Beiyang reactionaries

"Damn."

Duan Xun was furious when he heard the news about Jiujiang.

Damn little Japan.

It was obviously a conflict between the armies, but these people even opened fire on the counties along the line.

"What are the current locations of those warships?"

"It's about a hundred kilometers away from Anqing."

"I see."

Chen Yuhao thought for a while and said, "Before going to war with Japan in the Northeast, I propose to solve the Japanese strongholds along the Yangtze River first. Wipe out the Japanese warships and docks along the Yangtze River. What do you think?"

"agree."

"agree."

At this time, everyone's opinions are unprecedentedly unanimous.

They all agreed with Duan Xun's proposal.It is impossible to leave such a big loophole in the rear before the war.Once there is a war in the front, they will make trouble in the rear, and then they will attack from front to back.

"Prime Minister, does the Ministry of Military Affairs have a plan on how to encircle these piers?"

Although Yu Youren agreed, he still asked with some concerns.Yu Youren is not very clear about the situation of the Chinese army, but he also knows that the Chinese army does not have many troops along the Yangtze River.

Duan Xun smiled.

Then he said, "Chief Yu, don't we have disaster relief mobile troops along the Yangtze River?"

"This……"

Yu Youren frowned.

The Disaster Relief Mobile Force is a force established for disaster relief.After these troops withdrew from the main force, heavy weapons were slowly withdrawn from the troops, and the usual training was no longer for fighting.

they?

"Chief Yu, haven't you forgotten? We have two main forces that have just become a mobile disaster relief force for more than half a year, and there are two artillery brigades under them."

Duan Xun spoke with a smile.

Yu Youren thought for a while and said, "Prime Minister, you are talking about the Second Army of the Disaster Relief Mobile Force (Commander Xie Hongxun) and the Eighth Division of the Disaster Relief Mobile Force (Division Commander Wang Pu)."

"of course."

Chen Yuhao looked at Yu Youren's incomprehensible expression, and said: "Xie Hongxun's 52nd Army and Wang Pu's Independent Division are both troops with strong combat effectiveness, and they are all troops that have been baptized in war. How can I be willing to let their troops Become a disaster relief mobile unit. The disaster relief mobile unit is established for disaster relief, and these veterans who have fought wars are not needed. I can definitely transfer enough recruits from the recruit unit for training, and it is impossible to send veterans with combat experience. Now The expansion of our army is too serious, and we are very short of veterans with combat experience. Those veterans are very valuable. The 52nd Army and the Independent Division, I prepared them for the Japanese docks along the Yangtze River. It’s just that I don’t want to provoke the Japanese army, so that’s why Will use such a name."

Only then did Yu Youren suddenly realize.

Yu Youren also criticized Duan Xun's actions before, thinking that Duan Xun's treatment of non-directed troops was unfair.Duan Xun not only reorganized them, but also separated them from the main force.They also transferred their artillery units to directly accept the command of the Artillery Command.

More importantly, Pan Wenhua's [-]th Army was also transferred to Hubei, obviously to monitor Xie Hongxun's troops.

I didn't expect this to be a smoke bomb.

Duan Xun transferred Xie Hongxun's troops and Wang Pu's troops along the Yangtze River. It turned out that it was for the Japanese army's docks along the Yangtze River.

Yu Youren couldn't help but look at Duan Xun again.

fight?

Yu Youren had a lot of worries before.Although Yu Youren firmly supports being tough on Japan, Yu Youren still has a lot of worries about fighting Japan.After all, the Chinese army has always failed against the great powers since the Opium War.But looking at Duan Xun, Yu Youren suddenly felt very confident.

Because Duan Xun is really a scheming person.

There is enough preparation for anything.When Duan Xun expelled Chen Shufan in Shaanxi, it was also very beautiful.A lot of seemingly useless chess games have all become deadly weapons.Yu Youren can now be sure that Duan Xun did not plan for a day or two to fight Japan.Maybe Duan Xun already had plans a few years ago.

"So Chief Yu, you don't have to worry. We have enough troops in those places and enough heavy weapons. Everyone does their jobs well."

"Yes."

"Prime Minister."

Because there were so many things to do, Chen Bulei kept going in and out of the meeting room during the meeting to report new information to Duan Xun and other cabinet members.

"Little Pan Youji wants to see the Prime Minister."

"Prime Minister Yang, you go to see Little Pan Youji. Tell him that the Japanese warships fired on our city in violation of the contract we signed with Japan before. Therefore, the original agreement on the pier concession signed is invalid, and we will take back the pier leased to Japan. , demand that Japan hand over the soldiers who caused the accident, and all Japanese warships will leave the Yangtze River from now on.”

"Yes."

"Okay, everyone take their places. I'm also going to work in the Military Department now."

380 Conflict Escalation 2

"Prime Minister Yang, do you really want to go to war with the empire? Don't take the goodwill of the empire as your country's unscrupulous capital. Your country has already touched the bottom line of the empire."

Little Pan Youji was really angry.

"Keep an inch".

China is too aggressive, and Duan Xun is too aggressive.From the beginning of the customs problem to the arrest of Japanese ronin, it has challenged Japan's bottom line time and time again.If it weren't for Japan, there are still some concerns, especially some politicians think that the United States is the biggest enemy, so they still hope to cooperate with China.Otherwise, the Japanese military would have been at war with China long ago, and they clamored for war with China every day.However, Japan has shown such goodwill that the Chinese government dared to ignore this goodwill, and now it dares to fight the Japanese army face to face.I really don't know how to live or die.

The news from Xiao Pan Youji's side is also very fast.

He knows what happened.Those disobedient soldiers acted on their own, deciding their actions at will.However, although the Japanese warship fired first, the Chinese government should not have done so.At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Japanese warships, including British, French and American warships, fired artillery in the Yangtze River Basin of China not once or twice.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, artillery was fired in Changsha, and more than a thousand people were killed or injured in Changsha, but nothing happened.

Who dares to say anything.

Little Pan Youji was angry that the military was going its own way and fired at will.But Pan Youji was even more angry with China's attitude.

Even if there is something wrong with the Japanese warships, it is Japan's own business.Moreover, the Japanese warship was only a warning to Anqing, and did not cause any major losses.It is estimated that some unlucky people were killed and injured by shells, so there shouldn't be any major problems.

But what about Anqing?

The troops directly used heavy artillery and infantry artillery, and even sank two Japanese warships and captured a warship.Not just those, the Japanese army is currently besieging the Japanese docks in Anqing.

In this conflict, the casualties of the Japanese army so far are almost 800.

It's amazing.

Simply unforgivable.

The little Pan Youji faced by Yang Yongtai was a person who was about to lose his mind, almost pointing at Yang Yongtai's nose and cursing the Chinese government.Because although little Pan Youji had thought a lot, he had been guessing what Duan Xun wanted to do.