Xiao Jianjun said: "Do you want us to test Japan, for example, if we ask to join the war, see what kind of attitude Japan has." ”

Qin Zheng shook his head and said: "I don't think it's necessary, we just need to prepare for war by ourselves now, what to worry about with Japan, and then make a plan when Japan comes to us, and I estimate that it won't be long before Japan will take the initiative to come to us for negotiation." ”

Xia Bohai also nodded and said, "Yes, it should be like this, we should still respond to all changes with the same, just see what actions Japan has." ”

At this time, Li Sanjie said: "Russian Consul Petrov has come to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs three times, hoping to talk to us, but I refused, just yesterday, he came to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the third time, bringing a letter, saying that Russia is willing to fulfill the [Treaty of Settlement of the Three Eastern Provinces], and hopes to negotiate with us on the implementation of the treaty, I also ignored him, but now we can use it." ”

It turned out that after the loss of Arthur, although the upper class of Russian society was still drunk and dreaming of death, there were still a few people in the Russian government who understood that not only the situation in the Far East was not good, but also that the country was also full of crises, and the social contradictions were extremely acute, so it can be said that the current Russia was like sitting on a crater, and the best way to ease the current domestic situation in Russia was to win on the battlefield, use the victory in the war to unite the people, and enhance the prestige of the government, and transfer the domestic crisis to the outside.

However, now that Russia is in a very passive situation on the battlefield, it is fortunate that it can hold Mukden, and it is simply not capable of launching a counterattack against the Japanese army, let alone winning a victory, so some people think that they can find a way from the side of the East China government. Although since the beginning of the war, the East China government has basically favored Japan, and even intercepted Russian warships, it has not officially entered the war after all. Moreover, Russia is also a veteran chess player in the world's big chess game, and soon discovered the contradiction between the East China government and Japan, and thought that it could be exploited. If the fulfillment of the [Treaty of Settlement of the Three Eastern Provinces] is used as a bait, it may be possible to create a contradiction between the East China government and Japan, so that Russia will have room to maneuver.

And Nicholas II is also in a hurry to go to the hospital now, no matter what the way is, use it first and then talk about it, regardless of whether he is effective or not. So he immediately informed Petrov, the minister in Qingdao, and asked him to communicate with the East China government immediately. Of course, the East China government will not take care of Russia now, and it is too lazy to see him at all, but Petrov also knows that the current situation is critical, and he has also heard a lot of contradictions between the East China government and Japan in Qingdao, so he thinks that there is indeed an opportunity here, so he disregarded his face and asked to see Li Sanjie three times in a row, and after refusing, he wrote a letter to Li Sanjie, saying that Russia was willing to fulfill the [Treaty on the Settlement of the Three Eastern Provinces] and hoped to negotiate with the East China government on this.

Xia Bohai listened, nodded as well, and said with a smile: "Of course, this is a good opportunity, and we can make good use of it to teach Japan a lesson." ”

Li Sanjie nodded and said, "Okay, after this meeting is over, I will immediately make an appointment to meet with the Russian consul." ”

Xia Bohai said: "Okay, that's all for today's summary meeting, all preparations have been done well, all departments are working very hard, but we have to continue to work hard, and now it is not far from the time for us to enter the war." I don't need to emphasize the significance of this war, and there is another thing that needs to be solved in the last few months, that is, the economic, material management, and control issues after the war. The material management system, if Japan established such a system at that time, I believe it can be supported for a longer time, not to the point that it will not be able to fight at all, and our economic foundation is worse than Japan, if there is no perfect wartime system, I am afraid that it will not be able to last even half a year, but the wartime system should also try to ensure the basic livelihood of the people, as well as the basic interests of investors, Bi Jing's reconstruction work after the war still needs the participation of investors, so now we have to start planning, this work is mainly responsible for the Finance Committee, and other departments must also cooperate with the work of the Finance Committee。 ”

Jia Zhenzhao hurriedly said: "Yes, we must come up with a plan as soon as possible." ”

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Dozens of small boats were cleaving the sea and sailing quickly towards the shore, and each small boat was loaded with a dozen soldiers, and in the middle of the boat, they set up guns and guns, and fired at the shore. The sand and gravel on the shore were splashed, and of course, many shells fell into the sea, stirring up countless columns of water.

As the boat approached the shore, the soldiers jumped into the water, which was almost waist-deep, and the soldiers rushed to the shore with their guns in their guns and shooting at the water. After going to the shore, the soldiers immediately gathered according to the company and platoon units, and then quickly looked for stones and trees on the shore as cover, first hidden, the soldiers set up their rifles, opened fire, and the soldiers of the artillery group set up mortars in the back and fired at the preset positional fire points.

After a series of explosions, the preset firing points were cleared one by one, and then the infantry launched an attack on the preset position, knocking down the dummies representing the enemy troops in the position one by one, and occupying the position.

And Luo Yue, who was watching the battle on the hill in the distance, nodded, and was very satisfied with this similar landing operation exercise, although this exercise did not set up enemy troops, and the enemy positions were all dummies or vacant, but for the newly established Marine Corps, such a performance was already good, after all, even in the old time and space, amphibious operations were the most complex among other combat modes. Therefore, after the Marine Corps was formally formed, it has been conducting strict training under the leadership of Luo Yue, and since it has focused on landing operations, first, this is the main combat mission of the Marine Corps; second, after the East China Government enters the war in the future, there will certainly be a pattern of landing operations. However, some time ago, the Marine Corps mainly conducted basic training, and only after the New Year began to conduct formal battalion-scale landing combat training.

In fact, in this era, there was no landing operation in the real sense, in the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese army had landed, but neither the Qing army nor the Russian army had thought of setting up defensive positions on the coast to stop it, so the Japanese army did not encounter any obstacles in the process of landing, and easily landed on the land shore. It was not until the First World War that the Battle of the Dardanelles was the first landing campaign in the modern sense.

However, the People's Army naturally cannot pin its hopes on the enemy's unfortified army, and the East China Government is going to the sea, and has already begun to lay out in the South Seas, so amphibious operations will definitely be an important combat mode for the East China Government in the future, of course, this is also the original intention of the East China Government to establish the Marine Corps, not just to deal with the Russo-Japanese War.

It's just that although Luo Yue was born in the Marine Corps in the old time and space, the landing mode of the old time and space was a three-dimensional landing mode of sea and air lines, and its development trend focused on the vertical landing of airborne, and it was a personnel landing, and Luo Yue had originally practiced helicopter airborne. Even if it is a landing on the sea, there are special equipment such as hovercraft and landing ships, and it is more focused on the landing of heavy equipment such as tanks, armored vehicles, and self-propelled artillery. In this era, of course, there is no such special landing equipment, and with the technical level of this era, it is basically impossible to manufacture similar equipment, mainly by warships or transport ships to send soldiers to the near shore, and then put down the boat, and the soldiers row to the shore.

Of course, the idea of landing operations is basically the same in ancient and modern times, that is, to send as many personnel and equipment as possible to the shore as quickly as possible. According to this line of thinking, with the technological level of this era, it is still possible to manufacture some special landing equipment.

First of all, of course, it is a landing ship, and the landing ship is divided into two categories, the first type is the traditional way to send soldiers and personnel to the shore, put down the boat and go ashore, of course, it is too late to build a new ship, but the technical level of this landing ship is not high, and the standard does not need to be as high as a warship, it can be transformed with an ordinary civilian ship. At present, four landing ships have been renovated, two large and two small, large landing ships with a displacement of 2,200-2,500 tons and can transport two battalions of soldiers and equipment; small landing ships with a displacement of 1,400-1,600 tons and can transport one battalion of soldiers and equipment. When all is completed, 9 battalions can be sent at once, which is equivalent to a regiment.

Moreover, the assault boat for landing is specially designed, with a wooden structure and a length of 1 2.6 meters, 1.5 meters wide, draft 0.6-0.7 meters, is a large load of 1.5 tons, the bow of the boat is fluid tip cone, can transport 15-20 soldiers at a time, in the bow of the boat also set up a machine gun position, in the middle of the boat set up a mortar position, can fire on the march to hit the enemy position on the shore, the power of the assault boat is 4 pairs of oars at the stern, can be rowed by 8 people at the same time, after training in a short time, can reach a speed of 5-6 knots, the fastest can even exceed 7 knots.

The advantage of this mode of landing operations is that the cost is not high, and it is simple and convenient, and the layout is flexible, and this assault boat can be used to carry out landing operations on most of the beaches; however, the disadvantage is that the assault boat basically has no defensive power, and the assault boat is too small to withstand strong winds and waves, and the large and medium-caliber shells fall nearby, and the waves caused by it can also overturn the assault boat, so whether or not they can rush to the shore can only fight for character, and even if they rush to the shore, the landing soldiers have no cover, and can only find the natural terrain on the coast to hide。 In addition, due to the difference in manpower, the speed of rowing assault boats is also fast and slow, which can easily cause the landing troops to be scattered.