Chapter 193 Scorched Earth

Several small fishing boats floated gently on the surface of the water. A little far away, there was smoke curling on the roof of the village's farmhouse, rows of upright poplar branches were lush, and three or five snow-white sheep were gnawing grass under the tree. Looking into the distance, Xiao Jinshan is faintly visible. The green and faint mountain shadow seems to be a masterpiece painted by immortals on the canopy, which is both magnificent and quiet. Suddenly, a strong red light illuminated everything in front of him.

This is the afterglow of the setting sun passing through the last cloud. The sunset is so beautiful. It is big and round, blood-red and blood-red, and the clouds around it are colorful and bright. When it temporarily bid farewell to the world, it was so brilliant and spectacular that it really made people feel that it was extremely noble and great.

"Manchuria... is a good place!"

On the dilapidated wall of Jinzhou, Ao Baogong looked at the already calm battlefield with a telescope.

"Well, Mr. Yamaoka, the Russian army has now completely withdrawn from the green mud. Now, the 15th wing of the first brigade is marching at full speed."

Major Yamaoka, the staff officer standing behind the commander, reported to the commander after receiving the telegram from the messenger.

In the middle of the night two days, after receiving the news of the withdrawal of the Russian army from Dalian, Ao Baogong excitedly called "Long live the Emperor" several times to celebrate the recovery of "Dari".

"Your Excellency, the emperor's commendation has arrived!"

He respectfully took the commendation telegram from the emperor from Yamaoka's hand. Ao Baogong's expression was extremely respectful. After careful look at it, he carefully returned it to Yamaoka, and then looked at the Jinzhou City.

"Major Yamaoka, really, the credit of those frustrated and timid Russian generals is more worthy of praise than me!"

Yamaoka nodded and agreed.

When the two were about to go down the city, a staff officer panicked and led a man to the wall.

"Mr. Commander, something happened!"

"I'm the one!"

With an exclamation, the position more than ten kilometers away from Dalian City was boiling. In dozens of trenches with barbed wire, soldiers with rifles leaned against the chest wall and aimed at the front. From the other side of the nearest mountain, a large group of soldiers appeared. After they passed through the open land on the top of the mountain, Soon it was hidden in the sorghum and cornfield.

"Call the headquarters quickly, the little nose has arrived!"

Li Dongyun looked at it from the telescope and said to the messengers beside him. At the same time, he took a look at the soldiers around him. In his company, except for the thirteen veterans, the others were all migrant workers in Shandong, Henan and Hebei who were working in Qingniwa.

At this time, they held Russian rifles and aimed at the front like veterans, but only Li Dongyun knew that these people's aim was the same, and they couldn't be sure at all.

I hope... Looking at the dense barbed wire in front of him and a few machine gun positions, he knew whether he could defend the green mud depression, all relying on these barbed wire and machine guns, but what about the artillery? Except for the more than a dozen guns left by the Russians, they didn't have any guns.

In the center of the green mud depression, there are 10 roads radiating in all directions in the circular radiant Nikolayev Square. The layout of the square is very different from the traditional square format architectural layout of China and Russia, but it is completely a Parisian nuclear radiation layout, and the overall urban design style of Dalian is the same.

Due to the city center of Nikolayev Square, it has become a supreme honor for Russian designers to be able to design buildings around the square. The elites of the designers have left their own rich colors on the virgin painting board of Nikolayev Square five years ago.

At this time, in front of the city hall next to the square stood a person who preached the message. While beating the drum, he preached the content of the Treaty of Darini signed by Liu Tongzhi and the Russian Darini authorities in the Jinzhou Hall.

The spacious square was noisy and crowded. People sometimes crowded in front of the people who read the notice, close to the pillar with the notice, and sometimes retreated to the square. At this time, the person who preached the notice beat the drum desperately. Everyone did not believe in the upheaval of the night. First, the Russians evacuated the city, and they Fortunately, the Qingniwa returned to the rule of the Qing Dynasty. Even Zhang Delu of the Qingniwa, Liu Zhaoyi of Shunfazhan, Guo Jingyi of Fushunzhan, Tongxingde, Tongshengde, Fushunzhan, Gongshunzhan, Hongchengxing and other members of the Wakou Public Council Bureau in the early morning. Discussing the situation, the public council finally posted the notice of "He Daqing's restoration of Qingniwa".

The notices of the Eight Masters and the Public Council calmed the citizens a little, but when they were humiliated, when a Japanese warship appeared in Dazhiwan, it still made the atmosphere in the market tense. Who knows what they would do?

"Well, the Second Army has finally arrived!"

Lin Yanzhi stared at a plaster flag marked on the map and took out his pocket watch to look at the time.

"At 18:21 p.m. on May 30, it was said that the first of the Second Army of the Army, and the 15th Wing of the First Brigade of the First Division arrived..."

With a series of words spitting out of his mouth, the thin face of the former Jinzhou Tongzhi Liu Lingzhi next to him squeezed out some dry smiles.

Liu Lingzhi looked at the officials around him. It was these people who rescued him from the Russian hard labor camp on Kuye Island. Four years ago, during the Gengzi War, Russians in the concession Lushun and other places took the opportunity to arrest the officials of Jinzhou Tongzhi Yamen and Jinzhou Association Yamen in Jinzhou City, which not only banned the Jinzhou Hall, but also a group of Kuye Island, where officials were escorted, served hard labor.

There was no hope for Liu Lingzhi to leave Kuye Island alive, but he sat here at this time and felt like a different world.

"Lord Liu, it's about to act!"

"Please rest assured, Mr. Lin, Ling Zhi will live up to his expectations!"

He got up and bowed. Liu Lingzhi said solemnly that the officers in front of him were not the officers of the Qing Dynasty, but the anti-Russian Volunteer Army. They designed to bring back the green mud from the Russians, but whether they could keep the green mud in the mouth of the tiger and wolf depends on Liu Lingzhi.

I lost the Jinzhou Hall four years ago, and now... I have to take back these places. Liu Lingzhi said so in his heart.

"Will I attack Qingniwa?"

Liu Lingzhi frowned and thought about it. He knew what it would mean if the negotiation with the Japanese failed, which meant that Qingniwa would fall back into the flames of war. At that time... be a loyal minister!

In the Darini commercial port, the chimneys of 50 merchant ships abandoned by the Russians are smoking. Merchant ships of different sizes are driving in the commercial port under the severage of the crew. After arriving at the predetermined position, they will be anchored. When the crew leaves the barge, soldiers will board the ship and press explosives in the merchant ship. Each At least more than 100 kilograms of explosives were put on the ship, and hundreds of kilograms of explosives were placed on the keel. The electric wires to start the explosives were put down from the ship and extended to several rooms in the commercial port.

Even on the dock, there are migrant workers who dug out a large number of stones on the dock according to the drawings and put explosives on the dock. Thousands of migrant workers are desperately busy at the dock. The only thing they need to do is to put nearly 400 tons of explosives on merchant ships, docks and yards. On the head equipment, although the Russians have completed part of the work, their work is more thorough.

Cao Shijun, who was standing at the dock, put down the phone and added a point to the map on the desktop.

"Either if you don't blow up, you will completely destroy the whole port. Without three years of work, the commercial port will never be put into use!"

"S sir, are you really willing to blow up the whole Dalian?"

"Of course, it will be blown up. If I want to attack Dalian, we have to completely destroy this place!"

Cao Shijun nodded and took a few steps forward at the same time, looking at the busy dock.

"All ships will be blown up into two to three pieces, and the dock will be flattened to the ground and destroy all facilities. Fortunately, the Russians have left us a thousand tons of explosives. Otherwise, we can't destroy the city at all by relying only on our 200 tons of explosives. I want this city, I can..."

Looking back at the young second lieutenant behind him, Cao Shijun's expression was solemn.

"Then what they get will be a city that has completely lost its use value!"

On the sorghum floor, two horses ran forward one after another. The jujube red horse lived in front of him. Kenji Oshima, who was riding on the horse, looked at the "devil's thorn wall" that appeared in two days and frowned into a small ball. In Jinzhou, he saw the officers and soldiers who died tragically between the Russian barbed wire and fell into the barbed wire. Even if it is not hit by a bullet, it is often bruised by the thorns on the wire.

It's close. When he left the barbed wire, there were only a hundred Millers and stopped, Kenji Oshima looked at the barbed wire nearly 100 meters deep with the eyes of a soldier. In front of the barbed wire was a mesh wall with wooden beams and four or five wire he had seen, about two or three layers. In the rear, there was a kind of barbed wire mesh similar to a snake's belly, between the barbed wire. The distance is only one meter, and the distance is no more than a few meters. This invisible barbed wire seems to clearly tell him how much it will cost to break through here.

"Qing people!"

Looking at the dragon flag flying behind the barbed wire, Kenji Oshima frowned.

Dalini's intelligence was too chaotic. First, on the night of the 28th two days ago, the army stationed in Darini Lucia began to retreat. At the same time, the expatriates in the city also retreated to Lushun. After the reorganization, the 15th wing came to Dari. In two days, it defeated the obstruction of many exposed troops along the way. Now in Darini, it is said that The city that abandoned resistance did not open its doors to the 15th Wing, but... welcomed the arrival of the 15th Wing with the barbed wire in front of them, and the dragon flag behind the barbed wire made Kenji Oshima have some doubts.

After waiting for a while, he heard the sound of horse's hoofs on the left. He looked to the left and saw the two horses running towards him at high speed. After the two horses stopped with the "wow" sound, Kenji Oshima saw two Orientals in Russian [***] clothes on the horse, and the braids on the back of their heads exposed their identities.

"You are..."

Yu Ziqi, who was riding on the horse, held his fist.

"In Yu Ziqi, I have met Mr. Captain!"

After saying that, Yu Ziqi took an official document from the cowhide bag around his waist and handed it over with a smile on his face.

"Mr. Captain, please tell your parents that Qingniwa has been returned to the Qing Dynasty by the Russians. Please stop!"

"Hmm!"

As soon as his eyes were opened, Kenji Oshima looked at the Chinese in front of him in surprise.

"Please also ask your army to abide by the statement issued by your country. This official document is handed over by Liu Tongzhi of the Jinzhou Department to your army's Olympic general..."

After saying that, Ziqi's face was solemn.

"Before you hand over the official documents to General Ao, I hope your army can maintain restraint!"

After saying that, with his legs clamping the horse, Yu Ziqi and his entourage left the front line together, leaving only the surprised Kenji Oshima.

"Qing... How can it be, Qing..., Lu returned Darini to Qing!"

Ao Baogong looked at the official document sent by the messenger in his hand. The official document was written by Liu Lingzhi's five-grade official. He slapped a few words in front of him, and praised the same text of the same kind in the middle. In short, he repeated the excuse of the reason for the declaration of war of war and fiercely praised the book.

But in the end, it reminded Ao Baogong that now Darini has returned to the Qing Dynasty. He also asked the general to take a detour south. Finally, it was like a threat. In the official document, he mentioned how he arranged to destroy the commercial port. To be precise, if other countries invaded, how would he take the responsibility of defending the land and use the policy of scorching the earth against the enemy.

"With millions of pounds of strong Western explosives, put them everywhere in merchant ships and docks, and wait for foreign enemies to knock on the side. I am the policy of scorched earth, turning the harbor into a reef and turning the wharf into ruins!"

There is no threat in the words, but Ao Baogong clearly knows that in order to combine Dari, they even spent tens of millions of yuan on bribing Russian officials, so they did not hesitate to spend money. The reason is to be able to take advantage of Dari's business port and occupy Dari according to the plan of the base camp. The victory or defeat of the whole battle.

"...Dalini Commercial Port is directly related to the smooth landing of our army's follow-up troops and combat materials. It is impossible to meet the needs of our army to continue fighting by relying on small boats to transport soldiers and materials."

"Yes! Mr. Commander, if there were no Darini Port, our attack on Lushun would have become empty talk!"

A staff member reminded that Ao Baogong's whole body fell into silence. In the battle of Nanshan outside Jinzhou City, the Second Army consumed more than 2.19 million rifles and 34,000 shells. Due to the strong wind and waves on the sea, it was difficult to send munitions to land with small boats. The lack of ammunition has always limited the battle of the Second Army. In the end, Li even issued the order of "attack until the last bullet" praised by domestic newspapers. In the eyes of reporters and citizens, this order was so exciting, but the root cause was the serious lack of ammunition for the Second Army fighting in the mainland.

It's not that there are no bullets and shells, but that there is no port to transport these ammunition. Because of this, the General Staff did not hesitate to bribe the officials of Luguo in order to preserve the Darini Commercial Port. Now the officials of Luguo have fulfilled their promise and have not destroyed Dali's commercial port, railway stations, warehouses, telephones and power stations. Wait for the equipment.

Two days ago, when the Lu army retreated, Ao Baogong even planned that after entering the city, Dalian Port would be launched as soon as possible, and weapons, ammunition, food and soldiers would continue to arrive at the port, and the Japanese army also benefited from the best forward base across the whole of Nanman.

But what about now?

That was just a dream. After receiving the money, Lu Guo fulfilled its promise of unbreakable, but handed over the city to the Qing people. In order to keep the city, the Qing people must be called "scorched earth" there.

"...The Qing people used the 1,000 tons of explosives left in the warehouse by the Lu [***] team. They not only put the explosives on the merchant ship in the port, but also arrived at the berths in the port. In addition, they buried the explosives deep in the wharves and breakwaters, power plants, railways, railway stations and even in most buildings, and also put a large amount of explosives. Liu Tong clearly told me that all the explosives were connected by electric wires, but Dalian... The Qing people called Darini so, and Dalian was attacked by the Lu people or us, then they would completely blow up the whole Dalian, and then Dalian would become a ruin..."

Looking up at General Aobao Gong, Ito Liutaro's words were somewhat helpless. In the past two days, Liu Tongzhi took him to the dock, and he saw with his own eyes how the explosives were buried several meters deep into the ground.

"Liu Tong knows that although Dalian is a city of the Qing Dynasty, in the final analysis, it was built by the Russians. Although it was blown up like this, it is a pity, but instead of letting foreigners occupy it, it is better to blow it up directly and completely blow it up!"

"Mr. Commander, we have calculated that if the information brought back by Captain Ito is convinced, then our plan to use the port of Darini may be in vain. It only takes more than half a year to salvage the wreck of the sunken ship, and after the breakwater and wharf were blown up, the whole port lost its utilization price. Value, the restoration of the port is almost equivalent to rebuilding a port, which will take at least two years!"

The words of Major Sato Zhai made the indoor atmosphere tight, and General Ao Baogong frowned even more.

"Two years!"

"Baga!"

After a curse in the room, an officer scolded again with hatred.

"These damn Qing slaves, are they going to threaten us?"

This is an idiotic question. They are threatening Japan.

"Guys, can we attack Drini?"

Ao Baogong asked in exchange for almost everyone's head.

"Mr. Commander, there is no problem in conquering Darini, but what we got is a ruin. Even if we get Darini turned into ruins, there is no change in the facts for us!"

"Shanggang, Darini without Shanggang is no different from any bay in Liaodong!"

"Wait for a diplomatic solution!"

My heart sank, and Ao Baogong said helplessly.

"Order the 15th Wing to restrain and not show any unfriendly actions to Dari, inform the headquarters of the matter here, and tell them that if they still want to win the war, let the Qing state hand over Dari."

(to be continued)