The Japanese retreating corps did not continue to advance after receiving the news that Tianjin had been captured in the north and that Beiyang had been incorporated into the northwest, and they happened to be in a small county town with a cable telegraph.

Tianjin can't go back, if it's just Beiyang, even if it gets a large amount of weapons and equipment, and the strengthened Beiyang, it is not in the eyes of the Japanese, not to mention whether there are a million people in Beiyang, even if the personnel are equal, the same number, or even a slightly smaller number, the Japanese army can also charge and take down Tianjin, the difference is only in how much effort it has flew.

But now, Beiyang occupies Tianjin, annihilating the defenders of 3 wings, and the combat effectiveness of this point, and in a fortified city like Tianjin, no matter how confident the Japanese army is, it is impossible to go down in one go, which takes time, at least half a day, at most two or three days.

Time is the most deadly, the combat effectiveness of Beiyang, Japan can not be ignored, but the Northwest Army behind it, but the Japanese are afraid, all the division commanders, no one is willing to fight against the Northwest Army, in case of attacking the city, surrounded by the Northwest Army behind, there is a strong city in front and there are pursuers in the back, this is the end. This possibility is extremely great, and the Northwest Army is hanging behind it fifty or sixty kilometers away, and although it is not overly imminent, it also maintains considerable pressure.

With the help of limited telegraphs, the Japanese army was able to communicate with the rear anytime and anywhere. More and more information, more and more dangerous forms, so that all the Japanese officers were black-faced, one news was worse than the other, and no good news was heard at all.

This time, the army of millions is itself divided into 3 parts. However, because of the annihilation of Kawamura Jingming's army, there was still the loss of 500,000 troops. To a certain extent, the subsequent retreat has become a top priority. In order to ensure that the order was issued, it was finally elected, and the current commander-in-chief of the Japanese army is Prince Zaihito

Prince Zaihito was originally the commander-in-chief of the rear army, and after the suicide of Kawamura Keiaki and the large losses of the Chinese army, he became the person with the highest status, and in terms of identity, he was also top-notch among the Japanese army. Jaehito is a member of the Japanese imperial family. He is the sixteenth son of Prince Fushimi Miyakuni, who went to study in France at an early age, studied at a military school, and after graduation, served in the Japanese Army. He participated in the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, and was just promoted to general. In history, the series of arrangements for the assassination of Zhang Zuolin and the invasion of the Northeast are also related to this royal prince, who is a powerful figure in the military and a hawkish figure.

Prince Jaehito at this time. He was only in his 40s, and he was in the prime of life, and after he took control of the power of the Japanese army, he was also cautious. Without the slightest carelessness, successfully let the Japanese army, from the front line in Shandong. Retreat to the vicinity of Tianjin.

But there are still dozens of kilometers in Tianjin, less than 100 kilometers. When I was able to go back in a few days at most, I got the news of the fall of Tianjin. This news was like a slap in the face, which directly made Jae-in depressed.

Japan's ambitions for China, since 1895, have been fully demonstrated, the Sino-Japanese War in the First Sino-Japanese War, is a huge gamble, gambling on Japan's national fortunes, this time after winning the bet, Japan also recognized the Qing country's foreign strength after the middle trunk, Japan is an island country, started late, under the premise that the seven seas are occupied by Britain, when the world's major colonies are divided by foreign countries, away from them a sea, and extremely weak China, has become his natural prey, as long as China is taken, with China's huge territory, In addition, Japan should have something to do.

Zairen is one of the best, after clearly knowing the movements of the Japanese high-level, he also actively participated in it, whether it was the Sino-Japanese War or the Russo-Japanese War, it provided him with help and accumulation, especially after the outbreak of the European War, he saw an opportunity, an opportunity to use Korea as a springboard to occupy the three eastern provinces.

The ambitious Zairen not only has a detailed understanding of China's customs and culture, but also has a certain understanding of the Chinese strongmen at that time, especially the situation in Beiyang, Yuan Shikai, the character of the leader of the foreign powers who are unanimously optimistic, is also in the study, but now, such a strong guy, is actually willing to be subservient, which makes Zairen, who knows China very well, very puzzled, Yuan Shikai is taking the wrong medicine?

Whether Yuan Shikai took the wrong medicine, not to mention for the time being, the miserable status quo of the Japanese is a fact, Zairen has no better choice, especially the domestic news has not yet come, in the last contact, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs seems to be in contact with the powers.

The ghost CHU of the great powers is unreliable, this is very clear to Zairen, but before in Tianjin, he obtained a large amount of arms, although he did not have a good impression of the ghost CHU of the great powers, but Zairen knew that the great powers must have a plan, and sometimes, the necessary compromises still have to be made, especially in the current dilemma.

In fact, as soon as he got Beiyang's clear message, the foreign envoys were interfering, and the foreign envoys who stayed in Beijing were too low-level, and Beiyang easily blocked them out, so Zhu Erdian had no choice but to return to Beijing from Baotou, and then go directly to Yuan Shikai.

Although Zhu Erdian is the British ambassador, but the relationship with Yuan Shikai for many years, at the end of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he had a lot of support for Beiyang, and the follow-up continued, especially in his opinion, the reason why Beiyang has today is inseparable from the support of the British Empire, why is it so short-sighted, choosing to come together with the Northwest, is the Northwest more powerful than the British Empire.

However, the arrival of Zhu Erdian is destined to be in vain, at this time Yuan Shikai is still recuperating in the northwest, even in Beijing, he will not pay attention to Zhu Erdian, Yuan Shikai is a person with great rights, and he is also a person who understands current affairs, and even in his heart, the idea of the rise of China is still circling, but it is suppressed by **, with the time in Baotou in the northwest getting longer and longer, there is more and more understanding of Baotou, especially Yang Yuanzhao took her to see the large-scale Yellow River control project, This is the decisive determination of the strength of the Northwest.

The Yellow River is clear, the sage is out, this sentence has been circulated in the land of China for many years, no one has a solution to the Yellow River, but now, large-scale comprehensive management, under the situation of huge capital investment, the entire Yellow River Basin, the entire Loess Plateau, in the gradual change, although the naked eye is not very clear, the color difference of the Yellow River, but a series of standards show that the amount of sand in the Yellow River has decreased by 40% compared to before the treatment, this is only more time, less than half a year, when 5 years, Even when the 10-year system project is completed, and the Loess Plateau turns from yellow sand to green forest, the Yellow River will inevitably undergo a radical change.

Zhu Erdian, including foreign ministers, had no way to take Beiyang and Northwest at all, and they could not directly intervene, they could only choose targets to influence, and Japan was an important link in the middle, and Japan must not be allowed to lose completely.

Britain, France, and the United States began to get together to discuss how to solve this problem, if we want to maintain Japan's strength, we must first rescue the Japanese army, which has lost hundreds of thousands in Qingdao before, plus this time the loss is close to one million, and the remaining million, if all the end is in China, it will be a nightmare for Japan, and it will take two or three years for Japan to recover its strength, which is not in the interests of the great powers.

The sudden rise of the Northwest, especially the close relationship between the Northwest and Germany, made the Entente quite vigilant, and under the premise that the United States had joined the Entente, no one wanted the Northwest Army Power to join the Allied Powers, once Germany and China launched an attack on Russia at the same time, it would be a nightmare for the Entente, and Germany could not mobilize enough troops, which would pose a threat to Russia, but the combination of the two countries could directly make Russia withdraw from the Entente.

For the first time, several countries felt that it was correct to let Russia completely abandon Europe and go all out to teach the northwest a lesson, but this firepower was not enough, and Japan must be added, without Japan, relying only on the strength of Russia, I am afraid that it is really not necessarily the opponent of the northwest, whether it is the Nanjing War in the south, or the Texas War in the north, the strength of the northwest is already undoubted, not to mention, 400 million people, under the mobilization capacity, Russia alone is not an opponent in terms of numbers.

But how to rescue, first of all, of course, the merchant ships, after Japan began to contact, the merchant ships were ready, almost 1.2 million tons of merchant ships from all over the world, to Tianjin, China, but around Tianjin, less than 50 kilometers long, there are a large number of Northwest Army and Beiyang troops, 1 million Japanese troops, in fact, squeezed in a small area, a slight movement, you can see clearly, the ship is no problem, the volume of transportation is no problem, just how to get on the ship.

This is the biggest problem, the Northwest Army's encirclement of the Japanese army, in fact, has been formed, the encirclement on three sides, the farthest distance is only about 70 kilometers, the nearest almost reached 55 kilometers, such a distance, once the Japanese army is close to the coastline, the Northwest Army will definitely know the movements of the Japanese army, as long as it is slightly closer, it can form a tighter and tighter encirclement, 1 million troops, layer upon layer on the beach, can only be a target, it is not easy to leave.

Several ministers thought for a long time, there was no good way, so they had to determine the fleet and the place of pick-up, and the rest was handed over to the Japanese to have a headache, no matter what, they just played an auxiliary role, and it was still up to the Japanese to really save themselves, if it weren't for the Japanese being too arrogant, and devoting the whole country to Shandong, but the head was broken and bleeding on the front line of Dezhou, it would not be the current dilemma.

The irresponsibility of the powers, and the news that there was not even a result of the negotiations, reached the Japanese War Department, and they wailed, and they had no good way to save the Japanese army, so they could only expect Zairen himself to report the information to Zairen through cable telegrams, and then let him play on his own, and he must get as many people back as possible, at all costs. (To be continued.) )