"My lord, I don't know what the bottom line is right now? So, I don't know how to answer! ”

Shang Dequan's answer only surprised everyone, but Tang Haoran stared at him and said word by word. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"My bottom line is that from now on, I will no longer be restricted by Beijing, how about it! Zichun, can you do it? ”

A question and an answer only made the atmosphere in the conference room quiet, and everyone understood Tang Haoran's choice.

Although he had long expected that all this would come sooner or later, Tang Zhaoyi's face still became a little pale at this moment, and as for Song Yuxin, his lips also trembled lightly, it seemed that everyone did not have much confidence, and many of them were all eager to try.

It is undeniable that in the past two years, Tang Haoran has successfully broken down the loyalty of everyone sitting to the Manchu court, and more precisely, they did not have much loyalty to the Manchu Qing in the first place.

As far as he is concerned, he is not only clear in his deeds and loyal to his deeds, but he has been in office in the DPRK so far, but to a certain extent, he has been influenced by the DPRK people, and he is full of yearning for that "full of vitality" China.

In the midst of all these entanglements, he heard Tang Haoran continue to ask.

"What, Zichun, can't you do it?"

"How not!"

was provoked by Tang Haoran's agitation method, and Shang Dequan immediately said in a deep voice.

"Then hit! Fight all the way to Beijing! ”

Fight all the way to Beijing!

Shang Dequan's words echoed in the conference room like thunder. In this moment. Everyone was stunned. All the way to Beijing, it is possible that Shangde wants to settle the situation in one fell swoop!

Not to mention others, even the ambitious Tang Haoran himself was stunned and fought all the way to Beijing! In the history of another time and space, the Japanese army with 150,000 men did not have such courage, and now its new army has only 15,000 men, even if you count the nine mobile police brigades, it is only 23,000 people.

Can you do it with such a little strength?

"Please think again. Let's just have a little bit of money, if it's over......"

It was Kong Qingtang, the Minister of Police, who spoke well, who knew his own family background better than anyone else, and the difficulty of using more than 20,000 people to determine the situation in one fell swoop was not self-confidence, that was arrogance!

"That's it, not to mention the others, even if they are lucky enough to capture the capital, what can they do?"

didn't wait for others to object, but Tang Haoran stared at Shang Dequan and said:

"Zichun, tell me what you think!"

Nervousness compared to others. Tang Haoran wanted to listen to Shang Dequan continue.

"My lord, that's not what I thought. It's the scheme of the General Staff! ”

Shang Dequan looked at Wu Dingyuan, the chief of staff of the New Army, and only after he nodded in invitation did he continue.

"Your Excellency, in view of the fact that Fuchu's implementation of a new policy in Korea will inevitably be opposed by the diehards in North Korea, we will immediately begin to formulate a corresponding response plan as soon as the General Staff Headquarters is established......

Shang Dequan's words were very euphemistic, and the "diehards" and "response plans" were just a cover-up, or just an excuse.

But Shang Dequan's words were heard in the heart of Tang Zhaoyi, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, but he was stunned all over, and his eyes looked straight at Shang Dequan. He always felt that Shang Dequan was far more loyal than himself, after all, they had received more or less the grace of the imperial court, but he never thought that he was in charge of the new army, and the first plan he made was to "rebel", and Shang Dequan's "first time" caused a strong shock in his heart. Although he already knew that the adult would one day rebel, and even accepted this, he was still inevitably a little touched.

"According to the information we currently have, the strength of the Eight Banners in the country is 250078 people, including 148,200 people stationed in Beijing and Zhili, 45,117 people stationed in the Kanto region, and 440413 troops in the Green Battalion, including 40,805 people stationed in Zhili and 17,667 people stationed in Shandong, totaling more than 690,000 people in the national standing army. Although these 690,000 people seem to be quite large, they are actually all vulnerable, and only three to four police mobile brigades are needed to sweep the flag soldiers in the Kanto region, of course, for the sake of compromise, the mobile police force can be used to guard against the enemy. ”

When mentioning the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion soldiers, Shang Dequan's face was full of contempt, in his opinion, whether it was the Eight Banners soldiers, the Green Battalion soldiers, these "soldiers of the ancestral system" were just a group of civilians with foreign guns, and even civilians were insufficient, and even contempt was somewhat contemptuous of them, to be precise, Shang Dequan did not count them as part of the Manchu army at all.

Hearing Shang Dequan say this, Tang Haoran nodded unconsciously, what Shang Dequan said was the truth, not to mention this era, even as early as the pacification of the three feudatories, the so-called "invincible" Eight Banners were not available, so there was a green battalion, as for the current Eight Banners have long been decadent, no longer exist as a force that can conquer and fight, but only continue to exist as a symbol of the conqueror.

The situation in the Green Camp is similar. Political corruption, empty talk and lack of command ability among officers, corruption and lax training. Weapons are outdated, ammunition is insufficient, discipline is corrupted, vacancies are rampant, and soldiers are rotten. This army, which had only become the pillar of the imperial court's armed forces in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, had become a "useless soldier" by the time it arrived in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

The so-called 690,000 troops are actually 690,000 vulnerable stragglers, and there is nothing to be afraid of. It is not enough to hold on, even Shang Dequan, who can't even look down on the elite of the Huai Army, naturally can't look down on these hundreds of thousands of stragglers.

The only exception among the armies of the Manchu court was after the suppression of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and it was the "training army" that selected elite training on the basis of the green camp in accordance with the organization and training standards of the Xianghuai army and the townspeople.

The total number of this force is about 100,000, which on the surface seems to be several times larger than our army. However, on the one hand, because they are scattered and stationed all over the country and shoulder the responsibility of defending the country, only the training troops stationed in Zhili, Shandong and other places can be mobilized to participate in the war at the first time; On the other hand, the level of military training in various localities is uneven, and the gap in combat strength is wide. Only the training army in Zhili and other places, such as the land battalion under the direct jurisdiction of the Beiyang Yamen, can be used on the battlefield; Third. It is the training level of Zhili and other provinces that can be guaranteed. The combat effectiveness is higher than that of the Green Battalion, but it still cannot meet the needs of our army

Therefore, among the 690,000 people in the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion, only a small part of the Green Battalion "trained the army" that could really be transferred to the land battlefield by the Manchu court. The remaining 600,000 people can only sit on food and pay for nothing. So ......"

Shang Dequan leaned his upper body over and said solemnly.

"At present, if our army crosses the Yalu River, it will attack all the way to Yuguan (1). Then in addition to Lushun, Qingniwa (2) around the Huai Army land battalion, the artillery soldiers can still fight, others such as the green battalion, the Eight Banners, all without fear, if the attack point to the Yalu River as the line, to the capital is only 1800 miles, with our army is good at the march, although there is no railway to hold, it is expected to attack the Yuguan line within a month and a half, so that a direct threat to the capital can be formed! ”

Directly threaten Gyeonggi. This was a plan made by the General Staff in accordance with the mentality of the Manchu court.

"After entering the Yuguan line, the Great Wall can be crossed by blasting operations and other means. Forming a momentum to advance into Gyeonggi, before the main force of the Qing army reacted, through a direct threat to the important places in Gyeonggi, forcing the Qing court to sign an alliance under the city! ”

The Alliance of the Castle!

After Shang Dequan said these four words, everyone suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that it was not a war to decide, but to force the imperial court to make concessions, forming a de facto semi-independence of Korea, and then getting rid of the imperial court's clamping on the unified supervision office, unlike now, everything is dressed in a skin, with a mask, and wants to take a step, but there are all kinds of scruples.

When everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Tang Haoran thought of "9.18" in another time and space because of the plan of the General Staff, and the Japanese army only used two and a half divisions to sweep through the entire Northeast, and then build the so-called Manchukuo, and use Manchukuo as the general rear base for the full occupation of China.

Tang Haoran knew very well the temperament of the Manchu Qing Dynasty that for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, what they did was to do everything possible to maintain their rule, they were able to cede land and pay reparations in history, and after conquering Beijing for more than 10,000 allied troops in history, they did not hesitate to cede land and pay reparations, and measured the material resources of China to form the favor of friends. After all, the deployment of the Qing army's available troops for training and military training was extremely scattered, and the construction of the Qing court's railways was extremely poor, so it was difficult to centralize the deployment once something happened. When the time comes, time is on its side.

"The alliance under the city? Even if the imperial court temporarily gives in, in its opinion, we are still rebellious, and it is difficult to guarantee that he will not mobilize heavy troops to attack Korea in the future! At that time, once it attacks by land and sea, how will we resolve it? ”

Song Yuxin immediately objected, saying that it was too risky to move his army into Gyeonggi.

"At least, we have gained time, we have to fight this battle, fight hard, fight until they lose the courage to resist, and when the alliance under the city is signed, they will find a way to take revenge, but we have enough time to train the army, in the case of unsustainable military training, there is no two or three years, the Qing court can not recover its vitality, and it is impossible to train the new army! My lord, with our current strength, we can only effectively use the strategy of Shu Han to attack Wei, take attack as defense, and take advantage of their unpreparedness to attack them before the Manchu Qing Dynasty knows that our strength is mobilized to attack them by surprise, so that the situation can be maintained! ”

After a pause, Shang Dequan continued.

"What's more, now that the main force of the Beiyang Naval Division is trapped in the Ryukyus and cannot be returned, if this opportunity is missed, I am afraid that we will have to consider issues such as the defense of Incheon!"

"yes, it seems like we don't have a better choice right now!"

Facing Shang Dequan's request, Tang Haoran stared at everyone after a moment of contemplation and said.

"However, we have to look far away, since we want to swallow the elephant with a snake, and we have done so much, we can't be more bold, not only to keep North Korea, but also to take down the entire Kanto!"

What the! Everyone was taken aback by Tang Haoran's ambitions, and now he is even taking risks to keep North Korea, and he wants to take Kwantung.

(1) Yuguan: that is, the name of Shanhaiguan in the Qing Dynasty; (2) Qingniwa: that is, Dalian

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