfully at the internal meeting: "Peace is fought out!" ”