Chapter 232 The world is shocked
"Damn it! When did the little Japanese become so spineless? He ran away when he said he wanted to do so, without saying hello at all?"
Yang Hao led his men to chase the north. The Japanese army kept destroying the bridge and road along the way. The defeated generals dragged their artillery and retreated wildly. Because of the night, most of the new soldiers did not dare to go straight to the depth. When they arrived at the shore of Guzhenkou Bay at dawn, all the Japanese army hurriedly climbed onto the boat and ran to the sea at the risk of being overturned!
The Japanese army's subordinate ship rushed over to strengthen defense, and together with several fast ships, they resisted the harassment of five gunboats. With all their efforts, they quickly transferred the remaining army soldiers onto the ship.
No matter what organization is, even whether it is a warship or a troop transport ship. As long as it can catch people up, it is fine.
Similar situations also happened on the other side. When it was dawn, the Japanese troops left were basically nowhere to be seen on the shore. Only houses and messy camps that were set on fire along the way showed that they had been here and did all the bad things as always!
Yang Haiwei was furious! He personally took the x201 boat, joined the other ten gunboats at sea, and chased after the retreating Japanese ship in a fierce manner.
This time, Yuuki Ito learned his lesson. He put all the combat-capable ships behind him and acted like a desperate stance to block the way. The other auxiliary ships and transport ships took the opportunity to escape to the northeast, running as fast as possible. As long as the boiler is not exploded, then run!
Yang Haiwei bombarded the outer periphery without hesitation, and countless 76mm grenades exploded one after another on the solid "Wangsu" and other ships, but it was always difficult to break through its armor and cause fatal injuries.
Just when he wanted to transfer the "Dongsheng" to the east and suffer a heavy blow and also give the other party a complete killing. A bunch of warships drove straight out of the sea, including the British Far East Fleet, as well as the French, American and even German ships.
Their posture is not at all shirkable, and they are aimed at the center of the battle. The intention of stopping pursuit is clear at a glance, and there is a possibility of taking the opportunity to attack.
"A bastard who is accomplice for the tiger! Humph, let's record this account first and then calculate it slowly!"
Yang Haiwei exhaled a breath and led all the ships back to sail and hid in the port.
If these ships were not projected, but were created by plane B or completely like x201, he would not need to throw a mouse at all.
Similarly, if the shipyard equipment and buildings were not projected, excessively serious damage would be presented to the body of the world, and he would not have to worry about being bombarded and it would be difficult for him to let go.
This situation must be improved as soon as possible. If warships are to be built and factories are to be shipped, projection can only bring temporary convenience, but long-term foundations must be consolidated bit by bit here. As expected, not everything can be taken advantage of. They still have a lot to do and the road to go is still long!
Seeing the pursuit ship retreating quickly and rushing to the British ship "St. John" in the front, Major General Pelitman raised his chin proudly and boasted with a reserved voice: "The deterrence of the British Empire is indeed the most powerful force on the ocean. If we hadn't come in time, those poor children would have almost finished."
Next to him, the British Minister to Japan Chu Enchi breathed a sigh of relief and sighed sincerely: "If they could be more successful, we would not have to work hard to interfere. We have to admit that the British Empire seemed to have made a decision to make a choice earlier."
The urging Far East fleet to interfere in the battle was made in a hurry after Chu Enchi realized the Japanese army's actions. Pelitman, who had originally planned to watch the fun from the side, disagreed with this decision. He insisted that the war only requires both sides to decide the victory or defeat. The constant interference of the British Empire in it will only make things worse and may lead to a sharp deterioration of China-British relations.
However, Pelitmann was just a naval general, not a diplomat. He had no room for comment on the decision made by London. At most, he said a few sarcastic complaints just like he had just said.
Chu Enchi was very glad that he decided to do it in time. As the ambassador to Japan, he clearly felt the abnormality of the war fanaticism of Japan. The madness caused by the unexpected successive victory of the army and the madness of the navy fighting to the death with the mysterious enemy, two completely different atmospheres were entangled in the Japanese, but they seemed so harmonious and harmonious in the Japanese.
With the sensitivity of a diplomat, he felt that this small country that seemed to actively enter the Western civilization camp was a bit like a mental illness as a whole.
The British Empire actually decided to support such an ally to disrupt the situation in the Far East. It would undoubtedly be very suitable if it was just used as a chess piece. Nothing is more suitable to be a shit-stumbling stick than an extremely warlike country.
But the chess piece was a little uncontrollable and had to go to the death, so I couldn't ignore this. Japan was extremely careful in collecting intelligence and was very active and cautious in preparing for war, but macro strategies always caused problems and were seen through by the British at a glance.
Chu Enchi predicted that the result of this raid would not be good, so he personally urged the fleet to come in a hurry, and even leaked the news to the rest of the country, bringing a bunch of competitors to get involved.
This is almost a matter of time. The situation that their entire diplomatic camp has been creating after a long time has collapsed suddenly!
If the Japanese Navy is completely destroyed, they will never be able to start a war, and they will collapse completely under the pressure of debt and economy. At that time, how can we threaten and restrain Russia? The Qing Empire, which is not enterprising, is another fat A Dou who cannot be helped. That situation will definitely cause their people and even a group of politicians in Whitehall to step down collectively!
Seeing the scarred appearance of the entire Japanese fleet, several main battleships were obviously missing. The two of them could roughly guess what had happened in the past two days.
Peilitman sighed regretfully: "What a pity, I didn't witness their battle with my own eyes. I really want to see what amazing weapons the mysterious man who called himself Reinhart Young had to do this."
Chu Enchi didn't care about this and shook his head and said, "We always have a way to find out about those things. The only thing we have to do now is to continue to stare at the Japanese and not let them relax. In any case, we must first give a satisfactory result in the battle between Liaodong and the Goryeo Peninsula. Otherwise, the interests of countless people in the empire will be damaged."
Pelitman knew what he was talking about, and a hint of disgust appeared on his face.
These damn politicians have never forgotten to take advantage of the opportunity of war between the two countries to make a fortune!
According to the plan, Japan must be able to defeat the Qing Empire and ceded many interests at the negotiating table. In this way, the money extorted by Japan from the Qing Dynasty can be left at least half of the discount by walking around the British bank. The tens of millions of loans from the Qing Dynasty will also double the returns at once. This will be a net profit of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of taels of silver!
If Japan loses, the poor small country can't afford to lose money at all. The stupid guys in the Qing Dynasty don't know how to blackmail. Then, a group of people in the Far East work in vain and invest money to get enough profits. How disappointing would it be?
More importantly, Hurd, the General Taxation Officer of the Customs, has always wanted to get rid of the cunning Li Hongzhang and completely take the Qing navy and defense into his hands. At that time, the British Empire would dominate the oldest, wealthy, and honest super fat sheep with the largest population in the world!
With the foundation of the Qing Dynasty, it was enough to provide Britain with hundreds of years of cheap raw materials, labor, and huge industrial products dumping market. The British Empire will last forever and will always occupy the position of global hegemony!
All long-term plans are maintained by the outcome of the Sino-Japanese War and cannot be missed!
The British fleet escorted the Japanese navy away in panic. Chu Enchi found an opportunity to go up and encourage the Japanese, and would personally pay attention to the entire process of the war that would not continue to lose control.
The Japanese army must use their power to attack Beiyang and Li Hongzhang's power.
The ships of other countries wandered back and forth near Shijiu Port for a long time, and under the utmost of ten gunboats, they did not take the risk of rushing over and giving it a try.
At noon that day, the preliminary results from various battlefields were summarized at the desks of Yang Haiwei and Yang Hao.
In this battle, four main ships of the Japanese Navy, three main ships, including three ships of the troop transport and auxiliary ships, which can be said to have completely destroyed their main combat power. Even if they repaired the "Hequan" and put them on the battlefield later, they would be alone.
The Japanese army that had been eliminated ashore included a cavalry brigade, two infantry squadrons, and two marine squadrons, with a total number of more than 2,500. What is important is that they killed the future flower of the Japanese Army and created one of the culprits of the Lushun Massacre.
It can be said to be an unprecedented victory.
But Yang Haiwei and his wife were not happy at all. The numbers found in the summary of the battle losses in front of them made them feel extremely uncomfortable.
Not to mention the consumption of weapons and ammunition that were forced to be put into combat, the casualties of more than 200 soldiers in the battle were mostly bombarded by the beachhead gun positions, and last night when the Japanese army desperately rescued the southern battlefield, bombarded the shore with ship guns.
But if all these are acceptable, the civilians killed by the Japanese army in several battlefields, and the victims of more than 300 people, will be unbearable.
Most of these were tragedies that occurred at the landing site, and the Yang family did not have the absolute appeal of the county there. In addition, many civilians were always lucky and refused to leave, but even their people and houses were destroyed by the Japanese army.
The villages were bombed during the battle, and more than 30 were burned, and more than 7,000 completely damaged houses were caught up with the damage caused by a natural disaster. Yang had to compensate for this, and the victims had to comfort them, which was another shocking expense.
Yang Hao is not afraid of spending money. He is worried about how to face the pain of the people and whether they will retract the foot that they just took back.
Not everyone can wake up from the stimulation of pain and move forward resolutely. There is another possibility that under the instigation and incitement of stubborn conservative forces, they will unite to adopt silent confrontation and non-cooperation to squeeze Yang out of this stagnant pool of water.
How to prevent similar bad situations requires the unwise revolutionary leaders of their family to work hard to find countermeasures.
On October 17, after sorting out the first batch of information, Yang Hao personally presided over the public memorial to the victims of the war. He then published the first report in the Guowen Daily, strongly condemning the brutal acts of the Japanese invaders' unjust attack on civilians and killing.
On the 18th, a more detailed battle report was published, and the whole article stated in a vague text that "With the Beiyang Navy officers and soldiers stationed in the Hsin Camp and the bloody battle between the Beiyang Navy, the Yizhou regiment trained militias without fear of hardships and vowed to fight to the death, and eventually expelled the brutal Japanese invaders and killed more than a thousand enemies."
The main content is the evidence of the Japanese killing innocent civilians with pictures and texts! Those octogenarians lying on the ground in various postures, those teenagers with broken stomachs and corpses, those burned ruins, and bloody and tears, all accusing a group of beasts wearing human skins about how the disaster imposed on the heads of peace-loving and kind Chinese people!
It occupied two sections, and it was the list of victims with a total of more than 1,000 people.
The civilians are all real information, and there are real casualties among militia groups, and there are a lot of soldiers from the patrol battalions who have been paid empty wages, soldiers from the salt field, workers' lists, etc.
Such evidence is conclusive and irrefutable, and there are also many ps photos of "Japanese invaders personally take pictures of murder as a souvenir" to prove that the shameless Japanese army's crimes were nailed to the pillar of shame!
Wherever the newspaper went, the main cities across the country were in an uproar! The war had already burned to the local area and caused such large casualties. What did so many officials and troops in the Qing court do?!
However, Li Hongzhang and the important officials of the court were shocked by another thing--the Yang family actually led a group of militias to kill so many Japanese soldiers. How did they do it?? (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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