"It's really ashamed to say that it is necessary to borrow the wisdom of our ancestors to deal with the inappropriate governance measures of the huge land that has been laid down. I can't keep pace with the times, it's really unfilial. Li Hongzhang put down the policies and regulations of the Criminal Department that had just been drafted and leaned back in his chair.

"Who said it wasn't, but the younger generations were able to lay down a huge territory, and they were right to be the ancestors. If Li Xiang hadn't thought of the policy of the state of confinement, the later students would probably have been helpless so far, and the later students would have to ask Li Xiang for more benefits. After Yan Fu stepped forward to pour Li Hongzhang a cup of tea, he took out a fold and handed it over: "This is the administrative officials at all levels who are planned to be sent to the state of Jian by the late students, and Li Xiang is also invited to approve it." ”

Li Hongzhang didn't take the excerpt, but just looked up at Yan Fu: "The old man is old, old, and his energy is not good, and this old man can't take care of it." After speaking, he stood up and walked out: "Which officials to send, Yan Xiang is on his own, so don't ask the old man's opinion again." ”

Yan Fu said goodbye, and when Li Hongzhang went out and walked away, Yan Fu straightened up and ordered left and right: "Immediately submit this recital to the emperor for review." ”

The assistant took the fold and put it in the sealed bag and hurried away, Yan Fu looked around and looked at the ****** office hall. Here, it is difficult to see an old minister like Li Hongzhang, and most of the young courtiers in the ****** office building today are in their thirties, both in terms of energy and experience, which is exactly the state that a rising country should be. Although the old ministers of the previous dynasty were suspended here, if it were not for the grand ceremony or important affairs, they would basically not come, and most of the old ministers would simply have made fun of their grandchildren at home. Just as Li Hongzhang left the hall, the old era was over. A new era has begun......

When the sky lit up again, when the first rays of sunlight shone on Omsk. With Lei Zhenchun's order, the two artillery divisions, which had already moved their positions to the east bank of the Irtysh River, gathered fire again. Saturation fire strikes were launched on the last positions of the Russian army on the western front of Omsk. The whistling shells instantly enveloped the entire Russian army in smoke and dust, and the explosion kicked up large chunks of dirt, which seemed to be mixed with broken human bodies......

The Russian army, which had been defeated after a night of fierce fighting, could not reorganize its army to restore morale in a single day, and in fact, it was not necessary to carry out such a high-density artillery strike. However, it was decided to carry out a round of artillery fire, because the people who watched the battle were not only Chinese commanders, but also officers from Japan, Ryukyu, Korea, Anui, Gurkha, and Sulu, as well as officers from Burma, Annam, Nanzhang, Siam, Cambodia, Je Mangxiong, Bhutan, and other countries serving in the 8th Brigade. This artillery bombardment and the impending frontal offensive were not so much the defeat of the last Russian defenses as a show of force by China to the vassal states. The image of strong force and benevolence. It is the most powerful guarantee for China to conquer the world.

"With such a density of artillery fire, it is estimated that there is not much left of the Russian Maozi. I don't think there is any need to continue shelling, China is not rich enough to save it. Duan Qirui smiled and motioned for the herald to extend the artillery, because he saw fear on the faces of the officers of various countries. The effect of the shelling has already been achieved, and that is enough. So the fire coverage, which was supposed to be scheduled for an hour, ended after half an hour.

The extension of the artillery was the order for the armored division to attack, the roar of the engine sounded, and the black smoke from the tail exhaust pipe quickly surrounded the armored division, and the armored vehicles painted in black loomed in the smoke, making it even more hideous. One after another, the tanks rushed at full speed towards the Russian positions. The infantrymen who followed closely behind also took a step forward and ran. As long as they can run fast enough and cling to the back of the armored vehicle, they are basically safe. There is nothing better than an armored car's shield, not to mention the fact that this is a shield that can move itself with heavy firepower. As for stray bullets or something, then leave it to fate, drink water and choke people to death. Not to mention the war. For ordinary soldiers, as long as they can earn third-class military merits, they can be regarded as worry-free in this life. It is still very difficult to obtain a third-class military merit. But collective third-class merit is still easy to obtain in such a founding war, and the imperial court has always rewarded military merit very heavily.

Report. The 3rd Panzer Company broke through to the enemy's position, and did not encounter stubborn resistance. It is advancing in depth. ”

"Report, the 19th Panzer Company broke through to the enemy's position for four miles, was blocked on the side of the big ditch, and the sappers are rushing to repair the road."

"Report, the 7th Regiment of the 11th Division killed an enemy major general."

"Report, the 2nd Division has captured an enemy major general and is being escorted to the rear."

Report ......

The war has just begun, and there are many good news ahead. The Russian army, which had completely lost morale, was unable to organize a powerful blockade, and besides, they had not yet found an effective way to destroy armored vehicles.

"The Russians are still good, although they can't destroy the impact car, but they have found a way to restrain the armored vehicle in just two days." Horst, the former chief instructor of the Chinese army and now the commander of the German Far East Army, stood beside Duan Qirui and said.

"Armored vehicles are not invincible, one 75 mountain guns are enough to destroy armored vehicles. That's why our army carried out such large-scale bombing and artillery bombardment before the offensive. The goal was to destroy as much enemy artillery as possible, and it seems that the effect is still significant. The Russian army without artillery is in front of armored vehicles, and it is a lamb to the slaughter. After speaking, Duan Qirui laughed heartily.

Horst was a bit of a bother, the Chinese army can be said to have been taught by him, and it had only been ten years before Germany. The reason why he is here is that in addition to watching the war, he is more learning from the Chinese about modern warfare. The Chinese are worthy of being a country with thousands of years of history, and in every war they have fought abroad, there is something for the Germans to learn.

"Report, the first division encountered the surrender of nearly 5,000 enemy troops, and asked the army to send troops to receive the prisoners, they didn't have time."

"Don't have time?" Duan Qirui, who heard the report, frowned, if it weren't for the fact that there were officers of the vassal states everywhere, he would have to scold his mother. Cao Kun, a bastard, actually threw the surrendered Russian army in the original position, and if the surrendered Russian army suddenly broke out, it might affect the entire attack. Duan Qirui urgently ordered the Ryukyu division to immediately enter the battlefield to receive the prisoners. What Duan Qirui didn't know was that the First Division didn't even collect the guns that surrendered to the army.

In fact, the commander of the Russian army, Senior Colonel Sergei, who surrendered, was also devastated. Because of his hesitation, the Chinese steel chariots had broken through from the wings to his rear. Completely cut off his retreat path, and rushed towards his position in reverse. Under the inability to fight back against the attacks of the Chinese. He had no choice but to order the surrender of the army. However, the 1st Division, which was responsible for attacking this position, simply put them together, and Sergei did not even symbolically hand over his guns. The Chinese army hurriedly passed them and continued to attack westward. The unknown Russian army was wondering and then another Chinese army arrived, but fortunately they saw the white flag they were still raising, otherwise it would have been another artillery. Sergei had to surrender to the Chinese army for the second time, but what he didn't expect was that the Chinese army still left them in place and the guns were not collected. And then the third time, he was probably the first army in history to surrender three times, and it looked like he would have to surrender a fourth time. Sergei became angry when all three times were ignored, and he did not dare to say anything about attacking the Chinese army. Because he knew that if he did this, then the entire army could only be slaughtered, and the Chinese had long been notorious in the world for slaughtering rebels on the battlefield. But he vowed to apologize to him Chinese because it was the greatest humiliation to the military...... Then he was beaten severely. When Sergei waved the white flag and righteously demanded that the senior officers in Chinese military uniforms apologize to him, the inexplicable Ryukyu division commander who was scolded beat him up in anger before confiscating the guns and materials and ordering them to move eastward.

When the Ryukyu Division escorted the prisoners off the battlefield, it was discovered that it was unnecessary for them to send such a large force to escort the prisoners. Because there were many teams of three or five soldiers escorting hundreds of prisoners.

"Although I am sure of your army, even in the absence of armored units. It will still be possible to capture Omsk, but it will also cost more and take longer than the capture of Troitskoye. However, the appearance of armored vehicles became the last straw that crushed the nerves of the Russian army on the verge of collapse, and made Russia completely give up the will to resist. Horst took two steps forward and congratulated Duan Qirui on the complete occupation of Omsk by the Chinese army. But what he wanted to ask was more: "I have found that in every important war your army has a new type of weapon." Chief of General Staff Duan, can you tell me what new weapons the Chinese army will use in the next war? This topic was also of great interest to the commanders of the armies of the other vassal states.

"The research and development of new weapons is the business of the Martial Arts Research Institute. You should have asked the Martial Arts Academy instead of me, because I don't know what those crazy people are up to. As for the next war......" The smile on Duan Qirui's face disappeared. "I hope it never comes, because I hate war." ”

It doesn't matter what Horst thinks about this sentence. However, the generals of those vassal states sighed in their hearts that China deserves to be a benevolent and righteous kingdom.

The war is still going on, and the war reports from the front line are naturally coming. Only two hours after the start of the battle, the armored division had already cut through the Russian positions and was turning around and reversing the last positions of the Russian army. The Russian army retreated, and the soldiers began to lose their formations and become chaotic.

"Generals." Duan Qirui said to the generals of the vassal states with a serious face: "Our army has been fighting fiercely with the Russian army for a long time, and now that the Russian army has collapsed, the important task of pursuing the Russian army is handed over to the generals." ”

"Whoa!" The generals of the vassal states responded one after another, and then each of them rushed towards his troops. Kodama Gentaro and Nozu Michikani looked at each other very tacitly, nodded slightly, and then ran towards their respective troops. They have been assigned to two corps, Yuan Shoushan and Liang Huadian, respectively, and will advance in two different directions.

China did not send the troops of these vassal states to the fiercest battlefield to serve as cannon fodder for the Chinese, and said to the vassal **** team that this is already China's house of benevolence. Now is the time for them to pursue the defeated enemy army, this is the time for them to prove their loyalty and ability to the suzerain, if they can't do this, what else do they want them to do? Everyone understood this, so the pursuing troops were in high spirits and rushed out like wolves.

The cavalry did not take part in the positional battle, but they were the best army to pursue the router. He only commanded the cavalry to attack, but he still sighed secretly when he passed the armored car, when the armored force was large-scale, the cavalry was useless.

"Omsk victory, Omsk victory. The 400,000-strong army of the Russian Maozi was completely routed, and our army was in pursuit. ”

Early the morning of the second day after the end of the Battle of Omsk. The results of the war were immediately published in the newspapers. With the immature voice of the newsboy, a group of people immediately surrounded him. Not really. The front page of the newspaper was full of six bold letters, "Omsk Victory".

It's a big victory, it's a big victory. Since the start of the war with Russia. News of the great victories of the army in the north continued one after another. The transformation from the initial national ecstasy to the current should have been such a change made the court officials somewhat overwhelmed, because it was difficult for the relatively calm society to encourage the people to emigrate to Siberia. In fact, for the people, a war tens of thousands of miles away is not as important as two more pieces of meat in their own bowl. After all, when the wisdom of the people is not yet opened, you cannot count on the illiterate peasants to have many ideas of the righteousness of the country. But the reason why the big guys are still so concerned about this war is that as long as they win the war, then Siberia will be considered the mainland, and there will be no more worries about war. After all, the imperial court offered a generous reward to those who wished to emigrate to Siberia - permanent exemption from agricultural taxes. This is tantamount to a great temptation for farmers who are digging in the fields. But most people look up and think about the cold weather, look down at the slices of meat in the bowl, and finally think about it, think about it.

But for countries around the world, they don't see it that way. It took China only three days to conquer Vladivostok, and after the winter, it took all of East Siberia without firing a shot, and then it was a head-to-head confrontation between the Chinese and Russian armies. It was thought that the Russians would have a certain advantage over the slightly thin and short Chinese on the opposite side, but with the beginning of the Chane encounter, the Russian army was still defeated again and again, and finally retreated to Omsk. When the time goes into June. The world seems to have entered China time, as the front pages of newspapers around the world are almost exclusively filled with news from China.

First of all, on June 3, the news that Nie Shicheng defeated the Russian army and captured the Russian commander Zalubayev in Pavlovl caused a storm in world public opinion, and countries around the world speculated about the possible process and outcome of the war between China and Russia. However, they all have a certain degree of confidence in the Russian military report, and after all, the main force of the Russian army has not been fundamentally damaged. But two days later, on June 5, Liu Shengxiu's corps on the southern front once again destroyed the main force of the Russian southern front at Zhambyl. This may be to be expected. However, China has to say that it is the great victory of Hengros, which has given propaganda agencies around the world an in-depth understanding of Chinese history. By the way, the people of the world knew about the first head-on collision between the two great empires of China and the West for the first time in the world.

On June 10, when the history of Hengros had just been introduced, the Chinese air force and artillery group launched "the most violent attack in the world" against Omsk. The explosion and fire covered the Russian army in Omsk, and the world's public opinion immediately turned to China, believing that it would be difficult for the Russian army to maintain its integrity under such an attack. There are also people who express different opinions, since the emergence of artillery, in all wars, there has never been an example of artillery alone being able to win a war, and the final decisive battle is still a confrontation between infantry, which still has an incomparably huge advantage for the Russian army, which is strong, numerous, and in a defensive position. It's just that this statement is like the waves of the sea, only a brief flicker. Because the top military commanders of various countries believe that there is a high probability that their armies will collapse under such high-intensity shelling.

Yet it is as with the saying that the truth is in the hands of a few. China encountered great resistance in the battle for Troitskoye launched on the 17th, and the stubborn resistance of the Russian army made the advance of the Chinese extremely slow, during which the Russian army also launched several counterattacks to regain some positions. This ironclad fact seems to prove that the infantry is the last decisive force in the war, and the tenacious Russian army shows the world that Russia still has the possibility of final victory.

Just when the world's public opinion once again turned to Russia, the head-on collision between the Chinese and Russian cavalry on the north shore of Lake Ebeit on the 21st with a total of 70,000 men was recorded in history, and no one could imagine what a chaotic and huge scene it would be for 70,000 cavalry to fight at the same time. However, when it was learned that the commander of the Chinese cavalry who led the Chinese cavalry to the final victory was a descendant of Genghis Khan, who once conquered the land of Europe, some newspapers in Europe printed the word "****" on the newspaper again. But the governments of the world have not expressed their opinion on this, they are just looking at Omsk and waiting for the final result.

But who would have thought that in just one night, the Russian army, which had stubbornly resisted the Chinese army in the small town of Troitskoye, lost the core main position of Omsk, which had been operating for a long time, in just one night, what happened on this night......

On the 23rd, the Chinese army launched a final general offensive, and the Russian army unexpectedly began a total rout. There is no doubt about the facts, but the lack of detailed information about the war has left the countries of the world confused. What makes the stubborn Russian army suddenly so vulnerable?

Military experts from various countries are nervously analyzing the reasons, but Tsar Nicholas II believes that the commander is incompetent and the soldiers are wasted. They have lost the glory of Tsarist Russia, they have abandoned the dignity of the Slavs, so His Majesty the Great Tsar will severely punish these defeated generals and soldiers. But the wise Tsar Nicholas II gave them a chance to atone for their sins, and that was to defeat China. Unless they can defeat the Chinese army, they will all be beheaded after the war. It's just that what Nicholas II didn't know was that the Russian army, which had been defeated from Omsk, had lost all its heavy weapons, while the Chinese cavalry, armored troops, and Chinese vassal **** were as ubiquitous as wolves. They followed the rout of the Russian army and slaughtered all those lagging Russian troops. As a result, most of the soldiers even lost their guns and light weapons in order to run faster.

Perhaps Nicholas II also thought that these armies were not enough to withstand the Chinese army, or perhaps Nicholas II accepted the advice of his ministers, so the omnipotent Tsar Nicholas II decided to fight to the city of Beijing, so he ordered to call up another million troops from the whole country.

The world was in an uproar. Is Russia crazy?

When the news reached Beijing, the emperor of the Chinese Empire sneered at the court meeting: "Since Russia wants to fight, let's fight it." "At the end of the meeting, the Chinese government issued a summoning order, and another one million troops were also called up to the battlefield in the country.

The world is in an uproar, are the Chinese also crazy?

Regardless of what the rest of the world thinks, China and Russia have indeed begun their own conscription plans. However, in contrast to Russia, which was slow in administrative efficiency and still did not assemble a single force three days later, China's first reserve division, which had completed its assembly in Beijing, was loaded and sent to Siberia. At the same time, the troops of the provinces and provinces are being assembled at a high speed. It is believed that within a month, this million reserve troops will all be able to go to the battlefield. At this time, the countries of the world realized that compared to Russia, which has a population of only 60 million, it is too easy for China, with a population of nearly 500 million, to gather 1 million troops.

The war between China and Russia looks like it is going to get bigger and bigger, and both China and Russia have vowed to hold their own military parades in each other's capitals. Meanwhile. The Chinese army from Omsk is still on the offensive day and night, and the rout of the Russian army shows no signs of improving. Almost all European countries did not believe that Russia could achieve a final victory, so Britain, the United States, France, Italy and other countries have negotiated with China in the hope of mediating the war between China and Russia. Even Germany, which had always secretly supported China, sent envoys. He clearly stated that he did not want the Chinese army to enter traditional Russian areas, including Yekaterinburg.

Understandably, although Germany and Russia have all sorts of contradictions. Germany also hoped that Russia would die completely so that it could solve its passive situation of fighting on two fronts. But Russia must belong to the same white country, even if Russia is to die. The Germans also wanted to die at the hands of the whites. This is the glory of the white race, so in the face of foreign yellow people, the white people still form an effective alliance.

However, in the face of diplomatic pressure from almost the whole world, China has made astronomical demands for compensation, which of course will not be satisfied. So the embarrassed and angry Chinese emperor announced that he was going to go on an expedition to Russia?!

In the eyes of Europeans, China is a country with absolute monarchy. At the Imperial Conference, after the emperor had just announced his intention to go on an expedition to Russia, the Chinese navy, which had been repaired for more than two months after the Battle of Liaonei, was regrouped. Only eighteen of the large number of warships captured from Russia during the Battle of Riau were restored and reassigned into naval operations, including five battleships such as the Eagle, Alexander III, Osrijabia, Navarin, and Victory, as well as seven cruisers and six destroyers, including the Diana, Vinok, Diamond, and Azov. Other warships either dismantled parts for repairs to other ships, dismantled their guns and converted them into cargo ships, or dismantled and sold scrap metal if they were useless. These 18 warships and the former Chinese Navy's Hai Rui, Jian'an, and Jianwei formed an expeditionary fleet, just as the Chinese government had announced, and China would set up a military port in the Baltic Sea.

The closest distance of the fleet expedition to Russia was naturally to cross the Mediterranean Sea through the Indian Ocean. However, British Prime Minister Arthur? Balfour slapped the application from the Chinese minister to Britain for the Chinese expeditionary fleet to pass through the Mediterranean and English Channels without looking at it, and then roared in the Chinese he had just learned: "There are no doors." ”

Can British opposition stump His Majesty the Great Emperor of the Chinese Empire? Of course not! On the same day, the Chinese emperor issued an expeditionary fleet: the fleet crossed the Pacific Ocean, circumnavigated South America, crossed the Atlantic from north to south, and then bypassed Britain from the north into the North Sea and finally entered the Baltic Sea. On June 30, the Chinese Expeditionary Fleet departed from Port Arthur. This was different from the Russian expedition to China, because Russia at this time no longer had naval strength. Distance is no longer a problem, and even if China takes a year to sail, Russia will not be able to form a fleet to meet the enemy.

"It's a crazy world." This war between China and Russia is already incomprehensible. All they can do is describe this war between the two great powers, East and West, China and Russia, as "the war of two madmen". (To be continued.) )