Chapter 63: Destroying the Australian coalition army, the prestige skyrockets
A cold light flashed in Zhou Ding's eyes, but unfortunately he was the only one on this warship, and no one cooperated with the weapon system on the battleship, otherwise, Zhou Ding would definitely sink these invading warships!
But don't worry, Zhou Ding has a better way to teach these foreign devils a lesson, since they dare to raise troops to attack, they must be prepared to die in Qiongzhou.
The boat sailed around the pier and headed for the shore, where the warship ran aground in an invisible place from the pier.
Zhou Ding jumped off the warship, put the warship into the system space, and swam to Qiongzhou!
Unhurriedly, he changed his clothes and summoned a Hummer from the system space, and Zhou Ding drove tepidly and came to the dock garrison.
When he came to the wharf barracks, it was past noon, and the leader of the sentry outside the camp was a company commander, who was one of the first hundreds of people to follow Zhou Ding.
Seeing this Humvee, the company commander was excited, and Zhou Ding's old subordinates all knew that this wide and powerful Humvee was Mr. Zhou's exclusive car.
Zhou Ding stopped at the camp gate, the company commander looked at it carefully, confirmed that the person in the car was really Zhou Ding himself, grinned happily and kept smiling, didn't know what to say, raised his hand and made a Houyi military salute, and hurriedly ran towards the barracks headquarters.
Zhou Ding smiled and didn't care, because the prestige of this company commander had already reached worship, and Zhou Ding had always been generous to his subordinates who worshipped prestige!
Tan Si and the other six people, Fang Youde, and Andus were all here, and they were rewarded by the company commander, knowing that Zhou Ding was back, they all trotted out to meet them.
After greeting each other, Zhou Ding followed everyone into the headquarters, listened to everyone's reports, and finally figured out the identity of the enemy!
A few days earlier, the Eight-Nation Coalition had attacked the Qing Dynasty, and at the same time, the Australian Federation had been proclaimed.
After its establishment, the colonial governments of Australia responded to the British call and sent troops to follow the example of the Eight-Nation Alliance's Northern Expedition to China.
The various countries of the Eight-Nation Alliance, either from Tianjin or from Shandong, had the same goal, and were the capital of the Qing Dynasty - Beiping.
The army of the Australian Federation is different, they believe that attacking Beiping will not be able to rob the Eight-Nation Alliance, and the benefits will be too small.
As a result, the Australian Federation decided to abandon the invasion of the north and plunder the major cities and towns in southern China.
The major port cities in the south have been occupied by other countries, and the only territory that has not been occupied by other countries is Qiongzhou in Zhou Ding.
The Australian coalition forces may not know Zhou Ding's deeds, or they may know, but they do not take Zhou Ding, who has disappeared for two years, in their eyes, and they want to capture Qiongzhou.
Fang Youde, Tan Si and others built yƬ: Gather troops from other places to counterattack Australian warships.
Zhou Ding smiled, shook his head and said, "You don't have to!" Order all units to stand still and defend against the enemy's fleet coming ashore from elsewhere! Order the troops at the pier to retreat two hundred meters back and withdraw from the range of the enemy's artillery fire to avoid unnecessary casualties! ā
Zhou Ding didn't need the Houyi army to fight hard, as long as he blocked the foreign devils and made them unable to go deep, Zhou Ding had his own way to clean up the enemy's warships.
After the order was issued, the officers and men of the Houyi Army learned that Mr. Zhou had returned, and the morale of the whole army rose sharply.
According to incomplete statistics: Before and after Zhou Ding's return, the morale of Houyi's army rose more than doubled.
In the afternoon, the Houyi army repelled several waves of the enemy's tentative landing, and the sky gradually darkened.
In the early morning of the night, the sky was dark, and he couldn't see his five fingers, Zhou Ding repeated his old tricks, broke through the sentry alone, and quietly sneaked to the battleship of the Australian coalition army, and included dozens of large and small warships, together with the foreign devil soldiers on the battleship, all into the system space.
The foreign devils who entered the system space were all suffocated to death!
Die and die, Zhou Ding didn't have the slightest heart of forbearance,
Heaven is especially evil, and self-inflicted evil cannot live! Since you dare to offend Qiongzhou, you must be ready to sacrifice!
After dawn, the cheers at the wharf were heard several miles away, and the curious people nearby came to watch, only to see that there was silence on the foreigner's warship, and the thousands of foreign devil officers and soldiers on the battleship had all turned into corpses and were neatly placed on the shore.
The terrifying methods of the 'Zhou family' deeply shocked the whole of Qiongzhou, and some Qiongzhou officials who were ready to move died down one after another.
Zhou Ding took out his mobile phone, took a few photos from all angles, returned to the real world, and printed 200,000 copies of "Color Newspaper"!
Upon his return, he immediately distributed the newspaper to major cities and towns across the country.
After the news came out, people from all over the country rushed to tell each other: Zhou Ding, who had not heard from him for two years, had already become a blockbuster, killing thousands of foreign devils and seizing more than 30 warships as soon as he made a move.
Zhou Ding once again shocked the whole country, followed by a great rise in prestige, this time, he gained more than two million prestige points.
More than two million!
Compared to the last time he fought in the gladiatorial arena of Tsarist Russia and won Lushun, the prestige value he got was twice as high!
The reason why Zhou Ding was able to gain so much prestige was probably because the battle between the Qing army and the Eight-Nation Alliance Army was very poor!
The Empress Dowager Cixi not only wanted to defeat the foreign devils, but she was also afraid that she would completely tear her face with the foreign devils of the eight countries and would not be able to make peace in the future.
Therefore, Cixi's attitude was ambiguous, and the officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty were vague about whether it was war or peace!
The morale of the Qing army was low, the equipment was poor, and it was not at all the opponent of the Eight-Nation Alliance.
The Boxers, known as invulnerable, were completely disintegrated when they blocked the Eight-Nation Coalition Army in Tianjin!
Many people of insight in China appealed: Please ask the imperial court to mobilize the troops of Qiongzhou to the north to resist the invasion of the Eight-Nation Alliance.
After Zhou Ding learned the news, he was very embarrassed!
North?
It is not in Zhou Ding's interests to kill the foreigners.
Not going?
Seeing the people in the north being devastated by the Eight-Nation Alliance, Zhou Ding felt very uncomfortable!
Zhou Ding couldn't make a choice, so Zhou Ding chose a very 'two' method!
He gave a recital to the court, which removed the nonsense and translated it into the vernacular: Queen Mother, do you want me to go north? If I need to, I'll go, if not, I'll go!
Zhou Ding handed over the right to choose to the imperial court, which can be regarded as giving Cixi a chance, as long as Cixi agrees, Zhou Ding will lead 30,000 Houyi troops under his command to snipe the Eight-Nation Alliance Army in the north.
Unfortunately, the Empress Dowager Cixi did not have such courage, and she would rather lead her ministers to flee to Chang'an than mobilize Zhou Ding to the north.
For Cixi: The Eight-Nation Alliance is a barbarian in Fanbang, and the foreign devils have grabbed enough benefits and will lead their troops to leave.
Zhou Ding is different, he is a Han Chinese, and his reputation among the people is extremely high, if Zhou Ding leads the army north, who knows that he will not occupy the dove's nest?
What Cixi didn't know was that historically, it was precisely because of this war that the Qing Dynasty completely lost the control of the local army.
It was also this war that completely destroyed the Boxers and destroyed the stubborn thinking of the conservative forces.
It was also because of this war that Tsarist Russia completely occupied the three northeastern provinces, so that the Qing Dynasty lost the land of Longxing.
At the same time, it was also because Tsarist Russia occupied the three northeastern provinces that it would start a war with Japan in the future.
Cixi did not allow Zhou Ding to go north, and Zhou Ding did not have to be entangled, such a result was in line with Zhou Ding's intentions.
Unless Zhou Ding coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, otherwise, it would be no good to go north to snipe the Eight-Nation Alliance!