Chapter 9 of the Shandong Peninsula

Faced with the warships covered by the Japanese army, Liu Yongfu was very helpless. The best time to destroy the Japanese army was actually when the Japanese army carried out the landing. Unfortunately, Chen Congyun requested many times, Guangxu issued several orders, and under the repeated strict orders of Li Hongzhang, Ding Ruchang's admiral Beiyang Navy, was still hiding in the military port as a turtle.

Without the cooperation of the Beiyang Navy and the sturdy fortress cannons, it would be impossible to stop the Japanese army from landing in Longxu Island, but it would cost a lot, because the Japanese naval guns on the sea could cover everything on the shore at any time.

Having difficulties does not mean giving up such a good opportunity to kill the enemy. The trenches that Liu Yongfu dug in half a month are not used as decorations.

Using several small cannons on the island as bait to lure the attack of the Japanese fleet, the real weapon of destruction is a light and heavy artillery with a range of two thousand meters, and it is hidden in the trenches.

The small steamer dragged a small sampan and started landing with Japanese infantry. The four-poster troops of the Shandong Qing army on the island were pushed in front of the shameless Liu Yongfu as cannon fodder. After the Qing army sank two sampans with 75mm cannons, they were immediately retaliated against by artillery fire from 25 warships of the Japanese Combined Fleet.

The Qing army of the four-poster suddenly collapsed, and the speed of the collapse made Liu Yongfu a little amused. When the Japanese army continued to land and began to complete the assembly of more than a thousand people on the beach, the disaster came.

When two hundred mortars were fired at the pre-calibrated zodiac at the same time, the scene was also very spectacular. More than a thousand Japanese troops had almost no time to respond to evasion, so the shells were blown up so hard that they could not find the north.

After three rapid fires, the mortars resisted the artillery barrel, ran along the dug trenches, and slipped to the predetermined position on the second line, leaving only an observation post at the front.

After the Japanese ship's retaliatory shooting of the Japanese ship turned over the front line of Longju Island, the position was very quiet. Through the telescope, Yuki Ito could even see the fleeing Qing army.

The landing continued. This time, the Japanese army was much more careful, and they scattered their formations and slowly leaned up. Finally, they stood on the Qing army's position. When they saw the messy trenches dug all over the ground, the Japanese soldiers couldn't do anything about this. What kind of thing did the Chinese people do? Is the Bagua Formation?

According to the prior plan, more than 2,000 Japanese troops, under the cover of several field cannons, began to pounce on Rongcheng in a fierce manner. However, just as they walked out of the two places, a sharp whistling sound in the air spread out.

When the Japanese army looked up, it felt like the end of the world was coming. A Japanese gang reimbursed half of it. Dashanyan, the commander of the Shandong Operations Army, could not help but attack the Qing army's artillery fire. Is this the Qing army that was about to collapse on the Korean battlefield? Or is it that the intelligence department made a mistake. Shandong is not just Li Bingheng's more than 20,000 miscellaneous troops?

According to the density of the artillery fire, the Qing army in front of us should be at least 50,000, right? But why did they easily give up the front line and flee? Dashanyan and a group of staff couldn't even figure it out, so they had to continue to attack Rongcheng with the strength of a corps according to the combat plan formulated in advance.

Rongcheng and Yan Desheng recently felt that he was very unlucky and came to Rongcheng with four battalions of troops. As a result, he had to take down his weapons as soon as he entered the city. When he found out, the troops of Chen Congyun's new army were hidden here.

Although Yan Desheng was very dissatisfied with the fact that he was disarmed, he still felt that this was not a bad thing. At least he didn't need to face the Japanese cannons and could ask for leaving. As a result, he was very disappointed. Liu Yongfu just gave some silver dollars to every household in the city, allowing everyone to leave Rongcheng for refuge. He was only letting the people leave last night. The people left all the people, and Yan Desheng and his subordinates were still there.

When he woke up early this morning, Liu Yongfu called out Yan Desheng and proposed to return the equipment to let him stay in Rongcheng. Liu Yongfu led his troops to the front line to resist.

This decision made Yan Desheng very excited. Someone was pushing him in front of him. What could be happier than this? Yan Desheng agreed with no idea and forgot to go aside for the time being disarmed.

In the morning, the cannons by the sea were shaking the earth. When Yan Desheng was still glading himself, he never thought that noon had arrived yet and lunch was still cooking in the pot. The sentry at the gate of the city came to report and Japan came to kill him.

"Your grandma Liu Yongfu actually plotted against me." After all, Yan Desheng was under the mission of guarding Rong Cheng, so he had to bite the bullet and come to the front of the formation. When he saw more than a thousand Japanese troops coming from afar, Yan Desheng quickly called his brothers to prepare for the fight. He never thought that the Japanese soldiers were very cunning, and they came up with a cannon bombardment. Yan Desheng's four battalions, more than two thousand people, made the cannons bombard the camp immediately.

Fortunately, Yan Desheng rode a horse fast enough. When the Japanese soldiers were still two miles away, Yan Desheng had already taken the lead and rushed out of the city and ran in the opposite direction.

The speed of the Qing army's defeat made Liu Yongfu, who was ambushed in a small village five miles away, was stunned. In less than ten minutes, Rong Cheng was lost. Two thousand people, two thousand pigs were enough for the thousand Japanese troops to capture for half a day.

The Japanese follow-up troops arrived ashore one after another and entered Rongcheng for a short rest. Liu Yongfu sent someone to ask for help from Li Bingheng in the name of Shen Congyun. As a result, after Li Bingheng learned that more than 20,000 Japanese troops had landed in Rongcheng, he intervened that the Japanese army might take the opportunity to land in the south as a reason. He said that the troops of the 35 battalions were just not moving, but sent General Sun Wanling to lead more than 1,000 people to reinforce. Sun Wanling also accommodated more than 1,000 Yan Desheng's scattered soldiers along the way, and finally came to Liu Yongfu with a little look.

It is really hard for Liu Yongfu to believe that those soldiers wearing headscarves, pale faces, and many people yawning, and all the way toward a big smoke ghost can be called an army.

"General Sun, take your people to Qiaotou Town and cooperate with my engineer troops to build fortifications." Liu Yongfu was really worried about these soldiers staying by his side, for fear of leading the young people under his command.

Liu Yongfu's rudeness made Sun Wanling a little dissatisfied, but seeing that he was strong and could not afford to offend him, he had to follow Liu Yongfu's engineer troops to Qiaotou Town. This was the only way to Wenquantang. After passing Wenquantang, it was Hushan and then he could reach Weihai. Sun Wanling was a Chinese soldier with blood. Although his equipment was not very good, he dared to fight with the Japanese. Just for this, Liu Yongfu was polite to him and added him a thousand Mauser m1888 and 100,000 bullets. After arriving at Qiaotou, the prefect Dai Zongqian led the Sui army of the two battalions to aid. He learned that Liu Yongfu had assembled more than 10,000 new troops outside Rongcheng. Dai Zongqian strongly asked to go for reinforcements, but Liu Yongfu refused.

It’s not that Liu Yongfu looked down on them, but that Liu Yongfu did not plan to fight the Japanese army in Rongcheng. According to the General Staff’s estimate, after the assembly of Rongcheng, the Japanese army would definitely divide their troops into two groups, along Rongcheng, Qiaotou, Wenquantang, Hushan, Weihai, along Sanguan Temple, and behind Gongshan, and directly attacking the Nangang Fort.

Liu Yongfu's plan was taken in three steps. The first step was to give appropriate killing and injury when the Japanese army landed. After the Japanese army occupied Rongcheng, he took advantage of the fact that the Japanese army had not yet established a stable foothold and launched a long-planned attack. After killing and injuring the Japanese army in large numbers, he immediately transferred. The second step was to take advantage of the opportunity of Shandong Qing army to block the Japanese army at the bridgehead and Sanguanmiao and two lines to complete the maintenance of the Japanese army's rear route. The third step was to once the Japanese army broke through the defense line of Shandong Qing army and began to attack the Nangang Fort and Weihai, Liu Yongfu launched a fierce general attack from behind.

In order for the entire combat plan to be successfully completed, Liu Yongfu repeatedly asked Chen Congyun to try to get the Beiyang Navy out and restrain the Japanese army's firepower support from the other side of the Japanese fleet.

"Don't throw his mother!" Liu Yongfu threw the telegram into the brazier. The damn Ding Ruchang was really a turtle, and he was determined to shrink into the port and not come out. The telegram just now was sent by Weihai.

Without the help of the Beiyang Navy and the cooperation of Li Bingheng's Qing army, it would be rare that Liu Yongfu would not have been a little bit if he wanted to eat the Japanese army in Shandong.

It was originally planned that the Japanese army would launch an anti-assault combat plan tomorrow morning, but because the Beiyang Navy refused to go out, they had to waste it. Of course, Liu Yongfu also prepared another plan.

If you want to talk about who is the best in the new army, Liu Yongfu will definitely not have the share of Liu Yongfu. If you want to talk about who has the most conspiracies and tricks and the most variety in war, then it is Liu Yongfu.

At night, the Japanese army, who had been tired for a day, were suddenly awakened by a series of muffled thunder while Rongcheng was sleeping soundly.

When Dashanyan opened his eyes, he rushed out of the yard and found that there were fires everywhere in the city, and countless shells were falling into the city, and there were scenes of Japanese troops hiding in a mess.

Not to mention, this is Liu Yongfu's second plan, bombarding Rongcheng.

Liu Yongfu sent all the heavy artillery and bombarded Rong Cheng for two hours. This shelling made the Japanese Shandong combat army worried all night, and did not dare to go out of the city to fight. Dashanyan even fell into a conjecture. Is the main force surrounded? He sent several batches of communication soldiers overnight to inform the fleet to prepare to retreat.

At dawn, Dashanyan finally discovered that the Qing army had not come to attack the city at all. The fierce artillery fire last night made Dashanyan a little worried. Could this Shandong battle be a mistake? Are the Shandong defenders not as the intelligence said?

After hesitating for a while, he pulled the joint fleet to discuss it for a day, and finally decided to continue to attack Weihai before the base camp ordered the retreat.

After the quiet day, Dashanyan felt a little relieved. Although there were hundreds of casualties caused by the shelling, it did not hurt the bones.

After Rongcheng stayed for two days, Dashanyan did not wait for the Qing army to attack. After the subsequent troops arrived, Dashanyan ordered the division of troops to attack Weihai.

The attack was the Japanese Second Division. Sun Wanling, who was guarding the bridge, resisted stubbornly with the cooperation of Dai Zongqian's two battalions. The people of Shandong provided great help to Sun Wanling's resistance. The Sun and Dai armies blocked the bridge for two days, but the Japanese army could not pass. Sun Wanling knew that Liu Yongfu was waiting for an opportunity nearby, so he sent someone back to report to Li Bingheng early, hoping that he would send reinforcements to reinforce the headquarters as soon as possible. As a result, Sun Wanling not only did not wait for reinforcements from Yantai, but also received news. When Li Bingheng learned that the Japanese army divided the troops and attacked in two groups, he fled to Jinan overnight with Jia Xiaoxiruan. Dai Zongqian refused to agree, and transferred his troops overnight and returned to Weihai to guard the garrison.

Sun Wanling's lonely army had to persevere. At the critical moment, Liu Yongfu sent a regiment of reinforcements, and finally helped Sun Wanling defend Qiaotou Town. The attacks of the Japanese army were blocked, but the other was very smooth. The Qing army was invincible, and the Japanese army was under the Nangang Fort.

At this time, Li Hongzhang was also anxious and sent continuous telegrams urging Ding Ruchang to break out of the port as soon as possible and not to sit and wait for death. Ding Ruchang hesitated repeatedly and refused to implement it.

Liu Yongfu felt helpless in the face of the Qing army's rapid defeat. In just ten days, the Japanese army almost suffered much consumption and rushed to the southern gang's fort. If Sun Wanling hadn't been better at fighting and commanding a group of miscellaneous cards to withstand the fierce attack of the Second Division, Liu Yongfu really didn't know how to fight this annihilation war.

On the night of the 29th, Liu Yongfu sent Ding Ruchang again, informing Ding Ruchang that on the 30th, he would launch a full-scale counterattack against the Japanese army, and he hoped that the Beiyang Navy could go out to sea to restrain the Japanese joint fleet.

On the same day, Chen Congyun sent Li Hongzhang urgently, making sure to let the Beiyang Navy leave the port and cooperate with the Shandong New Army's operations. Li Hongzhang sent a telegram to Ding Ruchang with the most stern words, one of which was a classic sentence, "Once the opportunity to fight is misleading, it will harm his descendants."

Under such strict orders, Ding Ruchang ordered that all warships would be fired early on the 30th, killing the Bohai Sea and finding the Japanese joint fleet to go to the desperately.
Chapter completed!