The failure of the first attack on Haizhou made Wang Tingzhen very hurt in face, and in front of many Beiyang generals, Wang Tingzhen only felt that he couldn't raise his head. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoCompared with the difficulty of other roads, the fourth road of the Qing army should have been the easiest, but I never expected that the 30,000 troops of the fourth road surrounded Haizhou for a day, and a total of six people died, and then they fled—they fled!

Therefore, in this second attack on Haizhou, Wang Tingzhen made a lot of efforts, and the Japanese instructors supervised the battle in the army, Wang Tingzhen felt that he would definitely go to Haizhou in a fight.

The Japanese staff officer who led the team this time was the famous Chinese Tongokamura Ninji in the future, and Okamura Ninji at this time was only a junior officer. Born in a samurai family in Japan, Okamura studied at Waseda University High School in middle school, and then transferred to the Tokyo Army Infant School, where he was admitted to the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School and graduated with the first grade. At this time, the Russo-Japanese War broke out, and Okamura Ninji was assigned to the 13th Division to participate in the campaign against Sakhalin.

After the end of the Russo-Japanese War, Okamura was promoted to the rank of lieutenant, and the following year the Japanese Army began to disarm.

Okamura Ninji has now become the highest-ranking military officer in the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and is envied and envied by many Lu Shi classmates, but in Japan, if you want to be really promoted to the rank of junior and above, you must study at the Army University. Okamura made a decision and took the initiative to apply for a transfer from the army field unit to the intelligence department of the General Staff Headquarters. In disarmament, Okamura Ninji was able to understand the righteousness so deeply that he was immediately rewarded by the base camp, and was soon promoted to the rank of junior sa after transferring to the intelligence agency, and Okamura Ninji's experience seemed so different in a wave of disarmament. Okamura was in charge of foreign intelligence work in the General Staff Headquarters, and his main responsibility was for investigating German intelligence.

Historically, Okamura waited honestly until the outbreak of World War I at the General Staff Headquarters to set foot on Chinese soil for the first time because Japan forcibly occupied Qingdao in Germany. And in the current world, due to the sudden rise of Wang Yongan, which disrupted Japan's layout plan in China, the Japanese General Staff Headquarters had to send more people into China to investigate, and Okamura Ninji, who was originally in charge of the team's investigation, was one of them. Because Okamura Ninji had participated in the Russo-Japanese War and was a top student of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, the responsibility of leading 300 Japanese instructors to supervise the Qing army fell on his head this time.

Wang Tingzhen is also a little colorful in the Beiyang system, he does not form gangs, does not embezzle military salaries, is clean and self-conscious, and does not have any vices, and he seems extremely different and unsociable among many Beiyang officers, which is completely opposite to Jin Yunpeng. It is precisely because of his otherness that Wang Tingzhen was squeezed out of the Praetorian Guard to serve as the commander, and the Praetorian Guard is all composed of the Manchurian, Han, Meng, and Eight Banners and the Xinjiang Hui Army, and has always been loyal to the emperor, in other words, they are not from the Beiyang system at all, so the forbidden army has always been squeezed out by the Beiyang system. Wang Tingzhen was also an officer who did not want a civil war, and his eagerness to attack Haizhou this time was only the previous time that it was too embarrassing - especially to make the Japanese laugh - his junior Okamura Ningji actually brought 300 instructors to supervise the war.

Due to Wang Tingzhen's anger, coupled with the Japanese instructors such as Okamura Ninji standing behind him, the Eight Banners and the forbidden army began to fight in earnest, and Haizhou broke after holding out for two days.

Wang Tingzhen led the army into Haizhou and ordered the people not to harass the people, especially not to cause trouble. He knew that the Japanese often couldn't control their lower bodies, so he found Okamura Ninji and asked him to let the Japanese instructors stay in the barracks honestly, and if they were found out once they went out, he had to transfer the Japanese instructors so as not to leave a false pretext.

Okamura Ninji ordered that all Japanese instructors could only operate in the barracks, and anyone who went out or caused trouble, resulting in the image of the Japanese Empire being damaged, had to commit suicide to apologize to the emperor. Speaking of seppuku, suicide is certainly the most noble way of death for Japanese samurai, but it is also the most painful way to die, and these 300 Japanese instructors are not samurai, and no one likes to commit suicide by caesarean section, so everyone honestly stayed in the barracks and did not cause trouble. (Because of this, the Japanese militarist ideology was not as crazy as World War II, so the military discipline was acceptable, especially when the Eight-Nation Coalition attacked the Beijing Division, only the Japanese army had the best military discipline among the armies of all countries, and the Russian army had the worst military discipline.) ）

After Haizhou, Jiangbei was conquered, Li Shirui, who was commanding on the front line in Xuzhou, had a big headache, he originally only commanded four army divisions, and after dividing two troops to support northern Anhui, there were only two army divisions left at hand to resist the second road of the Qing army. Especially when Li Shirui learned that Yuan Shikai had sent Duan Qirui to lead 60,000 reinforcements to the front line, he had no troops to support Haizhou, so he could only sit back and watch Haizhou be occupied.

Li Shirui asked the Third Division, which had already conquered Yingzhou, to quickly rush back to Xuzhou to support the Xuzhou front line and prepare for a battle with Duan Qirui's army. After part of the troops of the 3rd and 4th Divisions arrived in Xuzhou, Li Shirui immediately sent two regiments of the 5th Division to support Haizhou.

At this time, in Haizhou City, Wang Tingzhen and the Japanese staff officer Okamura Ningji also had a disagreement, and Wang Tingzhen hoped to continue to encircle Xuzhou in accordance with the deployment of the staff headquarters. Wang Tingzhen is not a genius conductor, let alone a strategist, he has some old city guards, so he can't show any doctrine about the changes on the battlefield.

Okamura Ninji immediately pointed out that now the Qing army's second road has retreated to Shandong, the third road has just been defeated again, even Tie Liang has been captured, Ni Sichong is nowhere to be found, and the morale of the Jiangbei army is strong after the great victory. And if the Fourth Route rushes to Xuzhou and continues to implement the encirclement plan, it will inevitably be fiercely attacked by the Jiangbei Army, and even lead to the annihilation of the entire army again.

"What do you mean?" Wang Tingzhen asked.

Okamura Ninji told the translator: "We can start a surprise attack on Yangzhou, and if our army appears in Yangzhou, I think it is very likely to lead to the collapse of the Jiangbei Army." ”

Wang Tingzhen was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "No, absolutely not, impossible!" ”

Okamura Ninji's current Chinese level must also be translated to be possible, and twenty years later, he can sit in his hometown's house and talk to the Chinese, but who would have thought that now he can't even speak a word of Chinese. Okamura Ningji looked at Wang Tingzhen amusedly and asked, "Why not?" ”

Wang Tingzhen replied seriously: "My soldiers can't run so far. ”

Okamura Ninji said: "This is war, if the butcher's knife is behind them, can they run?" ”

"Yes."

"That's easy, I'll organize a team of overseers, just behind the army, and if you can't run, kill them all." Okamura Ninji said coldly.

Wang Tingzhen couldn't cry or laugh, and hurriedly sent a telegram to Yuan Shikai for advice, Yuan Shikai was also taken aback by Okamura Ningji's plan, but after thinking about it carefully, he suddenly had a plan, and called back and said: "Implement Gangcun's plan and set off immediately." ”

Kill with a knife! Using the hands of the Jiangbei Army to eradicate these forbidden troops and the Eight Banners Army that were finally in the imperial court, Yuan Shikai sneered in his heart, no matter whether Okamura Ningji's plan would succeed or not, at least in his place, his interests had been guaranteed.