After Lin Daxin's bold decision to build 8 fast protection cruisers with a displacement of 4,500 tons designed by Wei Han at the same time, Wei Han was overjoyed, and Wei Han was very excited from the bottom of his heart that he could build 8 warships at the same time.

Lin Daxin immediately allocated 2.4 million pounds to Wei Han to build 8 warships.

All the construction costs of the 8 warships were allocated to Wei Han at once, and the temperament of the local tyrant was undoubtedly revealed!

Wei Han assured Lin Daxin that he would hurry up and complete the construction of 8 warships with quality and quantity, and then left Lin Daxin's office in the Naval Academy in a hurry, and began to arrange for the shipyard workers to prepare for the construction of 8 warships, and at the same time contact the steel mill and the machinery and equipment manufacturing plant to produce steel plates, steel keels, steam engines and boilers used in warships.

The workers of the entire shipyard, steel mill and machinery and equipment manufacturing plant began to act, Wei Han was ready to start laying the steel keel of the warship in 8 docks at the same time, and Lin Daxin's crazy shipbuilding road began!

After the Battle of the Yalu River, the Qing army was defeated and was beaten by the Japanese army into Liaodong, the ancestral land of the Manchus. The attention of the entire imperial court is now focused on Shengjing, taking advantage of the heavy snow in Liaodong, the Japanese North Route Army stopped attacking, and the 20,000 cavalry, 40,000 green battalions and 20,000 newly recruited Huai troops sent by the imperial court to Shengjing hurriedly entered Shengjing City, and converged more than 13,000 people in Shengjing City Yiketanga to collect the Yalu River Campaign, and 7,000 people under the command of Shengjing General Qingyu.

The defenders of Shengjing reached 100,000 people, and at this time, the magnates of the imperial court breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time continued to draw troops from all over the country, preparing to continue to send troops to Liaodong to support.

And the army guarding the Lushun Water Division School, because it repelled the attacks of several divisions of the Japanese army, also entered the sight of the imperial magnates. Originally, they had always wanted to suppress the court magnates in Beiyang, but they sighed helplessly, and they really pressed the gourd and lifted the scoop.

The Huai army had just suffered heavy losses in the war with Japan, and although the magnates were terrified of Japan's ferocity, they couldn't help but secretly rejoice in their hearts about the heavy losses of the Huai army.

But I didn't expect that suddenly another Sailor School came out in Beiyang, it was a sudden uprising, not only the Navy of the Sailor Academy hit the Japanese Navy hard, but now even the army of the Sailor Academy is so powerful, which makes the magnates who want to suppress Beiyang a little helpless!

Although Lin Daxin sent the people of the Second Division and the Fifth Division of the Sailor Academy to recruit troops from various parts of Shandong and nearby provinces, although some people reported it to the imperial court, the magnates of the imperial court weighed it and did not prevent Lin Daxin from recruiting troops, but gave Lin Daxin a will to send the army of the Naval Division Academy established by Lin Daxin an identity recognized by the imperial court.

The army of the Sailor Academy was named the Dingbei Army by the imperial court, and Lin Daxin was appointed as the commander of the Dingbei Army, and concurrently served as the general office of the Beiyang Sailor Academy, and the official rank was promoted to the third grade, and Lin Daxin was allocated 200,000 taels of silver, which was counted as military expenses, so that he must defend the Lushun base!

In this way, Lin Daxin is even more free to recruit troops in various places! The treatment of recruiting soldiers in the Dingbei Army is the same as the treatment of the students recruited by the Sailor Academy in the past, each soldier who joins the Dingbei Army has a settling-in allowance of 10 taels of silver, and there is an allowance of 5 taels of silver per month during the recruit period. After the recruit period, even an ordinary soldier in the army has a monthly allowance of 6 taels of silver, which is enough for a family of five for a month.

And if they are killed or disabled in battle, the Dingbei Army will not care, there will be a high pension, and the disabled soldiers can enter the logistics department of the Sailor School, or enter the factory under Lin Daxin's name.

With such favorable conditions, the soldiers of the Second and Fifth Divisions of the Naval Academy, which should now be called the Second and Fifth Divisions of the Dingbei Army, recruited a large number of qualified young people in just over a month.

By the beginning of January 1895, there were 120,000 recruits recruited from Shandong, Zhili, Shanxi, Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui and other places on the recruit training ground of the Sailor Academy, and people continued to defect to Weihaiwei from all over the country.

Fortunately, Lin Daxin transported a large number of materials from modern time and space, otherwise just the food problem of these 120,000 people would make Lin Daxin anxious.

120,000 recruits, including 90,000 Army recruits and 30,000 Navy recruits. After the army's 90,000 recruits completed their recruit training, Lin Daxin prepared to mix with the original five integrated divisions to form 10 integrated divisions, making the Dingbei Army a huge armed group of 180,000.

It turned out that there were 20,000 people in the navy of the Naval Academy, although the two fleets of the Naval Academy already had many warships, and because of the large number of people, there were still quite a lot of naval cadets, and they were never assigned to the warships.

However, Lin Daxin believed that his sailor academy practice fleet would become stronger and stronger, and he would rather wait for warships than let them have warships, but the result was not enough personnel. In addition, the training time of naval personnel is much longer than that of the army, so Lin Daxin assigned 30,000 recruits to the navy this time.

Lin Daxin has established a regiment of marines in the navy of the Sailor Academy, and these 30,000 people have been assigned to the navy, and the scale of the marines can also be expanded!

Although Lin Daxin's arsenal has already begun production, and there is still a part of the reserves of the arms originally purchased from Germany, so that the reorganization plan of 10 integrated divisions can be almost completed, Lin Daxin still placed another arms transaction order for the German Lihe Foreign Company.

The new arms order includes 200,000 M1888 rifles, 50,000 Mauser revolvers, 3,000 Gatling machine guns, 500 75 mm field guns, 2,000 75 mm mountain guns, 400 105 mm German new army howitzers, and a large number of bullets and shells.

This large order of 7 million pounds stunned the Germans at once, and immediately regardless of the international agreement that they could not sell a single qiē of materials related to the war to the warring parties, they resolutely accepted Lin Daxin's huge order, and promised to transport the arms on the order to Weihaiwei as much as possible.

And on January 15, 1895, a large fleet appeared on the sea of the Japanese military port of Yokosuka. This fleet was a fleet of 21 warships purchased by the Japanese from the British Navy, and British naval personnel drove the warships through the Strait of Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal, the Strait of Hormuz, the Indian Ocean, the Strait of Malacca, the South China Sea, and the high seas of the Pacific Ocean, and arrived at the Japanese military port of Yokosuka after more than a month's voyage.

The ironclad battleship Nile with a displacement of 12,880 tons, the ironclad battleship Trafalgar with a displacement of 12,791 tons, the ironclad battleship Steadfast with a displacement of 12,070 tons, the ironclad battleship Nelson with a displacement of 12,200 tons, the ironclad battleship Benbao with a displacement of 10,770 tons, the ironclad battleship Rodney with a displacement of 11,200 tons, and 6 ironclad battleships with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons are relatively advanced.

The armored cruiser USS Nongxiang with a displacement of 5670 tons, the armored cruiser USS Nelson with a displacement of 7473 tons, the armored cruiser USS Northampton with a displacement of 7630 tons, 3 old armored cruisers.

The six Campalius-class ironclads with a displacement of 9,700 tons are all old ironclads that are more than 20 years old.

The 6 Invincible-class ironclad ships with a displacement of 6,100 tons are also old ironclad ships that are more than 20 years old.

At this time, the Yokosuka Military Port had already been closed by the Japanese for many days, and except for the 12,000 naval personnel who were preparing to accept the British * ship, there were no other idle people in the entire Yokosuka Military Port.

Most of the 12,000 Japanese Navy personnel waiting to receive warships are naval reservists and freshly graduated naval academy cadets, and even those who have not graduated have also been transferred, and with the addition of navy personnel on active duty drawn from the combined fleet, there are enough personnel for 21 British ships.

At this time, the commander of the Combined Fleet, Ito Yuko, led all the senior officers of the Combined Fleet, standing at the front of the 12,000 naval personnel.

Seeing the 21 warships that were about to become the Japanese Combined Fleet approaching in the distance, the entire Yokosuka port erupted in deafening cheers!

"Long live the Combined Fleet!" "Long live the Combined Fleet!" ……

"Long live the Emperor!" "Long live the Emperor!" ……

After the defeat in the Battle of the Yellow Sea, the vitality of the Combined Fleet was greatly damaged, so that Ito Youxiang suffered too much accusation and pressure, and now these 21 British * ships have joined the Combined Fleet, making the Combined Fleet several times stronger than before the Battle of the Yellow Sea!

The day is coming when the combined fleet will avenge the naval battle in the Yellow Sea! When the 12,000 Japanese naval personnel who were transferred out were familiar with the performance of the 21 warships, it was the time when the Beiyang Naval Division was destroyed!