The patrol encountered Japanese cavalry waving white flags near Pulandian, and the Japanese cavalry submitted an application for negotiation in English. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Zhao Yi read out the application at the command center of the green paint district, and the content was roughly as follows: Apply for talks on the issue of prisoners of war, and the place for negotiations will be designated by the First Volunteer Brigade. It is hoped that during the period when the reply letter does not arrive, both parties will exercise restraint and avoid unnecessary misunderstandings, which may lead to an exchange of fire.

"Hell, when they attacked our patrol, they didn't worry about causing misunderstandings. Let us suffer that big loss, and give us this set. Xiao Fei cursed loudly.

"It's not like I want to play the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor again, and at the same time as the negotiations break down, the sneak attack force will arrive at the attack position." Lu Xiangyang harbored great malice towards the Japanese who wanted to come.

"This can't be guarded against, this kind of cunning is something in their bones and blood. What will happen in a few decades will not necessarily be played out in advance. Let's prepare for a full-scale attack by the Japanese army. Zhao Yi also felt that the Japanese would not have any kindness.

Speaking of sneak attacks without a declaration of war, or launching an attack immediately after the declaration of war, this kind of shameless behavior was not only committed by the Japanese during World War II. The current war was triggered by the Japanese Navy's sneak attack on the Qing army's "Gaosheng" troop transport ship off the coast of Toshima, Korea.

This negotiation application is not a peaceful and goodwill act in the eyes of the traversers. In their arrival, this was undoubtedly a signal that the Japanese army was going to start an all-out war.

"Do you still talk to them?" Lu Xiangyang asked.

"Talk! Why don't you talk about it, the Japanese want to yin us, then we will yin back. Prepare for an all-out war, but also put on a posture of sincere negotiations. If they want to surprise them, then we will give them a surprise. Don't give them a little cruelty, they always change their tricks and think about us. The pencil in Zhao Yi's hand was about to be pinched and folded by him.

"By the way, who are you going to pay for the bombing of the Japanese warships?" One of the exhibitors asked Chen Yongqing.

"Of course, it's Li Hongzhang Li Zhongtang, it's better to buy than to build, and it's better to rent than to buy, this is Li Zhongtang's famous saying. If we don't knock him out, I'm sorry for our own money. Chen Yongqing said with a smile.

"In the Battle of Dadonggou, the Beiyang Naval Division was sunk by the Japanese and five warships, and most of the warships that escaped were wounded, and now they have all gone to Weihai to hide. The Bohai Sea is about to become the backyard of the Japanese Navy. Lord Nakado must be in a hurry, he wants to replenish the warships now, and it is impossible to make up for the disadvantage. One is that there is not so much money, and the other is that the great powers are waiting for the defeat of the Qing Dynasty to have a good dinner, who will sell this to him at this time. Moreover, this warship cannot be bought to immediately increase its combat effectiveness, and it will have to undergo long-term personnel training. Chen Yongqing took a sip of water.

"However, we can give him another option to close the gap between the two navies, and that is to reduce the number of Japanese warships. Li Hongzhang, he even saved the process of doing it, do you think Lord Zhongtang will pay for it? "Chen Yongqing's plan is still very feasible.

"Yes, yes, it's a good idea. We can also provide a more humane service, let Lord Zhongtang choose his own set menu, the Japanese warships in the waters near Liaodong, are all on the menu of our strikes, and we clearly mark the price. There is a discount for buying more, and let the Lord Zhongtang choose which ship to fight and what to fight. Hao Dajian also shouted.

"That's a good idea, but how do we contact Li Hongzhang? Ma San said that in early November, the telegraph line connecting Jinzhou to Mukden was cut off by the Japanese army. The Qing army on the Liaodong Peninsula now had contact with the interior of the country through the transmission of letters by sea. Now that the Japanese Navy has basically controlled the sea surface near Liaodong, we use this method to contact Li Hongzhang, and there is a great chance that the Japanese army will intercept the letters. Lu Xiangyang raised his concerns.

"We don't have a ship of our own, so we don't have to use the hands of the Qing army to deliver letters. In that case, it is estimated that the Japanese Navy would not have been required to intercept the letters. The news that we were going to attack their warships spread throughout the Japanese barracks. Have you forgotten the map of the Japanese army that we captured last time? The Qing army's deployment was almost transparent to the Japanese army, and they had no secrecy measures at all. Zhao Yi poked the captured map of the Japanese army with a pencil.

"What about that person, we can't call all the way to Fuzhou by ourselves, and then send him a letter through Shanhaiguan." Chen Yongqing was a little deflated.

"Let's discuss this matter later, and see how to deal with the negotiations proposed by the Japanese army first." Zhao Yi couldn't think of any good way to get in touch with Li Hongzhang for a while.

Koike Shunichi felt that he had been tricked, and he was assigned the task of getting close to the 1st Volunteer Brigade.

With more than 400 soldiers, he lay in ambush in the woods all night. Fearing that the target would be exposed, they did not dare to light a fire and froze all night in the field.

The camouflage that was originally thought to be seamless was seen through by the patrol team. The attack had to be hastily launched, and in the end the patrol calmly retreated, occupied favorable terrain, and held out until reinforcements arrived.

Shunichi Koike, who was lucky, eventually managed to get a pistol that the patrol team had lost, and he was finally able to cope with the errand.

As a result, things turned out exactly as he expected, and he was appreciated by Genji Yamachi. Although only a pistol was captured, it was already the best record of the Japanese army against the 1st Volunteer Brigade in recent times.

The envoy of the base camp happily boarded the returning ship with the well-made pistol. But another envoy from the mainland landed at the mouth of the garden, this envoy was not sent from the base camp, he was not even an official person.

Genji Sanchi had to put down his work in Fuzhou. Personally went to Huayuankou to meet with this special envoy of civilian status.

This envoy was appointed by several prominent Chinese families to solve the problem of the children of the captured families when the headquarters of the 1st Division was routed in early November.

When the Second Army of the Japanese Army landed at Huayuankou, all the Japanese people would not have imagined that the war on the Liaodong Peninsula would drag on for so long. Of course, ordinary people do not know the real situation of the Japanese army in the Liaodong Peninsula now, and they think that the Qing army is only stubbornly defending by virtue of the fortress of Lushun.

It was precisely because of this extreme optimism in advance that a large number of Chinese children who served in the army applied to follow the Second Army to fight on the Liaodong Peninsula. Of course, these children of the Chinese nationality with unusual identities follow the actions of the division headquarters, which is not only safe, but also able to brush up on their combat exploits.

As a result, the first battle at the headquarters of the 1st Division was directly routed head-on. Many Chinese children became prisoners of war, and the First Volunteer Brigade even crossed the headquarters of the Second Army and transmitted the news of these prisoners back to the mainland.

Several influential Chinese families are moving around, asking General Dashan Yan to help redeem their family's children. In Europe at the beginning of the 19th century, it was normal to ransom captured officers, and these families thought that since they proposed to "break away from Asia and join Europe", they should be in line with Europe in all aspects, and asked Dashanyan not to regard the ransom of captured officers as a matter that humiliated the national body.

Da Shan Yan pushed this envoy to the mountain Genji with a black face, the battle was defeated by him, and the people were also captured by the First Volunteer Brigade under his leadership, and this pot Da Shan Yan didn't want to help him carry it.

Yamachi Genji kept claiming that the First Volunteer Brigade was a savage and murderous devil, and the chances of survival of these captured Chinese children were very slim. He also added fuel to the description of the First Volunteer Brigade's attack on the Japanese army's defense line on the bank of the Anzi River, and explained from all aspects that the First Volunteer Brigade was a barbaric army that disregarded life.

Originally, this envoy was about to be fooled by the mountain Motoji, and he was about to return home. Unfortunately, the envoy met two foreign journalists who were traveling with the army to cover the news.

Those two reporters were, of course, Krielman and Koman, and their evaluation of the First Volunteer Brigade was completely opposite to that of Genji Yamachi. Koeman, in particular, spoke very highly of the 1st Volunteer Brigade, calling it a chivalrous army, their officers were gentlemen, and he even claimed to have met a commander with royal status.

Krillman gave a more objective account of what he saw that day, and explained that the First Volunteer Brigade released many wounded prisoners of war at that time.

Hearing the statements of the two reporters accompanying the army, this envoy, who had been appointed by several large families, felt deeply deceived. He threatened that if Genji did not cooperate with the rescue work, he would publish the real situation of the Japanese army in Liaodong on the mainland.

The Japanese people can accept that the Japanese Army has been unable to capture Lushun for a long time, after all, Lushun at this time is known as the first fortress in Asia. However, they must not accept the fact that the Japanese army was defeated many times in field battles and lost nearly 2,000 troops, and now the Japanese army has not even touched the edge of Lushun.

If this kind of war is reported back to the Japanese mainland, it will certainly cause an uproar. A large number of Japanese citizens tightened their belts to support the war, and such a poor record would cause public outrage.

Of course, Motoharu Yamagi knew that the true situation could not be known to the people of Japan itself, so he chose to compromise with the envoy.

Koike Shunichi, the only senior officer who had been in contact with the First Volunteer Brigade and had returned with all his tails, and his Chinese status, it was most appropriate for him to lead the negotiations. Yamachi Motoji left the envoy to Koike Shunichi and went to work on the fortifications himself, ambushing the patrol of the 1st Volunteer Brigade, and he had to step up the construction of the fortifications to prevent retaliation.

Koike Shunichi felt that he had nothing to love, and he took such a big risk to lead the team to ambush the patrol of the First Volunteer Brigade, just because he didn't have to have any close contact with them in person in the future. Now I have received the task of leading a team to negotiate on the site of the First Volunteer Brigade.

Isn't that a pit for me? This is just the ambush of others, and now go to other people's territory to negotiate, in case the other party becomes angry, this is undoubtedly to send people to the head. Koike Shunichi scolded his mother in his heart.

I hope that this 1st Volunteer Brigade is really a chivalrous army, as the two foreign military reporters said, Koike Shunichi silently prayed.