On December 16, 1994, the Japanese base camp ordered the joint fleet to carry the army's escort mission. After receiving the order, Yuki Ito sent warships to the reconnaissance landing site in Rongcheng Bay, Shandong Peninsula on the 23rd.

Rongcheng Bay is a bay southwest of Chengshan Corner of Shandong Peninsula. It is more than 60 kilometers away from Weihaiwei in the west. The bay has a wide mouth and can avoid strong northwest winds. The bay is mud bottom and is suitable for anchoring. There is a sandy land about 1,000 meters long on the north bank. Motorboats can sail three meters offshore, and sampans can be directly docked; hills along the coast are undulating, suitable for covering the army's shore.

The Japanese army then chose the landing site near Longxu Island in Rongcheng Bay, and planned to transport the army to land in three batches from Dalian on January 19, 20 and 22 of 19th, 20th and 22nd.

On January 18, according to the combat plan, Ito Yuheng sent three cruisers, Itoshima, Akitsushi, and Langsu, to cruise to Dengzhou and launch artillery, creating the illusion that the Japanese army was preparing to attack Dengzhou and covering the Japanese landing in Rongcheng Bay.

At the same time, the Gao Qiansui ship was sent outside Weihaiwei Port to monitor the operation of the Beiyang Fleet. At noon on the 19th, the main force of the joint fleet escorted the first batch of nineteen ships, with a full load of 15,000 people from Dalian and arrived at Rongcheng Bay at noon on the 20th. Due to the shallow beaches, warships could not dock, and the transport of troops and baggage landed on the shore were all relying on the force. The first batch of army landed on the shore until the 21st.

The second batch of transport ships carried 10,000 people from the Sixth Division on the 21st and landed on the 22nd. The third batch of transport ships arrived on the 23rd and landed on the same day. The Japanese army had a total of about 35,000 people and 3,800 horses.

On the 25th of the same year, Dashanyan arrived in Rongcheng and established the Shandong Operations Command, and began to prepare to invade Weihai Guard.

At the same time, the Qing court knew that the Japanese attack on Dengzhou was fake and that it was real to covet Weihai Guard. However, the main force of the Qing army was already stationed in Fengtian and Liaodong. Li Hongzhang urgently sent Li Bingheng, who was in Shandong's defense, to be sure to guard Weihai Guard and wait for reinforcements.

Li Bingheng sent a telegram to the Qing army commander Sun Wanling to the Baima River in Rongcheng to block the Japanese vanguard. Sun Wanling received the telegram and immediately led his army to advance eastward. At Yangting, he met Yan Desheng, who had retreated from Rongcheng. The leader of the Sui Army, Liu Shude, also led two battalions of troops to assist in the battle. The three Qing army troops were united and Sun Wanling was commanded by Sun Wanling.

It was winter at this time, with heavy snow falling from the sky, sparse branches and sparse forests. Behind a small forest, hundreds of Qing soldiers were crawling in black. Under the bitter west wind, everyone's face turned red with cold, and a thin layer of frost formed on the beards.

One of the Qing soldiers rubbed his hands and let out a breath, and his eyes were filled with whiteness. A young man about sixteen or seventeen years old next to him asked, "Uncle Wang, are the Japanese really back? I heard that they are invulnerable and are evil spirits who cannibalize. He followed Brother Zhang who returned to Lushun and said that they killed many people in Lushun and dug out the children's hearts and livers to eat, which is very terrifying."

The Qing soldiers, known as Uncle Wang, touched the young man's head lovingly: "Ergou, the Japanese are also humans, flesh and blood, and the guns are also a blood hole, and there is nothing to be afraid of. The day before yesterday, we shot a Japanese cavalry in front of us! Lord Sun said that today the Japanese vanguard would come, and we will wait here in Baimahe today and catch him off guard!"

Uncle Wang of Qing soldier sighed in his heart. A Mao boy who had just touched his gun for a day would have gone to the battlefield. If our Qing army had not come to support him, we would not have been afraid of these small Eastern Japanese devils.

Uncle Wang patted Ergou on the shoulder and encouraged, "After a while, when he saw the Japanese, he picked up these earth guns and greeted them hard, just like you and your father went up the mountain to fight wild boars."

Ergou licked the stone and showed expectant eyes in his eyes. His grandmother, he should let these Eastern people know the power of our Qing Dynasty. We are not cowards. If you want to bully us, you should bully us.

This is when a figure came to the hillside next to him and crawled towards Ergou's front position. Uncle Wang saw it and exclaimed in a low voice: "It's Lord Sun, Lord Sun has come to the front in person."

Sun Wanling smiled and whispered: "Brothers, I've widened my eyes. Don't be nervous when I see the Japanese. Oh, let it be close and wait until I give orders before I'll fight!"

Uncle Wang's eyes were a little wet. There were still good officials in the Qing Dynasty. Everyone said that there was no good person in this official position and he was the first to run away in the battle. If it weren't for Zuo Zhichao's timid and afraid of death and was the first to escape, the Japanese would not have crossed the Yalu River so quickly to run to the territory of the Qing Dynasty.

There is also Lord Song Qing and Song. Everyone said that it would be fine if he went to guard Liaodong. He lost Jiuliancheng and Phoenix City in just a few days. There were not many officials like this in the Qing Dynasty.

At this time, Sun Wanling looked at Uncle Wang, with encouragement in his eyes, then made a gesture, indicating to guard it well, and crawled towards the position next to him.

Ergou whispered excitedly: "Uncle Wang, Uncle Wang, is that our governor, Lord Sun? He just touched my head."

Uncle Wang was about to laugh, but suddenly his expression of laughter froze there. He bent down and his ears pressed against the direction of the sound: "The Eastern Japanese are here!"

Ergou hid his body again. On this cold winter night, sweat actually oozed out of his palms, and his eyes stared straight into the darkness ahead.

Sure enough, with the good eyes of Uncle Wang, a veteran who had participated in the war for many years, several Japanese scouts wearing round military caps and high-tube boots and dark black uniforms were searching forward in a fan shape. They were holding Murata's 18-year-old single-shot gun, and their small eyes were vigilantly firing around.

Uncle Wang pressed Ergou who wanted to stretch out his head to look and whispered: "Wait a moment, there are the vanguards of the Eastern people in front, and the large army is still behind!"

Several young recruits beside them shrank their necks so as not to be discovered by the Japanese scouts.

Sure enough, after checking the safety in front of the scouts, a strange scream was heard from their mouths. Then, even Ergou saw a large number of Japanese troops coming from behind.

Ergou tightened the earth gun in his hand, and Uncle Wang whispered again: "Wait for Lord Sun's order to shoot!"

But Ergou is far from Uncle Wang's years of experience. When he saw the approaching Japanese army, his soybean sprout-like body trembled slightly because of his nervousness.

The Japanese devils are finally here!

Just when the Japanese ambushed troops were only tens of meters, Sun Wanling roared: "Let's fire!"

Ergou, who heard the order, jumped up first, picked up the earth gun and started shooting.

Although the Qing army was condescending and ambushed again, when the black lights were scared, some young recruits took the lead in firing, which was completely inaccurate.

After a rapid gunshot, only a few unlucky Japanese soldiers hit the gun and fell to the ground and howled. Under the command of the commander's well-trained command, the rest of the Japanese raised their searchlights and shone in the direction of the shooting.

The ambushed Japanese army was suddenly shot by the sudden strong light and couldn't open their eyes. They lurked in the night for a long time. The sudden strong light stimulation suddenly made the Qing army panic. Someone among them shouted: "No, the Japanese are powerful!"

Sun Wanling felt a stern in his heart. After all, he was still a newly recruited recruit! He jumped out of the fortification and said loudly: "Brothers, the lights of the Japanese are not scary. Use the lights of the Japanese are caught off guard!" After that, he pulled out five Haqiqi's quick guns and shot in the direction of the searchlight.

"Bang, bang, bang" several rapid gunfire sounded, and several Japanese soldiers who were holding searchlights just now fell down.

When the Qing army saw that Sun Wanling was calm, they knocked several Japanese soldiers to the ground, raised their earthen guns and the old Mauser followed Sun Wanling and shot violently in the direction of the searchlight.

At the same time, the only few German Krupp steel cannons were accurately formed into the dense Japanese army ahead. "Bang, bang" and there were several huge explosions, and the snow on the branches were also shaken down. At the center of the shells falling to the ground and explosion, several unlucky Japanese soldiers were immediately split into pieces and didn't even have time to scream.

Seeing that the Japanese army was severely injured again, the Qing army soldiers, who had just been hiding on the ground and dared not show their heads, also pulled their guns and shot them, cursing in their hearts: "His grandma, it turns out that they are also human flesh. I thought they were invulnerable!"

"Kill!" With bursts of roar, because of the favorable terrain of the Qing army and the unexpected surprise attack, a large number of Japanese troops in front were harvested and fell to the ground like ripe wheat.

The fierce blocking battle lasted for nearly two hours. The Japanese army was killed by an officer, more than a hundred soldiers, and three officers and soldiers became prisoners. Only one sentry officer of Sun Wanling's army was injured and a groom was shot and died.

Ergou pointed a gun at a Japanese soldier's prisoner and escorted him to his position. Unexpectedly, the Japanese officer saw that the one who escorted him was a young boy, and scolded angrily: "Baga, the road!"

Ergou knew that this was something that the oriental people cursed, and angrily raised the butt of the earthen gun and looked at the Japanese officer's head. A gap of inch appeared on the Japanese officer's head, and blood flowed. Ergou cursed: "My mother's pussy is just a bloody mouth. I think you are invulnerable!"

Uncle Wang smiled but said nothing!

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The Battle of Baimahe was the first case in which the army general Sun Wanling defeated the more with fewer defeats in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. However, in the subsequent battle, Yan's army retreated without fighting and took the lead in retreating. Liu's army first held the troops and then used the excuse of the orders of his superiors to relocate, and retreated to the west. Sun Wanling led more than 1,200 people to fight alone and had no help, and had to withdraw from his position.

February 1st of the fifth year of the lunar calendar was the seventh day of the first lunar month. It was cold and the north wind was howling, and the sky was snowing heavily. After the Japanese army crossed the river, they rushed straight to the Huhe River embankment east of Sun Jiatan. At this time, more than 1,200 people ambushed in the Huhe River embankment, under the command of Sun Wanling, bravely shot the enemy with rifles and poles.

In the following seven or eight hours of fierce fighting, the Chinese team killed more than 500 enemy troops, seized 479 guns, and only 87 casualties of the Chinese team were killed and 87. The two sides kept making artillery sounds, and the battle was very fierce.

In the end, Sun Bubu was outnumbered and retreated in a hurry. On the same day, the Weihai Wei Nan Gang and the North Gang were successively lost!

ps: I was very excited when I wrote this passage. In fact, during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, the assembly of the Qing army was better than that of the Japanese army. It was not that I could not defeat the Japanese, but that the Qing army officials were too **.

However, at that time, there were still passionate patriotic generals like Sun Wanling, but there were too few. Do you want Sun Wanling to become Tang Jian’s subordinate and follow Tang Jian to counterattack Japan? If you want, just keep a claw and ask for some supporting name!

Also, the three thousand words chapter is a big chapter! Don’t be stingy with the flowers in your hands, haha, please collect it!
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