Part 3 Chapter 28 Competition

Tianjin is about to be around, and the welcoming team is ten miles ahead. Shen Congyun retracts into the carriage. What appears in my mind is a scene of talking to Zheng Guanying in Shanghai before leaving.

"Zi Gui, do you really want to use more than one hundred students who went to Europe to study to pull up a navy? Frankly speaking, according to our current financial resources, we cannot support a navy at all. The most important point is that the position of the Governor of Liangjiang is really as you expected?" Without Stephen by his side, Zheng Guanying spoke very directly.

"Brother Zhengxiang, why do you tell you? This matter seems ridiculous now, but in two or three years, you can see the benefits of the two battleships I bought for 6 million." Chen Congyun could only explain this way. This is the helplessness of a time traveler. The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 is inevitable. Once the navies of the two countries are both defeated, the deterrent power brought by these two battleships is huge. This is the original intention of Chen Congyun to buy the battleships. At the negotiation table between China and Japan, there is a world of difference between these two battleships and not.

The team that greeted him from afar became clear. Chen Congyun waved away the contemplation in his mind, got off the carriage, straightened his clothes and walked slowly forward.

Li Hongzhang personally went to the Zhili Governor's Office to welcome the court. How many people could there be? Li Hongzhang, the leader of the border minister, had a smile on his face at this moment. It has been 8 years since Chen Congyun appeared. The Chen Congyun, who was worried about being opposite to him, did not appear. He saw only a Chen Congyun who could stand up and support him as long as Li Hongzhang needed him. Now, Li Hongzhang has his brother Li Hongzhang in charge of Guangdong and Guangxi, and Chen Congyun in Vietnam echoes each other. Li Hongzhang, a group of officials from various provinces across the country, occupied half of the Qing Dynasty. There are hundreds of thousands of Huai troops inside and the Beiyang Fleet, the number one in Asia, and Li Hongzhang has an unparalleled reputation for a while.

The railway leading to Shanhaiguan has been built to Jinzhou. Look at Zhang Zhidong, who has always been inconsistent with him. The Luhan Railway is just in Hubei. Now it is going to take the initiative to join forces with Li Hongzhang. Chen Congyun mentioned all these things in the telegram.

After Zuo Zongtang left, he was able to convince Zhang Zhidong to commit suicide. As a minister, what else can I ask for?

In the process of achieving all this, there was more or less the shadow of Chen Congyun. Especially the attitude that Chen Congyun showed when Li Hongzhang encountered trouble many times has made Li Hongzhang almost give up his vigilance against Chen Congyun.

Building railways and providing rails for free is equivalent to spending nearly two million taels of silver in vain. Chen Congyun's big deal not only touched Li Hongzhang, but also Li Hongzhang's Chinese and foreign aides who were under Li Hongzhang praised Li Hongzhang for his keen eyes when he mentioned Chen Congyun.

Chen Congyun is about to come to Beijing to meet the saint again. What is waiting for Chen Congyun will be promoted again. Even if the position of the Governor of Liangjiang cannot be maintained, Li Hongzhang plans to fully recommend the actual lack of the governor of Chen Congyun, a province.

Li Hongzhang's personal greeting was a gesture, but this attitude was somewhat over-doubted for some of Li Hongzhang's subordinates. The representative figure was Ye Zhichao, the strong general of the Huai Army. At this moment, the Zhili Admiral Ye Zhichao was also standing behind Li Hongzhang, looking forward with a cold look, quickly walking forward, wearing a new military uniform.

"I have met the master of the central hall!" Chen Congyun hit the ground with one knee and beat a thousand awkwardly. This etiquette has not been used for a long time.

"Haha, thank you for your hard work, get up quickly." Li Hongzhang smiled and held Chen Congyun's hand, introducing the accompanying officials behind Chen Congyun one by one.

When he came to Ye Zhichao, Chen Congyun bowed and said politely as usual: "I have met Admiral Ye."

"I dare not! I heard for a long time that Lord Shen has trained an elite soldier. Could it be the thin and small monkeys behind him?" Ye Zhichao was Li Hongzhang's absolute confidant, and his "Ming" army was the elite of the Huai army. The equipment was equipped with the latest equipment purchased by Li Hongzhang for huge sums of money, so he dared to speak like this.

Ye Zhichao's words made Chen Congyun's face change, and he snorted dissatisfiedly: "Does Admiral Ye look down on Chen Congyun?"

Li Hongzhang didn't expect such an episode to happen. He couldn't help but look down and glared at Ye Zhichao and said, "Shuqing, be arrogant!"

Ye Zhichao was not afraid, and bowed to Li Hongzhang and said, "Mr. Zhongtang, I have heard of the new army for a long time. When I saw him today, I felt that it was just that. I always said anything. If I offended Lord Shen, I will apologize to Lord Shen."

As he said that, Ye Zhiqiao was about to bend down and bow down. Chen Congyun raised his hand to stop him and said, "Slow down."

Li Hongzhang also felt that Ye Zhi had surpassed the score, and Chen Congyun refused to apologize, which was somewhat disrespectful to Li Hongzhang.

"Zi Gui, do you have something to say?" Li Hongzhang's good mood was a little unhappy by the collision between Ye Zhichao and Shen Congyun.

"I dare to ask Admiral Ye, what should the so-called elite soldiers look like? I heard that Admiral Ye is all elite soldiers and generals, so Chen wants to see it." Chen Congyun was somewhat impulsive. If it were someone else to provoke him, he was worried about Li Hongzhang, so Chen Congyun could not bear it. However, although Ye Zhichao, a fleeing general in history, made the correct suggestions before the beginning of the Korean War, was not accepted, but he ran too fast after the war. Chen Congyun couldn't tolerate this guy when he thought of this.

"What? Lord Shen wants to compete?" Ye Zhichao sneered. The southern soldiers were short and could not compare with the northern soldiers. Ye Zhichao was used to it. How could he see Chen Congyun first, the dozen guards of the dozen or so guards.

Chen Congyun ignored Ye Zhichao, but looked back at Li Hongzhang and said, "Master Zhongtang?"

Chen Congyun's request for instructions was very concerned about Li Hongzhang's thoughts and asked Shangguan for instructions in everything. Such subordinates made Shangguan dissatisfied.

"Set up the military camp!"

A welcome scene turned into a military contest, which surprised everyone, but they were quite looking forward to it.

Chen Congyun's guards had a total of 12 people, plus a captain Li Xiaosan, a total of 13 people. These people were naturally selected from the army.

When they arrived at the military camp, Li Hongzhang sat down, and Chen Congyun and Ye Zhichao stood left and right respectively.

"How do you want to compare with Lord Shen?" Ye Zhichao said with a sure victory expression. Chen Congyun naturally refused to show weakness and sneered: "Lord Ye is the master, Congyun will follow the master's will. As long as he is a soldier, Congyun will follow him."

"Okay! Today is a temporary start, so I will select 13 people from the army. Everyone will compete in the queue, shoot, and assassinate the fighting." After Ye Zhichao said that, Chen Congyun looked at Li Hongzhang with a blank expression, and nodded coldly.

Ye Zhichao always felt that Ming's army had been in the army for many years, and it was more powerful than the little monkeys brought by Chen Congyun. However, Ye Zhichao did not dare to be careless. He was naturally prepared for provocation. He selected 13 people from the army, all of whom were tall and burly, and were close to their height.

When the two sides stood opposite each other, Shen Congyun's guard suddenly seemed at a disadvantage.

"Mr. Shen, please ask first?" Ye Zhichao looked at the soldiers standing opposite each other proudly in the middle.

"Mr. Ye, the strong dragon will not suppress the local snake. Please ask first."

Ye Zhichao obviously didn't want to have too much verbal disputes, and smiled coldly and said, "You're welcome."

"Brothers, Lord Zhongtang is watching, let me show it."

"Zhe!" The team of elite soldiers selected were very loud enough to respond.

Swish swish swish! The thirteen members of Mingjun started walking in a row. They were still very neat, but they always gave people a feeling of insufficient murderous aura. When the team walked to Li Hongzhang, the thirteen members shouted neatly, "Please greet the Lord Zhongtang."

"Mr. Shen, is it your turn?"

Chen Congyun smiled faintly, curled his lips disdainfully, and slowly walked to the guards.

"Salute!" Li Xiaosan shouted! The command knife was unsheathed and waved it downwards vigorously.

The twelve guards were neatly given a flat-breasted salute, and they stood attentively. When their feet were put together, they only heard a sound.

"Brothers, show off the enthusiasm of fighting the French devils back then, don't lose the face of the Lord Zhongtang." Chen Congyun said this, naturally, Li Hongzhang's identity was speaking, and he characterized this battle as an internal competition. Li Hongzhang's dissatisfaction dissatisfied with this sentence, smiled slightly, reached out to touch his beard.

"Yes!" The thirteen people roared neatly. Although they were small, they still had a sense of evil spirit in their shouts.

"Get bayonets! Guns and shoulders! Start and walk!"

The guards lined up in three people began to walk in a row. When they walked, they were neat and did not need to be in Ming Jun. The critical moment was when they passed by Li Hongzhang, Li Xiaosan suddenly shouted: "Rise...gun! Salute!"

Brush! All the bayonets rushed forward neatly, all the guards closed their lips tightly, their faces showing solemnity, and a murderous aura instantly spread out, as if there was an enemy in front of them, ready to launch a hand-to-hand combat at any time.

It is obvious that when the new military uniforms are marching in line, they look cleaner and neat than Mingjun's.

All the guards turned their heads at the same time and shouted to Li Hongzhang: "Be vigilant! Defend the motherland!"

Needless to say, this time, Chen Congyun's guard won, but Li Hongzhang smiled and said, "No, good, good, they are all good, they are going to tie. Let's stop here today! What do you think Zigui?"

Chen Congyun smiled and bowed to Li Hongzhang, saying, "You have the final say in the Zhongtang."

When Ye Zhichao was walking in a staircase with his gun raised his gun, his face was already ugly, and his smug look disappeared. Now Li Hongzhang gave him a step down, but this guy was unwilling to give in and wanted to regain his face.

"Wait!" Ye Zhichao rushed forward and bowed to Li Hongzhang, "Zhongtang, I want to compete."

Li Hongzhang's face suddenly became gloomy and he said angrily: "Shuqing!"

"There is absolutely confidence to win under the mark!" Ye Zhichao is just thinking about Li Hongzhang's promise to continue the competition, and he speaks without saying a word.

Li Hongzhang looked at Chen Congyun, and Chen Congyun smiled and said, "Since Admiral Ye wants to compete, let's continue."

At this time, Chen Congyun also had some idea. He wanted to let Li Hongzhang see a reality clearly. He leaned on the Huai Army of the Great Wall. Now, let alone the army of the great powers, even if he was better than Chen Congyun's new army, he would not be an opponent. To make Li Hongzhang realize the gap and take action, he would convince Ye Zhichao's loss.

Next, compare three positions: shooting, sub-station, squatting and lying.

When the competition came to the shooting range, Ye Zhichao reappeared and selected thirteen people, all of whom had the best shooting skills in the army. According to the rules, Ye Zhichao came first. Each of the thirteen people fired fifteen shots, and they used Mauser m1888.

It should be said that the people selected by Ye Zhichao are all very accurate in shooting, but when shooting, you shoot me and I shoot each other, which looks very untidy and are aiming carefully. After fifteen shots, the results are good, and the average is above 8 rings.

It was Chen Congyun's turn to come on the field. Li Xiaosan did not participate in the shooting, but waved his command knife and shouted: "Line in line!"

The guards quickly lined up on the shooting range. Li Xiaosan raised his command knife and shouted: "Stand up and shoot, five rapid shots!"

After a burst of smoke, five bullets were almost done at the same time. Then the guards neatly collected the guns. Li Xiaosan shouted again: "Change the magazine and squat down and fire five times!"

Change the magazine neatly, squat down neatly, raise the gun neatly, and shoot neatly! After Shen Congyun's guard completed the three postures of shooting, squatting and lying, he stood up neatly and lined up again.

The results of the target report have improved, and the average score is 9 rings! The most important thing is that the entire guard has a fast and neat shooting speed during the shooting process, which truly achieves the purpose of intensive shooting.

In other words, Chen Congyun's new army is more like a well-trained army than Mingjun. Ye Zhichao's face was almost as dark as the bottom of a pot. Ye Zhichao's loss was not unfair. Chen Congyun's new army had a chance to shoot live ammunition every week. Each person shot targets fifty times in a year, and the accuracy was completely piled up with bullets. Unlike Ye Zhichao's Mingjun, officials were thinking about making money on bullets. Most of the number of target shootings reported in a year were fake. Compared with the new army, the number of times the Mingjun was only one month.

This time, Li Hongzhang's face was gloomy and he just said softly: "Continue."

The last item is compared to assassination fighting. Of course, you can't use real guns. Each person has a wooden gun and a lime bag is tied in front of it. Ye Zhichao, who is determined to get some face, selected thirteen people, were all tall and powerful. Seeing the appearance comparison between the two sides, Ye Zhichao also felt that he should win this time.

However, the action between the two sides was completely beyond everyone's expectations.

When the new army was fighting, three people were in groups to protect each other. Li Xiaosan dispatched the other side, and if there was any danger, he would go to the other side to support him. In the single-on-one competition, the new army naturally fell at a disadvantage, but the organized cooperation of the new army completely made up for the disadvantage of figure. On the other hand, Mingjun was fighting alone and fighting on their own. According to regulations, he was sentenced to death and leaving the field. As a result, it was beyond the expectations that when the last Mingjun left the field, three new army stood on the field.

Ye Zhichao lost completely, and stood in front of Chen Congyun with great shame and anger on his face, bent down and bowed and said, "Mr. Shen is better, Ye Zhichao lost."

Li Hongzhang stood up and looked at Ye Zhichao with a sneer. "It's embarrassing!" He said, and turned around and smiled at Chen Congyun, "Let's go, I'll go, don't be as knowledgeable as this waste."

The scene was a bit dispersed. The culprit Ye Zhichao stood there in shame. When Li Hongzhang and Shen Congyun walked away, he was angry and yelled at the soldiers who selected the competition: "I fuck you eight generations of ancestors, and I will throw away all my even, and each of them will be deducted a month's salary."

"I'm back, I'm good at training troops." When Li Hongzhang returned to the Governor's Office, only a few aides left in Li Hongzhang's study were left, and Li Hongzhang finally praised Chen Congyun.

"I don't know anything about Zhongtang. Since the new army was established in Vietnam, the French have not stopped calming down a day, instigating rebellions of all sizes and big and small times. The so-called born in distress and died in peace. The new army has been victorious since the army was established, and has been constantly dealing with various events. On the other hand, Mingjun has been happy for a long time since the Sino-French battle." Chen Congyun did not say that Ye Zhichao was unable to train troops, which made Li Hongzhang's face look slightly better. Chen Congyun took the opportunity to say: "Zhongtang, I have a word in my heart, I don't know if it should be said or not."

"But it's okay!"

"Beiyang is the middle of the defense of the capital. It has been laziness for a long time. Once it changes in the future, it may be difficult to have the power of a war. Looking at Japan, since the reform, it has been working hard to prepare for military affairs and provoked troubles by North Korea several times. Congyun may inevitably have a war. Japan has used the whole country's strength to develop military affairs. Once the war begins, Beiyang will be the first to be the brunt of it. Congyun is worried that the governors and governors of various provinces will inevitably be on the wall." Chen Congyun said this a bit severely, but in order to prevent the Huai army from defeating the Huai army in the future, he took advantage of the little Japan, and Chen Congyun still said it at the risk of Li Hongzhang's anger.

Chen Congyun's cold water made Li Hongzhang feel irritated. He glanced at Chen Congyun coldly and said, "I'm tired of traveling, go back and rest."
Chapter completed!