After all, compared with the Battle of Dagukou, the defense of Weihaiwei and Qingdao was not too strong, and after the Battle of Dagukou, the traversers also had a certain amount of experience in amphibious landing operations.

In fact, amphibious landing operations are not complicated to say, that is, first to gain sea supremacy, use the firepower on warships to clear the enemy's shore firepower, and then send troops to land, and establish a solid beachhead, and then develop to the depth of the battlefield, and finally occupy all the positions. However, in this era, landing operations are still flat, and the firepower of both warships and coastal defense is artillery, but in the old time and space of the traversers, landing operations have been three-dimensional, and first of all, it is necessary to seize air supremacy on the battlefield, and air-to-shore strikes and airdrop landing operations in the air have become the main modes of amphibious landing operations. But in essence it is the same.

In a sense, the traverser also has air supremacy, and it has an absolute advantage in reconnaissance and informationization; through reconnaissance and exploration in the early stage, the traverser has a full understanding of the sea areas, coastal defense arrangements, and troop strength of Weihaiwei and Qingdao. Although there were not many defenders in Weihaiwei and Qingdao, the vigilance of the defense was not high, and it could only be regarded as a general routine garrison, and it seemed that they did not realize that the traverser would attack.

Originally, through the division of the contents of the telegrams from Tianjin, Shanghai, and Beijing, after the breakdown of negotiations and contacts between the traverser and other countries, all countries believed that the next military direction of the traverser would be Beijing, so they constantly demanded that the Eight-Nation Allied Forces stationed in Beijing strengthen their garrisons, and at the same time, they were also studying how to send a batch of weapons and ammunition to the Eight-Nation Allied Forces in order to increase Beijing's garrison strength when it was impossible to increase the number of troops.

It is reasonable for countries to make such a judgment, because now all countries do not know that the traverser is just a lone army, but they all believe that behind the traverser, at least there is a force to support, and if the traverser really captures Beijing and completely eliminates the eight-nation coalition army, it will be able to obtain the absolute dominance of the Chinese battlefield, even if the countries can organize another eight-nation coalition army, but this war is also protracted and the gains outweigh the losses, so it is very likely that countries will accept this fact. But no one would have thought that the traverser would let go of Beijing and turn around to capture Weihaiwei and Qingdao.

The difficulty of this battle is really not high, and the focus is actually on how to expand in Shandong after the capture of Weihaiwei and Qingdao, but this is not something that can be solved militarily, so there is not much discussion in the operational plan drawn up by the General Staff, and the rest of the matter is the tactical arrangements formulated by each combat unit and the coordinated operation between various combat units.

This fashion Jin Feng asked again: "When did this battle start?"

Xiao Jianjun said: "The General Staff has decided to start in the early morning of 20 November, and now there are still 10 days of preparation time, giving all combat units three days to formulate their own tactical arrangements, and submit them to the General Staff for summary on the 13th, conduct simulated combat exercises on the 16th and 17th, summarize and rest on the 18th, and start the operation at 6 o'clock in the evening of the 19th. ”

After a pause, Xiao Jianjun said again: "From now on, the logistics department will make operational preparations. ”

Xie Teng, the captain of the Taihu ship, immediately stood up and said, "Yes, I will arrange it immediately." ”

Among the seven warships crossed, only the Taihu ship is not a combat ship, but a logistics support ship, but now the crossing army does not have the need for ocean-going operations, so in the previous few naval battles, other warships have appeared, even the Changbai Mountain ship also went out in the battle of Dagukou, played a two-way landing operation, only the Taihu ship has been idle, first moored in the archipelago of Bohai Kou, after the battle of Dagukou stopped at Dagukou port, has not moved the nest, this attack on Weihaiwei, In Qingdao, the other six warships all participated in the battle, and only the Taihu ship had no combat mission. In fact, in the plan of the Provisional Military Commission, the Taihu ship is a mothballed and dismantled ship, and the equipment parts on the ship are used for other purposes, but now the Taihu ship is still loaded with a large amount of oil and other supplies, and the traverser has no energy to deal with the Taihu ship, so it is temporarily put aside.

The personnel of the Taihu ship is 130 people, and since the Taihu ship is useless, the crew on the ship is naturally liberated, leaving only 30 people on the ship to ensure basic maintenance, and the rest of the people are transferred to other jobs. Now there are eight small ships available in the Crossing Group, and there are exactly five people assigned to each ship to serve in important positions such as captains, on the one hand, to familiarize themselves with the performance of ships in this era, and on the other hand, to train newly recruited naval soldiers. And the rest of them are shore-based personnel.

The captain of the Taihu ship, Xie Teng, was appointed as the head of the logistics department of the Provisional Military Commission, responsible for managing the logistics support affairs of the People's Army.

On the other hand, the recruitment and expansion of the People's Army has also proceeded very smoothly, and the number of newly recruited troops has now reached more than 4,000 people; on the one hand, the enthusiasm of the people of Tianjin to join the army has greatly increased after the rally to celebrate the victory in the defense of Tianjin; on the other hand, a large number of exiles have already returned to Tianjin, and the total number of people who have returned has exceeded 500,000.

The newly recruited soldiers are divided into the army and the navy, of course, the army accounts for the vast majority, reaching about 3,500 people, and a total of seven combat battalions have been organized, of which the first and second battalions have participated in the defense of Tianjin and have a certain amount of actual combat experience, and the third to seventh battalions are mixed with a small number of experienced soldiers and new recruits; in addition, a firepower reinforcement battalion, an artillery battalion, and a cavalry company have also been organized.

The navy recruited about 400 soldiers, half of whom were assigned to serve on the eight small warships it had acquired, and received training in sailing warships, navigation, and combat, which would also be the foundation of the future KPA Navy. During this period, the small warships have also gone to sea for training at least twice, and the most they have gone to sea four times, and now that the traverser has taken full control of the Kaiping coal mine, the coal burning of the warships is not a problem.

At this time, all the soldiers of the original Beiyang Naval Division had joined the People's Army Navy, and in order to show their determination, these soldiers of the former Beiyang Naval Division cut off their braids and shaved their hair in accordance with the requirements of the People's Army.

Because the navy is a high-tech branch of the military, most of the training, regulations, management, and daily life of the Beiyang Navy Division are based on the British Navy, most of the senior generals have overseas experience, and the middle and lower-level officers have also been educated by the Fujian Naval Academy, so it can be said that it is a fairly modern army, so the concept, insight, and vision of the whole army are not comparable to other armies in the Chunting.

Although the new army that the Qing court is now training is also in accordance with the model of European countries in terms of training, management, and living habits, but in the bones, it is still an old-style army, not to mention anything else, the generals responsible for training the new army actually regard the new army as their own private army, and this point is most thoroughly done by Yuan Shikai, it is said that when Yuan Shikai trained his troops at the small station, he paid great attention to encircling his subordinates, being loyal to himself, and asked the soldiers to shout before eating: "Who gave the rice?" It is Yuan Gongbao (Yuan Shikai's honorific title). This rumor may not be true, but the history of the old time and space proves that the soldiers of the Beiyang New Army really only know allegiance to Yuan Shikai, but not to the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, even when Yuan Shikai was dismissed, the Qing Dynasty could not transfer the Beiyang Army, but Yuan Shikai could control it remotely. And an army that is loyal to an individual certainly cannot be considered a modern army.

After these soldiers of the Beiyang Naval Division and the traversers got along for a long time, they could also find that the style of this group of overseas Chinese was completely different from that of the Qing court, and was closer to that of European countries.

Since the First Sino-Japanese War, the soldiers of the Beiyang Naval Division have breathed a sigh of relief, in fact, in the First Sino-Japanese War, the performance of the Beiyang Naval Division is quite remarkable, although the battle of Dadonggou was lost, but the two main ships are still there, and also heavily damaged five Japanese warships, including the Yoshino, so the Japanese Combined Fleet is only a crushing victory, but after that, Li Hongzhang adopted the strategy of protecting the ship, prohibiting the Beiyang Naval Division from going out of the port to fight, and as a result, he gave up the right to control the sea, and the later battle of Weihaiwei was also lost on land, and the Beiyang Naval Division trapped in the harbor was attacked by sea and land, and the whole army was annihilated。 And the soldiers of the Beiyang Naval Division do not want to prove themselves again all the time.

It's just that although the Beiyang Naval Division has been rebuilt, the imperial court is still the same, and there is no cheering up, which is what disappointed the officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Naval Division the most. In the old time and space, after the outbreak of the Xinhai Revolution, the Beiyang Naval Division was ordered to go to Hankou to suppress the revolution, but most of the officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Naval Division sympathized with the revolution and prepared to launch an uprising, and Sa Zhenbing, who was the admiral of the Navy at the time, acquiesced in the uprising, and issued a signal at 11 o'clock in the evening of November "I will go, and the military will be in the future, and you will wait for the ships to do their own thing", and then left the fleet, and on November 15, the Beiyang Naval Division Jiujiang changed its banner and announced its separation from the Qing court.

In this time and space, due to the arrival of the traverser, the officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Naval Division saw hope in advance, so this group of soldiers of the Beiyang Naval Division finally decided to join the People's Army Navy. And the traverser naturally welcomes this, this group of people Bi Jing is different from the old-style soldiers, and has a considerable amount of naval experience, with them, it is conducive to the rapid growth of the People's Army Navy.