Chapter 739: Navy Changing Banners
When Mu Ran heard the three words of the battle order, not to mention the generals of the naval division in the hall, Jiang Guidi, Cheng Yunhe, and Song Xi were all a little stunned.
They all looked at Wu Weiyang in surprise.
Jiang Gui, after Chen Yunhe handed over the military power, he drank wine all day long with a dozen or so Beiyang generals who were unwilling to get involved in the affairs of the anti-Japanese army, 'building the Great Wall', and coldly watched all kinds of things of the anti-Japanese army, and the days passed freely.
Song Xi was busy with the security of Port Arthur, especially the resettlement of a large number of refugees who fled from Jinzhou and Dalian, although all the materials were provided by the anti-Japanese army, but his role in it was also obvious to all.
The three of them were intoxicated with things, and they didn't have time to talk about it when they met just now, and when they heard Wu Weiyang's words, they couldn't help but suddenly have their hearts beating faster and their faces were surprised.
There was a sudden silence in the hall, and everyone was silent with all kinds of thoughts.
"As far as I know, the imperial court is now strictly ordering all localities to provoke wars, and General Wu should also have received a telegram from Wang Wenshao, the minister of Beiyang."
Although Chen Shijie controlled the Lushun Telegraph Office, he did not interfere with the normal telegram sending and receiving of the Beiyang Naval Division, but it had to be seen and signed by him.
Therefore, Ding Ruchang had already received a telegram from Tongzhou and Jinmen about the prohibition of leaving the port for a wave war, so he had this question.
"The imperial court can surrender, but my anti-Japanese army will never surrender."
As Wu Weiyang said this faint sentence, everyone in the hall was no longer silent and surprised, but trembling from the soul.
Ding Ruchang, Song Xi, Chen Yunhe and others all raised their heads suddenly, their faces turned pale, their lips trembled, and their eyes stared at Wu Weiyang.
What does it mean that 'the imperial court can surrender, but my anti-Japanese army will never surrender'?
Are you fighting against the Japanese army or not the army of the imperial court?
Do you know that just this sentence can equate you Wu Weiyang, He Changying, and the anti-Japanese army with rebellious ministers and thieves!
The atmosphere in the hall was as oppressive as a mountain.
A few generals of the Navy Division couldn't help but look out secretly, thinking that outside the Admiral's Mansion of the Navy Division, had they been besieged by the anti-Japanese army?
"Without the will of the imperial court, I will not talk to anyone about any 'war' or 'military situation', don't forget that you and I are the courtiers of the Qing Dynasty, and don't forget-"
Ding Ruchang took a serious look at the admirals under him, and he knew that many of them had been very close to the anti-Japanese army during this time.
So he had to sternly warn them: "Your parents, wives and children are still in the Qing Dynasty!" β
As soon as Ding Ruchang's words came out, except for a few Nanyang officers, almost everyone else changed color. γ
"The military gate is serious, as if our anti-Japanese army is going to rebelβ"
"Whoa!"
Shen Zhaoao said the word 'rebellion' with a smile, and Song Xi, who knew the same thing in Lushun City, did not sit firmly, and fell to the ground with a chair on his buttocks, and his painful body trembled.
A few people next to him hurriedly helped up Song Xi, who was trembling all over, and Shen Zhaoao continued to smile and said: "Fighting with the East is for the country, I think the emperor is not mediocre, on the contrary, our emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty is a great Ming monarch, a holy monarch!" When it comes to the real fight, the emperor's consent will always be obtained,ββ or, just acquiescence. β
The word 'acquiescence' was incomprehensible to the crowd and felt extremely ridiculous.
The matter of initiating a war, and it is a war of tens of thousands of people, the emperor either agrees to it or strictly prohibits it, how can there be such a thing as 'acquiescence'?
Unless it's dizzy!
Of course, the emperor will never be dizzy, so it is this group of anti-Japanese soldiers who are dizzy, or rather, not dizzy, but dizzy and ill-intentioned!
"You're in such a hurry? Now that the capital division is surrounded, what do you want to do when you are fighting at this time, everyone in the world is blind, and you can cover the secluded people in the world! β
"Bang!"
Ding Ruchang slapped the table fiercely and looked at Wu Weiyang angrily: "Although the sailor division was defeated, although the land battle was defeated, the main force of the sailor still exists, and the elite of the anti-Japanese army in land warfare are still dependent. Is it true that the world is in chaos, and you are satisfied? β
Everyone in the hall changed color again, and Song Xi was lying on the chair weakly sweating profusely, feeling that it would be a good thing if he could faint to death now.
"Lying on the salary? Huh-"
Lin Yunyu, who had been silent, laughed out a rare voice: "Our commander-in-chief has a good saying, 10,000 years is too long, seize the day!" We haven't been as long and as ambitious as you think, so you can say that you will fight again in a few decades, and then continue to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble and play with women; Our anti-Japanese army is, if we want to fight, we will fight now! β
Lin Yunyu's words made Ding Ruchang swallow half to death, and he didn't know about the matter of fighting with Fang Boqian for a dusty woman in Weihaiwei.
"I already know your intentions, in a word, without the will of the imperial court, there is nothing to talk about this matter, my sailor will not shoot a single cannonball; Drop-off! β
Ding Ruchang endured the anger in his heart, his face turned blue, and he directly ordered the expulsion.
"I say two things, first, warships are warships of the state, and soldiers are soldiers who defend the people and territories, not tools for your personal profit; Second, walking out of the gate of this Admiral's Mansion today means that we have to fight side by side with the Anti-Japanese Army, otherwise please rest well in the Admiral's Yamen and watch how our Anti-Japanese Army fights for the country and the nation! β
Wu Weiyang finished saying this sentence and strode out of the hall.
All the generals of the anti-Japanese army have strode out.
Outside the door.
The sun is shining and the spring breeze is blowing.
And all the sailor generals, including Jiang Zikang, Jiang Guidi, Chen Yunhe, and Song Xi, all sat in the hall in a daze.
"Lao Jiang, aren't you going out either?"
Ding Ruchang looked surprised.
"Ahh
Jiang Zikang sighed: "I also have children and old wives at home, I can't compare to these young people, for the sake of ββ,, dare to leave everything behind." β
"Junmen, the anti-Japanese army is too much! According to the last general's intentions, let's lead the fleet to leave Port Arthur, Wusong, Mawei, Hong Kong, where we can't stop. β
Wang Ping, the pipe leader of the Beiyang torpedo boat, was beaten half to death by Chen Shijie's gendarmes at the dock last time, and he has always held a grudge, but he was also completely afraid of the iron-blooded toughness of the anti-Japanese army.
Including during this period, although he was extremely dissatisfied with the infiltration of the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division by the military propaganda team of the Anti-Japanese Army, he did not dare to show it openly, and only dared to report to Ding Ruchang in private.
However, Ding Ruchang has always been unimpressed, but said that the anti-Japanese army was motivating the soldiers, and the green light was tossed all the way to the anti-Japanese army without saying a word.
"I can't go, I have to, I want to use a warship to fight the Japanese soldiers, but the old man can't stop it, they just have to use it; I'd like to see how they can get the emperor to nod 'agree' or 'acquiesce'? β
Ding Ruchang glanced around a little, and saw that except for Yang Yonglin, the pipe belt of the Zhenyuan ship who was born as a sailor, he did not come over, and the rest of the ship pipe belt was in the hall.
"The vision is really high enough, so many foreign generals, can't they look down on any of them?"
Ding Ruchang muttered in a low voice, in fact, he also understood in his heart that just like him, these subordinates were all big families, how could they go with the anti-Japanese army.
Yang Yonglin is just an outlier after all.