Zhou Fu was about to leave after finishing speaking, but Qin Chuan took a step forward to block the way. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"My lord, stay and tell Minghong something."

Zhou Fu hesitated for a moment but stopped, and asked Qin Chuan suspiciously.

"Minghong, what's the matter?"

"Your Excellency."

Qin Chuan looked at Zhou Fu and thought about it: "In the past, the British and French troops invaded Beijing and burned down the royal three mountains and five gardens, not only ceding the land and paying compensation, but also forcing the imperial court to sign an unreasonable treaty under the persecution of foreigners, which made me lose face and the people of the country hate it to this day." In order to prevent our Qing Dynasty from this great shame and humiliation, we only need to strive to strengthen the army, and only with a strong army with excellent weapons and weapons can the foreign captives not dare to covet our China, can we defend the territory and protect the territory, and give the people a stable life. ”

"If you want to strengthen the army, you can't rely on this lowly salt regiment of more than 2,000 people, and you have to westernize all the troops in the country. Not only to purchase Western guns and guns, but also to train the army in Western law, according to the Western law to select officers of various departments, if according to the humble position to discuss the full force, three years can be the first to become an army, five years can become an army, ten years later, there will be no Xiaoxiao dare to peep into my Chinese land of outstanding people. ”

Looking at Qin Chuan, who was looking earnestly, Zhou Fu's face gradually became solemn, nodded and said slowly after considering the words.

"What Ming Hong said, not only the old man thinks it is true, but even Zhongtang has already felt a lot."

Li Hongzhang also has a deep understanding?

Zhou Fu's words couldn't help but surprise Qin Chuan, but then he was puzzled.

If Li Hongzhang had already realized this, although he could not reform the military system in the whole country, at least he had the ability to try it out first in Beiyang, but in addition to adding guns and warships, he would not have made a difference on the most fundamental issue of military reform?

Zhou Fu put his hands behind his back and lowered his head, obviously thinking about something, and while pacing slowly, he still spoke slowly.

Therefore, in recent years, Beiyang has not only purchased Western fast guns and guns, but also built Western military schools, and purchased Western machines to build guns and ammunition on their own. Also, as you can see, the main military skills of our Beiyang Armed Forces Academy are taught by German instructors, and the training is not impregnable, and these students will return to various ministries and commissions to take official positions after graduation, and they will train their subordinates. In time, the Beiyang divisions will surely be able to train into a strong army that is not inferior to Britain and France. ”

"Besides, our Beiyang Naval Division has been completed, and the Western Fleet will no longer dare to travel far across the ocean to come to our Qing Dynasty to start a war with us, and the matter of foreign enemies knocking on the customs is not worrying for the time being."

In addition to the complicated models of the equipment of the Huai Army belonging to Beiyang, the guns and artillery are indeed not bad, and even better than the equipment of the armies of many Western powers, not to mention the armies of Asian countries, it is said that the Japanese army is still equipped with copper cannons, and the rifles are almost an order of magnitude worse than those of the Qing army, and any new advanced firearms in the world can be found in Beiyang.

As for the training of various departments in Beiyang, through this review, Qin Chuan also sighed greatly, although the individual soldier training is far from being an elite soldier, but the overall is not bad, except that the number is less, only tens of thousands, but it is said that in the first day of the war, the strength of the Japanese army is also greatly superior.

However, why did Beiyang lose so miserably in the First Sino-Japanese War?

Qin Chuan always felt that something was wrong, but he really couldn't think of how the Sino-Japanese battle could have been almost one-sided and defeated, and what went wrong? Is it just that the generals are greedy for life, afraid of death, afraid of the enemy, and avoid war。。。。。。

As for Zhou Fu's remark that the Beiyang Naval Division is a great success, Qin Chuan disagrees with this, not to mention that the Beiyang Naval Division cannot be compared with the naval powers of Britain and France, even compared with the newly rising US Navy. There is even a big gap compared with the Japanese Navy, otherwise how could the First Sino-Japanese War be completely annihilated。。。。。。

Thinking of this, Qin Chuan's heart couldn't help but move.

Originally, he had always wanted to meet with Li Hongzhang and explain the strategy of strengthening the army, so that the Beiyang Navy would not be wiped out, and the Huai Army and other Qing army units would be able to withstand the land attack of the Japanese army on the Korean Peninsula. But Qin Chuan has always been suffering from not being able to see Li Hongzhang, which makes Qin Chuan very distressed. Today, Xiang Zhou Fu faced Chen to train Western-style troops, and he only borrowed the topic of Zhou Fu. It's just that since it is involved in the Beiyang Naval Division, why not take this opportunity to let Zhou Fu, the second person in Beiyang, know that the Japanese are actively preparing for war, tightening their belts, and buying warships on a large scale, preparing to find the Beiyang Naval Division.

"My lord, I have some thoughts about the Beiyang Naval Division, I don't know if I should talk about it?"

Seeing that Qin Chuan was in a trance, Zhou Fu thought that Qin Chuan was tired after a busy day, so he nodded with a smile.

"Minghong, between you and me, Lun Gong, you are my direct subordinate, Lun private, you have my shares in the company you run, you are equivalent to my gold owner, between us, there is nothing to say, if there is anything to say, say it quickly, you will rest early, I will also hurry to the middle hall."

Knowing that Zhou Fu was short on time, Qin Chuan didn't dare to be polite anymore and nodded.

"My lord, naval warfare is different from land warfare, if you want to fight against foreign enemies and win the battle, you must first ensure that the warship outperforms the opponent in tonnage, firepower and speed, and these hardware are indispensable. When the sailor prepares for war, he must have an opponent who is ready for war, that is, an imaginary enemy. ”

"In the world, although the Beiyang Naval Division is said to rank ninth, it should be said that it is not easy for the Naval Division to achieve such achievements at the beginning of its establishment. The Beiyang Naval Division has only a dozen or so large warships, but although the navies of the great powers are large and there are many warships, they will never send such a large fleet to the ocean at one time. Even if Britain and France let them easily send a dozen large ironclad warships to China, it will not be easy. ”

"In order to prevent the invasion of the Western powers at sea, the existing warships of the Beiyang Naval Division are barely enough, which is enough for the Western powers not to dare to act rashly. It is humiliating to think that the most formidable opponent of our China is not the Western powers, but the sea to the east and Japan to the east. Although Japan is a small island country, with a small territory and a sparse population, its national ambitions are extremely great, and it has always had the spirit of expanding and enslaving foreign races, and it has not only committed the Ryukyus, a vassal country of our country, but has also always been a thief in Korea, and is ready to move, and their domestic elite has always had the ambition to become a land power, and it is indeed the most dangerous enemy of China. ”

"Only by fighting can we stop war, and only by preparing for war can we dare to fight. At present, the greatest enemy of the Qing Dynasty is Japan, and this is especially true of the sailors. Once a war breaks out with Japan, the naval divisions of both sides will inevitably bear the brunt, and the victory or defeat of the naval divisions will be related to the victory or defeat of the national war between the two countries. If the sailor wins, the land battle will be won; If the sailors are defeated, the land battle will be lost. Therefore, in the humble and humble opinion, the Beiyang Naval Division is far from being a great success, and it still needs to constantly purchase new ships, constantly expand its scale, and forever suppress the Japanese Navy, so that it will retreat in the face of difficulties, and dare not take the initiative to provoke and provoke war. ”

Qin Chuan's words, Zhou Fu's expression was very solemn at first, but gradually his face relaxed, and by the time Qin Chuan finished speaking, Zhou Fu had already laughed softly......