"Your Excellency, the weather factor is very terrible, but it is the most terrible for the base camp to choose this time to attack Manchuria." The words of the commander-in-chief made everyone think deeply, but some people did not shy away from pointing out the bigger problem, that is, the wrong time to attack.

As soon as he said this, all the generals in the room looked over, but after these people saw that it was Akashi Motojiro, the original surprise suddenly disappeared. Before Katsura Taro formed a cabinet this time, there were rumors that he would be appointed deputy chief of the General Staff Headquarters, but the final result was that Major General Tanaka Yoshiichi took this position, and it is said that the reason for this was that although Akashi was strongly in favor of sending troops to Manchuria, he believed that winter was never a good opportunity to send troops. Although the army could take advantage of the freezing of the Yalu River to break through the defense line of the Chinese army, it would be stranded in the mountains and forests of eastern Manchuria throughout the winter, but it was best to send troops in August and September, when the farmers were ripe, the grain and grass were ready-made, and there were farmers and peasants and coolies. No one listened to Akashi's words until everyone crossed the Yalu River, but after seeing the strong walls and clear fields of the Shina army, many people began to think that he was right.

"Akashi-kun, it's impossible for us to retreat." Marshal Oyama Iwa said that it was impossible for him to retreat, and everyone's mind turned to how to overcome the current difficulties.

"That's right. Ladies and gentlemen, it is impossible for us to retreat. "Chief of the General Staff Yusaku Uehara also said." Akashi-kun, you better think about it and see if there is any way to remedy it. ”

The Chief of the General Staff asked for advice in a low voice, but Genjiro Akashi did not want to let him, he walked to the large map of Manchuria and said: "Now that we have occupied the area around Andong, there are three directions of attack: two roads in the north and one road in the west. It is most undesirable to go north along the Antong Railway to Kuandian. This is also the reason why the people of China only demolished the railway, but did not break the foundation. This road can only go to Tonghua. The red deer of the staff headquarters thought that if they occupied Tonghuachina, they would have no ammunition, which is ridiculous! If Tonghua is really that important. Will the people of China be so light and let us occupy?

The second way to the north is to occupy Phoenix City, and then pass through Xueli Station, Tongyuan Fort, Caohekou, Watershed, Lianshanguan, Motianling, and Tianshui Station, all the way to Liaoyang. This road seems to be a shortcut, but it is a painting cake to satisfy hunger and fishing for the moon in the water. Motianling is the first dangerous place on the East Liaoyang Road, and it is extremely close to Liaoyang, this place must be an important garrison area of the Zhina Army, if it is really according to the plan of those red deer in the staff headquarters. That Sky Ridge will be the second 203 highlands. ”

Akashi Genjiro was extremely intelligent, but World War I was an outlier in the army, which is why he had been a military attache in embassies in various countries before, and now he is only the commander of the Korean military police. Hearing that he was taking a bite of a red deer from the staff headquarters, Masataro Fukuda, who couldn't help it, interrupted: "Your Excellency, the last remaining road to the west is the same as the lofty mountains, if the people of China can give up Phoenix City, will they give up Xiuyan City?" ”

"Phoenix City is easy to attack and difficult to defend, the people of China will definitely not defend there, and I also know that the Xiuyan area is also a lofty mountain. But don't forget that the mountains of Xiuyan are only in the south, and after occupying Phoenix, a division was sent north to Xueli Station or Tongyuan Fort to protect the flank of our army. Then the main force was divided into two, one south and one north, and went all out to the west. The southern coast attacked Xiuyan from Dagu Mountain. From the north to attack Xiuyan through Huanghuadian from Phoenix. It is better to attack from the north and south like this than to sigh under the Sky Ridge. Akashi Motojiro said with great conceit.

"Xiuyan west leads to Haicheng and Gaiping. Liaoyang in the north, can be described as the key point of extending in all directions. Capture Xiuyan and then go west to occupy Ximu City. At this time, it was possible to cooperate with the 2nd Army going north to capture Dashiqiao, Yingkou, Haicheng and other places. The location of Haicheng is more important than Xiuyan, if you want to occupy Fengtian, you must first occupy Liaoyang, and if you want to occupy Liaoyang, you must occupy Haicheng. This place is the key point in southern Liaoning, as long as it is occupied, it can not only go north, but also go west to enter the Shanhaiguan, and strategically our army will have the initiative. ”

Gentaro Akashi talked eloquently, but Masataro Fukuda listened more and more wrong, and couldn't help but sarcastically: "Speaking of which, it is still the strategy of the Sino-Japanese War for more than ten years, is it necessary to repeat the old routine of eighteen years ago?" At that time, Motianling could not be occupied, that was because the troops attacking to the north were scarce, and there was no real idea of occupying Fengtian at that time, but now the situation is completely different, not to mention the number of troops, no matter how high Motianling is, no matter how dangerous the fortifications of the people of China are, can they resist the fortress artillery? ”

"Red deer, do you want the soldiers to die like they did when they attacked 203! As long as the people of China poured water on the fortifications and froze them into ice, as Lucia did, what good could your fortress cannon do? Akashi Genjiro stopped being sarcastic and began to curse.

"Akashi-kun, please be careful!" General Masaki Terauchi, the commander of the 3rd Army, who had not spoken next to him, shouted loudly, and then when Akashi did not speak, he bowed to Oyama Iwa again and said, "It's really rude, Akashi-kun's original intention was good, but ......"

Seeing that the temple was bowing, Oyama Yan didn't care and said, "It's also good to be able to listen to Akashi-kun talk about other plans." I will carefully consider this plan and will ask the base camp for advice as long as it is feasible. ”

Oyama Iwa said so politely that Terauchi Masaki bowed deeper, and after giving the salute, he left with Akashi Gentaro.

"Akashi-kun, you were reckless today." Terauchi Masashi looked at Akashi Gentaro who still didn't care in his military tent.

"What's so reckless about this. Can't you do what you want to do and say what you want to say? Akashi asked rhetorically. The red deer from the staff headquarters only work on the map, and only count the soldiers as numbers, have they really come here to take a look? Your Excellency, the Shina Army is not something that can be defeated in a year. ”

"But we only have a year's worth of military spending." Masaki Terauchi said. "If it is more than a year, even if the domestic tax is raised, the military budget will be very tight, if it is more than a year and a half, then we will have to borrow from Europe again, if the people of China keep fighting the war without stopping, then we will not be able to repay the loan to Europe, and the empire will go bankrupt. Besides, you see, the people of China have disappeared, and we used to be able to buy supplies and hire labor with military tickets, but now we ......"

"It is precisely because I see the current situation that I feel that the war cannot end in a short time, so I should not attack Mukden. Shanhaiguan should be attacked. "Akashi Motojiro said." The people of China are not prepared for two or three years of war, and they must have seen the cranes that were dismantled from the harbor. None of them are fixed like other harbors, and there is a road between Andong and Xiuyan Benxi. The people of China have never repaired it, and it is said that they will not let others repair it, and in those places in western Liaoning, the roads have been built very wide and flat in recent years......"

Hearing Akashi Genjiro say such small details, Terauchi Masatsuki said in disbelief: "You mean that the people of Shina were ready to go to war with us eight years ago?" After asking, he felt unbelievable, and then said, "It's completely impossible!" ”

"Impossible?" Akashi smiled, "Anyway, I think it's more and more possible." Have you forgotten the North Korean volunteers you wiped out last year? Aren't their weapons like the strange black powder weapons used by the horse thieves in China in the past? When I saw the suppressed black pill pillars, I felt that they were exactly the same as the horse thieves in China, and in Taiwan, the rebels who cracked there also began to use the black pill pillars as weapons. The people of China had been preparing for war with the Empire for a long time. Not only did they prepare at home, but they also taught the technology of making explosives to rebels in North Korea and Taiwan. By the way, Terauchi-kun, this gunpowder is said to be called Lin Shenhe gunpowder, which was invented by a person named Lin Shenhe. ”

Genjiro Akashi was the commander of the military police in North Korea, and after he took over the military police and police, the number of volunteers in North Korea was reduced by half in less than a year, and there are even fewer now. Despite his outstanding achievements, Akashi still believes that the roots of the Korean volunteers have not been eradicated. Many of these volunteers took refuge in Manchuria and the Amur region of Russia, and China and Russia allowed them for various reasons, but Akashi still believed that the Shina were strongly supporting and training them.

The people of China supported the Korean Volunteers, and Masanui had heard about it for a long time, but without conclusive evidence, it was difficult for him to submit it to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to protest against China. Now I hear that Akashi is talking about the old thing again. Terauchi said, "But these North Koreans haven't played any role so far?" If they were supported by the Zhina, the volunteers should be destroying everywhere now. ”

"It's because it's not a critical time. The people of China have raised them for so many years, and they will not use it. "Akashi Motojiro said." My biggest fear is not something about North Korea. I'm worried that these volunteers will cross the sea and rush to Japan, and if they make trouble on the mainland. Things are out of control, and Lin Shenhe's tools for making gunpowder are too simple. ”

The more Akashi speaks, the more mysterious it becomes. Terauchi Masatsuki looked at him and said, "Is this possible?" ”

"I don't know." Akashi Genjiro said: "Anyway, I feel that Yiqiē is a conspiracy, and the people of China are not as vulnerable as we imagined." Eighteen years, China has really completely changed. ”

Genjiro Akashi lamented the great changes in China in the past 18 years, and General Yusaku Uehara of the General Headquarters lamented that Genjiro Akashi had not changed for decades.

"Your Excellency, maybe this chief of the general staff is better off with Akashi." Yusaku Uehara said, "But it would be nice if he wasn't so reckless." ”

"Akashi can only come up with ideas, he is the chief of staff, and the staff officers themselves have to fight." Dashan Yan said with a smile. "He actually thinks the same as Shanxian County, he doesn't want us to fight north, he just wants to go west to occupy Shanhaiguan, and even to carry out the decisive battle of the Zhili Plain, hoping that the decisive battle of Tongguò will completely defeat China and occupy Beijing."

"All the way west?" Yusaku Uehara didn't think about this problem, and the plan of the staff headquarters was to fight north. "To the west, it can only be after the enemy of Fengtian is completely defeated, otherwise the Fengtian army will go south and threaten the flank of our army, and then even if we reach Shanhaiguan, we will have to retreat; The situation would have been even worse if the sea route had been closed at that time, and now the United States and Russia are eyeing each other, and the occupation of South Manchuria and East Mongolia is our greatest achievement. The Armageddon of the Naoli Plains? That was the delusion of the people of Yama County eighteen years ago. ”

Uehara Yusaku talked to himself, but Dashan Yan did not refute or reply, but just stood in front of the map and looked at the map carefully, and after a long time, he said: "It is necessary to attack Mukden, but it does not mean that if you attack Mukden, you can't go west." The key to open Fengtian is Liaoyang, the key to open Liaoyang is Haicheng, and the key to open Haicheng ......" His gaze stopped at Xiuyan's position, "Inform Naganuma Hidefumi, let him send cavalry to find out Xiuyan's Yiqiē; Also, the Manchurians who came with us should also go out for a walk. ”

In order not to attract opposition from the great powers by annexing Manchuria, Japan wanted to establish the Manchurian Empire in the city this time and set up Fu Wei, the king of Xiaogong, as the emperor. Not to mention, Xiuyan, a Manchu autonomous county in later generations, had nearly thirty percent of the Manchu people. So the Great Mountain Rock Society thinks that these people should be sent out for a walk. However, what is unexpected is that at this time, the morale of the Zong Socialist Party was declining. After the Japanese army occupied Andong, the people who wanted to put up the notices of Anmin that they had worked so hard to write. Suddenly, he found that the entire county town was empty, and the gorgeous rhetoric he had prepared could only be empty and white.

The notice of Anmin could not be posted, so it could only unite the Manchurian residents of the counties, but as the Japanese First Cavalry Brigade probed around, the former governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Shengyun and others, were frightened back by the snipers of the revival army. When the Japanese occupied Anton, they sent cavalry scout squads everywhere, and these squads explored from Andong to the north, east, and south. A team that reacts quickly may be able to bring back one or two people, but a team that is slow to react and stubborn is often the whole team. A snow-white Manchurian mountain range, it seems that anywhere there are buried Shina sharpshooters.

At the station of the 1st Cavalry Brigade, the commander of the 13th Cavalry Wing, Minamijiro Nakasa, was reporting to the brigade commander, Major General Naganuma Hidefumi, about the difficulties of reconnaissance: "Your Excellency, only three of the ten scouts sent out today have returned safely, four have not returned, and only a few people from the other three have returned. The sharpshooters of the Chinese army have greatly damaged the search work, and we cannot probe more information. ”

Nanjiro Nakasa bowed deeply after speaking, but the brigade commander, Major General Naganuma Hidefumi, did not buy it. I think that back then, he led dozens of cavalry directly behind the enemy lines of the Lu army, and there were tens of thousands of Cossack cavalry in the Lu country at that time. "Baga, if you can't probe more intelligence, how will the Manchurian Army fight?!" The major general scolded angrily. "Could it be that the enterprising spirit of the cavalry was abandoned by us so quickly?"

The brigade commander scolded Nakasa speechlessly. The major general said again: "During the war against Lu, our cavalry was inferior to the enemy, so the scout squad only had a few cavalry. But now it's different, the Chinese army doesn't have much cavalry. We can send more than a squad of cavalry to search everywhere, and the sharpshooters of China will never be able to kill a squad. ”

"Your Excellency......" Minamijiro Nakasa was bitter and couldn't say. The last team he sent out was already a squad, and the team leaders who came back by luck were all blue-faced. Although there was a small team, the fear of watching the companions fall one by one inexplicably while the enemy was nowhere to be seen, this empty but unbearable fear was overwhelming. Nanjiro Nakasa couldn't have grasped this fear, but after he went out to take a look, he was speechless.

Seeing that he lectured for a long time, but his subordinates had no intention of cheering up, Major General Naganuma also reacted as Nakasa had before, and he said to the adjutant with anger on his face: "Prepare the horse immediately, I want to go and see how powerful the sharpshooter is!" ”

The major general insisted on going into battle in person, which was nothing wrong, but he wanted to go into battle but did not change his military uniform, Nanjiro hurriedly stopped: "Your Excellency, please also change the military uniform of ordinary soldiers, the favorite thing for the sharpshooter to do is to shoot the officer......"

"Baga! The dignified First Brigade of the Cavalry, is it going to flee like Cao Cao under the guns of the Zhina? The major general roared angrily, and Zhongzuo couldn't help but think of the plot of Cao Cao's broken beard and change of clothes chased by Ma Chao in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms of the Zhina Division. Minamijiro couldn't, so he had to take all the soldiers of the 13th Cavalry Wing, surround the brigade commander, and constantly sent squads to search the sides and front.

In an era when the higher the rank, the more ornate the uniform, the Japanese Army was undoubtedly tragic in the face of the snipers of the Renaissance Army. Snipers should not look closely at the appearance of the officers, but only at the Japanese hats. The non-commissioned officer's hat is yellow with a line, and the higher the rank, the more black lines are around the middle of the yellow circle; The captain's hat is green, and the higher the rank, the more black lines there are on the green circle, and when it comes to the adjutant, although the hat is the same yellow circle as the non-commissioned officer, the uniform, sabre, age, and look worn are completely different from the non-commissioned officer; Finally, there are the generals, whose hats are red, but because the Japanese officers are extremely strict in their dress, the snipers have only seen army non-commissioned officers wearing red hat rings, and have not seen real Japanese generals.

After determining that the direction of this person was Dagushan southeast of An, Major General Li Shutong, who was in charge of the defense of the Xiuyan area, immediately sent all the snipers assigned in this direction to Dagushan. As the radio waves flew, the sniper hiding in the white sky and earth suddenly got up after hearing the military horn and galloped towards the direction of Dagu Mountain.

"Your Excellency, this is already a big lonely mountain." It was difficult to march in the bitter cold. A few hours later, Naganuma Hidefumi led his troops to a hillside outside the Great Lonely Mountain. Dagushan is just a commercial port south of Andong. In the past, when logging was carried out, a lot of timber was hoarded here. But the construction of the Andong Harbor made it barren. Because this place is on the seashore in the southeast of An, and there is no danger to pass, so the Chinese army abandoned it and did not defend it. After running so far in the wind and snow without any accidents, Nanjiro Nakasa's heart was a little relieved, maybe the damned Shina people thought that they would no longer investigate, and they all went back to Xiuyan.

Nanjiro Nakasa's mind Major General Naganuma didn't know at all, he looked at the completely destroyed village and couldn't help but think of the Manchurian righteous soldiers who fought against Lu with him during the last war against Lu, in just ten years, could it be that these righteous soldiers have died of old age. "Nope. Nan Jijun, Dagu Mountain is not the front, we must also move forward. The Major General insisted. However, it was too late today, and the soldiers were ordered to ...... it."

Before Major General Nagata finished speaking, a bullet pierced his skull, and the 96mm bullet fired by the 7mm Mauser military sniper rifle sent him to Amaterasu in an instant. The adjutant and wing commander Minamijiro, who were waiting for the Major General's orders, had no idea what was happening, because no one heard the gunshots until the Major General's expression suddenly stopped. The body sitting on the horse shook and was about to fall, only to realize that the major general had been shot and forgotten.

"The people of China! Fast! The people of China! Nanjiro Nakasa shouted in fear, and the command knife he drew didn't know where to point, and the cavalry, who was at a loss for a while, could only shoot and be courageous. But after a while, Nakasa's command knife also fell, and he became the second target of the sniper without changing his military uniform. With Nakasa's fall. More than 100 Japanese cavalrymen turned their horses around like a nest and hurried back to Anton. Finally, Major General and Nakasa treated people well in the past, and the adjutants snatched their corpses. Gallop north with the brigade.

The Japanese army came with a bang, and scattered with a bang. This farce only made the sniper Deng Guru smile, and after confirming that there was no trace of the enemy, he glanced at his observer and said regretfully: "Who else is the fuck who is stealing business with us nearby?" Did you see that? ”

Deng Guru is a native of Moshiyu, Benxi, if time and space have not changed, he will be admitted to the Benxi County Police Training Institute in 1917, graduated in 1918, and organized the Northeast People's Volunteer Army, which had the highest number of 15,000 people, to fight against the Japanese invaders, and then on an autumn night in 1934, he was secretly executed by the Japanese army in Mukden. Of course, at that time, his big name was Deng Tiemei, and now he is called Deng Guru.

Deng Guru's current identity is a lieutenant sniper in the Revival Army, he loves martial arts, he joined Zhang Rong's patrol battalion before Xinhai, although he was born with red flags after Xinhai, but the governor Zhang Rong was born in the Han Eight Banners, so this background has no impact on his development in the army. The Northeast Revival Army's mountain army has a strong atmosphere, and there are many snipers, Deng Guru yearns for the kind of brave general who takes the head of the enemy chief among the thousands of troops, so he chose the sniper training course instead of the officer training class when he was promoted.

After Deng Guru asked the observer, before the observer could answer, a sniper's unique whistle sounded on the opposite hillside, and the whistle sounded, and the stump of the two birch trees moved a few times, and as a piece of bark was removed, a human face was revealed in the distance, and one of them shouted: "Brother, Erguotou...... Is there one? ”

Now that the friendly troops appeared, Deng Guru and the two also stood up from the snow, and unlike them disguised as two dead tree stumps, he and the observer carried a shell made of weeds and branches, like a white king. At this time, the wind and snow were heavy, and the voices of the friendly soldiers were a little out of tune, and he replied loudly when he heard the voice: "Yes! That's enough. With that, he raised the military flask.

Erguotou is a famous wine in the Northeast, and Guangzhou herbal tea Wang Laoji is the same as the special supply of the Fuxing Army, but the amount of military wine jugs is too small, in winter, even if this thing is endured to drink for two or three days, it is gone, but for snipers, even if chocolate, beef jerky, and coats made of reindeer fur can not keep out the cold, there are very few people who drink alcohol, and Deng Guru brings wine, more to treat injuries.

Hearing that the two white kings had two pots, the dead tree stump suddenly ran over, and as they ran, the camouflaged bark on their bodies peeled off one by one, and this dramatic scene only made Deng Guru and the observer laugh. After they ran closer and threw the wine jug to the other party, Deng Guru looked at the other party's sergeant rank and said, "Brother, are you from that regiment?" I've never seen it before. ”

"Second Regiment ......" Sergeant's face was cold and blue, his lips were white and cracked, and he straightened out his breath after taking a sip of wine: "We are from the Second Regiment, and we have been cats in this room for two days, and Anton retreated We thought that we would be able to catch a big fish here, hey, the big fish is coming, but unfortunately it was missed!" I didn't open the adjutant...... Brother, is there any jerky? We're hungry......"

Hearing that the sergeant said that he had missed, Deng Guru's head was a little dizzy, and after he motioned to the observer to give them the jerky, he said, "Brother, don't you really know who you hit?" ”

"Who to hit? Isn't he just a lieutenant? I've killed one before. The sergeant didn't know that he had done a big thing, and because of his line of sight, he only regarded Hidefumi Naganuma, who was wearing a red hat ring, as a lieutenant.

Looking at the sergeant who was busy stuffing jerky into his mouth, Deng Guru just wanted to kick him, but he said helplessly: "You really don't know!" You're killing a general! Okay, stop eating, go back, you're fucking famous this time. Stand... Correct! Pack up the guys and withdraw! (To be continued......)