Jagged Warlord

Beiyang Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Shidaren Street, Beijing

Holding a thick list of Japanese soldiers killed in action, Hikimashi said loudly, "Your government must explain this."

Lu Zhengxiang looked embarrassed, and said: "Mr. Minister, I think you should know that it is a volunteer army that is fighting your country in Shandong. It is an armed force spontaneously organized by the people and does not belong to any army in our country. In this way, our country does not need to do anything. explain."

This matter has been known for a long time, and the Japanese cabinet has also discussed this issue.The Japanese cabinet agreed that now is not the best time to expand the war against China, so they used this as an excuse to limit the war to a controllable range.In addition, Britain did not want to see Japan take the opportunity to expand its rights and interests in China, nor tried its best to mediate in it.It is said that at this time the British Minister Zhu Erdian sent a representative to Xuzhou to meet Li Mohan.

Of course, Japan's tough stance still needs to be displayed.Ri Zhiyi threatened him again, but Lu Zhengxiang talked about Tai Chi with him.Seeing that he could not take advantage of the fire and plunder to get more things from Beiyang, he could only return in embarrassment. Before leaving, he did not forget to say, "The Empire of Japan reserves the right to pursue it further."

Lu Zhengxiang looked at Hioki Masuke's high-spirited look, his expression became more and more serious with a hippie smile, and then turned into anger, and the pen in my hand was unknowingly broken.

At the Japanese command post on the outskirts of Zhangqiu, Battalion Commander Yasuda Shoujiu was crushed by the ruins of the collapsed command post. "Baga~!" He struggled a few times, trying to push away the wood and ten pieces on Xia Xia's body.

But he didn't succeed. Instead, the noise he made attracted several volunteer soldiers who cleaned the battlefield.

"There's still one alive here."

"It looks like an official."

As soon as Yasuda Shoujiu saw the volunteer soldiers, he immediately opened his teeth and claws, and waved his hands indiscriminately, "Baga, damn Chinese people, I will kill you."

But the volunteer soldiers couldn't understand Japanese, "What the hell is he calling?"

"Whatever, the little Japanese killed so many of us, and he'll forget it with one shot." A soldier pulled the bolt of the gun

Yasuda watched them pull the breech bolt conservatively, but calmed down, raised his head vigorously, and looked calm and righteous. "Come on, the samurai of the Great Japanese Empire are not afraid of death. Long live His Majesty the Emperor~!"

"No, since he is an official, let's capture him alive and hand him over to the officer."

"That's it~ Then I'll listen to you." The soldier who pulled the bolt to shoot put down the gun again.

Yasuda Shoujiu saw that the Chinese were trying to capture him alive, no, even if he died, he couldn't be a prisoner of the Chinese.As soon as he thought of this, he immediately became hysterical again. He grabbed a stone at hand and knocked it on his head.

After knocking it down, although the head hurts and the blood is flowing, it seems that there is still some distance from death.

"What do you want to do these days?" The volunteer soldier kicked the stone away from his hand.

"Damn Chinese people, even if I die, I will not be your prisoner." Yasuda shouted conservatively

At this time Yang Yunlong came over, "What are you doing?"

The soldier replied: "I found an official and planned to capture him alive."

Yang Yunlong looked at Antian Shoujiu, pointed to the injury on his head, "Did you hit him?"

The soldier shook his head and said, "He made it himself."

Yang Yunlong thought for a while, then looked at Antian Shoujiu, then removed the bayonet from a volunteer soldier's rifle and threw it to Antian Shoujiu. "You kill yourself."

"Thank you very much!" Yasuda Shoujiu nodded to Yang Yunlong, then grabbed the bayonet and compared positions on his lower abdomen, "Long live His Majesty the Emperor, long live the Great Japanese Empire."

Yasuda screamed twice, and then inserted the bayonet into his lower abdomen without hesitation. The severe pain made him twitch a few times, and soon he stopped moving.

Volunteer soldiers who were watching from the side were discussing

But Yang Yunlong shouted, "Everyone is there, stand at attention."

The soldiers quickly held their guns and stood at attention like a conditioned reflex.

Yang Yunlong pointed to Yasuda Shoujiu, who had become a corpse, and said: "See? This is a real soldier, a real man who would rather die than be a prisoner. Although he is a small Japanese, I, Yang Yunlong, also admire such a man. Tough guy. In comparison, that wimp killed by Battalion Commander Qiu is not worth mentioning."

At this time, Qiu Guozhu also came over and witnessed the whole process of Yasuda's seppuku. He said to the soldiers: "Everyone has seen that our opponent is also a stubborn stubble who would rather die than surrender. If we meet the Japanese in the future, we must fight twelve times." spirit."

"Okay." Yang Yunlong also stood up straight and saluted An Tian's corpse, "All of them are there. Salute to this soldier who would rather die than submit. He is also an example for us to learn from."

The surrounding soldiers saluted Yasuda's body if they felt something.

After the ceremony, Yang Yunlong asked the communications soldier, "Where are the other troops?"

The signal soldier replied: "The third regiment departed from Tai'an, passed Qingshiguan, and is on the way to Boshan."

Yang Yunlong took a look at the map and said, "Let's continue to advance eastward along the Jiaoji line, and try to capture Zhoucun and Zhangdian before the Japanese army comes to reinforce them."

"Yes."

"Report." Before the last communicator left, another communicator trotted over, "Report to the regiment commander, Commander Xiao ordered our army to station on the spot and stop advancing immediately."

Yang Yunlong was taken aback, "What did you say?"

"Master Xiao ordered us to stop advancing immediately." The signal soldier repeated the order.

"Why?" Qiu Guozhu asked

The communications soldier lowered his head and replied, "This subordinate doesn't know."

The military order was difficult to disobey, Yang Yunlong had no choice but to order the troops to station on the spot, and at the same time build structures to prevent the Japanese army from counterattacking.

At the same time, Masao Saotome of the 40th Regiment of the Japanese Army was also ordered to stop advancing. Mitsuomi Kamio told him that the Qingdao garrison was under pressure from the cabinet to force them not to expand the war in China for the time being.At this time, the power returned by the military department had not changed the cabinet, so Mitsuomi Kamio had to follow orders.

At the same time, Leslie, the British envoy who came to Xuzhou, also put pressure on Li Mohan and proposed a solution to the Shandong war:

Before the end of the European War, the status quo in Shandong was maintained, and the scope of activities of the Japanese army was limited to the Jiaoji Railway and its annexes; the volunteer army was incorporated by Li Mohan and given a designation, and immediately stopped all actions that might cause conflicts with the Japanese army The Jiaoji Railway is temporarily under the joint management of China and Japan, the west of Weixian is under the management of China, the east of Weixian is under the management of Japan, and the UK is the third-party supervisor.

This condition is very unreasonable, but considering that Yuan Shikai is about to proclaim himself emperor, Li Mohan must hope for a stable situation and will definitely support this plan of the British.And I want to take advantage of the historical event of Yuan Shikai's proclaiming the emperor, which is against the world's disgrace, to gain greater benefits, so I can't get too stiff with foreigners for the time being.After some weighing, Li Mohan agreed to the British special envoy Leslie's plan.

However, Li Mohan also made a request that the British need to station a monitoring force of about 100 people in Zhangjiagou, west of Weixian County.One is to supervise the implementation of the ceasefire between the two sides, and the other is to serve as a buffer to block the Chinese and Japanese armies.

Under pressure from Britain, Japan also had to accept this condition.However, he expressed his opposition to the stationing of British troops on the Jiaoji Railway.The final result was that the British army only stationed an observation group of 50 people in Zhangjiagou.

In any case, by the end of 1915, the war in Shandong had temporarily come to an end.Soldiers of the Volunteer Army took off their Volunteer Army uniforms and put on SS uniforms again.People in Shandong and even the whole country know about the Volunteer Army and the SS.In Shandong, regardless of the political and military circles, or the gentry and ordinary people, when it comes to the Volunteer Army and the SS, no one does not give a thumbs up.This also laid the foundation of public opinion and people's hearts for Li Mohan to enter Shandong in the future.

At the end of this year, several major events happened: firstly, Sun Yat-sen and Soong Ching Ling got married; secondly, Cai E cleverly left Tianjin and went south to escape Yuan Shikai's grasp; thirdly, Zhang Bishi returned from the Panama International Exposition in the United States. The fourth is that Yuan Shikai disregarded opposition and proclaimed himself emperor in Beijing, with the reign name Hongxian.