When considering the landing ground in northern China, the staff officers of the General Staff Department drew up a total of four landing sites: Luda, Tianjinwei, Qingdao, and Yantai. And the reasons are listed one by one.

In addition to the common advantages of these four landing sites, such as ports and tidal flats suitable for landing operations, developed transportation after landing, and easy to transfer troops, the brigade landed, penetrated directly into the hinterland of the Japanese army, divided the troops into two routes, and captured the three eastern provinces and Korea, which was equivalent to cutting off the back road of the Japanese army, but the brigade had been operating for many years since the Manchu Qing Beiyang era, and after the Japanese army occupied it, it repeatedly repaired fortifications and forts, known as the first fortress in East Asia, and it was not easy to attack; The benefits of landing in Tianjin Wei do not need to be mentioned in detail, the Eight-Nation Coalition Army captured the Dagu Fort, and went straight up along the canal to force Beijing, but Tianjin Wei is located in the interior of the Bohai Sea, the Bohai Sea is an inland sea, there are many water shoals, not suitable for large warship activities, and the Bohai Strait is relatively narrow, the Liaodong Peninsula and the Jiaodong Peninsula are like two iron arms, tightly choking the throat in and out of the Bohai Sea.

Based on the above considerations, Chief of General Staff Ye Zhiqiu also preferred to land in Shandong, which has been a major grain-producing province since ancient times and is extremely rich in mineral resources, and is an extremely important plundering place for the Japanese army invading China. Moreover, after the start of the war of aggression against China, the Japanese attack was smooth, coupled with the weakness of the Chinese Navy, the Japanese army arrogantly used Shandong as a rear base, and there were not many garrisons. The 59th Division stationed in Jinan is only a two-brigade C division, with only more than 10,000 members, plus some local garrisons, and more puppet army traitors formed by the puppet government of Beiping.

After the Battle of Changsha, the headquarters of the invading Japanese army also realized that the Allied forces were about to land in the north, so the 26th Division in the Beiping area was transferred to the Qingdao area for defense, and on the basis of the Qingdao fortress built by the German army before World War I, fortifications and batteries were built in the precipitous and important places such as Signal Mountain, Taiping Mountain, Qingdao Mountain and Yamen Mountain to prevent the Han army from landing.

In the Yantai area, the 9th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, which was originally stationed in Nanyuan, Beiping, was ordered to hold Jiaodong together with the Yantai garrison. And build fortifications in Weihai, Zhifu Bay, Penglai and other places to build a Jiaodong defense line. However, on the whole, due to the dispersion of Japanese forces on the Chinese mainland, the Japanese forces in the Shandong area were still relatively weak. Perhaps the Japanese still had hope in their Combined Fleet, believing that the Allies would not dare to move north too soon to open a second battlefield.

However, whether it was the general headquarters of the Japanese invasion of China in Nanjing, or the headquarters of the Japanese North China Front in Beiping, they all underestimated the determination and projection ability of the Han army. Lieutenant General Tada Jun, commander of the North China Army, once said that North China is not South China, and even though the Han Army has won some victories in South China, if they dare to land in the north far from the aid base, the North China Front will give them a head-on blow and reinvigorate the name of the invincible Imperial Japanese Army.

This is typical Japanese arrogance, you won't understand where they got so much faith if you don't know what they are saying. Commander Lin Weiguo of the Qingzhou Army asked for his life in blood, "The ancient Qingzhou is the land of Shandong, and at the beginning of the war, the Qilu boy lost his land in a panic. Today, the wanderer is returning to his hometown, full of pride. The landing of Ludi must be started by the Qingzhou army, so as to live up to the strong army of the Han Dynasty! ”

Chen Shukang, commander-in-chief of the "Wanderer Plan," agreed to the Qingzhou Army's request, and the 16th Qingzhou Army, as the first batch of beach-grabbing troops to land, boarded the Yanhuang Wheel together with the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Marine Division.

In order to implement the "Wandering Plan," Chief of General Staff Ye Zhiqiu sat in Hong Kong and assembled more than 500 Yanhuang steamers in Victoria Harbor, Guangzhou, Zhanjiang, Shantou, and the west coast of Taiwan Island.

More than 100 warships of various types of the Northern Fleet were dispatched to escort the convoy, and the submarine units began to clear the convoy a month in advance, but they did not gain much, and the sea wolves of the two oceanic fleets were already cruising and hunting in the East China Sea, but the submarines belonging to the three major fleets often met, and the two sides surfaced to the surface together, greeted each other, chatted, and smoked -- there were no Japanese ships in the East China Sea at all, and this was purely idle and painful.

Yantai is located in the eastern part of Shandong Peninsula, connecting Weihai in the east, Weifang in the west, Qingdao in the southwest, Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea in the north, facing the Liaodong Peninsula and facing Luda across the sea, forming the maritime gateway of Gongwei Beijing and Tianjin. Yantai is named after Yantai Mountain in the territory. In the thirty-first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1398), in order to prevent the Japanese invaders, the wolf smoke pier platform was set up in Yantai Mountain, that is, the beacon tower, and Yantai got its name.

In the ancient Han Dynasty, Yantai belonged to Donglai County, Qingzhou, the hometown of Tai Shici, who "was born in the world and should carry a three-foot sword". In modern times, Yantai was opened to trade because of its strategic location and the excellent port of Zhifu Bay.

Legend has it that Yantai is also a place where immortals live, and Qin Shi Huang toured the east three times to find the elixir of immortality, all of which left footprints in Yantai.

But the legend is a legend after all, the legend is that the Japanese were born of the five hundred boys and girls brought by Xu Fusheng, but the little devils still invaded this beautiful and rich land and caused great murder. In order to build the Jiaodong defense line, the Japanese army forcibly seized the laborers, brutally persecuted, squeezed out their last strength by inhuman means, and abandoned them like pigs and dogs.

Lieutenant General Lin Weiguo's ancestral home is Qufu, Shandong, the hometown of saints. Although the return of the wanderer to his hometown will bring the flames of war, this is the war of liberation and the war of hope. Hopefully, having driven out the invaders, the homeland will be better, like ...... South China is the same!

A whistle sounded from the command ship of the Zhongmou of the Northern Fleet, and on the left side of the sea area through which the fleet passed, you could faintly see Liugong Island -- the seat of the Admiral's Mansion of the Beiyang Fleet, China's first modern navy, and also the place where Ding Ruchang and other patriotic generals committed suicide and martyrdom. The heavy cruiser Ziyi (Tai Shici) of the Northern Fleet salutes the predecessors of the Chinese Navy.

All the naval officers and men on the deck of the ships are saluting in the direction of Liugong Island, and although there are such and such scandals in the Beiyang Fleet, there are also many patriotic officers and soldiers such as Ding Rujing, Liu Buyun, Deng Shichang, and Lin Taizeng, especially the Zhiyuan ship that crashed into the Yoshino with all the bullets is admired by the Han Emperor and admired by the Han Army.

"My generation served in the army to defend the country, and life and death were out of the way, and today's events are just death!"

"Who does not die? I wish I had died as I deserved! ”

Lord Deng's words were like thunder, which was sobering. Especially after Zhiyuan was sunk and Deng Shichang fell into the sea, his entourage rescued him with a lifebuoy, but he refused, and said: "I am determined to kill the enemy to serve the country, and now I die in the sea, righteousness, why survive!" Deng Shichang swore to live and die with the warship, resolutely entered the water according to the dog's head, and he also sank in the waves, and more than 250 officers and soldiers of the ship died heroically.

"Life should be a hero, and death is also a ghost!" The Han Emperor ordered the construction of the Three Armies Loyal Soul Temple, among which the Navy Martyrs Hall in Donglai, Qingzhou was named Shichang Pavilion.

-- Horse leather shrouds and fighting in the border fields have always been the highest pursuit of soldiers. Especially those who know that they are dying in front of their eyes, but still stand tall and go to the martyrdom, which is even more revered! Salute to the officers and soldiers who died in the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle!

Many years later, will future generations have the opportunity to remember another First Sino-Japanese War, the Diaoyu Islands, and the South China Sea?