Feng Zicai took over the rectification of the Eastern Front army for only five days, and the army assembled under it has reached more than 7,000 people, although Feng Zicai has 50,000 taels of silver raised from Liu's Silver Village, but the soldiers from the front line are all called huāzi, military uniforms, equipment are all gone, and the grain and grass are all supplied by the Taiping Mansion.

At this moment, Luo Wen Luo's prefect's mansion, who had played a package ticket to assist Feng Zicai, was a big one, and this Taiping Mansion was also a wealthy prefecture and county in Guangxi before the war, but as soon as the war broke out in the past two years, a large number of troops were stationed on the border dozens of miles away, and this heavy grain and grass could be prepared by the local people.

Xu Yanxu, the captain of the transportation brigade, was very active in sending all the grain to Bac Ninh, which was originally considered the rear, and now it is also the rear, but it has become the rear of the French...... This grain has become the spoils of war for the French, and the Taiping Mansion does not have much stock.

You must know that these seven or eight thousand soldiers eat every day, which costs hundreds of stones, and in the past six months, the grain prices of the grain merchants in this Taiping Mansion have risen by 30%, but fortunately, the silver is quite abundant, but the current situation is that there is silver, and it is very difficult to raise a large amount of grain.

In the camp, Feng Zicai and Luo Zhifu drank tea, all bowed their heads and pondered, and several camp offices and secretaries on the side were waiting, waiting for the two bigwigs to make up their minds, the stock in this military camp is now only more than 1,000 stones, which is a lot of effort by Luo Zhifu to raise, it can be said that the food in several counties in Taiping is basically all for him.

It's just that this is just the 10-day stock of the Eastern Front battalion, Feng Zicai has led the troops for more than 30 years, and the reason for being a soldier to eat food is the clearest......

Luo Wen squinted his eyes, bowed his head and said nothing, he naturally didn't have nothing to think about, but he did ten points for the way of the official, so he could only take out five points to show people, otherwise it would be difficult for you to show your ability in the future.

But it is obviously not easy to solve the supply of this huge army at once, even if he uses all his strength, he will be able to save an emergency, and since it is the ability to save an emergency, it is natural to use it at the last moment

Feng Zicai saw that this problem of eating was not easy to solve, and began to have other ideas, it seemed that he could only lay off some weak soldiers, just as his nephew Feng Zhaojin ran in with a strange expression, so he asked: "Zhaojin, how many stragglers have you gathered today?" ”

"Uncle, more than 700 people came this morning, and I asked people to select them one by one, and the powerful ones entered the "Qin Army", and the rest of the people were incorporated into the baggage camp," Feng Zhaojin naturally came to report this, with the establishment of the Eastern Front battalion, this news made the Qing army finally find the direction to go home.

"Very good, how is the 'Cui' character camp arranged?" Feng Zicai frowned, there are more and more soldiers, but he is short of food here, it is really a tangled problem, in addition, it is not easy to train the defeated troops, these are the men and horses who have been broken by the French, and they have to be reorganized into battle, he thinks it will take at least a month

"Uncle, basically all of them have returned to the team, and they are selecting jīng Zhuang these days, and they plan to expand the 'cui' battalion to the scale of 6 battalions, and other available soldiers will be incorporated into the 'qin' battalion."

The "Cui" word battalion is the core force formed by his former old man and horse, there are not many people, only 500 people, but he is definitely a loyal and brave man, after he went home to retire, this group of people Xu Yanxu is not at ease, and the second is that the command is not good, so Suo xìng is all abolished, and it took Feng Zhaojin a lot of effort to get the manpower back.

However, with this group of old men and horses in hand, the reorganization of the new army has been pushed down, and those defeated soldiers have begun to be organized and trained like dogs in the past few days, thinking of this, a more headache has arisen, this time in Bac Ninh, more than 8,000 fast guns have become the trophies of the French, and this Taiping Mansion is a large warehouse without baggage.

Now in the army of the Eastern Front, except for the 10,000 more troops in Zhennanguan, they are still neatly equipped, and the other defeated troops are almost empty-handed.

When he was worried about this, he noticed Sun Zhaojin's appearance on the side, "What else is there, Zhaojin"

"Uncle, just now there were two troops and horses retreating from northern Vietnam, it was Liu Bian, the general of the Gui Army, and Qi Lin, the commander of the Yue Army, who were camped in the west of the city, and Liu Bian was quite honest, but Qi Lin was arguing with the grain officer to ask us for food."

"How many soldiers and horses do they have?" Feng Zicai was obviously in a cold sweat when he heard the news, isn't this the pot that doesn't open the pot, when he is short of food, he has so many mouths, and when he hears the words "Yue Army", it makes him even more uncomfortable.

"There are more than 2,300 people on Liu Bian's side, and more than 3,700 people on Qi Lin's hands, I asked, they are soldiers and horses stationed in Wenmi and Langshan"

Feng Zicai snorted, when he was the governor of Guangxi before, he had a lot of contradictions with Liu Kun, the governor of Liangguang who was born in the Hunan army, and the reason for this is actually quite mysterious, in the early years, when Feng Zicai led the army to participate in the crusade against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, as a military general who was born anyway, he had no background in the Qing army, so he was not valued by the commander Zeng Guofan at the time, and was always regarded as a foreign system by the Hunan army, so he naturally had some knots.

And after Liu Kun became the governor of Liangguang, in order to make every effort to appease the cronies of the Hunan army, he was naturally quite dissatisfied with this stumbling block, so he had a lot of intention of suppressing it, but fortunately, in Guangxi, the Hunan army was not strong, and there were Huaijun Pan Dingxin and Su Yuan chūn These people were contained, so he also bumped into hún down, and finally met a mean Xu Yanxu, so he went home.

Now that the Guangdong army is in trouble, it is Liu Kunyi's power that fights, which obviously makes him feel quite tricky...... Now Feng Zicai's feeling is almost like a wolf bèi in a burnt position.

After pondering for a while, he beckoned before he had an idea, "Zhaojin, where is the Yue army allocating three days' food first, and in addition, you and your second brother go to Su Yuan Chūn, they just came from Liuzhou, see if you can ask for some ordnance."

Lao Feng used his ingenuity to think of a way, and he took it for granted that he had exposed this matter, he still had a lot of bad things to deal with, and the second order of Lord Qin had been delivered, and the army should be reorganized within 30 days, and the war situation in northern Vietnam should be dealt with at any time.

This order made Feng Zicai really crazy for a while, 30 days, it was just enough to pull the soldiers up, this wartime will not know the soldiers, the soldiers do not know the generals, so what else to fight, the so-called fighting tiger brothers, father and son soldiers, in this era, only the sī army has such a close relationship, will burst out with considerable combat power.

Now his subordinates are all new soldiers in the battalion, and only 500 "Cuizi Battalion" are considered the core strength, but in order to support the shelf of this eastern battalion, half of them can be sent out as sentry commanders and sentry officers, and control this unstable army for him.

It was already dark, and Governor Luo had already left to go back to raise food, but Feng Zicai was not idle, he was discussing with the Feng family's soldiers the method of reorganizing the troops, which was the key to this success-

Keelung Port is surrounded by a large number of mountainous areas, with Qidou Mountain and Niuchou Ridge in the east, and Neishan Mountain and Dawulun Mountain in the west.

The main peak of the inner mountain is only 400 meters above sea level, this year's Lantern Festival has already passed, but today there are two people in black, running to the top of this mountain to admire the moon, if there are literati sāo guests to see, they will definitely be impressed by the elegant bones of these two, because these two moon admirers are climbing on a tree that is not high, while eating dry food, while also playing lanterns......

Due to the stormy situation in Taiwan, there are no tall trees on the top of the mountain, and these two sāo guests did not have the excitement of admiring the moon on the top of the mountain at this time, but had a cautious expression on their faces, and the lanterns they hung on the trees were also quite unusual, because the entire red lantern was wrapped in a "concave" cardboard box.

"Jiang Yi, do you think this thing works? I doubt they can see it," one of them took a bite of the cake and turned the lantern towards the other, facing the open sea.

"What do you know, you will be suspicious, it must be useful, this is the special training content of the training class of the Intelligence Division, and you can also use this to send a message, Tie Dan, eat it and hurry up to the dark post on the mountain road in front of you" The young man named Jiang Yi kicked Tie Dan off the tree, and then continued his great cause of hanging lanterns......

The 601 ship shuttled above the sea, although there was a half-moon hanging in the sky, but there was already a heavy black curtain between the sky and the earth, and in the distance except for pitch black, it was impossible to see anything clearly. ,

Lu Zhiyuan looked around with a telescope, and carefully calculated the distance on the chart, his direction was absolutely correct, why didn't he see the signal of contact until now, he ran to Guan Jia, the two discussed it, and decided to move north for 20 minutes, and then turn back to Keelung Harbor, so that a larger range of coastline can be observed.

Sure enough, after continuing to sail for half an hour, the news came from the lookout post that it was found that the signal was traveling in the right direction of 86 degrees, and the red signal

Receiving this news, Lu Zhiyuan immediately became excited, which means that the entrance to Keelung Port is in front of him, and according to the agreement, the intelligence officers of the Intelligence Department who entered the lurking near Keelung in advance will set up signals and instructions in the dark to ensure that the next actions can be carried out accurately and timely.

Soon, the signals of the second, third, and fourth places were found, and the location of Keelung Port had been clearly indicated through the guidance of these four signals, of course, Lu Zhiyuan didn't plan to storm any signals, he parked the battleship far away, and then the frogman special battalion boarded the boat and set off

It was already late at night, but the French warships in Keelung Harbor were still in a state of fire, although the battle during the day had its own damage, but the French army had improved their awareness of the Qing fleet, Rear Admiral Miller was nervously discussing with the officers about tomorrow's decisive battle, and the officers were making a difficult choice between the longitudinal decisive battle and the idea of attacking the two wings of the two fleets.

The method of longitudinal artillery bombardment is decent, and the plan of attacking on both flanks will use two of the latest warships, the armored cruisers of the Reis and the Malody, to form a second squad to take the initiative to attack, with other warships as the middle to meet the troops, and the troops will attack the opponent in two directions, and it is planned that the first two battleships of the first series and the fast squad of the second squad will besiege the other side as the flagship of the leader.

However, the biggest criticism of this plan is that the main fleet with only 7 warships left will face the siege of the opponent's 14 warships, and the pressure on the opponent will be greatly reduced, while the own warships will be under greater pressure.

The officers were clamoring and discussing the gains and losses of tactics, and at this time, the staff officer of the fleet, Sean, was sweating profusely and hurried in, and said to Rear Admiral Miller: "General, everything is arranged, the channel of Tongpanyu is blocked, there are three merchant ships moored in the channel, and in addition, 10 anchor mines have been laid in the channel...... Tomorrow morning I need to spend half an hour to clear it."

“…… Colonel Sean, hard work, this is too much fuss, then you can also sit down and discuss tomorrow's tactics together, this time the decisive battle with the Qing fleet should not be missed, if they can be defeated, then the battle situation in the north of Vietnam will be greatly improved" Rear Admiral Miller still remembered the decisive battle, and the result of only damaging one enemy ship today obviously could not satisfy his appetite.

Colonel Sean is obviously not as optimistic as Miller, but he has participated in almost all the battles with the South Sea Fleet, and the amazing combat power and some bizarre and inexplicable plots that the other party showed at the beginning made him and Lone Ba very jealous, and he must be vigilant enough against an opponent who he can't see through no matter what.

He pondered for a while, and still felt that he needed to pour cold water on this group of high-spirited young Zhuang faction, "General, tomorrow's battle, you must do a good job of filing, the other side has two warships with amazing speed, you must consider countermeasures."

The mention of the two warships, which could be more than 18 knots, made all the warship commanders a little discouraged, and the fact that the latest warships of the French Republic were not even comparable to each other, was undoubtedly a great irony of the "second navy in the world", and the noisy discussions at the military meeting ended until late at night.

When Rear Admiral Miller was alone on the battleship "Triumph" thinking about how to return triumphantly, he finally fell asleep on his stomach due to the fatigue of a day's war, but, like a dream, he suddenly entered a strange dream, he stood on his beloved flagship, watching the battle around him like a god.

The battleships of the French Far East Fleet rushed densely towards the poor ten Qing warships in the distance, the other party was already powerless in the face of France's huge military power, the more he looked at it, the more pleasant he became, he couldn't help laughing, and couldn't help but point to the legendary flagship of the other party and shouted: "Tremble, Oriental people......"

Next, nature dreamed of the spectacular scene of ten thousand cannons firing at once

He suddenly felt his body fly, and he clearly heard a very dull, banging sound that seemed to be far away, and all of a sudden, Miller woke up, looking around dazedly, it turned out that ...... He was still hiding in the harbor at the moment, and there had been no kind of fighting at all...... It turns out that it's really a dream,

Wrong...... A thought flashed through Miller's mind, why did the current scene look more like a dream, the window of the bridge was against the red sè fire, he rushed to the window, and found that several French warships in the harbor were burning, and in the firelight, from time to time the crew of the ship jumped into the sea to escape.

With a "bang", Staff Officer Sean hurriedly ran in with a few soldiers and directly smashed into the cabin, "Major General Miller, you must retreat, the Triumph is permeable."

These words immediately made Major General Miller's head a little short-circuited, could it be that the artillery battle in his dream really happened? It's completely impossible...... He was the first to run out of the cabin, and the sight in front of him was completely unacceptable to him, the flagship battleship "Triumph" was permeable, and the waterline was only less than two meters from the deck at this time

Not far away, the armored cruiser "Fellers", which was originally moored, had disappeared at this time, and the only thing that was still on the water was the mast of the Fellers, and the new battleship of the Republic "Mallody" was not sunk, but the flames could be seen on the deck of the ship, and I did not know what the situation was.

In addition, the cruiser Woerda and the cruiser Reis were also damaged, and Miller thought of his painstaking plan last night, and he was so angry that smoke rose from the top of his head, and now he had no idea of fighting to the death with the Nanyang Fleet, leaving only 4 intact battleships, among which there was not even the main ironclad ship

He immediately ordered the ships to be put in order to be repaired and repaired, and although he could not have predicted what kind of attack the fleet would be, one thing was clear: the other side possessed a lot of technology that France did not have, and it was skillfully applied in the war, and the attack received today was undoubtedly the same as the six warships that were damaged in Saigon Harbor that day.

He looked at the sky with a slight glimmer of light in the distance, time was running out, and when the Chinese fleet was not coming, he quickly retreated, "Sean...... Colonel Sean, you immediately let people clear the channel, we must withdraw immediately, the Chinese estimate that they will follow soon"

"Yes" received the order, and the light cruiser Vorta quickly headed for the channel of the port.

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