Chapter 232 The mountains and rivers move
The second wave of news was Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang and Tan Zhonglin, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang. Liu Kunyi had the Nanyang Navy under his command and Tan Zhonglin had the Fujian Navy under his command, so he naturally needed some new ships that would not cost money.
I heard that the Beiyang Navy changed the boat and the Guangdong Navy added the boat, so the two sent their hands to contact Zhang Cheng: We have furniture in both jade and gold nanmu.
It's easy to say if you have something. After greeting Er Li, Zhang Cheng and the two aides sent by the Governor's Office began to talk about the issue of changing ships.
The Fujian Navy did not need a 10,000-ton iron armored ship. The Fujian Navy was interested in a thousand-ton gunboat, a shore defense iron armor cruiser, and a new torpedo boat. It was preparing to exchange for 4,000-ton shore defense iron armored cruisers, 12 1,000-ton gunboats, and 24 new torpedo boats.
If so many ships are needed, the Fujian Navy has its own reasons. Fujian has a naval school, so there is no shortage of personnel. Moreover, the Fujian Navy has a great pressure on defense. Taiwan has established a province on the opposite side, but Taiwan’s maritime defense is still handed over to the Fujian Navy.
As for the retired old ships of the Fujian Navy, they can be used as training ships or as escorts for merchant ships, and they can be handled no matter what.
The Nanyang Navy is different. The Nanyang Navy also has the task of appeaseing the expatriates in the Nanyang to deter foreigners. It is proposed to first require a 10,000-ton ironclad ship. In order to cooperate with the 10,500-ton ironclad cruisers, four 5,500-ton ironclad cruisers will also come. Two 4,000-ton shore defense ironclad cruisers are enough, ten thousand-ton gunboats, and 16 new 40-ton torpedo boats - the Nanyang Navy still has some defense tasks.
Liu Kunyi was in politics and knew that this was just a memorandum, and Cixi would also approve it. The most important purpose of establishing the Nanyang Navy was actually to check and balance the Beiyang Navy, so as not to dominate the Beiyang Navy. Therefore, after the Beiyang Navy became stronger, the Nanyang Navy would definitely become stronger, otherwise Cixi would not be able to sleep well.
Cixi used human means to pull one faction to fight and balance these important Han officials, a hundred times stronger than the royal cabinet of Yuan Shikai during the Yuan Shikai's period. Yuan Shikai was finally forced to rebel by those idiots. It was the king who forced his ministers to rebel, and the ministers had to rebel.
Not long after these two left, the senior governor Tang Jingsong also sent people. The senior navy was definitely going to be established on the island. It is rare that there is a good opportunity now, and you can get it without spending money. It is really a matter of expiration. The senior navy's silver and personnel are relatively tight, so they only had two shore defense iron armor cruisers, eight thousand-ton gunboats, and twelve forty-ton torpedo boats.
It is similar to the Fujian Navy. The mission of the Grand Navy is to focus on offshore defense and arrest private goods. The 4,000-ton shore defense iron armored cruiser of the main battleship is enough.
Not long after the three major navy accepted the ships, the Japanese pirates frequently moved in North Korea, and they were looking for trouble. After Li Hongzhang submitted a memorial on the Beiyang side, the court approved the Beiyang to increase its troops to North Korea - note that this is the Beiyang to increase its troops to North Korea.
For those clear streams in China, Li Hongzhang, the founder of the Beiyang Navy, was simply Dong Zhuo. After the Japanese pirates and Beiyang increased their troops to Korea, a saying began to spread in the capital: Defeat foreign invaders and eliminate the East, and defeat internal invaders and eliminate the Beiyang.
This matter cannot be hidden from Li Hongzhang. After Li Hongzhang found out, he quietly said, "I understand." When no one was there, he took out his ancestral notebook and wrote it on it.
Nowadays, live broadcasts are popular in China, and Zhang Cheng is also popular, broadcasting the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 in parallel spaces.
First of all, the Japanese pirates' Langsu attacked the Beiyang troops transport ship. In history, because there were not enough Beiyang ships, they also rented British Gaosheng to transport troops. The result was the Gaosheng incident.
The observation team sent by Zhang Cheng took an airship to take photos in the air several hundred meters. There were no anti-aircraft guns in this era, and it was safe to have hundreds of meters.
Now, all the old ships transformed for Beiyang have been pulled back, and each ship has reduced some main guns and secondary guns - because the new guns have longer diameters and faster firing speeds, it is reasonable to appropriately reduce the main guns and secondary guns.
Of course, these ships cannot be called Dingyuan Zhenyuan, come far away, after all, they all have names. They simply call them Guangjia, Guangyi, Guangbing, Guangding, Guangmao, Guangji, Guanggeng, Guangxin, Qian Chaoyong and Yangwei changed their names to Guangren and Guanggui.
Even if you fool it, the court will just say something. If you want to be serious, the Beiyang army will teach the Eight Banners how to be a human being in minutes.
In this way, Li Hongzhang had warships of more than 100,000 tons, and he could use the boat charter. No one drove the small boats and training ships such as the Caojiang River. There was a sudden additional fleet for Beiyang, and the personnel would definitely not be recruited for half a year. Although Zhang Cheng had previously supported fifty mechanics, he later supported one hundred mechanics, and Beiyang gathered all the students and the people on the boat to barely make up for the two fleets.
In fact, the troops transported were the modified Guangbing and Guangding, two armed troop transport ships with two 2,900-ton armed troop ships equipped with two double 210mm main guns and 150mm secondary guns. The Xinjiyuan and Xinyangwei, who were responsible for protecting the safety of the two ships, were also equipped with 210mm main guns and 150mm secondary guns.
The Langsu originally thought that he would go up and wave, but not long after the first shot was fired, fires burst out from the four ships opposite, and then a large wave of water splashed around the Langsu and Yoshino and Akitsu.
The picture was played with the artillery battle between the two sides, and the soundtrack "Langligrang, Langligrang" live broadcast room, a group of viewers spoke: What's the soundtrack?
The artillery battle lasted for about an hour, and ships on both sides were shot and caught fire. When the Hiroshi A and Hiroshi B arrived in Beiyang, the Langsu, the Akitsusu and the flagship Yoshino fled with injuries.
Although Guangzhou A and Guangzhou B have changed their boilers, the maximum speed is only 18 knots and they cannot catch up. Besides, the important task is to escort and ensure the safety of maritime traffic lines and troop transport ships, so they did not chase them.
But since the battle started, there was no need to be polite. After completing the troop transport mission, several warships went to the Japanese pirates' troop transport site, and with one artillery, they killed one of the Japanese pirates' troops' troops, and sank two Japanese pirates' troop transport ships and an old frigate. The supplies and artillery of a brigade were also gone.
With such a good war scene, the audience started to set rockets and send flowers, and 666 and others began to flood the screen. Zhang Cheng was also a small gain.
As the picture turned, two fleets on the sea gradually approached, and Zhang Cheng used a baton to introduce the ships of both sides to the audience on the big screen.
On one side are Yoshino, Takachiho, Akitsu, Nasu, Matsushima, Chiyoda, Itsuki, Hashita, and other twelve Japanese pirates.
On the other side are Badayuan and Chaoyong's Ten Ships.
Chapter completed!