Before the construction of the Taiwan Governor's Office (now the Taiwan Presidential Palace), the office of the Taiwan Governor was temporarily located in the former Taiwan Political Envoy Yamen, which is the only remaining Chinese official building in Taipei. After the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, for more than ten years, under various names, a building with the official seal of the Qing Dynasty was wiped out. In addition, after the rule gradually stabilized, Xin Chounian began to demolish the city wall and the Manchu official houses in the city in the name of expanding the city and laying the railway, as well as the most important Chinese symbols - the Confucian Temple, the Wu Temple, the City God Temple, and the Tianhou Temple, and the names of the streets were all changed to Japanese-style 'town, me', and then, the Taiwan Governor's Mansion building rose from the ground in Wenwu Town, where the Wenwu Temple is located.

Lin Zijin sat in the clerical section of the Governor's Palace, looked at the Taiwan Governor's Palace, which had been repaired for two years and was higher than one day by day, and breathed a deep sigh, it is said that this building cost millions of yen, and it will take another four or five years to complete. In four or five years, the imperial court should be able to call.

While he was thinking about it, the short and thin section leader Ono walked to the door of the third-class clerical office, knocked on the open door, and then said, "Lin Sang, come here!" ”

"Hay!" Lin Zijin bowed reflexively, and then walked down the corridor in the Chinese-style yamen to the section chief's office with the small steps of the Japanese.

"Lin Sang, is Mr. Liang Qichao doing well in Taichung?" Ono is a lean Japanese man with small eyes, but a deep and sharp gaze. It is reported that he used to be a student at the non-commissioned officer school, but then dropped out for unknown reasons.

"Hey!" Before Lin Zijin could answer, he nodded in Japanese agreement. Then he added: "Mr. Liang mainly wrote poems with many literati in Taichung, and he said that he exhausted his energy to mediate the Sino-Japanese dispute. needed to rest for a long time, so the invitation of the president of the daily news newspaper was politely denied. ”

"Oh..."Ono seemed to know that this would be the result, and his little eyes flashed a few times, and then retracted. Then he said the next thing, "Lin Sang, how is your illness?" Now that the Governor's Mansion is about to conquer the Taroko Domain, I need some paperwork to go with the army, and I hope you can go. ”

With a sudden shock to his body, Lin Zijin couldn't hide his excitement and bowed: "Hey! Thank you Ono-kun for your care. I'm cured. Willing to go with the army to fight for life! ”

Lin Zijin, who has always been known as weak, readily agreed to go to the front line with the army as if he had changed as a person, which made Section Chief Ono very puzzled, but thinking that it should be that the last exercise had an effect, he also said happily: "Lin Sang is fine, there are many people who say that you are a weak guy, I think if you can't be strong, how can you be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor?" The reason why the Japanese were able to defeat the Qing and Lu countries was because every citizen was as strong as a samurai, and they were willing to endure unbearable pain for the emperor. This is something that the Qing slaves could not do, and it was also difficult for the Caucasians in Europe and the United States to do. Lin Sang, you must show your bravery and strength this time, and shut up those who accuse you. ”

"Hey!" Lin Zijin's face was already flushed, except for himself. It was not clear whether it was shame or anger, but his loud 'hi' and deep bow made the section leader very satisfied. After a few more words of expectation, Ono asked him to go back.

After Lin Zijin went back, he began to fidget. The Governor's Palace's campaign to recruit troops against the Taroko tribe had been planned for many years, and personnel and materials were also being collected. But when and if so, only the Governor and the various high-ranking officers and police officers knew about it, and now he was going to go with the army, and his itinerary was the whole plan of the Japanese army. However, in the army, how do you spread the news?

After Lin Zijin was happy at the beginning, he began to be deeply distressed about this problem, usually, his intelligence can be transmitted through the intelligence network everywhere, but there is no such convenience in the army, he suddenly began to complain that he agreed to this question without consulting with the organization, what a fool!

After Lin Zijin cursed himself in his heart, he sat down and pondered for a few hours, until it was time to get off work, he slowly left the governor's palace and returned to his residence, and then finished eating slowly, and when the night was dark, he went out and went to the contact point.

More than half an hour later, in the medical hall full of medicinal fragrances, the medical officer in a plain robe conducted a routine examination as usual, "first take the pulse...... Take a look at the tongue coating...... Can you sleep well at night? ”

The bits and pieces of questions were finally over, and the medical officer suddenly whispered, "Why are you here??" ”

"The Japanese are about to conquer Taroko, they want me to join the army, I ...... I agreed. Lin Zijin spoke quickly and whispered about the situation, "But I'm worried that the information of the army can't come out, can there be medicine to make my old illness recur?" ”

After glancing at Lin Zijin seriously, the medical officer said, "I will write this matter down, is there anything else?" ”

"Liang Qichao arrived at Wufeng, he wanted to do something with the help of the Lin family's connections and capital, if Beijing is lost, he will invite the Lin family to Shanghai to participate in the second Chinese Congress in the name of overseas Chinese." Lin Zijin still spoke very fast, and then took out a box of cigarettes and said, "The specific things are inside." ”

"Good!" The medical officer immediately put away the box of cigarettes and said, "Okay, you can go back quickly." In order to make trouble, the Japanese have already evacuated their troops in various places, and in order to prevent disturbances in various places, martial law has begun everywhere, and the police are watching everywhere day and night, so you must be careful. ”

"Yes! I know. Lin Zijin nodded cautiously, he had already gotten up, and the medical officer changed back to his previous tone at this time: "The complexion is much better than the previous two months, but there is still no blood, remember to avoid meat, don't be angry, and still need to recuperate...... You can follow this recipe and go next door to grab medicine. ”

"Yes." Lin Zijin, who had turned back into a patient, responded weakly, and then went out with the prescription. Shortly after he left, a ray of radio passed through the rooftop, shooting into the air into the inexplicable distance.

At the same time, in an anonymous courtyard, accompanied by the piercing telegraph bell, the receiver was pulled out by the receiver with long pieces of paper burning dots and horizontals, and after seeing the telegram looking up, the receiver reported loudly: "Taipei sent to the headquarters." Urgent! ”

He said so. The head of the telecommunications team on duty on one side immediately got up and decoded nervously and quickly. After sending the telegram out and hurrying back, he took the newly drafted telegram and said, "Send the telegram immediately." ”

"Yes!" The dispatcher shouted. The words on the pieces of paper are quickly converted into electrical signals that go where they need to go.

The telegraph bell rang again on the Liwu River in Hualien, where the Taroko tribe, the Japanese governor Saku, was bent on conquering. Originally, with the Sino-Japanese war not ending and the Chinese army of the division on the other side of the strait watching, the conquest should not have been carried out immediately, but with the transfer of most of the Chinese army stationed in Fujian to the north and the tendency of Taroko Shengfan to form an alliance with anti-Japanese organizations, His Excellency Saku Zomathew still made a quick decision. It is believed that the Taroko tribe should be exterminated as soon as possible.

On the other side of the strait, the intelligence bureau and the general staff of the island, who had been watching the situation on the island a few years ago, were also happy that when they landed on Taiwan, the main forces of the Japanese army on the island would be transferred to Hualien in Taitung. However, because the time to cross Haideng Island was initially set for the 60 days from the seventh day of July to the ninth day of September, if the Japanese army began to conquer next month, the Taroko tribe would have to resist the Japanese army for three months, which was extremely difficult for a tribe with only more than 2,000 strong men, although it was convenient for the geographical advantage. In particular, the strength of the Japanese army this time was above the original estimate - according to the latest information, there were more than 20,000 soldiers and men in the Taroko crusade this time. It is accompanied by a mountain artillery wing, a machine gun brigade, and warships and aircraft. These things are also very stressful for the Baath Army, for a tribe strong man who is not trained in modern warfare. That's even harder to deal with.

After reading the telegram at a glance and ten lines, Hu Wenyao, a special commissioner of the Intelligence Bureau, looked at Major General Li Erhu, commander-in-chief of the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Corps, and Li Along, a local guide, and said with some excitement: "The Japanese are coming. ”

He was excited, Li Erhu, who had long wanted to fight the Japanese, was unmoved. He came to Taiwan to lurk for so long, just to fight. There were few petty thieves before, and the Japanese didn't kill a few. His own people have been arrested a lot, which can make Li Erhu, who has been a bearded and full of bandits, and the bandit soldiers under him extremely dissatisfied, and the backbone of his subordinates, Fang Dawang, once the guy and went out to the Japanese, but he was persuaded by Hu Wenyao to come back halfway.

"Just say, can you do it with all your strength this time!" Li Erhu lit a cigarette in a chic manner, squinted at the part-time political commissar Hu Wenyao, this former head of the Shanghai Tan Bao inquire, is an extremely slippery person, he can settle in Taroko, or rely on his mouth to persuade the leader of the family, so Li Erhu still has some value for him.

"The order of the General Staff is like this!" Hu Wen's dazzling eyes rolled, considering the possibility of the Japanese army's attack, although he didn't know when the army would land, he could still guess the general staff's plan.

"That's good!" Li Erhu slapped his thigh and said excitedly: "Is that to discuss with Halu Pavilion?" ”

"Hmm. Let's go and find him. Hu Wenyao nodded, and said that under the leadership of Li Alung, he and Li Erhu walked out of the thatched hut and went to the Halu Pavilion of the tribal leader. and go to the dwelling place of Navih.

Halu Pavilion. Nawei is the leader of the Huhusi Society, and he is extremely prestigious among the forty ethnic groups in the entire Taroko, and there are already many people in the Huhusi Society, so he naturally became the leader of the entire Taroko ethnic group. After learning of the Japanese invasion attempt, Hu Wenyao Guò Li Ah Long contacted him, although the last time the Japanese army attacked was the Weili incident several years ago, but the remnants of the Han people, Ha Lu Ge. Nawe still received him.

Since we met, the development of things in the future was logical, better guns, better knives, more ammunition and medicines, airlifted over one night, and for a time more than 2,000 Taroko people were all exchanged for guns, beaming with joy, shouting that the world is still Han Chinese. It's just that barbarians are barbarians, and some things can't be taught no matter how they are taught, rifles and grenades are better, and this thing is not too difficult, but the technical arms of artillery and machine guns can only be drawn from the anti-Japanese volunteers, so that more than 2,000 people can barely form a regiment, but this is only a regiment in terms of numbers, and its structure, command, and tactics cannot be compared with the regular army at all.

However, in the opinion of Major General Li Erhu, who has been in this problem for three months and has seen the power of the living domain, it may not be a bad thing, and he believes that the inherent infantry tactics of the Fuxing Army are not suitable for these natural mountain infantry, and if they really want to teach the past, it is a waste of good soldiers. In order to give full play to the effectiveness of these people's team operations, it is necessary to find another set of more difficult mountain infantry tactics, which cannot be achieved in a few months. And it will take years or even longer. Li Erhu's judgment was finally accepted by the General Staff Headquarters, and in the following years. With this unit, he really reformulated a set of infantry tactics on the basis of the mountain tactics of the Baxing Army, which created the prestige of the 2nd Marine Division of the Baxing Army.

Hu Wenyao found Halu Pavilion for a few. Nawei time. With deep tattoos on his face, he was holding a cigarette for his military supply brothers, and poured the military supply two pots of liquor into his mouth. Seeing the Han brothers, Na Wei burped and instructed the woman next to him, "Serve wine to my Han brothers!" ”

The people in the mountains are sincere, except for the wife who can't let him, he also has you. Hu Wenyao, who has been trained in this wine, pinched his nose and poured half a bowl of two pots. He said vigorously: "The leader of the Halu Pavilion, the brothers under the mountain tell us that the Japanese are coming. They came with more than 20,000 people this time, and it is estimated that they will not withdraw their troops if they do not set foot in Taroko! ”

Not at all surprised, Halu Pavilion. "I said years ago that they would come back sooner or later. They peeped at the treasures of the mountain, and they would not stop until they conquered all the tribes on the mountain, such as the Northern Domain, the Malivan Domain, the China Ji, the Chali Immortal, and the Masami...... These tribes have all submitted. Now it's Taroko left. Don't worry, it's like the previous ......" Saying this, Ha Luge slapped the knife on his waist on the table, "They will only be hunted down by us." ”

Li Erhu didn't understand the words. Only after Li Along's translation next to him did he say: "It's not that I don't believe in the ability of the Haluge brothers, this time the Japanese will not stop if they don't reach their goal, and." Over the past few years, the Japanese have built roads outside the mountains. The treacherous terrain was also clearly depicted by the spies they had sent in, and this battle was not to be taken lightly. ”

Li Erhu's remarks from the perspective of a soldier are understandable. But when Li Alon wanted to translate, he was stopped by Hu Wenyao, and he said: "Leader of Halu Pavilion, the Japanese came this time to unite the entire tribe in order to win, and only the leader can unite all the tribes. ”

"I have gone, and the people of the tribe will return in the evening." Halu Pavilion. Nawei's answer was beyond everyone's expectations, and it seemed that he was extremely well-informed.

"Then there's no problem." Hu Wenyao smiled when he heard this. He was about to get up and say goodbye when Halu Pavilion. Na Wei stood up and looked at us, "How can you Han people guarantee that they will not encroach on our hunting grounds like the Japanese?" ”

Being forced to ask by a barbarian like this, Li Erhu reached his waist but was stopped by Hu Wenyao, he smiled and said, "Because there is no need!" ”

"Don't need it?" I thought that the Han people would promise that there was a difference in Halu Pavilion, and his eyes full of murderous intent also dimmed.

"I just don't need to!" Hu Wenyao nodded. "I have a land area of tens of thousands of miles from south China to the South China Sea, north to the Ice Ocean, west to the desert, and east to North Korea, and the land area is tens of thousands of miles, more than 40 times the size of Japan, so there is no need to care about the camphor and wood on the mountain. Leader of Halu Pavilion, if you can really repel the powerful Japanese this time, what if you will be able to use the mountains of Hualien as a hunting ground for your Majesty Emperor Ming in the future? I don't care about these places! ”

Hu Wenyao's habits of white-faced people in Shanghai have not changed, and the bragging bull even smacks his tongue with Li Erhu's beard, you must know that there is no emperor in China, and there is no precedent for fiefdoms, he actually promised to seal Hualien to Halu Pavilion. Nawei, if the Taroko people really beat the Japanese back, what will happen in the future.

Comrade Hu Wenyao, the special commissioner of the Intelligence Bureau, flickered around, and Ha Luge happily drank the same glass of wine with him before happily sending him away. On the way back, Li Erhu was silent, and only after everyone had retreated, he blamed: "You are a lion with a big mouth, if someone really does it, what should the commander do?" ”

"What should I do?" Hu Wenyao said with a smile: "We should think, what if the Taroko and other tribes surrender to the Japanese like the 1st Marine Division when they land?" You must know that the Japanese are strong now, and their strategy is to suppress Shengban with all their might, but you have to find that you don't have an advantage on the island, and the domestic reinforcements can't come for a while, what should we do if you buy Shengfan to deal with us? The feudal people are not smart, many times give them sweetness, these people can do anything, or if a leader dies, the situation will be reversed, these can't be guarded against! It's much better to make a promise now than not to promise in the future, right? ”

Hu Wenyao smiled and smiled, and his words only made Li Erhu's back cold, Japan has ruled Taiwan for more than ten years and has killed people, so everyone thinks that as long as they raise their arms after landing on the island, then the anti-Japanese Jing Cong, can be those who are born with the wisdom of the domain, without knowing the truth, it is still very possible to be fooled by the Japanese to fight against the Renaissance Army, especially those tribes that have been enslaved by them, such as the Ami tribe who accompanied the Japanese army this time.

Thinking of this, Li Erhu only felt that he had been a soldier for a long time, but he had forgotten about those tricks, and couldn't help but be ashamed: "If this is the case, then what should I do?" ”

"What else can I do? Everyone is bragging. Hu Wenyao still smiled, "Those tribes that have surrendered, it is estimated that if they can fight, they will probably cause chaos on the spot, and even if they don't rebel, they will run; Most of those who are loyal can't be beaten, we just press over! Okay, Lao Li, you can rest first, I have to report the attitude of Halu Pavilion, you can sleep first. ”

Because the situation was not urgent, Hu Wenyao's telegram was not immediately transferred to Yang Rui's desk after it was sent to the Intelligence Bureau, and even Zhang Shi, the director of the Intelligence Bureau, only glanced at it and then filed it, and he did not have the time to care about what happened in Taiwan now, and all his energy was focused on Sarajevo in the Balkans, which is thousands of miles away from China.

At two o'clock in the afternoon on the sixth day of the fifth month of the fifth month, Beijing time, and at eight o'clock in the morning of June 28, Sarajevo time, the Prime Minister's Office got off work very early, and after everyone in the office left, Yang Rui, Xie Jintai, and Zhang Shikun sat in the study room in the Yin'an Palace, and several agents of the intelligence bureau were debugging the telegraph antenna inside and outside the room, hoping to receive the telegram from the West in time.

In the smoke, Yang Rui looked at the heavy rain outside a little lazily, and suddenly smiled while spitting out the smoke: "Actually, don't worry too much, even if the wind and waves are calm in Europe, the rainy season in North China can delay the Japanese offensive for a month." With this month's work, there will be more shells on the front line. ”

After more than a month's effort, the Japanese transferred all the divisions and regiments that could be transferred, and there were more than 300,000 Japanese troops in the whole of North China, plus the Japanese laborers from Korea who had been recruited, and more than 500,000 people were placed in the narrow area of Gyeonggi. The Japanese army was divided into two routes, one was Lulong Fengrun, and the other was Yangcun, which was surrounded by rivers and lakes, the former was mountainous, and the latter had a water network, which made these soldiers and laborers more crowded.

More than 500,000 people are hoarded in Gyeonggi, eating, drinking, lazing, and logistical remedial are all major problems, but fortunately, docks can be used as wharves at the mouth of Dagu in Tianjin and on both sides of the Haihe River, and some coasts on the Qinhuangdao side have also built long wooden trestle bridges under the hard work of laborers, so that the daily supplies and combat ammunition of more than 500,000 people can barely be supplied. However, because it was difficult for the Japanese to recruit Chinese laborers, and because they could not use military tickets like waste paper to buy materials for the war zone at a low price, and because the consumption of artillery shells in this war was five times that of the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese army's military spending rose sharply and frequently overspended.

Military spending is a problem, relative to the approach of the Luguo army, the Japanese army has been half a year and still cannot advance an inch, such a comparison only makes the Japanese people extremely dissatisfied, especially in the battle of Yangcun last month, and also killed a lieutenant general, which made a large number of angry young people in the country shout that Kuroki Weizhen should apologize for his own crimes; In contrast, Emperor Taisho, who found that there was indeed a gap between the Japanese army and the Lu army, became dissatisfied, and after summoning Katsura Taro several times, the latest time for launching a general attack on Beijing was set for July 30, that is, before the Tencho Festival, and the battle must occupy Beijing.

The country is so urged, the black wood for Zhen and Ao Baogong of the Zhili dispatch army can only be hard-headed, and they don't want the rainy season of Zhili to start as scheduled, and the heavy rain is heavy, the river is soaring, and overnight, except for the Beijing-Tianjin Railway and the Jingdong official road, other roads have become muddy ponds, and the preparation for war has suddenly slowed down. (To be continued......)