Chapter 37: The Naval Sortie
At the same time that Cai Ye announced his accession to the East China government, the three-way navy in East China also began their work, and the three-way army rushed to the enemy at the same time.
Jiang Fangzhen suddenly thought of the Japanese navy after the navy set off, and it was very likely that the First Fleet would meet the Japanese navy, and he knew that the current East China Navy was not Japan's opponent at all, so he immediately called the German ambassador Hanmi, telling him that Hanmi hoped that the navy in Qingdao could help the East China Navy going north, and Hanmi immediately agreed to Jiang Fangzhen's request, and Hanmi said that the German navy would always follow behind the East China Navy.
The First Fleet, which was heading north, met the Japanese Navy fleet in the waters near Qingdao, and the Japanese Navy waved a flag for the East China Navy to be inspected, while the First Fleet said that this was in the territorial waters of China, and that the Japanese Navy had no right to interfere in China's affairs. Saying that, the First Fleet concentrated all its guns on the Japanese Navy, and the Japanese Navy here was only one of them, and the number and tonnage were the same as those of the East China Navy, and at the same time, the submarines under the sea in the distance received orders from Tang Qianming, the commander of the First Fleet, to support the submarines once the First Fleet opened fire on the Japanese Navy.
The Japanese navy was very angry when they saw that the First Fleet had directly pointed its guns at them, and when did the navy of China dare to shout with the navy of the Great Japanese Empire, this was a provocation to them, and they decided to teach the navy of China a good lesson, and also align the muzzle of the cannon at the navy of East China. The Japanese Navy once again said that you are a provocation against the Japanese Empire, and give you another chance, otherwise you will die. The First Fleet was very angry after hearing the flag bearer's translation, and they all held their breath and wanted to disobey the order and fight with the Japanese Navy, so they directly asked the flag bearer to translate that this is China's territorial waters, not your Japanese territorial waters, and they can fight if they want.
Just when the two sides were about to make a move, the German Navy in Qingdao rushed to the scene, and the German Navy directly waved the flag and said that the East China Navy was a friend of Germany, and now the East China Navy and the German Navy were going to conduct joint military exercises, and the Japanese Navy would immediately withdraw from this sea area, and this was the place where the German and Chinese Navy exercises, otherwise it would be a provocation to our German Empire, and we have the right to attack you.
The First Fleet was very happy after listening to the flag bearer's translation, and had long heard that Germany had a good relationship with the chairman, but he did not expect that they would help the East China Navy in such a way.
Japan's navy withered directly after hearing this, and now the navies of East China and Germany have surpassed them, and once there is a war with Germany, the emperor will directly kill them, although they Japan is now the first power in Asia, but Japan is not Germany's opponent at all, in order not to affect the future plan, Japan will not be an enemy of Germany now, so soon these navies will leave slowly.
After the Japanese Navy left, the German Navy and Tang Qianming of the First Fleet said that they would only follow behind the East China Navy to prevent a recurrence of what had just happened.
Without the obstruction of the Japanese Navy, the First Fleet soon came to the mouth of Dagu in Tianjin, and without saying a word, they began to bombard Tianjin. Since many of the East China Navy were new troops, the accuracy of the shelling was not very high, some flew far away from the target and shot at the houses of those people, and some shot into the sea, and the captains were all scolding them for wasting shells. When the Germans in the back saw it, their mouths opened even wider, and a German soldier asked their captain: "This is the navy of East China, the most powerful navy in this country, and it is too bad, right?" β
The captain exclaimed: "They are all novices who have only been trained for less than a year, and it is great to have an accuracy rate of 30 percent, and now their accuracy rate has reached about 40 percent, which is great, and they are still taught by a group of old and unpopular navy teachers." β
The soldier said in surprise: "How is it possible, after less than a year of training, you dare to almost go off with Japan without going through actual combat?" The accuracy rate has also reached an amazing Cheng dΓΉ, it seems that the East China Army is very powerful! β
"It's no wonder if it's not powerful, do you know who their chairman is? However, the first Chinese person personally praised by His Majesty XiΓ also said that this chairman was a peerless genius, and once he grew up, he was a top figure, and those people he brought to the Berlin Military Academy were geniuses, and His Majesty wanted to keep them in Germany at that time. β
"Your Majesty really praised him, he can't be the genius who graduated before the age of sixteen, right?"
"Yes, you see that after he returned to China, his territory is bigger than the empire, so he has always been the target of the empire."
After the captain and the soldiers chatted a little more, they began to watch the performance of the East China Navy, and after the First Fleet shelled the Dagu Pass, it began to go all the way south along the coastline, shelling wherever it saw the Beiyang Army, and slowly the accuracy began to improve.
When Tang Qianming saw that the accuracy of his soldiers was not high, he went to ask for the consent of the German admiral and took the soldiers to learn from the German navy, and the German navy saw that they were so studious and worked hard to teach them.
The Second Fleet, which went south to Fujian and Guangdong, also reached the vicinity of Fujian, and entered the Taiwan Strait without encountering any obstacles, and began to bombard Fujian as soon as it arrived in Fujian, and the Governor of Fujian had never heard of a navy in East China, or such a powerful navy, and Fujian was shelled for a long time, which made the Governor of Fujian very sad, and the government of the Republic of China did not tell him that there was a navy in East China, and after he escaped from Fujian, he immediately ordered the troops that were attacking Jiangxi to return, and who knew if East China would land where to give him a shot.
The Second Fleet continued south towards Guangzhou, and the Yangtze River Patrol had sailed to the vicinity of Huangshi, preparing to shell the revolutionary troops in Huangshi and Ezhou.
The news that Tianjin and other places were shelled by the East China Navy was quickly learned by Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai jumped up and scolded his mother, didn't the dog say that the East China Navy did not have the ability to sail far? How can I say it now, the intelligence department was directly scolded by Yuan Shikai, what should I do now? Thinking about it, the only way to solve East China is to speed up the attack on East China and solve East China.
And Sun Wen was also shocked after hearing that Fujian was shelled by the East China Navy, didn't the dog say that the East China Navy did not form combat effectiveness? What is this, listening to the soldiers of Fujian say that the East China Navy has gone south, Sun Wen knew that this may be going to Guangzhou, Guangzhou cannot be bombarded, otherwise his economy will not be settled, and immediately ordered the troops who were rushing to Guangxi to return to Guangzhou to protect Guangzhou.
Cai Yi announced that he would join the East China government and immediately launched an attack on Sichuan and Guangxi, in the east of the original Yunnan Army, which is now the East China Southwest Army 20,000 people quickly attacked Guangxi Baise, Guangxi overseer Lu Rongting immediately sent troops to Baise after learning the news, but before halfway to Baise was conquered by the Southwest Army, the Southwest Army went straight to Nanning after conquering Baise.
When he learned that without the help of the Guangdong army, Lu Rongting knew that he couldn't stand it, so he immediately packed up his family and fled to Guilin. And those Guangxi soldiers who were still fighting against the Southwest Army either surrendered or fled after learning that their governor had run to Guilin, and the Southwest Army reached Nanning without encountering any obstacles along the way.
After the Southwest Army arrived in Nanning, it did not advance, stayed in Nanning, and after rectification, began to completely occupy the place west of Nanning.
The 30,000 Southwest Army near Sichuan also began to attack Sichuan, along the way the Southwest Army did not encounter any large-scale battles to reach Yanbian County, in Yanbian County encountered a Sichuan Army of 3,000 people, after a few hours of fighting, the remaining 1,000 Sichuan Army surrendered, the Southwest Army lost more than 600 people, with the weapons given by East China, the combat power of the Southwest Army was directly increased several times, but it was still not skilled enough.
A few days later, the Southwest Army encountered a group of 30,000 Sichuan troops in Dechang County, Sichuan, the war began, the 30,000 Southwest Army carried out a fierce attack on the Sichuan Army with advanced weapons, and many of these Sichuan troops were new recruits, so the Sichuan Army was quickly defeated and lost more than 10,000 people, and finally could only retreat to Meigu County to wait for reinforcements, and the losses of the Southwest Army were not small, and the task of containing the revolutionary army was basically completed, so Cai Yi ordered the soldiers to be stationed in Dechang County.
The Yangtze River patrol finally arrived at Huangshi, and immediately after arriving, they bombarded Huangshi, and the revolutionary army inside was taken by surprise, killing and injuring many soldiers, and an arsenal was also blown up by the patrol by mistake, and the whole Huangshi was a sea of fire, and the patrol continued to move forward and then bombarded Ezhou, and finally set off towards Wuhan under the eyes of the revolutionary army.
When Sun Cannon in Wuhan knew that there was a East China Navy coming straight to Wuhan, he immediately moved to Xianning with a group of core figures of the League, while the revolutionary army in Wuhan was arranging a large number of shore artillery, but because there were too few shore artillery, they also brought some old cannons left over from the former Qing Dynasty that had been used for hundreds of years to defend the East China Navy.
Since the naval attack in East China, the situation that was originally unfavorable to East China immediately began to reverse, which frightened everyone, East China actually has such a powerful navy, no wonder Sa Bingzhen changed to the East China government, especially Guangdong and Fujian provinces, they are afraid of East China's navy, and now Sun Cannon tells them to attack East China.
In order to let the revolutionary army and the Beiyang Army continue to enter Jiang Fangzhen's trap, the East China Army also continued to retreat slowly, giving people the illusion that the East China Army is not good, and when retreating, the East China Army deliberately made itself look like a wolf before leaving, which made the Revolutionary Army and the Beiyang Army fooled, and they wanted to count the revenge of the East China Navy on the East China Army, so this is also ignoring why the East China Army retreated on all fronts when the situation was reversed, which is unreasonable, Only after Cai Ye in Yunnan knew that the East China Army was still retreating, he knew that there was a problem when he looked at the direction of East China's retreat, and then thought of his old classmate Jiang Fangzhen, and he knew that there was a pit waiting for the Beiyang Army and the Revolutionary Army.