According to Lin Daxin's order, the establishment of the First Fleet of the Navy of the Naval Academy remains unchanged, with eight ironclad battleships with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons, such as the Flying Bear, the Flying Tiger, the Flying Eagle, the Flying Wolf, the Flying Fox, the Flying Leopard, the Flying Deer and the Flying Lion. The Flying Bear remains the flagship of the First Fleet, and the fleet commander is Sun Xitao.

Lin Daxin renamed the captured Italian ironclad battleship Reberto with a displacement of 15,701 tons as the Heavenly Bear, and the captured Italian ironclad battleship Prince Carignano with a displacement of 15,520 tons was renamed the Tianhu.

The captured Italian ironclad battleship Rederia with a displacement of 15,680 tons was renamed the Aquila, and the captured Italian ironclad battleship Francisco with a displacement of 11,914 tons was renamed the Sirius.

The captured Italian ironclad battleship Maria with a displacement of 12,080 tons was renamed the Sky Fox, and the captured Japanese Combined Fleet ironclad battleship with a displacement of 12,200 tons was renamed the Sky Leopard.

Lin Daxin used the six ironclad battleships Tianxiong, Tianhu, Tianying, Tianluo, Tianhu and Tianbao to form a new Second Fleet, with Tianxiong as the flagship, and Jiang Chen, the former captain of the Flying Bear, was appointed as the commander of the Second Fleet.

14 ironclad battleships with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons formed the fleet of the first and second two new battleships of the Navy of the Naval Academy.

The original Second Fleet was renamed the Third Fleet, the Mikuma, with a displacement of 7,473 tons, was renamed Kotaka, and the Kumano, with a displacement of 7,630 tons, was renamed Kokyo. They can all be counted as large armored cruisers, assigned to the Third Fleet.

Two large armored cruisers with a displacement of 7,900 tons captured at the Kure Port Shipyard were named Heunghe and Xingsheng, and were also assigned to the Third Fleet. As a result, the Third Fleet had 13 large armored cruisers with a displacement of more than 7000 tons. The flagship of the Third Fleet, the Xinghai, is still commanded by Jiang Hui.

The first three fleets of the Navy will serve as the main force against the enemy at sea.

The Fourth Fleet of the Navy was newly established in the Naval Academy, and the Lushun Garrison Fleet was transferred to the 4,568-ton medium-sized fast armored cruiser Anhai, the 2,950-ton protective cruiser Lihai, the 3,180-ton fast-protection cruiser Tsukiha, the 3,600-ton fast-protection cruiser Xinghai, and the 2,800-ton fast-protection cruiser Rihai. Fast-protection cruiser Tatsumi with a displacement of 2800 tons.

Together with the two fast protection cruisers with a displacement of 4,200 tons and named Anmin and Anding, which were captured by the Kure Port Shipyard, there are a total of 8 warships. Together with 16 torpedo boats and 10 small gunboats, the Fourth Fleet was formed, the flagship was the Anhai, and the commander was Yu Fu, the commander of the original Lushun garrison fleet. The Fourth Fleet was mainly responsible for the defense of the Arthur base.

The ironclad ship Weihai with a displacement of 6,901 tons, and the old ironclad ships Dinghai and Zhenhai with a displacement of 7,935 tons. Plus 16 torpedo boats to form the Fifth Fleet. The flagship Weihai, the commander of the original Second Fleet's flagship Xinghai, was Chen Ming. The Fifth Fleet is mainly responsible for guarding the Weihaiwei base together with the Beiyang Naval Division.

The first, second, and third fleets of the Navy of the Naval Academy rotate between the Lushun base and the Weihaiwei base at any time as needed, and Lin Daxin is also preparing to establish a new naval base, which is now Nanpu Port in Yalu River Province.

Nanpu Port was partially completed by the Japanese occupation forces in Korea at that time, using Qing prisoners of war, and Lin Daxin planned to continue to build this excellent port and use it as a military port. The Nanpu base was established for the use of the Navy by the Naval Academy.

As the naval fleet of the Sailor Academy became larger and larger, the Lushun base and the Weihaiwei base were no longer enough for the navy.

In addition to the 5 fleets above, the Navy also has submarine detachments consisting of the Bayonet and the Sharp Knife.

Then Lin Daxin also gave an order to the Dingbei Army recruit training camp in the Sailor Academy. Let the recruits of the Dingbei Army who have completed their recruit training in the recruit training camp go directly to the four northeastern provinces by transport ships to replenish the losses of several integrated divisions of the Dingbei Army in the northeast.

The recruit training camp of the Dingbei Army has always had young people from all over the country sign up for the Dingbei Army, and Lin Daxin has set up a temporary recruit training camp in Pyongyang, North Korea, because young Koreans of the Korean nationality in Yalujiang Province have also enthusiastically signed up for the Dingbei Army, so now Lin Daxin has many recruits under his command who can be supplemented to the integrated divisions of the Dingbei Army.

Several integrated divisions of the Dingbei Army suffered considerable losses in the battle against the Japanese Southern Route Army. It didn't take long for a large number of recruits to be added. As a result, several damaged re-integrated divisions were brought back to full strength.

Before the imperial court appointed Lin Daxin as the governor of the four northeastern provinces, he had already begun to send officers and soldiers from the Fifth Division of the Dingbei Army in Weihaiwei, the 13th, 14th, and 15th Divisions of the newly formed Dingbei Army, and the four divisions to Shandong and nearby provinces to publicize Lin Daxin's immigration policy in the northeast and escort the people from all over the country who were willing to immigrate to the northeast to Weihaiwei by boat.

Anyway, no matter what Lin Daxin's attitude is in the imperial court, the four northeastern provinces will be his Lin Daxin's territory in the future!

Lin Daxin, who emerged in the war between the Qing Dynasty and Japan, has attracted the attention of the world's major powers, and they all know that there is a military strongman in the ancient Qing Empire in the Far East, who now not only occupies a territory of nearly one million square kilometers, but also has a powerful fleet with a displacement of more than 300,000 tons, and a new army of nearly 300,000 with strong combat effectiveness and many advanced weapons.

In some foreign newspapers, there are reports about Lin Daxin, all of whom call Lin Daxin a military strongman in the Far East.

The rise of Lin Daxin even caused panic in some countries, among which Tsarist Russia, which was adjacent to the Qing Dynasty, was very vigilant about Lin Daxin.

After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the Russian Empire seized a lot of land on the Qing Dynasty, and the "Treaty of Nebuchu" in 1689 was supposed to be a treaty of equality, but the Qing government representatives repeatedly backed down when negotiating with the Russian representatives.

At the Nebuchu Conference, Qing delegates proposed the first plan to take the Lena River to the Arctic Ocean as the boundary. When Russia disagreed, it relented and proposed a second option, which was to be bounded by the northern branch of the Trans-Khingan Mountains (Nos Mountains) and the northeastern part of the Asian continent, the Nors Cape (i.e., the Chukotka Peninsula), which was submerged into the sea.

But in the end, because of the ability of the Qing Dynasty representatives to negotiate problems. and the Qing Dynasty's desire to quell the rebellion in Dzungaria, hoping to maintain peace with Tsarist Russia, made the Qing Dynasty give in again, giving up the second plan and the millions of square kilometers of land, and even the third plan with Lake Baikal as the boundary.

Eventually, the vast and fertile land of Siberia and the close relatives of the Mongols living on it, bounded by the Erguna River to the Trans-Khingan Mountains to the Udi River, became the land and people of Russia.

Plus the "Treaty of Brenszi" of 1727. About 1 million square kilometers of land around Lake Baikal were ceded to Russia. The two treaties cost the Qing nearly 3.5 million square kilometers of land.

After the Opium War in 1840, the Qing Dynasty began to collapse. However, Tsarist Russia, which carried out the reform and opening up and the industrial revolution, became stronger and stronger, and naturally had a strong aggression against the Qing Dynasty*.

Therefore, Russia took advantage of the defeat of the Qing Dynasty in the Anglo-French alliance to seize a large piece of land from the northeast of the Qing Dynasty by means of intimidation and fraud.

Treaty of Aihui of May 28, 1858. Russia seized 640,000 square kilometers of land north of the Heilongjiang River and stipulated that China and Russia would jointly administer the Ussuri River.

On November 14, 1860, the Treaty of Beijing annexed 400,000 square kilometers east of the Ussuri River and 76,000 square kilometers of Sakhalin Island, all of which were annexed by Russia, which also gained Vladivostok as a good outlet to the sea.

In 1862, Russia sent Cossack cavalry to invade Xinjiang along a thousand-kilometer border, crushing the local Manchu garrison and occupying 580,000 square kilometers of land. It is equivalent to 1.5 Japan, including a large part of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. The Qing government was forced to sign the Tacheng Treaty, demanding that the 580,000 square kilometers seized by Russia be recognized as Russian land.

The Treaty of Ili was signed on February 24, 1881. The Qing lost another 20,000 square kilometers west of the Khorgos River. Russia refused to give up, and in 1883 signed the Treaty of Kobdo, which took away 30,000 square kilometers of the Zaisan Lake area on the border between Xinjiang and Mongolia.

In other words, Russia has now occupied more than 5 million square kilometers of land in the Qing Dynasty, and at this time, in the northeast region bordering Russia, a Lin Daxin suddenly appeared. How can you not make the Russian top brass fearful!

Inside the Kremlin in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia summoned the Minister of Finance of the Russian Empire, Sergei Fried. Witte, Admiral Alexei? Alessandro? Grand Duke of Vicky and Minister of War Alexei? Kuropatkin entered the palace.

Tsar Nicholas II, who had just succeeded to the throne for a year. He is not yet 30 years old this year, and when he first ascended to the throne, he was so ambitious that he even wanted to make the Russian Empire surpass Britain and become the most powerful country in the world under his leadership.

Today, after Nicholas II summoned three important Russian ministers to the imperial palace, Tsar Nicholas II asked the three people: "Do you know about the war between the Qing Dynasty and Japan in the Far East?" ”

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Witte, the Admiralty, the Grand Duke of Vicky, and the War Chancellor Kuropatkin glanced at each other and nodded their heads to indicate that they already knew about the war between the Qing Dynasty and Japan.

The Admiralty of Russia, the Admiralty of Russia, said: "Our Russian Admiralty is conducting a study of the naval battles between the Qing Dynasty and Japan, and there are many experiences that our Russian Navy can learn from!" ”

Tsar Nicholas II nodded and continued: "In this war, there was a person named Lin Daxin in the northeast of the Qing Dynasty, this Qing Dynasty man used this war to establish a powerful fleet with a displacement of more than 300,000 tons, and a new army of nearly 300,000, and this Lin Daxin's jurisdiction is still in the northeast of the Qing Dynasty. You must know that the Russian Empire has set its sights on the northeastern region of the Far East, the Qing Dynasty, in the hope of turning it into the land of the Russian Empire! Now that such a force has suddenly appeared in the Northeast, what do you have to do? ”

The three Russian ministers looked at each other, and the Admiralty Archduke Vich, the Minister of the Navy, was the first to say: "Your Majesty! Our navy should be expanded to deal with the mighty British Navy and this naval fleet under the command of Lin Daxin. The Russian Navy originally decided to customize a new all-steel battleship to France and the United States, and then refer to its design, and start construction of five new all-steel battleships that integrate its advanced technology and craftsmanship in our only five shipyards in Russia that can build large battleships! ”

Archduke Vecchio paused and continued: "But now the British have 10 all-steel battleships in service in 2 classes, 8 in the Sovereign class and 2 in the Pavrell class!" Moreover, Britain is also building 20 all-steel battleships of the new class, so that the British Navy will have 30 new all-steel battleships with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons by the end of next year! And that's not counting the fact that Britain also had a dozen ironclad battleships with excellent performance comparable to all-steel battleships! ”

Tsar Nicholas II had a bad face at this time, and he had just become the tsar, and he set himself the goal of surpassing Britain and making the Russian Empire the most powerful country in the world.

It did not occur that before their ambitions were spread, a military strongman appeared in the Far East, and the British built another 30 powerful all-steel battleships, and now Russia does not have even 1 all-steel battleship.

Tsar Nicholas II frowned and said: "Our Russian shipbuilding plan is too conservative, according to this plan, we will only have 7 all-steel battleships in a few years, which is not at all in line with the status of a maritime power in our Russian Empire!" “

The Admiralty Archduke nodded and said, "Your Majesty said the same idea as the minister, if we want to catch up with the British, we must speed up the plan to build all-steel battleships!" And now a new force has appeared in the Far East, the one under the command of the Far Eastern military strongman, which is called in the newspapers, has a powerful fleet with a displacement of more than 300,000 tons. Although that fleet did not have the latest all-steel battleships, it was reported that they had 14 ironclad battleships, which were no weaker than all-steel battleships. If we in the Russian Empire want to extend our hand to the Far East of the Qing Dynasty, we must allocate more advanced warships to the Russian Pacific Fleet, and its strength must be stronger than that fleet! Therefore, the minister believes that our plan for the expansion of the Russian Imperial Navy needs to be readjusted! ”

According to the current financial situation in Russia, even the 7 all-steel battleships originally planned by the Navy were taken out by the Russian treasury through gritted teeth, and even he, the Minister of Finance, needed to scrape together to complete the construction plan of 7 all-steel battleships.

Now the Admiralty, Grand Duke Vicky, had proposed a new expansion plan to build more all-steel battleships, and he, as Chancellor of the Exchequer of the Russian Empire, had already rejected this new plan in his mind. (To be continued)