Li Guolou brought with him more than 100 officers and students of the Xinwutang, they were arranged to go to dinner, they all came to visit and study, and for the first time witnessed the scene of the artillery battle, the vigorous artillery battle seemed to bring people to the battlefield of the beacon fire, so that they were quite excited when they walked to the canteen, and they also discussed the artillery 'drill' of the Dagukou Fort together.

Li Guolou doesn't like to eat a meal for two or three hours, so he has already said hello, he will go first at the banquet, and the others want to drink wine and eat at will. Both the localities and the military have a system of entertaining their commanders, and the entertainment expenses are recorded in the accounts and belong to public expenses. The amount of money to be declared in the coming year will be affected by the incomplete expenses, which is not within the jurisdiction of the minister. This was a common problem of the Qing Empire, and so were the Western powers, unless they were poor and clanging countries. Eating and drinking has been around since ancient times, and many honest and honest officials also eat with their mouths full of oil, and drink liquor as boiled water, and it has become a beautiful talk through the ages, and the "wine fairy" is not drunk with a thousand cups!

The army pays attention to the blessings and the hardships, and even gives full play to the abundance of eating and drinking. Lord Qincha inspected, of course, it was the highest standard dinner, with delicacies from the mountains and seas, and bear's paws and shark fins. There were three tables in the west 'flower' hall, one of which was for several prefects' relatives. Li Guolou's accompanying concubines Xie Liya and Bai Lian became the most powerful people in the 'female' family, sitting in the north and facing south in the main position.

Li Guolou's family opened a high-end restaurant, which has long been a well-known thing. Therefore, the family members are so confused that they can't hear them praise the wine and food for being delicious. The British girl Xie Liya politely said, "OK", which made people think that it was the highest praise of the foreign girl.

The soldier's 'sex' is extraordinarily 'exposed', and a pair of straight eyes are staring at Xie Liyafeng's 'breast', Li Guolou doesn't mind, he still talks and laughs, and drinks three glasses of wine.

Admiral Yulu saw that Li Guolou kept silent about the Hongyi cannon squib incident, and he couldn't bear it anymore, and asked in a low voice: "Lord Li, this red-clothed cannon has been weathered for a long time, so it is overwhelmed", ". Ay! The military industry of the Qing Dynasty has a long way to go, and we have nothing to do. ”

Li Guolou didn't 'show' his voice and 'color', but said with a smile: "I won't talk about business tonight, Yujun 'door' will drink." Ladies and gentlemen, please feel free to write an article in the evening, and the artillery drills you see here have opened your eyes. ”

The senior officials at the second table, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know if what Li Guolou said is praise or ridicule?

The pipe band with a face full of 'meat' is a cannon barrel, which belongs to the type of fart that is released, and he can't hide the material in his stomach, so he said loudly: "Master Li, since you have a good idea, let's listen to it, so that we can have a little more knowledge." As he spoke, he grabbed a bear paw in his hand and nibbled on it directly.

Now no one dares to talk to Li Guolou so boldly, but it surprised him, and glanced at Xun Xi, who talked a lot. didn't pretend to be a scholar, but said with a smile: "Xun Guandao, this official likes your 'sex' personality." Good! I'll be a theoretician, and talk about the new pattern of artillery warfare in the world, and you can point to me if it's wrong, and there is no matter how big or small the banquet is. Dagukou Fort is an eyeball for the Qing Dynasty, and it is like a snake's seven inches, as long as the enemy wants to be our Daqing Dynasty, where is there a better breakthrough than Dagukou? The Western powers want us to submit to the Qing Dynasty, and as long as we occupy Dagukou, we will be in a position where we can fight and retreat. As for us, if we are stuck in our throats, we will not be able to breathe out this breath, we are in a dilemma, we have no control over the sea, and if we want to recapture Dagukou, the losses will be unbearable. So let me say, Dagukou cannot afford to be lost, the Yujun 'Gate' commands 2,000 troops and horses, which is too few, and at least tens of thousands of people must be stationed here. Relying on the wartime dispatch of tens of thousands of people to guard the Dagu Pass, the generals do not know the soldiers, and the soldiers do not know the generals. In addition, artillery is a technical job, and no matter how many soldiers and horses are transferred from other places, they can't do it anymore, and the artillery is killed in battle, who will open fire? Coordinated operations have become a big problem, and it will not be a joke for one's own people to blow up and kill one's own people at that time." The guest army that does not understand the laws of artillery warfare is not easy to command, and is full of complaints, and the first person to flee must be a guest army without a sense of belonging. The army's heart collapsed, and it was defeated, and the tragic ending of Dagukou was destined to be staged again. ”

Li Guolou's words caused an uproar, and even Admiral Yulu couldn't sit still, and said hurriedly: "Lord Li is cautious, this kind of thing should not be said." The mouth of Dagu has been repaired over the years, and it is no longer what it used to be, and it can defeat any invader. ”

Li Guolou didn't care about the master next to him, Fan Dahui, pulled his sleeve, and stood up and said: "You are all soldiers, soldiers must tell the truth, false intelligence will kill countless Eight Banner soldiers, and people will die in vain." The person above is ****, Wen Tian Wu Huan. The man below made a tiger out of paper, drunk and dreamed of death. I saw that except for the cannon that had been replaced with a new one, the fort was new, and the others were old. The rigid tactics of rigidity and rigidity are also the same old-fashioned tactics of drilling. The theory of winning with weapons is not advisable, nor is it advisable to win by 'shooting' the process, and the theory of superiority of the race is even more fartful, and the most important thing is that ideology and tactics can keep up with the needs of operations. Are intruders fools? A few cannons blasted them to God. They were also looking for a leaky 'hole' in the Dagukou fort, and when the first 'wave' attack failed, they immediately adjusted their tactics. The cannon takes too long to reload the explosives, and it has to dissipate heat for a long time, which restricts our 'firing' rate. The beachhead will always be preempted by intruders, so what next? Let the enemy's fortifications be built? ”

Xun Xi yelled: "Drive the intruders into the sea and kill the eight lambs of the king." ”

Li Guolou nodded and said: "By the way, kill all the invaders, the beachhead in front of you is the sword mountain and sea of blood, and countless Qing heroes are needed to rush up and start a 'hand-to-hand' fight with the enemy, the enemy is stronger, we are stronger than them." But there is a bottleneck here, can we afford a war of attrition? In the end, we have more 'elite' soldiers, or the Eight-Nation Coalition Army has more 'elite' soldiers. This account requires us to think about it, how much money did you spend on your 2,000 soldiers and horses? Ordinary soldiers also need 36 taels of silver a year, and if they raise so many soldiers and horses, can the imperial court afford to raise them? ”

Li Guolou sat down, there were too many frustrations in his 'chest' and nowhere to vent, a 'fine' army of 2,000 people could not change the situation of the war, and how many of the Qing soldiers in Dagukou, who were placed under the guns of the invaders, could survive. The 'fine' soldiers are exhausted, can the old oilmen and ruffians behind them pull out a fight? Even the army here does not trust the troops behind them, there are too few 'elite' soldiers in the Qing Dynasty, but the high-salary military support system is on the verge of bankruptcy. Dagukou is already the most 'fine' Eight Banners soldiers in the Qing Dynasty, and there are still many shortcomings. The soldiers of the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion stationed in other places have long been rotten, and he has no interest in inspecting them, and even when he speaks, he just goes through the motions, watches a vigorous 'drill' exercise, and leaves the barracks with a few words of praise.

Admiral Yulu said with the situation: "Lord Li is highly regarded, and the lower officials admire it. But it is difficult for a clever 'woman' to cook without rice, and there is no general in the Qing Empire who can lead tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in ordinary times. I'm already satisfied with this bit of belongings, and I'll 'hand' over the matter of coordinated operations to Master Fu Xiang to 'worry', and I can't stretch out the line. Lord Li's surname is Li, but it's different, who called me a Manchurian. ”

Li Guolou raised his wine glass and said with a smile: "Yujun 'door', there is a proverb in the West: if you can't eat grapes, you say that grapes are sour." That's the kind of person you are! ”

"Oh! Is it? This is not necessarily, the 'women' of the Andijan people in Xinjiang are all blue-eyed, maybe I can snatch it back to be a wife. Admiral Yulu finally withdrew his gaze at Xie Liya, and reluctantly said in the vernacular, if it weren't for a table of 'women' on the side, how many romantic things would these military masters say in their mouths, tonight they have become civilized people, and they dare not talk nonsense.

Xinjiang's so-called Zhedeshar state, the new king of the present, Aguba, is a native of Andijan, originally the Pasha of the Kokand Kingdom in Central Asia, and is the supreme ruler of the country's army. Later, Agubo led an army of 3,000 Andijanites to help the prince of Xinjiang, Busuluk, and established the kingdom of Zhedeshar in Xinjiang with the ability to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger.

Admiral Yulu now also wants to go to the west of Xinjiang and establish an immortal cause, as a soldier he wants to go to the battlefield, if he can lead 2,000 Dagukou Eight Banners 'elite' soldiers to go to the west of Xinjiang, why worry about the great cause. It's a pity that the imperial court refused to use this artillery, and still let them defend the Dagukou fort. Let Yulu have ambitions and nowhere to show them.

As for the 'female' people who plundered the enemy, they were the special 'color' of the Qing army, and it was slightly mentioned in the history books that the Hunan army of Zeng Guofan plundered the 'female' relatives of the Taiping army, which was remembered by history. History books are written by victors, and most of the time, there is no mention of them. Looting, burning, and killing 'rape' are all dirty things done by the enemy, and the righteous side has no 'desire' and no demand, just to liberate the toiling masses.

Li Guolou 'touched' his chin and said with a hippie smile: "You have a great responsibility for the 'gate' of the Yujun, and the strong man guards the 'gate' of the country, I'm afraid that there is no chance to go to Western Xinjiang." However, there are many opportunities for this official, and all imported military supplies must pass through the hands of this official. First, I lent 30 artillery officers to Xinwutang, and then made the dream of Yujun's 'door' come true. ”

"Oh" Admiral Yulu suddenly realized, no wonder Li Guolou wanted to see the artillerymen fire the artillery one by one, and gave him enough face to reward the middle-level officers, Western KitKats are not cheap, Li Guolou was bleeding profusely. It turned out that he had bad intentions and fell in love with those sharpshooters under him. There was no pressure all of a sudden, Li Guolou came to 'make friends' with him, and he asked him. Yulu thief glanced at Xie Liya and admonished: "Master Li, a gentleman is difficult to chase after a horse, twenty-eight years old is the minimum requirement, as for whether it is an ingot?" I don't have such a big hope. Hey, hey, hey! ”

Li Guolou saw that Yulu agreed to his request so easily, how could he leave the dinner table, stood up with a smile, and went to toast the other officers. The officers at the banquet all boasted that they could fight in battle, and all the artillerymen under them were sharpshooters, and they volunteered to give lectures in Xinwutang.

At this time, most of the artillery of the Qing Dynasty were Manchurians, and they were mainly the children of Manchu nobles, all of whom were literate scholars who could study ballistics, and many gunners had Western arithmetic skills and eagle-like eyes. Studying artillery technology requires political examination, artillery is the best soldier, first-class salary, there is a proud squeamishness, and artillery is at the officer level. As for the artillery officers who squandered their money and prostitutes, these were all small things, and they did not affect their loyalty and patriotism. There is no way to retreat if they defend the Dagukou Fort, and these officers and men of the Qing Dynasty are the most 'sophisticated' army in the Qing Dynasty and have mastered the most advanced weapons. Artillery is the most advanced weapon in the world and is the soul of an army. The army of the Qing Dynasty did not have artillery, and could not even fight, the artillery was disabled, and an army immediately fled.

Li Guolou toasted every officer, he was the leader of a new generation of literati, but there was still a ruffian 'nature' in him. As long as he is willing to give in, he and the gang boss can also be called brothers and sisters, and they can hook up and back. After opening his heart, Li Guolou talked and laughed at the banquet, and the anecdotes of the Beijing Division, the grievances and grievances of the rivers and lakes, made people unforgettable.

Yulu has been impressed by Li Guolou, and he can explore the 'flower' lang who can be literate and martial, no wonder he can get the favor of the most senior foreign girl British beauty 'girl'. Look at the wives of those officers, they all rushed to toast Li Guolou, and ate Li Guolou's tofu with their hands and feet, even his third wife was also interested in Li Guolou, the fragrant gluttony in the eyes of the 'female'!