When he received the telegram from Li Hongzhang inviting him to go north for a while, Yang Feng was lying under a parasol on Naha Beach, holding a fishing rod in his hand like Jiang Taigong, and kneeling next to him was a carefully selected little Japanese slave girl.
Beating his legs.
What surprised him was that the Japanese women he used as comfort women had no objection to their miserable situation. Most of them even seemed quite satisfied. When he asked, he found out that the reason was actually very simple: they could eat enough.
meal.
At this time, Japan was extremely poor. It was very common for ordinary people not to have food to eat, especially women with low status. They could only rely on a pitiful amount of brown rice to satisfy their hunger every day. It would be a holiday to be able to eat fish. Otherwise, how could everyone
Born like ground rats, look at modern Japanese people who start to grow taller. At this time, they are simply hungry.
But being a comfort woman for Yang Feng is different. This girl has no concept of money at all. She provides her soldiers with plenty of fish and meat every day, and enough rice and flour. Although they are comfort women, they are also their own comfort women, and their treatment is natural.
They treat everyone equally, which makes those Japanese women feel like they are in a dream. As for the need to serve men, it is not worth mentioning. Isn’t that what women are born to do? Who does it for?
"Should we go or not?" This guy was holding a fishing rod that he had used to catch a starfish all morning. He was hesitant about the invitation from Li Ergui. Speaking of which, he has been quite idle recently. He recruited three people from Yiwu.
Thousands of new recruits and two thousand new recruits recruited from Taiwan are still in training, and the combined fleet is quite strong now, so it does not have the conditions to land in Japan. It is best to let them and the Beiyang Navy continue to suffer losses, so
It's okay to lend him, no, it should be renting him two destroyers, so as to ensure that Ding Ruchang and Ito Heyou can have a fair duel.
Anyway, two newly-built destroyers from Sweden are on the way. Even renting two of them to him will not affect his combat effectiveness. Besides, the two ships built by Armstrong also look uncomfortable, so he simply rents them to them for fun.
In addition, Yoshino's sea attack is indeed not good. If Asan's logistics supply is not available, it will be troublesome. You must know that the bullet consumption rate of these Qing soldiers can be described as terrifying. They consume dozens or even millions of bullets a day.
In the same game, one million rounds of 79mm Maxim bullets were fired at 300,000 in the Tianan War. Now the Japanese army has invested a total of two divisions in North Korea, which means they still have five divisions in the country.
This is absolutely not possible. At least three more have to be transferred out to ensure safe play. Therefore, the meat grinder of Asan must be maintained.
But what about Pyongyang? Forget it, let them do whatever they want!
What this guy doesn't know is that Katsura Taro has no plans to attack Pyongyang at all. He only has 10,000 people, so how can he attack a fortified city defended by more than 13,000 people? He doesn't have the upper hand in troops, equipment, and logistical difficulties.
The damn Koreans don't cooperate with the imperial army at all.
Besides, judging from the situation of the Battle of Asan, it is better to be cautious. Anyway, the mission of the Third Division is to contain the Qing army in Pyongyang and prevent them from going south to capture Seoul. There is still less than one regiment there in total, and
The Koreans were still ready to move. If the Qing army fought over them, they would definitely fall. Then Oshima Yoshimasa's back was exposed. Since it was a containment, there was no need to attack by force. The third division stopped at Sandeng.
Then he began to build defenses on the spot, sent out soldiers to search for food, and prepared to spend it with Zuo Guigui and others.
The defeat of the Battle of Tianan once again shocked Japan. From the beginning of the war to now, it can be said that there is no good news. The casualties of soldiers alone exceeded one brigade. The combat effectiveness of the Qing army, ah, or the level of wealth, made Ito Hirobumi unable to help but
There is a sense of humiliation. There are no such bullies. Why can't you compete with us fairly like a real warrior? Is it the style of a big country to throw money at us?
However, since this war has begun, it must continue to be fought. If there is no money, then human lives will be used to make up for it. For the rise of the Japanese Empire, no matter how many people die, so the Japanese First Division sent troops to Korea.
, the war began to develop at the pace Yang Feng expected.
At the same time, Nozu Michizuki, after careful planning, once again launched an attack on Tianan. This time he wanted to attack in the east and attack in the west, leaving only the division headquarters to launch an attack in the west, but he had to do it with full momentum and performance.
It looked like he was going all out, and Naofumi Tachimi, who had strengthened the southern front through a forced march overnight, suddenly launched a fierce attack. Unfortunately, he failed again this time, and more than 500 people were killed and wounded, and even an alliance
The captains were all seriously injured.
It's not that Zhang Gaoyuan saw through his plan, but the newly reinforced Xu Bang Dao Department happened to be strengthened in this direction. Now there are three thousand people on both sides of Tian'an, and they are all the most elite troops of the Huai Army. The entire regiment has become a helpless force.
The only shortcoming of the hedgehog at the bottom is logistics. However, although Tsuboi Kozo proposed to go out and fight the Beiyang Navy according to his new tactics without Matsushima, neither Ito Togesuke nor Ito Hirobumi could do anything.
I agree with his strategy of gambling with the fate of the entire country.
Without Songdao, the combined fleet would not be qualified for a decisive battle with its remaining strength.
What they didn't know was that this cost the United Fleet their only chance.
Just when Nozu Michunuki's second attack failed, Yang Feng finally accepted Li Hongzhang's invitation. Under the escort of two destroyers, the Nautilus set off from Naha and arrived at Weihaiwei in just one day. For this guy Beiyang
The Navy was so generous that they sent the Jingyuan more than dozens of kilometers ahead to meet them. When they saw this strange black ship for the first time, Ye Zugui and Liu Guanxiong were also shocked. They didn't expect that it would even return.
Some people build ships like this.
However, when they saw Yang Feng, the shock of the two people immediately turned into collapse.
Because today, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Boss Yang wore a pirate outfit like Captain Jack Sparrow, with a small Arabian scimitar hanging on his waist, and his braids were also combed, so no one would mind.
He has a problem with his hair. Doesn’t he need braids? We don’t lack braids on our heads now. Not only do we have braids on our hair, we even have braids on our beards.
Seeing Yang Feng and Ye Zugui standing on the deck with orchid fingers raised and dressed like a ghost, they didn't know what to say.
"This must be General Ye! What a pleasure to meet you!" Yang Feng said lightly.
Only then did the two of them realize that no matter what he was wearing, it was a real fact that this guy was actually awarded the title of Commander-in-Chief, so they quickly bowed and saluted on the deck of the Jingyuan, and the three of them exchanged a few casual words.
Then Jingyuan took the lead, slowed down and then slowly sailed towards Liugong Island.
The slow Jingyuan took more than an hour to complete this distance. When it arrived at Liugong Island, the main generals of the Beiyang Navy led by Ding Ruchang were already waiting at the dock, although Yang Feng was one level lower than him in terms of status.
, but no one said this at this time. People like the Beiyang Navy were truly grateful to him.
When they saw this thing, he and the Beiyang generals almost dropped their jaws. However, considering that he was still the governor of the Ottoman Empire, I thought this was his governor's uniform. Although the style was a bit strange, since it was a foreign country,
There is nothing surprising about the clothing. The foreign countries that came to pay tribute in the past were all dressed in strange clothes. The imperial court has a precedent for this. There is no need to care about it. The two parties met and exchanged greetings, and then went to the Navy Yamen to see them in the name of paying tribute.
Li Hongzhang is here to wait for Yang Feng.
The first time I met Li Ergui, this guy was a little bit shy. Although this guy had a lot of problems and left countless infamy behind him, even more than a hundred years later, many people still argued about him until they were red in the face and thick-necked.
But the problem is that in such an era, there are too many people in China who make heroic speeches and beautiful articles, and seem to be noble but useless. How many people can really leave something to the country and the nation?
He is making money, but even in modern China, how many officials are not making money?
He was conserving his strength, which resulted in the Beiyang Navy being blocked in the harbor. But under the circumstances, was there any other way besides this? If he had not conserved his strength and went out to lose the fleet in one battle, then the Japanese army would not have landed in Shandong but
Landed directly in Tianjin.
He later advocated peace, and even opposed other people's proposal to move the capital and continue the war, but who knows what those people were thinking. When China was fighting against foreign enemies, when China moved the capital, the result was not chaos in the world, and warlords fighting for decades? Like Zhang Zhi
Don't the frontier officials like Dong Dong have no ambition at all? If the Sino-Japanese War of 1891-1891 had moved the capital and continued the war, the outcome would have been unpredictable.
"Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Yang." Looking at Li Erguizi, who was dressed in strange clothes, standing in front of him and bowing, Yang Feng, who didn't know why he didn't say a word, coughed and then said lightly.
"Ah, I will finally meet you, Mr. Taiwan Maker." Yang Feng finally came to his senses and bowed quickly.
"You and I have known each other for a long time, so there is no need to be polite. Since you were born in the West, you probably don't know much about the imperial court, so we might as well speak in a Western way." Li Hongzhang said with a smile. Xue Fucheng specifically asked him to do this.
Yes, if you play with Yang Feng's domestic officialdom stuff, you won't get a single word of truth from him.
"In that case, you're welcome, general." Yang Feng smiled and sat down and said.
"Brother Yang, you and I have known each other for a long time. Brother, I will open the skylight today and tell the truth. I want to buy two destroyers from you, but you have to give me some face at the price. The imperial court is very tight on expenses right now.
I don’t have any money, so I only have less than one million taels after I moved here and there." The two of them exchanged a few polite words before Li Hongzhang said.