Open an aircraft carrier to fight against Japan

Lin Yuan put the stack of telegrams on the table. The stack of telegrams was arranged in chronological order, the top one being the earliest. Lin Yuan picked up the earliest telegram and saw that it read: "The Imperial Japanese Government has called The British Empire, our country has agreed to send troops, and will send a special envoy to China, hoping that the British side will welcome and escort him to Nanjing to meet Emperor Guangxu."

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "My analysis is not wrong. This matter is indeed related to the British." Lin Yuan continued to look down, and quickly understood: It turns out that the Japanese army has dispatched a regiment, which is called the British in the Japanese army sequence. It is the "First Wing of the Japanese Volunteer Aid Army", which was drawn from the North Korean Garrison Army, and the leader of the wing is Mizuki Nagata.

Just like the Kwantung Army in Lin Yuan’s era, the Korean Garrison Army was the elite of the Japanese army. Since Japan deployed troops in the Korean Garrison Army, it obviously attached great importance to this armed intervention. " in guise.

Lin Yuan thought: "China is so big, will the Japanese send only one regiment? Of course not." Lin Yuan continued to look down, but did not see the follow-up dispatch plan, only the Japanese base camp let the Japanese embassy and The Qing court coordinated the purchase of grain. Lin Yuan estimated the amount of grain purchased, and found that the Japanese army would send more than 5 people into China one after another.

Lin Yuan thought: "So many people don't know who the commander is?" Lin Yuan looked down and saw a name: Kodama Gentaro. Lin Yuan was shocked when he saw this name, because his son Yuyuan Taro was also a well-known military officer in Lin Yuan's era!

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "It seems that we have met a difficult opponent. Judging from the current situation of the fight, this Kodama Gentaro decisively gave up the style of defending the city, and instead boldly interspersed with ambush, which really deserves his reputation." At this time, Lin Yuan I saw another telegram, which said: "The First Wing has arrived in Hangzhou Bay."

Lin Yuan's heart moved, and he thought: "Hangzhou Bay? What is the first regiment going to do there?" Lin Yuan looked at the time, October [-], almost before the battle in Luoxia Town, Lin Yuan thought to himself: " Could it be that the enemy came in from Hangzhou Bay? Could it be that my judgment was wrong, the enemy did not come from the Yangtze River."

Lin Yuan immediately called the staff officer in charge of monitoring the Yangtze River estuary and asked, "How is the inspection of the ships at the estuary? Have you found any ships transporting food or ammunition?"

The staff officer said, "Not yet."

Lin Yuan thought to himself: "It seems that they really didn't go to the Yangtze River. Where could it be?" Lin Yuan took out a map, stared at it silently for a while, and thought: "From Hangzhou to Jiangyin, the fastest way It is from the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal to the Jiangyin Canal. This route is not only convenient, but also capable of transporting a large amount of weapons and equipment. The Japanese army should have come from here.”

Lin Yuan thought about it, and his eyes fell on Quli Mountain, which is more than ten kilometers south of Jiangyin. Lin Yuan thought to himself: "Could this be the hiding place of the Japanese army? I need to look at the terrain of this place and analyze it. Will the Japanese army hide here?" So he said to the staff: "Bring me some maps of Quli Mountain, one to ten thousand."

The staff officer quickly brought over a set of maps, and Lin Yuan looked at the large-scale maps and smiled inwardly: "The little devil still wants to fight me, but you don't have these large-scale maps alone, and it's not easy to map them out. Lin Yuan looked at the map carefully and thought in his heart: "The terrain of Quli Mountain is dangerous and suitable for troops to hide. If I were Kodama Gentaro, I would let our people hide here."

Lin Yuan thought of contacting Fade Chen here, and asked, "How is the situation over there?"

Fade Chen said: "Fortunately, you are busy dealing with the chemical toxin-contaminated area? Do you have any good news to tell me?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said: "There is really good news, I led people to bring the Japanese embassy to me today!"

Fade Chen said in surprise: "Really? Take over the Japanese embassy? Oh my god, aren't you afraid that the spittle stars from all over the world will drown you?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said: "Compared with what I harvested, being drowned is worth it. I got the Japanese cipher book. We have deciphered all the messages we intercepted before. I have already guessed the possible hiding place of the Japanese army." place."

Fade Chen asked: "Tell me quickly, where is it?"

Lin Yuan said, "In Quli Mountain!"

Fade Chen said: "Quli Mountain? I know that place, which is twelve or thirteen kilometers south of Jiangyin."

Lin Yuan said: "Send troops to reconnaissance first to see if the Japanese army is stationed there. If the Japanese army is indeed stationed there, please notify me immediately."

Fade Chen asked: "Should I still notify you? Can't we destroy them ourselves?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "The terrain of Quli Mountain is complicated, and your armored troops can't go in and use it. I will deal with them."

Fade Chen smiled and said, "You are on Chongming Island, a hundred miles away from Quli Mountain, how do you deal with them?"

Lin Yuan said: "Didn't you say you want to use chemical weapons? I've made up my mind, let's use chemical weapons!"

Fade Chen asked: "Not so good, use chemical weapons on our land? Can't chemical weapons be used when we fight the Japanese?"

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "We'll use other things when we're fighting Japan. You just need to do reconnaissance, and you don't have to worry about other things."

Chen Fei said: "Well, I don't care about other things, I just send people to investigate!"

Lin Yuan agreed to let the chemical factories in the Northeast produce chemical weapons, then looked at the map and thought to himself: "If the Japanese army wants to send a large number of troops into China, they have to go through the Hangzhou Bay and the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal. I must not watch them batch after batch. I must find a way to cut off their access to China!"

"If you want to cut off the passage, you can cut off the sea passage or the land passage. It seems impossible to cut off the sea passage. If I let the fleet blockade Hangzhou Bay, then the Japanese army can choose to land at Xiangshan Port at the farther south, or Sanmen Bay and Taizhou Bay at the southern end, so my fleet needs to patrol hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of sea area to find ships from Japan, and I don’t have that capability.”

"It is impossible to cut off the sea channel. It is more likely to cut off the road channel. The entire line of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal is hundreds of kilometers long, and there are countless towns along the line. As long as you occupy one of them, you can control the transportation line of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and seal it off." Live in the transportation artery of the Japanese army in the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal! If this is the case, then we will attack from the land and cut off the enemy's road transportation line."

"Where is the best place to attack? The main force of my army is in Shanghai. There are two options for attacking the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal. The first is to go north to attack Suzhou and Wuxi; the second is to go west to Jiaxing and Hangzhou. Which of these two routes is better?" How about it? From the perspective of distance, Shanghai is the closest to Suzhou, but if you attack Suzhou directly, you will be attacked by the Qing army from the direction of Songjiang Prefecture, and it is very likely that you will be attacked by the enemy."

"Then I will change the way of fighting, order one army to attack Suzhou, and at the same time order the other army to attack Songjiang. The two troops will take care of each other, give full play to our strengths in combat strength, and rush forward. The Qing army will definitely not be able to stop it." us."