"Dongxiangjun, I think you must understand one thing. As soldiers, we cannot choose whether it is war or peace, we can only obey!"

Yamamoto's words have been wandering in Togo Heihachiro's mind. Indeed, he is just a professional soldier. Whether it is war or peace, it is not something that he, a professional soldier, can decide. All he can do is to take the order in the most dangerous time of the country and stand up!

Togo Heihachiro looked at Yamamoto Hoshima, and saw that there was no fluctuation in Yamamoto Hoshima's deep eyes, just like a pool of stagnant water, which made people unable to understand or guess.

Hirahachiro Togo turned his gaze to the endless sea in the distance, and then said with an extremely firm feeling: "Godeng, you understand! The Togo Association is with the United Fleet and with the Empire! Until the moment when his life is over!"

Yamamoto Honbuki smiled and gently patted Hirahachiro Togo's shoulder. Because Hirahachiro Togo was short, Hirahachiro Yamamoto Honbuki said to Hirahachiro Togo in a look down manner: "The vast sea is the place where the imperial navy dreams take off! But murderous intent is hidden everywhere on the sea. If there are no solid wings, the vast sea will be an extremely huge tomb. Do you understand?"

Togo Heihachiro nodded heavily.

Yamamoto Honbuki continued: "Togo, I want to go back to the Imperial Capital first, and the joint fleet will be handed over to you. After returning to the Imperial Capital, I will strive to get the guys from the Navy to give you the maximum command. This is the only thing I can do now. The future of the Imperial Navy is in your hands. It is to take off or destroy it, all in your thoughts!"

"Hi!" Togo Hirahachiro nodded solemnly.

After Yamamoto Honbui left, Togo Heihachiro stayed alone on the front deck of the Kikumaru battleship for an entire hour until his combatant Iroji Yamamoto came over and reminded him: "God General, you have been fighting here for a long time. It's windy outside. You should go ashore first!"

Hirahachiro Togo turned around and smiled, glanced at Sasebo's port. After Sasebo was destroyed a few years ago, it has been restored to a new level. Just like the rebuilt joint fleet, it has regained its vitality and has become the largest naval port of the empire.

Hirahachiro Togo asked Yamamoto Izuru: "Yamamoto, do you think we will defeat the Chinese Navy this time?" Hirahachiro Togo immediately regretted it as soon as he finished speaking. Although Izuku Yamamoto was nominally his combat staff, in fact, he was just a trainee soldier who had just walked out of the school. It would be more appropriate to say that he was his adjutant. He asked a young staff member who was only in his twenties about the future of the Imperial Navy. This question was really heavy.

Yamamoto Iroji was stunned for a moment. He did not expect that Togo Heihachiro would suddenly ask such a question. After all, this question was not something that he, a little lieutenant, could answer.

When Togo Heihachiro walked to the gangway, he saw that Yamamoto Iroru was still stunned, so he reminded: "Yamamoto, it's time to leave."

"Oh...oh..." Yamamoto Iroku immediately woke up.

"Your Excellency General, I believe you, I believe that you will definitely bring the fleet of the empire to defeat the Chinese Navy!" A tender voice sounded behind Hirahachiro Togo.

Togo Hirahachiro's figure paused for a moment, and a strange light flashed in his eyes, but it quickly disappeared. Yamamoto Iroru quickly stepped forward to support Togo Hirahachiro, and the two of them got ashore together.

On October 13, 1906, China officially submitted a "declaration of war" to the grounds that Japan had provoked in the Northeast without authorization. On October 20 of the same year, a total of 50,000 infantry and cavalry of the Chinese Army crossed the Yalu River to North Korea. In early November, the army led by Nie Shicheng and the Japanese army's Oshima Division fought decisively in Pingcheng, northern Korea. The two armies fought fiercely for three days and nights. Finally, due to heavy casualties in the Oshima Division, Japanese general Yoshikazu Oshima led the Oshima Division to retreat to the city of Pyongyang.

In mid-November, 30,000 Chinese infantry crossed the river from Ji'an, North Korea, preparing to surround Pyongyang from the left wing to form a siege and support Nie Shicheng's troops. Yutomo Yama County felt the critical situation in Pyongyang and sent Army General Nozin Dokun to lead more than 40,000 troops to assist Pyongyang City.

At the same time, Tang Jian began to assemble his troops in Lushun, planning to seize the important port of North Korea's northern port from Lushun, and prepare to let this army detour from Nie Shicheng's right wing to the southwest of Pyongyang City, gather more than 100,000 troops outside Pyongyang City, besiege Pyongyang City on three sides, and wipe out part of Oshima Yoshichang and part of Nozin Dokun!

Since the army troops in China entered North Korea this time were expected to reach 160,000, Tang Jian reorganized the 160,000 troops into three fronts in order to facilitate overall command and management.

The 50,000 army that entered the country from Xinyizhou was the First Front Army of the Chinese Army, referred to as the First Army, with the commander of Feng Guozhang. Then the 30,000 people crossing the river from Ji'an in the northeast were the Second Front Army of the Chinese Army, referred to as the Second Army, the commander of Duan Qirui, and the 50,000 army gathered in Lushun was the Third Front Army of the Chinese Army, referred to as the Third Army, referred to as the Third Army, the commander of Cao Kun, and the three armies were under the command of the Marshal Nie Shicheng of the Chinese Army.

Because the first army was the main force among the three armies entering North Korea, Nie Shicheng was in charge of the first army and commanded the three armies to fight.

At the end of November, Lushun, the Third Army Command.

Wu Peifu came to the command department of the Third Army headquarters in a dusty manner. Behind him was an adjutant and four guards. The two guards guarding at the command department left to salute Wu Peifu. Now Wu Peifu has been promoted to the commander of the 101st Division, the main force of the Third Army.

"Hello, Commander Wu!" The two guards saluted respectfully.

Wu Peifu also replied with a military salute, and one of the guards turned to report: "Report to the commander of the army, Commander Wu is back!"

A strong voice came from the command center: "Let him come in!"

The two guards immediately gave way to Wu Peifu respectfully. Wu Peifu turned around and said to the adjutant and the guard behind him, "You guys are waiting for me outside the door!"

"Yes! Commander!" the five people responded in unison.

As soon as Wu Peifu entered the command center, Cao Kun asked with a smile: "I'm back!"

"Yeah!" Wu Peifu smiled and nodded.

Cao Kun pointed to a cup of hot tea that had been brewed on the table. Wu Peifu was so thirsty that he picked up the tea cup and drank it all in one go.

"Thank you, Commander!" Wu Peifu wiped his mouth.

"How is it? How many people have gathered in Lushun now?" Cao Kun asked.

Wu Peifu said: "Report to the commander, at this time, Lushun had gathered a total of two divisions, the 47th Division and the 101st Division. In addition to the Shanghai Marine Corps, the total force had reached more than 30,000!"

"Very good! It's faster than the time prescribed by the president!" Cao Kun nodded with satisfaction.

"The other two divisions, the 35th and 19th divisions, will also arrive in Lushun in ten days," Wu Peifu added.

"Well, very good. The President's latest order has been passed this morning. The President ordered our army to send 30,000 people to seize the important port of Nanpu Port in northern North Korea in batches, and cooperate with the First Army of Nie and Duan Qirui's Second Army of surround Pyongyang in order to completely wipe out the Dashima Division and Nozin Division! This is very likely to be the first such a large-scale battle between the Chinese Army and the Japanese Army since the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, and it is also the first decisive battle with the Japanese army since our army entered North Korea!" Cao Kun said solemnly.

The reason Cao Kun said this was that Wu Peifu understood that this battle was crucial to China. If the Battle of Pyongyang was won, the Chinese Army could rush its troops south without any obstacles and heading straight for Seoul, North Korea.

At the same time, this is also a good opportunity to avenge the Chinese people's previous shame. During the Sino-Japanese War of 1895, the Huai Army was defeated in Korea and Northeast China in a tragic defeat. A small country defeated the great Qing Dynasty, a great country. You must know that the Qing Dynasty had millions of troops at that time, and the maximum number of troops that the Japanese army could mobilize was only 250,000. At that time, the Chinese people not only received ridicule from the great powers, but also humiliatedly ceded Taiwan and the Penghu Islands to Japan. For more than ten years, the Sino-Japanese War of 1895 has been an eternal shame in the hearts of the Chinese people.

Therefore, this battle in Pyongyang is not so much a fight to annihilate the main force of the Japanese army, but rather a fight to save the shame of Sino-Japanese War!

"Captain, when will we set off?" Wu Peifu asked.

Cao Kun stared at the location of Nanpu Port on the map with a torch, and said, "Soldiers are very fast! Besides, the President has not given us much time, and all the troops transport ships are ready. Your 101st Division is the first batch of vanguards to enter North Korea, and will board the ship tonight!"

"Yes! Commander!" Wu Peifu responded respectfully with his heels.

When dusk arrived at Lushun Port, Wu Peifu's 101st Division began to board the ship in an orderly manner, and the Marine Corps led by Zhu Lianjie had already taken the lead in leaving the port.

The entire Lushun port is full of various troop transport ships. These troop transport ships were mobilized a few months ago. Tang Jian was mobilized from the China South China Sea merchant fleet early. There were more than 100, half of which belonged to iron-shelled ships, and the other half were sailing and turbine wooden ships. On average, each troop transport ship can carry more than 400 soldiers.

Soon, Wu Peifu's 101st Division was boarding the ship and followed the Marine Corps and also left Lushun Port, and the Yellow Sea Fleet was anchored outside the Lushun Port.

Given the importance of this battle, and the fact that the troop transport ships are likely to encounter attacks from the Japanese Combined Fleet at any time, this time the Yellow Sea Fleet serves as the escort role.

When the vast starry sky enveloped the Yellow Sea, a huge fleet of hundreds of ships sailed towards the Yellow Sea. The two battleships, Longwei and Longxiao, were guarded by the tail of the fleet. Most cruisers were active on the outermost periphery of the troop transport fleet.

The troop transport fleet was loaded with more than 6,000 Marines of Zhu Lianjie, plus 12,000 Wu Peifu's 101 Division, so the troops who entered North Korea from Lushun this time reached almost 20,000.

Late at night, just after everyone on the troop transport ship fell asleep, suddenly, a sirens were heard. "At three o'clock in front, I found the Japanese fleet!"
Chapter completed!