Read this chapter in September , Li Guolou, a first-time father, did not enjoy too much love for his children, and left Beijing as a minister and went to Dagukou Fort. Rogue Chinese network lkznet

Dagukou Fort is more than 40 kilometers east of Tianjin Wei. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, after the Yongle Emperor Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, the Dagu Haikou strategy became more and more prominent, which is the only gateway to Beijing from the sea. During the Jiajing period, in order to resist the Japanese invaders, the coastal defense of Dagukou was increasingly prepared, and the fortress was built and the garrison was fortified. In 1816, the Qing government built a circular fort on the north and south banks of Dagukou. The fort is made of wood inside, built with blue bricks outside, white ash grouting, the height is about one zhang five feet, the width is nine feet, and the depth is six feet. After several years of operation, the Dagukou Fort has built 5 forts, 12 earthen forts, and 13 earthen forts, forming the Dagu Fort Group, and a complete military imperial system has taken shape.

In 1858, the minister of the Qin Mission, Seng Greenqin, guarded the mouth of Dagu, renovated the fort, and built 5 forts, 3 on the south bank and 2 on the north shore, which were named after the five characters of "Wei", "Zhen", "Sea", "Gate" and "Gao", which meant that the fort was majestic and guarded the high place of the sea gateway. Another fort was built on the stone wall on the north bank and was called the "Stone Crack Fort". Each battery has 3 cannons and 25 small batteries. Each fort is 1 meter to 17 meters high, the base circumference is 182 meters to 224 meters, the upper bricks and lower stones, all are poured and rammed with Sanhe soil and glutinous rice juice, the large and small forts are placed with 64 cannons, and the muzzles are aimed at the magnificent sea. With the change of time, the technology of the fort has been greatly improved, in addition to the wood and green bricks, and then with more than two feet thick triple soil tamped, the cannonball hit, at most only a shallow hole, and the fort increased to three to five zhang.

Now Dagukou has expanded the fort again, buying ironclad ships, touching ships, and mine ships from Europe, and the strength of Dagukou to resist the enemy at this time should not be underestimated.

From 184 onwards, in order to seize China's economic interests and political privileges, foreign powers launched three invasions of Dagukou in 1858, 1859 and 186. It launched three invasions of the Dagukou Fort. The great powers relied on the strength of their ships and artillery to put the Dagu area under their iron hooves, and even forced the Beijing division, burning, killing and looting, and did all kinds of evil, forcing the Xianfeng Emperor of the Qing Dynasty to flee from Beijing.

Dagukou Fort is known as "there is Humen in the south, and Dagu in the north". Admiral Shi Rongchun led his troops to hold the fort and fought fiercely with the British army, and most of the patriotic officers and soldiers died heroically, which is known as the first Dagu Pass Defense Battle in history.

The Yellow Dragon Banner, the unique national flag of the Qing Dynasty, fluttered in the wind on a high fort, and the hunting sea breeze blew the Yellow Dragon Banner whirring. This face was hastily designed on January 17, 1862 due to the influence of the national flag flying on Western ships.

Li Guolou won glory for the country, and Tianjin won the foreigner boxing king Taishan and became a national hero of the Qing Dynasty, and was rewarded by the Tongzhi Emperor. So he was promoted again, and he was a civil official of the third rank ---- the political envoy of the Hanlin Academy.

The group of Jinshi who debuted with him have now become his students. Open your mouth, close your mouth, that is, "Teacher! He didn't dare to go to the Hanlin Academy, and he treated one over the other, so that the Jinshi of the same year asked him for the real shortage.

Li Guolou wears a sapphire glass top, nine pythons and five python robes, and peacocks make up for it, but he has never taken eight green sedan chairs. Instead, he walked out of the carriage with a solemn face and a pair of slender eyes, and swept towards the line to welcome thousands of officers and soldiers.

Eight sturdy Mongolian palanquin men were assigned to him from the Ministry of Rites, all of whom he changed to personal guard officers. Originally, he wanted to return the eight Mongolian sedan chair men to the Ministry of Rites, but those eight spent money to come to Li Guolou's side sedan chair men, where would they go back to the Ministry of Rites? Swear by the curse, willing to endure hardship, not afraid of death. Li Guolou also likes Mongolian men, the Mongols are not as corrupt and degenerate as the Manchus, they are all good materials for soldiers, so he will mention them once, first eradicate illiteracy, let the eight Mongolians read and write, and send them all to study.

Dagukou Admiral Yulu is in his thirties, and his name is Shoushan. Manchuria is a native of the White Banner and the son of Chonglun, the governor of Hubei. The root is Miao Hong, the admiral is a third-grade military attaché, and the grade is the same as Li Guolou, but the Qing Dynasty is noble and lowly, and the military attache is almost two levels lower than the civilian official. Seeing Li Guolou get out of the carriage, he hurriedly bowed to the shrine and said loudly: "Xiaguan Yulu will see Lord Qincha." ”

Now the Manchus are extremely jealous of Li Guolou, who was raised to join the Manchu Han people, and there is no civil and martial arts Li Guolou, and the degree of promotion is intolerable. Isn't it just to make silver, sell the official beard to get the official hat? Therefore, although Yulu gave a gift, the perverse appearance on his face made Li Guolou look very unhappy.

Li Guolou smiled and said: "Yujunmen is not more polite, Ben Qin sent the emperor's order to come to Dagukou Fort to review, and you all of you are lined up to greet you on a hot day." Read this article chapter landing giggle! ”

A trumpet sounded in unison, accompanied by Admiral Yulu of Li Guolou, and thousands of people lined up. Now that the Qing Dynasty is moving up, the soldiers of the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion have been squeezed out of living space by the militia and training army. Turned into an unwelcome group of soldiers. So they are also very anxious, afraid that they will not even have an errand to eat, this is not a person, it is a smashing of the jobs of children and grandchildren. Therefore, the soldiers of the Eight Banners and the soldiers of the Green Battalion have changed a lot since they were ashamed and brave, and the procrastination and ruffian appearance have long been invisible, and the honor guard is neatly arranged, the roar is loud and loud, and the drill is quite efficient. The battle array is quite disciplined.

Li Guolou held a monocular telescope to watch the results of the firing of the cannon, and he also hit the distant target with one shot. A sea breeze blew, and the pungent smell of gunpowder made people think they were on the battlefield.

"Good! Very good! But I want to see each artillery team fire, and 64 cannons will be fired at me. Li Guolou was satisfied, but he was still not satisfied, seeing is believing. A unit is not composed of a few outstanding officers and men, but has the ability to fight in groups, and this is what a high-quality army should display.

"Lord Chincha, this ······ The target is gone, so let's see if it's a different project. Just now, Admiral Yulu, who was arrogant and domineering, was stunned and looked at Li Guolou stupidly, never thinking that Lord Qincha was not easy to fool, "known as the god catching little plums" was really not confused by appearances, and actually wanted to explore the old bottom of Dagukou Fort. Li Guolou, a layman, is a small man, and the oil and salt do not enter the Qincha Lord, where should I start and set up friendships?

Li Guolou put down the telescope in his hand and said categorically: "Yujunmen, Ben Qincha is to see 64 cannons, shoot one door alone, I will give you an hour, the targets and shells are all ready, otherwise you will be punished for slackness in military intelligence." ”

Admiral Yulu was like five thunderbolts, cold sweat was already oozing from his forehead, he turned over and bowed, bowed his head and said, "Pierce!" The subordinates immediately went to prepare. "He's got a bad omen, and he doesn't know how many cannons won't go off. There are several forts in a radius of several miles, some of which are just decorations, and they have not fired a single cannon for many years.

A junior colonel flattered and said, "Lord Qincha, please sit in the lounge for a while, the Invalides Gate will be ready for an hour." ”

"Ben Qin is not sitting, you also stand up straight for me, the soldier must be like a soldier, all the Ben Qin is standing up straight, what is it like!" Li Guolou angrily scolded the junior colonel who bowed his head and waisted, and scolded all the officers who followed him.

Li Guolou only used two rounds to make the officers of Dagukou like a great enemy, and the minister of the Qin mission had the power of life and death. All the officers raised their spirits and gathered around Li Guolou, climbed one fort after another, and inspected various military facilities, for fear that he would see the inappropriate place of the Dagukou Fort.

Approaching noon, Li Guolou boarded a fort and said, "Let's eat with the officers and soldiers here, don't tell me that the soldiers here eat old moldy rice." ”

"Lord Li, please rest assured, this is the gateway of the Qing Dynasty, the officers and soldiers are treated first-class, they all eat good rice, there is a big fat meat today, and there is a jar of daughter red in each fort at night!" This time, the officers of the Dagukou Fort made proper arrangements, so that Li Guolou could not find any loopholes, and a big meat lunch made everyone's mouth full of oil.

Li Guolou wiped his mouth, pointed at a chubby officer, and said, "Hey, this brother, what are you doing?" ”

The fat officer, who had eaten well, choked, the rice squirted out of his nose, put down the big bowl, stood upright, and said loudly: "Report to Lord Qincha, the lower official's name is Hongdu, he is a logistics quartermaster, and he takes the honest and honest Admiral Shi Rongchun as an example, the people of the fort, and the people of the fort die!" Never take a step back! ”

What can Li Guolou say? The chubby quartermaster standing in front of him is a corrupt official, and he can only praise: "Well, it's good!" Be ambitious! Ben Chin sent you to the northwest to fight, do you say okay? ”

"Thank you, Lord Qincha, I can't ask for it, I have long wanted to serve the country with loyalty!" Quartermaster Hongdu thought that Li Guolou was joking, he was not a faction officer, how could he be transferred casually, so he pretended to be obligated to die, wanting to win praise.

"Good! This official has fulfilled you, there happens to be a batch of military supplies in Tianjin, and it is necessary to send someone to transport them to Lanzhou, and I will issue an edict to let you accept this arduous task. The military order is like a mountain, and if you miss the deadline, you will be beheaded, Hongdu, you don't want to live up to the trust of your officials. Li Guolou handed over the errand of transporting military supplies for thousands of miles to the quartermaster Hongdu, and let him suffer from some wind and food.

The officers on the field were all stupid, and their eyes focused on the quartermaster Hongdu, and if they said the wrong thing, they were immediately punished.

"Zha! The subordinate promised to complete the task and dared to make a military order! "The quartermaster Hongdu confessed, and his voice was raised an octave, and the blessing and misfortune came. The quartermaster has a tenure, and he will also be transferred out of the logistics post, maybe he can get a fat errand by following Li Guolou. With so many soldiers around, Li Guolou fell in love with him, this is the fate of cultivation in his previous life.

"Well, this is what our generation of soldiers in the Qing Dynasty looks like, and this officer wants to see your performance."

Li Guolou only wanted to punish the corrupt elements in the army, and accidentally dragged a corrupt official into the camp of his cronies. Everyone was impressed by the quartermaster Hong, and he was able to push Li Guolou's yin tricks back without leaking, and he had an awe-inspiring and inviolable military temperament.

The shooting range was rearranged, and the angle of view of the cannon was adjusted again and again, most of them were several marksmen, and the angle was adjusted. Li Guolou didn't understand these test distances and adjusting the angles, he thought that as long as the gunners on the battery were different, it was the average gunner.

Admiral Yulu had already arranged it for an hour, and Yulu's only worry was that how many cannons would not be fired, or even whether they would explode, it would depend on the will of God.

The distribution of the forts is one side, and it is necessary to ride a horse or take a carriage to walk from one fort to another, since Li Guolou, the minister of the Qin Mission, rode a few forts to watch the scene of the cannon, and other officers also had to ride horses, so there was a mistake again. There were some officers who could not ride horses, and they bowed their heads and got into the carriage without regard for officialdom etiquette.

Admiral Yulu was still able to ride a horse, and walked side by side with Li Guolou, defending his subordinates: "Lord Qincha, we are artillerymen, and there is no such thing as horseback riding in the usual training subjects. Horses and mules were used to transport military supplies, so the soldiers usually cherished their livestock and mainly ran on foot. ”

"Oh, really?" Li Guolou sneered and glanced at the slow-marching Admiral Yulu next to him, and waved the horsewhip in his hand. The black horse sprang out at a high speed, like an arrow off the string, leaving all the officers behind and eating dust.

Admiral Yulu had the honor and self-confidence of a soldier, but he was hit by Li Guolou and lost face, how dare he put the old-timer qualification in front of Li Guolou. Yulu clamped the horse's belly with his feet and urged the war horse to run, but his rusty equestrian skills made him far behind Li Guolou. Yulu is ashamed, today he wants to lose the face of the soldiers of the Eight Banners, and the fact that several cannons in the Dagukou Fort have become decorations will definitely cause an uproar in the court, how will he justify it? The crime of dereliction of duty is destined to be a tragedy.

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