Wen Yingxing was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Headquarters!" In this way, the main force of our Fujian army is exhausted, what should Fujian do? ”

Jin Zhao thought for a while and said, "Isn't there still Lu Xingrong's 203rd Division?" Moreover, the headquarters reading brigade stayed in Fuzhou, as well as the three security divisions and other troops under the provincial political axe, and tens of thousands of troops were enough to guard Fujian! "After participating in the Battle of Luodian, the 203rd Division suffered heavy losses and had withdrawn to Fujian for recuperation, and it has not yet fully recovered its combat effectiveness, otherwise Jin Zhao would have brought this unit with him. As for the three security divisions, they can only be regarded as the second-line troops of the Fujian army, each division has only more than 10,000 people, and the equipment is also poor, but this is relative to the main force of the Fujian army, because Fujian's national defense industry has begun to take shape, even the equipment of these three security divisions is definitely not worse than the elite of the Central Army (except for the three German armament divisions). Not to mention the Reading Brigade, its predecessor was Jin Zhao's Reading Brigade, and its equipment and combat effectiveness are among the best in the entire Fujian army. Having these troops to defend Fujian is enough, at least for the time being.

Listening to Jin Zhao's words, Wen Yingxing's frowning brows did not stretch, obviously in Wen Yingxing's opinion, with the important surname of Fujian, it is not enough to leave this little army. Seeing Wen Yingxing's worry, Jin Zhao said with a smile, "Uncle Hesun is too worried!" Now the little devil thinks that as long as he defeats the elite of the Central Army in Shanghai and captures the national capital Nanjing, China will give in. So before the capture of Nanjing, the little devil did not have the energy to fight my Fujian idea for the time being. ”

Wen Yingxing thought about it and felt that what Jin Zhao said made sense, so he breathed a sigh of relief a little, "I suggest that the troops of three to five divisions be expanded, first, they can be used to supplement the consumption of the front-line troops, and secondly, they can also strengthen the garrison of Fujian. ”

"Yes!" Jin Zhao nodded and said, "Then we are expanding the recruitment of 50,000, but the number is tentatively set at three divisions!" Just use the number of the security guard, my principal is very small-minded, and he won't give the number. ”

"Good! I'm going to have someone do it right away? Wen Yingxing replied with a smile.

"That's right! How's going in Xiamen? Jin Zhao asked suddenly. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Jin Zhao negotiated with Lao Chiang, hoping to reassign Xiamen to the jurisdiction of Fujian Province, Lao Chiang naturally would not agree, and finally after Jin Zhao paid a certain price and agreed to lead all the main forces of the Fujian army to the north to participate in the war, Lao Chiang reluctantly agreed to hand over Xiamen to Fujian, but Lao Chiang also asked the first Marine Division originally stationed in Xiamen to remain stationed in Xiamen, and Jin Zhao also gladly accepted. Subsequently, Jin Zhao ordered Li Hansoul to lead the Second Security Division into Xiamen.

However, on the second day of entering Xiamen, Li Hansoul led the Second Security Division to rush into the Gulangyu Public Concession in Xiamen. On January 10, 1902 (the first day of December in the 27th year of Guangxu), the consuls of nine countries in Xiamen, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, France, Spain, Denmark, the Netherlands, the Swiss and Norwegian Alliances, and the Qing Dynasty, Fujian Province, signed the "Xiamen Gulangyu Public Land Boundary Regulations" with the Qing Dynasty Xingquan Coopers Taiyannian in Gulangyu Prefecture, Gulangyu Island became a public concession, and in January of the following year, the Ministry of Industry of Gulangyu Public Concession was established. Around this time, 13 countries, including Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Vietnam, have set up consulates on the island.

In this way, the Xiamen area has formed a situation in which the two concessions face each other across the sea. The British Concession in Xiamen is small in area and is completely a commercial area; Gulangyu Island has a large area, forming a large-scale Western-style residential area.

After Li Hansoul led his troops into the public concession, he arrested all the bridges, and killed all those who resisted. It is said that the three warships of the navy anchored in the port of Xiamen were directly sunk by dive bombers and torpedo bombers dispatched by the Fujian Air Force. A squadron of marines stationed in the public concession was also completely annihilated. Then Li Hansoul followed Jin Zhao's instructions and gave Xiamen Yueqiao two choices, either we will throw you into the sea to feed the fish, or we will take a boat and get out. As a result, all these bridges left Xiamen by boat. It's not that Jin Zhao is soft on Yue himself, in fact, most of Yue himself has been directly killed, including some who did not resist. Most of these people left behind were Koreans and Taiwanese, and Jin Zhao couldn't be sure if they were really willing to be lackeys for Yue himself, so for safety, Jin Zhao had to drive them all away.

However, Jin Zhao's behavior was strongly protested by the ambassadors of Britain, the United States, France and other countries, especially the British attitude was extremely tough, because in the course of this operation, the British soldiers in the concession tried to prevent the 2nd Security Division from entering the public concession, and took the lead in shooting at the officers and soldiers of the Security Division. As a result, Li Hansoul directly entered it with an order, and in this conflict, more than a hundred British soldiers and policemen were killed! A British warship anchored in Xiamen tried to bombard our security division, but after seeing the fate of the warship, the captain drove the warship very calmly and left in a gray manner, and the British consul also knew that in the face of tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers, his little strength was not enough to plug people's teeth, so he very wisely ordered the remaining British military and police to surrender to the Chinese troops.

After that, the arrogant British did not give up, and the British fleet stationed in Hong Kong drove 12 warships to demonstrate at once. At the same time, the British consul ran to Jin Zhao's office and protested loudly, demanding that the perpetrators be severely punished and compensated for the losses of the British side. Even *** naked threat to Jin Zhao, if Jin Zhao could not give a satisfactory answer to the British side, the British [***] ship would shell Xiamen, and use the lives of Xiamen citizens to bury the British soldiers who were killed.

The British consul's words completely angered Jin Zhao, and Jin Zhao immediately took the case, pointed at the British consul's nose and scolded loudly, "You fucking give Lao Tzu a shot, not to mention killing one of us, even if it kills one of our dogs, Lao Tzu wants your entire fleet and all the British in Fujian to be buried together, including yourself!" ”

Facing Jin Zhao, whose face was full of murderous anger, the proud British gentleman's legs trembled in fright. Because the British consul knew that Jin Zhao definitely had this strength, because since the British fleet arrived in the waters of Xiamen, there have always been dozens of bombers hovering over the British fleet. After a period of observation, the commander of the British fleet judged that the Fujian Air Force had at least more than 100 torpedo bombers and more than 100 dive bombers, so as to maintain a constant surveillance of the British Navy with dozens of bombers. Such strength, if the Chinese really worked hard, was enough to send the British fleet to the bottom of the sea, otherwise, with the proud surname of the British, they would have bombarded Xiamen a long time ago, and they would have come here to protest.

In this way, the once invincible British consul left Jin Zhao's office in fright. Since he couldn't get a satisfactory answer from Jin Zhao, the British had no choice but to make trouble with Lao Jiang. After Lao Jiang learned the news, he scolded Jin Zhao in his study for ten minutes. It's no wonder that Lao Jiang is so angry, and he doesn't look at what time it is, if it was before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Lao Jiang still wished that Jin Zhao would cause something, and then he could use the power of the British to weaken Jin Zhao's power. But now is not the time, the little devils invade on a large scale, a large part of North China has been lost, and the war in Shanghai is eroding, and Lao Chiang still expects Britain and the United States to mediate? Offending the British at this time, wouldn't all the previous efforts be in vain? This is the reason why Lao Jiang is really angry.

So Lao Jiang sent a harshly worded telegram to Jin Zhao, very unceremoniously reprimanding Jin Zhao for his behavior of ignoring the overall situation. At the same time, Lao Jiang sent his confidant Zhang Qun to Fujian to deal with the matter in person. The so-called handling was mainly to persuade Jin Zhao to agree to the conditions of the British, in order to calm things down.

Under Zhang Qun's painstaking persuasion, Jin Zhao finally agreed to some of the conditions of the British, not that Jin Zhao gave face to Lao Jiang and Zhang Qun, because Jin Zhao himself knew in his heart that now that the national crisis was at hand, it was indeed not the time to provoke the British, as for the blood debt owed by the British, they had to wait until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War and then slowly find them to settle the score. But Jin Zhao only promised to compensate, but it was absolutely impossible to commit the murder. Lao Tzu still has more than 20 people dead? It's good that Lao Tzu didn't ask him for compensation! also asked Lao Tzu to be murderous, but there was no door!

In the end, after some bargaining, the Fujian side promised to compensate Britain for a large amount of losses. But Jin Zhao said again, Lao Tzu has no money now, and all the money is used to fight devils. There was no cash in cash, but it was still possible to pay some compensation, and a large number of his property was confiscated in the public concession, among which those fixed assets such as real estate and factories were partially allocated by Jin Zhao to compensate the British, and the remaining part was also auctioned off to the British cheaply. In this way, the British wanted to save face, and finally got it back, and got a lot of benefits, so this matter is over.

However, Jin Zhao thinks that he has lost face, you British Yankee ran to Lao Tzu's territory to spread wild, lost the battle, and asked Lao Tzu to compensate you, is there any heavenly reason? But in order to take care of the overall situation, Jin Zhao could only endure this breath for the time being, but Jin Zhao secretly swore in his heart that one day he would let the British return it with interest.

Wen Yingxing said with a wry smile, "The Xiamen incident has been dealt with for the time being!" ”

Jin Zhao nodded and said, "Then the matter in Xiamen will be handed over to Lin Huiyuan for the time being!" Let Li Hansoul return to Fuzhou immediately! Lin Huiyuan is Jin Zhao's newly appointed mayor of Xiamen. Unexpectedly, the patriotic scholar who was almost unjustly killed by Xiamen Mayor Huang Qiang became the new mayor of Xiamen a few years later.

"Yes! I'll do it right away! Wen Yingxing responded.

"In addition, Lin Guogeng and Zhou Dashan were informed that the construction of national defense fortifications in Xiamen should not be delayed, and if the little devil does not come now, it is difficult to guarantee that he will not come in the future, so the project must be paid close attention, but the quality must also be guaranteed! In addition, the logistics department was notified that the batch of coastal defense artillery prepared for Xiamen would be sent to Xiamen as soon as possible! Jin Zhao continued. Lin Guogeng is the commander of the Xiamen garrison and the commander of the 1st Marine Division, while Zhou Dashan is the commander of the 2nd Security Division, and now he has the title of deputy commander of the garrison.

"Okay!" Wen Yingxing hurriedly responded. (To be continued.) )