Open an aircraft carrier to fight against Japan

Among the Japanese in Nanjing, Kodama Gentaro was the one who panicked the most. When Lin Yuan sent this news, he was enjoying a delicious supper. In order to please him, the Qing court specially found a few Japanese cooks to come in as entourages. When he told him that "Jiaxing was captured by Lin Yuan's troops", Kodama Gentaro jumped up from the tatami and knocked over the dining table.

Kodama Gentaro ignored the overturned table and said to his followers, "Hurry up and find Li Jingfang, I want him to take me to see the emperor."

The attendant hurriedly agreed to come down and go out, and came back half an hour later, saying: "Li Jingfang has already fallen asleep, the doorman asked us to go tomorrow."

Kodama Gentaro said angrily: "Jiaxing has been captured by Lin Yuan's troops, is he still in the mood to sleep? Let's go find him together!" So Kodama Gentaro brought a few attendants to Li Jingfang's mansion, roaring at the door, Only then did the doorman call Li Jingfang out.

Li Jingfang then took Kodama Gentaro to the palace, and when he was outside the palace, Li Jingfang said to Kodama Gentaro: "Your Excellency, please stop, I will go in and report."

Kodama Gentaro said anxiously: "Time is urgent, can you take me in with you?"

Li Jingfang shook his head lightly, and said: "This is against etiquette, no, absolutely no!"

Kodama Gentaro reluctantly let Li Jingfang in, looked at Li Jingfang's back and stomped his feet fiercely, and sighed: "What nonsense etiquette is being talked about at this time, the Qing court is really finished!"

The attendant said from the side: "Your Excellency, the Great Japanese Empire, why should we control the life and death of the Qing court? You should still ask the emperor, let's go back?"

Kodama Gentaro said angrily: "Nonsense, an enemy's enemy is a friend, Lin Yuan is our enemy, the Qing court is Lin Yuan's enemy, then the Qing court is our friend, and helping a friend is helping oneself, understand?"

The attendant nodded again and again, Kodama Gentaro glanced at his watch and said, "It's been two hours since I knew Lin Yuan captured Jiaxing, and I haven't seen Emperor Guangxu yet! Why isn't the Qing court in a hurry?"

At this time, Li Jingfang came out from the inside, and smiled at Kodama Gentaro: "The holy man has just gone to bed, and now he has got up and changed his clothes, and he will meet with the general in a while."

Kodama Gentaro nodded helplessly, and after another hour, someone came out to let Kodama Gentaro and others go in. Seeing Emperor Guangxu, Kodama Gentaro first asked, "Does His Majesty know that Jiaxing has been captured by Lin Yuan?"

Emperor Guangxu asked in surprise: "What? Jiaxing was captured by Lin Yuan? When did it happen?"

Kodama Gentaro said: "Didn't I ask you to listen to Lin Yuan's radio more? Lin Yuan sent this message at 08:30, and it is estimated that Jiaxing was captured an hour ago."

Emperor Guangxu said "Oh", nodded, and asked, "Where is Jiaxing? Didn't the bandit soldiers of the Lin Rebels attack Songjiang a few days ago? How did they reach Jiaxing?"

Hearing these words, Kodama Gentaro almost passed out, thinking: "The battle in Jiaxing Pinghu area has been so fierce in the past two days, you don't know at all? You are the emperor!" But Kodama Gentaro couldn't reprimand Emperor Guangxu , had no choice but to say: "Jiaxing is an important port on the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal. Once Jiaxing is lost, our Japanese reinforcements will no longer be able to rush to the Yangtze River defense line quickly! Lin Yuan's troops will soon be able to capture Zhenjiang and go straight to Nanjing!"

Emperor Guangxu cried out in surprise when he heard this, and said, "It turned out to be like this, what should I do!"

Kodama Gentaro said: "Your Majesty, the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal is very important to the battle situation. It can be said that whether the Yangtze River defense line can be defended depends entirely on the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal! So we have to take back Jiaxing no matter what!"

Emperor Guangxu thought for a while and said, "Wu Dayong, the commander-in-chief of Hangzhou, still has some soldiers under his command. Do you want them to rush to help Jiaxing?"

Kodama Gentaro said: "Wu Dayong's subordinates are indeed an elite team, but their strength is not enough."

Emperor Guangxu smiled and said: "Your Excellency, what you said is wrong!" After finishing speaking, he picked up a memorial from the table and said, "This is the "Memorial to Guard Against Lin Rebels" written by Wu Dayong, the general soldier of Hangzhou, a while ago. , it said: 'Hangzhou has a full force of 25 troops', why is the force not enough?"

Kodama Gentaro said: "Soldiers are not many but good. Wars cannot be won by many people. Although Hangzhou's military strength is claimed to be 25, as far as I know, there are only [-] troops trained by our imperial army. These troops His equipment is also poor, so he may not be Lin Yuan's opponent."

Emperor Guangxu said: "Is the equipment poor? Didn't the British send us a batch of new guns a while ago?"

Kodama Gentaro said: "Those new guns are all guns with one shot and one bullet. They are not comparable to the automatic rifles equipped by Lin Yuan's troops. Those are all weapons that the British have eliminated."

Emperor Guangxu said: "Speaking of automatic rifles, don't you have that automatic rifle? Why don't you sell us tens of thousands of them?"

Kodama Gentaro said: "The long-distance water can't quench the near-thirst. Even if those guns are sent to the soldiers, they will have to be trained for a long time. There is no time at all, so don't think about it."

"I've already thought of a way: Jiaxing Mansion faces Shaoxing Mansion and Ningbo Mansion across the sea, and Shaoxing Mansion and Ningbo Mansion are under the jurisdiction of Zhang Haixiao, a sub-inspector of Ning Shaotai. Zhang Haixiao has a close relationship with our Great Japanese Empire. Our instructor He is also training the army for them. He has a full [-] elite soldiers. We can let them cross the sea and directly enter the jurisdiction of Jiaxing Prefecture, and then let Hangzhou General Wu Dayong lead the troops to attack Jiaxing from the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal. There will be no worries. You can't beat Lin Yuan."

Emperor Guangxu said: "Very well, I will let people hurry up and inform Wu Dayong and Zhang Haixiao!"

Kodama Gentaro said: "It's too late to hurry up, let's use telegrams. I know Wu Dayong and Zhang Haixiao have telegram sending and receiving equipment."

Emperor Guangxu hurriedly said: "How to use the transmitter? Nanjing and Hangzhou use the wireless transmitter sold by Lin Yuan. Lin Yuan knows the password. With the transmitter, Lin Yuan knows everything!"

Kodama Gentaro smiled and said, "I just want Lin Yuan to know!"

Emperor Guangxu hurriedly asked, "What does this mean?"

Kodama Gentaro smiled and said: "Our Great Japanese Empire has sent two regiments of imperial troops, and they are almost arriving in China now, but I will not let them land directly. I will plan the landing site carefully and give it to Lin Yuan. The deadliest blow to the troops! So I want Zhang Haixiao and Wu Dayong to fight with Lin Yuan's troops to consume Lin Yuan's troops. When Lin Yuan is exhausted, we will dispatch the imperial army. At that time, Lin Yuan will definitely be defeated! He is also very possible!"

When Emperor Guangxu heard that it was possible to capture Lin Yuan alive, his face burst into joy, and he hurriedly sent someone to send a telegram to Wu Dayong and Zhang Haixiao. As soon as the telegram came out, it was intercepted by Lin Yuan's subordinates, and a staff officer reported to Lin Yuan: "Report to Shuai Lin, we have intercepted a telegram from the Qing court."

Lin Yuan frowned, and said, "It's strange, no telegrams from the Qing court have ever been intercepted before? What's written in the telegrams?"

The staff officer then gave the telegram to Lin Yuan, and when Lin Yuan saw the order to dispatch troops, he immediately thought, "What is the Qing government trying to do?"