"Whew-huh-"

The cold north wind blew through the valley and howled desolately, and the snow drifted with the wind in the howling north wind. On the leeward side of the valley there is a barely sheltered hut that rises on this cold night to dispel the chill from the hut. Four women sat around the campfire, and the hot water was churning in a small pot in front of the center. If you think it's just four delicate women walking at night, you'd be wrong, and if you can't see the guns at their waists, you should see them all with a cold rifle by their side. It was all placed in the most convenient position, and one of them simply held the spear and closed his eyes, but his mind was all concentrated on the bits and pieces outside the hut.

There was a creaking sound of snow outside the door, which was so obvious in the night. The woman with her eyes closed immediately opened her eyes, and the two women around the campfire also heard the sound outside the door and immediately picked up their guns and prepared to be on guard.

"Sit down, there won't be anyone else but the two of them in the cold." The woman facing the gate didn't raise her head, but looked down at the map in her hand.

The other three women looked at each other and did not reply, but out of caution, the woman with the gun still stood up and leaned against the door, stealing through the wall panel that was not very tight and looked out. In the telescope, the outside of the house was shrouded in darkness, and the snow was flying around in all directions by the howling north wind. In the direction where the sound of snow treading came, there were only two figures faintly in the darkness, stepping on more than a foot of snow in the snowy night.

The two figures in the wind and snow leaned together, and there was no sense of guard. The woman with the gun looked around and didn't find anything unusual, and turned back to the two women who were looking at her around the campfire and nodded. Then focus on the outside again. It was just a temporary lodge for hunters, and it was poorly built. The walls made of wooden planks are full of holes. In the wilderness on a winter night, a hut glowing with fire is just too striking. Good thing this cottage is located in a valley. You can't see it from afar unless you go up the valley. But the absence of anomalies does not mean that you can let your guard down.

"Don't be too nervous, we've been preparing for nearly two years in the early stage of coming here this time, and we can't stand the weather when we come prepared. Do you think the Russians are really better than us? The woman who was looking at the map finally put it down and looked up, a smile on her face. Appearing in the hut in the wild between the wind and snow, it was the imperial concubine Qi Muge of the Qing Dynasty, I saw her take out two small cardboard boxes from her bag and hand them to the woman next to her: "They are almost here, give them a bowl of noodles." It was freezing on this day, and there was a bowl of hot noodles to eat. It's called Comfort. ”

The carton was opened, and inside was a piece of dough made up of curved noodles. Put it in boiling water and wait for the dough cake to boil, then add the seasoning packet that has been prepared, and it is a bowl of fragrant noodles. Then open a box of canned meat and put it in to cook, that one is called fragrant. Being in the wilderness, it is indeed very comfortable to be able to cook a bowl of such fragrant noodles, and it is really convenient to be heavier. It doesn't matter if you can't make a fire, the noodles are all fried and cooked. It's also good to eat with a sprinkle of seasoning. Instant noodles, sure enough, convenient.

"Wow, whoa, whoa." The instant noodles had just been cooked, and the people in the snow had just trudged to the door. The robe sheltered from the wind and snow shook three times outside the door, and then there was a knock on the door three short and two long. This is a temporary agreed signal to come back before they go out.

"Come in quickly—" The woman at the door also said the agreed password and opened the door.

Outside the door were two men, trembling in with two radios on their backs. It is the duty of the special forces to infiltrate, reconnoitre, and sabotage the enemy before the attack of a large force. This group of six people is a special operations squad. The captain is none other than Qi Muge, who is the imperial concubine. The other three girls were Mongolian maids who had been with Qimuge since she entered the military academy. According to the Special Operations Regulations, there are only five people in a squad. Originally, as an imperial concubine, she should not have appeared on the battlefield, but the imperial concubine who was far away in Mongolia had to fight in person. Even the emperor who was far away in Ningbo couldn't twist it, and Yang Dongzi could only match the imperial concubine with one more person and an extra radio station to ensure the safety of the imperial concubine. And their team is in charge of Irkutsk, as an important Russian material hoarding and transit city in the Far Middle, and there are two teams on standby around it.

Ten o'clock in the evening is the time for the special detachments to communicate with the headquarters, there is no signal in the valley, and if you want to communicate, you must go to the high ground outside the valley. After communicating with the headquarters, the two men were just about to speak when they entered the door and were interrupted by Qi Muge: "No matter how urgent it is, I can't do it tonight, so let's sit down and finish eating noodles first." ”

"Yes." The two men took the noodles handed over and sat down, took a long sip of the hot noodle soup and let out a long breath: "How did the emperor come up with this instant noodle, this is a great thing for us." ”

"I was still forced out of the Grangedai. I heard the emperor say that Tianzhuangtai had never lacked food because he had taken into account the supplies before, but he didn't take into account that this food was also a bit tricky before he ate it. So when I came down, I changed my pattern to eat. Qi Muge smiled and opened a box of canned food and poured it into the pot: "The emperor still wants everyone to eat better, so that they can have the strength to fight." Therefore, only by going deep into the front line can we know what the front-line personnel need most. It doesn't matter what line it is. ”

"That's that, if the emperor hadn't personally gone to the front line once, how could there be so much delicious food during the war." Perhaps because they felt that the matter was more important, one of them put down the bowl and said: "I just received a notification from the General Staff Headquarters that the launch date is September 12. ”

"Tomorrow?" Qimuge smiled: "It's been more than two months since I came out, and I've been waiting for it." What is our mission? ”

"Standby." Another man said: "Because of the weather, it is expected that the pace of the advance of the large force will be slowed. Our squads in the rear are still focused on monitoring their current targets. Unless the target has a clear move to reinforce the front line, all squads are not to be exposed. At the same time, for communications and other personnel that the enemy may send to the front line, hide yourself as much as possible without alarming the other side. ”

"I've waited for two months and my wife has to wait, what does the staff headquarters mean? The most important thing now is to launch an attack, all kinds of attacks, so that the Russians in the rear feel panicked and do not dare to reinforce the front! Qimuge angrily scolded, "A bunch of idiots who can only sit in front of the map and point fingers. ”

"The mother is angry. That's fine. At least you don't have to go up and fight. Saving your life comes first. One of the maids said with a smile.

"You're afraid that something will happen to me. This is the battlefield, there are only soldiers and no imperial concubines on the battlefield. ”

"But something happened to you. The emperor will peel off our skin. A man said with an aggrieved face. I thought that next time I came out, I would definitely not be in a team with the concubine. This is obviously not a military merit to be earned.

"Forget it. No one will come in this hellish weather, so don't be on duty tonight, and go to bed early. Tomorrow Irkutsk will definitely receive news of a declaration of war, and we will have to get closer and observe the enemy's movements. ”

After eating his supper, Qimuge pulled up the blanket that covered him tightly and lay down. Looking at the night outside through the cracks in the wall, listening to the wind whistling into the house, I thought to myself: the wind and snow are a good day to cover their approach. Then he slowly fell asleep in contemplation. However, some people were anxious about the strong winds that blew overnight.

Today is the day of the declaration of war on Russia, and today is the beginning of the recapture of the lost territory. Champion Hou Bei but Xiongnu, Dou Xian Yan Ran Shile. Today's Lake Belga was originally called the North Sea. It is a domain under the rule of the Northern Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty. The battle of Nebuchu was obviously won by the Qing Dynasty, but the North Sea was ceded to the Russians, and those emperors and lords of the Qing Kingdom had in their heads? Fortunately, with my Holy Son of Heaven in the world, a strong army and a rich country, China finally has the strength to recover its homeland under more than ten years of governance. At that time, hundreds of thousands of troops along the hundreds of thousands of miles of border from Heilongjiang to Xinjiang in the entire northern part of China will march towards their former homeland, and all hostile forces that hinder the army's recovery of their homeland will be completely wiped out. Just as the emperor said, how can the barbarian desecrate the territory of our Han Dynasty, we must not only recover our homeland but also fight it out and show our guns. Straighten your back and tell the European powers that the Han is no longer a nation to be bullied, and the world needs to listen to the voice from the East. However, there are very few people who know this and can't say it, but it's exciting to think about it.

Served as the first force of this huge offensive. It was not the Royal Chinese Navy that shook the Pacific Ocean or the Royal Chinese Army, which was among the world's great powers, but the Royal Chinese Air Force, which was the first in the world to be independent of the army and navy and the first in the world to soar in the sky. Faced with such a situation. As a major general and commander of the Air Force, Ren Pengfei said that he couldn't deceive himself if he wasn't excited. For today, they have been training hard for several years, going back and forth between heaven and earth to determine the air-dropped bombs. How many soldiers died in training. How much sweat spilled from the sky to the ground, finally in exchange for the opportunity for the Air Force to stand alone. The 35 airships on the school grounds are ready. The ammunition storage personnel were in place, and they waited for the wind to stop and set off. But this damn wind ......

"Didn't you say the wind would stop this morning? Why is there no sign of getting smaller at all-" Ren Pengfei kicked Liang Shan to the ground.

Listening to Commander Ren's roar, Liang Shan could only get up and pat his buttocks, but he didn't dare to speak. As China's first official meteorological observer, he has become the director of the China Meteorological Administration. He predicted that this winter would come early, but he did not predict that snow would begin to fall in Irkutsk by the end of August. He had predicted that the snow would last, but he had not predicted that it would fall so heavily. Three days ago, he submitted a report to the joint cabinet meeting, saying that it is expected that the northerly wind in the northeast will begin to weaken in the early hours of this morning, and the wind force will be very small at dawn and will not affect the normal flight of the airship, and there will be no wind or weak wind for the whole day, and the wind will gradually increase in the next three days, but it will not pose a threat to the normal flight of the airship. Therefore, the Joint Cabinet Committee confirmed the day of the declaration of occupation as September 12. It was already five o'clock in the morning, and the north wind that had blown from the sky in the dark night was still howling, and there was no limit to some weakening. Liang Shan no longer examines the data, he and his colleagues have double-checked the calculations three times and calculated them three times, and the results of the three calculations are that they have weakened in the early morning and there is no wind this morning. But the facts ......

Liang Shan just looked up at the sky, letting Ren Pengfei beside him roar in his ear. He didn't even dare to turn his head back, because he could feel the murderous aura in the eyes of Yuan Shoushan, the commander of the Northeast Theater in the room behind him. This is the Harbin Air Base, and the air force is scheduled to depart at 8 a.m., and it is planned to fly at a medium-speed speed for two and a half hours to reach the skies over Vladivostok, and at 10:25 a.m. to begin the first round of attacks on the northward advance plan. Five minutes later, the border army will simultaneously break through the border line and advance into the interior of Russia at maximum speed until it encounters resolute resistance.

Liang Shan knew that the wind would stop today. The battle is settled. But if the wind can't stop, his life will be over, because the entire national government's measures can be said to have been prepared according to his predictions. Let a weather forecast determine the direction of national policy. Only then did Liang Shan realize how heavy the responsibility he was resisting, and making mistakes at this time could only lead to a dead end. It's just that I don't have to go to the execution ground. didn't let the Air Force attack first, Ren Pengfei alone would have eaten himself to vent his anger.

At 8:30 a.m., the north wind was still blowing. Ren Pengfei snorted heavily at Liang Shan and began to order the soldiers on standby on the airship to withdraw from the airship, and at the same time dismantle the loaded ammunition and send it back to the ammunition depot. The officers and men of the Air Force, who had been excited all night, sighed and sighed, and walked out of their battle positions and began to assist the ground crews in dismantling and transporting bombs.

Heavy footsteps came from behind Liang Shan, and he didn't need to look back to know that it was Commander Yuan who came over. Yuan Shoushan stood behind Liang Shan and did not speak, he planned to listen to Liang Shan's explanation.

What else can be explained at this point? No matter how accurate the current weather forecasts are, he must be held accountable for the mistakes in the reports that affect the direction of national policy. Liang Shan stopped thinking about his data, closed his eyes and began to pray. The Jade Emperor, the Queen Mother, and the Wind and Rain. Let the wind stop. Buddha, Avalokiteshvara, Maitreya Buddha, let the wind stop. Hades, bulls and horses, black and white, let the wind stop. God, who is that...... Wait, God seems to be a foreigner's fairy, I ask the foreigner god to bless me to fight the foreigner, it doesn't seem to be very reliable, right? Forget it, it's better to beg our Chinese immortals. By the way, does it work to ask the master at this time? Forget it, ask for it first, and then talk about it. Confucius, Lao Tzu, so many sons, let the wind stop......

"Forget it, don't wait. Someone coming-" Yuan Shoushan waved his hand, and the two guards came up to pull Liangshan down.

"Wait." Liang Shan suddenly became serious. He took off his gloves and stretched his hand to the sky, and after a while, he said excitedly: "The wind is decreasing, the wind is decreasing rapidly. Wait a little longer, wait a little longer. ”

Maybe the Nine Heavenly Gods and Buddhas or the Nine Ghosts. It may also be that the sons heard Liangshan's prayer. The wind is decreasing rapidly, and now everyone on the school field can clearly feel that the wind is decreasing rapidly. Ten minutes later, the sky suddenly appeared windless.

"The wind stopped. The wind stopped. Liang Shan jumped up happily and pulled Ren Pengfei and shouted: "I said that there will be no wind today, so there will be no wind." The surname is Ren, how can you just kick me. ”

"Count. Lao Tzu is not available. Ren Pengfei was annoyed and angry, and scolded at the still stunned Air Force soldiers: "What to see." Put the bomb back for Lao Tzu. Immediately inflate the airship, all personnel are in position, and the airship is ready to take off. ”

"Stop reloading, stop reloading." Chief of Staff of the Air Force Huang Yang ran over: "It is impossible to fly to Vladivostok in an hour and a half when fully loaded." A reduction of at least two tons of ammunition is required. ”

"Two tons less!?" Ren Pengfei's eyes glared at the boss: "You want Lao Tzu to reduce two-fifths of the ammunition, and you plan to let Lao Tzu use saliva to attack the Russian bunker?" ”

"But I can bring too much ammunition, the airship is too heavy, and I don't need to rush up in time. Even if you fly at the highest speed, you must reduce it by one ton. "Huang Yang's words cannot be questioned.

"Then reduce it by a ton." Ren Pengfei scolded the ground staff: "Hear clearly, it's a ton, and I came back with one less Lao Tzu and slaughtered you." ”

Since the commander has made the decision to fight, as the chief of staff, it is difficult to say something, and the entire school field is running with the highest efficiency. At nine o'clock in the morning, all the airships had completed the final inspection before takeoff.

"Wait." Yuan Shoushan stopped Ren Pengfei, who was about to step into the No. 1 airship. Most of the Air Force training is carried out in the Northeast, so he is the army general who knows the Air Force best among the military regions. So he asked more: "This is the highest speed of a fully loaded flight, if the wind suddenly blows, you will not survive." ”

"Commander, from the first day of my military career, I am ready to die on the battlefield at any time." Ren Pengfei saluted Yuan Shoushan and then roared: "The white bones and horse leather shrouds on the battlefield, for the rise of China, die-"

"Die-" In the shouts of the entire Air Force, Ren Pengfei gave the order to take off. Airship No. 1 took off first, and before completing the air assembly, it was the first to accelerate towards Vladivostok in the northeast. Airships 2 to 35 then took off to catch up with Airship 1. Thirty-five airships lined up in the sky and shot at the enemy like a sharp arrow.

Looking at the air force airship without hesitation, Yuan Shoushan smiled, turned his head and told the guards: "Go and inform the troops." As originally planned - to die. ”

Later, it was commented in the history books that Marshal Ren Pengfei, who was the commander of the Air Force at the time, dropped the first bomb in Vladivostok, which meant that China, which had just completed its internal integration and was still unstable, proudly fired the first shot of its outward expansion.

Outside the Forbidden City Gate at this time. It has long been full of ministers waiting for the court, although the clothes are not yet uniform. But none of them wore Manchu coats anymore. The goodbye of colleagues is no longer a thousand but a bow with hands folded, although there are all kinds of them, but they are all happy. On the periphery, the reporters who got the news were already with long guns and short guns and equipment in the designated area.

"The order of the princess of the prison country--, the ministers and workers of the Jin-see-"

At the same nine o'clock, with Kou Liancai's shouting. Hundreds of civil and military officials sorted out their clothes, and walked into the noon gate in a row. This is the first Han dynasty after the Han people lost the world for more than 200 years. The cool breeze blowing from the north could not blow the fire in their hearts.

In the court, Li Tian, who was only six years old, sat on a high chair in front of the dragon chair in a newly made princess dress. Standing beside her was Yang Zao'er, who was in a backcoat.

At the court meeting, Li Tian received courtiers on behalf of the emperor. Subsequently, Li Hongzhang, the prime minister of the prison state, read out the abdication edict issued by the Manchu Empress Dowager Cihui, and at the same time Li Hongzhang announced that the emperor was worshipping the ancestor Yellow Emperor in Xi'an before returning to Beijing to officially ascend the throne. During this period, Li Hongzhang and the ministers of the DPRK and China will continue to perform the duties of the imperial court and ensure the normal operation of the country, and the imperial court policies that have been promulgated will not be changed in any way, and will be reconfirmed after the emperor returns to Beijing and ascends the throne.

This was the first court meeting of the new dynasty. At the court meeting, the eldest princess Li Tian immaturely invited her mother and descendants to read out her father's will. The decree confirmed that the new dynasty would succeed the Manchu dynasty and continue to govern the land of China, and that the new dynasty would be based on the basic etiquette of the ancient Han system. The new dynasty will also continue the concept of Chinese tolerance for thousands of years, and will establish a brand-new country with Han people as the main body, represented by Manchu, Mongolian, Tibetan and Hui, and a community of all ethnic groups living in the territory of China. At the same time, we should respect the original traditional concepts and customs of other ethnic groups. We will not promote changes in clothing and customs.

Subsequently, envoys from Ryukyu, Korea, Anui, Luzon, Sulu, Gurkha and other countries, and Chinese representatives from Pontianak, Java and other places. Explain to the eldest princess that because of the late notification time, the monarchs of various countries cannot arrive. After offering tribute, he said. When the emperor returns to Beijing for the enthronement ceremony, the kings of various countries will personally come to congratulate him. on this. Princess Celestia accepted and offered her a reward. Hawaii, Sarawak and other countries close to China also sent representatives to say that when the emperor goes to the throne ceremony, their monarchs will also come to watch the ceremony in person.

After that, Foreign Minister Tang Shaoyi handed over the official documents of the left-behind government to the ministers of various countries on behalf of the left-behind imperial court. He also explained that after the emperor returned to Beijing for the enthronement ceremony, the new government and the envoys stationed abroad would formally submit their credentials to the country, and the envoys of the former Qing State abroad were still the envoys with full powers of the current left-behind government, and their functions and powers remained unchanged.

The Russian minister Cassini was the last to receive the official letter, but when Tang Shaoyi handed it over to Cassini, he also said: "Our new dynasty will no longer accept all treaties on territory signed between China and Russia, including the Treaty of Nebuchu." It is therefore hoped that your country will return all the territories that it has illegally occupied with us, as is clearly stated in the official letter addressed to you. Of course, this is limited to treaties on territories, and the DPRK will continue to implement other treaties on economic cooperation. ”

Cassini just came back to his senses after a flute, and now the north is snowing heavily, and the Russians who grew up in the north can't stand the cold winter in Siberia, could it be that China plans to attack Russia in winter? Cassini thought that this was impossible, so he smiled and said: "Then the government of the new dynasty will also take back the concessions given to various countries by the former Qing Dynasty?" This question made the other ministers nod their heads frequently, and they also wanted to know the answer. This is because the new Chinese government had never mentioned the territorial issue in the briefing.

"It was leased by the Qing State, and it was to be returned when the time stipulated in the treaty came. However, your country forced me to cede the former Qing Dynasty, and it cannot be equated. ”

"Does your new government mean that it is going to declare war?"

"It depends on whether your country will pay it back."

"What can you do if you don't pay it back? Are you planning to attack our country in winter? Moreover, the Qing Kingdom has been destroyed by you, and your new government has not yet been fully established, in what name do you plan to declare war on our country? ”

"I know you don't want to pay it back. Have you forgotten that the emperor once said: Whether it is the former Qing Dynasty or the new dynasty, this is just a dynasty in this country. This country has an eternal name, and it is called China. Tang Shaoyi took out another edict declaring war from his sleeve: "I, Chinese Foreign Minister Tang Shaoyi, declare war on your country on behalf of the Chinese government. ”

Cassini didn't take it, but made a salute to Li Tian on the stage and asked, "Your Royal Highness Princess, declare war on our country, is this what you mean?" ”

Cassini's question is very level, because it is Li Tian's personal meaning that is asked. Before the court meeting, Li Tian had already been declared as the princess of the prison country, which means that in legal terms, Li Tian already had the right to decide national policy. If Li Tian said no, then not only did this declaration of war have no legitimacy, but even the legitimacy of the new government would be questioned. So the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty looked at the queen nervously, hoping that the queen would come forward to speak and not let Li Tian say something wrong.

Li Tian has seen a lot of deliberations between monarchs and ministers, which is not difficult for her. Li Tian just turned his head and asked, "Queen Mother, does Uncle Tang mean that the Russians robbed us of our things and didn't return them, and planned to go to a fight to get them back?" Did we win? ”

Yang Zao'er smiled and said: "The Russians have robbed our land, and as for whether they will fight or not, they will always know if they will fight." Your father, grandfather, and uncles thought they had been beaten. ”

"Slap", Li Tian's little hand slapped on the dragon case, and said angrily: "If you rob our land, you dare not return it, beat him." ”

Looking at Li Tian, who looked like an adult, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were staggering. The faces of the ministers of various countries were ugly, and Cassini's face was even more dead, and they could see that this scene had not been arranged beforehand. And a young princess can be so decisive, what kind of mentality should this country have. The British minister, Douglas, felt threatened by the country in the East.

"It is worthy of being my Han princess, as a young daughter, she is not inferior to a man, and other princes can be imagined. I am hopeful for a resurgence. Li Hongzhang smiled and said: "Since His Royal Highness has made an order, the ministers will naturally obey the will." Cassini, do you hear me? ”

Tang Shaoyi slapped the edict of declaration of war in Cassini's hand, and then looked at his watch: "It is now 10:08 a.m. on September 12, 1904, and the war between China and Russia has begun. ”

If China is not found to be at war again, the tsar will swallow him alive. A frustrated Cassini had not yet returned to the legation when he received a report from the embassy staff that at 10:28 a.m., the Chinese Air Force had launched an aerial bombardment of Vladivostok. Two minutes later, the Chinese army crossed the border into Russian territory. (To be continued......)