Chapter 244 Lushunkou
Zhang Peilun's eyes were red: "Zhou Zongbing, you can't save your death!"
Zhou Charter sneered: "Zhang Jun can't even take care of himself. How can he take care of others! Zhou Charter can't go to Liaodong to send people under the shelter!"
Zhang Peilun cried loudly: "Zhou Charter! Li Zhongtang, this is the last hope on you, Zhou Charter! You are so ruthless!"
"Wend off!" Zhou Charter said coldly.
Yao Xi took two soldiers and set up the crying Zhang Peilun out of the peony platform.
On winter nights in Pyongyang, the wind is mixed with snowflakes, roaring and playing. Zhang Peilun's cry gradually faded away.
Luo Mingfang sighed, "Why did the Qing Dynasty come to the point of tearing down the east wall to repair the west wall!"
"The silver has been taken by the empress dowager to repair the garden!" Ha Wu said with red eyes, "Damn it, even if she doesn't take it to repair the garden, the silver can't reach the front-line officers and soldiers. Those corrupt officials are staring at the silver!"
Zhou Charter said in a low voice: "Order Zhang Xun and Wu Peifu's troops to immediately enter the position on the north bank of the Linjin River!" Order the troops stationed in Pyongyang, Anzhou and Yizhou to gather in the Linjin River!"
After the Pyongyang Campaign, Zhang Jun once occupied the north bank of the Linjin River and confronted the Japanese army on the south bank. After entering the winter, the two sides retreated 30 kilometers under the severe winter season. Now, the severe winter has not yet passed. Zhou Charter ordered all the Zhang army's forces to enter the front line of the Linjin River again.
Luo Mingfang said, "Master, you are pretending to attack Seoul, so as to contain the Japanese army from launching the Shandong Campaign."
Zhou Charter nodded.
Luo Mingfang sighed: "The Japanese army attacked Shandong, and the Japanese army stationed in Seoul was the Fifth Division of the First Army. With the combat effectiveness of the Fifth Division, it was enough to compete with our army. Division commander, I am worried that our army launched an attack on the Linjin River, and the use of the Shandong campaign to be launched by the Japanese army is very limited.
Na Ha Wu said, "Lao Luo, our eldest brother watched Shandong fall and died! We Zhangjun can't help Shandong. I have no choice but to do this, and we have fulfilled our duty as ministers! If we are lucky, we can't take Seoul!"
"That's all I can do!" Luo Mingfang sighed: "As for Seoul, let's not expect it!"
Zhou Charter looked at the night outside the window with his hands on his back and didn't seem to hear their conversation.
"Master, what is in your hand?" Luo Mingfang asked.
Zhou Charter handed a stack of photos to Luo Mingfang: "This was brought by Han Lingzhun!"
Luo Mingfang took the photo and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.
In the photo, it was a creepy killing, which made the man who crawled out of the dead shudder!
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Zhang Peilun did not stay in Pyongyang for a moment, but rushed back to Tianjin overnight and returned to Li Hongzhang.
When Li Hongzhang saw Zhang Peilun and learned that Zhou Charter refused to send troops, he collapsed to the ground and said that he could not be sick from then on.
He knew that the Beiyang sailor was hopeless.
Two days later, the court appointed Liu Kunyi, governor of Liangjiang and Minister of Nanyang Trade, as the imperial envoy to restrain the war between the troops inside and outside the customs. This appointment means that since the beginning of the war, Premier Li Hongzhang, the Minister of Beiyang Trade, fought against Japan, and the court officially deprived Li Hongzhang, the governor of Zhili, of his command, which also means that the court determined that Li Hongzhang would bear full responsibility for the defeat in the battle against Japan!
This also means that the "falling Li" action of the Qing school led by Weng Tongyu has made significant progress. The Empress Dowager finally lost patience with Li Hongzhang!
Li Hongzhang is in a personal political crisis and it is difficult to redeem himself. What awaits him will be more severe sanctions from the court!
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At night, Lushun Port is windy and snowy, and waves are bursting.
Lushun Port is located at the southwest end of the Liaodong Peninsula and on the north coast of the Yellow Sea. The situation in Lushun Port is dangerous, with the Golden Mountain in the east, the Tiger Tail Peninsula in the west, and the Old Railway Mountain in the southwest, surrounded by the harbor on three sides. The mouth of the two mountains confrontation is called Lushunkou, also known as Lionkou, which is 300 meters wide. The passageway is only 91 meters wide. It can only pass through one large cruiser at a time, making Lushun Port similar to a closed bay. "One man is the gate, ten thousand people can't open", which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.
In the autumn of 1881, Beiyang Minister Li Hongzhang personally led civil and military officials to inspect the situation in Lushunkou, believing that "Lushunkou is located in the Beiyang Gap, the gateway to the capital, which is the key to coastal defense of the two provinces... It is imperative to cover the throat and is bound to fight" and is determined to build Lushun Port into a base for Beiyang Marine Division. Subsequently, Li Hongzhang officially reported his plan to build a dock in Lushun. In September 1882, Li Hongzhang appointed Yuan Baoling, a repairman, as the general office of the Engineering Bureau. By September 1890, Lushun Dockyard was completed, consuming 1,393,5 million taels of silver. At the same time, purple granite was shipped from Long Island, Shandong Province. Stone strips have built a breakwater along the coast of Lushun Port, which is about 3 meters high.
The combination of the breakwater and the Tigertail Peninsula around Lushun Port makes the waters of the port vast, free from freezing and silt, with excellent concealment and wind resistance.
Lushun Port is the product of the ingenious combination of nature and artificial art. The narrow waterway, the closed harbor, the high mountains on both sides are intertwined, and the wind in the port is calm and not frozen all year round. Therefore, "Lushun, a natural victory, that is, there are thousands of troops and horses, which can't be broken"!
However, the eastern fortress of Lushun was easily broken by the Japanese from behind!
The land defense of the Qing army is so fragile that even the Japanese can't believe it!
From Jinzhou to Dalian, the Japanese army was invince all the way. In less than a month, the Japanese army captured the whole territory of Liaodong in less than a month.
And it is difficult for the Qing army to retake Liaodong along the Japanese's offensive road!
Song Qing's 100,000 army launched three large-scale attacks on Jinzhou, all of which were useless!
Song Qing couldn't figure out how the weak Jinzhou defense line in the hands of the Qing army was in the hands of the Japanese, how could it be as solid!
With the arrival of severe winter, Song Qing's troops could no longer withstand the consumption of the field war, so they had to retreat to Pingcheng and wait for the opportunity to counterattack next spring.
However, the Japanese army is fierce in Liaodong in the severe winter!
Lushunkou, the headquarters of the Second Army, is brightly lit.
Army General Dashanyan sat on the tiger skin handsome chair and looked at the officers sitting around a long table under the handsome chair. His left hand was General Yamamoto, the commander of the 1st Division, and his right hand was Zuo Jiujian Left Ma Taizhong, the commander of the 2nd Division. Will.
On the long table, there is a map of Shandong. The officers are pointing around the map, emotional but polite. This atmosphere is not like the battlefield headquarters, but like a night salon in Tokyo.
Dashanyan did not interrupt the enthusiastic discussion of the officers. He always kept a faint smile, like a virtuous parent, listening to the arguments of his descendants.
This is the barracks culture of the Second Army, which is completely different from that of the First Army.
The First Army Command of Youpeng in Shanxian can never hear this kind of debate.
In the First Army, once Commander Shanxian Youpeng sits in the headquarters, only his thick breathing can be heard there! Others, even breathing, should remain silent.
That's the majesty of friends in Shan County!
However, Dashanyan is very disdainful of such majesty!
In his opinion, this is not majesty, but horror!
A commander who terrors his subordinates is not worthy of respect.
Because terror is a kind of coercive pressure. In fact, terror can only show a person's incompetence!
Dashanyan does not need to exert pressure on his subordinates. His prestige comes from the sincere trust and obedience of his subordinates!
Dashanyan looked down on Shanxian Youpeng from the bottom of his heart, and Shanxian Youpeng is a warlord from the bone! Without the Meiji Restoration, he would be a separatist! And the dividers are the enemies of the country!
Of course, Dashanyan also knows that friends in Shan County also look down on him!
Dashanyan and Yamagata Aritomo are both the founders of the Meiji New Army in Japan, but while they jointly build a modern army, they are a pair of enemies!
Since the beginning of this war, Dashanyan and Yamagata Aritomo did not regard this war as a war between Japan and the Qing Dynasty, but a war between two Japanese generals!
The fierce hostility began with the war in North Korea.
When the First Army landed in North Korea, for half a year, the aura of honor was shrouded over the head of Yamagata Aritomo. At that time, Yamagata and his first army almost occupied the daily front page of Japanese newspapers. The people almost firmly believed that Yamagata Aritomo was the founder of the modern Japanese army, and the name of Dashanyan The word seems to have been buried by the tide of history.
However, the mountain rock doesn't care about this.
He firmly believes that an arrogant general will pay for his arrogance!
Sure enough, some friends in Shan County failed, and he was defeated by an unknown little man.
This little man's name is Zhou Charter. Before the war, the name never appeared in the report of the Japanese military intelligence department.
Until now, Dashanyan knew that the general officer named Zhou Charter was only an ordinary soldier before the war.
For the defeat of friends in Shan County, Dashanyan does not think it is the victory of Zhou Charter.
On the contrary, he believes that it is a gift from a friend from Shan County to Zhou Charter!
It's just the arrogance and ignorance of friends in Shan County!
The victory of Dashanyan and the defeat of friends in Shanxian County appeared almost at the same time.
While almost destroyed with the mixed brigade, Dashanyan led the second army and captured Lushun Port, known as the "Eastern Fortress" at a small cost. This solid fortress was once regarded as "solid" by Western military observers.
More importantly, the mountain rock stands on China's territory!
This is the dream of the Japanese since the Ming Dynasty! This Japanese dream has become a reality in the hands of Dashanyan!
With the fall of Lushun Port, the battle between the two Japanese military soul-level figures ended in the victory of Dashanyan.
Dashanyan has achieved the glory of soldiers, while friends in Shanxian County have sadly withdrew from the military and political circles in the midst of a lot of scolding.
Dashanyan set up his headquarters in Lushunkou, a natural port known as the "Oriental Fortress", which is the glory of Dashanyan's military career and a monument he set up for Japanese soldiers!
Dashanyan is not satisfied with this!
He will also set up a second monument for Japanese soldiers - Shandong, Weihaiwei, the nest of the Beiyang navy, which is known as the fourth in Asia and the fourth in the world!