Zhang Fugui suddenly saw a regiment commander Wu Dianyang appear in the telescope, but there was no surprise, there are many people in Shengxian County in the army, and there are many bandits in Shengxian County, these people don't look tall, but none of them are not strong and fierce, and they are not fighting to the death.

Wu Dianyang, who was running on the field, was wearing an officer's uniform instead of a camouflage uniform, which made his figure look extremely conspicuous against the yellow-brown background, and the chief of staff Shang He, who was also watching next to him, was more nervous than Zhang Fugui, and in the continuous artillery fire, he thought that Wu Dianyang was hit by a cannonball several times, but after the smoke cleared, the stubborn figure was revealed again.

At this time, Wu Dianyang didn't think that he would be hit by the devil's shell, how to advance in a roundabout way and unscathed in the enemy's shelling, he knew it when he was in the northeast, and the current devil's shelling is not comparable to that year. He ran and jumped on the uneven battlefield, only to feel the earth rolling and glittering under his feet, and flying backwards like the sporadic bullets that came at him, and the smoke of the shells that exploded hit his face, and he felt like he was going to suffocate several times.

The regiment commander was angrily rushing towards his battalion, knowing this situation, several company commanders did not want him to kick his ass after coming, and after a simple arrangement of the three of them, a company commander finally stood up and launched an attack, he shouted: "The whole battalion! Advance! ”

Stepping over the corpses of the fallen soldiers, a company commander was the first to jump out of the crater with a rifle in his hand, and so did the commissar who followed him, unlike the company commander's shout, the commissar shouted: "Revitalize members, forward!" ”

At this time, Wu Dianyang, who had just rushed to the front of the third battalion, also shouted when he saw this: "Forward!" Camp forward! ”

Under the cover of mortar fire, more than 500 people in the battalion straightened up and rushed forward, they ran after several officers, everyone opened their mouths wide, and the shouts of the charge were deafening. Wu Dianyang, who witnessed this qiē, breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time was unusually moved, * spicy things rolled in his chest, and they did not disperse for a long time.

Inside the front-line command post. The commanders saw Wu Dianyang leading the three battalions forward, explosions, tongues of fire, figures, and gunsmoke. All of these were intertwined, so that people could not see the whole process of the battle, they could only see in the cracks of the smoke, people kept falling, and people kept getting up.

Colonel Zhang Fugui pinched the binoculars tightly with his sweaty fingers, heard the telephone man behind him using the radio to negotiate with the artillery regiment for artillery support, and heard several staff officers talking softly, saying Wu Dianyang's name, and finally hearing the chief of staff's command. "Prepare for action, report casualties."

The thick smoke finally dispersed, the bare fields were full of craters, the two graves occupied by the Japanese army were burning at this time, the flames carried thick smoke, countless tragic, the corpses of soldiers were lying around, and Wu Dianyang and others seemed to have already rushed into the new army cantonment. In sight, the only activity is the shrapnel that keeps exploding in the sky. The yellow smoke from the shells looked very beautiful against the background of the glow.

"The second regiment will attack immediately!" Zhang Fugui gave an order, "Also, contact a group immediately." Let them report casualties. ”

When the command post moved forward before dark, the battle in the new army cantonment was finally over, and in the face of the revival army that did not fight according to common sense, and came with a few shotguns or threw a few grenades at every opportunity, the Japanese troops in the village were bombarded and turned around, and these people seemed to be able to penetrate the wall.

The Kumamoto Division, which was accustomed to fighting ruthlessly with the Russian army, was completely unaccustomed to this kind of tricky and tough style of play. In order not to be surrounded by the revival army, they had to retreat again and again. When I went out and was blown by the cool breeze, I knew that I had been kicked out of Zhuangzi. But there is no way to know it. At this time, the Revival Army had assumed machine guns on the roof, and the Japanese army, which had no danger to defend, had to run farther and farther, and finally moved away from the New Army Cantonment.

At the edge of the village, Wu Dianyang ordered the whole regiment to work immediately without waiting for a break, he didn't understand the specific plan of the headquarters, but no matter what the plan was, local defense was something that was integrated into the bone marrow of the Fuxing Army.

After the fight, the soldiers' faces were haggard, and the hearts that were beating wildly just now were still 'banging, bang...', everyone's heads were full of hot sweat, and their faces were black and yellow, and they stood in their accustomed positions, looking around hesitantly, and couldn't find those people who had been standing beside them. In the midst of uneasy speculation, at the command of the officer, they lowered their rifles and began to dig the fortifications with the sapper shovels they carried.

Wu Dianyang, the head of the regiment standing on the side, was still hot and drowsy in his mind at this time, and after experiencing the impact just now, he really wanted to lie on the ground at this time and smoke a cigarette, but the whole regiment was standing and working, and he could only barely stand.

At this time, Kuang Yi, the political commissar of the brigade headquarters, walked over quickly, he was not wearing a military cap, and he had a white bandage wrapped around his forehead, and the bandage was stained brown with blood - this was one of the results of the two grenades just now.

"Make a list of soldiers." He lowered his voice and said to Wu Dianyang, "I want to commend the whole battalion, all the people!" Including every soldier, just today, I want the commander to personally award medals to everyone. ”

The political commissar's whisper suddenly made Wu Dian's eyebrows raised, but after he finished explaining to the adjutant, he said, "What the hell is going on with the artillery?" Can't you suppress each other? ”

The artillery fire that has always impacted the enemy has been suppressed by his own side, and he doesn't want the Japanese army to open fire frequently when the impact this time, which makes him very puzzled. When he asked, Kuang Yi just smiled and said, "Where there is a spear, there must be a shield, and now the Japanese artillery positions are protected by thick smoke, and it is difficult for the observation post in the sky to see their position clearly." So, this will happen again in the future. ”

"Smoke guarded?" Wu Dianyang turned his head to look in the direction of Tangshan, there was a cloud of smoke over there, but this was also seen after a group captured the new army tun, he thought that there was a devil setting fire to the house, but he didn't want it to be the smoke covering the artillery. Thinking of the next battle, he nodded heavily and said, "I understand." ”

Zhang Fugui's brigade did not advance further after occupying the new army tun, and the task of the troops now was to garrison the place to prevent the Japanese army from the east from attacking at night or the retreating Japanese army from the north. According to his memory, the entire battle plan was coordinated with each other. When the 2nd Army was attacking forward to occupy Tangshan, the 9th Army, the main force of the 9th Army that had moved west from the north, was attacking Fengrun from the west to the south, in order to cut off the retreat of the Japanese troops on the Jixian side to the east, so that most of the Japanese troops in the east direction could be annihilated. But. It's not flood season, and you can't tell where the captured Japanese troops will come out.

Zhang Fugui was thinking about the entire battle plan on the map, but he heard a singing voice outside: The sun is about to set in the west / The end of the foreign devil is coming / Play my beloved pipa / Sing that moving ballad......

The whole brigade was digging fortifications. Even if he sings, he can't sing this, he was thinking about it. The herald outside reported: "Brigade commander, it's the 5th Division, they said they were going to pursue it overnight." ”

"Overnight pursuit?" Zhang Fugui muttered, the new army is still twenty kilometers away from Tangshan, according to such an offensive momentum, then he really has to defend the new army in the new army, only after the annihilation of the Japanese troops in the direction of Jingdong can they rotate their positions and advance, maybe only when the Japanese army on the other side of Tianjin is encircled and annihilated. I can eat meat again.

"Yes. The command meant to chase the Japanese and not let them breathe, otherwise they would attack at dawn tomorrow, and maybe reinforcements would come from Tianjin. "The chief of staff took the telegram that had just been sent from the command.

"That's right." Zhang Fugui said, while he was talking, the political commissar had already brought up a list of them. It was densely arranged, and at the front was a list of soldiers, more than four hundred names written in pencil in extremely fine form, the front of the paper was all full, and on the back. It was the list of the fallen soldiers, Zhang Fugui's eyes fell on the dozens of names melancholy, and he was silent for a while. He reached out to the adjutant next to him, "Give me a pencil." ”

He put the list on the map, and underneath those names, he added in flowing text: "Killed." In order to capture the new army tun. Awarded the Jiaolong First Class Medal. After he finished writing, he habitually hit it heavily, but the refill broke with a click, and the thin nib suddenly became very irregular, and the spiky end of the pen left an abrupt mark on the paper.

Like a relay race, when one division stops, the next division crosses the friendly forces. Plug in quickly in the direction of Tangshan. The time was already twenty-six, when the crescent moon came up. There was the sound of firefighting and artillery in front of them. No one knew what the outcome of the battle ahead was, but the Kumamoto Division, which was tired and retreating, probably didn't expect that the revival army would chase after it so quickly. Now as soon as there is a firefight, there must be a panic.

The battle on the periphery of Tangshan is still continuing, but Yang Rui is still working overtime in the Yin'an Palace in the capital, of course, the war on the periphery of Gyeonggi is just a game of dead chess, the Japanese have been besieged to death, the food is one meal less, and the ammunition is one less round, which is not worth his too much attention at all. Now he is still concerned about the international situation, and at the same time he wants to know how the Japanese will face this defeat, whether to fight to the end or surrender halfway through the reparations.

However, Zhang Shi, the director of the Intelligence Bureau standing in front of him, obviously did not report this matter. The restoration of Korea is imminent, and the Goryeo sticks all over the world have been paying attention to this war since last year, hoping that China will defeat Japan, and then the soldiers will march east to help it recover, but 20 years ago, there was also a group of such people who paid attention to the war between Japan and Qing and hoped that the Manchu Qing would win a great victory to help it restore the country, that is, the Ryukyus. Forty-three years ago, Japan annexed the Ryukyus, and now that Japan has been defeated by China, some people want to think about it.

"This Shang Shun you found there? Isn't that prince's name Shang Dian? Yang Rui lit a cigarette for himself, and he felt that the war was becoming more and more uncontrollable.

"This Shang Shun is Shang Dian's younger brother and the fourth son of King Shang Tai." Zhang Shi introduced. "He probably came into contact with us because he wanted to know how our country felt about the Ryukyus, and it seems that he still wants to return to China."

"How did he find it?" Yang Rui is still strange, according to the intelligence bureau's network is very secret, how did the Ryukyuan people know.

"Sir, it's from Pan Peizhu, who contacted earlier." Zhang Shi involved another person.

"Vietnamese?" Yang Rui felt that things were getting more and more interesting, and it seemed that all the revolutionaries who wanted to restore the country and want revolution had come.

"Yes, sir!" Zhang Shi said, he hesitated after speaking, and then said: "My country is now defeating Japan, and now we are helping North Korea to restore the country, and the Philippines, India, and Myanmar are ......."

"Wait, when did the Philippines and India come into contact?" Yang Rui asked, one of these two places is the United States and the United Kingdom, if someone really catches any tricks, then the diplomatic pressure will be ......

"Sir, these people are all trying to get in touch with us, and are now on their way to our country from all over the country, and they want to establish some contact with us. to get help. Zhang Shidao.

"There's really nothing to help these people." Yang Rui's mind spun around, and he didn't have any thoughts at all. Behind them are all big powers, and one support is going to war. The most feared thing is that these big countries are combined, but. If the unequal treaties were to be canceled after the war, Vietnam and India would probably have some effect.

"How's it going over there in Thailand?" As far as the current situation is concerned, the colony still cannot be liberated, and on the Nanyang side, Yang Rui is still concerned about Thailand.

After the failed coup d'état the previous year, Rama VI became very wary of the Chinese diaspora, and he dismissed all the Chinese officers in the army, and built the Tigers to maintain his rule. He also writes articles for newspapers under a pseudonym. Saying that overseas Chinese are Jews in the East, what do you say...... "As long as it is a foreign situation, Zhang Shi knows it well, and Thailand is under his nose, and the situation is even more detailed."

"What did he say?" Yang Rui asked with a smile. He seems to have seen from somewhere that Thailand is a country that has never been Chinese exclusionary, and he can't help but have a good impression of it, but now in the mouth of the king of Thailand, overseas Chinese have become Jews, how hateful this must be.

He said that if the Thai people owed money to the Chinese, the Chinese would excuse themselves by saying that the Spring Festival was coming and demand that they pay back the money. But if it is the Chinese who owe money to the Thai. He will use the excuse that the Spring Festival is coming soon, and many places will use money, and wait until the Spring Festival is over to pay back. It seems that the King of Thailand's words are very clear to Zhang Shi. He remembered all such small things. He also wrote in another article that in the past, Thai people carried their burdens and walked through the streets to sell vegetables and snacks, but now everyone has to go to Chinese food stalls to buy food; The artisan work that used to be controlled by the Thai, such as carpentry and construction, is now in the hands of the Chinese......"

"What the hell is he trying to do?" Yang Rui came here to know about the Chinese exclusion cases, and there were only two cases, one was the Chinese exclusion in Mexico in the year of Xinhai. After the Haiqi went, the matter was resolved, and the Mexican government signed a compensation agreement the year before; And then there's Java, Indonesia, from last year to now. Because of the commercial conflict, the locals burned down the overseas Chinese shops. He also killed a few overseas Chinese. Because it was at war between China and Japan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs just shouted a few 'strong condemnations and strong protests' like waste, and did not send a single warship. Fortunately, the overseas Chinese are considerate, otherwise they would have borrowed so much money to the country, and the navy would not even send a single warship, then not only themselves, the pseudo-overseas Chinese, but also Cheng Ying, the real overseas Chinese, would have been scolded.

"Sir, Thailand is now a monarchy* system, and the Roso 130 organized by its carefully trained officers is thinking of revolution to implement a constitutional monarchy, although the matter has not been completed, the king of Thailand has already felt that the Chinese are very unreliable, and he has built the Tiger Regiment to set up the Chinese officers of the air force. The separation between the Thai and the Chinese is also to promote Thai nationalism. Zhang Shidao.

"Is Thailand still nationalistic?" Yang Rui laughed very much, he was still thinking about winning over Thailand and running Nanyang before, but he didn't want to inexplicably a bunch of Chinese officers who wanted to carry out a coup d'état, just do it, but he was served in a pot before he could move, which made Thai Xiao Wang scared like that.

"Don't touch the Philippines." Yang Rui advised, "India and Myanmar can maintain a certain level of attention, but it is best not to make too many in-depth contact......s. Suddenly, talking about Sun Wen, Yang Rui found that he hadn't heard from him for a long, long time, and immediately asked, "What are Sun Wen's gang doing?" ”

"Sir, after Sun Wen divorced his wife, he married a woman surnamed Song, who was the sister of his previous female secretary. Originally, the age difference between the two was too big, and the girl's parents didn't agree at all, but then the two of them had to agree to this matter when the rice was ripe. Zhang Shi said: "The rest of the backbone cadres are all running newspapers in Tokyo, mainly to compete for overseas Chinese and bewitch students, but during the war, they were still pro-Japanese, and no matter how much they preach, they have little effect." It can be said that the Chinese Revolutionary Party, except for Sun Wen's descendants, already exists in name only. ”

"It's not exactly in name only, as long as someone feels and needs it, it will come back to life." Yang Rui said leisurely.

He forked the topic to Sun Wen, but Zhang Shi turned the conversation back to Pan Peizhu and said: "Sir, among the Vietnamese Revolutionary Party now, only Pan Peizhu is the most influential and has the most hope of success. He had exchanges with Sun Wen and others before, and was also quite influenced by Sun Wen's democratic republic, but he originally pursued a constitutional monarchy, and after the success of our revolution, he set up the Vietnam Revival Association in Guangzhou. Judging from the current situation, Vietnam is the only candidate for action. ”

After settling Japan, he had the heart to pay attention to Nanyang, but now these revolutionaries are not familiar to Yang Rui, and there is no Ho Chi Minh or Aung San. What kind of quality these people are now, and what will happen in the future, then we can only take one step at a time to see. However, there is no doubt that if Japan is defeated, the hegemon of East Asia will be China, and there will be more and more chaotic people and messy things in the future.

After the winners considered it, and the losers considered the present, the mastermind behind receiving the news that the Chinese army had forcibly crossed the Datong River and entered Tangshan finally couldn't help but come forward. Under the same crescent moon, Major General Yoshiichi Tanaka, deputy chief of the General Staff Headquarters, knelt on the cushion with his knees straight, and in front of him was one of the masterminds behind the Sino-Japanese war, Yama Prefecture Youtomo.

This 76-year-old rickety old man is already the emperor of Japan in many cases, and his orders can affect the attribution of the prime minister of the Japanese cabinet, and can also determine Japan's immediate national policy. In the past, when Emperor Meiji was still alive, his influence was not so great under the control of many feudal lords, but now that Meiji is gone, all the elders have gone west, and the fate of Japan is increasingly controlled by him. However, there will be a day when he will have to pay back, and from this time the defeat of the branch and the decline of Japan, he can already see the future of the Choshu Domain.

"Is there any other way to turn the tide of the war?" After a long period of silence, Shan County Youpeng spoke, his voice short and powerful, not at all like an old man in his seventies, but like an officer on the battlefield asking his subordinates.

Bowing again, Tanaka Yoshiyi: "Your Excellency, the elite of the army are all in Zhili and Lushun Fortress, and these troops cannot deliver heavy food, let alone transport it out, and now the country is called up with veterans of the Russo-Japanese War." Neither in terms of numbers nor combat power, it cannot be compared with the Chinese Revival Army. ”

"Where is the strength of the Renaissance Army?" Shan County Youpeng has been fighting all his life, and when he heard that the troops he created were not as good as those of Zhina, his brows suddenly tightened. Think about the Chinese army twenty years ago, is the difference really that far?

"The strength of the revival army lies in military discipline, and it is said that there is a supervising army on the middle of the army to urge the soldiers to fight hard to kill the enemy; The second is the method of warfare, the artillery of the Baxing Army has always been indirect fire, and the infantry charge can often chase the artillery forward, when our army thought that the enemy had not yet charged, they had already rushed to the front; Third, in terms of weapons, in addition to the artillery wing directly under the Renaissance Army, each division of the Renaissance Army also has curved artillery guns, infantry wings, brigades, squadrons, and even squads, and there are many machine guns in the army, and there are about 100 guns in one division. ”

Tanaka Yoshiichi was sweating as he spoke, and he only dared to introduce the normal situation of the two armies facing each other, and did not dare to mention that the attack on China was strategically wrong. Not only did he choose the wrong time, but he was also lured deep by the Chinese people. But this is also inexplicable, with Japan's national strength, if you want to defeat China, the only way is to attack Gyeonggi, as long as you occupy Beijing, then the war will be won, and once the battlefield drags into a protracted war, that national strength is completely unable to support. Therefore, as soon as the war starts, it is necessary to go deep into the enemy's territory, and it is normal to not be able to attack for a long time, and the 60 million population of the empire really cannot be compared with the 400 million population of China.

What Yoshiichi Tanaka said, Yama Prefecture Youpeng had heard about it before, Tanaka Yoshiichi didn't say it, Yama County Aritomo also guessed in his heart, in the final analysis, the defeat is still the sorrow of a small country for a big country, and Japan must win with one blow, otherwise the defeat will be difficult to stop. The defeat in this battle is still because the current branch is not the branch of twenty years ago, and the previous branch is crumbling and falling at the touch of a button; But now the branch is getting braver and stronger, and it should really be solved earlier.

As soon as Yama County thought of defeat in his mind, he naturally thought of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, this time defeat, who should bear the black cauldron? Is it the one in the palace, or the one in the cabinet? (To be continued)