Chapter 176 Russians make a mystery

Master Li hates this feeling!

A lot of men, busy running from room to room, sweaty. Finally, they had to squeeze in front of a large sand table in the middle of the hall and point out.

It's all stinky. It's too bad!

How good would it be if there was an electronic sand table for future generations?

You can hug my little moon, lie on the beach in Maui to bask in the sun, do it, and look at the situation map and give orders. It's great!

It's a pity that Yue'er insisted on living with Xiaoxiao after she came to Ryukyu. Hey, she was left to sleep alone. Why did she feel a little unaccustomed to it? No, you must speed up ** and strive to fly early!

By the way, I also need to urge the Tesla, which cost the young master several million yuan. This bastard took so long to get a short-wave radio station, and only a hundred of them need to be driven by hand-cranked generators. When can we enter a more direct and more convenient stage of voice communication?

Gurtle speed! It's really fast! The young master is still waiting for the wireless Internet!

Master Li broke his fingers and muttered. The staff rooms next door have long been full of voices. All kinds of plans were put forward. After being simulated on the sand table, they were quickly rejected. Then there was a new plan, or the information that had just arrived, which was as lively as a vegetable market.

Master Li raised his hand and wanted to stretch, but he thought that he was busy. Isn't it good if he was too idle? So I changed stretching to twisting my waist. This period of time is really too hard, and I need to exercise more!

Du Dazhuang, not far away, is full of black lines. Young master, you are too powerful! When is it all over here? Japan has been fighting with Russia and the Three Kingdoms of the Qing Dynasty. Do you still have time to exercise your waist and abdomen?!

Oh, it seems that you shouldn't bring two young grandmothers!

"Less."

Chen Ping pushed the door open. Seeing the action, he abruptly took back the second half of the master's word. He covered his forehead and watched Master Li twist his waist and shake his crotch. He finally came to his senses and reported, "Young master, Guozhang has led the fleet back, and you can enter Hong Kong at any time."

"In addition, I just received the news that the Ninggu Tower has been lost."

Chen Ping handed the information he had just received to Li Mo: "The Russians have now divided their troops all the way into Heilongjiang all the way west to Harbin and Longjiang. There are about 1,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantry. In addition, he also found about 3,000 Russian troops crossing the border. It is expected that they will enter in a week at most. You can complete the meeting.

"In addition, the main force is the way. According to the current intelligence, about 10,000 Cossack cavalry and more than 20,000 infantry are heading for Changchun. Since there is no telegraph station in the Qing Dynasty, we estimate that we will not be able to find it until the soldiers are stationed in Changchun until the city."

"Where's their fleet?" Li Mo picked up the coffee and took a sip.

"Vladivostok intelligence personnel reported that the Russian fleet has set off yesterday evening. There are four battleships, five heavy patrols, four light patrols, seven torpedo ships and gunboats, and six cargo ships carrying about 5,000 army soldiers. At present, the swordfish and the herring have found them respectively. Soon According to the previous news, they have crossed the Tsushima Strait and are still under surveillance.

"In addition, the total force of the Russians in Yuanshan Port has reached 5,000, and the port has been basically controlled by the Russian army. The Yichang Department of the sixth brigade of the Japanese army stationed there has also been completely destroyed. The Japanese army has given up Yuanshan and begun to shrink inland."

Oshima Yichang.

Li Mo narrowed his eyes and remembered the Japanese colonel who fired the first shot of Jiawu. Since he died under the Russian naval gun, it was also an indirect revenge.

Alexayev finally couldn't help feeling lonely. After basically taking Yuanshan Port, all of them went out. The huge fleet of 13 capital ships was like a tomahawk hanging on the head. The question is, where is this axe cut?

After bypassing the Tsushima Strait, Is Alexayev want to land in Incheon? Should we lay a good foundation in North Korea first, or go directly to Lushun and form a two-line attack with the army?

Not to mention that Li Mo is not sure, even Chen Ping and Zhao Long in the staff are not sure.

If Alexayev's goal is Incheon, it is still too early for the Pacific Army to intervene at present. Even if the Russian army successfully takes Changchun, there is Fengtian behind. It can't fight in less than half a month. If you intervene too early, you can only make yourself passive!

But if the terminal of the fleet is Lushun, then it is completely different. From Ryukyu to Liaodong, even if you start boarding the ship now, it will take two days. In order to ensure the smooth landing of the army, then at this moment, Long Guozhang must set out for the Yellow Sea to fight against the Russian fleet and obtain the right to control the sea!

From the perspective of many turrets in his later generations, although the Far East Fleet gathered by Russia this time is powerful, it is not invincible. Although both Chesma and Sinop are claimed to have just been launched, they are new warships comparable to the Junquan class. In fact, from today's perspective, they are all outdated. If it is not a unique liftable zigzag-shaped three-door double 305mm 30x caliber main gun, Master Li doesn't even care about it.

However, the main gun lifting device is full of interesting, and it can be seen that the Russians are actually not very rigid.

As for the other two Peter the Great and the Nerent Menya, they are both steel monsters at the same time as the two ships. They are not so much battleships as ironclads. It is hard to say whether they can beat the determination class.

Of course, this can't be blamed on the Russians. After all, the update and elimination of battleships these days are too fast, and some of them are even on the platform, which is outdated. They do not have their own time travelers who can firmly grasp the development process of warships in the next hundred years.

Most importantly, although Nicholas II was greedy for the Far East, he was still worried about his old nest. Several armored cruisers, such as the two sister ships of the USS Chesma and the real new Peter Baplovsk, are still stationed in the Baltic Fleet.

Therefore, Master Li is absolutely sure to defeat the Russian Far East Fleet, but if he wants to eat it in one bite, he has to use some brains. Especially the Russians use the name of second-class battleships to pretend to be a tiger's heavy cruiser, or five at a time. With the current strength of the Pacific Fleet, it's really a little difficult to swallow them all. Difficult.

Although the quality of the Russian sailors is not flattering, it is a head-on decisive battle. In the case of the strength of the two fleets, it is difficult for even Long Guozhang to be foolproof. If the Russian main force escapes, it will be a great threat to the future plan.

So it is the key to this battle to compete for sea power and ensure that the fleet will not suffer great losses! But if you want to control the sea, you must first know what the target of the Russian fleet is!

So, where on earth will Alexayev cut this axe? History has been completely changed. Li Mo can no longer make accurate predictions with his memory. From now on, everything will start again!

Just as Li Mo couldn't make up his mind, the door of the office was pushed open again, and Zhao Long hurried in: "Young master, the Qingyu reported that the Russian fleet began to bombard the port of Incheon."

Bombardment of Incheon Port?

What did the governor of Alexayev pay attention to and Commander Vitkhft? Do you really want to land in Incheon and ignore Lushun?

"How on earth should I swallow the Russian fleet?"

Thinking of this, Li Mo quickly crossed Zhao Long and walked to the command hall next door. Chen Ping also hurriedly followed him out of the room.

The boss came to see the sand table, and the staff immediately made way of a large area of open space. There was nothing they could do. Behind the boss, there were the second, the third and so on.

Sure enough, in the eyes of many staff, Li Mo quickly came to the sand table. Before everyone could react, his eyes began to move north along the Yellow Sea, the Tsushima Strait, called the sea, and then!

In the crowded crowd, Zhang Zuolin had been paying attention to Li Mo's eyes and moving north little by little until he saw the young master's eyes stopped in Vladivostok, and an idea suddenly gushed out of his mind!

As this idea rose, he suddenly grew up. Does the young master want to?"

Li Mo didn't notice that a pair of eyes were staring at him closely. His eyes kept going back and forth along the coast of North Korea. Finally, he returned to Vladivostok, the seaport known as the first fortress in the Far East. When Vladivostok became clearer and clearer in his eyes, a faint touch suddenly hung on his serious face just now. Laughing, he turned his head to the staff around him and asked, "What do you think of the bombarding of Incheon by the Russian fleet?"

"I think they want to open up a second front. After occupying Wonsan Port, they also want to open up Incheon and accelerate the resolution of the North Korean army." Under the gaze of the young master, a staff officer excitedly took the lead in saying his thoughts.

"I think it should be a pretend, you see." Another staff officer walked to the beach, picked up the baton and pointed to the small wooden boats representing the six troop carriers that set out with the fleet, and continued, "Russia shelled Incheon Port, but their troop carriers were still dragged behind and did not follow them into Incheon Port, so I think this should still be an illusion."

"That's not necessarily true. Maybe the Russian fleet believes that the naval guns should be allowed to open enough passages before the transport ship can enter, so as not to be hit by Japanese artillery."

"This statement is also true, but according to intelligence, the Japanese army contracted very much in Incheon. They knew that they could not compete with Russian naval guns, so they deliberately retreated. The troops were mainly concentrated on the outskirts of Seoul, which was far outside the maximum range of naval guns, so if the Russian army wanted to land, it would not encounter any resistance at all. "

"That's strange. Since the Russians didn't land, why did they shell the port of Incheon? Are there too many shells?"

"I know why!"

Just as the staff were arguing, a voice suddenly sounded. Everyone immediately looked at it. A young major staff member came out of the crowd and walked to the beach. First, he moved the wooden boat representing the main force of the Russian fleet to Lushunkou, and then said in everyone's stunned eyes: "The Russians are fooling. Xuanxu, their real purpose is Lushun!"

"Oh? Why do you say that?" Li Mo looked curiously at the shameful major's staff, smiled and said, "Tay what you think."

"It's actually very simple."

Looking at the young master's eyes, Zhang Zuolin took a deep breath, took the baton from his partner's hand, and clicked at the sand table: "If I were a Russian commander and determined to fight North Korea, I would never give up the near and distant landing in Incheon."

"That's not necessarily true. Opening up two lines makes it difficult for the Japanese army to take care of the beginning and end, and it is not willing to be close and far." The first counselor to speak shook his head and disagreed with what he said.

Zhang Zuolin explained with a smile: "There is a prerequisite for the two-line battle, that is, there must be a reliable supply line. Although the Russian fleet is so strong that the navy can't shrink, don't forget that Vladivostok has just been rebuilt, the Russian Siberian railway has just begun to be built, and their material reserves Definitely not much."

"If the supply line is lengthen, not to mention the possible attack of the Japanese navy, the 50,000 Japanese troops stationed in North Korea alone can drag them to death!"

"Unless the Russians are really fools, they will not really fight with the Japanese army that has been constantly replenishing for the past six months when the supplies are not very abundant. Now the first thing they need to do is to find a place with abundant supplies first, and then sit down and fight slowly with the Japanese army."

The baton in Zhang Zuolin's hand slid lightly, and his eyes became brighter and brighter. He continued: "In the northeast, there are two places that can have a large amount of supplies, Fengtian and Lushun! The Russian army has rushed to Fengtian, and their navy must find a good place in the Yellow Sea as soon as possible, so I think they are pretending that the ultimate goal is to take Lushun and get a supply station first!"

"Then why don't you go straight to Lushun? What about shelling the port of Incheon first? Zhao Long looked at Zhang Zuolin and asked. Next to him, Chen Ping has raised the corners of his mouth: "Because of the treaty just signed by Qing and Russia, according to the treaty, whether it is Russia or the Qing Dynasty, if they fight with a third country, they will be able to apply for assistance from the other party and use the other party's military base."

"So, the Russians are acting, and then under the pretext of supplies to enter Lushun Port for supplies?"

"Is there any other explanation?" Chen Ping said, "Don't forget that most of the reasons for Beiyang's last defeat were attributed to shells, so after Zhang Shiheng of the Tianjin Manufacturing Bureau was dismissed and investigated, a large number of new shells have been added, all of which are currently in Lushun Port. Moreover, the caliber of the Russian naval gun is slightly the same as that of Beiyang. If you really want to get this batch of shells, it will be enough for the Russians to fight for a while!"

"And if the Russians want to destroy the Beiyang and cooperate with the landing of the army, they must consume a lot of shells. So I think we should send someone to blow up Lushun's arms warehouse immediately. It's better." Zhang Zuolin suddenly paused after the interface, looked at Li Mo, who was smiling at him, and continued to say, "Send the fleet to bombard Vladivostok immediately, completely destroy the potential of the Russian fleet to continue to fight, and drag the Russian fleet into the decisive battle!"

"Blow up Lushun arsenal? Bombard Vladivostok!" Hearing Zhang Zuolin's words, the staff around them inhaled the cold air one after another, but their eyes also glowed at the same time. If they could really do this, the Russian fleet would be really homeless.

Chen Ping smiled and looked at Zhang Zuolin and nodded with satisfaction. Just as he was about to speak to him, a staff officer suddenly came and handed him the latest information. After receiving the information and scanning his eyes, the smile on his face became stronger. He handed it to Zhao Long and said, "The Russian ambassador made a request to the Qing Zheng Axe two hours ago, asking the Qing Dynasty to fulfill the treaty and allow the Russian fleet, which was attacking Incheon, to enter Lushun Port to add coal."

"Moreover, Li Hongzhang has agreed!"

"Contact Long Guozhang and let him enter the port immediately." Li Mo raised his head, and his eyes flashed: "Order the first division, the third division to be ready to board the ship, and the fourth division to be a reserve team."

"Notify Feng Qi and ask him to tell Ogna again that if Beiyang is attacked, we will have a showdown with Russia immediately!" After Li Mo hurriedly gave a series of orders, he walked to Zhang Zuolin and looked at him and asked, "How did you guess that I was going to fight in Vladivostok first?"

Zhang Zuolin blushed and hurriedly saluted: "Report, I saw the young master looking at Vladivostok for a long time before I suddenly thought of it."

In the face of Zhang Zuolin's frankness, Li Mo nodded with a smile: "You're good. What's your name?"

"Report, my name is Zhang Zuolin, Major Staff Officer, Liude."

In the envious eyes of all his colleagues, Zhang Zuolin straightened his chest and saluted and reported, but no one noticed that the corners of Master Li's bent mouth suddenly collapsed.

(to be continued)