Chapter 127: Returning home

After Ren Chao led the army back to Seoul, then the various units of the Tiger Army rushed to Incheon Port, after the Battle of Seoul, Ren Chao reorganized the Tiger Army into two brigades, each brigade has three regiments, plus the brigade directly under the army, each brigade is 6,000 people, in addition to the two infantry brigades, there is also a direct artillery regiment, a guard regiment, and a cavalry regiment. At this time, the total strength of the Tiger Army had exceeded 17,000 men (not counting the navy).

Ren Chao decided to support Shandong, but Seoul could not give up, so he ordered Zhou Tai, the commander of the second brigade, to lead two infantry regiments and cavalry regiments to stay in Seoul, Incheon and other places, with the assistance of the Korean New Army and the Donghak Army, as long as the Japanese army did not increase the number of troops in Korea, it was enough to ensure the safety of Seoul. The rest of the troops totaled six regiments, with a total strength of about 10,000 troops, all of which supported the Shandong battlefield.

Jiaolong fleet only warships and no large troop carriers, so Ren Chao can only requisition civilian ships, although the voyage from Inchon to the Jiaodong Peninsula is not far, but the general small boats are still not complete, not to mention that this may also encounter the Japanese fleet along the way, Ren Chao does not want to die in the sea with the army he worked so hard to build, so he can only requisition large mail ships. However, at this time, due to the war between North Korea, there were very few large ships anchored in the port of Incheon. In the end, only two foreign merchant ships were acquired, an American ship and a British ship, and now they are at war with Japan, these two ships are unwilling to transport troops for the Tiger Army, and there is no way for Ren Chao to use the strong and directly buy these two ships at a high price, as for the protests of the British and Yankees, Ren Chao can't care about it now.

But these two boats can only carry more than 1,000 people at most, and it is okay to make a few more trips, but this will be too risky and will delay time. There is no way for Ren Chao to buy two more ships through the guò system to transport troops, these two ships have almost spent all of Ren Chao's points, before the expansion of the army, the construction of land batteries, each of which requires a large amount of points, the points earned in the Battle of Seoul have long been consumed, and it is quite good to be able to buy these two ships. But even so, it can only transport 4,000 people at a time, and there is no way that the warship can only temporarily act as a troop carrier, without affecting the battle of the warship, the four warships are stuffed with more than 1,000 people, so that only two round-trips can transport all 10,000 troops to Shandong.

After doing this qiē, Ren Chao only waited for Emperor Guangxu's holy decree to arrive, and he could rush to Shandong, but fortunately, Emperor Guangxu did not let Ren Chao wait too long. Emperor Guangxu appointed Ren Chao as the chief soldier of Jiaoao Town (now Qingdao), controlling all the soldiers and horses near Jiaoao, the original Jiaoao Town General Zhang Gaoyuan had led troops to Liaodong before, and was changed to the general army of Henan Town, because Zhang Gaoyuan brought most of the soldiers and horses to Liaodong, in fact, there are not many Qing soldiers near Jiaoao now. And the minister of the Qincha, Nie Shicheng, the governor of Zhili, was left in Korea to take charge of Korean military affairs.

After receiving the holy decree, Ren Chao and Nie Shicheng said hello, and couldn't wait to board the Celestial Empire, and personally led the first batch of reinforcements back to embark on the journey back to Shandong, at this time, the military situation was urgent, and naturally there was no send-off banquet or anything like that, not to mention that Nie Shicheng also wished that Ren Chao would leave early, as long as Ren Chao stayed in North Korea for a day, he would never have real power, and the taste of being overhead was really uncomfortable, and now he could finally send this guy away, and it was too late for Nie Shicheng to be happy!

On the beach of Jiaoao Port, more than a dozen Qing soldiers are sitting idly on the ground chatting, and the content of the conversation cannot be how big the boobs of a certain kiln sister in which kiln is, how white the butt of a ** in a nearby village is, and so on. Although the Japanese army occupied Weihai, Yantai and other places, the ultimate goal of the Japanese army was to attack Huanglong and capture Beijing, and Jiaoao was not enough to threaten the heavy garrison of the Japanese army, so the Japanese army did not capture Jiaoao. Although the imperial court has ordered the Jiaoao garrison to take strict precautions, but these soldiers who are usually idle don't care at all, and let them go their own way, the little devil will come to Jiaoao a long time ago, why wait until today, since the little devil is not coming, then guard against a fart! As for the national event of resisting the Japanese, it has gone beyond the scope of concern of these soldiers.

"Do you know where Lao Tzu spent the night last night?" A Qing soldier with pockmarks on his face said with a lewd smile.

"Where? It's not like running into the kiln again! A skinny Qing soldier next to him said with a smile.

"I haven't paid my money for almost half a year, where does Lao Tzu have the money to go to the kiln, even if he pays silver, he will be deducted by those who are officials, how much can really go to Lao Tzu's hands, let alone go to the kiln, he can't even support his wife and children." The pockmarked face Qingbing couldn't help but complain.

"Then where are you going to mess around, look at you now you look like you're going to die, you must have been tossed by that girl last night, let's talk about which girl it is." Skinny asked with a smile.

"I sue you! It's that Cui ** in Wang Zhuang, don't you say that this Cui ** is not worse than those kiln sisters, the kung fu in bed is quite good, fortunately Lao Tzu is in good health, you will definitely be played to death if you don't need to spend a night. The pock-faced Qingbing said with a look of reminiscence.

"Wang Er Mazi, you fucking brag! I've also seen that Cui **, people will take a fancy to you. A bearded soldier next to him pouted and said.

"Hey, Li Dabeard, don't look down on people, although Lao Tzu doesn't look very good, but he can't stand that aspect of being strong, as long as a woman has tried, she will definitely not forget hehe~!" The pock-faced Qingbing continued to boast.

The bearded man snorted coldly, and continued to lie on the beach basking in the sun, with a look of disdain, clearly writing the word disbelief, and the skinny was also a strange laugh, although he didn't speak, it seemed that he was only bragging in front of Wang Ermazi.

Wang Er Mazi felt that his authority was being challenged, so he stood up with a bang, pointed to the sea and said loudly, "Don't believe it, my Wang Er Mazi is a manly man who stands up to the sky, and he can smash a pit with spit, when has Lao Tzu ever bragged and lied!" I dare to swear to the sea, I swear~! Wang Er Mazi looked in the direction of the sea, and suddenly stopped when he said this, and his open mouth was enough to stuff a duck egg.

"Why don't you dare to swear, you're also afraid of being thundered by the sky!" The bearded man next to him who was closing his eyes and recuperating heard that Wang Er Mazi suddenly fell silent, and thought that this kid didn't dare to swear, so he couldn't help but say sarcastically.

"Look, there's ~ a ship coming!" Wang Er Mazi stammered.

"Look at your cowardice, isn't it just a boat, there is no ship on the sea one day!" The bearded man grinned and continued to mock.

"Big ships, several! It can't be a little devil's warship! Wang Ermazi's legs trembled with fright at this time, and he said tremblingly.

As soon as Wang Er Mazi said this, more than a dozen Qing soldiers who were sitting or lying down stood up all of a sudden, and everyone looked at the sea together, and sure enough, they saw a few black shadows on the sea in the distance, although they were too far away to see clearly, but with experience, it can be seen that these boats are not small fishing boats of nearby fishermen.

"It's not good, eighty percent of the little devils really called!" The leading Qing soldiers couldn't help but shout.

As soon as they heard this, more than a dozen Qing soldiers immediately turned their heads and ran towards the shore, "What are you running, even if you are a little devil, you won't be able to get there for a while, hurry up and inform the general!" He shouted loudly as he pretended to be calm.