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For von. Although the attitude of Count Dewes Lin Haijiang was expressionless, but in fact, his heart was already happy, it was not easy to have one, although the budget of the Empire-class battleship was 2.6 million imperial silver dollars, but when the real sea trials were completed to equip the fleet, 3.5 million would be good, according to the common naval budget practice in all countries in the world, the construction cost of the ship and the final assembly cost were calculated separately, so a battleship was launched from the dock to the completion of the sea trial and entered the fleet service, The Imperial Treasury had to pay twice. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Will the Firmament-class battleship be able to reach a design speed of twenty-one knots? Lin Haijiang expressed great doubts that if the power of the current steam turbine can reach about 17 knots, it will already be regarded as burning high incense, and the Germans are not fools, they have taken so many of their own technical patents and ship designs for nothing, at least they can guarantee that for a long time in the future, the quality of the Germans' warships will surpass the British, although the Germans are the nouveau riche in Europe at the moment, and they are desperately sharpening their knives and preparing for the next war, but the British Empire, which has a big business, can be described as having a strong capital. In Europe, the only ones who can support it if they fight an arms race on a large scale without being burdened with reckless militarism.

Therefore, on the whole, Lin Haijiang believes that it is not too much for the Germans to build a firmament-class battleship for themselves, and the application of their own Imperial Type 1 rifle, Type 1, Type 2 mortar, Type 2 75 mm field gun and other patents in Germany, only the Dai Type 1, Type 2, and Type 3 light machine guns The Germans paid the patent fee of two marks each, and the Germans enjoyed most of the technological advantages of the Chinese Empire without any payment, so how generous was Wilhelm I and Bismarck's efforts this time, It is to win Lin Haijiang, Germany's loyal friend, Germany needs friends, and more importantly, it needs a loyal strategic partner who has no conflict of interest.

Finally, Lin Haijiang and Feng. Count D'Affaires finalized that Germany would build two firmament class battleships for the Chinese Empire, one of which would be built at the expense of the Chinese Empire, and that all the technical patents of metallurgy, Krupp and other companies would be opened for the use of the Chinese Empire, and that the Chinese Empire would send 20,000 students to study in Germany free of charge, and that the Chinese Empire would increase the export volume of tungsten sand and other ores, and Germany would pay accordingly to purchase the ore.

Feng. Earl Dewis was very happy that he had gained a lot every time he came to the East, because he knew that Lin Haijiang had not made it too difficult for him, otherwise with Lin Haijiang's surname and means, it would not have been possible to achieve the mission he needed to accomplish this time at the price paid by Germany. The Earl of D'Affaires also felt a little helpless and embarrassed.

With Feng. In addition to a large number of confidential drawings, Lin Haijiang sent an armed gendarmerie special squad to return to Germany on the heavy cruisers Yanjing and Nanjing. The so-called secret visit of the Earl of Dewis was not a secret in Lin Haijiang's opinion, so for the safety of the drawings, Lin Haijiang still decided to let two heavy cruisers carry more than 200 newly graduated naval officers for an ocean-going sea exercise.

On May 10, 1863, Lin Haijiang personally arrived in Nanjing, Nanjing, as the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, the city of gold powder, although after several wars, but with the full assistance of the Chinese Empire, it still restored the prosperity of the past, Lin Haijiang knew that if the relocation and transformation was absolutely not as fast as the current construction and recovery, it was because the war almost razed more than eighty percent of the buildings in Nanjing to the ground, so the production and construction corps invested 300,000 manpower and sixty percent of the shipping along the river, plus the recruitment of 2 million migrant workers, It took more than a year to make Nanjing look new.

Guangzhou as the capital of the empire is geographically absolutely inappropriate, Nanjing is Lin Haijiang's only choice at this stage, after all, Yanjing is still in the hands of the Qing court, if the loss of Yanjing after the war is not large, Lin Haijiang will consider moving the capital to Yanjing, the political center of the empire to move to the hinterland, which can not only play a certain role in the economic development and construction of the hinterland, but also promote the smooth implementation of the empire's northward plan.

The news that Lin Haijiang is preparing to officially set the capital of Nanjing is basically clear to the whole empire, Guangzhou is indeed not suitable as the political and military center of a large empire, after all, it is located on the coast, it is easy to be raided by hostile forces, the imperial navy is indeed strong, but it cannot be the basis for becoming the capital of Guangzhou, Nanjing is located in a strategic point, extending in all directions, and has a long historical and cultural heritage, and the river defense of the Yangtze River has also been strengthened several times, so there is almost no opinion on the capital Nanjing within the empire.

However, Zhang Yunji, Li Anmin and others also knew Lin Haijiang's other plan, that is, to move the capital to Yanjing in the future, the Ming Dynasty was the Son of Heaven guarding the country, so the capital was moved to Yanjing, and the Qing court continued this tradition, but Yanjing was vulnerable to attacks from the northeast and the Mongolian steppe, which happened from time to time in the Ming Dynasty, and the nearly 300,000 troops of the Russian Empire were stationed in Heilongjiang, and no one believed that the Russians would withdraw without a sound? Perhaps the Russians had reached some agreement with the Qing court, and the Russians came in and transported nearly 100,000 rifles and more than 200 artillery pieces of various calibers to the Qing court through the Weijun Port in Tianjin.

In fact, Lin Haijiang has a complete plan in his heart, if the empire moves its capital to Yanjing, then the first border defense line of the empire should be Lake Baikal in the Russian population, but this plan Lin Haijiang only put it in his heart, in terms of the current situation of the Chinese Empire, it seems that it is not easy to expose too many ambitions, what he needs is to unify the whole country as soon as possible, recover the whole territory, and then dig deep holes to accumulate grain, accumulate thick and thin!

In Lin Haijiang's view, although the empire has completed preparations for reunification militarily, it is not ready for local management and construction, but time waits for no one!

Therefore, in the conference room of the renovated government affairs hall of the former Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Golden Dragon Hall in Nanjing, Lin Haijiang summoned Zhanyang, Li Anmin, Zhang Yunji, Tang Ziqiang, Jia Wuji, Xu Dawei, Liu Quansi, Zhang Zheng, Gao Qi, Zheng Zhipeng, Feng Jingbin, Shen Chengwen, Xu Guangyuan and other imperial generals. Xu Guangyuan's promotion shocked the Beiyang officers who were already being educated in the entire Qing court, they didn't expect that Lin Haijiang was really true, a general of a defeated army could still lead troops to fight, and he actually became the commander of the army? The legions of the Chinese Empire are more than 50,000 people! As a result, these Beiyang officers began to accept re-education more seriously and re-accept the values and honor.

While inspecting the defense of Nanjing and the preparations of the imperial army, Lin Haijiang actually came to do pre-war mobilization, and everyone, including Li Anmin, knew the purpose of the Führer's trip, because the Führer not only brought Nanjing with the corps directly under the Command, but also brought Jia Wuji, chief of staff of the Navy of the Admiralty, to Nanjing, obviously to coordinate the river gunboat corps, and Xu Guangyuan, who was the latest to be promoted and appointed, looked at Lin Haijiang with extremely admiring eyes. It can be said that a year of political transformation has made Xu Guangyuan almost reborn as a new person, Lin Haijiang's deeds and love for the people, as well as the quotations of the head of state, he can basically recite them backwards.

Lin Haijiang looked around at the people in the conference room, took a deep breath and said: "All of you present today are the dry cities of my Chinese Empire, there are dragons in the sea of my Chinese Empire, and there are strong lions on the land. I have decided that the Imperial Army and Navy will enter the highest level of combat readiness, and the Imperial will launch a final battle against the Manchu regime, completely and cleanly eliminate the Manchu regime, and we will give the most severe blows and sanctions to those eagles and dogs who are determined to serve the rotten regime, and we will also give education and give them the opportunity to reform themselves if they can repent in time and return to the side of the people! If the Manchus surrender their ruling power, the Imperial Axe will consider giving the Qing court a certain degree of preferential treatment to the imperial family, and if they insist on resisting to the end, the armed forces of the empire will completely wipe them out! ”

In the warm applause, Lin Haijiang nodded with satisfaction and then said: "In order to prevent the interference of the Russians, the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Navy will immediately go forward to intercept all ships of any nationality heading to Tianjin Military Port. The Navy's Indian Ocean Fleet cruised off the coast of the Indian port of Mumbai to demonstrate to the British our determination to unify the country, and if the British forcibly intervened for the sake of their treaty with the Manchus, the Indian Ocean Fleet would break the whole of India's voyage and sink all ships except passenger ships. ”

Almost all the people in the audience were holding their breath and listening attentively to the Führer's personal strategic deployment, and Gao Qi, Zhang Zheng and others seemed to have returned to the time when they fought the British devils and the French devils in Guangzhou, and the Führer personally deployed and even went into battle with guns! Lin Haijiang paused and continued: "The First Army of the Empire will attack and advance along Yangzhou, Nantong, Yancheng and Linyi will attack Tai'an, an important town in Shandong, and attack the west of Jinan from the west, the Second Army will attack and advance along Nanjing to Xuzhou and the First Army will attack Jinan, the Third Army will attack and advance from Hefei to Zhoukou and Kaifeng, directly threatening Zhengzhou, the Fourth Army will attack and advance from Wuhan, and attack Zhengzhou through Xinyang and Zhumadian, the Fifth Army and the Sixth Army will start from Wuhan and attack Xi'an through Xinyang and Nanyang, and the mountain infantry will be the first. The Second Corps will divide its troops into Sichuan by two routes, and take Guiyang and Chengdu directly, respectively, and the River Gunboat Corps will send all the hulls to cover the Marine Brigade and the mountain infantry to go up the river one step! The corps directly under the Command transferred the Imperial Head Division to the First Army Corps, and the remaining Seventh Army Corps and Eighth Army Corps were the second echelon, keeping a distance of 50 kilometers from the first echelon, and the Imperial Fortress Garrison Corps, Hainan Fortress Garrison Corps, and Guangzhou Garrison Corps were transferred to form the Ninth and Tenth Supplementary Corps as strategic reserves! The first phase of the campaign should be to conquer Jinan, Taiyuan, and Shijiazhuang as the campaign nodes, and the interval between the second phase of the campaign and the first phase of the campaign is only 10 days, and the Production and Construction Corps will transfer 300,000 soldiers and 2 million former migrant workers to support the logistics supply of the troops, and 50,000 garrison troops from Hunan, Hubei, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi to cooperate with the imperial military police to restore social order in the recovery area! ”

Lin Haijiang looked at his excited subordinates and nodded with satisfaction, what he wanted was this kind of extremely high morale, because the glory of a soldier can only be obtained through war, a soldier who has not experienced war is not a real soldier, only war can make real soldiers boil, soldiers are only born for honor and blood, and soldiers born in peacetime can only be born at the wrong time.

Lin Haijiang looked at the generals who had already begun to discuss excitedly in a whisper, and continued with a slight smile: "If the first phase of the campaign can be completed within two months, then it will be entirely possible for our army to recover Yanjing City before October, and the combat mission of the second phase is mainly to use the 1st to 4th Corps to cooperate with the Corps directly under the Command, the 7th and 8th Corps and the reserve to participate in the suppression of the Manchu Qing, and the Marine Corps will concentrate five to seven brigades of troops to carry out a forced landing at Dagu Pass, and I ask all units to annihilate the enemy army under field conditions as much as possibleIf the remnants of the Manchu Qing shrink their defenses, they will use various methods to besiege and persuade them to surrender, and even give them a way to retreat to the northeast, if I am an intact Yanjing City, understand? ”

"Yes!" The generals in military uniforms who attended the meeting immediately stood up and saluted, and Zhang Yunji also hurriedly stood up, but found that he was not a soldier and would not salute, so he had to stand in place in embarrassment, Lin Haijiang waved his hand and said: "The second phase of military operations must not be delayed beyond November, because most of our officers and soldiers are not adapted to the combat conditions in the cold region after winter, so the third phase of combat missions will be put into the spring of next year, completely wipe out the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and be ready to fight with the Russians. If the Russians refuse to withdraw from Heilongjiang, we will wipe them all out, and then send the main force of the Imperial Navy to sweep all the industrial cities and shipyards along its coast, and deal with the polar bear ruthlessly, and rush for his life as soon as he strikes, so that he can be afraid, so that he will not dare to start a war lightly! ”

Lin Haijiang turned his gaze to Zhang Yunji and said: "The army has not moved the grain and grass first, the scale of this campaign, the number of mobilized troops, and the long duration of the campaign are probably rare since the establishment of the empire, so the logistics must be fully prepared, especially the winter clothes of the participating troops, no matter how difficult it is, we must keep at least 300,000 sets, because we need to station at least 200,000 troops in Pingjin and Shanhaiguan in North China throughout the winter, in case the Qing court and the Russians have any small moves, This time, the main force of the Qing court, Beiyang and the Mengman Eight Banners of Seng Lingqin, were both annihilated by our army, so the resistance of the Qing court may not be so fierce, mainly to ensure the rapid deployment of logistics supplies for each army! I'm still very relieved that you're doing things! ”

Then Lin Haijiang announced that after the end of the three-stage campaign, the empire will issue a recovery commemorative medal to all the active duty soldiers, reservists, garrison troops, and soldiers of the production and construction corps who participated in the recovery operation, and the restoration medal before the liberation, the imperial recovery medal from the first to the fifth level, and according to the different periods of joining the imperial team, the imperial medal of honor will be awarded from level one to five, and the military command department will also award the medal of bravery, the sword medal, etc. according to the performance of each unit after the battle, and now the medal is simply the poison of the imperial generals. The generals with bare chests have long been about to go crazy for the medal, and occasionally some subordinates have won the fifth-class Medal of Bravery, and the officers who issued it have to be jealous and their eyes are red, it is precisely because of the unprecedented strictness of the Chinese Empire's medal approval system that the gold content of the medal is extremely high!

However, at this moment, Zhang Yunji didn't hear what Lin Haijiang said about the medal, he knew that this was the head of state eating sweet dates for himself, hundreds of thousands of troops from the south to the north to make strategic advances, and the two armies that marched into Sichuan and Shaanxi, the head of state really planned to exhaust people and not pay for their lives! When Zhang Yunji sighed for his life, Gao Qi, Zhang Zheng and other generals were laughing about the battle with a spring breeze, especially the first army to the fourth army and the army directly under the headquarters were almost more energetic, and they were all ready to be the first to fight Yanjing to capture the Qing court alive The empress dowager of the two palaces and the Tongzhi emperor.

Almost all people knew in their hearts that the Manchu Qing Dynasty's qi had come to an end, and since Zeng Guofan's death, the Qing court had lost its strategic capital to compete with the Chinese Empire, and after only a little more than a year, how much training could the so-called 200,000 troops of the Qing court get? And how many more arms can the Russians provide? These are not important now, now the former troops can accept some deserters from the Qing court every day, some soldiers even defected with weapons, of course, the Qing court for defecting soldiers if caught are generally buried alive or light the sky lantern, the result is that the more cruel means make the more soldiers flee, the army recruited by the Qing court has fallen into a strange circle, the officials are busy making money, and the soldiers are thinking about how to escape every day, for such an army, after the army of the Chinese Empire is pressed, I'm afraid the result will be devastating.

The most important thing is that this is the last battle against the Qing court, after the war, if it is really the same as the news revealed by the General Staff, the empire will be divided into several major military regions, then the commander of the military region will inevitably be selected from the existing corps commanders, the General Staff, the Military Command Department, the Military Justice Department, the Logistics Department, and the Imperial General Armament Department Many of them only have deputies and no chief officers, I am afraid that after the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the empire will have a promotion rain, if you can't catch up with this opportunity, then for these corps commanders, especially Gao Qi, Zhang Zheng, Liu Quansi, Xu Dawei, For an old and qualified corps commander like Zheng Zhipeng, they will be thrown out of the first echelon of the empire, which is absolutely unacceptable for them, who have always regarded themselves as the founding fathers.

(To be continued)