Zhou Yu looked at the surprised Zhu Qian and did not answer her directly. Instead, he asked: Qian'er! What kind of technique does your father practice? Why, Qian'er, do you know how to deform your bones?
When Zhu Qian heard this, her pretty face darkened, and she answered Zhou Yu with some sadness: My father practiced ancient Taoism. If he hadn't been destroyed by his mother's fellow clansmen in Miao Village, my father would also have been with Brother Yu.
You, too, can achieve an eternal body!
Zhou Yu was a little apologetic and said to Zhu Qian: I'm sorry Qian'er! Brother Yu mentioned your sadness! But there is one thing I don't know. Since your father can practice ancient Taoism, why didn't he teach it to you and Zhu Er?
Where is grandpa?
Zhu Qian cleaned up, with some sentimental feelings, and answered Zhou Yu with a wry smile: It's okay! It's not that my father is unwilling to teach, but that the Taoism practiced by his father has very strict requirements for those who practice it. Mr. Zhu and I
None of them have the conditions to practice.
Zhou Yu finally understood the cause of the matter, and then chatted with Zhu Qian some stories about Zhu Qian's father. Zhou Yu said goodbye to Zhu Qian, who was missing him so much, and went back to his room!
One month later, Matador and Ye Fu's Pacific Fleet engaged in a naval confrontation in Manila Bay as scheduled.
This time, ghost guys from all over the world dispatched military observation ships to conduct on-site observations of this relatively large-scale naval confrontation.
What makes the ghost guys angry is that the Pacific Fleet of the Zhongyong Army and the Asian Squadron of the Matador are not engaging in a life-and-death naval battle at all, but rather like playing house, with the warships of both sides fighting extremely hard.
keep.
Not to mention that there were bright spots, there were not even the new technologies and new tactics that the ghost guys expected. What is even more exaggerated is that on both sides of the battle, not a single warship withdrew from the battlefield, and not a single warship was penetrated and sunk.
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The Matadors always surrounded the Manila Naval Base, not daring to attack the Pacific Fleet, let alone let go of the attack. Instead, a dozen or so warships huddled together to form a defensive square.
The weak shells were placed on the front side of the fleet warships, and they did not even touch the sides of the loyal and brave troops. How could we still talk about striking?
The Pacific Fleet is similar to the Matador Fleet. The boss, not to mention the second, also formed a square formation and fired at the Matador from the east and west from outside the fire range of the Matador Navy.
The ghost guys were surprised to find that the artillery shells of the Zhongyong Army were actually dumb bombs. Even if they hit the Matador's warship, they would have little power!
The ghost guys watching the battle were speechless. Why were all the Zhongyong Army’s ammunition dumb? Could it be that the Zhongyong Army simply didn’t have the ability to create explosive ammunition, or was there something wrong with the Zhongyong Army’s technology and funding?
Regarding this issue, John Bull has the best say!
A few years ago, after the Zhongyong Army defeated France, there was a naval exercise. The commander at that time was Zhou Yu, a layman in naval command. The effect of that military exercise had a great impact on John Bull.
Later, the Zhongyong Army was blackmailed by John Bull for the production method of "extended range bombs". As a result, after John Bull took it back, he put a lot of effort into producing a large number of extended range bombs.
It is a pity that the formula and production process of this extended-range bomb were all added by Zhou Yu. They simply misled John Bull's research ideas. As a result, John Bull did waste a lot of money.
and time.
According to the formula provided by Zhou Yu, the range of the extended-range ammunition produced was indeed hundreds of meters longer than that of previous artillery shells. But the problem was that these ammunition, like the ammunition used by Ye Fu now, were all duds.
, will not explode.
Moreover, these dud bombs are still uncontrollable. After being sent out, the flight direction of the artillery shells is an uncontrollable trajectory. Sometimes, the magnitude of the deviation reaches an exaggerated degree.
These things are just fake and cannot be used! They are not as effective as the old artillery shells!
This time, John Bull was so angry that he was itching his teeth. However, they had nothing to do with the Zhongyong Army. They were 'friendly sponsors' and they were not selling it to you. It has no warranty period!
Therefore, John Bull suffered a dumb loss and swallowed this bird's breath!
Now, the artillery shells used by Ye Fu's Pacific Fleet actually seem to be provided to him by the Zhongyong Army. So expensive garbage extended-range bombs, with poor accuracy and dumb bombs that will not explode...
So, John Bull has the most say in this regard!
As for the bullfighters, after Lu Han suffered a big loss in the South China Sea Fleet last time, these bullfighters also learned well. They neither rushed forward nor put gunpowder on the deck.
Come, there will be no danger of ammunition exploding, and there will be no chance of a warship being destroyed individually.
Ye Fu's Pacific Fleet and Matador's Asian Squadron started in such a dull manner and ended in such a dull manner, which made the ghost guys watching the battle vomit blood in depression!
The ghost guys who were watching the battle swore that they would never watch the battle between the Zhongyong Army and the Matador again. Damn, it was so boring! Everyone just wanted to doze off while watching it. They might as well go home and hug the fox.
The delicious Ocean Horse Europe is also going!
As a result, these ghost guys missed the super naval battle show of Deng Shichang, the fierce warrior of the Zhongyong Army and Navy.
Because there are no ghosts watching the battle; and because the matador has a new force to join; and because the navy soldiers of the Zhongyong Army all agree that a naval battle with the matador is too useless and challenging, and it is no longer effective.
The purpose of training the navy.
Therefore, Deng Shichang decided to finally end the "life" of the Matador Asian Squadron. We, the loyal and brave army, will not play with you, the bullfighter. We, the loyal and brave army, have more important things to do, so we will not play tricks.
La!
In the Pacific Fleet of Yefu, the monkey who was "showing affection" with the bullfighter, Huang Feihong, who was far away in Tibet, finally took Qinghai into the pocket of the Zhongyong Army.
Just after reorganizing Qinghai, Huang Feihong hurriedly sent a telegram to Zhou Yu and told Zhou Yu the good news.
At this point, in the west and north, China's frontier areas were finally connected into a defensive area. The external defense of the frontier was completely out of the sight of the Manchu and Qing government. The Zhongyong Army secretly took over the northwest of the Chinese nation.
Frontier defense.
On the northeastern front line, for the time being, the Zhongyong Army has not been able to take over because it is the home base of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Zhou Yu does not want to do that, just to alert the enemy.
After the Manchu regime is completely overthrown, it will not be too late for the Zhongyong Army to take over the Northeast front line and reorganize the layout!
Regarding the construction of Qinghai, Zhou Yu also telegraphed to inform Huang Feihong that the construction layout should be carried out according to the military first and then the civil procedures. The external information defense must be tight, and it is better to go slowly than to leak secrets.
After receiving Zhou Yu's order, Huang Feihong began to layout Qinghai. Because Qinghai was too close to the northeast, Huang Feihong was extremely cautious and carried out the same strategy as Guangdong and Guangxi - militarized reform in Qinghai.
Huang Feihong only carried out military rest and reorganization in Qinghai, but did not touch the civil affairs at all. Huang Feihong screened Qinghai's Manchu and Qing soldiers, and dealt with all the unqualified ones.
Of course, the treatment here is not to kill them, but to use money to politely 'invite them out'.
Those soldiers who were selected in the early stage and considered to be qualified were also moved to a mountain somewhere in Qinghai, euphemistically called closed training!
The training program for these people is mainly ideological education, and secondly, military training. China's nationalist ideological education is still needed, otherwise, the trained personnel will become Manchu royalists, which is a joke.
Big hair!
During this period, those who came to carry out the defense of the Qinghai area were those who had been educated in the early days. Now they have become the new generation, those on the front line of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia. They have completely turned against the loyal and brave army and returned to the Han Dynasty.
This Huihan Corps is a newly expanded regional corps based on the cavalry regiment led by Hu Dahai and Lu Ming - the Huihan Cavalry Group Army.
This force was carefully built by Zhou Yu as a quick reaction force to deal with the front-line cavalry in Northeast China and Mongolia.
The roads at that time were very poor and mechanized troops could not be implemented at all, so the cavalry regiment was the absolute main force at that time.
For Zhou Yu at this time, the defense of China's borders in the west and north is the top priority!