Xie Jintai heard that Yang Rui said that the British acting minister was just here to ventilate, but he thought about it. The Bohai Sea was sealed, Anton was occupied, and Taiwan was seized, and in addition to a large navy, the Japanese had fewer and fewer cards to play; And the navy may not be able to reap any benefits from the near shore, and it really can't, so the submarine blockade of Japan's coastal policy may really be staged.

"Then when did the Baath Army advance to North Korea?" Xie Jintai asked after thinking for a while. "What about the Japanese army here in Gyeonggi?"

"Bloody battles began at dawn, and at noon the 7th Army had just occupied Andong, and although the Yalu River Bridge was blown up by the retreating Japanese, it was not completely blown up, and a small number of troops could still cross the river to pursue it. At present, the main task of the Northeast Theater is to encircle and annihilate the remaining Japanese troops on the front line of Dagu Mountain, Fenghuang, and Motianling, and after the Japanese troops of these divisions and regiments are eaten, then they can steadily advance eastward. I'd rather see how many more troops Japan can devote to defending Korea. Yang Rui smiled. The devils on the Gyeonggi side are smart and know how to retreat to wait for reinforcements and not waste ammunition at will, so let them live for a while longer. ”

There is a situation in the plan formulated by the General Staff that the Japanese army in Gyeonggi will attack in an all-out way, and then be slaughtered by the defenders' mortars and machine guns.

Xie Zhangtai could see that Yang Rui's spirit was high, this man in his thirties was full of confidence, scolding Fang Xuan, and the energy contained in his eyes could knock down a vicious enemy. Thinking of the meeting in Shanghai eight years ago, and then thinking of today's China, suddenly his heart was surging, and he couldn't help himself. He stood up uncontrollably and looked at Yang Rui deeply. Then he said: "Brother Cheng, it is really a blessing for the country and the nation to have you!" ”

Xie Zhangtai's such a straightforward sycophant made Yang Rui's heart flutter. But he has never liked the sycophants of the people below, so he can only endure this, because his face is half smiling, half pretending to be strict, distorted so much, after a while when the mood calms down, he will give a salute back, and say very disobediently: "That's the emperor's wisdom and martial arts, and we people are just trusting His Majesty Xià Longen." ”

Yang Rui said this, and Xie Jintai immediately laughed. At present, the Ministry of Rites' propaganda to the grassroots is not a national righteousness and patriotic principle. It is completely old-fashioned loyalty to the country, this set of things has been inherited for thousands of years and rendered for thousands of years, and the appeal is not ordinarily strong. It is precisely for this reason that words such as 'Emperor and Majesty' do not appear in the Prime Minister's Office, but simply to meet the occasion.

"Haha! Be. Be. The victory in this battle is completely due to the emperor's wisdom and martial arts, and we petty officials are all Tuo Majesty Xià Longen. Xie Jintai said the same with a smile, remembering that he was still against making a Min King at that time, but now he sees that the soldiers of the Fuxing Army, especially the recruits, have kowtowed to Daming Gate as soon as they enter the inner city. Then he went to the battlefield without hesitation and exhausted the enemy, and he realized that for this ancient nation, there must be an object of allegiance in his heart to be complete. Without this object, then they will be insensitive, confused, and have this object of allegiance. That's the iron bones, the more you fight, the more courageous you become.

"Actually, what about Confucianism?" Confucianism was completely exclusionary within the Revival Society. But now the practice of the Ministry of Rites seems to be advocating the Confucian doctrine of loyalty, so Xie Zhangtai once asked.

"We can only start with education." Yang Rui was also very distressed about this. But for the sake of victory, this qiē can't be taken care of. "There are many things we want to do, and they are quite right, but if China's self-sufficient rural economy does not change, any ideological presumptuous move will bring national instability. I think after two or three generations, it will be different. ”

"Two or three generations?" It was actually such a distant thing, Xie Jintai thought that at that time, his people were probably already in the ground. He was always optimistic, and he didn't want to think about what was behind him, so he said at the moment: "Don't talk about this." It's been a long time since I've been together, so why don't I come to your house for a few drinks at the end of this month. ”

As soon as Xie Zhangtai said, Yang Rui's face turned dark and said, "You go find Uncle Mei." Song Jiaoren is here on my side, and he is very busy. After that, he brushed his sleeves and went to the side hall, which made Xie Jintai very inexplicable.

As a matter of fact, Song Jiaoren is the only leader of the opposition party in the Congress, and he did not approve of the start of the war with Japan, but he did not delay the actual war, but he supported the British proposal for peace talks earlier, but Yang Rui opposed it. Now that the overall situation of the revival army has been decided, he is here to persuade Yang Rui to keep people.

"Brother Cheng, privately said, how will the First World War against Japan end? If you really occupy Korea? Song Jiaoren was very kind in private chat, but his topic was not surprising to Yang Rui.

"There is this plan, Japan said 20 years ago it was for Korean independence, 10 years ago it said it would expel the Caucasians, and four years ago it was able to annex Korea. If you really want to revive the army and enter the court, then the people will eat pot pulp to welcome the king. Yang Rui said. He looked at Song Jiaoren with a smile, wondering where his ass was.

"If this is the case, then the enmity between China and Japan will be difficult to resolve." Song Jiaoren said worriedly.

"Korea was occupied by Japan at that time, and the First Sino-Japanese almost swallowed Liaodong, and later China and Japan were also very friendly. Didn't you all go to Japan to study at that time? Yang Rui looked at Song Jiaoren's thoughtful expression, and he couldn't guess a little.

"Korea is a vassal force to Japan, but it is a danger to Japan. Now that Japan and Russia are at war, there must always be a priority. Either resisting Russia for several days, or uniting with Russia to resist Japan, and now the army is going north to Harbin and entering Korea at the same time, which will offend both Japan and Russia to death. "Although the war situation has taken a strange turn, the strategic pattern of China, Japan and Russia in Northeast Asia has not changed, and Song Jiaoren is worried about building two strong enemies in Northeast Asia." Since China has entered the DPRK, in fact, it can also stop at Pyongyang, which can be regarded as leaving some leeway for Japan, and China and Japan will reject Russia together, wouldn't it be beautiful? ”

"Haha. At the beginning of the retreat, how did you, a council fan, change to become a columnist? Yang Rui was amused by his last sentence, "If North Korea is resolved like you, what will happen to Taiwan?" ”

"Taiwan? Taiwan will have to take it back. Song Jiaoren's tone was frustrated, North Korea is someone else's land, maybe it is feasible to divide and rule. However, Taiwan is its own territory, and partition is impossible.

"Such a result can be Sino-Japanese friendship?" Yang Rui said with a smile. "I'm afraid that once the European war is over, Japan will expect Britain, France, and Russia to return to Taiwan. Escape. You only think about Sino-Japanese friendship, when the Japanese went to war against us, but the whole people were jubilant, I heard that the elementary school students even donated breakfast money, and friendship is just wishful thinking on your one hand. I know that many people are saying that China should be forgiving and forgiving, and Taiwan should be taken back, and if North Korea is also occupied, then Japan will be offended to death. China and Japan should be friendly and friendly to each other. In fact, this should be said to those soldiers who have died since the First Sino-Japanese War, and see if they believe in Sino-Japanese friendship. ”

Song Jiaoren could guess that Yang Rui would not stop fighting and negotiate peace, but Sino-Japanese relations are related to the future of this country, so he still came, and now when he heard Yang Rui refuse, he was not discouraged, but only insisted: "But those dead soldiers don't want China and Japan to fight endlessly." ”

"Do you believe it? Even if Korea does not occupy an inch of land, as long as Taiwan is lost, Japan will still be endlessly hostile to China and China. In the past few days, there have been many people who have lobbied officials of various ministries and shouted for Sino-Japanese goodwill. But you are the only one who dares to say this to me. I know you're kind, but don't forget it, since we were defeated in the first day of the first day, we have to pay reparations. Then if they lose this time, they should do the same. Could it be that China, China, is inferior to Japan, and we will not be able to reap any benefits if we win the war? Yang Rui stood up angrily. Just now, Xie Jintai said that he would go to his house to drink two drinks, and he was in a bad mood all of a sudden. Now I see that Song Jiaoren wholeheartedly adheres to the so-called Sino-Japanese friendship, and I feel angry.

Song Jiaoren didn't know why Yang Rui was angry, he wanted to insist on it again, but seeing that Yang Rui was bent on reviving the army and entering the court, he only persuaded Japan and Russia not to offend both, and then he resigned.

After Song Jiaoren left, Yang Rui became more and more bored in the partial flower hall, and after a while, he shouted: "Li Zilong! ”

"Prime Minister, I'm here." Li Zilong was actually outside, and when he heard about it, he immediately came in.

"What's going on in Shenyang? Any news? Yang Rui asked in a low voice, this is a family matter, and he doesn't want to be too public.

"The nameless son is in the prince's mansion, ma'am...... Madame went to Xiuyan a few days ago, and should be in Andong now. Li Zilong also said softly, this is the prime minister's family matter, and he is not easy to say.

"Last time, you said she wouldn't come back?" Yang Rui has never asked directly about Cheng Ying's news, but hopes to inquire about it without being discovered, and because of this, he doesn't know as much as Li Zilong.

"Yes. The person who went to pick it up last time said that Madame said that the war was endless, and she was going to go with the army. Li Zilong said. The Russian army invaded the south, the prime minister in order to calm the hearts of the people in Liaodong, the prince invited one, and the wife and children were also sent to Shenyang, which boosted the morale of the people of Shenyang who wanted to leave the city and enter the countryside, but the trouble also came, Mrs. As the heroine who killed Cixi, she couldn't stay idle with Ben in Shenyang, and went to the battlefield with a sniper rifle, and also abducted Bai Ru, the wife of Chen Guangshou, the minister.

"Hey, she's not angry and doesn't want to come back." Yang Rui sighed lowly, there are women who come to this world to kill him, and there are women who save his life, but only this woman kills him, but it is this woman who kills his heart, many times she does not stand on his side to support him, but betrays him again and again. At that time, he just wanted to see this woman forever, as if he had never known her, but in the end she didn't leave. Now she was arranged out by herself, and she went to pick her up but didn't say that she wanted to go back to Beijing, which made him suffer again.

The city of Andong is full of rubble, the entire city wall and ravines are ground into powder under the bombardment of 150mm heavy artillery, and the broken bricks and broken walls, even if they are cleaned up, they only carry away the corpses of their own soldiers, but the corpses of the Japanese soldiers are still piled up like a hill, blue and black bricks, miserable white corpses, and residual red blood, these colors are staggered, and only piles of flies are summoned under the scorching sun.

Knowing that sending reinforcements to rescue the Guards Division was death, but Terauchi Masayi had to send it, because if he was not sent, he would die, and the staff officers and senior officers would not be able to please him when they went back, so the temple still sent the reserve 1st Division under the pain, and told the division commander to advance carefully to prevent an ambush by the Shina Army. Reinforcements were sent here, and the Japanese troops on the front line of Motianling were ordered to retreat in order to shrink the defensive line, and if things were not good, the whole army could retreat into Korea, and I didn't want the revival army to target not the Guards Division, nor the 1st Division sent, but the real goal was Andong at all, and to occupy Andong would cut off the retreat of the entire 1st and 3rd armies, and also open the door to North Korea.

On the night of the departure of the 1st Reserve Division from Andong, the 1st Division of the 7th Army of the Revival Army sneaked to Andong and began to launch an offensive at dawn. At this time, Terauchi Masashi sensed that the Shina army wanted to occupy Andong to close the border gate, although he had expected it before. But the timing was wrong, he thought that after the annihilation of the Guards Division and the 1st Reserve Division. Only then would the Chinese army seize Anton, and by that time all three divisions of the northern front had already withdrawn. But now the Chinese army ignored the Japanese army with two divisions behind it, and only wanted to occupy Anton, which really hit his weakness.

After the Japanese troops on the front line of Andong were transferred into the pass, only six divisions remained. Of these six divisions, four were on the front line against the Chinese army, and the reserve only had the 11th and reserve 1st divisions, and the reserve 1st division was sent out of Anton to assist the Guards Division, and Anton was left with only the 11th division. Although the 1st, 3rd, and 2nd divisions in the north gave the order to retreat, in order not to alarm the Chinese army, they all retreated in batches at night. At this time, Terauchi Zhengyi was faced with another multiple-choice question, whether to order the 11th Division to defend to the death, or to fight and retreat. The other five divisions are really going to be rounded up by the Chinese army, although there is a way to survive, but they are infamous; And stick to it. It must be untenable.

As previously predicted by the General Staff, the attack on Anton would be a bloody battle, and in order to increase the firepower, not only several artillery regiments of the 7th Army were strengthened. All the self-propelled artillery that can be drawn in the Northeast Theater has been transferred. These hundreds of artillery pieces began to bombard at dawn, and the charge was repulsed and bombarded again, and so on five times in a row. Only then did the entire city defense system of Anton be shattered, and it was necessary to attack the city for the sixth time. The revival army met little resistance, and the Japanese were wiped out by artillery.

"Frost. Ye Zhuangshi is here. Cao Zude, the chief of staff of the army, ignored Li Shutong, who was busy, and pulled him over.

"Ah, Ye..." Li Shutong was about to ask who it was, but when he saw Ye Yunbiao, who was wearing a strong suit and clasping his fists at him, he immediately rushed up, hugged him and said loudly, "Brother Ye, you ...... What are you doing here?! ”

Ye Yunbiao was Yang Rui's personal bodyguard during the revolution, and was the apprentice of Li Cunyi, the inventor of Qi Shaobao's bayonet technique. At that time, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison, but was released early because of Yang Rui's promise not to join the Allies and the easing of Sino-British relations. Eight years of prison life has turned a teenager into a young man, but the sharpness in Ye Yunbiao's eyes is still the same, but the waves are softer than before many times.

"I don't know how it came out, I thought there were two more years." Ye Yunbiao looked at the general star on Li Shutong's shoulder, a little envious, remembering that he was just a regiment leader at the beginning.

"Hey, it's been eight years." Li Shutong recalled that many classmates were very anxious during the time when Mr. was assassinated and disappeared, and some of them were ready to copy the guy and go south, but they were stopped by Lao Lei, the chief of staff, and Du Yaquan, the head of Tonghua City at that time, but fortunately, the good news that Mr. was rescued came later. Li Shutong recalled the past for just a moment, and when he came back to his senses, he patted Ye Yunbiao's arm and said, "Brother Ye, why aren't you in the capital...... Oh, I see. I know. ”

Li Shutong grabbed his head, and finally knew that Ye Yunbiao was sent by Mr. to pick up his master and wife - Cheng Ying was going to the battlefield, Qi Qingyuan couldn't stop him, only he was facing a division of the Japanese army, and the sniper battles in other places were extremely fierce.

"Brother Xishuang, it's still a big war, you can sue me somewhere, I'll just find it myself." Ye Yunbiao didn't get any news from Yang Rui in the capital, but after coming to the Northeast, he slowly understood the estrangement between the commander and his wife, he felt guilty about his wife, if he hadn't protected him well, then Mr. would not have married the second room.

"Actually, I don't know where my wife is now." Li Shutong said bitterly, in order to seize Anton, the establishment of the troops was chaotic, and that unit was sent to the front line on the front line, and now the Japanese army on the Phoenix side is still counterattacking, vainly trying to open a passage to return to the east; Although the two divisions of Dagushan were surrounded by their own troops, they also had the intention of going north to Anton. "The sniper unit has always been a book...... Adjutant! Adjutant! ”

Li Shutong shouted loudly, and with his voice, a young officer ran over, and he immediately asked, "Can Zhou Kuaijiao find someone?" What about his gang of snipers? ”

"Report to the chief, Commander Zhou seems to have gone to North Korea with people, saying that he wanted to tie up the Japanese general." Zhou Kuai-legged Maoershan was born with a beard, and after enlisting in the army, he couldn't teach tactics and strategy, so he finally had to give full play to his beard nature and play swimming snipers. Over the years, he has also become the head of the regiment by virtue of his military exploits and qualifications. Uncle Li is also on the safe side. Cheng Ying and Bai Ru were assigned to his troops, and asked for strict protection. I didn't want to, but I got out of the basket.

"Brother Xishuang, give me a set of clothes and a gun. I went into the court myself to find someone. Ye Yunbiao said.

Seeing that Ye Yunbiao was telling the truth, Uncle Li didn't say a word at the moment, and let the adjutant lead him.

Ye Yunbiao changed his clothes in reality, he wore a military uniform ten years ago, first a camouflage uniform dyed with cotton cloth, and then a military uniform of the Russian army, but now he has a lot of things he doesn't understand about the so-called individual equipment, fortunately, Li Shutong's adjutant explained the function of those things.

"This is a steel helmet, and bulletproof can't be prevented. But it can protect against the fragments of artillery shells, and the Japanese like to use howitzers the most, and when this thing explodes in mid-air, countless fragments scatter down, and there is a steel helmet to protect the head...... This is a white Langlin curved ruler pistol, which can fire seven rounds in a row, and then change the magazine...... This is a gas mask, the Japanese will release poison gas if they can't win, and if you have this, you won't be afraid. "Uncle Li has a lot of adjutants, and now this is the recruit who came out of the military academy just now, and he has been holding back at the headquarters before, but now he can accompany people to North Korea. I really laughed in my heart. After introducing these large items, the little adjutant took out a white gadget and said, "This is something that ordinary people have never seen." It's ......"

Ye Yunbiao looked at him as if he saw himself back then, he grabbed that thing and opened the lid with a 'ding' sound. Flip the wheel to beat the fire out, and light the cigarette from his mouth. He looked at the adjutant in front of him and said, "Lighter, I know." Then he handed over another cigarette: "Do you want one?" What's your name, who is it? ”

"Report to the chief, the lower official Fu Zuoyi, a native of Ronghe, Shanxi." At this time, Fu Zuoyi was only a military academy intern who was less than twenty years old, looking at Ye Yunbiao's appearance, he knew that he was a big official, he didn't dare to take cigarettes, and his demeanor was very restrained.

"Shanxi, isn't Shanxi engaged in construction? Is your family willing to let you come out to be a soldier? Ye Yunbiao fastened the belt around his waist, turned the Bai Langlin curved ruler pistol in his hand a few times, and inserted it into the cowhide holster.

"Report sir, I have been thinking about joining the army since I was a child, and besides, the country is weak, and soldiers should fight to kill the enemy!" Fu Zuoyi said loudly. He is actually a red seedling, before the uprising, he joined the Youth League of the Revival Society when he was in the Taiyuan Army Primary School, and then entered the Baoding Military Academy, and now he is assigned to the army for internship before graduation.

"Ambitious!" Ye Yunbiao said with a smile, since he was released from prison, he felt that this country and the people were different from before, the big guys seemed to be much more energetic, they walked a little faster, and it seemed, it seemed that everyone felt that they had a head; As for the imperial court, the big guy is also full of hope, and believes that this time he will be able to resist foreign humiliation and protect the country and species.

"This time I went to North Korea not to fight, but to recruit people, and the people I found are very important." Ye Yunbiao snuffed out the cigarette after a few puffs, he wanted to go out quickly.

"I know. The guard company of the headquarters will follow us. Although Fu Zuoyi didn't know who he was looking for this time, he could feel that the person in front of him was quite big, and the person he was looking for would be even bigger.

"Hmm." Ye Yunbiao hummed unintentionally, he was originally a little uncomfortable with Uncle Li and not taking care of his wife, but now he was relieved to hear that the guard company was also following, after all, the war was tense, and the generals only thought about the battle situation, and it was impossible to stare at only one person.

When the sun was slightly westerly, Ye Yunbiao set off with the guard company, walked through the ruin-shaped Andong city wall, and the group went to the ferry next to the Andong train. Andong City was bombarded into powder, but the railway station was deliberately avoided, and after occupying Andong, Li Shutong didn't care about what was going on in the city, only asked about the Yalu River Bridge and the railway station.

The 11th Division defending Anton died in a bloody battle under the blows of the superior firepower and superior forces of the Fuxing Army, and in the end only a small force surrounded the people of the headquarters and fled from the city.

Sitting on the ferry boat crossing the river, looking at the dense bridge repair workers on the river bridge, Ye Yunbiao asked, "Is this about to recover North Korea?" ”

"Of course, we have to recover Japan, as long as it is my former Chinese family, we must recover one after another!" was about to cross the border of the Yalu River, Fu Zuoyi actually danced a little, but then things were messy, the boatman turned the boat sharply in order to avoid the Japanese corpses in the river, and he fell into the river without standing firmly. (To be continued......)