"Xiaolian, why are you so embarrassed?"

Jiang Baili and Zhang Xiaohuai looked at Hu Rui, who was wet and blue-faced, and a gust of wind rushed into the war room, and asked in surprise.

"Something happened on the way, it's okay, it's okay."

Hu Rui softened his face, wiped the rain that was obscuring his vision, and replied with a smile.

"Daze Long is lying on the side, and the Central Plains deer is fat. Yuan Xiangcheng is indeed a traitor in the world, and he uses war to promote and take the world lightly, what a big calculation! Filial piety can't be compared to mind. ”

Zhang Xiaohuai thought of the meeting with Tang Shaoyi, and suddenly understood a little in his heart, and said with relief.

"With the current situation, with the forces in our hands, we will capture Hankou and completely liberate the three towns of Wuchang, how should this battle be fought?"

Hu Rui frowned tightly and his face was solemn, and he did not respond to Zhang Xiaohuai's words, but just paced to the sand table by himself, grabbed the baton and pointed at Hankou and said to himself.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency, as your Chief of Staff, I do not think this is the time to go to war, at least not at the right time. Our two divisions in Wuchang were formed after the second expansion and relied on reserves and new recruits. Although the third division had confronted Beiyang many times in the battle for Hanyang and gained considerable actual combat experience, please forgive me for taking some time to absorb and share these actual combat experiences. The veterans of the Battle of Hanyang have been drawn and replenished to various units, but it also takes time to train and run-in. In the last campaign, the problems that were exposed within the army have not been completely resolved. Even with the cover of the navy, the capture of Hankow will certainly not be less. ”

Berman, who had not spoken, floated silently behind Hu Rui, and spoke after a moment of silence on the sand table.

"Shuai, the students think so too. The wood show will be destroyed by the forest wind. We were too strong in the previous stage of the battle, which has aroused the jealousy and jealousy of all parties, and Nanjing hopes that we and Beiyang will both lose and lose. We continue to use troops, and the troops participating in the war really need to rest, feed and replenish, let's attack Hankou now This is a blatant tearing of the face, forcing Yuan Shikai to fight back! Even if we win, the casualties will definitely be indispensable, and we can't do the thing of making wedding dresses for others! ”

Having been in China for a while, Berman's Chinese has improved rapidly. Removing the weird tone and not-so-standard pronunciation, the Chinese colleagues around me can still understand it. Guan Ziqing also hurriedly stood up in support.

The current situation is very delicate, although the Beiyang Army is ready to move in the direction of the north and west, but after all, there is no real fight. Beiyang did not move, thinking about the governors of the seventeen southern provinces who were one acre and three points of land. Naturally, they avoided it and tried to occupy more interests within the provisional government. There's still a battlefield to be taken care of. Again. Having said that, although the current Beiyang suffered two defeats in Hanyang in succession, it is undeniable that the Beiyang Army is still a behemoth and is still recognized as the strongest army in China. This can be seen from the current object of the North-South peace talks, and the main object of the Nanjing Provisional Government's negotiations is Yuan Shikai. And not Hu Rui in Anhui. In the final analysis, the Anhui army has been in army for too short a time, and the foundation is too shallow!

"That's what I said, but it's not impossible to fight if you really want to. He had many Japanese military advisers in his Beiyang Army. The most common tactics of the Japanese army were to flank and detour, concentrating their forces on one point to break through. We have the Yangtze River Fleet in our hands, and with the cooperation of the Austrian fleet, we can take our forces along the Yangtze River line, detour back to the flank of Hankou, and catch him off guard! ”

Jiang Baili looked at the winding river on the sand table and said in a deep voice.

"It's not that you really want to fight Hankou, what a treacherous person Yuan Shikai is, before Brother Runnong also said that this person is a traitor in the world, a figure like Cao Mengde. It's almost impossible to sit down honestly with him! Today, Tang Shaoyi and I had a secret talk, but in fact, Yuan Shikai couldn't sit still, and was ready to exert a little more pressure on the Nanjing side to force the Nanjing side to agree to elect him Yuan Shikai as the president as soon as possible. Yan Xishan's troops in Shanxi are insufficient, Lu Yongxiang of the Beiyang Army is forcing Niangzi Pass, and Zhao Qi's soldiers are forcing Tongguan, this knife has been sharpened and put on the neck! In his eyes Yuan Shikai, our Anhui Army is a mad dog, and he recklessly demanded one bite after another from the Beiyang Army in Hanyang. Heng is afraid of being stunned, he Yuan Shikai is afraid that we will go crazy again, and he will give him another time regardless of it, so he will test our attitude! I mean, we don't necessarily have to send troops to attack Hankou, but we must create a kind of north-south attack, ready to desperately jiashi, forcing him Yuan Shikai to be honest! ”

Scratching the wet hair on his head in embarrassment, Hu Rui interrupted with a gloomy face.

"The real is the virtual, the virtual is the real, wonderful! Xiaolian, if your guess is good, you must have no less conditions for this meeting with Tang Shaochuan. Let's play a big show so much, I'm afraid we will force him Yuan Xiangcheng to comply! ”

Jiang Baili was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then slapped his thigh and replied.

"How can you allow others to snore next to the couch, leaving the Beiyang Army in Hankou is there, and sooner or later it is also a hidden danger. He Yuan Shikai wants to win us over, okay! Spit out Hankou first, connect the three towns of Wuchang, and hand over the real Hubei to us! Wuchang is the land of righteousness, and Hubei is also an important town on the Yangtze River. At the same time, it can also echo with the fortress of Jiujiang in Jiangxi, and block the entire lower reaches of the Yangtze River when necessary! This is our condition, if you don't give it, then we'll do it ourselves! ”

Hu Rui waved his hand and said excitedly while knocking on the sand table.

"Your Excellency, I remember that you once said an allusion. On a small road in Shanxi Province, a merchant was walking alone on a mountain road pushing a cart, when suddenly two wolves blocked his way. In this case, if all the attention is focused on the front, then the wolf behind will bite off a piece of meat on the merchant's ass. But if all the attention is focused on the back, then the wolf in front has the potential to bite the merchant's throat. There's always a price to pay, and now, I think you're like the leader of that pack of wolves. ”

Berman took off his glasses and said with a serious face.

Who said Germans don't have a sense of humor?! It's just a little colder!

“hahahaha……”

There was silence for a moment, and soon a burst of daxiao erupted in the war room.

This Shanxi old man will do business, and the wolf of Shanxi will also do business. But our Hu Dashuai is the best at doing business!

“hahahaha…… Hey"

Hu Rui himself couldn't help laughing, in the end, he was the heir of the rabbit family, and the black belly in his bones exuded from the inside out. A personality that only takes advantage of and does not suffer. Halfway through laughing, a fluffy and soft towel was placed on his head, and he turned his head to meet the blaming gaze of Shangyan Woman.

"Gentlemen, I think we need to talk privately, huh...... Talk about how to play this scene well. ”

Berman smiled good-naturedly, shrugged his shoulders as the American learned, and said to his colleagues beside him.

"Hahahaha, you're right. The Navy side also needs to coordinate, let's go have a cup of coffee together. Let's talk about it specifically. ”

Jiang Baili also once went to Germany as the commander of the 7th Battalion of the German Wehrmacht to inspect the military, which would be the first to react and responded with a smile.

"Wipe it, don't get caught in the cold!"

Seeing that this kind of person would leave quickly, Yan Nuxia, who dared to love and hate, turned red and white for a while. Zuihou threw out a sentence angrily.

"I just thought about how to take advantage of it, and I forgot about ......"

Hu Rui smirked and wiped his hair. Embarrassed to explain.

"Why are you so embarrassed? It doesn't look like he was assassinated, how could he be drenched like this when he went in a car. ”

Sanniang Xian led Hu Rui back to the room half-dragging and half-pulling, taking out the clean clothes while packing up the rain-soaked military uniform.

"Sanniang, should I call you Sanniang or Shuangshuang?"

There was a pause. Hu Rui struggled and sighed.

Sanniang, who was packing up her clothes, suddenly froze, as if she had been frozen, and stood there.

"How do you know?"

After a pause, her psychological quality was extremely good, and she continued her work from the bottom of her head. But the slightly trembling voice and the chaotic movements of her hands betrayed her fluctuating heart.

"I've said from the beginning that we're all people with stories, and my gut tells me you're not a cold, decisive person. Decisive killing, cold and serious are just your mask, or perhaps a mask that you are forced to wear because of survival. When the Intelligence Department was established, I found that you were particularly concerned about the intelligence of Wuchang, and the Wuchang Station's weekly routine telegraph newsletter repeatedly mentioned a Ye family. As far as I know, this has nothing to do with our military operations, and you are not a person who uses public weapons for your own personal purposes. So I wonder if it will be your family, or at least someone who is very important to you, that can make you so attentive. Then I began to investigate from the Ye family, it turned out that eleven years ago, on the night when the Eight-Nation Alliance Army invaded Beijing, the Ye family, a wealthy family, suffered a devastating blow. The guards and guards desperately allowed Master Ye to escape with the only male in the family. And the three young ladies of the grandfather's family, one was desperately killed by the nurse, and the whereabouts of the other two are unknown. At present, I heard that one of them was later rescued by a father-in-law who escaped from the palace, and since then there has been a well-known swallow thief on the rivers and lakes. ”

Gently hugged the silent Sanniang, hugged her in his arms, and asked her forehead dotingly.

"Why did you ring to tell me this today?"

Holding back the urge to sob, Sanniang gritted her teeth to hold back her tears, and asked rhetorically with a faint cry.

"Today, on the way to the Beiyang negotiating team's station, a black sedan suddenly lost control when it passed by my convoy and almost crashed into the Ford truck that hit the head. When Jingwei got out of the car to check, a young man in the carriage was lying unconscious on the steering wheel, and there was a young girl next to him who looked like you, crying and desperately trying to wake him up. If I'm not mistaken, she should be called Ye Fenghe, your youngest sister, right? ”

It can't be said that it is heartache or discomfort, when he thinks of Sanniang's experience over the years, Hu Rui can't help but sigh and explain with emotion.

"Wind Lotus...... Is she okay? The last time I saw her was five years ago, and I sneaked in there and saw her once in the glow of the night. ”

Leaning on her lover's arms, Sanniang raised her eyes blankly and asked faintly.

"She's fine, that brother of yours suffered a cardiac arrest, and I let the military doctor who accompanied the car treat her. You've been hard enough all these years, and you're still hiding it from me? ”

Looking at the Yan Nuxia who was stuck in memories and couldn't extricate herself, Hu Rui had mixed feelings.

"Why haven't you come back yet?!"

At the same time, Master Ye, who couldn't wait for his own pair of children, looked at the heavy rain outside and began to worry.

"Master, Dingxin and Fenghe ...... Will it not come back? ”

The middle-aged woman beside her clenched the Buddhist beads in her hand uneasily, and blurted out in horror.

"What is this called, how can a good haode living person not come back?! Fool! ”

Old Man Ye rebuked angrily.

After the Gengzi Incident, he took the title deed of his family and the basis for the deposit of money in the village, and moved his family to Wuchang to avoid it. Of the three daughters, only the youngest Fenghe was desperately held out by the wet nurse, and the other two were unknown in the war. The original wife also died in the chaos, and after coming to Wuchang, with the money saved and the connections he accumulated, the old man Ye quickly regained his strength, and this rich man was also his side room in Wuchang Xinna. For more than ten years, it can be regarded as a mutual affection, although he did not give birth to a son and a half daughter, but he believes in Buddhism, is kind and charitable, and loves the pair of children left by the original partner very much. scolded and scolded, but the anxious Old Man Ye didn't take this to heart.

"Master, it's not good, ...... master"

In the distance, I heard the wailing of the porter crying for heaven and earth, coming from far and near.

"Panic, panic, panic! The sky can't fall! ”

The old man of the Ye family knocked on his crutches and reprimanded.

"Master, there is a group of soldiers at the door, carrying guns and dancing knives, and a big ironclad car! The young master was carried back from the car by them! ”

In the pouring rain, the porter struggled to report to him.

"What?!"

"Sir! Master! Lord......"

The Ye family immediately became a mess up and down, and hurriedly helped the fainting old man Ye to the sofa. In the pinching of people, the water of the water, the busy group turns.

"Come, brothers, take him by the hand and put him on the couch. Hey, it's another dizzy, these two guys are really in a hurry! Gotcha, one more to save! ”

The military doctor who accompanied the car wiped the rain from his face and said poorly.

As Hu Rui's personal guard, the guard team can go out to block death at a critical time! The entire 220 members of the guard team are all die-hard Hu diehards, and they are all selected elite non-commissioned officers and officers. A good horse with a good saddle, a sword for a hero, and the opposing military doctors are naturally not far behind. As a military doctor, this product is a rare high-level intellectual in the entire Anhui Revolutionary Army. I went to a church school, I also went abroad to stay abroad, and after I came back, I asked my own marshal for some novel first-aid tricks, and my ability is really not covered.

"Yo, old man, are you awake? You are really a tacit understanding between the two of you, and even fainting is one after the other. ”

Wake up the old man of the Ye family in three or two clicks, the military doctor joked with a smile.

"My son......"

Old Man Ye, who woke up, was sad from his heart, and he didn't look at the person in front of him and cried regardless of it.

"Father, I'm here ......"

With the help of his sister, the pale-faced young man moved to the sofa little by little.

"My son......"

Seeing that his son was safe and sound, the old man of the Ye family immediately hugged his son and continued to cry regardless of it.

"My lord, my young master has caused you trouble, and you have a lot of them, please Haihan. For the grace of saving my life, my lord will be grateful in the future, and the small meaning is not a tribute. ”

Under the hint of his wife, the housekeeper hurriedly married a silver dollar of one hundred dragon oceans, stopped the officers and soldiers who were about to turn around and leave, and said respectfully.

"What are you doing, the three disciplines and eight points of attention, this is the discipline of our Anhui army! Please go back, send people back, I'll finish the task, and I'll take my leave. ”

The leading platoon commander looked at a whole silver dollar in disgust, saluted and refused. After saying that, he will leave with the head of the troops.

"Send a report to Lord Yuan, and relay the conditions as they are."

At the location of the Beiyang Negotiation Group, after Tang Shaoyi drafted the message, he ordered with a black face. (To be continued......)