Chapter 261 New Year's Eve 2
The monk took a step back, meditated, picked up another incense, and lit it in front of the candle.
There was a knock on the door.
The monk hurried to the door and opened the door.
Standing at the door is Kongming, the host of Lingshan Temple.
"Master." The monk said softly in a soft and gentle tone.
Kongming looked at the incense in the hands of the monk and said, "Jin Shu, the New Year is coming. It's time to give your mother a note."
The monk is Jin Shu who jumped down the Jin River with her mother Liu Ying!
She is not dead.
At the moment she jumped off the Linjin River, Jin Shu was not afraid. She had seen countless tragic deaths and was no longer afraid of death.
However, she still felt a heartbreaking heartache!
Because in the dark world she is going to, there is no Zhou Charter!
She was submerged by the rapids of the Linjin River, and then her eyes were dark.
However, she did not stay in that dark world for long.
She opened her eyes again and saw the mountains and rivers of North Korea that she was familiar with.
It's just that there is no mother around her.
It was the monk of Lingshan Temple who saved her, led by the abbot Kongming.
She was taken by Kongming to the Lingshan Temple in Sanfengli, where she handed over the jade seal and ultimatum with the Taiji tiger pattern given to her before her death.
Mage Kongming is Li Xuanqing, a Dengke Jinshi from North Korea. Li Xuanqing, who was originally going to enter the Hanlin Academy, was ordered by the Lord of the Grand Academy to be a monk in Lingshan Temple. At the same time, he also had 50 members of the palace guard selected by the Lord of the Academy.
When they entered Lingshan Temple, they carried a large number of scriptures. In the box for loading the scriptures, they also hid the five-year treasury income of the Kingdom of Korea, nearly 50 million taels of silver and 1 million taels of gold.
The court has long foreseen the danger of the subjugation of North Korea. Li Xuanqing or Kongming is the last pawn he left behind.
Kongming worked as an abbot of Lingshan Temple for several years. Until August this year, the Japanese army invaded Seoul.
Kongming knew that it was time for him to play.
He secretly recruited troops.
Kongming, with huge wealth, easily recruited 3,000 North Korean farmers, contacted the Russian Far East Command, purchased a large number of advanced weapons and equipment, and formed a armed force. He named this unit the "Light Restoration Army".
The base of the Restoration Army is located in Koruschino, Russia, and the Russian army sends instructors and military advisers for training. Lingshan Temple is the stronghold of the Restoration Army in North Korea.
With the support of the Russians, the Restoration Army proposed to "expel the Japanese pirates and achieve full independence of North Korea!" The slogan.
The slogan seems clear, but in fact, it is vague.
It is easy to understand to expel the Japanese pirates. However, in order to achieve complete independence of North Korea, this means expelling the military presence of the Qing Dynasty in North Korea - Zhang Jun!
As long as Zhang Jun exists in North Korea, North Korea is a vassal of the Qing Dynasty.
However, the attitude of the North Korean people towards Zhang Jun made Kongming in a dilemma. North Korean people not only have no hostility to Zhang Jun, but also regard Zhang Jun as a liberator.
If the Restoration Army openly plays the banner of expelling Zhang Jun, it will be difficult to gain the understanding and support of the North Korean people.
Moreover, with the existing capabilities of the Restoration Army, it is impossible to fight against the Japanese army and Zhang Jun at the same time.
Therefore, Kongming has to blur the words.
But one thing is clear that before expelling the Japanese pirates, the Restoration Army cannot be an enemy of Zhang Jun, but it cannot regard Zhang Jun as an ally.
Therefore, the Guangfu Army has always kept a distance from Zhang Jun.
After seeing Jin Shu, Kongming accelerated the pace of action. In Kolaschino, the training of the Restoration Army was significantly strengthened. At the same time, Kongming sent a small team to infiltrate the interior of North Korea to collect intelligence and eradicate North Korean traitors who cooperated with the Japanese.
Jin Shu also participated in the operation.
After the death of her mother Liu Ying, Jin Shu grew up overnight.
The national hatred of the family made the 16-year-old girl mature prematurely. She is no longer that innocent little girl, she has become a goddess of revenge!
She even forced herself to forget Zhou Charter. She was afraid that love would make her lose the courage to revenge.
Jin Shu learned to use a pistol. On Songgu Peak, she used a pistol beside Zhou Chata and hit him crookedly. She really killed a Japanese soldier. That experience made her self-tach.
In the Guangfu Army, Jin Shu's identity is extremely special. She is the daughter of Jin Yujun and the terminal trustee of the king of the compound. From Kongming to ordinary soldiers, the Guangfu Army has great respect for her. According to Kongming's arrangement, she originally planned to let Jin Shu be the senior leader of the Restoration Army, but Jin Shu refused.
She just wants to be an ordinary member of the Restoration Army.
Jin Shu participated in many assassination operations with the Guangfu Army Action Team, trained her courage and gained rich military experience. In every action, Jin Shu's calmness, courage and agility surprised her peers. They couldn't imagine that a 16-year-old girl as beautiful as a flower had a general demeanor that men could not do. They thought that Jin Shu had received long-term training from the Russians in Kolazino.
Only Jin Shu knows that her battlefield quality comes from Zhou Charter, a man from the Qing Dynasty!
It was Zhou Charter who taught her all this! Unconsciously, Jin Shu learned every move of Zhou Charter.
Jin Shu did not have any position in the Restoration Army, but she gradually became the spiritual leader of the Restoration Army.
The action of the Restoration Army always carefully avoids Zhang Jun. The Restoration Army did not want to be an enemy of Zhang Jun, nor did it want to take Zhang Jun as an ally. And Jin Shu is avoiding Zhang Jun. She is afraid to see Zhou Charter!
Because Kongming warned her that once the Japanese were driven away, Zhang Jun would inevitably become the enemy of the Restoration Army!
Jin Shushu shuddered when she remembered that she wanted to be the enemy of Zhou Charter!
She can only muddle along and deceive herself.
Once, outside Anzhou, they chased and killed a single Japanese. The Japanese was seriously injured and fell at the gate of an inn.
However, Jin Shu saw Zhou Charter.
Her tears came out of her eyes!
At that time, Zhou Charter was so close to her that there was only one wall away!
As long as she takes a few steps forward and opens the door of the inn, she can see him!
Jin Shu gritted her teeth and issued an order to retreat. She knew that she could not face Zhou Charter!
Once she faces Zhou Charter, she will jump into his arms.
She will abandon the slogan of the Restoration Army and willingly become that man's vassal!
Later, she heard that Zhou Charter was married. In Pyongyang, he married a woman from the Qing Dynasty.
Jin Shu cried secretly, and then her mood calmed down a lot.
She envied the woman, but she was also happy for Zhou Charter, who had a family. She knows that Zhou Charter is an orphan and must feel good at home.
However, in the dead of night, Jin Shu often suddenly remembers that she is also an orphan herself.
On the Daxiong Hall, the sound of monks chanting sutras came like a tide.
Jin Shu stood at the door with a fragrance in her hand - the incense that was not for her mother, but for her mother had been inserted into the incense burner.
Kongming noticed the incense in the incense burner and the incense in Jin Shu's hand.
Jin Shu's face showed a bleak smile, and the fragrance in her hand trembled slightly.
Kongming put his hands together and said slowly, "Zhou Charter went to Liaodong."
"Liaodong?" Jin Shu was slightly stunned: "How do you know?"
"Zheng Shixiong sent someone here."
Jin Shu nodded slightly. Jin Shu recently learned that Zheng Shixiong is a Russian installed in Dongxuejiao. He directly served the Russian Far East Command. Now he is the battalion commander of Zhang Jun.
The Restoration Army's base in Kolaskino was established by the Russian Far East Command.
"Jin Shu, I understand my mood." Kongming said, "However, the opportunity for the Restoration Army has come. For North Korea, this may be the last opportunity!" We have contacted Min Ziying, and the Restoration Army will march into Seoul!"
"What about Zhang Jun?"
"Let them fight to the death with the Japanese! Jin Shu, you should understand..."
"I understand everything!" Jin Shu held the fragrance, facing the southwest, and silently held it in mid-air.
Southwest is Liaodong!
She understands that Zhou Charter is there and dies!
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January 24, 1895, Lunar New Year's Eve, 23:50 p.m., Lushun Peninsula, under Erlong Mountain.
Zhou Charter stood under a cliff, holding a brand-new Type 88 rifle in his hand.
Zhang Jun's battalion and all the officers and soldiers of the guard company stood in front of him in line, and the army was solemn and silent.
In each soldier's hand, he holds a brand-new Type 88 rifle like Zhou Charter, Colt pistol and bayonet on his waist, and each soldier has a cross-body canvas bag with five grenades and bulging bullets on his waist. Each person has 80 rifle bullets and 20 pistol bullets. .
At the front of the team, there are three Maxim heavy machine guns, ten wild guns and ten mountain guns in turn.
This is a brand-new Zhangjun, and its equipment is really armed to the teeth.
Their equipment comes from Hanyang Arsenal.
The Type 88 continuous rifle is the latest product of Hanyang Arsenal imitating the German 1888 committee rifle. This is the pinnacle of the weapons manufacturing industry in the Qing Dynasty. Its performance even exceeds that of the committee rifle. It is lighter, longer range and more stable than the committee rifle. It is far more than the Murata rifle of the Japanese army.
And the Colt pistol is the latest American pistol. In close combat, it is even more powerful than the Murata rifle.
Kerber wild cannons and mountain cannons are also masterpieces of Hanyang Arsenal. Among the many arsenals in the Qing Dynasty, Hanyang Arsenal has the shortest history, but they came to the top. In less than ten years, they surpassed the Jiangnan Manufacturing General Administration founded by Li Hongzhang, and imitated the performance of the Creutberg cannon. A few cannons.
It was Zhang Zhidong, governor of Huguang, and his appointed general manager Sheng Xuanhuai who created this military industrial miracle.
And it was Sheng Xuanhuai's distant nephew who sent these advanced equipment to Zhang Jun.