Chapter 14: Yang Xiaodong's doubts
After the major operational policy was formulated, Zhao Yi announced the end of the meeting. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoAt this time, it is already dark, and the first night after the crossing is coming. Conclude the meeting as early as possible so that the commanders of the various units can return to check on the construction of the fortifications. If the progress of the fortifications does not go according to plan, no one will want to sleep well at night.
The area of the base is not large, if you want to repair the fortifications at night, the high-power lighting equipment is turned on, and the construction machinery is started. The people who took turns to rest couldn't sleep well, and the people who rushed to repair had to sleep again, and the next day Zhao Yiyi's subordinates were all a group of listless soft-footed shrimp. Don't ask these people to work hard and fight continuously. Six months ago, they were still ordinary people like clerks, workers, peasants, and students, and even after six months of military training, they were trained according to the standards of the young master of Midi.
Since you have decided to play a war of attrition with the Japanese here, it is about endurance, but don't start well. Only by letting things develop as much as possible according to your own plan is the most resource-saving. The side that always passively changes the plan will always have unplanned attrition, and over time it will become the losing side in the war of attrition. This is true for playing real-time strategy games, and it is no different for real war.
One by one, the officers left the command center and walked towards the area where their troops were responsible for building fortifications. Only Yang Xiaodong stayed, and Zhao Yi could see that he wanted to say something to himself.
Yang Xiaodong is the freshman who claims to know the history of Japan's invasion of China. His military rank was corporal, and because he was "familiar" with the history of the Japanese invasion of China, he was asked to attend the meeting.
Yang Xiaodong looks white and clean, and looks a little delicate. If this was a proper piece of fresh meat before the crossing, Zhao Yi couldn't help but want to ask him how he had survived the six-month death training with his body.
"Boss, I have something to say to you." Yang Xiaodong also spoke softly.
"Come, come and sit." Zhao Yi beckoned him to sit close to him.
"Do you smoke?" Zhao Yiyi handed Yang Xiaodong a cigarette.
Yang Xiaodong shook his head and said no.
"Then drink some water, don't be too reserved." Zhao Yi saw that he was a little nervous and handed him a bottle of mineral water.
"If you have anything to say, say it. There is no one else here. Zhao Yi encouraged.
"Boss, that's right. I've seen a few posts before, and a couple of expert shows. As for the content, it is roughly said that even if the Qing court did not surrender and negotiate peace in the First Sino-Japanese War, the result would only be worse, and it may lead to the grabbing of interests with many powers. As a result, the Eight-Nation Coalition entered Beijing ahead of schedule. Yang Xiaodong said cautiously, observing Zhao Yi's face from time to time.
"Hahaha, are you worried about this, we are playing a war of attrition with the Japanese army at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula, it doesn't mean that all the Qing troops are playing a war of attrition, in fact, we don't belong to the battle sequence of the Qing army, we are not even friendly troops of the Qing army. At present, our relationship with the Qing army can only be regarded as well water, not river water. He descended on him, and we dragged ours. Zhao Yiyi lit a cigarette.
"We are dragging down the Japanese army here in order to expand our living space. Think about it, when the Japanese army was dragged to death by us on the Liaodong Peninsula, how many Qing troops would be left here, and it is estimated that they will be almost gone. ā
"When the time comes, the Japanese army will have to bite the bullet and pay a greater price to attack Weihaiwei. Then attack Tianjin and press Beiping. When it comes to that step, there will naturally be people in the Qing court who will come out to negotiate peace. ā
"As for whether the Liaodong Peninsula is in our hands or in the hands of the Japanese army, the result for the Qing court is the same, and we will not let the Qing court use the Liaodong Peninsula as a bargaining chip for peace with Japan. The Liaodong Peninsula can only be used as a bargaining chip between us and the great powers. ā
"I understand your concern for the future and fate of our people and our compatriots, but if you understand that when Japan completed industrialization, the signing of the Treaty of Shimonoseki was inevitable. There are only 365 of us, and we can't control the whole war for the time being. We can only find a way to gain more living space and increase our strength in this war, and in the end it will be possible to change the fate of our nation. "Zhao Yi hasn't preached for so much for a long time, and he admires himself a little.
"Let's set a small goal first, such as saving the 30,000 compatriots in Lushun from being slaughtered. What do you think? Zhao Yi smiled and patted Yang Xiaodong on the shoulder.
Sending Yang Xiaodong away, Zhao Yi began to walk around again. Many of the traversers who arrived at the base had not seen his face yet, and he wanted to get acquainted with his face. Although he never knew about the short-lived Company Commander who died in Bastogne, that didn't stop him from being a qualified commander in the right way.
The food counted from the green paint area is all packaged ready-to-eat food, all kinds of canned food, bread, etc., all of which are produced according to EU food safety standards. It is as rich as the food warehouse at Kandahar Air Base in Afghanistan, where all the travelers have stayed, except for the ones that need to be frozen, the varieties are exactly the same.
Since all the food is ready-to-eat, there is no need to open a canteen for the time being. Before the crossing, each of their squads was equipped with picnic tools. Logistics divided the cooking area for each squad and defined the range of open flames. Try to let them heat up their own food, and for those in a state of war, being able to eat a bite of hot food can be a huge morale boost.
The deep well waterworks on the site are already in operation, and water supply for the entire site is not a problem, provided that the oil supply is sufficient. As for the drainage system, the props team also took care of it. The sappers began their search through the hospital's sewers and discovered that the base's drainage system stretched to the west of the coast.
Hot water bathing was not possible for the time being, and the sappers did their best to install 5 mobile cabinet toilets in the base. Together with the toilet in the hospital, it barely met the physiological needs of these 365 people. What? You said that you still have to queue up, and if you are not convinced, you can go to the base to dig a foxhole.
Hu Dazhuang and the others were in a cooking area with a squad of the mountain troops because of their small number of personnel. When Zhao Yi found them, Hu Dazhuang was chatting and farting with a soldier of a mountain army.
The soldier told him about the daytime encounter. When Hu Dazhuang was told that the Japanese army's military horses were dead, he sighed loudly, you shit, waste good things, if you cut a few horse ribs down, we don't have to gnaw on these cans tonight, smoked horse meat is delicious.
The soldier who farted with him complained, returned the horse ribs, and took over the few broken cars in the convoy, and forced out seventy people, and his little JJ was squeezed so much that it still hurts, where did he come from to bring horse meat.
Hu Dazhuang responded to him, it's good if it's not that the chrysanthemum hurts. Then the two of them laughed, revealing an evil expression of "you know".
Today's dinner was the same for all the travelers, tortillas, canned pork beans, canned oxtail bisque or borscht, and an orange per person. At this time, the logistics are all about efficiency, and there is no leisure time to discuss the diversity of recipes with you.
Seeing Zhao Yi coming over, Hu Dazhuang quickly put juicy pork stewed beans into the hot corn tortillas, and rolled them up to be almost the same as the flatbreads that are eaten daily in northern China. The very dogged one sent it to Zhao Yi, and by the way, there was also a cup of borscht.
Zhao Yi couldn't stand the strange smell of oxtail soup, and borscht could barely accept it. The stuffed tortillas are not bad, it would be nice to swap the beans for the sauce and add a green onion, and it would be even better if the borscht could be replaced with a spicy soup.
Well, Zhao Yi admits that he is thinking too much. Holding the aluminum cup that went with the military kettle, he took a bite of the tortilla and a bite of borscht. After dark, the temperature gradually drops, and the body gradually warms up after eating hot food and drinking a sip of hot soup.
After dinner, Zhao Yi returned to the gun position where the "Little Prince No. 1" was, and the rest of the crew had already dug a ballade pit for rest, and a simple marching bed was placed in the pit. He uncovered the camouflage net from the foxhole and slipped into his sleeping bag, intending to squint for a moment.
He just lay down, but he couldn't sleep. He thought back to his conversation with Yang Xiaodong, and he knew that there were many people who had the same idea of annihilating the Japanese army as Yang Xiaodong, although they all had different starting points for their ideas.
But they don't have the conditions for a quick victory, and there is a serious generation gap between the weapons and equipment of the traversers and the Japanese army. But the lack of combatants is their hard wound, the Japanese army can't beat you can run, you have to defend the base with more than 300 people, and you have to beware of the pig teammate of the Qing army, what do you do to fight quickly.
On the contrary, the Japanese army is determined to win Lushun, and if you block the road to Lushun by land, the Japanese army can only fight you. Zhao Yi is planning to fight and grind the Japanese army once, and the longer it drags on, the more unfavorable the form of the Japanese army on the Liaodong Peninsula.
As for the situation of the traversers, it depends on how the script of the "director team" is written, but the "director team" doesn't want to do a reality show, and they can only admit it and give up the green paint area to drill into the old forest in the northeast.
In fact, Zhao Yi thought that the most likely accident was that the Japanese army was forced to storm the Dalian Bay Fort from the sea. There is a trestle bridge in Dalian Bay, which is close to Jinzhou City, which is a huge temptation for the Japanese army. In the case of extremely difficult supplies, it is highly likely that the Japanese army will storm the Dalian Bay battery from the sea.
What? You say that the Japanese army stormed the fortress of Arthur directly from the sea? Are you a fool who has never studied as a general of the Japanese Navy, and you are fighting against the Krupp shore defense heavy artillery hiding in the thick fortifications? Don't be stupid, it's better to discuss this possibility than to study how the men's football team won the World Cup.
Here Zhao Yi turned around, and over there Yang Xiaodong was also repeatedly figuring out what Zhao Yi said to him.
This morning, when he went to the headquarters to apply for this temporary staff officer post that was "familiar" with the history of the Japanese invasion of China, he had the mentality that he could leave the manual work of repairing fortifications for a short while. The result was unexpected, and he was the only one in the entire base who came to apply. Thankfully, the things he could remember were barely useful. Zhao Yi has maintained his position as a temporary staff officer.
Although he had not yet entered social work before the crossing, Yang Xiaodong had not yet understood the truth that the closer he was to the leader, the faster he progressed. But the work of the temporary staff officer was obviously much easier than digging fortifications with a shovel and hoe. He didn't want to lose the job so quickly, at least not before the work was finished.
After pondering it repeatedly, he finally understood what Zhao Yi meant.
The Qing court could not represent China, and the interests of the Qing court were not the interests of the Chinese nation. The traverser wants to protect the interests of the Chinese nation, but it does not mean that it is to protect the interests of the Qing court.
The drag on of the war is not good for the Qing court, but the delay of the war is beneficial to the traverser, which is a typical dead friend who does not die poorly.
The defeat of the Qing court will sign a treaty of loss of power and humiliation of the country, which will damage the interests of the Chinese people, but the traverser is now weak and cannot change the result, so he can only accumulate strength.
After knowing this, Yang Xiaodong felt that as long as he kept pace with the leader, his temporary staff work was expected to be guaranteed, at least until the base fortifications were completed.