Chapter 034 Trap

Li Zhongtang was furious, and his subordinates were trembling and didn't know what would happen. All the officials and students gathered outside the martial arts hall, guarding Ye Tuo and Cui, the chief teacher, led the guard camp to search for Zhou Charter separately, and finally caught Zhou Charter in the hostel.

Zhou Charter was taken into the Yanwu Hall and saw the Weihaiwei sand table in the center of the hall. Only then did he realize that his answer gave Li Hongzhang a great embarrassment.

It's useless to regret now. Outside the martial arts hall, he has acted as a good man. If he wants to be tough, he will be tough to the end!

"Kneel down!" Yetao shouted.

"Tianjin Wubei School can't kneel down and worship!" Zhou Charter said proudly that anyway, it's all a death. If you want to die, you will die tough.

Yetao was furious: "Fuck you..."

Li Hongzhang waved his hand slowly, and Yetao stared at Zhou Charter and stood aside.

"Your name is Zhou Charter?" Li Hongzhang said slowly. Li Hongzhang has been an official for decades. The city government is quite deep, and his heart is angry, but his face is relaxed.

Zhou Charter raised his hand and gave a Western-style military salute: "Student Zhou Charter, I have met Lord Li, Lord Weng!"

Weng Tongqi brushed his beard and said, "Li Zhongtang, I think this Zhou Charter is magnificent and unique. The internal and external troubles of our Qing Dynasty are now, which is the time for our generation to choose materials for the country."

Weng Tongqi doesn't know Zhou Charter, and he doesn't understand why Zhou Charter embarrassed Li Hongzhang in public. However, political matters have always been that the enemy of the enemy is a friend. Regardless of the purpose of Zhou Charter doing this, anyway, today, he and Weng Tongqi stand on the same front. Therefore, As soon as Weng Tonghao came up, he said good words for Zhou Charter.

Li Hongzhang smiled faintly: "Lord Weng, you and I are both ministers of the imperial court. It is a matter of my generation to choose materials for the country. Lord Weng reminds me that I have read his student status files." Li Hongzhang said and handed Zhou Charter's student file to Weng Tongqi: "Lord Weng seeks virtuousness for the country, and his heart is commendable!"

Weng Tongqi took over the student status file and saw that his face turned red. The achievements of that week's charter were poor, and he was only one step away from the academic status. Li Hongzhang said that he was "seeking talents for the country", which was a big irony. In fact, he was scolding him for having no eyes.

"A student of Wubei School, whose professional courses are in a mess, went to find chapters and excerpts and write eight articles. He is worthy of being a student of Jin!" Li Hongzhang pointed his finger at Jin, who was kneeling on the ground and trembling.

Li Hongzhang determined that there was someone behind the Zhou Charter, and Jin was the practitioner of the Zhou Charter and was seriously suspected.

Jin's intestines are about to regret. He should not have made any bet with Feng Guozhang. He inexplicably accepted a student. This student's military achievements were in a mess, and he also admitted it, but Zhou Charter came out today, which made Jin unable to argue. He wanted to distinguish Zhou Charter from his bet on. If you can't say it again, who will believe it!

Jin blushed and had to kowtow: "I didn't notice the humble position for a while..."

"That's a heavy speech." Li Hongzhang interrupted Jin's words and said coldly, "I think your original intention is to seek talents for the country, and the starting point is good. As for whether this Zhou Charter is a virtuous or not, it doesn't matter whether you say it or not. Well, saint, practice is the only standard for testing truth!"

Zhou Charter was shocked. Li Hongzhang was really powerful. Even the saints in the 21st century knew that the momentum was greatly reduced.

"Yetao!" Li Hongzhang shouted.

"I'm humble!"

"Now you are the commander of the Red Army and Zhou Charter as the commander of the Blue Army. The two of you will demonstrate to everyone on this sand table to see how the Blue Army broke through Weihaiwei!" Li Hongzhang said, "I think Zhou Charter, a great talent, must have a strange trick."

Although Li Hongzhang is angry, his mind is very calm. Zhou Charter's behind-the-scenes instructions must be dug, but the first thing to do is to refute Zhou Charter and shut Weng Tongqi and his Qing school shut up!

"Follow the order!" Yetao walked to the sand table: "Zhou Charter, make a move!"

In the hall, everyone's eyes focused on Zhou Charter.

Zhou Charter sneered.

The officers in the hall are either the generals of the Huai army who have been fighting for a long time or the proud son of the army studying abroad. No one can see the obvious strategic mistake of Weihaiwei. Their complexion is different, but one thing is the same. They all believe that Zhou Charter will undoubtedly be defeated.

Even Weng Tongqi shook his head secretly. Although Weng Tongqi did not know the military, he knew Li Hongzhang too well. If he was not 100% sure, he would never risk letting Zhou Charter fight against Ye Tuo. If Zhou Charter defeated Ye Tuo, wouldn't Li Hongzhang lift a stone and hit himself in the foot!

Yetao was full of ambition and gave a contemptuous sneer at Zhou Charter.

Li Hongzhang's choice of Yetao to compete with Zhou Charter is also the result of careful consideration.

In his opinion, Weihaiwei's defense is impeccable, and anyone can easily defeat Zhou Charter, and it is most appropriate to give this opportunity for victory to Yetao, because Ye Zhichao's father, as an admiral of Zhili, he has a deep personal relationship with Li Hongzhang, the governor of Zhili.

Ye Tao is violent, but he thinks highly of himself. He thinks he is the son of a general. He has literary and martial arts. As a six-grade guard, he is really a talent. Now he can perform well in front of Li Hongzhang.

Zhou Charter walked to the sand table and punched Yetao: "Ye guard, the students have started."

Zhou Charter said, pointing the command pole at Rongcheng Bay.

The battle map on the examination paper does not indicate Weihaiwei, but only a military port. On the sand table, in order to convince Weng Tong, Li Hongzhang simply showed the Weihai Guard Port and its surrounding terrain, and also equipped the Armstrong cannon that was not on the examination paper.

Yetao sneered and deployed five battalions of infantry deployed in Rongcheng and Lidao along the coastline, with a total strength of 3,000. Rongcheng Bay has no forts, so it can only rely on infantry to defend on the spot.

The Blue Army's cruiser guns began to bombard the coastal defense line, while 1,500 landing troops sailed to the beach in 80 small landing craft.

Yetao was shocked that the Blue Army did not use the large landing craft commonly used by the Japanese army that could carry 200 people at a time, but a group of small sams.

The Red Army fired field artillery to bombard the landing craft.

Soon, the Blue Army's ssam rushed to the beach.

The Red Army fired Gatling cannons to block the beach, causing heavy casualties to the Blue Army. 1,500 landing troops, only half are left.

However, the Blue Army's naval guns suppressed the Red Army's machine guns, and the landing troops quickly gained a foothold on the beach and concentrated ten mountain cannons to bombard the front of the beach. The remaining 800 landing soldiers took advantage of the fierce attack and tore a gap in the Red Army's defense line.

Yetao suddenly found that he had made a mistake.

The Red Army infantry adopted the standard configuration of the Qing army, mixed infantry guns, and an infantry battalion was equipped with three wild guns, and five battalions of 15 German Krper 7.5 cm field guns, deployed on the front up to 2,000 meters wide. 15 wild guns were scattered. Whether for maritime targets or land targets, they could not form concentrated firepower. This made the Blue Army still break through the Red Army's defense line after paying a high price.

It was broken at one point, and the entire coastal defense line of the Red Army collapsed.

Yetao's forehead broke out in a cold sweat.

Li Hongzhang has a leisurely face.

The Red Army retreated to the coast, gathered eight battalions of 4,000 troops 10 kilometers away from the coast, and relied on Rongcheng County to build a second line of defense. At the same time, another ten battalions of 5,000-step cavalrymen rushed to Rongcheng from Zhifu, Jiaozhou Bay, Qingzhou, Yanzhou and other places.

At the same time, the Blue Army landed 4,000 troops and began to advance towards the Red Army's defense line. 800 troops arrived at Rongcheng and confronted the defenders.

The cold sweat on Yetao's forehead disappeared, and a proud smile appeared on his face.

The officers present saw that the seemingly weak Rongcheng Bay defense line was actually a trap.

Four thousand landing troops of the Blue Army are in a dilemma under the wall of Rongcheng, while the reinforcements of the Red Army are gathering in Rongcheng from all directions, forming a siege of the Blue Army under the city.

At the same time, the Beiyang Marine Division poured out and went straight to the Blue Army fleet near Rongcheng Bay - the subsequent landing of the Blue Army was cut off.

Four thousand blue troops became alone under the Rongcheng.

What Yetao has to do now is to wait for the arrival of reinforcements, and then launch a general attack to catch all the landing troops of the Blue Army.

Yetao sneered at Zhou Charter and threw away the command stick in his hand. He no longer needed this thing.