In the Japanese barracks, Aoda Tsunobu knelt on the ground, in front of him, there were two pieces of snow-white gauze, he slowly raised the short knife, held the scabbard in his left hand, and slowly pulled out the knife with his right hand, he put the scabbard on a piece of gauze, picked up another piece of gauze with his left hand, and carefully wrapped the knife with his hand.

At this moment, the door was slammed open, and the orderly shouted, "Captain, what are you going to do here?" ”

Aota Tsunobu smiled and asked, "Are you a samurai under His Majesty the Emperor?" ”

The orderly saw that Aoda Tsunobu wanted to commit suicide, but he didn't expect him to ask such a question, and he instinctively replied "yes".

Aoda Tsunobu smiled, "As a samurai, you should calmly accept everything that fate has given you. He raised his knife and aimed the tip of it at his lower abdomen, and the orderly fell to his knees and cried, "Captain......"

Aoda Tsunobu smiled: "Remember the conversation between Ota Michikan and the assassin? ”

The orderly looked at him in amazement, and Aota said: "The builder of Edo Castle, Ota Michikan, died at the hands of the Assassins, and when the Assassin's spear pierced his chest, the Assassin said a poem to him: 'Only now do you know that Michido Ota Michigan cherishes life', do you know what Michigan Ota Michikan said?" ”

Aoda went on to say: "He did not panic in the slightest, he said: 'Unless you have already put your life on the line. See, this is the true samurai, this is the 'bravery' of the samurai, who keeps his inner peace at all times and faces everything bravely. ”

After speaking, the knife in his hand stabbed into his stomach fiercely, but he didn't make a single scream, he held the knife and pulled it to the right side, the knife cut a big hole in his stomach, he fell to the ground with a thud, and muttered in his mouth: "My opponent, is it the person named Lin Yuan?" ”

When the news of the fiasco of the 18th Wing and the suicide of Wing Commander Tsuyoshi Aoda reached the headquarters of the Japanese army stationed in Mukden, the supreme commander of the Japanese army invading Northeast China, Oyama Yan, was talking to his orderlies, and his orderlies stood respectfully in front of him.

On the table in front of Dashan Yan, there was a mahogany box, and when he opened the box, there were seven cigars inside, cigars are very picky about temperature and humidity, and those who really enjoy cigars will definitely put it in a mahogany box.

He picked up a cigar with the word "Dannemann" on it, showing its noble pedigree, Danenmann is one of the most reputable cigar brands in Europe, and its founder has Prussian roots, which can't help but make Dashan Yan feel a little inexplicably intimate - his whole life has been dedicated to learning from the Prussian army.

While elegantly cutting off the head of his cigar, he said to the orderlys: "During the Battle of Saei, I was the main gunner, and Heihachiro Togo and Gonbei Yamamoto carried shells for me, and now, one of them is the chief of the combined fleet, and the other is the director of the naval affairs bureau, you say, isn't fate interesting......"

As he spoke, he pulled out a match, this match is much longer than an ordinary match, it is specially designed for lighting cigars, the sulfur on the match has been specially treated, and when lit, it will not produce a strong sulfur smell and affect the aroma of the cigar, he was just about to light the match, a herald pushed the door in, and said: "General, urgent military situation, the 18th Wing is defeated, and the wing leader committed suicide." ”

When Da Shanyan heard this, he slapped the table hard, and the expensive cigar box was shaken to the ground, and the cigars inside jumped out happily, and Da Shanyan said, "Immediately call a meeting of the officers." ”

Da Shanyan said, walked out of the house, and when he went out, he saw the orderly picking up the cigars that had fallen on the ground, he smiled contemptuously, and said, "No need to pick it up, Qingguo is a really delicious cigar." ”

The Japanese army that invaded Northeast China this time was mainly composed of the First Division and the Second Division, which were unified into the First Army, and the commander was General Dashanyan.

In the conference room, the commander of the 1st Division, Lieutenant General Yamachi Motoji, and other officers were already waiting, and since the 2nd Division was stationed on the front line of Lushun Dalian, they did not come to attend the meeting held in Mukden.

At the beginning of the meeting, Da Shanyan first said: "The Qing army's move is very beautiful, I don't know whose hand Lu Dao came from, isn't the guard general of Jinzhou called Wu Yuankai, does he have this ability?" ”

Yamachi Genji's right eye was blind when he was young, and his squinted right eye made him look particularly gloomy, and he sneered: "No matter who it is, it is not the opponent of our Great Japanese Empire, but I don't think this move will be Wu Yuankai's handiwork, when he was in Phoenix City, he fled without any resistance." ”

Yamachi Genji is talking about the Japanese army's attack on the Northeast, when Yamachi Genji attacked Phoenix City in Shengjing from Korea, and Wu Yuankai abandoned the city after a little resistance.

Da Shanyan said: "Didn't the Qing court get a new person named Lin Yuan? ”

At this time, the commander of the 1st Wing of the Field Artillery, Takanori Imatsu, said: "Lin Yuan? Is that Lin Yuan who defeated the navy? Isn't he in Beijing? ”

At this time, the commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade, Major General Nogi Noshinori, said: "It seems that we were deceived by that person named Lin Yuan, who said that they wanted to carry out the ceremony of worshipping the commander, but they were actually confusing us. In the original history, Nogi Noshinori and Togo Heihachiro, together with Togo Heihachiro, were touted by the Japanese as the "god of war".

Imatsu Takashi glanced at Nogi Noshinori with disdain, in the Japanese army, the discord between the army and the navy is a well-known thing, but there is also a discord between the various arms, as mentioned earlier, the military station department assigned the military horses to the cavalry, and let the infantry make their own horses, which provoked the infantry brigade commander, and the wing commander was very unhappy.

Imatsu Takashi saw that his question was answered by Nogi Noshinori, and he was very unhappy, he usually saw Nogi Noshinori as unpleasant, and in front of his close subordinates, he mentioned Nogi Noshinori and always called him "the pardoned co-captain". Why do you say that? It turned out that Nogi Noshinori was the wing commander of the 14th Wing in the Southwest War in Japan, and he suffered a defeat, and the military flag was snatched by the opponent, in the Japanese army, the military flag is a symbol of honor and life of a unit, and the serious weight of losing the military flag is no different from treason and collaboration with the enemy.

According to the usual practice, such a wing captain must commit suicide by seppuku, but Nogi Noshinori asked the emperor for pardon, so Imatsu Takashi gave him such a nickname, in fact, the first engineer brigade of the Shaosa Tamura Yoshiichi and the first cavalry brigade of the shozo Akiyama Yoshigu both saw Nogi Noshinori awkward, but because he was a small young samura, it was not easy to show it.

Imatsu Takashi said: "What is the origin of this Lin Yuan, it seems that his ability is not small!" ”

Da Shanyan sneered: "No matter what the origin of this Lin Yuan is, I have already thought of a way to let him come and go!" ”