About 20 minutes later, the train arrived at the administrative area, and after everyone got off the train, they were separated. Shang Jinfeng and other teams came directly to the wartime command center.

Last night, except for Shang Jinfeng who led the fleet to fight, none of the other seven people in the wartime command team went home. They waited until 5 a.m. when the two battles on land were basically over, they went to the command lounge to rest. They all got up at 7 a.m. to continue discussing the next progress of the war.

Although the People's Army achieved significant success in the battle last night, the situation facing the People's Army on these two fronts is not optimistic. Although the Second Army captured Liaozhong, it is now facing a situation where it is being attacked by the Japanese army on both sides. Moreover, Japan did not dare to start the war lightly before, so it did not take the initiative to attack. However, the balance has been broken, and the Japanese army may cross the Liao River in other places at any time and burn the war to the western Liaoning area to restrain the People's Army's actions.

The problem with Lushun is that the landing People's Army lacks military strength and only has one division. Moreover, due to the poor geographical environment of the landing site, a large number of heavy weapons cannot be transported to the shore and can only rely on the fleet to provide firepower support. Therefore, the Marine Corps can only defend the area it is now occupied and have no strength to attack Lushun Port.

At this time, Qiu Yahui, commander of the 2nd Army, sent a combat plan to the wartime command team to solve the current dilemma of the Liaohe battlefield, which is to eliminate one Japanese army on the north and south lines as soon as possible, so that the dilemma can be resolved.

Qiu Yahui targeted the attack on Shaling Fort on the southern line. Although there were only two reserve brigades on the northern line, and the 10th Division was stationed in Shaling Fort, Qiu Yahui's consideration was that Ping'an Fort was close to Liaoyang. If the People's Army chose to attack Ping'an Fort, the Japanese army in Liaoyang would definitely send troops to support it. In contrast, Shaling Fort was actually an isolated army, with basically no reinforcements around. Moreover, after capturing Shaling Fort, the People's Army could take advantage of the situation to capture Panshan and Yingkou, the two entrances of the Liaohe River, so that the follow-up troops of the People's Army could be sent to the vicinity of Liaoyang through the Liaohe River, and had great conveniences for the next stage of the People's Army's operations.

The 8th Division was stationed in Sanjiafen position to restrain the Japanese army in the direction of Ping'an Fort, and the Liaozhong region arranged a reserve regiment to garrison; the 17th Division was still stationed on the west bank of the Liao River to prevent the Japanese from crossing the Liao River and burning the war to the west bank of the Liao River. There were armored trains to cooperate with the combat in these two directions. The 2nd Division, the 9th Division, and the two reserve regiments, attacked Shaling Fort, and had self-propelled artillery troops and automobile towing artillery troops to support it.

After discussion, the command team believed that Qiu Yahui's combat plan was feasible. Qiu Yahui was the front line commander, and he knew better about the situation on the front line. Therefore, he decided to approve Qiu Yahui's plan. At the same time, he also decided to make the 3rd Army prepare to land in western Liaoning. Once the 2nd Army's combat was successful, it would immediately cross the Liao River, enter Liaodong to participate in the war, and continue to expand its results.

The most urgent task in the Lushun area is to send troops to Lushun immediately. Of course, this has long been within the plan of the East China government. Moreover, the Marine Corps has now avoided a landing area in Lushun, so it can completely send troops to Lushun area. The plan of the Military Commission is to send the 1st Army to land in Lushun area and cooperate with the Marine Corps to fight.

The 1st Army was organized based on the 1st Division, and the Marine Corps was formed based on the 1st Division. Luo Yue himself was originally the commander of the 1st Division. Most of the middle and lower-level officers knew each other. Therefore, it would be much more convenient to cooperate in this way that the 1st Army was under Luo Yue's command. The 1st Army is now stationed in Yantai and will set off immediately. It is expected to arrive in Lushun at around 3 pm to land.

In addition, since heavy weapons cannot be landed, the Marine Corps also needs firepower support from naval warships in the battle to enter Lushun Port. The existing four Zhenyuan-class warships are not enough, and the ships are too old and slow to take on major tasks. It is best to have 1-2 battleships to support them, but this still requires consultation with the Navy.

Of course, the navy is not fine. Although the navy won a great victory in the war yesterday, basically wiped out the Russian fleet, and the Japanese joint fleet was also severely damaged. The East China government obtained the sea control power in the Far East, but it does not mean that the naval fleet can stay in the port from now on, but will continue to attack, because sea control power is reflected in the control of warships over the sea.

In terms of the whole world, Russia has now been firmly restricted to land and withdrawn from the need for the ocean. However, Japan itself is an island country, and most of its materials need to be transported from the outside. Moreover, Japan and the Liaodong battlefield are not connected by land, so the source of troops, weapons and ammunition on the battlefield must be transported by sea. The East China government must first cut off the material transportation from Japan to the Liaodong battlefield, and secondly, destroy Japan's maritime transportation lines to the outside world and isolate the Japanese archipelago.

Moreover, the strategic goal of the East China government to participate in the war is to defeat Japan and Russia, seize the Northeast, and at the same time weaken the influence of Japan and Russia in the Far East. However, in this way, it is to list both Japan and Russia as hostile targets of the East China government. But from a tactical point of view, fighting with Japan and Russia at the same time is of course not good for the East China government. However, if Japan's maritime transportation line to the Liaodong Peninsula is cut off, it is actually to exclude Japan from the Liaodong battlefield, so that it can fight against Russia with all its might. Further, completely isolating the Japanese archipelago will be the end of the war in the future and create favorable conditions for the East China government to fight for greater interests at the negotiating table.

However, despite the significant blow to the joint fleet, there is still some strength. There are at least two armored cruisers. Although they are not enough to fight against the People's Army Navy fleet, they can still cause some trouble for the East China government on local battlefields. Therefore, how to cut off Japan's maritime transportation line to the Liaodong Peninsula and even blockade of the Japanese archipelago requires a detailed plan.

At this moment, Shang Jinfeng and his group came to the command center and first made a brief report on the war process to the command center. In fact, the war report had been passed back to Qingdao. Other members of the wartime command team had read it, and the details of the war had been written into text materials and bound into books. You can read it slowly. The main purpose of Bi Jing's meeting was not to listen to the navy's report.

Shang Jinfeng first made a statement on the battle supporting Lushun and decided to send two battleships, the Ocean and the Ocean, to the Lushun waters, to support the Marine Corps' operations. The two battleships were not injured in yesterday's naval battle, and were equipped with 6 main guns, with strong firepower and the caliber of the main guns was the same as that of the four Zhenyuan-classes. The shells can be used to reduce the difficulty of logistics. The two battleships will set off at 2 pm and are expected to arrive at the Lushun waters at around 5 am.

Shang Jinfeng had already considered cutting off the sea transportation line from Japan to the Liaodong Peninsula. Since the Korean Peninsula is now under Japan's control, the sea transportation line from Japan to the Liaodong Peninsula is roughly divided into two, one is to lead directly to Lushun, and then transport the materials to Liaoyang, Chenyang and other places by the Middle East Railway; the other is to transport the materials to the Korean Peninsula and then transport them to the Liaodong region via the Korean Peninsula.

Although there are multiple routes from Japan to the Korean Peninsula, due to the fact that North Korea's infrastructure and road conditions are very backward, before the Russo-Japanese War, Japan planned to build two railways on the Korean Peninsula - the Kyobu Line and the Kyoyi Line. It is centered on Seoul, the capital of South Korea, and connects to Busan Port in the south and Shinyiju on the Sino-North Korea border in the north, so as to better transport materials through the Korean Peninsula to Liaodong. However, for this reason, the project of the Kyobu Line has been completed. The Kyoyi Line has been suspended due to the influence of the Russo-Japanese War. Therefore, Japan's material transportation is mainly on the Lushun route.

However, for the East China government, cutting off the sea transportation line from Japan to the Liaodong Peninsula is of course cut off together with the sea transportation line from Japan to the Korean Peninsula. Otherwise, it is meaningless to just cut off the sea transportation line from Japan to Lushun. Therefore, the actual blockade line is centered on the Tsushima Strait, southwest to the southern entrance of the Tsushima Strait, and northeast to the central west coast of Honshu Island, Japan, about 7,000 kilometers.

Cutting off the maritime transportation line is generally done by protective cruisers and destroyers. Now there are four protective cruisers and destroyer squadrons in the People's Army, which is completely sufficient in the number. First of all, in the war yesterday, although the Joint Fleet escaped two armored cruisers, both armored cruisers were severely damaged in the war. It will take at least two months to repair it. Therefore, in a short period of time, these two armored cruisers are not worth worrying about.

However, the distance from Qingdao to the southern entrance is about 700 kilometers, and this distance is not close. Therefore, it is best to have a temporary warship mooring point for warships to temporarily rest, repair, and avoid wind and waves.

The preferred temporary mooring point is of course Tsushima Island. Since Tsushima Island is located in the middle of the Tsushima Strait, it has the best geographical location. However, considering that Tsushima Island is Japanese territory, if the East China government occupy Tsushima Island, it will inevitably invest a lot of manpower and material resources to maintain its rule on the island, because Japan will not sit idly by and watch the East China government occupy Tsushima Island, and will inevitably try to destroy it. Since the residents on Tsushima Island are all Japanese, Japan does not need to invest too much resources. It only needs to send a small number of military personnel to the island and organize the residents on the island to adopt guerrilla tactics, which is enough to cause huge trouble to the People's Army.
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