Chapter Twenty-Four: Gathering Fire

"Even if we can't defeat the foreigners completely, it's still okay for us to protect ourselves, right?" Cao Futian said a little unconfidently: "Then we just need to prohibit foreigners from coming?" ”

"Closed off the country?" Chen Cheng nodded, "It's not impossible to use this method, but it's too difficult to operate." Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"So what do you say?" Cao Futian said unwillingly: "I'm a lot old, I can't see the unification of the world, and I'm not willing to die!" ”

"Well, your old man is very healthy, and it will be absolutely no problem to live for another thirty years." Chen Cheng looked at Cao Futian, who was not old in front of him, and said, "At that time, it should be completely different from now!" ”

"As for what you say to do, it still depends on how well your nephews play in front. However, I think it's time for someone else to sit in that seat in Beijing now. ”

"Oh, are you going to go back to Beijing again?"

"Well, it's not. Our idea was to put out a man of high moral standing as the nominal leader of the country after the dismemberment of the Beiyang Army. ”

"A respectable person?" Cao Futian was a little unsure, "You're not talking about Sun Dacang, right?" ”

"Haha, although Sun Wen is good at talking, he has been defeated and fought repeatedly, and he is still a hero of a lifetime. But it's not him who I'm talking about. ”

"Now except for Yuan Shikai, it is Sun Dacang's reputation that is the highest, right? Well, no, there is also Zhang Zhidong in Hubei. Is it for him to be the leader of the country? ”

"No, but your idea is very good, let him be a deputy leader when the time comes."

"It's not, it's not, who the hell is that?"

"Well, since he is highly respected, he is a person that everyone knows. Since you thought of Zhang Zhidong, why didn't you think of his old rival Li Hongzhang? ”

"Li Hongzhang? Didn't he go back to the old age? That's right, too! Cao Futian suddenly realized, "Is this the story of Gao Huan back then?" Controlling the imperial court remotely with a tyranny? ”

Cao Futian was also born in Xiucai, and he still knows a lot about various historical allusions. In a blink of an eye, I thought of the story of Gao Huan establishing a hegemony in Jinyang and controlling the Luoyang court in the middle of the day.

"If you're serious, it's pretty much the same. Why, is Cao Gong interested in serving in the central government? ”

Cao Futian hesitated a little, "But I'm not from a professional background, so my words in the past will be criticized, right?" ”

"What are you afraid of," Chen Cheng disagreed, "Hero don't ask the source, Uncle Cao, you have a good character and learning, and it's no problem to go to the central government to be a minister or something." ”

"It's just that, as you know, although I have the intention of maintaining a central government, most of the rights will not be left to them, and if you pass it, you may just have a good name and no real power."

"This ..... Can you let me think about it first? ”

"Also, although the Beiyang Army has collapsed in half, it is not completely dead, and we will talk about it when we really take them down."

Most of the generals of the Beiyang Army and veterans who have been trained for many years still have the idea of serving the country loyally, but those recruited recruits do not have these particularities. They enlisted in the army for the most realistic reason - to be fed. In this world, you can fill your belly,

Most of these people were natives from southern Hebei and Shandong, and when the war situation was unfavorable, they took off their clothes and ran home. The officers who led the team couldn't control them, and now the situation is obvious, the ship in Beiyang is about to sink, and the villagers in the big hometown will turn a blind eye.

When the entire front was in chaos, Lin Mengchu did not participate, but instead took thousands of soldiers, also abandoned heavy firepower and baggage, and went straight to the general headquarters of the Beiyang Army set up in Yucheng.

Thousands of people marched all the way, encountered villages and towns without entering, simply relying on the dry food they carried, marched for a day and a night, and then exchanged fire with the Beiyang army guarding near Yucheng.

The military structure and infantry tactics of the Handan army have undergone three major changes, and there are even more minor changes. At the beginning, Lin Mengchu and Chen Cheng relied on their tough skills and brutal killings to gather a large number of outlaws. At that time, those who were strong in martial arts and dared to fight could get ahead.

For example, Li Dingyuan, Wang Qi, Zhao Guangde, Yan Shuqin, Liu Chengxiang and others began to get ahead at what time, and these people are all brave and powerful. Even Yan Shuqin, who has the worst martial arts, has a force value of more than eighty, and he is a master who can kill more than ten people in a white-knuckle battle.

After they established the Black Dragon Society and initially established local power, the people with high command levels gradually began to be promoted more. After all, at that time, they had already made rifles and Napoleonic cannons, and when fighting, they needed to pay more attention to cooperation. It was also at this time that although martial arts were not top-notch, Jing Tingbin, Zhao Sanduo and other heroes who could make people die for it began to quickly rise to higher positions.

After they occupied Handan and established various factories, there were more and more technical weapons and more and more troops that could be mobilized. At this time, those who are more capable of learning are easy to be promoted first, as a middle and senior officer, even if you can't calculus, then you have to be able to calculate. No matter how bad it is, you have to be familiar with the performance and parameters of various weapons.

But the most important thing for these Praetorian Guard troops selected by Lin Mengchu is to be able to fight. They don't need to command Ruo Ding or correct the landing location of the cannonballs, and they who follow His Excellency the Black Dragon King only need to use the most violent way to bombard the enemies in front of them into slag.

More than 3,000 people, under the leadership of the girl, rushed to Yucheng. In order to march quickly, they did not carry rapid-fire guns, nor siege guns, but they still pounced directly at the city gate.

Guarding Yucheng was Wang Shizhen's old department, plus the experimental training of the sword drawing team. After receiving a warning from the perimeter that an unidentified cavalry unit was rapidly approaching, the men quickly went on the defensive. While dispersing the crowd at the gates, they quickly pushed their heavy machine guns out of hiding.

When the cavalry approached the city gate, the officer of the Beiyang Army at the city gate didn't ask about the identity of the person who came at all, and directly ordered to fire!

Just kidding, at this time, the people who suddenly rushed over, even if it was the king of heaven, Lao Tzu, let it go first.

The stormy bullets shot towards Lin Mengchu, who was rushing to the front, and as the arrows of this cavalry cluster, she was naturally subjected to the concentrated fire of the defenders. (To be continued.) )