Chapter XXVII: War is Coming

"Dashan-kun, are we really going to go to war this year?" Ito Hirobumi knelt on the tatami mat, straightened his waist, and said to the loose and shapeless Oyama Iwa: "Now the country is in a crisis, just like a person walking on a tightrope hanging in the air, if you are not careful, you will fall." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Between Hirobumi Ito and Oyama Iwa is a table with a purple clay pot and five matching cups on it. A faint scent of electricity wafted from the clay pot and filled the room.

Dashan Yan was not a very serious man when he was young, although he had a strong wrist, once cleared a group of army generals who insisted on learning from France out of the ranks of the army, and once committed a massacre in Lushun. But this man does not have such high demands on himself.

Not only is he not very serious about himself, but it can even be said that he is a little indulgent about himself. However, this is not a stain, for a person in a high position like him, personal integrity is not the main criterion for judging.

Dashan Yan was wearing very comfortable clothes, and he sat cross-legged without any momentum. After listening to his friend's words, he raised his head and said, "It is because the country is in the aftermath of the crisis that it is necessary to use a fierce attack to open up the situation." ”

"Then do you think it is a practical thing for the Chinese Song Biao to attack?" Ito Hirobumi was still essentially a bunji faction, and although he planned the Sino-Japanese War with Oyama Iwa, he was firmly opposed to the merger of Japan and Korea.

"Of course it's possible," Oyama said, "Do you think it's not feasible, Ito?" ”

Ito Hirobumi smiled and said, "I'm just not sure what the consequences of this matter will be, so I'm going to talk to you." ”

"Then you are looking for the wrong person," Dashan Yan said lightly: "I just have to make plans and allocate materials, it is Shan Shan County who makes the decision, and the commander of the army is Kuroki, if you want to talk, it is better to find them." ”

"I know that you have always wanted to incorporate the entire Liaodong into the territory of the empire," Ito Hirobumi's eyes sharpened, and he stared at Dashan Yan with burning eyes, "I also know that the military department has been preparing for war with the Russians. However, now that the situation has changed, we are adjusting our strategy as the situation changes. ”

Oyama Iwa was unmoved, as if he hadn't heard what Ito Hirobumi meant. He didn't always maintain the demeanor of a samurai like Ito Hirobumi, and he didn't wear formal clothing, which was very different from his military characteristics. Maybe it's because he puts his mind on fighting that he can be extremely powerful on the battlefield.

"Ito, now that the arrow is on the line, I have to send it." Like most of the Japanese high-ranking people of this era, Oyama was quite proficient in Han culture, and all kinds of allusions came casually. "And it's also a way to reinvigorate morale and show the might of the Imperial army, otherwise ......"

Oyama didn't say the rest of the words, but Hirobumi Ito already knew what he meant. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan gradually embarked on the road of militaristic expansion, relying on several provocations and battles before and after to establish the invincible power of the imperial army.

In particular, in the last Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese army defeated the Qing army on the Korean Peninsula, the Shandong Peninsula, Liaodong, on land, on the sea, and on all battlefields. After this battle, the Japanese can finally proudly claim that they are the strongest power in East Asia.

However, such a beautiful bubble was punctured in the chaos of Gengzi year. At that time, the Japanese army mobilized two divisions and several mixed brigades, and a total of nearly 60,000 people were put into the Hebei battlefield. I thought that the Boxer mob could be easily suppressed, but it turned out to be broken through the glasses of a large group of people.

The prestige Fifth Division made a rash attack in Hebei, only to be divided and surrounded by several times the Chinese, and held out for less than a week before being routed. The Japanese, who were just trying to deal with the British, paid attention to it, but by then it was too late. The Japanese, who had been hit head-on, lost their troops in that month-long battle, and it can be said that they lost face.

Fortunately, they were not the only ones who were slapped in the face, and the Germans and Americans behaved even more poorly, which made the losses of the Japanese look less striking. Coupled with the subsequent news blockade and tricks such as modifying the battle damage data, the whole incident was suppressed.

Since then, those people in the War Department have been trying to make a comeback and get back the lost face. To this end, they sent quite a lot of officers to serve as instructors in the Beiyang Army, and also provided a batch of cannons at a low price for Beiyang at that time. Originally, they still wanted to sell some rifles, but from Yuan Shikai to Cao Kun, they couldn't look down on the Japanese rags, so the Japanese stopped.

Then the Beiyang Army was also defeated.....

Therefore, the Japanese need to prove that their army is still the strongest army in Asia, and it is still a strong force that can press the Chinese to the ground and rub against them, although in fact they are in the wrong direction. Even if they would defeat the Russians in the future, Chen Cheng and Lin Mengchu would not look down on them.

"Do you have to go to war?" The momentum on Ito's body was like a knife against Oyama's chest. Ito was a samurai by birth, and although he tended to be a bunji, he still did not deviate from the tone of the Japanese. When Li Hongzhang was forced to sign the Treaty of Shimonoseki, he was very domineering.

In the face of Ito Hirobumi's momentum, Oyama Iwa also had to get serious. He straightened his waist and said loudly, "It's already time to go to war!" ”

"So, are you ready to end the war?" Hirobumi Ito's voice was unusually loud, echoing throughout the room.

It is very difficult to start a war, it consumes astronomical sums of material and money, as well as the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers. And it is more difficult to end a war than to start a war.

Dashan Yan said seriously: "It's ready!" ”

Ito Hirobumi stepped back some distance, pressed his hands to the floor, then lowered his head, raised it again, and then said loudly in an unusually serious, unusually serious tone: "Then, go and take the victory, Oyama-kun!" ”

"Hey!" Dashan Yan did the same thing, and he pressed his forehead to the ground.

Then, Oyama raised his head and said, "Ito, you should still go and tell Kuroki what you said!" ”

Ito Hirobumi raised his head and looked at Oyama Iwa, and couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Of course, I will naturally go and talk to him, as well as those generals who go on the expedition." (To be continued.) )