The summary of more than ten days has made the officers and clerks in the army drop several pounds of meat, and in the case that most of the interviewees are illiterate, the conversation with hundreds is already very tiring, but Yang Rui's style has always been straight to the end, the horsemen in the army, the cooks in the cooking class, and the soldiers in the engineer battalion are also among the investigations, not to mention what machine gunners, gunners, shotgunners, etc., so that more than 1,000 people in the whole division have been tossed hard, and the questions asked are not difficult, that is, to answer a few questions such as "What is the most troublesome thing when fighting?" "What should I do to solve these problems?" "After working for so long, have you thought of a better way to do things?" Wait a minute.

In fact, these problems have been there for a long time, but there are more things involved in this war, the battalion and regiment-level battles are completely different from the army-level battles, the ambush battle in Huairen in October only ended after one night, and the opponent is still a defeated army that fled in the desert, this time it is against the Japanese army, although there are also tricks, but more of a dignified frontal attack, and also experienced a fierce night attack of the devil, and then there is that the battle is not over in one day, but for many days, How to sustain the war is another matter entirely.

In about 10 days, more than 1,000 key officers and soldiers have gone through it, combined with the reports at the company and regiment level, and then a rough summary came out a few days later, and the General Staff Department has made several large numbers, which are divided into six departments: provisions, firearms, fortifications, training, operations, and reconnaissance, each of which is thick enough to be used as a pillow alone, and Yang Rui has not slept for a day holding these books -- he has not read a word, he just holds it, he is just more excited, and he is so excited that he can't read a word. Looking at these six things, he knew that the Revival Army was a real army this time, and she finally had her own management system and operating logic. It is no longer copied from the German army and the Red army. Although these things are still very rough and need to be rectified and modified, at least the shelves have been erected, and all that needs to be done in the future is to improve.

Shrunk in the camp tent and hugged the book for a long time, Yang Rui got up with great ambition and went straight out of the camp, just thinking about "facing the Jieshi in the east and watching the sea". Yang Rui left the camp, and Xu Liezu also came out of the camp with the guards. Usually Commander Yang never goes out in the barracks, but although he was a little surprised to go for a walk today, he only saw that although Yang Rui's face was tired, his eyes were full of energy.

Riding a horse out of the camp is not far from Zhangyi City, Yang Rui doesn't want to go to the city to experience any life. I want to go up to the city and walk around. Since the Independence Army rested at the Shoyi Station, the entire defense of the city has been taken over by a battalion. The soldiers of the patrol battalion who were originally here were all sent home by Li Erhu. Those people also know each other, and when they give an order here, they run home and have fun there. The soldiers of the regiment and battalion guarding the city gate originally wanted to check the entry permits of these people, but they knew that according to the regulations, they did not have an entry permit, and the king of heaven would not give them in, but Xu Liezu went up and said that he immediately saluted and let him go.

When you enter the city gate, you will turn a stone staircase up the city wall. It's just that the city defense here is not very strict, and the city wall has not been renovated over the years, and the wall is cracked and the bricks are broken, even if it is snow, it cannot be covered. There were even small trees growing out of the cracks in the walls, and although there was frost on them, they still stood tall. On the city wall, the inside of the wall is a private house, a piece of white tiles and black walls with low pressure, the houses are scattered and exposed a lot of streets, the long robes and short jackets on the street, the plough and horse-drawn carriage are not lively, and you can hear the shouts of the hawkers, the gongs and drums of the show, the laughter of naughty children, the singing in the teahouse, and so on with the white cooking smoke of cooking rice and tea, Yang Rui, who is standing at the head of the high city, only feels that what is in front of him is a kind life painting; Turn your head and go to the outside of the wall, there is another scene, except for the scattered pedestrians on the official road and the large camp of the independent army in the distance, it is the land of Liaodong with heavy snow and strong wind.

Yang Rui was watching on the city wall, but the commander of the first battalion, Li Erhu, was here, and the sentry at the door surprised him with a phone call, thinking that the commander was here to check the camp, and when he was throwing the small wine he was drinking out and washing his face, the phone rang again, saying that the commander went to the city wall. If you don't come to check the camp and fall on the city wall, Li Erhu is a little enlightened, the commander is afraid that Shixing is coming up, and he wants to climb the heights, so he hurriedly took the four treasures of the study, and brought a local master hired earlier to the city wall.

Looking at Li Erhu's honest appearance of a good person, Yang Rui smiled, "Are you drinking in a bar? ”

Li Erhu's body tightened when he heard this, he remembered that he seemed to have washed his face, looking at Li Erhu's nervous face, Yang Rui still smiled, "There is still meat between the teeth, is there only meat and no wine?" Go to the gendarmes and get the punishment yourself. ”

Li Erhu nodded hurriedly, only crying out in his heart that he was wronged, and grandma's would never eat chicken again.

Yang Rui asked again: "What are you doing with pen and paper?" He saw Li Erhu's guards holding rice paper and brushes, and he also brought a person who looked like a master.

"I ...... The commander is a star in the sky and shrunk down to earth, I am afraid that the commander will write poems and martial arts, so I ...... "Li Erhu was born with a beard, and his culture has been studying in the night school of the military camp for a few months, but some of the crepe words still can't be spoken, and the master next to him is a burst of pain." Yang Rui didn't care about his typo, it's rare for a person who is almost thirty years old to learn culture. "Well, I don't have the ability to write poems, but I just took the summary manuscript of the previous days, and I just felt that we had finally come over completely, and I was happy, so I just wanted to see and walk, nothing else. Just come with me. ”

Li Erhu didn't understand what Yang Rui meant by what he said about being completely over, but seeing that the commander was happy, he hurriedly laughed with him, drove those soldiers with pen and paper, and then walked on the city wall with Yang Rui. Yang Rui looked at the bricks on the battlements and said, "I'm afraid this city wall is some years old." ”

Li Erhu fights hard, and it's okay to drink, but he doesn't know anything other than these at all, he saw the commander speak, didn't know how to answer, and hurriedly looked at the master hired next to him, this master was originally just a literati who helped people write manuscripts and read letters, his home was here, and he had to go when he saw that the big head soldier had to go, but he didn't think how terrible these beards were after staying for a few days, at least this military discipline was not said, at this time, he saw that Li Erhu wanted to pat the official's ass and couldn't do it, and then thought that this beard was polite to himself on weekdays, so he said something to help:" Yu Dashuai, this city is built by the Jin Dynasty, the former Ming Dynasty Yingzong orthodox seven years to build the east side wall of Liao, and then set up Changyong Fort here. Rebuild the brick city, now the southeast section of the city, are the old walls of the former Ming Dynasty, more than 500 years ago. ”

Yang Rui thought that this robe-looking person was just Li Erhu's paperwork, but he didn't care, but now he saw that this person seemed to be very knowledgeable, so he smiled, "I can't think of such a long history, Changyong Fort, Qianming." The seventh year of Yingzong...... Sir is really solving my doubts. ”

Seeing Yang Rui's politeness, the master hurriedly said, "Back to the big handsome, Mr. doesn't dare to be a man, isn't he just a grass man who has read a few books." After that, he saw that Yang Rui seemed to be still a little interested in this city. Then he said: "In the previous Ming Dynasty, this fort was promoted to the third fort, and it was responsible for supervising the long victory and the second fort of the long camp. There were more than 1,200 officers and soldiers stationed there. In the sixth year of the Mandate of Heaven in the Qing Dynasty, this city was surrendered by Taizu and has since been owned by the Qing Dynasty. ”

The master seems to be very proud of his knowledge, and he is even more proud of "I am Qing", if it were Yang Rui who usually wanted to kick him down, he was just happy today. Besides, this kind of old pedant thinking has been stiffened, if you want him to know anything like anti-Qing and Han Dynasty, it is estimated that you have to stuff him back into his mother's womb and regenerate again. Yang Rui had a stiff smile on his face and asked, "Mr. is a local?" ”

"Back to the big handsome. Not only is he originally from Caozhou, but the ancestors came here during the Kangxi period. ”

"Oh. During the Kangxi period, it was more than two hundred years," Yang Rui muttered to himself, but his last sentence was thinking, more than two hundred years, according to the law, this Manchu Qing Dynasty is coming to an end.

Yang Rui pondered, and then sent a telegram to the corps, saying that there was an important matter to be told by the chief of staff, and he asked him to return to the camp. As soon as this news was said, Yang Rui knew what was going on, it should be someone from the Germans. At the moment, he is not exploring the secluded and looking for the ancients, and he said goodbye to Li Erhu a few times and went down the city wall.

Yang Rui was leaving, Li Erhu didn't say anything, but the master next to him saw that this handsome man was easy to speak, and his conscience suddenly appeared: "Handsome, don't you know ...... words."

Seeing that he was polite, Yang Rui couldn't refuse, so he had to say: "Sir, please speak, listen to me." ”

Seeing that Yang Rui was polite, this person bowed and said, "Marshal, Russia has been at war for a long time today, the Japanese are heavy, and the Russians are retreating frequently. The handsome tiger is full of camps, great achievements, military discipline is extremely strict, and the people have not committed any crimes, if they lead the people to return to the court and serve the country, then they will be in and out of the general, wouldn't it be happy. ”

Unexpectedly, when he met a lobbyist, Yang Rui smiled instead of being angry, "Can Mr. have any news of increasing people and pray for us to surrender on our behalf?" ”

The old gentleman didn't understand Yang Rui's heart at all, and only said: "It's not just a grass people, so what kind of people do you recognize." It's just that I listened to the commentaries in the city every day, and knew that the adult was not a fierce beard, but a soldier in my Qing army, who fought thousands of miles with the Japanese for the country and the robe. It's really not worth it for the handsome. ”

It turned out to be the fault of the storytelling, I really don't know what Liu Boyuan's guy said in it, but it was quite effective, Yang Rui politely helped this person up and said: "Sir, this is a good word, but now that I have taken the salary of the Russians, I can't be untrustworthy and unrighteous, I still have to wait for the end of this war, and then contact the imperial court." However, I still have to thank you for your advice. ”

The master hurriedly said that he didn't dare to dare, and after being polite, Yang Rui went down to the city, you must know that this German has been cold by him for a long time, since the aristocratic lieutenant colonel reported the radio to the staff in Germany, he was very excited, and now there is a new tactic, it is even more exciting, the previous negotiators have already arrived, but Yang Rui has been summarizing the general training, and he has no time to deal with others.

This time, in addition to Feng. There were more than a dozen Germans in addition to Deftaver, but the representative who negotiated with Yang Rui was Colonel Hoffmann, a staff officer of the German General Staff Headquarters, who was actually a military attache watching the battle on the Japanese side, and those who came from China were just radio technicians. Colonel Hoffman was actually more emotionally inclined to the Japanese, but the Independence Army had William. Leo is here, and it is said that the Independence Army was completely trained by him, so he also has a good impression of the Independence Army.

The negotiations started in a friendly atmosphere, and Yang Rui's German has been speaking better and better for more than a year, and the two sides do not need any translation. It's just that Lieutenant Colonel Hoffman was very dissatisfied with Yang Rui's offer, and the radio technology transfer fee was very high, not only asking for 5 million marks, plus three battalions of Krupp guns and 7mm caliber Mauser rifles for firearms and ammunition factories, and finally agreeing to 30 study places for the Independent Army every Chinese New Year's Eve, free of charge. "It's simply ......," Colonel Hoffman would have said was blackmail. But seeing the sincerity on Yang Rui's face, he swallowed the last two words back.

"Your Excellency General, this condition is too ... It's amazing, I don't think the General Staff can accept such an asking price. Colonel Hoffman looked confused, he originally thought that with William here, Yang Rui would be able to handle it well.

"Mr. Colonel, you've seen the value of radio these days, and think about it, when the French still need to pass orders through the guò cavalry or those damned telephone lines, you can send them safely to every company. Such a fast communication can completely allow one division to play the role of two divisions, can the staff not see such a value? ”

Hoffman was fully aware of the value of land-based shortwave radios, which is why he had been waiting for negotiations, but, "Your Excellency, General." I understand its value, but the staff will not promise such a high price. They believed that this could be achieved by improving the current radio equipment. ”

"Colonel. I know the radio equipment for ships. But that kind of thing is too big, and it's different on land and at sea, and the mountains and trees make the radio less useful, and even if you can improve it, how long will it take? My conditions add up to only 15 million marks, which will be much cheaper than developing it myself. "Yang Rui's original conditions are more than this. But the news he got from Leo made him not stiffly fold by half.

Listening to Yang Rui's words, Hoffman still shook his head resolutely, "Fifteen million marks is too much, and the staff can't pay for it." ”

"Then you can report it to His Majesty the Kaiser." Yang Rui said. "I think he'll be interested."

Hoffman still shook his head, "His Majesty the Emperor will not agree to this request, the empire now spends no more than one billion marks on defense every year, and nearly half of this money is allocated to the navy, and the general staff will not take out more than 10 million marks to buy radios, at least not now." ”

I can't imagine that Germany's military spending is less than a billion, why hasn't it exploded its armaments, the war started in 1914, and there are less than ten years left, so why can't we hurry up? Yang Rui thought like this, but he didn't know that Britain and France had only signed the "Anglo-French Agreement" in April last year, the Moroccan crisis had not yet occurred, and the Kaiser was not very urgent about building the army, so he only passed the first naval bill of more than 400 million marks in 1898, and as for the second naval bill that passed Guò the year before last, its funding source mainly came from loans, and then the reason why the armaments exploded was because of the changes in the international situation, especially the stimulation of the two Moroccan crises. It was only March 1905, and the crisis was not very severe.

"And what are your conditions?" Yang Rui asked.

Things seemed to have taken a turn for the better, Colonel Hoffman said: "The highest authority given to me in China is one million marks," he saw Yang Rui frowning, and after a pause, it was best to calculate the rest, "In addition, the General Staff will get the Krupp company to agree to transfer the design of the 7mm Mauser rifle, as for the artillery and the factory, these are for Your Excellency to talk to Krupp." ”

The more Yang Rui listened, the more bad his mood became, what a cheat, how could others sell drawings for tens of millions and tens of millions, it was his turn to only have one million marks, but he didn't know that Hoffman's one million was all a mouthful, and the staff only gave him the authority of 500,000 marks, and he also thought that 200,000 marks was the most suitable price.

"What do cadets say?" Yang Rui put aside everything else for the time being, and only asked the student, he already had the army himself, but the navy was not found, which was something he cared about very much, and even what he valued most in this deal.

"This," Colonel Hoffman pondered, "and now many students of the Qing government are studying in German military academies, so if there are other Qing people who are in the same class as them, then ......, General, this involves foreign affairs, and it is not something that the General Staff can agree to alone." ”

"But these people just go to the Naval Academy." Yang Rui still didn't give up and asked.

"Your Excellency, it seems that there are also some Qing students in the Navy, and as far as I know, there are many Qing people in the shipyards, and many Qing warships were ordered in Germany. So the Navy is also ......" Hoffman made a regretful expression.

Yang Rui's heart was completely cold, what is this, naval officers are what he values the most, to put it mildly, even if the radio is given in vain, as long as the Germans give more indicators for studying in the navy to ensure that these people can learn, then he feels that it is worth it, but now, who has Lao Tzu offended, I am also a traverser, isn't the army shortwave radio high-tech? What a fucking fucking daddy!

"Looks like we can't get along with a lot of things, Mr. Colonel, I think we'd better end this deal." Yang Rui stood up, stretched out his hand to shake Hoffman's hand, and said, "Or, if you change your mind, then you can find us again." Yang Rui went out after speaking, although he was still very polite, anyone could feel that he was in a bad mood. Leo also stood up at this time, and said hatefully, "Those damn bureaucrats will regret it." With that, he staggered out, leaving Hoffmann and a few other Germans standing there stupidly. (To be continued......)