Chapter 192 Huguangying

Out of the importance of the five tigers of Luzon, Hu Chuyuan met with Li Kaiye, Sun Yuanheng and Zhang Shiying one by one. His feelings were similar to what Lu Guangxuan said. The three of them were very shrewd and capable, had ideas, willing to use their brains, and had a lot of courage.

The person who really impressed Hu Chuyuan was Li Kaiye.

As soon as we met and talked for a while, Li Kaiye put forward his whole idea of the Huguang Corps. In addition, he also talked about the ongoing Sino-Japanese war. His point of view was also procrastinating. He took the opportunity to develop the Huguang Corps in Lushun to lay the foundation for the future.

As for the final counterattack, he suggested to occupy Jeju, open up the situation, force the navy to fight a decisive battle, and continue to occupy Busan if he wins, and block the army's retreat in North Korea. If the advantage is large enough, it will further occupy Nagasaki and strive to anniH all the Japanese army.

Even after the end of the war, Jeju should be permanently occupied, which has an absolute deterrent to the sea power of Japan and North Korea.

This bold idea made Hu Chuyuan realize that this person is not only good at fighting.

Genius also needs opportunities, and opportunities will change fate.

This sentence also seems to have been verified by Li Kaiye.

When Lu Guangzhuo, Li Kaiye, Sun Yuanheng and Zhang Shiying arrived, the prototype of the Huguang Corps quickly took shape. First of all, the members of the Revival Society and the students of the Berkeley Military Academy were closely linked. Around their group, they continued to recruit the newly arrived recruits according to the establishment and establish two A new camp.

Hu Chuyuan originally wanted Lu Guangqian to transfer some people from the veterans of the Hunan army as the backbone, but Lu Guangqian was a military expert. He rejected this suggestion and completely reorganized a new battalion.

This made Xiao Delong, the general of the Xiang army, not very comfortable, but he did not dare to say anything because of Hu Chuyuan's identity and official position.

Hu Chuyuan has given up the idea of changing the Hunan army into the Huguang Corps, adding a piece of arms to Xiao Delong, and then dispatching Zhang Yuanchun to the north. A total of nearly 10,000 troops of the six Hunan battalions were sent to the coast of Dalian to the defense. Ye Boqi's army continued to be added and was solely responsible for guarding the whole Lushun port, while Luguang Tsuen's lake Guangying is located inside the port.

In addition to the officers, the Huguang camp has a total of only 1,037 people. It is said that it is a new battalion. In fact, it can only be counted as one column. There are 43 officers studying abroad, and more than half of the members of the Fuxing Society, and more than 40 people graduated from Nanchang, Jiangning Wubei School and Fuzhou Art School.

The average age of Huguangying is only 20.7 years old, and there are many young people between the ages of 18 and 21.

If they can be trained, it will be a real iron army in the next three or four years.

Lu Guang Quan soon proposed a new set of training methods, based on the basis of Western-style training methods, coupled with his three years of military training experience in the Philippines, combined with the characteristics of domestic soldiers.

Hu Chuyuan attaches great importance to this. On the basis of Lu Guangquan, he put forward three new requirements: first, to calliliterate, the army is a military academy; second, discipline first, strengthen training and strengthen exercises; third, organize special ideological and educational institutions to unify the ideology of the whole army.

On the first day of training in Huguangying, Hu Chuyuan devoted himself to it. Every morning, he personally handled all kinds of affairs in Huguangying, and handled other official duties in the afternoon and evening.

Every day, as soon as the bugcle sounded, Hu Chuyuan got up in a hurry and went out with the soldiers. The soldiers trained, and he inspected them.

These days, the weather is extremely hot. Lu Guangzuan still led a team to carry out a mountain cross-country run around Baiyu Mountain. A few days ago, it was five kilometers, but recently it became eight kilometers, and then it increased to ten kilometers.

From top to bottom, everyone has to run.

The Fuwei camp beside Hu Chuyuan carried out the same training together under the leadership of General Li Cunyi.

Hu Chuyuan personally participated in the design of all training courses, such as queue training, physical training, military skills training, tactical drills, cultural courses, history courses, and patriotism education. He grasped them one by one and worked hard to ensure that the army could develop as he expected.

The soldiers' food, clothing, living, training and learning are all under his control. The daily diet must be very good. In terms of wearing, he specially customized new steel helmets, cloth shoes and leggings.

The winter in Northeast China is very cold. It's still summer, and he has begun to prepare winter clothes. Everyone has a cotton-padded jacket and a thick coat, cowhide fur boots, and coarse cloth socks.

In terms of firearms, it is fully equipped with the new Jiangnan rifle, which is much better than the old Mauser 71-84 rifle. Compared with the Lebel rifle equipped in France, it is also more stable, but it is a little rough, but also durable and not easy to fail.

The disadvantage is that the magazine can only hold five bullets, and the range and power of the 1888 rifle is smaller, which is roughly the same as Lebel 1886.

In the secluded and busy place of Lushun, Hu Chuyuan had an indescribable satisfaction and full of expectations.

In the North Sea Joint Fleet, Hu Chuyuan did not have much heart. He transferred Ye Fu to take charge of the fleet. Lin Yongsheng, Deng Shichang, Lv Han and others took up their deputy and perform their respective duties.

The main force of the Japanese navy has been transferred to Nagasaki and has been stationed there, mainly relying on the northern line of the Japanese navy to supply North Korea, and there has been no provocation on the navy again.

Hu Chuyuan was not in a hurry to fight a decisive battle with the Japanese navy. While continuing to build ships, he reorganized and training in Lushun, strengthened his combat effectiveness, refitted with new bitter sour shells, and carried out more intensive tactical training to prepare for the real decisive battle.

On the other hand, he did prepare for the raid on Jeju as the first step of the counterattack, but continued to cover up his surname in Keelung, Taiwan. It seemed that on the surface, he still regarded Keelung as the first battle of the counterattack, and also forced Japan to strengthen its deployment and alert in the Ryukyu Islands and the southern part of Kyushu Island.

In July, the Huguang camp ushered in its second expansion. More than 2,000 school-age recruits from Hunan and Hubei were added to the army, and the scale of the Huguang camp reached a new battalion.

In August, Huguang Camp was expanded for the second time, forming two new camps, with a number of 7,133.

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the summer in Lushun is the same. It is extremely sultry. Only at night will there be a burst of coolness with the sea breeze.

That night, Hu Chuyuan was woken up by Chen Shanyuan as soon as he fell asleep.

Two hours ago, Pyongyang finally encountered the first large-scale invasion of the Japanese army. At present, the two sides are roughly equal in strength. Song Qing commanded more than 20 battalions of the Huai army, with more than 20,000 people, seizing better defense points and the surrounding kaolins and fortresses.

Because there has always been supplies by sea, the Huai Army is not bad in the equipment of artillery and ammunition. In addition, Hu Chuyuan first transferred 6,000 Jiangnan rifles from the United States, and the supply of bullets is also sufficient.

Hu Chuyuan got up and looked carefully at the telegram sent by Chen Shanyuan. After only half of it, he almost scolded his mother.

It turned out that Song Qing actually asked the main force of the North Sea Combined Fleet to enter the port of the Datong River in Pyongyang to help him repel the Japanese army. Otherwise, it would be difficult for him to support him. He also said that the main force of the army came from all sides.

"Waste, old waste!"

Hu Chu scolded angrily, rubbed the telegram into a ball fiercely, and stepped on it hard.

Chen Shanyuan was speechless for a moment.

At this time, Lan Jianshu, Huang Jianxun, Sun Daoren, Lu Guangzuan and Li Kaiye walked into Hu Chuyuan's grass hut one after another. Lan Jianshu was the main staff officer around Hu Chuyuan. He first asked Hu Chuyuan, "Your Excellency, do you want to support Superintendent Song?"

Hu Chuyuan cursed, "Bullshit. In the area of Pyongyang, Japan only mobilized one and a half divisions, with the Sixth Kumamoto Division as the main force, plus two brigades to assist in the battle, a total of no more than 20,000 people. Song Qing also has more than 20,000 people, all of whom also occupy the best and most dangerous areas. We have stationed six gunboats and two defense ships there. What else does he want? He has more artillery than himself, and he has hoarded more materials. If these arms and materials are robbed by him, Liu Mingchuan will not want to defend Dandong again. Tell Song Qing... Give Liu Mingchuan a power generation, and ask him to tell Inspector Song that it doesn't matter if he can't win. If all those arms and materials are left to me, I will continue to cut off his head, and if the materials can't be withdrawn, I will blow them up!"

"Yes!"

Lan Jianshu took his order and immediately returned to issue the order.

Li Kaiye was very unconvinced. He asked Hu Chuyuan, "Your Excellency, send us to Huguang Camp. If you don't want more, 3,000 people can help the Huai army defend Pyongyang."

Hu Chuyuan then shook his head and said, "The current situation is not urgent enough to kill chickens and take eggs."

How can he continue to sleep? He soon held a meeting in the lobby to discuss countermeasures together.

He said that he wanted to launch the general attack during this period. He had informed Song Qing in advance. He also felt that although Song Qing was a little old, he still had some prestige and ability after all. Relying on the large amount of supplies and assistance he gave through the sea, it would not be a problem to support this general attack.

Now it seems that Song Qing is also a rice bucket, just an old rice bucket.

Chen Shanyuan sorted out the new information, but the facts proved that Song Qing could do nothing. It was said that he had just bombed Longshan with dense artillery for more than an hour, and the three Huai military battalions stationed here withdrew in confusion despite the order. More than 3,000 troops were actually turned into zero, and they fled without knowing where they were.

As soon as Longshan lost, I immediately occupied the advantage of the high ground and bombarded the whole city of Pyongyang and the surrounding positions. The leader of the left wing, Wei Rucheng, ran away first, but he could still run away with several battalions.

Song Qing himself held six battalions, and Ma Jinxu of the right wing was still holding on together. The two parts combined were less than 10,000, and the damage was heavy.

After confirming these news, Hu Chuyuan could only sigh. Just as Lan Jianshu came back from power generation, he asked Lan Jianshu to continue to generate electricity directly to Song Qing, take away all the materials that could be taken away, and immediately blow up and burn them. The remaining troops retreated to Nanpu under the protection of the fleet. He sent people to Nanpu Port to guard for a period of time to help them withdraw from the battlefield in Pyongyang.

At this time, Ye Boqi had rushed back urgently. When he heard that Hu Chuyuan was going to send more troops to defend Nanpu Port, he immediately asked for his order to fight.

Hu Chuyuan thought for a moment.

Six battalions of the Hunan Army, with a total of more than 10,000 people guarding Dalian, which is the gateway to Lushun Port and cannot easily move troops. Lu Guang Quan's Huguang Battalion has just been established, and now it is too easy to be attacked on the battlefield.

What's more, at present, only Ye Boqi's Fuzi Camp can board the troop carrier in the shortest time.

After thinking about it, he agreed to Ye Boqi's request and asked Ye Boqi to take four battalions to send more troops to Nanpu by sea. In case, he chose to send a main fleet to escort him to prevent the navy from setting up an ambush near Nanpu.

Taking advantage of the current high tide, Ye Fu was temporarily ordered to lead the North Sea First Squadron to escort Ye Boqi. A total of four ironclad ships, six ironclad cruisers, two new Yangwu-class cruisers and two Chunyu-class destroyers went to sea.

(to be continued)