Episode 76 Speculation

In the moonlight in the second half of the night,.

The "Fortress" exercises are over. The campaign-level live-force confrontation exercise, which involved eight divisions, 100,000 troops, and 200 aircraft, lasted only two days, less than 48 hours, and only 45 hours.

It's not just the lightning speed that makes everyone fall through the glasses. If it weren't for the final battle, the Blues' storming of New Mengzhuang, it would have been a one-sided casualty ratio.

Now the casualty ratio of the two sides is: 75,000 men of the six divisions of the Red Army were annihilated, and the Blue Army lost 6,000 men, which is only a fraction of the Red Army. Nearly 4,000 of them were killed or wounded in the last battle, the siege of Xinmengzhuang.

However, considering that the total strength of the Blue Army is only 25,000 people, these 6,000 casualties are still not small for the Blue Army, which is equivalent to half a division and a quarter.

In this crucial exercise, the Blues won a resounding victory. But for Xiang Xiaoqiang, he was not happy at all. On the one hand, the Blues' victory was expected. One side completely possesses air supremacy and land mobility, and the opponent's forces are only three times its own instead of thirty times, and it should win. But this victory was too fast, too complete. As the commander of the Red Side, the respected Chief of the Army General Staff, Xiang Xiaoqiang didn't know what he would feel like at this time.

However, this is only secondary. What hit him even more was that the Prince of Siam was about to come to Nanjing, and Zhu Yourong had already decided to marry him. Moreover, this girl also anticipated the possible difficult situation of her "good friend" Xiang Xiaoqiang after she got married, and she had already prepared a way back for him!

Xiang Xiaoqiang's current mood really wants to send two people to Bangkok, castrate that bullshit prince, and see how he marries Zhu Yourong.

But this can only be ruthless in the heart. Whether he really castrated others or did it, with the power and resources he now has in Xiaoqiang's hands, it is not impossible. Moreover, even if it is blamed on some "foreign hostile forces", it is very easy. But this matter is not something that can be done by a conspiracy at all. This is a conspiracy, that is, no matter how beautiful or clever you are, as long as you are not mentally retarded, you can see it at a glance.

Her Majesty the Empress married to Siam, and the person who suffered the most damage was Xiang Xiaoqiang, the former celebrity and commander of the People's Guard. The prince of Siam had an accident, and the empress couldn't get married, and the first person to benefit was him Xiang Xiaoqiang. It can even be said that if there are really any hostile forces that want to frame Xiang Xiaoqiang now, it is too simple, just do the prince of Siam.

Thinking of this, Xiang Xiaoqiang couldn't help but feel furious.

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Xiang Xiaoqiang now feels the so-called sense of crisis. I'm going to lose my political backer! I'm going to lose the help that can make me rise to the top! Once lost, then the "Northern Expedition Plan" that he worked so hard to promote will probably be in vain!

The most important thing is that I am going to lose my beloved girl - Zhu Yourong!

In the armored command vehicle, a poignant and tender record song came from the radio speakers:

"The tide of the spring river is even with the sea, and the bright moon on the sea is born together.

Thousands of miles with the waves, where is there no moon in the spring river?

The river flows around Fangdian, and the moonlit flowers and forests are like hail.

The frost in the air does not fly, and the white sand on the Ting cannot be seen.

Jiangtian is colorless and dustless, and the lonely moon wheel in the bright sky.

Who first saw the moon on the riverside? When did Jiang Yue shine at the beginning of the year?

Life has been infinite for generations, and Jiang Yue is only similar every year.

I don't know who Jiang Yue treats, but I see the Yangtze River sending water......"

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It was car number one playing a record. The No. 1 car is the "flagship" of the entire Empress team, that is, Zhu Yourong's car.

As soon as Xiang Xiaoqiang heard this song, he knew that Zhu Yourong's girl was lyrical again.

Compared with later generations, the Ming Dynasty at this time was quite "cultural" in many places. For example, I like to put traditional classical poems into graceful tunes and release them. And the sales are usually good, and the "graceful singers" along the way are also very popular.

But at this time, when this large-scale military exercise ended successfully and was on the way back to Beijing with high spirits, Zhu Yourong's sour and rotten gas came up again. It's just a matter of not playing military songs, and getting such a petty bourgeois record to play......

The loudspeaker continued:

"At this time, we don't hear each other, and we are willing to shine on you month by month......"

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"Take a picture of the dead man's head next door!"

scolded Xiaoqiang and kicked on the armor plate, which scared Xiuxiu.

This command vehicle is in the form of a trailer, with a front car in front and a command vehicle towed in the back. It's like a miniature version of a container truck, with the front of the locomotive and the "container" behind it being the command vehicle. The driver is in front, and the command vehicle in the back is completely private.

In this command car, there are only Xiang Xiaoqiang and Xiuxiu. Xiuxiu was guarding the radio station, quietly observing Xiang Xiaoqiang. Xiang Xiaoqiang's restlessness and soul all the way, Xiuxiu has long seen it in his eyes, and the approximate reason has long been guessed. However, Xiang Xiaoqiang roared like this, and Xiuxiu was still taken aback.

Xiuxiu silently took a cup of tea and put out the fire for Xiang Xiaoqiang. Xiang Xiaoqiang asked her to put the tea on the small table, and did not drink it, but just stretched out two fingers irritably and gestured.

Xiuxiu silently opened the cigarette on the table again, took out a cigarette and put it between her lips, then picked up the lighter and lit the fire on the cigarette butt, inhaled it gently, lit the cigarette, and put it in Xiang Xiaoqiang's hand.

Xiang Xiaoqiang took a big puff of a cigarette, sat in the chair, and spewed out a long breath.

He casually glanced at Xiuxiu, and then continued to look at the lamp on the ceiling. The smoke slowly swirled, rose, and diffused under the light. And Xiuxiu sat opposite her, in this small space, slowly surrounded by these smokes.

Xiang Xiaoqiang sighed lightly and pointed to the side:

"Open the window."

Xiuxiu immediately stood up and opened the steel plate covers on the shooting windows on both sides.

Although the shooting window was small, a fresh cool breeze from outside immediately poured in, and the smoke in the carriage was swept away in a blink of an eye.

Xiang Xiaoqiang glanced at Xiuxiu again, and a thought slowly popped up in his heart: With a beautiful, smart, obedient, gentle, empathetic, and loyal wife like Xiuxiu, is he too dissatisfied? Now sitting across from her, drinking the tea she made, smoking the cigarette she lit, but thinking about how to chase other girls, isn't it too sorry for others?

Xiang Xiaoqiang was almost sure that his entanglement with Zhu Yourong had not been hidden from Xiuxiu's eyes at all. What is this little girl doing, she was picked by Dongchang to be an undercover agent and see through her little flower intestines, so it's still a problem?

Seriously, if the person sitting opposite now is a wife who is crying with a handful of snot and tears, and looks like a vinegar jar, Xiang Xiaoqiang will never have the slightest apology in his heart. But in the face of Xiuxiu, who was more and more gentle, obedient, and empathetic, Xiang Xiaoqiang's soul was really tortured by himself.

He tried to convince himself:

It's not sorry Xiuxiu. If you lose Zhu Yourong, you will lose everything you have now, and you will not be able to give Xiuxiu a better life, and you will not be able to give Xiuxiu's mother and younger brother better protection. Xiuxiu marries herself and works hard to please herself, isn't this what she is for? …… Ahem, except for love, isn't that what it's for?

Also, without Zhu Yourong's support, his Northern Expedition to the Manchu Qing Dynasty would come to naught. Then, the 400 million compatriots in the north will continue to live in darkness and continue to suffer from misery......

Therefore, we must overcome the "little self" and find ways to chase Zhu Yourong into our hands.

Go back to Zheng Yuxuan to find out the details, find out when the bullshit prince will come, and all his information, and discuss what to do.

Now that there is a problem, it needs to be solved. It is not easy to solve, use your brains, unite all the forces that can be united, and strive to achieve the goal. Xiang Xiaoqiang knew that since he climbed onto the anchor of the Manchu destroyer that winter night, he would not admit defeat in this world.

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returned to Nanjing, Zhu Yourong returned to the Forbidden City, Xiang Xiaoqiang returned to the official residence, and slept in the middle of the night.

Xiang Xiaoqiang got up at noon the next day, finished lunch, and took his attaché to the General Staff of the Army to attend a press conference on the exercise. He didn't take Xiuxiu with him, but only brought Hu Jiong. Xiuxiu usually takes it with her, but this time it's an official news occasion, and if you take Xiuxiu, the princess of the Ryukyus, it is too stylish. And Xiang Xiaoqiang just wants to keep a low profile this time. The Blue Army (or his People's Guard) defeated the Red Army (or the Ming Army), and if it is so popular, it will really not be conducive to stability and unity.

At lunchtime, he gathered a few of his men to discuss it. Everyone thought that Xiang Xiaoqiang should have done the right thing by instructing the Blues to "concede" the Red Army in the final battle. Originally, it was two divisions against six divisions, and as long as they won, it would already be good in the eyes of many people. There's no need to win that much. It was important for the Qing War, and the relationship with the top of the army was also very important.

The news conference was hosted by the High Command and held at the General Staff of the Army. In addition to Zhang Zhaoxian, who represented the high command, the important figures attending the meeting included Tang Yunsheng, who represented the commander of the army and the red side, Xiang Xiaoqiang, who represented the People's Guard, and Rommel, who represented the commander of the blue side. and Wei Zijin, Zhu Yourong's chief secretary who attended on behalf of the empress.

After a group of important people sat down and a flash of spotlight, a reporter asked the first question:

"I am a reporter from the "Qinhuai Daily", may I ask General Xiang Xiaoqiang, this military exercise, the official announcement of the exercise assumes that the Qing army crossed the river in a big way, and how our army will meet and annihilate them on the land south of the Yangtze River. Some speculations circulating in the outside world indicate that the assumption of this exercise was not to meet the invading Qing army, but that the Ming army crossed the Yangtze River north and took the initiative to launch an attack on the Qing army. As the initiator and main planner of this exercise, can you share your views? ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang picked up the cup and took a sip of tea gently, but his heart was a little drumming. This question was not unthought of beforehand. But this first question came at me, and it was a question that I thought of, but I never thought of how to answer. It's tricky.