Chapter 174 Iron Heart

History is always such a coincidence. During the First Sino-Japanese War in 1894, "the Qing army visited the foreign garden in the northeast of Piziwo. They saw thirty-six Japanese boats, more than a hundred small boats, and camped on the shore there." Although there was a battalion of Qing soldiers stationed in Qiziwo, the army landed without firing a single shot.

Ten years later, on May 5, 1904, dozens of Japanese merchant ships appeared on the sea in front of the nest. The coal smoke spewed by the merchant ship dyed the blue sky black. Under any resistance from the Russian fleet and the army, the officers and soldiers of the second army landed easily with wooden boats along the climbing nets put down by the merchant ships.

The day after learning that the Japanese army had landed in Qiziwo, the governor of the Far East, Alexeyev fled from Lushun to Fengtian by luxury train. On May 7, the second army of the Japanese army occupied the narrow Jinzhou isthmus under the command of Ao Baogong, and the contact between Lushunkou and the outside world was completely cut off.

"Last night, Tokyo was almost like a boiling volcano, the noise was boiling, and the burning fanaticism almost melted everything in the world. The major victory of the Japanese army's occupation of Jinzhou has spread all over Tokyo and all corners of the East Ocean. Crazy people flocked to the streets and held a "light march to the victory" on the streets of Tokyo. The victory of Ao Baogong and the Second Army caused some disturbances between the parades, and more than 20 people were trampled to death in the chaos..."

Looking at the newspaper in his hand, Chen Moran felt pitifully that he was struggling in the sea of poverty and turbulence. But the iron-like propaganda of war and the worship of the emperor made them put amazing enthusiasm into the war.

"If there is one day, China is just like this!"

Thinking about something, Chen Moran stared at the map on the table, the map of the Liaodong Peninsula, and the map of Dalian, but his face squeezed out some smiles. Ao Baogong occupied the Jinzhou Gorge. The next step was Jinzhou. As soon as he occupied Jinzhou, he would point directly at Dalian, and all this could be seen at the end of the month. If history did not If there is a change, the problem is that history does not seem to have changed here.

He looked at Dalian and then raised his head, and then looked at Xiao Yuren, Cai E and Jiang Fangzhen sitting in front of his desk. Seeing that the three of them were looking at the amount of documents in their hands, he was surprised and his smile was even heavier.

"What do you think?"

"Bolden!"

When Xiao Yuren closed the file, he commented with four words, and then put the document on the desk without denying it, while Cai E and Jiang Fangzhen were surprised with some strange colors.

"Mr...."

"Hmm!" After snorting and interrupting Cai E, Cai E changed her mouth at this time. Chen Moran had specially told them that he only needed to say a word.

"Yes, your plan!"

After a pause, Cai E thought about the words in his heart.

"It's very bold and nine minutes stupid. Two points of luck, one point of possibility.

When Cai E thought about the words there, Jiang Fangzhen made a summary in four sentences, ignoring that this plan was Chen Moran's painstaking work.

"Hmm!"

For this comment, Chen Moran did not realize the business, but nodded.

"I admit that this is definitely a bold and stupid plan, but Baili, don't you also admit that there is a possibility?"

Silence. In the face of the possibility of Chen Moran's sentence, Xiao Yiren, Cai E and Jiang Fangzhen were all speechless. Compared with the surprise and puzzlement of Cai E and Jiang Fangzhen, Xiao Yiren picked up the teacup on the desk and took a sip of tea there. He didn't know Chen Moran, and Xiao Yu's tenasure could vaguely guess what Chen Moran meant.

"It's just a gamble!"

Xiao Yu said lightly that the gambling surname, Chen Moran has the gambling surname of the Chinese in his bones. He often says that he does things steadily, but he likes gambling in his bones. Pudong is gambling, Ma'anshan gambling, and Guangfu Army is also gambling.

"It's to gamble with thousands of people or even tens of thousands of lives!"

Cai E refuted Xiao Yuren's indifferent and unshocked words.

"If the bet is lost, not only those people will die, but even Dalian may become the second..."

Before Cai E finished his words, Xiao Yuren interrupted him, and he knew what he wanted to say.

"What if the bet is done?"

Xiao Yuliang asked rhetorically that now he has completely restored the surname that an officer should have, and there is no longer any indecision in the surname.

"If the bet is successful, we will be equivalent to inserting a nail in Kanto. Even if Lushun is controlled by Japan in the future, it will be tasteless and can't become a climate. People are greedy. Don't think that in 19 years, they will generously return Kanto to us. If the bet is successful, we will be cut off the claws of the northeast in Kanto!"

Listening to Xiao Yu's words, Chen Moran nodded and agreed. This was a plan he had just come up with after half a month of hard thinking about it. This is the first time that Chen Moran found that he had the talent to play with conspiracy, uh-huh! It should not be a conspiracy. It should be said that it has a certain talent for diplomacy. To be precise, it is based on the understanding of history. Fortunately, with the help of those old books, in the past six months, he has been reading the set of books almost every day in his spare time in order to get inspiration from the collection.

"But what if you lose? Before Yang, you have said that there are few people in the country, and he is greedy to become a surname. How can he sit back and watch the loss of Dalian!"

Cai E frowned and asked, out of his own understanding, which made Cai E believe that there was not much possibility of winning this gamble at all.

"We are the only one who suffers in the end!"

When Cai E objected, Chen Moran read the Japanese declaration of war against Russia.

"I am sincerely happy with the peace of East Asia. For this reason, I have ordered the political axe to negotiate with Russia since last year on the current situation of the Qing Dynasty and North Korea. However, it has to be confirmed that Russia has no regard for the sincerity of peace in East Asia. The preservation of the territory of the two countries of the Qing Dynasty and the dynasties is closely related to the self-defense of my book. I ordered my political axe to stop negotiating with Russia, and decided to defend myself and take free action for me..."

"If you lose, you can tear off my hypocritical skin and let the Chinese people see it clearly!"

Xiao Yu said for Chen Moran, but behind this sentence, it was enough to reduce the coldness of the study several degrees, and this kind of coldness made Cai E and Jiang Baili tremble all over their bodies. They looked at Chen Moran in surprise and seemed to believe that this was his original intention. At the same time, they turned their eyes to Xiao Yu, who was not surprised. Resilience. Judging from Xiao Jian's performance after seeing this plan, they are more willing to believe that this is Xiao Jian's plan.

The expressions of the two made Chen Moran understand that it was difficult for them to accept the "coldness" behind this matter for a while. Thinking of him, he stood up, walked to the window behind him, and stood there looking at the garden outside the window. Ji Li was playing with her daughter in the garden. Looking at them, Chen Moran was in his heart. Li smiled.

"Now, the Japanese army has occupied the Jinzhou isthmus and cut off the contact between Lushun and the outside world. A large-scale land war is about to start in Lushun. It can be said for sure that at least before the victory or defeat is decided, Japan and Russia have lost the possibility of peace."

He put his hands on his chest and turned his back to the three people. Chen Moran began to quote the information he saw in the book.

"And Germany and the United States will still do everything possible to promote the war. For Germany, a Russia weakened by the war will be a obedient servant in the German-Russian alliance, so he does not want the war to end before the two countries run out of blood. And the United States also has the same mind, hoping that they will lose both sides and exhaust their vitality!"

Speaking of this, Chen Moran sighed.

"So, the timing of our uprising will be ripe when the Japanese army surrounds Lushun. Only then will the war be decisive and never stop, but we have to consider the Northeast and the future. Many times, whether it is military or diplomatic, it is a gamble!"

At this time, Cai E and Jiang Baili saw that when Chen Moran touched the cigarette from his pocket, he looked a little flustered, so that he found a few pockets before he took out the cigarette. Chen Moran's behavior strengthened their previous speculation. This was Xiao Qian's idea. How did he convince the gentleman? The two did not know, but Imagine that when Mr. sits out of this decision, I'm afraid it's also... Thinking about the blood in Chen Moran's eyes when he first came, the two of them sighed in their hearts and looked at Xiao Yu's eyes also changed.

The coldness of the oriental soldiers is fully manifested in him.

"In terms of geography, after the restoration, it must be the great enemy of our country, but now in the resumption of the army, how many military, economic and legal students study abroad? Songpo, Baili, you know what I mean. Those who say it, there are enemies, those who say it, and those who are afraid of saying it. If it is said that the skin of hypocrisy has not gone, then he said that he is only afraid of the political axe after the restoration, and there are countless spies in the army!"

Taking a deep breath of smoke, Chen Moran closed his eyes. As early as he made this plan, he understood the price of failure, but... there were some things that always needed to be done.

"If we lose the bet, we may pay the price, but the executioner is not us, but the Qing Dynasty. Until that day, we can not only tear off the skin of hypocrisy, but also tear off the last skin of the Qing Dynasty! If I expected it to be good, Man Qing would try his best to deny it in order to put aside the relationship, and..."

The temperature in the study dropped to the freezing point. When he closed his eyes, Chen silently seemed to see the scene he saw in the movie, so that when he turned around, he not only looked pale, but also trembled with his lips, and this expression did not fall into the eyes of Cai E and Jiang Baili at all.

"So whether it's successful or not, the income should be quite rich!"

Xiao Yu's words almost didn't slap himself in the face, but for him, what he needs to consider is the reward behind this matter. As a soldier, he must learn these four words.

"So... has it started?"

Jiang Fangzhen, who had been silent, suddenly asked a question. Seeing Chen Moran nod, he sighed in his heart. I hope that a penny of success could be... God bless!

At the end of the 23rd year of Guangxu, in order to compete for the territory of the Qing Dynasty, the warship forcibly entered Lushunkou, and then sent people to Dalian Bay and Qingniwa to investigate, and decided to open a city in Qingniwa. At that time, the Russian designer who came to Qingniwa wanted to build a square-based city in the east with the city construction drawings of Paris, France. Name her "Darini", which means a distant city, a place far away from Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Whether it is Darini among the Russian population or the green mud of the Chinese population, it is the largest commercial port and city in the Liaodong Peninsula. As a commercial port, ships docked in the port every day. After the war between Japan and Russia, with the beginning of the blockade war on Lushun and Guandonghai, there were 50 ships moored in the port of Darini. Hundreds to thousands of tons of Russian cargo ships that cannot leave the port due to the war, but even so, British, German, French and other merchant ships still enter and exit the port of Darini every day.

After all, it is no better than Russia. When Russia's Vladivostok sub-fleet was active in the sea from the beginning of the war, breaking through the battle, sinking and capturing Japanese merchant ships and British and German merchant ships transporting contrabands, British, German, French and other merchant ships can swing in and out of Darini Port, transporting grain, coal, cement, Steel is even munitions.

As usual, after a British cargo ship full of flour, cement and threaded steel bars loaded from Dagu Port entered the port at noon, the workers on the dock began to unload bags of flour and barrels of cement on the ship. These materials will be directly loaded on the train and transported to Lushunkou. The flour will be used to enrich the granary of Lushunkou. The cement of Qixin and the threaded steel of Ma'anshan are used to build the defense fortress of Lushun.

When the hardmen at the dock are busy, they occasionally squeeze out some rigibas in the cabin that are no different from the dock hardmen. They work with those hardmen and carry the goods for half a day. With the efforts of hundreds of hardies, thousands of tons of goods on the ship are unloaded on the train. Thank you for your hard work. For several hours, the sitter held the number plate and led the money to the foreman.

When the hard laborers who received the money coaxed out of the dock, the Russian soldiers in white military uniforms and Mosin rifles on the dock were as lazy as usual. No one noticed that there were dozens of more people in this group of hard laborers, and the hard laborers dispersed when they left the dock. Although they were scattered, they were still in groups, and more Those people were scattered into a few or a dozen people, and some of the hard workers took the road in front of them and walked in several directions.

There is no difference between this group of hard laborers under the sunset and usual. At least in the eyes of outsiders, they are just a group of hard-working hard-working people all day. Following the contact person on the dock, Li Dongyun and his comrades-in-arms walked along the streets and alleys of Dongqing Niwa, that is, Huabu District. After turning into an alley, they entered a warehouse compound. It seemed that there was no different kind of hard work at night.

The wooden door of the warehouse was opened, and the old man who looked at the doorkeeper looked at more than a dozen people, and a dozen people opened the door and entered the courtyard.

"No one pays attention to you!"

The old man asked softly, and the man who took the lead hurriedly replied.

"Master, don't worry, even if someone sees it, it's the hard work!"

The old man looked at the more than a dozen people and looked at the strong military atmosphere on them. He still shook his head and said that he didn't know how to restrain himself, but pointed to a warehouse.

"Where, hurry up and go in! The brothers are all in there!"

As soon as he entered the warehouse, he looked at the neatly arranged three-storey wooden bed in the warehouse and the brothers who were fiddling with the guy in the warehouse. The familiar smell made Li Dongyun laugh.

"Hey, Dongyun, you're here, and you're still giggling. You're not stunned by the boat, are you!"

Zhao Jiaqi, who was wiping the gun, saw Li Dongyun and his party. He put down the gun and said that when he walked to Li Dongyun's side, he punched him hard in the chest.

"Jiqi, you boy..."

Laughing and scolding, the people who followed Li Dongyun walked towards the gun rack by the wall. They rubbed their hands and eyes and took off the rifle from the gun rack and skillfully played with it. Long before they came, the gun was mixed with the goods to the green mud. When they got on the ship from Tianjin, they were all dressed as a hardman.

"Wipe the gun quickly. Maybe we can fight with Lao Maozi before grabbing the little nose!"

"Of course I'm here to fight!"

Lin Yanzhi said softly that when he came, the eldest brother... No, the commander should have made it very clear that they came to Dalian this time to cooperate with the action of the Second Detective Section. But that's only the early stage, the later stage... No one knows.

"The front is done, and you and I don't know what will happen later, do we?"

"Oh! I see!"

Although his heart sank, Ji Fuze still nodded.

"The most important thing now is who will convince Sakharov!"

"Didn't you choose Ji Fengtai?"

"I have contacted Ji Fengtai. He has said that as long as there is no war, he feels that he always has to pay taxes. He can pay to anyone, and he can pay as much as he wants, and..."

Thinking of what Ji Fengtai said to him, Ji Fuse even had some shame because he had his own family 800 years ago. This kind of person... "The possibility of his surname to cooperate with us is not big. He is now thinking about how to use this war to take advantage of the fire, and he holds China and Russia in his hand. The household photo of the Three Kingdoms, his Chinese name is Ji Fengtai, and his Russian name is Nikolai? Ivanovich? Ji Fengtai, whose name is Jitai Changjiro. According to the current situation we have, he not only wants to strike while the iron is hot, but is also trying to buy Sakharov to prevent the Russian army from destroying important building facilities in Dalian, so as to prepare for the Japanese army to receive Qingniwa.

Ji Fuze's words only made Lin Yanzhi frown into a ball. In order to get to Qingniwa in 20 days, 1,700 officers and soldiers of the 4th Regiment dressed up as beggars, bandits, refugees, crews and hardmen from land and sea to rush to this place. But he did not expect that the most difficult pass easily, but it should have been smooth. There is something wrong with the place.

"Are there any other suitable candidates?"

"Yes!"

Ji Fuze nodded affirmatively, but he hesitated when he looked at Lin Yanzhi.

"There are two more people, who may be able to help us, but..."

"But what!"

"But if you want them to help us, I'm afraid it will take some time and effort. You know, they are just businessmen!"

(to be continued)