Chapter 946 We Must Occupy the Moral High Ground
Fuzhou City, in the Governor's Mansion of Governor Li Ji. ? 8?一中文? Ｗ≤Ｗ≤Ｗ≤． ≤８＝1≈Ｚ≈Ｗ≠. ≥ＣＯＭ
"General Li Ji, I want to congratulate you here. The balance of victory has tilted to your side. These Shanghai people are too proud. Maybe they think that they can win any victory with advanced weapons and equipment, but they forget that in any war, a small mistake will lead to a big failure."
As a military instructor, Henglu Jingji was talking to Li Ji who was looking at the map of Fujian Province.
The southern government has a good relationship with the Japanese, and the artillery has a secret agreement with the Japanese. Therefore, the Japanese side has great support for him, including weapons and equipment and even funds, and even sent a lot of military personnel to serve as instructors.
And this Henglu Jingji is one of the military instructors sent by Japan to the southern forces.
Originally, Henglu was in Guangzhou, but because of the order of the local 6th Army Headquarters, he came from Guangzhou to Fujian Li Ji and began to give him advice as his staff officer.
At the same time, Henglu also took on the task of collecting some data on the actual combat of Shanghai's military equipment.
In general, it is to use Li Ji's troops to implement Japan's military concepts and tactics to see how big the gap is with the Shanghai Army.
As for whether Li Ji will follow his advice, Henglu has never worried.
Because the Japanese have cooperated with the Southern Army for some years, and Li Ji himself is a rough man, just because of coincidence, he got on the cannon ship, and because he himself was the commander of the Fujian army in the previous dynasty, he got the position of Fujian governor after the collapse of the previous dynasty.
Therefore, Li Ji is not a qualified military general.
Fortunately, Li Ji knows his own weight and has always valued the military instructors from Japan, so he has maintained the combat effectiveness of his troops.
Now Henglu, who is more powerful than the Japanese military instructors around him, has come, and Li Ji will certainly not ignore his advice.
In Li Ji's view, no matter what, the Japanese are always more powerful than himself in military vision, so why not listen to their advice.
Therefore, Henglu became Li Ji's military adviser, and Li Ji obeyed his orders.
Especially when the Shanghai army was at the gates of the city, Li Ji trusted Henglu even more, because he still expected Henglu to help him defeat the Shanghai army.
It must be said that there are still many Chinese generals who are superstitious about the Japanese in this era, such as Li Ji. This is not an accidental phenomenon, and it is even very common.
Perhaps it is because China in this time and space also had the historical relationship of being defeated by the Japanese in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895.
In short, the Japanese in this time and space also won the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 and received a large amount of compensation from the previous dynasty, which was used for domestic military improvement, making all Chinese people think that the Japanese are now the strongest country in East Asia, so they are superstitious about everything in Japan.
It is precisely for this reason that the Japanese began to use this superstition to promote their own ideas in China, and successfully fooled many people.
Li Ji is the kind of person who is superstitious about everything in Japan, so he believes in everything Henglu suggests.
Of course, Henglu is not a useless person, and he will not give Li Ji weird suggestions randomly.
You know, those who can be sent by Japan to Dapao as military instructors are also very powerful characters in Japan.
But Henglu, like everyone else, cannot break away from the inherent concepts and thinking of this era, and has no idea what kind of opponent Li Ji is facing.
So, although Henglu's suggestions to Li Ji are all correct, they cannot change the final outcome of Li Ji's failure.
At the same time, the division of the Gale Corps also made Henglu feel that he had found an opportunity to defeat them, and at the same time, he despised the Shanghai Army for being too arrogant.
In Henglu's view, the Shanghai Army itself is already at a disadvantage in terms of military strength.
But now they are still dividing their troops weirdly.
This is simply the most stupid of the stupid, the weird of the weird.
Any qualified general will be very clear about the importance of concentrating superior forces at this time, after all, Fuzhou has gathered all the forces of the opponent.
If you save the land and lose the people, you will lose both the land and the people. If you save the people and lose the land, you will gain both the land and the people!
In Henglu's opinion, the aggressive Shanghai Army split up its troops for those territories, which was simply a case of their heads being crushed by the door.
Don't they know that they should first deal with the enemies in Fuzhou before occupying those territories?
Anyway, those territories will not run away, so why rush?
Idiot! Stupid!
But then again, the enemy's stupidity is your own luck.
Therefore, Henglu was very fortunate.
When the opponent is defeated in this war, he can transport the various weapons and equipment seized by the Shanghai Army back to China according to the intention of the Japanese 6th Army Headquarters, and let the domestic technicians study them.
By then, the Great Neon Empire will definitely be able to improve its weapons and equipment by several levels, and then dominate Southeast Asia... open up the sea of stars...
If Jin Xiantai knew about Henglu's thoughts, perhaps Jin Xiantai would definitely say to him, "You think too much."
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Pietro came to the front line and was carried on the shoulders of a liquid metal robot adjutant in the trench. He held a high-powered military telescope in his hand and looked at the position of the Southern Army opposite.
The Confederates on the opposite side dug a long trench, obviously ready for a positional war, and also built a lot of wooden fences and various obstacles in front of the position to hinder the attack.
However, these obstacles seemed too low-end to Pietro, and there was not even a barbed wire fence.
Similarly, Pietro also dug trenches and built a lot of obstacles in front of the position, but Pietro knew very well that he would not fight any positional war.
The reason for doing so temporarily was mainly for defense.
Behind the position of the First Division of the Wind Legion, more than a thousand artillery pieces were already in place, and Pietro was not even worried that these artillery pieces would be destroyed by the high surprise attack of the Southern Army. They were just displayed carelessly, which showed how much Pietro despised the Southern Army.
Unlike the tension and panic in the Southern Army's position, the First Division of the Wind Legion seemed very relaxed. The soldiers did not see the tension and fear before the war on their faces. Instead, the soldiers were talking and laughing, as if they were on vacation.
The liquid metal robot adjutant carrying Pietro was reporting to Pietro about some of the things that had happened in the past few days.
"The Second Division of the First Army has captured Nanping, and the Third Division has entered Shixian. The Third Division of the Second Army has taken Liancheng, Wuping, Longyan, Xiazhangzhou and Raoping, completely blocking the important areas of Fujian and Guangdong. Li Ji can no longer escape."
Thanks to mechanization, Pietro's troops captured all parts of Fujian, which were completely undefended, in a very short time, and detoured to southern Fujian to block Li Ji's retreat, trapping him and his 680,000 troops in Fuzhou.
"Good! Our opponents have concentrated all their forces together, which saves us the trouble of clearing out the remaining defeated soldiers after defeating them." Pietro pretended to be mature and imitated the tone of an adult.
After all, the liquid metal robot adjutants around him had discussed some of Li Ji's deployments, so Pietro also more or less understood some of the plans of the enemy at the moment.
At the same time, it was also clearer that after Li Ji concentrated all his troops in Fuzhou, what benefits would it bring to him.
You know, Li Ji did this to make it easier for the Gale Corps to eliminate him at one time.
However, Li Ji, who was trapped in Fuzhou City, and Henglu Jinger beside him did not think so. Instead, they felt that they had concentrated their superior forces to garrison Fuzhou, which was a great advantage.
On the contrary, the Gale Corps that divided its troops to capture various parts of Fujian was the biggest brainless.
Pietro and Li Ji both believed that they could win the final victory, and they were all very satisfied with their current situation.
"Tomorrow morning at 5 o'clock, we will start the attack. We will bombard for three days first, and then send out the infantry."
Pietro put down the telescope in his hand, lowered his head and gave the order to start the fight to the liquid metal robot adjutant who was carrying him.
The liquid metal robot adjutant responded and asked immediately: "There are still many ordinary people in Fuzhou City. If the bombardment lasts for three days, it will cause great casualties to these civilians. So, General, do you consider this issue?"
The liquid metal robot adjutant's worries are not unreasonable.
Now Pietro led a division to station in the northern suburbs of Fuzhou City, and Li Ji's 680,000 troops were deployed in and around Fuzhou City, and the whole Fuzhou City became a big battlefield.
Because the Gale Corps marched so fast, the people in Fuzhou had not yet reacted, and the First Division had already arrived in the northern suburbs of Fuzhou City.
In order to prevent the Gale Corps from infiltrating and spying on military intelligence, Li Ji implemented military control over Fuzhou City according to Henglu's suggestion, and ordered that no people were allowed to enter or leave, completely blocking the passage for people to escape from Fuzhou.
Therefore, under such circumstances, Pietro ordered artillery bombardment in the early morning of the next day, which was undoubtedly a disaster for the people in Fuzhou City.
You know, the artillery under Pietro's command are all large-caliber, not to mention their great power, but also very lethal.
And once the battle starts, it is basically impossible not to hurt the civilians in Fuzhou City.
And this move is likely to bring humanitarian accusations to Shanghai, and it will also be used by southern forces to hype it up.
So the liquid metal robot adjutant had to remind Pietro on this point and let him pay attention to this problem.
Sure enough, after being reminded by the liquid metal robot, Pietro was a little timid and hesitant.
After some thinking, Pietro couldn't find any solution, so he had to ask: "I can't think of any solution. Do you have any ideas?"
"We still have a little time. Report this matter to the Governor's Office and let the Governor's Office contact Li Ji in Fuzhou City and let him let those ordinary people leave the city. If Li Ji lets those people go at that time, everything will be fine. Even if he doesn't let them go, it will cause casualties after the war, and it will not have anything to do with us. We must occupy the moral high ground."
Pietro's eyes lit up, he understood what the liquid metal robot adjutant meant. This is to divert the trouble to the east, what a good trick!
"Report immediately, request the Governor's Office to contact the southern government, let them urge Li Ji to let ordinary people in Fuzhou City leave."
Pietro is also a smart little guy. He figured out all the joints in an instant and randomly ordered to report this matter to the Governor's Office.
The solemn atmosphere on the eve of the war hung over the city of Fuzhou.
At this time, the ordinary people in Fuzhou City did not know where their fate would go...