“…… Annihilated more than 28,000 Qing troops on the eastern front, including the 6th and 12th towns, of which more than 3,900 were killed, more than 5,400 were wounded, more than 19,000 were captured, 26 field artillery, 45 mountain artillery, more than 28,000 rifles, ammunition, baggage, food, mules, horses, and ships were captured. Our army lost 1,384 killed, 2,536 wounded, more than 9,000 breech shells, 440,000 rifle shells, and grenades and mortar shells were not ......counted."

In the apartment at No. 154 Baochang Road, Shanghai, Chen Guangshou read the good news from Yanzhou, with a smile on his face, different from those small victories in the past, this is a big victory that has never been achieved, it is completely unimaginable, and when the news of the sixth and twelfth towns is wiped out, what will happen in the country, Guangxu is afraid that he will be mad......

"In addition, there were two things reported by the Yanzhou side, one is that in this battle, the sixth town used chlorine shells, causing 46 deaths and more than 130 wounds to our army; Then among the prisoners was a major general of the Japanese 6th Army and a lieutenant of the 6th Army, who said that they wanted to meet the prime minister of the Renaissance Society. After reading the text of the telegram, Chen Guangshou read out the things in the remarks again, the former involves political and propaganda matters, and the General Staff is not responsible, and the latter is a diplomatic issue.

"How did the shells come from? Who developed the use of chlorine shells in encirclement and suppression? The use of chlorine shells was only on the Eastern Front, or did the Qing troops on several other lines have such shells? "The Japanese have asked for 100 million yen since Yang Rui opened his mouth. There was no movement at all, and Japan was temporarily stabilized, so now these two Japanese Yang Rui are not in a hurry to deal with it. It's just that chlorine shells are not a trivial matter, the air flow in the mountains is not smooth, and the lethality of chlorine shells is not low, if they are used by the Manchu Dynasty, then the losses they suffer are definitely not small, so Yang Ruidao must know the scale of the use of the Manchu Dynasty. With whom did you come up with the idea to do this?

"The shells have German markings on them and should have been imported into Germany." Chen Guangshou looked at the telegram remarks, and then said the details. "After the Manchu Qing Dynasty established the 6th Military Department at the beginning of the previous year, the Military Advisory Office was set up, and later Tie Liang and Zai Tao fought fiercely, in order to restrain Tie Liang. At the end of last year, the Military Advisory Office became independent from the 6th Military Department. Reorganized into the Military Advisory Office, which is equivalent to our General Staff. Previously, Beijing's intelligence said that the strategy for this attack was formulated by the Military Advisory Office, and if it was indeed formulated by the Military Advisory Office, then the use of chlorine shells should have been decided by the Military Advisory Office. [Note]"

"Where's the Military Advisory Office? What's going on inside? Yang Rui asked gloomily.

"The Military Advisory Office is located at the front gate of Beijing, and there are seven departments under it, which are divided into general affairs, operations, intelligence, transportation and communications, surveying, historical records, and the navy. Liangbi, who is actually in charge of things inside. Chen Guangshou said.

"Then get a few of these shells and throw them at the Military Advisory." Yang Rui said. "Write them another letter. If there are such shells again, then send them to the palace. ”

Hearing Yang Rui's thoughts, Chen Guangshou only felt relieved of his hatred and said, "Is that cannonball going to detonate?" ”

"It depends on the situation, the front door is a prosperous place, if the detonation will hurt the innocent, then don't detonate." Yang Rui replied that he was actually afraid that his practice would be learned by the ** molecules in the future, and it would be infinitely harmful at that time.

"Understood, sir!" Chen Guangshou thought that Mr. was taking care of the people, and Yang Rui's appearance in his eyes was much taller.

"Draft a commendation telegram in my name. My writing is too bad, you can write it. Speaking of this, Yang Rui finally laughed, this time the two towns of the Manchurian New Army were annihilated, and the battle against encirclement and suppression was half completed, and the rest depended on the blocking battle in the other three directions. However, Yang Rui was happy for a while, and after Chen Guangshou went out, he was deep again, where is the key to the success of this annihilation battle, it is completely due to the effectiveness of the artillery, and the tacit understanding between the infantry, but this is not to say that the Zhejiang Front Army has reached the Cheng dù of infantry and artillery coordination, they are only facing a Manchu trench, touch the front of the Qing army's trench in advance, and then wait for the end of the artillery bombardment to immediately impact the trench, this can only be regarded as the lowest level of infantry and artillery coordination, the real infantry and artillery coordination is to face a defense line several kilometers deep, The infantry slowly followed the barrage. However, with the defense of the North Ocean, they only know how to dig a trench, and then pull a barbed wire, and the low-level infantry artillery coordination is purchased.

Yang Rui in Shanghai was thinking about how to make the troops achieve real infantry and artillery coordination, while in the Military Advisory Office at the front gate of Beijing, Lu Jingyuan, director of the First Department (Operations), was thinking about how to strengthen the role of barbed wire. As an outstanding graduate of the first phase of the Qing Dynasty Non-commissioned Officer School in Japan, Lu Jingyuan paid attention to the trench and barbed wire fence to defend against the enemy very early, but he had not been on the battlefield after all, and in the end, the defense layout of the Yanzhou New Army was still helped by the Japanese, but the barbed wire trench and the machine gun array were probably still available for his own research, and now Lu Jingyuan is doing experiments in the open space over there in Xiyuan, how to pull the barbed wire fence is the most difficult to destroy? Where should the machine-gun emplacements be located to achieve maximum lethal effect? How do you dig a trench to best protect your soldiers?

Xiyuan tested for a long time, and the materials pulled over from there were piled up on a table, Lu Jingyuan took people to sort it out overnight, the first hall was busy, but the second hall got off work early, Chen Qicai entered the first hall, only to see that the clerks and clerks inside were busy, so he had to smile at Lu Jingyuan: "Brother Yuyuan seems to be unable to leave." ”

"What? Is there anything wrong with Oi? Lu Jing said from afar. Chen Qicai is also in the first phase of the 6th sergeant, although he is in the infantry section and Lu Jingyuan is in the artillery department, but the two still have some friendship.

"Oh, my second brother is here, I wanted to invite Brother Yuyuan to get drunk here, but I didn't expect to be busy." As Chen Qicai said this, he looked at the huge sand table of the head of the first hall, on which was a position preset according to the Russo-Japanese War, with trenches and barbed wire. However, Chen Qicai glanced at it and didn't look any further.

Seeing that Chen Qicai had come to invite him to drink, Lu Jingyuan suddenly sighed: "Oishi should get drunk first, I really can't leave these days, and there will be a war on the Yanzhou side." Inclusive, inclusive. ”

Knowing that Lu Jingyuan really couldn't leave, Chen Qicai had no choice but to leave, and when he saw Chen Qimei outside, he said: "People are too busy, please come out, or our brothers have a bar." ”

It was Chen Qimei's plan to ask Lu Jingyuan to come out and talk about the battle situation in Yanzhou, but if he couldn't come out, he wouldn't force it. In this case, the investigation of the leak of secrets is the most important, Sun Wen only handed over this matter to Chen Qimei to investigate, Chen Qimei first investigated in Tokyo, and then went to Hong Kong, and sent people to Li Zhun Shui Shi Yamen to investigate the news, this fortunate still has some results, in the mouth of a drunk Qianzong, Chen Qimei heard the words of infighting among the party, which couldn't help but make him think of the revival meeting. After sending a letter to Sun Wen, he came to the capital again with the idea of coming and not being rude.

chose a good mutton restaurant, called a table of good wine and good food, Chen Qicai happily greeted Chen Qimei to eat, but Chen Qimei did not have any appetite, Chen Qicai saw him like this, so he had to retreat from others, close the door himself, and then whispered: "Second brother, are you still worried about your republican revolution?" ”

"My republican revolution is the republican revolution of thousands of Han people in China. Oishi, you won't forget what you said earlier in Shanghai when you arrive in the capital, right? Although the money for studying abroad was sent by Chen Qicai, Chen Qicai's money for studying from childhood to adulthood was earned by Chen Qimei when he worked in a pawnshop. What's more, Chen Qicai is not exclusive to the revolution, and many times he praises it.

Seeing that there was accusation in the second brother's words, Chen Qicai had no choice but to laugh and said: "I dare not forget what I said in Shanghai before, but now I am in the capital, which is no longer as good as in Hunan, and it is difficult to achieve success in this exhibition of revolutionary members, and besides, the atmosphere in the north is closed, and it is difficult to advocate revolution here, not to mention that now that the parliament has been opened, the people's minds are determined, and they ......are enthusiastic about the revolution."

Chen Qicai chattered, only said that Chen Qimei was upset, but it was also helpless, his third brother seemed to be a neat character on the surface, but he was very cowardly in his bones, he had no principles in doing things, and he was only good at dealing with balance, unlike himself who was easy-going on the surface, but he was extremely rigid in his bones.

"Third brother, don't say it's difficult. I am not here to ask you to join the Revolutionary Party, but to inquire about the Renaissance Society. Chen Qimei finally got impatient to listen, and only interrupted Chen Qicai's grievances.

"Why do you want to inquire about the Revival?" Chen Qicai asked in surprise, although he knew that the two associations of the Renaissance Alliance were not in harmony, but seeing Chen Qimei's posture of going north alone, he had a guess in his heart.

"The last time I would do something in Chaozhou, it was the Revival Society that planned to destroy it. Although the Revival Society talks about revolution, it is actually the first to do, if they succeed in the revolution, then China will be an imperial China. Now that the revival will be gaining momentum, if it cannot be destroyed, then the situation in China will be unpredictable. Chen Qimei's words are earnest, but Chen Qicai knows three of them, but his brother is on top, and he is not good at offending directly. Only after a while did he say: "The Revival Society is extremely strong in Yanzhou, with no less than 100,000 troops capable of fighting, and there are ......more than tens of thousands of people in the places outside the Guan" (to be continued......

ps: Note: Lu Jingyuan, the military adviser of the Battle of Yangxia in Xinhai, built yì to use chlorine cannons, here in advance, see Zhou Weigang's "From the Jiangxi Uprising to Participate in the Battle of Wuchangyi" Lu Xingyuan (yuan) is Lu Yuyuan, this is Lu Jingyuan's words. He successively served as the director of the first, second and fourth departments of the Military Advisory Office.

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