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Hearing the meaning of the Japanese War Minister Oyama Iwa, that he was not going to launch an attack on Yalu Province, but to attack the weak points of the Dingbei Army, Emperor Meiji immediately asked, "Dashan-kun, do you mean to avoid the heavily garrisoned Yalu River Province of the Dingbei Army and attack other places, where are you going to let the army attack?" ”

Dashan Yan said confidently: "Your Majesty the Emperor, I am ready to let the army land from the Far East and launch an attack on the Dingbei Army, and in addition, I will send troops to capture Sakhalin Island, and our army will attack Heilongjiang Province in the northeast from the Far East region, and even Jilin Province and Mukden Province from the Far East. The Great Japanese Army in South Korea only needs to rely on the large number of fortifications we have built in recent years to hold South Korea, and our Army will adopt the method of roundabout attack to win victory for our Great Japan! ”

After listening to this, Emperor Meiji immediately asked the chamberlain to bring the map over, and after spreading out the map, Emperor Meiji looked at the map and nodded continuously, and then said excitedly: "Dashan-kun, this plan of yours is very good!" In this way, we don't have to attack the perfect fortifications of the Dingbei Army in Yalu River Province, and it also has the effect of attacking it unprepared, what a strategy! ”

The commander of the Combined Fleet, Togo Heihachiro, who was next to him, also had a gleam in his eyes at this time and said: "If we follow Oyama-kun's plan, our Combined Fleet can escort the land in the Far East and Sakhalin Island, and then our Combined Fleet can design an ambush battlefield at sea." If the Dingbei Army wants to reinforce Sakhalin, it must let the Northeast Navy escort it. Then our combined fleet can first destroy this escort fleet of the Northeast Navy at sea. Coupled with the sneak attack plan formulated by our combined fleet, it will definitely deal a heavy blow to the Northeast Navy. ”

Emperor Meiji turned his head and asked Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito and Foreign Minister Mutsu Munemitsu, "What do you think?" ”

Hirobumi Ito and Mutsu Munemitsu glanced at each other. Mutsu Munemitsu first said: "His Majesty the Emperor, the minister thinks that our Great Japanese Empire can fight!" ”

Ito Hirobumi hesitated for a moment and said, "If it is according to Oyama-kun's plan, the minister also agrees, and I hope that Amaterasu will bless our Great Japanese Empire!" ”

Emperor Meiji stood up violently and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, the future of the Japanese Empire is here to fight, and since we have decided to start a war, we will use the fiercest offensive to level the Northeast, the Far East, and Mongolia. Set foot in Siberia, wipe out the Dingbei Army and the Northeast Navy, and lay a foundation for our Great Japanese Empire for 10,000 years! ”

Four Japanese ministers stood up at the same time and shouted: "The Great Japanese Empire will win!" Long live His Majesty the Emperor! ”

Emperor Meiji waved his hand, and then said to Foreign Minister Mutsu Munemitsu: "Before launching the attack, Mutsu Okus-kun, order the intelligence department of the empire to start the tiger extermination operation, as long as the tiger extermination operation is successful, then our chances of victory in the Japanese Empire will be increased by at least thirty percent!" ”

Mutsu Munemitsu nodded and said, "Yes, His Majesty the Emperor." The minister immediately ordered the intelligence department to start the operation to exterminate the tigers. ”

Emperor Meiji then said to Oyama Iwa and Togo Heihachiro, "You must carefully draw up the battle plan of the army and the combined fleet, and you must ensure that nothing goes wrong. ”

Oyama Iwa said: "The army will definitely not let the Emperor down!" ”

Heihachiro Togo also said: "Our combined fleet will definitely draw up the most thorough battle plan to inflict as much damage as possible on the Northeast Navy and fight for sea supremacy. ”

Heihachiro Togo still keeps a clear head. At least I don't dare to boast of the total annihilation of the Northeast Navy, after all, the six main fleets of the Northeast Navy are not ornaments, they are powerful navies whose combined displacement is only behind the British Royal Navy.

Emperor Meiji said to Ito Hirobumi again: "Although the empire now has 47 standing divisions. But once the war began, these forces were still slightly weak. We must form new divisions and replenish the lost troops. There is no problem with the reserves of the Reich, right? ”

Japan's total population is about 44 million, and in order to prepare for war and seek revenge on Lin Daxin, in recent years, Japan has not only frantically expanded its army and combined fleet, but also increased the personnel of the army reserve in a geometric shape, and at present Japan's army reserve personnel are as high as 2.6 million, including 2.5 million army reservists and 100,000 naval reservists.

Ito Hirobumi is very confident in Japan's reserve situation, "Your Majesty the Emperor can rest assured that our Imperial Japanese Army has 2.6 million army reservists, and we don't have to worry about the formation of new divisions and the personnel to replenish the lost troops, but our weapons and equipment are not enough, otherwise we can immediately form hundreds of more divisions, then the victory of this war will definitely belong to our Great Japanese Empire." ”

After receiving the huge wealth of the Tokugawa shogunate, Japan ordered a large number of machine equipment from European and American countries, expanded several Japanese arsenals, and produced repeating rifles, heavy machine guns, grenades, and a light tank fighting vehicle weighing only 5 tons, with a 37 mm gun and a heavy machine gun on it.

These new types of equipment have been equipped with the standing divisions of the Japanese Army, but the 5-ton light tank fighting vehicles have not been manufactured in Japan so much, and some divisions and regiments have not yet been equipped with them.

Emperor Meiji waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, this emperor has already sent someone to contact the British and French, and we will import a batch of weapons from them to use to expand the wartime army." ”

After listening to Emperor Meiji, the following four Japanese ministers couldn't help but look at each other, it seems that His Majesty the Emperor has long made the determination to start a war, and even secretly contacted the British and French to buy weapons to prepare for the expansion of wartime reservists.

But then Emperor Meiji said: "This is a plan that has been prepared for a long time, in order to prepare for war when Lin Daxin and the Russians are both defeated, and we were already preparing to cancel the procurement plan, but now that this batch of weapons is just in use, this emperor will ask the personnel who went to Britain and France to urge the two countries to send us weapons as much as possible." ”

Now that the Japanese top brass has unanimously decided to launch a war against the forces under Lin Daxin. As a result, Japan's war train began to run at high speed, but unfortunately the strength of the Northeast Military Intelligence Agency in Japan was still very weak. Instead of increasing, the number of Japanese divisions in South Korea decreased. Some divisions and regiments left South Korea on ships and returned to the Japanese mainland, which made Lin Daxin, and even the entire Dingbei Army and the Northeast Navy high-ranking people, think that the Japanese had given up waging war.

In fact, Japan transferred the divisions of South Korea back to the mainland and prepared to launch an attack on the Far East and Sakhalin Island, but this made Lin Daxin and his subordinates relax their vigilance.

At the British Prime Minister's official residence at 10 Downing Street in London, England, the British Prime Minister Marquess Salisbury found the Prime Minister's official residence with the British Admiral Secretary Campbell and the Marquess of Landsdownne of the Foreign Office.

The Prime Minister, the Marquess of Salisbury, has been the British Foreign Secretary, and the Marquess of Lansdowne is his right-hand man at the Foreign Office. Salisbury was ready to hand over the post of Foreign Secretary to his right-hand man, the Marquis of Lansdowne.

Salisbury sighed to Campbell and Lansdoorn: "I didn't expect the Russians to be defeated at the hands of that military strongman in the Far East, and Russia also lost 5.12 million square kilometers of land, as well as war reparations of up to 15 million pounds, it seems that we are going to continue to strengthen our British power in Asia." ”

British Admiralty Chancellor Campbell said: "The 12 old man-star all-steel battleships will be built between 1900 and 1901, and our Admiralty will send all 12 all-steel battleships to Asia to strengthen the maritime forces of our Asian colonies." ”

The Marquis of Lansdowne said at this time: "The Japanese sent people to London to purchase a large number of weapons and equipment for the army, and the Japanese have been more anxious in the past two days, and the Japanese have also sent people to Paris. It is also necessary to purchase a large number of weapons and equipment for the army, and I wonder if the Japanese want to take risks? ”

Salisbury nodded slowly and said, "It is very likely that the Japanese Army is now completely self-sufficient, and they have suddenly purchased a large amount of weapons and equipment. There is only one possibility, and that is to start a war, and the Japanese can wage war against whom. It can only be the force under the command of Lin Daxin, a military strongman in the Far East. ”

Marquis Lansdorne shrugged his shoulders and said, "I don't know what the Japanese think, that Far Eastern military strongman Lin Daxin has just defeated the Russians. wiped out millions of Russian troops, and even set the French and Russian navies back decades in World War I. The Japanese even want to provoke him, which is really an unguessable Japanese. ”

Salisbury smiled and said: "No matter what the Japanese think, the war launched by the Japanese against Lin Daxin, the military strongman in the Far East, is good news for our British Empire, Marquis of Landsdown, after you go back, contact the Japanese and tell them that we Britain are willing to sell them a batch of weapons and equipment for the army, of course, we Britain can't suffer in terms of price." ”

The Marquis of Lansdowne nodded and said, "Yes, Prime Minister, I will arrange it when I go back." ”

Salisbury continued: "The situation in South Africa has become increasingly tense, and the President of the Transvaal Republic, Mr. Kruger, has told Alfred, the Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, that the situation in South Africa. Sir Milner, consideration could be given to reducing the period of residence of aliens to obtain Transvaal citizenship from 14 to 5 years, but we are requested to cease suzerainty claims to the Transvaal Republic in the future. ”

For the profits and taxes of the world's largest gold mine, the Rand Gold Mine, the Transvaal Republic has declared that foreign nationals residing in Johannesburg are required to pay full taxes, but are not entitled to participate in presidential and legislative elections unless they have resided in the Transvaal for 14 years and naturalized citizenship. In addition, all aliens are not allowed to hold government office and their children cannot attend government-funded schools.

This law was protested by the British, as the majority of expatriates in the Transvaal were British. In order to teach the arrogant Boers a lesson, the British had sent additional troops to South Africa, ready to use force to protect the interests of the British.

The Marquis of Lansdowne frowned and said: "The Boers in South Africa are too arrogant, the gold in South Africa has already made the Boers dizzy, and they may forget that they are facing our British Empire." ”

British Admiralty Chancellor Campbell also said: "It seems that it is time for our British Empire to show its fist again!" ”

Prime Minister Salisbury nodded and said: "The Congress has decided to teach the Boers in South Africa a hard lesson, and is ready to take the Rand gold mine into the possession of our British Empire. ”

In the presidential office of the Elysée Palace in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, French President Faure, Vice President Lubet, and Minister of the Navy Grevy gathered again.

President Faure asked Vice President Lubet: "Have we lent the Russians £15 million in war reparations, to the Russians?" And the 5 million pounds that the Russians borrowed from us to quell the rebellion, did they give them? ”

Vice President Lube nodded and said: "The war reparations of 15 million pounds have been given to the Russians, and the Russians have been handed over to the representatives sent by Lin Daxin, and the Russian prisoners of war captured in the war have returned to the Russian control area one after another." £5 million was also given to the Russians to counter the rebellion, and now the situation in Europe was changing in favor of the tsarist government. ”

President Faure turned to Secretary of the Navy Greave, and asked, "What happened to the plan to rebuild the Navy?" ”

Grevy said with an excited expression: "Mr. President, Mr. Vice President, the reconstruction plan of our French Navy has been launched, and this time we have built 16 all-steel battleships of 2 classes, 12 large fast armored cruisers of 2 classes, and a large number of fast protection cruisers, destroyers and torpedo boats, and it only takes about 3 years for our French Navy to be ranked in the forefront of the world's navies again." ”

Vice President Lubet sighed: "I didn't expect that our powerful French navy would be greatly damaged by the fleet and airships under the command of Lin Daxin, a military strongman in the Far East, and it would not be able to recover in a few years." Oh, by the way, there are Japanese who come to our Paris to buy a large number of weapons and equipment for the army, most likely to start a war against that Far Eastern military strongman Lin Daxin. ”

President Faure was surprised and asked: "There is such a thing, aren't the Japanese afraid of the powerful Dingbei Army and the Northeast Navy under the command of Lin Daxin, a military strongman in the Far East?" His Dingbei Army wiped out several million Russian Army, and his Northeast Navy defeated the combined fleet of our Navy and the Russian Navy. ”

Vice President Lube spread his hands and said: "Who knows what the Japanese think, they want to provoke that evil star." ”

President Faure thought about it for a moment and said: "No matter what the Japanese think, we in France can sell the Japanese a batch of weapons and equipment for the army, as long as we can make some trouble for that evil star, it will be good news for us France." ”

Vice President Lubbe and Secretary of the Navy Grevi both nodded approvingly. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ point / official account (WeChat add friends - add official account - enter dd), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to the dd WeChat public account! (To be continued......)