Chapter 112 The control of the north of Vietnam

Qin Kai looked at Chen Jinhua with a complicated expression, Deng Shichang was cruising in Fuzhou and Guangzhou with the ship of the Nanyang Navy Division at this time, and he was thinking with evil interest in his heart, let's strike first and rob your driver, see if you can hit Yoshino by then!

Qin Kai looked at the future jīngying in a room with satisfaction, this is all a treasure, the most lacking thing in the new era is the cross-century talents, these are the future jīngying who went abroad to receive Western-style education at the age of eleven or twelve, and compared with the current jīngying figures of Mawei Shipbuilding, such as Xu Guofang and Wu Yun, their advantage lies in a thicker theoretical foundation, and ten years of overseas career, undoubtedly in the horizon is much broader.

"How do you feel when you return to China this time?" He looked around at a few people, asked with a smile, and saw a few young people who stopped talking, now that he is counted as a posterity, he is also a ministerial-level cadre, and the ordinary people can talk calmly with themselves, which is indeed a bit of pressure, so he added, "Say it boldly, I hope to hear your most sincere feelings!" Even if it's wrong, that's fine! ”

"It's too much to feel!" Tang Shaoyi's words immediately appeared, and the first one said: "This dock has long been the world of machine and steamship, but the knowledge college where we temporarily live is still the same as 300 years ago, I wait to study abroad, it is a normal thing, but now it is urgently recalled, I heard that this first batch of schoolchildren all entered the telegraph office as a newspaper operator, this arrangement is really difficult to evaluate!" ”

Qin Kai nodded, and looked at Zhan Tianyou, "Zhan Tianyou, what can you say?" ”

Obviously, this scientific research talent is not good at observing this situation, pondered for a moment, and then said: "My lord, I heard that this Jiangnan Bureau is the first-class factory in the Far East, and I have never visited it, so I don't put forward any ideas, but I studied civil engineering railway construction, and there are already a large number of Chinese laborers building railways in the United States, and there seems to be no construction ...... in this area."

This guy didn't leave his job for three sentences, Qin Kai smiled, if he wants to build the railway, it's easy, but he supervises one side by himself, so he naturally wants to overhaul the railway, without this, the transportation of industrial raw materials is a big problem! But now, you can also build a xiǎo-type railway line in the factory, and the right is real!

Huang Zulian and Chen Jinhua's answers were unexpectedly similar, both of them were angry about China's defeat in the Battle of Guangzhou, and hoped to serve in the army, it turned out that both of them had participated in the local military academy during their studies in the United States, Huang Zulian also went to the United States Naval Academy to learn to drive, and Chen Jinhua participated in paramilitary training, which made Qin Kai quite surprised, the young people who dream of a strong army are all hot-blooded, not bad!

After the four of them finished speaking, they didn't know if the young second-grade master in front of them was satisfied with their remarks, so they all waited straight for Qin Kai to speak.

"Yes, I have opened my eyes overseas, and I am here to solemnly welcome you to join the Mawei Shipyard, and when you arrive at the Mawei Shipyard, you will receive a remuneration and position that matches your ability, and I can assure you here! Mawei Shipmaster will definitely provide you with the opportunity to realize your dreams, but whether you can do it or not depends on your own efforts. ”

Qin Kai looked at these four people with an expression of disbelief, smiled, and continued, "Tang Shaoyi, aren't you worried about the problem of the school, there are already 4,000 students studying in Fuzhou in a school that teaches both Western and Chinese!" Zhan Tianyou, don't you always think about this railway, don't worry about this matter, in the era of big industry, the railway is a must, but I'm afraid you can't be busy! At present, the industry of our Great Qing Kingdom, compared with Western countries, is still just starting, but ...... The most advanced industry in China is located in Mawei. Huang Zulian, Chen Jinhua, you want to join the naval division, it just so happens that China's most powerful warship is in our Nanyang naval division! ”

After saying this, several students who studied abroad were already dumbfounded, if it weren't for the fact that this Lord Qin Kai didn't look like a person without integrity, they really thought that this was a storyteller. Qin Kai also smiled slightly, turned around and went to the room of the other schoolchildren next door, and left a message before leaving, "Okay, let's talk about it today, you have nothing to do in the past few days, just write a strategy for me with the content of strengthening the country!" ”

As soon as Qin Kai left, the four of them stared at each other, obviously a little incredulous about today's encounter, Zhan Tianyou muttered, "I'm really looking forward to it!" Do you believe it, there is such a place in the Qing Congress......" and then turned around and found a goose máo pen to hide in a corner and wrote hard. ,

When Qin Kai was happily receiving the American children here, the team of the first battalion stationed in the Zhiling Fortress was also busy adjusting the defense, and Zhou Ruidong was holding an emergency meeting of the battalion headquarters.

With the troops taking a foothold in Chi Ling, plus the reinforcements of two Chinese battalions in Hue and two logistics battalions mainly for Vietnamese ethnic minorities, plus the addition of locally recruited mountain people and Chinese, after the hún formation, now Zhou Ruidong has a team of up to 1,500 people and a 700-person village brigade!

In terms of team formation, he still maintains the characteristics of the Mawei Security Regiment, with a 10-person Xiǎo team, a 5xiǎo team, a squadron of 5 squadrons, and a brigade of two brigades and one outpost, so his nominal guard ** battalion has exceeded the standard, and the army under the rule of the Qing Dynasty has only more than 500 people, and he now has 500 people at one outpost.

And the three sentinels are always the old men of the Mawei shipmaster, the first post is commanded by Zhou Ruidong, and He Xiǎojun, who is always a student soldier, was originally in Zhang Kui's place, but for the low-difficulty task of garrisoning Hejuni, he strongly asked to be replaced, and it happened that Zhou Ruidong was going to re-train, and after being taken over by his deputy Ma Yun, he was transferred to the first battalion. This first post is definitely the main force of the first battalion, and nearly one-third of the 500 people are veterans of the Mawei Ship Administration, and the captains at the grassroots level are completely veterans.

The commander of the second outpost is always Chen Dong, who was born in the student soldiers, and the commander of the third outpost is always Liang Gang, who was born in the security team, and the backbone of the security regiment and student soldiers of these two sentinels is relatively small, and the captain level of the grassroots xiǎo is an outstanding element promoted by the Chinese battalion and the logistics battalion, while the squadron leader and captain level are veterans of the security regiment.

And the backbone of the logistics outpost, Fang Jin, who is always from the student soldiers, is in charge of such a heavy force composed of more than 90% of the Chinese and local ethnic minorities, Fang Jin was very depressed, and Zhou Ruidong reflected a few times, Zhou Ruidong threw him a few pieces of logistics knowledge copied from Qin Kai, and the strength was not tossed.

After the reorganization, Zhou Ruidong first grasped the problem of training, after the completion of the fortress and barracks, every sentry and horse were in hard training day and night, Zhou Ruidong personally led a battalion to carry out at least three field assault training, familiar with the terrain combat mode in the mountainous areas of Vietnam, and Qin Kai drafted the "Training Minutes" and "Regulations on the Management of Officers and Soldiers" required officers to be proficient, and the three disciplines and eight points of attention that the later iron army relied on to become famous required every soldier to recite fluently.

Today, the sentinels of each battalion gathered at the fortress, and Zhou Ruidong reported two things, one is about the issue of Zhiling County's control of zhì power, a few days ago, Zhiling County's master Hu Jinke brought news, and the county ordered Li Rui to communicate with Huang Zuoyan, a concubine in Hanoi, and is sending a steady stream of information about the guards stationed here. After Zhou Ruidong sent people to intercept and confirm the situation twice, he launched a surprise attack the day before yesterday!

This was a completely game-like battle, and even the Vietnamese city soldiers who defended Mén had already been bought off by Hu Jinke, and the first battalion of soldiers invaded the Zhiling County Yamén without blood, arrested the county commander Li Rui, and threw him into prison, and then Zhou Ruidong immediately announced the appointment of Hu Jinke as the commander of Zhiling County.

For this appointment, Hu Jinke was somewhat frightened, and he only beat the Xiǎo report of the county commander Li Rui, and he did not first reach the strength of Lord Qincha's army, so he directly picked up the Wusha of the county order...... However, the next day he received the letter of appointment stamped with the seals of the governors of Tuyen Quang, Viet Chi, Hanoi, and Bac Ninh.

And the appointment of the governors of the four provinces has long been mentioned in the official mansion's mansion newspaper, which makes him even more inexplicable, but he is completely iron-hearted, and immediately controls the government affairs of Zhiling according to Zhou Ruidong's arrangement, Hu Jinke took the proclamation to buy officials at all levels in the city one by one, and soon brought Zhiling County under Zhou Ruidong's control!

The second thing is that the first mobile training along the Mei River to the Red River will be carried out for the first time, and this training is also to quickly exercise the combat effectiveness of the troops, of course, Zhou Ruidong also shoulders a special mission!

Several important locations on the map have been marked one by one, Zhou Ruidong pointed to the farthest Yuechi, "This time, our expeditionary force will train from Zhiling along the Mei River to Hanoi, and it will be possible to reach it in two days by taking the current steamboat, and the waterway from Hanoi to Yuechi is about 350 miles!" This time, 3 armed steam steamers and 3 steam cargo ships were dispatched, and because they had to bring a large number of goods, they could only bring 350 soldiers, and three battalions and one outpost were the main force this time, with 200 troops and 50 people from each other battalion! Questions? ”

"Commander, what is the purpose of this training?" Liang Gang of the three whistles pondered for a while and asked. ,

"No need to ask, remember, familiarize yourself with every strategic point on this route, this is one of the purposes!"

"Commander, what is the logistics post doing this time?" Fang Jin has been the fiercest in the company recently, who made his soldiers the most ineffective! This time, I heard that 50 places were allocated, so I was naturally not far behind.

"To ensure the supply of one, two, and three outposts, three cargo ships are your task! Each soldier should be equipped with 5 cardinal bullets! "The orders issued by Zhou Ruidong today are all concise and to the point, and there is no room for negotiation at all.

Even in the large plains of Hanoi, Vietnam is full of many low hills, and what is more terrible is that the xiǎo rivers are all over the place, and many rivers are not suitable for xiǎo steam ships, only boats on flat land can pass guò, which has caused great trouble to the transportation of logistics support, so Zhou Ruidong is very wise to formulate this route along the river.

"5 base ......" Fang Jin immediately felt a lot of pressure, the bullet of this single-shot AK02 rifle is Tǐng Province, a base number is only 130 rounds, but the 80-type submachine gun equipped in the army is a bullet-eating king, a base number has reached 10 30-round magazines, as well as shells, fried yào bags, and food, this is another big thing, thinking about it is a headache, he immediately lowered his head and took out a pen and paper to calculate it.

"No problem, just adjourn!" Zhou Ruidong saw that the officers at all the posts were busy thinking about their own affairs, and immediately let them go back to prepare quickly, and the secret letter sent by the superintendent was full of expectations for this operation.

On the eighth day of the first month of March, six flat river xiǎo steamers began their march to the heart of Vietnam from the pier of Chi Ling Fortress.

Shanghai, this is the evening of the first chūn, a hearty chūn rain has just fallen, the sunset in the distance still leaves a touch of beauty, Qin Kai has just finished Hu Xueyan's feast, is walking slowly along the bustling streets of the Bund alone, breathing the air of this era, making him feel comfortable all his body, Sun Fu followed closely behind him, not far away Lu Shu and Luo Yan slowly followed, and there were five or six highly vigilant civilian clothes soldiers behind him.

Qin Kai once again tactfully expressed his opposition to the price war of raw silk raw materials at the banquet, but Lao Hu was still unusually persistent, and he did not have any convincing reason and basis now, so he could only give up helplessly. The matter in Shanghai was basically done, and the troublesome things were still to come, so he turned his head sideways and asked Sun Fu next to him, "Brother Sun, this time you went to Tianjin Wei again, are you still the same Jianyi?" ”

Sun Fu looked at Qin Kai, "Gale Wind, this officialdom matter, you can't make a mistake, Lord Ding finally reached this intention with Lord Zhongtang, this time Lord Zhongtang is willing to help you in this matter, and it is also a test for you, if it is not in line with the wishes of the adults, it will be difficult for you to go to the position of governor." ”

"This Huai army and the Hunan army ......"

"With Lord Ding here, this matter is not to worry about, the generous gift you prepared this time must make Lord Zhongtang feel that he has some control over you! Gale, haven't you noticed that the rookies in the Huai Army are all young people? The old ten battalions are the only remaining Qingzi Camp and Dingzi Battalion! So you are on the throne this time, and it is essential for Lord Zhongtang to take a step here! ”

Qin Kai's experience in the operation of this officialdom only stays on the basis of history textbooks, although he is now as stable as Mount Tai, if you want to talk about the actual combat experience of this officialdom, compared to Sun Fulai, he is still very inferior. The two silently thought about how to take this key chess piece,

The telegram that the governor of Tianjin, Qin Kai was coming to meet Li Zhongtang in person, had already arrived in Zhou Fu's hands, and it was for this matter that he came to see Lord Zhongtang, and the two were also discussing this in a low voice......

"Wushan, this Qin Kai really has some martial arts, this time it is not easy to form a Vietnamese protector, I didn't expect to be able to win, I asked Yu Ting, this young man is also quite expensive, do you think this person can be used by us?"

"This Qin Liefeng is the descendant of Governor Ding, and he can be regarded as having a lot of connections with my Beiyang, but I heard that he has a close relationship with the Hunan army, and the treaty with the Russians has been signed, and Zuo Dashuai is about to return to the court.

"Oh...... That's fine! But this Vietnam matter still has to be grasped! ”

"My lord, it has not been peaceful in the capital recently, and those party members in Qingliu have been discussing the 'Li Bao Treaty' signed by Lord Zhongtang all day long, you have to pay more attention to this matter, I think Prince Gong is anxious about this matter, can he take advantage of this big victory to change the terms again!"

"Wushan, confused, the French were defeated in the hands of the Nanyang Naval Division these two times, I think this is the work of Qin Kai's strategy, if you talk about strength, the British and German ironclad ships ordered have not arrived, and we will never be able to confront the French Navy head-on! As for the Vietnamese Army, I have already ordered the Dingzi Army and the Guangxi and Yunnan border armies to be stationed in Bac Ninh and Nguyen in Vietnam! Our army is waiting for work, mainly with the Dingzi army, supplemented by Qin Kai's protection **, holding the first priority, and it should be able to block the attack of the French! ”,

Only then did Zhou Fu understand that Lord Zhongtang had already planned, this Qin armor was just a xiǎoxiǎo chess piece, if it was successful in the integration and protection of **, it would also be cannon fodder in front of the Dingzi army, it was impossible to defeat the French with a rabble, and the fruits of this victory naturally needed the Huai army to obtain.

"Your Excellency is really strategic! Bow to the lower officials! Zhou Fu complimented with a smile.

The clock quickly turned a few days later, on the tenth day of March 1881, there was a big thing here in the capital, the officials above the court were trembling, and an obituary came out in the palace in the morning, the Empress Dowager Ci'an died, the news came out, which immediately triggered the shock of the high-level officialdom of the Qing Dynasty, from Prince Gong to Li Zhongtang began to re-examine the new pattern of the court, it is obvious that the Empress Dowager Cixi was already the highest decision-maker in the Qing Dynasty.

On the mountainous roads in northern Vietnam, a large number of Qing troops were marching to Bac Ninh and Nguyen in northern Vietnam.

At the beginning of the formation of the Dingzi Army, it was deeply influenced by the Westerners, and naturally it would not be taken lightly for the benefit of foreign guns, and now the soldiers of the 12th Battalion of the Dingzi Battalion are equipped with Máo Ser breech rifles, and this time he led the troops to the war between the Vietnamese and the French who did not, and he naturally knew that the French were more advanced in weapons than their own, so the stupid and stupid things that charged and attacked, naturally let that guard **.

Anyway, these Vietnamese and the French have a deep hatred like the sea, let them be cannon fodder, that is also to the best use, just thinking of fighting with the French, this is making him feel uncomfortable, his 6,000 main force is not the Huai army that dared to fight for more than ten years, most of the recruits, and the daily cào training has long been lax, if he wants to rely on the main force of his battalion to defeat the French, he didn't have this dream! Thinking of this, he waved his hand to speed up the march and strive to rest in Beining City at night, so he didn't have that interest in spending the night in the wilderness!

In the evening, the army finally arrived at Bac Ninh City, but saw that the city was closed, and sent the soldiers who came to ask them to bring back the news that the other party had asked the Dingzi battalion to camp outside the city first under the pretext that the sky was too dark!

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