Chapter 19 Unrejectable **

Although the Royal Garden located on Zijin Mountain is on the surface a royal summer resort, in fact, on the other hand, it is also the place where informal cabinet meetings are held. Especially when it is necessary to avoid the outside world, the Royal Garden is the most suitable place to hold secret meetings in Nanjing.

As a kind of glory, a small number of ministers with the permission of the royal family can have their own summer villas here. Of course, more ministers are licensed by the emperor himself to enjoy the right to come here to escape the summer in midsummer.

When a heavy snow stopped at the beginning of the morning, a series of cabinet dignitaries came to the royal garden on the mountain one by one. They were mostly informed from the palace in the early morning.

Unlike the past, this cabinet meeting was not held in the emperor's own palace, but in a villa belonging to Yuan Shikai. The villa has not been built for a long time and has not been integrated with the nearby forest spring. Although the villa belongs to His Majesty himself, it is half of it. Master, Yuan Shikai can live here at any time. After all, he has received a "gift" from His Majesty.

The heavy snow will completely cover the garden with European and Chinese design. Although there are many people in the cabinet who are interested in the garden, few people will have the leisure to enjoy the winter snow scenery in the royal garden.

As soon as they entered the villa, naval officers in formal dresses told them that His Majesty was waiting for them in the smoking room, which was the advantage of informal meetings. According to the usual practice, in such informal meetings, everyone could put aside the differences in their positions and express their opinions, even without considering His Majesty's intentions. See you.

In the Western-style smoking room, firewood is burning in the fireplace, which will make the whole smoking room filled with a faint smell of firewood that will even be ignored.

When Liang Dunyan entered the smoking room, he saw Zhang Zhidong, Prime Minister, Guan Mingtang, Minister of Finance, Yuan Shikai, Minister of Internal Affairs, Cai E, Minister of Army, and Ye Zugui, Minister of the Navy. The five of them had already arrived, and His Majesty in Chinese casual clothes was sitting there, chatting with the Prime Minister. At this time, the smoking room It seems that there is really no difference between the top and the bottom, but Liang Dunyan knows that this kind of "round table" also has a boundary between kings and ministers, and some boundaries cannot be abandoned because of your majesty's mouth.

"Your Majesty!"

Chen Moran, who was in a good mood, looked up and saw that Liang Dunyan arrived. After that, he pressed the cigarette butt into the ashtray, and then pointed to the opposite one, "Okay, it's all here. Let's have a meeting!"

Looking at the six people, Chen Moran only picked up the teacup, all as if he wanted to take advantage of it to keep warm. In fact, the content of today's meeting was very simple, just to consider how to further put pressure on the Japanese book.

"Your Majesty, now whether it is in the United Kingdom or the United States, they all think that the peace proposal we proposed is just a polite refusal without much practical significance!"

Although he was the last one to be present, Liang Dunyan was the first to speak.

In the past few days, he has been coordinating the British and American ambassadors to China and guiding the Chinese ambassadors to the two countries to carry out their work. During this period of time, what makes him most dull is that whether it is the United Kingdom or the United States, to some extent, they all believe that the conditions proposed before, the greatest practical significance is It shows that China's polite refusal.

"This..."

Chen Moran smiled and pondered for a moment.

"It can only be said that we don't speak enough, so they suspect that our determination is the same as our real intention, so we have to consider how to show our attitude to various countries and exert further pressure on the Japanese!"

At this point, Chen Moran took a look at the crowd, and then was silent again. At this time, it was better for the ministers to see each other, and finally to see if their opinions were the same as their own.

"Your Majesty, if we force Japan too much, will it cause further damage to our relations with the United Kingdom and the United States? After all, for the two countries, their Far East policy is balanced!"

This view of Guan Mingtang is really strange. In fact, unlike the adventurous emperor, he prefers "international coordination". He advocates that by coordinating relations with various countries, he should try his best to maintain China's interests or strive for interests as much as possible on the principles that countries may accept.

But obviously, at this time, his opinion cannot be supported. At least for Yuan Shikai, who has been eager to show his "loyalty" in front of His Majesty, this cannot be accepted.

"Does Minister Guan think that in this way, the misunderstanding between Britain and the United States about our country can be eased?"

He spit out a sentence sarcastically, Yuan Shikai looked at Guan Mingtang and said.

"I'm afraid that we have this heart, but the United Kingdom and the United States are unwilling to appreciate this. The Far East policy of the two countries is balanced, and it is difficult to get their support and understanding for any action that undermines the balance of East Asia. In this case, does it still mean to get their understanding and support?"

"But at least you can try it!"

Liang Dunyan muttered that as the Minister of Communications and Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs, he also supported international coordination, but he could not be so obvious to Guan Mingtang.

"Okay,"

He waved his hand, and Chen Moran said.

"Don't think about this problem anymore. The fundamental purpose of holding this round table today is to discuss how to make the United Kingdom and the United States understand that the condition is our formal requirement. At the same time, we should also consider how to put further pressure on the Japanese version, so as to force the Japanese political axe to accept our opinions!"

"Sad the troops!"

Cai E, who was silent, would spit out three words.

"Maybe at this time, the army must be dispatched!"

As the commander-in-chief of the army, he knows that whether it is the army staff or the army unit, there is now a feeling that the army that created the empire is unwilling to remain silent in this war. Maybe the navy can decide the direction of the war, but the army must prove it through its own actions. Obviously, the final winner of the war was the founder of the empire, the Royal Guards Army.

"Exit troops?"

Ye Zugui frowned slightly when he heard these two words. He knew that the army must not be willing to be silent now, but did he send troops to North Korea?

Without waiting for him to ask questions, Yuan Shikai, who had been internally accused of being the "first governor of North Korea of the empire", took the initiative to speak.

"Your Majesty, there is no need to send a soldier to North Korea now. Now, the hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers in North Korea are simply meat in the pot. They can't fly. We don't have to fight with them!"

"Minister Yuan, I don't mean North Korea, but..."

Turning his eyes to His Majesty, Cai E said almost word by word.

"It's native!"

"Attack on the mainland!"

Hearing this suggestion, Chen Moran's heart suddenly beat a few times. This, I have to admit that the attack on Japan is really... too powerful for himself.

'One day, we will fly our blue sky and white flags on the top of Mount Fuji'!

It is almost an instinctive reaction. In Chen Muran's mind, in another time and space of the war of resistance, the battle of Guinan, a student army detachment of the Gui army stationed in Nanning, Guangxi, fought fiercely with the Japanese army on the front line of Mochen Village in Nanning. They were besieged by the Japanese army, and all of them died heroically. Before martyrdom, a soldier of the Guangxi army was martyred. The soldier engraved this heroic last words on a bamboo pole in the bamboo forest.

Attack the mainland, this, in another time and space, this is the dream of many Chinese people!

"The risk of attacking the Japanese mainland is too great. The navy does not have enough transport ships to support the transportation of the force at all. Even if it requisitions private commercial ships, it still needs to consider various problems and risks. At present, the tonnage of our ocean-going merchant ships is only 315,000 tons. Even if we count the 27,000 tons of merchant ships that have recently captured Japan, Less than 350,000 tons, but attacking the Japanese mainland requires at least hundreds of thousands of troops. This is not a guarantee for tens of thousands of people, but a guarantee for the transportation of hundreds of thousands of troops and future combat materials. There is really no way!"

Ye Zugui shook his head almost without thinking and said that as the Minister of the Navy, how could he not know that once the will of the army is reached, in this land war, the protagonist is the army, but all the logistical support needs to be handed over to the navy. For the navy, this is simply an unbearable and heavy task.

It is even impossible to complete it. After all, the country that the army needs to face across the ocean is Japan. However, in the past, the Manchu Qing Dynasty only needed more than 100,000 troops to defeat it. However, Ye Zugui doubted that under that situation, "At that time, once you fall into the battle of Japan, you can't extricate yourself. I'm afraid I don't know how many will happen. It's a mess."

When Ye Zugui retorted, despite facing this irrejectable **, Chen Muran still knew that it was not a good idea to attack the mainland. In World War II, it was precisely because of the fear of the loss of the attack on the mainland that the United States gave up the attack on the mainland and chose to end the war with the atomic bomb. I didn't even hesitate to accept the conditional surrender proposed by myself.

Now, with the current strength of China, there are too many innate shortcomings in the attack. In terms of transportation, national strength and military strength, these problems must be considered by ourselves. If it fails, the advantage won by the navy may disappear in an instant.

"Then, the navy can guarantee how many troops to transport and how many troops to support to fight in Japan!"

Looking at the rebuttal, Cai E did not directly fight back, but first of all, the problem was the ability of the navy.

"Well, this..."

This time it's Ye Zugui's turn to hesitate. As the Minister of the Navy, of course, he knows the ability of the navy, but he seems a little hesitant to answer this question.

"If we include a brigade of the Marine Corps, we can guarantee up to three divisions. No matter how many, there is nothing we can do!"

Three divisions, Ye Zugui spit out a conservative figure. In fact, the navy has also considered attacking the Japanese mainland. The navy can guarantee up to six army divisions to enter the Japanese mainland.

"Three divisions!"

Cai E, with a serious look, said it again, and then looked at Ye Zugui and asked.

"The three divisions are almost 52,000!"

"60,000 people, which is the largest guarantee capacity of the navy at present. At this point, at least 100,000 tons of merchant ships also need to be requisitioned!"

Requisition of 100,000 tons of merchant ships. Needless to think about it, Ye Zugui believes that the Maritime Transport Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce must want to swallow the navy, which is equivalent to requisitioning one-third of the ships of the Chinese merchant fleet, and it is also the best merchant ship.

"60,000 people..."

After repeating it again, Cai E nodded.

"In this case, it's enough!"

What!

With his eyes slightly open, Chen Moran looked at Cai E in surprise. He was joking and wanted to rely on 60,000 people to attack Japan. He was not crazy! Could it be that simple? Only 60,000 people..." Your Majesty, according to the information we have about Japan, there are only five divisions in Japan, including South Sakhalin. As for other new divisions, there are insufficient officers, weapons, and soldiers have not been trained. Moreover, two of the five divisions are relatively The first is the excellent division, which is stationed in Tokyo. This is the Guards Division, which is the most well-equipped. It is also the military army with the strongest combat effectiveness in the mainland. The second is the first division of the army stationed in South Sakhalin, which is used to defend the Russians. In the four local islands, there are two divisions stationed on the four islands of the mainland. One is the Tokyo Guards Division, and the other is the Hiroshima Town Guard House. The 43rd Division, this is the new division of the Japanese army last year. Secondly, there is one division after another in Kyushu, and there is a brigade stationed in the army. On the surface, there are seven and three divisions stationed on Shikoku Island and Hokkaido respectively, but in fact, the formation of these divisions is not earlier than December last year, so I think that if invested Sixty thousand troops are completely hopeful to capture either of the two islands!"

Cai E will be very confident. In fact, since the declaration of war, the army has been cooperating with the Imperial Intelligence Agency to search for Japanese military intelligence, and has blocked Japanese military intelligence many times, trying to buy heavy army weapons from other countries, thus preventing Japanese from expanding the army. Now, Imperial Intelligence The work of the bureau has been very successful.

"Capture any of the islands!"

With this sentence in his heart, Chen Moran just kept thinking about this possibility. Maybe they don't know, but they understand what they need to face if they land in Japan. At that time, maybe the army will face a guerrilla war, and everyone may become an enemy.

"Your Majesty, the scale of Japan's military industry is far inferior to that of China. During the Russian-Japan War, Japan could only produce 6,000 rifles and 9 million bullets per month, no more than 10 guns and 30,000 shells. This is also the reason why Japan imported a large number of weapons and ammunition to foreign countries during the war. Its scale is limited. Military industry and barren resources limit their military production, so..."

"Songpo,"

interrupting Cai E's words, Chen Moran said seriously.

"You should know that after attacking Japan, you not only need to face the new division, which is negligible in your mouth, but also need to face resistance from the people. This is what we really need to consider. If everyone takes up weapons to resist our attack, at that time..."

"Your Majesty, it is precisely because we are facing myself that we make this decision!"

Cai E answered seriously that in fact, it was the non-commissioned officers of the Army Staff who made this decision. They have studied in Japan for many years and have a good understanding of their surname. It is also based on this understanding that Cai E made this suggestion to your majesty at this time.

"Your Majesty, on the surface, they seem to believe in the samurai, shame and courage, but in fact, I worship the strong very much. Whether this strong man is a native or a foreigner, in my consciousness, they obey and are willing to serve the strong, obey and admire the strong, despise and bully the weak. Their most prominent feature is to "follow the strong". Now through the battle of the navy, to some extent, we have established the prestige of the strong, and after the future attack, we will continue to emphasize this point. In short, through thorough and decisive military action, we psychologically force myself to submit completely!"

When Cai E said this, Chen Moran was stunned, and others were also stunned. Everyone was thinking about a question in their hearts, what was a thorough and decisive military action.

"Your Majesty, I can regard Perry as a hero and a hero, but in our culture, we can only regard the law of righteousness as an intruder. This is me!"

Cai E reminded again.

At this time, looking at his army minister, the question in Chen Moran's mind is another question, what is a thorough and decisive military action!

"Songpo, can you tell me what a thorough and decisive military action is?"

Why did he emphasize this sentence before? Obviously, there should be some articles in this sentence. In the face of His Majesty's question, Cai E did not answer. In fact, as the commander-in-chief of the army, he chose the surname to ignore some problems, or some "shortcomings" in the plan.

"Your Majesty, sometimes, in order to win the war, the generals on the front line have to take some necessary measures to ensure the smooth implementation of military operations!"

Looking at your majesty, Cai E finally explained it specially.

"This refers to giving sufficient authorization to the front-line generals, because it is far from the mainland, and it is impossible for the staff to fully command them as they do when fighting in the country. Therefore, in offensive operations, the front-line commanders, including the most basic commanders, will be authorized to the maximum extent, and they can take The power of all actions is only conducive to defeating the enemy and ensuring the stability of the occupied area!"

Although Cai E still did not explain, everyone understood what the thorough and decisive military action he referred to was, and Chen Moran looked at Cai E and looked directly at him, finally after more than ten seconds.

"If I approve this plan, how confident is the army!"

"If it's 60,000, it's 60%!"

"What about 100,000 yuan?"

After a follow-up question, Chen Moran looked directly at Cai E, and then waited for his answer eagerly. Who can refuse this **?

(to be continued)