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A mature politician will not let national emotions dictate his decision-making, Lu Liang is not a mature politician, and his actions are not even a politician, but seem very naïve in many things. The national sentiment, which is generally used as a tool by politicians, has become an important factor in influencing Lu Liang's decision, but Lu Liang does not regret it, and national sentiment is the main driving force for Lu Liang to do this career.

In fact, in terms of interests, Lu Liang's national sentiments do not conflict with national interests. The extermination of Japan is not only in line with the national interest, but also in line with Lu Liang's private feelings; in this small place in the Far East, it is impossible to accommodate the coexistence of two powerful countries, and there are irreconcilable contradictions between the two countries.

In particular, in the course of the Northern Expedition, he repeatedly violated the interests of the great powers, ignored the treaties signed between the Manchus and the foreign powers, and even did not hesitate to sink the warships of the great powers and encircle the leased land. He had to create favorable conditions for himself to come up with sufficient strength to deal with that war, and the European powers were far away from thousands of mountains and rivers, and even if they intervened with arms, they would not exert much ground power, and to completely conquer a culturally unified, populous, and vast country like China would be tantamount to a disaster for those countries in Europe. The real imminent threat to China is Japan, and nothing else can be said if it is eliminated.

Not only Lüliang, but the Russo-Japanese War has become the focus of the world, attracting the attention of the whole world, which has also given the revolutionary government that has been too high-profile in recent times to take a breather, and the great powers have no time to pay attention to this small local government, and perhaps in their opinion, they only need to draw a little strength. You can strangle this regime, it just let him take advantage of the loophole before!

For the Russo-Japanese War, Lu Liang was concerned not only about the impact of the war and the opportunities given to him, but also about the course of the war. The steel base does have a clear historical record. However, there are discrepancies between the recorded history and the real historical facts, not to mention that I don't know how much deviation from reality there is now due to my own influence, which requires a better grasp of the actual situation.

In addition to the agents of the Investigation Bureau scattered in Japan, Russia, Taiwan, Korea, and Tohoku, there are also submarine groups of the Navy in charge of obtaining war information. The intelligence of the two verified each other, providing the most complete and accurate intelligence reference for Lu Liang and the General Staff Headquarters.

Lushun Shengchanglong Supermarket is the star store here, since the rise of supermarkets in the south, supermarkets jointly run by Guangdong businessmen and locals have spread all over the country. Goods from the southern factory are spread all over the shelves of the supermarket, pushing the cart to buy freely, and the goods are dazzling, satisfying people's shopping desires to the greatest extent. And most of the decoration in this is made of products from the Southern Building Materials Company, bright and avant-garde, coupled with a beautiful shopping guide, every supermarket has attracted a large number of customers, and Shengchanglong is no exception.

This supermarket attracts more than just locals. It is also the largest supplier to the Russians in Lushun, and the daily necessities are the favorite goods of the Russians. They bought in huge quantities, and some Russian officers acted as middlemen, ordering large quantities from supermarkets and selling them at high prices in the country. If household goods are the most popular among Russians, then cement is the most demanded product by local Russians, which would have been transported by the Trans-Siberian Railway. It is one of the most important resources for the construction of fortresses, and it is indispensable, and now there are new channels, and the price is much cheaper and more abundant than that of transportation from the country. As a result, Lushun's demand for cement in the south is almost endless, as much as you want, in addition to Lushun, Shenyang, Liaoyang, and even Vladivostok in the northeast need to build fortifications to prepare for war.

Of course, there must have been a rather tough backstage for such a big deal, and the Russians, including the governor and the upper echelons of the garrison, would take a share of the supermarket's profits, so to speak, 80% of the profits of the Shengchanglong supermarket were taken by them, not including the tax part.

The world is difficult, and no matter how difficult it is, the trade must continue, because this supermarket is a branch of the Investigation Bureau, responsible for collecting information about the Russian garrison in Lushun and the Russo-Japanese War. After getting the news from the headquarters, the supermarket dismissed most of the local employees and stopped the transportation between here and the south, and the external reason was that the funds were broken and the business was suspended, but Wang Jun, the head of intelligence and the owner of the supermarket, knew that the most important task was coming.

The situation of the Lushun garrison and fleet has been fully figured out, and now waiting for the Japanese army to come, the accurate time of the outbreak of the war and the scale of the battle, the course and the results will be sent back to the headquarters as soon as possible. The Shengchanglong warehouse and warehouse near the port were not off-limits, providing an excellent environment for intelligence officers to observe.

"Notice that an English steamboat entered the port, and at this tense moment, no one but the Russians themselves did not know that war was imminent, and that the English steamboat must have entered at this juncture for a different purpose. Is there a record of the time when the steamboat arrives at the port? In a warehouse in the port, Wang Jun is observing here with two of his men, and the transmitter placed in a large box is ready to send out the latest information.

"Don't worry, boss, I have also received five months of training from the General Administration, and I know what to do!" Wang Jun's deputy is a young man Zhou Shijie, who is just nineteen years old, and never pays attention to the tone when he talks to his boss, but he is indeed very smart, and he knows many things thoroughly, and he is a good material for being an agent!

This British steamboat really had ulterior motives, it came to take away the Japanese consul in Lushun, what does the evacuation operation mean? Even the fledgling Zhou Shijie knew that it was a pity that the Russians in Lushun were waiting to ignore it again.

The sneak attack on Lushun began immediately, and it was actually an action between the two countries to compete for sea supremacy. Waiting below sea level off the coast of Arthur is a submarine. The Seawolf-class Tiger Shark is the thirteenth ship of this class, and Captain Lu Zhan is staring at the sea near the periscope observer, which is the only way to enter the outer harbor of Arthur, and the Japanese Combined Fleet will definitely pass through it.

On February 6, 1904, Togo Heihachiro's combined fleet was ordered by the Emperor of Japan to sail to the Yellow Sea to attack Russian ships anchored at Arthur and Incheon (Jemulpo). The Russian army was paralyzed and careless, confused by Japan's diplomatic deception, and of course it is not excluded that the Russians themselves drank too much vodka. General Witheft, chief of staff of the Russian Pacific Fleet, shouted that "the war cannot be fought." The upper echelons thought so, let alone the lower-level officers and men. The main base of the Russian Pacific Fleet, the ice-free port of Lushun, where the Russian side drew up a fortress defense plan that was originally not completed until 1909, and the fleet was stationed here and rarely went to sea for training. Governor Aleksayev was aware of the breakdown of the Russian-Japanese negotiations, but did not take any contingency measures. It can be said that the huge size of Tsarist Russia has been reduced to a pot of porridge on the inside, and it is not difficult to understand why the weak Japan will win this showdown with the behemoth.

At midnight on February 8, the Tiger Shark dived underwater again, and the submarine did not stay below the surface all the time, as a World War II-level submarine like the Tiger Shark spent most of its time on the surface, diving only in case of an emergency or when a fight was required. Although it is not advanced, relatively speaking, submarines are still the best reconnaissance tools at this time, and the officers and men of the Navy at this time do not deliberately need to look for dangers below the surface of the water (except for torpedoes), and there are no good means to deal with submarines.

"The visual situation at night is very bad, you can't see anything, how can you observe the battle?" Captain Lu Zhan complained to himself after putting on the periscope.

"Do you want to move out a little further, now our position is not far from the main channel, if the combined fleet suddenly appears, with a very close distance and searchlights, it is very likely to find us in ambush under the water."

"Well, stay away from here, our task is not to participate in the battle, but to confirm the timing and result of the outbreak of the battle, without risking it!" Lu Zhan decided. Nothing can be seen in the direction of the open sea, and even a towering battleship will be blocked by waves and night. But in Port Arthur, the lights are bright, and what stupid Russians!

"The Japanese fleet was discovered, it was a destroyer, there were three squads!" Through the periscope, Lu Zhan witnessed the outbreak of the war in its entirety.

With the help of coastal lighthouses and searchlights of Russian ships, the Japanese ships kept an eye on the Russian ships in the outer port of Arthur without any protection, and fired 16 torpedoes at close range, three of which hit the target, severely damaging the three most advanced ironclad ships in the Russian fleet and opening the prelude to the war. (To be continued.) )