Jilin, maybe this year's cold winter is particularly long, it was already April in Jilin actually had a light snow last night, and the temperature suddenly dropped so that Feng Guozhang, who had changed into a summer general's short-sleeved clothing, had to change into a thick dogskin military hat in winter.

"What the hell is it." Feng Guozhang in front of the window looked at the bright red flowers and snow outside the corps headquarters, muttered a sentence in his mouth, tightened his green cloak again, and turned back to the huge map.

"Duan Qirui is so lucky, he was able to enter Boli, I don't know when my old Feng will have a chance, after carefully looking at Boli on the map of Tsarist Russia, Feng Guozhang muttered to himself in the room.

In his heart, now, for Duan Qirui, it can be said that he is envious, jealous and hateful. The northeast borders on Tsarist Russia, not only Heilongjiang, but also Jilin and Outer Mongolia, but the Japanese have no eyes, and actually give up the particularly close Shuangchengzi and turn to Boli, which makes what should have been a good thing for Feng Guozhang to go to Tsarist Russia suddenly Duan Qirui snatched.

This kind of first person who can raise his eyebrows is not him, but Duan Qirui, how can Feng Guozhang feel good in his heart.

"Hey." A slight sigh came from far away from the study.

"Commander, what are you sighing about?" Wu Ruihua, chief of staff of the Third Corps, walked in, saw Feng Guozhang with his arms folded and sighed at the map, and asked in confusion.

Wu Ruihua is a native of Lushun, a regular professional class, and Feng Guozhang is an alumnus, both of whom once studied in Tianjin Wubei Academy. Before the First Sino-Japanese War, Wu Ruihua was incorporated into the Feng army, Pyongyang in the first battle, after the Feng army commander Zuo Guigui died in Pyongyang's Xuanwu Gate, the Feng army lost its command, and he also scattered with the troops in the process of retreat, and then entered the Liaoyang Sheng Army, when the head of the Sheng army surrendered to Liu Jun, he was the chief officer of the outpost of the Feng army's front battalion. However, subsequently, the Liaodong Army was expanded in Dalian, and as a military academy, he was naturally among the promotions, and successively indifferent to the commander of the Liaodong Army and the commander of the division.

The Liaodong Army was reorganized, and he was ordered to become a partner with Feng Guozhang, becoming the commander of the Third Corps of the Liaodong Army and the commander of the Ninth Division of the Fifth Army.

Seeing that it was Wu Ruihua, Feng Guozhang shook his head depressedly and smiled: "I'm thinking, Duan Qirui doesn't know how to attack our Third Corps when he comes back in the future." ”

"Is it because we didn't go to Tsarist Russia?" Wu Ruihua lowered his head and thought for a few moments before smiling slightly. Although he didn't hear what Feng Guozhang meant, Feng Guozhang's nod confirmed his speculation.

"Commander, don't worry, I'm here today to tell you good news." After Wu Ruihua slightly, he took out a telegram from the chest bag of his lieutenant general's uniform and handed it to Feng Guozhang: "Lushun Marshal urgently telegraphed." ”

The handsome man sent a telegram urgently, and Feng Guozhang, who heard these words, suddenly retracted his thoughts from the trap and took the telegram from Wu Ruihua's book.

"The marshal ordered, let our Third Corps and the Fifth Army immediately end all training, cross the river with the day after tomorrow, and enter Shuangchengzi."

Okay, Feng Guozhang, who heard this order, excitedly read the telegram he received, then walked quickly to his position, took out a piece of paper from the side in a few clicks, quickly wrote a few lines on it and signed his name and seal, and then handed it to Wu Ruihua: "Immediately order, let the engineer regiment build a pontoon bridge on the Ussuri River, Ningwai, let the Fifth Army stop all training, and each division must replenish ammunition within two days and wait for the departure order." ”

Excitement is inevitable, and even said that he is even more excited than Duan Qirui, although Duan Qirui has crossed the Heilongjiang River, but Boli is on the side of the Heilongjiang River, which is nothing, and the two cities are different, it is a place that has penetrated nearly 100 kilometers into the Far East of Tsarist Russia, and the feeling of crossing a river and going deep into the territory of Tsarist Russia will not be the same.

"My old Feng also has a day of raising his eyebrows." Seeing Wu Ruihua's departing figure, Feng Guozhang squinted his eyes and held up his chin and thought in his heart.

Arthur Command. After a week's work finally reached noon, the weather was getting hotter and hotter, which made Liu Jun have to pick up a chair after completing the review of documents, and go to the corridor outside to cool off as in previous years.

Zheng Yiqian always knew that once Liu Jun sat down in the corridor, she would take it for a day, and even where she would deal with some documents, so she brought some necessary things to the corridor early and put them on the bench in the corridor on the side.

There was a whistle in the distance, and the army who closed his eyes opened his eyes, and he saw that the Beiyang Navy Zhenyuan, under the escort of the armored cruiser Ruojing, was emitting smoke and going out of the port.

Zhenyuan and Dingyuan, these two warships with old qualifications in the Beiyang Naval Division, over the years, after repeated renovations and replacements, the speed has been raised to 16 knots, and the naval guns on it, after Pei Yinsen's modification again, will replace the original 305 mm caliber guns, but use the unified caliber of the main guns of the Liaodong battleships, 300 mm, otherwise, these two warships have to produce shells for them, which is a waste of manpower and material resources.

When Dingyuan Zhenyuan was designed, because it was equipped with four horizontal guns on both sides of the ship, it had a lot of space, and after the modification, because the four guns were one in front and one behind, the space was saved, which was more conducive to Zhenyuan Dingyuan's shooting.

"What do you want?" Seeing Liu Jun looking at the Zhenyuan who was leaving the port in a daze, Zheng Yiqian asked suspiciously.

"Nothing?" Of course, Liu Jun would not tell Zheng Yiqian, in fact, just now, he was thinking about converting the Zhenyuan and Dingyuan into seaplane carriers in the future.

Although at this time, the aircraft in Liaodong was still being studied, and it was a failure again and again, Liu Jun knew very well that in the future, planes, especially in naval battles, planes and ships on board would play the leading role, and battleships would slowly disappear and become history.

This is also why, Liu Jun suppressed the plan proposed by Li He and the Admiralty to build five to six battleships, but it is not that Liaodong does not have that strength now, not to mention five, even ten, that is not a problem. The problem is that this aircraft will be able to fully mature in just a dozen years, and it will take two or three years to build a battleship, and if it is all completed, it will be impossible to do it without five or six years, and once it is completed and the aircraft appears, then the battleship will become a pile of scrap metal, just like the combined fleet of later generations, the battleship Nagato, which is the world's first, from the time it is built to the time it sinks, he will go out to perform a mission, and the rest of the time, he will stay in the port, and then let the United States destroy it.

It's not a cost-effective deal, Liu Jun won't do it, of course, he gave Pei Yinsen a shipbuilding plan a year ago, but it was not a warship, but a ship that made Pei Yinsen think about it and didn't know what it was.

"Where's Zhong Lin, where is it?" Seeing Zheng Yiqian's disbelief, Liu Jun quickly diverted the topic.

"I went to the intelligence bureau, and I heard that the German fleet has arrived in Malacca."

So quickly, Liu Jun frowned fiercely.