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Facing the afterglow of the setting sun on the Yellow Sea, more than 1000 advance troops of the National Defense Army under Feng Guozhang lowered the sampans from the cargo ship and rowed hard towards the land.

This is the mouth of the Yellow River into the Yellow Sea, covered with hundreds of large and small pieces of sea sand.

But a 2100-ton cargo ship does not take up any water at sea, so as long as it is a little further away from the land, there is no risk of it running aground.

Although everyone had rested in the cabin for nearly 10 hours, they were still a little tired. After all, the ship was shaking, and if you slept on the ship, you might be woken up by the person next to you as soon as you closed your eyes.

But even so, these people could not hide their excitement on their faces.

The mission of launching a surprise attack on the flank and rear of the Jiangnan New Army, where its defense was weak, was not only easy, but the results would also be no less than those of the brothers fighting head-on. How could they not be excited when encountering such a good thing?

As soon as Gong Baotian stepped onto the land, he grabbed a handful of salted and dried soybeans from his pocket and stuffed them into his mouth with one hand, and with the other hand he picked up a dog-skin water bag and gulped down the water from his throat.

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He was from Rushan, Shandong. His elder brother, Gong Baotun, was the captain of the Infantry Commander-in-Chief's Office who had arrested Kang Youwei for a fight in the capital and later followed Emperor Guangxu in his escape to the east.

In the original time and space, Gong Baotian later became Cixi's personal bodyguard, and his life experience was later made into a movie by the famous director Wong Kar-wai, The Grandmaster.

But now, he has embarked on another path.

Gong Baotian first became a disciple of Wang Wu the Big Knife through his brother's relationship. After Guangxu fled the capital, Cixi searched the city for the remnants of the gang, so he followed Wang Wu the Big Knife and fled to Korea.

Wang Wu, the big knife, was invited by Yuan Xiangcheng to be a martial arts coach of the National Defense Army. Gong Baotian took the opportunity to join the Beiyang Navy of the National Defense Army and became a "Land War Navy".

Seeing the mist gradually dissipate, Gong Baotian put away his food bag and looked at the landing troops behind him.

"Captain, eating too much soybeans is really detrimental to our work. Can we not eat them?"

On the beach, the National Defense Army soldier behind Gong Baotian also opened his food bag, but he looked at the soybeans in his hand, his expression seemed to be thinking about something, and he was hesitant about whether to eat it.

Hearing the complaints coming from behind him, Gong Baotian put the revolver back into the bag: "Just eat it when I tell you to. Why are you talking so much nonsense!"

"Okay, let's eat it!" The soldier stomped his feet and stuffed all the soybeans in his hand into his mouth, while not forgetting to pick up the water bag and pour it into his mouth.

The planting area of ​​soybeans outside the Great Wall is now increasing, and there is no problem with sales. In terms of economic value alone, it has surpassed wheat outside the Great Wall.

However, due to the weak transportation capacity outside the Great Wall, although most soybeans can be loaded and exported at the port, some soybeans that cannot be transported in time rot on the road.

So Yuan Xiangcheng combined the salt from the Yingkou Salt Field and the soybeans from the Liaohe Plain. After hundreds of attempts, he finally made a unique online-famous snack called salt and pepper soybeans.

This snack, which was later sold in a live broadcast room for 9 yuan and shipped to your home, was released more than 9 years ahead of schedule.

There is no need to light a fire or use up precious drinking water. Just grab a handful and put it in your mouth to temporarily satisfy your hunger and cope with emergency combat missions.

Yuan Xiangcheng came from later times and was born in an era when food nutrition was highly developed. He knew that 100 grams of soybeans contained 389 kcal, which is more than the same weight of rice!

Moreover, this is only the calories in fresh soybeans. If it is dried soybeans, the calories will increase by an order of magnitude.

In addition, most of the components of rice are carbohydrates, protein accounts for more than ten percentage points, and fat is even less, only in the single digits.

Rice cannot replenish the protein and fat that soldiers lack in their bodies during the march.

The content of carbohydrates, proteins and fats in soybeans each accounts for one-third, which is a very balanced ratio. What is more rare is that it can provide valuable plant fat, which is a rare high-quality military food for the army that consumes huge physical energy.

In history, the Japanese Kwantung Army used soybeans from Northeast China as a must-have for their marches. They even forced the sale of soybeans in Northeast China, established a "Soybean Monopoly Bureau," and plundered the soybeans from the people of Northeast China.

Of course, soybeans are not without their disadvantages. For example, they taste terrible after being air-dried and can wear down teeth.

Japanese politicians during the militarist era never cared about the lives of the lower-level soldiers, so they never solved such problems.

Therefore, Yuan Xiangcheng created the snack of salt and pepper soybeans, using seasonings to alleviate the poor taste of soybeans.

As for the problem of tooth wear, Yuan Xiangcheng could not think of a way to improve it and thought that the soybean military ration plan would be shelved. However, after a communication with grassroots soldiers, he was no longer worried about this problem.

It turns out that in the eyes of ordinary people today, the disadvantage of tooth wear is almost negligible compared to the benefits of filling their stomachs.

Nowadays, most people in the Qing Dynasty have a mouth full of broken teeth before the age of 30, and few have intact teeth. Even without soybeans, they eat unground coarse grains on a daily basis, and their teeth cannot last as long as 50 or 60 years old like in later generations.

The shortcomings of soybeans have been basically solved, and with so many advantages, it naturally became one of the main military rations of the National Defense Army.

However, although soybeans are good, you should not eat too much.

Because eating too much will cause gastrointestinal bloating, which will then lead to a series of farts and feces, and the force will come as soon as it is expected, leaving no room for reaction. If you are a little slow, you will poop in your pants.

Therefore, the National Defense Forces generally choose to eat soybeans only when they are deployed in an emergency. If they eat soybeans while stationed, they will leave behind excretion sites of varying sizes and distances near the camp, which will cause a foul odor.

Seeing his men finish eating the soybeans, Gong Baotian nodded with satisfaction and then pulled out a revolver from the outside of his thigh.

"click, click"

The ratchet rotates, making a crisp mechanical sound.

Seeing this, the soldier quickly pulled out the revolver from his leg and started firing it in imitation of him.

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Seeing the soldier spinning his pistol non-stop, Gong Baotian scolded him with a smile, "This is a new revolver produced by the Incheon Machinery Bureau. Infantry officers haven't been issued with it yet. If you break it, there won't be any extra ones."

A revolver is what is commonly known as a revolver.

After purchasing revolvers from major European and American weapons factories, the Incheon Machinery Bureau decided to imitate the American 1865 Remington revolver.

Compared with Colt's revolver, Remington's revolver has fewer parts and a simpler structure. Although it is slightly less powerful, Yuan Xiangcheng thinks it is not a big deal. After all, revolvers are used in close combat, so if the power is not enough, the distance can make up for it.

The Marine Corps, or the Marine Corps, has always been a branch of the National Defense Force that Yuan Shikai has been committed to introducing.

Since a systematic combat theory has not yet been formed, the land forces and navy are still part of the army, but are just special arms like cavalry and artillery.

The team that Gong Baotian belonged to was the land and sea forces under the 3rd Regiment of Feng Guozhang's National Defense Army.

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Each of these people was a good swimmer, and Feng Guozhang used them together to attack the enemy by surprise.

They landed in Funing County of Huai'an Prefecture. To be more specific, they landed at Dayujian, near the sea east of Funing County.

Dayujian is a small port on the south side of the Yellow River estuary. It is usually visited by sand ships, and some troops of the Jiangnan New Army are also stationed here.

However, as more and more silt from the Yellow River flowed into the sea, this place was gradually abandoned and the number of troops stationed there became smaller and smaller.

The Jiangnan New Army inherited from the old Hunan Army. After Zeng Guofan's death, the Hunan Army was about to disappear in the long river of history. However, due to the influence of Yuan Shikai's time travel, this army was resurrected.

Although the Jiangnan New Army also used Western spears and changed into military uniforms that foreigners called "foreigners", its spirit remained unchanged and it still looked like a classical army.

Many people also carried a big knife on their waist, walking around looking very majestic.

"Brother, what's the point of guarding here? Yuan Shikai's army is all in the west, and there's nothing for the dozen of us to do in the east. Why don't we just stop guarding and go to Funing City to play for a few days." A Hunan soldier frowned and asked the leader in a bored manner.

"Piwaer, you can do whatever you want. I'm not good at it anyway. If the higher-ups blame me, I'll get a beating."

The man called "Brother Yao" lay lazily on the ground and spoke without raising his head.

"Didn't Lord Liu say that the Jiangnan New Army has 300,000 soldiers? How could they care about a few of us?"

"Three hundred thousand, you really believe it?" The youngest brother spat, "Grandpa Zeng didn't even have 30 back then. How could Lord Liu have 30? He's just looking at other people. So you, a fool, believe it too?"

"That can't be fake, it must be at least 20."

"It's hard to say." The youngest brother still didn't open his eyes, and his words and actions showed that he would not let the person go.

"If I can't win, then I can at least go pee." Seeing that he couldn't persuade his brother, Pi Wa simply put the spear behind his back and went to pee far away.

"I don't care about you!" The youngest brother looked at the sea and didn't care at all.

After a long time, the naughty kid didn't come back. The youngest brother thought he had run away, so he turned over and tried to chase him back.

Just then, he noticed that there seemed to be black spots moving towards the beach, and then he rubbed his eyes in disbelief.

"It's a human!"

"Enemy attack, enemy attack! Pi Wa, give the signal, give the signal!"

When the youngest brother looked back, there was no sign of Pi Wa. Only a lonely body was lying on the ground with blood still on the neck.

"When did these people get behind me?!"

"boom!"

"Bang! Bang!"

No one answered Brother Yao's question, and what greeted him was the whistling revolver bullets.

Chapter 228 Yuan Family Completion Plan

"Follow up quickly!"

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Chenzhou Prefecture, Henan, is located on the banks of the thousand-mile Huai River.

Hundreds of cavalrymen, dressed differently but all carrying broadswords and speaking with Henan accents, were galloping eastward along the Huai River. Some of them rode two horses, some rode three horses, and each horse had bulging things hanging on both sides of its back, and no one knew what they were.

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Led by Yuan Keguang, the nephew of Yuan Xiangcheng, they shouted excitedly all the way until they met a group of merchants and slowly stopped.

"So, what are you lucky for?"

The leader, Yuan Keguang, dismounted, raised his whip, pointed at the caravan pulled by more than 50 horses and asked.

Seeing that the person in front of him did not have a local accent and seemed to have bad intentions, the escort in the caravan silently put his hands on his waist.

"My dear fellow, we are from Yangzhou and would like to transport some silk to Kaifeng Prefecture. I hope you can give us some convenience."

The leading merchant smiled and took out a handful of silver from his pocket, pretending to put it into Yuan Keguang's hand.

"Don't give it to me, I don't want it."

Yuan Keguang waved his hand and turned his attention to the goods behind the merchant.

Seeing that the visitor seemed to be interested in the goods, the escort could no longer stand still. "Brother, I am an escort from Changlong Escort Agency, the boss Zuo Debiao, also known as Iron Leg Zuo Er. I hope you will give me some face."

As he spoke, the escort threw out a silver note, approached Yuan Keguang, and somewhat inadvertently revealed the matchlock gun hidden in his arms.

Seeing that the escort was armed, Yuan Keguang took a half step back, his expression less impudent. He pointed to the horse team behind him and said, "I'm just asking, you're carrying so much stuff, but there are only so many horses. Do you want one of our horses?"

It turns out he was a horse dealer!

The leading merchant heaved a sigh of relief when he heard the cavalry say this.

Due to the division between the north and the south, horses from traditional horse-breeding areas such as Shandong and Hebei are no longer sold to the south, resulting in a shortage of horses in the south in recent years. So someone figured out a trade route.

They took the route to the northwest, purchased horses from Shaanxi and Gansu, entered Anhui through Henan, and finally sold them to Jiangnan.

Generally speaking, a horse bought for 30 taels of silver in the northwest can be sold for 60 taels in Suzhou and 100 taels in Yangzhou. After crossing the Yangtze River and reaching Jiangning and Suzhou, it cannot be sold even for 150 taels.

Therefore, most horse dealers would choose to take the horses across rivers and lakes and then sell them after crossing the Yangtze River.