Yokoyama Shaozo hurriedly stood up, bowed deeply, and said, "Your Excellency the Governor! ”

"Yokoyama-kun, please be seated!" The old fellow, with gray hair, was in excellent spirits, and he was covered with medals like body armor.

The medals of that period were still valuable, which showed that he had "outstanding merits".

Governor General of Taiwan, Army General, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army, Chief of Staff of the Japanese Manchurian Army Gentaro Kodama !

This man was born in the Tokuyama domain (present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture) of the Zhou Defense Kingdom of Japan. The eldest son of the samurai Kodama Hankuro, since the beginning of the Sino-Japanese First Sino-Japanese War, he served as the chief of staff of the base camp and the temporary quarantine minister, and actively planned the war of aggression against China, known as "Xiao He of the Sino-Japanese War".

After the Japanese army captured Pyongyang and the Yellow Sea naval battle, because of the control of the sea, it immediately organized the second army of the Japanese army that invaded China. Since War Minister Oyama Iwa became the commander of the Second Army, he became the de facto Minister of War and practiced everything from the deployment of troops to the material baggage of Japan's war of aggression against China.

On August 20, 1895, the Emperor of Wakuni conferred on him the Order of the Golden Owl and the Order of the Rising Sun, and conferred the title of Baron. Later, he was promoted to commander of the 3rd Division and Minister of the Interior.

After 1898, Gentaro Kodama became the governor of Taiwan and was an important figure in the rule of Taiwan.

After Kodama took office, he immediately implemented a series of new colonial measures in Taiwan: militarily, Kodama Gentaro brutally suppressed Taiwanese compatriots, he implemented the armor protection system, implemented the joint sitting method, and killed countless people (joint sitting: one man killed one family, and one family rebelled and killed ten).

Economically, Kodama Gentaro implemented a monopoly system of salt, camphor, tobacco, alcohol, and opium, and wantonly exploited the Taiwanese people.

However, on the other hand, Kodama adopted a soft policy of adding "sugar in addition to the whip". With regard to the bad habit of opium smoking that the common people liked, it was changed from purging to "monopoly," and it also carried out activities to respect the elderly by "feasting on the old people's classics," and the "Yangwen Society" attached importance to the commendation activities of the elites who read and did business.

This person is cunning by nature, and he is even more ferocious than those who rushed to kill the Japanese in front, and he is the great enemy of the Qing people and the Russians!

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Later, some Wanwan even sang praises for him, saying that his rule was the best ruler in the "Japanese occupation era", and he was generous and benevolent.

As everyone knows, his medal is stained with the blood of Taiwan's ancestors!

On May 14, 1904, Gentaro Kodama invaded China with the Japanese army. Since then, Japan's military affairs in China have been planned and decided by Japan.

He is the chief of the Japanese army, and Yokoyama Shaozo is his subordinate in Taiwan, in charge of military encirclement and suppression, and he is also stained with the blood of the Taiwan people, which is very effective.

He is a Chinese expert, speaks Chinese very fluently, and is very knowledgeable in Sinology, so Kodama Gentaro took a fancy to him and specially transferred him from Taiwan.

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"The empire will soon encircle the Lucians in the Liaoyang region, and the mouth of Lushun is also ready to go!" The military is not polite, and Gentaro Kodama first made a military intelligence report.

"Great!" Yokoyama Shaosa said excitedly: "From the Sino-Japanese War to the Russo-Japanese War, our Great Japanese Empire is invincible, invincible, and rises among the world's great powers!" (Some small countries like to use the word "big", the same is true of the Wa Kingdom, the same is true of the Great Han Netherworld, but the big eastern countries use the word "Zhong")

"But the strength of the Lucians (another name for Russia) should not be underestimated!" Gentaro Kodama said heavily, and Yokoyama Shaosa deeply agreed.

Since Russia's victory over the invading Napoleon in the early 19th century, its army has been so strong that it is known as the "steamroller of Europe", crushing all enemies, and is known as an invincible opponent!

No country that wants to go head-to-head with Russia will not be able to win it!

Taking the Russo-Japanese War as an example, the victory caused the Japanese army to become fanatical and ecstatic, but there were still some sober-minded people in the Japanese army.

They saw the contrast of strength between the two sides, the main force of Tsarist Russia was in the west, and in fact it did not hurt the muscles and bones, if it were not limited by the capacity of the Trans-Siberian Railway, which pressed the Russian army like a road roller, the small body of the Japanese army would not be able to handle.

"The only strategy for the present, a quick battle, take Liaoyang, conquer Lushunkou, and force the country to negotiate peacefully!" Kodama Gentaro looked at Yokoyama Shaosa and said cordially: "The land of Lushunkou is not to worry after being surrounded, but Liaoyang is backed by the Trans-Siberian Railway, and Lucia reinforcements are coming in a steady stream, and after our army and Lucia have fought a battle to add fuel, the battle situation will be unfavorable to our army!" ”

He paused for a moment and said, "The strength of the emperor/kingdom has reached its fullest, if you can't win, I'm afraid that the situation will take a sharp turn for the worse!" ”

As the chief of staff of the Manchurian Army, he knew that he had a detailed background, and sighed deeply that the foundation of the Japanese country was shallow, and the terrifying strength of the country had not yet bottomed out!

Yokoyama Shaozo stood up, bowed and said, "I am willing to obey the orders of His Excellency the Governor, and I will not give up!" ”

"Okay, I'll send you to the rear of Liaoyang, integrate the 'rebel army' (Qing land bandits) there, and cut off the logistics line of the Lu people!" Kodama Gentaro said with a fierce look on his face: "Don't let a bullet, a cannonball, or a cart of flour from the Lu people enter Liaoyang!" ”

"Can you do it?" Gentaro Kodama asked about Yokoyama Shosado.

"Do your best, and then die!" Yokoyama Shaozuo replied with the words of Zhuge Liang's "Teacher Table".

The Wa Kingdom was deeply influenced by Sinology, but they could not feed back, but instead devoured it, which was really bad in character and should be destroyed!

"Very good, you go ahead and write a charter!" Kodama Gentaro gave a military order.

"Hay!" Yokoyama said yes.

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After accepting the order, he found an office in Kodama Gentaro's official office and began to plan, first reading the file.

In fact, there was no shortage of "people of insight" in the Japanese army, who highly admired the method of the Oriental Art of War to interrupt the people's grain route (that is, cut off the lines of communication), and also did some work, but the situation was not satisfactory.

The Japanese army bribed the bandits active in the northeast and sent them money, arms and materials, and demanded that they carry out the task of cutting off the Russian logistics line.

But the Russian army is a regular army, and bandits are bandits, how can they beat the regular army!

Shoot from afar?

If you want to be accurate in marksmanship, you can rely on practice, I didn't see the talent of the old Maozi Budyonny, saying that the left eye of the person must be the left eye, and you have to practice every day, and put a few shots from time to time.

At that time, there was no industrial products that flocked to the world like a tide of infrastructure madness, and it was simply not money, and now every shot is fired, and the sound of copper plates can be heard in the falling bullet casings---- which is very expensive!

The bandits are reluctant to practice like this, even the widows are landlords who have no surplus food in their homes, and there is really no abundant bullets, and if the soldiers dare to waste bullets, the slap of the military cao will be scraped over... The only ones who can afford to train like water are the British John Bull and the German Hans Cat (so their marksmanship is particularly good).

There is no capital to operate, and it is cut with a saber.

Hehe, when the Cossack cavalry is vegetarian? Not to mention that the old hairy son Budyonny dared to break a thousand against the bandits, even his little brother Victor was a P five.

Therefore, what the bandits are best at is to fight cattle across the mountains, fire a few shots at the Russians from a distance, and give an explanation to the benefactors of the Japanese people.

Or scratch the boots, the favorite is to throw a few grenades, the old hairy people can bear it, the bandits flash, if the old hairy people eat the grenade and the ground, the bandits come forward to receive the booty.

Clean your hands and feet, don't take any risks!

There are also broken roads and bridges, destroying communication lines, but at most there is a small fight, and the Russian army doesn't even have to do it themselves, just catch the people to build the road.

The bandits are not stupid, if they make too much trouble and attract the encirclement and suppression of the Russian army, won't they die and have nowhere to avenge their grievances!

The Japanese want to rely on a few stinky money and want us to sell our lives, are we called Huazi?

The Japanese army spent a lot of money, but things were done poorly, and Kodama Gentaro was unhappy, so he found Yokoyama Shaosa, hoping to use his wisdom to come up with a proper way.

After some deliberation, Yokoyama offered his opinion.