Out of the importance of the Luzon Five Tigers, the next time, Hu Chuyuan met with Li Kaiye, Sun Yuanheng and Zhang Shiying one by one, and his feeling was similar to what Lu Guangquan said, the three of them are very shrewd and capable, they also have ideas, they are willing to use their brains, and they are not small.

The person who really made Hu Chuyuan feel admired was Li Kaiye.

As soon as they met and talked for a while, Li Kaiye put forward his entire idea of the Huguang Corps, and in addition, he also talked about the ongoing Sino-Chinese war, and his point of view was that he could delay it and take the opportunity to develop the Huguang Corps in Lushun to lay the foundation for the future.

As for the final counteroffensive, he suggested that Jeju be occupied, open up the situation, and force the Sahonto navy to a decisive battle, while the victory would continue to occupy Pusan and block the retreat of the Samoto army in Korea. If the advantage is large enough, it will further occupy Nagasaki and strive to completely annihilate its own army.

Even after the end of the war, the permanent occupation of Jeju would have an absolute deterrent effect on both the sea forces of Honhon, and Korea.

This somewhat bold idea made Hu Chuyuan realize that this person was not just a simple person who could fight.

Genius also needs opportunity, and opportunity will change fate.

This sentence seems to have also been verified by Li Kaiye.

After Lu Guangquan, Li Kaiye, Sun Yuanheng, and Zhang Shiying arrived, the prototype of the Huguang Corps quickly took shape, first of all, the members of the Fuxing Society and the students of the Berkeley Military Academy were closely linked, and around them, the group continued to recruit the recruits who had just arrived according to the establishment and established two new battalions.

Hu Chuyuan originally wanted Lu Guangquan to draw some people from the veterans of the Hunan army as the backbone, but Lu Guangquan was a military expert, and he vetoed this suggestion and completely reorganized a new battalion.

This made Xiao Delong, the general of the Hunan army, not very comfortable, but because of Hu Chuyuan's identity and official position, he didn't dare to say anything.

Hu Chuyuan had already given up the idea of changing the Hunan army into the Huguang Corps, replenished Xiao Delong with a sum of arms and supplies, and then transferred Zhang Yuanchun to the north, and a total of six Hunan battalions of nearly 10,000 troops were sent to the coast of Dalian to deploy defenses, Ye Bojun's land battalion continued to be increased, and was solely responsible for guarding the entire Port Arthur, while Lu Guangquan's Huguang battalion was located inside the port for training.

With the addition of officers, the Huguang Battalion has a total of only 1,037 people, which is said to be the establishment of a newly organized battalion, but in fact it can only be regarded as a vertical, with 43 overseas study officers, most of whom are members of the Fuxing Society, and more than 40 people graduated from the Nanchang and Jiangning Martial Arts Schools and the Fuzhou Artillery Art School.

The average age of Huguangying is only 20.7 years old, and there are many young people between the ages of 18 and 21.

If they can be trained, in the next three or four years, this will be a real iron army.

Lu Guangquan soon proposed a whole new set of training methods, based on the basis of Western-style training methods, coupled with his three years of experience in training and using troops in the Philippines, combined with the characteristics of domestic soldiers.

Hu Chuyuan attached great importance to this, and put forward three new requirements on the basis of Lu Guangquan: first, eliminate illiteracy, and the army is a military academy; 2. Discipline first, strengthen training and drills; 3. Organize specialized ideological education institutions to unify the thinking of the whole army.

From the first day of the Huguang camp, Hu Chuyuan devoted himself to it, personally handling all kinds of affairs in the Huguang camp every morning, and only handling other official duties in the afternoon and evening.

Every day, as soon as the military horn sounded, Hu Chuyuan got up in a hurry and followed the soldiers out to work, the soldiers trained, and he inspected on the side.

These days, the weather is extremely hot, Lu Guangquan still leads the team to run around Baiyu Mountain for mountain cross-country long-distance running, which was five kilometers a few days ago, but recently it has become eight kilometers, and it will increase to ten kilometers later.

From top to bottom, everyone has to run.

The Fuwei battalion beside Hu Chuyuan, under the leadership of General Li Cunyi, conducted the same training together.

Hu Chuyuan personally participated in the design of all training courses, queue training, physical training, military skills training, tactical drills, cultural classes, history classes, and patriotic education, and he grasped them one by one, and worked hard to ensure that this army could develop as he expected.

The soldiers' food, wear, living, training, and study are all under his control, and the regular diet must be very good.

The winter in the Northeast is very cold, and it is still summer, so he has already begun to prepare winter clothes, everyone has a set of cotton jackets and a set of thick coats, cowhide suede boots, and coarse cloth socks.

In terms of firearms, he is fully equipped with the new Jiangnan rifle, which is much better than the old Mauser 71-84 rifle, and more stable than the Lebel rifle equipped by France, but it is a little rough, but it is also durable and not prone to failure.

The disadvantage is that the magazine can only hold five rounds, and the range and power of the Model 1888 rifle is slightly smaller, which is roughly the same as the Lebel Model 1886.

In the secluded and busy place of Lushun, training an army in such a way, Hu Chuyuan felt an indescribable satisfaction and was full of expectations.

Here in the Beihai Combined Fleet, Hu Chuyuan didn't have much heart, he transferred Ye Fu to supervise the fleet, and Lin Yongsheng, Deng Shichang, Lu Han and others took their own deputies, each performing their duties.

The main force of the navy has been transferred to Nagasaki and has been stationed there ever since, mainly relying on the northern line of the sea to supply the DPRK, and has not launched another provocation against the navy.

Hu Chuyuan, on the other hand, was not in a hurry to fight a decisive battle with the Yueben Navy, and while continuing to build ships, he reorganized his training in Lushun, strengthened his combat strength, reequipped himself with new picric acid shells, and conducted more intensive tactical training to prepare for a real decisive battle.

On the other hand, he did prepare for the raid on Jeju as the first step of the counteroffensive, but continued to disguise his surname in Keelung, Taiwan, and it seems that on the surface, Keelung was still the first battle of the counteroffensive, and also forced Yuben to strengthen deployment and vigilance in the Ryukyu Islands and the southern part of Kyushu Island.

In July, the Huguang battalion ushered in the second expansion, with more than 2,000 school-age recruits drawn from Hunan and Hubei to join the army, and the scale of the Huguang battalion reached a new battalion.

In August, the Huguang battalion was expanded for the second time, and two new battalions were formed, with a total of 7,133 people.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the summer in Lushun is the same, it is extremely hot, and only at night will it be cool with the sea breeze.

That night, Hu Chuyuan had just fallen asleep when Chen Shanyuan hurriedly woke him up.

Two hours ago, Pyongyang finally suffered the first large-scale invasion by the Yue army, and the two sides are now roughly equal in strength, with Song Qing commanding more than 20 battalions of Huai troops, about 20,000 people, seizing relatively good defensive points and surrounding high ridges and fortresses.

Because there has always been a supply of materials by sea, the Huai army is not bad in terms of artillery ammunition, and Hu Chuyuan preemptively transferred 6,000 Jiangnan rifles from the United States, and the supply of ammunition is also sufficient.

Hu Chuyuan got up and looked carefully at the telegram sent by Chen Shanyuan, and after only half of it, he almost scolded his mother.

It turned out that Song Qing actually asked the main force of the Beihai Combined Fleet to enter the port of Taedong River in Pyongyang to assist him in repelling the Yue army, otherwise, he would have been unable to support it, and said that the main force of the Yue army was more than 100,000 people, coming from all directions.

"Rubb, old rubbish!"

Hu Chuyuan scolded angrily, crumpled the telegram fiercely, and stepped on it hard.

Chen Shanyuan was speechless for a while.

At this time, Lan Jianshu, Huang Jianxun, Sun Daoren, Lu Guangquan, and Li Kaiye walked into Hu Chuyuan's grass house one after another, Lan Jianshu was the most important staff officer around Hu Chuyuan, so he first asked Hu Chuyuan: "My lord, do you want to support the Song supervisor?" ”

Hu Chuyuan scolded: "Fart." In the area of Pyongyang, only one and a half divisions were mobilized, with the 6th Kumamoto Division as the main force, plus two brigades to assist in the battle, a total of only 20,000 people, and Song Qing also had more than 20,000 people, and they all occupied the best and most dangerous positions, and we already had six gunboats and two frigates stationed there, what else did he want? He has more artillery than himself, and he has hoarded a lot of materials, if these arms and materials are all robbed by himself, Liu Mingchuan will not want to hold Dandong anymore. Tell Song Qing...... Send a telegram to Lord Liu Mingchuan and ask him to tell Old Supervisor Song that it doesn't matter if he can't win the battle, if he leaves all those arms and materials to himself, I will continue to cut off his head, and if the materials can't be withdrawn, they will be blown up! ”

"Yes!"

Lan Jianshu received the order and immediately returned to give the order.

Li Kaiye was very unconvinced, and asked Hu Chuyuan for orders: "My lord, send us to the Huguang camp, if you don't want more, 3,000 people can help the Huai army defend Pyongyang." ”

Hu Chuyuan immediately shook his head and said, "The current situation has not yet reached the point of killing chickens and taking eggs. ”

Where could he continue to sleep peacefully, and soon held a meeting in the lobby to discuss countermeasures.

He had already informed Song Qing in advance of the information that he was going to launch a general attack during this time, and he also felt that although Song Qing was a little older, he still had some prestige and ability after all, and it was not a problem to support this general attack by relying on the large amount of supplies and assistance he gave by sea.

Now it seems that Song Qing is also a rice bucket, but an old rice bucket.

Chen Shanyuan sorted out the new information, and the facts proved that Song Qing was powerless, and he said that Ben had just bombarded Longshan with dense artillery for more than an hour, and the three Huai military camps stationed here fled in disregard of the order, and the troops of more than 3,000 people were actually reduced to zero, and they fled without knowing where to go.

As soon as Yongsan-ri was lost, he immediately took advantage of the high ground and indiscriminately bombed the entire Pyongyang city and the surrounding positions. Commander Wei Rucheng on the left flank fled first, but he was able to escape with a few battalions intact.

Song Qing himself held the six battalions, and Ma Jinxu on the right flank was still holding on together, and the two divisions together were less than 10,000, and they suffered heavy damage.

After confirming these news, Hu Chuyuan could only sigh, just when Lan Jianshu came back from sending electricity, he asked Lan Jianshu to continue to send electricity directly to Song Qing, take away all the materials that could be taken away, and if they couldn't take it away, they would be blown up and burned immediately, and the remnants of the army retreated to Nampo under the protection of the fleet, and he sent people to Nampo Port to increase the defense for a period of time to help them withdraw from the Pyongyang battlefield.

At this time, Ye Bojun had already rushed back urgently, and when he heard that Hu Chuyuan was going to increase his troops to defend Nanpu Port, he immediately asked for orders to fight.

Hu Chuyuan thought for a moment.

Six battalions of the Hunan army, with a total of more than 10,000 people, guarding Dalian, which is the gateway to Port Arthur, cannot easily move troops, Lu Guangquan's Huguang battalion has just been established, and now it is too easy to be hit on the battlefield.

What's more, at present, only Ye Bojun's Fuzi battalion can board the troop carrier in the shortest possible time.

After thinking about it, he agreed to Ye Bojun's request and asked Ye Bojun to take four battalions to increase troops in Nanpu by sea.

Taking advantage of the high tide now, Ye Fu was temporarily ordered to lead the first detachment of the North Sea to escort Ye Bojun, with a total of four ironclad ships, six ironclad cruisers, two Xinyangwu-class cruisers and two Chunyu-class destroyers going to sea.

(To be continued)