After controlling the entire Beiyang Navy headquarters, Zhang Shanlin divided more than a thousand prisoners into three, and held senior officers of the management and leadership category alone, lower-level officers were detained alone, and then ordinary officers and soldiers.

After that, Zhang Shanlin first walked into the room of more than 100 officers on the lower floor.

At this time, Zhang Shanlin had only one purpose to recruit soldiers and mobilize these prisoners to join the Liaodong Army.

For these officers, they would definitely not be able to say anything in general. So Zhang Shanlin made three promises to them as soon as he came up.

"As long as everyone is willing to join the Liaodong Army, the Liaodong Army promises to bring all their families outside the pass within one month!"

"After the establishment of the Liaodong Army Naval Fleet, the military pay of naval officers and soldiers will be increased by 20% on the basis of the imperial court, and it will be guaranteed to be paid in full. In addition, the Liaodong Army will never deduct the maintenance and maintenance costs of the navy, and will strive to purchase at least one ship to the navy every year."

"The third and most important thing is that the Liaodong Navy is inaugurated and lacks a large number of officers. As long as you have the ability, you are willing to join the Liaodong Army. Maybe it won't take long for everyone to be promoted. If you are lucky, it is possible to be promoted directly to a ship's pipe!"

"Brothers, the opportunity is right in front of you, I hope everyone can seize it."

"If you join the Liaodong Army and find that we have not fulfilled our promise, you can leave at any time, and our Liaodong Army will never stop you. Besides, you are the navy, and if you really want to leave, no one can stop you.

The high military pay brought the family outside the pass, and Zhang Shanlin drew a big pie for them, and every word came to the hearts of these officers.

At this time, many people were moved. However, without anyone taking the lead, these people had a last bit of hesitation on their faces.

Zhang Shanlin, who saw the situation, continued: "I know everyone is afraid that as soon as they joined the Liaodong Army, the Liaodong Army would be wiped out by the court. After all, the Liaodong Army is still wearing the hat of a rebel."

"What I want to tell you here is that if our Liaodong army can destroy the Beiyang Army, which is stationed in Fengtian, will have the strength to eliminate the imperial official army that is attacking the three eastern provinces."

"Take the battle here as an example. After you are captured, the ships that you docked at the dock will definitely not escape. In this way, the two imperial court officials who were escorted by you will fall into a desperate situation and cannot leave here and will eventually be wiped out by us!"

"Everyone is an officer. Even if you don't understand the current situation of the court, you have heard of it. With the current strength of the court, you will lose more than a dozen ships of the Beiyang Navy and lose a few towns of army. Do you still have the capital to continue attacking our Liaodong Army!"

"In the words of our commander, the decisive battle will end in at most ten days. The grudges between our Liaodong Army and the court can only be resolved through negotiations in the end. The result of the negotiations is that the court recognizes that our Liaodong Army occupy the entire three eastern provinces."

"I'll give you five minutes to think. In five minutes, we welcome you to join the Liaodong Army. Those who are unwilling to join the Liaodong Army do not have to worry too much. We will use you to change the families of many of your brothers from the court to outside the pass."

After giving everyone a reassurance that the Liaodong Army will win and the imperial court will compromise, more than 130 lower-level officers, in the end, more than 80 were willing to join the Liaodong Army.

On the one hand, it was because the price offered by the Liaodong Army made them very satisfied, and on the other hand, it was because the court's attitude towards the navy was so disappointing, which made them feel that there was no future if they continued to stay in the Beiyang Navy.

Compared with officers who value future and development more, ordinary officers and soldiers value military pay and immediate interests the most.

When he heard Zhang Shanlin guaranteeing that everyone would increase their military pay by 20% and all paid in full after joining the Liaodong Army, many officers and soldiers' eyes lit up suddenly, especially after seeing that the Liaodong Army mobilized more than 80 officers to join.

Nearly a thousand ordinary officers and soldiers of the Beiyang Navy, except for a few Manchus who were still loyal to the court, more than 80% of the officers and soldiers all agreed to join the Liaodong Army.

With the help of these officers and ordinary officers and soldiers who agreed to join the Liaodong Army, the Special Forces Detachment easily boarded ships without any warning and then controlled a total of 13 large and small ships.

After the telegram was sent to Yang Xingguo's hands, Yang Xingguo first breathed a sigh of relief, and then his eyes shot out two hot Champions League channels, saying very excitedly to the cavalry commanders Wu Xin and Li Jie who had already rushed back.

"The time for counterattack has finally arrived. Everyone, this is a telegram that Zhang Shanlin had just sent from the Special Forces Detachment. Last night, the Special Forces Detachment successfully recaptured Yingkou Wharf and captured all the ships docked in Yingkou."

"The two towns of officials who are blocked by us now have not only lost all their artillery and supplies, but also their retreat has been cut off by us. Next, we can eat them as much as we want!"

Li Jie, who had been suppressed by Zaitao for two days, was full of resentment, seemed to suddenly find a vent and shouted directly: "Commander, the deputy commander has sent us an infantry regiment and a mixed artillery regiment in the past two days. With the cavalry regiment of Commander Wu and several garrison regiments, we have the strength to fight a decisive battle with the official army here."

Yang Xingguo shook his head and rejected: "No, it's too much of a loss to fight the decisive battle. If a rabbit is too impatient, he will bite people, let alone nearly 20,000 well-equipped official troops!"

"Then what commander, what are you going to fight?" Li Jie was stunned at first, and then immediately came to ask.

"The government army did not know that Yingkou had been taken down by us in the battle. As long as they were defeated, they would definitely retreat in the direction of Yingkou. We have another cavalry division on the retreat road of the two towns nearly a hundred miles away. No matter how many people there were in the government army, they would be eaten by the cavalry division." Yang Xingguo replied with a serious face, his words were full of confidence.

An hour later, Zaitao, who did not know that his artillery and supplies were taken away, nor did he know that his mistake in Yingkou, was still confidently mobilized his troops to prepare for the attack.

The eighteen field cannons first began to shell the shells, and with a whistle, hitting the Liaodong Army's blocking positions, as if they didn't have money, and they kept smashing for ten minutes before stopping.

As soon as the shelling stopped, the two battalions of officials rushed towards the blocking position under the cover of thirty heavy machine guns.

This time, Yang Xingguo no longer retained his strength. Several garrison regiments originally equipped with more than a dozen mortars, nearly twenty mortars brought by reinforcements, and nearly fifty mortars brought by the cavalry division, divided into two, some facing the heavy machine gun positions of the government army, and some facing the attacking troops of the government army, firing shells at the fastest speed.

The violent shelling suddenly caused heavy casualties in the official army.

Zaitao and the two town commanders were not vegetarians, so they immediately judged that the Liaodong army that stood in front of them had reinforcements.

However, the three of them were also very fortunate that there was no artillery that could compete with their own field artillery battalion among the strength exposed by the defenders.
Chapter completed!