The soldiers of the 3rd Brigade divided their troops to the east and conquered the nearby Jiulian City, and they did not dare to delay for a moment in the defeat of these villages and towns, and hurriedly built fortifications on the periphery of the villages and towns, and continued to the east, and took several favorable terrains such as Hushan, Chestnut Garden, and Yushugou without blood.

If the Japanese army's reaction speed could be faster, if they could judge Lin Yuan's intentions in advance, if they could think that the soldiers of the Third Brigade had taken the sea route, the Third Brigade would not have been able to take these places in such a short period of time anyway, and when the soldiers of the Third Brigade had consolidated their positions, the Japanese troops in Korea woke up like a dream and hurriedly went to the upper reaches of the Yalu River to reconnoitre, and only after five days did they decide to wade across the river at Shuikou Town, but the muddy roads made it difficult for them to walk.

The defenders of Anton, who had already reached the halfway point, unexpectedly found that their hometown was lost, and hurried back, but the third brigade had already occupied a favorable terrain, and the Japanese army organized more than a dozen charges. Lin Yuan ordered the Qing army that had occupied Benxi Lake and Mountain, to continue to attack south along the pass, the Japanese army under the attack on both sides, the channel of logistics supply was cut off again, and after holding on for ten days, the ammunition and food were exhausted, and finally on April 24, Dashanyan was helpless, ordered to disperse and break through, and tens of thousands of Japanese troops trekked northeast in the mountains and marched towards Ji'an.

Hunger, cold, and plague caused the Japanese army to lose a lot of troops, and when they arrived in Ji'an, the defenders of Ji'an saw a group of half-human and half-ghost things, with unshaven beards, messy hair, and strips of cloth hanging on their bodies...... The Japanese lost one-third of their men and ninety percent of their equipment, and finally returned to Korea.

When the battle situation stabilized, on April 25, Wu Yuankai asked Lin Yuan: "Lin Shuai, I don't know where the troops that occupied Lushun came from?" ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "They are recruits I recruited. ”

Wu Yuankai said: "The guns used by these people are very strange, they can be fired continuously, I don't know where the guns come from?" ”

Lin Yuan was a little hesitant in his heart, he didn't want too many people to know about the Ryukyu troops, so he said: "The gun was made by ourselves......

Although Wu Yuankai is a big old man and doesn't know how to do it, he also understands that not everyone can make guns, if it is an easy thing to make guns, why did the Qing Kingdom buy guns from abroad?

At this moment, the herald came in and reported: "Qi Yu Lin Shuai, there is urgent information?" ”

Lin Yuan hurriedly said, "Say it quickly." ”

The herald said: "The Japanese fleet attacked a merchant fleet of our Qing Dynasty in the western part of the Bohai Sea yesterday, and all 23 merchant ships were sunk, and only a dozen of the more than 1,530 people on board survived!" ”

Lin Yuan hurriedly asked, "Where did you get the news?" ”

The herald was at a loss, and said, "It's a telegram from the Yamen of the Governor of Zhili, and other subordinates don't know. Lin Yuan thought to himself: "I'm really confused, he's a little soldier who delivers news, how can he know where this matter came from?" As soon as he was about to contact the Beijing ship, Wu Yuankai sighed and said: "It's a pity that we don't have a navy in the Qing Dynasty, or we have to clean up these Japanese fiercely." ”

Lin Yuan found an excuse to break Wu Yuankai away, and when he was left alone in the tent, he turned on the communicator, he knew that the Beijing ship was not nearby, and he may not know about the matter, but he contacted Shen Wanqing, and the two of them did not say a word of greeting, Lin Yuan opened his mouth and asked: "Why did the Japanese beat our merchant ships?" ”

Shen Wanqing said: "Do you also know about this matter? I also just learned that after the Japanese sank the merchant ship, they also used small-caliber machine guns and artillery to shoot at the people in the water, and there were more than a dozen people with good water nature, desperately swimming to the shore, and when they saw that they were about to die, they were rescued by passing fishing boats, and they ran directly to the Yamen of the Governor of Zhili and told the matter! We had eyeliner there and were the first to inform us. ”

Lin Yuan asked, "What does the imperial court say?" How do the Japanese explain it? ”

Shen Wanqing said: "The Qing court sent an official letter to the Japanese government through the British minister, condemning this attack on civilians and asking the Japanese side to give a reasonable explanation. After she said this, she actually heard Lin Yuan say over there: "This is really good." ”

Shen Wanqing thought to herself: "More than a thousand compatriots have died, what is there to do?" Then he asked, "What did you say?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "I have been preparing a big plan, this matter is like the last piece of the puzzle on my plan, with it, my plan can be implemented!" ”

Shen Wanqing asked, "What are your plans?" ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "Now is not the time to say it, you can help me see what kind of repercussions this matter has caused in the world, if the repercussions are not strong enough, you can help me create a momentum, so that the powers of Britain, France, Germany and Russia will all know about this matter." ”

Shen Wanqing paused for a moment and said: "We have already told the news to the foreign news agencies in the capital, such as Germany's Wolf News Agency, France's Havas News Agency, and Britain's Reuters News Agency, these news agencies are the largest news agencies in the West. However, I think the British already know about this matter, and their "Times" has reporters in Beijing, and I saw them today when I went to the Yamen of the Governor of Zhili. ”

Turning off the communicator, Lin Yuan called Chen Fei and said, "I need to go back to the Beijing ship, you will be fully responsible for the military affairs here, you don't have to worry too much, with Liu Dart here, there will be no big mess in the troops." ”

Chen Fei smiled bitterly, looked at his stomach, and said, "It seems that I am not far from dying!" Then he asked, "What are you going to do when you go back to Beijing?" ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "Didn't you always want to know why I didn't bomb the Japanese warships, I went back this time to let them die in the most appropriate position." ”

Chen Fei didn't ask much, when Lin Yuan returned to the Beijing ship, it was already night, and the next day, Shen Wanqing contacted him and said: "I watched the reactions of various countries today, and their reactions were different, some thought that this was a naked massacre and should be condemned by all mankind, and some thought that what the Japanese government said was reasonable, and the ship was loaded with Qing fighters. ”

Shen Wanqing continued: "There are two pieces of news worth paying attention to, one is an article published in the British "Daily Mail", which said that it is hoped that various countries in the world can form an international alliance to deal with such conflicts; There is also an article in the Times, which is said to have been written by a naval expert, saying that Japan did this to block the trade routes of the Qing State, so as to achieve the goal of forcing the Qing State to surrender. ”

Lin Yuan almost laughed out loud after hearing this, the level of these naval experts was no more than that, he put down the communicator, contacted the comrades stationed in the Ryukyus, and said: "Help me convey to the king of the Ryukyus, and ask him to send a message to the whole world, saying that there are civilians from the Ryukyus among the dead, and the Ryukyu country will send a fleet to retaliate against the Japanese fleet." ”