As soon as Liu Jun and Zhong Lin saw Ding Ruchang's actions, they knew that there was definitely a way for Ding Ruchang to temporarily use the name of training instructors to take charge of the cavalry.

A knowing smile leads to immediate action. Catch time by the forelock.

Liu Jun walked up and asked softly to Ding Ruchang, who was still standing there looking at the cavalry in the distance: "You always speak out as a cavalryman, in front of them, you are a senior, can you give some pointers?" ”

Ding Ruchang didn't answer, but said from his mouth: "Elite, so elite, I don't know how many of them are in Liu Dashuai's hands?" ”

came, Liu Jun was excited in his heart, thought for a while, Liu Jun said: "An army,"

An army, Ding Ruchang's head was short-circuited, he didn't know what kind of formation this army was, and how many people there were.

Seeing this, Zhong Lin next to him walked up, saluted and said, "Lord Ding, our Lushun Army is organized by an army, and the strength of an army is 23,000 people. The cavalry was slightly less, 19,400 horses. ”

Whew, Ding Ruchang gasped, and looked at Liu Jun standing in front of him in surprise, he really couldn't understand it now, how did this person do it, if the cavalry of an army were the same as those passing in front of him, it would sweep the world. Be invincible.

He had already learned from Li He that the person in front of him had now mastered the three armies of the regular army, plus the fourth army being formed in Dandong, that is, four armies and 80,000 people, not counting the 20,000 people who were still training and did not have a cavalry.

If it is calculated in this way, then the number of troops in Liu Jun's hands is 110,000.

What is the concept of 110,000, even if it is Li Zhongtang's Huai army, it is only more than 200,000, and now, this person has an army of more than 100,000 in his hands, and it is an elite army, he doesn't know if this person rebels, who in this Qing Dynasty can stop it.

Liu Jun looked at where Ding Ruchang kept rolling his eyes, smiled, and threw out his olive branch: "Lao Ding, you belong to the commander of the navy, and I didn't want to trouble you, but now you see, the warship is still being repaired." I want to ask you to ......" Liu Jun said here, not seeming to speak, but looking at Ding Ruchang.

Ding Ruchang was stunned for a moment, and then asked with some doubts: "What is the matter with Liu Dashuai, but it doesn't hurt to say it." ”

Since Ding Ruchang said this, Liu Jun was not polite, and said directly: "Originally, the cavalry army belonged to Shoushan in the leadership, but now, Shoushan is in Dandong, forming the Fourth Army of the Army, and he has always supervised the cavalry army. Saying this, Liu Jun carefully looked at Ding Ruchang's face.

Seeing where Ding Ruchang was thinking, Liu Jun was busy: "The sailor is still your commander, just to temporarily manage the cavalry army." ”

Ding Ruchang didn't think about this matter, what he thought was that if he took over the cavalry, could he take it well, after all, he had been away from the cavalry for many years. ”

He wanted to be the commander of this cavalry army, after all, this was his old job, but he was afraid that he would not be able to bring it well, so he expressed his concerns.

When Liu Jun heard this, he immediately clapped his hands and decided: "Let Zhong Lin send a report, remove the commander of the Shoushan Cavalry Army, and officially appoint him as the commander of the Fourth Army, and the commander of the cavalry army will be taken over by Ding Ruchang, and he will be on the same level as Liu Jun, with the rank of general."

This is also taking into account the feelings of the Beiyang Naval Division, after all, Ding Ruchang is still the commander of the navy.

Liu Jun played a trick and asked Li He to handle the ranks of the officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Naval Division, after all, let Li He start from small things and take over the Beiyang Naval Division in the future.

At this point, neither the Beiyang Navy Division nor Ding Ruchang objected, after all, the only person who knew the rank of Lushun now was Li He, so he was quite cooperative.

This time, there were once again several generals in the navy who were not recognized by the imperial court, but this military rank was in Liaodong, that was honor, and no matter where he went, the love he received was not something that could be obtained elsewhere.

Li He's most general plan was that Lin Taizeng had the rank of lieutenant general, Yang Yonglin, Qiu Baoren, and Ye Zugui had the rank of major general, Cheng Biguang and the first mates of each ship had the rank of colonel, and the torpedo boat pipe band had the rank of major.

Let Lin Tai Zeng be a lieutenant general, Li He is also full of consideration, after all, now Ding Ruchang is bent on climbing to where the cavalry is, and the Beiyang Navy Division must always have someone to deter, so he pulled Lin Taizeng out.

For this, Liu Jun agreed with both hands, so he also signed the order on it. Let Li He complete this title, he doesn't care, doing so is to establish prestige for Li He. I do not let you lead in the future.

On February 27, when Li He hung the last rank on the Lushun Military Port of the Navy, the Qiaoli and Pingyuan horns that were moored in the entire military port sounded their whistles, and the defenders of the fort also began to fire thirteen gun salutes, indicating that the Lushun Army had a thirteen-class military rank.

The newly rejuvenated Beiyang Sailor suddenly glowed with new brilliance and devoted himself to new training.

Liu Jun has been excited since he solved the problem of the water division, these days, the Japanese army does not come to look for trouble, he is also happy, in addition to accompanying Wu Xiaoyan every day, he is accompanying Ding Ruchang, who is now a cavalry army and commander of the water division, to inspect everywhere.

Today is the first seven of Liu Buchan, Ding Ruchang, Liu Jun and the main personnel of Lushun have all come to the hill outside Lushun City.

Xiaoshan, which was originally the place where Liu Jun buried the Qing soldiers who died in the first Lushun Defense War, has now been expanded and has become the cemetery of the Lushun army.

In order to show respect, Liu Jun specially arranged a company of soldiers to guard this place day and night.

It's a hill, there are tombstones everywhere, and the rows are neat, and Liu Buyun was buried on the third day after arriving in Lushun. On that day, the entire people of Lushun came to see him off, and Liu Jun also instructed the navy and army to blow horns and guns in the air to pay tribute to this officer whom he had never met himself. Navy veteran.

There was a light rain in the sky, as if to tell the dead general office that the sailor had successfully broken through and was now resting in Lushun. Moreover, now the face of the sailor has been completely renewed and has a new vitality.

After paying tribute to Liu Buchan, everyone slowly went down the mountain.

When he returned to the headquarters, Liu Jun called Ding Ruchang and asked him about the questions that had been surrounding him for a long time.

Problems with naval shells.

All along, Liu Jun was influenced by later generations, saying that the shells of the Beiyang Naval Division were quite problematic, the shells that were fired did not explode, and even the inside was actually coal sand.

In this naval battle, he also saw that the main force of the Beiyang Naval Division besieged Yoshino, and the bullets rained down, but it did not cause great damage to Yoshino. It's simply unthinkable.

You know, Dingyuan Zhenyuan is a battleship, Yoshino is just a cruiser, battleship against cruiser, logically speaking, it is the cruiser's ironclad death, but on that day, more than a dozen shells were concentrated on Yoshino, but it didn't sink Yoshino, if it wasn't for Jiyuan to go up and launch a torpedo, I don't know when the Yoshino would sink.

After listening to Liu Jun's words, Ding Ruchang looked helpless, he knew where the problem was, and he had written many times, but every time it was a mud cow entering the sea, without the slightest result.

The shell loading charge and propellant package of the Beiyang Navy Division are all black powder, which is the gunpowder used to make firecrackers, and the power of course cannot be compared with that of the Japanese army, and the launch of this gunpowder will produce huge black smoke, which will seriously affect the shooting.

It turned out that the problem appeared here, Liu Jun knew the reason, and he was mostly at ease.

He can solve the problem of gunpowder, not to mention the picric acid gunpowder used by the Japanese army, which is white phosphorus bombs, and if necessary, he can also get it.

Sending Ding Ruchang away, Liu Jun called Zhong Lin. Glancing at Zhong Lin standing in front of him, Liu Jun asked, "How is your Tianjin Station running now?" ”

Zhong Lin asked suspiciously: "Head, everything is fine, now there are more than 300 people over there." "Tilted his head and thought twice, "Is there any task for your head?" ”

Liu Jun nodded.

He can dispense gunpowder, but he can't produce and reload the troops, and the only one who has this technology is only available in the Tianjin Machinery Bureau.

Originally, he planned to send a telegram to Li Hongzhang in a bright and bright manner, asking Li Hongzhang to transfer some personnel to Lushun, but after thinking about it carefully, Liu Jun thought that it was better to forget it, after all, this kind of thing, if one is not done well, it will make Li Hongzhang think that he has bad intentions. Thinking about it, Liu Jun still thinks that it is better to use the intelligence station to directly kidnap and tear up the ticket.

Zhong Lin is a character who is afraid that the world will not be chaotic, until Liu Jun's thoughts, he suddenly remembered what happened last time and asked: "Head, do you want to tie up that Yan Fu together?" ”

The last time Liu Jun went to Beijing, Zhong Lin has been haunted because he didn't complete the task. This time, when he heard that Liu Jun was going to do something, he wanted to do it this time, after all, now that Yan Fu was under his own surveillance, even if what people ate at noon, as long as he wanted to know, it would be a matter of less than ten minutes.

"You can do it." Liu Jun glanced at Zhong Lin, lay on the chair, and motioned for Zhong Lin to go out, he still had to think about the recipe of picric acid gunpowder, and strive to get these things before Tianjin arrested people. Then it was handed over to the water master.