The Rakshasa Kingdom's Pacific Fleet, which received the order from the capital, was somewhat reluctant, because they knew the strength of Liu Hai's navy, and to blockade the Japanese nation now would be simply courting death.
However, they had to carry out the orders from the imperial capital, so Starck, the commander of the Pacific Fleet, could only order his light cruisers to start dispatching. However, he did not ask them to block the sea lines of communication between Japan and the Qing Dynasty, but ordered them to
The purpose of conducting a search nearby is to prevent the other party from making a surprise attack.
Because the matter is so absurd, if St. Petersburg did not issue this order, the Far East Fleet would be temporarily safe. But once St. Petersburg issues this order, with the current ability of the Rakshasa Kingdom to keep secrets, the original copies of these existing orders will soon be lost.
Place it on the desk of the Japanese military headquarters.
At that time, Liu Hai will probably know about it immediately, so their Far East fleet will face the attack of Liu Hai and the Japanese joint fleet.
In this case, the Far East Fleet, let alone launching a blockade against the enemy, would be pretty good if it could protect itself.
Now, the Rakshasa Kingdom has some regrets. At first, they were blinded by their interests and did not expect that the enemy they faced was so cunning and powerful.
What St. Petersburg hopes now is to maintain the Qing Dynasty land it has already occupied. If possible, it is best to occupy Northeast China and Xinjiang through negotiations and leave the essence of the Qing Dynasty to Liu Hai. Then the two sides can live in peace.
After going around in a circle like this, the telegrams sent by Ronglu either disappeared or were not replied to Ronglu. Now he was extremely anxious, because after these days of fighting, Nie Shicheng persisted for two more days than Yuan Shikai, but because of
In this way, Nie Shicheng's army was almost wiped out.
Only Nie Shicheng was seriously injured and was carried back to Jinan City by his protectors.
Faced with this situation, the combat method proposed by the adviser of the Will State to Ronglu was to gather all the soldiers outside Jinan City back to Jinan City and fight against Liu Hai's army with the help of the city wall.
More importantly, the advisor of the Will Country explained the current situation to Ronglu. When the enemy is so powerful, and if you want to stop the enemy, you can only use the common people as human shields.
Because in the eyes of the Chinese people, Liu Hai has gained an absolute advantage. In this case, Liu Hai should take care of his reputation, so when facing the people of Jinan City, he will not send out those aerial monsters to attack. In this case
The accidental damage area was too large, which ultimately harmed his reputation.
After hearing this, Ronglu slapped his thigh. This is really a good idea. This method was often used when the Qing Dynasty entered the customs. However, in the hundreds of years since then, they have slowly forgotten their ancestors.
The combat method is now mentioned by the Chinese people. Now there is no problem in using this method to deal with Liu Hai.
Because the people in Jinan City are all Han people, as long as he can keep their Manchu empire, it doesn't matter how many of these slaves die.
Therefore, after the defeat of Nie Shicheng's troops, Ronglu ordered Dong Fuxiang's troops to enter Jinan City for defense. At the same time, in order to ensure the safety of Jinan City, Ronglu began to recruit strong men in Jinan City and sent them to the city wall or participated in transporting supplies.
After Liu Zhi led his troops and successfully took over Ronglu's position outside the city, when he was preparing to launch the final attack on Jinan City, he discovered that there were not only soldiers from the Qing Dynasty standing on the top of the city, but also many people wearing clothes.
Disorganized common people.
These ordinary people were wailing under the whips of Qing Dynasty soldiers while doing arduous defense projects.
When Liu Zhi saw this situation, he immediately understood Ronglu's thoughts in the city.
If Liu Zhi's intention is to follow, no matter how many civilians the enemy uses as human shields, he will not show any mercy and will immediately launch a fierce attack to destroy the enemy's fighting spirit before the enemy is ready. This can
Minimize civilian casualties as much as possible.
But this matter cannot be decided by him, because Liu Hai's intelligence department is now all-pervasive. As soon as the integration of people into Jinan City happened, Liu Hai had already received feedback from the intelligence department.
Liu Hai discussed it with his staff and concluded that now he had an advantage, and Jinan City was full of Han people, so there was no need to kill them all like they did with the Manchus.
And the most important thing now is to drag all the elites of the Qing Dynasty in the direction of Jinan, leaving the capital empty.
Therefore, Liu Hai issued an order to Liu Zhi, asking Liu Zhi to feign an attack as much as possible while reducing civilian casualties, and focused the Qing Dynasty's attention on the direction of Jinan.
After Liu Zhi received the order issued by Liu Hai, he thought about it. In order to take the overall situation into consideration and to make the Qing Dynasty belong to their lord as soon as possible, they had no choice but to do this.
Therefore, after Liu Zhi formed a semi-encirclement of Jinan City, he used artillery to continuously bombard the city walls of Jinan instead of using infantry to charge.
In this way, the city of Jinan seemed to be in danger, but in fact there were not many casualties. Moreover, every day, Liu Zhi and the others used cannons to blast down the city wall of Jinan. At night, Ronglu ordered Qingzhuang and soldiers to strengthen the repairs.
After a few days of this stalemate, the fighter plane slowly fell into calm.
Now Ronglu finally breathed a sigh of relief. Now he thought that Jinan City could still be defended for a while. If the Rakshasa Kingdom defeated the Japanese army in the northeast and came to reinforce them, they would be able to win, or at least be able to fight with them.
Liu Hai painted the river and ruled, and the Qing Dynasty was barely saved.
Empress Dowager Cixi in the capital was very happy after receiving a telegram from Ronglu and learning that Jinan City had formed a stalemate and had temporarily withstood Liu Hai's army's attack.
As long as it can block the opponent's attack and give the court a chance to breathe, the court will use its strong financial resources to organize another elite army, just like it did against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and slowly eliminate this resistance force.
Therefore, the Empress Dowager Cixi took advantage of this precious time and began to recruit strong men in Hebei and near the capital. After a few days of reluctant training, she issued them weapons supported by the Rakshasa Kingdom, the Gili Kingdom and other countries, and rushed to the front line.
Of course, Jinan City does not need so many people for the time being, but there are several cities along the way from Jinan to the capital. These newly recruited soldiers also need to be guarded. So we will increase the defense of these cities. Once Ronglu's side is defeated, they can
Put it into use immediately.
After nearly a month of preparations, the Qing Dynasty's side, several cities behind Jinan City were heavily reinforced and thickened, and a large number of troops were dispatched for defense. It can be said that the Qing Dynasty has concentrated all its capabilities on the defense of Jinan's rear.
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Liu Hai was waiting for this opportunity. Now, as long as his soldiers appear in Tianjin, the Qing Dynasty may not have the ability to organize troops to fight back.
Therefore, on October 25, 1898, Liu Hai led 200,000 soldiers to board nearly 100 transport ships at the Nanjing Pier. Under the escort of Nanyang Navy cruisers, he went straight down the river to Shanghai.
After arriving in Shanghai, Liu Hai did not disembark, but took a transport boat to the Nanyang Navy flagship Nanchang guided missile destroyer.
More than 100 transport ships arrived, and Zhong Yu and the main force of the Nanyang Navy converged.
Once the armies met, they immediately formed a dense formation in the sea off Shanghai, and near this fleet there were many warships of the great powers watching from a distance.
The purpose of these people coming here is to see what kind of tricks the Nanyang Navy has, and how it can defeat the auspicious country on the sea, leaving them breathless.
After looking at the results, it turned out that the three giant battleships that took the lead did not disappoint them. They were intimidating.
Everyone can clearly see that the tonnage of three giant battleships is enough to compete with more than ten battleships of the Geely Kingdom.
What's more, behind this giant ship, there are more than a dozen warships whose purpose they don't know.
The main guns of these warships were very small in caliber, but there were many large iron barrels on them that they did not know. They did not know whether these iron barrels were larger artillery pieces or something else.
Liu Hai ignored these little mice who were secretly observing the surroundings. After the fleets merged, he immediately ordered the entire fleet to take several cruisers as the lead, battleships and transport fleets as the center force, and other missile units to patrol around four weeks.
Start heading north at a speed of 12 knots.
Naturally, Liu Hai's large fleet heading northward could not be hidden from others. Soon the news of Liu Hai's large fleet heading northward reached the Empress Dowager Cixi in the capital.
The Empress Dowager Cixi is still a little panicked now. Liu Hai's fleet heading north reminds him of the time when Emperor Xianfeng was betrayed by the British and French and fled to the summer resort.
That time Emperor Xianfeng never returned to the capital.
The situation he is facing now is worse than that of Xianfeng. The Northeast is no longer their Qing Dynasty territory. As long as he dares to go to the summer resort, the Japanese can send out a partial army at will and they can be wiped out.
The pot is boiling.
Therefore, now the Empress Dowager Cixi can only start to think about options for her own safety.
Empress Dowager Cixi immediately summoned these people from the Military Aircraft Department to discuss how to resist Liu Hai's army next.
In fact, these military ministers in the Military Aircraft Department are also very worried now. The most important financial and tax area of the Manchu Qing Dynasty is Liu Hai's Liangjiang. Now that Liu Hai is reversed, the Qing Dynasty will immediately feel that it is financially stretched.
However, in order to resist Liu Hai's attack, they had to grit their teeth and start collecting money from other places to purchase weapons and train soldiers from Western powers.
However, this was just drinking poison to quench thirst. As the Qing Dynasty became more and more aggressive, the people's dissatisfaction became more and more intense.
In recent days, there has even been a civil uprising near the capital. If the Eight Banners troops had not been dispatched to suppress it, I am afraid the consequences would have been uncontrollable.