"What? Ascend to the Sailor mutiny? Ding Baozhen was taken aback when he heard the report, he forced himself to calm his throat and asked, "Do you know why the mutiny?" ”

"Lord Huifutai, I heard that it was because of the ...... of the boat," replied the general manager. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Because of the boat?" Ding Baozhen was stunned.

"Exactly, sir." The cold sweat on his forehead couldn't stop dripping, but he didn't bother to wipe it, but quickly replied, "The officers and soldiers of the Navy Division Battalion don't know who to listen to, the adults bought them a boat, they said that the boat is a waste, and the adults gave them a boat to send them to death in vain......

"These bastards!" Ding Baozhen listened to the general manager's words, and couldn't help but be furious, slammed the table, stood up, and startled the master.

"How can you send a boat to death? Didn't they use a boat to catch a rope? Isn't it good? Ding Baozhen said angrily, "It's just nonsense!" They want to use the small steamer, just to make money! Therefore, it is really damning to make such a mutiny! ”

"My lord, isn't there any news from the officers and soldiers of the Navy Battalion?" The master reminded Ding Baozhen on the side.

"What news did they get?" Ding Baozhen turned his head to look at his master, he seemed to remember something, and a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes.

"Do you remember the excerpt on Peng Chuhan?" The master cautiously woke up Ding Baozhen.

Hearing the name of Peng Chuhan, the admiral of the Xiamen Navy, Ding Baozhen was shocked, and the anger just now disappeared in an instant.

"Go down first!" Ding Baozhen waved his hand.

The two masters and the general salute retired, and Ding Baozhen sat in front of the bookcase, his brows furrowed, and he pondered.

He has now been able to determine that someone must have revealed the content of Peng Chuhan's excerpts to the Rongcheng Water Division Battalion and the Dengzhou Water Division Battalion!

Otherwise, they would never have uttered the words "for nothing"!

Thinking of Peng Chuhan's excerpt of "words and tears", Ding Baozhen couldn't help but fight a cold war.

In the battle of the Japanese Navy attacking Xiamen, Peng Chuhan led the Xiamen Navy Division to resist bravely, but because the wooden sailing ships were defeated by the steam warships, although they were equipped with new breech guns, they still inevitably suffered the fate of total annihilation. The officers and men of the Xiamen Navy Division suffered heavy casualties in this battle, and Peng Chuhan was also seriously wounded, but he was lucky to survive.

After the end of the Battle of Taiwan, Peng Chuhan, who was the admiral of the Xiamen Navy Division, wrote to the imperial court, bitterly expressing the accumulated shortcomings of the old naval divisions and the bloody lessons of the Xiamen naval battle, saying that the existing wooden sailing ships of the naval division were "brittle and thin, with very few guns, and the speed of movement was slow, and they could not be defeated by the enemy at any time," "every time the enemy ship fired a cannon, our ship would be destroyed," and "such wooden ships would compete with the enemy's iron ships at sea, and let the enemy slaughter them, and lose their lives in vain." He strongly suggested that the imperial court "control the water division" and dismantle all the old wooden sailing ships of the national naval division and replace them with new steam warships. Peng Chuhan's excerpt can be said to be written in a way that weeps blood word by word, and the government and the opposition are shaken. Although Ding Baozhen and many gossip officials wrote to accuse Peng Chuhan of "clever words and disguised wrongs" and "boasting about defeat", Peng Chuhan's suggestion was still adopted by the imperial court. Later, the imperial court issued an edict of "determining the country", stipulating that the sailors would no longer build wooden sailing ships and gradually replace them with new steam warships, which can be said to have a great influence on Peng Chuhan's excerpts.

And now, the Rongcheng Water Division Battalion and the Dengzhou Water Division Battalion actually knew the content of this excerpt, and mutinied because of it, how could he not be surprised!

So, who used the content of Peng Chuhan's excerpt to instigate the officers and soldiers of the Rongdeng Naval Division?

Thinking about it, Ding Baozhen's heart suddenly chuckled, and a spark flashed in his mind!

The Beiyang Naval Division, controlled by Li Hongzhang, is now training in Weihai Bay!

Due to the shortage of sailors in the Beiyang Naval Division, Li Hongzhang recruited many sailors in Rongcheng and Dengzhou in Shandong to enrich the Beiyang Naval Division.

Could it be that Li Hongzhang sent someone to deliver the news to the Rongcheng Sailor and the Dengzhou Sailor?

Thinking of Li Hongzhang's original proposal to merge the Rongdeng Naval Division and the Beiyang Naval Division, as well as the close relationship between Li Hongzhang and Lin Yizhe, Ding Baozhen couldn't help but sneer.

"Li Shaoquan, Li Shaoquan! If you really did it, then you would be too inauthentic! ”

"You want to engulf the Ascending Water Master, this wishful thinking is too loud! I just won't let you get your wish! ”

After Ding Baozhen finished thinking about it, he took the pen and paper at the moment, and then drafted a warrant to the commander of Shandong Green Camp to immediately suppress the mutiny of the Rongdeng Water Division.

A week later, Dengzhou, the camp of the water division.

Not far from the shore, several boats that had been towed ashore had turned into piles of rotten charcoal, and black smoke was still emitting.

In front of the camp, sandbags were piled up everywhere, and behind the sandbags were groups of officers and soldiers of the Rongdeng Marine Division, holding slender breech shotguns, staring ahead.

On a field in the camp, there were more than two dozen corpses covered with white cloths neatly stacked, and these dead people obviously belonged to the sailor battalion.

In front of the sandbags, there were about forty or fifty corpses, lying down or lying down, many of them were mutilated, obviously cut by knives and axes, and many of the corpses were intact, but there were many blood holes on their bodies, which were obviously shot to death.

About 300 meters opposite these corpses were the officers and men of the Green Battalion of the brigade, although they were holding knives and guns in their hands, and they looked menacing, but everyone's faces could not help but be panicked and tired.

"Commander of the King! Your sailor battalion is a rebellion! I advise you not to be obsessed! Otherwise, be careful that there is no place to die! ”

Li Chenglin, the commander of the Green Battalion, looked at the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division Battalion who were waiting on the opposite side, and then looked at the burned boats that were still smoking smoke, sighed, and shouted loudly.

"The surname is Li! You fucking young man and Lao Tzu come to this set! Lao Tzu and his brothers are out of the way! Left and right are also dead, and if you don't die here, you will also die at sea! It doesn't matter anymore! A hoarse voice came from the opposite side, Li Chenglin could hear it clearly, and it was Zhang Zongchuan, the commander of the Dengzhou Navy Battalion, who spoke.

"If you have anything to say, you can explain it to Lord Futaiding! Lord Ding will definitely make decisions for you! It is a capital sin for you to make such a disturbance, and to burn all the ships, and not to be persuaded to surrender. Li Chenglin shouted, "Listen to me, quickly put down your weapons, and capture them, maybe there is still a way to live!" ”

"Fuck off, you bastard! Will Ding Futai make decisions for us? Who doesn't know that his mother's boats are made by his surname Ding? The imperial court has already issued an edict to abolish these broken wooden ships and ration them to new steamers, why did Ding Futai openly resist and disobey the order, and still stuff us with these broken things? Didn't he know that these broken ships could kill people? Didn't the Xiamen Sailors and the Penghu Sailors just go to sea on these broken boats, and as a result, they were all wiped out? His surname Ding wants to save money for the court, and I can't care about my brother, but he wants us to give our lives in vain, don't think about it! ”

After listening to Zhang Zongchuan's words, the officers and men of the Navy Division Battalion immediately became loud and loud.

"That's right! Let's not give our lives in vain! ”

"We want a steamer!"

"This broken wooden ship can't be caught up by pirates, and the last time I went to sea, I burned four of them for pirates! Ding Futai didn't know, why did he give us these things? Could it be that he is blind? ”

"The money is not paid, and we are given back the broken wooden boat, so that we will give our lives in vain, and the heart surnamed Ding will be eaten by the dog!"

"Ding Futai just treats us as dogs! We're here to mix rations! He wants us to die for nothing! Can't do it! ”

Listening to the shouting and scolding of the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division Battalion opposite, Li Chenglin's face turned red and white, but he couldn't find a rebuttal.

"The surname is Li! It's not hard for you! You go back and tell Ding Futai! When we will replace all the ships with steamers, and make up the arrears for us, we will continue to work on errands! If he doesn't say yes, we'll spend a day with him! ”

Hearing Zhang Zongchuan's words, Li Chenglin complained again in his heart.

He didn't know what to do now.

After receiving Ding Baozhen's order, Li Chenglin ordered his troops and horses and drove to the Dengzhou Navy Division camp to suppress the mutiny. What he didn't expect was that the officers and soldiers of the Navy Battalion were already angry at this time, and they didn't listen to the greetings at all, and even set fire to the Sailor warship that was parked on the shore to be repaired, Li Chenglin ordered his Green Battalion soldiers to suppress it, and shot and killed several soldiers of the Navy Battalion on the spot, he thought that this could deter the mutinous officers and soldiers of the Navy Battalion, but he didn't expect that the officers and soldiers of the Navy Battalion were furious when they saw this, and rushed up with their knives on the spot, and cut down with the Green Battalion soldiers. After this scuffle, the green battalion soldiers who came to suppress not only killed more than 40 people and injured more than 60 people, but were also expelled from the battalion by the officers and soldiers of the sailor battalion!

Thinking that his land commander had been swept away, Li Chenglin was extremely annoyed, but he couldn't imagine that the two sides were now facing each other in front of the camp.

It's no wonder that Li Chenglin is helpless, because the current green battalion soldiers are really rotten.

The Green Battalion was originally one of the standing soldiers of the Qing Dynasty. In the early years of Shunzhi, the Qing court referred to the old system of the Ming army and other Han soldiers in the process of unifying the whole country, and organized them with the battalion as the basic unit, with the green flag as the symbol, called the green battalion, also known as the green flag soldiers. In the Qing Dynasty, the total number of soldiers in the green battalion increased or decreased from time to time, about 600,000 before Xianfeng, which was three or four times more than that of the Eight Banners. Before the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the green camp was still called elite. However, after a long period of peace, the business was slackened and became increasingly corrupt. Since the early years of Jiaqing to suppress the uprising of the White Lotus Sect in Sichuan and Chu, it has been unable to be effective, and when the Taiping army was suppressed in the Xianfeng period, it has been defeated repeatedly, losing the role of the standing army, and the system of the green camp only exists in the name of an empty name. It is not surprising that the Shandong Green Battalion soldiers under Li Chenglin can give the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division Battalion such a beating.

The Rong Deng Sailors, who also belong to the Green Battalion system, are actually very bad, and their combat effectiveness is extremely poor, but many of them are pirates from Zhao'an, fierce and aggressive, and this time they are fighting for their lives, and they are actually bursting out with powerful combat effectiveness, and they can defeat the Green Battalion soldiers who came to suppress it with less.

Li Chenglin had no choice but to arrange for someone to report back to Ding Baozhen, asking him to think of a way quickly, he really didn't have any ruts here.

In the sailor camp over there, Zhang Zongchuan's heart was also uneasy.

Because he didn't know how it would end.

All his hopes now are pinned on Beiyang.

After all, this matter was news from Beiyang!

"My lord! See! There's a foreign boat over there! A pro-soldier reminded Zhang Zongchuan.

Zhang Zongchuan was shocked, and quickly took the clairvoyant (monocular) and looked in the direction of the sea.

Sure enough, on the surface of the blue sea, a small black dot with smoke appeared.

Zhang Zongchuan stared at the black dot, the black dot became larger little by little in the clairvoyant, and finally, the figure of a British cruiser appeared.

And on the mast of this British cruiser, a huge golden dragon flag on a red background was fluttering in the wind.

Zhang Zongchuan didn't look at the nameplate of the cruiser's hull to know the identity of the cruiser.

The "Princess Heshuo" of the Beiyang Naval Division!

Because whether it is the Harbour Master or the Beiyang Naval Division, the steam warships owned by them are all French-style and British-style warships, and this is the only one!

"It's the ship of the Beiyang Naval Division." Zhang Zongchuan said, his eyes still fixed on the clairvoyant mirror.

"The ship of the Beiyang Naval Division? Will they be here to suppress us? A soldier asked, a little alarmed.

"It's hard to say." Although Zhang Zongchuan's heart was relieved, he deliberately said that he was very panicked.

"What then?" One of the generals asked with a sad face.

"Commander Ding is on the ship." Zhang Zongchuan said quietly, just now he had seen the general flag of Ding Ruchang, the commander of the Beiyang Naval Division.

Because of the relationship between the imperial court system, only the Fujian Navy Division (i.e., the Xiamen Navy Division), the Guangdong Navy Division and the Yangtze River Navy Division have set up commanders, and the rest of the Navy divisions are only commanders, and the Ship Administration, Beiyang and Nanyang are no exception. It's just because the Beiyang Naval Division and the Ship Administration Naval Division are now the most powerful, and they are the commanders of these two naval divisions, both of which have the rank of admiral. Today's commander of the Beiyang Naval Division is Ding Ruchang, and the commander of the Shipmaster Naval Division is Pei Jinquan.

"Commander Ding is a kind person, he is here, we will be fine!" Hearing Zhang Zongchuan say that Ding Ruchang, the commander of the Beiyang Naval Division, was here, the faces of some officers and men of the Dengzhou Naval Division showed joy.

Ding Ruchang's word Yuting, the number of the second chapter, Anhui Lujiang people. After joining the Huai Army, he was initially attached to the Yangtze River Water Division. In 1874, Li Hongzhang founded the Beiyang Naval Division and transferred him to Zhili. Ding Ruchang was simple and honest, amiable, and even respected by his subordinates, and at this time they learned that it was Ding Ruchang who came to suppress him, not the "cool official" Ding Baozhen, and the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division Battalion were naturally overjoyed.

At this time, on the opposite side of the naval camp, Li Chenglin also noticed the appearance of the "Princess Heshuo".

"They Beiyang Naval Division, it's really timely!" Li Chenglin also recognized Ding Ruchang's general flag on the "Princess Heshuo", and said something stupid.

Soon, the "Princess Peshuo" approached the shore and lowered several dinghys, which were loaded with loaded red-clothed sailors.

The military system and training of the Beiyang Naval Division are completely based on the model of the Naval Division, the uniforms and weapons are all French, and the instructors are also French active officers. Because of the eye-catching performance of the navy soldiers in Taiwan's battle to chase the Japanese, which was in sharp contrast to the deep twilight of the Huai army, Li Hongzhang realized that his Huai army was no longer sufficient and needed to train a new army, so he set up the Beiyang Navy within the framework of the Beiyang Naval Division with the advice and help of Lin Yizhe, and the system and training were comprehensively modeled on the ship administration and navy, and Lin Yizhe specially selected 500 non-Fujian ship masters and sailors to be transferred to Li Hongzhang in order to quickly become an army in Beiyang, as the foundation of the Beiyang navy. In a very short period of time, Beiyang has an elite marine army.

Not long after, the Beiyang Navy went ashore one after another, with a number of about 200 people, far less than the Shandong Green Battalion brought by Rong Dengshui and Li Chenglin, but because of the prestige of the Navy soldiers, both sides did not dare to make any move when they saw the Beiyang Navy landing.

In addition to being afraid of the strong combat effectiveness of the Beiyang naval forces, the cruiser on the sea was also the reason why they did not dare to act rashly.

The "Princess Heshuo" has participated in the Battle of Langqiao and the Battle of the East China Sea, and its brilliant achievements have long been spread at home and abroad through famous newspapers such as "Dianshizhai Pictorial" and "Wanguo Gazette" and "Declaration".

Li Chenglin saw the arrival of the "Princess Heshuo", he wishfully thought that the Beiyang Navy Division was here to "help" himself to suppress the mutiny of the Rongdeng Navy Division, he saw the Beiyang Navy soldiers get off the boat and wade ashore, thinking that Ding Ruchang was also among them, and was about to take people to meet, but saw that it was not Ding Ruchang who got off the boat, but another person who exuded a strong murderous aura around him, and couldn't help but subconsciously stop.

This man jumped out of the boat and walked slowly ashore, and beside him, a strong Beiyang sailor led a huge black and yellow dog.

Seeing this huge Chinese pastoral dog, Li Chenglin's heart shrank suddenly.

The giant dog seemed to sense the strange atmosphere on the shore, and the muscles of his whole body crumbled, and he couldn't stop jumping to the shore, and let out a low roar.

He recognized the man's identity.

This person is Deng Shichang, the pipe band of the "Princess Heshuo", and the giant dog beside him is the famous "Sun" dog!

Deng Shichang stood on the beach, his gaze slowly swept over the corpse in front of the sailor's camp, and finally landed on the burned boat on the shore in the distance.

Looking at the wreckage of the wooden boat that was still smoking, Deng Shichang's two thick eyebrows gradually tightened.

"Tell them to open the door." Deng Shichang said in a deep voice.

At that moment, two Beiyang sailors stepped forward to shout, and after a while, the gate of the sailor battalion opened.

Deng Shichang touched the handle of the saber on his waist and strode over, while the Beiyang sailors around him lined up in battle formation one by one with rifles that had already been loaded with bayonets, escorting Deng Shichang towards the gate of the sailor camp.

Seeing Deng Shichang instead of Ding Ruchang coming, Zhang Zongchuan's heart hung again.

Deng Shichang entered the gate, stopped, his eyes swept over the camp playground, and when he saw the corpses of the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division Battalion placed in one place, his thick eyebrows wrinkled even tighter.

Although Zhang Zongchuan is the commander of the Dengzhou Navy Battalion, and his official position is higher than Deng Shichang, Deng Shichang is a pipe with the rank of general soldier, so after he hesitated for a while, he still took the initiative to come forward to salute Deng Shichang.