No matter how long the journey is, there will be a time to arrive at the station, not to mention that the ship from Shanghai to Osaka is not an ocean route. There is something different in the port of Osaka today, yes, a squadron of land forces actually drove into the port of Osaka, which has always been a naval territory, and something was waiting on the passenger ferry terminal. This surprised the surrounding travelers, but the well-informed Osaka people were very receptive, and soon they were busy with the work at hand, and even the daring vendors were at the back of the queue to sell the goods to the GIs, and soon the squadron leaders shouted loudly to drive the vendors out of the line, and the soldiers with bulging pockets were dazed by the beating of the three binders, and they couldn't stop shouting Hayi.

Looking at the messy team, Lieutenant General Ogawa smiled bitterly again, this fourth division can be said to be a wonder in the Japanese army, military discipline has been very bad since the establishment of the army, and most of the soldiers and officers are small businessmen and small craftsmen, and they have flexible minds, not like those Kumamoto two fools. In the Russo-Japanese War, there were several unbearable situations, and the Eighth Wing was almost wiped out by the Russian army in the 322 Heights Battle, and later in the Mukden pursuit battle, the losses were not large but the results were also very small. So after the war, Ogawa was not demoted, but he did not dare to hope for promotion. On this occasion, when several major giants of the Ministry of War heard that Wu Chenxuan, the presidential officer of the Wuyi New Army, was going to visit Japan with a constitutional inspection delegation, General Oyama Iwa and Senior General Yama Yama Youtomo had a rare unanimity of opinion, and they felt that the Ministry of War should be responsible for receiving this deputy envoy of the Great Qing Dynasty.

However, the two bigwigs, Oyama and Yama, who were proud of their status, would not come to Osaka in person to receive them, and Nogi Noshinori had already become the emperor's bodyguard, so it was impossible to come out, so the Ministry of War simply handed over this task to the Ogawa Division. Xiao Chuan and the Wuyi New Army have worked together, and they still admire this Lord Wu very much, after all, there are not many high-ranking officials of the Qing State who can personally go into battle, not to mention that this presidential officer with the rank of * general has been on the battlefield from beginning to end, and he has also been on the front line in person by plane, and even heard that he personally shot at the positions of the Russian army with a machine gun, and there are not many generals in the Japanese army, so there are many admirers of this brave general in the Japanese army.

When the passenger ferry arrived ashore today, Lieutenant General Ogawa brought the personnel of the Fourth Division and a squadron to greet the legendary Lord Wu, and as for the other envoy, Dai Hongci, he handed it over to the small clerk of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"Lord Wu, please." "Lord Dai, please first."

After some humility, Dai Hongci, who was wearing a flower feather, took the lead, Wu Chenxuan, who was wearing the military uniform of the Wuyi New Army, followed behind, and the other attachés or robes and horse coats, or tuxedos and high hats, disembarked in turn in a period of humble greetings. Under the gangway, drums and trumpets sounded, and a Ministry of Foreign Affairs official in a black dress and a Japanese general waited under the gangway.

The second-level counselor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs received Dai Hongci in accordance with diplomatic procedures, and Xiao Chuan once again looked at the three eight-pointed gold stars in Wu Chenxuan's military dress, and couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart. I had no choice but to take the initiative to come forward and salute, Wu Chenxuan also gave face, and returned the salute very formally.

"General Wu, welcome. Lieutenant General Ogawa, commander of the 4th Division, was ordered by the Ministry of War to receive the general. ”

"Hello General Ogawa!" After returning the salute, Wu Chenxuan took off his gloves and shook hands with Ogawa, "Thank you for your arrangement, and ask General Ogawa to thank General Oyama Iwa and General Nogi Noshinori for their hospitality on my behalf." ”

"Report to the general, please ask the general to review the first squadron of the first brigade of the twenty-second wing of our army." A captain officer ran over to report.

"General Wu, please." Ogawa's rank was lower than that of the other party, so he had to be wronged as a leader. Wu Chenxuan tidied up his military appearance and began to review it in front of a squadron of Japanese soldiers. The ten internal guards behind him also put on military uniforms, carrying brand-new Qin crossbow rifles, holding snow-bright military thorns, and each of them had a Browning pistol pinned to their waists, kicking and guarding behind them. Although the contingent of ten people was just a simple two-column column.

"The Fourth Division is really elite, and I admire your army's strict appearance and prohibitions." Wu Chenxuan saluted the Japanese soldiers of this squadron, and the Japanese soldiers also stood up and raised their guns in salute.

After the review, Wu Chenxuan and Xiao Chuan waited on the side for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to receive Dai Hongci again, Xiao Chuan chatted with Wu Chenxuan again, but his eyes did not leave the guards behind Wu Chenxuan, these double spearmen seemed to be scattered around easily, but judging from their right hands pressed on the holster and the open rifle safe, they were vigilantly fulfilling their guard duties.

At this moment, there was a commotion from the opposite wharf, a laborer with big braids was unloading from the cargo ship through the gangplank, the overseer wearing a kimono next to him probably thought that the laborer's hands and feet were too slow, and was whipping the back of the laborer, and the Qing man who beat him rolled around, and the overseer watched the welcome scene of the Qing inspection mission on the opposite side while whipping, and the surrounding Osaka citizens laughed.

Dai Hongci also saw the situation on the opposite wharf, and originally felt that these people who went abroad to carry work were abandoned people of the Celestial Empire, so he didn't want to be troubled, so he pretended not to see it and continued to talk with the counselor of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The rest of the mission followed the example of Lord Ostrich and continued to smile and greet the Japanese diplomats around him.

"General Ogawa, do you think the accuracy of the Thirty Year Rifle and our Qin Crossbow Rifle is higher?" Xiao Chuan was a little surprised when he heard Wu Chenxuan next to him suddenly ask, but he replied casually: "I think the equipment time of the two rifles is about the same, and the design is also very similar, and the accuracy should not be bad." ”

"Really?" Wu Chenxuan shook his head and smiled, "As soldiers, we should let practice test the conclusions." Saying that, Wu Chenxuan waved his hand lightly behind him, and an internal guard soldier standing behind him instantly raised his gun, shot according to the gun.

A clear gunshot of "ping" made the noisy dock instantly silent. Three hundred meters away in another berth, the beaten Qing laborer with open skin and flesh no longer rolled, because the whip that had just kept spitting out the core seemed to suddenly disappear, coiled on the ground beside him like a dead snake, the smug face of the ronin overseer The sinister smile froze on his face, and only one whip handle was left in his hand, and after a second, the burning sensation from his hand made him throw the whip out as if he had been stung by a wasp, and a scorched black burning mark was clearly visible at the tiger's mouth in his right hand.

With a slight flick of the soldier's wrist, a brass-colored cartridge case jumped out of the magazine, and then a bullet was pushed into the chamber, and the bolt closed to complete the preparation for firing, and the whole process took less than two seconds, and the advantage of the quick loading of the rotary bolt was fully revealed. The veterans of the surrounding Fourth Division all gasped, if their clumsy thirty-year-old small guns came into contact with this kind of rifle, regardless of accuracy, the firing frequency alone would drop a big bit.

"General Xiaochuan, do you think the accuracy of the Qin crossbow rifle is not bad?" Wu Chenxuan said with a smile, completely ignoring the anger of the Japanese soldiers around him. The internal guard soldiers behind him also fearlessly held their guns and confronted the soldiers of the Fourth Division.

"General Wu, I hope you can pay attention to your words and deeds, this is on the land of the Great Japanese Empire." It's not that Ogawa doesn't know that these ronins are deliberately provoking, and he also knows that this is a small trick by those Xuanyang society, but as a soldier of the Japanese Army, he can't be indifferent to the fact that the Qing people are shooting on Japanese soil, in this case, maybe he will be punished by those junior officers who are full of slogans.

"General Ogawa, if you fail to maintain the friendly atmosphere of the mission, I will convey my doubts about the ability of your Fourth Division to His Excellency General Oyama Iwa." Wu Chenxuan also said with a straight face: "In addition, I think the merchants in the north are very interested in the production license and cash goods of grenadier canisters and Type 01 infantry guns. In fact, we had previously exported such weapons to your country on the basis of good relations between the Japanese Army and our Shandong Army, but now I feel an atmosphere that is completely contrary to the friendship between the two sides, and it seems that it is necessary for us to reconsider the need to fulfill these contracts. ”

"Please don't mind, General Wu, our Fourth Division will maintain the safety of your division in Osaka." Ogawa is very clear about the Japanese army's project of importing weapons from Shandong, and all divisions and regiments of the Japanese army are competing for these sophisticated infantry weapons, if the weapons import is in vain because of the Fourth Division, then the Fourth Division will not know, but he Ogawa must not have a good fate in the Japanese army again. Ogawa once again asked the squadron's deputy to take someone to deal with the situation, and soon a Japanese soldier reported that the other party was not injured, the whip was broken, and the hand was a little burned, and everything else was fine. One of Wu Chenxuan's subordinates also followed, took the Qing laborers on the passenger ship, bought him a ticket, and arranged for him to return to the Qing Kingdom as soon as possible.

After a storm was dissolved, the Japanese side's welcome came to an abrupt end, and the delegation stayed at the Yamato Hotel in Osaka.

"Brother Chenxuan, you're a little bit on the dock." Dai Hongci and Wu Chenxuan drank tea in the living room of the private room. After all, the other party is also a feudal official, and Dai Hongci is not good at investigating too deeply, but just now it really scared him out of a cold sweat, the Beiyang Navy Division Hiroshima incident almost caused the two countries to exchange troops, and the Huai Army and the Beiyang Navy Division alone took down a few red and blue tops.

"I'm sorry, I frightened Lord Dai." Wu Chenxuan first bowed his hand and apologized, "Japanese people have always bullied the weak and feared the hard, the nature of jackals, and the morality of sages and sages is useless to them. What we have just encountered is supposed to be the work of the ronin of some non-governmental radical organizations, not the intention of the Japanese government and military. Moreover, we are a diplomatic corps, and if Japan dares to use force against a diplomatic corps, then the gains outweigh the losses in the international arena, and although the Japanese are arrogant, they are not stupid. Besides, I have some of their much-needed orders, and they will not dare touch us. ”

"It turns out that my brother has already planned it, but next time I have to discuss it with my brother, and this time it's over." Dai Hongci is also very disgusted with the ugly faces of the Japanese, and if Wu Chenxuan can let out a bad breath without causing trouble, he is also happy to see it. "By the way, the strong man who just shot is really good marksmanship, go back and ask Master Rong to bring him a white and two silver rewards, which is a little bit of the official's heart, I don't know what Brother Chenxuan thinks?"

"Oh, my lord is so kind, I thank you for that brother's reward." Wu Chenxuan smiled and talked to Dai Hongci about some of the next itinerary and things to pay attention to, and then said goodbye.

"My lord, this Lord Wu is domineering enough" Master Rong is a typical Shaoxing master, and he is very disdainful of Wu Chenxuan, who has just taken the lead on the dock, "Is it a book for the imperial court, anyway, the court looks at this unpleasant big person." ”

"Forget it, more is better than less." Dai Hongci waved his hand tiredly, "Master Rong, this person seems to be arrogant, but in fact he is shrewd, he has soldiers in his hands, power and silver, and there are many great talents in Shandong to help." In the future, it is not yet known whether this Wu Chenxuan is a dragon or an insect, or it is better to plant a variety of flowers and thorns. ”

"The adults are high-minded, and the students have understood." Master Rong bowed and retreated, and Dai Hongci sat quietly in the gradually darkening living room, only the tea fragrance in the purple clay pot on the coffee table