Xie Baozhang can't find a name in history textbooks in another time and space, and he doesn't even have a name in the history of the Republic of China compiled by the National Academy of Social Sciences. Well, there are a lot of such entries, and Zhang Xiaohuai is also treated like this. However, Xie Baozhang has a daughter who is very competitive, and his daughter's name is Xie Wanying.

Regarding the history of Xie Baozhang's entry, there is a period that makes it unforgettable, that is, the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, when he was the second officer of the Laiyuan ship. Regarding this naval battle, many people know Dingyuan, Zhenyuan, and Zhiyuan. knows Ding Ruchang, Lin Yongsheng, Liu Buchan, and Deng Shichang. Who knows that the Laiyuan ship was hit by more than 200 bullets during the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, and it still fought until the last moment. Who knows that the battleship piloted by Xie Baozhang rushed out of the battle group when the fire burned more than a dozen cabins, and after extinguishing the fire near Daludao, he turned around and returned to the battlefield. In the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing Dynasty was defeated, but the Beiyang Naval Division was not defeated.

After Nanjing's temporary zhèngfu city, Huang Zhongying recommended Xie Baozhang to go out of the mountain, but unfortunately Nanjing zhèngfu was short-lived, and Xie Baozhang had to go to Běijing and became a director of the Admiralty in Yuan Shikai's cabinet. After the decisive battle between the north and the south, Xie Baozhang unexpectedly received a task, the Jiangnan Naval Academy reopened, and he needed a principal, and asked him if he was willing. Xie Baozhang didn't even mention the conditions, packed his luggage and took his family to urinate and went south to Shanghai, landing on Changxing Island. Here, a brand new naval school awaits, along with a dozen German instructors.

After taking office, Xie Baozhang soon learned that his friend Zheng Rucheng was also out of the mountain, the principal of Yantai Naval Academy.

The conditions of the new naval school are much better than those of the previous Yantai Naval School, and the living facilities are all minor problems. The key is the instructor, there are still enough training warships, the Yongfeng ship ordered from RI in the late Qing Dynasty, Yuan Shikai bought the bill and recognized the account, and now this battleship is used by the sea school for teaching. Judging from the number of students enrolled in the first batch of the new Jiangnan Naval School, Xie Baozhang felt that the pulse of the revival of the Chinese Navy was beating strongly.

After taking office, Xie Baozhang left his family in Shanghai, only went to the island, and devoted himself to teaching. This batch of cadets is also very high-level, and they are all recruited from new-style schools in various places, and every one of them who enters and leaves is a grassroots officer of the navy. According to the plan of the Admiralty, those with excellent grades will be sent to the navies of European and American powers for internship. As far as Xie Baozhang knows, there are more than 10 Chinese cadets studying on the ship in the German Far East Fleet in Qingdao.

After the First Sino-Japanese War, the entire army of the Beiyang Naval Division on Liugong Island was annihilated, and for every old Beiyang Naval Division, it was a wound that would never heal. Unless there is a dead end, the Chinese Navy sinks Guye on the battlefield!

This is a good bad weather, on Changxing Island in the afternoon of winter, the sun is very good, and it is very comfortable to shine on the body. The students, who were taking a lunch break, were suddenly alarmed by the sharp jingbao and gathered urgently! The young students rushed out of the station one after another and rushed to the cāo field as fast as they could.

After receiving a telegram from Fang Jianxiong that he wanted to visit the island, Xie Baozhang was very nervous. Fang Jianxiong is the actual first entry in China today, and if he wants to, he can even directly become the president. is such a fierce entry, giving up the right to enter for the sake of the country, and is willing to be a pure military entry. Although Fang Jianxiong is very young, as the supreme leader of the National Defense Force, he can make up his mind to revitalize the navy, which is worthy of Xie Baozhang's respect. Everyone knows that the navy burns a lot of money, and the navy is not like the army, and an army can take up to one year from its formation to its combat effectiveness. And the navy, without the accumulation of ten or eight years, does not mention combat effectiveness at all.

Fang Jianxiong was lucky, although the former Qing Dynasty was a bastard, his investment in the navy still left the seeds of future revival for the country's navy. These seeds are invaluable, destined to take root and flourish on China's maritime borders.

When the 500 cadets were running to the dock, the only cutting-edge cruiser of the Second Fleet, the Zhaohe, was slowly approaching the pier. This is a new type of cruiser ordered from Britain in the naval revival plan at the end of the Qing Dynasty, which was just delivered last year, and returned from Britain in the same year, and a Yingrui was incorporated into the Fuzhou fleet.

The Zhaohe has a displacement of 2,600 tons, a length of 320 feet, a width of 39 feet, a draft of 14 feet, a displacement of 2,600 tons, a coal carrying capacity of 550 tons, and a fresh water load of 250 tons. Main armament: 2 6-inch Armstrong guns, 4 4-inch guns, 6 47mm Armstrong guns, 2 1-pounder Makqin guns, and 2 18-inch torpedo tubes.

This is the only cruiser in the Second Fleet, and in fact it belongs to the Jiangnan Naval School Teaching Battleship. Xie Baozhang, a rear admiral, also concurrently serves as the captain of Zhaohe, instead of Huang Mingqiu in history, and Huang Benjin was assigned to the First Fleet, that is, under Liu Guanxiong. How to say

What, Fang Dashuai divided Fujian into two, and this move is still relatively lossy. But this is also something that can't be helped, there are too many Fujian insides the navy. Fujian's entry into the situation of naval dominance is related to the history of the development of this navy, and the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Academy has too great an influence in the history of the Chinese navy.

Since receiving Fang Dashuai from Wusong Military Wharf, Xie Baozhang has been standing beside Fang Dashuai like a javelin. After Fang Jianxiong boarded the ship, he didn't show too much affection for Xie Baozhang, just simply followed the routine, and then went to the command cabin, and stood inside to watch the battleship lift anchor and sail to Changxing Island.

When approaching Changxing Island, Fang Jianxiong walked to the deck and looked at the place that carried the future of the Navy in his mind. Regarding Xie Baozhang's matter, Fang Jianxiong got some news from Liu Guanxiong, as well as Tang Qianming, Chen Fu and others. Fang Jianxiong was very uninterested in the phenomenon of Fujian joining the group within the navy, so he started to split the navy into four fleets. The focus is on Tang Qianming's Second Fleet.

The future of the navy, in Fang Jianxiong's mind, is definitely not the model of giant ships and cannons. Of course, battleships must be had, not only to have them, but also to be able to build them themselves. It is not a question of waste or not, but a kind of accumulation of technology. The construction of a battleship involves more than a thousand ancillary products, each of which is an accumulation of technology. Fang Jianxiong doesn't understand the navy, and he doesn't need to move the details of the navy, as long as he understands what kind of development path the navy should take.

The battleship docked at the dock, and Fang Jianxiong stepped off the battleship unhurriedly, boarded the dock, and walked towards the future of the Chinese Navy.

The whole inspection process was not too long, and in about three hours, Fang Jianxiong walked all over the entire sea school, and did not let go of every corner, from the canteen to the dormitory, and even the toilet.

Fang Jianxiong's carefulness all fell on Xie Baozhang's eyesight. Hearing that Marshal Fang was not very satisfied with Fujian's entry into the independence of the navy, Xie Baozhang had to deal with it carefully. The last item of the inspection was Fang Jianxiong's speech to the cadets of the Maritime Academy.

"The past of the Chinese Navy, all students must know, if you don't know, you can read the first part of the naval textbook. In the Sino-Japanese War, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was defeated! Standing here, what I want to say is that the officers and men of the Beiyang Naval Division who defended the dignity of the Chinese Navy with their lives in Dadonggou, and the officers and men of the Beiyang Naval Division who fought to the end, they! There was no defeat! The reason why everyone can stand here today is because the soul of the Chinese Navy is still there. This soul! It is Zhiyuan who rushed to Guye after the Dadonggou bomb was exhausted; It is the cāo courage who fought until the last moment; It is a long-distance war that is not afraid of one enemy and four enemies, and the port side sinks like a fierce battle; It is the prestige of the battleship sinking and still firing guns; It is Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, which are based on two enemies and five only five main guns left, and respond to the battle calmly according to 1ri; It was more than 200 bullets in his body, ignited a raging fire, broke out of the encirclement and extinguished the fire, and then returned to the battlefield to continue the battle. It is Deng Shichang, Lin Yongsheng, Huang Jianxun, and Lin Chongzhong, who were martyred. ……。 ”

When Fang Jianxiong heard that he was far away, Xie Baozhang subconsciously straightened his chest. A stream of heat surged unconsciously in his heart, his thoughts soared, and he returned to Dadonggou, which was covered by gunsmoke. Ding Ruchang, Liu Buyun, and Lin Taizeng ......, familiar names one by one, and returned to the front after many years of death. In fact, these figures have never left Xie Baozhang's heart, but are deeply engraved in his heart. Xie Baozhang, I don't dare to forget jì, and I won't forget it because of the departure of time.

Many years later, Xie Baozhang said in his memoirs: When Marshal Fang Jianxiong, the supreme leader of the National Defense Forces, said in front of 500 students, "The officers and men of the Beiyang Naval Division who fought to the end have not been defeated, and the soul of the Chinese Navy is still there," I firmly believed that I saw the hope of the rejuvenation of the Navy. I firmly believe that under the leadership of Marshal Fang Jianxiong, the Chinese Navy will be disgraced.

Fang Jianxiong stayed on Changxing Island for a while, staying with the students without any shelf, talking to them, playing ball together, and going out early together. When asked by a certain student, "Why did the marshal go out together", Fang Jianxiong's answer was: Only by understanding the life and study of the navy can we know what is needed for the development of the navy.

Xie Baozhang knew very well what Fang Jianxiong's series of actions meant, this was a gesture. It is the trust of Xie Baozhang and the expectation for the future of the Chinese Navy! At the same time, it is also the heavy pressure on Xie Baozhang's shoulders!

Before Fang Jianxiong came down from the Zhaohe ship, he held Xie Baozhang's hand and said to him very solemnly: "Brother Jingru, the soul of the Chinese Navy must be passed on!" Xie Baozhang's lips trembled slightly at this moment, unable to speak, and his eyes were moist.

Fang Jianxiong is gone, and he is very crisp, but he leaves behind a seed, the seed of the revival of the Chinese Navy! The soul of the Navy!

On January 10, 1914, Fang Jianxiong, who had been inspecting the south after leaving Běijing for half a year, returned to Běijing.