But this group is different, they not only have their own army, but also a fleet that seems to be very powerful, and they should not be underestimated if they say that they have built a country overseas.

After nearly 20 years of foreign affairs, Zhao Weizhong of course knows that the technology of foreigners is far stronger than that of the Qing Dynasty, and the longer the time to do foreign affairs, the more obvious this understanding is, when the Beiyang Naval Division was just formed into the army, the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan two ironclad ships bought back with huge sums of money were put into service in 1885 and claimed to be the first giant ship in Asia, but it has only been 15 years in the past 15 years, and the title of the first giant ship in Asia has changed from Dingyuan with a displacement of 7,300 tons. The two ships in Zhenyuan gave way to the ironclad ship Mikasa, which Japan had just purchased and returned to China last year, and the displacement was as high as 15,500 tons, and the weapons on the ships were all updated. The Zhenyuan ship, which was captured by Japan in the First Sino-Japanese War, can only be classified as a second-class coastal defense ship in the Japanese Navy.

And this group of overseas Chinese not only has a powerful fleet, but also has technology that is not inferior to that of Westerners, and I don't know whether this group has anything to do with overseas rebellious parties and revolutionary parties, and I don't know whether it is a blessing or a curse for the Qing Dynasty.

Last night, Zhao Weizhong went out to battle with the Changbai Mountain ship, and after listening to the sound of shelling all night, he naturally had no sleep all night. And when I got up in the early morning, Dagukou had been taken down by the crossing of the ship. Zhao Weizhong was on the side of the Changbai Mountain ship, looking at the wreckage half-exposed on the sea by the railing, Zhao Weizhong's heart even had a trace of fear, this group of overseas Chinese can defeat the Eight-Nation Alliance, so it is naturally not a problem to defeat the Qing army. What's more, if the origin of this group of people is really as Qin Zheng said, only Yashan has nothing to do with the Qing Dynasty, and whether it is Zheng He or Zheng Chenggong's subordinates, the Qing Dynasty is very taboo. Since Zheng Chenggong has been an enemy of the Qing Dynasty for more than ten years and has fought dozens of bloody battles, will the descendants of his subordinates recognize the Qing Dynasty as the lord of China?

But although he thinks so, Zhao Weizhong will not be stupid enough to say it, not to mention that this group of overseas Chinese did not express the attitude of being enemies of the Qing court, that is, now that his father and daughter are both in the hands of others, it can be said that life and death are in the thoughts of others, who would be stupid enough to find this kind of trouble for himself. Although Zhao Weizhong was loyal to the Qing Dynasty, he did not want to be loyal to the Qing Dynasty.

At this time, Qin Zheng said: "Mr. Zhao, now that we have taken Dagukou, the next step is to attack Tianjin and further attack the Eight-Nation Alliance, but we are not familiar with the situation in Tianjin, so we hope that Mr. Zhao can help." ”

Zhao Weizhong hurriedly said: "There, there, the father and daughter are all rescued by your army, only this life-saving grace, in the next should be reciprocated, not to mention the fight against the Eight-Nation Alliance, to solve the crisis of the Qing Dynasty, it is even more of a duty to do so." It's just that in the next literati, I don't know what I can do to help your army?"

Qin Zheng took out the two printed photos and said: "These two photos are the Tianjin City we took, but we don't know about the roads and buildings in Tianjin City, so I would like to ask Mr. Zhao to explain one or two things for us, and it is best to mark every main street." ”

After receiving the photo, Zhao Weizhong couldn't help but feel shocked, in this era, photo technology has been transmitted to China, there is a photo studio opened by foreigners in Tianjin, Zhao Weizhong has naturally seen photos. However, the photos of foreigners are only black and white, and although they can take pictures of people and things vividly, they still look a little rough in detail, but the photos that Qin Zheng gave him are not color, and the degree of detail is much stronger, which shows that the photographic skills of this group of overseas Chinese are also stronger than those of foreigners.

But now Zhao Weizhong has some immunity to the technology of this group of overseas Chinese, so he quickly returned to normal, he has lived in Tianjin for nearly 20 years, and is naturally very familiar with the layout of Tianjin City, as well as the surrounding areas, although these two photos are taken from the air, but Zhao Weizhong can still see at a glance that this is indeed a photo of Tianjin City.

However, when he looked closely, Zhao Weizhong found that these two photos were still a little different from the Tianjin city he knew, because they were the photos in Tianjin City, for example, the area around Hedong in Tianjin was originally full of houses, but the photos were blank; from Majiakou to the area around the concession, there were originally high-rise buildings, but there were no ones in the photos; and on the road from the French Concession to the city, The two-mile long street to the gate, as well as from the pot shop street to the mouth of the Yiyi Street, until the needle market street, are the lively places of Tianjin, the houses are dense, and the street is full of shops, but only a large gray area can be seen in the photo, except for a few main streets, the other streets are also blurred, Zhao Weizhong took a lot of effort, and only avoided finding two, but it was the concessions of various countries in Tianjin City It was very clear, and Zhao Weizhong quickly separated.

After listening to Zhao Weizhong's explanation, Qin Zheng's face was calm and said, "Mr. Zhao, the places you just mentioned should have been burned by the Eight-Nation Alliance. According to the information collected by Qin Zheng, after the city of Tianjin was breached, it was brutally killed, poked, looted and looted by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and the number of people who died was recorded in various materials, ranging from 100,000 to 500,000, but words such as "the corpses are accumulated for several miles and feet high", "they have not been cleaned for three days", "there are hundreds of corpses in the few, and there are thousands of corpses in the most", which shows what kind of catastrophe the city of Tianjin suffered at that time.

And Zhao Weizhong's heart trembled, before the city of Tianjin was broken, he fled from the city and hid in the countryside for more than a month, so he didn't know what happened after the fall of Tianjin, but he also wanted to know what happened in the city of Tianjin, since 1840, the first Opium War, China's door was opened by the Western powers, and every foreign invasion would bring great disasters to China.

Looking up at Qin Zheng again, I saw Qin Zheng's face full of heaviness, judging from Zhao Weizhong's eyes, this was by no means pretending. It turned out that when Qin Zheng looked at historical materials in the past, he was just a kind of psychology of reading history, because after all, it was more than a hundred years ago, so Qin Zheng's mentality was relatively calm, but now he is on the side of the matter, and Qin Zheng's mood is naturally very different.

Zhao Weizhong's heart was turbulent, and he suddenly thought that no matter whether this group of overseas Chinese was beneficial to the Qing Dynasty, as long as they could defeat the Eight-Nation Alliance and recover Tianjin from the hands of the Eight-Nation Alliance, it would not necessarily be a bad thing. After all, they are still of Chinese ethnicity, and they are always much better than foreigners, and they should still try their best to help them.

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Just when Qin Zheng was receiving Zhao Weizhong on the Changbai Mountain ship, Xie Teng, the captain of the Taihu Ship, led more than 20 officers and men on the Taihu Ship, as well as Qin Yuhai, the battalion commander of the Marine Corps, and a group of Beiyang Naval Division soldiers who had changed their clothes, including Liu Ciming, the main gun of the Beiyang Naval Division, who had been released from the release, boarded the British transport ship Trafford, which was captured by the crossing fleet.

The Trafford is a transport ship with a displacement of 3,700 tons, which can carry about 1,500 tons of cargo, the largest tonnage among all the captured transport ships, and in the naval battle last night, the Trafford missed a bullet and only suffered two near-misses, but the distance of the near loss was far away, and there was almost no damage, so the crossing fleet chose this ship to carry personnel and medicines, and rushed to Hejiawan Village to support.

At the time of its capture by the Crossing Fleet, the Trafford was loaded with about 1,000 tonnes of cargo, of which about 500 tonnes of food, and the rest were guns, ammunition, cloth, medicines, tents, vehicles and other military supplies, which had naturally been moved ashore. Twenty military doctors were selected from among the prisoners of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and about six boxes of various medicines were prepared, ready to leave early tomorrow morning.

And now everyone is on the ship, on the one hand, to clean up the materials prepared on the ship, on the other hand, to see if Liu Ximing and the others will set up the ship, of course, the crossing personnel have also made a backup plan, and the captain and chief mate of the ship and more than ten crew members have been found, first, to explain the driving method of the ship, and second, in case Liu Ximing and others can't do it, they will be used to drive the boat.

Although this is only a transport ship, the way of driving is basically the same, and there are still people to explain, so after more than an hour of observation and consultation, the officers and men on the Taihu ship who boarded the ship together have generally figured out the operation of this ship, and Liu Ximing also assured Xie Teng and Qin Yuhai that he can completely operate this boat.

So Xie Teng finally decided to light a fire at five o'clock tomorrow morning and set off at six o'clock. The accompanying personnel were 24 soldiers of the Beiyang Naval Division, led by Liu Ximing, and these soldiers of the Beiyang Naval Division were all from the Sea Dragon, all of whom were Liu Ximing's subordinates. The captain and first mate of the Trafford, as well as the other fourteen crew members, also traveled with the ship, after all, they were the most familiar with the ship's performance, and if something happened at sea, having them would give them an extra layer of guarantee. At the same time, the traversers assured the captain and first mate of the Trafford, as well as the crew, that when the fighting was over, priority would be given to their release or the reduction of their ransom.

The crossing fleet sent 20 officers and men on the Taihu ship, all from the navigation group and the Guantong group, whose mission was to learn and familiarize themselves with the warship driving methods of this era. There was also a Marine platoon with them.

The reason why the officers and men on the Taihu ship were dispatched for this mission was because all the other ships had the task of preparing for war, and only the Taihu ship was a replenishment ship, and in the absence of the need for ocean-going operations, the Taihu ship basically became a floating warehouse on the sea, and it was unlikely that it would go into battle with the fleet, so it could only draw people from the Taihu ship to take responsibility for this task.

All the preparations have been completed, and everyone has disembarked and left, but Liu Ximing and the other 24 people will stay on the boat to rest and spend the night, and they will be responsible for lighting the fire at five o'clock tomorrow morning.

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