Lao Yuan also finished eating at this time, it is estimated that he is still in a good mood, and glanced at Lei Zhenchun on the side, Lei Zhenchun hurriedly took out a piece of information from his briefcase and handed it to Yang Xiaolin: "Commander, this is something that I spent a lot of effort to get, I believe you must be interested." ”

Yang Xiaolin was a little stunned, he didn't know what made Lei Zhenchun think that he must be interested, and he stretched out his hand to take a look, but it was a detailed battle report from Africa.

Nyerere won his first counter-encirclement.

Lei Zhenchun really put a lot of effort into it, although the battle took place in Europe, his intelligence was collected in detail. The Italians and the French formed a coalition of 3,000 men, plus some local black mercenaries who worked for the whites, a total of more than 7,000 people, and fought violently into the Atlas Mountains, trying to find Nyerere's force and annihilate him.

But after a shot, Lao Ni turned around and ran, carried out the purpose of fighting in the movement, dragged these thousands of people around the mountains for more than a week, and when the Italians could not bear the pain and withdraw, he suddenly turned back and fought with the French.

More than 200 French soldiers were killed in a battle, more than 40 were taken prisoner, and the mercenary force was routed, capturing a large amount of war supplies and supplies. Nyerere really learned from Commander Yang very well, and he was merciless in killing white people, but those mercenaries were generously let go by him.

This is just like when Commander Yang was fighting at the beginning, he was always able to release the Qing Dynasty troops, not only because they were all Chinese. Let them go, and they will promote themselves when they go back.

Yang Xiaolin looked at it with a smile on his face, hundreds of casualties may not be nothing to the French, but this victory is enough for Nyerere to unite the team.

Lao Yuan also smiled beside him: "Hehe, Nyerere has been in Beijing for a long time, and I know that you must be worried about his situation there, so I asked Zhenchun to pay special attention." ”

Saying this suddenly made Commander Yang feel a little guilty, Lao Yuan was so authentic that he still wanted to plot against him, which was somewhat inadequate.

Fortunately, Lei Zhenchun spoke at this time, interrupting Commander Yang's embarrassment: "Commander." President. I also have something I want you to discuss, our Chinese intelligence department really can't do it! When collecting the battle situation of the Russians, we can ask Zhang Xun to do the work, and we haven't felt anything yet, but this time Yuan Gong asked me to collect the battle situation in Africa. It's really hard. Our intelligence agents are not in line with the rest of the world. ”

Yuan Shikai looked at him: "Oh? What does this mean? Is it because of the quality of our people? ”

Lei Zhenchun shook his head: "No!" Let's put it this way. In fact, intelligence work sometimes needs a bridge. Some things have to be done by women, but we don't have them. ”

As soon as he said this, Yang Xiaolin and Yuan Shikai immediately understood. There are some things that are indeed appropriate for women to come forward, but Chinese women have been educated for thousands of years. You said that if you let them dance with foreign men, cuddle and hug, they can't accept it. Not to mention that professional spies have to pay further.

Even if they do, spies are fluent in many languages, and it is too difficult to pick such a person from among the Chinese women who are not talented and virtuous at home. Even if they were, the little wrapped feet really made it impossible for them to do this dangerous job.

Lao Yuan didn't have anything to do, and his expression was very helpless. Yang Xiaolin said to Lei Zhenchun at this time: "Zhenchun, you first focus on Russian affairs. Our top priority is to fight the battle well, and we will talk about it later. ”

Lei Zhenchun glanced at Yuan Shikai, and after finding that Lao Yuan did not react, he responded: "Yes." ”

Yang Xiaolin and Yuan Shikai's attitudes towards war are really different.

Although Lao Yuan supported war, he believed that war was only a continuation of economic, diplomatic and political affairs, and that war could only be used when political and diplomatic means could not solve the problem. Yuan Shikai's concept has a strong traditional Chinese Confucian ruler's thinking, and he believes that talking about war is a very taboo thing in a country.

At the beginning, when the Russians were pressing on him, Yuan Shikai retreated step by step, until there was really no way to retreat, Cao Kun told him that he must let the whole world know that Beiyang was an army, and he picked up a gun.

Yang Xiaolin is different, from the Yulu Mountain all the way to the present, although he does not think that war is omnipotent, but he thinks that no war is absolutely impossible. If you don't have the ability and courage to fight with others, they won't play diplomacy and politics with you.

Including the intelligence above, if it weren't for their superiority in the war against the Russians, Zhang Xun would not have defected at all.

It was precisely because Yang Xiaolin was focused on fighting the war that Yuan Shikai had the courage to think about doing something else. Old Yuan Zhilu said that his son-in-law was very cunning and didn't let him go to war, in case he put his mind on himself, he estimated that the current situation might not be good for him.

"Which unit are you going to leave behind on this expedition?"

"Wu Zhaolin's Third Front Army."

Yuan Shikai nodded after hearing this, it's not bad, everything is expected by himself.

Lao Yuan really hopes that Yang Xiaolin can win the war with the Russians with a quick knife, because war can also add points to his image. But the British are no longer the same, and the British Empire has felt that the loss of control in China has had a major impact on the situation in the whole of Asia.

Their influence in Asia seems to be waning.

At a time when things were not yet settled in China, the conflict between Japan and the Netherlands was also close to white-hot. On the day of the military parade in China, the Japanese government made representations to the Dutch and Indian governments, demanding that the Dutch authorities immediately stop the crackdown on Japanese companies in Indonesia, and apologized for this, promising to relax the management rights of Japanese companies and the entry restrictions on Japanese employees, and allow Japanese companies to enter the fields of 13 important strategic resources of rubber, bauxite, and tin.

If the Netherlands had agreed to this condition. It is equivalent to admitting defeat without fighting them in the war. Although the family has declined, he has been the boss anyway, and being bullied by a second-rate gangster is shameless, so naturally he is not making concessions.

The Japanese were rejected.

October 21, 26. Japan's emperor twice attended the Imperial Council to discuss what the Japanese should do now to protect the lives of their citizens in Indonesia and safeguard their business interests.

This was already a more obvious signal of war than the evacuation, and the British Empire was really a little annoyed. In the event of a war in Southeast Asia, would the British fleet in Malaysia still be able to control the situation? They formed an alliance with Japan in order to find themselves a reliable little brother in Asia and to increase Britain's ability to deal with Asian problems.

This does not mean that they are willing to watch Japan grow and develop. Little Japan once got Indonesia. The national strength will be greatly raised to a higher level. The so-called Greater East Asia rhetoric in Japan is possible, and the emergence of an Asian power is not in Britain's interests.

The British Empire understands that the reason why their little brother is a little disobedient now is that he sees that the eldest brother seems to have nothing to do with him. China's war upset the equilibrium throughout Asia. The Japanese did not want to go to China again. There is a very contradictory peace between them and China. The two sides hate each other, but no one can help anyone.

After the defeat of the Russians by China, Japan no longer had to worry about its rear. Under such circumstances, it is not surprising that Japan will reach out to Southeast Asia.

The British may have put their ambitions in their arms, but it would have cost Britain its own energy and resources in the first place. Second, it will also make Japan hold a grudge against Britain. The best way to deal with the Chinese problem is to deal with the Chinese problem right away. Let the Russian forces get out of the unfavorable war situation and return the situation to the equilibrium point of a year ago.

If China, Russia, and Japan can contain each other, it will be in the best interest of Britain. When the Japanese felt threatened by North Korea, they did not have the courage to go south.

Therefore, the British now took the initiative to find Yuan Shikai and proposed to let China and Russia sit down and negotiate, while Britain, France and the United States participated in mediation to resolve the war peacefully.

The British said that the meeting would be held at the former British Legation, and that Mr. Jurdian on the British side and Mr. Boward would attend the meeting on the French side. It was also a clear signal from the British to China that the British Legation would reopen its doors as long as the peace talks were successful.

On the American side, Minister Conger participated, and the Americans also supported an armistice in this negotiation, because they did not want the Japanese to reach out to Southeast Asia.

The Russians said that they would make Mr. Yue Resal, who was highly respected and had good relations with the Chinese side, come back to participate in the peace talks. The Chinese negotiators have not yet drawn it up.

It stands to reason that Mr. Sun Wen is the most suitable, but Yuan Shikai is unwilling to let Sun Wen do this. The purpose of this negotiation is to cooperate with Yang Xiaolin's military footsteps on the battlefield and to delay time as much as possible.

"Xiaolin, I think Yang Du is the most suitable candidate for this negotiation, he is more in tune with you, and he can cooperate with some intentions on the battlefield, what do you think?"

Lao Yuan's idea is indeed very thoughtful, Commander Yang also thought so before, but now he has a more suitable person than Yang Du. This person may not be able to negotiate well, but letting him negotiate is absolutely in China's interests and can also boost the morale of the Chinese troops.

"Yuan Gong, the economic situation is not very optimistic now, and the blue son may not be too busy, I don't recommend that he be in charge of the negotiation at the same time, I recommend someone to you, do you think it's okay?"

Lao Yuan smiled: "I really don't know who is more qualified for this task than Yang Huizi." But the negotiation is to match your battle on the battlefield, and you think you can do it. Who? ”

Yang Xiaolin said softly: "The former Beiyang Army is under the command of the fifth town, Zhang Huaizhi. ”

As soon as the name was spoken, the hands in Yuan Shikai's hands shook violently, and the muscles on Lei Zhenchun's face on the side trembled sharply.

Zhang Huaizhi is still in the hands of the Russians, but Lao Maozi has already agreed to the conditions proposed by the Chinese side for the exchange of prisoners, and the exact date given by the Russians is three days later, and Zhang Huaizhi will be able to return in three days.

Lao Yuan really didn't expect Yang Xiaolin to have such a suggestion, he always thought that Yang Xiaolin exchanged prisoners just for the unity of the two armies, and now the establishment of the army has been stabilized, and the fifth town has not been formed after the annihilation of the whole army, Yuan Shikai himself thinks that it would be good to give him an idle official position after Zhang Huaizhi comes back, he really didn't expect Yang Xiaolin to let Zhang Huaizhi go to negotiate an armistice with the Russians as a representative of China's peace talks.

Three days later, when the negotiations were about to begin, it was just in time.

For a while, Lao Yuan couldn't describe the current mood in his heart, his eyes looked at Yang Xiaolin, and his upper and lower lips trembled: "Xiaolin, thank you." (To be continued......)