Another bad news, hearing what Inoue Xin said and combined with the telegram in his hand, Ito Hirobumi closed his eyes helplessly again and threw the telegram in his hand on the table.

Now the situation is already obvious, Liaodong has decided to go to war against itself, and the time, I am afraid, is just after the end of the armistice agreement, it may also be advanced.

"Your Excellency Prime Minister, should we inform the world of the signing of the armistice agreement with Liu Jun, so that the world can know the face of Liaodong." Inoue Xin lowered her head and thought for a moment, then asked tentatively.

"Do you think anyone can believe it?" After Ito Hirobumi finished speaking, seeing that Inoue Xin didn't believe it, he said again: "Then Liu Jun already knew that we would have such a hand, so in North Korea, we and he have never stopped fighting." ”

Inoue knows that in the past three months, on the Korean front, there has been almost a small fight in three days and a big fight in five days, although it is a shooting in the air, but it is also a battle.

"In addition, in the Far East, what happened to Liu Jun, desperate to support Tsarist Russia, this shows that Liu Jun knows that we will definitely fight this idea at that time, so it has already been arranged, and now when I say it, not only will the world not believe it, but will think that we Japan are just poor in donkey skills." Hirobumi Ito didn't look at Inoue Shin's eyes, but once again stated the reason.

It seems that this path is not going to work. Hear Hirofumi Ito's explanation. Inoue thought depressedly.

"Go and prepare, and in the evening make sure that all the cabinet members and ministers come to the conference room for a meeting." Seeing that Inoue Xin was still standing there, Ito Hirofumi said lightly.

In Duan Qirui's room on the third floor of Piaoxiang Building, Duan Qirui, who was wearing a military uniform, was standing in front of the window, watching the flow of people outside in a daze.

It has been two days since Boli arrived in Lushun, and he has not been summoned by the headquarters, Duan Qirui began to wonder in his heart, and he didn't know what he was going back to Lushun for this time. What exactly is going on.

With a creak, the door was pushed open, Duan Qirui looked back, and the person who came in was Feng Guozhang, who had arrived a day earlier than him.

"You said that Dashuai asked us to come back immediately, and didn't summon us, what's the matter?" Feng Guozhang came in to take a look at Duan Qirui, so the cabinet personnel and ministers went to the conference room for a meeting. Seeing that Inoue Xin was still standing there, Ito Hirofumi said lightly.

In Duan Qirui's room on the third floor of Piaoxiang Building, Duan Qirui, who was wearing a military uniform, was standing in front of the window, watching the flow of people outside in a daze.

It has been two days since Boli arrived in Lushun, and he has not been summoned by the headquarters, Duan Qirui began to wonder in his heart, and he didn't know what he was going back to Lushun for this time. What exactly is going on.

With a creak, the door was pushed open, Duan Qirui looked back, and the person who came in was Feng Guozhang, who had arrived a day earlier than him.

"You said that Dashuai asked us to come back immediately, and didn't summon us, what's the matter?" Feng Guozhang came in and looked at Duan Qirui and asked.

Duan Qirui really didn't know this, so he didn't know how to answer, he lowered his head and thought for a while, Duan Qirui put down the teacup in his hand: "Why don't we go and ask Ding Lao"

Ding Lao is the name given to Ding Ruchang by the commanders of other corps, after all, among the corps commanders, except for Nie Shicheng, the commander of the 23rd Corps, the oldest is Ding Ruchang.

Feng Guozhang lowered his head and thought for a moment. Nodding slightly, the two turned and walked out.

Ding Ruchang's room is not very far from the two of them, just after turning a corner.

The two pushed the door and walked in, and saw Ding Ruchang sitting on a chair with a newspaper in his hand.

"Why are you two here?" Putting down the newspaper in his hand, Ding Ruchang asked quietly.

The two sat down and voiced their doubts.

As soon as he heard this, Ding Ruchang stood up and pushed open the window, only to hear that in addition to the crowds on the street, there was also a faint whistle, which was the sound of warships entering and leaving the port on the other side of the port.

"Did you hear anything?" After pondering for a few moments, Ding Ruchang turned around and asked.

"The sound of people, and the sound of whistles." Duan Qirui, who was standing next to him, thought for a while and said, but it didn't seem to have anything to do with the question he asked the two of them. didn't understand, Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang both said they didn't understand, and they both looked at Ding Ruchang with puzzled expressions.

Seeing that the two of them didn't understand, Ding Ruchang smiled and said: "Actually, you all know that the marshal summoned us this time to set up something, but you don't understand why the marshal asked you to come back so urgently, but he didn't see the summons for a long time, right?" ”

Yes, the two nodded, they knew that this meeting of Lushun must be for the purpose of sending troops to Japan, but why didn't they get the order, this is where the two wondered.

A huge whistle sounded outside, and Ding Ruchang, who had been in the navy for so long as the commander of the Beiyang Naval Division, heard the whistle and immediately smiled and said, "The protagonist is back." ”

The protagonist, Feng Guozhang and others, looked puzzled. Seeing that the two didn't understand, Ding Ruchang returned to his position and said.

"Japan's geographical location is unique, it is completely surrounded by sea water, if you want to attack Japan, then it is necessary to send a naval division, its combined fleet is wiped out, and then you can use troops against it, in fact, the marshal's strategy is very simple, that is, first let the navy, take the sea supremacy, and then let the army land."

"What do you mean, now the big marshal is waiting for Li He, but Li He has already gone to Weihai, so why should we keep waiting?" Feng Guozhang understood Ding Ruchang's words and stepped forward and said.

Hehe, Ding Ruchang smiled: "No, Li He has already returned, the whistle just now, it must be Li He's flagship Hongzhang entering the port, wait, it won't take two days, the marshal will summon us to issue a task." ”

In the headquarters, Liu Jun was quietly in a daze in front of a huge sea chart, while Zheng Yiqian, who was on the side, was putting some symbols representing the number of the Liaodong Army on the map from time to time according to Liu Jun's instructions.

After all the signs were placed, Liu Jun took a closer look, then nodded and turned back to his position, and took a sip of tea from the side and asked, "There shouldn't be any problems with this deployment." ”

This was obviously asking Zheng Yiqian, Zheng Yiqian looked at the current map, he didn't know that in Tianjin and Lianyungang, there were two corps of nearly 90,000 troops, so if there was any problem, then there was really no way to fight this battle.

"Isn't it too much to use six corps to fight against the Japanese mainland?" Zheng Yiqian knew that Liu Jun meant that in the future, after the navy won the sea supremacy, he would transfer troops from Lianyungang, Tianjin, and Korea, and land in Japan under the cover of the fleet. But what they didn't expect was that Liu Jun would dispatch so many troops.

Many, this is not much, Liu Jun put down the teacup in his hand, he knows very well that although Japan now has only seven divisions on the mainland, this is a regular army, not a reserve, if counted, then Japan still has more than 200,000 troops, if you add what militia or something will appear at that time, I am afraid it will be more, therefore, it is not enough to have these six corps, at least two corps must be added, and then 50,000 in Germany will be added, and Tsarist Russia, at least 200,000 must be dispatched to completely solve Japan.