In 1904, the Russo-Japanese War broke out, and the battlefield was in the northeast, on Chinese soil.

This is the sorrow that belongs to this era, the deepest sorrow.

In this war, the ultimate casualties were not the Russians or the Japanese, but the Chinese.

It is not the soldier who is most hurt by the battlefield, because the soldier has his own consciousness on the day he becomes a soldier.

The most injured are not the military, but the civilians.

This is also the reason why Russia and Japan put the battlefield in China.

The longer Liu Ruoshui stays in this era, the more he can feel the sadness of this era.

Otherwise, the murderous aura in his heart would not be like fine wine, which became more mellow the more it was brewed.

In fact, he had been waiting for the First World War for a long time.

The snipe and the clam compete, and the fisherman profits.

After all, this war will take place on Chinese soil, so both Russia and Japan must win over China's own forces.

The Qing government had declared "neutrality", so the local forces were not represented by the Qing government.

It's the beard, that is, the Northeast bandits.

On the frontal battlefield, the beard is not very useful, even if all the beards are twisted into a rope, they cannot threaten the Japanese and Russian troops.

However, the beard could no longer be useful on the frontal battlefield, but it was able to threaten the supply lines of Russia and Japan.

Liu Ruoshui, as the largest "beard" in Northeast China, was naturally attracted by the Russians and Japanese.

Russia is naturally not a good thing, in the northeast, Liu Ruoshui has seen too many blood debts.

The reason why Du Lisan, Feng Delin, Zhang Zuolin and others raised the banner of resistance to Russia one after another was because of Russia's atrocities and owed too much blood debt in China.

Russia is not a thing, but the Japanese are not a thing.

Liu Ruoshui, who knows the future, naturally knows what the Japanese are.

The SS was so cruel in World War II, but it was also because the Jews sold Germany during World War I, and whether it was true or not, this hatred could only be regarded as revenge of the Germans. But looking at later history, do the Chinese have a grudge against the Japanese? Their cruelty seems to be innate. Think about how hateful Li Hongzhang is in his seventies and eighties, and would rather brave the wind and waves and risk his life to change ships on the sea on a wooden plank than set foot on Japanese soil.

At first, Liu Ruoshui wanted to refuse, but later, he agreed.

The Russo-Japanese battlefield had just begun, and there was not much blood on both sides, and it was not yet time for him to use the knife.

Therefore, he received "aid" from Russia and Japan.

Liu Ruoshui didn't ask for weapons, because his weapons were enough, and what he needed was an industrial base.

There is no need to mention the specific agreement, because it is just a piece of waste paper, Liu Ruoshui moved the territory to Tonghua, and built a small industrial base there, although the scale is not large, but it includes steel mills, coal mines, arsenals and so on.

At the beginning, Liu Ruoshui was very busy for these jobs, but in fact, Liu Ruoshui gradually became idle.

Because of the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, people of insight in China were furious, and many aspiring young people came to the Northeast to carry out the great cause of resisting Russia.

Although Liu Ruoshui temporarily "reconciled" with Russia, his name had long been spread, so many young people joined his army, and there were even a few famous figures in later generations, so he also shared the burden on himself.

Because he had nothing to do and was light, Liu Ruoshui was very quiet for a while, and planned to go to Shanghai to have a look.

The reason why Liu Ruoshui wanted to go to Shanghai was not for fun, but for business, for his bandit army.

After all these years of training and actual combat, Liu Ruoshui's bandit army is no longer a simple bandit, but a real army.

But Liu Ruoshui also knew that under his training, his bandit army had cultivated a "morale" of his own, as long as he gave an order, even against the Russian army and the Japanese army, he could scream and pounce.

As for tactical literacy, that's no problem, Liu Ruoshui's bandit army was handed over by a group of Russian instructors who were brainwashed by him, and in terms of individual combat ability, it is not inferior to the Russian army and the Japanese army.

But the problem is that there is no problem in terms of tactics, but there is much difference in terms of strategy, and under Liu Ruoshui's command, there is no general who can be used at all.

There is a good saying, "A thousand troops are easy to get, but a general is hard to find", the level of the two tigers, Biaozi and others, it is okay to be a regiment commander, but it is really difficult for a strong man to be a general.

Li Ruoshui went to Shanghai to solve this problem.

Because of the "Russo-Japanese War", Qin Yuliu, Ye Lan, Niu Yongjian and others decided to set up an anti-Russian volunteer brigade and prepared to go to the northeast to fight to the death against the Russian invading army. In addition, the Chinese Education Association and the Patriotic Society in Shanghai also organized anti-Russian volunteers.

Liu Ruoshui went to Shanghai to contact these anti-Russian volunteers and persuade them to join his team.

Therefore, when Liu Ruoshui arranged the things at home, he quietly went to Shanghai.

Shanghai in 1905 was the core city of the colonization of China by foreign powers, and it was also the most prosperous trade and financial center in Asia in this era.

It embraces the exchange and collision of various Chinese and foreign ideologies, and also breeds various forms of concessions, industrial and commercial enterprises, as well as legends of gold everywhere and pervasive gangs.

The tall towers and Western-style buildings, the streets with plane trees, the rickshaws shuttling through the streets and alleys, the women's low hair and long cheongsams, the advertising posters that look like oil paintings, the Paramount and the big world that are drunk on gold. The tired and beautiful singing of the dancers echoed in the ten-mile field...... The Huangpu River reflects the scenery on both sides of the river, dotting the whole of Shanghai, as if telling the story that once happened in this city - there are storms and clouds. There are heroic songs, and there are also wind and snow.

There is loneliness in the vicissitudes of life, and there is prosperity in the loneliness.

However, after Liu Ruoshui arrived in Shanghai, he was not interested in these storms, and he did not even directly contact the anti-Russian volunteers.

The first thing he did was to "kick the gym".

Liu Ruoshui's national art realm at this time has reached the peak of dark energy, and he is only one step away from transforming energy, and even as long as he orders a war against the Russian army, his spirit will be complete and he will be able to step into chemical energy.

It's just that Liu Ruoshui also knows that although his realm has arrived, he owes a little heat.

Although Liu Ruoshui has killed a lot of people, he has rarely fought with masters of national arts, and since he has come to Shanghai, he naturally can't let go of this opportunity.

Ordinary masters of national arts, Liu Ruoshui will not take it seriously, so Liu Ruoshui directly found the strongest national arts master in Shanghai.

"Single knife" Li Cunyi.

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