The cold fog was filled, the north wind was bone-chilling, and the morning in Lushunkou was deserted.

Since the Russian occupation of the city and the construction of the adjacent Dalian in the year of Gengzi, Port Arthur has not been so depressed. Although the weather is cold, winter is the busiest season in previous years, but now there are few people here, and there is nothing to see on the street except for dense sandbags and bunkers.

Thin, thin, and dressed in a thin jacket, he emerged from the stables of the refugee camp after a night of hard work, said goodbye to his trembling wife, and headed to the harbor with the stench of horse manure, hoping to get some food from a friend.

It turned out that he was an engineer of the South Manchurian Railway, with a good career and income, but just as he was looking forward to a better future, the war broke out. After the Xihuamen Incident, the terrible aftermath of Chapter 350 was shortened for more than ten days, and tens of thousands of Chinese troops who were ready to attack quickly cut off the South Manchurian Railway, snatched all the branches in various places, and beat the road guards to the point that they lost their armor and hurriedly retreated. Within a few days, the entire railway from Harbin to Haicheng was interrupted, and he had to flee all the way from Shenyang to Lushun with his wife.

He did not leave immediately after arriving, in addition to the fact that the ships needed to be used to transport reinforcements and war materials first, he also felt that once the great Japanese empire was launched, it would be a thunderous momentum, and it should be able to recapture the railroad soon, so he stayed in Lushun and waited patiently for the Japanese expatriates who had gathered from all over the world to return to work after the war. During that time, he would come to the port every day, and he would raise his arms and cheer when a group of troops arrived from China, but as fewer and fewer ships arrived, especially after the ambush at the mouth of Arthur, the route was almost interrupted, and everyone's hearts began to sink.

At that time, he was still lucky that the difficulties were only temporary, and the victory would definitely belong to the "Japanese". Because the powerful Imperial Army began to land in Shandong.

One day, two days, and a month passed slowly in this waiting. When the news of Qingdao's defeat came back, it shocked everyone! The army folded the 350th chapter, the terrible aftermath, the halberd sank into the sand, and lost 30,000 in one day and one night! The Imperial Navy, known as the strongest in Asia, was sunk four capital ships in a row off Qingdao! On that day, everyone realized that the war was likely to be lost. But when he was about to return to China, he found that the vital shipping routes from Lushun and North Korea to Kyushu Island had been interrupted, and the dilemma of going home without a boat made him regret not leaving earlier, and finally he could only wait with his young wife.

The situation of the war became more and more unfavorable, and the soldiers began to spread the news that North Korea had been lost. Immediately after the loss of Jinju and the loss of Sinuiju. From that day on, the last vestiges of confidence in victory were completely buried. Even the soldiers knew that defeat was inevitable. For the more than 10,000 ordinary people stranded in Lushun, the unfavorable news of the war situation may only cause a burst of curse and pain, but the tight food supply has made everyone's life suddenly difficult. As a result of the war, most of the Chinese people in Kwantung Prefecture fled to Mukden. As a result, the farmland here is out of land and there is a lack of labor. Plus I didn't expect a war to break out in advance. Therefore, the governor of Kwantung also sent back last year's grain reserves back to China in March to help alleviate the domestic food disaster, but he did not expect this to become Lushun's nightmare.

From the beginning of the war, the Kanto region entered into food rationing supplies. Every expatriate could only get barely half-full food, and when Jinzhou was also lost, the food was even more scarce, and with the arrival of the harsh winter, the supply fleet was never able to arrive on a large scale. In order to ensure that the army had enough food to survive the harsh winter, even rations were cancelled. The Governor's Office asked the expatriates to find a way to solve it themselves.

On both sides of the road leading to the pier sat many banner men with braids and begging. He looked down on these people, and it was because of feeding tens of thousands of these lazy guys that he had exhausted the last bit of Lushun's reserve food, resulting in no one having anything to eat at present. Even now, they would rather beg than figure it out themselves. It's no wonder that these decaying and declining bannermen will be defeated one after another! Nagano Harada smacked hard in his heart. After that, he continued to walk towards the pier against the north wind.

He was a native of Kagoshima, and Kagoshima was the hometown of the Satsuma Domain of the Navy, so after escaping to Lushun, he made many naval friends, so he quickly found a naval boatman who was also from Kagoshima. "Nagano-kun?" The boatman, who smelled horse manure on him and almost recognized the young engineer, asked, "What's wrong with you?" Where did it go? ”

Naganohara spread his hands helplessly: "I went to Dalian after the Governor's Mansion canceled the grain ration, but there was no ship over there. When I returned, I found that my temporary accommodation was occupied by soldiers, so I had to live in the stables temporarily. It was so cold that there was only hay there to keep warm. ”

After listening to his general experience in the past few days, the boatman was also a little angry: "These damn army fools! For the sake of those lazy banner men to provoke China, dragging the empire into the war is not to support the Manchu and Mongolian forces, treat them as treasures, and waste food to feed them. Now I finally know how stupid it is! "The dispute between land and sea is not a secret in Japan, and Nagano, as an engineer of the South Manchurian Railway, has heard some cases of the two armies not getting along with each other. For example, the navy uses all British standard equipment, but the army uses German caliber, resulting in the inability to use each other's weapons and ammunition. But he didn't want to get involved in this kind of dispute, and smiled: "Forget it." They also wanted to support a puppet government for the sake of the empire before, who would have thought that it would become like this. ”

With disdain on his face, the boatman turned around and went back to the dormitory to get food. Although the material management was strict, the navy was much richer than the army, and the military port was stocked with food, so he quickly brought a small bag of food. Looking at the bulging baggage, Nagano Harada looked excited, and bowed and saluted before going to pick up the burden of saving his life, but as soon as his fingers touched the outer face, a burst of beast-like shouts and gunshots suddenly came from his ear drums!

Gunshot! How can there be gunshots? Isn't the enemy still in Pulandian and Piziwo?

The silence was shattered by the sound of gunfire, and thousands of soldiers rushed out of the direction of the camp to shoot into the sky as if venting, and more soldiers began to rush towards the harbor, even the navy could not stop the surging tide! The soldiers rushed to the beach, knelt down with their hands raised in the air, and shouted wildly: "The emperor is loaded!" Full of unfolded baggage. ”

"The great day of this empire is loyal and the soul lasts forever!"

"Kudanzaka! My home. ”

The suddenly restless soldier dragged Lushun into a frenzy, and the confused Nagano Harada clung to the cloth bag, turned his head to see that a similar situation had occurred on the warship moored in the harbor, and before he could understand what was going on. After shouting a few times, a young army soldier suddenly raised his gun and aimed it at his head.

Syllable!

Crisp gunfire. The head of the suicidal soldier shattered like a watermelon smashed open by a hammer. Blood and brains were mixed together, gushing out and splashing all over the ground. Jun Cao's suicide seems to have opened the curtain of a competition for suicide speed, with hundreds of soldiers shouting or shooting, or pulling grenades, or simply jumping into the sea from cliffs tens of meters high!

What's wrong? What's going on!

The intense death scroll slammed into Naganohara's eyes, and a chill spread from his back to his body. Soon the whole person was unable to move. The boatman behind him seemed to think of something and quickly ran back to the nearest destroyer. A moment later, he walked over with a look of decadence. "The Empire is defeated! His Majesty the Emperor has issued an edict ordering the withdrawal of all troops, including Taiwan, and has also exchanged the concession to China. ”

"What!"

Even if not military personnel. But the young Nagano Haradaira was still stunned by the news! How can it be? How can it be! It is known as the strongest in Asia. How could even an empire with a world powerhouse admit defeat? And also lost all the land and interests outside Taiwan! Nagano, who seemed to have lost his soul, walked to the stable of the refugee camp where he had stayed last night, and along the way, countless out-of-control soldiers smashed and looted, and the burden full of food was also snatched, and his body was hit by the panicked crowd like a tide, and when he returned to the stable, he saw the ugliest scene!

I only saw it. A dozen soldiers who had rioted out of control crowded the stables, and familiar clothes were torn into strips of cloth and scattered everywhere. A naked soldier howled like a beast, and as soon as two white legs poked out from him, they were held down and pinched by the soldiers next to him. The shrill and frightened cries were intermittent in the corner, and in an instant they were completely voiceless.

"Bastard! You bastards! Brute! ”

Blood rushed to his brain, Nagano never expected that the rioting soldier after learning the news of the defeat would vent his anger and anger on his own people, he used all his strength to pick up the wooden stick next to him and rushed towards the soldier, but before he could get close to the butt of a gun, he smashed it in the face. When his face was covered in blood, he finally saw his wife who was ravaged and about to die through the cracks, and at that moment he realized that the army under the power of the mighty emperor was so ugly and so terrible.

"Blow up all this place, and you must not leave it to the people of China! Even if I die, I won't leave here! Shirakawa Yoshinori, who had escaped from Longkou by chance, commanded the rebels to rush up to the Golden Mountain Fort, pointing at a thick coastal heavy artillery to try to destroy it, and dozens of naval artillery rushed to stop it, but they were blocked by Xueliang's bayonets.

"General, you will break the armistice treaty by doing so."

Smack. The bloodshot Shirakawa Yoshinori slapped the second lieutenant who came to block him twice, and shouted hysterically: "Bullshit armistice treaty!" His Majesty the Emperor has been deceived by those surrender factions, and as an emperor, he should fight until he does not give up, instead of leaving these cannons to the enemy! His words made the navy soldiers dare not move again, in fact, they did not want to leave these powerful heavy guns to the enemy, so they took a few steps back and let the army take over the battery to destroy.

The frenzied army soldiers began to plug the cannon barrel and the pedestal**, trying to completely destroy the Lushun fortress group, and many army soldiers also stormed the naval dock, shouting that they would blow up and sink the warship to block the channel of Port Arthur, completely blocking everyone's way home, their mania caused the dissatisfaction of the navy, and the two sides had a small fierce exchange of fire.

It's messy! It's a complete mess!

Lushun, Dalian, and even the entire Golden State were in chaos, and there were army soldiers everywhere who had exploded and sabotaged. After the soldiers filled in the **, Shirakawa Yoshinori immediately ordered the explosion. With a rumbling explosion, a mushroom cloud suddenly rose into the sky, but before the second cannon could be detonated, several shells landed on the battery. There was also the rumbling of cannon on the sea, and the nervous soldiers turned their heads to see that the four British, American, and Russian cruisers flying the Rice Flag, the Star-Spangled Banner, and the Double-headed Eagle were all aimed at the battery, and behind them were the Blue Bottom Dragon Claw Flag (blue background, blood cloud dragon claw broken arrow in the upper right corner. Refer to the tuning of the Pacific Ocean, haha, the hippopotamus is too lazy to change) the Qingdao armored cruiser of the new Republic of China naval flag.

"Shogun Terauchi, I want to remind you! Your country has signed an armistice agreement, according to which all facilities must be handed over to China in its entirety! If sabotage continues, it is an act of declaration of war! "In the Governor's Mansion of Arthur, the British, American, and Russian officials who are responsible for supervising the performance of the contract by Japan are violent, and they don't want to see the Japan break the treaty and restart the war, causing the situation in the Far East to be chaotic again, especially the Russian officials who urgently need to withdraw their troops are even more unceremoniously pointing at the temple Zhengyi, and they have the posture of taking the opportunity to avenge the revenge ten years ago.

Three countries, three countries again! What is the difference between this and the Three Kingdoms back then? Shame on you! Even the defeated generals dared to come to the door and point their noses at the door to scold. Terauchi Masatsuki's eyes were full of unwillingness, and the corners of his eyes couldn't help but look at the British envoy, but the same cold face showed how much Europe cared about the truce between the two countries at this moment, although he was reluctant in his heart, but in the face of pressure, he could only nod with difficulty in the end, and sent someone to send a herald to prohibit the continued destruction of facilities.

Under the protection of the warships sent by Britain, the United States and Russia to supervise the withdrawal of Japan, the navy of the Chinese country returned to Arthur again after a lapse of 20 years! On the deck, Chen Shaokuan, a naval representative who had come to supervise the withdrawal of troops, looked at the Japanese soldiers who jumped off the cliff and felt numb in their scalps. What kind of country is this?! There is nothing wrong with soldiers dying on the battlefield, but when the country and the government have already made a decision, it is crazy that so many people should be buried!

What's more, this is still a land that does not belong to them in the first place!

Thinking of this, he began to worry about whether he would be able to recover Taiwan smoothly after five years, and he also understood why it was rumored that the contract was signed but the commander-in-chief Yang Qiu did not smile.

At the same time that the Qingdao sailed into the bay to announce Lushun's homecoming, far away from the Wusongkou wharf in Shanghai, two Japanese merchant ships also untied their cables at the same time and sailed out of the Yangtze River. On the deck, Takaaki Kato couldn't tell whether he was happy or painful, and he always felt extremely panicked and uncomfortable looking at the coastline farther and farther away.

Similarly, after Chen Haohui, who was far away in Japan, burned the telegram, he pried open the floor and took out two long-cherished Minyuan-style pistols and stuffed them into his clothes, looking at Kawashima Yoshiko, who was already asleep, and took a deep breath.

After nearly three years of incubation, the light is finally coming. !!