Chapter 259 American

The base camp finally made up its mind to launch a full-scale attack in North Korea, Liaodong and Shandong at the same time!

The first army stationed in North Korea, led by Yejin Daoguan, forcibly crossed the Linjin River and attacked Pyongyang. In order to ensure the offensive strength, the Japanese army urgently transferred a strengthened brigade from the country with 50 cannons. The goal of the campaign is to capture Pyongyang! The Japanese army in North Korea reached 15,000, while their opponent Zhang Jun was 8,000. On the battlefield of the Qing-Japanese War, the Japanese army will attack for the first time with a force higher than the opponent, which is the attention to Zhang Jun and respect for Zhang Jun.

Under the leadership of the mountains and local governance, 20,000 people of the First Division launched an attack on the Liaohe Plain north of Haicheng with Lushun as their base. The goal of the campaign is to seize Shanhaiguan and form a clamping force against Zhili. Their opponents are Fengtian's headquarters and Sichuan Admiral Song Qing, with a total strength of 100,000.

The 2nd Division, 3rd Division and 6th Division totaled 60,000. Under the leadership of Dashanyan, the commander of the Second Army, boarded the ship from Lushun and attacked Weihaiwei, Shandong Province with the cooperation of the joint fleet. The goal of the battle is to seize Shandong, destroy the Beiyang sailors, and then attack Zhili, forming another iron fist that directly hit the heart of the Qing Dynasty! Their opponents are 200,000 people from Beiyang Marines and Dai Zongqian from Shandong!

Three aspects of attack, among which the Shandong battlefield will be the top priority, and Weihaiwei is the core of the Shandong battlefield!

Weihaiwei is the base camp of the Beiyang Marine Division. It is the most powerful military fortress of the Qing Dynasty and even the whole of Asia. The capture of Weihaiwei and the destruction of the Beiyang Marine Division means the removal of the coastal defense of the Qing Dynasty.

At the same time, this also means that the Japanese Combined Fleet will dominate Asia and become an unstoppable force!

The Asano Yoshin Cavalry Brigade, which belongs to the Third Division, was ordered to climb the "Yae Mountain" in Lushun Port. Their destination is Rongcheng Bay north of Weihaiwei, Shandong Province!

The navy and the army reached a consensus to choose Rongcheng Bay as the landing point of the Japanese Army in Shandong and choose Rongcheng Bay for two reasons. First, they can bypass the Weihai Guard Fort to avoid directly facing the powerful artillery fire of the Weihai Guard Fort. Even the Europeans are afraid of the firepower of the Weihai Guard Fort. Second, avoid the direct threat of Beiyang sailors. Although the Japanese army seriously looked down on the Qing army, it was still afraid of the modern Beiyang Navy. In the Battle of the Yellow Sea, although the Beiyang Navy was defeated, its combat effectiveness was still daunting.

The combat intention of the Japanese army is to block Weiwei with a joint fleet and trap the Beiyang Marine Division in the military port. With a strong army, he attacked Rongcheng Bay, launched an attack from the back of Weihaiwei, seized the forts around Weihaiwei, and then advanced both sea and land to annihilate the Beiyang Marine Division in one fell swoop.

To this end, the Japanese Army gathered three divisions in Lushun. This is the most powerful combat group that Japan has gathered so far.

This also means that Yoshio Asano got an opportunity.

Someone from the division department told him that Shangguan was becoming more and more disappointed with his performance, and his retirement order had arrived at the headquarters.

However, because of this operation, the order was finally not issued.

If he can make an outstanding performance in Shandong, it is entirely possible to change Shangguan's impression of him and continue his military career.

Yoshio Asano cheered up and led his subordinates to Lushun Port.

There is a busy and enthusiastic scene in Lushun Port. The officers and soldiers of the Third Cavalry Brigade took neat and proud steps and fought with high fighting spirit. Like Yoshio Asano, they cherished this opportunity to fight.

On the dock, Yoshio Asano, dressed in a neat military uniform, walked towards the trestle to Yaeyama.

A messenger hurried over and saluted Yoshio Asano: "Mr. Major, the division commander has an order."

Yoshio Asano was stunned and looked at the messenger in a daze.

"Order the Third Cavalry Brigade to stop boarding and gather in Erlong Mountain in the northeast of Lushun on standby."

Yoshio Asano's brain is blank.

The team that was boarding suddenly solidified. Everyone looked at Yoshio Asano, and the air seemed to condense.

There was an angry howling in the team: "Why!"

I don't know who said hatefully, "It's not because of our officer!"

Yoshio Asano is in despair.

That means that he was deprived of the last chance to prove himself. This war has nothing to do with him anymore.

He remembered the discharge notice lying in the headquarters.

He will return to Japan in the name of a defeated general and spend the rest of his life under the contempt of the Chinese people!

And he is less than 30 years old!

Yio Asano shuddered!

The whistle echoed on the dock, and the Maya, full of 3,000 officers and soldiers, left the dock.

At six o'clock tomorrow morning, "Maya" will appear in Rongcheng Bay, which is the moment when the Japanese attack!

On the Shandong battlefield, there is no Yoshio Mano, and there will be no third cavalry brigade.

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January 24, 1895, Lunar New Year, New Year's Eve, 20:00 p.m., Weihai Military Port.

There is heavy snow, and the heavy snow on New Year's Eve has always been regarded as an auspicious omen by the Chinese. For this ancient farming country, the New Year's snow indicates a year of abundant grain.

However, there is no auspicious atmosphere in Weihai's military port.

The whole military port has implemented light control. From the Rishima Fort to Liugong Island, from the sea to the land, it is dark everywhere, only wind, snow and sea waves, emitting a frightening roar in the vast night.

Cai Ting stood in the tower of the torpedo boat Fulong with his eyes closed.

The sea was dark, and Cai Tinggan was observing with his ears. He knew that the Japanese combined fleet was swimming in the distant sea and could appear in front of the Weihai Guard Port at any time to block the waterway to sea.

Cai Tinggan, a native of Xiangshan, Guangdong, was sent to the United States to study as the second group of young children studying in the United States at the age of 12.

After returning to China, Rong Hong, a famous industrialist at the end of the Qing Dynasty, felt the huge gap between the Qing Dynasty and the Western powers. He once suggested to the imperial court to send young children to study abroad, hoping that after returning to China, these young children would bring the advanced Western concepts and scientific culture back to the Qing Dynasty and promote the modernization process of the Qing Dynasty. This proposal aroused strong opposition from the old-fashioned ministers in the court. Finally, with the support of Prince Gong Yi and Li Hongzhang, it was finally successful.

Most of the young children selected by the Qing Dynasty came from extremely poor farmers. In the eyes of the world, studying abroad is to forget the ancestors. No one wants to send their children to the West. Only those families who are extremely poor and unable to raise their children have to hand over their children to the court and follow Rong Hong to the United States in the spit of the world.

Cai Tinggan was born in such a poor family. When the court selected officials of foreign children to come to his hometown, the Cai family was facing a desperate situation. If the court hadn't selected foreign children, he might have starved to death.

All young children studying in the United States are arranged to eat and live with Americans in the homes of ordinary people in the United States, or they have a new home and have blonde American parents.

In the United States, these peasant children have shown an amazing desire for knowledge and understanding. They quickly integrated into American society, eating Western food, speaking fluent American English, talking about American fashion, and at the same time mastered the most advanced scientific and cultural knowledge and modern concepts.

They even cut off their braids!

The speed and depth of the westernization of young children studying in the United States made the court very worried.

In the eyes of the princes and ministers of the old school, these young children are really forgotten!

In the court, there was a wave of opposition, and the court had to stop sending young children to stay in the United States. However, the oldists still refused to give up. The Confucian Taoist masters, led by the university scholar and Japanese, strongly urged the court to immediately withdraw the young children who had arrived in the United States and completely stop this study abroad program, including the practitioner of Zhou Charter, Yehenarajin.

Under the great pressure from the government and the opposition, the court finally gave in and announced the withdrawal of all young children studying in the United States. At this time, the study plan for young children studying in the United States has not yet expired.

At this time, young children studying in the United States have been admitted to American universities after primary and secondary education in the United States with extraordinary excellent results. Among them, there are many of them who have been admitted to first-class famous universities such as Harvard.

Their talent and ability have conquered the hearts of Americans. Their American parents have fully accepted these children from the East. From these children, Americans can see that the ancient country is not ignorant and backward. These children have shown perseverance, wisdom, friendliness, courtesy, and even more than Civilized Westerners!

The news of the termination of the plan for young children to study abroad came from the Qing Dynasty and accepted a joint petition from American families of young children studying in the United States to the U.S. government, asking the U.S. government to negotiate with the Qing Dynasty to continue the plan. The president of Harvard University, on behalf of the American academic community, appealed to the Qing Dynasty to restore its life.

However, the Qing court rejected all negotiations between the U.S. government and people, severely punished Rong Hong, who was responsible for the plan to study in the United States, and withdrew all the young children studying in the United States. At this time, a considerable number of young children studying in the United States were already "school bullies" in American universities.

This includes Zhan Tianyou and other famous scientists in modern Chinese history, who started the scientific enlightenment of modern China.

After returning to China, Cai Tinggan was selected to study torpedo major at Tianjin Beiyang Marine Academy, and is now the torpedo boat Fulong.

There are 8 torpedo boats in the current service of the Beiyang Marine Division. Although the torpedo boat force belongs to the Beiyang Navy, the base of the torpedo boat force is in Lushun, not in Weihaiwei. This is mainly because in the world navy at that time, the torpedo boat was a new sea attack ship, and its combat mode, maintenance, training, and logistical support were very different from those of cruisers. Lushun Military Port has excellent innate conditions for torpedo boat bases. To this end, the Beiyang Marine Division also moved the anchorage of the torpedo boat and the torpedo camp used to train professional torpedo officers and manage torpedo boat drills to Lushun.

This means that for the torpedo boat troops, Lushun is their home.

However, Lushun was lost to the Japanese. In Weihaiwei, Cai Tinggan and his torpedo boat are under the shelter of others.

This makes the torpedo boat officers and soldiers even more sad.