Yuan Dashuai personally went to receive the first batch of goods, which was a very risky act in his confidants. Many people tried their best to dissuade him, but Yuan Shikai refused to do the same thing and insisted on doing it himself.

Such fearless courage and perseverance immediately won unanimous praise from the Yuan generals. Only a few people knew that Yuan Shikai actually wanted to fight, and he couldn't lose to Yang Hao - he must not lose to Yang Hao!

In this world, among the young and powerful people under forty years old, Yuan Shikai has very few people to like. Not only is he so arrogant, but whoever could dominate the country in his twenties and intimidate the country for three thousand miles, will develop arrogant arrogance and confidence in ten years.

However, this kind of pride that penetrated deep into the bones was shattered mercilessly by Yang Hao. Yuan Shikai, who claimed to be Li Hongzhang's successor, could not accept it. The repeated failures did not hurt his ambition, but instead turned into a sensation of fighting spirit, which continued to accumulate and grow in his heart.

This time he went to receive arms, he had to go deep into the hinterland of Yang Hao's old nest, which seemed very risky to outsiders.

Yuan Shikai knew best that Yang Hao wanted to kill him, but he could have let him die in Goryeo.

The subsequent "catch and release Cao" many times, including the recent robbery of more than 10,000 new recruits he worked hard to train, but released most of the officers back, which made Yuan Shikai finally understand that Yang Hao was challenging him.

If it were an ordinary person, he would admit the gap if he lost and then follow him wholeheartedly to do big things. But Yuan Shikai could not. He didn't think Yang Hao was better than him. So many knowledge theories didn't mean much to him, so he just wanted to find a bunch of gunmen to make it up.

This struggle for dominance of the world depends on strength and strategy, and he has both of them and will definitely have them!

"I must become the mainstay of the Qing Dynasty, and let the court rely on me, Yuan Shikai, to maintain stability, so I cannot lose, let alone admit defeat!"

Yuan Shikai's constant firm beliefs also used this to remind those who followed him.

As the General Staff Officer Xu Shichang naturally followed him. Seeing the hidden tension and anxiety under Lord Yuan's seemingly relaxed expression, he sighed in empathy: "My Lord really sacrificed everything in order to achieve great achievements!"

Last time, the 20,000 troops were driven away by only a few thousand people and fled in a panic, which was a huge blow to the Yuan group. The officers who were released were comforted on the surface, but sighed privately, almost dying of their fighting spirit against Yang Hao's new army.

This is what Yuan Shikai is most worried about. Once the army develops the problem of fearing Yang's family like a tiger, no matter how many troops he can form in the future, he is afraid that he will not be able to win a single battle. If he cannot defeat Yang Hao, his future path to powerful ministers will not work. He must try to eliminate the fear in the hearts of the soldiers and rebuild his confidence in winning.

As the commander, he must set an example and face it bravely.

Full of complexity, under the protection of the cavalry led by Wu Fengling, Yuan Shikai and others arrived at the newly built railway freight warehouse not far from the Tianjin Arsenal, and received the goods under the witness of countless Chinese and Western representatives.

The cargo yard is a square kilometer-sized cargo yard with barbed wire fence, and the middle is all flat and hardened. It is divided into large and small stacking yards according to the functional area. There is also a blue and white temporary warehouse of mobile houses that stands out suddenly.

Yuan Shikai was no longer surprised by this strange building that began to gradually unveil the veil of the world. He didn't even let himself think too much, because once he thought deeply about the terrible industrial power behind this thing, the confidence he had finally established would collapse!

Foreigners from all over the world are extremely sure that this rapid disassembly and assembly building with two layers of thin steel plates sandwiched with insulation materials is the product of the collection of industrial technology. Countries do not yet have such industrial production capabilities and are trying to find ways to steal or cheat from Yang Hao or buy it.

Today, by studying Yang Hao's articles, Lord Yuan has roughly learned the principle that industry is the fundamental power of power. Therefore, he feels more and more unfathomable about Yang Hao's strength, and even feels deeply powerless.

He didn't want this bad feeling, not at all!

The cold wind is isolated from the board house with excellent insulation effect. Various boxes are piled up in the two-story steel frame warehouse under the bright light.

As the head of the general affairs section of the "Huaxing Association", Zheng Ruilin is the general manager of Yanhua Foreign Company Tianjin Branch, and has come forward to handle the delivery of goods.

Seeing Yuan Shikai, Xu Shichang and others' unconcealed surprise, he raised his hand quietly and signaled: "Please check at will by Lord Yuan and all gentlemen."

Yuan Shikai nodded expressionlessly and walked inside from the opening with his hands behind his back.

A boarded house warehouse that is 40 or 50 meters long, and in the fifteen-meter-span space, rows of steel frames rose up from the ground. A large number of wooden boxes were arranged in an orderly manner, and people walked below and felt that they were particularly short.

Yuan Shikai was not tall at first, and the feeling of depression that could not be seen on both sides was particularly obvious. After walking less than twenty meters, he was a little annoyed and pointed to some boxes casually. Then Xu Shichang arranged for his confidants to go up and lift them out of the warehouse.

Even though the cold wind blows through the cloak, making people involuntarily fight, Yuan Shikai feels that his heart is much brighter and much more comfortable than staying inside.

All boxes were transported to the periphery of the cargo yard by tow trucks, facing an empty and deserted beach in front of them. The guards opened the boxes with all their strength, pulled off the shock-absorbing wood chips, and exposed the weapons with complete oil seal inside.

The rifle was slightly modified by Mauser K98. The foreigners came up with the idea to slightly process the gun belt, bayonet, sight, bolt and other details. Yuan Shikai pushed away his personal guard, grabbed one and wiped off the butter with cotton yarn, carefully observed the barrel, and whether there were any traces of secondary processing of the butt. As a result, it was found that it was shiny and clean, and there was no even a scratch!

His cheeks twitched slightly, but he calmly handed them to Hannagan next to him.

The serious and responsible German Army Captain took it, and used his picky eyes to avoid every detail from head to toe. He even dismantled the gun body on the spot, observed the rifle facing the sun, and rubbed the corners with his hands to find the processing defects.

A few minutes later, he looked up at everyone and nodded rigidly: "Very exquisite industrial products! Even better quality than the batch sold to the German Army. Even if it was the best German workers, they could only do this."

In fact, he has been in China for a long time and learned to speak scenes. From the bottom of his heart, he was very surprised that the Germans themselves might not be able to do the workmanship of these guns.

Seeing that Yuan Shikai and Xu Shichang and the foreigners from all over the world who were waiting to watch the jokes looked bad, Wu Fengling immediately stood up and shouted: "Is it easy to use, you have to try it out before you know! Come on, try the gun!"

The guards took action together, took apart a few boxes of firearms and cleaned and calibrated according to standard procedures, put the bolts on the bayonet, and then aimed at the target standing in the distance and shot.

The others were not idle either. They opened the other boxes and made the individual equipment inside to test the same torture, including grenades, and there were 75 infantry cannons and water-cooled Maxim heavy machine guns behind them!

As soon as the rapid-fire cannon and heavy machine gun were launched, the foreigners present immediately became riot. The British, French, German and Russian military officers who were waiting to see the joke looked at each other and exclaimed in a low voice: "That Chinese is crazy! Why dare he take out anything! Don't he understand that these weapons are used to deal with him?"

"God, are all crazy people in arms business? How can he think of selling weapons to his enemies?!"

Some people are even more jealous! Because the equipment Yang Hao sold to various powers last time, even the water-cooled Maxim did not even include the fucked Maxim, but the fucked Gatlin. The heavy hand-cranked thing that everyone was worried about was a headache. Compared to the much lighter Maxim, it was not a little worse!

Captain Hannagan and the Chief Instructor of the New Army, Deputy Admiral praised honestly: "Mr. Yang is indeed a reputable person. His strict compliance with the contract is very admirable and admirable."

Many Chinese people present complained: "I appreciate your uncle! I think it's just a careless person! He really wants to arm the imperial court with hundreds of thousands of troops, and wait for the crowd to be crushed to death!"

The buzzing discussion once pushed the whistling of the north wind over. Yuan Shikai's expression was calm, and his heart was so excited that he almost lost control! He screamed silently: "My man surnamed Yang, you have times of being in trouble! Wait, see that Yuan Weiting rebuilds the army, and you will definitely die without a place to die!"

The total amount of equipment delivered this time can arm 50,000 soldiers, covering all individual soldiers and logistics supplies. Not only these firearms and cannons, but also large trucks, steam generators, marching tents, and even telephones required for the supplies!

These materials have to be filled with several large freighters when used to pull them by ships. Now part of the delivered troops to the Beijing-Tianjin army is piled up in a wide freight yard warehouse.

Yuan Shikai's new army was first built by the water tower, and at least 20,000 people could be assigned to him, which would allow him to be the first to re-arm. Troubled times are approaching, and whoever has guns and cannons can speak loudly. Yuan Shikai deeply understood this truth and could imagine how much combat effectiveness the armed forces of the Yang infantry would bring.

A 75 field cannon and a Maxim were assembled and began to test the fire in the distance in a temporary ring bunker not far away. The dense rain of bullets like wind poured wildly, knocking a piece of wooden rakes into pieces. The sound of rapid loading and firing, and the pleasant sound of the jingling shell falling to the ground made Yuan Shikai seem to see a new world and slowly kicking off.

Yuan Shikai and others were overjoyed. If such a brutal weapon was on the battlefield, wouldn’t it be like a grass? Even if one battalion of soldiers was equipped with two Maxim and two rapid-fire cannons, it could produce a barrage of killing that covered the sky and the sun! Don’t say that they are thousands of soldiers, no matter how many people you have, don’t think you can get close to you!

They all believe it now, and Yang Hao really didn't keep any move. The weapons sold to foreigners last time looked the same as these, and they were even more flexible to use - at least the artillery for foreigners was still loaded with ammunition last time. This time, the fixed ammunition was loaded, the loading speed, transportation convenience and operation simplicity were all improved a lot. The improvement of combat power is obvious!

Military officers from various countries were red in their eyes, and they were even more angry at Yang Hao, and they almost cursed!

Damn Chinese, a cunning profiteer! How dare he openly deceive the powerful empire! It is unforgivable to fool people with such things that are neither up nor down!

How could they know that Yang Hao’s statement about this was: “The industrial foundation of foreign devils is too good. If they give them a complete version of weapons, they will be able to imitate them soon. But if they sell them to the Qing army, they will not be able to imitate them for ten years. Once the established equipment generation gap is formed, the great powers will have to think about it if they want to divide China.

Zheng Ruilin also knew more about the inside story. Yang Hao wanted to take this opportunity to unify the military equipment of the whole country and completely clear the mess of the Wanguo Card. Secondly, he also took advantage of the opportunity of the Qing Dynasty's eagerness to establish strong arms and quickly cultivate enough basic soldiers, machine gunners, artillery, communication soldiers and other technical troops.

It was too slow to train manpower in several military academies now. The Qing court mobilized the power of a country to accelerate it ten times.

As for the possibility of cultivating a new group of powerful warlords, Yang Hao didn't care at all. He knew very well that the key factor that determines the success or failure of a war was always human. Under the corrupt rule of the Qing Dynasty, you gave him an atomic bomb and still defeated the war.

Looking at the unconcealed excitement of Yuan Shikai's subordinates, Zheng Ruilin sneered secretly: "You should be happy for a few days first. When the next batch of troops' armed training is completed, it will be the day when we harvest it again!"

In the empty cargo yard, there were loud bangs and bangs, and sometimes a grenade exploded, and the rising smoke and dust were quickly blown away by the strong wind. The strong smell of gunpowder swept over and poured into the nasal cavity of the observer and the delivery party behind the bunker.

The foreign military officers looked bad. They found that all the weapons and ammunition were of no problem, and the launching medicines and the reloading medicines used were extremely advanced smokeless medicines. After firing for the past half day, no unqualified products were found. Especially the bullets and shells they paid attention to, the probability of duds being fired was almost ignored.

Especially the cannon, the instructions provided by the accompanying are well-known, which can almost make the illiterate fire at the level of aiming. Yang Hao also provides cannon and machine gun training services opened in Tianjin very considerately. Don’t be afraid, just send someone to learn.

Such strange practices made all walks of life feel unfathomable. As batches of random inspection weapons were tested, their depression and discomfort became increasingly serious.

After a whole day of testing, Yuan Shikai had to say the word "super" in the end and said to Zheng Ruilin with deep meaning: "Your company will be honest with you, which is admirable! Please tell Mr. Yang, Yuan has learned it."

Zheng Ruilin nodded lightly: "Happy cooperation!"

News of the smooth delivery of the first batch of equipment spread wildly and spread to major cities within one day. Military officers and business representatives from various countries who witnessed the entire process, each recorded what they saw and knew for reference by relevant people.

The merchants who were watching the wall were increasingly surprised and wondering. Did Yang Hao use his family's foundation to support him, or did he really have such a deep foundation? It is still difficult to understand the truth. However, the re-arming of the imperial army is real. According to the rumors spread by senior officials within the Wuwei Army, the force of the newly built army is unprecedentedly powerful! At this time, a town can surpass the previous 100,000 troops!

Although the people in Beijing are used to bragging and don’t have a single word, they can make a lot of colorful colors, but real real guys can’t make fake ones.

The first batch of arms escorted by Yuan Shikai was sent to the capital, and the military army, mainly the bannermen, was dressed up first. Yishui'er's black button military uniform and dragon emblem hat, a brand new quick-li rifle, neatly slinged studded utensils, light tow cannons and powerful heavy machine guns, etc., all showed a completely transformed elite posture.

After an emergency dress-up, Emperor Guangxu ordered several camps to enter the city for inspection, and specially asked them to travel around the four nine cities to let all the people see clearly, and climbed the city tower to review in person.

Inside and outside the capital, the frightened flag people seemed to have caught a life-saving straw, and countless boast about the rapid and noisy streets.

Many people were blowing the high tea roots and saliva and flew around: "The person surnamed Yang is going to be full of evil this time? He was so dizzy that he sold all the weapons and weapons to the court. This is a stance of seeking death!"

"It's so vigilant that you want money but don't have life. It's a waste of money to the court, it's time to get it!"

"Haha, I want to see. When the 100,000 army of the imperial court is trained, these thousands of cannon machine guns will be pulled out, which will scare those short-haired counter-bandits to death! Do you dare to betray your ancestors and rebel against the imperial court? Damn it!"

...The chaotic shouts were roaring, as if their mouths could blow Yang Hao to death.

The foreigners who truly realized the unusual ones felt a deep threat fostering. After urgent consultations between Minister Baole and others, they believed that it was not safe to continue to encircle and further actions must be taken to ensure success.

A few days later, ships anchored and deployed in the Yangtze River, Shanghai and southern waters were dispatched one after another, blocking the East China Sea waters. They did not dare to go north to attack the powerful Chinese fleet, so they thought of first blocking the main traffic routes to China's hinterland.

Baokele firmly believes: "If you force his fleet to leave his nest and go south to fight, you will have the opportunity to defeat each one, completely drain his military force, and lead to his credit bankruptcy!"

The equipment of 20,000 people in the first phase of delivery was transported to Liangjiang and Wuhan. The most convenient one was maritime transportation. Yang Hao's delivery to the port was also one of the conditions for the great powers to quickly promote the transaction.

They originally thought that Yang Hao did not dare to drive the fleet into the narrow Yangtze River channel to take risks, but unexpectedly, just as the joint navy of various countries set off to open the net to catch fish, Yang Haiwei led the main force of the navy to openly head south and head straight to the East China Sea!

On December 15, a huge army of dozens of ships led by two modified and upgraded ironclad ships opened out of the military port and sailed across the force of sweeping thousands of troops. Among the double-headed formations on the left and right, the most conspicuous one was the "Dingyuan" ironclad ship that had undergone a major transformation!

At this time, the most powerful gunboat in the Far East was beyond recognition. Even Liu Buchan and Li Hongzhang, who were personally supervising their construction, could not recognize it! The two exposed turrets that were originally tilted left and right in front disappeared without a trace, and turned into two rotating turrets with front and back loads! r1152

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Chapter completed!