According to a battle plan provided by Li Xiande to the Japanese government, "The Essentials of the Punishment of Taiwan", the Japanese would send three or four thousand troops, and the Qing court had tens of thousands. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

President Meng believed, "At least one infantry regiment and one artillery regiment!" Just take the Hongpu Military Academy Teaching Brigade to it. ”

"Huh? Just take an infantry regiment and an artillery regiment? Only bring such a few people? Princess Katrina Kafu was puzzled.

"It's almost enough, the main thing is to fight supplies, see who has a strong supply ability, it's useless to have more troops, this is the era of hot weapons!" President Meng smiled, and while reading the "Taiwan Fandi Punishment Strategy" provided by Li Xiande, he said: "The Japanese don't have many troops, mainly because of their strong firepower, now let's see how many troops the Qing court will send!" ”

President Meng knew that as long as Japan was not defeated, even if it could defeat the Qing army, as long as it could stay in Taiwan, it would definitely give away the Ryukyu Kingdom with the virtue of the negotiators in the Qing court and the virtue of the Empress Dowager Cixi above.

Taiwan is the maritime gateway of our country, and if it is occupied by the enemy, or if it becomes independent, it will threaten our Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta.

Two of China's three major industrial zones.

There is a major threat to China's economy.

will seriously threaten China's economic and military development.

If President Meng takes back Taiwan, he can go to the ocean through Taiwan and build China's navy into a real blue-water navy, even if there is a war, it will be a barrier to defend the hinterland of the motherland.

So the strategic position is very important.

In addition, the strategic position of Taiwan's economy, in President Meng's view, is also very important, this is the window linking China and the South Seas, which is convenient for controlling the whole of Asia, and can make China's comprehensive strength have a greater leap.

For Taiwan, President Meng has always regarded it as a part of China, including the Ryukyus!

President Meng said to go, unequivocally, and it only took a week to deploy troops and supplies!

The Chinese Navy has a total of two medium-sized cruisers, ten light cruisers, and twenty frigates, and the number of warships has reached thirty-three, which can already rank among the top ten in the world!

The army of the Chinese army is still a field division, plus an artillery brigade, 600 artillery pieces, plus more than a dozen garrison regiments, and the garrison regiment has also begun to uniformly replace the president's 1874 rifle, not counting the construction corps, the full-time military establishment is nearly 100,000 troops.

Each squad is equipped with two grenadiers.

President Meng did not deploy frigates and shipside guns this time, and the original shipside guns were not comparable to the newly captured British fleet because their performance could not be compared with the newly captured British fleet, so they were already used as training warships and placed in the Naval Branch of Hongpu Military Academy in Danzhou for students to use as exercises.

The frigates were of little use to go to sea, only five were brought, and President Meng brought two medium cruisers and ten light cruisers with all, and the captains of each warship were basically officers from Germany and the United States, but the sailors were all Chinese.

There are 17 warships, a Chinese navy of more than 1,400 people, and more than 200 foreign instructors.

This is the greatest strength that the Chinese Navy can show at present.

In terms of the army, President Meng only brought a Hongpu Military Academy Teaching Brigade, which is equivalent to the establishment of an infantry regiment, in this era, the Hongpu Military Academy Teaching Brigade that has been fighting high-intensity for two consecutive years can already be regarded as a top army, even if it is placed on the German battlefield, it is not inferior to any German regiment!

In addition, he brought an artillery regiment, and President Meng attaches great importance to artillery, even more to infantry!

President Meng is very superstitious about the bombing mode covered by firepower, and he only hates that China's economy can't keep up, otherwise, he will go to Europe, Japan, and America!

On February 8, 1874, in the dark and dreary Taiwan Strait, rolling waves, in the dark strait, a group of gunboats was marching steadily.

This is President Moe's fleet!

The fleet carried nearly 2,000 people from the Hongpu Military Academy Teaching Brigade and more than 600 artillery regiments equipped with German Krupp 70mm field guns.

The strength is quite terrifying, and it is difficult for the Chinese army to meet its opponents if it is not against the armies of the great powers above the division level.

President Meng will take Li Xiande's information as an important basis, but he will not fully believe Li Xiande, but with this kind of military strength, President Meng does not have to worry about any accidents.

What President Meng has to do now is to pay the least price and achieve the greatest benefits, he doesn't plan to kill people indiscriminately, how to muddy the waters, and be able to get what he wants in Taiwan and the Ryukyus, this is the purpose of President Moe.

The Qing court's "Wan Nianqing" is China's first domestic steam-powered warship, which was built in 1869 by the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau at a cost of 163,000 taels of silver, with a displacement of 1,370 tons, both tonnage and power, are much more than the Japanese-made "Chiyoda" or "Qinghui" in the same period.

The gunboat used a vertical steam engine, increased the height of the hull, increased the area of bombing, and the cargo hold took up two-thirds of the volume, strictly speaking, it was only an armed transport ship.

In the command post on the ship's bridge, two officials were facing each other with tea, one was the "Wan Nianqing" pipe belt, Pei Jinquan with the rank of deputy general; The other is the new supreme governor of Taiwan, who patrols Taiwan's military preparation according to the rank of procurator and envoy, Xia Xianlun.

If the Qing court did not send another army, the story would mainly unfold between Pei Jinquan, Xia Xianlun and Shen Baozhen.

President Meng and Shen Baozhen met once, and Shen Baozhen can be regarded as a member of Li Hongzhang's family, but Shen Baozhen's qualifications are old and his rank is big, so he is not exactly Li Hongzhang's subordinate.

Shen Baozhen is open-minded, wise in speech, both has a desire for knowledge about Western technology, and has a strong Confucian heritage, President Meng believes that Shen Baozhen has been regarded as a rare talent in the late Qing Dynasty, able to do things, not nonsense, clear thinking, this kind of people, are valued by President Meng, and are also guarded against by President Meng.

President Meng didn't think about forcibly recruiting talents from the Qing court, on the one hand, it was too difficult, this kind of person, no matter how open it was, still held the set of loyalty and patriotism in his mind, and it was difficult to change.

For example, Luo Guozhong, who is under President Meng, is already a brigade commander, but Luo Guozhong was caught by President Meng, which is different, the Qing court punished defeated officers very severely, so capable people really want to take refuge in President Meng, and President Meng will not object.

"President, look, see the coast." Princess Katrina Kafu is wearing a well-fitting military uniform, her military uniform has been changed, in order to be beautiful, she is specially corseted, and she looks like a slender waist, and her plump breasts are big and round! (To be continued.) )