Enlist the support of the British!

On the surface, it seems to be not important at all, but for Tang Hao, this is an inevitable choice to avoid China falling into a warlord melee in the future, and the interests of Britain in China in this era make it impossible for them to maintain "neutrality" in the process of China's recovery, and the tendency to "neutrality" will undoubtedly affect many things. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Especially for those Xinjiang officials who are afraid of foreign countries at home, support from outside can make them bold and cold. And this is exactly what Tang Haoran needs, just as after the Xinhai Revolution, the British powers supported Yuan Shikai and finally contributed to his inauguration as president, the first premise of "the world is wanted" is the support of the great powers.

"The support of the British doesn't matter, at least not for now!"

Gu Hongming, who had been silent, suddenly broke the silence, and then he stood up and looked at everyone and said.

"My ......, my lord"

After a slight pause, Gu Hongming's eyes seemed a little complicated, this doctor who is proficient in the thirteen Chinese languages, since Guangxu returned to China in the eleventh year, has been immersed in Chinese studies, and his achievements in Chinese studies are extremely high, even Li Guangguang and others cannot compare with them, and it is precisely because of this that deep in his heart he will be influenced by Chinese studies to maintain "loyalty", but after arriving in North Korea, the "Spring and Autumn Righteousness" held by the North Koreans is similar to it, but it is completely different, the kind of "Spring and Autumn Righteousness" righteousness is the "Huayi Debate", in the past two years, it can be said that among the high-ranking officials in the government, He is the only one who is entangled in the loyalty of the Qing Dynasty and the loyalty of China.

That's why he's so entangled, even now. Lovely people always have to make a choice. Especially at this time.

"The key is, what is the reason for the Fuchu to send troops? Is it for the rebellion of the imperial court? Is it also for the recovery of China? ”

This man was born in the South Seas. Study in the West. When Gu Hongming, who was regarded as the "Great Confucian of China" in North Korea, said this, Tang Haoran's heart breathed a sigh of relief, and he even imagined that if Gu Hongming refuted himself with fierce rhetoric as in history, then what should he do?

Kill him?

Of course not, but in any case, I need to give an account to this group. It is even more necessary to maintain one's authority.

"It's a mess. It's not your own! ”

When Gu Hongming's words fell, Li Guangguang said such a sentence, and then he looked at the adult and said.

"Since the court is controlled by traitorous ministers, then we can only swear to the side of the king!"

The Qing monarch has been there since ancient times, and this is just an excuse, just a reason to send troops, and that's it.

Although he was quite resistant to the reason of "Qingjun side" in his heart, Tang Haoran, who knew that this was the best reason at the moment, waved gently to Gu Mingming after thinking for a while:

"Towngson. Among the Joseon Shilin, you are a famous Confucian of the time. So, I'd like to ask you to write an essay, what does Tang Sheng think? ”

Tang Haoran had a smile on his face, but the invitation could not be refused, and Gu Hongming didn't know that the old brother Ziran in front of him dug a pit in front of him, whether to jump or not, he could no longer tolerate him. After writing this essay, no matter what, it confirmed his "rebellious" name, although the essays are just a "Qingjun side" article, but in fact, Ziran wants more than just a simple "Qingjun side" essay.

"I wonder how adults think this text should be written?"

"Well, first, what we want to clear is a traitor like Yan Chongnian."

In Tang Haoran's heart, a concept of the text has been completely formed: it looks like a helpless trip by loyal ministers controlled by the imperial court for traitors, but in fact it is a national script.

"As for this second, it is natural to want the imperial court to clear this untimely heart of the Manchu and Han Domains, well, there is also the privilege of the children of the Eight Banners......"

Tang Haoran said his thoughts one by one, although it was not as direct as the "Circular National Telegraph" issued by Hangzhou, but in fact it was almost the same, in short, there was only one meaning - the reason why I raised troops was not for anything else, one was to protect the lives of innocent people, and the other was that I, as a Han minister, was suspicious because of the court's view of the "Manchu and Han domains", and for the future of the Qing Dynasty, I had to raise troops to the Qing monarch's side, punish traitorous ministers, and ask the court to change Zhang Yixian and abolish the "Manchu and Han domains".

In order to ensure that this "document can be retreated and advanced" in the future, the retreat is the least strategic goal to achieve - to obtain the appointment of the governor of the northeast, so that the northeast can be used as a base to make comprehensive preparations for the recovery of China. As for the advance, it is until the preparations are completed, and the contents of the text can also be used as a basis to raise troops and restore China.

In other words, when his strength was weak, Tang Haoran did not mind temporarily committing himself to the "Great Qing Kingdom" as an official of the imperial court, just like the cooperation between the two parties in the past, today's cooperation is just to defeat the other party tomorrow.

After a few hours of reaching a consensus, people such as Gu Hongming, Li Guangguang, and Song Yuxin left the conference room one after another and began to prepare for the upcoming war. However, people such as Shang Dequan, Wu Dingyuan, and Wu Dingyuan stayed, and they wanted to make a final plan for the next military operation.

“…… If this idea is to be realized, after the troops are dispatched, they must march and fight 50 miles a day, so as to ensure that the troops will arrive in Beijing within a month and a half......"

"For a month and a half, counting the second division, it is almost 30,000 troops, how can logistics and materials be guaranteed?"

As the presidential leader of the new army stationed in Korea, Tang Haoran naturally paid more attention to logistics issues, and many military operations in this era were destroyed by logistics, perhaps the new army has the ability to march and fight for nearly 2,000 miles in a row, after all, it will hardly be subjected to too fierce resistance on the road of nearly 2,000 miles, but logistics is very likely to limit its combat capability.

"My lord, the ammunition should be carried by soldiers as much as possible, we are now using Han-style rifles, small caliber bullets and light bullets, each person can carry 120 rounds of ammunition, you can add half a base on this basis, each person carries 180 bullets, that is, one and a half rounds of ammunition for combat, except for grenades and mortar shells that cannot be replenished, along the way can be replenished by capturing the camp artillery ammunition, since now, the second division is responsible for the maintenance of the recovery area. Then after arriving in the war zone. The 2nd Division may also receive a base number of ammunition. It may temporarily use captured weapons......"

The use of captured weapons and ammunition is not new, in fact, during the First Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese army fought this war precisely through captured ammunition, and even captured dozens of times its own consumption. When necessary, the seized materials may be used for emergency purposes.

"And because the first division is advancing route is not far from the coast, especially after crossing the Liao River, it is almost completely attacking along the coast, and then it can use British-flagged merchant ships to transport supplies and meet military supplies!"

Wu Dingyuan's answer made Tang Haoran nod slightly. Although there may be a blockade of the Beiyang Naval Division at that time, with the courage of the Manchu court, they did not have the courage to "search" British merchant ships, and more importantly, as long as the speed was fast, Li Hongzhang could not react, and in the end, even Li Hongzhang could not rely on his own troops to protect himself.

“…… As for the grain and grass needed for the march of the troops, there is only one way to collect and distribute them on the spot! ”

Local levy, in four simple words. What exactly does it mean, but now it is not Tang Haoran to think about. For him, there was another thing he needed to think about - if in the shortest possible time, even when Li Hongzhang did not have time to react, the Qing court was forced to make concessions.

"Since we can transport supplies by sea, why don't we directly transport troops to the area from Jinzhou to Yuguan?"

Lying on the map, Tang Haoran stared at the military map in front of him, if the troops were directly transported here soon after the start of the war, the shock to the Manchus would be far greater than the original plan.

"Your Excellency, do you mean landing like the Russians attacked Japan?"

After speaking, Wu Dingyuan shook his head and said.

"The risk is too great, after all, Lushun is still in the hands of Beiyang, although the main force of the Beiyang Fleet is in the south, there is still Lushun on Liugong Island, and there are two warships, once it cuts off the sea route, the Qing army inside and outside the customs is all one, and the first division as the main force is likely to fall into encirclement, and when the time comes, there is only one way back to North Korea."

Although the attack on Beijing was an extremely bold military adventure, it did not mean that the cadres of the General Staff would blindly take risks, and while taking risks, they also chose to be conservative.

Compared with them, Tang Haoran is undoubtedly more courageous, or because of the tactics of the 21st century, he is more inclined to divide his troops and make surprise attacks, so as to establish an advantage on the battlefield.

"It doesn't have to be the main force of the First Division, our plan now is to open a line, and my idea is to turn the line into a point and break up the resistance of the Qing army in the Kwantung region in a multi-way attack, as for the ...... of Lushun"

After pondering for a moment, Tang Haoran pointed his finger at Lushun on the map, and now the "Jingyuan" armored cruiser of the Beiyang Fleet is being maintained in the dock, as for the "Jingyuan" cruiser, it is located on Liugong Island, and other training ships and gunboats are not in Tang Haoran's consideration.

"Since we can surprise attack other places, we can naturally also surprise Lushun, don't forget that we also have a navy!"

The navy in Tang Haoran's mouth refers to the Korean Navy under the command of the Unified Supervision Office -- this fleet, which has only three warships, has been in practice for the past six months, and the so-called three warships, except for the "Akagi" brought by the Japanese, are warships, and the other two are only two ships used to train sailors.

"We can launch a surprise attack!"

Then Tang Haoran almost used all the surprise attacks he had known in his life, and gave detailed answers to the surprise attacks he conceived one by one, in fact, to be more precise, it was almost a copy of the surprise attacks of the special forces in later generations.

On this day, the lights in this conference room were on for most of the night. Drawing on the "experience" of later generations, Tang Haoran was painstakingly thinking about the movies and documentary literature he had seen in later generations to launch this surprise attack on the sea.

Surprise attack, for Tang Haoran, whether it is Lushun or even the Northeast, it depends on a surprise attack, so as to settle the situation in one fell swoop. This is determined by the disparity in strength. Although to a certain extent, although the "rebellion" now deviates from the original intention of accumulating strength, Tang Haoran does not have many options, and on the other hand, this is not an opportunity.

Although Tang Haoran knew that the overthrow of the Manchu Qing would lead China into a warlord war, which would lead to the displacement and misery of the people in the war. However, he knew that if he could control the scale of this battle, not only could he get what he wanted, but also avoided the collapse of the Manchu regime, it would also be of certain benefit to himself, and even to the great cause in the future.

Historically, eight years later, after the old ladies declared war on the eleven countries of the world in order to keep their power, Liu Kunyi, Zhang Zhidong, Li Hongzhang, Xu Yingqi, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Kuijun, the governor of Sichuan, and Yuan Shikai, the governor of Shandong, reached an agreement with the participating countries, saying that the southeast would protect each other. They called the Qing edict a "pretentious edict and chaotic order" under the coercion of the Boxers, and disobeyed the orders in the southeastern provinces to support the Boxers, and even more severely suppressed the Boxers.

The Southeastern Mutual Protection Movement protected the areas outside Hebei and Shandong from the turmoil of the Boxer Rebellion and the Eight-Nation Alliance, which of course contributed to China, at least avoiding local chaos. The most direct effect was to further expand the political and military power of the local government, and the authority of the Manchu central government was greatly reduced.

In the following eleven years, although the Manchu regime took advantage of the death of Liu Kun and other local officials, appointed the banner man as the governor of Liangjiang, and tried to regain power from the central government by transferring Zhang Zhidong to the military aircraft and many other ways, the decline in the authority of the central government could not be compensated for in a short period of time, and even after the Xinhai Revolution in 1911, the provinces declared independence one after another after the Wuchang Uprising, which was also closely related to the rise of local power and the decline of central power.

If the Hangzhou Uprising had taken place in 1911, it would undoubtedly have been another Wuchang Uprising, but in 1892, when the Manchu central authority was still in existence, it would not have had much impact on the local government, and the dismantling of the Manchu central authority would undoubtedly help the future recovery, which was also something that Tang Haoran needed to do.

As for the long-term secession of the Beiyang warlords and various localities after the founding of the Republic of China, it is due to the fact that after the death of the powerful figure Yuan Shikai, there was a vacuum in central power, and the factions in various places supported their own troops, which was not directly related to the decline of the central authority of the Manchu Qing Dynasty caused by the mutual protection of the southeast. For Tang Haoran, the most important duty at present was to dismantle the central authority of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, not to overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

"What should I do?"

Smoking a cigarette and pacing back and forth, Tang Haoran's brows were completely wrinkled, he couldn't stay out of the matter, and even had to bet his whole belongings on this battle, he had to solve the next most important problem - how to win the support of the local governors, so that they would be like the big men in the southeast mutual insurance, they refused to fight and thought they were self-preservation!

It is obviously not much possible for those local officials who are full of moral articles to resolutely change their banners and oppose the Qing Dynasty, but Tang Haoran believes that these members who can carry out "southeast mutual protection" in history will definitely not refuse...... What to reject? The originally frowning brows suddenly appeared, and two words spat out between Tang Haoran's lips.

"Power!"

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