Not long after Yiketang'a fled Ningyuan, Zhang Zuolin led his men into the county government office, but the county magistrate did not leave. He was not a fool. Yang Feng's people were struggling in Jidong these days. He
Bian has long heard that although those soldiers harmed officials, they never killed anyone. At most, they distributed the government's money and food to the common people. They did not even touch the property of those officials with a better reputation, but they did not do anything to those who escaped.
He would not stay. This county magistrate believed that his official reputation was not bad, so there was no need to run away.
Zhang Dashuai sat comfortably in the lobby of the county government office. He threw his submachine gun on the table and put his leg on the table. He felt the grand master's majesty and then coughed, just like a county magistrate who was reviewing a case.
He asked in an official tone: "Do you know who we are?"
The county magistrate was a little confused. Don't you have a brand on your arm? The armband of the Loyal and Yongjun is so conspicuous. Do you think I can't see it? He looked at the rather ferocious Marshal Zhang behind the candlelight and asked cautiously: "Who is the general?"
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"We are the gangsters from the north. We report the trumpet to shake up the three provinces and do justice to God. Do you understand? It is approaching the New Year and I heard that life is very tight for the people, so our king specially came to help the villagers. You don't want to
Sorry, hurry up and hand over the money, food, etc., and then notify the villagers to come and collect the food. It must be completed before dawn, otherwise you know the consequences." Zhang Zuolin said.
"General, I can tell you where the money and food are, but I can't take you there, otherwise the court will kill me after you leave," the county magistrate said bravely.
"That's it, that's fine. I heard that you're a pretty good official, so we won't make it difficult for you." Zhang Zuolin said, and the rest was simple. Some of the soldiers who entered the city chased the fleeing Qing troops, and some of them cleaned up.
The remaining enemies in the city opened warehouses and stocked grain. The people of Ningyuan, who had been frightened half to death by the battle, were suddenly overwhelmed by a huge sense of happiness. For a time, the whole city was filled with cheers, and they wished they could call these kings of the mountains.
This guy is worshiped as a Bodhisattva.
Ningyuan is just a small town, with a total population of only ten thousand. Besides, the county government doesn’t have much. It’s not a wealthy place. How much inventory can it have? Just like this, at dawn, basically everything that should be done is almost done.
, a brigade of soldiers quickly retreated, and then boarded the landing ship in the morning glow. They returned to Qinhuangdao without even delaying breakfast.
In this battle, Iketang Abe lost more than a thousand people, and another thousand people ran away without a trace. They probably went into the mountains with weapons to become bandits. In total, the losses were not huge, mainly because they ran away too fast.
However, the losses in terms of equipment were very serious. Those soldiers who escaped would not take their baggage with them. Almost everything from machine guns to cannons were lost to Yang Feng's people. Yiktang'a was not Ronglu, and Ronglu had a large amount of reserves.
, he had nothing to add. It could have been transported from inside the pass, but Yang Feng locked up Shanhaiguan and he couldn't transport it. The Lushun Fortress did have it, but it was a fortress cannon. Besides, the defenders there are still members of the Huai Army. Can they?
There's nothing wrong with interfering with Yang Feng's affairs! The only option is to buy it from outside, but this will take time.
Fortunately, Yiketang'a also understood that with the current level of his men, they would be destined to die when they arrived at Shanhaiguan. In this case, it was better to go back and train the troops first. He simply retreated to Jinzhou to station himself in order to replenish his guns.
The north-south pincer attack that Cixi originally expected could not be realized for at least two months.
The impact of this battle is not that simple. Since Yang Feng dares to go to Ningyuan to intercept Yiketang'a, it means that he has the ability to attack any city along the coast. Fortunately, the Northeast is blocked by sea ice. But the coast of Shandong is not.
, if he really wanted to carry out this kind of night landing and sneak attack, and then break into the city and pretend to be a mountain king, open a warehouse to release grain, that would be great fun. For a time, the coast of Shandong was full of people, and the governor of Shandong, Li Bingheng, was frightened every day.
Anyway, the Beiyang Navy had made up its mind to watch the fun. Liu Buchan had just sent a telegram to Ronglu saying that a major problem had been discovered during the maintenance of the second ship Dingzhen. He did not know the specific time when it would be undocking, and he also informed him through Tieliang that even if
Even if you have Dingzhen, don't expect to be able to deal with Yang Feng at sea. Although the caliber of his Marauder's main gun is small, its range, aiming system, and armor-piercing capabilities are all far superior to all warships from various countries today, not to mention the speed.
All warships of the Beiyang Navy.
"If we go to war, then the Predator can stay outside our range and always maintain this distance, and then use our warships as targets. After our warships are seriously injured, his high-speed destroyers can come up to replenish mines and use
With this tactic, our whole army would be wiped out, and we might not even be able to hurt the Predator. This was how the Japanese Yoshino was killed. The Yoshino was even faster than Kaiyuan, and Yang Feng did not use a destroyer.
, you can think about what would happen if it were Dingzhen." Liu Buchan told Tie Liang very kindly.
Tie Liang hurriedly ran to learn from Ronglu. Of course, this became his own analysis and conclusion. He knew this close confidant Ronglu very well. Since he said so, it is still worthy of belief, but the ministers in the court
I don’t believe it. One of your two large 7,000-ton armored ships is almost as big as Yang Feng’s nine ships combined. You actually say that none of them can defeat them. You are bullying us because we don’t understand the navy.
Under their instigation, Cixi was no longer so clear-headed. She gave an order to Ronglu, asking him to see if he could take down Liu Buchan and others, and then change someone to quickly drive out the Beiyang Navy.
"The Ai family doesn't believe it. There are so many people in the navy, but no one is loyal to the court. Isn't Liu Buchan doing something wrong? Then stop doing it and spread the Ai family's will. Liu Buchan, Lin Taizeng, Qiu Baoren, Li Hesi
If people are not well managed, they will be removed from all positions. It is useless to keep them anyway, so why should the court support them?" Cixi sneered and said, in fact, she had wanted to do this for a long time, but she never got the reason.
In her opinion, this was enough to deter the guys who were taking her job but not giving her any work. It is estimated that after hearing the order of dismissal, these four people may have regrets. Will they immediately complain to themselves?
What about begging for mercy? At that time, I can play the compassionate role of Lafayette again, so that they will be honest in the future. As long as these four people are surrendered, the others will have nothing to worry about. In the final analysis, the imperial court is the orthodoxy.
What future does an obscure rebel have?
Unfortunately, it backfired as she specially sent someone to read out the decree of dismissal. The four people there immediately packed up and prepared to leave. This confused the eunuch who delivered the decree. He had never seen such an expression on his face even when he knew he had been dismissed.
smiling.
The reaction of these people made Cixi very confused. She was ready to act as a magnanimous master, but the supporting role did not appear, and the play was a waste. However, she was confused for a day, and then she realized that she had made another mistake.
, she gave Yang Feng four captains who had been trained for more than ten years in vain, because just when she dismissed the four Liu Buchan, a huge fleet including two armored cruisers, four destroyers, and four landing ships
After sailing into Mawei Port, the two armored cruisers and four destroyers headed north majestically at a high speed of 25 knots.
These two armored cruisers are extraordinary. From Sweden to China, they can be described as attracting bees and butterflies. Almost all major naval powers have sent warships to visit them. No matter which port they dock, they will become a hot topic in the local area.
Because these two armored cruisers look so beautiful.
With a flying bow and a simple and clean gray hull, you can see neither the messy rigging nor the tall chimney. More importantly, they use a novel double piggy-back turret, eight-door Bofor
The Sri Lankan version of the 152mm main gun is evenly distributed at the front and rear, and there are eight 75mm secondary guns. Apart from this, there is no other artillery, especially those messy rotary guns, not a single one.
There is no first-level main gun, second-level main gun, etc., just this kind of main gun.
Using the 10,000-horsepower diesel engines specially manufactured by Yang Feng for them, four per ship, the fastest speed can reach 30 knots. Because using diesel engines, they can sail at 15 knots and even have a endurance of 6,000 nautical miles. It can be said that this is a kind of
An almost epoch-making warship, it has been targeted by the navies of various countries since its construction. Armstrong even built two landing ships for Yang Feng for free in exchange for participating in the construction of these two cruisers. As for Germany, it was also built by Volkeng.
The shipyard participates in the construction at the same cost.
The two armored cruisers went north from Mawei Port with a halo like stars, and then stopped outside Weihaiwei surrounded by navies from the Far East. An accompanying destroyer sailed into the port under the flag of the Fujian Navy.
Under envious gazes, they picked up the new captains Liu Buchan and Lin Taizeng of the two cruisers, as well as the two deputy captains Qiu Baoren and Li He, and then sailed to Qinhuangdao.
Now even Cixi did not bring up the topic of mobilizing the Beiyang Navy to expel Yang Feng. Obviously, even she knew that this was completely unrealistic. Even if she did not understand the navy, she knew that if she had used the strength of the Beiyang Navy to deal with it before,
Yang Feng was very worried. Then after the opponent's strength had almost doubled, there was no hope. At this time, she even regretted a little. She shouldn't have had such a quarrel with Yang Feng because of De Shou, but there was no use regretting it.
, Now that things have come to this, it would be a shame to give in any further. Anyway, Yang Feng didn’t make any further comments, so both sides can just let it go!
Little did she know that a group of enemies who really wanted her life had already begun to take action.