In the new year, the people once again saw the protector of Lushun.

Moving from the headquarters to a new place, Liu Jun rarely came to the city, and today's sudden appearance made the people smile all of a sudden, full of excitement and consciously stood aside, quietly watching Liu Jun and a few fast horses pass through the streets of the city. Head in the direction of the telegraph office.

After careful consideration, Liu Jun still had to communicate well with Ding Ruchang, after all, the gains and losses in Weihai not only affected the development of the war situation, but also affected Lushun, he didn't want Lushun to fall into war again, and let the people live in fear and panic, which was his duty.

Coming to the telegraph office, Liu Jun walked straight to the telegraph room. Taking off his cloak, Liu Jun pointed to the telegraph personnel who were working: "Connect Tianjin, secret telegram." ”

The telegraph staff was a little surprised when they saw that it was Liu Jun, after all, Liu Jun rarely came here, and all who came here were Lieutenant General Zhong Lin, and today, as the supreme commander, Liu Jun personally arrived here and it was a secret telegram, and the director of the telegraph room immediately personally went to the chair, connected the line to Tianjin and waited for Liu Jun's order.

"Weihai Division Yamen to Admiral Ding, the Japanese army is still landing in ......"

The telegram was very long, and it took the telegraph man more than ten minutes to type it all out and then send it.

Liu Jun's general meaning was to tell Ding Ruchang that when the Japanese army landed at Rongchengwan, it would inevitably attack from the land, occupy the shore batteries, and then work with the navy to pick up the Beiyang Naval Division, and he asked Ding Ruchang to consider blowing up all the batteries on the shore or going to sea to fight the Japanese navy when necessary.

After giving the order, Liu Jun did not leave immediately, but thought about it carefully, and he thought that it was better to remind Li Hongzhang. Once again, the route to Tianjin was opened, and Liu Junyou once again issued an order similar to a plea. He didn't know if he could change Li Hongzhang's mind, but now.

In Tianjin, Li Hongzhang is now an ant on a hot pot, constantly running back and forth in the study. The news of the landing of the Japanese army at Rongchengwan, he had already received telegrams from Ding Ruchang and the governor of Shandong today.

Li Hongzhang, who received the telegram, was immediately taken aback. Yang Shixiang was hurriedly called, and after discussion, reinforcements were urgently dispatched from Baoding and Sha Andong, and the Japanese army was intercepted off the coast of Weiding.

Anxiously stopped, Li Hongzhang asked, "Have the troops to rescue Weihai set off now?" ”

Yang Shixiang shook his head, indicating that he had not yet been dispatched.

Seeing Yang Shixiang's shaking of his head, Li Hongzhang scolded angrily: "Damn, damn, Weihai is lost, so the battalion officers will all be beheaded." ”

No wonder Li Hongzhang is so anxious, Weihai is not as good as Lushun, after all, Lushun is far away from Beijing, and there are many natural dangers and heavy troops along the way, even if the Japanese army takes Lushun, it will not have any impact on Beijing. However, Weihai is different.

Once Weihai is occupied by the Japanese army, the Japanese army will drive straight in. At present, almost all the troops in Shandong and Baoding in Beijing have been transferred to the northeast. This made him feel helpless and desperate in his heart.

When the Japanese army occupies Weihai, it is bound to send troops directly from Weihai to threaten Beijing.

Angrily throwing away the exquisite teacup on the coffee table, Li Hongzhang closed his eyes helplessly.

Yang Shixiang was going to persuade Li Hongzhang, but he didn't know how to comfort him in this situation. Just as he was about to get up, Yang Shixiang saw Yang Fengchun walk in with a telegram in his hand.

Whispered to Yang Fengchun, who was about to make a report, silenced, Yang Shixiang stood up and motioned to go out.

Although Li Hongzhang didn't open his eyes, he could still feel it: "Say it, something." ”

Yang Fengchun looked at the broken teacup, then looked at the neon who was sitting there and had lost a lot of weight, and said in a dull voice: "My lord, Lushun Liu Jun urgently encrypts the telegram." ”

As soon as he heard that it was Liu Jun's telegram, Li Hongzhang stood up suddenly, took the telegram from Yang Shixiang's hand, and read it carefully.

After a long moment, he closed his eyes in vain and sat weakly in his chair.

Liu Jun's telegram, although it is a bit cruel, but I am afraid that this is also the only way to rescue the Weihai Beiyang Naval Division at that time.

It turned out that Liu Jun knew that without Li Hongzhang's order, Ding Ruchang would be wiped out by the whole army, and he would not order the fort to be blown up, but Li Hongzhang was different, as long as it was Li Hongzhang's order, he believed that Ding Ruchang would resolutely carry it out.

Looking at Li Hongzhang's expression, Yang Shixiang didn't know what Liu Jun said, which made Li Hongzhang so sad, he took it and took a look. I also felt in my heart what a difficult decision it was to let Li Hongzhang order the battery to be blown up.

"Your Excellency." Yang Shixiang raised his head and looked at Li Hongzhang.

Li Hongzhang interrupted Yang Shixiang's words: "Don't say it. The old man should think about it, think about it. ”

After a night of thinking, Li Hongzhang still didn't come to a result, and asked him to blow up the fort he had worked so hard to build, he was a little reluctant in his heart, and he couldn't sleep all night, and he didn't make up his mind after thinking all night.

However, the Japanese army will not wait for Li Hongzhang.

After landing at Rongchengwan, the Japanese Third Division opened fire with the strength of two brigades, and the forward was already less than 11 kilometers away from the Weihai Army battery.

And the combined fleet of the Japanese army, under the repentance of Ito Yuheng, gradually compressed the Beiyang Naval Division, and now it has forced the Beiyang Naval Division into the port of Weihai. And artillery shelling began on it.

The situation in Weihai is not optimistic.

Lushun, Liu Jun has been sending telegrams to Tianjin, and has not spoken of telegrams from Tianjin and Weihai. Although he was anxious, there was nothing he could do. You can only resign yourself to fate.

Zhang Yi had already sent a telegram back, and the battle for Panjin had begun yesterday.

Although he handed over the command to Zhang Yi, Liu Jun was not very relieved, and since the beginning of the campaign, he has been paying attention to the front-line battles.

The 11th Brigade was very stubborn this time, and the 2nd Brigade and the 3rd Brigade, which the 2nd Army was the most capable of fighting, jointly attacked, and it took a day to take the outlying positions of the Japanese army.

The offensive route of the Second Army and several hills still occupied by the Japanese were drawn. Liu Jun began to think about how to end it quickly.

In the past two days, he has been thinking about a problem, that is, to relieve the pressure on Weihai from the side. Lips and teeth are cold. Lushun and Weihai are like human teeth and lips, if one side suffers a loss, the other side will be seriously affected.

Although his current strength is unable to cross the sea to rescue Weihai, he can be regarded as a force of his own to attack the Japanese army from the side, so that the Japanese army cannot boldly attack Weihai with confidence.

Liu Jun took a look, and if he wanted to defeat Panjin, the key problem was that the No. 2 position controlled by the Japanese army, the No. 2 position was condescending, and the artillery on the mountain blocked the attack path of the troops.

Depressed and depressed, Liu Jun picked up the tea from the table and began to ponder how to take down the mountain.

"Head, Zhang Yi telegram." Zhong Lin walked in and woke up Liu Jun.

"Read it" Liu Jun didn't want to look at it, but stared at the map.

"Zhang Yi called, the Japanese army asked for negotiations."

"What the hell?" Liu Jun suddenly turned his eyes from the map to Zhong Lin, did he hear it wrong, the Japanese army wants to negotiate.

Zhong Lin looked at Liu Jun's expression of disbelief, and then looked at the telegram again: "Yes, the Japanese army asked for negotiations. ”

Strange, Liu Jun showed a look of disbelief.

Could it be that this time it will be a conspiracy of the Japanese army again. Thinking of this, he asked Zhong Lin to immediately send a telegram to ask Zhang Yi if the Japanese army's request for negotiations was true.

In fact, Liu Jun was really cautious this time, and the Japanese army really didn't have any conspiracy this time.

Starting to assemble troops from Yingkou, Anchun, the great temple of Panjin, knew that the Lushun army was coming at him.

The information obtained made the temple Yasuchun also sit on pins and needles, and more than 10,000 people wanted to advance Panjin in three directions at the same time.

And themselves, there are less than two thousand five hundred.

With 2,500 people against 10,000 Qing troops, Oji Anchun had no pressure, but now, he had to face the Lushun army, which was not much different from his own troops.

Even if it was a one-to-one battle, he couldn't guarantee that he would be able to win with complete certainty, let alone the Lushun Army, which was four times more than himself.

It was simply a terrible battle.

As soon as the battle began, he once again saw the overwhelming attack of the formidable Lushun army on the city walls.

The evaluation of the Lushun Army in the 11th Brigade is only a few words, it is not necessary to die in battle, and even some soldiers pray privately, no one they meet, do not meet the terrible Lushun Army.

In one day's battle, although he killed more than 1,000 Lushun troops, he also lost nearly 700 people, and two wing commanders were also killed in the attack of the Lushun army.

As the commander of the 11th Brigade, Yasumi Oji knew that if he continued to fight like this, the 11th Brigade had only one way: "The whole army will be destroyed."

He didn't want the 11th Brigade to be destroyed in his own hands, but if he didn't want to, it would represent another path he didn't want to choose, surrender negotiations.

After a long day of careful consideration, the chief of staff and the remaining wing commanders were summoned, and finally everyone felt that the 11th Brigade would not exist if the fight continued, so in the end, everyone accepted Oji Yasujun's proposal and negotiated, as long as the 11th Brigade could be left.

Zhang Yi's call back was very fast, and in less than thirty minutes, Zhang Yi sent a telegram back, with only four words

This is true.