For these people, they are not afraid of fighting, they are afraid of being idle.

When they are free, in order to keep the soldiers from causing trouble, the officers will train the soldiers in different ways every day. At the end of the day, they are often as tired as dogs. When they return to the camp, they will eat a few mouthfuls of food without energy, and then die.

If you sleep like a pig, you still have the energy to do other things.

From the perspective of the Marine Corps, training is much scarier than fighting.

This force of nearly ten thousand people stayed in Tangwan for a long time. The local people were quite scared at the beginning.

The presence of so many foreign troops stationed has always been a depressing thing for ordinary local people.

The saying goes that bandits are like combs and soldiers are like grates, which means that the army has much more benefits than ordinary bandits.

But this well-equipped army, which makes people a little scared at first glance, has made the locals have new doubts about the experience passed down from their elders.

Throughout the winter, ordinary people could see these soldiers shirtless and wearing only a pair of underpants singing songs on the snow every day, running with long strides, or dozens of them carrying a log weighing hundreds of kilograms.

, shouting slogans and passing by the house.

From the fear at the beginning, they gradually became accustomed to it, and later, whenever these soldiers were training, the bored people would come to watch the fun, and sometimes they would greet them, clap their hands, and cheer them up.

It really feels like a happy family between soldiers and civilians.

Different from the armies we have seen before, this army pays in a disciplined manner no matter what it collects locally or what physical objects the soldiers need. There has never been a deadbeat.

After one winter, not only were local residents not harmed by soldiers, but their incomes increased a lot.

The only fly in the ointment is that all the local chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep were wiped out and bought up by these soldiers. The people's homes are tight during the New Year.

As the bugle sounded, these soldiers, who were very popular with the locals, lined up neatly, stepped onto the springboard one by one, entered the cabins moored in the river, and followed the ships one by one.

It pulled anchor and set sail, gradually disappearing from their sight.

"When will they come back?" the local people still thought reluctantly.

…

Haizhou is a county in Xuzhou Prefecture. The Yellow Sea makes a sharp turn here. Turns are built at the docks. The sea current here is not too fast.

There are more than ten kilometers of shoals in the bend of Haizhou's coastline. Wang Zhanyuan ordered his men to build hundreds of beachheads with sandbags on the more than ten kilometers of shoals day and night, dotted in a Z-shaped pattern.

These beachheads range in size from large to small, and are organized according to the organizational structure of the troops. The smallest beachhead has a squad and a light machine gun, while the larger ones are platoon-level forts and a heavy machine gun.

The defender's artillery position is divided into five divisions. Each division corresponds to the sea surface and the landing area. They are clearly divided in advance and each is defended. The firepower can be directed or cross-covered.

If the Republican Army wanted to land on Haizhou, it had to pass through these shoals and had to forcibly capture these dotted beachheads or fortresses.

This battle was fought hard and there was no room for cheating.

Since the north and south were governed across the river, the Jiangnan Republican Army has been on the defensive and has never expressed sorrow to Haizhou.

But at the end of last year, the East China Sea fleet suddenly sent a special hybrid fleet to go north to really scare the Haizhou and Shandong Peninsula.

In fact, the East China Sea Fleet just passed from the Yellow Sea and went to Huludao, but they deliberately walked near the coastline to scare the Qing army.

Do you want to say that this demonstration sailing this time does it go?

No.

Ding Changdong, they actually observed the Qing army's sea defense line carefully through the high -power telescope.

Wang Zhanyuan and others are not stupid. Of course, they understand that the East Ship Fleet has visited the three Eastern provinces on the surface. In fact, there are reconnaissance tasks.

There is no information or photo, which can be greater than the field inspection.

Therefore, since the beginning of the spring, Wang Zhanyuan has strengthened Haizhou's defense, especially beach defense. The defensive forces on the beach have reached 4,000, accounting for 40 % of the total strength of the entire Haizhou City.

In Wang Zhanyuan's view, these people are enough to ensure the safety of Haizhou City. However, with the continuous reminder of military intelligence, Jiangnan has shifted from the beginning of the spring, and it may launch the Xuzhou battle.

In this way, the Beiyang Army's commander's department felt an imminent crisis. Although the military forces around the north were tense, Duan Qirui still tuned thousands of elite.

Lu Jia, a guardian officer of Haizhou City, asked, and he was notified a few days ago, saying that General Wang Zhanyuan led 5,000 elite to support, which made him relieved.

To be honest, in the face of the republican army of famous worlds, he was really upset with the miscellaneous troops in his hand.

Although he took advantage of his time, the reputation of the Republican army, the prestige of the commander Chen Tianhua still made him feel very disturbed.

In the fame, there is no virtuality. This army that comes out of frequent wars is by no means an ordinary army, especially the Qing army that lacks combat experience.

Just after the first month, as the weather warms the day, Lu Jia's mood hopes that the reinforcements are stronger than every day.

He knew that the weather was warmer, and Lingxun's past represents the Republican fleet, which may appear on the sea at any time.

Lu Jia asked every day like Wangfu Shi, standing on the observation table on the coast, looking at the sea.

On the day of February in late February, Lu Jiawen's infatuation was not moved to heaven. What appeared in front of him was not Wang Zhanyuan's reinforcements, but fifteen large military ships on the sea, of which five cruisers, five large landing ships, five supplies of supplies

Boat.

Behind the fifteen large ships, hundreds of speedboats are densely packed.

In the mother, the Republican special hybrid fleet came.

Haizhou City, Haizhou Beach head defense position, the alarm bell ringing, the war horn sounded.

All the fortresses on the beach are strictly waiting, especially the shore anti -artillery, all locked the coordinates of the sea area area, waiting for the commander's command.

Ding Changdong and Song Maverick stood on the flagship of Zhenhai. The two held the telescope and frowned at the defense position on the beach.

Although it was roughly learned about the defensive position here by the end of the year, I arrived here today and found that the number of labor and fortress of the beach head position that the defenders strengthened.

The terrain of the coastline determines that they can only log in from the east side, and if they want to go around the west side, they will inevitably be hit by the shore defense fire.

The commander of the landing battle is Ding Changdong. He is a special commander of the Navy, and the front guns have no different differences in the bombardment. The subsequent targets are precisely shells, covering the Mavericks' landing forces to grab the beach, etc. It is his business.
Chapter completed!