Chapter 112 Final Preparation
In the morning, Honolulu.
The camp of the Lu First Division was full of upright soldiers, including the generals of the Lu First Division in blue army uniforms and the white naval sailors of the Pacific Fleet. Under the leadership of their respective officers, they were arranged in neat straight lines.
Looking at the neat and uniform team, Li Mo took a deep breath.
The news of the first naval battle has been transmitted back, and there is no change like the rigid text of the history book. Although Jiyuan finally fled, the destruction of the two troop carriers shows that Japan has controlled the waterway to North Korea. In a trance, it seems that the overwhelming army is constantly landing in North Korea.
The Qing army was defeated again and again, and Pyongyang's loss was close at hand. As long as it took North Korea, it would have used it as a pedal, slowly penetrated into the three northeastern provinces, and finally controlled it after defeating Russia! The huge resources of the Northeast will eventually support Japan to participate in the two world wars and develop into a short-lived empire of great power!
But now I'm back by myself! Back to this era of smoke, then all this should not happen again!
Four weeks ago, all the last six destroyers built in Chile were launched and delivered. Although they were all small warships of hundreds of tons, they represented the completion of their first stage of preparation! After all the radios have been installed, the fleet is ready to go!
The army has also completed the expansion and training. In addition, there are 25,000 Marines. Except for the heavy artillery, they have all been equipped with brand-new equipment. At this moment, they are standing in front of them!
In the Far East, the decisive battle on the sea that bet on the national fortune is about to begin. Since Asan, there has been no way to avoid it. On the one hand, it is trying to maintain the falteringness. On the one hand, it is trying to defeat the Qing Empire, which is still huge with the Japanese fleet. On the other hand, it is armed to the teeth and ambitiously trying to get out of the new edge of the thousand-year-old island!
It's like two bulls, which have put on their posture and moved their hooves!
Now I'm all ready. I've been planning for several years to turn it into a final blow. The stage has been set up. What we need to do is not to persuade them to fight, but to stab the most dazzling sword!
"Soon, some of you are going to leave."
Accompanied by Chen Pingping, Li Mo walked through the phalanx of the first Polaris sailors in a loud voice. The soldiers held their heads high, with their bodies straight and firm eyes.
"After that, all of you will go!" Li Mo stepped over the Antarctic Star phalanx.
"I know, many of you still don't understand where to go?"
"I'm here today to tell you, from now on! From now on! You guys! I will embark on the road home with me!"
The phalanxes passed in front of me one by one.
"I know, some of you are worried and scared!"
"I can tell you that I'm as scared as you are!"
"But I'm not afraid of death or bleeding! I'm afraid of being shameless to tell my children and grandchildren that the heavenly kingdom of China for thousands of years has become slaves of great powers and foreigners in the hands of our generation!"
Sun Jiugong and Zhang Zuolin raised their heads respectively, stood in the teams of the Marine Corps and the First Army Division respectively, and watched Li Mo pass in front of them.
"There is no way, so foreigners can smash our homes with a few ships and cannons, treat us as pigs and dogs, take away our women, and squeeze out our money!" Li Mo clenched his fist: "Our departure this time is to tell everyone and tell us thousands of descendants! Tell those great powers and foreigners that we are not pigs and dogs, and we are not servants!"
"I once said that this is a big era! As a big man, we are all full of blue blood and pride. How can we be willing to stay in the yellow land all our lives, today's world! The ironclad giant ship crosses the ocean, and we should regard all sides of the world as our land, and any place is the land of my descendants!"
"What we have to do is to tell the world! Chinese people also have giant ships! There are also cannons!"
In the breeze, the loud bugle resounded through the fields!
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Li Fu frowned, stood at the door for half an hour, and still gently pushed the door open.
As you can see, the room is full of awe-inspiring, and a plain skirt is placed on the incense case. Above, there is a photo that has turned yellow. In the photo, two people stood side by side, hugging each other side by side. One of them was Li Enfu in his youth.
"Enfu, you are..." Li Fu looked at the photo and looked at Li Enfu sitting silently beside him, and was surprised.
"Shen Shouchang, Zi Qinghe, is the best friend of the aesthetic children who stayed with me in those years. I just received the news that he..." Li Enfu sighed and left a few tears in the tiger's eyes. Since the aesthetic children were recalled to the country, he knew that this matter was inevitable, but he still didn't expect it to come so quickly, so fast!
Li Fu also sighed. He had also heard of the matter of staying as an aesthetic child at the beginning. At this moment, when he saw Li Enfu posing incense to pay tribute to his classmates, he did not shy away from his appearance and did not know how to comfort him for a moment.
Li Enfu took a deep breath, wiped his tears, came out of the memory and asked, "Fu Bo, what's the matter with me today?"
Li Fu nodded and rubbed his hands, but he didn't know how to open his mouth. After a long time, he said, "I'm here today. I have something to ask you for your opinion. Let's see how to talk to the young master."
"Oh? What's the matter?" Li Enfu frowned. It was the first time he saw Li Fu's helpless expression. What worried the young master's most trusted old man?
"Actually, I want the young master to order to keep Fang Boqian anyway!"
"Oh! Why is that?"
Li Enfu was surprised. At this time, everyone knew that the Qing Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty were already in the same situation. Both countries had declared war on August 1. It was said that the army had won a great victory in attacking Asan and forced the Qing army to return to defend Pyongyang.
Not to mention that Fang Boqian has led the ship to a fight in the Toyoshima sea area, just the current decisive posture of the two fleets, it is not easy to keep a warship belt in the war!
Li Fu didn't know that this matter was difficult to do, but when he thought of what Li Guotai told him at the beginning, he had to grit his teeth and say, "To tell the truth, Fang Hui, the daughter of Fang Boqian, is the wife of my young master who has not come to the door."
"Ah!"
Li Enfu suddenly stood up. I'm afraid he wouldn't expect that Fang Boqian was Li Mo's father-in-law. This matter was tricky. Although he didn't care about the army, he also knew that the fleet was ready to start a war at this moment. Once it was launched, it would be a storm. Did he say that he had to tell the young master to change his plan now? Did you find Fang Boqian to fish him out of the Beiyang?
Li Enfu looked at Li Fu, frowned and asked, "The young master doesn't know about this yet?"
Li Fu shook his head: "When the old master ordered me to escape with the young master, he asked me to tell him after he became an adult. Later, we didn't write to him until we stood here with us, but we didn't receive a reply for a whole year. I thought the Fang family was not admitting this marriage, but now Fang Boqian But suddenly I wrote a letter saying that I wanted to see the young master.
Fu Bo took out the letter he had just received and handed it to Li Enfu: "I wanted to tell the young master after receiving the letter, but he has been busy with military affairs recently. I'm afraid that it will distract him. I want to wait a little longer! Unexpectedly..., there came the news that Fang Boqian took the ship and said that he had a fight. In case he had a long and two, how could I have the face to see the master in the future!"
Li Fu said the whole process completely, but it made it difficult for Li Enfu to do it. Now I tell the young master, isn't it more distracting him? In the end, the two discussed and gritted their teeth to tell Li Mo about it.
"Da Zhuang? Where's the young master?" Li Fu and Li Enfu hurried to the port, but found that the port, which was originally full of warships, was empty. Suddenly, they were dumbfounded and quickly asked Du Dazhuang, who was beside him.
"After the young master went to the barracks in the morning, he immediately went to sea with the fleet for training, saying that he would come back in five days!"
"Five days!" Li Fu and Li Enfu looked at each other and were relieved. Finally, there was still a chance.
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Pacific Fleet, flagship, within the Polaris.
"I said the national seal, I heard that you haven't closed your mouth since you landed on the North Star. Do you need it?"
Li Moxu kicked Long Guozhang. This guy is really disgusting. Isn't it the worst battleship in the previous fearless era? It is said that this guy has not closed his mouth since half a year after he took over! In addition to roaring during training, he grinned and giggled. I heard that he must even sit in the command tower when eating!
"If you say this, you think that many of the young master's men have not seen it!" Li Mo held his mouth, and the dotted line on his forehead drooped. After thinking about it, he added another kick.
"Haha..." Seeing that Long Guozhang was kicked by the young master to cover his buttocks and run around the ship, Ji Rushan and others laughed happily. There was nothing else. Usually, Long Guozhang kicked their buttocks, and finally someone took revenge on his behalf! It's cool!
Soon, Li Mo came to the command tower. Compared with the command tower of Long Xiao, the North Star was much larger, and there was a table in the middle, which allowed everyone to sit down and discuss the war situation.
"Everyone, sit down." After Li Mo waved his hand and motioned Chen Ping and Long Guozhang to lead everyone to sit down, he looked at Chen Ping and asked, "Juanshou, you have to think about it. It will be difficult to go out in this step and go back to the fleet in the future."
"Yes, Yuanshou, you are the chief of staff of the fleet now! Besides, our Pacific Fleet can have the broken rules of Beiyang. There are too many people surnamed Chen!" Long Guozhang also curled his lips. He thought that Chen Ping made such a decision because of his name!
Under everyone's gaze, Chen Ping smiled and said lightly, "I have been thinking about it for a long time. The young master is right. War is not necessarily on the front line. What's more, now that our family business is also big, Chen Ping should also put down his personal ideals and pay more attention to the overall situation!"
Listening to Chen Ping's words, Li Mo was relieved. In fact, he had already prepared Chen Ping to be the Chief of Staff of the Army and Navy, but it was not easy to change his mind when he promised him to lead the fleet on the front line. Now Chen Ping himself has figured it out, but it is also a problem for him.
"Okay." After Li Mo said it twice in a row, he stood up and ordered, "Ling."
"Wo!" After hearing this sound, everyone clenched their hands and stood solemnly at the same time.
"From that time on, Chen Ping was transferred from the Antarctic Star, dismissed the position of Chief of Staff of the Fleet, appointed Chief of General Staff of the Pacific Army, and awarded the rank of Major General!"
"Order, Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet of Long Guozhang, temporarily on behalf of the North Star, awarded the rank of major general!"
"Order, Tan Xiaozeng is the chief of staff of the fleet, with the rank of major general!"
"Order, Ji Rushan was promoted to captain of the Antarctic Star and awarded the rank of colonel."
"Order, Zhou Cheng, the former first officer of Longxiao, took over the position of captain of Longxiao and was awarded the rank of colonel."
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With a series of orders, the Pacific Fleet, according to the rank system of later generations, finally completed the final establishment. At the same time, Li Mo ordered that the exercise began.
As a stream of black smoke rose, a deafening roar soon broke out on the sea. A huge column of water rose to the sky, and the water splashed on the deck like raindrops.
Played the strongest note of this era!
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