Huang Yisheng went too far, was dismissed from his post by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, kicked back to his hometown, and then succeeded the current Yangtze River Admiral Li Chengmou. He is also the commander of the Manshui Division on Panyang Lake now.

This person is also a veteran general of the Hunan army. The Yangtze River Naval Division was the self-reserved land of the Hunan army, Huang Yisheng was deposed, and Li Chengmou came up. Even the old lady who died in the second year of Guangxu, it stands to reason that Ding's mother was worried, but she was retained by the love.

This person's command level is just like that, he has been rolling on the river for many years, and he still has his own set of what to do. But if you want to say that it is a famous general, let's just say it.

Li Xueming looked at each other. They are all old birds on the battlefield, how can they not know that avoiding the real is false. The Yangtze River sailors who can float on Panyang Lake are really strictly prepared. They don't have the guts to send an army over!

The Qin army did not have a single steam ship in his hands, it was all old-fashioned sand boats. The speed is not comparable to that of the Yangtze River Naval Division, which is equipped with more than a dozen small steam gunboats because of the Anqingnei Ordnance Institute during the Zeng Guofan period and the Jiangnan Manufacturing General Bureau held by Li Hongzhang in the palm of his hand.

At that time, the 'Huanghu steam steamer' built by the Anqingnei Ordnance Institute was the first steamship in Chinese history.

Zeng Guofan watched the aftermath and said: "On the fourth day of the seventh month of the first year of Tongzhi, Hua Hengfang and Xu Shou came here for a trial performance on the occasion of a steamer. The method is to penetrate the cylinder with fire vapor. Three tricks in the tube. Close the first two orifices and enter the front orifice, and the machine retreats and winds in turns; After closing, the second orifice is gas into the back orifice, and its ~ machine will then take turns to lower the chord. The bigger the fire, the more vigorous the qi, the advance and retreat of the machine is like flying, and the wheel is also flying. Audition for a while. Zeng Guofan was very satisfied with this and sighed: "I can do it as a Chinese if I like the wisdom of foreigners." He cannot be proud of what he does not know. ”

Although Li Chengmou did not bring all the steam gunboats this time, he could have seven gunboats of 200 to 400 tons. It is enough for Li Cheng to dominate Panyang Lake. What's more, there are more than 100 old-style Hunan warships by his side.

There are more than 6,000 troops in total, not only on the water. The combat effectiveness on the shore should not be underestimated. If these people come ashore without losing a chance, it will be enough for Li Xueming and them to drink a pot.

Therefore, the survival of the Yangtze River Naval Division brought great trouble to the Jiangxi Front. Li Xueming and the three of them have long lost hope for the cross-lake operation.

But can this thing be difficult to stop Liu Xian?

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The King of Qin personally conquered Jiangxi and arrived in Nanchang, and the news could not be hidden. Liu Kunyi, Liu Bingzhang and others on the opposite side of the defense line of the two armies soon got the news.

Forty-six-year-old Liu Kunyi is by no means a good stubble. In the original time and space, in the ten years before Zuo Zongtang's death and the First Sino-Japanese War, the first important minister of the Southern Kingdom, sitting in Liangjiang, stood with Li Hongzhang's Beiyang. The strength is naturally far inferior to Beiyang. But in terms of officialdom, Li Hongzhang is really not a few points behind.

Liu Xian has a good impression of Liu Kunyi. This is not because of Liu Kunyi's ability or incorruptibility or anything. Liu Kunyi is not greedy, but the word incorruptibility has nothing to do with him.

His eldest nephew, Liu Changyou, the eldest nephew who was twelve years older than him, had built a preemptive crusade against Japan as early as twelve years before the First Sino-Japanese War.

In the case of Korea, Liu Changyou believed that Japan had violated public international law, and once a war broke out, it would not be able to take advantage of international morality. Moreover, its aggressive nature will sooner or later annex North Korea, so it is better to take advantage of its fledgling wings and strike first. He thinks. Since Tongzhi, the imperial court has paid attention to foreign affairs and set up coastal defense. Sailor, repair the fort. Buy iron ships and build guns. A large amount of money has been invested, and it is precisely at the time of its use of force that it is certain that China will devote all its strength to punishing Japan.

In the seventh year of Guangxu (12 years away from the Sino-Japanese War in 1894), he put forward a specific plan: "Emperor Fu begged for the crime of tyrannizing Japan first, and the prestige of the minister Su of Jian raised the troops of the three eastern provinces and went out of the Songhua River to face Sakhalin Island; Don't order an army out of Korea to strangle its west; Then the generals who were familiar with the strategy and the sailors were selected, and the boat division from Ningbo and Dinghai led the boat division to Nagasaki to attack its south. Or if they are worried about disturbing the seashore, the southeast coast has been training troops for a long time, and it also has its own defense equipment. The subjects of the sulfur ball are happy to regain their territory, and they will surely help the Shun Division. With the length of the temple, there are interceptions overseas, Tiange distant earthquakes, four halberd soldiers, Korea, Siam, and Burma countries can be exempted from encroachment, not only Vietnam. ”

It is a pity that the Manchus did not adopt his proposal, or did not consider his excerpts at all.

Loving the house and Wu, Liu Xian was full of affection for Liu Changyou, and naturally looked at Liu Kun a little differently.

But Liu Kunyi is an absolute conservative. Before he went to Yungui, he had served as the governor of Jiangxi for five years, and the things he did proved that he was an absolute conservative.

Growing up in Shaoyang, Xiangxi Province, which is closed and has strong folk customs, Liu Kun is not afraid of death, is not afraid of difficulties, and does not admit defeat. In addition, he has read Confucian classics and has a very strong national integrity, and because he is a military official who entered the frontier on a different path, he is more loyal to the Qing court than others. Based on such a cultural and spiritual heritage, "loyalty" and "peace of mind" became the center and starting point of his activities at that time.

He did not believe in the ideas and practices put forward by the Westernists, such as "using the foreign for China" and "mastering the skills of the people", and was very unenthusiastic about the Westernists' establishment of a series of reform measures aimed at enriching the country and strengthening the army and carrying out a series of reform measures mainly imitating the West, and explicitly opposed the construction of railways, the erection of electric wires, and the use of Western mining methods.

In his opinion: the road to prosperity and strength is as vast as chasing the wind and striking shadows, and building cannons and ships are also separated. I still have to use it to build cannons; The ship-making will compete with the foreigners on the sea, with my shortcomings, the enemy's strengths, and the shooting of the children to shoot the children, I am afraid that they will eventually be killed, so "why bother with more gold and silver, and be laughed at by the foreigners?" ”

Therefore, Liu Kunyi is no different from other feudal conservative officials, on the one hand, he worked hard to suppress peasant uprisings in various places to serve the imperial court; On the other hand, there is a natural fear of foreign civilizations and Western technology.

It was not until he was appointed governor of Liangjiang that Liu Kunyi's attitude changed because of his increasing contact with foreigners.

In the late Qing Dynasty, Liangjiang was not only a heavy administrative area, but also a place where China and the West meet, with treaty ports and concessions for foreigners. In actual government affairs, Liu Kunyi's opportunities for contact with foreign affairs continued to increase, which led to a change in thinking. But his thinking is still conservative, "What is the certainty of foreign affairs?" If you can support one piece, you can support one day, and if you can support one day, then one day! These are the words that he himself said with his mouth open.

If Liu Kunyi didn't have a good nephew, Liu Xian wouldn't look at him as high as Liu Ming.

The appearance of Liu Xian put great pressure on the Qing army in Jiujiang.

The battle of Fuzhou had already begun in broad daylight. No one doubts Liu Xian's ability. Therefore, before Liu Xian arrived in Nanchang, the Qing army on the front line opened their eyes wide and raised their vigilance!

If you're not careful, you can't. In the entire Fujian battlefield, the battle of Fuzhou was the top priority. As a result, the elite of the 20,000 or 30,000 Chu army, and those who divided five by two were cleaned up by Liu Xian.

Chilling!

Every general who understood the details of the war was cold in his heart. Liu Xian was so powerful that every shot hit the soft underbelly of the Chu army's defense line, and ...... once, twice, or three times, the bones of the entire Chu army were broken.

None of the generals of the Xianghuai Army in Jiujiang are willing to be the second of Wang Debang and Liu Songshan.

Tujiabu. The forefront of the Jianchang defensive line.

In the drenched autumn rain, the five small soldiers shrank and hid in the sentry. But at most, a sentry that is enough for two people to stand guard can fit five people. But it's raining, and the other three can't still hide in the dark sentry post where the rain overflows the pit, right?

That's not to say it's a morning, it's an hour, and people are broken!

"Damn, move your mouth from above, and we little soldiers won't have to live in peace. There is no place to hide from the rain on this rainy day, and I am cold! ”

A middle-aged man among the five shouted. The place where he sheltered from the rain did not mean a real shelter from the rain, but a dry and comfortable place.

But don't look at this middle-aged man's mouth, his eyes are wide open. Who doesn't know that the big man of the Qin army on the opposite side is coming. That's not negligent at all.

As a sentry, the middle-aged man knew that the enemy was going to touch him, and he and the others definitely didn't even have a chance to shout surrender. So his eyes were always wide open. This is not working hard for the court, but thinking about his own life.

The middle-aged man is actually the head of these five Qing soldiers, although he is older and has a low position, the junior soldier is a piece of paper, but he is definitely experienced. In other words, a veteran oilman!

It was also because of this that the officers of their team sent him to bring people to guard this front-line sentry.

"Pop ......" The sound of footsteps with water came to the ears.

The middle-aged man turned his head violently to look at the place where the voice came from. At the same time, the little soldier facing that side also shouted: "It's Xiao Chen, why is he running here at this time?" ”

There was not even a coat on the sentry, and the soldier who came running only carried a hat.

"Li Tou'er, Qiu Lin can't do it, his burning eyes are blood-red, like dripping blood!"

Li Tianshi chuckled in his heart, and his burning eyes were red, "Then why don't you let him go back to the camp early?" ”

"I didn't find it. It wasn't until Qiu Lin was planted that we knew he had a fever. ”

"Then why don't you carry him back quickly......"

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This scene in Tujiabu is just one of the countless identical posts on the eastern and western lines of the Qing army.

The Qing army, which had lost the provincial treasury, encountered a rainy day, and was confined to Jiujiang Mansion, and it really couldn't get enough rain gear. The equipment and treatment of the Qing army are really more than one grade worse than the Qin army opposite them.

Everyone in the Qin army had rubber ponchos and rubber shoes. Since vulcanized rubber was applied to practice by the Qin army, rubber ponchos, rubber shoes, military tents, etc. are the standard armaments of the Qin army.

At this moment, hundreds of soldiers of the Qin army wearing ponchos and stepping on rubber shoes were advancing at the speed of a rapid march towards Qiaoshe Town, a small town on the shore of Panyang Lake, more than 30 miles away...... (To be continued......) R1292