Young Master Li hates this feeling!

A large number of men, all busy with their feet on the ground, ran from room to room, sweating profusely, and finally had to huddle in front of a large sand table in the center of the hall, pointing and pointing.

It's all stinky, it's so meaningless!

How good it would be if there was an electronic sandbox for the next generation?

You can put your arms around my little Yue'er, lie on the beach on Maui and bask in the sun, do it, take a look at the situation map by the way, and give orders, how good!

It's a pity that Yue'er insisted on living with Xiaoxiao after coming to Ryukyu, hey, and I was left to sleep alone, why did I feel a little unaccustomed? No, we must step up the training and strive for double flight as soon as possible!

By the way, I still have to urge the Tesla that cost the young master millions, this bastard, it took so long to get a shortwave radio, and there are only a hundred of them, and they still need to be driven by hand-cranked generators, when can they enter a more direct and convenient stage of voice communication?

Turtle speed! It's really turtle speed! The young master is still waiting for wireless Internet access!

Young Master Li crossed his fingers and muttered. The staff offices next door were already full of people, and various plans were proposed, and after being put on the sand table simulation, they were quickly rejected, and then there were new plans, or information that had just arrived, and it was as lively as a vegetable market.

Young Master Li raised his hand, wanting to stretch his waist, but thinking that everyone was busy, wouldn't it be good if he was too idle? So I changed the stretching waist to twisting the waist, this time is too "" work, and I need to strengthen the exercise!

Du Dazhuang not far away is full of black lines, young master, you are too strong! When has this been? It is said that Ben and Russia and the Qing Dynasty are already in full swing, and you still have time to exercise your waist and abdomen?!

Hey, it looks like you shouldn't bring two young grandmothers here!

"Less."

Chen Ping pushed open the door, saw the action, and forcibly put back the second half of the master's words, covered his forehead and watched Young Master Li twist his waist and shake his hips, and finally came back to his senses and reported: "Young master, Guozhang is back with the fleet, and he can enter the port at any time." ”

"In addition, I just received news that Ningguta has been lost."

Chen Ping handed the information he had just received in his hand to Li Mo: "The Russians have now divided their troops into two routes, all the way west into Heilongjiang, advancing to Harbin and Longjiang, there are about 1,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantry, in addition, about 3,000 Russian troops have also been found to have crossed the border to enter Aihui, and it is expected that they will be able to complete the division in a week at most." ”

"The other road is the main force, according to the current intelligence, about 10,000 Cossack cavalry and more than 20,000 infantry, is marching towards Changchun, because there is no telegraph station in the Qing Dynasty in that area, we estimate that we will have to wait until the troops come to the city, I am afraid that the Iketang Abe stationed in Changchun can not find out."

"What about their fleet?" Li Mo picked up his coffee and took a sip.

"According to Vladivostok intelligence officers, the Russian fleet had set out yesterday evening, with a total of four battleships, five heavy cruisers, four light cruisers, seven torpedo ships and gunboats, accompanied by six freighters, carrying about 5,000 army soldiers.

"In addition, the total strength of the Russians in the port of Wonsan has reached 5,000, the port has been basically controlled by the Russian army, and the 6th Brigade of the 6th Brigade of the Yue Army, Oshima Yoshima Division, which is stationed there, has also been completely annihilated, and the Yue army has abandoned Wonsan and has begun to shrink inland."

Yoshimasa Oshima.

Li Mo narrowed his eyes, thinking of this person who fired the first shot of the First Sino-Japanese War, since he died under the Russian naval guns, it can be regarded as indirect revenge.

Aleksayev finally couldn't bear to be lonely, and after basically taking the port of Wonsan, he dispatched all of them, a huge fleet of thirteen capital ships, like a tomahawk hanging over his head, the question is, where is this axe cut?

After bypassing the Tsushima Strait, did Aleksayev want to land at Incheon? Lay a good foundation in Korea first, or directly march into Lushun and form a two-front attack with the army?

Not to mention that Li Mo can't be sure, even Chen Ping and Zhao Long in the staff can't be sure.

If Aleksayev's goal is Incheon, then the Pacific Army is still too early to intervene, even if the Russian Army successfully takes Changchun, there is Mukden behind, and it will not be able to fight in half a month, and premature intervention can only put oneself in passivity!

But if the terminal of the fleet is Lushun, then it is completely different, from Ryukyu to Liaodong, even if it starts to board the ship now, it will take two days, and if you want to ensure the smooth landing of the army, then at this moment Long Guozhang must set off to the Yellow Sea to fight a decisive battle with the Russian fleet and gain sea supremacy!

Judging from the eyes of his later generations of multi-turret members, although the Far East Fleet assembled by Russia this time is powerful, it is not invincible, whether it is the Chesma and Sinop, although they are both claimed to be cutting-edge warships that have just been launched for a short time and can be comparable to the Sovereign class, in fact, from today's point of view, they are already outdated, if it were not for the unique liftable zigzag three twin 305 mm 30 times caliber main guns, Young Master Li would not even disdain to ignore it.

However, the main gun lift is full of fun, and it can be seen that the Russians are not very rigid either.

As for the other two ships, Peter the Great and the Nerentmenya, they are both steel monsters of the same period as the two ships of Dingzhen, and they are more ironclad ships than battleships, and it is difficult to say whether they can beat the determination class.

Of course, the Russians can't be blamed for this, after all, the battleships in these years have been updated and eliminated too quickly, and some are even on the slipway, which is already outdated, and they don't have a traverser like themselves, who can firmly grasp the development process of warships in the next hundred years.

The most important thing is that Nicholas II, although he coveted the Far East, was still not at ease with his old nest, and several armored cruisers, such as the two sister ships of the Chesma and the real new Petr Pavlovsk, were still stationed in the Baltic Fleet.

Therefore, to defeat the Russian Far East Fleet, Master Li is absolutely sure, but if you want to eat it in one bite, you have to use some brains, especially the heavy cruisers that the Russians use the title of second-class battleship to make a fox and a fake tiger, or five at a time, with the current strength of the Pacific Fleet, it is really difficult to swallow them all.

Although the quality of the Russian sailors is not flattering, but in a frontal decisive battle, in the case of the equal strength of the two fleets, even Long Guozhang is difficult to be foolproof, if the main Russian force is allowed to escape, then there will be a great threat to the later plan.

Therefore, the key to this battle is to fight for sea supremacy and ensure that the fleet does not suffer great losses! But in order to gain sea supremacy, it is necessary to know where the goal of the Russian fleet is!

So, where exactly will Aleksayev cut this axe? History has completely changed course, and Li Mo is no longer able to make accurate predictions from memory, and from this moment on, everything will start again!

Just when Li Mo couldn't make up his mind, the door of the office was pushed open again, and Zhao Long hurriedly walked in: "Young master, the Blue Fish reports that the Russian fleet has begun to bombard Incheon Port. ”

Bombardment of the port of Incheon?

What did this Governor Aleksayev and Commander Vitheft pay attention to? Do you really want to land in Inchon and ignore Lushun?

"How the hell are you going to swallow the Russian fleet?"

Thinking of this, Li Mo quickly crossed Zhao Long and walked towards the command hall next door, and Chen Ping also hurriedly walked out of the room after him.

The boss came to see the sand table, and the staff officers and radish heads immediately let go of a large open space, no way, there are second, third, etc. behind the boss.

Sure enough, in the eyes of many staff officers, Li Mo quickly came to the sand table, and before everyone could react, his eyes had already begun to move north along the Yellow Sea, the Tsushima Strait, the Benhai, and then it!

In the crowded crowd, Zhang Zuolin kept paying attention to Li Mo's eyes, moving north little by little, until he saw that the young master's eyes stopped at Vladivostok, and a thought suddenly surged into his mind!

As the thought arose, his mouth grew suddenly. "Does the young master want to?"

Li Mo didn't notice that a pair of eyes were staring at him tightly, his eyes kept going back and forth along the North Korean coast, and finally returned to Vladivostok, the seaport of Russia, known as the first fortress in the Far East, when Vladivostok became clearer and clearer in his eyes, a faint smile suddenly hung on his serious face just now, and he turned his head to the staff officers around him and asked: "What do you think of the Russian fleet's shelling of Incheon?" ”

"I think they want to open up a second front, and after occupying the port of Wonsan, they want to open up Inchon and speed up the settlement of the Korean army." Under the young master's gaze, a staff officer excitedly took the lead in speaking his thoughts.

"I think it's a feint, you see." Another staff officer walked to the beach, picked up his baton and pointed to the small wooden boat representing the six troop carriers that had set off with the fleet, and continued: "The Russians shelled the port of Incheon, but their troop carriers were still dragging behind and did not follow them into the port of Incheon, so I think this should still be an illusion. ”

"Not necessarily, perhaps the Russian fleet thinks that the naval guns should first open up enough passages before the transport ships enter, so as not to be hit by the artillery fire."

"This statement is also true, but according to intelligence, the army is shrinking very badly in Incheon, and they know that they can't resist the Russian naval artillery, so they deliberately retreat in great strides, and most of the troops are concentrated on the periphery of Seoul, which is far outside the maximum range of naval artillery, so if the Russian army wants to land, it will not encounter any resistance at all."

"That's strange, since the Russians didn't land, why did they shell the port of Incheon, could it be that there were too many shells?"

"I know why!"

Just as the staff officers were arguing with each other, a voice suddenly sounded, and everyone immediately looked over, only to see a young major staff officer walk out of the crowd, walked to the beach, first moved the wooden boat representing the main force of the Russian fleet to the mouth of Arthur, and then said in the stunned eyes of everyone: "The Russians are playing tricks, their real purpose is Lushun!" ”

"Oh? Why? Li Mo looked at the major staff officer with a bit of a face curiously, and said with a smile: "Tell me what you think." ”

"It's actually quite simple."

Looking at the young master's eyes, Zhang Zuolin took a deep breath, took the baton from his partner, and pointed to the sand table: "If I were a Russian commander and I was determined to fight North Korea, then I would never come to Inchon to land near and far." ”

"That's not necessarily, opening up two lines makes it difficult for the army to take care of the head and tail, and it can't be regarded as reluctant to seek the near and far." The first staff officer to speak shook his head, disagreeing with his words.

Zhang Zuolin explained with a smile: "There is a prerequisite for two-front operations, that is, there must be a reliable supply line, although the Russian fleet is large, and the navy cannot shrink, but don't forget, Vladivostok has just been built, and the Russians have just begun to build the Trans-Siberian Railway, and their material reserves are definitely not much." ”

"If the supply line is lengthened, not to mention the possible attack and harassment of the Japanese navy, the 50,000 troops stationed in North Korea alone can drag them to death!"

"Unless the Russians are really stupid, otherwise they will not really fight to the death with the army that has been replenished for the past six months when the supplies are not very abundant, and now the first thing they have to do is to find a place with abundant supplies first, and then sit down and fight slowly with the army."

The baton in Zhang Zuolin's hand slid lightly, his eyes became brighter and brighter, and he continued: "In the Northeast, there are two places that can have a large amount of supplies, Fengtian and Lushun!" The Russian army has already pounced on Mukden, and their navy must find a good place in the Yellow Sea as soon as possible, so I think they are pretending to be Gubu, and the ultimate goal is still to take Lushun and get a supply depot first! ”

"Then why not go straight to Lushun? What about shelling the port of Incheon first? Zhao Long looked at Zhang Zuolin and asked. Next to him, Chen Ping had already hooked the corners of his mouth: "Because of the treaty just signed by Qing and Russia, according to the treaty, whether it is Russia or the Qing Dynasty, if it is at war with a third country, it will be able to apply for assistance from the other party, and can use the other party's military base." ”

"So, the Russians are acting, and then they enter Port Arthur to resupply under the pretext of supplies?"

"Is there any other explanation?" Chen Ping said: "Don't forget, most of the reasons for Beiyang's defeat last time were due to artillery shells, so after Zhang Shiheng of the Tianjin Manufacturing Bureau was dismissed and investigated, a large number of new shells have been replenished, and they are all currently in Port Arthur." Moreover, the caliber of the Russian ship's guns is slightly the same as that of Beiyang, if you really want to get this batch of shells, it is enough for the Russians to fight for a while! ”

"And if the Russians want to defeat Beiyang and cooperate with the land landing, they must consume huge shells. So I think we should immediately send someone to blow up the arms depot in Lushun. Preferably. Zhang Zuolin suddenly paused after the interface, looked at Li Mo who was smiling at him, and puffed up his breath before continuing: "Immediately send a fleet to bombard Vladivostok, completely destroy the potential of the Russian fleet to continue fighting, and drag the Russian fleet into a decisive battle!" ”

"Blow up the Arthur arsenal? Bombardment of Vladivostok! Hearing Zhang Zuolin's words, the staff officers around him gasped, but at the same time, their eyes lit up, if they could really do this, the Russian fleet might really be homeless.

Chen Ping looked at Zhang Zuolin with a smile, nodded with satisfaction, and was just about to speak to him, when a staff officer suddenly came over and handed him the latest information. After he took the information and glanced at it, the smile on his face became stronger, and he handed it to Zhao Long and said: "The Russian ambassador made a request to Qing Zheng Axe two hours ago, asking the Qing Dynasty to fulfill the treaty and allow the Russian fleet that was attacking Inchon to enter Port Arthur to refuel. ”

"Moreover, Li Hongzhang has already agreed!"

"Contact Long Guozhang and ask him to enter the port immediately." Li Mo raised his head, his eyes flashed: "Order the first division, the third division to prepare for boarding, and the fourth division to be a reserve." ”

"Inform Feng Qi and let him tell Ogner again that if Beiyang is attacked, then we will immediately have a showdown with Russia!" After Li Mo hurriedly gave a series of orders, he walked towards Zhang Zuolin, looked at him and asked, "How did you guess that I was going to fight Vladivostok first?" ”

Zhang Zuolin's face was red, and he hurriedly saluted: "Report, I saw you looking at Vladivostok for a long time, young master, and then I suddenly thought of it." ”

Facing Zhang Zuolin's straightforwardness, Li Mo smiled and nodded: "You are good, what's your name." ”

"Report, my name is Zhang Zuolin, Major Staff Officer, Liudedi."

In the envious and admiring gaze of all his colleagues, Zhang Zuolin puffed up his chest and saluted and reported, but everyone didn't notice that the corners of Master Li's mouth that was still curved just now suddenly collapsed.

(To be continued)