Chapter 176: Leading the Troops to the North

Chen Hao felt that the players next to Zhang Zuolin were very familiar, there were too many players killed when he was doing tasks in northern Hebei at that time, Chen Hao could have a little impression of Donghuang because he was very outstanding, but he still couldn't remember where he had met.

After the militia groups in Haicheng united, Chen Hao, who had no oil and water to fish, gave up looting and led the team to Yingkou Port. In his memory, countless players established bases in Yingkou, players fought against each other, and the last big force with an official background was said to have occupied Yingkou, expanded the port and built a shipyard, and established the first navy of Chinese players.

Sanshengshi and Zhuge Kuntian's judgment was right, Chen Hao was indeed very interested in Yingkou, but he was not ready to develop in Yingkou for a long time. He remembers a player who did something crazy about finding a way to moor the British Navy in the harbor, then inviting the Navy ashore to a banquet with a sugar-coated cannonball, taking the opportunity to get his players to get close to the warship in a small boat and climb on it, snatching two armored cruisers and a destroyer.

This is a crazy player, and it took him a long time to set it up, and of course the punishment for this kind of anti-heaven behavior is severe. After completing this mission, there was no place for him in the world, and he would be captured and beheaded by the imperial court in China, and the British put pressure on the Qing court, and the imperial court would continue to arrest him after the resurrection.

Because of provoking the Empire, his fate was miserable, and there was no place for him after he went abroad.

Chen Hao admired this player very much, but he felt that due to the conditions, this player's plan still had many flaws. At that time, the players he sent to the warship could not control the warship, and after capturing the warship, he couldn't drive away, so he could only choose to blow up and sink the three British ** ships. If he had a group of naval officers and sailors under him at that time, it was not impossible to seize the warship and sail to the South Seas, and become a pirate or something in a short period of time and loot a lot of wealth.

Chen Hao had been preparing to establish a base in remote Qianzhou, and he would not change this plan, but he was very interested in the means of that crazy player to snatch the warship. For a player like him with no background, it would be a fool's dream to develop a navy, because developing a navy is too expensive, and even the money needed to build an offshore fleet is enough to build several large bases.

Every Chinese player has a naval dream, and Chen Hao is no exception, even if he wants to establish a base in the inland Qianzhou, he will find a way to build a base on the sea, just for his naval dream.

It takes a lot of money to establish a base area, so Chen Hao has already formulated a crazy plan to make a windfall when the Eight-Nation Alliance invades, and it will be difficult for him to have extra money to develop the navy in the future. Deciding to speed things up, he decided to build a base ahead of time, which would only build the port, shipyard, and naval academy, and then look for an opportunity to replicate the player's crazy plan to loot warships.

Chen Hao wants to make the crazy plan feasible and perfect, so he must choose a place with a good harbor to establish a base before he starts. With a base area, he can find a way to establish a naval academy and train naval talents to prepare for the plan, so that after capturing the battleship, he can escape on the ship and go to the South Seas to be a pirate for the primitive accumulation of capital.

Since Chen Hao will have to rely on Beiyang for development in the future, he will not personally snatch the foreigner warship, but will let someone he can trust do it. After robbing the warship, find an island in the South Sea to establish a base, and then let his subordinates take charge of the construction of the base and carry out the primitive accumulation of capital.

Chen Hao has had this idea for a long time, so he will send money to his real classmate Wang Donglai from time to time, so that he can make friends with the classmates of Fuzhou Shipbuilding School. After Chen Hao established a base area, Wang Donglai would bring a group of instructors and trainees to arrive, and with naval seeds, he would be able to cultivate a steady stream of naval talents.

Yingkou is located on the shore of the Bohai Sea, on the shore of Liaodong Bay, and the Liao River, one of the eight major water systems in China, flows into the sea from here. Yingkou is the first port in China to open to the outside world, and it is the place where the Chinese national financial industry rises, and is known as "Shanghai outside the Guanhai". In 1867, the Qing court set up the Yingkou Haiphong Tongzhi Department to be responsible for the security of the maritime frontier, and if a base was to be established here, Chen Hao would find a way to get an official position after resisting the Russians.

Yingkou not only has a port, but also a large number of fierce bandits in the nearby Haicheng, and you can get excellent soldiers by establishing a base here. If he can't get an official status, Chen Hao is not sure to compete with other players who want to base in Yingkou. Once you master the Haiphong Tongzhi Office, you can launch unfair competition with other players, put on a big hat of bad intentions for others, and send troops to encircle and suppress the imperial court.

Chen Hao observed Yingkou Port, and after thinking about how to develop if he really established a base here, he returned to Fengtian City with the cavalry. The time has come to July 10, and there are still five days left before the Russians cause the tragedy, and it is time to lead the troops north.

Chen Hao led the team to loot a large number of militia groups, and his team became very famous in the horse bandit circle, so more than ten horse bandits came to vote one after another. After gathering horse bandits from all walks of life, Chen Hao temporarily had a force of more than 9,000 people, but the newly joined horse bandits had not yet received Wu Peifu's training, and their combat effectiveness was slightly weaker.

Of the more than 2,000 rifles looted this time, Chen Hao sold them to the inadequately equipped horse bandits at a reasonable price, earning more than 40,000 yuan. There are still 2,000 people in the team of more than 9,000 people who don't have guns, and these people are all new to join, and Chen Hao has no way to improve their equipment level.

Before leaving, Chen Hao asked Feng Yong to send a letter to Feng Delin, inviting him to go north to Heihe Mansion to deal with the Russians, and Feng Yong came to the Liaoyang territory to find Feng Delin's militia. Feng Delin read the letter and put it on the table casually, and said lightly: "Feng Mou established the militia only to protect the territory and the people, and the affairs of Heihe Mansion have their own Heihe people to worry about, Feng Mou wants to guard the peace of the party, and he can't go to Heihe with Lord Chen to resist the Russians, I'm really sorry." ”

Chen Hao was not surprised after receiving Feng Yong's report, the reason why Feng Delin actively fought against the Russians in history was because the Russians invaded the south and violated his interests. Now that the Russians have not yet gone south, of course a hero like Feng Delin is not willing to fight with his life, and the battle against the Russians is too dangerous, and the system is unlikely to let important NPCs like Feng Delin and Zhang Zuolin listen to him.

The horse bandits from all walks of life gathered were temporarily reorganized into the First Division of the Northeast Anti-Russian Resistance, with Wu Peifu as the division commander, Chen Hao as the deputy division commander, and Yang Du as the chief of staff. Although Yang Du is not a commander-type NPC, and he does not have commander-in-command stunts, he has the Emperor's Heart to learn auxiliary stunts, and he is likely to think of a good way when he encounters difficulties.

Since the bandits were only a temporary alliance and would not allow Chen Hao to arrange manpower in their ranks, Chen Hao was unable to appoint these people to high-level official positions. However, even if he forcibly appoints them as military commanders, the commander-in-chief attributes of his subordinates are too low, which will weaken the combat effectiveness of the troops, and it is not as effective as the horse bandit leader as the commander-in-chief.

Even after Wu Peifu's iron-blooded training, this army is still only a rabble, with uneven morale and a lack of a large number of grassroots officers. If it weren't for Wu Peifu's morale-boosting stunts, it is estimated that the troops would have dispersed in a hurry if they encountered a little setback, not to mention the Cossacks against the Russians, even if they went to fight the local militias, it would be enough to choke.

Wu Peifu spent a day regrouping his troops, and then divided the bandits into ten routes and went to Heihe Mansion in batches. After a large number of bandits went to Heihe, the next day Chen Hao led the cavalry team directly under him to escort Wu Peifu all the way to the north, attracting the attention of many players along the way.

Zhuge Kuntian analyzed that Chen Baxian's looting in Fengtian did not last long, Xuanyuan Jian agreed with his opinion, and later developments also proved that Zhuge Kuntian was correct.

Chen Ba stayed in Fengtian first, Xuanyuan Jian was about to add some blockage to him, he used his connections to contact many official members who were active in Fengtian, and was going to let them find an opportunity to participate in the NPC mission to deal with Chen Hao's cavalry team, but received news that Chen Ba left Fengtian first and went north.

Xuanyuan Jian hurriedly summoned his subordinates in the reception room to discuss, he stared at the map for a long time, and then consulted the historical materials, shocked and said; "Chen Baxian looted not at all to develop the base area, he was to equip the horse bandits to go north to Heihe Mansion to deal with the Russians who caused the tragedy."

Zhuge Kuntian also said with a solemn face: "It should be like this, it seems that Chen Baxian started to lay out a long time ago and subdued a large number of horse bandits in Fengtian. But the Russian army of tens of thousands is heading south, and it is difficult to resist it by relying only on these horse bandits! ”

A sturdy player in the reception room stepped forward and said: "Long Shao, today Heihe Mansion began to issue a task to recruit players to resist the Russians, and the brother who participated in the mission said that tens of thousands of people have received the mission, and there is still no situation where the task is full, and he suspects that this task does not limit the number of players." ”

"What?" Xuanyuan Jian said in surprise: "The task of resisting the Russians is not limited to the number of people, doesn't that mean that it is possible for us to change the tragedy of Hailanpao and Jiangdong Sixty Tun?" The rewards for this kind of quest should be huge! Quickly arrange for people to go to Heihe Province and get all the tasks of resisting the Russians. ”

Zhuge Kuntian next to him sighed and said: "It's too late, Chen Ba is calculating first, no matter how many players participate in the task of resisting the Russians, he has a powerful NPC cavalry team in his hands, and this battle can only be led by him." If the tragedy of Hailan Pao and Jiangdong Sixty-Four Tun is avoided, he will not only be able to make great achievements and be rewarded by the imperial court, but also his reputation among players will be skyrocketing, and whoever wants to oppose him in the future will be drowned in saliva. ”

Xuanyuan Jian also thought of this consequence, he couldn't help but turn pale, such a beneficial and showy task, why didn't he get it? The more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and he couldn't help but roar: "Is Chen Baxian an unpredictable prophet? How did he know that the number of Russians resisting in Heihe Province was not limited, and why did he have such courage to change the plot? ”

(To be continued)