No one slept peacefully that night, except for a few people in Tokyo and the fleet of the Yellow Sea Army, there were also a group of people who could not sleep peacefully on the small island of Hushan in Shanghai.

"I'm sure it will start today!"

After taking the cigar from his mouth, looking at Jiang Fangzhen, Cai Yi, Xiao Xinren and others in a hazy smoke, Chen Moran said in an unusually affirmative tone.

The reason for this affirmation is that a telegram was sent from the office in Russia, which mentioned that Minister Kurino of the Legation in Russia had announced the severance of diplomatic relations between the two countries in St. Petersburg to Russian Foreign Minister Ramsdorf, and that the Legation and its diplomatic personnel would be evacuated from Russia and transferred to Stockholm, Sweden.

The telegram convinced him that history had not changed because of his appearance, and that the magazine had written about it clearly in the Russo-Japanese War album.

"Today is the 8th of February, and the army will definitely attack Lushun, just like they did when they attacked the Beiyang Naval Division, and once again they will fight without declaring war!"

When speaking, Chen Moran specially aggravated the "sneak attack" and "again", in history, the so-called "battle to determine the fortune of the country" is all a sneak attack, the first two times he won the bet, the last time he lost his pants, but after losing the pants, the impermanence of the world made him change his clothes.

After saying this, Chen Moran fell silent again, did not speak, just took a deep puff of cigar smoke one after another, and then exhaled a large puff of smoke, and when his face was completely hidden in the smoke, he couldn't help but give people an unpredictable and unfathomable feeling.

While smoking hard, Chen Moran raised his right hand again, looked at the watch on his wrist, frowned, and wanted to ask something, but hesitated for a while, but did not speak.

Chen Moran's appearance was seen in everyone's hearts, and they were also anxiously waiting for the result.

It is said that Ben will attack the Russian army in Arthur today. It sounds unlikely, but it is a matter of ten percent when you look into it, it is said that this attack is not the Qing State, and a power like Russia, just like the First Sino-Japanese War ten years ago, now they also need to rely on sneak attacks to lay a chance for victory.

There are more than a dozen people standing in the combat map room, most of them are smoking like Chen Moran, and the map room is full of smoke, which somewhat makes Cai Yizhi, who is not a smoker, frown, in order to avoid this choking smoke, he has been standing by the door, and when he saw a figure walking towards here, when he saw that person holding a piece of paper in his hand, he couldn't help but move with a frown.

Don't...... As soon as the communications officer with the telegram in his hand entered the combat map room, he walked in front of Chen Moran and gave a military salute before handing over the telegram.

"Commander, the 2nd Detective Section Urgent:"

"Read!"

Chen Moran's voice was a little excited.

"Late at night on February 8 in the Western calendar, it is suspected that the navy attacked Lushun, and the Russian army is suspected of destroying three warships, and further information can only be ...... until tomorrow."

Before the communications officer could finish speaking, Chen Moran squeezed out a slight smile in his serious expression, and looked at the surprised or incredulous crowd, he raised his feet and walked towards the map table.

"Alright, now the big thing is decided!"

Walking to the map table, Chen Moran propped up the map table with both hands while speaking, staring at the map of South China on the table, which should be a detailed topographic map of South China [***].

"Now, I've done it, and we're ready to do it now!"

With a twist of his head, Chen Moran looked at Jiang Baili, this was the chief of staff of the Guangfu Army who had just been promoted to the mission.

"Baili, tell me about your plan!"

Jiang Fangzhen took two steps forward, walked to the map table and settled down, glanced at Chen Moran before opening his mouth to explain his plan. When he began to explain, everyone gathered around the map table, and when Jiang Fangzhen spoke, the three trainees who had just graduated from Huangpu next to him kept inserting blue, yellow and red tricolor flags into some positions, and slowly with his explanation, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, and Jiangxi planted more than a dozen blue, yellow and red tricolor flags.

During the long four hours, Jiang Fangzhen constantly explained the steps of the uprising to everyone, and occasionally Xiao Xinren on the side would explain on the side, after all, he was the real maker of this plan, and Jiang Fangzhen only made appropriate modifications to it.

The entire process of the uprising was originally formulated by Xiao Xinren, who studied under Abwyn when he was a member of the Sivernian Military Academy. Major Swift, thus learning a set of war decision-making system that was taught by Germany but was more highly detailed, this kind of long-winded and detailed "war game" in the past in the eyes of Jiang Fangzhen and others, but it is like pushing open a door, although the war decision invented by the Prussians was introduced into the Prussian army as early as the early 19th century, but it was not introduced into the system of the war German [***] team, which also made Jiang Fangzhen and Cai Ye unable to learn this Prussian-style "war decision" from the army.

Sketches and descriptions of operations were drawn one by one, and after the initial explanation, they were put in front of the crowd, and the sketches were more detailed than the operational deployment maps, ranging from the deployment and control of the troops, the boundaries and formations of the combat units, the front line of the theater of operations, the starting line of the attack, the axis of advance, the assembly area, the combat position, the scope of engagement, and the objectives...... The uprising, which was delicately drawn to the point of numbing people's tongue, was explained from Jiang Fangzhen's mouth through hundreds of maps and thousands of photos, while everyone listened carefully.

Listening to Jiang Fangzhen's narration of Lan Tianwei, although the cigarette butt was caught between his fingers and burned his skin, Lan Tianwei still didn't seem to feel anything, but he just opened his fingers lightly because of the burning pain, and opened his fingers lightly there, and the cigarette butt fell to the floor.

"Chief of Staff Chiang"

Lan Tianwei opened her mouth and interjected.

"According to the plan currently being formulated, and launching an uprising in eight provinces at the same time, the strength of the Liberation Army is still insufficient! I'm afraid that the scattered forces will be easy to be broken by the Qing army, so it's better to ......"

"Colonel Lan, over the past year or so, the Second Investigation Section has been in contact with the provincial capitals, and the Honghan Society under the control of the Second Investigation Division currently has more than 300,000 people, all over Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Hubei, Jiangxi, Hunan, Sichuan, Guangdong, and Guizhou provinces, among the party organizations, green battalions, and new armies, these forces can be relied on!"

Zhang Jing said this, but his face couldn't help showing some pride, although he is not the leader of the Honghan Society, but in the process of founding the Honghan Society, he took a lot of effort, almost completely referring to the original Tang Changcai's method of self-reliance, in order to facilitate the contact with the local association party, green battalion and new officers and soldiers, according to the way of the self-reliance association, using the traditional method of building a mountain hall and invoice cloth in the secret society, the association established a rich mountain hall, with the main leader, the deputy leader, the inner eight halls, the outer eight halls and other names, the system is huge, Many provincial party leaders are among them, and Zhang Renkui, the leader of the Honghan Society, is also listed as the deputy leader, and now Zhang Renkui is the largest "dragon leader" boss in South China, of course, this is only limited to the party of the association.

"The party is not reliable!"

Cai Ye poured cold water on Zhang Jing's head.

"At that time, the self-reliance army relied on the party organization, the combat effectiveness was far inferior to that of the green battalion soldiers, and it could not be compared with the new army, and the discipline was lax, and it was mixed in the liberation army from time to time, and only the dinosaurs and dragons were mixed but affected the recovery plan, as for those party leaders, they were all speculators, but they just hoped that they would get an official and a half-post in the future through the uprising, and once things went against the grain, they would be self-defeating!"

Cai Yi, who had participated in the uprising of the Self-Reliance Army, naturally knew that he knew something about the provincial capitals along the Yangtze River, and naturally understood that they were not reliable.

"You don't have to make them into an army! I don't plan to do that! ”

Interrupting Cai Yi's words, Chen Moran spoke.

"The Whampoa Military Academy has been running for two years, and there have been four phases of cadets, and the fifth phase is about to graduate, and more than 1,600 cadets have been sent to Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Hubei, Jiangxi, Hunan, Sichuan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Shandong, Henan, Yunnan, Shaanxi, and Jin to run the Whampoa Branch, and by the beginning of the year, there were as many as 96 branch schools, and nearly 30,000 students graduated from the branch campuses. Some officers and non-commissioned officers were transferred from the student army and the Liberation Army to reorganize the party and the masses......"

From the day he thought of using those party forces and the day he let Zhang Renkui return to the rivers and lakes, Chen Moran began to think about how to change the party into a use, thanks to the "revolutionary film and television dramas" of later generations, he easily found an answer, disrupted and mixed with sand, the disciples of the party are far less than the armies of those warlords, since they can use the way of officers mixing sand and soldiers to achieve the purpose of organizing and organizing miscellaneous local warlords, they can also use this method to turn the party into troops.

"The first division can't move!"

Xiao Xinren said a word on the side, and he looked at Chen Moran.

"The formation of the Guangfu Army can be disrupted, we only have two divisions, even if the police in Pudong, Ma'anshan, Huainan and the four places of the railway were reorganized into the third division after the uprising, we need to face the enemy who has a self-strengthening army in Hubei, and there are two towns in the north Beiyang New Army, if the troop structure is disrupted, it will inevitably cause a decline in the combat effectiveness of the troops, and at least one division needs to be ensured that the structure of one division is complete, so that we can take advantage of the water transportation of the Yangtze River, take the Jinghan and Huainan railways as the axis, and reject the northern army in the southern province, so as to calmly organize and train the troops,"

"Thirty thousand, thirty thousand, sixty thousand, three hundred thousand!"

After groaning in his heart for a while, Chen Moran nodded and agreed with Xiao Xinren's opinion.

"No problem at all, when the time comes, plus the new recruitment, you can basically eliminate the influence of the Hui Party in the army!"

Wiping his tired face, Chen Moran pondered for a while.

"Pay attention to the screening of the members of the party in the army, especially their seniority! You can refer to it when it is disrupted in the future! ”

For those parties, in Chen Moran's eyes, it has always been just a temporary use, those parties are paying attention to what seniority, I don't know how many disciples and grandchildren, strict gang rules, formal etiquette, in the army mixed with these people, it is not a good phenomenon! The purer the army, the better!

When thinking that the army should be pure, Chen Moran even took a special look at Lan Tianwei, Wan Tingxian and others in the room, they were inclined to the revolutionary party in some aspects, but fortunately, the thoughts of the revolutionary party now did not have a deep impact on them, but the most profound impact was the national recovery.

The cunning rabbit is dead and the lackey cooks, this sentence is true, the party is only for a temporary use, far from relying on it, the party has the use of the party, but in the recovery of the nation, it still has to rely on the recovery army. Thinking of those parties, Chen Moran looked at Zhang Jing with his afterglow, the power of the second detective section seems to be a bit big, but now it's like a party, everything is still waiting for the future!

"Xiuhao!"

Turning his head to look at Lan Tianwei, Chen Moran smiled, this Lan Jihao has always had reserved support for himself.

"You have a great responsibility! Whether the uprising can succeed depends on whether you can do it well! ”

Lan Tianwei's surname was already very deep, and after listening to Chen Moran's words, he saw that everyone's eyes were cast on him, and he felt the heaviness on his shoulders, so that he said for a long time.

"Please rest assured, the commander and comrades, Tianwei will not live up to this important responsibility!"

This night, no one slept in Tanhu Mountain, and in the capital, there were also people who were woken up in their sleep, from the military aircraft to the Yangxin Palace, only a stone's throw away, when Yixuan rushed to the door of the Yangxin Palace, he was already snow-white, Li Lianying saw him come in, and greeted Qian'er with a smile on his face, while busy brushing away the snow on Yixiao's body, he said with a smile.

"Good my grandfather! The slave was about to deliver the decree, but the snow was falling, and Lafayette said that Yixuan didn't have to come in. Since it has come, the slave will repay the master......"

"Boss Li!"

Although after Rong Lu died of illness, he became the foreman of the Military Aircraft Department as the Minister of Military Aircraft, and managed the affairs of the Finance Department and the Military Training Department.

After a while, Li Lianying had already run back and said with her hands.

"Prince Qing, call in! Galeries Lafayette in ......"

Yixuan only nodded slightly, hurriedly followed in, took off the big hat on the danqi and handed it to Wang Xin, and listened to the voice of Cixi inside:

"What's the matter? Come on in! ”

"Yes!"

Yi Xuan hurriedly agreed loudly. A eunuch had already lifted the thick and heavy cotton curtain, he stepped in, calmed down a little in front of the throne in the outer hall, stepped into the pavilion, and prostrated to the ground.

"The minister deserves to die, disturbing Lafayette's rest, it is really a sin that deserves death...... Say hello to the Buddha! ”

After that, Yixuan raised his head and saw Lafayette sitting there, with a pile of folds on the table in front of him, and a cinnabar pen and inkstone next to him. Both inside and outside the palace know that although the Queen Mother is over the age of old, she is still in surprisingly good spirits, listening to politics, reviewing and reviewing, busy endlessly, and rarely seems to be tired.

"If you have anything urgent, just say it!"

Although it was disturbed early in the morning, Cixi, who would have woken up in the morning, would not blame Yixuan for this, and listening to Yixuan's self-blame, her heart was quite useful, wandering in the officialdom for several generations, Yixuan naturally knew how to please Lafayette.

"Lafayette!"

As he spoke, Yixuan squeezed out some crying and kowtowed there.

"Early in the morning, Minister Yasuya Uchida is ...... Today, I will inform you that Ben has declared war on Russia last night, and Ben and Russia are fighting in Manchuria! …… You can't be a human being, but you can build a country...... The land of the ancestors is peaceful, the capital is peaceful, and the holy mausoleums are peaceful......"

Knocking his head, he was crying like a loyal minister, as if he was really distressed by the strength of this Manchuria.

Listening to Yixuan's words, Cixi just responded softly, "Oh", but her heart was not calm for a long time, as early as the beginning of October 7 last year, the book had already informed that the negotiations with Russia had no future and the preparations for war. And over the past few months, the Great Powers have been exhorting them to remain neutral with them in the impending Russo-Russian War.

"Russia is bound to annex, and winning is nothing more than asking for reward, and if the two evils are dwarfed, the lesser of them. Rather than being afraid of Russia and not allowing it, how can it be achieved in person...... With the help of the generals, the generals, and the soldiers of the army, I can fight with the Russians......"

Before Yixuan finished speaking, Cixi spoke lightly.

"Now the warehouse is empty, how can it be cooked without rice, how can it be a war! In addition to the great pain of the good cause, we should be cautious about the war. Now it is said that Russia and Russia are at odds with each other in the use of troops, and the imperial court thinks that they are friends with each other, and should be handled according to the practice of external neutrality. ”

Cixi, who was frightened by the Eight-Nation Alliance as early as the Gengzi period, would not agree with Yixuan's bold opinion, and she had already made up her mind in her heart, that is, to follow the will of each country to be neutral.

And Yi Liang is just saying that he is just pretending, not to mention that this is not his original intention, the reason why he said this is just to test the thoughts of the Queen Mother.

The calm Cixi did not realize that she inadvertently fell into the Yixuan set, but Yixuan was proud in her heart, and this time she finally figured out the queen mother's thoughts, Russia has been forcibly occupying the northeast for four years, and the general people hate it to the bone, and the officials are the same.

Although no one believes that this is selfless in this war, it is undeniable that this move will win some goodwill of the big air. Considering that China is unable to fight against Russia alone, and neutrality is not the best policy, the "joint rejection of Russia" was naturally proposed.

However, the northern governor was cautious about this, especially Yuan Shikai, the governor of Zhili, called the Ministry of Foreign Affairs twice to advocate neutrality, which made it difficult to implement the idea of "rejecting Russia".

"Well, the territory of the three provinces of each country should be informed, no matter how the two countries win or lose, they should be under the sovereignty of the Qing Dynasty, and neither country should occupy them."

Calm, Cixi added.

"Lafayette's knowledge can be compared with that of non-courtiers, no matter whether Russia wins or loses, as long as they promise this Manchuria to fight today, and the great powers support it, and when the war comes in the future, this Manchuria will not come back! Or Lafayette's insight,"

Yi Xuan kowtowed, knelt there and praised Lafayette, but in his heart he thought about how much silver Yuan Shikai would send to himself if he heard the news this time, but then he remembered one more thing, but looking at Lafayette's face, he still stopped talking, for the lame man's 100,000 taels of silver, there is no need not!

(To be continued)