Lin Yuan said: "Don't do this yet, you go again tomorrow, this time you change into better clothes, and after you go, go directly to Miss Yun and talk to her about Buddhism or something, don't you have a portrait of Sakurai Wakami?" After you go to see it, first make sure if she is Wakami Sakurai. ”

Shen Wanqing said helplessly: "But I don't know anything about Buddhism or anything, what will I say to her after I go?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "It's okay, you don't need to know too much, just listen to it humbly after you go, you can also find two philosophical books and take a look, so as not to understand nothing." ”

Shen Wanqing nodded, went back to prepare, Lin Yuan looked at those incomplete words, and thought, "What is hidden in these words?" ”

Lin Yuan put the broken text under the lamp and looked carefully, like the letters in English, the strokes in Chinese characters, the basic elements of Japanese are kana, a kana corresponds to a pronunciation, several kana are arranged to form words, words are then formed into sentences, there are many Chinese characters that Chinese know in Japanese, so when they write, they do not write kanji, they all write kana.

Lin Yuan looked at the only remaining strokes, wrote out the list of kana with these strokes, and tried one kana after another to see if these kana could form words, and tried for a long time, but none of them were spelled out, Lin Yuan thought to himself: "There are fifty hiraganas, counting the voiced sounds, there are more semi-voiced sounds and difficult sounds, try them one by one, when do you have to try them!" ”

Lin Yuan thought for a moment: "If you want to know what Hu Liang and Miss Yun said, you don't have to stick to these incomplete pseudonyms, what they say must have rules to follow, for example, what they say must be related to the upcoming fleet." ”

Lin Yuan imagined himself as the commander of the Russian fleet, and thought to himself, "If I were to attack the Dagukou Fort, what kind of attack would I adopt?" The terrain around the Dagukou Fort presented in his eyes, and suddenly Lin Yuan had a thrill, thinking: "How can I forget this matter, if the Russian army wants to attack the Dagukou Fort, it will definitely land on the back of the fort and attack the fleet in front of it on both sides!" ”

Lin Yuan thought of this, and immediately came to the Dagukou Fort, and as soon as he entered the barracks, he found Luo Rongguang, Luo Rongguang saw Lin Yuan's anxious appearance, and hurriedly asked, "Lin Shuai, what's wrong with you?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "General Soldier Luo, hurry up and go to the main fort with me, and I'll talk to you in detail there." ”

Luo Rongguang didn't know what was going on in Ludao, and came to the main fort with Lin Yuan, in front of the main fort is the Baihekou, which is the only passage into Tianjin from the waterway, and the Dagukou fort is guarding here, and the large and small ships in the estuary in front of him come and go, which is very lively.

Lin Yuan pointed to the mouth of the White River in front of him and said: "General Luo, please look, the White River in front of us flows all the way to Tianjin, of course, it also flows behind us, if the enemy breaks through from the mouth of the river and lands behind us, flanking on both sides, how can we resist?" ”

Luo Rongguang smiled and said: "It turns out that Lin Shuai is worried about this, don't worry, the terrain in Baihe is complicated, and the foreign enemy is not clear about our garrison situation, you say, which commander dares to order a landing at the risk of the annihilation of the whole army." ”

Lin Yuan pointed to the boats coming and going and said, "Look at these boats, how many foreigners' boats are in them, isn't it easy for them to come in along the river to reconnoitre?" ”

Luo Rongguang didn't think of this either, he was speechless, Lin Yuan frowned and asked, "Why do you just let these boats enter and exit the Baihe Estuary casually, don't you set up checkpoints?" ”

Luo Rongguang hurriedly said: "Lin Shuai doesn't know, the treaty signed between the imperial court and the foreigners has already stated that foreign ships can freely enter and exit the mouth of the White River, and Qing officials are not allowed to interfere. Lin Yuan nodded and said, "There is an even more deadly problem, the enemy is acting in this river, and he will detect the situation of the gun positions on our battery, and we have no secrets to speak of!" ”

Luo Rongguang heard Lin Yuan's words, and then he panicked, although he had patriotic enthusiasm, but his insight and command level, after all, were too far away from Lin Yuan, and when Lin Yuan said this, he understood, Luo Rongguang hurriedly asked: "Then the foreign ships have been here for so long, haven't our positions and gun emplacements been seen by them?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "It doesn't matter, the war hasn't started yet, our troops will still be mobilized, so they won't take advantage of the current reconnaissance, starting tomorrow, you let your people continue to build artillery positions on the mountain, but there is no need to install artillery inside, so it is enough to confuse the enemy, which artillery positions are in them, and which ones are not, the soldiers must be kept strictly secret, and no rumors shall be revealed, and the violators will be beheaded immediately!" ”

Luo Rongguang said yes again and again, and at this time Luo Rongguang thought of something, so he said: "Lin Shuai, even if the enemy has reconnoitred the situation, they will not dare to land behind us. ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Why don't they dare?" ”

Luo Rongguang said: "If the enemy comes to attack, we will lay mines at the mouth of the river, and we will definitely be able to blow up all the enemies who come to attack." ”

Luo Rongguang saw that Lin Yuan was still frowning, and explained: "Lin Shuai, don't worry, our Dagukou Fort not only has an artillery battalion, but also a mine battalion, and it is also an elite ......."

Lin Yuan didn't wait for Luo Rongguang to finish speaking, and then said: "How did your mine battalion lay mines, how many mines are there, and what is the time to lay a mine?" ”

Luo Rongguang said: "Our mine battalion has 12 small boats, and our mines are all anchor mines with fixed depth, and it doesn't take a cup of tea to lay a single mine. ”

Lin Yuan said: "Since your mines are fixed-depth anchor mines, do you know the situation of the enemy's warships?" How do you know how deep the road should be? ”

Luo Rongguang was speechless for a while, and Lin Yuan said again: "You are all small boats, if you wait until the enemy comes and then lay mines, will the enemy let you lay mines smoothly?" They will definitely send warships to block it! It is more likely that they have already arranged a plan for a two-sided attack on the warship, and as long as they come, they will attack directly, and you will not have time to lay mines at all! ”

Luo Rongguang said: "Then what should I do? ”

Lin Yuan said: "Mine laying in advance!" ”

Luo Rongguang hurriedly said: "It's not okay to lay mines in advance, there are still so many boats at the mouth of the river, and they can't leave if they lay mines!" ”

Lin Yuan said: "Then let them enter the port to take refuge, and then come out when the war is over." ”

Luo Rongguang said: "It would be easy if these ships were all our ships of the Qing Dynasty, but there are still many foreigners' ships inside, and the foreigners are the most troublesome, in case they want us to compensate for the losses, what should we do?" ”

Lin Yuan said: "This is simple, you just say that we learned that the Russian fleet is coming, so we need to lay mines at the mouth of the river, so that the ships can enter the port within a time limit, if they do not enter the port, they will bear the consequences!" If they ask for compensation, tell them that we laid mines because of the Russians, and talk to the Russians about the compensation. ”

Luo Rongguang nodded again and again, and Lin Yuan said again: "The Baihe River is relatively shallow, and large ships can't enter, so you set the water depth at five meters, which is more than enough." ”

After Lin Yuan finished arranging things, he left the barracks and went to the Tianjin Machinery Bureau, and as soon as he entered the Machinery Bureau, he directly found Luo Chaoying and asked, "How is the development of our automatic cannon?" ”

Luo Chaoying frowned and said, "It's not going well!" ”