Beijing, Frontier Governor's Office.

"I really didn't expect that Prime Minister Hara Kei would change his mind and start supporting the actions of the Japanese military department."

Liang Qichao, who had already been elected speaker of the new National Assembly, couldn't help but sigh when he looked at some of the reports on the domestic situation in Japan handed over to him by Yang Shuoming.

"In other words, the first cabinet of Japan's political parties is now in name only." Lin Changmin also said on the side.

"This is also easy to understand," Yang Shuoming said, "since war is inevitable, choosing to win the war with all its might is the only option, and this former prime minister is a very realistic politician, such a choice is normal." ”

"Then shouldn't I be realistic and don't hold you back in Congress?" Liang Qichao seemed to have tasted the deep meaning of Yang Shuoming's words, and asked with a smile as if he was joking.

After Duan Qirui announced his resignation, the "Anfu Congress" also disappeared, and under Yang Shuoming's proposal, the National Assembly began to re-elect, and this time, due to the exclusion of irrelevant interference, the Research Department Progressive Party led by Liang Qichao and Lin Changmin achieved great success in all provinces, and finally became the largest party in the National Assembly, accounting for about half of the seats in the National Assembly, and the remaining seats were occupied by the Young People's Party, the National Socialist Party, the Department of Transportation and some other small parties.

Of course, Liang Qichao also understands that the realization of the goal he has been fighting for for many years has a lot to do with the young general in front of him.

The reason why he said what he just said was also the meaning of "reciprocating the peach".

"I don't dare to ask for ears." Yang Shuoming smiled and replied.

"I'm not a soldier and don't know much about military affairs, can Hanzhi briefly talk about your strategy? I'll be a helper when the time comes. Liang Qichao said.

Yang Shuoming nodded, turned around and asked Xi Xue to take the map and spread it on the table.

"My initial plan, the campaign will be launched in four phases."

"Phase I: Naval combat patrols in the Yellow and East Seas, blockade of the western seas of Korea, the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea, and control of sea supremacy from Jiaozhou Bay to the Liaodong Peninsula. The army deployed and assembled at Shanhaiguan and Liaoxi, separating the Japanese garrisons on the Liaodong Peninsula and Korea. At this stage, at the Gubeikou of the Great Wall, Kouwai, Shanhaiguan, and Jinzhou in western Liaoning, the expeditionary force troops, mainly returning from Europe, were assembled, with a total of 30 divisions. The main forces of the Southern Army were assembled in the Shandong and Qingdao areas to prepare for the second phase. At the end of the first phase, the troops outside the mouth began to advance towards the Kulunbarian Mountains in Outer Mongolia, with the target position southwest of Nebuchu and south of Ulan-Ude, in preparation for the third phase of the campaign. ”

"This is the first phase of the campaign, the main purpose is to deceive the campaign, the strategic build-up of troops, the estimated time is 26 to 40 days, and our army has now completed the tasks of this stage ahead of schedule."

"In the second stage, the army began to strategically shrink, and at the beginning stage, it took the initiative to withdraw troops from the Russian Primorsky region; The troops shrank to the front line of Miaojie and Hailanpao, and the rear was connected with the domestic troops in Manchuria and Hailar. After the Japanese army took the initiative to attack and leave the well-fortified coastal fortified area, the navy covered the main forces of the Southern Army in Shandong and Qingdao, landed on the Liaodong Peninsula, raided Lushun and Dalian from the back, seized the Liaodong Peninsula, and at the same time cut off the connection between the Japanese and Korean garrisons and the Kwantung Army units. ”

"The domestic troops stationed in the north-eastern region will advance out of the Hutou area and spread out in the enemy's rear to cut off the enemy's attack group from the Vladivostok coastal area; The Navy began to attack the Sea of Japan and the coastal areas of Japan, and my plan was to organize the two battleships and battle cruisers into the '2?2 Fleet,' and take the initiative to find the Japanese fleet to launch an attack and shell the Japanese coast, so that the Japanese Navy would not be able to support its land operations and completely cut off the Japanese mainland from Korea, Manchuria, and the Far East from the Japanese army. ”

"In the second phase, the focus is on speed, and the troops must be deployed to the banks of the Boli and Yalu rivers in the shortest possible time. The key point of the second stage was the landing operation on the Liaodong Peninsula and the blockade operation behind enemy lines in Boli. Tank units were stationed along with the troops of western Liaoning and Jinzhou, and when the southern army landed on the Liaodong Peninsula, it immediately attacked and interspersed with battles. The second phase is expected to be completed within 20 days. ”

"In the third stage, the main force of the army made an all-out attack in Shanhaiguan, Zhangjiakou, Liaoxi, and Jinzhou, and the northern front contained the Japanese troops in Hailanpao and Miaojie, quickly broke through the Japanese troops in Manchuria, and began to attack Vladivostok and other coastal fortified areas. At the same time, the Southern Army began to break through the Yalu River and launch an offensive into northern Korea, with the aim of containing the Korean garrison. Tank units departed from Burleigh and attacked from behind the enemy's flanks. The troops stationed in the Baltian Mountains began to attack the Russian cities of Ulan-Ude and Nebuchu, with the target meeting point northeast of Lake Baikal. ”,

"We launched the offensive in early summer, and we expect to complete all operations by the end of the fall."

"The fourth stage is to consolidate the results of the battle. Annihilated all Japanese forces in Manchuria, occupied the Primorsky Zone, the area north of the Taedong River in Korea, annihilated the main forces of the Japanese army in Russia, compressed the Japanese army on the four northern islands, and completely cut off the Japanese sea routes. The main forces of the army began to spread out in Irkutsk and Chita, attacking northward to seize the area from Irkutsk to the east of the Lena River, and at the same time sending troops to land along the coast in Mikino, Magadan and Kamchatka in the Far East. ”

After listening to Yang Shuoming's explanation, Liang Qichao couldn't help but gasp.

"Your Yang Hanzhi's heart is really big enough!"

"Although Hanzhi's plan is good, but when it comes to implementation, I'm afraid it won't be so smooth sailing." Lin Changmin also said with some worry, "After all, Japan's national strength is stronger than my country, can we eat a fat man in one bite?" ”

"If you don't open your mouth a little wider this time and bite them back, you won't have such a good chance in the future." Yang Shuoming said, "Besides, this time, our enemy is not only Japan. ”

Hearing Yang Shuoming's words, Liang Qichao's eyes lit up, and he turned his head to look at Yang Shuoming, bowing slightly.

"In a sense, the threat from Soviet Russia was greater. If you want to buy time for the country's development, this time you must give it a go! Yang Shuoming looked at Liang Lin and said, "So the Congress, please." ”

"It seems that not only the Congress, but also the work of this ink article will have to be done more." Liang Qichao nodded, laughed self-deprecatingly, and said.

At the beginning of the war, the Chinese National Assembly passed a resolution on emergency war against Japan, and Chinese Premier Xu Shichang declared that China would resolutely resist the Japanese invasion and not give up an inch of its territory.

On May 5, 1921, China passed a national emergency mobilization order, mobilizing 1 million reservists nationwide.

After learning of the news, the Japanese government announced that it would successively mobilize its navy and army to China, and openly defeated the Beijing government and annihilated China within three months. As the war became urgent, the Japanese military department decided to agree to the request of Lieutenant General Oi Naritato, commander-in-chief of the Siberian Dispatch Army, to send three more divisions from the mainland to reinforce the Far Eastern Theater.

On May 15, 1921, the newly established "League of Nations" passed a resolution condemning Japan's aggression against China. Western countries tried to mediate on many occasions, but in the end they failed because the Japanese side was too hard-lined.

Subsequently, the rumbling cannons of the Sino-Japanese war shook the whole world.

Quanzhou, Fujian.

Quanzhou is a natural deep-water harbor across the sea from Chinese mainland and Taiwan, with many fishing boats in the port, the city is brightly lit day and night, the port is full of people, and merchants and vendors are like swarms of ants transporting freshly caught seafood to the mainland.

Although the war between China and Japan had broken out at this time, the people here were still peaceful.

China has a vast land and a large population, and at this time, in the eyes of the people in the south, the war in the north is still far away from the south, not to mention that the common people are not soldiers, and they cannot stop working and eating because of the war. Therefore, in the current season, the incense in the Mazu temple is particularly vigorous, and the fishermen who pray for abundant food and clothing and safety in the years after burning incense and praying, they will carry the fishing nets, food, living utensils, etc. on the boat, and then say goodbye to their relatives and go to sea to fish.

Since the rebellion of the revolutionaries in the south was quelled, the entire coast of China, including the Taiwan Strait, has been calm and peaceful.

Today's Liangguang and Fujian have been building their homes in accordance with the development plan formulated by the original young and vigorous Liangguang patrol envoy.

Although the young general is now gone, there is a lot left for the local people wherever he goes.

Even Fujian Province, where this "high-tech warlord" rarely visits, has undergone great changes because of his connections.

At present, Fujian Province, because of the development of the shipbuilding industry, has been unable to hide its huge size, and has made huge profits in various industries in overseas markets, and the high-quality and low-cost Chinese industrial products that have quietly appeared in the international market have also made many people pay attention to the industrial strength of these Chinese coastal provinces. ,

The huge industrial zone that had been reported by foreign businessmen who had come to visit the shipbuilding industrial base in Fujian Province had been confirmed by intelligence officers from all over the world, but it was difficult for the Japanese who had been wearing colored glasses to accept this incredible fact.

The Japanese are unwilling and unwilling to believe that in remote, backward, impoverished and barbaric China, they can quietly own such a huge industry. This prejudice cannot be changed in a few days or years. For example, the Japanese have always been dismissive of Guangxi's industrial development, because in the eyes of the world, they all know that Guangxi is poor and backward, but if someone tells them that Guangxi now has dense industrial and commercial areas that are not inferior to those big cities in Japan, the reaction of ordinary Japanese people is to listen to these news as a joke.

It is because of these millennial prejudices that not only the Japanese, but also the intelligence agencies of many Western countries have scoffed at this kind of information.

But for the Chinese, the rapid development of the economy and the rapid improvement of people's livelihood have also brought some side effects.

Today's Chinese, influenced by the region, pay too much attention to their own interests. I don't care much about what happens outside of my province.

Like this war with Japan, in Fujian Province, although the local people had received early warnings from the government and knew that the war had started in the north, for them, the war seemed to be only a land affair and had nothing to do with them, the Chinese in the south.

They also seem to have forgotten who occupies and ravages Taiwan, which originally belonged to China, across the sea across the sea.

Chinese naval vessels tasked with fishing guards sometimes encountered Japanese warships coming out of the island, but most of the time the two sides just glared at each other angrily, went their own way, and did not take any hostile action.

But on this day, everything was different.

At this time, in a sea area near the Taiwan Strait, about 1,000 fishing boats from Zhejiang, Fujian, and Liangguang were fishing under the sea, and five Chinese Navy gunboats flying the five-colored national flag were carrying out normal fishing protection and patrol duties.

At about 9 o'clock in the morning, a Japanese water reconnaissance plane that had taken off from Taiwan flew over the fishing area, circled and reconnoitred for several minutes, and then turned around and flew eastward.

The Chinese fishermen who were working on the Japanese plane's reconnaissance were accustomed to seeing this, and they did not care about the Japanese plane, but stepped up their work at hand.

Because time is money during the fishing season, and every time the net is cast, there is a real hope of a good harvest, so people do not feel too much uneasiness about the frequent arrival of Japanese planes.

At about 11 o'clock in the afternoon, a light smoke rose from the distant sea to the northeast, and soon some faint spots appeared on the sun-lit horizon, and soon the moving gray spots became many shimmering shadows of boats, and some of the discerning Chinese fishermen recognized that it was a Japanese fleet that was heading towards them in full force and in battle formation. The Chinese fishermen, who were fishing, stopped what they were doing and looked up in surprise. They saw that these menacing gray big guys seemed to have bad intentions, and the muzzles of the black holes on the warships were raised, aiming at the fishing boats on the sea.

The fishermen sensed the danger, and some timid people began to quietly put away their nets and prepare to slip away, but most of the fishermen believed that this was a fishing ground on the high seas, and that the high seas were international waters, not the territorial waters of China or Japan, and that it was unthinkable for the Japanese to dare to shoot at so many unarmed civilians on the high seas.

At this time, several Chinese patrol gunboats that were tasked with protecting the fishing also noticed the actions of the Japanese fleet, and despite the huge disparity in strength, these gunboats still raised their guns high and aimed them at the Japanese ships, making a combat posture ready to fire at any time.

Time slipped away in an ominous confrontation.

Soon, in the afternoon, the Japanese fleet seemed intent on leaving, and most of the warships continued southward, and the few destroyers that remained also ceased hostilities and turned into slow cruising outside the fishing grounds. Many fishermen breathed a sigh of relief, believing that the Japanese were just bluffing, and rushed to catch fish with their heads in production.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, a heavy cloud covered the sky, a light wind rose on the sea, and the hazy night gradually enveloped the fishing grounds. The fishing boats that had been working all day began to move closer to each other, the oil lamps were lit, the smoke of the cooking stoves was rising, there were many long voices and calls of people in the fishing grounds, and the fishing grounds in the twilight were full of starry fishing fires. ,

But suddenly, a sharp whistle of cannonballs pierced the silence of the sea.

Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, the sinister Japanese warships began shelling the fishing boats. As the red light flashed on the Japanese warship, a long, whistling shell struck a Chinese fishing boat, and with a loud "boom", the poor wooden boat and its unsuspecting owner were immediately blown to pieces and reduced to burning wreckage on the sea. Immediately afterwards, the guns of the Japanese warships fired in unison, and countless high-speed shells were woven into a trembling arc-shaped net in the dark night air, firmly enveloping the entire fishing ground in a sea of death.

After the first round of artillery fire, a third of the wooden fishing boats on the sea were either destroyed or overturned by the water column generated by the explosion of large-caliber shells, and the remaining fishermen woke up like a big dream, throwing away the fishing nets still under the water and the survivors who had fallen into the water, and scattered for their lives in panic.

Two of the Chinese fishing boats were destroyed in the first round of enemy fire, and the few surviving gunboats fled in the direction of Quanzhou port as they fired back fire. But only a few minutes later, the Japanese ship's large-caliber naval guns buried the Chinese gunboat's hope of survival with precise fire, and a swarm of shells slammed into the Chinese gunboats with wings scrambled like black bats squeaking in the dark night. Next, the Japanese warships put on a posture of "night combat drills" and asked all officers and men to practice the drill of quickly capturing and destroying targets moving at sea under very low visibility at night.

At this time, the fishermen of Fujian, who were far away from the war and lived a relatively affluent life, finally realized bitterly that the war was not only a part of China, but also that the south would soon become a battlefield.

And the barbaric Japanese army is a common disaster for all Chinese, including the poor and rich in China.

On the battleship "Iwami", Vice Admiral Kiyokaze Yoshida looked at the terrible scene on the sea and showed a vicious smile.

"Keep firing and wipe out all the Chinese." He turned around and ordered, "This is a very good opportunity for night combat drills, and we must do it carefully." ”

"However, if you openly attack unarmed fishermen on the high seas, I am afraid that the word will be ...... to the Imperial Navy," a staff officer carefully reminded Yoshida Kiyokaze, but when he saw that his face was not good, he withdrew the words that followed.