On the top of the Beiyi 'Gao' character fort, Xiong Kaiyu and the sergeants of the Anti-Japanese Army stood on the side of the gun wall, watching the eight Western cargo ships rushing towards the Japanese ship group with great momentum.

"Why do they dare to do this when they are unarmed? Just because behind them, stands a powerful country! ”

Xiong Kaiyu shouted excitedly: "If you want others to look up to it, first of all, you must have a straight iron backbone, all the soldiers of the anti-Japanese army, today is the time to test us!" ”

"Kill!"

There was a roar on the entire 'high' fort.

"Kill!"

Immediately, these loud roars spread to the left and right military stations, small forts, until they reached farther on both sides.

"Report!"

At this time, Zhai Yaodong, the commander of the reconnaissance platoon, strode over: "Just now, a group of fast horses from the Shuiyong battalion came to Beitang, saying that a large number of Japanese fleets were assembled there, and one of them went straight to Beitangkou, and a large number of troop carriers went to the Tang River estuary under the escort of warships. ”

"The Japanese army wants to land! Oops, Liu Gangzhi their Ninghe camp! ”

Xiong Kaiyu, who had long memorized the map of the Bohai Rim, understood everything in an instant, and said in a lost voice: "The Japanese ship group attacked Beitang and Dagukou, not to capture it, but to contain the troops!" After the Japanese army landed at the mouth of the Tang River, whether it was westward to Yanjing or south to Jinmen, the Ninghe River was their must pass! ”

"Zhai Yaodong, you immediately send someone to the Ninghe camp to tell Brigade Commander Liu and tell him that there are no soldiers in the entire Jinmen now; In addition to Liu Kunyi in Tangshan, there are 10,000 people, and the rest are our commander-in-chief, and some troops are besieged in Yanjing City by the 1st Army of the Japanese Army. ”

Xiong Kaiyu looked at Zhai Yaodong seriously and said: "Tell Brigade Commander Liu, don't be reckless to fight any hard battles to the death, these elite anti-Japanese soldiers are the seeds of our future sparks!" ”

"Rapid-fire cannon!"

Xiong Kaiyu was also anxious, this intelligence leader and head of the Dagu Military Station, who almost never joked on weekdays and did not smile, shouted out as soon as his mouth was ready.

"Rapid-fire cannon?"

The officers and soldiers of the anti-Japanese army on the side were all hysterical in their hearts, thinking that in addition to the old copper cannons, our Dagu Fort only had a retreating rigid body cannon, so how could there be any rapid-fire guns?

Xiong Kaiyu knew that his mouth was fast, so he looked at Han Sanbao who was standing next to the 1886 Type 120 gun and shouted: "Han Sanbao! ”

"Coax-"

There was laughter on the battery.

"Here! - Laugh at you girls, otherwise let's try it with your daughter-in-law in turn, and see who is a rapid-fire cannon? ”

Han Sanbao, who was tossed by a Western female nurse during the physical examination, ran to Xiong Kaiyu with a red face and a thick neck in anger, and stood upright.

"You immediately lead your company, fully loaded with 500 80-caliber high-explosive shells, and 100 75-caliber ordinary artillery shells, and quickly go to the Ninghe camp."

"Stationmaster—"

Han Sanbao had a bitter face when he heard this, and looked at Xiong Kaiyu pitifully and begged: "I don't want to go, I want to have fun beating the warship of the Japanese with cannons." ”

Han Sanbao was hit by five bullets in the Nanguanling infantry battle, and after returning to treat his injuries, he became a training officer of the training team.

And his training method is simply a 'fighting' word, shooting at the target, practicing and fighting with each other, each one is strong and strong, in Xiong Kaiyu's opinion, it is a group of good materials for hard work.

"This is an order, execute it immediately!"

Where could Xiong Kaiyu bargain with him, and after he finished speaking with a straight face, he complained to his adjutant Liu Gangyi: "Send a telegram to the deputy minister of Beiyang: The Japanese bombardment of the Tanggu Fort was intended to cover the landing of the infantry at the Tang River, and then I don't know whether it will advance west or south; Since the Qing Dynasty and Japan negotiated peace, there was no reason to use troops again, so it was recommended to immediately go to the Diantong Prefecture Military Affairs Office and ask it to urge the Japanese army to immediately withdraw to Weihaiwei. ”

Seeing the surprise on the faces of his new adjutant, Liu Gangzhi's distant brothers of the same generation, Xiong Kaiyu smiled slightly, and said coldly: "Of course they won't retreat, but if they are hurt in the future, we have to shut their mouths in advance now!" ”

"Stationmaster, can you win?"

Including Han Sanbao, who was not willing to leave, they all looked at Xiong Kaiyu with some disbelief.

"I was just shocked and didn't understand; - The 11th Brigade of the Japanese Army from Weihaiwei can only put about 8,000 troops here at most; And these soldiers only symbolically let go of a few shots in Weihaiwei, where can they compare to the elite and strong army of the Jinmen Brigade from the backbone of Beiyang and fighting bloody battles in Shanhaiguan? ”

Xiong Kaiyu boasted passionately: "Now the Japanese army, except for the 15 veteran brigades in the 5 infantry wings of the First Army, is a strong army that has gone through all kinds of bloody battles, and can barely beat our Shanhaiguan Legion; Now in the entire Qing Dynasty and the East, there is no team that is the opponent of our mountain naval regiment! ”

"Stationmaster, our Lushun Legion is also sharp!"

Han Sanbao, who came from the Lushun Legion, was very unhappy when he heard it.

"The Lushun Legion is sharp, but I think our Shanhaiguan Legion is a little sharper, almost annihilating an infantry brigade and an infantry wing of the Japanese army one to one."

An officer from the Shanhaiguan Regiment couldn't help but speak.

"Okay, all great,—— each of them back to their places; I'll go to the 'door' word fort, Liu Shihao, you are in charge of it for the time being. ”

Immediately, Xiong Kaiyu went to the Beijia 'Gate' character fort, Han Sanbao led his troops to the military treasury, and Liu Gangyi went to the telegraph office of the General Military Mansion and left.

"If you want me to say, it's still the old reinforcement army that is powerful, Dongxian Ridge, Shun'an Station, Zhisongyuan, Hushan, Andong County-"

At that moment, another voice rang out.

"The Battle of Golden State is the real one-"

Suddenly, the fort became a chicken and duck market.

The flagship of the Japanese Combined Fleet, the Matsushima.

Seeing the eight Western cargo ships rushing towards him, Ito had to endure his anger and ordered a suspension of the shelling, fearing that the artillery below would be enthusiastic for a while, so he bombarded these paper ships to pieces.

Ito Hyungwoo waited patiently for nearly forty minutes, thinking in a depressed heart that he was about to vomit blood,—— this is just like a farce game! ——These eight Western captains finally landed on the deck of the Matsushima on a sampan.

"Aggression, aggression, this is the most impudent aggression against our Tsarist Empire!"

As soon as Nomasoff got on the splint, he shouted in a preemptive voice: "I must find my good friend Minister Casini and send a telegram to our emperor detailing the humiliation of his subjects today!" ”

Although the British captain Stevens despised the rudeness of the Tsarist bear, for the sake of his own pounds, he still said very tactfully to the chief of staff Dewa Shigeyuan who came over:

"As for today's regrets, after returning to the UK, I will tell the newspaper reporter about today's experience in a true and detailed manner, and I think it will be of great help to the pending verdict of Gao Sheng."

"I protest, protest, must compensate, uh——, double, not triple for all the losses of our French people!"

French captain Williams was plain and clear.

Dewa Shigeyuan endured the anger in his heart, forced a smile, and began to 'pull the cowhide' that seemed to him to be an unforgivable waste of time.

And at this time, Yanjing, four hundred miles away, Tongzhou.

The Qing Dynasty, the 1st Army of the Japanese Army, and the Western envoys also began a 'cowhide'.