The moon is in the sky, and the shadows of the trees are swaying.

Ryukyu Oshima is quiet and serene at night, and with the exception of the day-like port area, all parts of Oshima have long been asleep.

Chen Ping's car passed through a residential area, a temporary new four-story small building passed through the car window, this is a newly built residential area for immigrants, and the previous single-family courtyard, this new style of four-story small buildings, each can live nine families, just this new residential area, can accommodate 5,000 families, this kind of new style of small buildings that are being vigorously promoted in Honolulu and the Ryukyus, greatly alleviating the problem of land tension on the island.

Compared to the first arrival in the Ryukyus a few years ago, this place is undergoing a sea change, especially for those new immigrants, when they set foot on this large island with a strange feeling, either because they are forced to do so, or because of the desire to go out, they realize that this is completely different from the inland with a strip of water.

Here, there are not only houses that have been prepared for a long time, but also factories that are waiting for you, not only can you get training for free, but as long as you are attentive and willing to endure hardships, you can ensure that you can live a worry-free life, and you can live a good life that you never dared to think of before.

Children can go to nearby schools, there are teachers from all over the world, and most importantly, there is no need to look at the background, no more spending money, as long as your child is of the right age, they can get free reading and literacy!

Of course, if you think this kind of talk is bland and tasteless, you can also go to the army, the recruitment station on Ryukyu Island is open all night, although the soldier is tired, although bitter, and dangerous, but that income is the envy of everyone.

Just like Tang Shaoyi and Liang Dunyan's words after they first arrived in the Ryukyus. "It's a new world." I believe that for those Beiyang soldiers who have just disembarked, when the sun rises tomorrow, they will also feel this way.

However, the young master's military method of solicitation is also a bit expensive, and it will cost a lot of money to let the power plant that is still being debugged work alone for one night, I don't know if Li Enfu will jump again after hearing it.

The car soon came to the luxury villa where Li Mo lived, and after it stopped, Chen Ping quickly pushed open the car door and walked towards the room on the second floor that was still bright, but as soon as he walked up the stairs, he found that Duan Fei was standing quietly outside the door alone, looking at the glowing small window, there seemed to be a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Duan Fei, why don't you go in?" Chen Ping walked up to him and pushed him curiously. Seeing Chen Ping, Duan Fei hurriedly said hello and pursed his lips with a wry smile.

Although the two have known each other for many years, Chen Ping rarely saw this elusive and often cold intelligence officer with such an expression, and hurriedly walked into two steps to take a look.

With just one glance, he understood why Duan Fei stood at the door and didn't go in, it turned out that there were two beautiful figures in the study, Miss Duan Yue'er crossed her waist, and she was supervising the young master's meal with anger on her face, and the little girl didn't add two chopsticks to the side of the dish, but also let out two chuckles from time to time.

Chen Ping hurriedly took a few steps back, what a mouth, this is the young master's **, if it is broken by himself, the ghost knows if he will be criticized, it is said that last time Du Dazhuang accidentally broke the game of hugging between the young master and the Qiao'er girl, and was kicked by the young master with a black face.

"No wonder I can't see this big guy, I can't tell where I'm hiding."

Chen Ping quickly pulled Duan Fei to hide in the corner, and smoked a cigarette, Duan Fei quickly shook his head: "I don't smoke this thing." Chen Ping knew his temper, took a sip after taking care of himself, suddenly glanced at the window again, and said playfully: "Duan Fei, your sister is all settled, are you still a little lonely?" Why don't I help you get married? I think Zhou Cheng's sister is good, what's the matter?! ”

Duan Fei looked at the chief of staff in astonishment, with a black line in his head, no wonder this guy can be the chief of staff, he even has to take care of this kind of gossip, and hurriedly shook his head in fright, Zhou Cheng's sister is good-looking, but the problem is that that guy is the same as himself, he is an extremely protective master, and his sister is more difficult to serve than his own baby.

Seeing Duan Fei shaking his head in fright, Chen Ping seemed to be more energetic, and said agitatedly: "Don't shake your head, this is a good thing, Zhou Cheng is also the captain of the battleship now, if you marry her sister, you will marry someone from the navy!" Long Guozhang has to break the bank, and I can also get wet. ”

Duan Fei couldn't cry or laugh even more, the emotional chief of staff was not kind at all, this guy purely wanted to blackmail Long Guozhang! The commander of the fleet and the chief of staff are playing cross-eyed, and this matter must not be mixed up.

Duan Fei shook his head faster, and said with a wry smile: "My chief of staff, you can spare me, or I will get you ten packs of good cigarettes." ”

"Thirty packs!" Chen Ping bargained decisively.

"Fifteen."

"Twenty!"

"Deal." Chen Ping's eyes lit up, and he muttered: "Duan Fei, you said that the young master doesn't usually smoke, why do you dominate so many good cigarettes?" Hey, fortunately, Miss Yue'er is still thinking about you, otherwise my cigarette would have fallen off. ”

Duan Fei raised his middle finger behind his back and despised these guys, if it weren't for the young master covering it, the good tobacco that Cuba gets every year would not be enough for these guys to spoil it. These bastards, I don't know how many times I've opened my mouth to my sister for them during this time, and when I think of my sister's weird eyes, he doesn't feel good.

At this time, a slight sound of footsteps came from behind, and the two hurriedly turned their heads, and saw that Zhang Zuolin had walked in at some point, and they were slightly stunned when they saw the two hiding in the corner, and hurriedly saluted and handed over the information they had just received.

"Report, I just received the information that Mukden has lost."

"So fast!"

Hearing the news, Chen Ping didn't even mention the cigarettes, and hurriedly grabbed the information and looked at it, his brows that had just stretched for a long time furrowed again, and even Duan Fei, who didn't care about the military, had deep eyebrows.

According to the previous intelligence, Fengtian has a city wall to rely on, and more than 20,000 people are stationed there, plus the Qing army in Liaoyang and other places, there are more than 40,000 people, so when the staff made a plan, it was unanimously agreed that Fengtian would hold the Russian army for at least ten days, so that the Pacific Army would have enough time to land, but I didn't expect that it was only the fourth day, and Fengtian was lost, which immediately disrupted all the previous deployments.

"Song Qing is dead."

Zhang Zuolin continued: "Liu Shengxiu and his Ming army are retreating to Shanhaiguan, and Nie Shicheng is currently retreating to Liaoyang with 2,000 men. ”

"Retreat so quickly? What's wrong? Listening to Zhang Zuolin's words, Duan Fei immediately smelled the strangeness in it, it stands to reason that there should still be scattered Qing troops in the Liaodong area, and there should also be thousands of Qing troops in Gaizhou Mansion on the Liaodong Peninsula, why did they all withdraw all at once?

"There is news from Yanjing that Cixi has summoned Yixun, Xu Yongyi, Sun Yuwen and others to prepare for peace talks, in addition." Zhang Zuolin paused, pointed to the intelligence and said: "The General Staff analyzes and suspects that if Cassiny can no longer contact the fleet and Vladivostok, it is very likely that the news of our declaration of war will be transmitted to the commander of the Russian Army, Lieutenant General Feleval, because according to the reconnaissance company, the Russians fought fiercely today, and even the Cossack cavalry participated in the siege, almost regardless of casualties. ”

"They want to solve Fengtian as soon as possible, and then continue south to the Liaodong Peninsula to prevent us from landing!" Chen Ping reacted immediately. Zhang Zuolin nodded: "Other than that, we can't think of any explanation for why the Russian army will work so hard!" ”

After reading all the information, Chen Ping closed the folder, glanced at Duan Fei, and said with a wry smile: "Let's go, it seems that we have to disturb your sister's good thing." ”

Duan Fei nodded, and took the lead in walking towards the study—

"Okay, okay, I'm sure I'll finish eating."

Looking at a big bowl of chicken soup, Young Master Li frowned, these two girls don't know what kind of evil they committed today, they finally came back to be lazy, and they just got so many chickens, ducks and fish, they are kind, but they are not afraid that the young master will get angry after eating?

Young Master Li raised his eyebrows, and the corners of his mouth smiled evilly: "Yue'er, if you drink so much chicken soup, I will definitely get hot tonight." ”

Get angry?

After Yue'er was stunned for a moment, she saw the crooked smile on the corner of Li Mo's mouth, and she didn't understand this guy's thoughts, so she suddenly blushed with shame, and Xiaoxiao next to her was also crimson, bowing her head and smiling.

"Dead man, eat when you eat, think crankily all day long!" Yue'er twisted Li Mo's arm fiercely.

Young Master Li grinned in pain, and quietly wiped the small round buttocks next to him with one hand. A subtle mutter came, not only Xiaoxiao's face turned even redder, but even Yue'er suddenly felt numb, and quickly glared at Li Mo, and reached out to help Xiaoxiao slap off the hateful claw.

Young Master Li's heart was full of joy, in front of Yue'er, she was thin and small, this girl didn't go crazy, it seems that she is expected to fly twice! Immediately picked up the chicken soup and drank it in a hurry, striving to "get on the fire" as soon as possible.

At this moment, there was a sudden knock on the door, and Yue'er and Xiaoxiao were so frightened that they hurriedly jumped up from Li Mo's side and tidied up the corners of their scattered clothes.

"Brother? Brother Chen ....... Yue'er opened the door, saw Duan Fei hurriedly called, but didn't continue to speak, she saw Chen Ping also behind her, her pretty face turned red again in an instant, and she hurriedly pulled Xiao Xiao to pack up the lunch box and escaped.

Looking at the two young grandmothers who fled, Chen Ping smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth, and then walked in front of Li Mo.

The good thing was disturbed again, Young Master Li was angry, glared at the two of them, and pointed to the sofa angrily: "Sit down, Lin Taizeng and Liu Buyun are okay?" ”

"The spirit is very good, and I was also suppressed by your methods, young master." Chen Ping squinted his eyes, like a fox, the smile on the corner of his mouth slowly enlarged, he believed that with this scene tonight, the three remaining Beiyang pipe belts could no longer escape the young master's Five Finger Mountain. Especially Lin Taizeng and Liu Buyun, but the essence of the entire Beiyang, this time they can get them, and the navy is a lot stronger.

However, thinking of the two warships full of bullet holes, Chen Ping sighed: "But the two ships are wasted." It's not that he thinks that Zhenyuan Jing is far stronger than the warships of the Pacific Fleet, but that the commemorative significance of these two ships is too great, they are the prototype of China's modern navy, especially Zhenyuan, it is a pity if it is so scrapped.

"It's okay, I've already sent a telegram to Tang Xiao, and I'll drag Zhenyuan into the dock tomorrow to repair it, but Jingyuan." Li Mo shook his head, Jing Yuan's injury was too serious, it was a miracle to be able to drive to the Ryukyus, and he really couldn't ask for anything more.

"Hehe, the old ones don't go, the new ones don't come." Chen Ping was open-minded, but he soon showed his fox tail, squinted and smiled: "Young master, Lao Long sent me a telegram alone, saying that he wanted the staff to promise him to keep all the captured warships, and this time he couldn't be dismantled as scrap metal." ”

"This bastard!" Li Mo laughed and scolded.

Captured in Vladivostok, Long Guozhang made a lot of money this time, no wonder he was red-eyed, but this kind of person who started shouting before he came back is really shameless, it is obviously a problem for the young master, you must know that Li Enfu frowned when he looked at the current fleet size, and it must be another saliva to let him agree to expand it again.

"We'll talk about that later."

Seeing that Li Mo snorted, Chen Ping put away his smiling face, took out the information just now, and handed it to Li Mo: "The reconnaissance company of the fourth division reports that Fengtian has been lost. ”

"So fast?!"

"The Russians are desperate, Zhang Zuolin and they suspect that Cassiny should have contacted Lieutenant General Felevar of the Russian Army."

After reading the information, Li Mo nodded, and there was only this reason to explain why the slow Russian army was so fast, it is estimated that they also considered that once the fleet was threatened, the Pacific Army might land on the Liaodong Peninsula, so they were eager to capture Mukden, take the lead in establishing a stable rear, and then transfer troops to defend Lushun and the Liaodong Peninsula.

"Now the question is." Chen Ping got up and walked to the large map in the study, and drew two routes: "Whether the Russian army will take Liaoyang Haicheng from Gaizhou to the Liaodong Peninsula, or take the Motianling, Fengcheng will go straight to Anton and lock up the Liaodong Peninsula first." ”

Looking at the two lines, one vertical and one horizontal, not only Li Mo frowned, but even Duan Fei secretly complained.

At present, the Pacific Army has only one battalion of one division and two regiments on the Liaodong Peninsula, and even if the small reconnaissance troops operating there and Anton's Reading Battalion are added, there are at most 2,000 people, and it is unrealistic to want to block these two routes at the same time, and according to the plan, the first batch of landing troops will not arrive at Andong Port until the morning after tomorrow, and it will take at least one day and one night to arrive at the two places from Andong Port.

Which path will the Russian army take?

Li Mo walked to the map, Liaoyang Haicheng is open, suitable for cavalry attacks, it stands to reason that it should be the best here, but Gaizhou is close to Liaodong Bay, in the face of the fact that war has been declared for three days and the fleet has lost contact, if the Russian army goes here, it may be worried that it will run head-on with the Pacific Army that bypasses the peninsula and lands from Liaodong Bay.

Motianling is a natural pass, the terrain is dangerous, not conducive to cavalry, but this choice has an advantage, it can quickly penetrate Andong and block the connection between the peninsula and the outside, so that no matter the Pacific Army lands from the peninsula, the troops stationed in Lushun and Jinzhou can quickly encircle the large army.

Cassini knows very well that the commander of the Russian army this time, Fereval, is not incompetent, and he knows very well that in case the fleet fails, as long as they can maintain their superiority on land, they can at least recover some losses, so they will be ruthless and quickly take Mukden regardless of the cost, and then continue to turn south to the Liaodong Peninsula.

Looking at the map, both roads have flaws, but they also have advantageous roads, Young Master Li frowned, which one will the Russians choose?

Does Russia also want to fly twice?

(To be continued)