Expedition to Europe

In the winter of 1919, the "Spanish Flu", which had already broken out twice, broke out again.

Compared with the outbreak at the beginning of the year, this time the scale was smaller, but the harm was still not to be underestimated, especially in Sarawak, where the threat of the "Spanish Flu" to the locals was not much less than that at the beginning of the year.

As in the previous two outbreaks, the infected person went from illness to death very quickly. In the morning, the person was still fine, but he would be sick at noon and die at night.

So if a person suddenly died suddenly, it was a very normal thing in the winter of 1919. No one would suspect that someone was deliberately murdering him. After all, thousands of people were dying every day all over the world.

McTavish took advantage of this to make people unknowingly infected with the virus and then died suddenly.

The predecessor of Lan Fang's Biological Research Institute was the institute in Corsica led by Sandy that developed penicillin. Sandy and the Marshall family have now moved from Corsica to Penglai Island to continue their favorite research work.

Unfortunately, this year's Nobel Prize in Biology was not awarded to Sandy, but to Jules Bordet, who discovered Bordetella pertussis.

It doesn't matter much. With penicillin, Sandy will win the award sooner or later.

In fact, Sandy's current work direction has shifted to the improvement of crops. This is of course Qin Zhiyuan's proposal. Whether from the perspective of economic value or academic value, it has broad prospects.

Since it is a biological research institute, all kinds of strange things will always appear in the research process. The neurotoxin used by McTavish is one of the by-products of scientific research. This is normal because there will always be various by-products.

Lan Fang is still an agricultural country, but it is working towards an industrial country. Lan Fang's economic pillar industries are still traditional industries such as natural rubber, coffee, cocoa, and oil. Except for oil, which is a mineral resource, the rest are agricultural products. Therefore, agriculture still occupies an important position in Lan Fang at present. If it were not for Lan Fang's rich agricultural products, Lan Fang would not be able to launch wars in several places at the same time.

The abundance of agricultural products means that the soldiers on the front line always have a variety of canned food to eat, which is very beneficial to the establishment of Lan Fang's image, especially in winning people's hearts.

Kuanchengzi, this is the second goal of Liu Zizheng after leading the "Vladivostok Allied Forces" into the Republic of China.

Kuanchengzi in 1919 was far less large than the long-term biography in later generations, and it did not even show the potential to develop into a provincial city.

The entire Kuanchengzi, the urban area is divided into two parts, the outer city and the inner city, covering an area of ​​about 7.5 square kilometers, with a population of about 50,000, most of whom are immigrants from Japan and Goryeo.

Kuanchengzi is actually the real dividing line between the Japanese and Russian sides of the Far East Railway. After the October Revolution in Russia, the Japanese wanted to send troops to Siberia, but were stopped by the Americans and the British because of the requirements of the Foreign Legion.

The British and Americans could prevent the Japanese from entering Siberia, but they could not prevent the Japanese from driving the Russian forces out of the Kanto region. Therefore, before the Vladivostok Allied Forces entered Kanto, the railways in the entire Kanto region were almost all under the control of the Japanese.

After capturing Mudanjiang Station, Liu Zizheng's troops took the train to advance, which greatly increased the speed of Liu Zizheng's troops' advance. The "Vladivostok Allied Forces" fought from Mudanjiang Station to Kuanchengzi.

When they arrived at Kuanchengzi, the "Vladivostok Allied Forces" had to change trains before they could continue to move south.

The Russian rail standards were different from those of the Japanese. After the Japanese took over the management of the section south of Kuanchengzi on the southbound branch of the Far East Railway, the Japanese replaced the rails laid by the Russians with Japanese standard rails, which resulted in the trains of the "Vladivostok Allied Forces" led by Liu Zizheng being unable to enter the south of Kuanchengzi.

Facing the offensive of the "Vladivostok Allied Forces", Lieutenant General Tachibana Koichiro, the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, chose conservative defense. Therefore, when Liu Zizheng led the "Vladivostok Allied Forces" to Kuanchengzi, Kuanchengzi had become an empty city.

Even the armored train that fled back to Kuanchengzi from Mudanjiang Station was blown up by the Japanese at Kuanchengzi Station.

No matter how stupid Tachibana Koichiro was, he knew that the Lan Fang armored forces were not something the Japanese army, which lacked heavy weapons, could contend with. Therefore, when the "Vladivostok Allied Forces" led by Liu Zizheng marched from Mudanjiang Station to Kuanchengzi, Tachibana Koichiro had already transferred all the troops and Japanese immigrants in the Kanto region to Lushun, hoping to use Lushun's strong fortifications to resist the tank forces of the "Vladivostok Allied Forces".

Lushun, this city has an important position in the modern history of the Republic of China. It was once the imperial naval port of the "Beiyang Fleet" of the Qing Empire and the "first fortress in the Far East". In the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, Japan carried out an inhumane Lushun Massacre in Lushun, killing the base camp of the "Beiyang Fleet" into a dead city. In the subsequent Russo-Japanese War, the Russians defending Lushun also launched a similar massacre-like counterattack against the attacking Japanese. Japan paid a heavy price to take Lushun and then won the Russo-Japanese War.

Just like a fateful reincarnation, in the winter of 1919, the Chinese and the Japanese had to fight in Lushun again, a battle that could determine the fate of the Kanto region.

"It's not easy to fight. All the damn commanding heights have been built into forts. If we want to attack, we have to attack from behind. That is very detrimental to our armored forces. And you see, the little devil has also built several anti-tank lines. The trenches are probably forty to fifty meters long, and our pontoons are not that long," Shi Huimu, the chief of general staff of the coalition, said in a serious tone.

"There is not one division in Lushun City now, but three divisions. The Japanese have transferred the 13th Division stationed in North Korea and the newly formed 22nd Division locally, plus the troops from Kanto. The total strength of the railway garrison brigade and the militia composed of Japanese expatriates is estimated to be more than 70,000. If we want to attack, the strength will be at least double that of the current one." Wang Dingshan, commander of the Second Division of the Foreign Legion, was also a little hesitant.

Generally speaking, if you want to take the initiative to attack, the number of attacking troops must be at least twice that of the defenders. Considering the quality gap between the "Vladivostok Allied Forces" and Japanese soldiers, at least the strength of the troops must be equalized.

The current "Vladivostok Allied Forces" are mainly composed of the 1st and 2nd Divisions of the Foreign Legion that returned to the northern Xinjiang region from Russia, and the 2nd Lanfang Armored Division. The total strength is about 45,000 people.

In addition to the regular army, the "Vladivostok Allied Forces" now also has a volunteer army composed of Chinese, with a total number of about 10,000 people.

The composition of these volunteers is complex, including original bandits, those who had a blood feud with the Japanese who actively defected to the army, and some soldiers of the Republic of China who actively joined the "Vladivostok Allied Forces".

The quality of the volunteers varied greatly, and it was okay to let them undertake logistical work. But if they really went to the battlefield, they would be nothing more than cannon fodder. They would not have much effect other than consuming Japanese bullets.

"We still have to find a way to force the Japs out of the fortifications. As long as they come out of the fortifications to the plains, even if there are many Japs, we can annihilate them." Liu Zizheng put down the telescope in his hand and started to click.

Liu Zizheng and the others were on a hillside less than three kilometers away from the North Fort of Lushun. It would be unsafe to go any further. The artillery on the Fort of Lushun were not the small cannons in the ordinary Japanese army. They were real Coast defense guns, the caliber is even larger than " The maximum caliber of the equipment of the "Vladivostok Allied Forces" is even larger. The range of such artillery is more than ten kilometers. It is so powerful that it has no friends. Let alone moving forward, even where Liu Zizheng and the others are now, as long as they are discovered by the Japanese , Liu Zizheng and the others couldn't escape.

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"We can contact the Air Force and ask the Air Force to send bombers to bomb it. Isn't that what our Northern Expedition Fleet did to Keelung Port a few days ago..." Xu Sheng, commander of the First Division of the Foreign Legion, had an idea.

"It makes sense, Lao Xu's brain is better." Liu Zizheng was immediately overjoyed.

Since possessing the aircraft, Lanfang's war has changed from a two-dimensional war to a three-dimensional war. However, Liu Zizheng and the others are still used to using traditional methods to solve problems. Just now, they just couldn't turn around.

So a telegram asking for help was immediately sent to Vladivostok.

After receiving a telegram from the "Vladivostok Allied Forces" asking for help, Chen Kangjian expressed his helplessness.

There are indeed bombers in the northern Xinjiang region, and there is no shortage of bombs, but they lack solidified bombs, so they want to launch a combat operation similar to the one in Keelung Port to use incendiary bombs to force the Japanese out of Lushun. Chen Kangjian also had a coincidence It is difficult for a woman to make a meal without rice.

So the telegram asking for help was sent to Lanfang. After receiving the telegram, the Lanfang Military Headquarters went round and round and forwarded the telegram to the Northern Expedition Fleet.

That's right, all of Lanfang's incendiary bombs are now in the Northern Expedition Fleet. Lanfang's domestic incendiary bomb factory has just been completed and has not been put into production. If we want enough solidified weapons, we have to wait until next year.

After receiving the telegram, Xie Rundong did not hesitate and immediately ordered the fleet to sail directly to Lushun.

Xie Rundong is a serious navy, so how could he not know the significance of Lushun to the Chinese navy? Even if Liu Zizheng does not ask for help, Xie Rundong will not let go of the Japanese in Lushun. Now, it is just a matter of time.

While sending a telegram asking for help, the "Vladivostok Allied Forces" led by Liu Zizheng were not idle. They attacked everywhere in the Kanto region, looking for Japanese expatriates and Koreans who had not had time to escape, and wanted to completely drive Japanese forces out of the Kanto region.

Liu Zizheng was not the only one who thought this way. There were also people in the Guandong region who thought the same way, including Zhang Yuting, who was the patrol envoy of the three eastern provinces at the time.

Zhang Yuting is from Xixiaowatun, Majiafang Village, Jiazhangsi Township, Haicheng County, Fengtian Province. He likes to be called "Dashuai Zhang".