readx;?“ So what do we do? Could it be that you just watched the devils drive warships over and blow up all the cities along the coastline into ruins! Li Zhilong hurriedly stared at Yang Xingguo and asked rhetorically. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

If the submarine brigade he is forming is established, Yang Xingguo is confident that as long as the devils dare to send warships over, he will have the strength to hit them hard. However, it is a pity that the submarine brigade is still in the process of being formed, and not only does it not have qualified submarine officers and men, but even at least one submarine has not yet been built.

In this case, Yang Xingguo can only put this unrealistic idea behind.

However, Yang Xingguo was not a passive person who was beaten, and after thinking about it, he replied: "If Japan really sends a navy to retaliate against us, then their means of retaliating against us are nothing more than shelling coastal cities." As long as we find a way to block them out of the range of the ship's guns, the naval warships will not be able to help us. ”

"Besides, all of this is just our assumption, and it is unknown whether Japan will send warships to retaliate. Of course, we need to be prepared for all potential threats that may arise in advance. ”

"Although the navy is no match for the Japanese navy, it has no problem acting as a stationary battery. I immediately sent a telegram to the navy asking them to send someone to the Dalian military port to receive the warships, and then to start training at the Dalian military port to be ready for a retaliatory attack by the Japanese navy. ”

"In addition, thousands of soldiers of the heavy artillery division will also rush over as soon as possible, and use all the equipment of the two heavy artillery brigades you have captured to expand the heavy artillery division on the spot. After that, he trained in Dalian and Yingkou. If the Japanese Navy really dared to attack, the heavy artillery division was not a vegetarian. ”

On the morning of the next day, as long as the high-power radio stations of the Liaodong Army could cover the range, they all received a clear code of power from the Liaodong Army.

After ten days of bloody fighting, the 50,000 elites of the Liaodong Army successfully eliminated the 120,000 elites of the Japanese Manchurian Army and recovered the city of Dalian.

The first reaction of the imperial court to this news that surprised everyone was not to believe it.

Although the Liaodong Army had defeated the Japanese army more than once, it was the Liaodong Army that was on the defensive side. The advantage of defense is higher than that of offense, and as long as it is planned properly, it is still possible to defeat the lone Japanese army.

But the offensive is different, judging from general military common sense, there is no superiority of several times or even more than ten times the strength of the army, and it is absolutely impossible to capture the city of Dalian, and also completely annihilate more than 100,000 elite Japanese troops.

And now the Liaodong Army has actually sent a telegram, saying that it has annihilated more than 100,000 Manchurian troops with 50,000 people, and has also captured Dalian, which directly subverts everyone's military common sense.

Therefore, the first reaction of the imperial court when receiving the telegram was disbelief.

The same was true of Yuan Shikai of the Beiyang Army, more than a dozen staff members and senior officers discussed for nearly half an hour, and finally came to the conclusion that the Liaodong Army was really grandstanding and deliberately exaggerated the results of the battle. Anyway, Dalian is surrounded by the territory of the Liaodong Army, and even if someone is sent to Dalian to confirm whether this news is true, it is impossible to do it in a short time.

Of course, the telegram was also received by the governor of the southern part of the Qing Dynasty, who had gradually become divisive, and the embassies of the major European powers in the Great Qing Kingdom.

And there is no doubt about the authenticity of this power-up, and everyone is skeptical, believing that it is simply impossible.

However, as time slowly passed, several hours passed when the Liaodong Army sent a telegram, and the Japanese government did not come forward to explain it, and the major forces and powers slowly turned from initial suspicion to belief.

Then everyone had a feeling of being impressed by the Liaodong Army. Especially the major powers, many of them know for the first time that in addition to the imperial court and Yuan Shikai, the Great Qing State also has an army with such a strong combat effectiveness, the Liaodong Army.

"Are they all dumb, annihilating more than 100,000 Japanese troops at one time, and recovering Liaodong, what a powerful army it takes to do this. Could it be that the Liaodong Army is really strong enough to confront the great powers. If this is the case, what new army will the imperial court form, even the armies of the great powers are not opponents, let alone the Liaodong Army that defeated the armies of the great powers. The old Cixi rarely spoke in the court, but after learning about the telegram of the Liaodong Army, she was so angry that she scolded the courtiers without hesitation.

"The Queen Mother was angry, the reason why the imperial army could not defeat the armies of the great powers in the past was because the troops were too poorly equipped and had not been trained. At present, the new army formed by the imperial court is all trained by the imitation German ** team, and they are all equipped with the most advanced weapons, and their combat effectiveness has been greatly improved compared with the original patrol battalion. "After being ransomed from the Liaodong Army by the imperial court, there were really no trusted ministers available in his hands. After only thinking about it behind closed doors for less than three months, Zaitao was again activated by Cixi and appointed as the minister of military training in the imperial court, commanding all the new armies. Because he was holding back his anger against the Liaodong Army, as soon as he heard Cixi say that the Liaodong Army was strong and belittled the new army of the imperial court, Zaitao retorted with a face full of unwillingness.

Although the rebuttal was a bit far-fetched, Cixi's face still looked a lot better.

was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Confidence is a good thing, in the eyes of the mourning family, the reason why the imperial court officials and troops can't defeat the armies of the great powers is not that the food is not lifeless, not that the equipment is not good, but that the soldiers do not have the strength to admit defeat." ”

"The mourning family hopes that Zaitao can bring this kind of unyielding strength to every soldier of the New Army. The mourning family believed that the combat effectiveness of the new army of the imperial court must not be inferior to that of the Liaodong army. ”

More than a dozen courtiers knelt down in front of Cixi at the same time as if they had discussed, and said, "The Empress Dowager is wise! ”

Cixi was pleased with everyone's reaction, but it didn't last long, and a touch of seriousness resurfaced on his face.

"The mourning family believes in you, but the Liaodong army has won such a big battle in Liaodong, and the imperial court can't help but react. Let's talk about what the court should do! ”

After some discussion, more than a dozen important ministers finally came up with an opinion: not only to reward the Liaodong Army and Yang Xingguo, but also not to increase the strength of the Liaodong Army, and at the same time, to clear the relationship between the imperial court and this matter, so as not to let the Japanese government vent its anger of revenge on the imperial court.

In the end, Cixi decided to add several worthless titles to Yang Xingguo.

As for the silver and food needed by the Liaodong Army, I'm sorry, I don't have a tael of silver.

Not only that, in order to create some trouble for Yang Xingguo, the imperial court specially rewarded Li Zhilong, the commander of the Fourth Army, and crowned Li Zhilong as the governor of Liaodong, commanding all military and political powers in Liaodong.

This is not counting, the three commanders of the Liaodong Army who stayed in Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Fengtian were all crowned governors by the imperial court.

Originally, he was going to be crowned as the governor, but because the governor had no military power, in order to provoke the ambitions of the commanders of the Liaodong Army, it was best to let the Liaodong Army have civil strife.

In this way, Yang Xingguo, the governor of the three northeastern provinces, actually had four governors under him. If the four governors really all had two hearts, then Yang Xingguo would be counted as a lonely person by the imperial court all of a sudden. (To be continued.) )