Chapter Twenty-Three: The Iron House
Now that He Changying has made his path clear, how to take the first step and how to break the situation is the number one problem in front of him. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
If you want to drag down the East Ocean in this Sino-Japanese War, just like Lu Tie's legs, you can't just talk nonsense and talk nonsense.
He Changying calmed his mind for a moment, and silently recalled in the dark what he had seen not long ago, all kinds of data about the Sino-Japanese First Sino-Japanese War.
The Oriental Army now has six field divisions and one guards division, and has assembled a total of 240,000 troops during the First Sino-Japanese War, of which 170,000 soldiers directly participated in the war between China and Korea, and 150,000 soldiers have been mobilized for logistics transportation.
On the other hand, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had a total of 1.14 million troops on paper, which seemed to be able to completely crush the Oriental State in terms of numbers, but the Eight Banners and Green Battalions, which could only be used as security teams, were removed from nearly 700,000, and there were about 450,000 brave battalions and training troops in the country.
Although these 450,000 brave battalions and training troops are not small, but China is so big, Taiwan, Liangguang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan, and the average of all parts of the country is not much.
At the time of the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War, according to the information collected by the Oriental intelligence agency, the total strength of the Huai Army and other Yongying troops stationed in Lushun, Dalian Bay, Tianjin, Weihai and other places was less than 40,000.
In addition to the Feng army stationed in Mukden, there were 15,000 troops in Zhengding, Tongyong, and Gubeikou who were more effective in the Zhili training army, and the main force of the Qing army along the Beiyang line was only more than 53,000 people.
And since many of these armies were tasked with guarding the forts, they could not be moved at will.
The only troops that can really carry out mobile operations are more than 10,000 people from the Huai Department of Wei Rugui's troops stationed in Jinmenwei, 10,000 troops from Ye Zhichao, Wu Yuren, Nie Shicheng and other troops under Zhili, 10,000 troops from Wu Yi, and 4,000 people from Zuo Guifeng's army stationed in Fengtian and other places, totaling only more than 25,000 people.
At present, among the total 25,000 mobile forces, the 5,000 soldiers and horses of Ye Zhichao, Nie Shicheng, and Jiang Zikang are fleeing to Pyongyang without their armor.
Nearly 1,000 soldiers on the Gaosheng died in vain.
The Wei Rugui Division, the Zuo Guigui Division, the Ma Yukun Division, and the Fengtian Jilin Training Army, led by Feng Sheng'a, totaling more than 13,000 people, will arrive in Pyongyang one after another in the next few days, and the history is known as the 'Four Great Armies Entering Korea'.
Then, the 20,000 troops of almost the entire mobile corps of the Beiyang Army assembled in Pyongyang were defeated by the Dongyang Army a month and a half later.
Then, in order to cope with the declining situation, Li Hongzhang, who really had no choice, had no choice but to put a large number of defenders who remained in the fort fortress into the field battlefield, and was forced to temporarily recruit a large number of recruits to fill the fort, and finally formed a domino effect and completely lost.
Let's take a look at the Beiyang Naval Division, which is known as the first in Asia.
Originally, in terms of the strength of the warships themselves, the Beiyang Naval Division and the Eastern Ocean Combined Fleet had their own advantages and disadvantages, and there was a certain gap on the whole, but this gap was not so big that the Beiyang Naval Division needed to avoid war.
However, a large number of inferior domestic shells, inferior eight-slot coal, and the gap in the skills and quality of the lowest crews, the laymen of the high-level commanders commanded the insiders, and finally regrettably defeated.
In the Battle of Dadonggou, Ding Ruchang, the commander of the Beiyang Naval Division, set up a four-like 'Yan Shear Formation' to meet the Oriental one-word swimming fish formation, and actually put the main ironclad ships 'Dingyuan' and 'Zhenyuan' in the center of the fleet to protect them, and put the super bad 'Yangwei' and 'Chaoyong' on the far right of the protruding part, and was severely beaten by the Dongyang Combined Fleet.
The Beiyang Naval Division, who was hurt by the beating, has honestly cowered in Weihai Weijun Port and did not dare to show his head, so that the Oriental Kingdom easily obtained the right to control the sea, and arbitrarily crisscrossed the Yellow Sea and Bohai Bay, like cruising in his own back garden.
In the end, the Beiyang Naval Division, which was blocked in Weihai Weijun Port, was first slipped in by the Eastern Combined Fleet with torpedo boats twice in a row, easily sinking four warships and losing 11,000 tons of tonnage.
You must know that in the Battle of Dadonggou, the total tonnage lost by the Beiyang Naval Division was only 9,000 tons.
Then, the naval and land armies of the East forcibly captured Liugong Island, and the Beiyang Naval Division was annihilated.
"I'm Cao Nima!"
He Changying had a headache and a frustrated face when she thought about it, and scolded angrily: "This battle can only be won unless the gods come!" β
He Changying lay on the bed with blank eyes and thought about it, the more he thought about it, the more disappointed he became, 50,000 against 170,000, and the overall military quality gap between the soldiers and officers on both sides was so big, and the gap in logistics was even more abandoned by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and there was no possibility of winning at all.
At this time, in this small, dark room, it seemed to be extremely suffocating, and He Changying, who was stuffy, was almost out of breath.
Can you only give up, come in vain this time, be a spectator, and be a shrunken turtle rich man who only cares about the snow in front of his house?
"Hahahaha-"
He Changying laughed wildly in the dark room, out of breath with laughter, tears on her face.
"If an iron house is windowless and indestructible, and there are many sleeping people in it, they will soon suffocate to death,"
"But since a few people have risen, you can't say that there is no hope of destroying this iron house."
In a drowsy state, He Changying's mind couldn't help but have such a passage, which was a passage from Lu Xun in the preface of "The Scream", like a lightning bolt in his mind, trembling and his blood burning.
"You're too scared to try, how can there be hope?"
"You're too scared to do it, how do you know that there will be no hope?"
"If everyone thinks like you, will Xinhai still happen? In 100 years' time, will China still become a world-class military power? β
He Changying was sweating profusely and muttering to herself.
"Man, manβ!"
In the dark, He Changying shouted loudly: "Pen, ink, paper, inkstone!" β
"Man,β"
"Knock knock!"
"Man,β"
"Knock knock!"
"Pen, ink, paper, inkstone!"
"Knock knock!"
He Changying was crazy, desperately yelling on the bed, desperately beating the bed board with her big hands, venting her unspeakable trembling emotions.
"Are you crazy? What a howl! β
Xue Yingchun, who had been paying attention to the situation in the left compartment, hurriedly pushed the door and walked in, and gave He Changying a look in the dark: "Last night, you made a fuss like a nervous disorder for half the night, and you didn't feel ashamed, didn't you make enough trouble?" β
As soon as Xue Yingchun walked in, thinking about the dirty things that the original owner of his body had done, He Changying's anger suddenly weakened, and he whispered carefully: "Can you help me get a set of pen, ink, paper, and inkstone?" β
"Pen, ink, paper, inkstone?"
Xue Yingchun raised his voice in surprise and asked, "What do you want that thing for?" β
"Iβ"
He Changying felt a little red with shame, and said timidly in a low voice: "I want to write a book." β