The capital, the Imperial Palace.

An old woman who looks very rough and resembles a wild boar sits on a dragon chair, this old woman is the emperor of the Manchu Tartars, named Nurhachi, in Manchu, Nurhachi means "wild boar skin". Nurhachi's parents hope that when their daughter grows up, she will be as brave as a wild boar in the forest, as tough as a boar skin, and as durable and wearable.

The result was that the man was as his name suggested, and the likeness of Nurhachi was a wild boar.

At this time, the wild boar was making a sound similar to that of a wild boar attacking humans, and roared angrily: "A group of waste, why did they suddenly stop attacking after attacking the north bank of the Yangtze River?"

A middle-aged woman who looked like a badger walked forward, and the badger's name was Dorgon, the fourteenth daughter of Nurhachi, and in Manchu, Dolgon means badger, which is similar to the boar's skin.

The badger said to the wild boar skin: "Huang Ama, when our army attacked Jiangyin, we encountered the strange cavalry troops of the Great Meng Kingdom, they rode a kind of fast iron cart, and attacked our army's archers with a very fast rate of fire, causing heavy casualties to our army. ”

The wild boar skin was taken aback and asked urgently, "Let's hear the details." ”

The badger beckoned, and walked Bolo, this guy personally experienced the onslaught of Yiyun's lone wolf squad, and knew Yiyun's new troops best, so he quickly told the details of the battle of Jiangyin and mentioned Yiyun's new weapons. Bolo's eyes were full of tears, which were all scared.

"Stupid!" After hearing this, Wild Boar Skin snorted coldly and said, "You are actually frightened like this, didn't you find the enemy's weakness after this battle?"

"Didn't you find a weakness? Bolo said: "The enemy army has no weaknesses at all. ”

"You're so stupid, stupider than a boar. Boar Skin said angrily: "The enemy's greatest weakness is the lack of troops. Think about it, why didn't such a powerful cavalry attack Jiangbei on a large scale? Why did they only send 500 cavalry to relieve the siege of Jiangyin? If the enemy sent 10,000 cavalry of this kind of strange cavalry, you would not have any life to escape back. This can only say one thing. That is, the enemy army has a very small number of strange cavalry......"

The badger and Bolo suddenly realized: "Huang Ama is really smart." ”

Wild Boar Skin smiled proudly: "Since the enemy's strength is insufficient, then no matter how powerful they are, there is nothing to be afraid of, pass the order, our army is 100,000 troops." plus the 100,000 puppet army of the Great Meng Kingdom that was surrendered. Divided into squads of 1,000 people. From various places along the Yangtze River, they launched an attack on the south of the Yangtze River, and blossomed everywhere. I see how those 500 people can be saved? Hahahaha!"

She laughed wildly a few times, and suddenly someone came in and reported: "Your Majesty, a Western envoy is here, saying that he is here to do business with us, and he wants to sell us a few new weapons that can deal with the Great Meng Kingdom." ”

The wild boar skin frowned, and said unhappily: "New weapons? ”

His subordinates were ordered to go out and drive away the Western envoys.

Three days later, the wild boar skin was combing his own wild boar skin in the palace, when he suddenly heard a report: "Oh no, the emperor...... The Westerners bombarded Tianjin with new-style warships, bombing Tianjin into ruins and killing countless soldiers of our army...... Oh my God, that kind of battleship is terrifying. ”

The wild boar skin was shocked, and hurriedly ordered the army to Tianjin, and when he arrived in Tianjin, he saw that the two battleships on the sea were still bombarding Tianjin without a cannon, and the main guns of these two battleships were very terrifying, and the barrels were several times thicker than the most powerful red-coated cannon in the Manchu Dynasty. At this time, the caliber of the red-coated cannon of the Qing army was less than 50 mm, but the muzzle of these two ironclad ships in the steam era was 305 mm caliber, which was of course extremely terrifying in the eyes of the Qing people.

It turned out that after the Westerners had these two new warships, they still did not dare to challenge Yiyun's Dameng, they sailed north around the open sea, came to Tianjin, and then wanted to sell the two ships to the Manchu court through trading, but the wild boar skin refused in one bite, and the foreigners were furious, and they bombarded outside the port of Tianjin, and Tianjin was bombarded into ruins.

When the wild boar skin arrived to see that Tianjin was finished, and he was powerless to return to the sky, he couldn't help but be startled by this terrifying cannon, and for the first time he felt a little powerless about the power of his bow and arrow, so he had to order: "Call the envoys from the West to come and hear what they have to say." ”

The Qing soldiers first sent envoys to go over with white flags, and after a while, the two ships stopped shelling and also sent envoys ashore and came towards the wild boar skin. The attitude of the Western envoy was very arrogant, but when he suddenly saw the appearance of the wild boar skin, he was immediately frightened into a cold sweat, and thought: How terrifying it is that there is a woman who looks like this.

The envoy's attitude turned around in fright, and he said a little politely: "Your Majesty the Emperor of the Manchu Dynasty, we are here to discuss business with you. ”

The wild boar skin was furious: "The people who talk about business will use cannons to smash my city?"

The Western envoy snorted, "If we don't bang, will you talk?"

The wild boar skin was so angry that he had to say: "Don't think it's great to bombard my city at a long distance at sea, if you want to negotiate an unfair deal, I won't agree, the ship can't sail up to the ground." ”

The Western envoy said: "It is definitely a fair deal, we in Europe want to sell these two ships to you Manchu Qing." ”

"What? want to sell me these two powerful ships?" Wild Boar Skin was taken aback, she thought that the foreigners would use this powerful warship to blackmail her, but she didn't expect to sell the ship to her, and couldn't help but secretly rejoice: "How much?"

The Western envoy smiled and said, "The two ships have a total of 6 million taels of silver." ”

"Fuck, 6 million taels, why don't you grab it?" Wild Boar Skin was furious, and she immediately wanted to refuse the deal.

At this time, a Han female official who followed the wild boar skin walked up, this Han official's name is Li Hongzhang, twenty-five years old this year, ordinary appearance, not beautiful, can only be said to be not ugly, she whispered in the ear of the wild boar skin: "Your Majesty, we should buy these two ships." ”

"What's the use of buying it, it's so expensive!" the boar skin was unhappy.

Li Hongzhang said: "The foreigners are powerful, mostly with these strange weapons, not long ago Bolo lost to the Da Meng Kingdom in Jiangyin, isn't it also because the other party has strange machine cavalry......?

"Oh? You're right. "Wild boar skin is a little tempting.

Li Hongzhang said again: "6 million taels sounds a bit expensive, but in fact it is nothing, anyway, we have seized a piece of land in the north of the Yangtze River, and the silver we snatched is not exactly 6 million taels? ”

The wild boar skin was finally convinced, and laughed: "Reasonable, the money we snatched from Da Meng Guo is almost exactly 6 million taels, use this money to buy two warships to fight Nan Meng Guo, and then grab the money in the south, there is still something to be earned." ”

At that moment, the two sides signed a contract and made a deal, and these two new ironclad warships became the warships of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, one was named "Dingyuan" and the other was named "Zhenyuan", and Li Hongzhang was fully responsible for the formation of the Beiyang Navy.

Li Hongzhang also plucked a large amount of money from the wild boar skin, and purchased many other warships to assist the two battleships from the Eight-Nation Alliance, including the armored cruisers Jingyuan and Laiyuan, and then bought the protective cruisers Jiyuan, Zhiyuan, and Jingyuan, the ramming cruisers Yang Wei and Chaoyong, the iron-ribbed wood-hulled cruisers Guangjia, the torpedo cruisers Guangyi and Guangbing, the gunboats Longji, Huwei, Feiting, and Cedian, as well as auxiliary ships: Haijing, Meiyun, Liyun, Caojiang, Xizhao, Feiting, Feiyan, Chaohai, Tielong, Feilong, Kuaishun, Yushun, Lishun, Jieshun, Baofu, guide the sea, guide the river, fast horse, seahorse, pole mine, mine guard, mine, mine, patrol mine, underwater machine ship, spiral bridge ship, 50 ton coal carrier, 20 ton water ship.

The Eight-Nation Coalition had just been produced, and all the big and small ships sent from Europe were bought by Li Hongzhang.

The Europeans knew that none of these ships were enough to compete with Yiyun's super battleship Dameng, so they simply sold them all to the Manchus, anyway, these ships were doomed to be eliminated as soon as they were produced, and it was better to exchange them for money from the Manchus. They seized the time to carry out the industrial revolution, technological transcendence was the right reason, and it was more cost-effective to leave the matter of war to the Manchus.

The Beiyang Navy was formed in this way, these ships did not need fuel oil, they all burned coal, and the Manchus themselves knew how to dig coal, so there was no problem in terms of power.

After the establishment of the Beiyang Fleet, the wild boar skin ordered Li Hongzhang to hurry up and practice, but the Westerners did not tell him that Yi Yun had a more powerful big meng, and the wild boar skin of course did not know, she was counting on the Beiyang sailors to help him capture the Shanghai Oasis after the training was perfect, so she urged very urgently.

Under the urging of the wild boar skin, Li Hongzhang also trained the sailors hard, and promoted a large number of naval generals, Ye Zuqi, Sa Zhenbing, Ding Ruchang and others, all of whom became the generals in the Beiyang Naval Division at this time.

A few months later, Li Hongzhang's Beiyang sailors finally completed their training, and the huge sailors sailed out of the harbor under the personal supervision of wild boar skins and rushed towards the Shanghai oasis with great vigour...... At the same time, Wild Boar Pi also launched her land attack plan, and after knowing that Yi Yun's troops were insufficient, she adopted a strategy of attacking from multiple directions and blossoming on all sides, dividing the hundreds of thousands of troops under her command into countless groups of thousands and tens of thousands, and dozens of armies marched at the same time, attacking the south bank of the Yangtze River...... (To be continued.) )