The German fleet approached Tianjin, and the Eight-Nation Alliance stationed in Beijing also began to prepare for a counterattack on Tianjin. The news continued to be transmitted to the consulates of various countries in Tianjin through telegrams, which also allowed the consulates of various countries to finally see a glimmer of hope after spending more than twenty days of hardship. Therefore, the consuls of various countries also ran around to tell each other in private that the bad sun was over, and the good sun was coming back soon.

Under the organization of British Consul Jin Zhang, consuls from various countries quickly established a public security committee in the Tianjin Concession, preparing to stabilize the order of the concession as soon as possible after the Eight-Nation Alliance recaptured the Tianjin Concession and reduce the losses of various countries. Of course, Jin Zhang did not forget to instruct the consuls to ensure that the actions must be confidential and that this group of overseas Chinese should not know.

In fact, the consuls didn't know that all the news was known in advance by the consuls of various countries. The reason was in the telegram.

After the Time Travel Group occupied Tianjin, it immediately resumed the operation of the Tianjin Telegraph Bureau and did not cut off the telegram lines of consulates in various countries in Tianjin. Therefore, consulates in various countries can send messages from the concessions back to their own country or other places through telegrams and learn about the outside news. Although telegrams from consulates in various countries must be sent through the Tianjin Telegraph Bureau, all countries have added passwords to their telegrams, so there is no need to worry that the news will be leaked.

This is also the purpose of the Time Travel Group opening the Tianjin Telegraph Bureau. Since the Time Travel Group is a newcomer and lacks the means to collect intelligence, intercepting telegrams from various countries has become an important source for the Time Travel Group to collect intelligence and understand external information.

Although countries have added passwords to their telegrams, in front of advanced computers in old time and space, this original password is almost useless. As long as there is enough data and information to be entered into the computer, any password can be easily cracked. Therefore, the power-up between consulates and their own countries provides a large amount of intelligence information for the travel group, and the travel group has almost completely grasped the actions of each country, so that various arrangements can be made in a targeted manner.

At this time, the Tianjin meeting had ended for more than ten days, and the departments established began to operate, and all the work was proceeding in an orderly manner. The approach of the German fleet and the Eight-Nation Alliance did not put any pressure on the time travel group, because every time traveler believed that in the face of his powerful force, any invader was a paper tiger and vulnerable.

The conscription work decided by the Tianjin Conference also began quickly and went very smoothly. The first batch of conscription battalions was planned, with about 1,200 people. As a result, more than 2,000 people signed up in more than ten days. After eliminating some of the old and weak, more than 1,700 people met the conscription conditions, which greatly exceeded the expected plan.

On the one hand, after the fleet occupied Tianjin, a large number of people who fled returned to their hometowns to settle down. Most of the people who returned were old and young, and most of them died in displaced, which provided a considerable population base for the conscription work. On the other hand, the conscription work was quite proper, which fully aroused the strong hatred of the Tianjin people towards the Eight-Nation Alliance. Therefore, when they heard that they were joining the army to fight against foreign ghosts, they immediately became energetic.

Of course, there is another important reason, which is that joining the army to eat a full meal. Once you become a formal soldier through training, you can get a salary of five dou of rice per month. In this era, one dou of rice per stone is about 100 kilograms, which is enough for a family of five to live in a month. If converted into silver, it can be worth about 5 taels of silver. At this time, this is also a lack of income. In addition, most people who return to Tianjin have nothing to do, and even if they don’t have to support their families, they at least have to fill their stomachs. Therefore, many Tianjin people have rush to sign up for the army, and a craze has formed for a while.

The group of people released by the Crossing Fleet in Dagukou were the most active, because they followed the Crossing Group for the longest time and were grateful. Among the more than 1,000 men, more than 700 people signed up, and in the end more than 600 people were selected, accounting for more than one-third of the new army. More than 100 people signed up, and more than 70 people were selected.

The Military Commission also held a special meeting to study this matter, and finally decided to form a firepower reinforcement battalion in addition to the planned three battalions, with a machine gun company and two artillery companies under it, and the female soldiers were organized into a battalion alone.

In the previous battle, the crossing army seized a total of five Maxim machine guns, four Haqiks machine guns, five 70mm caliber Knuber guns, two 80mm caliber Knuber guns, and a certain number of machine gun bullets and shells. Of course, these weapons are not enough to assemble a firepower reinforcement battalion, and it is also possible to familiarize soldiers with weapons. It is still possible to train. The team was built first, and once the weapons were available, they could immediately become an army. This is also the principle that the People's Liberation Army had in the old time and space that was used to "those who would rather wait for equipment, but not those who would wait for people."

Of course, at this time, the newly formed army has just begun to carry out some basic military skills training and cannot officially start a military war. Therefore, this battle still relies on crossing the army. However, when it is suitable, the new army can still go to the battlefield to experience the atmosphere of war.

In the navy, the main force of the battle was naturally the five-ship combat ships that crossed the fleet. In the early battles, the large captive ships were basically scarred, with only a few gunboats not much damage, including four sea dragon-class torpedo gunboats of the original Beiyang Navy. More than 50 officers and soldiers of the former Beiyang Navy were found from the captives, and Liu Ximing, the regular cannon leader of the Tunhai Dragon, led by Liu Ximing.

The traveler divided these former Beiyang Navy officers and soldiers into two groups, and added a few local sailors to drive the Sea Dragon and the Sea Rhino to fight with the Crossing Fleet. Anyway, they did some work to do.

The army has already prepared for combat. At the same time, the command center under the Military Commission has also formulated a combat plan for this war. The enemy launched an attack on Tianjin at the same time from sea and land, and formulated a combat plan for land defense and sea offensive. Facing the Eight-Nation Alliance from Beijing, relying on Tianjin City, we fully utilize the advantages of strong firepower and strong night combat capabilities in the crossing army, and conduct defensive operations outside Tianjin City. When the Eight-Nation Alliance cannot attack and its troops are exhausted, we will launch a counterattack. The Navy takes the initiative to attack, strive to annihilate the enemy on the sea, wipe out the German fleet, and at appropriate times, use cruise missiles to assist the army in combat.

On the afternoon of October 1, 1900, the observation and observation of the crossing army was located at the forefront and found that the Eight-Nation Alliance in Beijing was gathering and setting off, and it seemed that he was preparing to launch an attack on Tianjin. At noon the next day, the Huaihua ship, which was patrolling the Bohaikou, also sent a report back, and found the whereabouts of the German fleet and the images of the German fleet captured with drones. Now the Huaihua ship is maintaining a distance of more than 30 kilometers from the German fleet and continues to closely monitor the German fleet's actions.

At this time, the Military Commission had already made preparations. Xia Bohai, Qin Zheng and Xiao Jianjun came to Dagukou last night and handed over the administrative affairs of Tianjin to Wang Yunpeng and Xu Jichao. After receiving the news from the German fleet, the three boarded the Changbai Mountain ship and commanded the battle.

Because the Changbaishan ship is huge and has sufficient space, it was the second only surface combat ship in the Chinese naval sequence after aircraft carriers before crossing. Therefore, when designing, this type of warship was considered as the command ship in the formation, and a large number of advanced electronic communication equipment, information and data processing capabilities were installed on the ship. Only when the three people were on the Changbaishan ship were remotely controlled and commanded the battle.

Army commanders Zhu Yaping and Qin Yuhai also led the army to leave Kaijin City and set up positions in Beicang, about six kilometers outside Tianjin City, preparing to fight the Eight-Nation Alliance. The Navy was commanded by Shang Jinfeng, the captain of the Kunming ship, and led the Kunming ship, Yueyang ship, Sanya ship, and Xiangyang ship to attack, joining the Huaihua ship, preparing to fight the German fleet. The Hailong and Haixi are temporarily staying at Dagukou to stand by.

After the four warships left Dagukou, they drove eastward at an economic speed of 18 knots. After about two hours, they joined the Huaihua ship, which was about 30 kilometers away from the German fleet. The mission of monitoring the German fleet was also handed over by the Huaihua ship to the Kunming ship with more powerful radar functions. At the same time, Z-0 carrier-based helicopters were also taken off the Kunming ship to monitor the German fleet from the air.

Although Kunming ships are equipped with powerful active phased array radars, due to the curvature of the earth, the search distance to the sea surface is not more than fifty kilometers. Therefore, the main function of phased array radar is still in the air defense room. Only in the air can it be detected further. Although the carrier-based helicopters brought by Kunming ships are anti-submarine rather than air warning, the carrier-based helicopters also have the function of guiding carrier-based anti-ship missiles, and are also equipped with advanced airborne radar systems, which can supplement the shortcomings of carrier-based radar search for sea.

The radar signal sent back from the helicopter shows that the German fleet is divided into two parts, front and rear. The front team has thirteen warships, traveling in a herringbone. The entire queue is about six kilometers long. At the rear about ten kilometers apart, there are fourteen warships, divided into three columns, with the largest number of warships in the middle, with a total of eleven ships, with a total of more than ten kilometers long. The column on the left has four ships, about six hundred meters apart, and there is only one on the right, and it is about two thousand meters apart, just like a lonely ship away from the fleet.

The drone then sent back photos. The front team was full of warships, which should be the main warships of the German fleet. The middle column of the rear team was eleven ships for transport ships, and the five ships on the left were warships, which were probably escorted to transport ships for transport ships.
Chapter completed!