Rebirth of the Northern Giants

With a beeping sound, the torpedo tube suddenly started to move, and under Ye Zhikui's dumbfounded gaze, a torpedo was launched with a kick.

At this moment, he still didn't understand that he was being teased. Ye Zhikui's face darkened, he looked at Xu Zhenpeng expressionlessly, and said with a little anger: "I think, I need an explanation!"

Xu Zhenpeng stood still, with an apologetic expression on his face, and quickly replied: "I'm sorry, my lord, I am really angry. The German fleet has been with us for a day, and they will not leave without giving them a lesson. But if If the torpedo is launched by the lower official himself, our Beiyang Fleet will be punished. If it is an adult who accidentally launches it, all the responsibilities can be passed on to the lower official. I said that the lower official made a mistake in the process of teaching you, so my lord and everyone else can get away with meddling."

Ye Zhikui's expression changed when he heard the words, and he said hastily, "You mean that the torpedo was fired at the German warship."

Xu Zhenpeng nodded, and then sounded the alarm. Deng Shichang was just outside to breathe. When he heard the alarm, he hurried in and asked, "Who sounded the alarm and what happened? Ji Cheng."

Just as Xu Zhenpeng was about to reply, Ye Zhikui took a step forward and said, "Brother Deng, I accidentally launched a torpedo just now, and now I am heading for the German ship 'Mustache'."

Deng Shichang understood Ye Zhikui's character, he knew that what he didn't understand would never mess around, and he saw from Xu Zhenpeng's ashamed face that things would not be so simple, but he didn't blame Xu Zhenpeng, but sighed long , Then his eyes became firm, and he said: "Now that things are like this, no matter how much you say, I will pass on my order immediately, and the whole fleet will disperse one word, and prepare to fight, Ji Cheng, and I will settle the score with you afterwards." I'm busy.

The sudden appearance of the battle formation of the Beiyang Fleet surprised the following German warships, and the first officer on the 'Mustache' ran to the captain and asked: "General, the Beiyang Navy of the Qing Dynasty has changed into a battle formation. Do you want to be more careful?"

Altman flicked the dust on his clothes, took out a cigar and lit it, took a puff, exhaled a smoke ring, and then taught: "My boy, he is still frizzy after following me for so long, as a Excellent naval officers of the empire, we should always maintain the proper demeanor."

Hearing this, the first officer hurriedly straightened his coat and hat, and then said: "The general's lesson is, so let's move on?"

Altman replied without raising his head or blinking his eyes: "Of course, this is just a small trick by Deng Shichang to intimidate us. If we just retreat like this, wouldn't it be that we fell into their trick to let us go?" They laughed?"

Before Altman finished speaking, a soldier came to report profusely with sweat, saying: "My lord, a torpedo suspected to be launched by the enemy ship Dingyuan is found ahead, and it is running towards us."

Hearing this, the first mate took a look through the binoculars, and then reprimanded the sailor: "Why panic? As a soldier of the Empire, you must always maintain your demeanor. This suspected torpedo must not be a torpedo." , This is just a small threat to us by the Qing people, if we are afraid like this, don’t let the Qing people laugh out loud.”

When the sailor heard this, he felt a little relieved, and secretly blamed himself for making too much fuss. Look at our captain—smoking a cigar leisurely, and the first officer—raising his head to look at the blue sky calmly. A small soldier, this is the gap.

Altman nodded approvingly to the first mate, spit out a smoke ring, very satisfied, took the binoculars, looked in that direction, suddenly his face changed drastically, and quickly ordered the sailor: "Quick, pass my order quickly , dodge quickly, the whole ship enters a combat state, this is a torpedo."

The first mate and the soldier, who were still very calm at first, heard the words, and they were all ready to go down. Altman threw the cigar he just lit aside, stomped hard, and then quickly rushed to the captain's cabin, where there was the cigar just now demeanor.

The 'Mustache' was in a hurry, and the sailors inside had never expected that the Dingyuan would suddenly launch a torpedo, and they were not prepared at all, not to mention they did not expect it, even Deng Shichang did not expect it.Fortunately, Ultraman gave the order in time, and the sailors were skilled, so the 'Mustache' just turned a corner to dodge and escaped unharmed. The torpedo exploded not far from the hull, causing huge waves, and Ultraman was frightened I got a cold sweat, if the torpedo hit the ship just now, it would be fine.

Seeing the Beiyang Fleet approaching slowly, Altman hurriedly ordered to flee backwards quickly. Deng Shichang just made a gesture, seeing the German fleet fleeing, and stopped the order to pursue.

The Beiyang officers and soldiers all jumped to the deck to cheer as if they had fought a big battle. Someone had slipped up and said that this torpedo was Lord Ye's masterpiece. Ye Zhikui was carried to the deck by the fanatical sailors and thrown high Go, Ye Zhikui burst into tears in the air, screaming in his heart, let me down, brother has a fear of heights!

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Chapter 71 Intricacies of Information

After the German Far East Fleet was scared away by torpedoes, Altman immediately sent a telegram to fleet commander Dietrich, saying that the Beiyang Fleet of the Qing Dynasty was relatively strong and had two ironclad ships. If the Beiyang Fleet wanted to join the battle, the Far East Fleet would win. Unexpectedly, Altman hopes that the army can occupy Qingdao by force, withstand the attack of the Qing army, and then exert pressure through the Imperial Foreign Office to force the Qing government to cede Jiaozhou. To do this, the Qing government must show some color See, after defeating the strongest army of the Qing government --- Wuyi Army, Altman believes that the Qing government will succumb to the military might of the empire.

After reading the telegram, Dietrich took it for granted and ordered the army to switch from offensive to defensive and take various defensive measures. He believed that as long as he could withstand one or two attacks by the main force of the Qing Dynasty, the whole Qing Dynasty would lose confidence. Then wait for the opportunity to find a fighter, and defeat Wu Yi's army in one fell swoop, and everything will be fine. At that time, I am afraid that the Qing Dynasty will bow down and beg to come to the door for peace talks.

The situation in Shandong is on the verge of breaking out, and a big war is about to break out, which has aroused the eager attention of Chinese and foreign media. From time to time, reporters go north to Jiaozhou Bay to find news.

Nie Shicheng, the governor of Shandong, is an out-and-out traditional literati general. If there is a media visit, they will be kept out because of their busy affairs. It should be in Weihaiwei, Shandong. Weihaiwei is a military base of the Beiyang Navy and is well-defended.It was not so easy for reporters to get in, so a large number of reporters could only wait outside for Ye Zhikui to appear.

Weihaiwei, in the admiral's mansion of the Beiyang Navy, Ye Zhikui is discussing the battle with the generals. Ye Zhikui's 5000 troops have already landed from the warships one after another, stationed in the navy barracks, and after a short rest, they will go to Jimo, the first front line against the German army. .

At this time, Ye Zhikui imitated the approach of the German Army General Staff and set up the Anti-Japanese War Command Center, which was responsible for strategic and tactical research and handling some technical auxiliary services, including logistics, marching, stationing, surveying and mapping, etc.

The members of the Anti-Japanese War Command Center included commanders above the battalion level, the general offices of the various units at the headquarters, and some of Ye Zhikui's staff. Combat policy, as well as various coping strategies of our army.

Nie Shicheng was commanding the Shandong Huai army in Jimo, and did not come to meet Ye Zhikui, while Deng Shichang sent a telegram to the court to report the unexpected situation of the troop transport. Soon he hurried to find Ye Zhikui, and saw Ye Zhikui leisurely. Practicing calligraphy in the study, he couldn't help but praise: "Congyun is worthy of being a famous general in the Anti-Japanese War, and he doesn't worry about the war at all."

Ye Zhikui groaned inwardly, it wasn't that he wasn't worried, but that he left everything to his subordinates, and it was rare for him to have some free time for a while.

Ye Zhikui didn't refute, but asked, "Brother Deng, what's the matter at this late hour?"

When it came to serious business, Deng Shichang immediately changed into a serious expression, and said: "It's like this. I just received a telegram from the Military Aircraft Department and the imperial court ordered our Beiyang Navy to cooperate with the army. I came here to listen to Congyun's opinion. See Let's see how our sailors cooperate."

Ye Zhikui thought for a while, and replied: "Nowadays, according to the strength of the navy, the German Far East Fleet is far from being the enemy of our Beiyang Navy, but firstly, the Navy has to guard against other countries' powers taking advantage of it, and secondly, to preserve its strength. , I have to be patient with the German navy, my younger brother thinks, big brother, you only need to prevent the German Far East Fleet from continuously reinforcing Qingdao, and leave the rest to my younger brother.”

After listening to Ye Zhikui's words, Deng Shichang said with a smile: "In this case, the eldest brother will put the navy on the route from Shanghai to Qingdao, and prevent Germany from adding a single soldier to Qingdao, so that they will run out of ammunition and food. That's right. , Congyun, Ji Cheng has already been demoted by me, I hope you can forgive him for his previous recklessness from Congyun."

Ye Zhikui thought of Xu Zhenpeng, the first officer who caused him to launch a torpedo, and he couldn't help but smiled and said, "Ji Cheng was just out of righteous indignation. How could Cong Yun blame such a loyal and patriotic person? Instead, he was worried that you punished me." It's heavy!"

Ye Zhikui then asked Deng Shichang about the basic situation of the battle in Shandong. Deng Shichang said worriedly: "To this day, Governor Nie has launched three major counterattacks against the German army. Unfortunately, each time they returned with little success. Alas! No! I lamented that the Huai training army had degenerated too quickly, their combat power was too weak, and the imperial court did not pay much attention to them, and the supply of weapons and ammunition was insufficient. It’s really worrying that I haven’t touched a gun.”

Ye Zhikui also knew about these situations. After the Sino-Japanese War, the imperial court concentrated the elite Huai army in the Zhili area in view of the fact that the local regiments were too strong. , and those left in other provinces are troops with not very good combat capabilities.

Although Nie Shicheng is a famous general of his generation, it is a pity that it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. It is impossible for him to greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the Shandong Huai training army within a few months after he has just taken office.

Ye Zhikui discussed with Deng Shichang for a while, and the two talked until late at night before Deng Shichang left Ye Zhikui's room.

But not long after Deng Shichang left, there were three long and two short knocks on the door outside Ye Zhikui's room. Hearing such knocks, Ye Zhikui had to get up in a hurry again, and soon opened the door, only to see a masked man in black standing outside. .

The masked man in black is the person in charge of the Thirteen Eagles Shandong branch. The guards outside Ye Zhikui's room are all members of Thirteen Eagles. As long as he takes out the token, he can easily get in.

As soon as the man in black came in, he removed his mask, revealing a vigorous face, looked at Ye Zhikui eagerly, and saluted, "Subordinate No. [-], see Young Master Ye."

Five represents Shandong within Thirteen Eagles, and Zero One is his code name. From the code name alone, it can be seen that he is the person in charge of Shandong Thirteen Eagles.

Of course Ye Zhikui knew this young-looking person in charge of Shandong, so he couldn't help but smiled and said, "How about it, are you still used to it in Shandong?"

Five Zero One said with a smile: "Thank you, Young Master Ye, everything is fine here, and I'm here to report good news to Young Master Ye. Thirteen Eagles is developing rapidly in Shandong, and the number of core personnel above Nine-Headed Eagles has exceeded five hundred."

The thirteen eagles are marked by eagle ornaments and graded by the number of eagle heads. The more eagle heads, the higher the status. The nine-headed eagle is already regarded as the core staff, and those below the nine-headed are divided into official members and peripheral staff. According to the rules, Zhao Sanduo can be regarded as the outermost member of Thirteen Eagles.

The person in charge of each province is almost a golden token of eleven eagles, the butcher is a twelve-headed eagle, and as for the thirteen-headed eagle, needless to say, it is only in the hands of Ye Zhikui.

Ye Zhikui nodded appreciatively, and then asked, "How about the boxing of Yihe?"

A long time ago, Ye Zhikui received a letter from Nie Shicheng saying that Boxer Boxing appeared in Shandong, and he thought of all kinds of boxers in later generations. He immediately instructed Thirteen Eagles to start infiltrating Boxer Boxing when Boxer Boxing was still in its infancy, and wait for an opportunity to gain control.

80.00 also came here for this purpose, so they had a well-thought-out plan and reported proudly: "Responding to Ye Shao's words, more than 20.00% of the leaders of Boxer Boxers, big and small in Shandong now have our personnel , the remaining [-]% are also infiltrated by our personnel, but the status is not high, and we have not obtained a certain command authority."

After finishing speaking, [-] took out a list from his pocket, handed it to Ye Zhikui and said, "Young Master Ye, this is the only list of our personnel in the Boxer Regiment, please have a look."

After Ye Zhikui took it, he flipped through it briefly, then closed it and said, "Thanks for your hard work, we will continue to infiltrate the Boxer Boxing, to ensure that there are members of us among the top people in every boxing boxing boxing. "

[-] reported to Ye Zhikui some other important information from around Shandong, and finally presented the German defense map that Thirteen Eagles had worked so hard to obtain over the past few days.

When Ye Zhikui saw it, he couldn't hide his inner joy. With this, Wu Yijun had another guarantee of winning.

Ye Zhikui was happy in his heart, and even spoke a lot more briskly. It was not until dawn that [-] quietly retreated.

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I ask for fire support from the brothers, and take a minute to go to Sanjiang Pavilion to help vote for a vote. Xiao Chong is very grateful. Today, I saw a child who voted for 1 update votes. Ah, isn't this obviously cheating me!You put in 12000 words and I still have a chance to complete it.

Chapter 72 The Actions of China and Germany

"Nephew Yunxian, I am happy to hear that my nephew landed in Weihaiwei and will come to help me soon. I am very relieved. I fought fiercely with Germany for several days. I killed more than a dozen enemies and hundreds of people were killed. The German army is strong and strong. The German army received the news that my nephew came to help, and they have turned from offensive to defensive, building military fortresses, the Germans are good at soil work, and the defense is very strict. Holding the telegram sent to him by Nie Shicheng, he remained silent. This was only his second morning in Weihaiwei, which shows how urgent Nie Shicheng was.