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Xia Bohai said: "Actually, it's okay, it's not a big deal, but it's just a football game." ”

Qin Zheng said: "What's the matter, what's going on." ”

Xia Bohai said: "We have just received a message from the German consulate that the German envoy will arrive in Qingdao in two days. ”

Qin Zheng said: "Okay, we are waiting for them, Germany is an important part of our division of the Eight-Nation Alliance, especially Qingdao, there are many things that need to wait for the German envoy to talk before deciding, I will go to Qingdao tomorrow to prepare for talks with the German envoy." ”

Xia Bohai said: "That's for sure, but before you go to Qingdao, there are still two important things to be determined, and now Director Wang is not in Tianjin, just the four of us." ”

Qin Zheng said, "What's the matter?"

Xia Bohai said: "One is that Lao Xiao has preliminarily drawn up a battle plan for attacking Beijing, and the other is that the Ministry of Finance has made a financial work report, as well as the financial work arrangements and suggestions for the later stage, which need to be discussed by everyone. ”

Qin Zheng nodded, the attack on Beijing was originally an accident, and it did disrupt the arrangement of the traverser a little, but judging from the current situation, it is very likely that it will really be implemented, so it is natural to formulate a perfect battle plan, and financial work is the focus of the government's work in any country, since it is a report made by the Ministry of Finance, of course, it cannot be ignored. So he said: "Okay, then don't hesitate, we must solve these two things today." He looked at his watch and said, "Now that it's time to eat, let's have a working meal meeting." ”

Xia Bohai nodded, asked the guards to bring them food, and then said, "Old Xiao, you start first." ”

Xiao Jianjun took out his notepad and said: "My plan is this, as soon as our negotiations with other countries break down, we should immediately launch an attack on Beijing, first, to show our attitude, and second, to strive for the initiative strategically, and completely destroy the illusions of various countries and the Qing court." However, due to the urgency of time, and our army expansion plan has just begun, it is not realistic to prepare for the battle of attacking Beijing in a short period of time, so my plan is to first capture Tongzhou, threaten Beijing from close range, and then gradually organize troops and materials, and organize the army, it will take about two months or so, and can complete all the preparations for attacking Beijing. ”

After a pause, Xiao Jianjun said: "This arrangement has three advantages, the first is that when we are not fully prepared, we can launch an attack on Beijing at the first time, and we will not give it to other countries, as well as the Qing court. Second, we can set up a stronghold around Beijing and push the front all the way to the edge of Beijing, so that the forces of the Eight-Nation Coalition can be suppressed in the area around Beijing, which can ensure the security of our logistical support line, and third, we can put pressure on Chunting and the Eight-Nation Alliance, and perhaps force them to accept our terms. ”

Everyone else was silent for a while before Qin Zheng said, "How is the defense situation in Tongzhou?"

Xiao Jianjun said: "In the past few days, I have sent people to reconnoiter Tongzhou, the main defense of the Eight-Nation Alliance is arranged around Beijing, the defense of Tongzhou is not strong, the number of guards is estimated to be about 1,000, probably Japanese troops. ”

Qin Zheng said: "Then how will we arrange the troops to attack Tongzhou, and how is the expansion of our army now?"

Xiao Jianjun said: "Now we have recruited about 3,000 recruits, which can be organized into about 7-8 battalions, plus our existing 10 battalions, we can form about 5 regiments, which is still 2 regiments away from our army expansion plan." According to our previous plan, it was enough to merge the 1st, 3rd, and 5th battalions into a regiment, and the 2nd, 4th, and 6th battalions into a regiment. The battalion with increased firepower can be formed into two regiments that are integrated and have combat effectiveness, and only one of them can be used to attack Tongzhou, and the other regiment can be used as a reserve force to prevent other situations. ”

Xu Jichao said: "With only one regiment, can we defeat Tongzhou? Even if we defeat Tongzhou, can we hold it? At present, the Eight-Nation Coalition Army still has about 13,000 troops in Beijing, and the strength of our integrated regiment is only about 3,500 people, which is too far apart." ”

Xiao Jianjun said: "Although the strength of the Eight-Nation Coalition Army is large, but the lack of logistical support, since we occupied Tianjin, the Eight-Nation Coalition Army has not been replenished with ammunition, and the Tianjin Battle has consumed a lot of ammunition of the Eight-Nation Alliance, so the current Eight-Nation Coalition Army is the weakest time, we captured Tongzhou, and the Eight-Nation Coalition Army has no strength to recapture it at all, and we still have armored forces, The two trump cards of the helicopter unit, purely militarily speaking, the difficulty of this battle is not great, and I am just worried now, once we attack Beijing, what will be the reaction of Shanghai, whether it will go to extremes, expand China's war, drag it into the quagmire, and it will not be beneficial to us. ”

Xia Bohai shook his head and said, " This possibility is not very large, first of all, if the countries have the ability to expand China's war, they would have sent troops a long time ago, and will not wait until now, and the most likely to increase the number of troops against China are Japan and Russia, but now these two countries in China's northeast and the Korean Peninsula have extremely deep strategic contradictions, if we are vulnerable, of course they will join forces to attack us, but with our current strength, they will never easily put their troops into the Chinese battlefield, 10,000 steps back, if the countries really want to expand the war, then we will strike first, simply attack Shanghai directly, it is not necessary to occupy Shanghai, but we must also completely muddy the waters。 ”

Qin Zheng also nodded, and said: "I think Lao Xiao's plan is feasible, and this is also the best method we can use at the moment, if we sit back and watch the Qing court and other countries privately reach a traitorous agreement, then it will be too unfavorable for us." ”

Xia Bohai said: "Now the first battalion and the fifth battalion are stationed in Qingdao, Lao Qin, you go to Qingdao tomorrow, the military committee will arrange for three new battalions to go with you, and after arriving in Qingdao, immediately change the guard, let the first battalion and the fifth battalion immediately rush back to Tianjin for reorganization." ”

Qin Zheng said: "Okay, do you want to bring some weapons and ammunition from the Qingdao Arsenal again." ”

Xia Bohai said: "No need, there is still a lot of inventory here in Tianjin, at least it is enough to deal with the battle of attacking Tongzhou." However, when you arrive in Qingdao, you can supervise the arsenal to expand production as much as possible and stock up on as much ammunition as possible. ”

Qin Zheng nodded, and said: "Lao Xia, Lao Xiao, and Director Xu, there is one thing, I originally wanted to wait for the expansion of the army to be completed, but now the plan has changed, so I want to talk about it first." ”

Xia Bohai was a little surprised, he and Qin Zheng have been friends for many years, and they know Qin Zheng very well, generally Qin Zheng will not easily express his opinions, and once he speaks, he said that he has been carefully considered by Qin Zheng, so he said: "What is it?"

Qin Zheng said: "According to our original expansion plan, it is to form 7-8 army regiments, I calculated, if the expansion is completed, the crossing soldiers will basically serve as the commander of the company level, and the scale of our army will definitely expand, so in the near future, the crossing soldiers will gradually get out of the grassroots level, and they will all serve as intermediate commanders at the battalion and regiment level, and the grassroots commanders at the company and platoon level will be served by local soldiers." ”

Xiao Jianjun nodded and said, "Of course, the area and population under our control will expand, and the size of the army will definitely expand, and of course our soldiers will serve as higher-level commanders, and the vacant positions will of course be filled by local soldiers, and this can also improve their enthusiasm." ”

Qin Zheng said: "Of course I have no objection to local fighters serving as grassroots commanders, and this is also the general trend, but in this way, we can only manage the grassroots of the army indirectly, to be honest, I am not at ease with the grassroots of the army now, after all, the People's Army has been established for too short a time, the ideological education of local fighters is not enough, and the habit of the times is too strong, the report submitted by the Ministry of Security a few days ago, everyone knows it." ”

Xia Bohai and others listened, and they all nodded again and again, it turned out that during Li Hongzhang's visit to Tianjin, the Ministry of Security submitted a report to the Executive Committee, involving 7 cases, 12 violations of the law, including 10 locals, 2 traversers, and 8 locals are all patrol police officers under the Ministry of Public Security. The shop asked for money, and the total fee charged was about 200 taels of silver, and the other 2 natives and 2 traversers were from the customs, and the violation of the rules was the most common thing in the customs, smuggling, and the fees charged were as high as more than 1,000 taels of silver.

It turned out that these incidents were discovered by informants and non-staff personnel arranged by the Ministry of Security. The non-staff personnel of the Ministry of Security are basically some small traders, their social status is not high, but the contact area is extremely wide, so the sources of information are extremely extensive, and the Ministry of Security's requirements for them are that no matter what can be reported, no matter what is invalid, if it is valuable, it will be given a certain reward according to the value level. As a result, the Ministry of Security now receives more than 300 reports a day.

After receiving the report, the Ministry of Security will not immediately arrest the reported person, after all, the report of the non-staff personnel can not be trusted, but immediately arrange for the action personnel to focus on monitoring the reported person, the time is generally 3-7 days, during which it is found that they do have violated the law, and then organize personnel to take pictures, take pictures and collect evidence, and then arrest, so the arrested person is not allowed to deny it.

Of course, in the past month or so, the Ministry of Security has not only arrested these few violators, but also arrested three locals who were employed by foreigners to spy on the intelligence of the traversers, and smashed an intelligence agency set up in Tianjin under the cover of business activities, arrested six foreign intelligence agents, and closed down the commercial firm, which can be regarded as the biggest achievement of this month. It also justifies the establishment of the Ministry of Security.