Yang Rui completely calmed down the next day and began to analyze with Leo what impact the airship would have on the revolution if it was known to the Manchus. As I thought before, even if the Manchus knew about the airship, there was no way to deal with it in the air, and even if the Manchus bought the airship, there was no radio compass, and it would take off at night. The only thing that can be done is probably to find the end, but with the Manchu Qing's control of the place, it is not impossible to complete this task, but it is still difficult to find it in a short time.

However, since there is a risk of being cut off from logistics, various precautions should be taken. If possible, it is better to place the production of bullets and shells in the base areas; Then there is the fact that the airship can not take off too often, before flying ten times a month, two days back and forth, then now the airship voyage is shortened, and the landing field of the base is placed near Xuancheng, so that the voyage of one hundred and fifty kilometers, the airship can go back and forth in one night, although it is also ten times, but the time is only ten days, you can avoid flying on a moonlit night; In the end, it is necessary to immediately capture Huizhou, expand the base area to the west, expand the strategic detour space, and obtain more soldiers and materials to prepare for the next big war.

Yang Rui was discussing with Leo to deal with these days, the telegram from the German Zhong Guanguan also came, and the matter had reached the worst, all the military students sent to Germany had been ordered to drop out, the submarine project had been suspended, and Xu Huafeng and others had been driven out of the naval base. As for the most important airships, the situation was also not good, and although Zeppelin tried to state with the German government that airships were only civilian goods, he was under pressure from the government and the army. He also had to terminate his contract - because Fuxing would continue to order airships and successfully use them militarily, and both the German army and navy had placed orders with Zeppelin, and had become a major customer of the company. Zeppelin could not abandon the German military's orders for the sake of revival. But. The stubborn German, still mindful of the friendship that had been helping each other for many years, delivered the last of the six airships ordered at the earliest, which had been built for the German Navy, and was the only fifteen-ton airship of all the airships, so that the total transport tonnage of the airship force reached sixty-eight tons.

In addition to military students, submarines, and airships, Zhong Guanguan's real office was also warned that he was not allowed to steal German military technology; And for Yang Rui's threat to the consul general in Shanghai some time ago. The Germans also responded positively, that is, if radio technology and other technologies were acquired by the German enemy, then Germany would definitely send heavy troops to China. Assist the Qing government in encircling and suppressing the Fuxing Society.

Looking at Yang Rui, who had a bitter look on his face after reading the telegram, Leo asked, "Yang, isn't there any good news?" ”

"Yes, of course there is good news." Yang Rui said: "The good news is that Germany has saved us more than 17 million marks. This is the original budget for the study of submarines. The money was originally deposited in the Deutsche Bank as a research fee for submarines, and we needed to sign together with the Admiralty to withdraw it, but now it has been returned to us because of the end of the submarine project, and it seems that Tirpitz is a gentleman, not as shameless as the Kaiser! Leo, I now understand your resentment towards him! ”

Leo laughed rarely, but it was ugly, and his face wrinkled. It's like crying. In fact, he thought of a very strict question just now, and said, "Yang." Believe me, your resentment against him will not stop there, I suspect that the revolutionary army in Yizhou will be interfered with by Germany, and if the government forces cannot destroy us, then the German troops in Qingdao may assist in encirclement and suppression. ”

"What?!" Yang Rui was shocked when he heard this, "Why? Where there are no railways or minerals, there is a mountainous area! ”

"That's what I just thought. If we had followed our previous relationship with the Germans, then they would not have interfered, but now the Kaiser is completely biased towards the Qing government, and this Yizhou is in the German sphere of influence, and under the promise and invitation of the Qing government, it is not difficult to find an excuse for interference. "Leo was well aware of Germany's hard-line approach to the colonies, and would never allow hostile forces to stir up trouble here.

I'm afraid there is nothing worse than Germany sending troops, Yang Rui thought. However, the bad news is not limited to this, when he sighed here, Chen Guangshou outside ran in and said very sternly: "Sir, Mr. Yu is in a hurry, the United States is very likely to form an alliance with China and Germany!" ”

Yang Rui didn't exclaim when he heard this, but just grabbed the telegram, and at a glance, he saw Yu Zixun say in the telegram: Yang, Zhang: Today I learned from Washington that the United States will form an alliance with Germany and the Qing Dynasty. He believes that Britain, France, Japan, and even Russia, have formed a huge offensive and defensive alliance, and this alliance has monopolized the interests of various countries in China, which completely violates the principle of open door that the United States has been advocating, and has caused the United States to be treated unequally in the Qing country. This message was for Roosevelt. Courtesy of Alice.

In addition, the attitude towards the Far East in the United States has become more hawkish because of the change of the Japanese cabinet. The specific reason for this was that the rights and interests of the United States in Manchuria had been greatly damaged, and Secretary of State Knox's plan for the neutralization of the Manchurian railways proposed some time ago was opposed by Britain, Japan, Russia, and France, and only Germany agreed, but Germany had no serious interests in Manchuria, so that if it wanted to get involved in this issue, it would deepen the antagonism between Japan, Russia, Britain, and France, so the plan was ultimately opposed by the five countries. Stimulated by this, the United States is likely to form an alliance with Germany and China in order to gain rights in China.

In addition, both the Taft administration and the Roosevelt administration were strongly concerned about the situation in the Far East, but the difference was that the Taft administration was not limited to owning the Philippines and Liaodong in Asia, and the American banking syndicate made the Taft government more aggressive than the previous government, and when the United States could not open the situation alone, then a coalition with Germany would be the best way to do it. This alliance is different from the German-American alliance during the last Roosevelt administration. Be sure to!

Things are getting worse and worse, Yang Rui read the telegram and then asked, "Is there a telegram over there in Chong'an?" ”

"No, sir!" Chen Guangshou said.

"Well, forward this telegram to him at once. Let him call back immediately, and ......" Yang Rui raised his head and thought for a while, and then said: "Call back to Zixun." Let him assess the maximum losses and remedies that the United States will take if it forms an alliance with China, and ask him whether the alliance with the United States can be broken. Chen Guangshou was about to leave when he heard this, but Yang Rui said again: "Also, Natong and Shanqi are both pro-Japanese, and they will inform the Military Intelligence Bureau after sending the telegram." Let the MIA analyze the matter and see if they can get them to stop the alliance between China, the United States and Germany again. ”

Yang Rui finally finished speaking, and Chen Guangshou hurriedly went. However, he no longer had the heart to discuss the encirclement and suppression of the German army in Yizhou, he only thought that the United States would cut off his own food and salary, and Germany helped the Manchus to encircle and suppress it, and the situation became worse and worse. He only wandered around the room for a moment. I hurried out again. He didn't have time to think about why the German-American alliance was brought up again. Instead, he felt that he should immediately issue a warning order for the entire revival meeting, especially for the entire business system, and beware of the United States betraying the Manchus, and those private funds and accounts should be kept safe. Although Tianzihao no longer supplies blood to the Renaissance Society, the income from the sale of coal and soybeans in Tonghua is an important source of funds for the Renaissance Society's revolution. Although, like the offshore companies of later generations, domestic companies only do some hard work and have no profits, but the accounts of these companies and offshore companies will still see problems.

Yang Rui's alert order was still very punctual. However, he only cares about protecting money and accounts, but he ignores this aspect of people. The second day of the alert order. Yu Huizu had an accident on his side, he was asked by a Shanghai lord to talk outside the concession, but the other party wanted to arrest people, fortunately the guards in the past reacted quickly and rescued him, but the person was already injured, fortunately, there was no major problem.

Yang Ruitie looked at Mu Xiangyao of Tek with a blushing face, "How did you protect it?!" ”

Yu Huizu was injured, Mu Xiangyao was also very guilty, he lowered his head and said: "Mr. Yu was invited to the back compartment by the old man, saying that he was going to see something, and idlers were not allowed to enter, so Mr. Yu asked our people to retreat first, and then the matter was ......."

Yang Rui only stamped his feet vigorously, complaining about himself and the Manchu Qing at the same time, at this time Mu Xiangyao said again: "Mr. Zhang of the Kwantung Bank also asked him to talk outside the concession yesterday, but he didn't go, I think this is the Manchu Qing Dynasty planning to trap our people." ”

"Did you warn everyone?" Seeing that the shape shì was so severe, Yang Rui asked again.

"I've admonished everyone, sir." Mu Xiangyao said.

"Who the fuck did this?" Yang Rui said angrily, "Who called Lao Yu out, and who made a plan to arrest him?" ”

Yang Rui was furious, Liu Boyuan only glanced at Mu Xiangyao, and said: "Sir, we found out that the person who invited Mr. Yu out was a Huzhou merchant surnamed Zhang, saying that there was an important matter to discuss, and it was he who invited Mr. Zhang of the Kwantung Bank to go out, and he was probably a gentry who was bought by the Manchu Qing Dynasty." And the person arrested is very likely to be Zhu Zhixin from the Second Department of the Military Advisory Office, although he was beaten away by us last time, but the traffic in Shanghai extends in all directions, and Mr. Yu is sloppy again this time, which is ......"

"Go all out to track down this Zhu Zhixin! And what is the seventh department, we have to make an example of it! Yang Rui gritted his teeth and said.

"Yes! Mr! Mu Xiangyao and Liu Boyuan responded in unison. Seeing that Yang Rui didn't say anything more, he turned around and left.

The room was empty, Yang Rui only sat on a chair and smoked, and now the final form is getting worse and worse. Only Xie Jintai's telegram gave him some good news, in which he spent a long time talking about the difference between Roosevelt's policy and Taft's policy, and believed that as Germany became more and more isolated, the possibility of an alliance between the United States and Germany was very small, and Secretary of State Knox did this to put pressure on Britain, Japan and Russia, because Japan and Russia had carved up the northeast, and the United States got everything except the mountainous and forested area of Liaodong, which had already occupied most of the high-quality minerals and the entire railway.

Although the United States and Germany were not aligned, Taft now completely violated Roosevelt's foreign policy in the Far East, and began to become more and more hostile to Japan and moved closer to the Manchu government, hoping to gain benefits again in the Northeast or elsewhere through the support of the Manchus. This kind of curry favor with the Manchu government is likely to use the Revival Society as a bargaining chip. If this situation is to be avoided, Xie believes that it is still necessary to compromise with the United States and give up some benefits to gain their support.

Yang Rui thought of the things Xie Zhangtai said, and only felt that he and the Fuxing Society had begun to enter a strange market, in which everything was valuable, and anything could be exchanged, of course, some were exchanged for their own things. Some are exchanging other people's things. Now the virtue is using the revival as a bargaining chip, although it is not good for the revival society, but it also shows that the strength of the revival society has risen. I was able to make a chip.

Yang Rui didn't know how to comfort himself, he only thought of himself now as a monarch of a small country during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, who had to survive in the Qin and Twilight periods and dependent on the powerful country. He didn't like such a pug-like character, but he did. For example, if you want to compromise with the United States, you must give up the shares of Tonghua Minerals or the company; Or sell most of the shares of the Guanghua Railway, so that American capital can take full possession of it. and use this as a springboard to further the railway to the north to build a railway; Or let the Morgan consortium acquire the Kanto Bank, so that the Americans can control the currency issuance of the Kansai Bank, and so on. These are all things he does not want to face, and this kind of persecution only makes him stubborn and does not want to make any deals and compromises. The Germans had already pitted him once, and he was now on guard and waiting to see what the Americans would do with him.

While Yang Rui was waiting, he was in the Qinzheng Hall of the West Garden of the capital. Guangxu is receiving the German minister Lex. and the staff officer of the Military Advisory Corps sent from Germany this time, Lieutenant Colonel Ludendorff.

The lieutenant colonel is placed in the Qing Dynasty, which is the standard, and it is a great honor to let Guangxu personally summon him, but the summoned lieutenant colonel Ludendorff is not like this. He began to pay attention to the Chinese Army in 1894, and unlike the Japanese defeat and the Chinese victory that everyone thought at the time, he used the introduction of General Guò Merkel (who was a major at the time and had reformed the Japanese Army) and the Japanese naval construction plan announced by the British Admiralty. It was unusual for ordinary people to think that Japan would win, and then things turned out to be as he expected. The Qing Kingdom collapsed. And in 1900, when Baron Clinder was killed, he wanted to apply to go to the Far East, but he was not arrested. Just when he thought that he would never be able to come to the Far East in his life, the Kaiser sent him.

In the Qinzheng Palace, after a few polite words with the German Minister Lex, Guangxu stroked the jade wrench and finally turned the topic to the topic, and asked: "Your envoy has come to my Qing Dynasty for many days, and now the Zhejiang bandits have rebelled for a long time, and they have been exterminated several times, but they have not achieved results, but they have made it bigger and bigger. ”

Guangxu only finished speaking, and the general who stood on the side only translated the words into German and told the two of them. Ludendorff had long known the reason for today's summons, and when he heard this, he only said: "Your Majesty, the rebels of your country are only in the mountains, and these rebellions are carried out as a general war, and if you do not make sufficient preparations to rashly encircle and suppress them, you will definitely incur defeat. If this rebel army is to be eliminated, it can only be won by using more troops, not because the goal is to destroy the enemy, but to seize important areas. ”

Ludendorff had seen all the examples of encirclement and suppression, and he was very interested in the tactics of this rebel army, which was actually something that he had always thought about but did not integrate - general warfare. As Ludendorff imagined, the rebels were carrying out a general war, all of which were centered on the war, and only such a rebel army could hold out in the barren mountainous area for so long without defeat, and fight bigger and bigger, among which the airship radio was only secondary, and the most important thing was that the base area used all the material resources and manpower in the war.

Ludendorff understood the deep meaning of the general war, but Guangxu in the Qinzheng Hall did not understand the general war, fortunately, he didn't want to understand what it was, so he only listened to Ludendorff talk about victory, and then asked: "How can you achieve the victory that your envoy said?" ”

"Your Majesty the Great Emperor, I have read all the combat records, the government troops of the encirclement and suppression often cannot grasp the principle of external warfare, often act alone, without cooperation, and the attack is very light on the enemy in the early stage of the encirclement and suppression, and in the later stage of the encirclement and suppression, it lacks the brave quality of the soldiers; At the same time, although the army has an operational plan, the operational plan lacks flexibility and is difficult to adapt to external circumstances. In terms of operations, it has not adapted to the harsh terrain and bad weather combat training, resulting in the fact that once it enters the mountainous area, it is difficult to give full play to its superiority in firepower and numbers. There is also the ...... in the army" Ludendorff talked eloquently, he was a pure soldier and completely dismissive of politics. He was like this, but Rex beside him was not, and seeing that he was always criticizing, he whispered to stop him.

Lieutenant Colonel Ludendorff only said that he was in Xingtou, and was suddenly interrupted by Rex next to him, and suddenly looked at it differently, and Guangxu, who was listening to the translation of the general affairs at this time, saw that the voice suddenly stopped, and only then did he know that Ludendorff was stopped by Rex. He knew that the foreigner wanted to save some face for the Qing Dynasty, but he was a straight man, and said hurriedly: "Your envoy will continue." Today, I want to talk about where the new army of the Qing Dynasty was defeated? Don't worry, don't worry, just go on. ”

After the general secretary translated the words, Ludendorff looked at Guangxu a few more times. Then he continued Guangxu's words and said: "The shortcomings of the government army, the first is that they are fighting on the outside line, although the place of battle is the territory of your country, but it is like other countries, they can't get any support, and they can't even find a water source. His Majesty the Great Emperor should send priests and priests to inspire the people there. Let them fight with the government army. ”

Although Ludendorff's solution was naïve, Guangxu knew that he was on the point, and this Yanzhou was really like another country now. The old and young women and children over there are all rebels against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, and these cannot be solved by sending monks and Taoists.

After Ludendorff said the first, he went on to say the second: "His Majesty's army is more numerous and more advanced than the rebels. But communications lagged behind. Unable to coordinate, entering the mountains often dispersed the forces, fighting alone, allowing the rebels to break through individually. There were several cases in which the troops that were encircled and suppressed were reinforced more than ten miles away, and it did not take four hours for a rapid march, but because of poor coordination, they could not contact each other, so they were finally eliminated by the rebels one by one.

Third. The people in the warring areas have been seized by the rebels, and the investigation cannot be carried out. Ignorance of the terrain of the mountains, and the commanders of the armies often lacked search and underestimated the enemy. Records often show examples of rebels sending small units to lure government forces into pursuit, and finally being surrounded and annihilated. This is all due to the lack of caution on the part of the commander.

Fourth, mountain warfare requires strict training, but now the troops sent by His Majesty have not carried out special training, resulting in their weak adaptability in the mountainous areas and the inability to fire at a normal level of training, in addition, the bayonet training of all troops is very poor, and many battles have been defeated by the rebels with bayonets, which is actually the army's lack of will to fight. In the narrow mountainous terrain, only the bravest troops were victorious.

Fifthly, the combat logistics of the army is the most important, especially in mountain operations, and without unobstructed supply lines, then the victory of the army cannot be ensured.

Sixth, in many cases, the rebels sent spies to infiltrate our army, acting as guides, pretending to be heralds, disrupting the command of the army, and they were also good at creating false information to incite low-level soldiers to make trouble and escape. ”

Ludendorff said six o'clock in one breath, and he heard that Rex next to him was raised, and Guangxu's face became more and more heavy, this was the first time that someone introduced him to where the new army was defeated, which only made him hate from anger and hate. Turning the jade wrench on his thumb fiercely, Guangxu glared at the Minister of War Zaitao, who was standing like a wood, and said, "Your envoy just said that our army is insufficient, and this is the reason for the failure. Then let's talk about how to fight this battle to win? ”

"His Majesty the Great Emperor, there are only two ways to defeat the rebels, the first is to relocate the people in the warring areas. According to the number of people given by His Majesty's officials, the rebels occupy a place with a population of just over two million, and if they are migrated to Manchuria, where your country needs population, then the rebels will lose their population and become fish without water, and they will naturally fail. Ludendorff said that the first is the tactic of pumping water to catch fish.

Guangxu was overjoyed when he heard this, but he thought of moving the people, working the people and losing money, and the prestige of the right was not good, so he had to press the excitement and ask again: "What about the second way?" ”

"The second option is to seize the land. The overwhelming superiority of the forces was gradually compressed into the rebel-held areas, advancing only a few kilometers a day, establishing strongholds, and sending people to clear out the spies and rebels who were mixed with the people. Kilometer by kilometer, they pushed into the heart of the rebels, forcing them to engage us head-on. ”

It seemed that he agreed with this method, Guangxu hurriedly asked: "How many troops do you need to fight one kilometer at a time, and how long will it take to reach Yanzhou?" ”

Ludendorff looked at Guangxu's expectant face, and only said: "Your Majesty, if you want to win, you need at least 300,000 troops. It takes at least 18 months or even two years, and now the area controlled by the rebels is too large. ”

As soon as Ludendorff said that he wanted 300,000 troops and two years, Guangxu's hanging ass sat back again, and now the army that encircled and suppressed Yanzhou was only a hundred thousand, and it would cost tens of millions of taels of silver in a year, and now the 300,000 army would take two years, so how much silver would it cost?

Guangxu was about to let the Germans go down, when suddenly the eunuch ran in in a hurry, and after the Germans went out, Zaitao, who received the eunuch's letter, turned pale and stammered: "Your Majesty, Yizhou... Yizhou also rebelled. ”

"What!" Guangxu sat on the dragon chair with his buttocks, and the jade wrench in his hand suddenly fell to the ground, and only split in half with a crisp sound. Zaitao only looked at the jade wrench that had become two halves, and suddenly made a sudden break in his heart: This Qing Dynasty is not going to be finished!

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(End of Ding volume) (To be continued......)