Makarov also felt inappropriate when he heard the chief of staff say that the responsibility for the failure of this operation was on the Japanese side, so Makarov said: "Well, General Togo is right, now is indeed not the time to discuss responsibility. ”

As soon as Makarov said this, everyone stopped arguing and looked at him, and Makarov continued: "The most important thing now is to determine whether the information we receive is accurate or not, and if it is not accurate, our future actions cannot be based on it." ”

The navigator said: "Although I don't think my navigation is wrong, but I also find it hard to believe that the information we got is fake, the intelligence was stolen by our allies from the command of the Chinese troops, if this is false information deliberately given to us by the Chinese, then the Chinese must know in advance who this hidden agent is, but also know the law of his actions, the Chinese absolutely do not have such ability." ”

As soon as the navigator's voice fell, everyone nodded one after another, deep in their hearts, they thought that the Chinese were all waste, how could they have the ability to catch their agents! But what they didn't expect was that their opponent was Lin Yuan, and the most powerful espionage technique.

Makarov said: "We should still insist on the method of attacking from both sides, since there are mines laid in the river, we will send minesweepers to remove the mines in the river, according to intelligence, there are many artillery batteries on both sides of the river that cannot be used, and there is no need to worry about them." ”

The chief of staff said: "However, we do not have special minesweepers in our fleet, and large cruisers and battleships cannot enter the river. ”

Heihachiro Togo said, "Don't worry, we can send minesweepers from Incheon." ”

Makarov said: "Then we have decided that we will return to the temporary anchorage first, and when the minesweepers arrive, we will attack Dagukou." ”

The Japanese and Russian fleets chose the temporary anchorage in Laizhou Bay, which is very close to Tianjin, and they quickly set sail to leave, Luo Rongguang of Dagukou learned the news and asked Lin Yuan excitedly: "Lin Shuai, have they retreated?" ”

Lin Yuan said with a smile: "It's not that simple, I think they must have gone back to find the minesweeper, their minesweeper will rush over from the boat port near the mouth of the Datong River in a day and a half at the earliest, telling everyone that they must not relax their vigilance, let alone celebrate." Luo Rongguang said: "I understand, I went to send a telegram to the capital to tell them the good news of victory." ”

Lin Yuan nodded, Luo Rongguang had just come out of the hall when Lin Yuan heard his angry shouts outside: "What? There are reporters who want to enter the barracks, no! Get rid of them all! ”

When Lin Yuan heard the word "reporter", he hurriedly said, "Mr. Luo, what's wrong?" ”

Luo Rongguang walked in and said, "Qi Lin Shuai, the soldiers reported that there are several reporters at the gate who want to enter the camp for interviews, and I don't allow them to come in." ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "Does this Luo Rongguang have a grudge against the reporter?" So he asked, "Mr. Luo, why don't you let reporters in?" Luo Rongguang said: "This group of reporters, if they don't have any skills, they will write a few articles, and Luo looks down on such people the most!" ”

Lin Yuan asked, "That's the reason?" ”

Luo Rongguang nodded heavily, Lin Yuan couldn't help but smile, and thought: "It seems that this Luo Rongguang is quite prejudiced against reporters, but this is not surprising, even in modern society, prejudice is also as deep-rooted as a stubborn disease, and I often hear many people say that they hate this and don't like that, but in fact, if you ask carefully, they don't know anything about the things they hate." ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Do you know what the use of reporters is for war?" ”

Luo Rongguang said disdainfully: "They are a group of pen-trickers, useless scholars, what use can they have for war?" ”

Lin Yuan smiled: "In your heart, what does war look like?" ”

Luo Rongguang was stunned for a moment, and replied: "War, real swords and real guns, you live or die!" ”

Lin Yuanha said with a smile: "Public opinion is also war, so journalists are also soldiers." ”

Luo Rongguang asked: "What is public opinion?" ”

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "In modern warfare, public opinion warfare is also an important part, such as several wars launched by the United States, television and radio stations have always been the targets of the first wave of strikes, in order to destroy the enemy's right to speak, and then they can unscrupulously fabricate false news unfavorable to the enemy in the international community and put themselves in a position of justice." But in this era, public opinion warfare is too new. ”

So Lin Yuan said, "You invite them in first, and I'll explain to you later." ”

Luo Rongguang didn't understand what he heard, and said, "I'll let them in." ”

As soon as a few reporters came in, Lin Yuan asked in surprise, "Tang Fan, why are you?" ”

Tang Fan said with a smile: "Comrade Shen Wanqing, she still has something to do, and she can't get out, so she let me come." After Tang Fan finished speaking, he invited the two people who were traveling with him to go out, and said to Lin Yuan: "When I came, Comrade Shen Wanqing asked me to bring you a message. After speaking, Tang Fan looked at the people around Lin Yuan and stopped talking. Lin Yuan knew that this matter must not be known to others, so he followed Tang Fan outside, and Tang Fan said: "When she was listening to Hu Liang, she learned that Sakurai Ruomi had asked Hu Liang to inform the British Embassy and several major Western news agencies about your firing at the British ship, and their people would arrive at night. Lin Yuan nodded and said, "Sakurai Ruomi is trying to use the international power to put pressure on me!" However, it was just in time to see how I beat her tricks back! ”

Tang Fan was at a loss when he heard this, and just as he was about to ask again, Lin Yuan looked at his watch and said, "I'm afraid it's too late, I have to prepare, you can interview at will." ”

With that, Lin Yuan walked out of the camp, he walked quickly to the prisoner of war camp, he didn't think about being able to catch prisoners of war at all, so he didn't build a room to hold prisoners of war, so he vacated the soldiers' barracks. Lin Yuan walked in to take a look, and saw more than 30 prisoners of war wrapped in cotton clothes, gathered around the fire to keep warm.

Lin Yuan asked in Russian, "Which of you has the highest military rank?" One of the prisoners of war stood up and said: "We are not soldiers at all, we have no rank, we are just ordinary businessmen, you have no right to detain us, we have to contact our embassy!" ”

When Lin Yuan heard this, he asked, "Which country are you businessmen?" ”

The prisoner of war said, "We are British merchants!" ”

Lin Yuan nodded and said apologetically: "I am deeply sorry for our behavior, I have punished my subordinates, and I will contact the embassy for you." ”

Lin Yuan asked in English again, "What do you want to eat for dinner?" Would you like to drink some alcohol? ”

The prisoner replied in English: "We don't want to eat anything, we just want to go home as soon as possible!" ”

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "Don't worry, the British ambassador will be here soon, you wait a while." ”

Lin Yuan came out of the room, and the interpreter stepped forward and said, "Lin Shuai, what's wrong with you?" Those guys are clearly Russian soldiers! When they were caught, they were all carrying guns! ”

Lin Yuan said: "Don't worry, I am sure that I will make this group of people suffer a big loss!" ”