408 To the East!
"Your Majesty, are you kidding? Vladivostok has been captured by you? How is this possible? Although I have not been there, the French have made it clear that there are at least thirty or forty thousand troops stationed there, with a hundred cannons, and they have participated in the construction of the fortress and promised the Russians that the fortress can be garrisoned for at least 20,000 troops for at least a year! ”
In the Port of Arthur, it seems that in order to strengthen his distrust of Chen Ping, Ludendorff waved his right hand while speaking, although it was a little impolite, but this gesture and speech obviously made the staff officer who came with Moltke very personal. 【 I want: super fast update 】
Looking at this German army staff officer, although Chen Ping didn't know why the emperor included him in that list, it was obvious that this guy was not a simple person, otherwise Moltke would not have taken him on a visit.
Thinking of this, he immediately smiled and said, "Your Majesty Ludendorff, do you think it is necessary for me to lie?" Although I also admit that the French were specialists in the construction of fortresses, they built a long list of fortresses in Maginot, but they were clearly too stupid, and it seems to me that any fortress is in vain, not only did it cost a lot of money, but they seemed to forget that the fortress could not be moved! ”
These words made the little Moltke who was visiting the barracks in front of him pause slightly, but he quickly returned to normal, but Ludendorff did not see it, and continued: "No, I still don't believe it, although there is a lot to say, but as far as I know, the Russians have blocked the waterway with mines, can it be said that your country's fleet has broken through this blockade?" ”
"Huh." Chen Ping withdrew his gaze from Moltke's slightly wrong right foot, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty Ludendorff, we have a saying in China, which is that seeing is believing, so I think you might as well go there with me to have a look." ”
"To Vladivostok? Are you telling the truth? Can we go to Vladivostok, to the war zone? "This sentence, don't talk about Ludendorff" Even little Moltke was surprised, although the purpose of his coming here was to inspect the strength of the Chinese Army, and he also thought about going to the front line, but he didn't expect it to be so easy to achieve.
"Your Majesty Dear Ludwig, the ship is already waiting for us in the harbor" If it goes well, I think we will be able to reach Vladivostok the morning after tomorrow. ”
"Let's go, let's go." Hearing this, Moltke Jr. showed the decisiveness of a high-ranking officer, and walked out without hesitation. This move made Chen Ping nod secretly, born in a famous family, able to run the German ** team for so many years, and deeply trusted by William II, "This is really not an ordinary person."
But Moltke did not know that shortly after he boarded a medium-sized speed passenger ship with the delegation, the imperial family of the Chinese Empire, the Prime Minister's Office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of National Defense issued a joint announcement at the same time, announcing that after 25 days of continuous fighting, the army had recovered the vast territory of Irkutsk, "Uginsk, Chita, Nebuchu, Vladivostok, and Shuangcheng" after paying great sacrifices, annihilated a total of 130,000 enemy troops, and won the first great victory after the start of the war!
This announcement, like a thunderclap, with the telephone line and newspapers set off a wild wave in the land of China, "students have walked out of the campus, onto the street, they singers" laughed, in various forms to celebrate the good news, even those who in history by Mr. Lu Xun called the numb generation of ordinary "Chinese", by this through various means to their ears to the exciting victory made their hearts excited, maybe they will not be in front of people, but they are at home, in the kitchen or in the bed" He squeezed his fist hard.
How many were buried?
Since the Han and Tang Dynasties, the huge Celestial Empire seems to have been invaded by foreign people, "until the Ming Dynasty was briefly revived, but it fell under the iron hooves of the Eight Banners", and today they can finally raise their heads again and tell the whole world that the sons and daughters of China are back!
Those who offend my Chinese will be punished even if they are far away!
Maybe this sentence can't be shouted openly, but hundreds of years later, once he went abroad to fight, he achieved a great victory of annihilating more than 100,000 enemies and recovering a large part of the country! What could be more exciting?
When the news of celebrations from all over the world reached Li Mo's ears through various channels, he couldn't help but take a deep breath, this is what he wants to see, the strength of a nation can not be achieved by accumulation and development alone, only by awakening the hearts of the people, awakening pride, and awakening the blood in the bones of the people, there is hope for this country!
This truth even the ordinary people know that they can have no money and no power, but if they have no backbone, they can only be a slave!
The only thing that can awaken this pride is war! There is only a triumphant victory to regain the homeland!
Therefore, not only did he not worry about this kind of agitation, but through the Prime Minister's Office, he continued to deepen the report, not only let the Ministry of Defense reveal some details, select some heroes and deeds for publicity, but also let the gradually improving local government use means such as posting announcements to carry out a propaganda war from top to bottom. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※
The students are the first to awaken, these young people who are in the age of enthusiasm, because of the implementation of free education and can enter the campus, are excited by the victories announced one after another, and because of a series of shocking casualty lists quietly wipe away tears, Li Mo believes that as long as it is another ten years, when tens of millions of students gradually enter the society and move towards front-line posts, this pride that begins to permeate will be passed on to them.
Journalists from all over the world were also burned by this wave of victory, and compared with the boiling people, they were obviously a little at a loss, and even panicked, because no one thought that in just one month, when the troops were inferior to the opponent, such a brilliant victory would be achieved, which really made people feel unbelievable!
When they began to send the developments in China by telegram after telegram with their own minds, Moltke Jr. arrived in Vladivostok with his delegation.
Although he imagined the possibility of the Vladivostok offensive being completed so quickly many times in the past two days, and even thought that the Russian army was too weak to surrender en masse, but when he entered Vladivostok from the forward base accompanied by Chen Ping, he was stunned by the scene in front of him.
The huge Vladivostok fortress is full of the ruins of blasted stone forts and the traces of gunpowder, and the charred black and bloodstained walls prove that there have been several terrible battles here!
How did the Chinese people do it?
Do they really have the ability to force a fortress head-on?
When questions rose in Moltke's heart, Ludendorff suddenly found that the loess under his feet seemed to have just been filled, and there was too much charred black around him, as if there had been a fire here, but this thought only stayed for a moment, because in his opinion, the loess may have been deliberately filled in by the Chinese people in order to drink themselves and bury a lot of blood, as for the charred black, although there are a lot of them, but the cannonballs themselves will bring flames.
After Ludendorff gave up checking and began to ask several Chinese officers about the details of the battle, Chen Ping finally breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn't help but secretly curse in his heart that the "battle scene" in front of him was overly arranged, so that you can get more traces of the explosion, and you won't blow up the entire Vladivostok with torture, and you can't see a complete building, right?
And in the field hospital just now, the fucking thousands of "wounded soldiers" were all injured in the head, hands and feet, wouldn't they also wrap some white cloth on their bodies and smear some sheep blood?
"So, your army fought a storm with airships and six-inch shells?"
"Yes." Chen Ping hurriedly seized the opportunity to cover up the loophole and said solemnly: "We used some airships, and for more than 20 days we have been dropping about 3,000 tons of bombs from the sky, and after destroying the main building, the infantry entered, but still suffered some losses. ”
This data made Ludendorff's eyes widen and he forgot what he had just discovered, and he secretly exclaimed in his heart. Three thousand tons, God, no wonder there is not a single intact building to be seen.
Very, Moltke Jr. ended his inspection, and to be honest, there was nothing to see here at all, because the whole of Vladivostok had become a garbage dump except for the proof of the strong firepower of the Chinese army.
"Chen Pingxia, I want to go uh......,...。"
Before Xiao Moltke finished speaking, he suddenly saw a soldier carrying a strange big rucksack with a long antenna extending from the knapsack walking up to Chen Ping, handing over a note and leaving quickly.
Chen Ping secretly glanced at Little Moltke, and when he saw him staring at the figure of the communication soldier, he didn't blink, and his heart was ecstatic, and he hurriedly and deliberately shook the note in his hand: "Your Majesty Ludwig, do you want to visit the Twin Cities?" That's great, I just received the message, a few minutes ago there was already under the control of our army. ”
"A few minutes ago? Just received the message! Little Moltke's heart jumped and he hurriedly asked, "With all due respect, is that soldier here to deliver the news?" How could he know what had been heard a few minutes ago? Did your army take control of the telegraph station first? ”
Hooked!
Chen Ping pretended to be difficult, thought for a long time and said: "Your Majesty Ludwig, he is indeed a communications soldier, but I can't tell you how we delivered the news, because it belongs to our country's top secret!" ”
"High Confidentiality!"
Moltke Jr. seems to understand a little, in fact, since the Chinese Navy intercepted the "Japan" returned fleet, many people were speculating about how they located and found the "Japan" book, and at that time he suspected that Hua might have some unknown technology, until later he heard that a scientist named Tesla, who was once famous in the United States, had studied a radio long-distance communication technology, and according to the intelligence, Tesla invented alternating current, and transferred all the technology patents to Li Mo's people. So he suspects that this long-distance communication technology may have made a breakthrough!
But he didn't continue to ask, as a senior commander of a country's army, he also knew what to ask and what not to ask, he knew very well how important this technology was, which did not rely on fixed telegraph stations, and could be contacted anytime and anywhere, and if he could, he would even be willing to exchange a few battleships for it!
Moreover, Li Mo mastered this technology and showed it in front of him, which shows that it has the possibility of being sold, just like the original battleship, all that needs to be considered is the price.
So what he was thinking about was not getting this technology, but what conditions he could use, what kind of equipment he could use that could even change the mode of war, but what conditions to use made it difficult for him, Li Mo's guy was definitely a master who didn't see the rabbit and didn't withdraw the eagle, and his appetite was extremely greedy, what kind of request would he make?
On September 3, 1908, Moltke Jr., the visiting chief of the German General Staff, and his entourage returned to Beijing from their visit to Vladivostok.
Since all the communications to Siberia were cut off, Russia did not know the specific situation there, although the Chinese newspapers had reported the news of the great victory before, but not to mention Russia, even Britain and France did not believe that the news was true, in their eyes it was Li Mo's inspiring little trick.
But when the German reporter personally checked the news of the captured Vladivostok and saw the newspaper, the whole of Europe fell silent and fell into a long silence, because everyone knew that if all the news released by China was true, it would indicate that the Russian army in Siberia had almost lost all its strategic initiative, and a defeat was doomed!
Nicholas II was completely blown up, and he couldn't figure out why he couldn't relieve the emperor's worries at a critical moment and provide some good news after raising so many officers.
His Majesty the Tsar, who was in the middle of his anger, vented all his anger on the accusations against the army, and then under his strict order, the military immediately announced the re-enlistment of 500,000 soldiers, and in addition to the strict order, the commander of the Western Front, who knew nothing about the situation in the East, Zalubayev, immediately led a large army to reinforce General Kuropatkin.
At this time, Rear Admiral Rozhestwinsky, who had been giving advice to the empire "with all his heart", suggested to Nicholas II that Hua had sent all the main army to the north, so there was no defense in the south at all, and that the fleet should be dispatched immediately, relying on Dili laid by General Witthoeft as a base, looking for an opportunity to annihilate the main force of the Chinese navy, even if only a part of it was eliminated, as long as Borneo and Luzon could eventually be occupied, it could threaten the rich southeast coast of China, so that the pressure on the north could be greatly reduced.
There are still loyal ministers!
Nicholas II slapped his thigh and immediately accepted Rear Admiral Roger Stewinst's suggestion and prepared to send the Third World Fleet to completely wipe out the Far East.
This plan was small, and scared the Admiralty Minister Alexander Rovich half to death, and during this time he had been suggesting that the decisive battle should be fought after the French provided the battleships, and the five Borodino-class ships had just been delivered, and even some small processes had not been completed, not to mention the sea trials, so he immediately entered the palace to prepare to stop this plan.
But how could Nicholas II still listen to it at this time, not to mention that according to his ideas, although Hua must have a battleship, he is not a vegetarian, and the world's third navy has more than 200 mm of naval guns twice as many as Hua, so he didn't even listen, and directly drove Grand Duke Alexander Rovich out of the palace, and stubbornly ordered the fleet to set off within ten days.
Go to the East!
Bury in the sea those Eastern infidels who undermined peace in Russia!