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Which Guo is this?

Guo Jinzhang didn't say it, but soon some people in Seattle had guessed the real goal of this guy: the Sandwich Islands! That is, Hawaii, a famous resort and strategic military destination in later generations. An island with a total area of ​​more than 16,000 square kilometers from the United States. It is located in the tropical region and is basically in the Pacific Ocean.

Guo Jinzhang's purpose was obviously to take advantage of the opportunity of transporting Qing troops to occupy Hawaii with the excuse of resting in the middle. In other words, in this premeditated war, the United States will likely occupy Cuba, and Tangzhou will not suffer any losses. He will obtain a territory equivalent to one-sixth of Cuba's area.

Of course, this still needs long-term consideration. After all, the war has not begun yet and is still in the process of planning.

However, since there is a plan, the others will naturally be soon.

Just as Guo Jinzhang said to Li Dongbao, the US government and the Qing court were moved in the face of possible benefits. Although everyone was still very reserved and did not express it directly, they still concealed it, and they still wanted to refuse to show their desire to show their desire, but the heart-to-heart is the heart-to-heart. With this heart-to-heart, the cooperation between the three parties began to become clearer. After almost half a year of entanglement and discussion, finally, in 1886, a secret treaty was signed between China and the United States and Tangzhou.

The treaty stipulates that the Tangzhou government will declare war on Spain instead of the US government and seize Cuba, a Spanish colony in Central America. For this reason, the US government will bear all military expenses. In order to start a war with Spain, Tangzhou can also recruit mercenaries in China and pay "compensation" to the Qing government at a price of five dollars per mercenary...

The entire treaty has hundreds of pages, from the command power of mercenaries and the specific plans for war, to the training of each soldier, almost all regulations were made. It was extremely complicated.

With the signing of the treaty, the war machines between China and the United States also began to take action.

However, such a major event could not be hidden from everyone. Just when the US government sent representatives to negotiate with the Qing court, Britain, France, and Spain, which was targeted by the war, also heard the news vaguely. Britain and France were both nervous about this. Because they were very afraid of the unity of China and the United States. They were even more worried that the goal of these two countries would not be Spain after they joined forces... No one knew better than them what the almost endless population and strong industrial capacity meant after they joined forces. Therefore, both countries issued a solemn warning to China and the United States through diplomatic channels, warning them not to play with fire. Apart from Britain and France, Spain, which was listed as targets by China and France, was even more nervous and worried. As an old colonial power, it is now lonely and can hardly support it in the face of an United States, let alone a China that is comparable to it in terms of strength?

The Spanish government protested against two countries that were conspiring on this matter, and protested very severely, but unfortunately there was no reply. Faced with such a situation, Spain decided to kill the chicken and show the monkey. The Spanish king secretly ordered the governor of Luzon in the Philippines to attack the local Chinese to "shock China's evil attempts"! In order to put pressure on China, the Spanish also deliberately revealed their actions to the Qing court. But they did not expect that when Luzon began to arrest the Chinese on a large scale, two battleships equipped with 305mm caliber main guns suddenly arrived at the port of Manila with two other armored cruisers... The newly established right-wing general of the Beiyang Navy, the Dingyuan ship leader Liu Buchan, directly told the Port of Manila in flag language, "If one Chinese is injured or killed without reason, then all the cannons will be fired, and Luzon will be fully powdered."

At this time, Spain was no longer as strong as before. Although there were warships in the Port of Manila, they were just sailing ships. Although they covered armor, they were far from the opponent of the Beiyang warships in terms of performance and firepower. However, in the face of such a threat, the Spanish Pacific Squadron still chose to fight...

This was a war that no one expected, but the result was already expected.

The Spanish squadron had only one modern battleship of the "Rena Christina" with a displacement of 3,500 tons, and another old wooden ship called "Castilia", and five warships of 500 to 1,100 tons. The fleet needed was simply impossible to defeat the battleship with strong defense and firepower in mobile combat. So soon, they became stepping stones for Liu Buchan and a test piece of the first formation of the Beiyang Navy... They were defeated and surrendered at the cost of almost complete annihilation.

No one expected that before the war between the United States and Spain began, China would have fought a battle with Spain at sea. The result of the naval battle not only made the Spanish frustrated, but also made the Qing Dynasty extremely excited. Li Hongzhang, who insisted on establishing the Beiyang Navy, got rid of the name of cowardly war in the Sino-French war and became a typical example of "being humiliated and burdened".

However, Li Hongzhang was not proud. After learning about the result of the naval battle with the Spanish squadron, he immediately sent Zhou Fu to Tianjin and sent a generous gift to Qian Shide and Liu Tongfu who were hiding in Tianjin. Afterwards, he and Liu Tongfu jointly sent a note to the British minister, demanding that two armored cruisers and frigates, submarines and torpedo boats be ordered to the UK, and hoped that the British Navy could send more instructors to the Beiyang Navy... Afterwards, the British government expressed regret for the sudden "Maritime Battle between China and West" and hoped that the two countries would express restraint. At the same time, he also expressed dissatisfaction with the Spanish government's method of "killing civilians to deter other countries" and called it a barbaric act.

The British's sudden turnaround naturally caught Spain off guard, but there was no way. Without the support of Britain, the French naturally could no longer have any impact on China and the United States. Not to mention the United States, the Chinese had just finished a war with them and suffered losses. Now the main battleship of the Beiyang Fleet has been in place, and they have just easily cleaned up the Spanish squadron. Maybe they were thinking about seeking revenge on them. At this time, they came to the door, and weren't they asking for trouble?

The external interference was eliminated after a naval battle. China and the United States, as well as Tangzhou, began to work hard to revolve around the war against Spain. The Spanish were not to be outdone. They found that the goal of China and the United States was likely to be their own colonial Cuba in Central America. They immediately began to send more troops to Cuba. By early 1887, the total number of troops they stationed in Cuba and other places had exceeded 250,000...

However, Spain was so busy that it sent so many troops to guard its colonies, and China, the United States, and Tangzhou were not in a slightest hurry. The main reason for this was that the "three-party highest military command" that should be established in accordance with the treaty was still unable to be discussed and continued to fight. Until the Spanish troops in Cuba had basically been deployed, the three sides were still arguing.

Such efficiency is naturally extremely unfavorable to the war. However, compared to China, the United States and Tangzhou, the Spaniards are more anxious. Because the deployment of 250,000 troops is really... too expensive!

...

March 1887.

A steamer with the American flag slowly docked at the Seattle port. On the deck of the hull, a group of people with braids were looking at the dock in front of them curiously. While these people were looking at the dock, many people on the dock were also looking at them curiously... Originally, with the trade between Tangzhou and the Qing Dynasty, the activity of military exchanges, and the development of the Vancouver Plain area, more and more Chinese people came to Tangzhou, so there was nothing new about having braids. Even more than half of the people in Seattle still had braids. However, these people on the ship were all wearing "military uniforms". If that was military uniforms... The one that made people laugh the most was two of them wearing bright cotton armor and lightning rods on their heads.

...

“This snow is not small.”

An officer with a slightly fat figure who only wore a top and a casual jacket, reached out to take a snowflake and said calmly.

"I heard that Tangzhou is similar to the Heilongjiang area in the Qing Dynasty. Since that's the case, how can the snow be smaller?" A middle-aged man next to the fat man with a thinner nostrils seemingly upturned. As soon as he finished speaking, the guy wearing yellow striped cotton armor next to him suddenly knocked on the railing on the side of the ship and screamed angrily:

"It's outrageous. Why are there ordinary people on this pier? No officials have been seen? How dare this Tangzhou be so arrogant?"

"That adult, we are now living under someone else's roof. We are here to train for others. Even if we have to go to the battlefield under the command of others in the future, we will naturally not take us seriously." The thinner man just looked at him and snorted coldly.

"Hmph, Lord Liu is on the battlefield, and Na Tong believes that he is not able to win. Unfortunately, this time I am just here to supervise you and others for training, so don't make a mistake." "Nether" looked at the man with disdain and sneered.

"I'm afraid you won't be able to do it then." "Mr. Liu" also sneered.

"Forget it, why are you quarreling?" Another young man wearing all-yellow cotton armor reached out and stopped him in front of the two of them, ignoring Lord Liu, and glared at the "Old Master" with eyes, not eyes, nose, not nose: "What are we here for? What are you doing? What are you majestic now, I have to dress like you... embarrassingly. Let's go back to the cabin with me to exchange the armor."

"What to change?" The adult thought he was embarrassed in this way, but when he heard the other party's words, he became angry. "I'm still wearing this outfit. Back then, my ancestors wore this outfit to build the flower world of the Central Plains and the great reputation of our Yehenara clan. Now, I'll let them see what majesty is!"

"You... are still majestic?" The young man with yellow cotton armor pointed at him and couldn't help laughing and crying, "Okay, if you want to show off, just show off. Anyway, I won't be with you anymore. Don't be embarrassed."

After saying that, he ignored the "adult" and turned around and walked into the cabin. When the admiral saw that he was really leaving, he became anxious and hurriedly reached out to hold him:

"Shouyuan'er, what do I mean? Leave me one?"

"Don't I ask you to go back with me to change it? If you don't go, of course I will only leave you. Could it be that I'm still like you, just like you?" Shouyuan gave him a blank look and asked back.

"Then...then this piece is our storefront. If you train in a military situation, you will naturally have to have a decent set of armor, which is what it is like." The man said.

"You are also called armor?" Shouyuan gave him a blank look, then pulled himself again, and there was a sound of iron leaves. "This is called armor. Iron leaf armor! What's that? Sew two pieces of cloth on it and make it look like leaves, so you dare to call armor?"

"Then, the emperor is wearing this way. The iron leaves are too heavy." The adult was embarrassed.

"The emperor doesn't have to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, but you can't do it. Learn to go up and seek death?" Shouyuan despised him again.

"Then, then we're going back like this, aren't we very embarrassed? Look, we're all watching." The adult pointed to the crowd gathered on the dock, and the companions around him who were aiming at him... At this moment, a middle-aged man with a beard and wearing a military officer's uniform walked over. Seeing the appearance of the two, he frowned:

"Then Tong, Shouyuan'er, what are you two doing?"

"That, that... Lord Rong," Lord Na Tong quickly hugged the other party and said with a wry smile: "Aren't we going to see if Tangzhou has arrived?"

"Etiquette?" Lord Rong walked out of a long robe, Qian Shide, who was leaning on a crutch, and there were three girls around him. However, the old man looked at Tong and Shouyuan with a joking look: "You guys still want etiquette? Let's not talk about you, even if the US president comes, there is no etiquette here!"

"Hey, I'm talking about Mr. Qian. What do you mean?" Na Tong was still a little afraid of Lord Rong, but he didn't care so much about Qian Shide. "Well, when we arrived in your Tangzhou, we were raised by Er Niang? Don't forget. We represent the Qing court. If you don't give us face, you won't give face to the Qing court."

"So what if I don't give it?" Qian Shide looked at him disdainfully and asked back.

"you……"

"Mr. Qian, don't be as good as this indifferent boy." Lord Rong bowed to Qian Shide, and then said to Tong and Shouyuan with a dark face: "Get out quickly, go back to the cabin and replace this outfit for me. If it delays the matter, I will report it carefully to the Queen Mother and the Emperor to know!"

"Yes, yes..." He seemed a little afraid of Lord Rong. When he heard the reprimand, Na Tong and Shouyuan did not dare to argue with Qian Shide anymore, and ran back to the cabin. Looking at the backs of the two, Lord Rong couldn't help but sigh:

“Hey…”

"Mr. Rong, don't sigh. In fact, although that master is a little exaggerated, his mind is quite flexible. Although Mr. Shou's ears are a little soft, his heart is solid and he is not a weak person..." The slightly fat man just now said suddenly when he saw his appearance.

"Hmph, you don't have to choose anything nice to say. I have no successor to my Eight Banners. I understand this, and the Empress Dowager also understands..." Lord Rong snorted coldly, "However, although the Eight Banners are no longer powerful, they are not comparable to anything. It is not so easy to lose my Qing Dynasty."

"I heard that the soldiers and horses in Tangzhou were once trained by British officers and were no longer inferior to those in the world... I just don't know what they can compare to the Frenchman who claimed to be the world's number one." The middle-aged man surnamed Liu, who had not spoken much, snorted coldly and said.

"Haha, I really want to see if their world-class army, which claimed to have lost consecutively to the US army, can be seen in the eyes of Liu Yongfu, the Black Flag Army, who is sharp in the French army in Annan." The slightly fat guy smiled again.

"What's the point of losing the French army? Didn't he lose in the end?" The middle-aged man surnamed Liu sighed, and his eyes flashed with loneliness. He was Liu Yongfu, the general of the Black Flag Army who had fought fiercely with the French army many times in Vietnam. His Black Flag Army was also an uprising army that had been anti-Qing, but later failed the uprising and was forced to enter Vietnam. In the 12th year of Tongzhi, the French invading army attacked Hanoi, Vietnam and other places. At the request of the Vietnamese side, he led the Black Flag Army to fight in joint battles with the Vietnamese army. He defeated the French army in the western suburbs of Hanoi, and killed hundreds of people including the French leader Captain An Ye and others to recover Hanoi. The following year, the Vietnamese king granted him the position of Deputy Admiral of the Three Xuanshu, allowing him to manage the three provinces of Xuanhua, Xinghua and Shanxi. In the ninth year of Guangxu (1883), the French army occupied the northern and southern Ding provinces of Vietnam, in an attempt to regain Hanoi. The following year, the king of Vietnam granted him the position of Deputy Admiral of the Three Xuanshu, allowing him to manage the three provinces of Xuanhua, Xinghua, and Shanxi. In the ninth year of Guangxu (1883), the French army occupied the northern and southern Ding provinces of Vietnam, in an attempt to

Invading Guangxi, he once again led 3,000 troops to fight with the French army in the area of ​​Zhiqiao in the west of Hanoi City. The Black Flag Army won a great victory and killed hundreds of French commanders Li Weiye. The Vietnamese king also appointed him as the first-class baron of volunteers and appointed Admiral Sanxuan. Later, the French army's offensive became stronger and began to harass the southeast coast at sea and attack Taiwan. The Qing court was forced to declare war and grant him the title of registered admiral. He led the Black Flag Army to jointly attack the French army with the Qing army, surrounded Xuan Guang, ambush French reinforcements, and then defeated the French army in Lintao and recovered Guangwei. At the same time, the veteran Feng Zicai also severely damaged the French army at Zhennanguan, fundamentally reversed the war situation and forced the French Ru and Feili cabinet to fall. But he did not expect that the army would win.

During the war, the court ordered a ceasefire and signed a treaty with France, recognizing Vietnam as France's protector. In desperation, he had to lead 3,000 Black Flag Army soldiers back to China. But he did not expect that what awaited him was the court's disarmament order. After some layoffs, there were only 1,200 Black Flag Army left with 3,000 Black Flag Army. He originally thought that this was enough. But the next year the court ordered the sacking of the Black Flag Army again, and then... Before he received the order to come to Tangzhou, the Black Flag Army had been cut to only one tenth of the original, which was only 300 people. Before he got on the ship, he knew that the Black Flag Army had been completely cut by the court. Those people told him that in the future, he would

He is the vanguard of the army and must lead thousands of troops. But how could he not know the truth? There are basically no people available in the court. Letting people like him have experience in battle, one is to save face, and not want to be underestimated by the famous Red Corps; the other is to borrow him to make some military achievements or bring out some strong soldiers; the third is to hope that he will die overseas and never go back. It is not like the Tong just now, and there is also Shouyuan. One is the Yehenara clan, the "elite" selected by Empress Dowager Cixi from the clan, and the other is the emperor's eyeliner, the prince of the Huangqi... That is what the court really values. Take two days of soldiers and go around the battlefield twice, and after returning, you will be valued.

"God is unfair!" Liu Yongfu couldn't help looking at the sky, where there was darkness, only snow floating.

...

The boat finally landed.

When the other passengers got off the boat, Master Rong took a group of people to the boat ladder. Then, they saw the young man in an olive-green military uniform and a large iron box standing behind him... It should be military uniforms. Anyway, Lord Rong and the people he brought had never seen such military uniforms. However, the other party put a banner behind him and made him realize that it was his goal: "Welcome the Qing officers' training group"!

"Trained? No matter how bad I am, I am still an admiral, and I still have to go here to train?" An old man with a bow on his back couldn't help but smile bitterly after seeing the banner.

"Why do you have to do this by Ding Junmen? Are we all the same?" Lord Rong glanced at him and sighed. Just as the two of them sighed that their great officials were about to come to such a small place for training, the young man in an olive green military uniform had already walked over with square steps:

"Who are Yuan Shikai?"
Chapter completed!