Yuan Shikai stood on the east coast of Dokdo Island, looking out at the east sea level.
"Brother Shichang, do you know what I feel at this moment?"
Xu Shichang smiled bitterly and replied: "I guess the general must have thought of the "Short Songs" written by Cao Mengde when he drank horses and Yangtze River."
Yuan Shikai nodded, and the expression on his face looked quite interesting: "Yes, Cao Mengde has regained most of the country and is about to achieve unification, but there are tigers across the river. Even if he is full of energy, he cannot change the defeat of the three worlds in the Red Cliff.
The ending of the score.”
How could Xu Shichang not know who Cao Mengde was referring to and who the tiger was referring to?
Although the decisive battle in the Kanto Plain has not yet been decided, it will be only a matter of time before Lin Youde controls Japan. At that time, the Beiyang Army and the Nanyang Army will really confront each other across the Korean Strait. In this confrontation, Lin Youde, who holds the navy in his hand, is overwhelming.
favorable.
Although in Yuan Shikai's conception, land is still the core of everything, the current situation forces him to realize how big a strategic advantage the mastery of the sea would have.
During the Sino-Russian War, Lin Youde defeated the Russian navy and could easily transport the main force far away from Nanyang to the vicinity of Gyeonggi; now Lin Youde defeated the Japanese navy and took the initiative in the battlefield, and his army wanted to
Log in wherever you log in, and fight wherever you want to fight the Japanese.
When Yuan Shikai thought about the future war between the North and South and South, Lin Youde's troops landed in a place where they were negligent in defense and took the rear, he felt unable to sleep or eat.
I have to think of a way.
In fact, Yuan Shikai had already made a move on the chessboard long before ordering the Beiyang army to cross the Yalu River to attack North Korea's Japanese army.
Now, there should be a little sound.
At this time, a confidential officer rushed to Yuan Shikai and stood attentively saluted.
"Mr. Tang sent a telegram from Taiyuan!"
"read."
"Everything is OK, don't worry."
Upon hearing this, Yuan Shikai's face that had been tense finally showed a slight smile.
"Call back, I wish you a good trip."
After Yuan Shikai said that, he waited for a while, but found that there was no answer. He turned his head and looked at the confidential officer strangely: "What's wrong?"
"Uh, report to the Grandmaster, just... that's it?"
"That's it." Yuan Shikai waved his hand repeatedly and drove away the confidential officer like a fly.
Xu Shichang looked at Yuan Shikai's side face suspiciously. Before the Beiyang Army began to attack, Yuan Shikai had secretly discussed with Tang Shaoyi in the house until early morning. Then Tang Shaoyi left the general's camp. Even Xu Shichang didn't know what he was doing.
Now, from this telegram, he went to Taiyuan and things went smoothly.
As for what happened, Xu Shichang couldn't explain it clearly.
Yuan Shikai didn't look at Xu Shichang, but instead hummed a small song at the tumultuous waves in front of him.
**
The Sino-Japanese and Ryukyu coalition under Lin Youde's name - Okay, it's quite annoying to insert Ryukyu inside, but Lin Youde endured it for the so-called righteousness - After the Sino-Japanese and Ryukyu coalition landed on the Kamakura coast, it immediately attacked eastward and continued
The conquering of Tsuruga, Rokuura, Kanazawa and other towns completely cut off the land connection between Yokosuka Port and Yokohama, and separated the Miura Peninsula and the Japanese main island.
Then the Chinese naval fleet rushed through the waterway between Guanyinzaki and Totsu Cape and rushed into Tokyo Bay.
The capture of Yokosuka took three days to the coalition forces, and the heavy casualties suffered by the Nanyang Army in these three days forced Lin Youde to significantly correct his combat plan.
Originally, Lin Youde believed that with the help of Shiguo and Kyushu, the power of Shiguo, and with his original Shiguo's power, these unconventional combat forces alone could crush the Japanese and easily defeat Tokyo. However, Kaguya's Shiguo's excuses to be on guard against the gap.
The Kasuga Daishu team at Kasuga Daishu, who was close to the sea, refused to send out the witch team to assist, and only agreed to draw regular troops. This made Lin Youde's strength advantage in the Kanto battlefield far less than he expected...
Then Yokosuka's siege made Lin Youde realize that the situation at this time was very different from that in the Northeast. In the Northeast, he was a defensive party, occupying the right place and people. In addition, new weapons can certainly defeat more with less
But now he is an invader. Although he is under the banner of helping restore the country, his essence has not changed. The local people and the Japanese are all on the side of the Japanese. Lin Youde's Imperial Army is not local to Kanto, so naturally
People in the right places have no advantage in these two sides.
So Lin Youde and his staff members were overly optimistic about the situation. Without the help of overwhelming Kyuki, it was not easy to defeat the Japanese army gathered near Tokyo with naval shelling and advanced equipment alone.
——At least it will not be possible to connect a mixed-class alliance.
So Lin Youde ordered the attack to be temporarily stopped, and first focused on clearing out the enemies on the Miura Peninsula, stabilized on Yokosuka's defense, waited for Lin Ji to complete the war mobilization and send new troops to the Tokyo battlefield.
So the war dragged on, until Yuan Shikai broke through the entire Korean Peninsula. When he looked into Dokdo, Lin Youde's coalition forces were still confronting the Japanese on the west coast of Tokyo Bay.
Yuan Shikai pretended to send a telegram to Lin Youde, asking whether the Army Department needed to send troops to assist in the war.
Lin Youde actually really wanted to nod and say "Okay", and then let the Army Department transport the Beiyang Army to Benzhou Island. The mobilization of the Tallin Ji once in the Gengzi year was damaged, and he has not fully recovered yet. He will mobilize again.
It was so lifeless that it would be nice to let Yuan Shikai participate in the war to relieve the burden. But after repeated thinking, Lin Youde felt that Japan would be in his mouth sooner or later, and he would still be unhappy after all.
So Lin Youde rejected Yuan Shikai's proposal in the name of the Navy Department, and also drew armored cruisers that were relatively thin in armor and were prone to suffer losses in the battle with shore artillery to form a cruise fleet, patrolling back and forth in the Korean Strait, taking out a pair of "You dare to come."
I dare to fight”.
Lin Youde didn't know that his move hit Yuan Shikai's thoughts.
By June 1902, Yokosuka went to Kamakura to gather two towns and another mixed association, another mixed association, a total of 7 mixed associations, about 30,000 troops. It can be said that Lin Youde's assets were all here at this time.
At this moment, maybe I felt that it was not good to hold on, or simply thought that I had been doing my best to do my best after sticking to it for so long. Kasuga Daishu, located in Nara, announced that it would change its flag and turn to the so-called "restoring the country."
, he has not expressed his opinion since the war started and maintained a neutral attitude, but he stubbornly refused to let the troops of the Choshu vassal pass through the Izumo Daishe area, which he had also softened his attitude and agreed to the Choshu vassal army to pass through the territory.
Due to the absence of face-to-face threats, Kaguya Hito ordered the witch team to go north to participate in the battle. A division responsible for the island's garrison also traveled through the Seto Inland Sea to land on the island and rushed to the Kanto Plain by land.
The next month, troops from all over Western Japan gathered in the Kanto Plain. Even the Osaka Division, which had been "affected by the epidemic" since the war, appeared radiantly under Tokyo.
The gathering of Kansai troops had high morale, and some even shouted the strange slogan "Avenge Mizunai Ishida".
Soon, all the municipal strongholds outside Tokyo were lost, and all the Kanto troops retreated into Tokyo City.
The decisive battle in the Kanto Plain entered the final siege stage.
Everyone knows that the chrysanthemums of the Japanese royal family are about to wither.
**
On July 20, 1902, the third day after the Chinese naval fleet began shelling Tokyo, Emperor Meiji, who had been bedridden for several years, suddenly appeared in front of the frowning ministers.
"Your Majesty!" Everyone was frightened. After a while, the old men in high positions knelt all over the ground, while the Japanese soldiers followed the new system, stood up, raised their chests and raised their heads to salute the emperor.
Emperor Meiji was only in his early fifties and looked energetic, not like he had been lying in bed for several years. He looked around the huge Kawai room, and was silent for a moment before he slowly spoke: "You guys, the danger facing the imperial kingdom
, I already have a full understanding. It’s a pity that I lack the ability and do not have the ability to turn the world back. Even if I come forward to take charge at this time, it will be useless.”
"No, Your Majesty," Lieutenant General Hasegawa, the commander of the Guards Division, immediately stated, "Your appearance will bring morale to our soldiers..."
"No need to say these words." Emperor Meiji waved his hand and interrupted Hasegawa's words, "The current situation, no matter how high the morale is, it cannot reverse the situation. Instead of relying on the streets to stick to the houses of the people, let the houses of the people be our burial.
, it is better to show the world the courage and loyalty of our great Japanese Imperial Army at this last moment."
He looked at each other with everyone inside, wondering what the Emperor's gourd was selling.
Emperor Meiji looked around the room again and continued word by word: "I decided to go on the battle at noon tomorrow and launch a Yusha attack on the Chinese military positions outside the city."