The meeting on the "demobilization" and resettlement was held for two days in succession, and within two days all the matters after the revival army were roughly arranged; of course, there will still be many problems when it is actually implemented, and this will depend on the officers corps left behind to actively deal with it according to the situation. In the final personnel arrangement, Yang Rui was the commander of the newly formed mountain army, Lei Ao was the chief of staff, and the staff officers of the military department were Bei Shoutong, Xu Jingxi, Guo Bi, Huang Fujin (a retired student of Nanjing Army Academy), Xu Dachun (a retired student of Nanlu Academy), etc.; The military and political departments are Liu Boyuan, Fan Guo, Fan An, Ma Bangde, etc.; Qi Qingyuan, commander of the 1st Division, Lei Yizhen, commander of the 2nd Division, and the four brigade commanders are: Li Liezu (acting), Lu Mengxiong, Fang Yanchen, and Xie Cheng; The eight regiment leaders are: Tao Dayong (acting), Li Shutong, Pan Chengyi, Peng Qingpeng, Huang Dajun, Lin Wenqian, Lin Datong, Zhang Changguo; Other arms: engineer Lin Songjian, cavalry Xiang Xiang, Zheng Lanting, artillery Cheng Zhiyi, Li Chengyuan, and Zhu Luhe.

Although the personnel arrangements are not a big problem, but Yang Rui is leaving, now that the war in the Northeast is over, the revolution in the Guannai is about to be launched, if it is always in the Northeast, separated from the headquarters of the Revival Association, it is very inconvenient to not be able to command the overall situation, and furthermore, although the United States has used radio to connect with the Rockefeller family, and there is a pleasant and rich cooperation, but to further gain support, Yang Rui still has to visit in person, Yu Huizu, Yu Zixun and others have something to say, and they don't know how to say it; Yang Rui is leaving, Leo is leaving, and it is still necessary to find an opportunity to open the door to Russia and let the students of the Revival Association enter the Russian naval school and army school while the Russian emperor still has an impression of the independent army. Along with Leo was Chen Quai. He would restrain his hostility towards Russia, hoping that the Russian emperor would accept Chinese students for free, or imitate Germany and set up a university in Harbin, although Russia was the last power. But no matter how late he is, he is still a semi-modern country, with an annual output of 3 million tons of steel, which is more advanced than China.

Since the head of the group is leaving, the arrangements after leaving still have to be arranged, on the side of the army, the first person in charge is Lei Yizhen - Yang Rui said this Qi Qingyuan was a little disappointed in his eyes, the second is Liu Boyuan, the third is Qi Qingyuan, the fourth is Bei Shoutong, and the fifth is Li Liezu; On the civil affairs side, it is still the administrative team headed by Du Yaquan.

All the explanations are complete. On the day of the meeting, Yang Rui asked Leo for a drink. By the fire in the mountains and forests, freshly cooked roe deer are eaten. Drinking the liquor in the bowl, in the pine waves, Yang Rui lay down on the stool and looked up at the sky, and couldn't help but sigh under the stars: If you just look at this brilliant starry sky. I am afraid that no one can distinguish between this life and the next life; If it's the other way around. What would it be like to see the Earth from the other side of the stars? I'm afraid that what I've done and sacrificed now seems to be very indifferent to aliens. Fighting has always been continuous in the history of mankind, and in order to fight in the open, people have created many definitions: nation, state, sect, class, ism, grievance...... But if you look at it for a thousand years, only the nation can survive these things in the end, but if it takes a longer time. Don't say that the nation is the human race, and there is no longer zài.

Yang Rui didn't know how to have such an extremely nihilistic mind after seeing the starry sky, but this was also in a flash. When he got up to drink wine and eat meat, the qiē in front of him made him return to the real world, his revolution is not only because of the nation itself, but also because there are countless bones and blood suppressing his soul, he must give an explanation to these people: either he will die, or the revolution will succeed, otherwise, his soul will not be at peace. Perhaps, Sun Wen also insisted on the revolution in this way, excluding the wanted of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the death of Lu Haodong and others has also trapped his soul.

"Are you leaving tomorrow?" Yang Rui was in a reverie, and Leo asked uninterestingly. There are two kinds of Germans, one is rigid to the end or rigid, and the other is to be stereotyped to sublimate a kind of beauty in the end. Obviously, Leo is not Kant and Bach, he is Leo.

"Yes. The revolution was not a revolution in the Northeast, but a revolution in the whole of China. Yang Rui said angrily, but thinking of Leo's heavy responsibility, he said again: "I was thinking, when the Russian Emperor received you, you wouldn't say nothing." ”

"Nope. I've memorized those words many times, though ......," Leo said unnaturally, frowning, "though those words are disgusting! Yang, do all those in power like this? If there is no deliberate flattery, then they will be disappointed? Hey, they're so pathetic. ”

Leo said it was funny, Yang Rui laughed, it was true. If there are no things such as "Long live XX" and "thousands of generations, unify the rivers and lakes", you can't realize the loyalty of your courtiers, and the emperor who is the emperor will be trembling every day. Yang Rui finished laughing and said: "This is like those women who are in love, if they don't say "I love you" every other day, they will be very uneasy......

Yang Rui's analogy was very inappropriate, and this analogy made both himself and Leo look dark, and after a while, Yang Ruiqiang smiled and said: "Leo, maybe next year, at the latest, your friends in South Africa can come to the Northeast." ”

"Is that so?" Leo was a little surprised, the South African military academy has been expanding, if those people leave, it is estimated that the school will be difficult to run.

"Of course. Not all of them, though. Yang Rui said: "We have found tens of thousands of Chinese in South Africa, perhaps, these people we can get over and form an overseas group army." ”

"What?!" Leo was not surprised but surprised this time, "Yang, this can't be!" The Portuguese won't let us do that. ”

"No, it's possible." Yang Rui said confidently, "They are not a simple army, but belong to the nature of agricultural reclamation, that is, like the reserve we discussed a few days ago, they usually only work on the farm, and only do some specific training at certain times, such as familiarizing themselves with firearms, shooting, bomb throwing, etc., they can complete the army's training for half a year in four or five years." Yang Rui is talking about the Northeast Reserve Plan, that is, all immigrants must participate in militia training to hide soldiers from the people.

"Oh...... But even if the Portuguese didn't find anything, they only knew that there were many Chinese peasants in that farm. But will you be able to sustain your finances like this? "Now the troops in the north-east need at least four million marks a year, and South Africa. This new legion also needs a lot of money......"

"Money is not a problem...... Yang Rui said.

"Nope. No. Leo shook his head, "The most important thing is how do you get this legion to be in the right place at the right time, and then it can fight normally?" Although South Africa does not need to go through the Suez Canal to China, how do you transport them back? You don't have a fleet, and even if you have merchant ships, you don't have a navy, and the Qing government can send a small fleet of destroyers to make the fleet useless. ”

What Leo said was indeed the most crucial thing. Overseas troops, even if they can be concealed, are difficult to bring back. Yang Rui said with a little interest: "Maybe, maybe at the time of the uprising." We can get support from foreigners, either the United Kingdom, or the United States, or the ...... It's Germany, as long as there is any support from the country, then the fleet can be in Shanghai. Or Qingdao and Tianjin docked. Although what he said seemed to be very reasonable, Yang Rui himself was unsure, he drank all the wine in the bowl and said: "Maybe I take it for granted, but if it is possible, I still want to form the army first." The merchant fleet is now also being formed, and now all of China's imports and exports are monopolized by foreign foreign companies. ”

Although Yang Rui said it was far away, Leo still asked. "Yang, the army is the army. Business is business, that's what you often mention. If you mix the military with business, then the consequences are not too good. ”

"No, the merchant fleet will only be saved for commerce, American pine wood is shipped to the Far East in large quantities every year, and Chinese goods are constantly being exported, and the merchant fleet will not lose money even if it does not make money. Finances are good, although money is always insufficient. Speaking of this, Yang Rui laughed, "The same goes for officers, guns, and ammunition. ”

Hearing that Yang Rui seemed to have mature considerations, Leo did not pour cold water again, the longer he stayed in China, the more he understood what kind of country it was, when he once watched a Chinese want to drown a newborn baby girl, he trembled all over, angrily snatched the child from that person's hand, he seemed to think that this is the child that Rebecca was pregnant with but did not give birth to, he wanted to raise her well, and hoped that Yang Rui could sweep away all the sins in the future.

The conversation stopped for a moment, and Yang Rui said again: "Leo, if there is a big war in Europe, Germany is very disadvantaged, you ......"

"Germany's victory or defeat has nothing to do with me, without that stupid and greedy emperor, the Germans would have a better life, and the more he reigns, the more suffering Germany will have in the future." Although it has been a long time, Leo still has a deep hatred for the Kaiser, and he said sadly, "Yang, I only hope that you can sell that yellow medicine to Germany in the future, and as for land radios, it is better not to sell them to Germany." The more she made her army seem stronger, the more the Emperor would think that he could take the whole world, but Germany, with her position and existing population, could not achieve final victory in future wars, and perhaps Germany had an advantage at the beginning of the war, but in a few years she was doomed to defeat. ”

Since the beginning of the Moroccan crisis, Franco-German relations have become extremely tense, and Leo is still concerned about the situation in Europe, although he is not in the situation, but at some point in the past, he suddenly turned a blind eye to Europe. Yang Rui looked at his painful expression and said with concern, "What's the matter, Leo?" "You know our power, maybe I can help you in something," he stressed. ”

Leo shook his head, "It's useless. Some time ago, I received a letter from my teacher, in which he confirmed that he would not be appointed by the emperor to the post of chief of the General Staff, although his reputation and ability were more than enough to assume the post. ”

In line with the principle of keeping promises, there are some things that Leo can't talk to Yang Rui about, of course, these things will not have any impact on Yang Rui in his opinion. But in fact, this will affect Yang Rui's plans for the future - Leo's teacher, Baron Golz, was a talented but resolute soldier, and he did not agree with the Schlieffen plan, and it was on these two points that the Kaiser did not appoint him as the new German chief of the General Staff. Baron Goltz's opposition to the Schlieffen plan was first of all because the transportation facilities in Belgium and northern France could not support the logistics of the huge German army, and at the same time, with the help of France in recent years, the Russian railways could make the Russian army mobilize faster; The second is to implement the Schlieffen plan to attack neutral Belgium, which will cause Britain to declare war on Germany, and will alienate other neutral countries from Germany, and most importantly, it will alienate Germany. Britain's declaration of war would have blocked the sea lanes, and the German Royal Navy would not be able to compete with the British Navy, with no clear shipping lanes. Germany would gradually lose blood and eventually lose the entire war.

In Baron Goltz's plan, he would build fortifications and other fortifications on the Western Front, with which the weak German army would support for eighteen months or more, the Baron believed that France could not be quick to fight, and he also hoped that France would invade neutral Belgium or Switzerland in the attack; On the Eastern Front, at the beginning of the war, the Germans used the slogan of liberating Poland to gain the support of Poland and the Baltic states. The occupation of Poland was accompanied by a continued eastward advance, however, not with the aim of capturing Moscow. And only in order to break the morale of Russia, in the event of victory on the Eastern Front and ensuring security, the main forces of the German army were transferred back to the Western Front. Schlieffen's plan was based on a quick victory, while Baron Goltz was based on a long war. If you look at it from a historical point of view. His plan was much better than Schlieffen's. At least Poland, the Baltics, etc., could provide Germany with some resources, and most importantly: Britain's historical inertia and parliamentary regime would not declare war on Germany and blockade the North Sea from the beginning, so that Germany could obtain more strategic materials.

In his correspondence with Leo, Baron Goltz did not say anything about his strategic proposition of going east and then west, but he had only heard that his students had actually trained an army in the Far East, and that this army had also participated in regular operations in the Russo-Japanese War, although not against the Russians. But the commander in the war knows much more about the situation of the enemy and our army than the so-called observers. The baron just wanted to learn about the situation in the Russian army from the mouths of his students, of course. After confirming the loss of the position of chief of the General Staff, he couldn't help but complain about his students in the letter.

Yang Rui didn't know what the hell was going on, before he had fantasized about the relationship between Mr. Guò Leo and a few students to go to the German army, and it was best to intern at the General Staff, of course, this was his fantasy, but now he was slightly disappointed when he was disillusioned. He had no choice but to say, "Then your teacher will be disappointed......

"Nope. He was not disappointed by the loss of this position, but because he was a man who dared to oppose the Kaiser, and he believed that war should not be provoked lightly, because it would be difficult to end, and if he was in this position, he would be able to ensure that Germany would not go to war lightly. And the chief of the general staff will be Moltke Jr., a guy who can only see the wind and rudder, plus an emperor with great power and great achievements......" Leo choked, "Maybe the best outcome of defeat one day is the emperor's abdication." ”

Thinking of the history of Germany, Yang Rui feels that he can understand his pain, and he feels that he has a foresight that ordinary people do not have, but the more such people or the more painful they are, everyone is drunk and I wake up alone, and I feel sad to think about it.

"Drink bar, drink bar." The atmosphere is getting worse and worse, Yang Rui said loudly, and somehow remembered a few ancient poems: "Five-flowered horses, golden qiu, Hu'er will exchange for fine wine, and sell eternal sorrow with you." ”

This night, Leo was drunk, but Yang Rui became more and more sober the more he drank, and he seemed to be a little impatient to enter the customs and participate in the vigorous revolution. On the fourth watch of the next day, he got up, and went out of the camp after packing up, but saw that there were people standing outside - all of them were generals who had held meetings in the past two days, and as soon as they saw Yang Rui out of the camp, someone shouted: "Salute!" ”

"Whew", under the slight starlight, dozens of officers saluted Yang Rui in unison, Yang Rui only felt that there was something blocked in his heart, and he couldn't speak, he had to solemnly return the salute for a long time, and only let go of his hand when the military horse that was slowly moving forward under his crotch was far away from everyone. When the sky was about to dawn, Yang Rui left without looking back, he felt that there were more important things waiting for him ahead.

In addition to the backbone selected by Chen Guangshou's guard company, there are also Xiao Yezi, a sniper Bai Ru and her partner, who have martial arts. In order to disguise, the two women sat in the carriage as ladies, the handle of the gun was transformed into a collapsible iron-framed Mauser rifle and hid on the hollow handlebar, and the rest of the people were dressed as merchants, that is, Yang Rui also cut the hair on the front of his head very short, buttoned a melon skin hat, shaved his chin clean, and then fell into a fake braid on the back of his head, and he was a business house owner. The group set off from Siping lightly and skillfully and followed the official road to Changtu. Chen Guangshou picked people of all ages, and now that Japan and Russia have negotiated a peace armistice, and there are more and more commercial travelers between the north and the south, the Japanese army let this group enter the checkpoint without doing any meticulous search.

As soon as Yang Rui arrived in Changtu, he saw his wanted warrant, there was a reward from the Qing court, and there was a reward from the Japanese army, in contrast, it was still interesting for the Japanese, a proper 50,000 yen, almost five times that of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, after reading the wanted warrant Yang Rui shook his head and left, he was not afraid of being discovered at all, because Wang Qinian, who was staring at the Japanese army, was listening to music every day in a certain Qinglou in Siping. Although there was no worry about being caught, there were still a lot of troubles along the way, for example, since the morning when they arrived in Mukden, the group after entering the city was harassed by countless Japanese prostitutes wearing kimonos:

"Master, do you want to sleep once?" As everyone walked, a Japanese woman in a kimono suddenly appeared on the side of the road, she bowed and said, afraid that everyone would be too expensive, and added: "As long as five dimes, it's very cheap." ”

Yang Rui couldn't, so he had to avoid it, and he was about to rest when he entered the big car shop in the city, and after a while, there was a knock on the door, but it was a Japanese prostitute wearing a kimono when it opened, she bowed respectfully, and then said, "Master, do you want to sleep once?" She went to the next door and knocked on the door, and then asked, "Master, do you want to sleep once?" "In every room of the big car shop, these prostitutes have to ask and turn around, or they are pulled into the room by men, or they are kicked out, and then they disappear.

After eating at noon, Chen Guangshou, who had finished picking up his head, came back, and Yang Rui split his head and asked, "What's going on with this Mukden, so many Japanese prostitutes?" ”

Chen Guangshou also ran into a lot when he went out, and when he saw Yang Rui asking, he said: "They are all brought by the Japanese army, I heard that there are more than 2,000 in Fengtian City alone, and there are some Japanese craftsmen, all of whom are under the protection of the Japanese army and compete with the locals for business, and now the people in the city say that the Japanese occupy it is not as good as the Russians." ”

More than 2,000 prostitutes frightened Yang Rui, and there are only more than 100,000 people in Fengtian City, so they can't afford more than 2,000 prostitutes at all. It seems that the Japanese are poor and crazy! He didn't want this, and asked again: "How is the train inquiring, can you buy a ticket to Yingkou at a high price?" ”

"Can't buy it. I heard that it has stopped for the past few days, and only to Lushun. ”

"Don't go to Lushun, that place is full of Japanese." Yang Rui thought about whether to take the railway from Shanhaiguan to Beijing, or to take a big car to Yingkou and then take a boat to Tianjin.

At this time, Chen Guangshou said: "Sir, let's spend the night in a different place, these prostitutes are basically related to the Black Dragon, we men, don't let them sleep with them to arouse suspicion, in case we see something, it's even worse." ”

Chen Guangshou was reasonable, and Yang Rui said: "Then where to go?" ”

"Taoist Temple."

"Taoism?"

"Yes. It is the northwest corner tower, it is very convenient to enter and exit, there is a courtyard for pilgrims to live in, and I have already set one. Chen Guangshou was also a local intelligence officer who asked, and he finally chose this place for several temples and Taoist temples.

Hearing that it was on the corner of the city, Yang Rui relaxed his heart, it was not easy to live outside the city, a large group of people were too eye-catching, and the vicinity of the Fengtian parking lot was the focus of the detectives' attention, and the city was the safest. He nodded here, and the group left the big car shop again in the name of visiting relatives and went to the northwest corner.

In fact, the big car shop is not too far to that side, but the city is a dirt road, the carriage seems to be more bumpy than Chengwai, less than a moment, it arrived at Xishuncheng Street, Yang Rui who jumped off the carriage is an ancient palace-style gatehouse, erecting a small door plaque, on the book "Taiqing Palace" three words. The color of the gatehouse seems to have been some years, although it is pompous, but the painted paint on the pillars and beams has been mottled, revealing the wooden inner layer. The yellow tiles on the roof of the building are also dilapidated, and the cracks between the tiles are crowded with fallen leaves and dust, but the beasts at the corners of the eaves have not been polished much by time, lined with the shade of two lush trees swaying in the wind, as if they are living creatures.

The master and the female dependents have already gotten off the car, there is a Taoist child in the view to lead to the side of the courtyard, the yard is not big, but it is extremely clean and elegant, especially there is a faint smell of incense in the air, smell a little relaxed, although there are only eight rooms in the courtyard, but it is not difficult to settle more than 20 people, the Taoist boy led everyone to retreat, Chen Guangshou saw him go away, so that he let a few people go out to look at the wind and arrange a retreat, Bai Ru also took his assistant to observe around, looking for the most suitable sniper location. (To be continued......)