Night 5 The First Sino-Japanese Battle (1)
Sima Fuqiang was still excited until he woke up, completely unconcerned about Friday night's war dream, and thinking that Saturday would come soon.
Coming to the restaurant, Xiaofeng suddenly came over mysteriously, lowered his voice and asked, "Captain, are you confused?" Why don't I think the eight-bull crossbow you got in is so useless? ”
"Oh? What are your insights? Let's hear it. Sima Fuqiang has always ignored Xiaofeng's opinion, but he is in a good mood now and doesn't mind teasing this kid.
Seeing that the captain's expression was a little strange, Xiaofeng couldn't help but flinch a little in his heart, every time he wanted to see the captain's appearance, he was always unlucky in the end, which made him a little lacking in confidence. But after thinking about it, this time the grasp is far better than before, maybe it is really the captain's negligence, then he will raise his eyebrows.
So after thinking about it again and again, Xiaofeng once again raised his courage to challenge the captain's wisdom, "Captain, look, each of those eight bull crossbows needs a hundred people to work, even if the number of people is compressed to eighty by you later, it is still not a small number." At the same time, it would take 400 people to build five eight-ox crossbows, and our army would only be 500 people. ”
Sima Fuqiang didn't have a panicked expression at all, but patted Xiaofeng's shoulder easily, "The young man has learned arithmetic well, and he can graduate from elementary school." ”
Seeing the captain's expression of the old god, Xiaofeng's heart suddenly sank again, it seems that this time he was put on the side by the captain again, and he was played as a monkey in vain.
The teammates on the side had been paying attention to the conversation between the two for a long time, and they had already begun to steal fun. Although Wanyue was also full of puzzlement, she held back the curiosity in her heart and didn't dare to ask.
Xiaofeng's face had already been honed to be extremely thick, and he smirked "hehe" and then it was nothing again. However, driven by his strong curiosity, he would not give up so simply, so he continued to lie on the dinner table and stare at Sima Fuqiang and asked, "Captain, then what are you going to do?" ”
"What can I say? Wait patiently for a few days and you'll know the results. Sima Fuqiang smiled, picked up the newspaper on the table and began to read it, obviously not wanting to say anything more.
Xiaofeng was whetted by the captain, but he couldn't get an answer, but he didn't dare to continue to entangle, or he might have to take a "bear paw".
His eyes rolled around, and he shifted his target to Huang Zhi, who was quietly waiting for breakfast on the side, "Brother Shixin, you also participated in this battle plan, tell me what's going on." ”
Huang Zhi shook his head, "Since the captain is unwilling to say it, it is a military secret, you can't say it, you can't say it." ”
Seeing that he couldn't find a breakthrough here, Xiaofeng didn't give up and found Zhang Wei, who was looking at him with a smile, "Viagra ......"
Before he could continue, Zhang Wei blocked his words, "If you want to ask viagra you have to go to the pharmacy, I have to go to work." Then he grabbed the breakfast prepared by Huang Ying and Li Sha and hurried out the door.
"Liar, you and Shixin are colleagues, why do you want to go first?" Xiaofeng muttered unwillingly as he stared at his back.
Huang Zhi also began to enjoy his breakfast at this time, and when he heard this, he explained for his good brother, "He is the company's security supervisor, and he is on duty today, so he must go to work half an hour earlier than us." ”
Regardless of whether the reason given by Huang Zhi was true or not, Xiaofeng was destined to not be able to get the answer he wanted anyway, so he had to go out to finish his morning run rain or shine.
Huang Zhi and Sima Fuqiang looked at each other and smiled, in the battle of Weidongguan, they would definitely give their teammates and the rebels in Weixian an unexpected surprise.
======================== the dividing line between dream and reality======================= it is indeed a bit premature to consider the details of the implementation of the Battle of Weidongguan, and the Donghai team is facing another Manchu period thermal weapons war tonight.
After waking up from their sleep, they found themselves on a warship swaying with the waves, wearing a standard sailor uniform of the Qing army.
Turning his head to see Xiaofeng's curious baby-like eyes, Sima Fuqiang still decided to satisfy his exuberant curiosity. He walked over to the wall of the sailor's cabin and knocked on the bulkhead, only to hear the characteristic clanging sound of metal. Then he looked out of the porthole, and there was the sea as far as the eye could see. In the direction of the bow of the ship, you can vaguely see six warships ahead, and the stern direction is not complete, but there are some warships vaguely accompanying it.
"Ironclad ships, naval battles, then we currently belong to the Beiyang Naval Division, which was established in Weihaiwei in 1888." Glancing at Xiaofeng, who was still a little unconvinced, Sima Fuqiang explained in more detail, "During the same period, the Qing court also formed the Nanyang Naval Division in the south, but the main ships of the Nanyang Naval Division were basically wooden, and only a small gunboat with a displacement of 200 tons, the 'Jinou', was made of all iron. However, judging from the size of the sailor's cabin, it is clear that the ship we are boarding at the moment will not be a small ship with a displacement of only 200 tons. ”
"The Beiyang Naval Division is a shameful mark in China's modern history, only six years after its establishment, it only experienced a Sino-Japanese War before it was declared annihilated. It seems that we are going through another battle that we must lose...... "Although this is the past two centuries ago, Sima Fuqiang still sighs about it.
Xiaofeng listened to it for a long time, and coldly held back a question, "Having said so much, the captain hasn't told us what kind of battle this time is." ”
Sima Fuqiang almost turned his back on his anger when he heard this, the Beiyang Navy Division had experienced a Sino-Japanese War, how could this stupid boy still ask such a retarded question.
Well, taking 10,000 steps back, the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle can be divided into several stages in a broad sense, so there are only three naval battles experienced by the Beiyang Naval Division, namely the maiden battle of Fengdao on July 25, 1894, which was attacked by the Yue army, the Battle of the Yellow Sea, which is the most representative battle on September 17, and the Battle of Weihaiwei, the curtain call of the Beiyang Naval Division in late November.
Not to mention the different seasons of these three battles, you can make an accurate judgment from the climate at this time alone.
The Battle of Toshima took place early in the morning, but it was daylight at the moment, so naturally it could not be this battle. Moreover, the Battle of Toshima was a small battle at best, a surprise attack by three high-speed ships of the First Guerrilla Force of the Combined Fleet, while the Beiyang Naval Division had only two protective cruisers Jiwon and torpedo cruiser Gwang-Yi returning from Asan in Korea. Compared with the current number of warships, the scale is obviously not right.
As for the battle of Weihaiwei, it is even more not considered, it is said to be a naval battle, but in fact, the Beiyang naval division has been pressed and beaten by the army in the harbor of Weihai Port from beginning to end, where does this endless ocean come from.
At present, then it can only be the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle in the narrow sense -- the Battle of the Yellow Sea, also known as the Battle of Dadonggou. The Chinese side dispatched 12 warships with a total displacement of 36,000 tons, while the Beiyang Naval Division had 12 capital ships plus six small ships, with a total displacement of less than 30,000 tons.
In this battle, no matter from the comparison of the data in terms of the number of artillery, displacement, and speed, the Beiyang Naval Division was completely inferior, not to mention that the ship surnames and military qualities of both sides were not on the same level, resulting in the final loss of six warships with a total displacement of nearly 10,000 tons.
At the beginning, the Empress Dowager Cixi embezzled 30 million taels of naval military funds to build the Summer Palace, which caused the navy yamen to reduce the size of each fleet, and because of the lack of necessary maintenance funds, all warships were in disrepair. The fiasco of this battle was even worse, causing the already not very powerful Beiyang Naval Division to plummet, and eventually led to the destruction of the entire fleet.
This is a battle that must be lost, so Sima Fuqiang has already begun to have a headache, and can only pray that the East China Sea team is not on top of those few warships that are destined to be sunk.
(To be continued)