This time Ren Chao did not pretend to be deep, and not long after Nie Shicheng received the battle report, Ren Chao took the initiative to come to the door.

"My brother came at the right time." Without waiting for Ren Chao to bow and salute, Nie Shicheng grabbed Ren Chao's hand, "Presumably my brother also knows, last night the Japanese army sent torpedo boats to attack the Jiaolong fleet anchored in Incheon Port. ”

"I also just got the news, fortunately my alert ship found it in time, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable!" This time, Ren Chao did not pretend to be stupid. Just last night, the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet quietly approached the port of Incheon, and then sent torpedo boats to attack the Jiaolong fleet in the port. One gunboat of the Jiaolong fleet was sunk, the cruiser Zhenhai was damaged, two of the three Japanese torpedo boats were sunk, and one was sunk by a mine. However, the main force of the Japanese Combined Fleet immediately blocked the sea off the port of Incheon and put on a decisive momentum. However, due to the fear of the strength of the Jiaolong fleet, Ito Yuheng did not dare to launch an arrogant attack, and after receiving the news, Ren Chao secretly ordered the Jiaolong fleet not to go to sea for a decisive battle, and the two sides were temporarily in a state of confrontation.

"Now that the Japanese fleet has blocked the port, do you order the Jiaolong fleet to go to sea to meet it?" Nie Shicheng looked at Ren Chao and asked.

"I'm afraid this won't work, the Japanese combined fleet has more than a dozen warships, which can be said to be out of the nest, and we only have four main warships, of which the Zhenhai was also damaged, and the Celestial Empire and Jinghai are also being repaired, and the combat effectiveness has been somewhat affected, if you rush to sea for a decisive battle, it will be difficult to win." Ren Chao said with a frown.

"What can I do?" Nie Shicheng ran out of ideas for a while, Nie Shicheng was born in the army and didn't know anything about the navy.

"Don't worry about the military gate, there are mines arranged by our army outside the port, and there are our land batteries on the shore, although the Japanese are powerful, but they do not dare to rashly launch an attack, as long as we hide in the port to protect the ship and avoid the battle, the fleet is still not in danger for the time being, but we must strictly prevent the little devils from sneaking up again." Ren Chao said with a frown.

"If only we could keep the fleet!" Nie Shicheng was obviously relieved, before coming to Korea, Li Hongzhang had specially explained that he must bring this fleet back to Lushun safely, the Beiyang Naval Division suffered heavy losses in the Yellow Sea War, and Li Hongzhang desperately hoped to bring this fleet under his command and revitalize Beiyang.

"It's just that in this way, the mark will not be able to return to Beijing for the time being." Ren Chao said with a sad face.

"Brother Ren don't worry, I'll send a report to the imperial court, asking the Holy Lord to let the virtuous brother postpone his entry into Beijing." Nie Shicheng has now figured it out, relying on himself to control the Tiger Ben Army at all, let alone propose troops to recover Pyongyang. It is not necessarily a bad thing to leave Ren Chao behind, because Ren Chao is his subordinate after all, and if he can really recover Pyongyang in the future, he will naturally have a share of his own credit, not to mention that now Ren Chao just wants to leave, I am afraid that he will not be able to leave for a while.

"Will the Holy One agree?" Ren Chao said with a frown.

"The power of heaven is unpredictable, and the foolish brother can only do his best." Nie Shicheng said with a sigh.

Later, Nie Shiguo went to the imperial court to ask Ren Chao to postpone his entry into Beijing, and Ren Chao then also asked to stay in Korea and fight to the death against the Japanese invaders, and wait until he defeated the Japanese invaders before returning to Beijing to face the saint. Two days later, the court called back, and it was played.

After blockading the port of Incheon for three days, the Japanese Combined Fleet quietly retreated on the night of the third day under the cover of night after two unsuccessful sneak attacks.

At this time, Nie Shicheng once again proposed to let the Jiaolong fleet return to Lushun, but Ren Chao deliberately delayed the time on the grounds that the Japanese fleet might go and return, and the main battleships of the Jiaolong fleet had not been repaired. However, at the urging of Nie Shicheng, Ren Chao finally agreed to send troops north to prepare to recover Pyongyang.

Subsequently, Ren Chao led the main force of the Tiger Ben Army of more than 6,000 people, the Korean New Army of 4,000 people, and the Dongxue Army of 40,000 troops to the north. Nie Shicheng was awarded the title of minister of the Imperial Mission, controlled the Korean army, and went out with the army.

At the same time, Liu Kunyi dispatched tens of thousands of Qing troops to launch the first counteroffensive against the Japanese army in northern Korea, but the vanguard of the Qing army had just crossed the Yalu River and was ambushed by the Japanese near Uiju, and the Qing army was crushed at the touch of a button, and suffered heavy losses. Most of the main forces of the Qing army in Liaodong were Huai troops, but Liu Kunyi was the general of the Hunan army, and the two armies of Hunan and Huai had a long-standing grudge, which made Liu Kunyi greatly constrained in command, and the first battle was defeated.

Ren Chao scolded angrily after getting the news, this Qing army is really a pile of mud that can't support the wall, and the Qing army can't count on it, but Ren Chao doesn't want to give up this opportunity to recover Pyongyang. The main force of more than 10,000 Japanese troops retreated into the vicinity of Pyongyang, trying to resist Ren Chao's attack with the fortified city of Pyongyang. The Japanese army's move just hit Ren Chao's soft underbelly, if Pyongyang is stormed, it will inevitably cause huge losses to the troops, whether such losses are worth it, let Ren Chao begin to hesitate. Ren Chao calculated in his heart, if the 10,000 Japanese troops in the city were completely annihilated, the loss of the Tiger Ben Army was less than 2,000, plus the weapons and ammunition consumed, then the deal would be worth it, and Ren Chao didn't care much about the loss of the Koreans. But after some deduction, it may be difficult to control the loss below 2,000! So Ren Chao began to hesitate.

It has been ten days since Ren Chao led the army to Pyongyang, during which Ren Chao tried his best to lure the Japanese army out of the city for a decisive battle, but the little devil was Wang Ba's heart to eat the scales, and he always cowered in the turtle shell of Pyongyang City and could not come out. At this time, two months had passed since the Japanese army occupied Pyongyang, and the Japanese army had built a large number of strong fortifications inside and outside the city of Pyongyang.

Just when Ren Chao was thinking hard about the best way to break the enemy, an urgent military telegram sent by the imperial court slashed at Ren Chao's head like a thunderbolt on a sunny day.

"What did you say?" Ren Chao stared at Nie Shicheng with a pair of big eyes with an incredulous expression.

"This is a war report just sent by the imperial court, the Japanese Second Army's Second Army General Dashanyan led the Japanese Second Division, and about 30,000 people of the Sixth Division successfully landed in Weihai, and now Weihaiwei has been lost." Nie Shicheng said and handed the telegram in his hand to Ren Chao.

Ren Chao snatched it up, and after reading it in a hurry, he couldn't help but gasp, and confirmed it again before handing the telegram back to Nie Shicheng. "Isn't there thousands of defenders in Weihaiwei? How did it fall so quickly. Ren Chao still couldn't believe the facts in front of him.

"Our army was not well prepared and slackened in combat readiness, so that the Japanese raid was successful." Nie Shicheng said with a sigh.