In the history of Lin Fei's era, Yuan Shikai's popularity is comparable to Li Hongzhang's, and his popularity is even higher than Li Hongzhang's.

However, if you want to talk about the reputation of good or bad, Li Hongzhang is still better than Yuan Shikai, although people have long regarded Li Hongzhang as a traitor, but more and more people have begun to look at Li Hongzhang from different perspectives, thinking that Li Hongzhang is not a real traitor, he is just a scapegoat for the corrupt dynasty of the Manchu Dynasty.

After the Xinhai Revolution, he stole the fruits of the revolution, acted perversely, brazenly proclaimed the emperor, and in order to gain the support of Japan, he secretly signed 21 unequal treaties with Japan that humiliated the country.

How vicious is this 21 unequal treaty? The treaty stipulates that China must employ Japanese as political, economic, and military advisers to the government, that China must purchase weapons and equipment produced in Japan, and that China's arsenal must be jointly established with Japan.

The most vicious one is that the police departments of China's major cities must hire Japanese as policemen, and the grandiose Chinese want to use Japanese as policemen, and the Chinese have to be controlled by the Japanese, which simply turns China into a Japanese colony... In order to become emperor, Yuan Shikai actually signed such a treaty with Japan...

At this time, Yuan Shikai was not as prosperous as he would be in the future, he was only a senior military attache in the Qing court, but he won the trust of Li Hongzhang.

Yuan Shikai soon came to Li Hongzhang, and Li Hongzhang asked in a deep voice: "How are you preparing for the march into Huaxia?" ”

"Lord Qiyu Zhongtang, they are all ready to march at any time."

Li Hongzhang nodded, "Very good, Comfort Pavilion, how many people have you prepared?" ”

"There were more than 1,000 Manchu and Han Eight Banner soldiers in Nanjing, more than 10,000 Green Battalion soldiers, and more than 20,000 Yong Battalion soldiers.

"Compared with the Chinese Army, which of the new army you have trained is superior or inferior?"

"In all fairness, the new army I have trained has a slight upper hand."

Li Hongzhang smiled with satisfaction and said, "Immediately march to Penghu Island." ”

"Obey the order, and the subordinates will definitely live up to their mission and take Penghu Island."

Li Hongzhang laughed softly: "Weiting, it's good that you have this heart, but you have to remember one thing, this battle is based on preserving your strength." ”

Yuan Shikai frowned, "Preserve your strength? Nakado-sama, I don't understand. ”

Li Hongzhang laughed, "The praying mantis catches the cicada, the yellow finch is behind, you don't want the Japanese slave to become the yellow finch, right?" ”

Yuan Shikai's eyes lit up, and he said with a smile: "My subordinates understand." ”

Yuan Shikai came out of Li Hongzhang and led his troops to Xiamen, one of the closest Qing territories to Penghu Island, where Yuan Shikai planned to attack Penghu Island.

Yuan Shikai came to Xiamen to meet Zhou Zhenbang, the general soldier of Fujian and Zhejiang, and Yuan Shikai heard that Zhou Zhenbang said that there were people from the Huaxia Foreign Trade Corporation on Kinmen Island, and immediately planned to send envoys to land on Kinmen Island and expel these people.

Zhou Zhenbang built yì to kill these Chinese people directly, Yuan Shikai thought of Li Hongzhang's words of "praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches behind", categorically refused, sent a messenger to the island, and issued an expulsion order to the Chinese people on the island.

Huaxia Foreign Trade Corporation was unable to resist so many Qing troops, so it withdrew from Kinmen Island and returned to Penghu Island, in fact, Lin Fei could have operated and built on Kinmen Island and turned it into a bridgehead for attacking the Qing State, but Lin Fei did not do that, because Kinmen Island was too close to the hinterland of the Qing court, and this was too exciting for the Qing court.

Yuan Shikai made preparations in Xiamen for two days, and on December 7, he waved his army to attack Penghu Island.

Yuan Shikai has four troops under his command, the Eight Banners, the Green Battalion, the Yong Battalion and the new army, these four troops are the epitome of the chaotic military system of the Qing court, the Eight Banners are the Manchu Qing Dynasty to fight the world, this force was once invincible, without them, the Manchu Qing would not be able to defeat the Ming Dynasty, but after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the Eight Banners quickly corrupted and degenerated, from a group of fierce soldiers to only carry cages and birds.

By the time Kangxi pacified the rebellion of the three feudatories, the Eight Banners were completely unusable, at this time, the Qing court used a large number of Han people, and formed the green battalion soldiers, the green battalion soldiers after more than 200 years of Chengping, and they would not fight, and when the Qing court quelled the Taiping Rebellion, they could only use Han intellectuals to train the village brave, that is, the brave battalion soldiers.

The new army is a new army, the establishment of this army, and the First Sino-Japanese War is closely related, people in Lin Fei's era mentioned the First Sino-Japanese War, the first thing that comes to mind is the Yellow Sea Naval Battle, Zhiyuan Ship, Deng Shichang, but everyone knows that the Yellow Sea Naval Battle is just an ordinary battle in the First Sino-Japanese War, and the real highlight of the First Sino-Japanese War is the land battle.

After the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing court felt that the existing army was too weak, so it imitated the Western military system and established a new army, that is, this new army.

This new army wrote the history of China in the first two decades of the 20 th century, because this new army was the predecessor of the Beiyang warlords, from which warlords such as Duan Qirui, Cao Kun, and Zhang Xun all came out.

Yuan Shikai received Li Hongzhang's instructions to preserve his strength, so he decided not to let the new army attack, but to order the brave battalion soldiers and the green battalion soldiers to charge into battle.

At 10 o'clock in the morning of 7 December, 30,000 green battalion soldiers and brave battalion soldiers sailed to Penghu Island in more than 200 ships of various types.

The speed of these ships was so different that they could not maintain their formation as soon as they set up, and the sea was suddenly covered with all kinds of ships, and from a distance, the sea was full of boats, which was very spectacular.

The defender of Penghu Island is Wei Zelong, who was born as a bandit, he is one of the prisoners of war rescued by Lin Fei from Japan, with a calm and calm personality, he is one of the few wise and brave generals under Lin Fei, and has repeatedly made military exploits in the years of following Lin Fei's southern expedition to the north, at this time he was already the commander of the Fourth Army of the Chinese Empire, Lin Fei awarded him the rank of major general, Lin Fei attached great importance to the Penghu Campaign, so he served as the commander-in-chief of the defense of Penghu Island.

When Wei Zelong saw so many ships, he didn't have the slightest fear in his heart, on the contrary, his heart was full of disdain, and he laughed in a low voice: "The rabble." ”

Wei Zelong instructed the staff officers: "Don't hurry to fire the cannon first, wait until the Qing army's ships are close to the beachhead, and then we will fight." ”

Once the Qing ships approached the beachhead, they would enter the firing range of the HP-2 75-mm howitzers, and when the 75-mm howitzers and 240-mm coastal defense guns would fire together, the Qing army would suffer maximum damage.

The Qing army gradually approached the beach, the first to land was the brave battalion soldiers, the combat effectiveness was relatively strong, at this time the brave battalion soldiers, all curled up in the cabin, holding the latest German-made Mauser gun in their hands trembling, one after another, the Chinese army is too powerful, even the Japanese are not opponents, we go to fight them, isn't it sent to death?

Ordinary soldiers are like this, and the officers are no better, compared to the soldiers who have nothing and just want to have enough to eat, they have embezzled a lot of money one by one, they have wide mansions, beautiful wives and concubines, and they are more afraid of death.

The Qing people of this era were still very ignorant, so many legends about the Chinese army spread far and wide, and some regarded the charge of the Chinese army as a magic weapon to summon ghost soldiers, saying that Lin Fei would be able to summon ghost soldiers to fight; Some say that Lin Fei has an immortal body, and he will fly to the sky and scatter beans into soldiers, so that the Qing soldiers are even more afraid.

In a state of panic, the front group of transport ships approached the beach, and Wei Zelong gave an order: "Open fire..."

The HP-2 75-mm howitzer fired first, and the land version of the JP-240-1 naval gun opened fire immediately afterward, and the battlefield was full of the sound of shells flying and exploding, the crisp and brisk "bang" sound was from a 75-mm grenade, and the dull and heavy "boom" sound was from a 240-mm grenade.

The scene of the explosion of the shells is enough to make the Qing soldiers afraid, what makes them even more afraid is the terrifying damage caused by the shells, because the shells exploded at the moment of the landing of the Qing troops, so the shells caused by the shells are all intensive killing, often a shell can sweep down a large number of people, the mutilated corpses are overlapped, the people below are soaked in the blood of the people above, and the people above are lying on the internal organs of the people below, the scene is extremely terrifying.

The Qing army behind saw that the artillery fire of the Chinese army was so strong, they were so frightened that they turned the bow of the ship and fled backwards, and the sea suddenly became a pot of porridge, some of the Qing ships were forward, some were backward, and many ships even collided together, and the Qing soldiers accused and abused each other, and some even raised their guns to each other.

The battle lasted less than ten minutes, and the Qing army retreated on all fronts, Yuan Shikai was not surprised at all when he heard the news of the defeat of the Qing army, he smiled and ordered: "Give the landing force a flag and let them retreat." ”

The Qing soldiers immediately retreated, and Wei Zelong, who was in the command post, watched the Qing army's ships drift away, laughed, and instructed his subordinates: "Send a message to Dayu City immediately, ask His Majesty for credit, and then send the army to clear and suppress the remnants of the landing enemy." ”

One of his subordinates immediately went to deliver the order, and at this moment, the sentry suddenly reported: "To the northeast, a fleet has been found..."

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