After an imperial edict was passed down, officers and soldiers from various places immediately started to move.
Wearing tattered uniforms and armed with rusty knives and guns, they slashed at the protesting people.
No way, this is probably the only meaning of their existence.
If even the common people cannot deal with it, His Majesty the Emperor will probably withdraw his troops.
Although the protests by people everywhere were suppressed.
But public anger still exists, but people no longer dare to talk about these issues so openly.
Of course, after being humiliated by the great powers this time, His Majesty the Emperor felt that he was too humiliated as an emperor.
Therefore, after some discussions with the ministers, His Majesty the Emperor decided to imitate the great powers and other countries in training the new army.
You know, Qinglong Country still has wealth.
With the investment of millions of silver every year, a new type of army was established.
In order to avoid the loss of military power, His Majesty the Emperor personally appointed the commander-in-chief of the new army, and appointed the prince as deputy commander-in-chief. All the children of the royal family joined the new army as officers at all levels, firmly grasping the general power in the command system!
Its overall plan is to establish a complete navy and army system within five years.
The Army has 18 divisions, including 162 infantry regiments, 18 artillery regiments, and 18 grenadier regiments.
The navy has 12 iron-hulled wooden gunboats, 3 undefended cruisers, 2 coastal defense ironclads, 2 dome-armored cruisers, 3 ram cruisers, 2 armored cruisers, 2 ironclads, and 26 minelayers, transport ships, and training ships
and other ships, a total of 52 warships.
The plan for planning and building a new military is extremely ambitious.
According to this plan, when the new army is fully completed, the Qinglong Kingdom will leap into the ranks of great powers!
To this end, the Qinglong Kingdom spared no expense to purchase arms and warships from the great powers, invested in the introduction of advanced military equipment, and built arms factories and shipyards.
It has to be said that the series of measures adopted by the imperial court have played some role in boosting the national spirit.
At least because of the establishment of concessions in various ports, people's emotions were not so strong.
They all think that our country is still weak, and when a new type of army is established, it will be impossible for other powers to bully us.
But the development of things was completely different from what the people thought.
After a year of preparation and training, the army's three brigades were formally established. These three brigades have also become the core seeds for the expansion of the Qinglong Army.
Over the next four years, they will rapidly expand to eighteen infantry divisions.
The navy's iron-hulled wooden gunboats and even transport ships, minelayers, training ships, torpedo ships and other low-standard ships will be manufactured by the newly built Binhai Shipyard. Now the three slipways of the shipyard are operating at full power, and three ships have been launched.
The iron-shelled wooden gunboat, which is still on the slipway, will be launched and outfitted in three months, and will be officially put into service in six months.
The design specifications of these iron-shelled wooden gunboats are a displacement of 580 tons, eight gun positions, and a cost of 80,000 silver.
As for the two ironclad ships, which are the core battleships of the Qinglong Navy, it is impossible to build them by yourself.
It has a displacement of 7,500 tons, has 24 guns, 3 torpedo launchers, and can carry 300 people. It was commissioned by the shipyard of the powerful Jellyfish Country to build it. Each ship costs up to 1.5 million taels of silver. It has been launched and is being built by the Jellyfish Country.
The crew returned to Qinglong Kingdom along the route.
As for other types of warships, they are also built by the shipyards of various major powers.
It has to be said that the construction of these warships has made the shipyards of these great powers a lot of money. Therefore, in recent times, the relationship between the great powers and the Qinglong Kingdom seems to have eased a lot.
But what His Majesty the Emperor of the Qinglong Kingdom never expected was that the relationship between the great powers had eased, but a younger brother who had been surrendered for almost two thousand years suddenly appeared and bit him.
Five years later, the Xiangshen State, a vassal state of the Qinglong Kingdom, sent an envoy to pay an urgent visit to the Great Emperor of the Kingdom of Heaven: "The army of the Turtle Kingdom, which is also a vassal state, suddenly invaded the Xiangshen State three days ago and captured more than ten cities in a row. I hope the Emperor will
Please help me.”
The Fragrant Ginseng Kingdom can be said to be the most loyal younger brother in the history of the Qinglong Kingdom. Not only the current court, but also the previous overthrown courts, the Fragrant Ginseng Kingdom is extremely respectful and honest.
It's hard to find a guy like this.
The Kingdom of the Divine Turtle is a typical thorn in the side of the vassal kingdom.
In the past, he often fought with the Fragrant Ginseng Country. The weak Fragrant Ginseng Country was often beaten to death and had to seek help from the suzerain country.
Therefore, as time went by, the Qinglong Kingdom became a little unhappy with the Turtle Kingdom.
It doesn't look like a vassal state at all.
So this time the Turtle Kingdom invaded the Ginseng Kingdom, the Qinglong Kingdom responded quickly.
Two infantry divisions were urgently transferred to Xiangshen Kingdom. Due to the slow speed of land travel, Qinglong Kingdom chose sea transport and sent warships from the navy to escort them.
Everyone in the Qinglong Kingdom's court was originally thinking about the dispute between the Divine Turtle and Fragrant Ginseng. In the end, the Divine Turtle Kingdom's army would withdraw from the Fragrant Ginseng Kingdom. The Qinglong Kingdom would then send envoys to appease the Fragrant Ginseng Kingdom and launch a war against the Divine Turtle Kingdom.
scolded.
But what those ministers never expected was that less than a week after the war started, bad news came. A transport ship loaded with 800 army soldiers, escorted by two iron-hulled wooden gunboats,
Encountered an interception by a fast cruiser and a gunboat from the Turtle Kingdom.
After a naval battle, the transport ship sank, and all 800 soldiers on board were killed. One of the two iron-hulled wooden gunboats also sank, and the other escaped to a certain coast and ran aground.
Although the Turtle Kingdom also suffered battle damage when a gunboat was sunk, in terms of overall losses, the Qinglong Kingdom suffered heavy losses this time.
Then the Navy of the Azure Dragon Kingdom and the Navy of the Turtle Kingdom had a life-and-death battle in a certain sea area half a month later.uuReading www.uukanshu.com
Due to poor training, poor quality of artillery shells, and poor maintenance of warships, most of the warships of the Turtle Kingdom are fast and thin-skinned warships with fast firing rates. After an eighteen-hour naval battle, the navy of the Qinglong Kingdom exceeded 10%.
Seventy ships were sunk.
Among them are the two armored ships that are ranked among the best in the world.
After this battle, the Turtle Kingdom's navy gained control of the sea.
Under the guidance of the conservative thoughts of the ministers of the DPRK and China, the remaining ships of the Qinglong Navy were all huddled in their home ports.
The Qinglong Kingdom Army can no longer use sea routes to transport troops and materials.
This caused the Qinglong Kingdom's army to be defeated again in the subsequent war that broke out in the territory of the Xiangshen Kingdom.
At this point, in the contest between the Green Dragon Kingdom and the Divine Turtle Kingdom, both the land and sea armies were defeated, so that they had to sign the "Dragon Turtle Contract" with the Divine Turtle Kingdom in humiliation, which was humiliating and humiliating the country.
In this contract, the Qinglong Kingdom not only had to compensate the Turtle Kingdom for war compensation of 200 million silver, but also ceded many coastal islands, and two-thirds of the existing navy warships were towed away by the Turtle Kingdom as compensation.