Jiangnan Shipyard remained, but also ushered in unprecedented development, while the Mawei Shipyard, which was originally the first in China, was forced to be demolished, most of the personnel and equipment were merged into the Qingdao Naval Shipyard, and the remaining small part was absorbed by the Jiangnan Shipyard.

Since most of them are from the shipbuilding department, the navy is very sad about this, but no one comes out to accuse Li Hui, because everyone knows that the Majiang River is shallow, and as the ships of various countries become bigger and bigger, the Mawei shipyard will have to give up sooner or later. If you really want to blame, you can only blame the lack of foresight when the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau was established.

There are still many foreign enterprises that need to be demolished, and only logistics companies such as China Merchants Steamship and road mines that cannot be relocated can be completely spared. In particular, almost all of the military industrial enterprises have moved their nests, and even the Tianjin Manufacturing Bureau, which was temporarily retained for the purpose of supplying arms nearby, has not been able to get rid of the fate of moving out of its old site as the situation in the northeast battlefield becomes clearer and clearer

Iktanga was Cixi's hardcore confidant, and after confirming the bad news that Cixi had died at the hands of the rebels, this guy looked at Beijing from afar and wept loudly, knocking blood out of his forehead. Iktanga, who hated the rebels, even cut a deep cut in one of his arms, vowing not to die with the "short-haired traitor"!

But what Yi Ketanga didn't expect was that Yuan Shikai confirmed the matter earlier than him, and he acted so decisively. As a result, Iktanga not only failed to concentrate the command of the Fengtian Qing army in his own hands to counterattack Beijing, but could not even keep Fengtian City, so he could only flee in a hurry with the Shengjing general Yulu, who was still thinking about restoring the banner people, and even left the two imperial tombs behind.

Due to the serious shortage of troops, Iketanga could only lead his troops to surrender to the previous enemy Katsura Taro, but most of the officers and soldiers at the grassroots level were from the northeast, and they did not have much loyalty to the "Great Qing Dynasty", but generally hated the Japanese army, even some banner men.

Hearing that the main general was going to take them to join the Japanese, the whole army was in an uproar, and soon some people deserted, and the number of them increased

The remnants of the Qing army that escaped from Mukden were all cavalry, which was certainly conducive to escaping, but once the morale of the army was shaken, the success rate of this cavalry desertion was much higher than that of the infantry. As a result, although Iketanga tried his best to prevent the officers and soldiers below from escaping, but the personnel were still decreasing, when the remnants of the Qing army finally connected with the Japanese army, Iketanga counted a little people, and found that Yulu's troops could not be counted to make up 5,000 people, and a mouthful of old blood spurted out, "Could it be that there are only so many people left who are loyal to my Qing Dynasty?" ”

To Iktanga's comfort, Katsura Taro welcomed his arrival, and if the Japanese army closed their doors or even directly used force to destroy them, Iktanga was afraid that he would really have to kill himself in despair

According to the strategy formulated by the Japanese government before the war, the Japanese army should join forces with the rebels against the Qing army in the event of civil unrest in China, but Katsura Taro once again showed his superior political vision at this time

The previous frustration of the sneak attack on Lushun had made Katsura Taro initially realize the strength of the rebel army, and they were able to destroy the Qing court in only a month, which made Katsura Taro feel even more frightened, although there was no detailed information about the rebel army for the time being, but he had already regarded it as the biggest enemy of Japan's invasion of China.

Before the war, the reason why the Japanese government set the strategy of drawing the Han people together to deal with the Manchu Qing was not to help the Han people get rid of the Manchu rule, but purely to let China split the civil strife, and to help the Han rebel army because they had just risen up and their strength was definitely far weaker than the Qing army, so that China's civil war could last longer.

Katsura Taro knew very well that if the situation of the Han uprising in China was very good, and there was really hope of overthrowing the Manchus, then the Japanese government would definitely support the Manchus in turn, for the simple reason that it would make China's civil war last longer and be more in line with Japan's national interests.

Although the scale of the First Battle of the Isthmus of Jinzhou was not very large, it fully demonstrated the strong foreign stance of this rebel army and its powerful combat power far beyond the Japanese army, and this sudden emergence of the rebel army was far from having a development process from weak to strong as the Japanese government had predicted before the war, but was extremely powerful from the beginning, and such an unfathomable force should soon be able to unify China as long as it was left alone, which would definitely be a nightmare for Japan.

In addition, the humiliation suffered by those captured made Katsura Taro feel the strong hostility of the opposing commander to the Japanese army, even if Katsura Taro was just trying to protect himself, he would not drive Iktang and them outside. No matter how weak the combat effectiveness of the Qing army is, it is better to be familiar with the local situation, especially since these people are still cavalry that the Third Division is relatively lacking!

So, Katsura Taro not only personally greeted Iktanga and the others, but also expressed his deep condolences to them for the death of Cixi and Guangxu, and even shed a handful of tears of sympathy, well, in fact, Katsura Taro used a little mustard, but this thing was too irritating, causing him to cry for a full day

Even if he knew in his heart that Katsura Taro was acting, seeing his attitude, Iketanga was still a little moved. However, the attitude is not a meal, in order to avoid being poisoned by Yuan Shikai, Yiketanga and Yulu fled on light horses overnight, and each of them brought three days of dry food, but the problem is that the Japanese army is also short of food and grass now.

Long before the invasion of Mukden, Katsura Taro's troops did not receive even a grain of grain from the rear, due to the attack of the people's anti-Japanese forces and the poor infrastructure in the northeast, the limited transportation capacity was basically used to transport the wounded and sick and high-value booty, and at the same time to transport supplementary soldiers, the loss of weapons and ammunition all relied on capture, and the grain and grass were "collected" on the spot.

At the beginning, because the Qing army was defeated, the Japanese Third Division alone captured a considerable amount of grain and grass, and the efficiency of going to the countryside to grab grain was also quite high, so life was not bad.

However, with the completion of the reconstruction of the Qing army returning from Korea, especially after the replenishment of a large number of recruits who had a bitter hatred for the Japanese army, the combat effectiveness of the Qing army, especially the will to fight, was greatly enhanced compared with before, and the Japanese army had fewer and fewer opportunities to capture a large amount of grain and grass, and the efficiency of the grain collection also continued to decline because the local people rose up to resist or at least fled far away. In addition, the Japanese Third Division had to deal with the Qing army in the west, which was constantly increasing its troops, and the rebel army that had also divided its troops to prevent Lushun from suddenly moving north, and the strength was becoming increasingly tight, and there was a serious shortage of manpower that could be sent out to raise food, and nearly 30,000 mouths of the whole division were waiting to be fed, how could life be as good as it was at the beginning? (To be continued.) )