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Lan Tianwei's words caught the attention of his two comrades - if Yi Shui heard it, he would think "this is some kind of new news" - but for Lan Tianwei, Zhang Shaozeng and Wu Luzhen, it was the limit of what they could reach if they could get the news from two days ago, thanks to Qin Lang and Yi Shui's liaison, as well as Western journalists.

Mainly Western journalists: Qin Lang's liaison contacts contact them once a week, and Yi Shui's once every four days, so most of the news comes from the newspapers in Guangzhou Bay.

There is no other way. The Qing government, like an ostrich with its head buried in the sand, took a blind eye to what was going to happen after declaring its neutrality and then making the east of the Liaohe River a war zone, and only Western diplomats and journalists in the embassy district of the whole of Beijing would openly talk about the situation in the northeast, and without the newspapers in Guangzhou Bay, they would have to wait for Qin Lang and Yi Shui's liaison.

After all, they did not have the opportunity and did not qualify to participate in the salons in the embassy district.

The Qing government did many stupid things, and this is one of them.

"If I could go to Tohoku to watch the game...... Damn Tartar! Zhang Shao once muttered—since it had decided to play the ostrich, the Qing government had naturally refused to send government personnel to the field observation mission organized by the British, a decision that had always annoyed him, and he would complain whenever he had the opportunity—Lan Tianwei and Wu Luzhen glanced at him, then turned back and marked the "latest movements" of the Japanese army on a map of Korea with a red pencil.

"First Seoul, now Pyongyang." Wu Luzhen looked at the map, "The Japanese are about to take full control of North Korea." ”

"Then the Japanese army will cross the Yalu River." Lan Tianwei said, "It's very similar to the situation at the first noon. ”

"What are the Russians doing?"

"The Russians did nothing but continue to build fortifications in Lushun, Liaoyang, and Mukden, neither sending troops into Korea nor fortifying the Yalu River."

"The Russians are going to put the Japanese in the Northeast?" Wu Luzhen was a little upset. It's one thing to know that the war of two vicious dogs will take place in the Northeast, and it's another thing to watch it happen, and few people can do it unmoved.

Especially at a time when the actions of the Russians showed a clear intentionality.

Lan Tianwei shook her head slowly. "My sense is that the Russians don't take the war seriously, as if they can win by doing anything, although neither the British nor the Americans think so. News came from Canton Bay that war bonds issued by the Japanese in Britain and the United States sold well. ”

"So?"

"The messenger said it meant that the British and Americans were bullish on the Japanese and felt they could win."

"Only if Japan wins, those war bonds can be cashed, otherwise the British and Americans will have to send their navies to Japan to force debts." Zhang Shaozeng interjected, a little proud. "I have asked Mr. Qin and Mr. Yi for this kind of question." After a pause, he added: "Dispatch the navy to force debts, this is what Mr. Qin said." ”

His words had little effect - not the expected reactions. Finance and politics are not what Wu Luzhen and Lan Tianwei are good at, nor are they concerned.

Only the military is.

Staring at the map, Wu Luzhen thought for a while, and finally sighed. "I have a hunch that the Russians have already lost this war."

His demeanor made Lan Tianwei feel strange. "Do you regret that the Russians lost the war?"

"Of course not." Wu Luzhen denied, "I don't like Russians, and I don't like Japanese. But it's a dog-eat-dog war, so I hope it lasts long enough to leave these two vicious dogs exhausted and bruised that they won't be able to recover for many more years. ”

"Without considering the location of the war, I agree with you." Zhang Shao once said.

"That's why I'm not interested in joining a field observation mission." Wu Luzhen sighed again, "If you don't regret it, you regret it even more." ”

Field Observation Mission! Hearing this word, Zhang Shaozeng's resentment that had just calmed rose again. "Look, we had a good chance to get to know our enemies, but those cowardly fools gave it up...... I wish I could have removed them from power now. You know, I'm having enough. ”

"Calm down, keep your patience, the time is not yet ripe to overthrow the Manchu government." Lan Tianwei said in a warning tone, although he himself didn't know if the time was ripe, but Qin Lang said so, Yi Shui said so, and Zhang Binglin and others said so.

Lan Tianwei believes that Qin Lang, Yi Shui and Zhang Binglin's political vision are all that he still does not have. Since they agreed that the time was not ripe, the time was not yet ripe and that they would have to continue to wait, and therefore they would have to continue to endure some institutional problems that they could no longer bear.

He stared at Zhang Shaozeng and put pressure on him. However, Zhang Shao only planned to vent his anger with complaints, but he didn't really plan to do something, but Lan Tianwei's gaze made him feel uncomfortable.

Fortunately, Wu Luzhen intervened in time. "I think we should continue to discuss the situation of the war." He deliberately flipped through the map to make noise, "What do you think the Japanese will do next?" Let the troops participating in the war cross the Yalu River in order? ”

"The Japanese are not so stupid." Glancing at Zhang Shaozeng for the last time, Lan Tianwei focused his attention on the map, "If my guess is correct, the Japanese will land on the Liaodong Peninsula, cut off the Russian army in Lushun from other Russian forces in the northeast, and then find a way to capture it and annihilate the Russian Pacific Fleet in one fell swoop......"

"Half of the warships of the Russian Pacific Fleet are anchored in Cam Ranh Bay and Vladivostok, and the Japanese cannot completely annihilate it." Zhang Shaozeng interrupted him and made a gesture to strengthen his tone, "But I agree with you, the Japanese army will land somewhere on the Liaodong Peninsula, cut off Lushun's connection with the rest of the region, and then split a force to besiege it and try to occupy it." But at the same time, the main forces of the Japanese army were going to attack to the north, not to pin down the Russian troops in the northeast, but to crush them. ”

"Very bold idea." Lan Tianwei said, continuing to look at the map without turning his gaze to Zhang Shaozeng - deliberately.

Zhang Shaozeng raised his eyebrows. "Do you have any comment?"

"I once discussed the Sino-Japanese War with Mr. Qin. The basic strategic thinking of the Japanese, he said, was to crush their opponents before their finances dried up, and then end the war on favorable terms for peace negotiations. ”

"That's what he said to me, too."

"Do you think this is still what the Japanese conceived this time?" Lan Tianwei paused for a moment, and then said, "My opinion is the same. However, I doubt that the Japanese have the ability to carry out offensive operations on two fronts at the same time. ”

"Frankly, I don't know if the Japanese have that ability, but I'm sure the Japanese will do that." Zhang Shao once said affirmatively.

"Why?"

"Remember the Japanese general named Nogi Noshinori?"

Lan Tianwei nodded. Even without considering the legendary stories of the officers and soldiers in the army who had fought with the Japanese army two years earlier, there was a biography of Nogi Noshinori on his bookshelf, which was given by Qin Lang as an interesting joke. How could he have forgotten about this Japanese general?

"What's wrong with this man who is dead?"

"I know you have a biography of Nogi Noshinori that Mr. Qin gave you on your bookshelf, but you obviously didn't see Mr. Qin's message on the title page." Zhang Shaozeng smiled, "What he wrote is that I wish General Nogi to be with the Japanese army." ”

Lan Tianwei thought for a moment. There seems to be a message. "So?"

"He is already with the Japanese army."

Lan Tianwei understood what Zhang Shaozeng meant. It was quite interesting, and he was about to make a little comment, but at the moment when he was about to speak, Wu Luzhen, who had been staring at the map silently, next to him, interjected into his conversation with Zhang Shaozeng again.

"You're all right. It's just that who can tell me where the Japanese will land on the Liaodong Peninsula? ”

Lan Tianwei and Zhang Shaozeng were stunned - they couldn't answer Wu Luzhen's question. On the one hand, they were not high-ranking officers of the Japanese army, and no one passed intelligence to them, and on the other hand, it was only by this time that they realized that they knew almost nothing about the terrain of the Liaodong Peninsula and did not know which places were suitable for landing and which were not. If they knew this information, they could also make a guess based on the terrain, but for now......

Both men set their eyes on the map and stared at it, motionless, hoping that someone would point them the right answer.

"Here, and here." Qin Lang retracted his outstretched hand, turned around, and explained to O'Connor and Harrington, who were listening carefully, "The Japanese army may land in these two places, of course, first of course, the Japanese will wait for Kuroki Weizhen's First Army to cross the Yalu River and occupy the first line of Jiulian City and Phoenix City. Once this goal was achieved, the movement of Russian troops in South Manchuria would be restricted, and the Japanese troops landing in Manchuria would be able to quickly move into the depths. ”

"Much like the situation in 1894." O'Connor commented.

"That's how you feel, Sean." Qin Lang shrugged his shoulders and then jumped into the next topic. "I've got to say, you're doing a great job."

He was referring to the sand table that O'Connor and his company's military advisers had built over a week to include the Korean Peninsula and northeastern China, twenty feet in length and width, and the terrain and topography were as close as possible to the actual situation in both regions -- although still inaccurate, the map itself was inaccurate -- and Qin Lang thought that they had done a good job, both in terms of their actions and their results.

"Maybe we can renovate a dedicated sand table room." He said.

O'Connor sighed. "Rachel thinks it's redundant."

"But she's also reasonable." Qin Lang glanced at Yi Shui, who was fiddling with the small flags representing Russia and Japan, and squeezed his eyes at O'Connor. "As long as you make sure that Yi Shui's time here is far less than the time he spends with her......"

"I hear you, Qin." Yi Shui's indignant voice came from the side.

"I'm just telling the truth, friend." Qin Lang replied.

O'Connor smiled bitterly, and then said, of course, to divert the subject: "I still wonder how the Japanese attacked the Russian fleet at Artal, do you know the answer?" ”

How the Japanese torpedo boats slipped into the inner harbor of Arthur through the narrow channel, and how they slipped away lifeless after the torpedo was a question that puzzled O'Connor and the company's military advisers, and was also bothering naval officers in many countries, but they, of course, were only O'Connor and the company's military advisers, and felt that Qin Lang might know the answer, or, even if he didn't, he could find it.

Qin Lang smiled. "I have a hypothesis and some clues, but I still need to confirm it."

"What assumptions?"

"I'll tell you first as soon as my vision is confirmed, Sean, I promise." Qin Lang smiled again, "Until then, you can focus on the good show that is being played. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )