The room in Yang Rui's office is a sturdy stone house, perhaps French-style, the room is very clean, the walls are painted snow-white, and the windows are wider than ordinary buildings. It was raining outside at this time, and through the bright glass window, Xu Jingxi only saw the dripping raindrops hitting the palm-sized leaves of the plane trees in the yard, although he couldn't hear the sound of the rain, but seeing the slightly swaying leaves, he seemed to be able to feel the coolness and wetness of the raindrops.

There are no plane trees in the Northeast, only boundless and tall pine trees. I'm used to seeing the tall trees in the northeast, and I always feel too soft when I look at the trees in the south...... Xu Jingxi's mind believed in the reins, and in order not to cry, he just rambled to think about something that he didn't know. It's just an hour later, Yang Rui has roughly read the outline of the entire plan, although he hasn't looked at the details, he still has some things to ask, and these questions are all recorded in his notebook.

"Why August 15?" Yang Rui asked the first question, this was the time of the uprising, that is, October 6, 1911, which had to remind him of the Wuchang Uprising in later generations, and he remembered that it seemed to be October 10.

"Sir, the choice of the Mid-Autumn Festival is mainly due to the temple fair in the capital, and the fact that the Jinpu Railway will be opened to traffic at this time, which is beneficial to our control of Zhili, Shandong and Jiangsu." Hearing Yang Rui's question, Xu Jingxi immediately came back to his senses, the plan was the last one he put together, and he understood every detail very well.

"The Jinpu Road was jointly built by China and Britain, and the foreigners are forbidden to transport troops, what should I do?" Yang Rui asked. He was a little unhappy when he heard about Jinpu Road, which cost as much as 50,000 taels per kilometer. Now that the road is being repaired, I am afraid that 50,000 taels per kilometer is not enough, and this is simply made up by foreigners and officials who fill their own pockets.

"Foreigners are just loans. Although there is a Sino-foreign joint venture management company, if the arms and soldiers are transported separately, the possibility of protest is very small, and even if there is a protest, it will have to be compulsory. The plan includes a compensation plan for the railway companies after the railway takeover, including Jinghan and Shanghai-Nanjing, which will be forcibly taken over if necessary. Xu Jingxi said.

"Hmmm! Good. Yang Rui nodded and said, "How to guard along the railway?" ”

"In addition to important sites, bridges. In general, the place was guarded by the peasant militia in various places. Xu Jingxi said.

When Yang Rui was in Shandong, he saw the patrol of the peasant association, and he said, "How to solve the weapon?" ”

"The General Staff calculated that the militia had no way to shoot each person. It can only be equipped with grenades and red tassel guns. The First Military Factory could only supply the Northeast Army, and the Second Military Factory produced 2,000 rifles a month, and now it has produced 8,000 rifles, and even before the uprising, it can only produce 54,000 rifles. Now there will be fourteen divisions in the country. Four separate brigades. Although some units already have rifles, they are still 4,000 short of the 70,000 rifles that are missing, and the South African Army is still short of 15,000 rifles because it had previously stockpiled rifles to ship to the country. The only guns that can be equipped with the militia now are 10,000 old rifles from Yanzhou, and then there are the stocks seized by the manufacturing bureaus in Jiangnan, Nanjing, Jinan, and Tianjin. Xu Jingxi said.

"100,000 militiamen, 10,000 old rifles, too few, this is one shot for ten people." Yang Rui thought of the rows of militiamen holding red tassel guns. I shook my head, but I knew that this was the reality. The guns for the uprising are not enough, not to mention the militia, even the regular army has to be short of more than 10,000 guns.

"Yes. But this is a last resort. Now the military factory has all three shifts, and people are down and don't stop. Now the only thing we have enough is grenades and mortar shells. "As a senior staff officer, Xu Jingxi fully knows that it is not easy to buy military equipment." If the Yanzhou and Yizhou base areas can annihilate a large number of Qing soldiers before the uprising, then the more weapons are captured, the militia will be equipped with more rifles, and the other way is to purchase firearms and smuggle them into the country through guò to make up for the lack of firearms. ”

"The weapons of the militia still depend on the seizures." Yang Rui thought about it and said, "If the regular army does not have enough weapons before the uprising, then buy it abroad, or buy 96 Mauser, and buy it in South America." ”

After talking about the weapon, Yang Rui withdrew his thoughts and said, "What will happen if the Northeast raises a day late?" ”

Yang Rui's question is very strange, other places are synchronized with Beijing, and the Northeast is the top priority, Xu Jingxi had no choice but to say: "Please also sir, why should the Northeast be delayed by one day?" ”

Yang Rui actually couldn't make up his mind about whether the Northeast would delay the uprising for a day. His idea was that the South Manchurian region should not belong to the same system as the Fuxing Society on the surface, and that it would create a situation like Zhang Zuolin during the Republic of China. The reason for this, first, is that it is easy to cheat the Japanese people's money, because this form is the favorite of the Japanese, and in order to buy it, they will do everything to buy it; The second was to lure Japan out in 1914. At that time, North China and Northeast China had a military exercise at Shanhaiguan, which made Japan believe that China was in civil strife and that its occupation of Jiaodong was not a threat. In addition, in the event of wartime expansion, South Manchuria could return to the center in due course, and the revival army would break through into northern Korea, and it would be entirely possible for the Japanese to occupy Seoul without defense. However, the revival army can only reach Seoul, and will withdraw after negotiations, and the rest depends on whether the Goryeo stick is competitive.

The reason why Yang Rui wants to fight a war with the Japanese is not just because of hatred of Japan, but because the East Asia-Pacific region is small, and China rises, then Japan will go down, and vice versa. Perhaps this war can be put after World War I, but Yang Rui does not want small Japan to grow through World War I, during the First World War, Japan not only paid off its old debts, but also made a lot of money, and most of this money was obtained by buying raw materials and selling goods through his colonial network in China. If Japan takes back its domestic lease under the pretext of the Shandong War, refuses to recognize Japan's preferential treatment of the great powers, and suppresses Japanese imports, then the market share vacated by this and the background of high prices in World War I will increase the dividends of the state and the people.

Because the scale of China's industry before World War I cannot be counted, the specific benefits of the suppression of Japan cannot be determined. However, from an economic point of view, Japan is the main competitor of the Chinese economy. Historically, after the withdrawal of European and American goods from East Asia and Asia during World War I, the blank market was occupied by Japan, but now. Yang Rui wants these markets to be occupied by Chinese companies, especially the domestic market, which is the first step in the growth of China's industry and commerce. Based on this alone, this war is to be fought, and the other political gains are even greater. As for whether it will be defeated, as long as Wen Xuankong is controlled, how can there be any reason for failure? Even if the Japanese occupy Beijing. He will also withdraw in the end, and in the end, the propaganda of the Japanese army is still "repulsed" by the Fuxing Society, which is also a great victory. It was also a victory, and then it was widely publicized by setting up a few cannon fodder examples, and it was still a full score on the political zhì. In this process, if anyone dares to tell the truth, they will all be exiled to the Great Northern Wilderness or Xinjiang to experience labor life.

Yang Rui thought of this. His face couldn't help but be slightly hideous. Such an evil thing. It was like a glass of poisoned wine, poisoning his heart and giving him a different kind of stimulation that made him want to stop.

"South Manchuria, and even the entire Northeast ......," Yang Rui pondered his words, "It's okay to act at the same time, but in the end, we have to pretend that the Northeast has parted ways with us." Seeing that Xu Jingxi still didn't understand, he simply said: "Soon after the success of the revolution, we are likely to have a big war with Japan in the north." ”

Yang Rui said about the future, which only made Xu Jingxi even more confused. However, the revival will be from small to large, relying on Yang Rui's accurate judgment. Although this seems like a dream, Xu Jingxi still thinks that Yang Rui may be true.

"Britain and Japan have signed two alliance agreements, and now the relations between Japan and the Americans in the northeast are very stiff, and Britain and France and Russia have agreed to make an agreement against Germany, Germany is going all out to build ships, and the British navy will definitely move all its strength to Europe to suppress Germany. The German colonial armies on this side of East Asia, especially the Far East Fleet, would let Japan deal with it, and it was entirely possible that the two countries would sign a Third Treaty of Alliance. In this way, once Europe goes to war, then Japan will definitely attack Qingdao, but the Jiaoji Railway is also German, that is to say, the entire Shandong will be the target of Japan's attack. We will definitely have a war with Japan here. Yang Rui put down his notebook and told Xu Jingxi about the evolution of the basic international form.

"Sir, how big will the war be? Japan wants the Qingdao and Jiaoji railways, so what do we want? Xu Jingxi said. He asked this, which made Yang Rui very satisfied, and the beginning of the war was originally to understand the specific purpose.

"If the objectives are maximized: 1) to recover all Japanese concessions in China, 2) to revoke the 1 qiē privileges in China that Japan had previously obtained, and 3) to recover the South Manchurian Railway and other mines and companies invested by Japan in China." Yang Rui's words were brief, but Xu Jingxi immediately shook his head when he heard this, "If it's small, it will be to redeem the South Manchurian Railway, cancel extraterritoriality, and recover all the concessions in the Guannai." ”

"Sir, this is a national war!" After all, Xu Jingxi is a qualified staff officer, knowing that any of what Yang Rui said will not be agreed to by Japan, and the concession may enter in wartime, resulting in a fait accompli, but extraterritoriality is the ultimate guarantee to ensure Japan's privileges in China, and Japanese businessmen often do evil and oppress Chinese businessmen according to this, and the South Manchurian Railway was obtained only by more than 100,000 Japanese deaths, and even if it now owes more than a billion foreign debts, it also borrowed more than 100 million yen to invest in the South Manchurian Railway and expand it into a double line. Any one of the three would keep Japan and China alive.

"Are you afraid of the national war?!" Yang Rui asked with a smile, with the taste of the leader scolding Fang Xuan, "Even if the Northeast is raising righteousness with Guannai now, it must be unbalanced in terms of personnel arrangements. That is, Zhang Rong's troops must make great contributions, but they will not be rewarded afterwards, and Zhang Rong's status must also be suppressed, so that it can be reasonable to arrange future defections. As long as Zhang Rong defects from the Revival Society, the Japanese will be relieved of Nanman when the war starts. At that time, we will establish the capital in Beijing, and if Tianjin cannot open up the situation in the event of a national war, Japan will definitely carry out the old trick of the First Sino-Japanese War, and it will become a northeast circle. All I want is for him to go around the ...... from the northeast Do you understand what I mean? ”

After Yang Rui finished speaking, he only looked at Xu Jingxi, and saw that he was already making a silent calculation when he heard the words, and then said: "Don't think about it first, Japan is only a navy stronger than us, and I don't know if the Yangtze River will be passable at that time, so Guangdong should also nominally not belong to the Fuxing Society, let it be independent and take refuge in the French, so that in the case of the construction of the Guangdong-Hanzhou Railway, we can ensure that there is an outlet to the sea." According to this arrangement, the uprising in Guangdong should be delayed by one day, and the troops over there should not have hung the flag of the Fuxing Society -- I had already sat on some foreshadowing when I arranged the affairs of Guangdong, and the current organization there is called the Furen Cultural Society, which has nothing to do with us. In addition to Mukden and Guangdong. There are no special cases anywhere else, you know what I mean? ”

Yang Rui said again, "Do you understand what I mean", Xu Jingxi nodded hurriedly and said, "Understood." Sir, I will immediately take someone to revise the uprising plan for these two places. ”

"This matter must be kept secret!" Yang Rui advised. "Remember that as soon as the Chongzhen plan is over, you will start making a plan to shoot the sun."

"Yes! Mr! Xu Jingxi's heart was agitated and suddenly stood upright, he only felt that he could win one victory after another by following Yang Rui, and handing over this plan to him was his absolute trust.

"Sit down." Yang Rui was very satisfied with his reaction, and shouted very majestically. "Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, and Tibet. They are all places where our strength is weak, even blank spots, and there are few peasant associations in these places. Some provinces don't have it at all. Not to mention Tibet, Yunnan is the border, which is extremely important, why didn't I see the plan for uprising over there? ”

"Sir. Yunnan also has three provinces: Guangxi and Guizhou. It will be launched by relying on the uprising of the new army, but the officers of the new army are often transferred, and the shape of the province is also changing, so the military intelligence bureau cannot provide accurate information, and the plan can only be blank. Tibet will be handed over to the 13th Division in Chongqing, but the Tibetan area is far away, and there is no way to know the situation there in a few months, and the general plan can only be made by the end of the year. Xu Jingxi said.

"Oh......" Yang Rui heard that it was the New Army's uprising. I feel a little uneasy, especially in Yunnan. "The Yunnan side is the focus, and there is a border dispute between Pianma and the UK, and I don't want to lose an inch of land because of righteousness, and I don't want to give up any interests to foreigners."

"Understood, sir!" Xu Jingxi nodded heavily.

In the arrangement of the large-scale uprising, the arrangements of the various units were as follows: the 1st Army of Tonghua, with the 1st and 2nd divisions in the mountains, occupied the northeast; The 2nd Army of Taihang Mountain, under the jurisdiction of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Divisions (the strength was basically transferred from Tonghua and South Africa), occupied Beijing and Zhili Shanxi; The 3rd Army of Yanzhou, with the 6th, 7th, and 8th Divisions, occupied southern Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang; the 9th and 10th Divisions of Yizhou, occupying Shandong and Jiangsu; the 11th Division of Shangluoshan, occupying Henan, Shaanxi; the 12th Division of Ganzhou, occupying Xinjiang in Gansu; the 13th Division in Chongqing, occupying Sichuan and Tibet; the 14th Division of Pingxiang, occupying Hunan and Jiangxi; Linxi 1st Brigade, occupying Mongolia; the 2nd Brigade of Dabie Mountain, occupying Hubei; Longyan Independent 3rd Brigade, occupied Fujian; Qingyuan 4th Brigade (not recorded in the name of the Fuxing Society), occupied Guangdong; There are fourteen divisions and four separate brigades. And the Shanghai merchant group will occupy Shanghai together with the Axe Gang.

The specific battles were the Battle of Beijing, which annihilated the Praetorian Guards and the Manchu capital, and coordinated with the 1st Army to annihilate the Rehe New Army, which was mainly responsible for the 2nd Army, and there was not much suspense; The second is the battle of Yanzhou, the South African 4th Army will go ashore from Shanghai, and approach Hangzhou along the already built Shanghai-Hangzhou, although the Manchu Qing Dynasty has more than 200,000 people to encircle and suppress, but scattered in Yanzhou on all sides. At that time, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty was overthrown, logistics were cut off, and the revolutionary elements in the new army were waiting for an opportunity to make trouble and revolt, it would not be too difficult for the 60,000 people of the 3rd and 4th armies to clean up these people. After reading the report, Yang Rui only felt that the battle of Yanzhou would be the battle of Huaihai of the Fuxing Society, that is, capture, replenishment, and battle, which was the greatest guarantee for victory. Judging from the appearance of the new army in Xinhai at the end of the Qing Dynasty, I am afraid that in addition to the Manchu and Mongolian new army, even the Beiyang new army that was deliberately consumed could not observe the festival for the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

There are 20,000 mountain divisions, 11,000 field divisions, and 6,000 independent brigades. There are 149,000 troops in the Kannai, 40,000 in Katonghua, and 33,000 in South Africa (after transfer), for a total strength of 212,000. Among them, 40,000 people in Tonghua, 30,000 in Yanzhou, 45,000 in South Africa, and 6,000 in Linxi, these 121,000 people are all units that have already been organized and trained, and now there are only six field divisions and three independent brigades that really need to be organized and trained, minus the rack troops drawn from Tonghua, Yanzhou, and South Africa, and 20,000 people need to be trained outside the Guan, and 70,000 people still need to be trained inside the Guan, for a total of 90,000 people.

In addition, Yanzhou and Linxi openly flagged the banner of the Fuxing Society, Tonghua was semi-openly subordinate to the Fuxing Society, and other places, including Yizhou, appeared in the form of peasant rebellions, and the most important Taihang Mountain was mainly the Tonghua Mountain Army and the South African Army, which would appear in the name of scattered mountain bandits. The launch time of these places has also been arranged, Yizhou is scheduled to be September this year, and other places will be from the end of this year to the end of next year, so as to reduce the connection between various places. At the same time, in order to cover up the uprisings in these places, cities of all sizes will plan rice grabbing incidents and various anti-tax and anti-donation riots. It is conceivable that from September this year to the end of next year, the Manchu court will begin to burn out.

After thinking about these places, Yang Rui said again: "Fujian's troops must be strengthened!" It's too close to Taiwan, so you have to worry about the Japanese taking the plane to protect it. If Peng Shousong can be wooed by the Fuzhou side, he will still have influence among the patrol soldiers. ”

Fujian's patrol team is mainly Hunan soldiers, and this Peng Shousong is also a Hunan person, who was originally an official, and after being dismissed, he thought about opposing the Qing Dynasty. The Revival Society had some contact with him before, but he was a vulgar person, and the anti-Qing Dynasty was just venting anger for personal gain. Previously, Lin Sichen, a representative of Fujian, did not want to recruit him into the association, fearing that once he gained power, he would be in chaos.

When Xu Jingxi saw Yang Rui mention this person, he only said: "Sir, I'm afraid this person is not on the same road as us." ”

"Longyan is close to Xiamen, but too far from Fuzhou." Yang Rui said. "Peng Shousong can be used, first pass him to launch a patrol uprising, let him be the governor, but when our troops arrive, then select him again, if he is honest, then arrange a seat for him, if he is not honest, then clean it up."

"Understood. Mr. Xu Jingxi said.

"Also, I'm always worried that as soon as the base areas in various places appear and riots in various cities come together, the Manchus will panic. Chongzhen's plan still needs to have a plan, such as what to do if you are forced to advance? Once the construction of the Mentougou Coal Mine starts, the soldiers who enter must do a good job of ideological work, digging coal is hard, and the political commissar and officers must play a leading role, and they must also go down the mine to dig coal. Also, any soldier who died because of the mine accident is a martyr, and the pension is doubled! Yang Rui emphasized this point, worried that the unfair treatment of officers and soldiers would cause chaos.

Xu Jingxi hurriedly wrote down this point, he had already mentioned the issue of the martyrs of the mine disaster in the plan, but he didn't mention it when it came to asking the officer to go down the mine, and now that Yang Rui is speaking, then with his prestige, the officer will definitely carry it out.

Speaking of officers, Yang Rui said again: "Why are there so few divisional and brigade-level cadres who are qualified in the evaluation? And in the battle plan, Limenti yì wanted to use the regiment as the main force of the attack, rather than the division as the main force? Is our training system really that bad? ”

Knowing that Yang Rui would ask this question, Xu Jingxi took a breath and said, "Sir, the real situation is indeed the case. Although many officers experienced the Russo-Japanese War, they had only received half a year of military academy education at that time, and if it weren't for Mr. Lei's presence, I am afraid that the battle would have resulted in a different result. This battle was extremely beneficial for the growth of officers, but it only trained some lieutenants and a small number of colonels. Looking at it now, only Yizhen and Qingyuan were trained at that time; On the side of the encirclement and suppression of the base area, Yanzhou's Zhou Ji (Lin Wenqian), He Zhaoxian, Zhang Gong, Wu Youcai, as well as Linxi's Gongda (Wen Yongyu) and Yuchen (Xiang Xiang) have also been trained, and they are all from actual combat and are all qualified.

And the Liezu (Li Liezu of the First Brigade), Zhengrui (Lu Mengxiong of the Second Brigade), Zhong Fei (Fang Yanchen of the Third Brigade), and Xifan (Xie Cheng of the Fourth Brigade) on the northeast side were only regimental commanders during the Russo-Japanese War. The school-level experience is enough, but as generals, even though they have been studying for several years, Liezu and Zhengrui still can't qualify. Liezu's problem is that the foundation is too poor, the comprehension is not enough, the regiment commander is qualified, and the brigade commander is a little reluctant; And Zhengrui, the main thing is a personality problem, desperately Saburo is general, what he thinks of is what, logistics, baggage, and morale don't pay attention, and he always says that this thing is too troublesome. ”

The lieutenant officer is responsible for the point, the colonel is responsible for the line, and the general officer is responsible for the surface. He spends more time in the rear than on the front, more on the development of the entire campaign situation than on the outcome of a battle. Among the current division and brigade commanders, Li Liezu is not good, and Lu Mengxiong could have done it, but ...... Personality problems. Now it seems that Lei Yizhen, Lin Wenqian, Qi Qingyuan, Wen Yongyu, and Xiang Xiang are qualified division commanders, Fang Yanchen and Xie Cheng are second, He Zhaoxian, Zhang Gong, and Wu Youcai are again, and Li Shutong, Pan Chengyi, Peng Qingpeng, Huang Dajun, and Zhang Changguo are again, and there are only fifteen people here. (To be continued......)