Chapter 156: The New Ship Arrives
Not long after Yiketanga fled from Ningyuan, Zhang Zuolin led his subordinates to also kill into the county office, but the county order did not leave, he is not a fool, Yang Feng's people are tossing in Jidong these days, and he has already heard of it, although those soldiers harm officials, but they never kill people, at most, they distribute the money and food of the government to the people, and they don't even touch their family property for those officials with a better reputation, but they will not leave anything for escape, this county official thinks that his official reputation is okay, so there is no need to run away at all.
Zhang Dashuai sat comfortably in the county hall of the county government, threw the submachine gun on the table, put his leg on the table, felt the majesty of the old man, and then coughed, and asked in an official tone like a county magistrate who tried the case: "Do you know who we are?"
The county order is a bit inexplicable, don't you have a sign on your arm, how conspicuous is the armband of the loyal warriors, think I can't see it? He looked at Zhang Dashuai, who was quite hideous behind the candlelight, and asked cautiously, "Who is the general?" ”
"We are the silk in the north, reporting the earthquake in the three provinces, and doing the right thing for the sky, understand? Approaching the end of the year, I heard that the common people are living a very tight life, so our king specially came to help the villagers, don't be verbose, hurry up and hand over the money, food and everything, and then notify the villagers to come to receive food, it must be completed before dawn, otherwise you will understand the consequences. Zhang Zuolin said.
"General, the lower official can tell you where the money and food are, but the lower official can't take you there, otherwise the court will kill me after you leave." The county magistrate said boldly.
"That's okay, that's okay, I heard that you are a good official, so it won't be difficult for you." Zhang Zuolin said, the next thing is simple, some of the soldiers who entered the city pursued the fleeing Qing army, some of them cleaned up the remnants of the enemy in the city, and the rest presided over the opening of the warehouse to release grain. The people of Ningyuan, who were originally scared half to death by the battle, were suddenly overwhelmed by a huge sense of prosperity, and for a while the whole city was full of cheers, and they hated to offer these guys who claimed to be the king of the mountain as bodhisattvas.
Ningyuan is just a small city, with a total population of 10,000, and the county government doesn't have many things, this is not a rich place, how much inventory can there be? In this way, at dawn, almost everything that should have been done was almost done, and the soldiers of a brigade quickly retreated. Then he boarded the landing ship with the morning glow and returned to Qinhuangdao without delaying breakfast.
This battle caused Iktang Abe to lose more than 1,000 people, and another 1,000 ran away, it is estimated that they went into the mountains with weapons to become bandits, and the loss was not large, mainly because they fled too fast, but the loss of equipment was very serious, and those soldiers naturally did not flee with baggage, from machine guns to cannons, almost all of them were lost to Yang Feng's people. Iktang Ake is not Ronglu. Rong Lu has a lot of reserves there, and he has nothing to replenish there, so he could have transported it from the Guannei, but Yang Feng locked Shanhaiguan and he transported a fart. Lushun Fortress is there, but it is a fortress cannon, and the defenders there are still Huai Army people, can they mix up with themselves and Yang Feng's affairs! The only thing is to buy it from outside. But it's going to take time.
Fortunately, Iktanga also understands that at the current level of his subordinates, they will also be sent to death when they arrive at Shanhaiguan. Since this is the case, it is better to retreat first and train the troops well, and then he simply retreated to Jinzhou and stationed himself on the grounds of replenishing guns, and the north-south attack that Cixi had hoped for would not be realized for at least two months.
The impact of this battle is not so simple, since Yang Feng dared to go to Ningyuan to intercept Yiketanga, it means that he has the ability to attack any city along the coast, fortunately there is sea ice in the northeast now, but the coast of Shandong is not good, if he really wants to carry out this kind of night landing sneak attack, and then break the city and pretend to be the king of the mountain to open a warehouse to release grain, then the fun will be great, for a while, the coastal wind and trees in Shandong are all soldiers, which makes Li Bingheng, the governor of Shandong, frightened every day.
Anyway, the Beiyang Naval Division made up his mind to see the excitement, Liu Buyun just sent a telegram to Rong Lu saying that a big problem was found during the maintenance of the second ship of Dingzhen, and he didn't know when it would be undocked, and he also told him through Tie Liang that even if there was Dingzhen, don't expect to be able to deal with Yang Feng at sea, although the caliber of his Marauder's main gun is small, the range, aiming system, and armor-piercing ability are not far superior to all warships in various countries now, not to mention that the speed is far beyond all the warships of the Beiyang Naval Division.
"If we go to war, then the Marauder can always maintain this distance outside our range, and then use our warship as a target, and when our warship is seriously injured, his high-speed destroyer can come up to replenish the mines, using this tactic, we are all annihilated, maybe we can't hurt the Marauder, this is how the Japanese Yoshino was played to death at the beginning, the speed of the Yoshino is even faster than Kaiyuan, and Yang Feng did not use the destroyer, you can think about what the result would be if it was Dingzhen." Liu Buyun told Tie Liang very kindly.
Tie Liang hurriedly ran to learn from Rong Lu, of course, this became his own analysis and summary, he still knows this cronie Rong Lu very well, since he said so, it is still worth believing, but those ministers in the DPRK and China don't believe it, you two 7,000-ton ironclad ships, one is about to catch up with Yang Feng's nine ships combined, and they actually said that they can't beat them all, and they don't understand the navy if they bully us.
Under their bewitchment, Cixi was not so sober, she gave Rong Lu an order to see if he could take out Liu Buyun and the others, and then change someone to quickly drive the Beiyang Naval Division out.
"The mourning family doesn't believe it, there are so many people in this water division, and none of them are loyal to the court, isn't Liu Buyun bad? Then don't do it, pass on the will of the mourning family, Liu Buyun, Lin Taizeng, Qiu Baoren, Li He and the four of them are not in good control, and they are removed from all their positions, anyway, it is useless to keep them, what is the court still doing?" Cixi sneered and said that in fact, she had wanted to do this for a long time, but she had never been able to figure it out.
In her opinion, this is enough to deter the guys who take her job and refuse to give her a job, and it is estimated that after hearing the will of dismissal, these four people may not be able to regret what they will become? Will they beg for mercy immediately after that? At that time, I can play the role of Lafayette mercy again, so that they will be honest in the future, as long as these four people are subdued, the others will have nothing to worry about, in the end, the court is orthodox, and what future can there be with an unknown anti-thief.
It's a pity that it backfired, she specially sent someone to read out the will of dismissal, and the four of them immediately packed up their things and prepared to leave, but the eunuch who passed the decree was baffled, and I didn't see Zhilu saying that he was removed and still smiling.
The reaction of these people made Cixi also at a loss, she was ready to play a magnanimous master, but the supporting role was not played, and this scene was still a fart, but she was at a loss for a day, and she knew that she had made another mistake, she sent Yang Feng four captains who had been trained for more than ten years in vain, because when she removed Liu Buyun and the four people, a huge fleet including two armored cruisers, four destroyers, and four landing ships sailed into Mawei Harbor, Immediately afterwards, the two armored cruisers took four destroyers and went north at a high speed of twenty-five knots.
These two armored cruisers are extraordinary, driving from Sweden to China, all the way can be described as attracting bees and butterflies, almost all major naval powers send warships to visit, no matter which port they dock at will become a local hot topic, because these two armored cruisers are so beautiful.
Flying scissors head, simple and clean gray hull, neither those messy rigging, nor towering chimneys, more importantly, they use a novel shape of the twin knapsack turret, eight Bofors version of the 152 mm main gun evenly distributed front and rear, and eight 75 mm secondary guns, in addition to no other artillery, especially those messy rotary tube guns do not have a single one, let alone a first-class main gun, a second-level main gun or something, just this kind of main gun.
Using 10,000 horsepower diesel engines specially made by Yang Feng for them, four of each, the fastest speed can reach 30 knots, because the use of diesel engines, with 15 knots of sailing and even a range of 6,000 nautical miles, it can be said that this is an almost epoch-making warship, which has been targeted by the navies of various countries since the time of construction, and Armstrong even built two landing ships for Yang Feng for free in exchange for participating in the construction of these two cruisers, as for the German side, Volkeng Shipyard also participated in the construction at the same price.
The two armored cruisers went north from Mawei Harbor like stars with a halo, and then stopped off the coast of Weihaiwei surrounded by the navies of the Far East, and an accompanying destroyer sailed into the harbor under the banner of the Fujian Naval Division, and took the new captains of the two cruisers, Liu Buyun and Lin Taizeng, and the two deputy captains, Qiu Baoren and Li He, under the envious gaze, and then sailed to Qinhuangdao.
At this time, even Cixi didn't bring up the topic of moving the Beiyang Naval Division to expel Yang Feng, obviously even she understood that this was completely unrealistic, even if she didn't understand the navy, she also knew that if she used the strength of the Beiyang Naval Division to deal with Yang Feng before, then after the opponent's strength was almost doubled, there would be no hope, at this time she even regretted it a little, she shouldn't have had such a stiff quarrel with Yang Feng for Deshou, but it was useless to regret it, at this point, it would be a shame to be soft, anyway, Yang Feng didn't say anything further, The two sides will just consume it first!
She didn't know that a group of enemies who really wanted her life had already begun to attack. (To be continued......)