Open an aircraft carrier to fight against Japan

Kodama Gentaro was so dazed that he didn't even hear what Emperor Guangxu said. When Guangxu Emperor saw Kodama Gentaro distracted, he coughed lightly, and Kodama Gentaro said: "Oh, yes, our new password is indeed quite different. Easy to use."

Emperor Guangxu asked: "Your Excellency General, why did you come to see me?"

Kodama Gentaro said: "Of course it is to counterattack North China."

Emperor Guangxu smiled and said, "Isn't Your Excellency the General planning the counterattack to North China all the time? Is there anything else to discuss?"

Kodama Gentaro said: "The counterattack to North China is about to begin, so I hope His Majesty the Emperor can give me the authority to command the overall situation."

Emperor Guangxu frowned lightly, smiled and said: "Your Excellency, the general commander, I should do it, but I will discuss everything with you, and you can tell me if you have any military orders, and I will send them to you." passed on to the troops below."

Kodama Gentaro thought in his heart: "What time is it now? People in the Qing court still want to fight for power!" But Kodama Gentaro couldn't get angry, he could only smile: "Your Majesty, if this is the case, the people on the battlefield Many things have to be reported to you first before I can know, which is too time-consuming, and the battlefield is changing rapidly, and every minute and every second will determine life and death."

Emperor Guangxu said: "Then I will assign a special person to take charge. As soon as the item is in my hands, someone will send it to you immediately, okay?"

Kodama Gentaro frowned, and said, "Your Majesty, please forgive me for speaking bluntly. Now that Lin Ni is heavily under the pressure, this is not the time to fight for power."

Emperor Guangxu sighed softly, and said: "Your Excellency, General, you have misunderstood. I want to be the commander-in-chief not because I am greedy for power, but because you are incapable of controlling the overall situation, General."

Kodama Gentaro sneered, "Your Majesty, what do you mean?"

Emperor Guangxu said: "Your Excellency, please don't get me wrong. I am not questioning your ability. What I mean is: there are many people under my command who refuse to listen to your orders because you are Japanese. Zhidong Zhang Aiqing, he gave me several instructions, asking you to go back to Japan."

Kodama Gentaro nodded slightly, and said, "Zhang Zhidong? I've heard of this person, Your Majesty the Emperor, at this time you should show the momentum to rule the world..." Kodama Gentaro wanted to say more, and Emperor Guangxu put He waved his hand and said, "Your Excellency, stop talking, you'd better give the order as soon as possible."

Kodama Gentaro returned to his residence and thought helplessly: "The Qing court is a mess inside, how can we beat Lin Yuan! Forget it, don't think about these things, I'd better think about how to use the password to deceive Lin Yuan. Lin Yuan Now he knows that we have plans to counterattack North China, but he doesn't know our specific plan to send troops."

"This counterattack to North China is a super-large-scale battle. Its scale is not because of the large number of people participating in the battle, but because of the wide combat area. The easternmost battlefield will be Huai'an in Jiangsu Province, and the westernmost battlefield will be in Huai'an, Jiangsu Province. It’s Xiangyang in Hubei Province, and Huainan in Anhui in the middle, spanning almost half of China, with such a vast area, if Lin Yuan doesn’t know the route of my troops, it will definitely be difficult for them to fight this battle.”

"So Lin Yuan will definitely rack his brains to figure out the route for me to dispatch troops, and the routes for dispatching troops in these three places are not unique. The routes for dispatching troops are almost the same, and there is no optimal route. No matter how strong Lin Yuan's military literacy is , and it is impossible to judge my route of dispatching troops in advance, Lin Yuan can't judge my route of dispatching troops, so all he can do is use intelligence to obtain my route of dispatching troops."

"Lin Yuan has no eyeliner by my side. The only means of intelligence gathering he can rely on is our transmitter. He knows that we have changed the new password, so he will monitor our calls with Zhang Zhidong's department, Xu Yingku's department and Yuan Shikai's department. , so that I can pass false news on the transmitter to confuse Lin Yuan, and we will send someone to personally deliver the real news to them. If our way of confusing is right, we can also ambush Lin Yuan!"

The more Kodama Gentaro thought about it, the more excited he became, but he also secretly warned himself: "This matter will definitely not be easy, Lin Yuan is a guy who is not easy to deceive, if I can't make this matter seamless, Lin Yuan will not Believe me, first of all, I want to convince Lin Yuan that we have no intention of changing the password."

So Kodama Gentaro said to the telegraph operator: "In the past few days, all non-top-secret telegrams will be sent with a new password."

The telegraph operator hurriedly said, "Lin Yuan must have obtained our cipher book for Yu Sui, our second regiment. If we send a telegram with that cipher again, Lin Yuan will definitely decipher the telegram."

Kodama Gentaro smiled and said: "Don't talk so much nonsense, just post it if you are asked."

Kodama Gentaro is preparing to use telegrams for strategic deception, while Lin Yuan is busy "hyping" chemical weapons to expand the international influence of this matter. The next day, November [-], newspapers from various countries published " Lin Yuan held a press conference on the same day that Japan put highly toxic chemicals into the battlefield, and solemnly stated: The Chinese government believes that the use of highly toxic chemicals as weapons is inhumane, strongly condemns this behavior, and calls on the international community to boycott .

The French government immediately responded to Lin Yuan's call, and some small European countries also followed suit. To Lin Yuan's surprise, the African country Ethiopia not only sent a telegram to support Lin Yuan, but also sent a letter of credence, hoping to make friends with Lin Yuan. The new China established established diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level.

Most of the African countries in this era are colonies of European countries. Ethiopia is one of the few countries that has not been swallowed by the wave of colonialism. They even defeated Italy, one of the European powers, in the National Liberation War in 1895. For the laughing stock of European countries.

Lin Yuan handed over this letter of credence to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Beijing, and asked Beijing to come forward to organize the Anti-Chemical Weapons Convention Organization, invite various countries to hold meetings, and let this organization maintain contacts with international organizations such as the International Organization for Animal Research, etc. Raise awareness together.

Lin Yuan handed over this matter to his subordinates to deal with, and then began to prepare for the battlefield. The current battlefield is divided into three parts. The first one is North China where the Third and Seventh Divisions are located. Now these two have divided ten The first division to the sixteenth division have been replenished, and the total strength has reached 20; the second is Jiangyin, where Chen Fei is located, and is now taking an offensive posture; the third is Hangzhou, where the tenth division is located, and the situation is relatively stable.

Lin Yuan dealt with the incoming and outgoing telegrams, thinking: "The telegrams of the Qing court are very regular. Wherever the focus of the war is, the telegrams go there. In the past, the telegrams all came to us, but recently the telegrams all point to With the Huaihe defense line broken, it seems that the Qing government is definitely going to counterattack North China."

"However, all the telegrams did not mention the attack route, and the attack route is the most important." Thinking of this, Lin Yuan suddenly realized: the Japanese army knew their new password had been mastered by us!Why are they still sending telegrams with this code?As soon as I took down the embassy, ​​the Japanese side immediately stopped all telegram exchanges. Could it be that Kodama Gentaro had a conspiracy?