Chapter 121 Sirius

Luo Mingfang, the general of Tianjin Wubei School, learned that Zhou Charter was still alive and took the initiative to ask the court to resign from the office and go to Zhang Jun to serve his life. In the Gyeonggi region, only Nahawu's Xiaoqi Camp and Luo Mingfang's Wubei School were the direct lineage of Guangxu. A few days ago, Nahawu suddenly disappeared, and the owner of the Xiaoqi Camp was replaced by Lai Chuanwu. It is clear that this is the Empress Dowager's old Buddha who took a salary from the bottom of the pot and did Nahawu. The Xiaoqi camp became the empress dowager's army again, and Emperor Guangxu only had one military school left, which could not become a climate. Luo Mingfang knew that she was isolated in Tianjin and it was difficult to gain a foothold. She simply transferred more than 100 cadets with excellent grades from the Armed Forces School, pulled away more than 500 of the garrison troops of the Armed Forces School, formed an artillery force, and went to Shanghai to meet Zhou Charter.

Zhou Charter reorganized the Zhang army, and the most lacking were well-educated officers. Luo Mingfang, a hundred cadets and soldiers, came at the right time. Zhou Charter immediately asked Luo Mingfang to take his people to the Mawei Military Port and presided over the military in the military port. The cadets were assigned to various units and serve as battalion commanders.

Zhang Zuolin was the magistrate of the new people. The emperor was far away, and Zhang Zuolin was a little capable. After arriving at the new people's government, he was determined to expand his strength. Originally, he was just a company commander of the Zhang army. When he took office, he only brought dozens of remnants who survived the Lushun war. After half a year as a magistrate, the team expanded to 3,000. People, under the banner of the patrol camp, became a large army in western Liaoning and were summoned by Zhou Charter. Without saying a word, Zhang Zuolin rushed to Lushun with the patrol camp. There were more than 300 Zhangjun who stayed in Lushun. They were subordinates of Lushun guarding Guo Erpao. Now he heard that their officers are still alive and asked Zhang Zuolin to take them with them. Go. Local officials in Lushun did not stop it.

This 3300-strong force went to sea from Lushun to Weihaiwei and boarded the cruiser Zhenyuan and Hepingyuan cruiser led by Cai Tinggan. During the First Sino-Japanese War, Zhenyuan was almost sunk by the Japanese army. Now it has been repaired. Zhenyuan's pipe belt was originally Liu Bu toad. After Liu Bu toadun's death, Cai Tinggan, who established meritorious deeds in Lushun, took over the Zhenyuan pipe belt. At the same time, he took over the position of Liu Bu toad's right-hand man and became the No. 2 figure of the Beiyang Marine Division. This time, according to the order of the imperial court, he personally led two cruisers and a gunboat to escort Zhang Zuolin's troops to Fujian.

veteran Nie Shicheng also sent the general Li Guoge and led 2,000 people of the revolutionary battalion to Mawei Military Port to support Zhou Charter. Li Guoge's revolutionary camp once fought side by side with Zhang Jun in Lushun, and has long admired Zhang Jun. Now he has heard that he will cooperate with Zhang Jun again, and they all breathe a sigh of relief.

In the grand year of the famous magistrate, he followed his uncle Sheng Xuanhuai and served as a staff member for Zhang Zhidong. In this Zhangjun operation, Zhou Charter issued a list of weapons and asked the court to set it up. The Empress Dowager Buddha had no choice but to throw this list to Zhang Zhidong. Zhang Zhidong threw it to Sheng Xuanhuai, and Shannian threw it to Shannian. Shannian was rude. In less than a week, 10,000 rifles, 2,000 pistols, 80 cannons, 10,000 grenades, and countless bullets were removed from the arsenal of Hanyang Arsenal. He personally escorted him to Mawei Military Port. Shannian almost emptied the Hanyang Arsenal. Zhang Zhidong was heartbroken, but he was helpless. Shannian was still dissatisfied. He took Sheng Xuanhuai's warrant and ran to the Jinling Manufacturing Bureau and got 80 Gatlin machine guns, 5,000 muskets and a large amount of ammunition from the Jinling Manufacturing Bureau.

The emperor can't help but show that Zhang Jun is at war. Emperor Guangxu ordered the household department to take out one million taels of silver from the treasury, and asked Ronglu, the prime minister of the government, to come forward. He asked the Germans to buy 20 Maxim heavy machine guns, and let the head of the household department have a valuable silver with a gun and send it to the Mawei military port. In order to be strong, Qian Yougui was originally a member of Zhangjun. When he arrived at Mawei military port, he shirk the busy military affairs. , he did not return to Beijing and stayed in Zhang Jun and continued to be his quartermaster.

Zhou Charter sat in Shanghai and ordered all generals to recruit troops and expand their troops on the road. Zhou Charter was determined to take this opportunity to make Zhang Jun bigger and stronger and become a force that the court could not shake. Originally, the military generals' private expansion of the army violated the imperial taboo, and the court would never allow it. But now Zhou Charter has the title of Prime Minister on his head. His words are equivalent to the words of the imperial court. Local officials dare not contradict him. The Empress Dowager saw Zhou Charter become bigger and was afraid that Zhou Charter would repent. Instead of going to Beijing instead of going to Taiwan, he did not dare to turn against him easily. These Zhangjun generals were originally strong. With Zhou Charter, the big boss, they were more unscrupulous and expanded their troops along the way.

Zhang Xun and Zhang Zuolin are not fuel-efficient lamps. They expand the army and ask for money for food. They don't have money in their hands. They simply lead the army to open the treasury and search for everything. The local officials had no choice but to swallow their anger. Anyway, the money is from the imperial court. If the imperial court does not pursue it, it is better for them to do less than one thing.

All kinds of troops gathered in the Mawei Military Port and counted the number of people. Only then did they find that when the people from all walks of life set out, the total strength was about 8,000. When they arrived at the Mawei Military Port, they actually became 30,000!

Today's Zhangjun is completely different from the situation in North Korea. At that time, Zhangjun lacked people, guns, food, money, nothing, just a bunch of beggars. Now Zhang Jun is fully equipped, full of food and salaries, and rich. Fujian's local military supplies are still arriving at Mawei, and those local officials sincerely want to contribute to Taiwan.

The only thing missing is military uniforms. Zhang Jun's old brothers disdain to wear the uniforms of the Qing Dynasty. They have deep feelings for Zhang Jun's gray military uniforms. However, Zhang Jun had a lot of money. Qian Yougui and Shannian took the silver and immediately bought military uniforms. Soon, all the officers and soldiers were asked to wear the traditional gray military uniforms of Zhang Jun, and in accordance with the practices of the Western army, wearing red badges and armbands marking the various departments of the Zhang Army. Zhang officers and soldiers were new and energetic.

The Empress Dowager Cixi, who was far away in Beijing, heard that Zhang Jun had gathered 30,000 people in Mawei Military Port, with good equipment and sufficient ammunition, as anxious as ants on a hot pot. This man and horse stay in Fujian. If the muzzle turns, the court will be in trouble! These 30,000 people did not go to Taiwan one day, and the Empress Dowager Cixi could not live in peace for a day. She sent people to urge Zhang Jun to leave in three days.

But Zhang Jun in the military port just stays still. Luo Mingfang, the interim commander of Zhangjun, reported to the court that Zhou Charter, the commander of Zhangjun, had not yet arrived at Mawei Military Port, and Zhangjun had no leader. Zhangjun's specific actions could not be decided until Zhou Charter arrived.

Empress Dowager Cixi immediately issued an order to order Zhou Charter to set off, immediately go to Mawei, and lead Zhang Jun to Taiwan.

However, Shanghai's reply shocked the Empress Dowager Cixi into a cold sweat!

Zhou Charter left Shanghai as early as ten days ago, and his where he went is unknown!

And the Dingwu army by Dianshan Lake has disappeared! This army is a new army personally trained by Empress Dowager Cixi. It is the most well equipped and has the strongest combat effectiveness! Now Yetao is dead, and the Dingwu army has no leader.

Zhou Charter is not in Shanghai or in Mawei! Could it be that he swallowed the Dingwu army and took the people to Beijing?

If this is really the case, the Qing Dynasty will lift a stone and hit itself in the foot!

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In the late night of September 2, 1895, the Mawei Military Port was silent.

In the huge military port, there are only a few sparse lights.

After Luo Mingfang came to the ponytail and ordered the implementation of light control in the military port. Tens of thousands of people were hidden in the military port, which could not be seen by the outside world.

The huge ships of the Zhenyuan ship and the Laiyuan ship docked in the port and became two dark silhouettes. There are more than a dozen small ships scattered around them. Those are old ships left by Fujian sailors, with small displacement. Before the arrival of the Zhenyuan ships, these old ships were quite frightening, and now they have become The foils from the town and far away.

There is also silence on the Fort of Nangui Island. In the dark sky, there are several remnants of stars, and the sea breeze is blowing. On the fort, next to the dark figure of Armstrong's cannon, the satin yellow dragon flag of the Qing Dynasty fluttering in the wind, making a loud sound.

A rapid sound of horseshoe broke the silence of the night.

A cavalry followed the road to the fort.

"Who is it?" The sentry shouted sharply.

Someone in the cavalry shouted, "A reward for wearing a yellow coat, and Mr. Hannagan, who is walking in front of the imperial court, please open the door quickly!"

"No, no, no!" A half-baked Chinese appeared in the team: "It should be General Hannagan, the chief of staff of Zhang Jun, and I don't care about walking in front of that bullshit!"

Yes! General Hannagan is here!"

The gate under the chest wall opened, and Hannagan jumped off his horse, surrounded by everyone, and walked to the fort with his head held high.

On the fort, there was a bonfire. Next to the bonfire, dozens of military generals, wearing straight gray military uniforms, armed belts, pistols around their waists, swords, and lined up to salute Hannagen. The leader was Luo Mingfang. Behind him are Zhang Jun's old brothers from all over the world.

Hannagan raised his hand and saluted, then pointed to the flagpole and said, "General Luo, please replace the flag on it with the military flag of Zhang Jun!"

A soldier who followed Hannagan held a flag and handed it to Luo Mingfang.

Luo Mingfang opened the flag and saw that it was a red flag. A wolf looking at the moon is embroidered on the flag.

Yao Xi shouted, "Hannagan, you foreign devil, how did the brothers become a group of wolves!"

"This was designed by General Zhou himself!" Hannagan stared blue and said.

"Brother, is your brain watered?" Yao Xi said, "Even if our brother Zhang Jun is not a dragon, he is also a tiger!" I heard that the flag of the Taiwan army is a yellow tiger. No matter what we do, it should be a black tiger! You can't be shorter than the Taiwanese army!"

"Yao Xi, your fucking brain is in water!" Wu Peifu shouted, "This is not an ordinary wolf, this is Sirius!" The biggest difference between wolves and tigers is that wolves are righteous and bloody. They have always been a group of wolves to kill the enemy together and never fight alone! Brother, this is asking us to remember that our Zhangjun can be today because we never leave our brothers! We are a pack of wolves! Advance and retreat together, life and death!"

"Yes, advancing and retreating together is the same as life and death!" Dozens of generals shouted in one voice!

"Rising the flag!" Luo Mingfang shouted.

On the fort, the dragon flag of the Qing Dynasty fell, the wolf flag of Zhang Jun rose slowly, and the brothers of Zhang Jun stood upright to salute the wolf flag.