People are like this sometimes, and they always have to pay some terrible price to wake up.

Ding Ruchang has always been at odds about whether to stick to the rescue or break through Lushun, but now that Liu Buyun's death is coupled with Liu Jun's stinking telegram, he knows what to do.

"Military Gate." A tall and thin soldier in his thirties wearing a military uniform of General Qian came to Ding Ruchang with a saber in his hand.

He glanced at the corpse lying on the hospital bed, and looked at the battalion officer in front of him. Ding Ruchang moved his lips.

"You immediately lead the defense battalion, take the explosives from the storehouse, and place them in the port, the dock, the maintenance office. Especially those lifts. Give me all the place. ”

The defense officer hesitated for a moment, although he didn't understand why Ding Ruchang did this, but he still agreed to come over sonorously, and then turned to leave.

Ding Ruchang decided to blow up all facilities in Weihai according to Liu Jun's request, and then break through.

Let the sailors take care of Liu Buyun's body, Ding Ruchang got off the bridge in grief and came to the navy office.

As soon as the attendant of the navy official saw Ding Ruchang walking in, he hurriedly went up to take off his cloak for him.

Walking to the desk, Ding Ruchang did it, looking at Li Hongzhang's telegram that was stubbornly waiting for help. Pick it up and crumple it up, then throw it unceremoniously into the garbage basket.

After doing all this, he stood up and came to the telegraph office, where he wanted to give Liu Jun a telegram.

The Weihai Division broke through tonight, and the Qing Liu Jun Lushun Navy responded.

After dealing with all this, Ding Ruchang returned to the Navy Office and asked people to immediately gather all the sailors. Convene an emergency meeting.

Conference Hall. All the ship's pipe belts sat in their seats in a depressed mood and looked at Ding Ruchang, who was speechless, and they held their breath in their hearts.

The fleet, which once galloped across Asia, is now surrounded by little Japan and fought at home. And you can't rush out and fight to the death with others. The grievances in my heart can be imagined.

After taking a look at these depressed pipe belts, Ding Ruchang knew their mood, coughed softly twice, and Ding Ruchang began to give orders.

Time was pressing, and he didn't have time to say something useless to these pipe belts, but let the ships in Weihai be loaded with coal and ammunition to the maximum extent.

This strange order made the ship managers look at each other, not understanding what Ding Ruchang was going to do.

"Junmen, what do we want?" Lin Tai, who was sitting on the side, asked suspiciously.

Ding Ruchang glanced at Lin Taizeng, looked at the captain below who agreed with the doubts, and said in a hoarse voice: "Weihai is already dead, in." In Weihai, all my soldiers will die and have no place to be buried, so I decided to break through and go to Lushun. And just tonight. Ding Ruchang especially emphasized the two words tonight.

Everyone was amazed. It's noon now, and you've got seven or eight hours left tonight at most.

"Is it a bit too hasty to break through tonight?"

Jing Yuan Guan took Ye Zugui to ask this question.

Ding Ruchang also knew that tonight was a bit of a rush, however, now that another division of the Japanese army is attacking, and the weather is dark tonight, the waves and sea breezes are strong, if this is the original, it is not a good weather, but now, it is the best weather, which is conducive to breaking through.

After answering this question, Ding Ruchang glanced at the people seated, and the order was also reminded. "Ladies and gentlemen, the sailors are facing life and death, and we will work together tonight to break through the Japanese defense line, and then march towards Lushun at full speed. The special feature of tonight's operation is that I will use the Dingyuan Zhenyuan 2nd ship as the vanguard, and the rest of the ships will follow, and all the warships will turn off their lights and move forward. In case of encountering an enemy warship, immediately open fire and move forward through a tear opening. The torpedo boat formation did not stop after leaving the port and immediately advanced towards Arthur. The time is set. Speaking of this, Ding Ruchang looked at the clock hanging on the wall: "The time is set at ten o'clock tonight." ”

"Yes." The group stood up at once, bowed their hands, turned and left the conference room, and began to prepare for the loading of coal and ammunition.

The entire Weihai port, under the blow of Japanese artillery fire, removed all the ammunition and ordnance in the warehouse, and placed explosives on those that could not be moved. This is Ding Ruchang's order, even a piece of ammunition, a piece of coal, and he will not leave it to the Japanese army. After completing all this, Ding Ruchang personally came to the defense camp. After receiving Ding Ruchang's order, the defense battalion had already taken out ammunition from the storehouse and was placing it everywhere. Seeing that these things that had been with him for so many years had now been bundled with explosives, Ding Ruchang felt a little reluctant in his heart.

But war, sometimes that's how cruel it is.

Finding the defense officer, he repeatedly told him that once the warship was evacuated, all the explosives should be detonated immediately, and then the defense battalion would immediately break through.

The defense officer had followed Ding Ruchang for more than ten years, knew Ding Ruchang's intentions, swore and agreed, and then accompanied Ding Ruchang to walk around Weihai Port before letting Ding Ruchang go.

Lushun Headquarters, Liu Jun looked at the door, hoping to see Zhonglin's figure. However, except for the soldiers and staff officers who came in and out, Zhong Lin's shadow was not seen.

sent out this telegram, which Liu Jun himself thought was a bit excessive, so he asked Zhong Lin to stay in the telegraph room, and warned Zhong Lin that as long as it was a telegram from Weihai, it would be sent immediately.

And yet, so much time has passed. There is still no news from Weihai.

Looking at the gray sky and the two soldiers outside the door. Liu Junxin closed his eyes: "It's over, the Beiyang Sailor is finished here." Ding Ruchang, you old bastard, the Beiyang Sailor has a chance to live, and you will be ruined...... Liu Jun turned around depressedly, picked up the empty teacup, returned to his seat with a pale face, and sat down heavily. began to complain about the fate of Ding Ruchang and the sad water master.

"Head...... The head ......" finally sounded Zhong Lin's unique title.

Liu Jun, who heard this voice, suddenly got up from his chair, rushed out of the door, and stopped Zhong Lin: "What's the matter, what's the matter, has the hell anything to talk to?" ”

"Yes, yes," Zhong Lin handed over the telegram in his hand: "Weihai calls back, break through tonight, and ask us to answer." ”

"Okay, okay, Ding Ruchang has finally opened up. Live up to Lao Tzu's scolding. Liu Jun kept tapping the telegram with his hand. He looked at Zhong Lin with a smile and said.

Excitedly came to the map, Liu Jun looked at the map, then turned to Zhong Lin and said, "Go, call Li He." ”

Weihai is already in the dead of night. Except for the roar from time to time on the fort, the whole Weihai was peaceful.

It was already nine o'clock, and all the sailors, having already returned to the warships of the ships, arrived at the combat positions, and waited for the order to leave.

After Ding Ruchang packed up everything, he came to the gate of the water division under the escort of a group of guards. He looked at the two huge portraits of the door gods on the door with reluctance.

Three hours earlier, he had received a telegram from Liu Jun that the Lushun Navy had sent two warships, Qiaoli and Pingyuan, to march in the direction of the last time the naval division escorted reinforcements, and let his naval division advance according to this route after breaking through, and then converge together and arrive at Lushun.

"Junmen, it's time to go." Seeing that Ding Ruchang was still reluctant to look at everything in front of him, the senator stepped forward to remind.

Well, it's time to go. Ding Ruchang turned around. Then, under the protection of a group of guards, taking advantage of the dark night sky, he quietly boarded the Dingyuan ironclad ship.

When he came to the Dingyuan ship, he stood on the bridge and looked at everything in front of him.

"In two hours, everything here will be gone. Do you have and thoughts? Ding Ruchang watched for a long time and asked Lin Taizeng, who was standing next to him.

Liu Buyun had already died, and Ding Ruchang temporarily decided to let Lin Tai serve as the pipe band of the Dingyuan ship, and let the original first mate Yang Yonglin serve as the pipe band of the Zhenyuan.

Lin Taizeng sighed, and he was a little reluctant in his heart, but seeing Ding Ruchang's sad look, he still said: "Junmen, we will come back sooner or later."

Maybe he can come back, maybe he will never come back, Ding Ruchang was not pleased with Lin Taizeng's words in his heart.

Neither of them spoke, just stayed quietly on the bridge and watched everything.

Ten o'clock quietly came.

A sailor came over: "Junmen, the time is up." ”

Woowoo...... Woowoo...... The whistle of Dingyuan is the signal of breaking through, and the ships that have already been on fire and ready to go hear the whistle on Dingyuan. are all starting to act.

The gun emplacements were facing the outside of the harbor. The pressure is gradually increasing.

Squeak. The ship left the dock and began to quietly leave the dock.

At the forefront, there were the Dingyuan ships and the Zhenyuan ships, followed by Jingyuan, Guangbing, Jiyuan, etc., and the last to leave the dock were torpedo boats.

Everything is going very well. I saw that all the ships had left the port safely. Ding Ruchang, who was standing in the command tower, breathed a sigh of relief.

"Military Gate, Japanese Ship Patrol." Lin Tai once put down the telescope in his hand. He said with a bitter expression. 、

Sure enough, Ding Ruchang raised his binoculars and saw that it was indeed the patrol fleet of the Japanese Combined Fleet.

Staring coldly at the Japanese patrol ships after all, Ding Ruchang coldly gave an order: "Order all ships, concentrate firepower, open the gap, and then fire through."

The order was quickly delivered. The Dingyuan's 305-mm guns began to rotate, aiming their huge muzzles at the approaching patrol warships.