Li Hongzhang can't sleep restlessly these days, his addiction to smoking is getting bigger and bigger, and his cough is getting worse and worse, but he can't quit. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The land and water in the Beiyang are all chaotic, and when the singing and dancing are peaceful on weekdays, the Qing Dynasty can still keep a false frame of a first-class power in East Asia to bluff people, but now that the war is together, it is suddenly like a monkey with a red butt exposed, showing the essence of weakness.

The imperial court claims to have millions of soldiers, but seven or eight hundred thousand are all waste Eight Banners Green Battalion soldiers.

Eating, drinking, bragging, embezzlement, playing with women, blackmailing the common people, that is all kinds of good hands, you can put guns to fight, resist foreign insults, and it is purely to take a bun of big meat buns to feed the hungry wolves in the East.

The remaining 450,000 trained troops were fortified everywhere in Liangguang, Yunnan-Guizhou, Taiwan, Xinjiang, and Mongolia, especially in Sarekole in Pamir, Xinjiang, where tens of thousands of elites were concentrated against Tsarist Russia.

It can be said that they are all a radish and a pit.

Now that the situation along the Yalu River is urgent, Li Hongzhang has no choice but to transfer Lushun and the training troops from all over the northeast to defend, and Lushun has no choice but to recruit new recruits to make do with these key places.

Moreover, the defeat of the naval division made Weihai, Qingdao, and Yantai coasts also under the attack of the Japanese people, and they had to be heavily protected.

Li Hongzhang was full of calculations, and he could only gather more than 30,000 good and bad troops at most along the Yalu River, while the two divisions of the Uyi in Korea now had so many equal troops.

Moreover, Toyo has 5 such divisions and regiments in the country, with more than 80,000 elite soldiers.

Not to mention their horrific number of reserves.

After there was no threat from the sea, the Oriental Kingdom could calmly transfer all these five divisions to participate in the war at any time, without worrying about the local area.

The fiasco of the naval division Dadonggou became the node of the outbreak of a full-scale war in the Qing Dynasty.

Even the previous Pyongyang debacle did not make Li Hongzhang so unprepared, confident that he could control the war in North Korea and not affect the country.

But the defeat of the sailor completely changed everything, just thinking about the tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers rushing to the Yalu River, Li Hongzhang couldn't help but tremble with his big hands, and his heart and liver trembled.

So he specially called He Changying back this time, just to listen carefully to what kind of clever judgment this kid has on the current situation, and whether he can come up with a safe response plan.

Li Hongzhang got up this morning, and even stopped his weekday morning walk, and asked his eldest son, who also got up early, to call He Changying, and he and his eldest son-in-law Zhang Peilun were anxiously waiting for He Changying's arrival in the study.

"Humble to my lordship, please be safe."

He Changying was taken by Li Jingfang to Li Hongzhang's study in the governor's mansion, and saw that only Li Hongzhang and Zhang Peilun were present, so he knelt down on half a knee to greet Li Hongzhang.

"Get up, you're playing well in North Korea these days."

Li Hongzhang smiled and said to He Changying: "We have played the prestige of our Beiyang." ”

"The whole battle is cultivated in the middle hall, and the elite cadet soldiers are given to the lowly command."

He Changying was modest, then sat down, and the maidservant brought hot tea.

"Anzhi's great victory in the Plantation Temple, under the noses of tens of thousands of Japanese generals, beat the Japanese wolves to rush to the pigs, not only so angry that the teeth of the children of Tsuno were cracked, and Oshima Yoshimasa was full of blood, but also won the unanimous praise of the Western powers, greatly increasing the prestige of my Beiyang."

Zhang Peilun, who was sitting next to him, nodded and smiled, quite satisfied with this future brother-in-law.

This time, the father-in-law can be regarded as having picked a good son-in-law, as long as He Changying, this kid, walks steadily, and he will be the first strategist of the Qing Dynasty in the future, and the position of the white-clothed prime minister, it seems that he can do it properly and steadily.

He Changying rolled her eyes when she heard this and said: "At that time, those guys and Tsuno Daoguan were standing in the Datong gatehouse and pointing, and I was extremely unhappy to see it; Even if they ran fast, I originally ordered the artillery team in the cadets to concentrate all the artillery and take them in one go. ”

Zhang Peilun and Li Jingfang grinned when they heard this, although they were blind to the war on the battlefield and really killed the military observers and war correspondents of the great powers, they couldn't say anything.

Obviously, it will make the Western countries annoyed with Beiyang and cause some unnecessary disputes.

However, Li Hongzhang admired He Changying's words very much.

He is not like his own son and son-in-law, who have never been on the battlefield and do not know the cruelty and bloodiness of the battlefield.

At that time, as a general who led the troops to fight the Taiping Army and beat the twisters, he made the generals sell their lives, not only relying on the grace and strict military discipline on weekdays, but also relying on his own unique, even daring style charm.

As the saying goes, you will be brave, as the main general in the army, you must not only have clear rewards and punishments, but also have to be responsible, bloody and courageous, so that your subordinates will be convinced and work hard for you.

"What do you think of the war now?"

Li Hongzhang had breakfast, and he had to see off his two fellow villagers, old buddies, and old subordinates.

At this time, I didn't have time to talk nonsense with He Changying, but went straight to the point.

Here it comes!

He Changying said secretly in his heart.

The reason why he came back happily this time was also to persuade Li Hongzhang to re-army the front line of Dalian Jinzhou.

As long as the Golden State is not lost, Lushun can be guaranteed to be as safe as Mount Tai.

The existence of Lushun made the Japanese fleet dare not transport troops to Bohai Bay by water and directly attack Jinmen.

Even if the Japanese army occupies Weihaiwei Port in the future, with Lushun, a key base firmly entrenched at the mouth of the bay, the Japanese army can only take the land route if they want to attack Jinjing.

Either from the northeast Jiuliancheng, Phoenix, Yingkou, Panjin, Jinzhou, Shanhaiguan, Tangshan -- all the way to attack the city and fight down.

Pointing to the cold and freezing weather in the northeast, the Japanese army can reach Jinmen next summer, which is considered their ability.

And with such a long supply line, it was easy to drag the Japanese army to death.

Since this route is not working, then the Japanese army can only use the fleet to escort the shipping troops and land on the Ludong Peninsula.

Although the road is easy to walk and the army can be marched in winter, it still involves the severe test of a long supply line, and also has to face the danger of the Qing army attacking from the north and south.

Therefore, as long as Lushun is not lost, it is impossible for the Japanese army to easily move heavy troops into the Chinese mainland.

At most, they occupied several cities near the Yalu River in Liaodong, and then attacked Qingdao, Lianyungang, Shanghai, Nantong, Taiwan, Fuzhou, Quanzhou, and other coastal cities in China with their fleets.

The first is to force the Beiyang Fleet at Arthur Military Port to go to sea to fight, and after annihilating the Beiyang Naval Division at sea, it can transport troops to land at Tianjin Gate and attack Beijing and Tianjin.

If the Beiyang Naval Division is not fooled and cannot survive in Lushun, then they will keep attacking the coastal cities and forcing the Qing Dynasty to seek peace and admit defeat.

He Changying's mouth was dry, not only Li Jingfang and Zhang Peilun nodded again and again.

It was Li Jingpu, who had a pretty face and a shy face who had been waiting in the house for a while, Li Jurong, who had the charm of a young woman, Li Jingfang's successor Zhang, He in the side room, Li Hongzhang's sister-in-law Li Jingshu, and his youngest son Li Jingmai, all looked at He Changying, who was talking eloquently.

At this time, the important figures of the Li family's scripture generation were all present, and they looked at He Changying with all kinds of curious and inquisitive eyes, and he was itchy and uncomfortable.