Chapter 132: Japanese Spies
Although Guan Xuqing is very concerned about the queen's pregnancy in his heart, he is also very excited, after all, whether it is the future or this life, it is the first time to experience the feeling of being a father, but he still suppressed this feeling, and now in front of him is the battle of the Qing Dynasty's national fortune, and the war has started three years earlier than in history, all the historical information that can be referred to is everything to be done by himself, as he said when he just crossed, this is a game without an archive, when the game fails, It was the day of his own demise, so he had to put more energy into understanding and controlling the war
In the Port of Arthur Army, the dragon flag of the Qing Dynasty roared in the sea breeze
Deng Shichang and Yan Fu looked at the telegram sent from the capital, their expressions were solemn, and their brows were sometimes stretched and sometimes contracted
"Wonderful, it's really wonderful, only the emperor is so wise and martial can come up with such a plan, if you and I rush into the Sea of Japan recklessly, even if we win, the enemy will die a thousand, and I will be injured eight hundred, and now this plan is very wonderful, God bless me Daqing, haha" Deng Shichang laughed
"Yes, Brother Deng, let's discuss the specific sailor formation, but the emperor is waiting for the news of our victory," Yan Fu said equally excitedly
After some discussion, it was decided that the six capital ships "Daqing No. 1", "Daqing No. 2", "Zhenyuan", "Dingyuan", "Weiyuan", and "Jiyuan" were responsible for storming the Nagasaki Fort, and that the second formation was responsible for ambushing and luring the Japanese fleet, which was composed of "Changsheng", "Undefeated", "Victory", "Triumphant", "Riding the Wind", "Breaking the Waves", "Rising", "Jingyuan", "Laiyuan", "Zhiyuan", "Jingyuan", "Pingyuan", "Guangjia", "Guangji", "Guangbing", and "Guangding". Among them, four ironclad ships of more than 4,000 tons, three cruisers of 5,700 tons and capable of reaching 19 knots, five ironclad gunboats of 2,000 tons, and four 1,000-ton torpedo ships The second formation mainly adopted guerrilla tactics to drag the Japanese fleet until the land landing was successful, and the first formation and the second formation converged to launch a total of five domesticated ships, "Yangfan", "Flying Eagle", "Sea Lion", "Nanji", and "Nanxiang", which were responsible for storming the Tokyo Battery. Attract the Japanese fleet to the Pacific Ocean and increase the chances of victory in the naval battle in the East China Sea
The first formation was headed by "Zhenyuan" as the flagship, the commander-in-chief was Deng Shichang, the second formation was headed by "Changsheng" as the flagship, and the commander-in-chief was Yan Fu, and the third formation was headed by "Flying Eagle" as the flagship and the commander-in-chief was "Ding Ruchang"
Since it was necessary to wait for the army to go north, it was just time to take advantage of this precious time to practice in formation on the Yellow Sea
After receiving the order from the Ministry of War, Lu Yiwei immediately ordered the 2nd, 15th, and 19th Divisions to go north to Dalian to prepare to cross the river and storm Nagasaki
"Whoever doesn't give it is a bastard, I donated the boat I bought last year"
"Didn't the court give you silver?"
"Well, who is scarce of those few pieces of silver? When I bought this boat, I spent 10,000 silver dollars, and now the imperial court only subsidizes me with 1,000 silver dollars, and now our Qing Dynasty has become stronger, look at the wars have been fought in other countries, and the foreigners used to bully our Qing Dynasty, the deal is really impossible to do, now it's different, I'm willing to donate more silver, as long as I can do business normally, when can't this silver be earned? ”
"That's right, my third uncle also asked me where to donate, the guy in his house is too big to hear that it can hold 100 tons of goods."
There was a craze for donating ships along the southeast coast, and the common people knew that the Qing Dynasty was going to send troops to attack the Japanese mainland
Of course, these can't escape the spies of the "chrysanthemum" organs planted by Japan in the Qing Dynasty, but the people only know that they want to fight Japan, but how do they know how to fight them?
The Japanese secret service in China mainly used the identities of merchants, students, doctors, etc. as a cover, and a Japanese named Ishikawa grew up in the Qing Kingdom and opened a pawnshop and a money exchanger
On this day, a Qing soldier came to exchange pounds, and the guy couldn't be the master, because the pounds were controlled in the store Ishikawa thought to himself, through him he could break into the military, and he was allowed to exchange with him a few times, Ishikawa quickly became familiar with him, knowing that his name was Wang Kaijia, and he was a company commander of the 38th Division of the Qing Army in Shanghai. ”
Ishikawa hurriedly asked, "Who?" ”
Wang Kaijia mysteriously attached himself to Ishikawa's ear and whispered: "His uncle is Li Hongzhang, a well-known figure in our Qing Dynasty."
Under the introduction of Wang Kaijia, Ishikawa met Li Hongzhang's nephew on the same day, Liu Fen, who was the head of the guard regiment of the 38th Division, to talk and observe, Ishikawa quickly saw Liu Fen in front of him, who was also a **, greedy layman, and then Ishikawa carefully planned, he first had to satisfy Liu Fen's greed, so he brought a precious antique, so that Liu Fen couldn't help but be happy
"Brother Liu Fen, I heard that your military region is increasing troops to the back? We're going to fight in Korea, so it's going to be difficult for us to meet in the future," Ishikawa asked tentatively
"Alas, this kind of thing is not our division's turn, we only have a total of 40 divisions in the Qing Dynasty, we call the 38th division is the last 3 divisions, unless the troops are exhausted, otherwise we are guarding the frontier, otherwise my uncle will not put me in this division, saying that it is a low-key person" Liu Fen held the antique greedily stroked
"Oh, don't we have troops in the northeast? Why did they all draw to the southeast? "Ishikawa spent five and a half years in China, and it was generally impossible to tell that he was Japanese
"Isn't it? But I heard that this time I didn't go to the court," Liu Fen put down the antiques and said seriously
"Huh? Now everyone is rumoring that they are going to fight Japan? ”
"Well, I heard that this time the little emperor said that he wanted to draw his salary from the bottom of the kettle, and if he didn't want to fight a protracted war, he would go directly to Tokyo."
"Oh, Brother Liu, wait a while, brother will come" Ishikawa hurriedly returned to the bedroom, and sent a secret message to the country with a large amount of pounds when he came out, "Brother Liu, bring more pounds to defend yourself in troubled times now"
"Ah, how does this work...... This...... Then I'll be disrespectful, haha," Liu Fen said, stuffing the pound sterling Ishikawa handed over into his pocket