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    "What? The Rongdeng Navy mutinied?" Ding Baozhen was surprised when he heard the news. He cleared his throat and asked, "Do you know the reason for the mutiny?" "Return to Mr. Futai, listen up.  Said, it's because of catching the shuttle boat" Mr. Ba replied in a mumble.  "Because of catching the shuttle boat?" Ding Baozhen was stunned.  "Exactly, sir." Cold sweat could not help but flow down the president's forehead, but he did not bother to wipe it off, but quickly replied, "I don't know who told the officers and soldiers of the naval battalion that your Excellency bought it for them.  Ding Baozhen, they said they were useless. You gave them the shuttle boat because you wanted them to die in vain" "These bastards!" Ding Baozhen couldn't help but became furious after hearing what the boss said.  He slapped the table and stood up, shocking the master.  "How come you will die if you use a small steamer? Isn't that what they originally used? Isn't it good?" Ding Baozhen said angrily, "It's nonsense! They want to use a small steamer just to make money! So they did it  It's really deplorable to have such a mutiny happen!" "Sir, could it be that the officers and soldiers of the Navy Battalion got some news?" Master reminded Ding Baozhen from the side.  "What other news did they get?" Ding Baozhen turned his head and glanced at the master. He seemed to have remembered something, and a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes.  "My lord, do you still remember the excerpt from Peng Chuhan?" Master asked Ding Baozhen cautiously.  Hearing the name of Xiamen Navy Admiral Peng Chuhan, Ding Baozhen was shocked, and the anger he felt just now disappeared instantly.  "You guys go down first!" Ding Baozhen waved his hand.  The two masters and the general bowed and left. Ding Baozhen sat in front of the desk, frowning and thinking deeply.  He is now able to confirm that someone must have excerpted the contents of Peng Chuhan.  Revealed to Rongcheng Naval Battalion and Dengzhou Naval Battalion!  Otherwise, they would never say "die in vain"!  Ding Baozhen couldn't help but shudder when he thought of the "every word of blood and tears" in Peng Chuhan's book.  During the Japanese naval attack on Xiamen, Peng Chuhan led the Xiamen Navy to resist bravely, but the wooden sailboat was defeated by the steam warship.  Although equipped with new breech-loaded artillery, the fate of the entire army was still inevitable.  In this battle, Xiamen Navy officers and soldiers suffered heavy casualties. Peng Chuhan was also seriously injured, but luckily survived.  After the Battle of Taiwan, Peng Chuhan, who was the admiral of the Xiamen Navy, wrote to the court, lamenting the long-standing shortcomings of the old Navy.  As well as the bloody lessons of the Xiamen naval battle, it was said that the existing wooden sailing ships of the Navy were "very fragile, equipped with very few guns, and were slow in speed. If they are used to face the enemy, they will not be able to defeat one out of ten."  "Every time the enemy ship fires a cannon, one of our ships will be destroyed." "Use wooden ships like this to compete with the enemy's iron ships on the sea and let the enemy slaughter them. They will only lose their lives and have no use." He strongly recommended that the imperial court "great flood master"  , all old wooden sailing ships in the navy across the country were abolished.  Changed to a new steam warship.  This excerpt written by Peng Chuhan can be said to be filled with tears every word, shocking both the government and the public.  Although Ding Baozhen and many Qing gossip officials wrote a letter accusing Peng Chuhan of "covering up his mistakes with clever words" and "exaggerating and concealing his defeat", Peng Chuhan's suggestions were still adopted by the court.  The imperial court later issued an "Edict to determine the country", which stipulated that the Navy would no longer build wooden sailing ships and gradually replace them with new steam warships. It can be said that Peng Chuhan's policy had a great influence.  And now, the Rongcheng Naval Battalion and the Dengzhou Naval Battalion actually knew the contents of this document and mutinied based on it. How could he not be extremely surprised!     So.  Who on earth used the contents of Peng Chuhan's excerpts to instigate the officers and soldiers of the Navy?  As he was thinking about it, Ding Baozhen¡¯s heart suddenly skipped a beat, and sparks flashed in his mind!  The Beiyang Navy controlled by Li Hongzhang is now training in Weihai Bay!  Due to the shortage of sailors in the Beiyang Navy, Li Hongzhang recruited many sailors from Rongcheng and Dengzhou in Shandong to enrich the Beiyang Navy.  Could it be that Li Hongzhang sent someone to deliver the news to Rongcheng Navy and Dengzhou Navy?  Reminiscent of Li Hongzhang¡¯s original proposal to merge the Rongdeng Navy and the Beiyang Navy.  As well as the close relationship between Li Hongzhang and Lin Yizhe, Ding Baozhen couldn't help but sneered.  "Li Shaoquan, Li Shaoquan! If you really did this thing, then you are so unreasonable!" "You want to engulf Rongdeng Navy, your wishful thinking is too loud! I just don't  Make your wish come true!" After Ding Baozhen thought about it, he immediately took out a pen and paper and drafted a warrant for the Shandong Admiral Luying to immediately suppress the mutiny of Rongdeng Navy.  A week later, we arrived in Dengzhou, the naval camp.  On the shore not far away, several sailing boats that had been towed ashore had turned into a pile of charcoal and were still emitting black smoke.  In front of the camp, there were piles of sandbags everywhere, and behind the sandbags were teams of decorated naval officers and soldiers.Holding a slender front-loaded shotgun, staring straight ahead.  On a field in the camp, there were more than twenty corpses covered with white cloth neatly stacked. These dead people obviously belonged to the Navy camp.  In front of the sandbags, there are about forty or fifty corpses lying in a scattered pile. They are lying down or lying down. Many of them are mutilated and have obviously been hacked by knives and axes. There are also many corpses that are complete, but there are  There were a lot of bloody holes, and it was obvious that someone had been shot.  About three hundred meters opposite these corpses were the officers and soldiers of the green battalion. Although each of them was gesturing with swords and guns and looking menacing, their faces could not help but show panic and exhaustion.  "Commander Wang! Your naval battalion is rebelling! I advise you not to persist in your stubbornness! Otherwise, be careful not to die without a burial place!" Li Chenglin, the admiral of the green battalion, looked at the officers and soldiers of the naval battalion who were waiting in formation on the opposite side, and then at those who were still risking their lives.  The burned-out sailing boat, which was covered in thick smoke, sighed and yelled loudly.  "Commander Wang! Your naval battalion is rebelling! I advise you not to persist in your stubbornness! Otherwise, be careful not to die without a burial place!" Li Chenglin, the admiral of the green battalion, looked at the officers and soldiers of the naval battalion who were waiting in formation on the opposite side, and then at those who were still risking their lives.  The burned-out sailing boat, which was covered in thick smoke, sighed and shouted loudly.  "You surnamed Li! You damn young man and I are doing this! I and my brothers are going to risk it all! Both the left and right will die. If you don't die here, you will die at sea! It doesn't matter, gentlemen!" A hoarse voice from the opposite side said.  Come, Li Chenglin heard clearly that the person speaking was Zhang Zongchuan, the commander of the Dengzhou Naval Battalion.  "What do you have to say? Please make it clear to Mr. Ding of Futai! Mr. Ding will definitely make the decision for you! You are causing chaos and burning the boats, and you are not persuaded to surrender. This is a capital crime!" Li Chenglin shouted  He said, "Listen to what I say. Put down your weapons quickly and be captured without a fight. Maybe there is still a way to survive!" "Get out of here, you bastard! Ding Futai will make the decision for us? Who doesn't know what these damn boat drivers are?"  Did his surname Ding make it? The imperial court had issued an order to abolish these shabby wooden ships and allocate them to new steamships. Why did Ding Futai openly disobey the order and give us these shabby ships?  Didn't it kill people? Didn't the Xiamen Navy and the Penghu Navy just go to sea in these broken boats and be wiped out by the Japanese pirates? He surnamed Ding wants to save money for the court, brother, I can't control it, but he wants us to pay for it.  Don¡¯t even think about risking your life!¡± After listening to Zhang Zongchuan¡¯s words.  The officers and soldiers of the naval camp immediately started making noises loudly.  "Yes! We don't want to lose our lives in vain!" "We want steamships!" "Even the pirates can't catch up with this broken wooden ship. The pirates burned four of them last time they went to sea! It's not like Ding Futai doesn't know why.  Are you saying that he is blind when you give us these useless things?" "You give us a broken wooden boat without paying any money, and let us lose our lives in vain." "Ding Futai took advantage of us!  It¡¯s okay to be a dog! We¡¯re just here to get food! He wants us to give up our lives for nothing!¡± Listen to the officers and soldiers of the naval camp on the other side.  Li Chenglin's face turned red and white, but he couldn't find a word to refute.  "Li! It's not difficult for you! You go back and tell Ding Futai! When will you change all our ships to steamers? Pay us the wages we owe, and we will continue to work! If he doesn't agree for one day, we will  Just spend the whole day with him!" Hearing Zhang Zongchuan's words, Li Chenglin cried out again in his heart.  He doesn't know what to do now.  After receiving Ding Baozhen¡¯s order, Li Chenglin mobilized his troops and went to the Dengzhou Navy Camp to suppress the mutiny.  What he didn't expect was that the officers and soldiers of the naval battalion were already agitated.  He didn't listen to the greeting at all, and actually set fire to the navy warship parked on the shore for repairs. Li Chenglin ordered his Green Battalion soldiers to suppress it and shot and killed several navy battalion soldiers on the spot. He thought that this would deter the navy battalion.  mutinous officers and soldiers.  However, they did not expect that the officers and soldiers of the navy battalion were furious when they saw this. They rushed up with knives and started to chop at the green battalion soldiers. The green battalion soldiers had been in peace for a long time and were not used to fighting formations. They were caught off guard and were chopped down on the spot.  Killing more than ten people, the officers and soldiers of the Navy Battalion also took shotguns and fired at the Green Battalion soldiers. After this melee, the Green Battalion soldiers who came to suppress not only killed more than 40 people and injured more than 60 people, but also  He was expelled from the camp by the officers and soldiers of the Navy Battalion!  Thinking that his prestige as a land admiral had been ruined, Li Chenglin was extremely annoyed, but he couldn't imagine that the two sides were now confronting each other in front of the camp.  "It's no wonder that Li Chenglin is at a loss what to do, because the current Green Camp soldiers are really bad.  The green camp soldiers were originally one of the standing troops of the Qing Dynasty.  The Qing court in the early years of ShunzhiIn the process of unifying the country, the Ming army and other Han soldiers who will be recruited refer to the old system of the Ming army and are organized with the battalion as the basic unit, with the green flag as the symbol, called the green battalion, also known as the green flag soldier.  During the Qing Dynasty, the total number of green battalion soldiers in the country increased and decreased. Before Xianfeng, it was about 600,000, which was three to four times more than the Eight Banners soldiers.  Before the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the Green Camp was still called the elite.  However, as time went by, the business became slack and corrupt.  Since the suppression of the Sichuan-Chu White Lotus Sect uprising in the early years of Jiaqing, it had been unable to effectively suppress the Taiping Army in the Xianfeng period. It had suffered repeated defeats and lost its role as a standing army. The Green Camp system only remained in name only.  It is actually not surprising that the Shandong Green Camp soldiers under Li Chenglin were able to defeat the officers and soldiers of the Navy Battalion like this.  The Rongdeng navy, which also belongs to the Green Camp system, is actually very bad, with extremely poor combat effectiveness. However, many of them are pirates who were recruited and are fierce and aggressive. This time they are fighting for their lives again, so they actually burst out with a powerful force.  With his fighting power, he was able to defeat the green soldiers who came to suppress them with less.  Li Chenglin had no choice but to arrange for someone to report back to Ding Baozhen, asking him to find a solution quickly. He really had no solution at all.  In the naval camp over there, Zhang Zongchuan was also uneasy.  Because he doesn¡¯t know how this matter will end.  All his hopes now are pinned on Beiyang.  After all, this is what happened.  I got the news from Beiyang!  "Sir! Look! There's a foreign ship coming over there!" A soldier reminded Zhang Zongchuan.  Zhang Zongchuan was shocked and quickly took out his telescope (monocular) and looked towards the sea.  Sure enough, a small smoking black spot appeared on the blue sea.  Zhang Zongchuan stared at the black spot, which grew bigger little by little in the telescope.  Finally, a British cruiser appeared.  And on the mast of this British cruiser, a huge golden dragon flag with a red background was fluttering in the wind.  Zhang Zongchuan knew the identity of the cruiser without looking at the cruiser's hull nameplate.  The "Princess Heshuo" of the Beiyang Navy!  Because whether it is the Shipbuilding Navy or the Beiyang Navy, the steam warships owned are all French-style and British-style warships.  This is the only one!  "It's the ship of the Beiyang Navy." Zhang Zongchuan said, still staring at the telescope.  "A ship from the Beiyang Navy? Are they coming to suppress us?" A soldier asked in panic.  "It's hard to say." Although Zhang Zongchuan breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he deliberately sounded panicked.  "What should we do?" a boss asked with a sad face.  "Commander Ding is on board." Zhang Zongchuan said calmly. Just now he had seen the flag of Ding Ruchang, commander of the Beiyang Navy.  In China today, there are only three naval divisions: Shipping, Beiyang, and Nanyang that have steam warships, because of the imperial system.  Only the Fujian Navy (i.e. the Xiamen Navy), the Guangdong Navy and the Yangtze River Navy have admirals, while the rest of the navy only have commanders, including the Shipping Administration, Beiyang and Nanyang.  It's just because the Beiyang Navy and the Shipbuilding Navy are the strongest at present, and the leaders of these two naval forces all have the rank of admiral.  The current commander of the Beiyang Navy is Ding Ruchang, and the naval admiral of the Beiyang Navy is Bei Jinquan.  "Commander Ding is a kind man, he is here. We will be fine!" When Zhang Zongchuan said that Ding Ruchang, commander of the Beiyang Navy, was here, some Dengzhou Navy officers and soldiers showed joy on their faces.  Ding Ruchang, whose courtesy name was Yuting and whose name was Zhang, was from Lujiang, Anhui.  After joining the Huai Army, he was initially assigned to the Yangtze River Navy.  In 1874, Li Hongzhang founded the Beiyang Navy and transferred him to Zhili to serve.  Ding Ruchang was sincere and amiable, and was highly respected by his subordinates. At this time, they learned that it was Ding Ruchang who came to suppress him, not the "cruel official" Ding Baozhen.  The officers and soldiers of the naval battalion were naturally overjoyed.  At this time, opposite the naval camp, Li Chenglin also noticed the appearance of the "Heshuo Princess".  "Their Beiyang Navy arrived at the right time!" Li Chenglin also recognized Ding Ruchang's flag on the "Princess Heshuo" and said angrily.  Soon, the "Heshuo Princess" approached the shore.  Several small boats were launched, and the small boats were filled with red-coated sailors with loaded guns and ammunition.  The military system and training of the Beiyang Navy are completely based on the model of the Shipbuilding Navy. The weapons and training are all French-style, and the instructors are also French active-duty officers.  Due to the outstanding performance of the shipbuilding navy in the battle against the Japanese in Taiwan, which was in sharp contrast to the sluggishness of the Huai army, Li Hongzhang realized that his Huai army was no longer enough and needed to organize and train new armies. Therefore, under Lin Yizhe's  With the advice and help of the Beiyang Navy, the Beiyang Navy was established within the framework of the Beiyang Navy. The system and training were fully modeled on the Shipbuilding Navy. In order to quickly form the Beiyang Army, Lin Yizhe specially selected 500 non-Fujian Shipbuilding Marines.Assigned to Li Hongzhang as the foundation of Beiyang's navy, Beiyang had an elite land force in a short period of time.  Not long after, the Beiyang Marines came ashore one after another. The number was about 200, which was far less than the Shandong Green Camp soldiers brought by Rongdeng Navy and Li Chenglin. However, intimidated by the reputation of the Navy, both sides watched the Beiyang Marines landing and did not dare to do anything.  Any action.  In addition to fearing the powerful combat effectiveness of the Beiyang Navy, the cruiser on the sea was also the reason why they did not dare to act rashly.  The "Princess Heshuo" has participated in the Battle of Langjiao and the Battle of the East China Sea. Its glorious achievements have long been spread throughout the country and abroad through famous newspapers such as "Dianshizhai Pictorial", "Global Gazette" and "Shenbao". Faced with such a situation  This is a prestigious battleship, and the navy and Shandong Green Camp soldiers will never dare to offend its sharpness.  When Li Chenglin saw the arrival of the "Heshuo Princess", he thought that the Beiyang Navy was here to "help" him suppress the Rongdeng Navy's mutiny. He saw the Beiyang Navy soldiers getting off the boat and wading ashore, thinking that Ding Ruchang was among them.  , was about to take someone to meet him, but when he saw that the person coming off the boat was not Ding Ruchang, but another person who exuded a strong murderous aura, he couldn't help but subconsciously stopped.  Wearing a big cloak, this man jumped out of the boat and walked slowly ashore. Beside him, a strong Beiyang marine soldier was holding a huge black and yellow giant dog.  Seeing this huge Chinese pastoral dog, Li Chenglin's heart suddenly shrank.  The giant dog seemed to feel the strange atmosphere on the shore, and all the muscles in its body tightened. It wanted to jump to the shore, and let out waves of low roars.  He recognized the man's identity.  This person is Deng Shichang, the steward of the "Heshuo Princess", and the giant dog next to him is the famous "Sun" dog!  Deng Shichang stood on the beach, his eyes slowly swept across the bodies in front of the naval camp, and finally landed on the burned ships on the shore in the distance.  Looking at the still smoking wreckage of the wooden boat, Deng Shichang's thick eyebrows gradually tightened.  "Ask them to open the door." Deng Shichang said in a deep voice.  At that moment, two Beiyang navy soldiers came forward to shout, and after a while, the door of the naval camp opened.  Deng Shichang stroked the hilt of the saber at his waist and strode over. The Beiyang sailors beside him each held rifles with bayonets attached, formed a battle formation, and protected Deng Shichang as he walked towards the gate of the naval camp.  .  PS: Please collect it!  Please recommend!  Please subscribe!  Please click!  Asking for a monthly ticket!
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