If you want to attack Tianjin, Dagukou is the only way, in their own time, the British and French coalition forces attacked Beijing, and the Eight-Nation Coalition attacked Beijing, all of them went to Dagukou, and in Dagukou, there was a Dagukou fort.

Dagukou Fort is the gate of Tianjin, the Qing court attached great importance to it, built a large number of military facilities here, and built it into an impregnable military fortress. During both the First Opium War and the Second Opium War, there were fierce battles here, and in the Second Opium War, the fort was almost completely destroyed by the Anglo-French forces.

After the end of the Second Opium War, the Qing army rebuilt the Dagukou Fort, at this time, the Dagukou Fort, with five forts, more than 200 guns of various calibers, are all coastal defense guns purchased from the German Krupp company, the maximum caliber is more than 350 mm, and the combat strength should not be underestimated.

If the defenders of the fort are incompetent like the Eight Banners, then there is nothing to be afraid of this fort, but the defenders of this fort are among the best elites in the Qing army, especially the defenders of this fort, Luo Rongguang, the chief soldier of Tianjin, is a rare fierce general.

In the era of Lin Fei, when the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded Beijing, Luo Rongguang, the chief soldier of Tianjin, was the defender of the Dagukou Fort, and he faced a strong enemy and wrote such a poem impassionedly - people are in Dagu, and people are dying and sacrificing blood!

In the ensuing battle, Luo Rongguang was also fearless and commanded, but the strength of the Qing army was far from the Eight-Nation Alliance, and the Dagukou Fort finally fell, and Luo Rongguang retreated to Tianjin and committed suicide by poisoning.

Under his training, the combat capability of the defenders of the Dagukou Fort is not weak, in the war to resist the invasion of the Eight-Nation Alliance, the defenders of the Dagukou Fort have inflicted heavy losses on the Eight-Nation Alliance, killing 255 allied soldiers and sinking and damaging six warships!

Since the Qing army stationed at Dagukou had such strength, Lin Fei did not want to risk attacking Tianjin, if the Qing army had to lose a large number of troops, it would really be a big joke in the world.

However, Lin Fei's words have already been exported and cannot be taken back, if he does not attack Tianjin, he will not only be laughed at by Kang Youwei, but also unable to deter the Qing court, if it does not deter the Qing court, it will not be able to make the Qing court submit, and there will be no follow-up development.

Lin Fei was helpless for a while, he stood up and paced in the room, suddenly, Kang Youwei's reaction when he heard that he was going to attack Tianjin came to his mind, Kang Youwei didn't believe that Lin Fei dared to attack Tianjin at all, Kang Youwei didn't believe it when he heard what Lin Fei said, and Emperor Guangxu and Empress Dowager Cixi, who were far away in Beijing, would definitely not believe it.

Lin Fei had an idea, waved his hand to call an attendant in, and asked, "Have you deciphered the telegrams exchanged between the Qing court mission and Beijing?" ”

The attendant replied, "Report to Your Majesty, it has been deciphered." Although the Chinese Empire and Britain are now at war, Lin Fei needs to understand the outside world through the British News Agency, so he did not shut down the British News Agency.

Since the British news agency was set up in the Chinese Empire, it was impossible for Lin Fei not to intercept and decipher the telegrams coming and going, and Britain and France were also well aware of this, so they often changed the password, so that Lin Fei could not find the law of the password, so he could not decipher the code, but the Qing State did not have such a clever technical means, and the code of their communication with Beijing had never been changed, and Lin Fei easily deciphered it.

Lin Fei hurriedly asked, "Did Kang Youwei report that I was going to attack Tianjin?" ”

"Report to His Majesty, not a word."

"Great." Lin Fei waved his hand and asked the attendant to go out and blitz Tianjin, this plan quickly formed in Lin Fei's mind.

During World War II in the era of Lin Fei, Germany once swept the entire Western Europe with blitzkrieg tactics, and now Lin Fei also wants to launch a blitzkrieg war against Tianjin, an important town in Gyeonggi of the Qing court.

Lin Fei thought about the blitzkrieg tactics, and began to think about the matter of mobilizing troops, at this time the detachment led by Liu Daming was the closest to Beijing, but Lin Fei did not dare to mobilize them, because the infantry under Liu Daming were all tribal alliances, and if they treated the Qing people as Japanese, it would be all over.

After all, the Qing State is different from Japan, Lin Fei can kill in Japan, but in the Qing Kingdom, he has to compete for the hearts and minds of the people, after all, the population and resources of the Qing Kingdom are an important guarantee for the Chinese Empire to dominate the world.

Lin Fei didn't dare to send Liu Daming's detachment, so he wanted to send a detachment composed of Song Zu, Tenglong, and Qianlong, but after thinking about it, it was not appropriate to send this fleet, because this fleet was responsible for guarding the Nanyang region, and Britain, France, the Netherlands, and Spain would definitely send missions to negotiate with him, so there must be a strong fleet in the Nanyang region.

Lin Fei thought about it again and again, and decided to send two new emperor-class cruisers - the Han Wen ship and the Ming Emperor ship, the name of the Han Wen ship was taken from the Han Wen Emperor, the Han Wen Emperor was the Ming Jun of the Western Han Dynasty, during his reign, the national strength of the Han Empire was rapidly strong, which laid the foundation for the later Han Wu Emperor to open up the territory.

The name of the Ming Emperor ship is taken from the Tang Ming Emperor, that is, Tang Xuanzong, the Tang Xuanzong period of the Kaiyuan Dynasty is the heyday of the Tang Empire, Tang Xuanzong's martial arts are not small, in the Tang Xuanzong period, the Tang Empire and the Arab Empire once competed for the Western Regions, that is, today's Central Asia, as a result, the Tang Dynasty broke out in the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Empire had no intention of competing with the Arab Empire for hegemony in Central Asia, and Central Asia completely entered the Islamic sphere of influence.

Lin Fei selected the naval force and began to choose the army force, this time he entered the Qing State to fight, it was the first time that the Chinese army appeared in front of the Qing people, and this battle must be fought well!

Lin Fei decided to transfer his elite first division back from Pontianak and attack Tianjin by the first division, Lin Fei then issued an order to the first division, and emphasized in the order that the key to entering the Qing country to fight this time is to win the hearts of the people!

The commander of the First Division was Qi Lei, the company commander of the First Company of Great Merit, and this First Company of Great Merit was still left in the formation of the First Division as an ace unit.

On March 28, 1897, when the first division returned to Dayu City, Lin Fei met with the division commander Qi Lei at the port, and repeatedly told him to win the hearts of the people in this battle, and Qi Lei repeatedly agreed.

Lin Fei personally selected the route for the fleet to march to ensure that it would not be discovered by merchant ships on the road, in fact, even if it was discovered by merchant ships, it was not a big problem, on the sea, communication was inconvenient, and merchant ships did not know where Lin Fei's fleet would go.

The first division rested for a while, and then went to Tianjin, Lin Fei looked at their departing backs, and secretly thought in his heart, if only I could lead the battleship to go on the expedition together, I really want to see with my own eyes, Emperor Guangxu and the Empress Dowager Cixi saw the reaction of my strong army.

However, Lin Fei couldn't leave, because there were too many state affairs, and the antibiotic program and the bacteriological weapons program had also started, so Lin Fei had to find time to train relevant personnel.

When the Sino-British Free Trade Agreement was just signed, the Chinese Empire and the British Empire were in the "honeymoon period", and economic and trade exchanges were more frequent, Lin Fei invited a large number of doctors from Britain, and after the British declared war, all these people were withdrawn, but they trained a large number of people with Western medical literacy, and these people were selected by Lin Fei into the antibiotic program and bacteriological weapons program.

In the next period of time, Yu Ningshuang and Liu Daming still killed people along the coast of Japan, and arrested people from time to time, although the Japanese government opened the policy of all the people being soldiers, but it was of little use, in this regard, Japan and the Chinese Empire could not be compared, the Chinese Empire was facing the threat of war from the beginning, and the war strings in the people's heads were tight.

On April 6, 1897, the First Division of the Chinese Army, escorted by the Hanwen and Ming Emperor ships, entered the Bohai Sea and arrived at the port of Tianjin.

At nine o'clock in the evening, Qi Lei sent a small force to quietly land on land to reconnoiter the Dagukou Fort, this small force is not ordinary, the people inside are all women, it is Lin Fei's latest Blood Phoenix Special Force.

In the whole process of counterattacking Nanyang, the Blood Phoenix special forces did not move, after all, this force is composed of women, and Chinese women are delicious snacks in the eyes of the British, French and Indonesians, so Lin Fei has not dispatched them, until now, attacking the Qing court, they are used.

The captain of the Blood Phoenix Special Forces, Yu Ningshuang, is killing off the coast of Japan, so the current commander is Xia Ying, who once betrayed the Chinese Empire and helped the Japanese.

Xia Ying took ten girls in a dinghy and quietly went ashore, none of them wore military uniforms or carried firearms, so that even if they were discovered, they could find various reasons to shirk it, after all, they were a group of girls, and it was easy for people to relax their vigilance.

Xia Ying and the others quickly approached the Dagukou Fort, and the results of the reconnaissance surprised them!

The barracks, which should have been solemn and solemn, were heard from time to time with the laughter of women, and some of the barracks lights had been extinguished, while some of the barracks were brightly lit, and it was obvious that the military discipline of the defenders was lax.

This is a godsend opportunity to surprise the Dagukou Fort, Xia Ying immediately asked people to go back to send a letter to Qi Lei, because Qi Lei's location is relatively far away, it will take two hours for the soldiers who sent the letter back to come back, so Xia Ying took people to hide in the woods.

Just as everyone was waiting for the large army, suddenly, a group of Qing soldiers walked towards the woods where they were hiding, and Xia Ying's heart suddenly tightened.