Chapter 13 Armbands
After Liu Guanxiong boarded the ship, he had been wondering how much the ship would cost. Unlike the battleships, in his vision, Deng Zilong only had six inches of armor on the turret and bridge, and not only had two inches of armor on the side, but also only protected the key position of the hull. Judging from the cost of shipbuilding today, a battleship requires 6,000 to 8,000 tons of armored steel, which is more than 100 pounds per ton, which means that the armor cost of battleships accounts for about 30% of the total price;
In addition to armor, artillery is also the main cost of the battleship. As Liu Guanxiong knows, artillery accounts for about 25% of the total price of the warship. Considering that this ship only has six inches of cannons, the ship under his feet seems to be only half of the cost of the same tonnage dreadnought, at most eight million taels. However, Zheng Zuyi said that this ship cost 10 million taels. Liu Guanxiong's heart trembled, guessing how much silver the people above had lost? No, with such a large number, maybe the Prime Minister of the dynasty would also participate...
Major General Liu Guanxiong thought to himself, and the more he thought about the matter, the worse he became. His face suddenly changed, and he patted his thigh and complained: "You fucking ice cream + no + wrong + novel + 3w + just eat ice cream. Why do you want to ask how much the ship cost?"
Zheng Zuyi only had a gossip and didn't want to scare Liu Guanxiong like this. He said in vainly: "Every officer on the ship knows it. He said that the superiors wanted everyone to do their duty, so he simply told them that the ship spent 10 million taels. This is something that can be asked casually. How can I blame me for asking?"
Liu Guanxiong also wanted to complain, and a report from outside said, "The captain asked General Liu to have a routine morning meeting."
"I understand. I'll be here soon." Liu Guanxiong replied, then staring at Zheng Zuyi who was still licking ice cream again. "If you want to keep your head on your neck for a longer time, don't make this happen."
When Liu Guanxiong arrived at the conference room, all the heads of the ship had arrived. The first person to speak was Lieutenant Colonel Wu Zhennan: "After searching in the morning, it can be confirmed that 150 kilometers of ocean surfaces are safe. Of course, the underwater situation is unknown. The only thing that can be confirmed is the waters around the fleet." After Wu Zhennan said safety, everyone present breathed a sigh of relief, but he immediately said: "According to the analysis of the meteorological department, the typhoon will hit tomorrow, so we will avoid the harbor at the latest tomorrow evening."
Wu Zhennan said, pointing to the Dagou Port and said, "Now the British and Japanese warships say blockade of the strait, but the Japanese Navy is afraid of our submarines. It is just a symbolic patrol, and its speed is extremely high. Only the old iron-clad ship of the British Far East Fleet, the Triumph, thought our army would not dare to sink it, so he slowly turned around in the strait. Both types of ships were easy to avoid, so the General Staff suggested that we enter the Dagou Port and avoid typhoons. Our current location is 300 nautical miles east of the Dago Port and sail west for twenty hours, just at dawn."
After a brief introduction to the situation by navigator Wu Zhennan, Zhu Tiansen said: "The General Staff called in the morning and ordered our fleet to support the Marines in capturing the Miyako Islands. Of course, whether this order is implemented depends mainly on the weather. It is very likely that we can leave the port after a typhoon to support it."
‘The fleet entered the Dog Port? And the Miyako Islands?’ Liu Guanxiong, who didn’t understand the current situation, was very surprised. He looked at the young school official around the table and asked hesitantly: “Has Taiwan occupied it?”
"Yes! Taiwan successfully landed four days ago, and now the Japanese army on the island has basically been cleared. Only the Magong Fortress in Penghu and Keelung Fortress have remained, and the Japanese army stationed in a remnant position. The Japanese army in Liaodong and Zhili fell into a desperate situation because of the submarine troops blocking the Bohai Sea. Yesterday, Anton was captured by our army, and the Japanese army that invaded our country was completely surrounded. By the way, yesterday, His Highness Min issued an edict ordering the Fuxing Army to go to Korea to clear out the Japanese pirates and restore Jifeng."
Zhu Tiansen fully introduced the latest battle situation. Every word he said was like an eight-inch shell. It hit Liu Guanxiong's heart. The major general suddenly stood up, but opened his mouth but couldn't speak. It took him a long time to sit down slowly, "Okay... OK..." He suddenly felt a little choked, "It's good to fight... OK..."
The defeat of Sino-Japanese War hurt the hearts of every soldier at that time. Although the past twenty years have passed, the scars were no longer remembered, but they have never forgotten them. Now the Revival Army outside the capital has resurrected and surrounded the Japanese army. Such a great victory, how can it not make the veterans of the past excited? Liu Guanxiong sat down and came back to his senses. He remembered that Zhu Tiansen mentioned the General Staff's orders, and he stood up again and said, "Although Lian Po was old, he could still fight! Liu Ziying, the cruiser's fleet, firmly obeyed the orders of the General Staff, and tried his best to support the Marine Corps to capture the Miyako Islands, and to pieces for the imperial court and the nation!"
When Liu Guanxiong expressed his thoughts, the artillery preparations for the Phoenix battlefield in Liaodong, northern China had just ended, and it was not as coordinated as before. This time, the subject arranged by the General Staff was the coordination of insurgent vehicles. The direction of Caohekou, which had the best road conditions, and the direction of Andong, were all headed by more than 30 wolf-type chariots, and behind more than 50 jackal-type chariots, piles of infantry followed behind the chariots and quickly followed the chariots. According to the training requirements, their main task was to protect the chariots from being destroyed by the Japanese army, especially to be alert to those Japanese troops who were tied up and rushed up to die with the chariots. Due to insufficient training, in order to make the infantry understand the significance of protecting the chariots, the front finger finally assigned each chariot to a platoon of infantry to protect. If the chariots were easily destroyed by the Japanese, the platoon leader would be investigated. If there was any dereliction of duty, the military law would be dealt with.
The diesel engine roared and the steel tracks screamed and the Japanese thought the Chinese army was chasing shell-like attacks like before, because whether the shelling was real or the fake, they all shrank into the cat ear pierced by the imitation of the Chinese army. However, after the shelling really extended backward, the Chinese army did not arrive as scheduled. These people only heard a sharp steel friction sound.
A soldier poked his head out and looked forward. Before he could shout, he was killed by the bullets fired from the machine gun on the roof of the chariot. However, there were always omissions in the strafing. Finally, a soldier shouted loudly: "Monster! Monster!!"
One soldier shouted, and the other soldiers were trembling. On the battlefield where the smoke of gunpowder was not dissipated, they were not waiting for the Chinese army, but the steel monsters that could automatically walk and spit out bullets and shells. "Shoot! Kill and give it to." The squad leader in the trench drew out his command knife while pulling out his command knife and leading the soldiers to attack.
Because of the inertia of obeying orders, the soldiers still leaped out of the trench while trembling. Holding bayonets forward, but this hit the bottom of the assault corps. Looking at the Japanese who were swarming in, the two machine guns on the chariot spit out their tongues of flames. The infantry hiding behind the chariot also poked their heads out and shot at the Japanese while advancing. When a few Japanese rushed to the vicinity of the chariot, the infantry following the chariot immediately rushed up and started hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese.
The Japanese army, which was short of defensive materials, did not even have barbed wire. The trench less than two meters wide jumped past the accelerated chariots like stinky ditches. When the assault corps were driving towards the second trench like a roller, Lieutenant General Okashichi, the commander of the 3rd Division, hurriedly asked for artillery fire reinforcements in the rear, but he received the reply that the artillery gang was completely destroyed under the attack of the Chinese artillery. All ammunition was destroyed and could not support front-line operations.
He had been fighting against the Chinese army for nearly a year, and there was no artillery, no offensive power or defensive power. He watched the Chinese steel monster approaching the division commander Okaichi Nosuke personally held a command knife and led the troops to charge with his troops in order to serve the country with his jade. He shouted that he had just rushed out of the trench not far away, but was swept by machine guns and fell on the ground not far from the trench with all the soldiers who died of death. He was crushed into mud by the chariot tracks.
Like the previous aerial reconnaissance, the Japanese Phoenix defense line was completely a fragile walnut, with the outer circle being the hardest. After breaking through the outer circle, the Japanese had no danger to defend. The assault corps continued to advance steadily to the city of Phoenix before they encountered fierce resistance from the Japanese army, but Phoenix was easily attacked and difficult to defend. Li Shutong did not think of fighting street battles with the Japanese, but was like capturing Andong. He directly transferred the artillery regiment to bombard and then charged. If the resistance to the next attack was still very large, then withdraw the infantry and then mobilized artillery covering artillery bombardment. This was repeated four times. When the Phoenix also turned into rubble like Anton, the Japanese fortifications in the city completely collapsed, and the Fuxing Army easily occupied the Phoenix, thereby annihilated the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Japanese divisions.
Phoenix took it, and Dagushan also took it, and it was divided into two pieces. The Guard Division and the Reserve 1st Division, which were not dangerous to defend, were destroyed earlier than the Phoenix Japanese Army. At this time, the entire Northeast, in addition to the 5th and 8th divisions that had retreated into North Korea, and the 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 2nd and 3rd fifth divisions in the direction of Lushun, the Japanese army in the entire northeast had been sank. The next step for the Fuxing Army was to eliminate the more than 20 divisions and more than 300,000 Japanese troops.
In the afternoon, Li Shutong rushed to Yang Rui's account with the results summarized by the General Staff to report the war, but was stopped by Li Zilong. He said that the Prime Minister was meeting with Emperor Gaozong of North Korea and should not be disturbed. Yang Rui, who was not expecting that he could hear his voice in the room, heard his voice and said loudly: "Shutong, is the war over? Come in, it's good to see Emperor Gaozong."
Yang Rui said this, and Li Shutong had to go in, but he had not spoken yet. The bearded North Korean defended: "Prime Minister must not call Xiao Wang Your Majesty. Xiao Wang was called emperor and changed his name to protect the country, which was involuntary."
The old man explained hard, Yang Rui just laughed, and he said to Li Xi, "This is the commander of the 7th Army Army, Lieutenant General Li Guangping. It was him who led his troops to raid Anton, which cut off the Japanese army's way back to the east, leaving only two and a half-disabled divisions to enter North Korea."
Accompanied by Yang Rui's introduction, Li Shutong did not bow, but solemnly saluted Gaozong and others. After he saluted Yang Rui, he looked at him and smiled, "Have the battle been over? Then let's introduce the results of the battle."
"Yes!" Li Shutong saluted again, and then said loudly: "Under the attack of my 7th and 11th armies, the three divisions of the Ritz-1, 2th and 3rd who were defending Phoenix to the death were wiped out..."
Li Shutong also wanted to say, but Yang Rui changed the subject, "Where are the two divisions on the other side of Dagushan?"
Li Shutong understood Yang Rui's meaning a little, and said immediately, "It was annihilated by our army. In the entire Northeast, only five divisions of Lushun were left to survive. After the war zone command was ordered, the food in the court would be destroyed."
When Li Shutong answered this, Yang Rui's smile became stronger and said, "The Japanese army on Lushun is not in a hurry, this enemy will be eliminated in the end. The key now is to send troops to North Korea as soon as possible to restore the country..."
Yang Rui said this, and Li Xi and the Koreans looked at Li Shutong pity. It is very important to send troops to North Korea as soon as possible, especially Yang Rui just introduced the current situation and said that according to the rainy season in the northeast, although it had fallen a while ago, the heavy rain had not yet finished. If it was raining for several consecutive days, I was afraid that I would not be able to fight for half a month. This half month was enough for Japan to draw police and other reserve troops from all over the country to cross the sea to defend North Korea. I heard that the age of recruitment in Japan has been relaxed to 50 years old. Once this is the case, the war in various cities in southern Korea will become a ghost domain.
"Yes! The officials are ready to go to North Korea as soon as possible." Li Shutong said loudly, and then retreated.
Li Shutong had just left. Yang Rui coughed a few times and said, "Shutong got married in his early years, but it was a matchmaking agreement between his parents, so he had to do it. If your Highness has a talented and beautiful royal family woman who is in love with Shutong, he can be given a marriage with Shutong. The main force of our country to enter the court, according to the arrangements of the General Staff, one is the First Army and the 7th Army, but the real main force is the 7th Army."
Yang Rui's proposal came to Li Xi's heart. He arranged a beautiful princess to give it to Yang Rui a few years ago, but Yang Rui didn't understand the charm and thought that no one would help Zhu Kuan-seok to support the scene, so he didn't want it. Zhu Kuan-seok was a child and knew nothing, so the marriage plan was not achieved. Now Yang Rui was unpredictable and pushed Li Shutong out, and Li Xi was immediately overjoyed. When Yuan Shikai was stationed in North Korea, Queen Min also gave a princess. Now Li Shutong led tens of thousands of troops to station, and it was not a problem to send another princess.
Both the guest and the host understood this. Yang Rui was afraid that Li Xi would do something bad, and good things would turn into bad things, and said, "Shutong has always loved songs and music. And those who are not in love will not marry each other, and their identity is not the key, this... this..."
"Prime Minister, please rest assured. The minister will make arrangements to make the Qin and Jin deeds." Li Xiangen interrupted.
"That's good. That's good." Yang Rui nodded and just drank tea. This made the Korean monarch and ministers start to worry again.
After confirming the location of Qi Xiaomao and others in the morning, the Air Force immediately transported Li Xi to Andong. Li Xi spent the night in the wild, which was extremely hard, but when he heard that the Japanese army was defeated, he immediately wanted to go to Beijing to meet the saint. But Yang Rui did not come to Andong for him. He just thought that he would negotiate with Li Xi about the many issues of restoring North Korea and would stay here for several days. He didn't expect that Li Xi had already grasped the straw and used it as a life-saving rope. Seeing that China really wanted to help it restore its country, he kept agreeing with other issues and had no intention of discussing it at all, which made Yang Rui not good to leave, and it would be good to say that he would not leave.
If his woman is in North Korea, Yang Rui cannot accept it if she dies. Hate someone not to let her be bullied by others, but to be bullied by herself. With this logic, Yang Rui has always disagreed with Li Xi's request to go to Beijing immediately and has been looking for various reasons to drag her around Anton.
After refusing Li Xi's proposal to go to Beijing immediately, Li Xiangen came to inquire in private. He was very clever and did not ask Yang Rui directly, but instead asked Yang Rui's secretary Li Zilong.
Looking at the anxious North Koreans, Li Zilong was not easy to say it clearly, but said: "The Prime Minister has always liked your country and the people of your country, and there is no point in making things difficult for you. The Prime Minister often said that your country is the arm of China. If your arms are strong, the Chinese border will become more stable. Therefore, the fundamental reason for the transformation plan designed by the Prime Minister for your country is to transform your country into a rich and prosperous country."
"Ah!" Li Zilong's words were naturally true, which forced Li Xiangsheng to believe it. After bowing and thanking him, he still didn't understand why he stayed in Anton and refused to enter Beijing. Emperor Gaozong wanted to enter Beijing in his dream.
Li Xianglei tactfully told the problem. Seeing that the North Koreans were worried about not knowing the reason, Li Zilong had to say: "The Prime Minister was not intentionally making things difficult for the king of your country. The Prime Minister just wanted to wait for someone. If this person arrived, then go back to Beijing immediately."
"Ah!" Li Xiangen said again. After Li Zilong said something, he left, leaving only him there. "When one person arrives, he will return to Beijing immediately." He repeated Li Zilong's words, very inexplicably.
Li Xiangen was inexplicably informed, and Zhou Kuai Le, who finally received a frank telegram from Li Shutong, was inexplicably informed. He couldn't understand why the Prime Minister's wife appeared in his team. It was a guy who gave birth to a son and had no asshole to harm the Prime Minister and himself. If something happened, then he would not die ten thousand times. Therefore, under Zhou Kuai Le, the regiment headquarters was in chaos and the entire regiment stopped moving forward, and the battle turned into finding someone.
Cheng Ru didn't know that someone was waiting for her, and there were no one knowing that many people were looking for her. Under the leadership of the North Korean guide, she and Bai Ru kept chasing the remnants of the 11th Division and headed to Pyongyang. Cheng Ru was just a privateer, but Bai Ru was a lieutenant colonel. Bai Ru had already married a wife and had two years old in the child, but she and her husband understood the importance of Cheng Ru in the heart of the Prime Minister, so after receiving her telegram, Bai Ru immediately rushed to Liaodong. In addition to Zhou Kuai Le, the entire regiment had the highest military rank, so these two people were given priority all the way and chased in the front.
Her husband was the secretary of the prime minister before and was clearer about why the prime minister and his wife were so clear. When the couple did not quarrel, Chen Guangshou spoke quickly and cursed that he should love himself as much as the prime minister loves his wife. Bai Ru knew that the prime minister and his wife were separated, and she was even more angry that her husband tried his best to explain, but she said the truth about the love between men and women.
As for men, no matter how evil or bad he is, he will probably remember a woman in his heart. No matter how much he hurts him, he likes him. The longer the time he is, the deeper he likes him, and the shallower he hates him. Why does this happen? After careful study, I can only say that a man’s love only once when he is young and loves him in his heart. After this time, he will only play in the world and harm countless women. Therefore, it is said that a man’s love is like a straight line. Whoever he loves when he is young and who he still loves when he is old, will always be consistent and will never change;
As for women, there may have been people who entrusted their love when they were young, but if time goes by, the man they liked earlier would probably forget that if they get married, the past will become more miserable. Therefore, it is said that women's love is like a horizontal line, one past is another, and when Zhang San loves Zhang San, marry Li Silian and Li Si. If they remarry Wang Wu, they will still be harmonious with Wang Wu.
Bai Ru didn't read much, and she was stunned when her husband said what she said. She didn't notice how much trouble she would be summoned if Qiu Jin and his group heard it. However, she knew in her husband's explanation that the Prime Minister seemed to be disliked by the wife, but in fact she loved her deeply. It was just that the couple was very stubborn and had no chance to make up.
In the mountains and forests where the sun sets, Bai Ru looked at Cheng Wu, who was holding a rifle and holding a telescope, and suddenly thought of the private words between her husband and wife. While her cheeks were red and hot, she felt increasingly unable to understand why Cheng Wu had to enter North Korea alone. The battle had already won, and restoring North Korea was no problem. Killing a few Japanese devils first would not help the entire battle. Is it necessary to rush like this?
"Just spend the night nearby." Bai Ru pointed to a valley in the distance. She seemed to have seen smoke from the cooking stove there, but she turned to the foot of the mountain and disappeared.
"Ah, don't you go any further?" Cheng Xu painted her face with charcoal, and she covered her body with a large-sized soft camouflage. Because she was in a hurry to go, she was covered in smelly sweat. But even so, her tight waist and crisp voice still made people feel that she should be a beauty.
"We can't move forward any further. We are very close to the Japanese. If we meet at night, there will always be a big advantage." Bai Ru has more combat experience than Cheng Xu. After chasing her for so long, she feels that the Japanese are right in front of her.
After Bai Ru finished speaking, she gestured to the North Korean guide and made a sleeping position. Although the guide did not understand Chinese, he understood the meaning. After a while, he took the two of them off the main road and walked towards a mountain road. After several times, the three of them finally turned into a valley, which was where Bai Ru saw smoke in cooking.
"!" A man shouted in the bush full of golden light, and then the sound of pulling the bolt.
The sound of the gun bolt made Bai Ru more alert than the shouts. She immediately fell down and threw Cheng Wu to the ground. When the two fell to the ground, the guide kept shouting loudly in Korean dialect. After several conversations, the people from Shulin stood up, and some people emerged from behind Shulin. Bai Ru, who felt safer, got up and lowered the muzzle of the rifle in her hand, looked at the people in front of her without making a sound, but just looked at them quietly.
After a long time, a weak and literary boy ran out and shouted at her in stiff Chinese: "Fuxing Army?"
"Yes, the Revival Army!" Bai Ru responded, and her female voice immediately shocked the people on the other side.
After a disturbance, a strong man finally came out from the opposite side, looking like the leader of these people, but he still didn't understand Chinese. After shouting a few Korean words, the young man said, "Chief invites you, come in and have a meal."
Someone came outside the village, and the man carried a gun out to guard the situation. The woman and the child were also curiously looking out through the bushes. Seeing that there were women and children in the village, Bai Ru finally put the gun down and asked Cheng Wu, who was lying on the ground, to get up and follow these people around the bushes and enter the village together. At this time, a child ran quickly in front of everyone, shouting a few words like a message, and there were more people coming out of the village.
Seeing Bai Ru a little suspicious, the weak-hearted boy said, "He is telling everyone that the Fuxing Army is coming." The two people he also saw at this time were women, and he also said, "Are you really the Fuxing Army?"
The breath of the countryside made Bai Ru feel relaxed. She smiled and pointed to her brochure and showed her armband: "Revival Army."
Bai Ru wore a lieutenant colonel's eavesque, and her armband was a circular cross sniper vision. She wrote two dark green Chinese characters "sniper". The young man didn't know the eavesque at all, nor did he know the sniper armband, but he knew the Chinese characters. After reading the two Chinese characters "sniper" he excitedly ran to the leader and said something. (To be continued...)
Volume Geng Chapter Thirteen Arm:
Chapter completed!