Hailan Bubble, the temporary headquarters, the conference room was silent, and the needle drop could be heard.

Commander Gribsky's white face was gloomy and dripping, the new chief of staff Leonides was also frowning, his face was solemn, and he didn't say a word, and Colonel Villar, the head of the Hylando garrison regiment, had a serious expression and fell into deep thought.

Knock knock!

Two knocks in succession finally broke the dull atmosphere of the conference room, and Gribsky whispered, "Come in." ”

One of the guards held a telegram and said, "Report to Your Excellency Commander, Captain Ilyas has sent a telegram." ”

"Read."

"Yes, Your Excellency Commander, the wreckage of the fleet led by Brigadier Moweihangkin has been found and is being cleaned up, and it can now be basically confirmed that the Movihangkin Infantry Brigade and the entire fleet have been wiped out,......。"

"Bastard."

"Oh my God."

"Is it April Fool's Day?"

……

Before the guards could finish reading the telegram, the commander Gribsky and the chief of staff Leonides began to curse their mothers, and the commander of the garrison, Colonel Villars, also opened his mouth in disbelief.

Three steamships, six gunboats escorted, and the brigade commander led by Major General Moweihankin himself, was actually wiped out in less than an hour, even if Gribsky and others already had some guesses, and now that the news was confirmed, they still couldn't believe that all this was true.

"Damn, who the hell did that?"

"Is it really a monkey?"

"Bastard."

The three of them chattered and scolded angrily, venting, a full infantry brigade plus an artillery battalion, four or five thousand people were wiped out so inexplicably, no wonder the three of them behaved like this, especially Gribsky, who was originally guilty, if the war still ended in failure, then he could only apologize with death.

After a full ten minutes, the conference room slowly quieted down, and Gribsky and the others slowly regained a trace of their senses, and began to think about how the next battle should be carried out, and how to report to the War Department and the Tsar.

"Braided at the back of his head, dressed in a standard military uniform, wearing an iron pot on his head, heavy artillery fire, armed with a large number of repeating rifles, Makqin heavy machine guns, and a large number of small artillery,......, these are all the words of a farewell telegram from one of the telegraphers in the Moweihankin fleet, you two say, which country will this army be?" Gribsky broke the dull silence.

"It's definitely not the Qing army." Leonides, the chief of staff, paused, and then said: "Dongying monkeys, it seems that they haven't heard that there will be an iron pot on their heads in the standard equipment, but they must be the most suspicious." ”

"I also think that the Dongying monkey did it, we have been dealing with the Qing army for many years, what is the situation of the Qing army, we are very clear, if the Qing army really has such a team, it will not even their Kyoto has been breached, and even their supreme ruler has to abandon the city and flee." Colonel Villar said.

The Eight-Nation Coalition began to formally attack Kyoto in the Qing Dynasty on August 5, after ten days of hard fighting, on August 14, it entered Yanjing City from Tongzhou, and began to attack the Forbidden City and the Imperial City the next day, on August 16, the coalition army and the Qing army started street fighting, and the Eight-Nation Coalition occupied the whole city of Yanjing on the night of one day, and then the coalition generals issued a military order to rob for three days, Villar has friends who serve in the coalition army, and he is envious of the feat of public robbery, which is why Villar is so clear.

What Villar didn't know was that yesterday, on August 20, the Manchu government officially issued the "Guilty Edict" in the name of Emperor Guangxu, and the content of the guilty edict was actually explaining to the coalition forces who should bear the responsibility for starting the war, and there is no doubt that the Manchu government believed that it should be the Boxers and the local bureaucrats, the army, and the ignorant princes and ministers who should be the targets of liquidation.

In fact, this is already the Empress Dowager Cixi preparing for peace talks, and this preparation starts from selling the people who have always supported him, especially the Boxers, however, the Boxers are still working for the Qing court in various places, but they don't know that they have been sold and are still counting money for others.

Of course, these are all digressions, and they have nothing to do with Villar or even Gribsky, and if they do, it only sets off their incompetence, but Villar judges based on this that the strong enemy on the opposite side is definitely not the Qing army, but it is reasonable.

"Dongying monkeys are indeed very fierce, I heard that in the siege of Yanjing, these Dongying people are also not afraid of death, and their combat effectiveness is really good, but their equipment should not be stronger than ours, but, hey, these damn Dongying people, they have not always been in Lushun Shengjing to make wind and rain, how could they come here, it makes no sense." Chief of Staff Leonides was somewhat self-contradictory.

"Forget it, let's not get entangled in who did it." Gribsky paused, and then said: "The top priority is to carefully consider whether the next war needs to be fought, and if so, how should it be fought, and how should we explain it to the War Office and the Tsar?" ”

Does the next war need to continue?

In fact, for Gribsky, this problem is not a problem at all, because he has no choice, he must fight, and he must play a certain result, otherwise, Gribsky, not to mention the future, even his life is not guaranteed, and the tsar, the irascible monarch, will never tolerate such a shame to live.

For Chief of Staff Leonides, in fact, it is similar, because the previous chief of staff is a lesson from the past, as for Colonel Villars, well, this kind of little person, the tsar will definitely not pay attention, but being in the same camp, one is prosperous, and one is lost, this is also applicable in Tsarist Russia.

"The commander is right, the top priority is indeed to consider this, but the war must be fought, even in the face of defeat, it is impossible to give up the war, besides, we still have a chance, Major General Ivanoves, brigade commander, is attacking Shangma Village at the moment, if nothing else, I think there will be a result soon. ，……”

"Knock knock!"

A knock on the door interrupted Chief of Staff Leonides, but instead of being annoyed, he said with some urgency: "Come in." ”

"Report, a call from the brigade commander of Major General Ivanoves."

"Read."

"Our unit has successfully landed, the Qing army's position has been broken, and it is ready to march towards Aihui."

"Haha, okay."

As soon as this telegram came, a smile finally appeared on the faces of the three of them, and the two armies were attacking, and one of the armies finally won the victory, which showed that the mysterious team was only a minority after all, because they could confirm that there was definitely no mysterious team in Aihui City.

"Your Excellency Commander, I think we must inform Brigade Commander Ivanovis of the situation in the Four Seasons Fishing Village, so that he must be extremely cautious and not fall into the trap of the other party, but Aihui City, we must fight, and we must fight, otherwise, we will not be able to explain to the War Department and the Tsar." Chief of Staff Leonides finally had a smile on his face, and his words were obviously different.

"Well, just do it, this battle must be won, but I need to remind Ivanovis that once you encounter a mysterious force, try to choose defense, figure out the details of the other party, report it in time, and once you take Aihui City, don't attack easily, just stick to Aihui City." Gribsky said.

"I think it's okay, but Ivanovis has a paranoid personality, I'm afraid I have to tell him again and again, in addition, do we need to send reinforcements, especially Major Stoyiv's fleet that is attacking Aihui head-on, their infantry is too small, only two battalions, is it not because now, a full-scale attack on Aihui City has not yet been launched, let them come back and replenish two more battalions." Chief of Staff Leonides said.

After hearing this, Gribsky shook his head and said: "It is necessary to tell Ivanovis that he must obey the order, but even if the reinforcements are counted, our Hailan Pao only has less than one regiment left, and if that mysterious force attacks Hailan Pao, the consequences will be unimaginable." ”

"Is this possible?"

Is it possible, it's really not Tsarist Russia's final say, however, I have to say that Gribsky is already a little scared in his heart, if it was before, Gribsky would never think that there is anyone in the Qing army who dares to attack Hailan Bao, but now, everything is really possible.

The explosion of the railroad tracks in the Ferutes Gorge, the attack on the Aleklovsk railway station, and the various attacks on the reinforcements that were being encountered during the build-up of reinforcements all made Gribsky feel uneasy, and this unease, which was almost at its peak at this moment, was definitely not going to take such a risk.

It was precisely because of this uneasiness that Gribsky once again told Colonel Villar after the meeting that he must do a good job in the defense of Hailan Bubble, strengthen the vigilance of the sentry posts and guards, and not take it lightly.

……

To the east of the city, in an abandoned warehouse.

"Vice captain, these old hairy mouths are really tight, but in the face of our concoction, they still recruited." Jia Zhen said with a grin.

"Oh, how's it going, is there a discrepancy in the confession?" Chen Jinjiang hurriedly asked.

Chen Jinjiang was really anxious, he sneaked into Hailan Pao last night, with the help of the intelligence department, Hailan Pao's defense map had already been obtained, but the specific troop situation was not clear, so he had to take the risk of tying up a few Russian officers before dawn, but these old Maozi bones were indeed hard enough, and they were interrogated separately for more than two hours, and they didn't speak.

"There should be no problem, the deployment map of Tsarist Russia is basically the same as the situation we touched, the situation of the troops, and the confessions of several people are also similar, I think we can call the commander back." Jia Zhen said.

"In that case, then you lead a team to sneak out of the city before dawn, go to the downstream landing point to meet the commander, and send a telegram from my side." Chen Jinjiang said.

"Vice Captain, why don't we go out of the city together."

"No, I'll lead the rest of the team and pick it up inside."

"Okay."

……