It turned out that the eight auxiliary ships were used by the Qing court to attack Lin Fei, although the eight auxiliary ships did not have heavy artillery and no torpedoes, but in their wide cabins, they were filled with picric acid explosives purchased from the British, and during the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, the shells of the Beiyang Fleet were filled with black powder, and they suffered from the lack of power.

In order to be able to load more explosives, the eight auxiliary ships unloaded all the equipment that could be removed from the cabin and replaced it with explosives, and even the stoves in the galley compartment and the beds in the living compartment were full of explosives.

The crew of the eight auxiliary ships were all dead soldiers selected by Yuan Shikai from his own troops, and after they were selected, they underwent a six-month training at the naval base, and they knew how to steer the ships, and they drove these eight auxiliary ships, and there was only one thing to do, that is, to crash into Lin Fei's ship, and then detonate the explosives.

Li Hongzhang's plan to kill Lin Fei with the help of the public memorial ceremony, in the end, these eight auxiliary ships are the main event, as for everything in front, it is just a means to confuse Lin Fei, including giving the old couple and the flower girl to Lin Fei, they are all part of the plan, in fact, the old couple really lost a child, as for whether the child is Lin Fei, no one knows.

The commander of the eight auxiliary ships thought that it was not bad for Lin Fei's analysis, and when the eight auxiliary ships turned to the other side of the Huaxia fleet, they suddenly turned their heads and attacked, but what the commanders of the eight auxiliary ships did not expect was that they were facing the navy formed by Lin Fei, and their vigilance was extremely high, and they would not relax their vigilance at all because the eight auxiliary ships sailed to the other side.

Liu Daming gave the order to open fire, the 120 mm secondary guns on the Emperor-class cruiser fired first, the Emperor-class cruiser had a total of eight 120-mm secondary guns, four on the port side and four on the starboard side, four Emperor-class cruisers, sixteen guns could be concentrated on one side, these sixteen guns fired together, the shells fell like raindrops, and the eight auxiliary ships were not far from the Huaxia fleet, and it was difficult to escape the rain of bullets.

A cannonball rushed to the front of the supply ship, the supply ship was full of explosives, hit by a cannonball, the explosives were completely detonated in an instant, the entire supply ship was raised a thick black fireball, there was a thick yellow smoke in the fireball, picric acid explosives explosion will produce yellow smoke, which is completely different from black powder.

The other seven steamships did not escape the fate of being sunk, they were shot and exploded, turning into a raging fire mass on the sea, to the surprise of the Chinese sailors, none of the sailors jumped out of the raging fire, they were willing to die with the ship, the Qing sailors, there was such a momentum.

Eight auxiliary ships were sunk, it took less than five minutes, Li Hongzhang had planned a grand plan for eight months, and in front of Lin Fei, in just five minutes, it was completely shattered.

At the same time, Emperor Guangxu and Li Hongzhang had already landed on the Weihai Sea on the west side of Liugong Island, and listened to the battle report on the shore.

Li Hongzhang was complacent when he heard the explosion, knelt down in front of Emperor Guangxu, and said: "Holy Lord, listening to this explosion, the old minister's plan seems to have succeeded, and Lin Fei at this time is afraid that he will be blown up to the point that there are no bones left." ”

Emperor Guangxu nodded slightly proudly, thinking that he had finally gotten rid of a big trouble, and now he could sit back and relax.

At this time, there were Tanma to report the battle situation, Tanma were the lowest level of soldiers, they could not see Li Hongzhang, let alone Emperor Guangxu, they could only see the lower-level officers first, and then the officers reported the news layer by layer, and finally reported to Li Hongzhang.

The news was reported to Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai was taken aback, and gave Li Hongzhang a look, Li Hongzhang walked away from Emperor Guangxu's side, came to Yuan Shikai, saw that Yuan Shikai looked wrong, and had a premonition that something was wrong, and hurriedly asked: "What happened?" ”

"Enlightenment...... Lord Kaiyu, the Snitch has sunk all of our ships. ”

Li Hongzhang almost fainted when he heard this, and said in a trembling voice: "What are you talking about, what is going on?" ”

"Lord Zhongtang, the plan ahead is very smooth, our eight auxiliary ships passed through the Huaxia fleet, and then took advantage of the unpreparedness of the Huaxia fleet, suddenly turned the bow of the ship, and launched an attack, but the Snitch's battleship was too difficult, and our eight auxiliary ships were all sunk without even using a cup of tea."

Li Hongzhang's eyes were dark, his body involuntarily fell backwards, and he hurriedly supported him left and right, and then he helped Li Hongzhang, Li Hongzhang sighed, and said sadly: "I regret not at the beginning, I regret not at the beginning, the old man wanted to install the torpedo canister on eight auxiliary ships, but unfortunately he couldn't find a craftsman who was proficient in this way, so he used the method of loading explosives in the cabin, alas...... Alas...... Alas! ”

Li Hongzhang really couldn't regret it, Yuan Shikai hurriedly persuaded on the side: "My lord, now is not the time to regret it, think about how to tell the saint, the saint still thinks that Lin Fei has been killed by us." ”

Li Hongzhang was already desperate, and said helplessly: "How else can I tell it, but now, I can only tell it truthfully." ”

Li Hongzhang pushed away the support on the left and right, stood firmly, straightened his official uniform and hat, came to the front of Emperor Guangxu, lifted his clothes and knelt on the ground, kowtowed, and lamented: "The old minister is a capital crime." ”

Emperor Guangxu hurriedly stood up, walked two steps to Li Hongzhang's approach, and stretched out his hand to mix, "What is Li Aiqing's crime?" ”

Li Hongzhang didn't dare to stand up, and said in a wailful voice: "The old minister's plan has failed, Lin Fei is not dead, and our eight auxiliary ships have all been sunk." After Li Hongzhang finished speaking, he cried bitterly, the old tears were rampant, and the surrounding ministers cried as if they were in response.

Emperor Guangxu exclaimed, his face was like ashes, he took two steps back and sat on the dragon chair, and said in a trembling voice: "The plan is in the people, and the success is in the sky, but the sky will not help me." ”

Li Hongzhang bowed his head and bowed again, crying: "The old minister deserves to die for his crimes, and I ask the saint to keep the whole body of the old minister." ”

Emperor Guangxu didn't speak, the scene was silent, then Yuan Shikai suddenly rushed over, and said sharply: "Holy Lord, please quickly drive back to Beijing, snitch, return to Liugong Island." ”

"The snitch actually killed Liu Gong Island!" Emperor Guangxu was furious, stood up, and shouted: "Come on, order Deng Shichang and Ye Zuqi to repel the snitch for me, and I want to drive the expedition in person." ”

Li Hongzhang got up from the ground and cried and persuaded: "The saint can't be rash, the snitch is powerful, it's better to stay away for a while." ”

"If I don't leave, if I want to stay in Weihai, I don't believe it, the snitch has conquered Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou, not counting, but also to conquer my Liugong Island."

At this time, everyone panicked, Weihai is very close to Liugong Island, in case Lin Fei's mind moves a little after beating Liugong Island, then Weihai will be dangerous.

Everyone persuaded Emperor Guangxu to take the Zhiyuan ship and fled to Tianjin without his life.

It turned out that after Lin Fei sank eight auxiliary ships, Liu Daming persuaded Lin Fei to return to Dayu City immediately, away from Liugong Island, which is a place of right and wrong, but Lin Fei laughed and said: "The Qing court sent eight auxiliary ships to kill me, if I leave, wouldn't it be in vain to be called Emperor Fei!" ”

"So what do you want to do?"

Lin Fei stretched out his hand and pointed to Liugong Island in the distance, and said with a smile: "Liugong Island is the most important naval base of the Qing court, as soon as this base is lost, they can only commit to Tianjin Port, Tianjin Port is an international public seaport, the battleship is parked there, I sent a few frogmen to clean it up, return to me and capture Liugong Island." ”

At this time, there were 300 frogman commandos on Liugong Island, 1,000 Tianjin dispatch troops, plus two dynasty-class battleships and four emperor-class cruisers, there was no problem in capturing Liugong Island, and Liugong Island was also the naval base of the Qing court, with extremely rich grain reserves and fresh water reserves, and it could be defended even if it was laid.

Lin Fei did not order his subordinates to arrest Emperor Guangxu directly, because he didn't know where Emperor Guangxu was now, and Emperor Guangxu's whereabouts were absolutely secret, so Lin Fei didn't know that he was in Weihai at all, and if Lin Fei knew that Emperor Guangxu was in Weihai, he would definitely arrest Emperor Guangxu directly.

Liu Daming immediately used the blue bird machine to notify the frogman commandos on Liugong Island and the Tianjin Dispatch Army, and these two troops immediately sent troops to control the Qing army camp on Liugong Island, and disarmed all the Qing troops.

At this time, there were reporters from all over the world on Liugong Island, and before they could leave, they heard the explosion on the sea, and they had a premonition that a big event was going to happen, and they were even more reluctant to go, but they didn't expect to really wait for a big event - the Huaxia army captured the Qing army camp and disarmed all the Qing troops.

After the Huaxia Army took control of the Qing army's barracks, it immediately sent troops to kill the Liugongdao wharf, where the Jingyuan ship and eight torpedo boats were moored, and Lin Fei gave an order to the Huaxia Army, and after capturing the barracks, he directly captured all the warships of the Qing navy to me, leaving not a single one.

Ye Zuqi, the commander of the Jingyuan ship, knew Li Hongzhang's actions, but he didn't expect that Lin Fei would suddenly return to the army to capture Liugong Island, Lin Fei's action was too surprising, all the Qing officials thought that even if Li Hongzhang's plan was not successful, Lin Fei would be frightened and fled, who would have thought that Lin Fei would command the troops to kill Liugong Island.

The Flying Emperor is the Flying Emperor, which is not something that ordinary people in the Qing court can speculate.

Ye Zuqi saw that the Huaxia Army was coming, so he hurriedly ordered the ship to sail and sail towards the open sea, and just halfway through, he collided head-on with the main fleet led by Lin Fei.

Lin Fei ordered the banner soldiers to send a message to Ye Zuqi - you surrender to me immediately!

Ye Zuqi is also a bloody officer, in the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, he led the Jingyuan ship to fight a bloody battle with the Japanese ships, and did not retreat at all, and now in the face of Lin Fei's persuasion, he issued an order to the whole fleet to fight to the death.