"Well done, this Manchu should be finished, right?" , After Li Hui learned the good news from the message board, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, although even if Cixi and Guangxu escaped, it would be impossible to turn over the plate, but it is always a good thing to be able to eliminate future troubles now.

In order to commend the meritorious service of that cavalry company, Li Hui decided to expand it into a battalion, just like Zhao Hu's cavalry company that captured Dagukou, but because the company commander of this cavalry company was a biochemical soldier, in order to ensure that he could still be competent after being promoted to battalion commander, Li Hui had to spend money to promote him to level 3.

This is a new permission that was obtained only a few days ago, and compared to the new high-level biochemical soldiers, although it costs the same to upgrade the original biochemical soldiers (in fact, it is to make up the difference), but it is better to keep the previous interpersonal relationships, and it looks more normal.

Starting from the time when the total amount of silver consumed reached 10 tons (equivalent to 1 ton of gold), every time the total amount of precious metals consumed by Li Hui on the system reached a new order of magnitude, the system would open up a little new permission to him.

It's just that the previous ones were all inconsequential details, and it wasn't until he consumed 1,000 tons of silver (equivalent to nearly 30 million taels of silver in Pingyin) that he finally obtained a new and more practical permission, Li Hui couldn't help but wonder if the later he was, the more practical the new permission would be?

This made Li Hui look forward to it, but the next new permission to open would require 10,000 tons of silver or 1,000 tons of gold, which was too scary

Fortunately, China's foundation is still very thick, and hard currency is more concentrated in cities, especially big cities, so as long as everything goes well, there should still be hope for achieving this goal within the year, and now the destruction of the Manchu center is undoubtedly a good start

Li Hui naturally knew that there were also clan members scattered outside the capital in the Manchu Dynasty, and it was difficult to guarantee that no one would jump out and become emperors after the so-called "orthodoxy" was destroyed, but what was there to be afraid of?

Since the Taiping Rebellion, the local governors, mainly served by Han officials, have become increasingly powerful, and it is all thanks to Cixi's clever balance of power and skill that they can maintain the shelf of the Manchu court. Now that Cixi and the emperor are dead, the "orthodoxy" of the Qing court no longer exists, and none of the outgoing clans have enough prestige and talent, it is difficult to gain much support for self-proclaimed emperor, and in the end it will only become a farce and a joke.

However, the local governors and generals in the border areas who hold the military power in their hands may choose to resist to the end, and even take the opportunity to stand on their own and live the addiction of the emperor of the soil, although Li Hui is confident that he can suppress it without spending too much effort, but it is naturally best to solve it peacefully, and this time reflects the value of Li Hongzhang.

"Now that the Manchu court is gone, Lao Li should agree to write a letter, right?" , Li Hui thought to himself, but as soon as he was about to ask someone to invite Lao Li, who had come to Beijing together, he found that a new message suddenly appeared on the system message board, and he immediately raised his eyebrows, "Finally got on fire with the devil!" ”

With Zhang Peilun out of the army, the rebel army's previous surprise attack on Lushun was a great success, and the rebel army of the two regiments took over the Lushunkou naval base almost bloodlessly, while the defenders of Lushun of as many as 14,000 people were all taken prisoner in a daze

In order to prevent confusion caused by the Japanese army coming before the prisoners were digested, as soon as Lushun was taken, one of the regiments immediately went north and went to the Jinzhou Isthmus to build a defensive line, while the regiment that remained was together with the reinforcements who arrived in Lushun later, absorbed from the captives seven or eight thousand people who were still in good health and had not been infected with the vice of prostitution, gambling and smoking, and reorganized an infantry brigade and a garrison brigade, with a total strength of more than 15,000 people.

However, before the integration of the troops of the two brigades was completed, the regiment in the north had already exchanged fire with the incoming Japanese troops, proving how correct the decision was to divide the troops to the north to build a forward defense line in the first place.

In fact, if it was a rational proceed, the Japanese Third Division should not have sent troops south to attack Arthur, after all, it was a fortified fortress with a first-class level in Asia, and it was difficult for a division to defeat it under normal circumstances.

And if the battle of Arthur cannot be resolved quickly, and the defenders of the fortress are likely to be supported by artillery fire from the Beiyang Navy, it will be too fatal.

More importantly, since the Japanese Navy had already suffered a devastating blow, even if the Third Division took Arthur, it would not be able to help the Japanese Navy regain sea supremacy in the Yellow Sea. At the same time, it was difficult for Lushun to serve as a springboard for the Japanese army's large-scale landing in Manchuria and a military station for refueling supplies as originally planned, and its strategic value had been greatly reduced.

However, when the troops and horses of Song Qing and Yiktang Asuo, who had returned from Korea, were rebuilt, the fighting will of the Mukden Qing army was significantly improved, at least it was no longer the first time that the guns and artillery broke down and fled, and although the offensive was still repeatedly frustrated, it could barely withstand the defense by relying on the superiority of nearly three times the enemy's troops. More importantly, as long as the Qing army did not collapse easily, the capture that the Japanese army could obtain would be greatly reduced, which was very fatal for the Japanese Third Division, which basically had no logistical supplies.

In addition, the Japanese army burned, killed and looted along the way, which aroused the courageous resistance of the people of all ethnic groups in Northeast China. Although the results of guerrilla warfare were not very satisfactory because of the lack of strict organization and advanced thinking, the Third Division had less than 30,000 men and horses after all, and it was difficult to obtain replenishment in the hinterland of the enemy country, and because it needed to take care of the wounded soldiers, it took up a large number of personnel.

In this predicament, Katsura Taro thought of attacking Lushun in the south, and according to the information he currently had, Lushun should have a large amount of military supplies, and once it was taken, the supply of supplies for the third division in a few months would no longer have to worry. And it is also possible to lure out the Qing army in Fengtian by the way, so as to create an opportunity to destroy the enemy in a field battle, and the Qing army in Fengtian is not easy to bite when it is bent on defending, but if it is a field battle, except for the elite cavalry that is now left, the other troops are not vulnerable at all.

Of course, Katsura Taro also knew the solidity of the Lushun fortress and the strength of the Beiyang Naval Division, but he gambled that the Lushun garrison was as useless as the Qing army he met when he first entered Manchuria, and sent a cavalry brigade south, if his judgment was correct, this amount of strength would be enough to open the situation, and then his large army would go south at full speed through the Jinzhou Isthmus, and if the judgment was wrong, the loss would only be half of the cavalry, for the third division, which had inherited the team of the Lijian detachment and had two cavalry brigades, such a loss could still be afforded. (To be continued.) )