In April 1894, Li Hongzhang, the governor of the Qing Dynasty, the minister of Beiyang, and a scholar of Wenhuadian University, was ordered to review the Qing navy. The newly renovated Beiyang 8 Dayuan, the Zhenhai ship newly purchased by the Nanyang Naval Division, the three 5,000-ton light armored cruisers of the Beiyang Division, and the four third-class dome cruisers of the Guangdong Naval Division and the Penghu Naval Division. This makes the lineup of this naval parade unprecedentedly strong.

"This is much more spectacular than when the Beiyang Grand Parade was held three years ago. After a lapse of 3 years, my new ship in Beiyang has finally returned. Li Hongzhang stood on the ship Kaiyuan and looked at the fleet in the distance, and couldn't help but sigh. This old man, who had exhausted more than ten years of hard work for the Beiyang Naval Division, probably did not expect that in the war that broke out soon after, more than half of these reference warships would no longer exist. Its tragic Cheng dù is rare in the history of naval warfare in the world. And when Lao Li was discussing the parade with Ding Ruchang, Zhang Peilun and others. Xu Jie, Liu Buchan, Lin Taizeng and others were also talking about these things on the side.

"Mr. Xu, this has been more than 4 years. This new warship has finally returned to our Beiyang. Things have changed, and now Xu Jie can control more than one-third of Beiyang's combat power, even if Liu Buyun, the "actual commander of Beiyang", has to treat him politely.

"I don't know what Mr. Xu thinks of today's situation." Lin Tai was more concerned about whether Beiyang would have a chance of winning once the war started. After all, the island nation to the east has not been idle.

"Two commanders, borrow the ground to speak." Xu Jie looked around and said.

"Liu has something unclear, I don't know why Lang Jiaoxi, Lord Deng, and Lord Yang didn't come back with the ship? A certain non-and change. Liu Buyun asked puzzled in the captain's room of the Dingyuan ship.

"Lord Lin, Lord Liu, please look at this." Xu Jie handed over a blank piece of paper, and what was written on it was the Qianlong Plan!

"Sss After reading the Qianlong plan, Liu Buyun and Lin Taizeng couldn't help but gasp. This plan is so big and hidden that even the top brass of the Beiyang Fleet don't know about it!!

"This battleship is already in my Beiyang hands, but it will take time to rush back into battle. The Japanese ordered a cruiser of the first and a second class from the British to return in July. At that time, the strength of the Japanese fleet will far surpass that of our Beiyang Fleet. The three 10,000-ton warships ordered by Beiyang can only be put into battle in November, and this vacuum period is difficult to overcome. For this reason, our top priority is how to leave the Nanyang Fleet behind and help our Beiyang through this most difficult period. Xu Jie looked at Liu Lin and said.

"I'm afraid it's going to be difficult. Although the South and North Seas have been quite harmonious in recent years, it is not clear whether Liu Kun will leave the South Ocean Naval Division behind. Liu Buyun said with a frown.

"Actually, it's not that hard, we can just do it." Xu Jie smiled weirdly and whispered to Liu Buchan.

"Is this okay?" After Liu Buyun heard this, he was shocked.

"How do you know if you don't try?" Xu Jie sneered.

The Beiyang Grand Parade started on time, and the capital ships of the entire Daqingshui Division were divided into 3 groups, the first group was the Dingzhen 2nd ship in Beiyang, the Zhenhai ship in Nanyang and 3 **-class light armored cruisers, and the second group was 6 cruisers in Beiyang, Jiyuan, Zhiyuan, Jingyuan, Pingyuan, Jingyuan, and Laiyuan. The third group is the Kaiji, Huantai, and Jingqing of the Nanyang Fleet, as well as the four 1,570-ton third-class dome cruisers of the Guangdong Navy Division and the Penghu Navy Division, the Sea Dragon, the Sea Tiger, the Sea Lion and the Sea Seal. (The Cantonese ship did not come because it was going to escort the new army of the South to the north) and then there were gunboats, torpedo boats, and miscellaneous ships.

"It's a big view, I think my big clear water master can have today's scale." Looking at the battleships that sailed by before Kaiyuan, Li Hongzhang couldn't help but sigh.

"I don't know if after this year, there will be a few warships left in my Great Shimizu Division." Zhang Peilun said in a low voice. …,

"Youqiao, are you an insider, are you still afraid that Japan will not succeed?" Li Hongzhang said with some displeasure.

"Those 30,000-ton warships are good, but they will not arrive until the time, but if you start fighting now. If my Beiyang Fleet suffers heavy damage before the new ships arrive, I am afraid that it will not help if the new ships come back. Zhang Peilun's face was gloomy.

"Could it be that Youqiao has caught the attention of that ironclad giant ship in the South Seas?" Li Hongzhang pointed to the Zhenhai battleship behind Dingzhen and said.

"This is not the opinion of the students alone, Jishi is also the opinion, and he already has a plan." Zhang Peilun paused. "But I still hope that Lord Zhongtang can give Lord Liu a letter of resignation.

"Go ahead and do it, prepare for years, and it's a matter of life and death. There is something that the old man is responsible for, as long as he can win. Don't worry about anything else! Li Hongzhang said, and then looked at the battleship in the distance.

On the evening after the parade, Ding Yuqian boarded the bridge of the Beiyang cutting-edge cruiser Guiyuan, and to his surprise, it was not Lin Yongsheng, the captain of the Haitian, who greeted him, but Xu Jie, the upstart of the Beiyang and the chief of the fast fleet.

"Brother Ji Shi personally came to greet Ding, but he was killed." Ding Yuqian said flatteredly.

"Where, Lord Ding is the leader of the Zhenhai ship, this Zhenhai ship is the first giant ship in my Qing Dynasty, and it is not an exaggeration for Xu, the leader of the cruiser, to greet the adult." Xu Jie said modestly.

The two of them naturally didn't come here to do homework, Xu Jie helped Ding Yuqian buy a new warship back then, and helped the Ding family's business a lot, he paid so much, and now is naturally the time to ask for returns. Lao Ding also knew that Xu Jie invited him over to ask for an account.

"What does Lord Ding think about the current situation?" In the Haitian captain's room, Xu Jie poured a cup of tea for Ding Yuqian and asked.

"The war clouds are thick, and there will be a war soon!" Ding Yuqian said simply.

"What is the opinion of the Nanyang sailors?" Xu Jie asked.

"Nanyang Guys still want to go back." Ding Yuqian's face changed, and he squeezed out a few words from between his teeth.

"What is the opinion of Lord Ding?" Xu Jie glanced at Ding Yuqian and asked.

"Naturally, I want to stay and fight." As his name suggests, Ding Yuqian is staring at money, but in the face of his benefactor, even as a businessman, he knows that transactions should be equal, since you have taken so many benefits from others, it is too late to retreat now. If he retreats, I am afraid that the Nanyang Chinese businessmen who cooperate with him will turn their faces the next day.

"Since Lord Ding understands the righteousness so well, please listen to me. Don't go back to the Weihai ship these days. Xu Jie said with a smile.

"Why is that?" Ding Yuqian asked.

"Heaven must not be divulged." Xu Jie said with a weird smile.

A few days later, all the projects of the Beiyang Dayue were over, and the Guangdong Naval Division and the Penghu Naval Division requested to stay in Beiyang and fight together with the Beiyang Naval Division on the grounds of the tense situation. And the Nanyang pipe bands are thinking about how to leave this place of right and wrong quickly, after all, staying is to fight, it stands to reason that the big war is imminent, Beiyang must want to leave this fleet to enhance its strength, but unexpectedly, the pipe bands of the Beiyang Navy Division do not mind the departure of the Nanyang Navy Division. It's just that the various "greetings" of middle and lower-ranking officers reach the ears of all of you in Nanyang from time to time. Some of the Nanyang pipe belts are definitely a little unbearable, so let's just hurry up.

As a result, when leaving, something went wrong, when the Zhenhai ironclad ship left the port, because the position of the navigation light was deviated, and the draft of Zhenhai was already relatively deep, and it accidentally hit the reef!! Can't go!! Seeing this scene, Xu Jie couldn't help but sneer: "Y's can't fix you?" In the history of his own plane, Lin Tai once committed suicide because the navigation lights deviated from the position of the Zhenyuan tentacles, and now Zhenhai is bigger than Zhenyuan, and the draft is still deep, plus everyone in Nanyang is not familiar with the situation of the military port, as long as you want, Zhenhai is bound to hit the reef!! ”…,

If there was such a serious accident on the first big warship of the Qing Dynasty, someone must be held responsible. The commander of the Nanyang Navy Division and the captain of Zhenhai naturally couldn't escape, but Ding Yuqian was spared because he asked for leave and wanted to stay in Beiyang for two more stays, and he was not on the ship. In this way, the person who can take charge of this battleship is naturally his help. If the ship is damaged, then it must be repaired, and the repair can only be in Lushun, first, only Lushun in the Qing Dynasty can repair 10,000-ton warships, and secondly, they have all hit the rocks, and it is impossible for you to remove it. But is this repair, how much time can be repaired, it is Beiyang who has the final say, and the pipes of Nanyang have calculated the time, if they don't leave, the situation will be tense day by day. When the time comes, I won't be able to leave! So someone offered to leave first. Beiyang didn't embarrass your colleagues, but just said that the battleship had not been repaired yet, and Nanyang had to leave people to guard it. The people of Nanyang think about it as well. In this case, Ding Yuqian must stay, after all, he is a helper. The others slipped away first. (The author is extremely dissatisfied with the behavior of the Nanyang Fleet in the First Sino-Japanese Naval War for doing nothing and playing soy sauce all day long)

"Lord Xu, you can really do it." Looking at the giant ship being repaired in the dock, Ding Yuqian whispered to Xu Jie.

"Lord Ding is too modest, it's obviously a mistake made by some people, what does it have to do with me Beiyang?" Xu Jie said casually. "Lord Ding, since this has been left, let's think about how to do it, fighting a war is risky, but the benefits are also great. If I can help Beiyang defeat the Japanese Navy, the Ding family's income can be more than doubled! ”

At the same time, Li Hongzhang specially repaired a letter to Liu Kunyi. The letter made it very clear that the accident of this Nanyang warship in Beiyang was due to our Beiyang failure to take care of it. In order to apologize, I can renovate the Zhenhai for free, but after the renovation, can I temporarily stay in Beiyang in case of emergency? You see that this war is about to break out, if the Nanyang capital ship slaps its ass and leaves at this time, I'm afraid it's not appropriate, right? At the same time, Lao Li also sent a new military purchase order. Under Li Hongzhang's combination of soft and hard, Liu Kunyi hesitated a little, you say let's go, obviously it's impossible, the battleships are broken, why don't you go? If you don't leave, although the relationship between Beiyang and Nanyang has eased a lot in the past two years, Liu Kunyi is still a little unwilling to let Lao Liu pay for Li Hongzhang to fight. Just when Liu Kun was undecided, two more things appeared that made Liu Kun unable to retreat even if he wanted to, one was that Li Hanzhang of Liangguang also sent the last three Cantonese warships of the Guangdong fleet to Beiyang, and the other thing was that the Qing State and Japan continued to increase troops in Korea, even if Liu Kunyi was unwilling to have 100,000 troops, he was unwilling to bear the charge of escaping. "Forget it, this battleship was bought with the help of Beiyang, so let's stay and stay." After that, Liu Kunyi finally agreed to stay in Beiyang with the Zhenhai ship.

Tomorrow the war will start~~. Thank you for your support~~Thank you~~~