Chapter 322: Kaoru Otsuki: An Inexplicable Day
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is already May.
For the people of Anhui, the battle that took place at the junction of the three provinces seemed to be both very close and far away. From April 22 to now, only more than 10 days have passed, and such a little time has not been able to cause much impact on the people of Anhui, especially when the battle line has been maintained at the junction and almost no changes have occurred.
However, after all, this is the largest war that has taken place in China since the Xinhai Revolution, so although the war did not affect the people too much, there are still a lot of people who have seen the cruelty of the war...
In just over 10 days, the Kuomintang has suffered more than 20,000 casualties, of which more than 4,000 have been killed. Because of the gap in equipment, the casualties on the Beiyang side were higher, with the overall casualties reaching more than 30,000 and the number of killed close to 7,000...
Almost every day, countless war dead and seriously wounded are pulled back to Anqing from Suzhou for resettlement, no way, although the field hospital in Suzhou has gathered many excellent surgeons, but the conditions there are still too poor after all, and many seriously wounded have basically lost their combat ability, and continuing to stay on the front line can only occupy the already small medical resources, so it is better to let them return to the rear to receive better treatment, and at the same time give up valuable medical resources to those new wounded.
The blessing of Tozhan Tianyou has been opened to traffic since a long time ago. Naturally, it's not a small amount of money, but it's worth it for now.
Ammunition, supplies, medicines, etc., which are urgently needed on the front line. They were all pulled to the front line through this railway, and the bodies of the dead and seriously wounded on the front line were also pulled back to Anqing through this railway.
However, it is precisely because of this that Anhui and even the whole country understand the cruelty of this war.
Looking at the casualty reports coming back from the front line every day, both Yan Shao and Yuan Shikai were dripping blood in their hearts, after all, whether it was for Yan Shao or Yuan Shikai, these casualties were too big.
And for the other warlords. This battle is even more shocking.
Leaving aside the number of casualties for the time being, the number of war dead alone has reached more than 11,000, which is equivalent to the entire strength of an ordinary province.
It's just over 10 days. It was almost unimaginable for many Chinese people at this time, and even many foreigners living in China were looking at it, after all, before the European War, even Europe rarely fought like this. Not to mention the injuries. If you count the injuries, it's even more unimaginable.
It is also because of this that many people, including Cai Yi, have spoken out to mediate, hoping that Yan Shao and Yuan Shikai can stop this conflict, 'so as not to kill their siblings and cause the needless sacrifice of Chinese soldiers...'.
In the eyes of many people, Beiyang aside, the National Social Army has also shown extremely high quality. Compared with Beiyang, I am afraid that it is not much worse. Such soldiers are an important component of China's national defense strength, and now these soldiers have shed blood and died because of some meaningless things. Isn't that heart-wrenching?
Naturally, this is just the idea of Cai Yi and others, for many warlords or Japanese, Yan Shao and Yuan Shikai fight more fiercely. For the former, the greater the loss of Yan Shao and Yuan Shikai, the more stable their position will be, and there is no need to worry about the unstable position of their emperor as in the past, and for the Japanese, the greater the loss of the two, the higher the success rate of their next plan...
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"Ten thousand arrows..."
"Shem..."
"Shem..."
"Didn't flash..."
"Didn't flash..."
In the bedroom, Yan Shao was sitting cross-legged on the bed, playing games with Elanon, Katarina, Lu Ying, and Kaoru Otsuki, who was forcibly pulled over, as for Fumiko?
She wanted to come along, but...
"Is the homework done? Don't go and do your homework yet! β
This sentence alone is enough to make Fumiko cry...
The layout of Yan Shao's bedroom is also very simple, to be exact, there are no new things in this era. TV? Telegraph? The former will take at least two or thirty years, and the latter will take sixty or seventy years.
In the bedroom, in addition to the office bookcase, the bookcase, the sofa and table for resting, the dresser for the women and a human-height statue of the twin goddesses next to the bookcase, the most eye-catching thing is probably the large bed that can accommodate five or six people, well, and some oil paintings hanging on the wall.
Because of this, even though 5 people are crammed into the bed together, it doesn't feel crowded.
Eleno and Caterina's injuries, though severe, were traumatic, so they have now begun to heal, and although they are still unable to move, they are able to walk on the ground. Playing some simple games will naturally be nothing, and although Yan Shao is very busy, he is willing to take some time out to spend with his family...
The assassination some time ago was a great shame for the Special Affairs Bureau, after all, that assassination was not only Yan Shao, but even their director was almost buried. Therefore, after the assassination was over, the Secret Service Bureau had already carried out a purge of Anhui, almost digging three feet into the ground, not only the Black Dragon Society, the Kuomintang, but even the people of Beiyang Lu Jianzhang were also affected.
Now these forces in Anhui dare not say that there is no remnant, but even if there is fear, there are few left.
Because of this, even if you go out for a walk, you don't have to worry about any accidents, not to mention that the last thing has proved that the latest version of the bulletproof car is really good, at least it can save a life at a critical momentββββββ but it is also because of this that the demand for this kind of car at the top of the military government has increased greatly, after all, no one dares to guarantee that they will not suffer in the future...
To be honest, they were quite unimpressed with Yan Shao getting this kind of car out. So for a while, only Yan Shao sat in this kind of car, but now...
On the other hand, the car factory is also making greater improvements to this car. In addition to stronger protection, the direction of improvement is better mobility.
Ahem, a little off topic.
Although Yan Shao is willing to spare some time to spend with his family, Elaline and the others know very well how busy Yan Shao is now, after all, the war that is happening at the junction of the three provinces is related to a lot of things, so they just let Yan Shao accompany them to do some small games at home. Instead of going outside for a walk.
In this way, even if something happens that needs to be dealt with urgently by Yan Shao, he can also deal with these things in his own home.
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Sitting cross-legged on the bed, Yan Shao's eyes were firmly fixed on the cards in his handββββββ although all the people sitting on the bed were beautiful women now. And each of them is stunning, but he is almost tired of watching it every day, let alone if he wants to see it. You don't need to sneak a look. It's completely open, so it's really not as attractive to him as the cards in his hand.
I don't know if Lu Dao is too unlucky, a total of five games, he actually played four games.
Not to mention the internal difficulties for the time being, it is not easy to do internal thinking to win, in fact, when playing the Three Kingdoms Killing, the last thing he wants to be is the inside, followed by the Lord, as for the anti-thief or loyalty, it doesn't matter. Of course, anti-thieves are the best. After all, the goal of the thief is the clearest, as long as the main is killed, compared to the loyalty, you need to be careful not to kill yourself as an internal kill, and the lord is careful not to treat loyalty as a counter-kill, as for the inside, it is completely in the cracks to survive, especially be careful not to expose your identity, otherwise the chance of winning is very smallββββββ because many people would rather be against or win than see the internal win...
Fortunately, now the people sitting in the bed are their own family, so there is no need for this situation...
It's just that when Yan Shao was staring at the cards in his hand, he didn't notice the slightly upturned corners of his mouth sitting opposite Eleno and Katarina.
It's only five rounds in total, and unless you're unlucky enough to get home, it's impossible to get four games in a row.
This is all due to the fact that Caterina secretly did something to the point of choosing a position.
Although she has been used to pampering over the years, her and Elainor's skills are much worse than a few years ago, but after all, they are much better than Yan Shao and Lu Ying, at least do something to prevent Yan Shao from finding out, which is also a relationship that no one else noticed before, only Elaline noticed.
As for why you want to do this...
Because of the injury, Yan Shao always had to take care of the bodies of the two, and it was inconvenient to find the two of them for some things, so he had to go to the corner of the manor with Lu Ying...
Although the person has been injured, the eyeliner of the two is all over the manor, and they are naturally very clear about this. Although the two of them also knew that this was helpless, they always had some resentment in their hearts, so they took a small revenge on this...
Just when the two of them were snickering in their hearts, the phone on the bedtable suddenly rang.
The piercing bell startled Yan Shao, but he still grabbed the cards in one hand and jumped out of bed. At the same time, after hearing the phone, Elaline and the others also put down the cards in their hands a little helplessly, obviously guessing what was going on...
"Hey, what's the matter?" Grabbing the phone, Yan Shao asked directly.
And after listening for a while, Yan Shao could only say helplessly.
"Wait, I'll be there in a minute..."
After speaking, Yan Shao hung up the phone, and then looked at the other four people with some apologies. "I have some official business, and it seems that I can only accompany you here today..."
The remaining four people naturally knew the current situation, so they didn't care.
"You go first...", putting away the cards on the bed, Elaline smiled faintly.
Although Elinor was about to leave after a while, Elainor was inevitably a little disappointed, but she had been prepared for it a long time ago, so she would not complain about anything. As for Katarina, she didn't say anything, albeit dissatisfied. Although she has been on vacation recently, she still understands the current situation as the director of the Special Affairs Bureau.
"Since that's the case, then I'll also say goodbye first..."Seeing that Yan Shao was leaving, Otsuki Kaoru also hurriedly got up and said.
She was originally forcibly pulled over by Yan Shao and them to make up the numbers, and now Yan Shao is leaving. Naturally, she wanted to go and see how Fumiko was doing.
Seeing Kaoru Otsuki say this, Elano nodded.
After nodding to Elanon, Yan Shao accompanied Otsuki Kaoru out of the bedroom. Only Lu Ying was left to help Elaline and them clean up the room.
After closing the door, Yan Shao looked back at Kaoru Otsuki, who was still standing there quietly.
As usual, a snow-white kimono was worn on the body, which made the whole person look very demure, although the figure was far inferior to Elano and others, but it looked very slim...
"Let's go..."With a helpless wry smile, Yan Shao shook his head slightly. I thought I could spare some time today. Who would have thought that this kind of thing would have happened, I would have thought of going to Fumiko's side to see how her studies are going..."
"There's no way around it. After all, it's important to get down to business..."Tilting her head sideways, Kaoru Otsuki smiled, perhaps because of her petite stature, but it made people feel cute. Although Kaoru Otsuki was already 25 years old at this time. However, she is still like a girl in appearance. It's like Eleno, and it's a little incredible.
Seeing Kaoru Otsuki say this, Yan Shao smiled.
As usual, the two of them talked and laughed and walked downstairs, but maybe it was because they were still thinking about the so-called 'business' in their hearts, and they were talking to Otsuki Kaoru again, and under the intention of using two things, Yan Shao's soles stepped on the air...
If it's a general plot. At this time, Yan Shao should have pressed Kaoru Otsuki to the ground and looked at each other. Then Yan Shao couldn't help but say something again.
But in fact, when he fell, Yan Shao just instinctively wanted to grab something...
As a result, when Yan Shao sat down on the stairs, he just felt that he had grabbed something, and then he heard a 'hiss'...
This is usually just a very ordinary voice, but when Yan Shao looked up, he saw that Kaoru Otsuki had to hold on to the wall to avoid falling because of the inertia just now, and the snow white in front of her because of the pulling...
It seemed to react, and after looking down, Kaoru Otsuki hurriedly covered his chest with his hands, and quickly turned around to tidy up his clothes.
As for Yan Shao, he sat on the stairs and blinked. Although it was only a short moment, the scene just now still left an indelible impression on Yan Shao.
After climbing up the stairs, Yan Shao stood up straight with some embarrassment.
At the same time, after packing up her clothes, Kaoru Otsuki also turned back with an embarrassed face. It's just that when he looked at Yan Shao, a touch of red also appeared on his face...
Obviously, for Kaoru Otsuki, the scene just now was also extremely embarrassing.
Although he was a little embarrassed, Yan Shao still explained after getting up. "I'm sorry, but I definitely didn't mean to..."
The conscience of heaven and earth, although Yan Shao is not without thoughts about Otsuki Kaoru, it was definitely an accident just now.
And after hearing Yan Shao's words, Otsuki Kaoru also had a flustered path. "I'm supposed to say I'm sorry for letting you see something that isn't worth mentioning..."Obviously, what happened just now made Kaoru Otsuki become a little incoherent.
It's not surprising that if it were in the afterlife, for some women, this kind of thing could be laughed off at completely, and a few of them even let you look at it generously. However, in this day and age, it is clear that it is impossible to be as open to such things as in later generations.
But then again, what she just said wasn't true.
Although Kaoru Otsuki's development is not bad, especially after moving into Anhui, the diet is much stronger than when he was in Japan, but the crisp breasts on his chest are only slightly plumper than normal people, and Elano and Caterina and even Lu Ying are a little worthless...
Kaoru Otsuki is also a woman, and her relationship with Eleno is very close, so she naturally knows this very well, so she will say such things in her incoherent speech...
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In this case, it is impossible for Yan Shao to say, 'It's okay, don't be normal', Otsuki Kaoru also seemed to feel that the current atmosphere was too embarrassing, so he was silent for a moment, and after hearing someone walking towards the stairs, Yan Shao and Otsuki Kaoru walked downstairs as if they were running away.
After arriving on the first floor, Kaoru Otsuki didn't say anything to Yan Shao as usual, so he walked directly in the direction of his bedroom and Fumiko's, if the speed of race walking can also be called walking...
As for Yan Shao, he didn't say anything after scratching his head, just walked outside.
However, even if he got in the car, that touch of snow would still flash in his mind...... And the two dots of red above...
"Maybe..." Before Yan Shao could come up with something in his heart, the car had already started slowly.
Due to the last assassination, the security around Yan Shao has increased a lot, except for the car he was riding, there were cars full of soldiers in the front and rear. And on the denser routes to the Governor's Mansion or some other Yan Shao, there are also garrison locations of the Guards Regiment, and as long as there is the slightest movement, the soldiers stationed nearby can arrive as quickly as possible.
It should be mentioned that since the new establishment was determined, although the original nine divisions still maintained the original establishment because of the war, the Guards Regiment has already chosen the new formation, and the current Guards Regiment has expanded to the original size of 2,000 people, which has expanded to nearly 3,000 people today, and in terms of combat effectiveness, it is even higher than the entire military strength of ordinary provinces...
"Anyway, get things done first, and then talk about the things later..."Thinking so in his heart, Yan Shao settled his mind, intending to focus on the upcoming work, but when he looked back at the mansion, he happened to see Kaoru Otsuki standing behind the window of a certain room, looking here with inexplicable eyes, and standing with her was Fumiko, who had grown up a lot and showed a beautiful billet...
"Ahh
Not only Yan Shao, but even Otsuki Kaoru sighed in his heart. (To be continued......)