In the office, Xiyuan Temple Gongwang was sitting quietly at his desk, slowly handling official business, even if the noise outside was deafening at this time.

"The !! of the National Thief"

"Heavenly Punishment !!"

"Angry against the !! of the thieves"

Outside the Saionji office building, such voices have been going on for a long time, especially after the defeat of the Sakhalin conflict and the news that Saionji Gongwang had sent Yoshizawa Kenkichi to sue for peace.

By this time, the angry man had already piled up outside the building where Xiyuan Temple Gongwang was working.

Of course, in addition to the building where Xiyuan Temple Gongwang is working, other places such as the military headquarters have also been filled with angry people. In those years, the army of Yuben, which was extremely powerful in Shandong, Korea, and Manchuria, looked very unable to raise its head in front of these angry people.

Without him, the people of Yueben cut back on food and clothing, in the hope that the army could recover the shame of the defeat in the Shandong Campaign for them, and for this reason, even when the National Defense Navy launched a [breaking war], which caused the price level of Yueben to continue to rise, and the domestic factories went bankrupt one by one, resulting in the increasing number of unemployed people in Yueben, they still supported the war behavior of Yueben's political axe.

Because for the fragile people, they can no longer accept that China has once again been overwhelmed by China.

It is precisely because of this that the people of Yuben are so excited.

After all, whether it is the Shandong Campaign or the earlier Sakhalin conflict, these people have already paid too much.

And when they pay a lot, the political axe tells them that they will not get anything, and even want to ask for peace in shame, and then pay more to the enemy, how can this make them accept.

"The !!!! of national thieves"

Although the people outside seemed to be extremely excited, the officials in the office building seemed to be accustomed to it, so even if the hunger outside was getting louder and louder, and it lasted for a long time, they didn't seem to be too afraid.

If I had to say it, I was more worried.

There is no way, after all, the political axe of this year failed in this conflict, the defeat of France in the Sino-French War that year, which led to the collapse of a cabinet, and later the failure of the Shandong Campaign, which also led to the collapse of the cabinet of the Great Son, and now that the Sakhalin conflict has failed, they may not have much time for the cabinet of Xiyuan Temple.

And then

The public hope of Xiyuan Temple is definitely going to step down, and they, the officials of the Xiyuan Temple family, I am afraid that the end will not be good

Just like the great faith of the past, their political life seems to be almost over

Thinking of this, the members of the Xiyuan Temple cabinet in the office had a much lower mood on their faces.

At this moment, there was a sudden "bang" in the office, and before anyone else in the office could react, a brick had smashed through the glass of the window and flew into the office.

Fortunately, no one was standing by the bed, so no one was injured by the attack.

It's just that it seems to have been inspired by this brick, and the people outside also began to look for bricks and other stones.

"Quick, quick, close the curtains!!"

After such a shout, several people in the office hurriedly closed the heavy curtains by the office window.

Although this kind of curtain is definitely not invulnerable, but with such a thick curtain hanging there, even if any more stones fly in, at least the curtain can play a some role in blocking.

Of course, what these people are most grateful for is that the control of the army's weapons is quite strict, unlike China, where a large number of firearms still flow into the civilian population, and in some areas where the social and political axes are relatively weak, small-scale firefights also occur from time to time.

Ahem, it seems a bit off-topic.

Anyway, the people in the office are quite grateful to Amaterasu, at least at this time, it was only a stone instead of a grenade, otherwise I am afraid that not many people in the entire office would survive.

But then again, although the army guards guarding outside the building did not stop the stone smashing for many reasons, no matter how passive they were, they could not even ignore the grenades.

"Okay, what does it look like to panic?"

Seeing the panicked appearance of his own group of officials, the public of Xiyuan Temple opened his mouth and reprimanded.

Maybe it's because he's old enough, even in what happened just now, Xiyuan Temple Gongwang's performance is still very calm, and he doesn't even show a little bit of emotion.

merely

Although the performance of Xiyuan Temple Gongwang is very calm at this moment, in the heart of Xiyuan Temple, it is not as calm as it seems

"Did you fail?"

After stopping the pen in his hand, Xiyuan Temple Gongwang closed his eyes.

Until the moment of defeat, Xiyuan Temple never dared to believe it.

But in the end, Xiyuan Temple can only face one reality, that is, it has failed.

Of course, if it is just a failure, the most important thing is the annihilation of the entire army of the most elite Sixth Division.

You must know that the Sixth Division is one of the most elite divisions in this book, known as "black skin, bright red blood", and the Sixth Division is also known as the Kumamoto Division, codenamed "Ming". Together with the Second Division (Sendai), they are known as the two strongest and most effective units in the army.

The 6th Division (Kumamoto) and the 2nd Division (Sendai) are known as the two strongest and most effective units in the army. Its predecessor was Kumamoto Towndai, which was established in 1873, and during the Southwest War, it was surrounded by the forces of the Satsuma clan led by Saigo Takamori in Kumamoto Castle, and it withstood Saigo's tidal attack with a strong will. In 1888, with the reform of the army, Jintai was renamed as a division, and Kumamoto Jintai became the 6th Division.

The first infantry companies consisted of the 13th, 14th, 23rd, and 24th companies, but later they insisted on recruiting troops from southern Kyushu, such as Kumamoto, Oita, Miyazaki, and Kagoshima. Minami-Kyushu (Satsuma) gives people a strong impression of "black skin, bright red blood". Like Choshu (present-day Yamaguchi Prefecture), it was the driving force behind the Meiji Restoration, and the 6th Division also inherited the tradition of enthusiasm, courage, and decisiveness.

Whether it was the First Sino-Japanese War or the Russo-Japanese War, the 6th Division always played the vanguard. In the First Sino-Japanese War, under the leadership of Heimu Weizhen, he landed on the Jiaodong Peninsula and took Weihaiwei in one fell swoop. In the Russo-Russian War, it was attached to the 2nd Army in Obaogong. Participated in the Battle of Shahe and the Battle of Mukden.

It can be said that even in the 19 standing divisions of the Army, the 6th Division is extremely symbolic.

Especially in Yueben, which advocates bravery, the Sixth Division is equivalent to the spiritual symbol of the army for many people.

The annihilation of the Sixth Division also brought tremendous and incomparably heavy losses to the people of the city.

In the eyes of Xiyuan Temple Gongwang, the annihilation of the Sixth Division was certainly a heavy blow, but the death of the commander of the Sixth Division, Akashi Genjiro, was also a big loss.

In fact, when it was learned that the Sixth Division had been annihilated, it caused quite a stir even within the army.

After all, the elite of the Sixth Division is well known, not to mention that the commander of the Sixth Division is a famous general like Akashi Genjiro, you must know that even within the army, a capable general like Akashi Genjiro is rare.

However, at the same time as the uproar, they were also extremely happy

Of course, they were not glad that the Sixth Division had been wiped out, or anything else.

Although there is a serious faction within the army, and Akashi Genjiro also belongs to the rational faction, which is different from other [Fauvist factions], this does not mean that those [Fauvist factions] are willing to see the total annihilation of the Sixth Division and the death of Akashi Genjiro.

After all, they are also themselves.

Moreover, it seems that party disputes are greater than national fortunes are not as frequent in China or other countries as they are in China or other countries.

Fortunately, before the 6th Division was completely destroyed, Genjiro Akashi had already sent an official named Koike to take out the flags of all the wings of the 6th Division on a cruiser sent by the navy.

You must know that Ben regards the military flag as life.

The flag was issued in the form of a supreme decree in the third year of the Meiji era (1870) in the form of a "proclamation of the Imperial Governor", and was called the "Army Imperial Flag". It evolved from the national flag - the Sun Flag, with 16 blood-red rays of light, and is also known as the "Xu Yue Flag". And the three sides of the army flag are decorated with purple tassels, and the top of the wooden lacquered flagpole has a three-sided gilded flag, and on three sides are the 16-petal chrysanthemum relief family emblem pattern of the Imperial Family. According to Hattori Takushiro's "Complete History of the Great East Asia War": "Beginning with January 23, 1874, Emperor Meiji personally awarded the military flag to the 1st and 2nd Guards Infantry Wings, and since then, all newly formed infantry and cavalry wings of the Japanese Army must be personally awarded military flags by the Emperor, which is regarded as the core of the unity of the troops, and the spirit of the soldiers to the military flag is incomparable in the world."

The military flag was given by the emperor himself, and was only owned by the formed infantry wing and cavalry wing, so it was also called the wing flag. According to the regulations of the Army, the military flag will be established when it is present, and sanctions will be imposed if the military flag is lost. Therefore, the military flag is an extremely important thing in the army, and it is necessary to select one of the best second lieutenant officers of the wing to serve as the standard-bearer, and set up a special squadron of military flag guards to protect it. Songshan said that the army only had more than 1,000 people with an incomplete structure, and because the military flag was left here, a military flag guard team was still appointed.

Because of this, in World War II, the Allied forces were eager to capture the flag, but they were unable to do so. This is because the army's battle regulations stipulate that when it is judged that the battle situation is in danger of annihilation, the military flag should be burned. But no matter what kind of defeat it encountered, the army had time to burn the flag and then commit suicide. In September 1941, in response to the third Battle of Changsha, the Chinese 6th Theater troops launched a counteroffensive to regain Yichang.

During the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Yue army only burned two military flags in the two "jade shattering" battles in Songshan and Tengchong, which belonged to the 113th Wing and the 148th Wing respectively. Is this really the most commendable pride of the Chinese [***] team in the eight-year war of resistance? According to the data, during World War II, a total of 444 military flags (which are really not an auspicious number) as a symbol of the army were burned in the Pacific theater, sunk at sea with troop carriers, or destroyed in the "flag burning" ceremony held after the defeat, and at present, only the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo "Yushukan" keeps a military flag of the 321st Infantry Wing, which was hidden and preserved by wing commander Shiro Goto Nakasa through a right-wing religious organization called "Shinto Tenxingju", which is also the only remaining military flag in the world.

From the above, it can be seen how much the army attaches importance to the military flag.

Therefore, when they learned that the Sixth Division had been completely destroyed, the first thing they needed to do was the whereabouts of the military flag, after all, if the military flag fell into the hands of the Chinese, it would be a great shame for the entire Yuben and the entire Yuben Army.

Fortunately, Akashi Genjiro at that time had Koike leave Sakhalin with all the winged flags, on a cruiser, escorted by several destroyers.

Therefore, even if Genjiro Akashi committed suicide by seppuku, it is still difficult to express the joy of this officer.

Of course, Koike, who later left Sakhalin Island on a cruiser, and the fleet that escorted the convoy were ambushed by more than a dozen submarines of the [Zhenshui Worm] and [Misui Leopard] classes, and then all of them were annihilated.

But this doesn't matter, anyway, those people in the military department are only concerned with the whereabouts of the military flag, as long as the military flag does not fall into the hands of the Chinese, it doesn't matter if it is intact or not. Anyway, in World War II, it was not for nothing that the military flag sank to the bottom of the sea.

What's more, before the cruiser completely sank to the bottom of the sea, the officer named Koike had also sent the last telegram, and it was written very clearly that before the cruiser sank to the bottom of the sea, he had already burned the military flag, so there was no need to worry about the military flag, and because the military flag had been burned on the cruiser, even the Chinese would get off the ship and salvage without worry.

In fact, after learning about this, Yan Guang was indeed very disappointed.

Because he really wanted these military flags, because he was already preparing to build a museum in Yanjing to collect some valuable things in it. For example, the cultural relics collected in Sichuan in the past, as well as those given by others after becoming president, are all sent to museums for proper collection, and then displayed in front of the world.

Having said that, in later generations, there seems to be a regimental flag of a cosmic power called the White Tiger Regiment, which has always been exhibited in the Celestial Empire?

The grade of that is too low, if there is a military flag, it is called first-class!!

Of course, proper anti-theft and anti-vandalism work should also be done, after all, the museums are all first-class cultural relics.

What's more, if I could really get a few flags of the Sixth Division, I would definitely send someone to destroy them.

So even at the beginning of the planning of the museum, Yan Guang had already decided to arrange a whole regiment of troops near the museum.

And they were also given the right to shoot at night, provided that someone sneaked around within the confines of the museum at night.

Anyway, as long as someone dares to enter the museum, then he must be mentally prepared to enter vertically and go out horizontally.

—————————— when Yan Guang regretted the military flag, the public of Xiyuan Temple was still sighing.

He was sighing, and the gap between Ben and China was getting bigger and bigger

"If you tell them that there are more than 60 Chinese troops in China to defeat the Sixth Division, I don't know what the people outside will think," he said, Xiyuan Temple Gongwang said with a wry smile.

In the past, the Wehrmacht has always adhered to the establishment of 121 divisions of the army, but because the territory of the recent period of time is too large, the original troops are simply not enough, so it is natural that the original establishment of 121 divisions has also begun to expand.

Of course, among the 121 divisions, there are only 99 infantry divisions, and the rest are all cavalry and artillery divisions, and among the 99 infantry divisions, the number of Division A is only 33, and the remaining 66 are all Division B. It's almost more than two hundred.

And with so many troops, it is only enough for the current national social and political axe.

With nearly 300 infantry divisions, China now has an army of more than 3 million.

"There are more than 3 million troops, and now there are only more than 500,000 troops after mobilization, and this gap is really too big."

And not only in terms of the number of the army, but also in the navy, which was originally the advantage of the army, there is almost no advantage.

After all, now in the Sakhalin Sea, the expeditionary fleet of the Zoben Expeditionary Fleet is only maintaining an invincible situation after the fierce battle with Sazhen.

But none of that matters, what really matters

[Star Said Horse] and [Kui Wood Wolf].

The Star Horse is a super dreadnought with a standard displacement of more than 41,000 tons, a full load displacement of more than 47,000 tons, and 12 406 mm L/55 main guns. Such powerful dreadnoughts, not to mention those in service, even the British Nelson-class under construction, or the American Colorado class, are simply not matched.

Even the Nagato-class dreadnoughts, which have already begun construction with US funding, are not at all the opponents of the [Star Horse]-class.

Although in terms of the caliber of the main gun, the caliber of the main gun of the [Nagato] class is 4 mm larger than that of the [Xingyuema] class, which is the so-called 410 mm main gun.

What's more, in addition to the [Star Horse], another type of battle cruiser of the Wehrmacht, that is, the surname of the [Kui Wood Wolf] class, cannot be underestimated.

You must know that the standard displacement of the [Kui Wood Wolf] class has reached more than 35,000 tons, and the full load displacement is also more than 41,000 tons, plus 12 380 mm L/55 main guns, not to mention the active battle cruisers, even many active battleships are probably not the opponent of [Kui Mu Wolf].

What's more, unlike other battle cruisers, [Kui Wood Wolf] not only has strong firepower, but also is not inferior to other battleships in terms of armor, especially in terms of speed, it has a speed of 32 knots that is far faster than other battleships, almost as fast as a cruiser (the historical Hood has a speed of 31.5 knots), and after being equipped with a new power system, [Kui Wood Wolf] has completely become a killer of other cruisers and destroyers.

Such a first-class ship, even one is a very fatal thing, not to mention a total of four ships?

After experiencing the [Breaking Engagement], Xiyuan Temple Gongwang knew very well how powerful this kind of battle cruiser was.

In the face of China's growing industrial, economic and industrial strength, it seems that there is no hope at all, but in the eyes of Xiyuan Temple Gongwang, this is not the case.

At least

"If we can rely on the support of Britain and the United States, we can now rely on our geographical advantages to compete with China. Moreover, Britain and the United States also needed a powerful script to contain China and the nascent Bolshevik Russia."

As long as he is willing to act as a pawn of Britain and the United States, then even if he loses the Battle of Sakhalin, he will have a chance to turn over.

What's more, even now, this book also has considerable naval strength?

It's a pity

With the defeat of the Sakhalin conflict, Xiyuan Temple Gongwang has reached the point where he is about to step down, and the new person who came to power is definitely the army general of the Yama Prefecture Aritomo lineage, who is the political enemy of Xiyuan Temple Gongwang.

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"Those horse manure without brains have absolutely no chance to lead the book."

This is also what Xiyuan Temple Gongwang is most worried about, although the people outside are so radical, but this is the country he loves deeply

Just when the public hope of Xiyuan Temple was so emotional, Yuan Jing, who belonged to the middle figure in his faction, suddenly walked over and said.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency Shan County has just called, I hope you can come to his house to talk."

"Do you have friends in Shanxi?"

Hearing the name, an official blurted out in shock.

It's just that although the name of Youpeng in Shan County is called, it can be seen from the expressions of this official, or most of the officials in the office, how much these people are in awe of the name Youpeng in Shanxian County

Or rather, they were in awe of the most powerful patriarch in the world.

And at this time, Xiyuan Temple Gongwang was also taken aback, he was a little unsure, the political enemy of Youpeng in Shanxian County did not fall into the well at this time, but looked for what he was for

Although in terms of power, Xiyuan Temple Gongwang is not the opponent of Yama County Youpeng at all, but because of the problem of opinion, the two of them are now political enemies. And since the last time the Xiyuan Temple cabinet fell, Xiyuan Temple has already understood the relationship between the two sides, because the last time the Xiyuan Temple cabinet fell, it was originally the factor of having friends in the county.

In other words, the cabinet of Xiyuan Temple will fall, and it is the work of friends in Yama County.

But in the end, Xiyuan Temple still decided to go to the mansion of Youpeng in Shan County, although it is a political enemy, but the public hope of Xiyuan Temple is also very clear, and this person in Youpeng in Shan County is not something that can be easily offended.

"Go, get me a car." , "Yes"

After taking two steps back, Yuan Jing said respectfully.

Although the public prestige of Xiyuan Temple has reached the verge of stepping down, at least in the eyes of Yuan Jing and others, he still has a very high prestige.

———————————— strong winds, said to be a typhoon, the electricity in the whole area was cut off, and I took a taxi to the Internet café in another place

(To be continued)