In the middle of the night, Zheng Hengdan rushed out of the room with an excited expression, walking like a wind turbine, and finally received a military secret of the Japanese army, the Ryukyu County Magistrate Nishimura Sanjia sent a secret telegram to Lieutenant General Saigo Congdao, and sent a secret telegram to the Xinwu Army radio team, deciphering this news, which is worth a thousand gold and has extremely high military value, Li Guolou is waiting for this golden opportunity, and the Great Shimizu Division is about to sail away

"Li Zhentai hurry up, 'get up', everything is ready," Zheng Hengdan directly broke into Li Guolou's bedroom, and his 'excited' voice trembled

Suddenly, Li Guolou sat up like a zombie and said hurriedly: "Xiao Biandan, show it to me."

"The three families of Li Town, Taitai, Ryukyu County Magistrate, and Xicun want to carry a batch of supplies to Langqiao, and they are riding the cruiser Fusang, and there is only one cruiser mentioned in the secret telegram."

Li Guolou stood barefoot under the oil lamp and watched the message, and the words in his mouth were recited: "This is good, this is good, it should arrive in time for June 15, and it is good to give the order to beat the drums and set off the cannons, and the Daqingshui Division is ready to set sail."

"Yes," Zheng Hengdan's 'spirit' was invigorated, he stood up straight, gave a military salute, and finally looked forward to the day and night of departure, and his work was to arrive early on this day

In the middle of the night, drums suddenly sounded, salutes rang out, and the entire Mawei Harbor was vibrated with lanterns, and all the officers and men knew that this was not an exercise, and the Dashimizu Division was about to sail away

One by one, the warships that had been in a state of combat readiness for a long time set off when they heard the sound of cannons, and the telegraph room on each ship was the busiest, receiving and receiving telegrams back and forth, and each captain carefully read the instructions given to him by the commander-in-chief Li Guolou

The two cruisers, the mighty and the mighty, six battleships, twenty frigates (mosquito ships), and a huge wooden fleet, supply ships, and troop transports, all set out in one day, and the twenty mosquito ships were the eyes of the sailors, who were the spearheads

Li Hongzhang and Ding Richang hurried to the dock to bid farewell to Li Guolou, and there was no majestic departure ceremony, Li Hongzhang asked: "Commander Li, are you ready?"

Li Guolou 'straightened' and 'chest' protruded belly and saluted: "Report that Li Zhongtang is ready to bring the good news of victory back to the motherland."

"Well, I believe that you can complete the task, the people of the motherland are waiting for you to play a triumphant song," Li Hongzhang boarded the mighty cruiser and shook hands with every officer, he entrusted the burden of the sailor to Li Guolou, and very seriously acted for the officers and men of the sailor

Li Guolou, dressed in a brand-new military uniform, stood on the side of the ship in high spirits, watching the warships sailing one after another, he had the ability to shoulder the responsibility of the rise and fall of the country, shoulder the burden of the rise of a nation, and the yellow dragon flag flying high symbolized the arrival of the Chinese nation's take-off

Li Hongzhang, Ding Richang and others worked hard in the port to see off the warships, and they were busy by the dock all day, and Ding Richang said with some dissatisfaction: "Why didn't Master Fu Xiang see the White Snake Langjun?"

Li Hongzhang flicked his official sleeves and shouted angrily: "Ridiculous Ding little ghost, this is my heroic Da Qingshui Division, what is the matter with the White Snake Langjun"

"Why, no matter what happened to the White Snake Langjun, he is the protector of the Great Shimizu Master, and he always has to say an auspicious word," Ding Richang was still unsatisfied, and he always felt that something was missing, and not seeing the trace of the White Snake Langjun made him feel uneasy

Li Hongzhang shook his head and sighed lightly, the trick of deceiving people is to make the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division regard death as if they were at home, how can they believe that this kind of magic stick can save the country

"Oh, it turns out that I am a 'stick' mallet brother," Ding Richang is a smart person, and he immediately understood the reason for this play, Li Guolou Qigao fooled the Nanyang Sailors and 'froze' the enemy, and was deceived, Ding Richang smiled strangely, and walked in front of Li Hongzhang with a figure-eight step, Ding Richang is not big or small, this is his territory, so he should go to the front

Li Hongzhang was tired and looked at the empty port one day, his heart also became lost, the unknown ocean was full of variables, he did not ask Li Guolou about the battle plan, since he entrusted the Taiwan naval battle to Li Guolou, he gave 100 percent trust, this time Li Guolou is to gather the strength of a country to 'engage' the Japanese army, there is only one way to win, where is the battlefield, Li Guolou's secrecy work is 'outstanding', and even he does not know where Li Guolou will put the battlefield

Li Hongzhang smiled bitterly, Li Guolou was too 'treacherous' and deceitful, and liked to 'deceive' the world, and the secret code sent by the Da Qing Shui Division was that the Da Qing Shui Division sent troops to Keelung Port to reinforce Taiwan Island, and if the Japanese army cracked this code, they went to Keelung Port to ambush the Da Qing Shui Division, which happened to fall into Li Guolou's trap

Luo Xingshan was full of pennants of the Changsheng Army, but this mercenary army had already left Mawei Port, and the 2,000 Changsheng Army had already boarded the troop transport ship to Taiwan, Li Guolou could not stand the military advice of the officers of the Changsheng Army, and those foreign officers actually "forced" to go to Taiwan to fight with death, and the Changsheng Army was so loyal to the Qing Dynasty that he was so loyal and brave that he could snub the hearts of his loyal ministers, Li Guolou highly recognized the patriotic enthusiasm of the compatriots in the concession and admired Bai Langning's courage very much, so he persuaded Li Hongzhang to change his course, and then led the Changsheng Army to Taiwan to fight

After leaving Mawei Harbor, the Dashimizu Division regrouped in the vast sea, a total of 86 ships formed into three T-shaped formations, and sailed in the direction of Taiwan Island, after which the radio remained silent

Only the Mighty issued four false telegrams, such a huge fleet went to sea, there must be Japanese spies disguised as fishermen to observe the situation of the Daqingshui Division, the Japanese army will soon know that the Daqingshui Division went to sea, and only by making the Japanese army's judgment mistakes will it have a surprising winning effect, so recently, the Xinwu Army is using old-fashioned cipher code to send reports, deliberately releasing some real information, such as Li Guolou obtaining the command of the Daqingshui Division, and the information that the relationship between the North and South Naval Divisions is not harmonious, and the information is reported to the Tongzhi Emperor in old-fashioned cipher code

This old-fashioned cipher code of the Qing army was written by Hong Jun, the secretary of the ministry, for the Qing army

Hong Jun is the champion of the public, he reads very miscellaneous books, he is very smart, and the cipher code he compiled is a great improvement over the past, and it is also difficult to crack, but Hong Jun has a bad feeling, likes to go to the kiln, loves to have fun in Fengyue places, and people will brag nonsense in this kind of place, so Li Guolou has reason to believe that the cipher code compiled by Hong Jun has been cracked by the Japanese army, and he has never believed that Hong Jun's Saijin 'flower' who can speak foreign languages is like a foreign spy Hong Jun's family has already been entered into another book by him

Li Guolou sat on the mighty cruiser and watched the sailors and men practice the steps of firing the guns, the space of the sea battery is narrow, for the artillery, every action must pay attention to efficiency, to see the gunner, carrying the shells is a kind of enjoyment of strength and beauty, the heaviest 'flower' shells are 160 pounds, such a heavy shell, some gunners can carry it alone, and the shells are not angular, the gun body is sleek, it is not easy to pick up, it can be seen that there are many strong men on a cruiser

As for the treatment of officers and men of the Navy Division, which is twice that of the New Armed Army, the more they go up, the more outrageous it becomes, and the treatment of the officers of the Navy Division is even higher

The observer holds the telescope high and reports the coordinates, the gunner sitting behind the gun carriage shakes the arm rod rapidly, there is a scale on the scope, and the distance of the coordinates can be calculated, which requires mental arithmetic, and the gunner only needs a few seconds to accurately aim at the illusion of the enemy in the distance, and then the gunner reports to the commander to indicate that the target is locked, and then the commander checks whether the coordinates are correct, and then the cannonball is unloaded, and then another gunner and sailor keep watering the gun body to reduce the temperature of the barrel in each ' The officers and men of the division were trained in this way in front of the artillery, and the officers and men of the naval division were all strong and strong, and the training intensity of the officers and men of the naval division was amazing

Li Guolou looked at the sturdy gunner and stepped forward and said, "I can also lift one hundred and sixty catties of 'flower' bombs."

Li Guolou just leaned down and didn't move his body, next to the mighty pipe belt Feng Zicai stepped on the barrel with one foot to prevent Li Guolou from moving the cannonball, and shouted: "Commander-in-Chief Li, you have to be self-aware, your post is on the command platform, you don't need to be able to inspect the work, do your duty, you must correct it, never tolerate the slightest mistake, a ship is missing a screw, it is possible to sink a ship, you have to do a good job of screws."

Li Guolou saw that Feng Zicai didn't give him face, patted his greasy hand and said: "Feng Guan took what you said is reasonable, come here according to your rules, I will listen to your orders"

Feng Zicai is in his forties, sturdy, with a big beard, looks like the loyal and righteous Emperor Guan, his life is full of legends, originally the leader of the Heaven and Earth Society surrendered to the Qing army after the defeat, and the Taiping army was repeatedly defeated in the battle, but the perseverance of the 'spirit' spirit is very suitable for Zeng Guofan's spleen and stomach, became Zeng Guofan's cronies, as a partial division, after the elimination of the Taiping army, he was rewarded by the imperial court, Feng Zicai was also rewarded to wear a yellow coat, and was awarded the title of Captain of the Cavalry

After the Tiandihui uprising in Guangxi, the Qing court ordered Feng Zicai to clear the Longzhou Uprising Military Affairs Department, he led 6 battalions of Ben Yong to attack on both sides, first captured Longzhou, captured and killed the leader of the rebel army Chen Qi, and then divided the troops to attack the rebel strongholds everywhere in Guangxi, only Wu Yazhong, this rebel army was difficult to support alone, and retreated into the territory of Annam, and the government of Annam was greatly panicked about the arrival of the rebel army, and repeatedly sent the Qing Dynasty Qing troops to "suppress" the Qing court, and sent Guangxi Governor Feng Zicai to lead 30 battalions, a total of 1. More than 20,000 people set up a large army in Beining, Taiyuan and other places to cooperate with the Annan army to encircle and suppress the provincial rebels, in August, Wu Ya was finally wounded by fire in Beining City, drank the blood of peacocks, and died, and the generals were successively invited to surrender to April 1870, Feng Zicai led the troops to conquer Wu Ya, and finally Liang Tianxi's base Heyang declared a "victorious division"

Wu Yazhong's defeat does not mean that heaven and earth will be the final disappearance of the anti-Qing forces, and soon the rest of Wu Yazhong gathered in his old department, Huang Chongying, surrounded by 30,000 or 40,000 people, known as the "Yellow Flag Army", in 1871, Feng Zicai went out of the pass for the second time to attack the Yellow Flag Army's base in Heyang, Feng Zicai, and heard that Liu Yongfu and Huang Chongying had a conflict for victory, so he sent Yang Ruishan and Feng Yue to see Liu Yongfu, sent five products, blue feathers and merit cards, and asked the Black Flag Army to help in the battle, Liu Yongfu immediately agreed to his request, and a month later, the Qing army, The Black Flag Army and the Annan Army jointly broke through Heyang, Huang Chongying's army was defeated and left, and the Black Flag Army became the supernumerary army of the Qing Dynasty stationed in Annan, and Liu Yongfu defected to the Qing Dynasty and became a general of the Qing Dynasty

Feng Zicai was seriously 'handed over' Heyang to the local governor of Annan Sanqi because of his subordinates' unadaptation to the soil and water, and the non-combat attrition was serious, and the troops returned to Longzhou, Feng Zicai returned to the post of governor of Guangxi, but the situation at this time was no longer comparable to the past, when Liu Kun, the governor of Liangguang and Guangzhou, excluded and attacked him, and Xu Yanxu, the governor of Guangxi, also impeached him, and at the beginning of his tenure, he removed Feng's nephew Feng Zhaojin from his post and reprimanded him to demonstrate, and Feng Zicai finally returned to his hometown with the indignation of "lying down for the old man and being willing to teach the shepherd horse to cross Lintao".

But Ding Richang, the governor of Fujian, invited Feng Zicai out of the mountain, and now Feng Zicai is in the Nanyang Naval Division, the leader of the mighty cruiser, with the rank of second-class military attaché, Feng Zicai's temper in the Nanyang Naval Division is behind Shen Baozhen, and Shen Baozhen is not on good terms, only Ding Richang can stand him, and now Feng Zicai has let Li Guolou remember him with one kick, and he knows that Feng Zicai is not a flattering person

Li Guolou was deeply impressed by the hard-working spirit of the officers and men of the Navy, the blue sky, the blue sea, the blue waves, the mighty sea, the orderly movement of the fleet on the sea, the towering chimneys rising one after another, and the black clouds rising from such a huge naval division under his command, Li Guolou was full of pride and wanted to write a poem, but as soon as he thought about the battle, he did not do such a pedantic thing, and would be looked down upon by the officers and men of the Navy, so he dispelled Yaxing, who composed the poem, and turned back to the command room to look at the combat charts

In the command room, Feng Zicai was fiddling with the naval division officers on the mighty ship, fiddling with the combat model, and the battleships were laying out the battlefield on the map, and when he saw Li Guolou walking in, Feng Zicai beckoned: "Commander-in-Chief Li, now the radio is silent, you can always say where we put the battlefield, so that we can deduce the probability of victory or defeat in the war."

Feng Zicai's nephew Feng Zhaojin shouted: "Yes, Chief Li commanded us, there are no Japanese spies here, you are afraid of a bird."

Feng Zhaojin is the third mate of the cruiser Weiwu, but he already has the power of the first mate, Feng Zicai is virtuous, does not avoid relatives, and always takes this nephew who causes trouble for him

Li Guolou looked at the two uncles and nephews who were in the same gear and said with a smile: "White Snake Langjun gave me a warning and told me the movement of the Japanese convoy, this time our army did not go to Keelung Port, but went to Diaoyu Island to intercept the cruiser Fusang."

Seeing Li Guolou's hand pointing at Diaoyu Island, Feng Zhaojin squinted and said, "Commander Li, you're not joking, this kind of thing also depends on the White Snake Langjun."

Li Guolou said: "Third Deputy Feng will calculate the victory or defeat of the enemy and our navy according to the naval battle of Diaoyu Island, and if he is unsuccessful, he will become benevolent."

Feng Zicai sneered in his nose and said: "Commander Li, I can understand you, it turns out that you are the biggest magic stick."

Li Guolou smiled and said: "Feng Guandao tried it, but it didn't work, and it was a big deal, so we transferred back to Keelung Port."

"Hey, I can only do this in vain, Fei Ding Futai takes such a fancy to you" Feng Zicai had no choice but to push the model in the direction of Diaoyu Island, the sailor had already set off, there were too many unknowns in the vast sea, maybe the Japanese transport ship was really waiting on the Diaoyu Island, and was slaughtered by the Great Qingshui Division

"Hey, it's strange, Commander-in-Chief Li, why didn't you let the White Snake Langjun stay on the Mighty," Feng Zhaojin said with a lot of mouth, and saw that Li Guolou was lying

Li Guolou looked left and said: "Starting the battle with the Battle of Diaoyu Island, imagine that the enemy is the Japanese cruiser Fuso, and the number of enemy ships will not exceed 30, and our army will attack the Japanese warships in a T formation, and lure the enemy ships to attack our command warships."

All the generals and officers looked at Li Guolou together, although this commander-in-chief was unlearned, unskilled, and courageous, there was still merit