Hu Chuyuan finally finished reading the information, then raised his head, glanced around, and looked at everyone here, these are the backbone of the Chinese Navy, and Togo Heihachiro was born in the same era and was born as a person of the same era.

He didn't know if one of these people could give birth to a god of war of the Chinese Navy, he hoped it was a little.

At this time, he spoke: "After the three divisions are temporarily merged into the Beihai Combined Fleet, they will also have to protect the merchant shipping in Tianjin and the Yellow Sea. ”

"What......?"

Liu Buyun was shocked, and fire burned in his angry eyes.

Hu Chuyuan glanced at him coldly and said, "You can not go." ”

Liu Buyun hated: "You...... What are you...... Don't think that Lord Nakado will let it go! ”

Hu Chuyuan said: "This is the result of my discussion with Lord Zhongtang, if you have any worries and dissatisfactions, you can go to him to vent, don't be verbose with me." Since you don't want to go, it's good, then you can only be wronged to be the chief teacher of the newly established Jiangnan Shipbuilding School, and the responsibility of teaching is also heavier than Mount Tai. ”

When everyone heard this, everyone shuddered.

Jiangnan Shipbuilding Academy has a chief teacher, which allows Liu Buyun to go over again, isn't that a disguised dismissal?

That's a bit ruthless, right?

Everyone signaled one after another, wanting Ding Ruchang to take the lead in persuading, but in this matter, Hu Chuyuan had already made it clear to Ding Ruchang in advance, if this thorn was not removed, he would not be able to control the Beiyang Naval Division at all.

At present, Ding Ruchang can only watch from the sidelines.

Seeing that Ding Ruchang didn't dare to come forward, everyone understood in their hearts that Hu Chuyuan was going to take down Liu Buyun from the beginning, and no one dared to say anything.

Liu Buyun's teeth itched with hatred, but what could he do, he just glared at Hu Chuyuan angrily, and shouted: "My subordinates take orders." ”

After saying this, he couldn't wait to run out of the camp quickly.

Hu Chuyuan continued to glance and saw that everyone was afraid of each other, so he ordered: "Fang Boqian is in charge, and the matter of guarding Tianjin will be handed over to you." In that place at the mouth of Tianjin, you can't defend it with just one frigate, so you have to pay attention to building forts to prevent trouble before it happens. ”

Fang Boqian didn't dare to disobey the order, so he could only step forward and say, "The last general will take the order." ”

Hu Chuyuan nodded slightly and continued to instruct the others on their errands.

After urgent consultations with Ding Ruchang, Hu Chuyuan basically decided to take the Beiyang Naval Division as the main framework, and to transfer the main elite warships from the East China Sea Division and the Nanyang Naval Division to concentrate on Port Arthur, that is, to concentrate the elite of the entire navy of the Third Division in Port Arthur, prepare the naval division and land battalion on the spot, and be responsible for assisting in the defense of the port and the surrounding areas, without the Huai Army being responsible.

Weihai Port was used as the second base, leaving a part of the cruisers to carry out coastal patrols, responsible for attacking the supply merchant ships of the Zoben and reconnoitering the main deployment of the Saiben Navy in advance.

In the south, Zhang Cheng's Yangtze River Naval Division moved to the port of Ningbo to take charge of the defense of Shanghai and Jiangnan, while the rest of the country also entered a defensive posture to patrol the coast and guard against thieves attacking merchant ships.

The Taiwan fleet of the East China Sea Division stationed in Keelung did not move, but instead had to reinforce more frigates and gunboats, stubbornly defend a counterattack point, and strike at merchant ships that were supposed to be bound for the South Seas.

Hu Chuyuan's goal was to concentrate the main force to secure control of the Yellow Sea, transport supplies by sea, garrison the Yalu River defense line at Dandong and Yingkou, and engage in a long-term war of attrition with Yueben.

Drag.

This is the best tactic, after the two sides officially declare war, neutral countries will stop arms sales to both sides, the problem is that the United States will not be neutral, the Sino-US cooperation agreement stipulates that the United States has the right to continue to supply supplies to China during the war.

Britain may be neutral, Germany may not, and France may not be truly neutral.

Taking advantage of this advantage, Hu Chuyuan can complete the preparations for the decisive battle within a year, and the front is delayed.

It is said that China's own shipbuilding capacity is not as good as China's, and the supporting facilities of its three major military shipyards are incomplete, and on the whole they are inferior to those of the Fuzhou Shipyard and the Jiangnan Shipyard, and there is also a big difference in the number of warships produced by itself.

It is said that Ben has hardly produced a single ironclad ship in China before, while the Fuzhou Shipyard has produced six, and has the manufacturing experience of three all-steeled ships: Jiangwei-class, Zhenjiang-class, and Chunyu-class.

This gap cannot be bridged in a short period of time, and they will inevitably have to pay the price for taking only shortcuts.

After the three major naval divisions were quickly integrated into the Beihai Combined Fleet and the Taiwan Fleet, the Qing government was in the navy, and it became a foregone conclusion that the strategy of defending the south and attacking the north was basically implemented, forcing the main force of the Qing army to fight a decisive battle with the Qing army's Beihai Combined Fleet in the Korean waters.

If he refused to fight a decisive battle and delayed it until two years later, Hu Chuyuan would change his strategy and adopt the strategy of defending the north and attacking the south, launching a springboard attack from Taiwan's Keelung Port to Yueben, and fighting to the death with the Yueben navy.

In mid-April 1890, Hu Chuyuan led the Beihai Combined Fleet to arrive at Port Arthur, and as soon as he arrived, Ye Zhichao, the commander of Zhili, was defeated in Seoul, with more than 20 battalions and more than 14,000 people easily defeated by the elite Sixth Division and the Ninth Brigade, with more than 6,000 casualties.

Ye Zhichao fled alone, fled back to Pyongyang on horseback, and actually claimed that he had won a big victory, and his wings were defeated, and he had to retreat.

Nerve.

Hu Chuyuan was in North Korea, and it was said that he had ear wires and intelligence officers, and the telegraph line was not laid in vain, and Li Hongzhang had just applied for a commendation for Ye Zhichao, so that the imperial court could continue to reuse this lineage, and Hu Chuyuan sent it up with a fold and asked to be beheaded in battle.

Hu Chuyuan demanded that he be decided, and if he did not behead, he would resign from the post of minister of the North Sea Combined Fleet, and if Pyongyang was defeated again, he would behead Li Hongzhang.

In desperation, Prince Gong could only approve and let Song Qing take the post of garrison supervision in Pyongyang, and behead Ye Zhichao on the spot.

Although Song Qing is a little old, he is an old Jiang after all, and he also has some ability and prestige, in addition to Pyongyang's active defense, he also played the imperial court, thinking that Pyongyang should not be defended to the death, and should continue to retreat to Anju and Jiechuan, relying on the Miaoxiang Mountains and the Cheongchon River to garrison.

The battle of Pyongyang was just to buy a little time, and in addition, although the army was fierce and the number of elites was not more than 10,000, they could retreat all the way north and let them invade North Korea and let them stretch the supply line.

Emperor Guangxu Zaiyan was very angry after seeing the excerpt, but Hu Chuyuan asked Zhang Baixi to pay attention to it in advance, and Zhang Baixi, who was the foreman of the military machine Zhang Jing, analyzed it carefully with Emperor Guangxu Zaiyan, thinking that this matter was feasible and consistent with Hu Chuyuan's six strategies.

Since then, the Huai army's defense line has continued to retreat, but fortunately, Liu Mingchuan has arrived in Dandong and began to reuse the old department Zuo Guigui, Ma Yukun, and Nie Shicheng to reorganize the Huai army.

Hu Chuyuan also did not trust the Huai army stationed around Dalian at all, and on the pretext of supporting Dandong and Pyongyang, he transferred the six battalions here one by one, transferred one battalion from Xu Zhanxu of the Hunan army, and urgently recruited three more battalions from the land battalion of the East China Sea Division to deploy defenses in Dalian and Lushun.

The change in the situation was so wonderful that after the end of the Battle of the Yellow Sea, the Choshu lords headed by Yama Yama Youpeng had reached the verge of being a guest, and the military and political circles of the country were particularly depressed, but with the great victory of the army, all the way to Kaesong and Haizhou, the feeling of the people and the military and political circles of the country became extremely happy.

Originally, it was expected that peace talks would begin after the capture of Seoul, but now they plan to seize Pyongyang and strive to make "North Korea" the ultimate goal.

They were an adventurous people, and at this time, they had concentrated the main naval force and re-established it as the Combined Fleet, which was gathered in the port of Nagasaki to protect the import of goods to Korea, but at this stage, their main means of transportation were through the ports of Busan and Moonsan.

The number of troops in Korea increased rapidly, and the 2nd Sendai Division and the 7th Brigade also entered Korea and formed an encirclement with the 6th Kumamoto Division, preparing to take Pyongyang.

By this time, it was May 1890.

Lushun.

The best military port in northern China, and the only natural ice-free port in the north, has made both Russians and himself salivate.

Port Arthur can be said to be surrounded by mountains on all sides, with only one exit 300 meters wide, and the channel occupies only 91 meters, because the bottom of this channel is relatively shallow, the average water depth is only 5.5 meters, and during the low tide period, large ships need special tugboats when they pass.

Even during the high tide period, the maximum berthing tonnage in the port cannot exceed 30,000 tons, and the maximum tonnage of the channel is less than 12,000 tons.

This basic restriction has meant that Port Arthur will be gradually abandoned after many years, and it will no longer be the best military port, but at this stage, its value is still as attractive as millions of tons of gold.

In Weihai, Li Hongzhang's investment is not much, that is because Weihai is Shandong, while Lushun belongs to the northeast.

The Northeast means too many things to the Qing Zheng Axe, and the defense here can be described as impregnable, there are thirteen forts alone, with a total of 114 giant cannons, and other supporting facilities are readily available, and even the dock and maintenance equipment and personnel here are the best in the north.

After arriving in Lushun, Hu Chuyuan rearranged the personnel, transferred Wu Dezhang and others to Port Arthur, transferred some technical personnel from the Fuzhou Shipyard, increased construction here, and at the same time hoarded a larger scale of arms and materials in Lushun for transfer.

Hu Chuyuan often lives in the Lu Camp of the Water Division, and lives next to Xiao Delong of the Hunan Army and Ye Bojun of the Lu Camp of the East China Sea Division.

Living in such a place, he felt very peaceful.

It is true that he was very surprised by his choice, but he was also willing to accept it, and he hoped that the war would last a little longer, enough for him to truly grasp the military power in his hands.

After being busy for so long, he can finally be a little cleaner and deal with some ordinary affairs with peace of mind.

That night, Lan Jianshu, a staff officer beside him, handed over two lists, one was a prisoner of war in the Yueben Navy, and the other was a list of hundreds of young noncommissioned officers of Hunan and Hubei origins who could be transferred, half of whom had studied at military academies in Europe and the United States.

Hu Chuyuan looked very calm, looked at the list carefully, and found that among the prisoners of war, there was actually a captain of the Navy Daisato Togo Heihachiro, who was the captain who sank the Xinyangwu.

Hu Chuyuan lightly brushed his ink pen over his list, and then drew a cross.

Subsequently, Hu Chuyuan successively crossed out the names of the other four graduates of the British Navy, Dazuo and Shaozuo.

There was a person whose name made him hesitate slightly, and that was Shiki Kayama, the Minister of the Navy, who thought that he would win, so he personally came to supervise the battle on the Akagi, or did he want to take the credit for killing Hu Chuyuan to himself?

Anyway, he was actually captured, and when he was captured, he sat alone in a lifeboat, and Ito Yuhyung was also on the boat with him, and after seeing that all the ships were silent, Ito Yuhyung jumped into the sea and committed suicide.

After thinking about it, Hu Chuyuan decided to give Kayama Shiki a chance to live, regret his life, and bury the Yueben Navy that he had worked so hard to manage, this kind of thing should be very uncomfortable, right?

He handed the list to Lan Jianshu and said, "Divide them into custody, and then ...... It is said that they hanged themselves and died for their country. ”

Lan Jianshu nodded silently and went to do this in person.

(To be continued)