For Xiao Letian now, any love between children and any emotion are poison. He has exhausted all his efforts for the upcoming bloody battle, and he is about to collapse.
The night was already deep. He was sitting alone in the study, constantly flipping through the top-secret information that had just been sent. The guards and soldiers outside the door formed circles of security lines. It was not so much the Prime Minister's Palace as it was the Prime Minister's Palace. Said it was a prison.
"It seems that the British have been paying attention to the situation in East Asia! They settled the matter with the Earl of Derby, and now there is Benjamin... This information about the Russian fleet must have been leaked to the Qing Dynasty by Benjamin!"
The CIA secret report just returned from Nanyang proved the accuracy of the information provided by Fu Qing. The third master did not lie to Xiao Letian, and the battleship information provided by the British was so detailed.
The Russian fleet has now approached the Strait of Malacca. Chinese merchant ships on the Andaman Sea have had close contact with this huge fleet and brought back first-hand visual information.
"Twelve main iron-clad battleships with a displacement of more than 3,000 tons... Fifteen destroyers with a displacement of less than 2,000 tons... There are even a total of 18 light gunboats and torpedo boats with a displacement of less than 1,000 tons..."
"My dear, are you here to dispose of the base in East Asia? Have you pulled out all the junk from the Baltic Fleet? There are actually sixteen sailing merchant ships, following you as supply ships... Haha, this is completely the strategic thinking of the Tsushima naval battle in later generations. ah!"
Xiao Letian anxiously walked back and forth in the room, denying things back and forth as if he was schizophrenic.
"No problem. Although there are many battleships, the quality is not good at all... The main armored battleships are all modified from old wooden hull ships. Zhiyuan's main gun can definitely kill this kind of battleship... Those destroyers are even weaker. There are even a few old paddle-wheel ships, which are completely obsolete..."
Just after giving himself a little confidence, he began to deny himself non-stop, "No, no, no, you can't underestimate the enemy, you absolutely can't underestimate the enemy... The enemy is not of sufficient quality but has too many numbers. Too many ants will bite the elephant to death!"
"The previous intelligence was completely distorted. I really didn't expect that the Russians would send so many warships and so many soldiers... The total number of sailors and army soldiers was close to 30,000. If they did not fight decisively on the sea, but chose How about quickly breaking out of the encirclement and heading north?"
"Damn it, 30,000 heavily armed troops have been invested in the Far East, so how can Lord Long's volunteer army fight? The most worrying thing is that these 30,000 people are concentrated and used. Once a large force is formed to form a large army to put pressure on the Qing Dynasty, what will happen? manage?"
With a bang, Xiao Letian punched the table. "Add chaos, everyone is adding chaos to me! I have exhausted all my energy for this bloody battle. I launched the Chinese code in advance to unite the people. I tried every means to To paralyze the Qing Dynasty and the European powers, I have to pretend to be a grandson..."
"But why are you not only not helping, but actually not helping? I won't talk about those bastards in Beijing, not to mention the British and French, they are not born with good intentions..."
"But Fuqing, why did you jump out to cause trouble for me? Zaichun, can't you just calm down? Even the Ba Dao camp, which I trust the most, has such a roar!"
Xiao Letian's dry palms rubbed his face desperately, and he forced himself to relax and relax again. But when he thought of the conflict between him and Ryoma Sakamoto during the day, he felt his heart tremble.
His eyes fell on a piece of paper on the far left of the desk. There was only one line on it, 'Sakamoto Ryoma sailed south on a Dutch merchant ship at 1:35 p.m., and the ship's destination was Hong Kong.'
"Hey... Ryoma-kun, you really kept your promise and didn't go back north. Forget it, you can go wherever you want. As long as you don't betray me, I won't deal with you..."
Thinking of this, Xiao Letian suddenly said, "Here comes..." A guard pushed open the door and stood quietly in front of the desk. Xiao Letian wrote furiously on the piece of information, and finally folded it and handed it to the guard.
"Send it to Wang Huaiyuan and ask him to do it quickly!"
"Yes!" The guard saluted, then turned around and quickly left the study. After a while, the information signed by Xiao Letian was placed in front of Wang Huaiyuan, with the wax seal and paint on it intact.
After opening the intelligence, Wang Huaiyuan only glanced at it and then closed his eyes sadly. Xiao Letian's handwriting on it was very clear: "Instruct the person in charge of the CIA in Hong Kong to closely monitor Ryoma Sakamoto's every move. If this person makes any dangerous moves... I authorize him." You kill first and show later! '
"Why is this happening! Prime Minister, what's wrong with you? Why is this happening..." Wang Huaiyuan suddenly felt his heart palpitating. He quickly took out the silver flask in his arms, which was filled with Suhexiang wine secretly made by the Qing Palace. .
After taking two big sips, his heart palpitations improved a lot. He looked at the information sadly, and finally sighed, took out his pen and wrote on the cover, 'Send to Hong Kong immediately and act in accordance with the regulations.'
After finishing such a sad errand, Wang Huaiyuan opened a new file, which contained the security details of the Zhiyuan's cruise to Ryukyu on the seventh day of the lunar month. This was the most important event five days later. The Zhiyuan hidden in the military port finally It was time to meet with the people, and the heavy burden of how to ensure the safety of the event fell on Wang Huaiyuan's shoulders.
"Huh? The Prime Minister wants military and civilian representatives to board the ship to visit? Absolutely not, this is negated... Do you still need to ask whether the gun jacket is covered? Of course it is covered, and outsiders must not see the appearance of the main gun..."
"Live ammunition shooting? Wrong, wrong, wrong, there are so many spies hiding in Ryukyu, how can we take the initiative to expose the weapon system? Isn't this nonsense?"
"The Zhiyuan must cruise long distances and cannot berth in civilian ports. People are absolutely not allowed to watch it at close range..."
"Xiang Ying and the others still want to lead troops ashore? Do they still want to perform a military parade in front of all the people? Don't blame Uncle Wang for being unreasonable. It's not that I don't want you to be in the limelight. It's better to wait until the war is over..."
"Before the war breaks out, the composition of the officers and soldiers of the Zhiyuan is absolutely confidential and cannot be known to anyone!"
There are two people under Xiao Letian who have the most power. One is Xiao Hexin. Although he is disabled, he is still competent as a senior chief of staff. He has a strong say in the formulation of Xiao Letian's grand strategy. In many cases, Xiao Letian also has to Drawing on Xiao Hexin's opinions, many of Xiao Letian's ideas were rejected by Xiao Hexin.
The second center of power is Wang Huaiyuan, the founder of the CIA. One person is responsible for the entire intelligence work. He can use confidentiality regulations to deny some of Xiao Letian's great decisions.
For example, the Zhiyuan cruise on the seventh day of the lunar month. According to Wang Huaiyuan's proposal, this kind of cruise should not be carried out at all. A naval battle is about to break out, and the Zhiyuan should be hidden and used as a secret weapon.
But Xiao Letian's attitude is very firm. He believes that the closer it is to the eve of a war, the more important it is to stabilize people's hearts... The Zhiyuan, which comes with a violent victory, is undoubtedly a powerful tool to stabilize people's hearts, so the cruise performance must be carried out.
Since Wang Huaiyuan could not deny the general direction, he could only make it difficult for Xiao Letian with the details. Many performance links that could easily lead to leaks of military information were all denied with his pen.
