9oo31983

Facing the morning glow, a military train roared into the Nanguan Railway Station of Shanhaiguan, and all the springs of the more than ten carriages were compressed to the extreme, which showed that the goods loaded in the carriages were very heavy, and they would definitely not be soldiers. It can only be weapons and ammunition.

As soon as the train entered the station, the sweaty porters unloaded the loaded goods from the carriage under the command of the foreman according to the instructions of the military representative stationed at the station, large wooden boxes, small wooden boxes, all the wooden boxes were heavy, and the block letters on the top were all written "military supplies" without exception As for the small characters, it was nothing more than "rifle shells and shells" and the like, as for the new nouns, but they were "light machine guns" and "submachine guns" and the like, but the wooden boxes could not be opened, and the porters could not see what kind of foreign guns they were.

Although the representative of the garrison did not say it explicitly. But the porters at the railway station all understand that these military supplies are prepared for the temporary formation of the 1st Division of the National Defense Force stationed in Shanhaiguan, and yesterday afternoon "all the troops of the division have been stationed in the city from the garrison near Shanhaiguan, as long as they have a little military knowledge, they can understand that this 1st Field Infantry Division is about to be pulled, as for where to go, although the people do not know, but judging from the empty trains that have stopped at the Shanhaiguan Railway Station in the past two days, this army will definitely drive along the railway line. Either north or south.

From yesterday to today, there were several military trains that continued to enter the Shanhaiguan South Station to unload their goods, and some of them stopped with those empty trains after entering the station, which were obviously pulled together with the infantry, and some trains unloaded the military supplies loaded on the cars after entering the station, and these weapons and ammunition were obviously to be immediately equipped with the infantry division.

Today, before dawn, the porters of the Shanhaiguan South Railway Station had already unloaded a military train, which was loaded with American canned food, and the net was unloaded, and the train network sounded the whistle, and before it left the railway station, another military train came, but this trip was the real ammunition, the ammunition used to kill people.

Loading so many munitions shows that the 1st Qiao Infantry Division is probably not carrying out ordinary military tasks, but going to war, which the representative of the garrison army did not say clearly, but the hearts of the porters are still clear. If you want to say that who has seen a lot these days, except for those compradors in foreign companies, there are really not many people who are more knowledgeable than this sharp station porter.

When the munitions were unloaded from the train, they were piled up on the platform, guarded by guards with guns, and they were not afraid of sabotage. Not afraid that someone will come to steal, now the railway capacity inside and outside the Guanxi is insufficient, not a single train can follow the 1 wounded infantry division, the more new-style locomotives, the more they have to undertake the task of transporting the arms, in the past two days, the railway line inside and outside the Guanxi is the busiest Tianjin Railway Station and this Shanhaiguan Railway Station.

The munitions train has not yet been unloaded. There were a few long whistles from the south, and another train was about to enter the station, which was a civil train, running according to the train schedule, but now all the platforms of this Nanguan railway station were full of trains, and the train could not enter the station, so it had to stop outside the railway station and wait for the platform to be emptied.

Fortunately, the train was not a wagon. It is a passenger car, the terminal station is this Shanhaiguan, the passengers on the train do not need the help of the porter to get off the small since the Shanhaiguan railway station is in front of you, then most of the passengers on the car chose to get off in advance, dragging their luggage to Shanhaiguan on foot.

As one of the passengers, Mr. Morrison, the editor-in-chief of the Far East of the British newspaper "The Times", is not the first time to come to this "first pass in the world", in fact, he has come to work just before the last Civil War. It was at Shanhaiguan that he was officially informed of the United Front's victory in the congressional elections, so that he had to interrupt his planned trip and go south to Nanking to report on the impending armed conflict between the North and the South.

Now that the war had long since subsided, the center of the country had changed owners, and Mr. Steder had officially taken over the post of American Minister to China, thus making his career smoother and more promising, and even the French captain, who had always remained drunk, had now opened his branch to Shenyang, which was the former city of Mukden.

The world is impermanent, who would have imagined that? The revolution that broke out at the end of last year in this Far Eastern country changed the fate of so many people in less than a year, and Chinese and foreigners seemed to be caught together by an invisible hand of destiny, and from time to time they were ruthlessly fiddled with by this hand, and some people were unlucky. For example, Xu Shichang, Yuan Shikai, Cao Key, Chen Qimei, and some people are lucky, such as Li Yuanhong, Tang Xiangming, 6 Rong Ting, Jiang Guidi,

And what about Morrison himself? He belongs to the unlucky group, or to the lucky one

Person?

Morrison thought he might be one of the luckier ones, and before the revolution he was a small special correspondent. But after the revolution, he soon seized the opportunity to become the editor-in-chief of the newspaper's Far Wings, although his luck was far less than that of those who rose to prominence. But compared to those who had fallen behind in the revolutionary era, fate was very kind to Morrison.

Fate seems to be unpredictable, but through careful analysis, Morrison still found the key to this hand of fate, that is, the current president of the Republic of China, Zhao Bei Zhao Zhenhua, whoever offends him, who will be unlucky, whoever follows him closely, who will be lucky, this point, Morrison is very convinced, so he now rushed to Shanhaiguan.

Although Zhao Bei rushed to inspect Shanhaiguan yesterday morning, it was not until noon yesterday that the mouthpiece newspaper of the United Front, the "Pioneer Daily," officially reported the president's whereabouts and introduced in a high-profile manner the significance of the president's visit to Shanhaiguan. This infantry division is about to move north out of Shanhaiguan and move to the three eastern provinces.

As a politically astute journalist, Morrison almost immediately understood the true intention of the 1st Wounded Infantry Division to move to the three eastern provinces, which was to tell the world that the central government of China is fully capable and confident of maintaining the stability of the situation in the three eastern provinces and does not need other countries to point fingers.

When Japan and Russia went to war in the northeast region of China, the two countries unscrupulously demarcated the so-called "war zone" on the territory of China, not only refusing the squadron to enter this area, but also the so-called is another important reason for the rise of horse bandits outside the Guan.

After the end of the Russo-Japanese War, the Qing court finally sought an "understanding" between Japan and Russia, so it sent the Beiyang New Army out of Shanhaiguan to the north, and stationed in the three eastern provinces in the name of attacking and suppressing bandits, but the garrison was still strictly restricted. It all relies on some so-called "patrol teams" to maintain order, and many of these "patrol teams" are recruited by bandits, and the order of the three eastern provinces is basically maintained by these green forest heroes.

But now, with the 1st Qiao Infantry Division of the National Defense Force temporarily marching out of the pass to the north, the Chinese government army can soon be seen on the ground in the three eastern provinces, which is a regular army, which is not only stronger in combat effectiveness, but also a symbol of sovereignty.

How did the international community react to this "outrageous" move by the Chinese central government?

The American and German envoys to China were optimistic about the relocation of the 1st Wounded Infantry Division to the three eastern provinces, and both envoys made their positions clear to the press. That is, "the three eastern provinces are Chinese territory" and the Chinese government army has every reason to station there and suppress bandits, thus clearing the way for local commerce and trade.

The British and Russian envoys to China took a "cautious wait-and-see" attitude towards the relocation of the 1st Wounded Infantry Division to the three eastern provinces, and they did not express their support. There is no sign of strong opposition, only to remind the central government of China that the issue of the three eastern provinces is complicated, and it is hoped that the central government of China will act "prudently".

The Japanese minister to China even clamored for the "international forces" to stop any act of "undermining the existing order in Manchuria," but the clamor was clamour, and the Japanese were singing a one-man show, and no government of any country openly echoed the clamor of the Japanese government, and even Britain, Japan's European ally, was indifferent to Japan's jumping up and down.

Since the "international forces" are indifferent to this, then, the Japanese can only unilaterally exert diplomatic pressure on the central government of China, so. On the way to Shanhaiguan on this civilian train, Morrison saw the Japanese Minister to China, Hikoyoshi Ijiin, and also saw several civil and military attaches of the Japanese Legation in China in the first-class carriage. Obviously, they were in the same hurry as Morrison to get to Shanhaiguan, and they were so anxious that they didn't have time to hang up the special car.

But a diplomat is a diplomat after all. The rack still had to be laid out, so when Morrison and the group of Chinese and foreign passengers got off the train and walked to the Shanhaiguan railway station, the Japanese diplomats were still in the carriage and refused to get off, and they seemed to be planning to get off the train directly on the platform.

For the purpose of the visit of the Japanese minister. Morrison could guess a rough idea, and although the other party refused his interview, Morrison knew it very well. The Japanese minister came to negotiate with the president of the Republic of China against this international background, and his intimidation will certainly not succeed, and China is not fighting alone, as long as the bottom line is maintained, then the great powers will definitely not take joint action.

This can be seen from the attitude of the British government, even as an ally of Japan, Britain will never take risks in the Far East at this time, after all, Britain's strategic center of gravity is in Europe, and Britain prefers that Tsarist Russia will continue to place its strategic center of gravity in Europe, and will not turn to Asia because of changes in the situation in the three eastern provinces.

Japan has Japan's national interests. Britain has Britain's national interests, China has China's national interests, and even Mr. Morrison himself has his own personal interests.

Interests are paramount, this is always the general law of human society.