Since the First Sino-Japanese War, although the Beiyang Naval Division has recovered slightly, in fact, it has no deterrent effect in Southeast Asia and exists in name only. And the so-called Nanyang Sailors? Well, ignore it. From its establishment to its eventual integration, the Nanyang Naval Division did not play even the slightest role. In 1909, when the Nanyang Fleet was merged into the Beiyang Fleet, the Nanyang Naval Division completely disappeared into the long river of history. There are many people who say that the Beiyang Naval Division was focused on training by the Qing court, so the Nanyang Naval Division did not have a dimensional development. This view is wrong!

The Nanyang Sailor was raised by the eldest lady, and it was established by the Manchu Dynasty in order to fight against the Beiyang Sailor. And the Beiyang Sailor is the stepmother's mother, but the Beiyang Sailor has a qualified nurse: Li Hongzhang! Lao Li fought with Zuo Zhongtang and Cixi for the Beiyang Navy to develop such a modern navy all his life. For this reason, Lao Li even stopped the development of the army unit and the Huai Army. Otherwise, if the funds of the Beiyang Naval Division were used for the Huai army, why would the Huai army be defeated on the Korean battlefield? At that time, the Huai Army was left with only one capable force: the Wu Yi Army led by Ye Zhichao! There is also half of Ma Yukun's Yi army. It's just that the Yi Army was later absorbed by the imperial court.

And Li Hongzhang's only Huai army unit was also wiped out under the city of Tianjin, and Nie Shicheng, the commander-in-chief of the Huai army, died on the battlefield in history. The Huai Army, a well-known unit in history, has since withdrawn from the stage of history.

At the beginning of November, Hu Xiaoyan's troops were reorganized for the first time. The special forces of the Tongzhou battalion have also begun training, and the airship unit has also completed overhaul for the first time, and there are fifteen ships that can be lifted into the air. And the Beiyang Naval Division was officially handed over to Hu Xiaoyan by Li Hongzhang. Cheng Biguang's original appointment in the form of secondment was cancelled, and he was officially appointed as the supreme commander of the airship unit.

In addition to spending another million taels on the Beiyang sailors and buying shells, Hu Xiaoyan began to transfer sailors and gunners. At its peak, the Beiyang Naval Division had more than 5,000 naval forces and more than 1,000 reservists. It's about half the size today. Without saying a word, Hu Xiaoyan sent 1,500 people to the airship base for training, and none of them were middle- or high-level officers. Hu Xiaoyan looked down on the officers of the Beiyang Naval Division.

Because of the non-resistance policy of Ye Zuqi, the general of the Beiyang Naval Division, near the previous Dagu Fort, the Beiyang Naval Division lost 4 large warships and several small gunboats, and some of the soldiers of the Naval Division were detained. This behavior made Hu Xiaoyan extremely angry. If it weren't for the lack of necessary talents in the airship troops, Hu Xiaoyan would never have used this kind of person. The one million taels of silver Hu Xiaoyan should spend money to buy peace of mind. As for the Beiyang Naval Division? Don't look at the high praise given by later generations, in the current Hu Xiaoyan's view, Beiyang has been abolished! A navy that does not have the indomitable spirit of recruiting and winning battles is not qualified to call itself a navy. It is one thing to be able to fight or not, but whether or not to fight is a matter of principle.

As a navy, I don't even dare to fight!! An admiral without principles, no matter how knowledgeable he is, no matter how capable he is, he is a pile of shit.

is like Li Yunlong in the bright sword, can Li Yunlong really fight? Is his tactics really very good? I can't see it, put it on the frontal battlefield, the same equipment and the same system of trained soldiers, ten Li Yunlong combined is not enough for Chu Yunfei to cut. But Li Yunlong's evaluation is higher than Chu Yunfei's.

Why! It's because Li Yunlong dares to fight! This kind of bright sword spirit is the most valuable! The combat effectiveness of the national army is actually not weak, but it will be crushed in a big battle! Why? Don't you dare to show your sword? Preserving your strength for the time is just a clever excuse. Under the leadership of such a general, the troops that can fight will run a few times, and in the future when they encounter war, the first thought is to run!

Beiyang! Beiyang! Beiyang!

After Hu Xiaoyan met with the sailors and gunners drawn from the Beiyang Naval Division, he handed them over to Cheng Biguang. As for Ye Zuqi's kind of goods, after the negotiation is over, Hu Xiaoyan will "entertain" him "well".

Some people may wonder how the airship belongs to the Air Force, so how can the Navy be used as a naval division? Quite simply, there are currently no professional Air Force personnel in the world. Correspondingly, the navy is more suitable for the air force than the army, at least many people in the navy can use the sextant, and there are many who can report the level of wind and the humidity of the air just by feeling the wind outside with one hand. There are also people who can accurately determine the direction of the fleet just by relying on the map. This is the key to Hu Xiaoyan's attention to them. The airship had neither GPS nor radar.

At the beginning of November, the governors finally determined that Cixi and Guangxu had been killed, and they demanded that the central government re-select the role of emperor. Among them, the most popular ones are Zaizhen, Zaixun, Zaifeng, Zaitao and so on.

At the same time that Hu Xiaoyan received the court's meeting in the army, he also learned the result of the coalition peace talks: it collapsed.

Japan and Russia could not accept Li Hongzhang's conditions, and Li Hongzhang could not accept the conditions of Japan and Russia, and Britain's mediation had no effect at all.

If this matter had not been possible in the original history, Li Hongzhang would have compromised. But this time and space can't do it, because Cixi and Emperor Guangxu are gone! In the original time and space, there was Cixi pressing, no cows, ghosts, snakes and gods dared to move, Cixi took peace as the first major premise, and anyone who dared to oppose it was to challenge Lafayette's patience. No one dared to do that.

Now Galeries Lafayette is "gone". There was no one on it, so all the bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods ran out. In addition, the royal family and nobles were all thinking about the emperor's throne, so they had no effort to care about peace talks. As a result, the rancid smell over the entire city of Beijing has not yet dissipated, but in the Forbidden City, "Zhumen wine and meat stink" to the sky.

Li Hongzhang wanted to conclude the peace talks as soon as possible and participate in the work of the emperor candidate as soon as possible, but no matter what agreement Li Hongzhang negotiated, it would be revealed on the same day, and then Li Hongzhang's door would be blocked by a group of "enlightened people." So much so that Li Hongzhang is now terrified and does not dare to agree to any conditions at all during the peace talks. In this time and space, without Cixi's support, some people even began to doubt the legitimacy of Li Hongzhang's status as ambassador for plenipotentiary peace talks. After all, Sheng Xuanhuai was the first choice for peace talks. It's just that Sheng Xuanhuai couldn't figure it out, which made Cixi think of Li Hongzhang, a substitute for the dead.

And our grand people are now actively running with the Manchu nobles.

Without Cixi's suppression, nothing could be done, whether it was peace talks or the selection of an emperor. A bunch of people, you don't obey me, I don't obey you. Everyone fights in the court every day.

Dou Nale has the heart to mediate, but unfortunately he has the powerlessness. When it comes to the issue of the emperor's throne, let alone Dou Nale, even if the Queen of England comes, it doesn't work. After many days of peace talks, Dou Nale also knew: The throne of the Qing State is uncertain, and peace talks will never be negotiated!

As a result, ministers from various countries also began to participate in the troubled waters of Qing politics. At the same time, the Japanese and Russian armies, who were not willing to be lonely, also began to move, because of the chaos in the court, all aid and orders against Heilongjiang were stopped, and news came from Aihui in early November: Aihui had fallen. One day apart, the Japanese 100,000 advance troops took advantage of the chaos in the Qing Dynasty to leave Korea, and the front of the troops was directed to Jilin. Mukden was the old capital of the Qing Dynasty, and the Japanese army was not ready for a full-scale war with the Qing Dynasty for the time being, nor was it ready to confront Hu Xiaoyan's airship troops head-on.

Since Hashimoto escaped from Beijing City at night, he soon telegraphed back to the base camp to inform him of everything about the airship. The Japanese army's delay to the present day is also a day later than the Russian army, and it is also deliberate that the Japanese army will not attack Mukden but Jilin in order not to completely offend Hu Xiaoyan. Meat is meat when it is eaten in the mouth, and if the meat is stabbed, the Japanese army will not eat it easily.

In short, the whole of China was in chaos until the beginning of November. The Manchu court barely played a pivotal role in the past six months, and various localities began to work independently. For the first time, a situation of warlord scuffle took shape.