Inoue Xin swallowed a mouthful of saliva and looked at Hirobumi Ito, who was now looking at him with his eyes breathing fire. Immediately stepped forward: "Your Excellency Prime Minister, you listen to my explanation." ”

Explain, Hirobumi Ito looked at Inoue Xin, who was now anxious, and took a deep breath, he was going to listen to what Inoue could say.

"Your Excellency, I am not doing this to compete with you for the position of Prime Minister, but because of this." After Inoue finished speaking, he handed the document in his hand to Ito Hirobumi, who believed that Ito Hirobumi would definitely be able to read it.

Report on the troop movement of the Liaodong Army in North Korea. Looking at the document in front of you. Hirobumi Ito raised his head sharply, looked at Inoue Shin beside him, and buried his head in the report again.

The report was short, only a few pages, but Ito read it for a long time.

An hour later, after Ito Hirobumi put down the documents in his hand, he motioned for all the people around him to leave the office, leaving Inoue Shin alone to talk for nearly three hours, no one knew what the two of them were talking about, but the guards knew that after coming out of Inoue, the relationship between the two became more and more stiff, even to the point of incompatibility.

But in any case, the secret meeting between Ito Hirobumi and Inoue Xin was still intercepted by the Liaodong Intelligence Bureau and sent to Zhong Lin.

Zhong Lin, who received the telegram, was puzzled at the time, this Inoue Shin and Ito Hirobumi were arguing over the matter of competing for the prime minister, and he did not understand why the two were still together, and they were alone in the room for several hours.

couldn't solve his doubts, so he could only pick up the telegram and go to Liu Jun, after all, in his opinion, Liu Jun would definitely be able to think of things that he couldn't think of.

Urgently nagging Liu Jun's study, Zhong Lin saw Liu Jun looking at the map of the Handan area as before. He knew in his heart that the battle of Handan was imminent. Two corps are tearing open Xingtai. In a few days, the battle of Handan will start, and Liu Jun is looking to see if the deployment there is perfect.

"Head, Japan's emergency secret telegram." Zhong Lin stepped forward and woke up Liu Jun, who was in front of the map.

Japan, Liu Jun put down the command in his hand, turned around, and Liu Jun took the telegram after showing a trace of doubt on his face.

"What's the matter?" After reading the contents of the information, Liu Jun returned to his position after reading the telegram and threw it on the table.

"October 8 is the third day of our mobilization of North Korean troops." Zhong Lin calculated the time.

Odd? Liu Jun suddenly frowned. There's definitely something wrong with that.

"Head, do you think this is a bitter meat ploy?" Zhong Lin thought for a while and said what he thought in his heart.

Bitter meat plan, this is not impossible, after all, if the two are competing for the position of prime minister, then the two sides will attack each other, how can they meet, and it is still a secret talk.

No opponent will be together, at least not on their own. However, this does not mean that the two have a conspiracy.

"I guess there is also a problem, as soon as we move our troops, Inoue will go to the Prime Minister's Office. Just in case. We're going to get ready. Zheng Yiqian, who was next to her, stepped forward and expressed her worries.

"Head, what my sister-in-law said makes sense, just in case, are we going to transfer back the troops to Fujian?" Zhong Lin, who bowed his head and pondered, stepped forward.

What the two of them said makes sense, Liu Jun looked at the two now, he also wanted to mobilize the troops back, but now the troops have gone south, and they will arrive in Fujian in a few days, if they are being transferred back at this time, then the prepared Zhejiang campaign will be postponed. It also failed to achieve the goal of containing the northward movement of the Liangjiang troops.

"The original plan remains unchanged, and in addition, let the troops stationed in Jilin secretly mobilize an army to reach the North Korean border and enter the DPRK at any time." Bow your head and ponder for a moment. Liu Jun stood up and began to give real orders.

He didn't believe that Japan could go to war at this time.

Xingtai. Everywhere is desolate. Inside and outside the city, there was smoke everywhere that had not been extinguished. Both the Qing army and the Liaodong army were already exhausted from fighting here.

In the past three days, the Liaodong Army blasted Xingtai City into a gap of several tens of meters, but it could not rush up, and Li Yuanhong also got up, at a gap of more than 50 meters. Nearly ten machine guns were placed, and this powerful firepower caused the attacking Liaodong Army to suffer heavy losses and then retreat.

Bunker outside the city, Xingtai Battle Headquarters. Luo Dacheng looked at the troops who had retreated again, sighed angrily, and smashed his fist on the sandbag.

"Lao Wang, I think it's okay to directly mobilize artillery and bombard Xingtai City." Luo Dacheng looked at Wang Shizhen, who was sitting on the ammunition box in a daze, and stepped forward to suggest.

Wang Shizhen took a look at Luo Dacheng, why didn't he want to do this, the problem was very clear, if he bombed Xingtai, not only would the base for attacking Handan be destroyed, but even if Liu Jun was, he would not be able to explain it.

"Lao Luo, don't be anxious, I've taken a look in the past two days, and the Qing army is running out of ammunition. If we can alleviate for two days, then the defenders of Xingtai will run out of ammunition and food, and they will inevitably retreat at that time. Feng Guozhang next to him looked at Luo Dacheng, who was turning in the bunker like an ant, and stepped forward to comfort him.

"Oh, I'm just in a hurry, you said that this Li Yuanhong, in Neiqiu is a turtle here or a turtle, if you have the ability to come out happily, let's have a good fight." Luo Dacheng, who had nowhere to vent, turned around and pointed at Xingtai and began to scold.

Luo Dawei was born with a short temper, and his favorite thing was to pick up a machete, and then get on the horse and have a pain with the Qing army, but now that he has become the commander of the corps, there is no such treatment, and he can only think about it.

Wang Shizhen looked at Luo Dacheng, who was still scolding, shook his head, and looked at the map again.

A huge red line surrounded the entire Xingtai regiment, and it was impermeable, and almost on every side, there was a division of troops besieging it, encircling the 20,000 defenders of Xingtai in the dilapidated city of Xingtai, which had been bombed.

Surrounded by groups, Wang Shizhen frowned, he felt that he wanted to give the Qing army a chance to live.

After thinking for a while, Wang Shizhen stood up, beckoned the two to sit down, and told them what he meant.

Surround Xingtai by yourself, that is, shorten the retreat of the Qing army, and the Qing army will inevitably defend Xingtai and fight with itself here if it is unable to break through.

But once he opened an opening and gave the Qing army a chance to live, the situation changed, at that time, even if Li Yuanhong wanted to defend Xingtai, the officers and soldiers below were bound to waver, so when they launched a strong attack, the Qing army was bound to survive and retreat.

"Okay, I suggest that we enlarge the troops at the south gate and withdraw them so that they have a chance to withdraw to Handan, and we will let the cavalry come forward as soon as the Qing army leaves the city. If you don't want to be completely annihilated, at least you have to beat him down. Luo Dacheng punched the map.

"I also agree, Feng Guozhang on the side was not as excited as Luo Dacheng, but nodded slightly, indicating that he agreed with Wang Shizhen's opinion and Luo Dacheng's suggestion."

Seeing that both of them agreed, Wang Shizhen smiled slightly, called a communication soldier, and went to the south gate to convey the order.

At the headquarters of the Qing Army in Xingtai, Li Yuanhong had not received news for nearly a day, and in the past two days, the offensive of the Liaodong Army has increased significantly. And the four gates are surrounded by regiments, their contact with Handan has also been interrupted, up to now, they have not received any information for three days, a few days ago, they sent an urgent telegram to Handan, hoping to send reinforcements, but according to intelligence, the reinforcements of a association has been defeated by the Liaodong Army in the city pass of Shahe, and now Xingtai City has become a dead city.

"Co-ordinator, emergency, according to the South Gate report, the Liaodong Army where it is stationed has withdrawn."

What? Li Yuanhong stood up from his position at once, and quickly came to the map to find the south gate.

Something is wrong, how could the Liaodong Army suddenly retreat.

"What's the other situation?" Taking a deep breath, Li Yuanhong asked the general who had just come in, he wanted to make sure that the Liaodong Army of the other three gates had already retreated.

"No, according to the situation, the retreating South Gate Army has been transferred to the North Gate." The general shook his head. Report the intelligence.

"Damn, it's really lacking in morality." When Li Yuanhong heard the news, he angrily threw the pen in his hand on the map.