Zhang Xinda's words are equivalent to opening another window for Li Yongji, allowing his eyes to shift from the immediate to the overall situation.

Because he thought that the use of frogmen and submarines, especially after adding night vision equipment, is basically unsolvable in this era, so it is an asymmetric combat with small investment and quick results.

But this must be done quickly, and before that, it is necessary to find a training base, which must be a port where submarines can dock, and even if there is no suitable port, it must be a deep water area, and then the submarines do not have to dock, and rely on small boats to transport supplies.

After finding a map and selecting and selecting, and finding someone to ask and ask, Li Yongji finally chose Jiaxing Port as a secret base for docking submarines.

Jiaxing Port is actually Zhapu Port, which is currently in Pinghu County, Jiaxing Prefecture. This place is currently a deep-water harbor, very close to Zhoushan, convenient for submarine attacks, and not far from Qingpu County, convenient for their own back and forth.

This port is actually very famous in this era, it was one of the main seaports of the Qing Dynasty earlier, so there were many forts, but during the First Opium War, it was captured by the British army, and the forts and harbor were destroyed, and the entire port has been completely destroyed. Due to the lack of funds in the late Qing Dynasty and the rise of the Shanghai Port, which replaced the status of Jiaxing Port, that is, Zhapu Port, the abandoned port has not been rebuilt until now, and it is still a ruin.

To put it simply, Jiaxing Port is strategically located, is an excellent deep-water area, and there have been wars with foreigners here, the mass base is good, after all, the first opium war has not been too long, many people are still resentful of foreigners, presumably recruiting a group of frogmen similar to death squads, it should not be too difficult.

However, he is a group practitioner in Qingpu County and belongs to Songjiang Prefecture, so in what name do you go to Jiaxing?

Soon, Li Yongji himself no longer considered the issue of name.

Also, why should you consider the name? During this period, Jiaxing's attention was all in the west, all staring at the Taiping Army, and Pinghu County in the east had long been unattended. Therefore, he doesn't need any name at all, he uses his private identity to bring people over, and then finds a suitable outlet to the sea, encircles a place, and in the name of building a seaside courtyard, it would be good to be a secret base.

Don't talk about it far away, let's just say that I am an elite army, it has been so long since the regiment was established, even if I sent troops to exterminate the Wang family, and even the soldiers came to Qingpu County, which scared the county order, but I didn't see Songjiang Mansion come to inspect it, but the first person to come to listen to the truth was actually Yang Fang, an unofficial official, and the purpose of his coming was mainly to buy arms.

On the contrary, after the foreign gun team was formed, Master Chen came over to ask, saying that Songjiang Mansion had sent someone down to ask about the foreign gun team, but the person sent did not come directly, but just asked Master Chen to do it for him.

This kind of attitude is clearly a kind of conscious alienation, which belongs to the attitude of non-interference and not asking questions.

Li Yongji once asked Master Chen, why didn't the people sent by Songjiang Mansion come to inspect directly, but asked you to come and do it for you? And for so long, why did Songjiang Mansion ignore their obviously overnumbered troops.

The reply was that the Songjiang Prefecture had long known about its elite army, and it also knew that there were more than 10,000 people and a large number of foreign guns. However, the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture, Gao Zuo, was a conservative and had always been respectful of foreigners, but the current situation was unpredictable, and having a strong army here could also increase Songjiang's defenses. So he was also very entangled, and in the end he simply ignored Li Yongji's group training under his nose, and only when Li Yongji summoned foreigners to form a foreign gun team, did he send someone over to ask about the situation.

In other words, Gao Zhuo's idea is that if Songjiang Mansion is fine, he usually tries not to contact the elite army of the foreign faction, if something happens on his side, such as the Taiping army attacking, and then directly order the elite army of foreign guns to come and help, as for the style of the elite army, that is, the foreign gun, he should not know.

In this way, he will be able to take himself out, and if the above blames him, he can push 625 and say that he doesn't know that the Jingwu Army is so foreign. However, recruiting foreigners to form a foreign gun team was too eye-catching after all, and it was impossible not to know about it, so he sent someone over to ask, and understood that it was just Li Yongji's private army, and with this excuse, he was at ease.

A dignified prefect, it is said that the officials who are still from the Jinshi are so strange, you can imagine how other officials manage their affairs when they have something.

In short, the officials of the Qing Dynasty were already conservatives at this time, but they were also very afraid of foreigners' things, especially their combat effectiveness, but the fear was mainly afraid of foreign guns and cannons, and they didn't think that foreigners were strong in close combat, and still thought that they were very good and powerful, so they were basically in a non-contact mentality with foreigners, and only after the British and French troops captured Beijing and were beaten hard, they had to start looking at foreigners squarely.

In short, Li Yongji looked again and again, and found that the deep-water port closest to his camp and close to Zhoushan at the same time was only this Zhapu Port.

Thinking of it, Li Yongji immediately began to think of going to Zhapu to find a place to stay, but before that, he also specially asked Karlsson, who lived and lived for nothing all day, and asked him about the speed of the cavalry, after all, how could this thing have really led the cavalry, and he must have more right to speak.

The conclusion reached was worse than what Zhang Xinda said.

According to Karlsson, cavalry was not inferior to infantry on long marches. Because the endurance of horses is limited, and the gastrointestinal ability is not as good as people, once you go to a far place, you have to be unaccustomed to the soil and water if you don't pay attention to it, and the horses that kill you with diarrhea are not less than the horses that are tired to death.

In other words, in today's Europe, if a horse does not bring anything and walks lightly on regular steps, it will have to stop and recuperate for 400 kilometers, and the recuperation time will be at least a week, and if it is sick, the time will be longer, and during this time, the infantry will not know where to run, so they have to stop and wait for the cavalry.

If you are consigning heavy loads, such as pulling a cannon, then you have to stop and rest after walking 200 kilometers, eat a lot of concentrated feed with salt to nourish your fat, if you don't care, let the horse lose fat, and soon the horse's health will get worse and worse.

Therefore, cavalry is one of the most expensive types of troops here, not only is it difficult to maintain in peacetime, but it is also strictly delayed during the battle, but many places really need horses, plus there is an irreplaceable role in tactics, so it has been retained.

After listening to Karlsson's words, Li Yongji was completely dead to the big dragoon plan, and at the same time understood that he had relied on horses to maneuver to fight the Wang family before, that was too close, and the speed advantage of horses at close range was brought into play, but it did not mean that long-distance marching could be so good.

Therefore, the dragoons, that is, the cavalry infantry, there is really no need to make a big deal about it, just make some elite cavalry, if you really plan to turn the whole division into dragoons, the cost performance is too low.

After that, Li Yongji asked Zhang Wei to stay behind, and together with Wang Sanwu, he led his own guard battalion, all lightly armed, one person and two horses, and directly killed Pinghu County, what is the reason - training!

The guard battalion was a special formation, in which 300 infantry men, all armed with 56 submachine guns, 300 Colt revolvers; 300 grenadiers, armed with 100 grenadiers, 600 Colt naval revolvers; artillery 100 people, armed with 16 81-mm mortars, 200 Colt naval revolvers; Together with the communication class, cooking class, health team, groom and other personnel, a total of 800 people.

However, due to the heavy equipment and large dependence on logistics, the guard battalion has a particularly large number of horses, and there are 1,200 horses in one guard battalion alone, of which the personnel are all on horseback, and the baggage and materials are also directly carried by horses, rather than pulled by horse-drawn carriages.

If it was one person and two horses, the number of horses would have to increase, and in addition, it would have to carry tents and other things, so in the end, the whole battalion would be equipped with 2,000 horses.

800 people, 2,000 horses, and all of them are about 1.65 meters tall Quarter horse, that is, the so-called high-headed ocean horse, this slight movement is a thousand horses galloping, the momentum is monstrous, immediately frightened all the passers-by along the road, trampled on countless flowers and plants, caused all kinds of legends.

When Li Yongji's all-cavalry guard battalion came to Pinghu County, he saw that the county gate was closed and the city was surging, all of them looked like they were facing a great enemy, and even if Li Yongji shouted repeatedly, he did not dare to open the city gate.

Seeing that the other party was not lightly frightened, Li Yongji pursed his lips and asked people to shoot the letter with a handwritten letter written by He Zhi County, Qingpu County, and stamped with a big seal with a pulley crossbow, and then turned around directly and ran towards Tangjiawan.

Tangjiawan is the foot of the south mountain of the Jiulongshan Cemetery in Zhapu in the later generations, west of Haihong Pavilion and Nanwan Fort, and near Shanwan Fishing Village. During this period, this place was originally a fishing village near the sea, and during the First Opium War, British troops landed from Tangjiawan.

Li Yongji had already inquired about the fact that most of the areas near Tangjia Bay were deep-sea areas, and there were also some shoals where they could land, and now there were some simple small wharves made by the villagers, which were specially designed to dock fishing boats to facilitate everyone's fishing, so from a geographical point of view, it was the most suitable place to be a secret base.

Of course, whether it is really suitable or not, you have to actually investigate, not just listen to those hearsay, but since the British army could choose to land from here, and it is said that the British warships also leaned over to provide artillery support at close range, and then docked large ships here, and then the Qing army also set up Nanwan Fort and Zhapu Fort near here, then the place should not be bad.