Chapter 39 The Soul of the Beiyang Ship
"The First Sino-Japanese War was actually a collision between two forces with different national ideas."
"The feudal society of the Qing Dynasty did not have the concept of state and nation in the real sense, a small group of royal families was the state, and a small group of literati were the nation, but under the wave of industrialization all over the world, the small peasant economy of the feudal society that rose at sunrise and earned daily income could not support the development of productive forces at all. Therefore, in the face of a more advanced social form from the West, the backward side is backward in all aspects of economy, culture, and military, and there is no possibility of victory at all. Even if the people who sat on the throne back then were Qin Shi Huang, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, it was useless, let alone such a stormy and verge of extinction. ”
"Before the First Sino-Japanese War, the power struggle between the upper echelons of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was in shape, and I told you before that the struggle between the imperial party and the rear party was fierce."
"When the First Sino-Japanese War broke out, Emperor Guangxu was in Wengtong? Waiting for the instigation of a vote of fools is resolutely the main battle, the problem is that these people are full of ideas about weakening Li Hongzhang and then getting credit for themselves! And Li Hongzhang is a Westernist, with the hat of the post-party, and he also holds the military power, he has always been a thorn in the side of the conservatives of the Qingliu Imperial Party, and he is the same as Weng? There are also personal grievances, the so-called Qingliu at that time, desperately instigated the war before the war, and desperately dragged his legs behind his back to kill the Huai army during the war. So for most of the war, Li Hongzhang's Huai Army and the Beiyang Fleet singled out the whole of Japan. ”
On the Sephiroth, in the hall where the worship service was held for the believers on the first deck, Lin Han explained to a group of students the political pattern of China and Japan before the First Wu Dynasty, and conducted a "class analysis" of the behavior of various figures in the upper echelons of the Qing Dynasty at that time, during which he also made comparisons with the "present" from time to time.
Putting aside our personal dissatisfaction with Li Hongzhang's feelings, and analyzing it from his personal point of view, you will understand why he did this. He didn't want to go to war because he knew very well what the result would be once the war started: Guangxu would definitely only let his Huai army go, and the Huai army would have no combat effectiveness for a long time. Huai Jun and the Japanese are all together, then he is nothing in the court. At this point, if you compare Zhang Shaoshuai's "non-resistance policy" now, will you feel very similar? ”
"The reason for this situation is that whether it is Zhang Shaoshuai or Li Hongzhang, whether it is today's Northeast Army or the Huai Army forty years ago, they are all one-time armies full of the characteristics of the old era, not a modern army in the true sense."
"The so-called one-time army can only fight one war or even one battle, and when a big war ends, the morale will fail. It was no longer useful, because the backbone of their losses in the war could not be replenished, and their combat strength dropped wildly. The modern army, on the other hand, is different, as the war continues, it has been tempered by the flames of war, but it has become more and more refined and stronger. And today's China, not only the Northeast Army, but most of the domestic armies are not modern armies in the true sense."
In addition to these, Lin Han also explained to the students the actual situation of the Battle of Dadonggou in the First Sino-Japanese War, and the comparison of the strength of the warships participating in the warships of the Chinese and Japanese navies. In his explanation, Lin Han depreciated the Huai army as worthless, but he had a positive evaluation of the Beiyang Naval Division, and took out the exquisite information of the naval battle at that time in later generations to defend it. After the first day, the defeated Beiyang Naval Division was burdened with those stigmatizations, such as rumors such as drying clothes on the barrels of guns, and cleared up.
After explaining the chapter of the Battle of Dadonggou to the students, the Sephiroth was only more than 100 kilometers away from Weihaiwei Port, Lin Han stopped teaching, took out the materials prepared in advance, and asked the students to make wreaths and prepare to go to Weihaiwei to commemorate and pay tribute to the Beiyang Naval Division. In addition to the necessary crew members, the rest of the passengers on the Sephiroth are all Chinese, and in the prayer hall where the students are taught, the double angel statue that is the core of Lin Han's spirit has also been changed by Lin Han and turned into a statue of Emperor Xuanwu suitable for the national conditions of Eastern China.
After lunch, Lin Han stood in the position of the ship, waiting with great anticipation for the "miracle" to appear.
The miracle that Lin Han is waiting for is the soul of the Beiyang ship.
What is the Soul of a Ship? How did the ship soul come about, and apart from Hannah, is there any other ship soul in this world?
Lin Han and Hannah studied these questions for a long time. Even Hannah herself, as the soul of the ship, did not fully understand the mystery of her birth.
What Hannah, as a ship soul, can know is that a warship, a ship of acceptable tonnage, in the process of being built, the expectations of the makers and the thoughts of the sailors and passengers on board gather on the hull, and the most primitive soul-like substance will be produced.
But these invisible, soul-like substances are actually chaotic, insignificant, and incapable of self-awareness. Even a warship of tens of thousands of tons, a warship that embodies the will of all the people of this country, still cannot produce a ship spirit with true self-consciousness like Hannah.
After Jutland, Hannah has a clearer understanding of the soul of the ship.
"I think that my own true face, the essence of the soul of the ship, should be obsession! Every boat has its own soul, but this soul is not as powerful as the human soul. Relative to human beings, they are weak and incomplete, far from being able to form a sense of self. But when a country's fleet is destroyed, the unwilling obsession of those warships, the resentment of sailors, and the regret and disappointment of the people gather and merge into one, and finally form a ship soul with a vague sense of self. ”
"From the point of view of the soul, the time when the soul of a ship has the strongest sense of self is not when the ship he is on is at its peak and absorbs the most expectations, but when a ship is destroyed, they should be like a ghost ship."
After getting Hannah's explanation of the ship's view, when Lin Hanjiling returned to China on the "Sephiroth", he went to the old site of the Mawei shipyard in Fujian, hoping to meet the "good things" that Hannah had encountered there, and could be possessed by the "ship soul" of the Fujian Navy Division that sank during the Sino-French naval war, but unfortunately he stopped at Mawei for a day but found nothing.
Then he was busy killing Chang Kaishen and laying out in the northeast, and only now did he have the opportunity to try his luck in Weihaiwei, the last place where the Beiyang Naval Division was destroyed. Lin Han had already thought that if he couldn't hit the "Great Luck" here, he would wait until he had dealt with China's affairs, and then he would sail out to sea and try again at the old battlefield in Dadonggou.
The Sephiroth was less than thirty kilometers away from Weihaiwei, but the sea was still calm, and the Beiyang Naval Division's soul that Lin Han had been waiting for did not appear.
In January, the temperature in the Yellow Sea is extremely low, and even in the offshore areas, the cold sea breeze blows on the face, and it hurts like a knife. Lin Han stood on the boat for less than half an hour, and frost slowly formed on his eyebrows. The Sephiroth is a small world that belongs to Lin Han, and the harsh temperature environment outside has no effect on him. It's just that he has been waiting for the "Beiyang Ship Soul" for a long time, and Lin Han is a little anxious.
Weihaiwei is already close at hand, looking at it from afar, you can already see the shadows of the forts on both sides of the port, more than 30 years ago, the Beiyang Naval Division, once known as the first navy in Asia, was completely wiped out here.
"Still didn't come?"
Looking at the coastline not far away, Lin Hai sighed regretfully, and was about to turn around when a voice came.
"Sir, Weihaiwei has arrived, and the students are ready."
It was Wang who spoke, and she draped a piece of clothing on Lin Han as she spoke.
"The sea breeze is strong, sir, and you better wear more clothes."
There is no need to look back, Lin Han also knows the king? Looking at his expression and eyes now, it is completely obsessive fanaticism, as a man whose mental age is more than thirty years old, Lin Han knows very well what this kind of look represents.
King? She was one of the students who were evacuated during the Mukden Incident on October 8, and she had been following Lin Han for several months. In fact, among the female students who moved south with Lin Han, there were several good children who looked at Lin Han with similar eyes, and they all squeezed into the Sephiroth without missing a beat.
"Sir, you've been standing for too long, drink saliva to warm up!"
Lin Han turned around, a man with a more kingly figure? The shorter, pretty girl followed up and handed him a cup of hot water, while the other girls dusted off the ice crystals from his head.
"Are you in love with me? But at heart, I'm just a bastard. ”
Lin Han muttered in his heart, he knew that he was standing on the bow of the boat with his hands in his hands, and in the eyes of these girls behind him, he must be as tall and complete as a great wise man who worries about the country and the people, but he knows in his heart that he is definitely not that kind of person.
In his previous life, being looked at by several little girls with such eyes, Lin Han was so happy that he would wake up laughing when he dreamed. But in this era, Lin Han doesn't want to have such a thing as love with other girls.
"For this world, this kind of existence of mine is similar to that of a god, and love is too troublesome and too heavy."
The relationship with Helena and Natasha's twelve holy daughters, Lin Han is just positioned as a saint who is willing to "sacrifice" to the "gods", those girls only want the "grace" of the "gods", and the king? What such a girl wants is love.
Lin Han before the crossing was actually a man who did not have strong feelings. As a seafarer, he has been away from home all the year round, and he has no time to fall in love and does not want to fall in love. Although he has a lot of "friends" at home and abroad, he knows the "defects" of his profession, and he has never thought of marrying those women.
Lin Han felt these fanatical eyes looking at him, and he muttered in his heart: "Gods only need to worship, not love. If a god has a love for a mortal, he will fall into the world. ”
After pretending to turn away the flattering eyes of the girls, Lin Han ordered: "Prepare your classmates, let's start paying respects!" ”
In the sea hundreds of meters away from Liugong Island, a newly tied wreath was thrown into the sea, and together with the wooden model of "Eight Great Distances" that Lin Han had asked someone to make in advance.
One after another, the wooden carved boats were carefully thrown into the sea, during which Lin Han secretly used a little ability to let these wooden carved boats fall smoothly and safely to the sea.
Then the last wooden model was thrown into the sea, and Lin Han did not wait for the "boat" he wanted.
"The ship I'm waiting for hasn't come yet!"
At the same time, the students on board, standing on the side of the Sephiroth, began to sing the same song in unison.
"We're singing today
Drink the cold wine
I'm leaving,
Just make the glass crunch
Let me hold your hand again
Hold your white hand
Goodbye, my sweetheart
Goodbye, my sweetheart
Goodbye, cherish a lot
We're going to go on a march
We're going to go on a march
We're going to Sakura no Kuni
Sakura no Kuni"
This song is Lin Han's pirated version of the network song "We Go to the Land of Sakura" from later generations, the original source of this song is the German Navy's war song "We Go to England", Lin Han got the original score in Germany, and stole the adapted lyrics of the later generations of Internet cattle and taught it to students. (ps: Life writing, the first time to copy and paste the lyrics of a song in such a large paragraph, this feeling, really fucking lazy cool, I suddenly understand why so many authors like to do this when reading books in the past, it was really easy to complete a few hundred words.) Well, disgruntled book friends, you can scold me. )
The lyrics of this song are very pertinent, after the Northeast Incident, Lin Han taught it to students in Beiping, and it was soon sung among students.
After singing, all the students were so excited that they burst into tears, but the "boat" that Lin Han was waiting for was still not "sung".
"It seems that we can only try our luck in Dadonggou after completing China's plan!"
Lin Han sang with the students, but there was no movement at sea, and he could only regretfully ask the captain to sail the ship to Weihaiwei Port.
It docked at Weihaiwei Harbor for supplies, rested for the night, and the next morning, the Sephiroth continued to sail.
Soon after leaving the port, fog suddenly rose on the sea, and the captain was worried about his safety and wanted to return to port, but Lin Han refused. The captain wanted to insist on his opinion, but was beaten back by Lin Han with a handful of banknotes.
The fog was getting thicker and thicker, and soon nothing could be seen from ten meters away. The captain drove the boat nervously, but Lin Han stood at the bow of the boat in a flawed manner, his perception was all released, and he scanned the surroundings, only occasionally raising the captain to avoid possible dangers.
Although he hadn't felt any foreign objects approaching so far, Lin Han had a feeling that what he was waiting for was about to appear.
As the sun gradually rose, the fog around the "Sephiroth" gradually turned from thick to light, and when the first rays of sunlight tore through the light veil of mist and fell on the hull of the ship, Lin Han's heart was shocked, and his body disappeared out of thin air, and when he reappeared, he was already standing on the railing at the stern tip of the ship.
The boat was moving in the fog, and it was finally until the fog was about to dissipate, and many students on the boat gathered on the side of the boat to watch the sea view, and Lin Han's miraculous action fell on their eyes, which immediately made all the onlookers exclaim, and he violated the laws of physics, nailed to the railing of the rocking hull like a dragonfly, which made these students even more shocked.
Looking at the fleet that appeared in the distance and was rushing towards the Sephiroth, Lin Hanqiang suppressed the excitement in his heart and said loudly to the students behind him:
"The ship I've been waiting for has finally arrived!"
Hearing the rumors about Lin Han's anomaly, Wang Qi, who arrived in a hurry, asked Lin Han with a little trembling: "Sir, what is that fleet?"
Lin Han turned around, and his face changed back to the perfect face of the deified non-human, this strange and familiar face, shocked the king? The body trembled.
Lin Han replied excitedly: "It's the soul of the Beiyang Naval Division, and the ships that take the lead are eight far away!" No, one less town, are you trapped in Japan? Don't worry, one day, I will go to Japan and bring you back! ”
King? I don't know why: "Ship soul? Ah, sir, your face"
Lin Han smiled at her and said:
"Don't worry about these for now, let's start singing, sing "We Go to the Land of Sakura"!"
A few seconds later, the song sounded.
“……
……
If I can't get back to you
Sleep in the ocean
Don't cry for me, my girl
Shedding blood and sacrificing for the motherland is glory!
Let me hold your hand again
Hold your white hand
Goodbye, my sweetheart
Goodbye, my sweetheart
Goodbye, cherish a lot
We're going to go on a march
We're going to go on a march
We're going to Japan! ”
In the chorus of more than 200 students, the souls of the Beiyang Fleet, which was seven miles away, approached one after another, and then threw themselves into Lin Han's body standing on the tip of the stern. Lin Han turned around, turned his back to the student, faced the ship soul, stretched out his hands, and completely opened to accept the ship soul into his body. In the eyes of the side, it is like a hundred rivers and a sea, full of broad and broad atmosphere
"Woo, it still hurts like I was by a boat like last time!"
Lin Han snorted and endured, trembling with excitement in the pain. With each ship, he felt a little stronger.
In addition to the pain, there is also an obsession that pours in, which is the unwillingness of the Beiyang ships that fought hard, but finally perished in humiliation because of the ** of the Qing court and the black knives behind the backs of all forces.
Hannah is not wrong, the true face of the soul of the ship is the unwilling obsession of the destroyed battleship. This obsession has the effect of strongly influencing the recipient's thoughts.
While Lin Han accepted the fusion of the ship's soul into the body, he muttered to them in his heart: "I know your unwillingness, and I understand you. Having accepted your power, I swear here that I will not only destroy the United Fleet, but also send the entire Yamato nation to hell! This is my commitment, Lin Han, as a descendant of Yan and Huang! ”
When Lin Han turned around again and looked back at the students behind him, his image changed again.
This time, he was wrapped in a big snake and stepped on a dragon turtle, and his appearance was exactly the same as that of the Xuanwu Emperor who was placed in the cabin during class.
King? Trembling asked, "Sir, you"
Lin Han put on a full godly style, and said with a big stab:
"This is my true face, my true body is the True Monarch of the North Pole, the Emperor of Xuanwu!"
After speaking, a student fell to his knees in front of him.
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