After bidding farewell to the South African volunteers who went thousands of miles away, Lin Daxin returned to Shenyang City in a car, he had nothing big to do in a short period of time, and he could leave more time for his family, he now has 2 more sons and 1 daughter all of a sudden, so that the family can be a lot more lively, and the sound of babies almost comes and goes every day, but Lin Daxin is happy about it, and he doesn't feel annoyed at all.

It's a pity that the trees want to be quiet and the wind doesn't stop, Lin Daxin just accompanied his 4 wives and 5 children to enjoy the warmth of the family, and on the border between Yalu River Province and Japan-occupied South Korea, an unexpected firefight incident occurred, which made the entire border between Yalu River Province and South Korea instantly become tense.

Lin Daxin walked into the conference room of the Governor's Mansion with a solemn face, and at this time, there were more than a dozen division commanders who had returned to Shenyang from the Russian front, and Wang Yan, the top commander of the Northeast Administrative System, and Li Kun, the director of the Military Intelligence Bureau, were also in the conference room.

Lin Daxin walked to the front of the circular square table and sat down, and then asked Li Kun: "Has the Military Intelligence Bureau investigated the crossfire on the border of Yalu River Province clearly?" ”

Li Kun stood up and said: "Headmaster, it has been found out [Chu], on July 25, that is, at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon yesterday, hundreds of Korean civilians fled from south Korea in the direction of our Yalu River Province. But the hundreds of Korean civilians were found by the Japanese garrison on their way to escape. Hundreds of Korean civilians were shot and pursued, waiting for the fleeing Korean civilians to run behind our zone. There are less than 20 people left. ”

The entire Korean kingdom was divided in half by Lin Daxin and the Japanese, and the Korean people in North Korea, which was occupied by Lin Daxin, that is, now living in Yalugang Province, were overjoyed, and their living standards under Lin Daxin's rule were hundreds of times stronger than before, but the Korean people in South Korea suffered from the seedlings.

Although the Japanese got the treasure of the Tokugawa shogunate, the treasure was not endless, and Japan has frantically expanded its naval and land forces in recent years, and a considerable part of its military expenditure came from the looting of South Korea. The Korean people in south Korea not only have to pay heavy taxes, but also have to bear heavy labor, and this is not to mention that the Korean people in south Korea cannot bear it even more because the Japanese oppress the Koreans and the bestiality of the Korean women.

This made the Korean people in South Korea deeply disgusted by the Japanese rule, and rebellions against the Japanese occurred from time to time, but without exception they were brutally suppressed by the Japanese army.

The happy life of the Korean people in Yalu River Province has spread to south Korea, which has caused many Korean people in south Korea to take risks and choose to cross the heavily guarded border in the Japanese-controlled area in droves. Flee to the Yalu River Province under the control of the Dingbei Army.

Although this risky behavior caused many Korean people in South Korea to die at the guns of the Japanese troops on the border, some people managed to escape, and the Japanese tried not to cause conflict. As long as the Korean people who fled to the Dingbei military-controlled zhì area, the Japanese army would not shoot them again, and this has become a tacit consensus reached between the Dingbei army and the Japanese army in the past few years.

Li Kun continued: "According to the past practice. The Japanese army will not shoot the Korean people who have fled to the south of Korea in our control area. But this time, there were less than 30 South Korean fugitives left, and they entered the area controlled by our Dingbei Army. The officers and soldiers of our border guard saw that the Japanese army had broken the convention, and immediately shot into the sky to warn, but they did not expect the Japanese army to shoot at our border post, so the two sides began to exchange fire, and soon after the reinforcements from both sides arrived, and even used artillery, the exchange of fire continued until it was dark, and the 26th Division of the Northern Army lost 59 officers and soldiers and more than 60 people were wounded, but the casualties of the Japanese army should be stricter than ours. ”

Lin Daxin frowned after hearing this, this matter is not big, it is not small, it depends on the attitude of himself and the Japanese, if one of the two sides takes advantage of the topic, it is very likely that a war will break out, but Lin Daxin does not want to fight with Japan now.

His Dingbei Army has just experienced a big war with the Russians, and the vitality of many participating divisions has not yet eased up, and the reserves of materials, weapons and ammunition in the Northeast have been almost used up in recent years, even if they have begun to restock, it will take a long time to reach the level before the war with the Russians, so although Lin Daxin has always understood in his heart that he and the Japanese will fight sooner or later, he does not want his troops to be thrown into another war after they have just experienced a big war.

Lin Daxin thought about it for a while and said: "Cousin, you immediately send the personnel of the newly established Foreign Affairs Department to lodge a stern protest to the Japanese, and ask the Japanese to explain the crossfire incident they provoked on the border, and take a tougher attitude." ”

Wang Yan nodded and said, "Yes, Marshal, I will immediately arrange for the personnel of the Foreign Affairs Department to protest to the Japanese." ”

Lin Daxin turned his head to the dozen division commanders in the conference room and said: "Yu Lichen, Sun Qingwen, Li Heng, Liu Genbao, Sun Xingwen, Wang Guizhong, your 6 divisions will immediately go to the Dandong area, if the Japanese really want to fight us, your 6 divisions will be the first batch of reinforcements in Yalujiang Province." ”

Six people stood up and shouted, "Yes, Headmaster!" "The divisions of the six men were all withdrawn from the inner city of Svobod, namely the fourteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, thirty-first, thirty-second and thirty-third divisions of the Dingbei Army, these six divisions have recovered after the battle of Svobodne, after a few months of rest, and the inner city of Svobod was also changed by Lin Daxin to a Chinese name, which will be called Shengjiang City in the future.

Lin Daxin said to the other division commanders: "Your remaining divisions should also seize the time to train new recruits and strive to restore the combat effectiveness of the troops to the fullest. ”

The other divisions were actually the ones that were damaged in Darkhan City, so Ni Fan, Hu Desheng and other division commanders nodded.

Lin Daxin turned his head to Wang Yan again and said, "Cousin." Baikal and Far Eastern provinces, the Trans-Siberian Railway, which the Russians did not finish. We can send people to continue the construction, and we also plan to build railways in Xinjiang Province, Inner Mongolia Province, Outer Mongolia Province, Saixi Province and Saidong Province. Connecting all our provinces by rail, not only will the provinces rely on the railway to develop their economies, but even if there is a war in the future, it will also be convenient for us to mobilize the northern army, and logistics supplies can also be transported by train. ”

Wang Yan nodded approvingly and said, "Okay, Dashuai, I will immediately send someone to make a railway plan according to your wishes." ”

After Lin Daxin made some arrangements, he announced the adjournment of the meeting, and he returned to the residence behind the governor's palace. continued to accompany his wives and children, but Lin Daxin did not expect that this unexpected border firefight incident would cause a series of changes, which made him have to fight a bloody battle with the Japanese contrary to his wishes, and Lin Daxin did not expect the Japanese to be so resolute in launching the war, so that the poorly prepared Dingbei Army and the Northeast Navy suffered losses in the early stage of the war, and even Lin Daxin himself almost lost his life.

In the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan, Emperor Meiji brought Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito, Foreign Minister Mutsu Munemitsu, and Combined Fleet Commander Heihachiro Togo, as well as War Minister Iwawa Oyama into the Imperial Palace.

Although Dashan Rock was in the battle with the Dingbei Army a few years ago. The table was not very good, losing hundreds of thousands of people at the hands of the Dingbei Army, but relying on his deep connections, as well as the trust of Emperor Meiji and Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito. He still held the post of Minister of War.

Emperor Meiji said, "Do you know the exchange of fire on the border between Japan's occupation of South Korea and the occupation of North Korea by the Jeongbuk Army? ”

The four Japanese ministers all nodded, and Oyama Yan said, "Your Majesty, the front-line troops have sent a telegram. In the exchange of fire at the border yesterday afternoon, a total of 220 members of our Imperial Japanese Army were killed. More than 100 people were wounded, and the casualties of the Dingbei Army should be about the same as ours. After the firefight. All divisions and regiments stationed in South Korea sent telegrams to the base camp, hoping that the Empire would launch an attack on the Northeast and avenge the death of the Imperial soldiers! ”

Before Emperor Meiji could speak, Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi said: "No, now that Lin Daxin has ended the war with the Russians, and the hundreds of thousands of Dingbei troops under his command have been transferred to Yalu River Province at any time, our Japanese Empire is likely to steal chickens and rice." ”

Dashan Yan shook his head and said: "Ito-kun, it is precisely because the Dingbei Army under the command of Lin Daxin has just ended the war with the Russians, the strength of the Dingbei Army has been consumed a lot in the war, and it has not yet eased up, if we wait for the Dingbei Army to slow down, our chances of victory will be even slimmer, everyone should not forget the national policy of our Great Japanese Empire!" ”

After listening to Oyama Iwa, Emperor Meiji and the other 3 people fell into deep thought.

Since the "Meiji Restoration" in the second half of the 19th century, Japan broke the feudal state of being closed off from the rest of the country and rapidly developed capitalism, which enabled Japan to quickly extricate itself from the crisis of semi-colonization and build itself into the only independent bourgeois country in Asia at that time.

However, Japan still retains a large number of feudal elements in the state system and social life, especially militarism. This situation determined that the regime after the Meiji Restoration was particularly aggressive. This regime brutally exploited and suppressed the civilian population at home, actively expanded and plundered abroad, and embarked on a military feudal imperialist road similar to that of Tsarist Russia.

As early as the beginning of the Meiji regime, the Japanese ruling circles decided that aggression and expansion were the supreme national policy, which was embodied in the so-called mainland policy of targeting the Qing Dynasty and Korea first.

In the 70s of the 19th century, after the occupation of Ryukyu and Taiwan, the Japanese government began to invade Korea, and from 1876 to 1884, it coerced Korea to sign a number of unequal treaties that humiliated the country.

Before the war with the Qing Dynasty, Japan's first economic crisis broke out, and various domestic contradictions were very acute, so the Ito Hirobumi cabinet tried to find a way out of the crisis from the war of aggression against the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, in 1894, the Japanese took advantage of the anti-feudal, anti-Western powers in Korea and the Japanese invasion of the Donghak uprising to brazenly launch a large-scale war against the Qing Dynasty.

It's a pity that Lin Daxin, a demon-like figure, suddenly popped up, so that the war launched by Japan almost fell short, if it weren't for the rotten Manchu court to help Japan, Japan might lose in the end There are no pants.

However, Japan's national policy has not changed, and it may be that the Japanese God Amaterasu blessed the Japanese to obtain the treasures of the Tokugawa shogunate, and in recent years they have frantically expanded the Japanese Army and the Japanese Combined Fleet.

Seeing that several people did not speak, Dashan Yan continued: "Your Majesty the Emperor, gentlemen, this may be the only chance for our Great Japan, if Lin Daxin is given time, and when he consumes the occupied Russian land, then Lin Daxin's forces will become a behemoth, and our Great Japan's mainland policy will never be realized." ”

Emperor Meiji gritted his teeth, a crazy look appeared in his eyes, and said to the other 3 people: "Ito-kun, Mutsu-kun, Togo-kun, what do you think?" ”

Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi hesitated, in fact, he was opposed to a war with Lin Daxin now, he thought that the chances of Japan's victory were not great, but just like Oyama Yan said, if he didn't even seize the weak period of the Dingbei Army now, then Japan might have no chance to occupy the Northeast, the Far East, and even the vast Siberia in the future.

Ito Hirofumi sternly asked Oyama Iwa, "Is the Great Japanese Army sure of defeating the Dingbei Army in Yalu Province?" ”

Hearing Ito's question, Emperor Meiji and the others focused on Oyama Iwa's body, waiting for this question that they had been thinking about for a long time.

Seeing that several people were looking at him, the corners of his mouth raised slightly, and then said: "His Majesty the Emperor, Ito-kun, Mutsu-kun, and Togo-kun, if we choose to start a war in Japan, then although our Great Japanese Army has gathered a huge strength of 22 divisions in South Korea, our Army still does not have the confidence to capture Yalu River Province, which has been operated by the Northern Army for several years, that is, the strength of South Korea will reach 30 divisions according to the plan. The army is also not completely sure of capturing the fortifications of the Dingbei Army in Yalu River Province! ”

Hearing Oyamaiwa's words, Emperor Meiji, Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito, Foreign Minister Mutsu Munemitsu, and Combined Fleet Commander Heihachiro Togo couldn't help but have a gloomy look in their eyes.

But the words below the big mountain rock made the eyes of the four people light up again, "Although our army is not sure to capture Yalu River Province, which is heavily guarded by the Dingbei Army, why should we attack the bone of Yalu River Province?" Why can't we pick the soft underbelly of the Dingbei Army to launch an attack? (A pie-in-the-sky event, cool phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......) R1292