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"Sir, are you sure we want to send troops to Mongolia?"

After the meeting, when there were only two people left in the room, Han Wu looked at the manager talking with a slight worry on his eyebrows.

"Tian Ren, what, do you have any other ideas?"

After asking this question, Li Zicheng looked at Han Wu who was silent and solemn for a while before speaking.

"Sir, Jiangsu Army's current equipment training is not inferior to that of the major powers. However, the reality of the army's early creation and the chaotic domestic environment have forced us to proceed with caution."

"You don't want to take back Mongolia?"

"gentlemen"

Han Wu was stunned for a moment, then suppressed the sadness and anger in his heart.

"It is actually a lifelong honor for our soldiers to die in the national war. If we were in Suiyuan East Province and other places, as long as Mr. gave an order, all 50,000 people in the army would fight to the death to regain the lost land of the country, but we

The foundation is in Jiangsu. If the front line goes smoothly, it will be okay, but if the front line does not go well, and the central government is threatened by the Russians, cutting off our retreat, even if we have hundreds of thousands of troops, we may still hate Mongolia."

As a soldier, he didn't want to regain the lost territory, but as the chief of staff of the Jiangsu Army, he knew that he must not be blinded by the "glory of regaining the soil". He must be responsible for the 50,000 people in the Jiangsu Army, and even more for Long.

Hai, responsible for Jiangsu.

Han Wu's words made Li Zicheng fall silent. He looked up at Han Wu and Li Zicheng sighed in his heart. He had never thought about this danger, but...

"Tian Ren, the duty of a soldier is to obey."

"If you, sir, still want to send troops to Mongolia, please allow Han Wu to lead a division to Mongolia in person. If... Han Wu should die to thank his subordinates for their heroic spirit, to thank you, sir, and to thank the people of the country."

"you……"

Staring at Han Wu with a look of absolute despair, Li Zicheng was unable to speak for a long time.

"very good"

After uttering these two words and looking at the absolute despair on his face, Li Zicheng stood up and walked to the map wall behind him, and forcefully opened the map curtain.

"Tianren, look at this..."

Holding the command pole and pointing at a location on the map, Li Zicheng had a hint of absolute determination in his eyes.

"gentlemen?"

Looking at the position on the map in surprise, Han Wu looked at the manager in surprise. At this time, his mind couldn't turn around at all. What is sir, what do you want to do?

"Sometimes one goal is to disguise another goal."

At this time, Li Zicheng truly expressed his inner wishes. Since time entered the third year of the Republic of China, 1914, as the time approaches, on the one hand, he is longing for the outbreak of "God's blessing" in World War I, but on the other hand,

But I know clearly that in history, World War I was a "God's blessing" for another country. Whenever I think of this, I sometimes wake up in nightmares.

Because what he saw was that Lianyungang was caught in the flames of war, and all his hard work was destroyed in one day.

"Sir, this..."

Staring at the spot on the map, Han Wu was stunned. He couldn't even believe his ears or eyes.

"Sir, let's go and recover Mongolia."

Han Wu almost didn't say this, but his expression changed when the words came to his lips.

"Why, why?"

If Mongolia is an adventure with a narrow escape, then attacking there will undoubtedly be an adventure with no chance of death.

"The current situation, sometimes the current situation is both our friend and our enemy. In the next few months, the international situation will undergo fundamental changes, so we must be prepared to benefit from it."

"Sir, can..."

Waving his hand, he interrupted Han Wu.

"You don't need to ask now. When the time comes, you will see the correctness of my decision today. Now, all the Jiangsu Army needs to do is to step up its combat readiness and petition the Ministry of War for the Jiangsu Army to recover Mongolia. Both aspects can be done at the same time.

conduct."

Staring at the map, Li Zicheng's eyes were full of perseverance. He was betting on himself, and he was also betting on Yuan Shikai. Yuan Shikai was worried about the Jiangsu Army. Although the Jiangsu Army seemed independent on the surface, Yuan Shikai was not.

Fool, since he appointed Han Wu as the Chief of Staff of the Jiangsu Army without causing any trouble, he must have understood that he had actually taken control of the Jiangsu Army. Now that he has invited himself to go to Mongolia, Yuan Shikai must be happy to see the main force of the Jiangsu Army being consumed in Mongolia.

Even if the restoration of Mongolia is successful, the Jiangsu Army will suffer heavy losses, and if the local army is responsible for this task, the diplomatic risk is far less than that of the Central Army's participation. Yuan Shikai will not reject him no matter what, but...

"Only if we prepare in advance can we send troops immediately when the time comes and decide the outcome in one battle."

"Sir, but the timing..."

Timing? What kind of timing will be mature? What timing is Mr. waiting for?

"Four months, five months at most, everything will be revealed. The army, you have to be prepared, and I..."

When he turned around and walked out the door, Li Zicheng dropped a word.

"I'll make my preparations"

The roar of the engine echoed in the No. 3 test workshop of Lianyungang General Dynamics. Accompanied by the roar of the engine, bursts of dust and fallen leaves were rolled up behind the test workshop. On the engine test bench in the workshop, an unprecedented

The engine made a deafening roar, while the propeller in front of the engine whipped up strong winds.

In front of this large engine with a diameter of nearly five feet, Feng Ru and his students stared intently at this brand-new "nine-cylinder star-shaped air-cooled engine", which is the latest product of the Lianyungang General Dynamics Company that was established just a few years ago.

The new engine was successfully developed.

"My dear..."

Swallowing a mouthful of saliva, the student led by Feng Ru stared at the engine in front of him with incredulous eyes. In his opinion, this engine was too... powerful.

"868 horsepower"

When the company's employees reported the engine power, one student shouted almost subconsciously.

"Will such a powerful engine tear the plane into pieces?"

But at this time, Feng Ru just stared at the still roaring engine, and it took a while before he came back to his senses and said.

"Fortunately, we use duralumin for the fuselage and steel pipes for the beam. If we had continued to use linen skin and wooden beams as in the past, the power generated by the engine would have torn the aircraft into pieces.

Fragments..."

Shaking his head, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed that there was any kind of engine that could send a "giant" aircraft weighing several tons into the sky. But now, when he saw the engine in test before him,

, but believed this fact.

"As long as the power of the engine is powerful enough, not to mention a few tons, it can be sent to the sky on an aircraft with dozens or hundreds of tons."

Years ago, when the chairman gave him the drawing of the "seaplane", facing his doubts, the chairman once answered him with this sentence. At that time, he was used to using cloth and wood to weigh hundreds of kilograms.

Feng Ru, who built the small plane, said that the plane was made entirely of aluminum alloy and steel tube beams in the drawing. It was basically an iron block that would fall from the sky. But now?

Facing this powerful aircraft, he no longer had any doubts.

With this engine, the most advanced and powerful aircraft in the world can be built. With aircraft... He seemed to see hundreds of new all-metal aircraft equipped with this powerful engine, in China.

The moment I was flying in the blue sky, I saw... Well, by then, China will not need warships at all for coastal defense, only this kind of aircraft will be enough.

"2415 turns..."

Half an hour later, Feng Ru left the workshop with a look of shock on his face. He was so distracted that he didn't even notice anyone saying hello to him.

"Feng"

Seeing that Feng Ru ignored him, Rudolf Diesel quickly walked over.

"Feng, how are you? Are you satisfied with the engine?"

Rudolf Diesel spoke blunt Chinese. At this time, no one could tell that the German engineer who came to Lianyungang in September last year looked neurasthenic. All he could see was the red glow on his face.

.

Unlike most foreign engineers in Lianyungang, Rudolf Diesel is full of gratitude for Liuhe, Lianyungang, and even China. Last year, he was heavily in debt due to the failure to promote diesel engines and fell into extreme poverty. He received a

An invitation letter from China. If it were just an ordinary job invitation letter, he might have refused it out of frustration, but that invitation letter also came with a sketch of a "six-cylinder diesel engine". It was that sketch.

He was brought to China and became the chief engineer of General Dynamics of China. Years ago, with the release of a batch of diesel engines, if he expected to "change the world with power", diesel engines changed China. Well, although it is still

No, but the diesel engine has changed the transportation of Liuhe Company. Now Lianyungang Shipyard has used diesel engines to build the first batch of three 500-ton inland river transport ships.

And that simple drawing also brought him a lot of inspiration. Based on it, Diesel has developed more than ten kinds of diesel engines with varying powers, and even developed one that can be used in trains or merchant ships.

diesel engine.

"Mr. Diesel"

Feng Ru, who came back to his senses, nodded quickly.

"I'm very sorry, I was distracted."

"How's it going? Engine, are you satisfied with the horse?"

When the blunt Chinese words came out of Diesel's mouth, no one would laugh at his words. Everyone in Lianyungang knew that Diesel was the first foreign engineer to apply for Chinese citizenship. He was working hard to

"Become" a Chinese yourself.

"Satisfied, very satisfied, Mr. Diesel, when can this engine be put into production and when can it be delivered?"
To be continued...