Chen Hai was in a hurry, and the pressure was huge, and now Yan Chunyu is still under great pressure!

There is no other reason, the Western powers attacked Gyeonggi from the sea, the most important directions are two, one is Tianjin, the other is Weihaiwei, the current Weihaiwei military port has just been completed, and before it has even had time to be officially completed, it ushered in a strong enemy, Yan Chunyu has already received Zhang Chunping's telegram, and a steady stream of European intelligence has arrived here to Yan Chunyu. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

More than a dozen capital warships, 100,000 Western troops! If you concentrate your forces to attack Shandong, even if you go all out, you may not be able to stop it, the difference in strength is too great!

Yan Chunyu, who has always had no one in his eyes, also rushed to his shoulders, and the pressure was great!

As soon as Guo Ye's military order to order Yan Chunyu to expand the army arrived in Jinan, Yan Chunyu took action, and the military order Guo Ye gave him was to expand a brigade, but Yan Chunyu didn't care so much, and let go of recruitment!

Yan Chunyu gave an order, and each of the three brigades under his command was responsible for recruiting six battalions of troops, a total of eighteen infantry battalions, in addition, the standard battalion was also expanded by three infantry battalions again, a total of twenty-one infantry battalions, recruiting 10,000 people! Anyway, now Shandong has money, don't worry about not being able to pay the army, not to mention anything else, just say that the rich businessmen in Shandong heard that the foreigners were going to fight, and visited Guo Songtao and Yan Chunyu one by one, and always asked to train the army to resist the invasion and protect the security in Shandong.

At this time, Guo Songtao and Yan Chunyu were not polite, Shandong's finances had just eased up, there was not much silver in deposits, and if they wanted to expand the armament war, they could only rely on donations, and in less than a month, wealthy businessmen from all over the country donated more than two million taels of silver to the governor's yamen and the admiral's yamen! With money, the source of soldiers is naturally not a problem, now the people in Shandong are rich in life, the people are intelligent, opium has long been abandoned, the people are in good health, and they can be soldiers if they carry a young man, not to mention the order of the governor Yamen.

In less than a month, Yan Chunyu recruited 10,000 new troops, all of whom were armed with live ammunition, and began to conduct live-ammunition training on the second day after entering the barracks.

"We received a telegram this morning, the foreigner's fleet has arrived in Malacca, and it won't take long to arrive in Guangzhou, which is not far from us, let's talk about it, how should we deploy our troops?"

Shandong Admiral Yamen, Yan Chunyu stood in the middle, stepped on the chair with one foot, and asked loudly.

On both sides, Chief of Staff Gao E, First Brigade Commander Wang Haonan, Second Brigade Commander Long Tao, Third Brigade Commander Zhang Suimou, and Zhang Hexiang, Chief of the Cavalry Battalion, were all present, and there were seven or eight staff officers below.

"Lord Admiral, it's a bit inappropriate for us to do this......"

Zhang Suimou said in a deep voice.

Yan Chunyu raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Brother Suimou, you were famous for your good defense when you were in the Taiping Army, and you were a tiger general under the Wing King, but you should tell me, what's wrong?" ”

Zhang Suimou was not polite, and replied: "Lord Admiral, you are now mixing all the new armies in the three brigades, one is too different in combat strength, and the other is that the new army has just entered the establishment, and there are problems with cooperation, we should not let the new army participate in the war too early, I suggest that all the new armies be independently organized, put them in the back as our reserves, the front is tense, and then press them up, one can squeeze out a certain amount of time for their training, and the other is the echelon allocation of troops, which is the priority of defense, and all the brains are pressed to the first line, Once the front line collapses, then Shandong will ......"

Yan Chunyu nodded and replied: "What Brother Sui Mou said is very reasonable, but it is precisely because the time is too tight that we can't separate them, even if they are squeezed out for half a month or a month, they can't be trained. As for the echelon configuration of troops, it is the king of defensive tactics, however, that is after the incoming, now our goal is the decisive battle and the border, let the foreigners come in, the daylily is cold, our handsome waste the strength of the nine cows and two tigers, so that Shandong has today's grand occasion, if it is destroyed in the war, don't say that the handsome can't spare me, I myself will jump into the Yellow Sea first! Therefore, all the troops must be pressed to the front line, and the foreigners must not be allowed to penetrate deep into Shandong, let alone let them attack the Beijing division from Shandong! ”

Zhang Suimou's heart was shocked, this is completely different from the previous concept of war, in the past, the Taiping army fought a war, and if it could fight, it would fight, and if it couldn't, it would retreat, but now, Yan Chunyu actually wants to fight for every inch of land!

"Brother Sui, this is different from the Qing army fighting against the Taiping army, it doesn't matter if they are Chinese when they fight around, but not now, it is foreigners who beat us, we can't let them take away a single crop seedling, it is our responsibility to protect the territory and the people, this is the eldest brother every time he hears his life, we must not let the production of the people in the hinterland of Shandong be impacted!"

"Lord Admiral, I have been taught......"

"Then, Chunyu, we will deploy all our troops on the front line of Weihai and Yantai?"

Wang Haonan asked.

Yan Chunyu shook his head and replied: "The first line of Weihai and Yantai is naturally the focus of defense, but after all, there is already a Weihaiwei fortress there, and there are also forts guarding it, as long as we put a brigade of troops there, in a short period of time, the foreigners will definitely not be able to take the ...... from Weihaiwei."

The strength of a brigade?

Everyone was stunned, and Wang Haonan asked: "Spring rain, Weihaiwei only placed the strength of one brigade?" And where are the forces of the remaining two brigades placed? Keep the cubs? ”

The crowd burst into laughter.

Yan Chunyu glared at Wang Haonan, and said angrily: "You know how to fart!" Could it be that Shandong only Weihaiwei needs to defend? Confused! What about the landing operations of foreign warships from other places? When the time comes, you won't regret dying? ”

Wang Haonan was shocked and asked, "Then, where else do you need to be stationed?" ”

"Rongcheng!"

Yan Chunyu said in a deep voice.

Rongcheng?

Several people looked at each other, how could it be Rongcheng? Even if they attack, they are most likely to attack Qingdao, right?

(To be continued.) )