While making progress in business, the travelers did not relax their military preparations. After all, Tianjin's territory is still too narrow and the development space is limited. Only by attacking Shandong and establishing a stable base can the traveling group have broad development prospects.

On November 10, the Military Commission recruited the main officers of the crossing army to hold a meeting to discuss the combat plan to attack Shandong. Of course, the main combat plan had been formulated by the General Staff Department, and now it is only announced. I will listen to the opinions of others and add this combat plan to the complete.

On behalf of the General Staff, Xiao Jianjun talked about the plan to attack Shandong to the officers attending the meeting.

The slide projector shows the map of the Shandong Peninsula on the screen. Xiao Jianjun directed the map and said: "According to the combat plan formulated by the General Staff, this battle to attack Shandong will target Weihai and Qingdao. Because these two places are now colonies of Britain and Germany, we will not have conflicts with the Qing court when we capture these two places. At present, we cannot completely break up with the Qing court. In addition, after seizing Weihai and Qingdao, we can also occupy the high-level public opinion, becoming another typical example of propaganda to us to fight imperialism, recover the concession, and safeguard national interests. People at all levels across the country only see that we represent progressive forces, while the Qing court represents backward forces."

At this time, the captain of Yueyang Ship, Wang Hailong, spoke: "Our ultimate goal is to completely occupy Shandong or to only capture Weihai and Qingdao."

Xiao Jianjun said: "Of course, it is to completely occupy Shandong. If only Weihai and Qingdao are captured, then there will be no difference from Tianjin."

Wang Hailong said: "Since we want to completely occupy Shandong, after we capture Weihai and Qingdao, we will attack other places, and sooner or later we will have to break up with Qingjian. What should we do at that time?"

Xiao Jianjun said: "This staff has considered it. First, it is to seize Weihai and Qingdao, which can allow us to gain a foothold in the Shandong region, and then use these two places as bases to expand to the entire Shandong region. Of course, there are many ways to expand together. Military expansion is just one of the means, and it is not a means of proposition."

This remark caused a lot of discussion among the officers. Shang Jinfeng, the captain of the Kunming ship, said: "If military expansion is not the main means, then after we seize the Weihai and Jingdao two places, what means will we use to expand to the entire Shandong province?"

Xiao Jianjun said: "There are two main methods. One is to use rural areas and towns as the barriers and abandon large and medium-sized cities, that is, the "rural surround city" plan in the old time and space. In this way, we can seize actual land and population and obtain real benefits, and leave large and medium-sized cities to the Qing court. On the surface, we can maintain balance, at least in a short period of time, not cause much impact. After we control most of the land in Shandong and the population, it has nothing to do with the Qing court. However, this plan to "surround city in rural areas" mainly relies on rural areas. The working group is mainly based on the agrarian revolution as a means, and military means are only auxiliary and guarantee. Another means is to take the upper-level route, that is, to negotiate directly with the Qing court, requiring us to have the ruling power in the Shandong region. The way of all things can be regardless of it. We were named as the governor of Shandong and controlled Shandong within the framework of the Qing court, or the Qing court directly assigned Shandong to us to manage. The Qing court only had the right to rule in the famous discussion, and no matter how it was managed, it was all we had the calculation. To achieve this plan, military power was only a deterrent force, not a means of implementation of all things."

After hearing Xiao Jianjun's words, the officers discussed for a while, but they had no objection. The general plan to attack Shandong was formulated by the General Staff did take some effort. Although the time traveler established his own administrative agency, customs, set officials, and set tax rates in Tianjin, he ignored the existence of the Qing court. However, these things could only be done in Tianjin. The current time travel group cannot completely break up with the Qing court, so it cannot directly conflict with the Qing court. Although Shandong has two colonies, most of its territory is still directly ruled by the Qing court. At present, the time traveler naturally cannot directly attack the military force of the Qing court. Therefore, the two main means formulated by the General Staff to seize Shandong are the best way now.

Next, Xiao Jianjun said: "When this time I captured Weihai, Qingdao's plan to fight the joint combat is to first form a mixed fleet, dispatch all the crossing ships except the Taihu ship, as well as four captured shallow water gunboats, attack Weihai, and deploy the troops to one Marine Corps battalion and two new military camps. After occupying Weihai, three new military camps were reinforced from Tianjin, and escorted by the other four captured shallow water gunboats; then the fleet led the Marine Corps battalion and a new military camp to attack Qingdao from the sea, leaving a new military camp to guard Weihai, and the other three new military camps attacked Jingdao by land, attacked by sea and land. The entire combat plan was completed within five days, no more than one week at most."

At this time, the picture switched to the map of Weihaiwei. Xiao Jianjun said: "Weihaiwei is located at the easternmost end of the north coast of the Shandong Peninsula. The north and south sides of the harbor are like two arms protruding into the sea, forming a semicircle. Liugong Island is placed in front of it, forming a natural barrier on the sea. There are also islands such as Lianlin Island, Huangdao, Qingdao, and Yashi Island distributed in the sea and become a natural base for coastal defense. The situation is very dangerous. At the beginning of the establishment of the Beiyang Navy, Weihaiwei was regarded as one of the two main naval bases. Qingting built Jian in Weihaiwei. There are a large number of fortifications and a large number of forts on the shore, and there are a group of South Gang Forts, North Gang Forts, and Donghong Forts, Yingmendong Forts, Nanzui Forts, Qishan Forts, and the rear of the offices. There are also Ridao Forts and Huangdao Forts on other islands. There are more than 160 artillery pieces of various types and more than 10,000 permanent defenders. However, everyone knows the result of Weihai Guards. In the last battle of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the result of the Weihai Guards was that the Qing army was completely defeated and the Beiyang Navy was wiped out.

Everyone present heard this and fell silent, because everyone knew the result of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. At this time, Xiao Jianjun continued: "But the current Weihaiwei is certainly not the Weihaiwei before the Sino-Japanese War of 1895. Although Japan returned the Weihaiwei to the Qing court after the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki, the Qing court had not restored most of the Weihaiwei's fortresses. In 1898, the Qing court loaned the Weihaiwei to Britain, but the British leased the Weihaiwei for not long, and its power was mainly in southeast China, and the Weihaiwei was leased. The purpose is only to establish a base in northern China to curb Russia's expansion in northern China, so it only repaired some port facilities, but not much repair of the fort. Now the defense of Weihaigu is mainly based on the land-based South Gang Fort and North Gang Fort, with about twenty artillery guns. Now there are only more than 300 British troops in Weihaigu, most of which are Indian soldiers or Huayong Battalions. There are not many real British troops, and there are only three warships, namely the Edgar-class protective cruiser Endimiong, the torpedo boat destroyer Sturgeon, and the Ray."

Army commander Zhu Yaping said: "What is Huayong Camp? Is it difficult to be an army composed of Chinese people?"

Xiao Jianjun smiled and said, "This is really an army composed of Chinese people. Of course, they are all Chinese recruited by Britain from Hong Kong. This is also a common method used by the British. Recruiting people from colonies to form an army to manage the colonies. It is considered the British version of the British governing the barbarians. In the Eight-Nation Alliance, most of the British teams are actually composed of foreigners, including the Huayong Camp, with about 600 people."

Wang Hailong said: "It's just a traitor army. Don't be polite to them, just treat it as a foreign team."

Xiao Jianjun smiled and then said, "In the Battle of Weihaiwei five years ago, the Japanese army first landed in the Rongcheng area on the tip of the Shandong Peninsula. Within ten days, a total of about 50,000 troops were gathered, and then divided the troops by land to attack the Nangang Forts of Weihaiwei. After capturing the land fort, they used artillery on the fort to bombard the Beiyang Fleet anchored in the port. The joint fleet also launched an attack from the sea and finally won victory. However, the defense of Weihaiwei cannot be the same as five years ago. Of course, our troops are much less than that of the Japanese army at that time. Therefore, we cannot adopt the tactics of the Japanese army, but directly attacked Wei from the North Bank. The Haiwei, first of all, the Kunming ship, Xiangyang ship, and Huaihua ships, are shelling out the forts, and they are also attracting the British guard forces. I will pass the distribution map of the forts to you later. The landing troops took two air hoverboats to land on the flank of the north shore, capture the forts on the north shore, and then covered the two new battalions to land and attack Weihai Acropolis. The fleet eliminated the British ships anchored in the port, and finally captured Liugong Island, so that they would completely occupy Weihai Guard. Yueyang ship and Sanya ship ambushed on the south shore of Weihai Guard. If the British ship escaped, the Yueyang ship and Sanya ship intercepted them. This attack was still carried out at night. This is the combat plan for attacking Weihai Guards."

*** said: "What about Qingdao?"
Chapter completed!