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The governor's yamen of Guangdong City, the yamen of the former governor of Liangguang, has changed since the new governor came, not only that there is a flagpole in front of the gate, but a red flag that looks a little different in the eyes of the people has been raised, and the soldiers dressed in Western-style clothes are worn by the gate. There are many changes in the yamen www.biquge.info whether it is the living room, the meeting hall or the study, there are two kinds of Chinese and Western styles, depending on the identity and hobbies of the guests. Foreign guests come to visit, all arranged in the Western-style living room. Similarly, for domestic guests, it will be arranged in the Chinese living room, and for those who love foreign things, it will be arranged in the Western living room.

Because of the relationship with the old man in Huangzhou, Dao Li Ziyuan knew that Lin Yuqing was a person who was accustomed to Western, so naturally after he arrived, he invited him to the Western-style living room or Western-style study to meet. Lin Yuqing, who was wearing a major general's uniform, had just come to this exotic living room.

"I've seen a long history."

Although Li Ziyuan is no longer the chief official in the mansion now, Lin Yuqing is still called according to the old custom, holding a soft cloth military hat of the rebels in his left hand.

Although in order to maintain the dignity of a civil official, Li Ziyuan did not personally welcome him out, but he still hurriedly held Lin Yuqing's arm and said: "General Lin, look at your politeness, you have been traveling all the way to help me in Guangdong, but this official has not been able to go to greet me, which is really ashamed." ”

After that, Li Ziyuan looked at Lin Yuqing in front of him, the reason why he called him a general is very simple, he was temporarily awarded the rank of major general when he led three regiments to Guangdong this time, this temporary military rank is to facilitate his command of the troops, and now the entire Guangdong army and navy are under his command, and one person commands more than 25,000 troops of seven regiments, which is almost equivalent to half of the soldiers of the righteous army, of course, it does not include the 50,000 recruits just recruited.

"The chief official is busy with official business, and Yu Qingyan dares to work for the chief official!"

Lin Yuqing hurriedly replied politely, the local military is not welcome, this is the rule, the army in the governor's mansion is the army, the place is the locality, and the two have no jurisdiction over each other. Naturally, he was well aware of this, as he was responsible for formulating the regulations.

"This kid, this time he came to Guangdong, there must be an article!"

This sentence came out of his heart, and then Li Ziyuan took Lin Yuqing's hand, sat down on the soft velvet sofa together, and asked with concern.

"Shaobai, is this journey okay? Now the official road on the south side of the ridge has not been repaired, and when the official road is repaired in the future, it will be easier to march to the army......"

Because Lin Yuqing's character was given by Li Ziyuan, so after doing it now, he called it his character, and after a simple politeness, he said straight to the point.

"Shaobai, when you come to Guangdong this time, in addition to strengthening Guangdong's defense, does Han Du have any other words?"

The Governor's Office suddenly transferred four regiments to reinforce Guangdong, which was too sudden in Li Ziyuan's opinion, and the order issued by the Governor's Mansion only made him fully cooperate.

"Shaobai, you tell me the truth, is Fuzhong ready to make a move on Guangxi?"

The body leaned forward slightly, in Li Ziyuan's opinion, Fuzhong's transfer of troops this time was nine times out of ten because of Guangxi, after all, this capture of the southwest was a plan that Fuzhong had already formulated.

"Although the soldiers of Guangxi are not worth mentioning, it is necessary to send troops to defend and select officials to ...... to seize Guangxi."

Just as Li Ziyuan was talking about his thoughts, Lin Yuqing looked at him and said.

"Lord Chief, before I came to Guangzhou, Han Du asked me to bring you a letter!"

At the same time as the words fell, Lin Yuqing took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to Li Ziyuan. Taking the letter, Li Ziyuan took a closer look, his face changed from time to time, and he was surprised for a while before he looked up at Lin Yuqing and said.

"Han Du has decided?"

"Yes!"

"Nafuchu...... Well, what does the General Staff mean? ”

The soldiers in the house are all out of the General Staff, so I think I must have agreed to come there!

"That's what Hantu meant! Han Du has already instructed in the letter, we just need to obey Han Du's orders! ”

"Well, I see!"

It was as if Li Ziyuan, who had mixed feelings, sighed and didn't know where to start for a while.

"Now that you're here, everything in Guangdong is counting on you, as for what needs to be done, I just have to cooperate with it."

When he said this, Li Ziyuan's tone seemed a little uneasy, and his expression was even more nervous, and finally he suddenly raised his head and asked.

"Then you see Shaobai, how sure are we about this matter?"

"Seventy percent!"

Seventy percent sure, this is really not low!

When Li Ziyuan nodded in thought, Lin Yuqing said again.

"Changshi can have an arrangement tomorrow? If there is no arrangement, can you go to Humen with Yu Qing? ”

Humen is the gateway of the Pearl River, and the Humen Fort is the barrier of the Pearl River, and its former fort sites are distributed in places such as Dajiao Mountain, Wushan Mountain and Dahushan Mountain on both sides of the Pearl River. More than ten years ago, Lin Zexu and Admiral Guan Tianpei mobilized the people to prepare for defense, strengthened and built 11 new forts, and set up more than 3o0 cannons. With Shajiao and Dajiao Fort as the first portal, Weiyuan, Zhenyuan, Jingyuan, Consolidation, Yong'an, and Hengduan Qianshan Platform as the second portal, and Dahu Fort as the third portal, three lines of defense were organized.

However, this seemingly strong fort was still conquered by the British army, and the hundreds of clay guns on the fort could not stop the British fleet. Although the fort was restored again a few years after the Battle of Humen and replaced with imitation foreign artillery, it is still a traditional Chinese fort.

At the beginning of the year, after Ye Mingchen, the governor of Liangguang, raised the uprising, and the governor of Guangdong stationed in Huizhou ordered the surrender in the face of the siege of the rebels, the Humen was naturally taken over by the rebels.

Although at this time compared to the past, there are only more than 100 artillery pieces left on this fort, but its fortress structure is more reasonable, and the artillery is also better, for the Humen Fort, Li Ziyuan is no stranger, it is already the gateway of Guangzhou, he has come here more than once to inspect, to ensure the safety of Guangzhou.

When he visited the fort again, Li Ziyuan found that the officers and soldiers on the fort were training for each other. Seemed much busier than usual, and after a closer look, Li Ziyuan found that the cannon on the fort seemed to be "getting smaller".

"Changed guns?"

Li Ziyuan asked in surprise,

"A new type of Han-style cannon!"

Lin Yuqing nodded in response, and then asked him to visit the gun emplacement.

The Han-style cannon is indeed different from the artillery of the past, its tail seems to be very complicated, and the lever of the tail of the cannon is pulled, and the bolt is pulled down, and the chamber of the cannon is opened.

"How is this cannon like this? Wouldn't there be air leaks? ”

Although he is not a soldier, Li Ziyuan also knows the principles of some firearms, but his eyes are sunk in the cannon and he can't pull them out. He even fired the bolt back and forth a few times with his own hands. The tail mechanism of this breech charge was something that had never been seen in any previous cannon. Apparently this is a new type of artillery.

"Sir, it's a cannonball."

When Li Ziyuan looked at it, he saw a soldier carrying a cannonball, which was not the round iron cannonball that had always been the case, but a conical pointed cannonball, and the cannonball was different from the past.

"General Lin, can you reload it for me?"

Lin Yuqing, who was originally going to demonstrate the power of the Han-style cannon to him, naturally did not refuse, and he asked the training officer sent by the arsenal next to the cannon.

"How's that, now they can operate the artillery?"

"I'm not very proficient yet, but the basic operation is perfectly fine."

Answering the general's question, Qian Lei ordered the sergeant major on the side.

"Artillery Commander Li, let's start the drill now!"

Li Mingchuan immediately ordered the soldiers to perform the process of maneuvering the gun, and the artillerymen squatting behind the gun position clicked open the running bolt, put in the warhead, and then stuffed into the barrel of the gun was a metal barrel containing ******.

"That's it?"

Lin Yuqing then explained to him.

"Long history, this cannon is not an ordinary cannon, an ordinary cannon is poured into the ****** bag from the muzzle, and then the medicine bag is pressed at the bottom of the barrel with a medicine rod, and it is a rear-loading gun, the rate of fire is faster, and it can basically maintain a rate of fire that exceeds the front-loading gun by five to ten times!"

"Ten times"

Li Ziyuan blurted out in surprise.

"And, there's its range."

Qian Lei, who is a training officer, added on the side.

"The average twenty-four-pounder cannon cannon has a maximum range of 2,800 meters, which is already the end of the crossbow. The size of the Kehan cannon was much smaller than that of the Canon fortress gun, but hitting targets 4,000 or 5,000 meters away was like probing for something. You can hit up to 6,000 meters away! ”

"So"

Lin Yuqing finally concluded.

"Don't look at the number of artillery in our fortress here is much less than in the past, but if there is a fire battle on land and sea, let alone anything else, just the six 105 mm and 88 mm guns in our fortress can shoot accurately at a distance of 4,000 meters from the enemy ship, and it will not take an hour to sink all the targets at sea!"

This is not an exaggeration, in fact, 4000 meters is somewhat conservative, because in the test they have accurately hit the target 6000 meters away, after all, the large area of the warship, the high accuracy of the rifled guns can launch a precise attack on it, which means that they can deliver a fatal blow to the enemy ship before it closes.

"Of course, these are all secrets, this time I came to Guangzhou, in addition to the four regiments are equipped with 88 mm Han guns, the fort here is also deployed 48 Han guns, 105 mm, 88 mm guns are half each, here half of the guns, all of which were specially ordered by the Han Governor to be folded from the Jiujiang Fort. This is to increase the strength here, which shows the importance that Han Du attaches to Guangdong. ”

Emphasizing the importance that Han Du attached to the defense of Guangdong, Lin Yuqing ordered the gunners.

"Since the shell has already entered the chamber, then don't keep it, just hit the target two kilometers away."

The sea target in Lin Yuqing's mouth is a pontoon cannon mark, which is the target used by the battery soldiers for practice.

Because the aiming of the Han cannon was similar to that of the old one, the gunner was very skilled at aiming at both the solid wood pontoons two kilometers away. With a fierce cannon shot, I saw a cannonball equipped with a trigger fuse streak across the sky, and as soon as it touched the sea surface, it exploded into flowers, and a water column more than ten meters high exploded on the sea surface...... (To be continued.) )