Neither Wu Qing, commander of the Jingchu Military Region, nor Lin Hong, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, thought that the so-called Jingrui Xinlu Battalion, the main force of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, would be completely wiped out just after contacting an ordinary cavalry reinforcement brigade of the Jingchu Military Region. Even Lin Zexu himself killed himself, most of the nearly 8,000 Qing soldiers died in the encirclement of shells and cavalry, and about 1,000 Qing soldiers with varying degrees of disability were captured.

The battle in Henan was surprisingly smooth, 5,000 cavalry quickly took the new green battalion, and escorted a group of Qing prisoners, and then joined the royal army that caught up, and went straight to Nanyang City.

After releasing a few captives and letting them focus on their own misery and the benefits of the firearms of the southern thieves, Nanyang City surrendered without a fight, and more than 20,000 Qing soldiers who had no fighting spirit laid down their weapons and obediently entered the prisoner of war camp. As a result, the southern part of Henan has basically been cleared, and the resistance of the Qing army is obviously not as fierce as imagined. Because Henan was implicated in the war, there were not many people left, so basically it did not have much impact on the lives of the people.

Each of Lin Hong's four major military regions had at least 1,000 large and small artillery pieces, and they were still mainly equipped with smoothbore guns, and there were many bronze and iron cannons. These cannons are mainly 6-pounder and 12-pounder guns of the Royal Army's standard infantry guns, and there are also a certain number of 24-pounder guns and 32-pounder guns. Because the manufacturing speed of rifled breech-loading guns and ordinary rifled cannons cannot catch up, the number of rifled guns in various military regions is not large, less than 10% of the number of all cannons. However, these rifled guns were mainly large-caliber heavy guns. Let's talk about it here, Lin Hong's main army is an army composed of ordinary people led by non-commissioned officers, so their military equipment is not like the royal instructor composed of pure system soldiers, and the equipment level from rifle to cannon is close to the level of World War I, and the guns and cannons of his army's main force are only a few years more advanced than the army of the same period, unlike the royal instructor whose military equipment is ahead of the world's armies for nearly a century.

In fact, looking at the equipment, the army artillery division is far more luxurious than the army infantry division. The original intention of forming an artillery division was actually ridiculous, that is, to solve a large number of ownerless and idle artillery, so under the call of His Majesty the Emperor, a large number of soldiers who knew a little mathematical foundation and had good eyes joined this magical sequence. The basic structure of the Royal Army at the division level is infantry, cavalry and artillery. An infantry division has nine regiments, ranging in number from 10,000 to 15,000 men. A cavalry division has two cavalry brigades under its command, each with three regiments of cavalry brigades, and the number of people is about 8,000. And an artillery division has a total of 6 artillery regiments, and the number of people can reach 5,000 to 7,000.

The reason is very simple, there are more people who cannon. The number of people who use the CAO as a smoothbore gun is more than that of modern artillery, and from loading, shelling, to cleaning the chamber and other steps, a cannon has to be served by many people. However, the "exceedance" of the number of artillery was also one of the main reasons for the bloated personnel of the artillery division. Each artillery division is equipped with at least 480 artillery pieces, mostly 6-pounder guns and 75mm caliber guns, and a small number of units are equipped with primitive rocket artillery, but some soldiers frankly admit that they are equipped with rocket artillery more often for fireworks and fire. The Jingchu Military Region of the Southeast Military Region each has two artillery divisions plus a coastal giant artillery unit for coastal defense, and the Lingnan Military Region has one, and the mountainous terrain of the Southwest Military Region is not suitable for large-scale use of artillery, so there are no artillery divisions.

Qin Han rubbed his astringent eyes, put down the thick stack of materials in his hand, he hammered the back of his neck with his hand, picked up the water cup on the table, and drank it to the full.

"Shaoguang, how long will it take to get to Dagu?" He Muen asked.

Jin Shaoguang just walked into the captain's room from the deck and said with a smile: "The commander can't hold it anymore?" It will be about half a day before we reach Dagukou. This steam battleship is really good, and the headwind can be so fast. "Since the time of the Empire's attack was in the autumn, and the wind direction was blowing from the Siberian Plateau to the sea, this operation deliberately used steam warships to transport the task force to surprise the Beijing-Tianjin area.

"Of course, the Empire's scientific research funds are not invested in vain." Qin Han pondered, "If it weren't for taking care of our sail battleship, we might all be in Tianjin City by now, those idiots in the General Staff." ”

"Maybe they're on the safe side?" Jin Shaoguang scratched his brain.

"Forget it, don't mention them, by the way, at our speed, we will arrive in Dagu at night. Is there any restraint on the merchant ships passing by? ”

Jin Shaoguang replied: "Before we lifted anchor, we had already ordered all coastal Zhengfu to reduce the number of merchant ships sailing, and we didn't see any merchant ships along the way, so we don't have to worry about leaking secrets." Moreover, the prestige of our Royal Navy is unparalleled in the world, and it is also a sure victory to fight with the Qing soldiers in such an open and honest manner. ”

Qin Han smiled faintly, shook his head and said, "Having said that, if it can be simpler and lose less, I am still happy to do it." ”

Jin Shaoguang saluted: "Yes." ”

Qin Han stood up and ordered: "Tell the marines and the army on the troop carrier to eat and rest immediately, and we will attack Dagukou at night at night." ”

He clicked on the documents on the table and said: "There is a barrage of sand thirty miles outside the mouth of Dagukou, the water depth here is not enough, and our third-class ships cannot go along, and even the smaller fifth-class ships need to be careful, although there are not many guns in the Dagukou Fort, but for our landing marines, it is still a threat, so this landing operation, we must be unaware, hit the enemy by surprise, and when the enemy does not react, seize the battery, so that our warships can dock and put the army down." ”

This time the sea operation dispatched the Beiyang Fleet,

Some time ago, the three first-class ships of the Beiyang Navy's main fleet and a number of other ships were assigned to the Pacific Fleet, and in order to ensure the training of warships, the General Staff Headquarters transferred the former Nanyang Navy's flagship Hegemon, 10 third-class ships, and 10 fifth-class ships to Beiyang.

And for the smooth implementation of the Northern Expedition, Lin Hong made a decision to buy his second S-class general Qin Han from the system to form the Beiyang Task Force. The Bohai Sea has always been China's inland sea, surrounded by the Liaodong Peninsula and the Shandong Peninsula, so it is significantly more important to guard the quality of xing than to look outward.

The capital ship formation consisting of four 80-gun third-class ships is Tainan, Taipei, Kaohsiung, and Hsinchu. The Taiwan class is the standard model of the Royal Navy's discontinued 80-gun three-stage sail battleship, in the entire Royal Navy, in fact, the number of Taiwan-class is not very large, compared to the more extensive number of 74-gun three-stage ships Guangzhou class, the Taiwan-class hull is larger, capable of carrying larger projectiles of heavy naval guns, but again, this also limits its ability to act and CAO control Xingxing. The definition of the Taiwanese class is that it is a practical platform with strong maritime firepower output.

In addition to the four stellar third-class ships, the task force also has as many as 24 fifth-class ships and 12 sixth-class ships. The fifth-class ships are mainly 38-gun and 32-gun frigates, and the sixth-class ships are 24-gun cruisers. Since these ships will be eliminated in the near future, they do not even have a single model class.

There are not many natural harbors in the entire northern region, and most of the coastal areas are muddy and sandy flats, and the water depth is far from enough. In the north under the Qing Dynasty in the mid-19th century, there was not even a shadow of a city with good port conditions. Dalian was built by the Russians in 1897, and it is known that this is the winter ice-free port that generations of tsars have always dreamed of, and in 1835, due to the Qing Zhengfu's northeast ban policy, it was basically uninhabited, let alone a city. Qingdao, which is also a large port in the north, was not officially established until 1891, when Dengzhou Town was moved from Penglai to Qingdao, and its development was due to the Germans and RI themselves. The seaports such as Qinhuangdao, Dandong, Jingtang and even Huanghua, which are located in the second line, have basically no throughput at all.

Therefore, Tianjin Tanggu became Qin Han's inevitable choice, although both he and His Majesty Emperor Lin Hong were a little dissatisfied with this place where the port conditions were not good, but it was impossible to move tens of thousands of navies to a desolate area where there was no one. Similarly, at this time, the port of Tianjin was ashamed to call itself a port. The serious problem of sediment siltation will not bother Qingzhengfu, who has not had much commercial and military activity, but it will inevitably need to be considered if the Chinese Empire takes over. In the official history, after decades of arduous research and large-scale port projects, the problem of sediment siltation in Tianjin Port was solved.

The dark night shrouded the earth, wave after wave of chao water gently pushed to the shore, and the song of the sea water was light and moving, but the officers and soldiers of Tianjin Town did not seem to care about these things that they were accustomed to.

The sea was still beating unrelentingly towards the shore, just riding the lapping tide, densely packed with small sampans. The night battle of the sailors was basically impossible to take place in this era, because the lighting was not in place, and it was impossible to accurately locate the enemy. What is even more important is the common symptom of the Qing soldiers just now -- night blindness.

It's just that the emperor ** team, which has a nutritious meal and pays attention to dietary matching, does not have this symptom.

At the moment when several Qing soldiers were chatting, a group of Nujiao commandos wearing black and blue SE special combat uniforms had already touched ~ the Dagu Fort on the south bank and quietly went ashore.

"You guys, give me a hand! Use a dagger to cut the throats of those pus-filled tubes! Don't forget, quietly, don't shoot! David Gao, the leader of the Black Hawk Special Forces squad, said to several of his team members in a low voice.