Lin Yizhe looked at the corpses that shook with the waves in the tide of the beach-some of them were Japanese soldiers in black uniforms, and some were Huai soldiers in gray cloth uniforms, and an inexplicable heaviness weighed on his heart. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

He didn't dare to imagine what this battle would have been like if he hadn't brought the shipmaster and navy ashore in time and set up an ambush in advance.

Although the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army is strong, the Huai Army, as one of the elite of the Qing Army, is so weak in the face of the Japanese army, which is indeed beyond his previous imagination.

Since the Meiji Restoration, Japan has carried out drastic reforms in the military, abolishing the samurai class to control the country's military, implementing the "equality of the four peoples", and following the example of Western countries to train the army, although great results have been achieved, but the Japanese army in 1874 has not yet completed the modernization reform, and its combat effectiveness has not reached the level of European countries.

It was in the face of such a Japanese army, the Huai army, which had an advantage in numbers and weapons and equipment, actually fought like this!

As a time-traveler from later generations, Lin Yizhe, who is familiar with China's modern history, has a clear understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Qing Dynasty Army, but he also can't believe that the Huai Army, which was founded by Li Hongzhang and is as famous as Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army, and has experienced the test of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom War and the Twist Army War, will be like this.

In the impression of contemporaries and even future generations, China has always been famous for its massive army of more than one million people, but the truth is far from being comparable to the numbers.

Since the Qing army entered the customs, the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion were used as the standing army of the economic system (with the official establishment of the state), but since they entered the Central Plains, the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion has deteriorated, not only because of the lack of updating of weapons and equipment, but more importantly, the corruption of the official system and the abandonment of training. In the Opium War, the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion were exhausted by the Western powers, and by the time of the Taiping War, they were even more useless. After the end of the Taiping War, the combat effectiveness of the two standing armies of the Qing government has long been lost, and they can only barely play the role of maintaining social order, but these two "armies" are extremely rotten, because they were once the children of the imperial dynasty who helped to lay down the country, and they belong to the "ancestral old system" that relies on the existence of the regime, and the knife of reform cannot be touched at all, and the Qing government's not rich finances have to pay about 20 million taels of silver for these two idle teams every year. It can be described as a cancer in the Qing Dynasty government system.

Ironically, when something happens, most of the armies that can really come in handy come from the militia, and are not included in the state establishment of the Qing government. After the outbreak of the Taiping War, the Eight Banners and the Green Camp were defeated, and the Qing government, which was helpless, was forced to hire Han ministers to return to their hometowns to train soldiers, and turned the tide with the local militia called "Yongying". During the war, there were several famous Yongying troops with strong combat effectiveness, including the Hunan Army founded by Zeng Guofan, the Huai Army founded by Li Hongzhang, Zhang Yao's Henan Soldier Songwu Army, the Song Qingyi Army evolved from the Anhui Army, and the Zuo Zongtang Chu Army that was born from the Hunan Army and stood on its own, among which the Hunan Army and the Huai Army were the most outstanding.

After the Taiping Heavenly War and the Twist Army War, they had become the army with the highest degree of modernization equipment in China at that time, and naturally played the role of "the dry city of the country". These armies, which have no names and are paid by the localities and raise their own money through taxes, have comically and upside down the responsibilities of the Wehrmacht as militias.

Among the millions of troops on paper in the Qing Dynasty, the militia composed of Yong Battalion and Training Army was the backbone, and the Hunan Army was largely dismantled by Zeng Guofan after the Taiping War, and Li Hongzhang's Huai Army was the best equipped and most trained in the Yong Battalion, but although the Huai officers and soldiers were equipped with new guns, in their bones, it can be said that they were still an army in the Middle Ages.

In the original historical time and space, what really exposed the weakness of the Huai Army was the First Sino-Japanese War 20 years from now!

And today's battle has vividly displayed the problems that would have been exposed to the world in 20 years in front of Lin Yizhe.

The Huai army is still like this, if it is other brave battalion training troops, I don't know what it will be like!

The Chinese Army has rotted like this, what can be done to change it?

"My lord, Tang Junmen has found it." Zhou Ruitai's voice interrupted Lin Yizhe's thoughts.

"How?" Lin Yizhe got up and asked, "Are you hurt?" ”

"I just fell off my horse and flashed my waist." Zhou Ruitai replied, "I was shot in the arm, it was a flesh wound, and now it is fine." ”

"Let's go, let's see." Lin Yizhe raised his head, noticed a "Tang" pennant with countless bullet holes flashing in the distance, and said calmly.

From a distance, Tang Dingkui, who was lying on the stretcher bed, saw Lin Yizhe and several subordinates walking towards this side, and his face unconsciously showed shame.

"Tang Junmen, how are the injuries on your body? Does it matter? Lin Yizhe came to Tang Dingkui's side and asked with concern.

"There are Laurin Futai to worry about, some slight injuries, not in the way! Out of the way! Tang Dingkui didn't want Lin Yizhe to see his embarrassment, gritted his teeth and straightened up suddenly, wanting to sit up, but the sudden sharp pain in his waist made his movements stop all of a sudden. Tang Dingkui couldn't get up for a while, and he couldn't lie down, and his face turned into a pig's liver color.

Lin Yizhe still looked calm and calm, there was no ridicule on his face, he stepped forward quickly, stretched out his hand to support Tang Dingkui, and let him lie down on the stretcher bed again.

"Tang Junmen led the army to help, but Tang Junmen was injured, which really made the brothers shameless to Li Zhengtai." Lin Yizhe looked at the messy beach and sighed.

"This injury is not in the way, there are no eyes on the battlefield, how can there be no injury!" Tang Dingkui, who had seen the strong combat power of the shipmaster and navy, admired Lin Yizhe so much at this time that he no longer dared to put on a big stand with the Huai army, but said sincerely, "I regret that I should not have listened to the words of the master of Taiwan, and did not dispatch from Lin Futai, resulting in this loss." ”

"Tang Junmen must not say that, this time it was also Lin who was not thoughtful, and he didn't expect the Japanese people to dare to fight for this." Lin Yizhe said.

Tang Dingkui knew that Lin Yizhe was saving his face by saying this, and he also sighed.

Lin Yizhe turned his head to look at the Huai army who was cleaning up the battlefield, and saw that the Huai soldiers dragged their corpses out of the beach and lined them up neatly on a sandy slope, and many officers and soldiers gathered there to cry bitterly, while others cut off the heads of the Japanese corpses one by one and placed them in front of the corpses of the dead Huai officers and soldiers.

The wounded and captured Japanese soldiers, watching the Huai soldiers cut off the heads of the fallen Japanese soldiers, their eyes were frightened, with anger and hatred.

Probably thinking that this was still incomprehensible to the hatred in his heart, a Huai soldier suddenly roared and rushed to the beach, dragged a seriously injured Japanese soldier who was groaning and waiting for help, pulled out a short knife, grabbed the Japanese soldier's hair, stabbed him in the neck, and then howled and cut it with death.

The first day of the Japanese soldier was cut off for a while, seeing this terrifying and bloody scene, the Japanese prisoners were frightened and cowered, but two of them jumped up suddenly, wanting to rush over desperately, but their hands were tied behind their backs with reverse scissors, connected with long ropes, and after running a few steps, they were pulled by the rope and fell on the beach at once, several Huai soldiers stepped forward and stepped on their backs, and one of the Huai soldiers drew a knife and was about to cut off.

"Stop!" Lin Yizhe roared.

Several Huai soldiers were startled when they heard the roar of the governor, and the Huai soldier who raised the knife seemed to be a little reluctant to put the knife down, but when he turned his head and saw Lin Yizhe's stern gaze, the hand holding the knife slowly relaxed.

"Bastard! Didn't you hear Lord Futai speak?! A Huai soldier stepped forward and kicked the Huai soldier, the Huai soldier bent his knee and almost fell, he put away his knife and stepped aside.

Seeing that the governor ordered that no prisoners should be killed, the Huai army officers did not embarrass the Japanese prisoners of war again, but continued to cut off the heads of the Japanese soldiers who had died.

They were originally a little contemptuous of this governor who was completely a scholar, but after the battle just now, their perception of Lin Yizhe had completely changed.

At the height of the battle, the governor also personally participated in the battle, and sniped no less than 20 Japanese soldiers with the spear with a clairvoyant mirror in his hand!

"According to the law of all nations, the enemy army must not be tortured and killed if it has surrendered and has been captured by our army." Lin Yizhe said to Tang Dingkui, "I also hope that Tang Junmen will inform the armies." ”

"This is natural." Tang Dingkui immediately agreed, turned his head and ordered the soldiers around him to go down, asking them to go and give orders to the battalion leaders.

"But, Lin Futai, this reward is silver? ......" After seeing the pro-soldiers who gave the order leave, Tang Dingkui whispered to Lin Yizhe again.

Only then did Lin Yizhe understand why the soldiers of the Huai Army were keen to cut off the enemy's head, regardless of whether they were alive or dead.

When sending Tang Dingkui's Huai army to aid Taiwan, Li Hongzhang said in a letter to Lin Yizhe that "I pray that we will raise rewards at any time, and that all military conditions should be forgiven and thoughtful," and that "the soldiers will be able to use their lives enthusiastically." Lin Yizhe offered a sky-high reward of 100 taels of silver for a Japanese soldier, 150 taels for an officer, and 500 taels for a general. But what he didn't expect was that under such a heavy reward, it failed to let the Huai army win, but instead made the Huai soldiers have the idea of killing the prisoners in order to receive the reward.

Thinking of the unchangeable habits of these old-style armies, Lin Yizhe sighed secretly in his heart again.

"The silver reward remains the same." Lin Yizhe nodded, "Don't worry, Tang Junmen. ”

"Thank you, Lord Futai." Tang Dingkui arched his hand.

Although the voice of Lin Tang and the two of them was not loud, it was still heard by the surrounding Huai army soldiers, and many people cheered.

"Lord Lin, what should we do now?" Looking at the rout on the beach, Tang Dingkui asked again.

"Although our army defeated the Japanese army this time, it was also heavily wounded, and it was difficult to enter the army. Let's rest and wait for help! Lin Yizhe said, "I should repair a letter, report the situation to Li Zhitai, and ask Li Zhengtai to send reinforcements again." I will then summon soldiers and horses from all over Taiwan Island to come and work together to suppress them. ”

"The Japanese army has suffered heavy losses through the sea and the vitality has been ......greatly damaged," Tang Dingkui said with some eagerness, but when he saw Lin Yizhe's majestic eyes, he remembered Li Hongzhang's confession and shrank back the words.

"The Japanese are cunning, and after this battle, I am afraid that they may not be willing to fight our army head-on. Unless reinforcements arrive. Lin Yizhe said quietly, "If the Japanese army and reinforcements attack inside and outside, our army will inevitably be in danger, so we need to gather troops now, intercept their reinforcements, and prevent them from landing." After this setback, the number of troops in your unit is already insufficient, and the number of naval troops is also small, so it is better to be safe, and wait for Li Zhitai's reinforcements to arrive, and it is better to join forces in one place. ”

"Obey Taiwan's orders." Hearing that reinforcements might arrive from the Japanese army, Tang Dingkui was shocked, and hurriedly sat up straight on the stretcher bed, holding his fists with both hands.

"Tang Junmen should take care of his injuries." Lin Yizhe said and got up, "I'll go back to the ship and arrange to intercept the Japanese troop transport fleet." ”

Tang Dingkui hugged his fists as a gift. Lin Yizhe got up and looked at the beach where the fierce battle had just been fought while walking in the direction of the mooring boat.

On the beach, some Huai soldiers were cleaning up the battlefield and gathering the team, Lin Yizhe noticed that some Huai army routs appeared in the forest one after another at this time, and he couldn't help but sigh again.

Returning to the cruiser "Fujing", Lin Yizhe convened a meeting of the admirals in the officers' cafeteria to discuss the battle plan for intercepting the possible follow-up Japanese troop transport fleet. In front of the huge nautical chart on the table, each ship pipe band expressed their opinions, and Lin Yizhe synthesized everyone's suggestions and set a battle plan.

"Most of the capital ships of the Japanese army have now been destroyed by our army, and except for one ironclad ship 'Longxiang' in the country, which can be the great enemy of our army, the rest of the ships are not enough to worry about." Lin Yizhe said, and ordered people to divide the drawings and text descriptions of the "Ryuchi," the main ironclad ship of the Japanese Navy, which had already been drawn up, to the generals, "This ship is larger than the 'Dong' that our army sank, but its drawbacks are the same as those of the 'Dong' ship, and there is no tail gun. Once encountered, our ship can rely on high speed, go around to its stern, bombard it with cannons, destroy its gun position, and occasionally use machine guns and continuous guns to kill and injure its deck personnel, and then it can win it. ”

Lin Yizhe pointed to the chart, and then said: "There are many places around the Taiwan Strait that can accommodate the landing of Japanese troops, and it is necessary to divide troops to patrol, and now the notification ships are all there, and I will divide the brigade into four teams to patrol the sea surface in various places, and use the notification ships as a contact. ”

"'Fujing', 'Jianjing', and 'Feiting' are the first team, 'Princess Heshuo', 'Chaowu', 'Chengqing', and 'Feipeng' are the second team, 'Fusheng', 'Jiansheng', 'Fuxing', 'Jianxing', and 'Feihong' are the third team, and 'Weiyuan', 'Henghai', 'Kangji', and 'Feiying' are the fourth team.

The command belts of each ship solemnly received the order.

After determining the sea surface of each team's patrol, Lin Yizhe was about to announce the adjournment of the meeting, when an officer hurriedly walked in.

"My lord, the Tang Army Sect on the shore has sent someone over." The officer came to Lin Yizhe, looked at Lin Yizhe's face, and cautiously reported, "It is said that there is something important and wants to give it to the adult." Also bring a person. ”

"What's the matter?" Lin Yizhe frowned and asked, "Who is that person?" ”

"A big box, I don't know what it contains...... officer whispered.

"Bring it in." Lin Yizhe waved his hand, and the officer was ordered to retreat. After a while, two sailors walked in with a wooden box that was originally used by the Huai army to hold ammunition.

When he smelled the strong bloody gas coming from the wooden box, Lin Yizhe seemed to have guessed something, and couldn't help frowning.

The ship's pipe belt looked at the wooden box curiously, Lin Yizhe nodded at the sailor, and the sailor opened the lid of the box.

When Bei Jinquan, Deng Shichang and the others saw the twenty heads neatly placed in the box, Rao is they were also shocked.

What surprised them particularly was that these heads were all shot in the head, and they were already somewhat mutilated.

Because the sniper rifle used by Lin Yizhe was more powerful than the rifle used by the shipbuilders and the Huai soldiers, such bullet wounds only appeared when he hit the enemy's head. Tang Dingkui thought that he had sent someone to inquire, so he ordered someone to send over the heads of these Japanese soldiers shot by Lin Yizhe.

"Tang Junmen said, these are the Japanese robbers you shot with your own hands...... the officer said.

"Alright, throw it into the sea." Lin Yizhe waved his hand and said.

"You can't throw it! My lord, this head, according to the reward given by the adults, is a hundred taels of silver. Deng Shichang smiled and said, "Twenty heads, but two thousand taels of silver, not a small amount." ”

"I'll be exempt from this reward." Lin Yizhe said calmly, "Just throw it here." ”

The officer did not dare to disobey the order, waved his hand, and the two sailors carried the box to the porthole, took out the heads, and threw them into the sea one by one along the porthole.

Hearing the sound of a man's head falling into the sea, the hearts of the officers and sailors ached.

"Bring that guy in." Lin Yizhe said.

The officer took the order and went out, and after a while, with the sound of thumping footsteps, a stout barefoot young man followed the officer in.

When the young man saw Lin Yizhe, his eyes immediately glowed with excitement, and his body trembled.

"Lord Lin......" The young man called out and was about to kneel, but Lin Yizhe stepped forward and held him up.

"Tempo? It's you? Lin Yizhe's eyes also flashed with a hint of surprise.

The young man in front of him is Deng Fu, the guide who entered the land when Lin Yizhe came to Taiwan last time, and Deng Tianbao, the son of the old man.

"Lord Lin, my father asked me to come." Deng Tianbao got up and said.

"How's your daddy? By the way, did you hurt the Japanese Kou? Lin Yizhe thought of the kind old man and hurriedly asked.