Chapter 66: Deng Zhengqing
Thinking that his land commander had been swept away, Li Chenglin was extremely annoyed, but he couldn't imagine that the two sides were now facing each other in front of the camp.
It's no wonder that Li Chenglin is helpless, because the current green battalion soldiers are really rotten.
The Green Battalion was originally one of the standing soldiers of the Qianzhao Dynasty. In the early years of Shunzhi, the Bo people incorporated the Min Army and other Central Plains soldiers with reference to the old system of the Min Army, with the battalion as the basic unit to organize, with the green flag as the symbol, called the green battalion, also known as the green flag soldiers. The total number of soldiers in the green battalion of the Qian's dynasty increased or decreased from time to time, and it was about 600,000 before Xianfeng, which was three or four times more than that of the Eight Banners. Before the middle of the Qianchao Dynasty, the green camp was still called elite. However, after a long period of peace, the business was slackened and became increasingly corrupt. Since the early years of Jiaqing to suppress the uprising of the Sichuan Chuxiang Sect, it has been unable to be effective, and when the long-haired bandits were suppressed in the Xianfeng period, they have been defeated repeatedly, losing the role of the standing army, and the system of the green battalion only exists in the name. It is not surprising that the Shandong Green Battalion soldiers under Li Chenglin can give the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division Battalion such a beating.
The Rong Deng Sailors, who also belong to the Green Battalion system, are actually very bad, and their combat effectiveness is extremely poor, but many of them are pirates from Zhao'an, fierce and aggressive, and this time they are fighting for their lives, and they burst out with strong combat effectiveness on the spot, and they can defeat the Green Battalion soldiers who came to suppress it with less than more.
Li Chenglin had no choice but to arrange for someone to report to Ding Zhihuang and ask him to think of a way quickly, he really didn't have any ruts here.
In the sailor camp over there, Zhang Zongchuan's heart was also uneasy.
Because he didn't know how it would end.
All his hopes now are pinned on Beiyang.
After all, this matter was news from Beiyang!
"My lord! See! There's a foreign boat over there! A pro-soldier reminded Zhang Zongchuan.
Zhang Zongchuan was shocked, and quickly took the clairvoyant (monocular) and looked in the direction of the sea.
Sure enough, on the surface of the blue sea, a small black dot with smoke appeared.
Zhang Zongchuan stared at the black dot, the black dot became larger little by little in the clairvoyant, and finally, the figure of a British cruiser appeared.
And on the mast of this British cruiser, a huge golden dragon flag on a red background was fluttering in the wind.
Zhang Zongchuan didn't look at the nameplate of the cruiser's hull to know the identity of the cruiser.
The "Princess Heshuo" of the Beiyang Naval Division!
Because whether it is the Harbour Master or the Beiyang Naval Division, the steam warships owned by them are all French-style and British-style warships, and this is the only one!
"It's the ship of the Beiyang Naval Division." Zhang Zongchuan said, his eyes still fixed on the clairvoyant mirror.
"The ship of the Beiyang Naval Division? Will they be here to suppress us? A soldier asked, a little alarmed.
"It's hard to say." Although Zhang Zongchuan's heart was relieved, he deliberately said that he was very panicked.
"What then?" One of the generals asked with a sad face.
"Commander Ding is on the ship." Zhang Zongchuan said quietly, just now he had seen the general flag of Ding Yuting, the commander of the Beiyang Naval Division.
Because of the relationship between the imperial court system, only the Fujian Navy Division (i.e., the Xiamen Navy Division), the Guangdong Navy Division, and the Yangtze River Navy Division have set up commanders, and the rest of the Navy divisions only have commanders, and the Ship Administration, Beiyang, and Nanyang are no exception. It's just because the Beiyang Naval Division and the Ship Administration Naval Division are now the most powerful, and they are the commanders of these two naval divisions, both of which have the rank of admiral. Today's commander of the Beiyang Naval Division is Ding Yuting, and the commander of the Shipmaster Naval Division is Pei Jinquan.
"Commander Ding is a kind person, he is here, we will be fine!" Hearing Zhang Zongchuan say that Ding Yuting, the commander of the Beiyang Naval Division, was coming, the faces of some officers and soldiers of the Dengzhou Naval Division showed joy.
Ding Yuting's word Yuting, the number of chapters, is a native of Lujiang, Anhui. After joining the Huai Army, he was initially attached to the Yangtze River Water Division. In 1874, Li Shaoquan founded the Beiyang Naval Division, and he was transferred to Zhili. Ding Yuting was simple and honest, amiable, and respected by his subordinates, and at this time he learned that it was Ding Yuting who came to suppress him, not the "cool official" Ding Zhihuang, and the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division Battalion were naturally overjoyed.
At this time, on the opposite side of the naval camp, Li Chenglin also noticed the appearance of the "Princess Heshuo".
"They Beiyang Naval Division, it's really timely!" Li Chenglin also recognized Ding Yuting's general flag on the "Princess Heshuo", and said something stupid.
Soon, the "Princess Peshuo" approached the shore and lowered several dinghys, which were loaded with loaded red-clothed sailors.
The military system and training of the Beiyang Naval Division are completely based on the model of the Naval Division, the uniforms and weapons are all French, and the instructors are also French active officers. Because of the eye-catching performance of the navy in Taiwan's battle to expel the Japanese, which was in sharp contrast to the deep twilight of the Huai army, Li Shaoquan realized that his Huai army was no longer sufficient and needed to organize and train a new army, so he set up the Beiyang Navy within the framework of the Beiyang Navy Division with the advice and help of Lin Yizhe, and the system and training were comprehensively modeled on the ship administration and navy, and Lin Yizhe specially selected 500 non-Fujian ship masters and sailors to be transferred to Li Shaoquan as the foundation of the Beiyang Navy in order to quickly become an army in Beiyang. In a very short period of time, Beiyang has an elite marine army.
Not long after, the Beiyang Navy went ashore one after another, with a number of about 200 people, far less than the Shandong Green Battalion brought by Rong Dengshui and Li Chenglin, but because of the prestige of the Navy soldiers, both sides did not dare to make any move when they saw the Beiyang Navy landing.
In addition to being afraid of the strong combat effectiveness of the Beiyang naval forces, the cruiser on the sea was also the reason why they did not dare to act rashly.
The "Princess Heshuo" has participated in the Battle of Langqiao and the Battle of the East China Sea, and its brilliant achievements have long been spread at home and abroad through famous newspapers such as "Dianshizhai Pictorial" and "Wanguo Gazette" and "Declaration".
Li Chenglin saw the arrival of the "Princess Heshuo", he wishfully thought that the Beiyang Navy Division was here to "help" himself to suppress the mutiny of the Rongdeng Navy Division, he saw the Beiyang Navy soldiers get off the boat and wade ashore, thinking that Ding Yuting was also among them, and was about to take people to meet, but saw that it was not Ding Yuting who got down from the boat, but another person who exuded a strong murderous aura around him, and couldn't help but subconsciously stop.
This man jumped out of the boat and walked slowly ashore, and beside him, a strong Beiyang sailor led a huge black and yellow dog.
Seeing this huge Chinese pastoral dog, Li Chenglin's heart shrank suddenly.
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