Chapter 1063: Expedition
"Special! Sure enough, you can't have the slightest beautiful fantasy about this dog system. ”
Standing on the simple wharf of a small island with a natural harbor in the East Java region, which is now considered the home port of Xuangeying, Hu Biao's mouth cursed.
In some positions in front of him, a large number of Chinese workers are like busy ant colonies, bringing the best anthracite thermal coal from Wales.
There were also shells, medicines, food, water, etc., of various calibers, which were delivered to a number of warships moored at the docks.
In his place, there was also a group of people around the boss, who also silently watched the ongoing supply of these warships.
Among them, there are members of the team such as Yang Dongli, Team Zheng, Guifei, Xiaomei, Shi Poyu, Little White Face, War Elephant, Big Fish, Shadow Rider, Wolf Qing, Wu Pawn, Lao Tie, Cross, Lao Ping, Er Fat, Yuanhai and so on.
After counting Hu Biao, there are as many as 17 people in total.
Let them all gather here, since yesterday they received the news that the Yin Law Expeditionary Fleet, as well as the combined fleet of the island nation, have all set off.
They knew one thing: the Xuange Battalion fleet had to be divided immediately.
And the detachment that participated in the battle of Dadonggou was about to go out, otherwise it would not have been able to catch up with the battle.
So today is the day when the detachment departs; On such an important day, the members of the team in Surabaya City naturally need to come to see them off.
Specifically, it is Hu Biao, the concubine, the shadow horse, the cross, the warrior and other five people.
He will lead three warships, including the Guifei, Fenghuahui, and Kicking, to set off.
The detachment will go to the Dadonggou sea area, find a place to hide first, and after the devil and the Beiyang fleet fight, they will kill from the critical moment and greet the devil's chrysanthemum fiercely.
And the rest of Yang Dongli and a large group of people, although they came to see them off today.
However, they will soon be leaving Surabaya City.
Among the people at the scene, in addition to the deputy chief of staff of the team Zheng, there were also two ministers, Shi Poyu, the minister of the Ministry of Security; After that, he needed to stay in the lair of Surabaya City to deal with the subsequent small actions of the Duran people.
All the other members of the rest of the team will be led by Yang Dongli, the second master, to meet the expeditionary fleet.
Because in comparison, the Yin Law Expeditionary Fleet is the biggest threat in this incident; Not to mention that if they really want to kill Surabaya, it will be a fatal destruction to their lair.
The interference of these guys will have a devastating impact on the main quest to overthrow Daqing.
Therefore, the expeditionary fleet of Yin Law must completely defeat them; In order to achieve such a goal, the team can only invest more manpower and combat power.
Based on this, Xiaomei, Lao Ping, Da Yu and the other three will also set off today, but they will not follow Hu Biao and their detachment.
Instead, it will go to the Air Force, which is currently on another remote island.
Some final preparations before the air force sortie.
When the Yin Fa Expeditionary Fleet was still two days away from Malacca, Xiaomei and the others would move to the vicinity of Kuala Lumpur at night.
Somewhere in the countryside, in a large sugar cane field no more than thirty or forty kilometers from the coastline, a field airfield had been secretly built.
At that time, you will be able to fly out of here and surprise the Yin Law Fleet.
Six days later, Yang Dongli and the main force of the fleet will also set off; According to the speed of both sides, about eleven or twelve days later, the expeditionary fleet was blocked at the eastern end of Malacca, and the battle officially began.
The above is all the plans of the Xuange Battalion fleet in terms of naval warfare.
In the case of land warfare, the plan is like this.
The 1st and 2nd Divisions of the 1st Infantry Corps of the Xuange Battalion, plus most of an artillery brigade, had secretly moved to the edge of the Yalu River and went into hiding.
Once I received the news sent back by the Fenghua Club and Hanjiang in front of me; Feng Rui and the others immediately commanded a large army to enter the island.
Let this strong army under his command appear and shake the whole world.
It's like the great ancestors of the battle for the founding of the nation more than fifty years after the modern plane.
However, it was also today that the independent cavalry brigade of the Xuange battalion also set off in advance.
Because in the original history, Pingyao City would be completely defeated by the devils two days before the Battle of Dadonggou; In this battle, the main forces of the Northern Yang Army suffered a huge defeat.
And based on the current situation in Pingyao City, it can only be said that the results will not be much better.
For this reason, a group of cavalry needs to enter the island in advance and hide in many places; As soon as the time comes, it will immediately bloom behind enemy lines.
Such a statement is not very accurate.
Not about the plans of the cavalry brigades, but about the size of the cavalry brigades.
Mainly when the cavalry troops officially entered the court today, the first cavalry regiment led by corn and the second cavalry regiment led by Yu Hanfeng had a strength of about 1,800 people.
After a year of training, these troops can already be regarded as qualified modern cavalry, which is relatively normal.
The crux of the matter is that the singer, the so-called 'descendant of the golden family', when he entered the court, in addition to the headquarters of the third regiment of about 1,800 people under his command.
In addition, more than 3,700 herdsmen, armed with their own horses and weapons, followed him across the Yalu River.
Perhaps these herders from the steppes have no formal military training, and they don't even have a rifle in their hands.
But after counting these people, the so-called cavalry brigade can actually be regarded as a division in terms of strength.
Besides, the main task of the cavalry unit is to raid, raid, etc., not to storm and fight head-on.
Even if these herders' weapons are slightly inferior, they can still play a considerable role in this battle.
In short, in order to meet the arrival of several key battles at sea and on land in the next ten or so days, Hu Biao and they have done everything they can.
The rest is nothing more than a desperate bloody battle......
The detachment of the Xuange battalion, which was about to complete all the replenishment work, was about to complete an hour before departure.
The concubine pulled Xiaomei aside, and after hesitating for a moment, she still spoke: "Xiaomei, I said if, pay attention to what if."
In case I have an accident during this mission, remember to help me take care of Hu Biao in the future.
Don't look at him all the time, but he won't take care of himself at all.
So you remember, his taste is not spicy, but after eating too spicy, he has a stomachache the next day, so you can't eat too spicy when you stare at him; Drinking people is addicted to food, and the next day will be uncomfortable for a long time, so it is necessary to watch him not drink too much.
And he likes black socks, so what......"
After a lot of chattering and explanation, a guy suddenly listened to a lot of fierce information, so that the whole person was already stunned Xiaomei girl.
Between instincts, he first cursed in his mouth:
"Good fellows! You usually play so big, Lao Hu's goods are so prodigal? ”
Then, the focus of the problem was reflected, not that the dog man and woman were playing so big, but that the concubine's performance was too abnormal.
Eagerly, he asked in his mouth:
"That's not right! Cousin, are you hiding something from me?
There are also system tasks that can be resurrected after dying in battle; So Hu Biao's goods, it's better to leave you to take care of all kinds of things by yourself, don't get involved with me.
I can't play with that many tricks of the two of you. ”
"Remember, I mean remember what I said if, if there really is; If nothing happens, forget about it completely, and don't worry about your brother-in-law. ”
The concubine, who explained so much in her mouth, didn't entangle with Xiaomei more, and just left.
"Who's worried about him?" Xiaomei immediately went crazy.
Then Xiaomei, who was confused, pulled Hu Biao aside again, and asked out of her mouth: "Old Hu, did something happen to my cousin?"
Just now he secretly told me that I must take good care of you in the future, how do you listen to it, why do you feel strange? ”
"I also think there's something wrong with her lately, but I don't tell her anything, I've always had a terrible pain in my head."
After hearing this, Hu Biao said helplessly after spreading his hands.
Xiaomei glanced at Hu Biao with disgust, and scolded in her mouth: "Dog man, I don't even know what happened to my cousin, what's the use of asking you?"
Forget it, I must protect my cousin this time, otherwise I will definitely find you to settle the score. ”
After saying that, after flashing his nail polish to Hu Biao, he looked very delicate and beautiful with his fist, and then twisted and left.
Hu Biao shouted behind his back: "If something happens, I will die in front of the concubine." ”
After the voice fell into Xiaomei's ears, the girl shivered......
Finally, at 10:08 a.m. on June 10, in this auspicious time when the master had calculated, the Xuange Battalion fleet officially set sail.
In addition to Hu Biao, Guifei, Cross, Shadow Rider, Wu Pawn and other five people.
At this moment, standing under the banner of the Xuange Camp flying in the sea breeze and flying in the wind, the personnel standing on the deck waving goodbye were all full of white hair.
Among them, Shui Shuiwei, Daniel, Huang Acan, Yang Dongli and other familiar veterans, they tried to straighten their waists and poles, and the thin figures of their waists and poles were getting farther and farther away from them in the long whistle.
Originally, Hu Biao and his party were not allowed to let these veterans fight.
Prepare to let other new sailors take control of these three ships, so that these veterans can live in peace; After all, they have already paid too much for the fleet over the years.
It's just that after hearing the news, the saliva people jumped to their feet and shouted:
Those baby sailors, how can they be familiar with these three old fellows?
The most important point is that they believe that this battle is extremely dangerous, and it is better to let these old people who have lived enough to die than to let some dolls who have just started their lives die.
Anyway, they think that it is not better to die in battle than to die in a hospital bed in embarrassment.
Based on the understanding of the plot that 'the best destination for a soldier is to be hit by the last bullet in the last battle', Hu Biao finally agreed to their request.
In the end, each of the three ships is at least fifty years old, and has undergone many repairs, modifications, and countless naval battles.
Carrying hundreds of veterans who were older than the ship, they sailed to the battlefield.
Looking at the white hair in his eyes, in an inexplicable mood, Hu Biao remembered that when he was still participating in the mission for the first time, he met the Tang Anxi Army, Zhang Teamzheng, Niu Cripple, Xiucai and other veterans in Qiuzi City in the Western Regions.
And before the start of the war, everyone drank wine and ate meat together, bragging and farting nights.
And the war song that they sang in their mouths when they got drunk.
As soon as his mind moved, he immediately sang loudly in his mouth, behind the trachea dantian:
"The four seas are the emperor's wind, and the water is clear for thousands of years; Rong Yi is not even better, today is a success, looking back at Qin Sai as low as a horse, and gradually see the Yellow River flowing straight north. Tianwei rolls directly to the jade door stopper, and the thousands of miles of Hu people are full of Han songs......"
There is a story about the origin of the Xuange camp and the veteran of the Anxi Army of the Tang Dynasty, as early as after the first battle of Yangcheng in the First Duck War.
It was rummaged out from the pile of old papers by many Daqing readers, and the above war song of the Tang Dynasty was naturally found out.
And it spreads, so that everyone is not unfamiliar.
So soon after, Yang Dongli and the others who saw them off, the officers and men of the entire fleet of the Xuange battalion, and even the Chinese workers on the dock, all sang loudly in their mouths.
In such a loud singing, even the most rookie and new sailor in the fleet, the anxiety in his heart because of the imminent war disappeared for a while.
Because in these songs, everyone feels a breath of this nation that has been passed down for thousands of years.
The spirit of fighting to the death and never compromising in the face of foreign enemies......
At the same time, that is, when the Xuange battalion detachment departed.
The Beiyang fleet is located in the home port of Weihai and Liugong Island.
Admiral Ding looked at this moment, An Xiezheng was constantly sending battleships, shells of various calibers, and his heart was already full of huge surprises.
A little later, when I saw the thermal coal unloaded from a barge, it was actually 'five-trough coal' from the Kaiping Mining Bureau, and I was even a little excited.
You know, Daqing is not without good thermal coal.
Among them, the Kaiping Mining Bureau, which provides thermal coal for the Beiyang fleet, produces 'five-groove coal' when burned, and the coal smoke produced is thin and the calorific value is high, which is called 'supreme' by outsiders.
It's a pity that in order to celebrate the old witch's sixtieth birthday, the fleet is short of funds.
Even if there is not much procurement money, and after the relevant personnel have put it down, the remaining silver can only buy another kind of 'eight-trough coal'.
This thing is the worst kind of coal produced by the Kaiping Mining Bureau.
There are a lot of stones and ash when burned, which will have a huge impact on the life of the boiler and the speed of the battleship.
What's even more deadly is that the black smoke produced is billowing out, which can be seen from a long distance on the sea.
This means that in naval battles, it is faster and easier to be detected by the opponent, and before the official war begins, it suffers a big loss.
Fortunately, at the critical moment when the war happened, Li Zhongtang finally figured it out.
Not only did they have enough new shells, but even thermal coal was replaced with the best one.
In the face of these surprises, Admiral Ding, Lin Yongsheng, Huang Jianxun and other generals of the Beiyang fleet were filled with great joy in their hearts.
Facing Zhang Shiheng, the manager of the Ordnance Bureau, he praised him without words.
The officers and men on the other ships were also indescribably overjoyed.
Thinking about the fact that if there is a war with the little devils, there is no need to worry about not having enough shells; This good white coal is burned into the boiler, which can also make the ship a little faster, so that it will not be discovered by the little devils from afar.
I didn't think about it, they are a fleet that is about to fight for the country, in the face of the threat of a strong enemy, isn't it the most basic point to ensure enough shells and fuel before the war?
They even more did not know that these shells and high-quality 'five-trough coal'.
It was not out of Li Zhongtang's concern at all, and the conscience of officials like Zhang Shiheng found that they did not deduct the purchase of silver this time.
It's just that these things are all after Xuan Geying arranged for Huang Yizhi to get through Zhang Shiheng's relationship.
found an excuse to let Deng Guan take him off the ship, and gave it to them at the price of cabbage.
What these officers and men of the Beiyang Fleet, who were in ecstasy, did not notice at this moment; Taking advantage of the opportunity to replenish, a man with a dog secretly got on the Zhiyuan ship under the cover of a first mate.
This person, under the operation of Huang Yizhi, has been removed from the command of the Zhiyuan ship.
Now in the Yamen of the Beiyang Water Division, he serves as an idle Deng Guanband.
After smelling the air, the smell of gunpowder, where could he stay on the shore? In the end, he persuaded his former subordinates at a critical moment and took him on the Zhiyuan ship.
Because he has long tied his body and soul to this fleet.
The Zhiyuan ship is the result of half his life.
A day later, the Beiyang fleet, a total of twelve warships, which had been hastily maintained, set off again, escorting some ordnance and supplies to the island again.
It was only after the fleet had set off for half a day that Admiral Ding received a letter that had been arranged in advance by Deng Guandao and was only delivered at this moment.
After reading it, Admiral Ding couldn't help but shake his head and sighed:
"Zhengqing, Zhengqing (Deng Guan's words), what others can't dodge, but you are in a hurry, let me say what you do.
That's it! Now that this is the case, how about letting me do it for you one more time? ”
Then, he said to Goshha behind him: "Send a report to the fleet, and immediately resume the command of the Zhiyuan ship......
(End of chapter)