Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau, Liu Jun in the hall looked at the time hanging on the wall, it was already 7:30, and after waiting for thirty minutes, the Liaodong Army would launch a full-scale attack on Fuzhou.

"Head, do you want to go to the frontier and have a look." Zhong Lin, who had been standing next to him, saw Liu Jun looking up at his watch from time to time, and stepped forward to persuade.

He knew that Liu Jun could not rest assured, and this battle of Fuzhou would have an impact on some things in the future.

"It's fine." Liu Jun had been waiting for this, but he didn't say it because he was afraid that Zheng Yiqian would be worried. Now when he heard Zhong Lin mention it, he nodded slightly, put on his military hat from the side, and turned around and walked out.

The front-line position, because of Zheng Yiqian, Liu Jun was not easy to go, so he chose the location in the artillery position.

As soon as he arrived at the artillery position, Liu Jun saw that now the fifty field guns were already arranged in three rows side by side, and looking at their artillery branding, it was aimed in one direction, and it was estimated that they were preparing to bombard a location.

"Whose idea was this?" Liu Jun looked at the deployment of the artillery and smiled.

"Head, Li He asked them to do this, we didn't collapse the city wall twice, it was you who let the artillery concentrate the artillery to bombard a point, and then bombarded the city wall before they were able to enter the city, and then everyone thought it was a good method, so they stayed, but I didn't expect Li Rong to use it today.

Sure enough, on the third day of Shibei, Liu Jun looked at the gloomy field artillery, nodded and praised a few times, and then entered the bunker accompanied by Zhong Lin and others.

There are many trees in Fujian, this bunker was built by soldiers who temporarily cut down trees, and there were a lot of bags filled with sand on it, Liu Jun looked at it, such a thickness, unless it was an artillery on the fort. Otherwise, with Fuzhou's current firepower, there is no way to do it here.

This can be regarded as bullying, now in the city of Fuzhou, the four artillery pieces add up, there are only a dozen, and as soon as Liu Jun dispatches the artillery, it is as high as fifty, almost twice as many as the defenders of Fuzhou, and the soldiers who attack are three times that of the Qing army.

With such a force, if they can't defeat Fuzhou, they won't have the face to stay here.

Time passed little by little, half an hour passed, and the hands quietly pointed to eight o'clock.

Rumble...... Boom Boom Boom ...... Dozens of artillery pieces began to roar, shells began to fly through the mist and towards the faintly visible Fuzhou.

The huge explosion, the deafening sound, and the faintly visible dirt that had been blown into the sky suddenly woke Fuzhou from its sleep.

A minute later, Liu Jun saw that not far from the artillery, a lot of dirt was blasted into the sky, and then fell heavily, and even some fist-sized stones and dirt splashed onto the bunker, making a slight noise.

He knew that this was the Qing army on the wall of the Qing army, and at the same time, he also knew that it was just in vain, but hi exposed firepower.

A secret telegram was sent from the Fuzhou intelligence station, saying that the main force of the Qing army guarding Fuzhou this time was the five battalions of the Eight Banners originally stationed in Fuzhou, and the local troops from Fujian that had been urgently mobilized from various places were about 5,000 people, including 2,000 cavalry.

More importantly, of these more than 5,000 people, only more than 2,000 Qing troops were equipped with rifles and artillery, while the rest were machetes and spears.

Liu Jun's eyes widened when he got the news, he couldn't believe it, in five years, the imperial court had never thought of equipping local troops with hot weapons.

In fact, Liu Jun knows that there are two reasons for this, the first is that the imperial court is trying its best to suppress the power of the governors in various places until now, and the other point is himself, over the years, the new army trained by the imperial court has reached more than 100,000, but all of them are placed around Beijing to prevent themselves.

The shelling continued, and after more than ten minutes, Liu Jun clearly heard that the current shelling was only on his own side, and the artillery of the Qing army had almost been destroyed.

"Let's go back. It's up to Li Rong here. "Seeing that the artillery fire on Fuzhou City was almost suppressed, the rest was an infantry attack, and now, if you want to lead the charge, you don't even think about it. I'm afraid that if I say it, I will immediately be drowned in spittle. "Okay, let's go." Zhong Lin, who had always been worried that Liu Jun would suddenly go crazy and go to the infantry regiment, saw Liu Jun and wanted to go back. Immediately began to speak.

Although he returned to the shipyard far away from the battlefield, Liu Jun stayed in front of the map, carefully observing the wives of the attacking troops advancing into the Wing Ku Children's Palace.

It's the same as Liu Jun guessed. This attack on Fuzhou did not take much time. Five hours later, Li Rong rode to Fuzhou on a fast horse and told Liu Jun that Fuzhou had been taken, and now the troops were clearing out the remnants of the enemy and pacifying the people, and that Liu Jun would be able to enter Fuzhou probably tomorrow.

After Li Rong occupied Fuzhou, Liu Jun finally breathed a sigh of relief.

If Fuzhou is taken, then there will be a buffer zone for himself and the reinforcements of the Qing army, and even if the reinforcements from the Qing army arrive, he can also have a good fight with the Qing army of nearly 20,000 people who came to support Fuzhou according to the terrain around Fuzhou.

As for Li Rong's proposal to enter Fuzhou tomorrow, Liu Jun still understands this point, and now the battle is not completely over, if you rashly enter Fuzhou and take a shot, not to mention the pain, Li Rong is afraid that he will kill himself, and it will be difficult to escape the accusations of the Liaodong Army.

Looking at Li Rong's expectant eyes, Liu Jun nodded slightly: "You go, I'll listen to you, and I'll enter Fuzhou tomorrow." ”

Although the city of Fuzhou was shelled yesterday, most of the shells were mainly concentrated in the city wall and the outer city, so there was not much damage in the city, but some houses were damaged and burned because of grenades when fighting against the Qing army.

Early in the morning, Liu Jun, accompanied by Zheng Yiqian, Zhong Lin, Pei Yinsen, and Li Rong, came to the Fujian and Zhejiang Governor's Mansion in Fuzhou.

As early as the night before the Liaodong Army attacked Fuzhou, after learning that the Liaodong Army had landed at Luoxing Tower under the escort of the Beiyang Naval Division, Xu Yingqi, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, packed his luggage that night and left Fujian under the protection of a thousand guards and headed for Zhejiang.

Entering the Governor's Palace, looking at the location where Xu Yingqi, the former governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, worked in chaos, he smiled slightly, he didn't say anything, but asked Zhong Lin to spread out the map, after all, now, the reinforcements of the Qing army are less than a day's journey from here.

A few days ago, Liu Jun got the news that they were advancing at an average speed of 100 kilometers a day. Counting the time, it is estimated that it is not far from here now.

Zhong Lin roughly introduced a few locations around Fuzhou that could block the Qing army, Liu Jun looked at it, he was very satisfied, and was about to make a deployment, when he saw Zheng Yiqian pick up a telegram and walked in.

"I just received a telegram that the reinforcements from Huguang and Liangjiang have returned to the borders of the various jurisdictions to deploy defenses."

What? Liu Jun's eyes widened, and he immediately took the telegram from Zheng Yiqian's hand.

Indeed, what is said above is that the reinforcements sent by the Governor of Huguang and the Governor of Liangjiang had already entered the territory of Fujian, but after the loss of Fuzhou, they retreated to the border of Fujian and Zhejiang that night to set up defenses.

"It's amazing, you can run two or three hundred miles in one night, which is even more powerful than Ye Zhichao a few years ago." Liu Jun kept smacking. Praise the speed of the Qing army's retreat.

"You can pull it down, it's less than 50 kilometers into Fujian, and it's easy to go back." Zheng Yiqian shook her head when she saw where Liu Jun was, and said news that surprised everyone even more.

More than 50 miles, only more than 50 kilometers into Fujian, Liu Jun got the news that the Qing army marched 100 miles every day. This is just crawling, and it is not only more than 50 miles.

If this is true, there is only one explanation. That is this group of Qing troops, they are typical of seeing death and not saving them, and they didn't take it seriously at all