Chapter 2000 - Going North to Resist Japan
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86_86661 The German military industry delegation reached a large amount of arms orders in Hainan through nearly three days of negotiations. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The Hainan royal palace ordered 100 Makqin heavy machine guns and 400 Krupp cannons. This cannon caliber 280 mm. The barrel is 11.2 meters long, weighs 44 tons, the elevation angle can reach 30 degrees, the effective firing range is 19,760 meters, the shell can penetrate 65.8 cm of steel plate within 3,000 meters, and can fire 1-2 shells per minute.
But the place of delivery turned out to be German? Surprised, delivered in Dajinzhou, Northeast China.
The president of Krupp asked Chen Zhong in puzzlement: "Your Excellency Hainan Wang, I really don't understand, why did you choose to deliver goods in the far northeast in Hainan?" ”
Chen Zhong smiled and said: "Mr. President, this is a military secret, I will have further small talk with your King William, you just need to guarantee the time and place of my arrival." ”
The advisers of the German delegation shrugged their shoulders and said: "Well, Your Excellency the King of Hainan, your actions have always shocked the world, and I am sure that in the near future this order will definitely become a legend of a war."
I'd love to add some necessary spice to this saga. Your Excellency Hainan Wang, we are very interested. Everything will be done according to your wishes, and you can trust the efficiency and integrity of our Germans. ”
After sending off the German delegation, Chen Zhong immediately convened an emergency military meeting and elaborated in more detail on the strategic plan for the next step.
At the beginning of the meeting, Chen Zhong recounted a recent newspaper article about the Russo-Japanese War. The article said that among the many prisoners of the Japanese army, a Chinese was tied in the middle, and many stood on the left and right, the same strong physique. And showed a numb look.
The Chinese who was tied up was a military detective for Russia, and was about to be beheaded by the Japanese army to show the public, and the people who came to appreciate the grand display were gathered around.
This passage is about a scene in the Russo-Japanese War, a strange war in which two powerful neighbors fought on the land of the Qing Dynasty, while China, as a landlord, strangely declared neutrality.
At the same time, our people are forced to serve these two countries, and our people shed blood and sweat for the sake of someone else's country in their own homeland. And their own country is the spoils of war for these two countries.
Generals, you say, is this a shame, it is a shame that we have never had in China for thousands of years!
This king was shocked by this scene! As sons and daughters of China, we have the responsibility to awaken our country, our nation and our people, and we cannot let others slaughter us in such ignorance!
This scene also deeply stimulated the king, here, the king wants to talk about the Russo-Japanese War, in the face of such a broken situation, we in Hainan should stand up bravely and take this responsibility!
As far as the Qing court is concerned, the Russo-Japanese War, which began a year ago, was not only a shame, but also a "rehearsal" for the imminent "dismemberment" of the two neighboring countries.
The Russo-Japanese War was fought by Russia and Japan, but the final result was to carve up China's territory, so how can its "strategic significance" and "foreshadowing role" be underestimated?
Strategically speaking, the Russo-Japanese War was a watershed in the Asia-Pacific strategy of Russia and Japan; before the war, the two countries were opponents, and after the war, Japan and Russia reached a "tacit understanding" on the aggression against China, and the general tone changed from "pinching" to "close cooperation." After that, Russia will certainly become a good helper and good partner of Japan's aggression against China, and their purpose is to divide China. Japan, on the other hand, also reciprocated Russia for its tacit agreement to divide China.
After the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, the victorious country Japan saw that it was about to get the long-coveted Liaodong Peninsula of China, but the "three-country intervention to return Liao" made Japan rejoice, and in the "three-country intervention", France and Germany only "acted in friendship", and Russia was the one who led the leading role and shouted the most.
At that time, one of the most famous Japanese scholars, Defu Sufeng, once landed on the Liaodong Peninsula and was very unwilling to use a handkerchief to hold the sand and soil of Lushunkou as a commemoration of Japan's "regretful loss" of Liaodong.
Ten years later, the Russo-Japanese War brought shame to Japan, but the world knew that Japan was a "miserable victory", and after this war, Japan realized that on the road of aggression against China, it could not kick away the stumbling blocks of the powerful polar bears, and it was better to "be prosperous" than to "lose".
The idea of dividing China equally between Japan and Russia germinated from the Meiji Restoration, and until the Russo-Japanese War took shape, during the Meiji Restoration, there was a very influential Japanese senator named Eto Shinpei, who once published a very influential article -- "The Theory of the Dichotomy between the North and the South of China," which held that although China's territory was very large, its gas was exhausted and it was incorrigible, and Japan should unite with Russia to divide China, and after the partition, the northern part of China would be ceded to Russia, and the southern part would be owned by Japan.
Undoubtedly, the Russo-Japanese War was a rehearsal for the two evil neighbors to "divide China equally," but the Qing Dynasty, which maintained its "neutrality" in the Russo-Japanese War, reveled in complacency from beginning to end in "subduing China with razing." This was completely a numb prey that did not know whether to live or die before being hunted miserably.
The generals remembered the eve of the Russo-Japanese War, in 1900, another period of shame for China - the entry of the Eight-Nation Coalition into Beijing. The Empress Dowager Cixi tried to give her all her might, through the last bit of strength and blood in China, to restore her personal power and dignity. But she still failed.
China has become the cake of the great powers. And Japan and Russia are the two most greedy beasts of all. Japan, in the Sino-Japanese War in 1895, defeated the decaying Qing State and reaped enough benefits, but the red-eyed Tsarist Russia, dissatisfied with Japan's vain ambition to invade Northeast China, used its strong national strength to force Japan to spit out the Liaodong Peninsula.
It's funny, this can be regarded as a clever plan for Li Zhongtang to control razing. Taking advantage of the discord between the great powers over the prey, he used his own money to buy back his territory, but then gave it to Tsarist Russia - his clever plan may have succeeded, but it immediately showed us that another shame was being played out - the Russo-Japanese War.
Therefore, in the face of the ambitions of the Japanese, when the king formulated the national strategy, he had already made arrangements for today's situation.
Hainan has entered an extremely stable construction, and the time is ripe for our Northern Expedition. In the strategy of the Northern Expedition, at the same time as the battle of Liangguang, the most important step of the king's strategy was to erect the banner of going north to resist Japan!
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