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86_86661 Chen Zhong said, generals, this king has explained to you in detail the importance of the anti-Japanese war in the north and south of the strait. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

From the strategic significance of participating in the Russo-Japanese War, as well as on the future of Hainan, including the whole of China and even the world, it will have an extremely far-reaching impact.

Judging by the data of the parties involved in the war, we have a 60 percent chance of victory. It's a big gamble with a lot of data.

The price of this gamble is that we in Hainan may be regressed for many years because of this, and it will even bring about a catastrophe.

However, we have never fought unprepared battles, we are now strong soldiers, the unprecedented unity of all sides of the Hainan army, moreover, Japan and Russia have been fighting a war for more than a year, both sides are exhausted, and our army's intervention at this moment will surely reap the benefits of the fisherman, and exchange the greatest benefits at the lowest price.

This greatest interest is the interest of the entire Chinese nation, and it is the interest of completely strangling Japan's ambitions outside the country, and it is worth betting!

Because this expedition is of great significance, this king will personally lead our 200,000 army troops and the Hainan fleet to the northeast to participate in the war.

This king commands! General Zhou Zhiguang had full authority to command the Battle of Guangzhou, and General Zhang Tong, in addition to being in charge of Hainan's internal affairs, also succeeded General Li Chuang as the defender of Hainan and was responsible for Hainan's border defense. Xiao Yang is still in charge of the supply of the armies of all parties in Hainan and the construction of Hainan's military industry.

In addition, General Li Chuang led the training of 200,000 new troops and the command officers who had completed the first phase of training at the military academy to go to the northeast with the king.

General Chen Fangzheng, leading your newly expanded Hainan Fleet, will join the Russian Second and Third Pacific Fleets in the naval battle against Japan.

During the period when the king went to the northeast, General Zhang Tong was in charge of various affairs in Hainan.

After Chen Zhong completed his work arrangements, he received Vice Admiral Rozhdestvensky, commander of the Russian Second Pacific Fleet, and Ivan Ivanovich, the special envoy of the Russian Tsar, in the Xiyuan Hall of the Hainan Palace.

Chen Zhong said: "Mr. Lieutenant General's voyage of more than 30,000 kilometers without ports for replenishment is unprecedented, and your feat has been praised all over the world. ”

Slightly arrogant Vice Admiral Rozhdestvensky said: "This is just an extremely small thing for our great Russian Pacific Fleet, and it is not worth mentioning. ”

Chen Zhong looked at the arrogant Russian lieutenant general in front of him, but he was a little sad. Because, he knew, this lieutenant general, would soon become a prisoner of the Japanese army. It seems that a person's talent and a person's cultivation should be directly proportional.

Lieutenant General Rozhdestvensky was born in 1848, graduated from the Khailovsky Artillery School, and when he was young, he participated in the Russian-Turkish War of 1877~1878, and won medals in the Battle of Styki.

However, in 1901, he was still only a little-known commander in the Baltic Fleet. Served as commander of an artillery maneuver during one of the exercises personally visited by Nicholas II with Kaiser Wilhelm II. During the live firing of naval guns, a detonating device was installed on a target preset on the island, which won praise from visitors for its "amazing hit rate."

This also began the soaring rise of his position in the army. He was appreciated by the Tsar and has risen to prominence ever since. In 1903, he became the chief of the General Staff of the Russian Navy with the rank of rear admiral, and in 1904, he was promoted to the rank of attendant general. He was 56 years old when he became commander of the reinforcement fleet, and was at the best age for this position.

Rozhdestvensky has a withdrawn personality and is moody. He had no experience commanding a fleet before the Battle of Tsushima, and was severely wounded and captured in the Battle of Tsushima, and was tried on his return, but was ordered to retire after he lost consciousness and command prematurely, and died three years later.

This Rozhdestvensky was supposed to be a frustrated, sad Russian general in his later years.

Rozhdestvensky said unhappily: "Your Excellency the King of Hainan, I don't know how our Emperor Nikolai could be so frightened when he couldn't withstand setbacks and fight a small country in the land of projectiles. Our great Russian fleet is powerful enough to destroy three or four fleets like Japan at once, so why do we need your help? ”

Chen Zhongzhen felt sad for this conceited lieutenant general, forget it, some pointless verbal disputes are meaningless. The whole world does not believe that such a behemoth as Japan and Russia can win against each other, let alone themselves?

Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov, who was sitting next to him, also sweated for this lieutenant general, he was afraid that this invincible lieutenant general would offend the king of Hainan, so he wanted to be smooth for Rozhdestvensky, but was interrupted by Chen Zhong.

Chen Zhong knew that the combat effectiveness of the Russian Second Pacific Fleet led by Vice Admiral Rozhdestvensky was extremely weak. This lieutenant general was just pretending to be arrogant in front of the king of Hainan.

In the last century, Russia promised in the Treaty of London that the Russian Black Sea Fleet would not pass through the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus and enter the Mediterranean.

In other words, the Russian Black Sea Fleet is a completely defensive fleet, which has no other role than cruising the Black Sea in the depths of the interior, so the only naval force available to Russia is the Baltic Fleet.

After the Tsar decided to send the European and Russian fleets to help, the original Pacific Fleet was renamed the First Pacific Fleet, and the Eastern Aid Fleet was given the Second Pacific Fleet, and Vice Admiral Rozhdestvensky was appointed commander of the Second Pacific Fleet.

What is even more worrying is that there are still three Balodino-class warships of the Second Pacific Fleet, which have not yet been completed, and seeing that the Russian fleet in the Far East is trapped in Lushun, and the military situation is as anxious as a spark, but the imperial Russian bureaucracy still does not change its previous consistent attitude, and the time drags on day by day.

In addition, since most of the trained officers and men of the Russian Navy were in the Far East, Rozhdestvensky had to recruit veterans and peasants who had never seen the sea to serve as sailors and retrain them, which had a great impact on the overall combat effectiveness.

So, Chen Zhong changed the subject and said: "Vice Admiral Rozhdestvensky, I admire your professionalism and courage, under such difficult resistance, you have worked hard for the glory of the Russian Empire and trained a powerful Pacific Second Fleet in such a short time. However, this king does not know if it will be uncomfortable to train a group of peasants to become sailors in the navy in such a short period of time? ”

Vice Admiral Rozhdestvensky heard Chen Zhong's words, eased the atmosphere a little, and said: "There is no way, because the time is too rushed, plus other reasons, I can only do this, as for the combat effectiveness of this fleet, Your Excellency the King of Hainan, you don't have to doubt it." ”。

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