Chapter 190 Supervising the World

Hu Chuyuan finally finished reading the information. Then he raised his head and glanced around. Looking at everyone here, these were the backbone of the Chinese navy. They were born in the same era and in the same era as Dongxiang Pinghalang.

He doesn't know if a god of war of the Chinese navy can be born among these people. He hopes it's a little.

At this time, he said, "After the three divisions are temporarily merged into the Beihai Joint Fleet, they also need to protect the merchant ships of Tianjin and the Yellow Sea. Liu Bu toad and General Liu will leave the matter of protecting Tianjin Port to you. I have wronged you for the time being. I personally manage a defense ship, two gunboats, two patrol boats, and sit at the entrance of Tianjin."

"What...?"

Liu Bu toad was shocked, and his angry eyes could burn with fire.

Hu Chuyuan looked at him coldly and said, "You don't have to go."

Liu Bu toad hated it and said, "You... you are... Don't think that Lord Zhongtang will ignore it!"

Hu Chuyuan said, "This is the result of my discussion with Lord Zhongtang. If you have any grievances, you can go to him to vent. Don't talk to me. Since you don't want to go, it's good, you can only aggrieve your new Jiangnan Ship Administration School as a general teacher, and the responsibility of teaching is also more important than Mount Tai.

Everyone shuddered when they heard this.

Jiangnan Ship Administration School has a general teacher. If Liu Bu toad goes there again, isn't it a disguised dismissal?

Isn't it too cruel?

Everyone signaled one after another to let Ding Ruchang take the lead in persuading, but in this matter, Hu Chuyuan had made it clear to Ding Ruchang in advance that if the thorn was not pulled out, he could not control the Beiyang sailor at all.

At the moment of the event, Ding Ruchang can only stand on the sidelines.

Seeing that Ding Ruchang did not dare to come forward, everyone understood that Hu Chuyuan was going to take down Liu Buchan from the beginning, and no one dared to say anything more.

Liu Bu toad's teeth were itchy, but what could he do? He just stared at Hu Chuyuan angrily and shouted, "I'll take the order."

After saying this, he couldn't wait to run out of the camp.

Hu Chuyuan continued to glance and saw that everyone had their own fears, so he ordered: "Fang Boqian is in charge, and the matter of guarding Tianjin is up to you. In Tianjinkou, a defense ship alone can't be defended. You should pay attention to building a fort to prevent trouble.

Fang Boqian did not dare to resist the order, so he could only step forward and say, "The last general will lead the order."

Hu Chuyuan nodded slightly and continued to order other people's errands.

After urgent consultation with Ding Ruchang, Hu Chuyuan basically determined that the Beiyang Marine Division was the main framework, and the main elite warships were transferred from the East China Sea Division and the Nanyang Marine Division to be stationed in Lushun Port. That is, the elites of the whole third division navy were concentrated in Lushun Port to prepare the land battalion of the navy on the spot. He was responsible for the defense of the port and The surrounding area is not under the responsibility of the Huai Army.

Weihai Port, as the second base, left a part of the cruisers for coastal patrols, was responsible for attacking the Japanese supply merchant ships, and detecting the main deployment of the Japanese navy in advance.

In the south, Zhang Cheng's Yangtze River sailors moved to Ningbo Port to be responsible for the defense of Shanghai and the south of the Yangtze River. The rest of the places also entered the defensive posture, mainly to patrol the coast and guard against thieves attacking merchant ships.

The Taiwan fleet of the East China Sea Division stationed in Keelung did not move. Instead, it had to strengthen more defense ships and gunboats, defend a counterattack point, and attack the merchant ships that were supposed to go to Nanyang.

Hu Chuyuan's goal is to concentrate the main force to ensure the control of the Yellow Sea, transport materials through the sea, station on the Yalu River defense lines in Dandong and Yingkou, and carry out a long-term loss war with Japan.

Delay.

This is the best tactic. After the two sides officially declare war, the neutral countries will stop arms sales to both sides. The problem is that the United States will not be neutral. The Sino-US cooperation agreement stipulates that the United States has the right to continue to supply supplies to China during the war.

Britain may be neutral, Germany may not, and France may not be truly neutral to Japan.

Taking advantage of this advantage, Hu Chuyuan can completely complete the preparations for the decisive battle within a year, and the front is procrastination.

Japan's own shipbuilding ability is not as good as that of China. The supporting facilities of its three major military shipyards are not complete. Generally speaking, they are not as good as Fuzhou Shipbuilding Factory and Jiangnan Shipbuilding Factory, and the difference between self-produced warships is also large.

Japan has hardly produced an ironclad ship in China before, and Fuzhou Shipyard has produced six, and has the manufacturing experience of three all-steel armored ships: Jiangwei class, Zhenjiang class and Chunyu class.

This gap cannot be made up in a short time, and it is inevitable to pay the price for them to only take shortcuts.

After quickly integrating the three major naval divisions into the North Sea Combined Fleet and the Taiwan Fleet, it was a foregone conclusion to basically implement the strategy of south defense and north attack in the navy, forcing the main force to fight a decisive battle between the North Sea joint fleet of the Qing army in the Korean waters.

If he refused to fight a decisive battle, after two years, Hu Chuyuan would change his strategy, adopt the north defense and south attack strategy, launch a springboard attack from Taiwan's Keelung Port to Japan, and fight to the death with the Japanese navy.

In mid-April 1890, Hu Chuyuan led the Beihai Joint Fleet to arrive at Lushun Port. As soon as he arrived, Zhili Admiral Ye Zhichao was defeated in Seoul. More than 20 battalions and more than 14,000 people were easily defeated by the elite 6th Division and Ninth Brigade, with more than 6,000 casualties.

Ye Zhichao fled alone and rode back to Pyongyang. Unexpectedly, he claimed that he had a big victory, and his wings were defeated and had to retreat.

Nerves.

Hu Chuyuan had a lot of ear lines and intelligence agents in North Korea and Japan, and the telegram line was not laid for nothing. Li Hongzhang just gave a commendation for Ye Zhichao to let the court continue to use this direct line. Hu Chuyuan sent a fold and asked for beheading.

Hu Chuyuan asked for a decision. If not beheaded, he will resign from the post of imperial envoy of the North Sea United Fleet. If Pyongyang is defeated again, please behead Li Hongzhang.

In desperation, Prince Gong Yi