Lin Yuan hurriedly came to the Forbidden City, Li Hongzhang was already waiting inside, and after a while, several more ministers of military aircraft came, and after the last, Emperor Guangxu arrived.

Li Hongzhang said: "Qi Qi Sheng, the Japanese invaders crossed the Daling River from the ice of the Daling River in the early hours of yesterday morning and attacked Jinxian. ”

The Daling River, now also called the Daling River, is located in the western part of Liaoning Province, and Jinxian County is now Linghai City, located on the west bank of the Daling River.

Emperor Guangxu said angrily: "Why are the defenders all defeated? ”

Li Hongzhang said: "Jinxian County is not high, and the moat is not deep, so it is difficult to resist the Japanese army, so there are not many defenders in Jinxian County, and it is reasonable for the Japanese army to attack in a big way." ”

Emperor Guangxu asked: "Li Aiqing, this Jinxian is lost, what impact will it have on the overall situation?" ”

Li Hongzhang said: "Jinxian is the gateway to protect Jinzhou, Jinzhou and Jinxian are dependent on each other, the Japanese army captured Jinxian, it seems to be to force Jinzhou, Jinzhou is lost, followed by Ningyuan, Shanhaiguan, and then down is the capital." ”

Emperor Guangxu said: "What do the Japanese want to do? ”

Lin Yuan replied: "Holy Lord, I don't think the Japanese necessarily want to attack the capital, they are just making a gesture, and they basically want to obtain greater benefits at the negotiation table. ”

Li Hongzhang said: "Lord Lin, I don't know if I can change the plan of sending troops and attack Japan first. ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "Jinzhou, Ningyuan, Shanhaiguan are impregnable, and it is not so easy for the Japanese to fight down, so we don't have to change the original plan, we still want to fight the Russians first." ”

Emperor Guangxu asked: "Lin Aiqing, I don't know when you want to send troops, before we send troops, we have to make a ceremony, I want to personally worship you as the general of Zhengdong!" ”

Lin Yuan thought about it in his heart, maps, camouflage uniforms, compressed biscuits, mortars, these things, should be able to make the first batch in ten days, so he said: "Fifteen days later!" ”

Emperor Guangxu then said: "I immediately announced to the world, and after 15 days, I will wait for the altar to worship the commander, and then raise troops!" "The day was January 21, 1895.

Lin Yuan left the palace, and immediately ordered the Qing army to be ready for battle at any time, and soon, the first batch of camouflage uniforms, maps and compressed biscuits were made, these things were secretly transported to Jinzhou by Lin Yuan, five days later, the first batch of Guards Thunder Cannons were manufactured, a total of ten, a hundred shells, the manufacturing process of these cannons was extremely secretive, and all the craftsmen involved were not allowed to contact the outside world, so the outside world did not know about it.

Because this kind of artillery barrel is short and has few parts, it weighs less than 20 kilograms, and the shell weighs only about 3 kilograms.

There are almost 500 kilometers from Beijing to Jinzhou, and most of the horses in the Qing army are Mongolian horses, although this kind of horse is not very tall, but it has strong durability, and can carry about 100 kilograms of objects for 60 kilometers in eight hours, and it is very important that Mongolian horses are resistant to rough feeding.

"Rough feeding" means that the forage is very rough, which is especially important for long marches, and many times, you just need to remove the horse's chew and let it find its own food, unlike many famous horses with noble bloodlines, the feed needs to be carefully selected.

Lin Yuan and Chen Fei, with 50 well-trained artillerymen, artillery and shells, rushed to Jinzhou from Beijing to Jinzhou on the post road, and arrived in Jinzhou on January 31.

The defender of Jinzhou City is Wu Yuankai, a fierce general of the Hunan army, and his Kaizi army has six battalions, a total of more than 3,000 people, the battalion is the establishment unit of the Hunan army, and a battalion is roughly 500 people.

Before leaving, Lin Yuan informed Liu Kun and other four generals of his true intentions, and repeatedly instructed not to leak a little news, he knew that the telegram password of the Qing army was already in the hands of the Japanese army, so he did not use the telegram, as for Lin Yuanwei why he did not change the password, this was actually a trap he deliberately set for the Japanese army.

Lin Yuan brought the holy decree of Emperor Guangxu and the token of Liu Kunyi, and Wu Yuankai quickly understood that the person in front of him was the legendary Lin Yuan, and he happily obeyed Lin Yuan's command.

Jinzhou is bordered by impassable mountains to the north, the West Liaoning Corridor to the west to the North China Plain, and the Liaohe Plain to the east. Jinzhou has always been a battleground for soldiers, and whoever controls Jinzhou is equivalent to controlling the bridge between Northeast China and North China.

There are two mountains to the east of Jinzhou, Bauhinia Mountain to the north and Nanshan Mountain to the south, there is a road connecting Jinzhou and Linghai between the two mountains, and the drone detection results on the Beijing ship show that in the area between the two mountains, a Japanese squadron of about 500 people is stationed, and it is obvious that this is the outpost of the Japanese army attacking Jinzhou.

As soon as Lin Yuan arrived in Jinzhou, he deployed a combat plan, and that night, he launched an attack on the Japanese troops stationed between the two mountains, which was also the first battle of the counteroffensive against the Japanese army!

On January 31, 1895, the sixth day of the first lunar month, a crescent moon appeared and disappeared under the shadow of dark clouds, covering the white earth with a dim color.

Lin Yuan and Wu Yuankai personally led a cavalry battalion and an infantry battalion to march towards the Japanese military camp by night. Lin Yuan's strategic deception worked, along the way, there were no Japanese scouts at all, the Japanese seemed to have become accustomed to the pedantic stubbornness of the Qing court, thinking that they would definitely send troops after the ceremony of worshipping the commander, no one expected that this time the troops were led by outstanding officers from China in the 21st century.

The cavalry battalion stopped at a distance of five thousand meters from the Japanese battalion, and Lin Yuan led the gunners operating the Guards Thunder Cannon, under the protection of the two outpost infantry, to continue to approach the Japanese battalion.

The crowd stopped at a distance of 400 meters, and from this distance, the lights of the Japanese military camp and the tents could be seen.

Lin Yuan gave an order with a gesture: the first test shot.

A gunner loaded the shell, and after the test firing, the shooting parameters were quickly corrected, and Lin Yuan gave the order again to shoot at full speed!

The so-called full-speed shooting is to shoot the most shells in the shortest possible time, and Lin Yuan's purpose is very simple, to cause the greatest panic to the Japanese in the shortest possible time.

The Japanese reconnoitred the weapons and equipment of the defenders in Jinzhou City very clearly, and they knew that the artillery in Jinzhou City was a fortress gun that was difficult to maneuver, so when the cannon sounded, they were completely stunned and did not know what was happening in Jinzhou City.

But the shells didn't care about this, the first test shell exploded in front of the sentry at the gate of the barracks, and after the sharp whistling, it was a dazzling flash, and before the Japanese sentry could react, a shrapnel swirled and tore his throat, and the ignorant heart was still faithfully performing its duty as a blood pump, and the strong contraction of the heart muscle pushed the blood to the wound, and streams of blood arrows gushed out from the wound on the neck.

The severe cold of more than ten degrees below zero made the warm blood quickly freeze, and the blood-colored ice crystals showed off the beauty of the demon, but unfortunately the Japanese sentry couldn't appreciate it, he couldn't even make a sound, because the vocal cords were also cut, and the blood oxygen supply was missing, and the brain soon entered a state of suffocation, and he would die in the beautiful memories......

He was undoubtedly lucky compared to his companions......