Chapter 13 Armbands

Unlike battleships, in his visual inspection, the Deng Zilong only had six-inch armor on the turret and bridge, and only two inches of armor on the side of the ship, and only protected the key positions of the hull. In today's shipbuilding cost, a battleship needs 6,000 to 8,000 tons of armor steel, and these armor steels are in the early 100 pounds per ton, that is, the cost of battleship armor accounts for about 30% of the total price;

In addition to armor, artillery is also the bulk of the cost of battleships, as far as Liu Guanxiong knows, artillery accounts for about two and a half percent of the total price of the battleship, considering that the ship is only six inches, the ship at the foot seems to be only half of the cost of the same tonnage dreadnought, at most eight million taels, but Zheng Zuyi said that this ship cost 10 million taels, Liu Guanxiong's heart trembled, guessing how much silver those people on top of the black money? No, with such a large number, maybe the prime minister of the current dynasty will also be involved......

Major General Liu Guanxiong secretly thought for a while, and the more he thought about it, the worse it became, his face suddenly changed greatly, and he patted his thigh and complained: "You fucking eat ice cream and eat ice cream, why do you have to ask how much the ship cost?" ā€

Zheng Zuyi just gossiped once, and didn't want to scare Liu Guanxiong like this, he didn't know what to say: "The officers on the ship know it, and they say that they want everyone to do their duty, so they simply told them that the ship cost 10 million taels." This is something that can be asked casually, how can you blame me for asking. ā€

Liu Guanxiong still wanted to complain, but a report from outside said: "The captain asked General Liu for a routine morning meeting." ā€

"Got it. I'll be there right away. Liu Guanxiong replied, and then glared at Zheng Zuyi, who was still licking ice cream again, "If you want to keep your head on your neck for a long time." Don't make a big deal about it. ā€

When Liu Guanxiong arrived at the conference room, the commanders of all the departments on the ship had already arrived. The first to speak was Lieutenant Colonel Wu Zhennan, a navigation officer: "After the reconnaissance plane searched in the morning. It can be confirmed that 150 kilometers of the ocean are safe, of course. The underwater situation is unknown, and the only thing that can be confirmed is that it is safe in the waters around the fleet. After Wu Zhennan said that it was safe, everyone present breathed a sigh of relief, but he then said: "According to the analysis of the meteorological department, the typhoon will hit tomorrow, so we will avoid the harbor by tomorrow evening at the latest." ā€

Wu Zhennan said, pointing to Dagou Harbor and said: "Now the British and Japanese warships say that they will block the strait, but the Japanese Navy is taboo about our submarines. It is only a patrol that symbolizes the line, and its speed is extremely high; Only the old ironclad ship Triumph of the British Far East Fleet thought that our troops would not dare to sink it, so it slowly turned around in the strait. Both of these ships were easy to avoid, so the General Staff built yƬ We entered the port of Dagou to temporarily avoid the typhoon. We are now three hundred nautical miles east of the port of Tagou, twenty hours to the west, and will be able to enter the port just at dawn. ā€

After navigating officer Wu Zhennan briefly introduced the situation, Zhu Tiansen said: "The General Staff called in the morning, ordering our fleet to fully support the marines in capturing the Miyako Islands. It is very likely that we will not be able to leave the port until after the typhoon. ā€

'Fleet into Dog Harbor?' Still going to fight the Miyako Islands? Liu Guanxiong, who didn't understand the current situation, was very surprised, he looked at the young school officials around the table, and asked with some hesitation: "Taiwan has been occupied?" ā€

"Yes! Taiwan successfully landed four days ago, and now the Japanese troops on the island have basically been wiped out. Only the Magong Fortress in Penghu and the Keelung Fortress are garrisoned by remnants of the Japanese army; The Japanese troops in Liaodong and Zhili were in a desperate situation because of the blockade of the Bohai Sea by submarine forces, and yesterday Andong was captured by our army, and the Japanese troops who invaded our country were completely encircled; That's right. Yesterday, His Royal Highness King Min issued an edict ordering the revival army to go to Korea to eliminate the Japanese invaders. Restore the seal. ā€

Zhu Tiansen gave a comprehensive introduction to the latest battle situation, and every word he said was like an eight-inch cannonball. Bombarded Liu Guanxiong's heart, the major general stood up suddenly, but he couldn't speak with his mouth open, and he sat down slowly after half a while, "Okay... Okay......" He suddenly choked a little, "Well played... Good ......"

Although the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War pierced the heart of every soldier at that time, although it has been 20 years, but the scars of that year are just no longer remembered, but they have never forgotten, and now the revival army outside the capital has come back to life, and actually surrounded the Japanese army, such a big victory, how can it not make the veterans of the past excited? Liu Guanxiong came back to his senses after sitting down, remembering that Zhu Tiansen was referring to the order of the General Staff, and he stood up again and said: "Although Lian Po is old, he can still fight!" The cruiser Liu Ziying resolutely obeyed the orders of the General Staff and tried his best to support the marines to capture the Miyako Islands. ā€

This time, the subject arranged by the General Staff is the coordination of infantry vehicles, and the direction of Caohekou with the best road conditions and the direction of Andong are all headed by more than 30 wolf chariots, and more than 50 jackal chariots are behind the palace, and piles of infantry follow behind the chariots, and follow the chariots at a rapid pace. According to the training requirements, their main task was to protect the tanks from being destroyed by the Japanese troops, especially to be vigilant against the Japanese troops who rushed up with explosives and wanted to die with the tanks. Due to insufficient training, in order to make the infantry better understand the significance of protecting the chariots, the former commander finally assigned each chariot to a platoon of infantry protection, if the chariot was destroyed by the Japanese, the platoon commander will be investigated, and if there is a dereliction of duty, the military law will deal with it.

The diesel engines roared, the steel tracks screamed and pierced, and the Japanese army thought that the Chinese army was chasing the shells like before, and whether the shelling was really extended backwards or falsely, they all shrank in the cat's ear holes dug by the imitation of the Chinese army, but after the shelling really extended back, the Chinese army did not arrive as scheduled, and these people only heard a tooth-sore steel grinding sound.

A soldier poked his head out to look ahead, and before he could shout, he was killed by a bullet fired from a machine gun on the roof of the tank, but there was always a mistake in strafing, and finally a soldier shouted: "Youkai! Monster!! ā€

One soldier screamed, and the other soldiers trembled, and on the battlefield where the smoke of gunfire had not cleared, they were waiting for not the Zhina army, but rows of extremely vicious steel monsters that could walk autonomously and spit out bullets and shells. "Shoot! Kill to give. The squad leader in the trench gave orders to the machine gunners, drew his command knife, and led the soldiers into attack.

Because of the inertia of obeying orders, the soldiers jumped out of the trench even in trembling. Assault with bayonet raised, but this is exactly what the assault corps is doing. Looking at the swarming Japanese, the two machine guns on the tank frantically spat out tongues of fire. The infantry hiding behind the chariot also poked their heads out and shot at the Japanese as they advanced, and when a few Japanese rushed to the chariot, the infantry accompanying the chariot immediately rushed forward to engage the Japanese in a white-knuckle battle.

The Japanese troops, who were short of defensive materials, did not even set up barbed wire, and the trench less than two meters wide jumped over like a stinking ditch for the speeding chariots, and when the assault corps was driving to the second trench like a road roller, Lieutenant General Okaichi Nosuke, commander of the 3rd Division, hurriedly asked for reinforcements from the rear artillery, but he received a reply that the artillery wing had completely disappeared under the blow of the Shina artillery. Ammunition is depleted, and it is impossible to support front-line operations.

Fighting against the branch for nearly a year, there is no artillery, that is, there is no offensive and no defensive power, watching, watching the division commander Okaichi Nosuke who is the steel monster approaching in front of him, personally holding a command knife and leading the troops to make a white-edged charge, in order to serve the country, he shouted that as soon as he rushed out of the trench, he was swept by a machine gun and fell on the ground not far from the trench with all the soldiers who were decided. Crushed into mud by the tracks of the chariot.

Like the previous aerial reconnaissance, the Japanese Phoenix defense line is completely a fragile walnut, the outer ring is the hardest, and after breaking through the outer circle, the devils are in no danger to defend. The assault corps has been steadily advancing to the bottom of Phoenix City, only to encounter fierce resistance from the Japanese army, but Phoenix is an easy city to attack and difficult to defend. Li Shutong did not think about fighting street battles with the Japanese, but like capturing Anton. Directly transfer the artillery regiment to bombard, and then charge. If the resistance to the next attack is still very large, then withdraw the infantry, and then mobilize artillery fire to cover the shelling, and so on four times, when the phoenix is also reduced to rubble like Anton, the Japanese fortifications in the city completely collapse, and the revival army easily occupies the phoenix, thus annihilating the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd divisions.

Phoenix was taken, Dagushan was also taken, and the Guards Division and the Reserve 1st Division, which were divided into two pieces and had no danger to defend, were destroyed earlier than the Phoenix Japanese army. At this time, in the entire northeast, except for the 5th and 8th divisions that had retreated into Korea, and the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, and 2nd and 3rd divisions in the direction of Lushun, the Japanese army in the entire northeast had been flattened, and the next step for the revival army was to eliminate the main force of the Japanese army with more than 20 divisions and more than 300,000 people in Zhili.

In the afternoon, Li Shutong rushed to Yang Rui's account with the results of the battle summarized by the General Staff to report the battle situation, but was stopped by Li Zilong, who said that the prime minister was meeting with Gojong of North Korea and should not be disturbed. Yang Rui, who didn't want to be in the house, heard his voice and said loudly: "Shutong, is the war over?" Come in, and see His Majesty Gaozong. ā€

Yang Rui said this, Li Shutong had no choice but to go in, but before he could speak, the long-bearded North Korean defended: "Your Excellency, the Prime Minister, must not call Xiao Wang His Majesty, Xiao Wang was called the emperor and changed his name, but it was actually a move to protect the country, and it was involuntary." ā€

The old man tried his best to explain, Yang Rui just laughed, and he said to Li Xi, "This is the commander of the 7th Group Army, Lieutenant General Li Guangping." It was he who led his troops to raid Andong, which cut off the way for the Japanese army to return eastward, so that the Japanese army entering Korea had only two and a half crippled divisions. ā€

With Yang Rui's introduction, Li Shutong did not bow, but solemnly saluted Gaozong and others. After he saluted, Yang Rui looked at him and said with a smile: "Is the battle over, then introduce the results." ā€

"Yes!" Li Shutong saluted again, and then said loudly: "Under the attack of our 7th and 11th group armies, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd divisions of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd divisions that were stubbornly defending Phoenix were all annihilated......"

Li Shutong still wanted to say, but Yang Rui changed the topic, "What about the two divisions on the other side of Dagu Mountain?" ā€

Li Shutong somewhat understood what Yang Rui meant, and immediately said, "They were annihilated by our army together." In the entire northeast, only the five divisions of Lushun are still struggling to survive, and when the theater command orders them, they will definitely be able to extinguish this morning food. ā€

Li Shutong replied like this, and Yang Rui smiled even more, and said: "The Japanese army over there in Lushun is not in a hurry, this enemy will be eliminated in the end." The key now is to send troops to Korea as soon as possible to restore the ...... of the country."

Yang Rui said this, and Li Xi and several North Koreans immediately looked at Li Shutong pitifully. It is too important to send troops to North Korea as soon as possible, especially since Yang Rui introduced the current situation just now, saying that according to the rainy season in the northeast, although there was a wave some time ago, the heavy rain has not yet ended, and if it rains heavily for several days, I am afraid that I will not be able to fight for half a month. This half a month is enough for Japan to send police and other reserve troops from all over the country to cross the sea to defend Korea, and I heard that the age of conscription in Japan has been relaxed to 50 years old. Under the raging war in the southern cities of Korea, it is bound to become a ghost domain.

"Yes! The subordinate immediately fought hard. Advance to Korea at an early date. Uncle Li said loudly, and then withdrew.

Uncle Li just walked with the front foot. Yang Ruiqing coughed a few times and said: "Uncle Tong got married in his early years, but it was a matchmaking agreement with his parents, so he had to do it as a last resort. If His Royal Highness has a talented and beautiful woman from the clan, and she can be in love with her uncle, she can marry her uncle. According to the arrangement of the General Staff Department, the main force of our country's entry into the DPRK is the 1st Army and then the 7th Group Army, but the real main force is still the 7th Group Army. ā€

Yang Rui's mention spoke to Li Xi's heart. A few years ago, he arranged for a beautiful princess to give to Yang Rui, but Yang Rui didn't understand the amorous feelings, thinking that no one would help Zhu Kuansu support the scene, don't; And Zhu Kuanwei is a child and doesn't understand anything, so the marriage strategy can't be successful. Now that Yang Rui has pushed Uncle Li out openly, Li Xi suddenly burst into joy, thinking that when Yuan Shikai was stationed in North Korea, Concubine Min also sent a princess. Now that Li Shutong is stationed with an army of more than 100,000 troops, it is not a problem to send another princess at all.

Both the guest and the host understood this, and Yang Rui was afraid that Li Xi would mess around and turn good things into bad things, so he said: "Uncle Tong has always loved singing and music. And those who are not in love do not marry, identity is not the key, this... This ......"

"Your Excellency, please rest assured. The minister will definitely make arrangements to become Qin and Jin's good. Li Xiangqian interjected on the side.

"That's good. That's good. Yang Rui nodded, just drinking tea. This made the Korean monarchs and ministers anxious again.

After determining the location of Qi Xiaomao and others in the morning, the Air Force immediately transported Li Xi to Andong. This Li Xi spent the night in the field, which was extremely hard, but when he heard that the Japanese army was defeated, he immediately wanted to enter Beijing to face the saint. But Yang Rui didn't come to Anton for him, he just thought that he wanted to negotiate with Li Xi on many issues related to the recovery of North Korea, and he had to stay here for a few days.

His own woman is in North Korea, if she really dies, Yang Rui can't accept it. Hating a person is not to let her be bullied by others, but to bully herself. With such logic, Yang Rui has always disagreed with Li Xi's request to enter Beijing immediately, and has been looking for various reasons to drag it in Anton.

After refusing Li Xi's suggestion to enter Beijing again, Li Xiangwei came to inquire privately, and he was very smart not to ask Yang Rui directly, but to ask Yang Rui's secretary Li Zilong.

Looking at the panicked North Koreans, Li Zilong couldn't say it clearly, but said: "The prime minister has always liked your country and the people of your country, and he doesn't have the slightest intention of embarrassing it." The Prime Minister often said that your country is the arm of China, and if the arm is strong, the Chinese frontier will become more stable, so the fundamental reason for the transformation plan designed by the Prime Minister for your country is to make your country reborn and become a rich and powerful country. ā€

"Ahh Li Zilong said the natural truth, so that Li Xiangwei had to believe it, he bowed and thanked but still didn't understand why he wanted to stay in Anton and refused to enter Beijing, this Gaozong wanted to enter Beijing in his dreams.

Li Xiangyu euphemistically said the problem, and looking at the North Koreans who didn't know the reason and were not at ease, Li Zilong had no choice but to say: "The prime minister doesn't mean to make things difficult for the king of your country, the prime minister just wants to wait for someone, and when this person arrives, then return to Beijing immediately." ā€

"Ahh Li Xiangyu said again, and Li Zilong left after speaking, leaving only one of him there. "Wait for someone, this person arrives, then return to Beijing immediately." He repeated Li Zilong's words, very inexplicably.

Li Xiangwei was inexplicable, and Zhou Kuaijiao, who finally received Li Shutong's frank telegram, was also inexplicable, he couldn't understand why the wife of the prime minister would appear in his team, which guy who gave birth to a son and no ass hole was so harmful to the prime minister and himself, if something really happened, then it would not be enough for him to die 10,000 times, yes, under the roar of Zhou Kuai's legs, the regiment headquarters jumped with chickens and dogs, and the whole regiment stopped advancing, and the battle became looking for people.

Cheng Ying didn't know that someone was waiting for her, let alone that many people were looking for her, she and Bai Ru, under the leadership of the North Korean guide, kept chasing the remnants of the 11th Division and marched towards Pyongyang. Cheng Ying is just a private according to the military rank, but Bai Ru is a lieutenant colonel - Bai Ru has long been married to a wife, and the child is two years old, but she and her husband understand the importance of Cheng Ying in the prime minister's heart, so after receiving her telegram, Bai Ru immediately rushed to Liaodong - except for Zhou Kuai's legs, she has the highest military rank in the whole regiment, so these two people have priority all the way and chase at the front.

The husband used to be the secretary to the prime minister, and he knows better why the prime minister and his wife are so so. When the husband and wife were not in harmony and quarreled, Chen Guangshou spoke quickly for a while, and swore that he would love himself like the prime minister's wife. Bai Ru knew that the prime minister and his wife were separated, and she was even more annoyed that her husband tried his best to explain the truth of the love between men and women.

In terms of men. No matter how evil or bad he is, most of the time he will remember a woman in his heart, no matter how much that woman hurts him and hurts him, he likes it, and the longer it goes, the deeper he likes it, and the shallower the resentment. Why is this happening? After careful study, it can only be said that men's love is only once when they are young and true, and after this time, it will only play the world and harm countless women, so it is said that men's love is like a straight line. Who you love when you are young, who you still love when you are old, always the same, will never change;

And the love of women, when they were young, they may have been entrusted to someone, but if time passes, most of the men who liked it earlier will forget it, and if they get married, the past will become even more cloudy. Therefore, it is said that a woman's love is like a horizontal line, one in the past and then another, when she met Zhang San and loved Zhang San, she married Li Si and fell in love with Li Si. If you remarry Wang Wu, you will still be in harmony with Wang Wu.

Bai Ru didn't read much, and she was stunned when she heard what her husband said. I didn't notice how much trouble my husband's words would cause if Qiu Jin's gang heard them. But she was in her husband's explanation. I know that the prime minister doesn't seem to like his wife, but he actually loves him deeply. It's just that the husband and wife are so strong and strong, and they have no chance to reconcile.

In the mountains and forests at sunset, Bai Ru looked at Cheng Ying, who was constantly looking left and right with a rifle on his back and a telescope, and suddenly thought of the private words between husband and wife before, and at the same time, her cheeks were red and hot, and she felt more and more unable to understand why Cheng Ying wanted to enter the court alone, the imperial court had won the war, not to mention the recovery of North Korea, and killing a few Japanese devils first would not help the whole campaign, is it necessary to rush like this?

"Let's spend the night nearby." Bai Ru pointed to a mountain col in the distance, she seemed to see cooking smoke over there just now, but when she turned to the foot of the mountain, she was gone.

"Ah, don't you go any further?" Cheng Ying painted her face with charcoal, and her body was covered with a large size of fine camouflage, because she was in a hurry, she was covered with stinky sweat, but even so, the thin waist with a tight belt and a crisp voice could still make people feel that this should be a beauty.

"We can't go any further, we are very close to the Japanese, and if we really meet them at night, they will always take advantage of the large number of them." Bai Ru has more combat experience than Cheng Ying, and after chasing her for so long, she feels that the Japanese are in front.

After Bai Ru finished speaking, he gestured to the North Korean guide, and made a posture to sleep, although the guide did not understand Chinese, but the meaning was clear, chattering for a while, and took the two of them to leave the road and walked to a mountain road, after several roadless, the three of them finally turned into a mountain col, which was the place where Bai Ru saw the smoke earlier.

ā€œļ¼ā€ In the golden bushes, a man shouted, followed by the sound of a bolt pulling.

The sound of the bolt of the gun made Bai Ru more alert than the shout, and she immediately fell to the ground, throwing Cheng Ying to the ground. When the two fell to the ground, the guide shouted loudly in Korean, and after several conversations, the people in the bushes stood up, and some people appeared behind the bushes. Bai Ru, who felt safer, got up and lowered the muzzle of the rifle in his hand, looking at the ones in front of him who didn't make a sound, just looked quietly.

After a long time, a weak teenager ran out and shouted at her in stiff Chinese: "The Revival Army? ā€

"Yes, the Renaissance Army!" Bai Ru responded, and her female voice suddenly startled the person opposite.

After a period of disturbance, a sturdy man finally came out on the opposite side, who looked like the leader of these people, but he still did not understand Chinese, and after shouting a few words of Korean, the young man said, "The leader invites you to come in and eat." ā€

There were people outside the village, the man came out with a gun on guard, the woman and the child also looked out through the bushes curiously, and saw that there were women and children in the village, Bai Ru finally put down the gun, and let Cheng Zhen, who was lying on the ground, get up, and follow these people around the bushes into the village together. At this time, a child ran quickly in front of everyone, shouting a few words repeatedly as if reporting news, and more people came out of the village.

Seeing that Bai Ru was a little suspicious, the weak young man accompanying him said: "He is telling everyone that the Renaissance Army is coming." He also saw that the two people were women at this time, and he was also suspicious: "Are you really the revival army?" ā€

The atmosphere of the countryside made Bai Ru's heart relax, she smiled and pointed to her brochure, and showed her armband: "Fuxing Army." ā€

Bai Ru wears a lieutenant colonel's epaulette, and her armband is a circular cross sniper vision, with two dark green Chinese characters 'sniper', the boy doesn't know the epaulettes at all, nor does he know the sniper armband, but he knows the Chinese characters, after the two Chinese characters 'sniper' are read, he shouted excitedly and ran to the leader, and said a lot. (To be continued......)