Hosted by Hutou Mountain, the sound of waves accompanied me to sleep, the monsters looked at me with great vigor and looked at me with awe. [./The text is first released, I am used to hearing the sound of gulls, staring at the vast sea, who dares to invade?

Lu Island has beautiful scenery, rippling blue waves and shining rays. This is Xiamen, Fujian, one of the key military ports built in the Navy Plan of the Republic of China.

The Ming Dynasty belonged to Quanzhou Prefecture. In the 20th year of Hongwu, the "Xiamen City" was built - meaning the gate of the national building. The name "Xiamen" has been included in history since then. In the 7th year of Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty, Zheng Chenggong stationed troops in Xiamen, and Siming Prefecture was established in the 12th year; in the 19th year of Kangxi, Taixia Army was established in the 23rd year of Kangxi, and Daoyin stationed in Taiwan, and the Daoyin was stationed in Taiwan. In the 25th year of Quanzhou Prefecture, the defense department was established. In the 5th year of Yongzheng, Xingquan Road was moved from Quanzhou to Xiamen. In the 29th year of Guangxu, Gulangyu, Xiamen became a "public concession". In April of the first year of the Republic of China, Jiaheli and Kinmen of Tong'an County were analyzed, and Siming County was established in large and small. On April 28, the Siming County Government was officially established and affiliated with the Fujian Military Government. In September, Siming Prefecture was promoted to Siming Prefecture and was abolished.

During the short war of unification in 1915, the Kuomintang, which occupied Fujian, was almost unreachable, was called on national justice, except for a very small number of unwilling radical revolutionaries who left overseas, the vast majority of the rest accepted the unification order from the central government of the Republic of China and stopped resisting. In March of the same year, Xiamen was re-introduced into the notice of the Republic of China. In June, Kinmen County was set up in the big and small roads, and Xiamen Road was established in July.

In early 1916, the Republic of China launched a campaign to abolish the great powers' concessions in China. At that time, European and American powers devoted themselves to the European war and were unwilling to offend the Republic of China too much, so they took the initiative to make concessions and agreed to negotiate the return of the Gulangyu Public Concessions to the Republic of China. In November of that year, with the great victory over the Russian Far East Army, after the Republic of China abolished the Gulangyu Public Concessions, more than 700,000 yuan was allocated in three years to build the Xiamen Military Port. By the beginning of 2019, after several years of construction, it had become one of the important military ports of the Navy of the Republic of China. It was also one of the three major naval submarine bases of the Republic of China. Admiral Cheng Biguang, one of the five major generals of the Navy of the Republic of China, was the commander-in-chief of the Xiamen Military Port and the deputy commander-in-chief of the Navy of the Republic of China.

Being appointed by Li Han as the deputy commander-in-chief of the secret underwater armed force submarine, it can be seen how favored Cheng Biguang is. In fact, he is indeed an extraordinary person. He was born in a peasant family. His father Cheng Peifang was doing business in the Americas. He died of illness in Honolulu in 1871. Biguang carried the coffin back home. In 1872, he had no choice but to make a living and defected to his brother-in-law Lu Yunshan. At that time, the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau had just made the "Jingyuan" gunship, led by Lu Yunshan. Lu Yunshan ordered Cheng Biguang to learn nautical skills.

In 1875, Cheng Biguang was admitted to Fuzhou Naval Academy and studied navigation and driving. After graduation, he was a trainee of the "Yangwu" ship. Later, he served as a trainee of the Nanyang Navy's "Chaowu" gunship, "Yuankai" gunship, Fujian Navy's School, and Guangdong Navy's "Guangjia" Clippers. He was promoted to the Ministry of Education and promoted to the "Guangbing" ship's "Guangbing".

In May 1894, the Qing court reviewed the navy for the second time. Yu Xiongfei, the registered general of the Guangdong Navy, took the three ships "Guangjia", "Guangyi", and "Guangyi" to Beiyang to meet the exercise. During the exercise, "the three ships in Guangdong drove along the way to practice the ship formation, changing neatly, geese were fishing and manipulating freely", and "the target was also more than 70%". After the meeting, the situation in North Korea became increasingly tense, and Cheng Biguang wrote a letter to Li Hongzhang, requesting to stay in Beiyang to prepare for war. Li Hongzhang adopted this proposal. The two ships in Guangyi and Guangjia returned to Guangdong to deliver the lychees for the year, and they also stayed in Beiyang. Therefore, all the three ships in Guangdong were incorporated into the Beiyang Navy.

On July 25, the Japanese Navy launched a war on the sea near Fengdao. On September 17, the main force of the Beiyang Navy encountered the Japanese joint fleet in the Yellow Sea and started a war. At that time, "Guang Bing" was in a port. At 12:50 noon, Cheng Biguang commanded the "Guang Bing" ship to the battlefield at 1:30 pm to start fighting. At 2:40 pm, "Guang Bing" fired a shelling wound the Japanese ship "Xijing Maru", which triggered a fire. The "Fulong" torpedo boat took the opportunity to launch two torpedoes. At that time, Lieutenant General Shiki Kawayama, was riding on the "Xijing Maru". He thought "I'm done," but he was waiting for death. Unfortunately, both torpedoes were not hit and escaped by chance. During the naval battle, Cheng Biguang was hit by shrapnel in his abdomen and stained his underwear with blood.

On January 30, 1895, the Japanese army began to attack Weihaiwei, and then the Beiyang Navy was trapped in Weihaiwei Port. On February 11, Admiral Ding Ruchang and Yang Yonglin, the "Zhenyuan" manager of the Left-wing General Office, both refused to surrender and committed suicide. Some foreign personnel and Weihaiwei Battalion Office introduced Niu Changbing and others to discuss the surrender, and decided that the American foreign personnel Haowei drafted a surrender letter and begged for surrender to the enemy in the name of Ding Ruchang. On the 12th, Cheng Biguang took the "Zhenbei" gunboat to hand over the surrender letter to the Japanese flagship. On the 17th, the Japanese army entered Liugong Island, and the Beiyang Navy was wiped out.

After the war, Cheng Biguang was dismissed and returned to his hometown. His younger brother Kui Guang was the ship manager of the Guangdong navy "Zhentao" at that time. Because of his relationship with Sun Yat-sen, he joined the Xingzhonghui in Guangzhou. After Cheng Biguang returned home, he was persuaded by Sun Yat-sen and his brother, and agreed to join the association. In October 1895, the plan for the Xingzhonghui Uprising was leaked, and Cheng Biguang fled to Penang Island in the South Ocean. In 1896, Li Hongzhang went on an envoy to Europe. When he passed by Penang Island, Cheng Biguang visited him. Li Hongzhang advised him to return to his country and asked him to avoid the responsibility of the entire army being wiped out during the Sino-Japanese War of 1895.

Cheng Biguang returned to his country and served in the navy. Later, he served as the chief of the warship, the chief of the Shipment Administration, and the commander of the cruiser fleet. He once led the cruiser Haiqi to the UK to attend the British crown ceremony. Later, due to the large-scale anti-Chinese incidents in Cuba and Mexico, Cheng Sui visited Cuba, and the local Chinese welcomed him warmly. The Cuban president was frightened by the military power of the Haiqi ship, so he had to say to Cheng Biguang: "The Cuban military and civilians will never discriminate against overseas Chinese." Haiqi was anchored in Cuba and planned to visit Mexico after rest. The Mexican government apologized to the Qing government for the anti-Chinese incident and paid for the loss of life and property of the victims. The Chinese ship cancelled the visit. Cheng Biguang conducted a successful gunboat diplomacy during his voyage.

During the Beiyang government, he lived in Shanghai. However, Yuan was very worried about his living in the south. In the spring of 1913, Yuan sent a member to invite him to Beijing and hired him as a senior naval consultant, and then appointed him as the commander of the Grand Marshal of the Army and Navy. Cheng Biguang was not proud of his life in Beijing. Yuan Shikai was not satisfied with his respect for him on the surface, but he was not relieved. He secretly arranged to supervise his every move, which made him completely stay away from his beloved navy. In 1914, after Yuan Shikai was assassinated and died in the National Protection War, Li Han, a powerful man entrenched in the southwest and Yangtze River Basin, took advantage of the situation to compete for the Central Plains. After successfully entering the center, although the people who supervised Cheng Biguang were missing, Cheng Biguang's situation did not improve much, because although he had resumed his military position at that time, he became a short general.

During Li Han's administration, the Republic of China adhered to the policy of strengthening the army and weakening the navy. For a long time, the state's funds and resources were tilted towards the army. Although Cheng Biguang repeatedly stated that he had written a letter to the Navy Department and even wrote a letter to the Presidential Palace, he still failed to change this situation. For this reason, he was once sad and desperate, believing that the Navy of the Republic of China would never rise again. Just when he was about to resign from his public office and go home to retire, his love for the navy moved Li Han.

Since he met him and analyzed in detail the internal and external environment that he had to face in the Republic of China at that time, he begged him to take office as the commander-in-chief of the Xiamen Military Port, who was already planning in the Republic of China at that time. In name, he only had a light cruiser with a displacement of 2,000 tons and several gunboats. He was a small fleet commander who could only clear out pirates. In secret, Xiamen Military Port built many submarine caves, and he even had the largest underwater fleet in the Republic of China.

"It's almost time!"

Cheng Biguang took out his pocket watch, looked at the time and muttered to himself. The underwater fleet in his hand had been divided into three units last night. One rushed to Keelung overnight and another southbound submarine force attacked Keelung military port. The other was responsible for sneaking into the Japanese fleet stationed in the Penghu Islands. There was an old battleship, and the last one was responsible for sneaking into several Japanese light cruisers and destroyers stationed in Kaohsiung and Tainan.

"I don't need to talk about the importance of your mission this time anymore. The President's instructions and hope for our navy to rise will be all on you!"

Suddenly, the president's advice from not long ago appeared in his mind. In the past few days, he closed his eyes and saw the remains of the warriors who would rather die than surrender in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895. A tear was squeezed out from the corner of his eyes, which was a tear of excitement and excitement. Now that the Republic of China is newly established, under the wise leadership of the young and promising president, the Republic of China is booming, and China's rejuvenation is in a great momentum to return to the world's powerful country.

Cheng Biguang was a soldier and was more willing to use the growth of national defense power to measure whether the country rose and whether it was strong. In the late Qing Dynasty, although this country was also known to have millions of troops. However, except for the Eight Banners Army that had empty salary, the Green Camp Army and patrol battalions from all over the country, there were only more than 200,000 new troops who could fight. Relying on such a little armed force, not to mention defending the enemy's gates, you can't even defend your home.

Now, after the expansion of the army in the Republic of China over the past few years, the total size of the defense army in the Republic of China has approached 3.5 million. Although most of them are new recruits, there are nearly 1.8 million soldiers who have been fully trained for more than two years after joining the army. They have participated in military conflicts and wars such as Sino-Japanese, Sino-Russia, and cleared out horse, bandits, and bandits from all over the country. With various types of artillery, the defense system of the Republic of China has been initially established. Although it is still a bit nervous to use these forces to protect the world's second largest country. However, as long as the Republic of China wins this Sino-Japanese War, it will surely usher in a longer-term development opportunity!

As for the Navy...

He didn't think about this problem. Although he had also accumulated a lot of experience by relying on producers and merchant ships in the past few years of the Republic of China, the shipbuilding industry was not as bad as the great powers, and the Shanghai army had less military expenditure. It was impossible to build a strong navy without twenty or thirty years.

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