Three days later, Yang Rui, who was handling official business, received an invitation, and when he looked closely, it was Zhang Zongchang's wedding wine, and he asked Xu Liezu, "What is this Zhang Zongchang going to do?" Marry a wife at this time? ”

"Sir, it's a concubine, this Zhang Zongchang has a wife in his hometown in Shandong." Xu Liezu knew that Yang Rui was very unclear about some folk customs, so he explained.

"And who is this woman? How did it come from? Is there an investigation on the part of the Ministry of Political Affairs? Yang Rui asked. Espionage has always been an important part of the work of the Renaissance Army, especially after joining the Russian army, the task has become heavier, and it has been found that at least one of the ten Chinese hired by the Russian army is a spy who has been bought by the Japanese army. Before the establishment of the Intelligence Bureau, this work was the responsibility of the Ministry of Political Affairs.

"Sir, I've checked it over there, and there's no problem. This woman's name is Xiao Jinfeng, she was originally the concubine of the bearded Yang Daxin in Heilongjiang, and last year this Yang Daxin died, so this little Jinfeng accepted his team and became a big boss himself. I don't know how she brought someone to Liaodong this time, two days ago she faced Zhang Zongchang in the casino in Zhangyi City, you also know that Zhang Zongchang is good, he gambled with this little Jinfeng all night, and finally lost to Xiao Jinfeng with money...... Later, I didn't know how the two got along, so he wanted to marry Xiao Jinfeng as a concubine. Xu Liezu has seen the investigation results of the Ministry of Political Affairs, and only thinks that this Zhang Zongchang is really an adventure, he met a beautiful widow, and he also got both people and money.

"Well, that's it. Looks like I'm going to drink the wedding wine. Zhang Zongchang was a general of the "three unknowns" in later generations, one of which he didn't know was "I don't know how many wives there were", Yang Rui was not surprised that he married a concubine, he played with the pen in his hand and said.

Zhang Zongchang's wedding banquet seemed to want to be very pompous, and the drunken fairy building in the city was wrapped up by him, and the Russian Maozi in the army heard that there was wine to drink. And Yang Rui, as the commander of the first army, had to go to Daohe. At six o'clock in the evening of the 22nd, Yang Rui put down all the things in his hand and went to the city for a banquet, the banquet started at seven o'clock, and he didn't want to be late.

Drunken Immortal Building is the most magnificent restaurant in the city, it is said that it is the industry of a certain Lord Shi, for the wedding banquet the whole building is arranged very bright, the lantern is hung on the street, Yang Rui just got off the horse, the door official's "distinguished guest arrived" has not been shouted, Zhang Zongchang is full of joy and brings the bride out to greet the ceremony. The bride was dressed in red and covered with a headscarf, although she couldn't see her appearance clearly, but she should be a beauty when she looked at that figure. Among the waves of people who came out, in addition to Zhang Zongchang and his wife, there was also a beautiful woman in red standing next to the bride. It seems that I don't know if it's a bridesmaid or a maid. Yang Rui was about to say something congratulatory, but the suona next to him rang out. I don't know who lit the firecrackers. The crackling sound kept coming, and it was hard to speak, so he could only enter the house and sit down under Zhang Zongchang's greeting.

Although there was no banquet in the restaurant at this time, the beards were already drinking, and the fists were lively, but as soon as Yang Rui entered the door. The voice in the hall suddenly became smaller, and the beards of the second division sitting at the banquet all looked at Yang Rui, and privately said, "The mountain carving is here, ......", most of them have only heard of the mountain carving. There are very few people who have really seen it, and Yang Rui only made a square gesture when he saw this, and went inside. After Xu Liezu waited for Yang Rui to take the seat, he stepped aside and whispered to Li Erhu, who was already waiting here, "What's the situation, is it safe?" ”

"Recently, the whole city has been cleared once, and a lot of people have been arrested, and everyone in the restaurant has also been investigated, and none of them have been allowed to come if there is a problem. Then there is the wine and food that I sent someone to make, and there are also our people watching and doing it in the stove, and we will test the poison when it is done, and it will be kept foolproof. "Yang Rui's safety is the focus of countless people's work in the past few days, and Li Erhu also knows this completely, for this, he hasn't closed his eyes for several days," Damn, just for a pheasant woman, we are as tired as dead dogs. What's going on? ”

Xu Liezu's impression of Zhang Zongchang is not very good, but he can't speak according to Li Erhu's meaning, "He is the person who was helped up by Ou Maozi, and he is the commander of the second division, and the commander always has to write face, after all, he is a soldier." ”

The specific defense plan was made by Xu Liezu with several staff officers, although Zhangyi City was already under the jurisdiction of the Independent Army, but he was still very nervous, and no one else was afraid, but he was afraid that the Japanese would make it bad, so he kept an eye on it everywhere.

Xu Liezu was nervous here, but Yang Rui completely relaxed on the banquet. At the head of the happy event, Zhang Zongchang was grinning, his face was full of red light, and he drank with Yang Rui vigorously. Yang Rui was very happy to see him, and he couldn't refute his face, and after a few cups, his expression was a little confused. In the haze, he only smelled a fragrant wind around him, and a pleasant voice in his ear called out, "Da Shuai..." With this voice, Yang Rui turned his head to look, but saw that it was the woman in red next to the bride before, he didn't look at this woman carefully, but now when he got closer, he saw that her skin was white and tender, but the powder on her face and the red mark specially drawn in the middle of her lips made Yang Rui from modern times dare not look more.

Yang Rui's momentary sluggishness made this woman called Xiao Yinfeng shy, and her heart was happy, she had heard a lot of the prestige of the mountain carving, before the storyteller said that he was eight feet tall and eight feet long, and the people who listened to the book were all laughing, only saying that this gentleman was nonsense, eight feet tall and eight feet long, so the whole person was not square? I don't know how Xiao Yinfeng thought of this joke after pouring wine, she couldn't help laughing, she got up embarrassedly before the wine was full, just go, but when she left, she also gently touched her arm on Yang Rui's shoulder intentionally or unintentionally before leaving.

The small collision between Yang Rui and Xiao Yinfeng Zhang Zongchang didn't see it at all, but the little Jinfeng covered with red yarn looked carefully, a few days ago she passed guò Zhang Zongchang has asked about the mountain carving several times, today her sister is here to see the mountain carving, now seeing the mountain carving seems to be a little interesting to her sister, she pinched Zhang Zongchang under the table, Zhang Zongchang drank so hard that he felt a pain, I don't know what's going on, Xiao Jinfeng attached a few words in his ear, so he put down the wine bowl and said to Yang Rui Zhengse: "Handsome, This ......" Xiao Jinfeng repeatedly explained to him last night, but he forgot for a while, and he really didn't know what to say, so he said directly: "Dashuai, my sister-in-law is handsome, but she doesn't have a mother-in-law's family, if Dashuai doesn't dislike it, it's okay to send it to Dashuai's camp?" ”

As soon as he said this, he said. The whole table was stunned, several beards suddenly laughed, and Xiao Yinfeng, who was waiting on the side, hurriedly hid out of the room in shame. Although he didn't have a good impression of Xiao Yinfeng, Yang Rui couldn't refute everyone's face, and said, "You Lao Zhang still take care of your own mouth." Now the war is about to begin, this battle is not as easy as the last time, the enemy and our armies have to divide the victory and defeat, if there is something ....... ”

As soon as it is said that the war is about to start, everyone has a heart in their hearts, and the battlefield is very dangerous. Even if the commander of any brigade in Japan is besieged, he will have to die a few, and no one can say whether he will still be alive after this battle, and for a while, the joy in the room has become much thinner and more solemn. After Yang Rui finished speaking, he didn't expect such a result, so he had to take the wine bowl and say again: "What do you do with so many, there is wine today and drunk today." Come on, drink it and talk about it! ”

I haven't drunk alcohol in a long time. Once you let go, drink freely. Especially for soldiers in war, it is not so easy to face life and death. Yang Rui was drunk the next morning, when he woke up and was used to touching the cigarette, he found that his right hand was numb and did not obey the call, and he turned his head and was startled in his heart, it turned out that there was a woman sleeping next to him. The woman was sleeping on his arm, although the military quilt was large, it did not cover all the women, and a piece of fragrant shoulders was exposed under the black hair. Along the gap between the quilt and her belly pocket, it seems that the snow-white bulge on her chest can be seen...... Seeing this, Yang Rui had a longing in his heart, but looking at her sleeping face again, he felt that she was still not as good-looking as Cheng Ying...... Thinking of a slightly hard part of Cheng Ying and Yang Rui, it was completely soft, and when he was slowly about to pull his arm out, the woman on the bed was woken up.

"Handsome ......" The woman looked at Yang Rui and shouted softly, and when she saw her exposed fragrant shoulders, she was ashamed for a while.

"Uh... You..., did you wake up? Yang Rui didn't know what to say all of a sudden, he didn't know how this woman came out of nowhere, yes, it seemed to be the sister of Zhang Zongchang's concubine, what was it called, he couldn't remember it for a while, he couldn't help but stare at the fragrant shoulder that she wanted to cover but didn't cover, Yang Rui felt that something was already rising on his body.

Seeing the man staring at her, the woman turned around shyly, but after a while she calmed down, and when she was about to come over, Yang Rui had already extinguished the flames, and got up to get the clothes on the stool next to the bed. He was about to get dressed here, but he saw a jade hand stretched out to serve, Yang Rui was not taboo, but he got dressed and went out, he was now going to Xu Liezu to ask how this woman came from, which made him very confused - he felt that there were many things wrong, but he didn't know what was wrong.

"Sir, this ......" Xu Liezu really didn't know what to say, "Mr. was drunk last night, and this woman was with Mr., and later saw that Mr. was inconvenient to ride a horse, so Zhang Zongchang got a sedan chair, and the woman was in the sedan chair at the time, and she said that Mr. asked her to accompany her...... I look at the sir...... She, just ......"

Dizzy, let's talk about it, or is it drunk and messy? "What's wrong with me? Explain it clearly! Yang Rui still has some confidence in his character, he never goes crazy when he is drunk, and he is very quiet, which is also one of the reasons why he dares to get drunk.

"Mr. ...... Hugging her, I... It's not easy to stop..."Xu Liezu said very difficult, but at least his words reminded Yang Rui of some things at that time.

"Okay, I got it." After listening to Xu Liezu's words, Yang Rui's face was a little hot, he was a teacher, but now he was drunk and disorderly, he really shouldn't be drunk. After understanding the reason, Yang Rui was about to go back, and Xu Liezu said again: "Sir, Qingyuan called last night......

As soon as he heard that Qi Qingyuan was calling, Yang Rui had no idea of going back to the camp, he didn't call if it was a big deal, and his work and rest had always been to work at night, but now it was daytime, and it would be delayed for several hours.

Yang Rui arrived at the General Staff, Qi Qingyuan had two things in the telegram, one was that according to the plan, the two hundred dead soldiers who went to India to pan for gold were about to set off, and the Russo-Japanese naval war was about to begin. When it comes to the funding of the Antongfeng Railway, Yang Rui has been preparing for a year, and now the personnel are just acting according to the plan.

The previous thing is a routine report, and the second thing is to ask for instructions, Qi Qingyuan and the Japanese have already caught up with the line, and the Japanese want to command Qi Qingyuan's department according to the model of the Manchurian Volunteer Army, which is completely different from the plan given by Yang Rui before. Yang Rui's meaning is only the division of labor and cooperation, that is, Qi Qingyuan's troops will attack the Russian army in Fushun, and the time of the attack can be coordinated with the Japanese army, but the specific offensive plan is beyond the control of the Japanese, especially the Japanese proposal for officers to join the command of the troops, which is not to be considered. The two sides had great differences, and Qi Qingyuan came to ask for instructions on this matter, and in addition, he seemed to feel the Japanese army's plot from the Japanese army's attack requirements, and a large part of the telegram was an analysis of the Japanese army's strategy this time.

"Call back, the Japanese army can send a liaison officer to Huairen County. We promise to inform the Japanese army of the battle report in a timely manner, but we have the right to decide on the specific strategy of attacking the Russian army. In addition, those requirements 1, 3, 4, and 7 are all smoke bombs, which do not necessarily have to be fulfilled by the Japanese army, but when talking specifically, we must make the other party feel that these points are the most important to our side. In fact, we just need to grasp the coal mine, and nothing else matters. "A lot of things in the Japanese army don't match the Revival Army. Bullets, shells are not of the right caliber. It's just that the Japanese gave themselves 10,000 guns, and if they asked for it, they asked for it in vain, and it was nonsense to really start a war without backup. "Also, it was the death squad who toasted them on my behalf, wishing them all the best." Yang Rui said, in fact, he really wanted to see him off in person. It's just that people and places are separated, and if you want to send it, you can send it. After the clerk finished dictating the last points of Yang Rui's dictation, he asked Yang Rui to sign and send the report. As soon as he left, Yang Rui read Qi Qingyuan's content on the Japanese army's offensive strategy several times, and pondered it on the map.

Follow the history. The plan of the Japanese army in the Battle of Mukden was to strike again, first mobilize troops to storm the left flank of the Russian army, that is, the Fushun area, and after Kuropatkin thought that the focus of the Japanese army was on the left flank and dropped a large number of reserves to the left flank, the Japanese army let Nogi's Third Army storm the right flank of the Russian army, so as to attract the remaining Russian reserves to the right flank, attack the two flanks and mobilize the enemy's reserves to achieve the goal, and finally the Japanese second and fourth armies attacked to the death in order to break through the central front of the Russian army.

To be honest, the historical Kuropatkin completely followed the baton of Kodama Gentaro, he did not see through the Japanese army's plan at all, and after the war started, he transferred the reserve to the mountain and forest area on the left flank, and 100% fell into the Japanese army's plan. However, the Japanese army also miscalculated, that is, the central position of the Russian army was too strong, and the second and fourth armies in the central position could not break through, and in the end, the Japanese army could only count on Nogi's third army to outflank the right flank of the Russian army and achieve the goal of encircling the Russian army. As soon as Kuropagent saw that there was a danger of being surrounded by the Japanese army, especially cutting off the railway, he hurriedly ordered a retreat, and it was very difficult to retreat between the fierce battles, and the coordination of the troops would inevitably be chaotic, and it was difficult to stabilize the morale of the army, and the result of this order was that the troops on the right flank and the central position retreated smoothly because of the convenient transportation, but the retreat of the troops in the mountains and forests of the left flank was tragic because of poor communication, and most of the tens of thousands of Russian troops captured in the end of this battle were left-wing troops.

According to Qi Qingyuan's telegram, the Japanese army wanted him to attack the Russian army in the Fushun area, and according to the map, the leftmost flank of the Russian army was actually Qinghe City in the Benxi area, which was more than 70 kilometers away from Fushun in a straight line, and it was relatively forward in the entire Russian defense line. It was the newly formed detachment that defended the place. Qi Qingyuan's telegram said that the Japanese army had fully fulfilled all his demands, and there was only one condition, that is, to attack to the death, regardless of casualties. From this point of view, the Japanese army still used the previous method according to historical inertia, and hit again in the east. Since his strategy hasn't changed, then he can rest assured.

Yang Rui excitedly took the telegram and was about to explain the Japanese army's plan to Leo in detail, although he knew that he had not yet opened his mouth and handed over an order, Leo said: "The group army headquarters ordered us to move to Sifangtai in three days, and it is expected to start attacking on the 29th." ”

Yang Rui was very surprised when he received the order, but after reading it, he slapped the telegram and scolded: "Damn, treat us like monkeys!" The previous time was this plan, why is it still this plan this time, those sub-staff officers are full of panic?! "This battle plan is exactly the same as the plan of the previous battle of Heigoutai, if it weren't for the difference in date and signature, Yang Rui would have thought it was a month ago.

Seeing this, Leo also smiled and said: "I'm also surprised, but the order is like this, I have already interrogated the staff, this attack plan is the same as the last time, but the commander is different." According to Colonel Madrydov, the staff officers of the War Department found that the troops on the left flank of the Japanese army had been transferred back after the retreat of the Russian army after the last battle, and afterwards they judged that the last attack should have hit the weak point of the Japanese army, and now they all regret the last retreat, believing that as long as there is another such attack, and the Third Army on the central front also responds at the same time, then the Japanese army will definitely be defeated. ”

"A lot of things don't work out just one more time." Yang Rui said that although he didn't want the Russian army to win, it was still very embarrassing to lose the opportunity last time, "Now the Japanese are also planning an offensive, and the offensive plan of the General Headquarters will not be realized." As he spoke, Yang Rui marked the general attack plan of the Japanese army on the sand table, and then quickly erased it. (To be continued......)