"Your Excellency Dazuo, it is reported that in order to prevent our troops from landing on the shores of the Chaoxian and Liaodong Peninsulas, the Russian army has made the following arrangements: the "East Manchurian" detachment (nearly 20,000 people) occupies positions on the right bank of the Yalu River, the "South Manchurian" detachment (about 22,000 people) is deployed in the Yingkou Dashiqiao and Haicheng areas, and the Kwantung detachment (nearly 30,000 people) is deployed in the Liaodong Peninsula and Lushun area. The rest of the main force (nearly 30,000 people) gathered in the Liaoyang-Fengtian area. In addition, nearly 30,000 people are on standby in South Ussuri and Vladivostok. In addition, Akashi-kun also received news that reinforcements from the Russian hinterland were arriving one after another, but the scale was not very large, estimated at no more than 20,000 per month. The specific deployment maps are 70 per cent complete, and these have just been compiled from the information provided by the intelligence officers. We will follow up on the rest of the part and the changes in the deployment of the Russian army in time, and our intelligence officers have also penetrated the interior of the Lushun fortress, but the intelligence has not come out for the time being, and it may take a while. In a private courtyard in the capital, Naniwa Kawashima, dressed in a robe and jacket, was talking to a man dressed in a kimono, obviously this was no ordinary Japanese ronin, he was Jiro Takeuchi, the head of the Intelligence Investigation Division of the Ministry of War, which had just been established.

"Kawashima-kun, you've done a great job." Patting the black document bag on the table, Takeuchi couldn't help but be a little impressed by the Xingya who had always looked down on him. "If you can get the intelligence inside the Lushun Fortress, then your Xingya Society will have made a great contribution to the empire."

"Haily, it's all for the Empire." Kawashima Naniwa's face was hesitant, just in the eyes of Takeuchi.

"Kawashima-kun, is there any difficulty? It's okay, let's talk about it together. "Takeuchi is very interested in Kawashima's intelligence system, and he has already thought about soliciting it.

"Well, it's nothing. It's just that Oshima-kun of the Ministry of the Navy also wants us to provide this information, and I've been hesitating to provide him with a copy as well. After all, the navy is also the army of the empire, and it also shoulders the heavy responsibility of the empire to deploy weapons in the world. ”

"What, that bastard on Oshima wants to pick up ready-made, it's a bastard." If there is anyone who can rank ahead of the Russians on the list of hatred of the Japanese Army, it is the Navy. Kawashima listened to Takeuchi scolding Hachigayalu, and felt funny in his heart, scolding other people's navy for picking up ready-made, so why aren't your army picking fruits. "Ah, that stupid hat on Oshima must have lied to you about the preferential treatment of the navy, in fact, after he lied to your intelligence, he would have forgotten all about it. Believe me, I know them too well, the guys in the Navy have always bragged about not paying taxes, and lying and the like are commonplace. ”

"In this case, but I" Kawashima looked in a dilemma" The defense map of the fortress is indeed very useful for the navy, after all, these large-caliber coastal defense guns are not a joke. ”

"Hey, I'm not telling you not to provide information. Anyway, it is our army that is going to attack the fortress now, and it doesn't matter if the navy knows the internal situation of the fortress or not, they are still nesting in Kure Harbor. Your information will be provided to the army first, and we will definitely lay the fortress, and then the navy will be able to directly enter Lushun, do you know what is wrong with the fortress artillery? ”

"That's right. So how do I reply to Oshima-kun? I've already made an appointment to meet him tomorrow. ”

"That's right." Takeuchi also muttered, after all, although the dispute between land and sea is well known to passers-by, it seems too much to force Xingya to not provide intelligence to the navy. Takeuchi's eyes rolled, isn't this a good opportunity to attract ordinary people from Kawashima? "Kawashima-kun, you told Oshima that you are actually an intelligence officer of the army, and now you are ordered by your boss to give priority to providing intelligence support to the army. If Oshima is still pestering, tell him that he can come to Takeuchi at the Intelligence Investigation Division of the Ministry of War and apply for intelligence sharing. Wow-ha-ha. ”

Kawashima said with a panicked face: "Takeuchi-kun, this is not appropriate. After all, pretending to be an officer of the Imperial Army is a big crime, and I don't think it's necessary. ”

"Where the words. I am the Grand Admiral of the Ministry of the Army, and I have the authority to conscript civilians into the army in time of war, as well as to grant the rank of captain and below. Your subordinates have done so many excellent deeds for the birth and death of the empire, and you don't want them to be able to stay in Kudanzaka after sacrificing their lives for the country. Takeuchi began to clarify his intentions.

Kawashima also cooperated with the performance, "Takeuchi-kun, I thank you for your generosity on behalf of my intelligence officers, and I will encourage them to enlist as soon as possible and continue to fight for the glorious victory of the Imperial Army." As for me, after all, I was promoted by the president, and I think it would be better to ask for the opinion of His Excellency the president. ”

"It's okay, I'll report to His Excellency General Dashan Yan when I go back, and I believe that your association will definitely sell His Excellency Dashan's face. Although I don't have the authority to promote you, I will recommend you to be the head of my intelligence station in North China, how about the military rank be set as Shaozo first? ”

"Then please, Lord Takeuchi"

"Everything will go well, Kawashima-kun, for the sake of the empire, let's work together."

"Hayi, for the Empire!" The two shouted slogans and clinked glasses together and drank them all. However, Takeuchi is excited, while Kawashima is bitter, as a Japanese is about to betray his motherland, even if he has begun to get used to the life of a double agent, he will occasionally be uncomfortable. However, the bitterness in this is not simply because of his own rebellion, but also because of the master's eagle dog, He Minhan, whose grasp of the Japanese soldiers is too accurate. Just now, Takeuchi's reflections and words were almost acting according to He Minhan's script, and he Kawashima needed to read the lines along with it. Prior to this, Kawashima did not believe that he could enter the most secret intelligence organization of the Ministry of War so smoothly, but the master's plan simply made this thing a reality, and what is even more sad is that all this is actually the result of the intelligence chief of the Ministry of War taking the initiative to solicit it. Seeing the intelligence leader of his country being fiddled with by his master like a puppet without knowing it, Kawashima had mixed feelings for a while, perhaps sadness, sympathy, ridicule, or happiness.

"By the way, Lord Takeuchi, there is one more thing that may be of interest to you."

"Ah, Kawashima-kun, don't be restrained, let's hear it."

"That's right, before that, in order to find some weapons that can help us provide some weapons that can destroy the important nodes of the Russians, I had some dealings with Wu Chenxuan, the political envoy of Shandong, and Lord Wu happily sold us a batch of military yellow* explosives and more than 100 of their imitation Mauser military *hand*guns."

"The people of China are always willing to make money, and they don't care about their homeland." Takeuchi smiled, "Since we can get weapons from Qingguo, then we can save the time and cost of transportation." By the way, you can maintain this channel for buying arms, and it will be of great use when we buy the Red Beard of the people of the Northeast region. ”

"In that case, I'll arrange it." Kawashima agreed first, but in fact, he still had to nod his master's head, "This time to buy arms, I also met with the political envoy, who has a modern army under his command, called the Wuyi New Army." I tried to find out that he seemed to have no ill will towards the Empire, but he seemed to have a deep hostility towards the Russians, whom they always called Lao Maozi. ”

"Is it the Martial Arts New Army?" Takeuchi frowned, and secretly thought about it in his heart. This Wuyi New Army is not an ordinary Qing land bandit army, their weapons and tactics have been greatly praised and recommended by Lieutenant General Tamura, it seems that Tamura was promoted to lieutenant general before his death, and he negotiated a deep connection with the arms deal. Others may think that the weapons were purchased from a foreign company in China, but Takeuchi, as an intelligence officer, was not unaware. In fact, the so-called imported weapons are the new weapons displayed by the Wuyi New Army when Lieutenant General Tamura was observing the autumn exercises in Hejian, and the manufacturer of these weapons is the Shandong Armament Repair Institute (now it should be the Jinan Arsenal in Shandong) of Lord Wu Chenxuan.

"You're saying that he's willing to work with the Empire to strike at the Russians?" Takeuchi reflected that in this case, it would be equivalent to a well-trained regular Qing army exchanging fire with the Russians, and would disperse the Russians' forces even without considering their killing. Even a little extra money is much more cost-effective than the bandits who pay for it.

"Actually, I wanted to see if I could fight for it, so that this Lord Wu would privately send some experienced sergeants to form a volunteer army, wear our army's military uniforms, and infiltrate the grassland to the western Liaoning region to attack the logistics supply lines of the Russians. If the battle goes well, you can also try to let them maintain law and order in the rear of our army, control the movement of the Qing people, protect the logistics supply lines of our army, and avoid the dispersion of our army's forces. ”

"Yes, Kawashima-kun's concern is reasonable, I think the Russians will also use the same money as us to hire the Red Beard of the Shina people, so that they can harass our army's logistics and reconnoiter our army's movements. The best way to deal with such a person is the Chinese army with the quality of a regular army, so be it, Kawashima-kun. Without further ado, I will immediately give you an official letter from the Ministry of the Army, and you will immediately go to Jinan in accordance with the conditions you have just considered, and talk to this Lord Wu Chenxuan about the conditions. ”

"Hayi, I'll leave immediately. Please wait for my good news. ”

"So, the army wants me to send one or two thousand men. Kawashima-kun, you've done a great job. Wu Chenxuan received this old acquaintance in the Lashan base.

"Yes, master." Kawashima changed his command at the headquarters of the North Branch, and he could no longer afford to resist Wu Chenxuan, the master Kawashima, and this omnipotent intelligence organization behind him really made Kawashima, who was also engaged in intelligence, feel powerless. "On the part of the army, the condition is to form an independent army, to bring its own weapons, and the ammunition consumption during this period can be compensated according to the market price. The cost of employment is one hundred taels of silver per soldier, and if the employment period exceeds half a year, it is converted on a monthly basis. The rest of life and death are in their own destiny, and the army is not responsible. ”

"It's really very picky, and it deserves to be the Ministry of War of the Japanese Empire." Wu Chenxuan smiled, originally he wasn't for the three melons and two dates, "The text of the agreement to send troops is with Director He, take it when you leave." Director He may have some explanations for you. In addition, you can take this information and help me sell it for a good price. I hope that the Imperial Navy will not pick the door like its army counterparts. Otherwise, there may be a little bit of error in the data. ”

Kawashima looked at the big-character titles on the intelligence document, "Russian Army Arthur Fortress Firepower Defense Map" and "Russian Army Port Arthur Mine Defense Map", and then looked at the blank box in which the key directions were deducted, and his heart was speechless for a while, hey, who made the Imperial Army people poor and short-minded, thin and long-haired.

The pit man couldn't catch the Imperial Army's fierce pit, and it seems that this time he had to make the brothers of the Imperial Navy bleed.