Although he asked like this, Li Hui was very worried about it in his heart, because in history, Li He finally surrendered to the Japanese army in Weihaiwei with the Beiyang Naval Division, although his performance in the Battle of Dadonggou was good, but the late festival still made Li Hui doubt the courage of this family, even if Li He answered "yes" categorically, he still could not completely dispel his doubts.

However, before the incident happened, Li Hui was always difficult to make up his mind, and he also knew that fleeing without permission in a naval battle was different from surrendering with everyone after all, the latter would not be severely punished because the law did not hold the public accountable, and even if the former could temporarily save a life, it would be difficult to escape death afterwards, and even Fang Boqian, who was favored by Lao Li, was slaughtered in history, and Li He may not dare to flee even if the battle center was afraid.

Therefore, although Li Hui still had doubts in his heart, he still cast a praising look at Li He, and Li He's abandonment tactic was also determined

In fact, Li Hui ignored two points, the first is that there is a world of difference in morale within the Beiyang Naval Division before and after the Battle of Dadonggou, and more importantly, the senior generals of the Beiyang Naval Division died or committed suicide mainly based on responsibility and dignity, and Li He is just a small capital division, even if he is not a foreigner, there are 21 people in the Beiyang Naval Division with a higher rank than him, and there are 26 people in the same rank, which can only be barely regarded as a middle-level officer, and the upper ones have surrendered, can you still expect a subordinate like him to be loyal to the country?

But the current situation is very different from that time, since Li He took the initiative to take over the heavy responsibility, he will inevitably be more sacrificial, not to mention that the morale of the Pingyuan is unprecedentedly high

Since joining the Beiyang Naval Division's combat sequence, this domestic ironclad ship has been facing a serious shortage of supplies, after using up the shells that came with the Fuzhou Shipbuilding when buying guns, due to the inability to produce 260mm shells in China, Lao Li refused to buy out for the Pingyuan (after all, it is the only one in China), and the 260mm shells used by the Pingyuan in the past two years are the solid shells used by the Tianjin Machinery Bureau to take the large-caliber breech guns (file out?). There are even those left after the suppression of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom (historical facts), and even this extremely inferior artillery shell, Pingyuan can only get only a fraction of the supply of other warships, and because there are fewer cartridges, the actual number of shells available is more than one-third.

In addition, although the combat strength of the Pingyuan is not weak, its rank is set at an extremely low level, and the salaries and benefits of the officers and men on the ship are far from being comparable with those of the other nine warships. As a result, it is conceivable that under the differential treatment that lasted for several years, the officers and men on the Pingyuan developed resentment similar to that of an outcast.

However, the recent ammunition transaction gave Li He and other officers and men of the Pingyuan a great encouragement, not only did they get two base numbers of training ammunition like other warships, but also obtained more live ammunition than other ships, more than any other friendly ship, not only let the Pingyuan get enough ammunition for the first time, but also made the officers and men on the Pingyuan feel that they have received the attention of the above for the first time (they don't know that those 260mm caliber shells and supporting propellant kits are not ordered by Lao Li at all). At that time, many officers and soldiers could not help but cry, just like abandoned children who had finally received the love of their parents.

During this time, the seriousness of their training was beyond the reach of the Zhiyuan, which had always been the most demanding, because no matter how strict the latter was, it was only forced to train hard under the strict requirements of military discipline, while the former was that every officer and soldier took the initiative to train and wanted to prove themselves in front of Lao Li, who had begun to attach importance to them, and also wanted to let the officers and men of other ships who had looked down on them before see their true skills.

One is "I want to practice", the other is "I want to practice", even if the amount of training is about the same, the actual effect must be far from the same.

And the reason why Li He, who has always been low-key, will come forward this time and take the initiative to take on the heavy responsibility, in addition to the democratic atmosphere in which everyone speaks freely at the "Zhuge Liang Meeting", it should also be because he is also eager to prove himself, right? Although he is still only a petty official, he Li He is a graduate of the first phase of the Shipmaster Academy, and it stands to reason that even Liu Buyun has to call him "senior brother"!

After Li He's tactics were passed, the Beiyang Naval Division soon began the corresponding queue training, from the double horizontal team to meet the enemy, to the enemy's fast fleet (played by the Zhijing team) to the two teams after the flank was separated, and then to the three weak ships to entangle the enemy's fast fleet and the main five ships to attack the enemy's own team in an inverted W formation, and each individual item was repeatedly trained until it was proficient.

In this half-year training, the Beiyang Naval Division fully exposed the weakness of insufficient tacit cooperation, and the problems caused by the long-term shortage of coal supply caused by the fleet's low sailing frequency and insufficient tactical training can be seen at a glance even by laymen, but fortunately, there is still some time before the outbreak of the First Sino-Japanese War, and it should be time to make up for the lesson

It is worth mentioning that during this period, Li Hui also unexpectedly discovered that the tactics of Professor Luang Weili, a British naval colonel, were seriously outdated and incomplete.

Although the world's navy was generally greatly affected by the Battle of Lisa during the period when Luang Weili came to the Beiyang Naval Division, and although the column tactics were far simpler than the horizontal team tactics, Lang Weili stayed in the Beiyang Naval Division for so long and never specifically talked about column tactics (historical facts), which inevitably made Li Hui suspicious.

It is impossible for Luang Weili not to understand column tactics, because column tactics appeared earlier, and the mainstream tactics of the world's navy have been far longer than horizontal team tactics, and even in the most respected years of horizontal team warfare, it has not been completely eliminated, so it is only possible that Lang Weili did not want to teach, that is to say, Lang Weili deliberately kept a hand during his tenure as the deputy commander of the Beiyang Naval Division

"Hehe, the British, really can't expect too much, the affairs of the Chinese will have to be solved by ourselves after all." I want to laugh when I think that there were so many guys on the forum before the crossing to stand on the side of this Brit in the 'flag removal incident'", Li Hui couldn't help but sneer secretly after seeing all this. In fact, the so-called slack training of the Beiyang Naval Division after Lang Weili left in the history books is just a lie made up by some officials at that time in order to shirk responsibility, although the current training level of the Beiyang Naval Division still has many problems in Li Hui's eyes, but compared with the current situation of the navies of various countries fed back by the venture capital company, we can understand that those are only due to the limitations of the times, and by the standards of this era, the Beiyang Naval Division can definitely be called well-trained