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It rained in Xiamen at the end of April.

It has been eight days since the Japanese army landed in Langqiao [Fengshan, Taiwan], and Liu Xian personally led his soldiers to Xiamen the day before yesterday, and his rapid action made the bigwigs of the two Guangxi cities stupid. Beijing has just received the news, and it has not yet decided whether to fight or not, why has Liu Xian's posture already started? And what surprised the top leaders of the two Guangxi and Guangxi was that not only Liu Xian's posture had been opened, but also the posture of the Chu army had also been opened. What's going on? When did the Qin army get mixed with the Chu army?

The two sides carry out joint operations, which are completely different things. No one is a fool, saying that Zuo Zongtang is doing business with the Qin army, and now he is joining forces with the Qin army, the ghost will not believe it. Then Li Hongzhang's Huai system, whether it is the General Administration of Steamship Merchants or the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, the coal and iron purchased from Qinnan and Hongji every month are not inferior to Zuo Zongtang, why didn't Li Hongzhang say a good word to Liu Xian?

But now the alliance of Qin and Chu has become imperative, Liu Xian saw the current world yesterday, today, his four ironclad gunboats combined with the eight gunboats of the shipmaster and sailor division, including Yangwu, Fuxing, Fubo, Anlan, Zhenhai, Feiyun, Ji'an, Zhenwei, have sailed proudly to Tainan, where the Japanese army is infested, under the leadership of Admiral Peng Chuhan and Ri Yige, the director of the shipmaster and sailor.

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Liu Xian's four ironclad gunboats have good combat effectiveness, and the leading Shi Qingyan, Du Chun, Wang Fuyou, and Li Zhenghui are also old men who took refuge when he went to work with Zhang Shoudai in Chengdu, and they were born as shipwrights. Water literacy, before being transferred to the Navy. All four are mid-level officers with the rank of squadron leader or above. Although they didn't know anything about modern ships and warfare at first, they learned these days. With the words and deeds of those British veterans and instructors hired by Liu Xian, even if Liu Xian removed all the British from the ship, Shi Qingyan and the four of them could take his soldiers to start the ship and go to sea to fight. However, Liu Xian will not cut off his arms and drive away all the British, how much combat power can he have left of his four ironclad ships? Although the total number of Britishmen who are still on the gunboats of the Qin army is less than fifty, each of them holds the most critical position on the battleship. For example, the navigator, for example, the gun chief, for example, the wheel commander. For example, the first mate......

It was precisely because he was really not worried about the level and level of his officers that Liu Xian had no intention of fighting for the command of the United Fleet at all. However, the level of Peng Chuhan, an old-fashioned sailor general, is also enough! has been in the Yangtze River for half his life, and he has just been transferred to Fujian this year, and Liu Xian really has no confidence in him. Perhaps, he is not even as good as those graduates of the driving class of the Mawei Ship Master School. Look at the latter's series of shining lists, Luo Fenglu, Liu Buyun, Ye Bojun, Fang Boqian, Lin Tongshu, Lin Taizeng, Li Dazhang, Yan Fu, Qiu Baoren, Lin Yongsheng, Ye Zuqi, Xu Shoushan, Huang Jianxun, Zhang Cheng, Lin Guoxiang, Lu Han, Deng Shichang, Sa Zhenbing, Ye Chen, Lin Yingqi, etc., Liu Xian's eyes were red when he saw it! In fact, the 'front' commander of the fleet should be the Frenchman Riyig.

"Liu Hou is kind-hearted, not in a hurry when facing battle, and not impatient when facing the army. What a general's style. In the next is absolutely too late. ”

After Liu Xian met with Zuo Zongtang, Zuo Zongtang took a boat back to Fuzhou to continue to sit in the town, and the affairs of Taiwan were handed over to Liu Xian and Liu Dian. This navy is open, and Liu Dian can't see half a minute of anxiety on his face. Talking and laughing with Liu Xian, he is funny and knowledgeable. But before the two sides of a game of Go were played, Liu Xian knew. Liu Dian's heart was upset. What level does he play Go? is better than a rookie, barely out of the realm of stinky chess baskets. And a considerable part of it accounts for the 'chic and novel' light, to the level of Liu Dian. It completely swept away him. Liu Dian fell into the downwind and fell into the downwind, does this mean that he is in a mess, does it mean that Liu Dian himself is a stinky chess basket?

How many of these traditional Chinese Confucian scholars stink from playing chess? Liu Dian's hand talk is not famous, but there are no rumors of stinky chess baskets.

Before a game of chess was played, Liu Dian smiled bitterly and threw a child. His mind is really messed up, and he can't settle down at all, how can he play chess with Liu Xian. After years of operation, the shipmaster and sailor finally achieved initial results, and this naval battle was the time to test the results. The battleship is really going to fight, Liu Dian suffers from gains and losses, and there is no moment of stability in his mind.

He really admires Liu Xian's 'qualitative'. It's not pure flattery.

Liu Xian laughed, "Our army has twelve warships and four ironclad gunboats. The Japanese army has three battleships and one ironclad ship, if they still don't win, all my Chinese men will be called rats? ”

The soldiers of the Qin army don't need to say much, they dare to retreat on the battlefield, and Liu Xian can cut them all when they turn back. Regardless of land or water, the Qin army is at least not afraid of death. And this group of people cultivated by the Harbour Master School is also visible to the eye. Lu Han, Chen Ying, Xu Shoushan, Ye Chen, Lin Linlin, ......, do not mention the Beiyang Naval Division of the original time and space, only say that in the Mawei Naval Battle of the original time and space, Liu Xian can pick out a group from the list of the Ship Master School!

The battle of Taiwan can be called the first major battle since the formation of the shipmaster and sailors, not only the students who have graduated, but also the students who have not graduated from the shipyard school, many of them have also filled into the warship, ready to go through the actual combat tempering. In this way, it can ensure that the officers and men of the coalition army dare to fight to the death, so what else does Liu Xian have to worry about in a battle under Qin Chu's absolute naval artillery superiority?

The Taiwan Strait at this time.

A fleet of as many as fifteen ships is riding the wind and waves and heading for Tainan.

Whether it is the ironclad ships of the Qin army, the shipmaster and sailor of the Chu army, or the three transport ships pulled behind, they can all use the speed of six to eight knots to continue to advance towards the destination on the sea. The high-quality Hongji coal provided enough power for these steam ships.

And not far from this fleet, a British ironclad ship with a rice flag is following the Qin-Chu combined fleet at the same speed and in the open. In the entire China Sea area, the British Far East Fleet can easily dispatch an ironclad ship with excellent performance to watch the battle.

The Combined Fleet began with the Fubo gunboat, which was completed three years ago. The full rotation wheel can run ten knots, and it is also a first-class fast horse in the entire fleet. And fast displacement of 1,300 tons. It can also be safeguarded by the strong firepower of 1 Armstrong 114-pounder (160mm) breech-loading gun, 2 Armstrong 40-pounder (120mm) breech-loading steel guns, and 4 Farrance 120mm breech guns. It served as a search ship. Three or four nautical miles beyond the main force of the fleet, the ship pipe with Beshan Spring.

On April 25, the fleet did not engage the Japanese army, because the fleet did not even sail to Penghu, and it was only at noon the next day that it entered the Penghu Hall. At this time, the Japanese army had just killed the direct makers of the Ryukyu Miyakojima Islanders, the chief of the Peony Society, Aruku and his son. The anti-Japanese Peony Society, the Coats Buddhist Society, and the Female Milk Society are being swept away in three ways, and the base camp is still in the shooting camp.

In other words, the skin of 'revenge and guilt' that the little devil pulled has not been washed yet. He has not yet had time to attack Taiwan's elite zone - the west. [Shooting Liao is the sharpest place in southern Taiwan]

Peng Chuhan didn't care how the Taiwan government was arranging defenses on land now. He only knew that he would lead the team to shoot straight to the squirting liao tomorrow. Even if the Japanese ships saw that the situation was not good and fled, they should be driven to the east as much as possible, so that the army gathered in Xiamen could board the ship and calmly enter the sea to reach the port of Tagou [Kaohsiung]. Then smash the 'army' of Saigo Congdao with one fist!

Wu Qixun, vice admiral of the Penghu Association, was extremely happy about the arrival of the fleet. The Penghu Naval Division of its department is no more than 20 old-style old ships, and the number of soldiers is less than 1,000. The cannons on the fort are all old goods from more than ten years ago, and if Xixiang Congdao really attacks Penghu on a large scale and chokes the gateway to the mainland's sea artery to Taiwan, Lin Zhu is really powerless to resist.

So. Seeing the fleet coming across the sea, the Penghu sailors descended from Wu Qixun, and they all cheered.

At this moment, the Japanese army attacking Taiwan in Tainan. Saigo didn't know at all about the imminent arrival of the Qin-Chu coalition army. At this time, he was talking about coal with the commander of the Japanese fleet, the Japanese Navy Commander Akamatsu Norirashi.

Yes. The Japanese army was short of coal. With the arrival of a second wave of ships from Nagasaki, the entire Japanese surface force had grown from three to five. Nisshin, Mengchun, Mikuni, Takasago, and Osaka, although Mengchun is only less than 400 tons, and Mikuni, Takasago, and Osaka are armed troop carriers, and only the Nisshin with a displacement of 1,500 tons can be regarded as a real third-class cruiser. However, this ship is an iron-wedged wooden hull, and it has been launched for five years, and its combat effectiveness is not at the same level as the prestige and Zhenwei of the Qin army.

These warships have been staying in the Shooting Quarters, and have not been active in a big way, and if it were just them, then the coal that the Japanese army brought with them would have been completely sufficient. It's just that the warship doesn't move, and the transport ship has to move, right? There are now as many as 13 Japanese transport ships docked at the surface of the water. Coal was in short supply, so Akamatsu Zeliang could only take the risk of sending the steamer Mu Yuanwu, carrying more than 100 soldiers, from Tainan around the back mountains to pass through Kamalan and buy coal at the mouth of the chicken coop.

Whether it is Saigo Congdao or Akamatsu Noriyo, they are all worried about the trip of the Muyuanwu. Because the mouth of the chicken coop is different from the shooting liao in Tainan, it has always been a key defensive place for the Qing army defending Taiwan. Entering rashly, the two were really worried about whether the Mu Yuanwu would fight with the Qing army.

Moreover, the climate here in Tainan made the Japanese army distressed. It's too hot, and the climate is very different from Japan, especially in places such as Sheliao, which belong to Fandi and have not been fully developed at all. These southwestern samurai of the Satsuma Domain were greatly uncomfortable, and within ten days of arriving here, dozens of people had already fallen ill.

This situation was completely unexpected by Saigo Congdao. The Japanese soldiers and the natives of Wanwan did not see a few casualties, and so many people were knocked down without adapting to the water and soil.

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