Before the British infantry and fleet arrived in Guangdong, the Guangfu Army sent an envoy to the British, declaring the city of Guangzhou an undefended city, hoping that the British would not attack the city by force.!

The British army was suspicious of this, and after they easily occupied the city of Guangzhou without a single shot, they were naturally complacent. It seems that the Liberation Army was not unaware of the strength of the British, so they obediently withdrew from this important city. It's just that the excitement brought by the light occupation of Guangzhou City quickly disappeared, and after entering Guangzhou City, the British appeared, not to mention the treasury in Guangzhou City, and the Governor's Mansion took away all the valuable things, and even the equipment in the factory was demolished. The wealthy class, who were worried about the looting of the British, also ran away with their own valuables, and the prosperous city of Guangzhou had become a place without oil and water at this time.

There is no oil and water to fish, and the soldiers naturally cannot share the additional dividends of the war. Although the British army has repeatedly emphasized military discipline, there are dozens of looting incidents against ordinary people every day. More people fled from the city, making the already depressed market even more depressed.

At this time, the British commander was furious and took harsh measures to rectify military discipline. It's not that the British have a strong sense of morality, and Guangzhou, unlike other places, is China's most important foreign trade city. If the British plundered excessively, it would only arouse the anger of the Chinese people. Britain's civilian-military generals, as educated elites, were naturally able to understand the modern nation-state propaganda of the Governorate. Britain itself did the same, emphasizing the difference between its own citizens and foreign nationals, and convincing its own citizens that they were nationals of the best and greatest country in the world. This produces a strong cohesive, centripetal force.

There was nothing worth looting in Guangzhou now, and the people who dared to stay in the city were people who were not hostile to the British. Of course, the British civilian generals knew that it would be very unprofitable to turn these people into hostile to the British.

It's just that what the officers say doesn't mean much, and the inevitable negative effects of the propaganda of the modern nation-state are on full display among the British soldiers. Since Britain is the greatest country, the backward and barbaric ordinary Chinese people naturally need to bow down to the British and obediently hand over valuable things. There is no money for the war, why do British soldiers work here day and night. In the past, in all barbaric areas, didn't the British indulge in looting after winning the war? Why is it necessary to be different in Guangzhou? With the repression of the officers, the hostility of the soldiers grew.

Faced with such a situation, the British could only step up their efforts to send liaison officers to other parts of Guangdong to see if the armed forces of the local Chinese tobacco dealers, whom they had originally contacted, began to rise up as promised. All reports are broadly divided into two types, with liaison personnel either being found as they crossed the blockade, being arrested, or being shot dead while trying to escape. Some of the Hong Kong-born spies disguised as refugees did hear the information that the Liberation Army had taken military action against the big tobacco dealers at the same time that the British were attacking Guangzhou. At this time, many heads were hung up in various cities, towns and villages, and the original owners of the heads were these big tobacco dealers and their military group personnel. The crime set on them by the Governor's Office was "treason"!

The British were shocked by this information, and part of the reason for the shock was naturally that the Liberation Army had taken such a quick response and smoothed out the British response in one fell swoop. The other small part is the charge of "treason" set by the Governor's Office. The British knew the word too well, so they had to be surprised to find that the Guangfu Governor's Office was actually a political organization very similar to Western governments.

Things reached the point where there was no internal response to rely on, and the British did not reap any benefits in the city of Guangzhou, and the original strategy can be said to be completely bankrupt. Moreover, the British only occupied the city of Canton at this time, and the spies they sent were mainly 3 miles (close to 1o miles) outside the city, and they would be blocked by the squadron. When the British sent a large force to sweep, they found that these small troops could not find a trace, and they did not show their heads when facing the large British army.

This made the British feel unbearable, and together with the British spending huge supplies to send a powerful 6th Army naval force, they could only cower in an empty city of Guangzhou at this time. The Guangfu Governorate only lost control of the city of Guangzhou, but took the opportunity of the British to attack the city of Guangzhou, and they completely eliminated the object of cooperation with the British. Far from being weakened, its power in Guangdong has been strengthened.

But the British had no choice but to wait. As the days passed, there were constant exchanges of fire between small troops outside the city of Guangzhou, and the number of wounded soldiers increased every day. The Chinese people in Guangzhou began to flee from the city in large numbers, which made it increasingly difficult for the British to supply them on the spot.

On the very day of December 15, a heated argument broke out at the British command stationed in Guangzhou. In the end, it is to stop and withdraw from the city of Guangzhou. It was better to step up efforts and send the 6th Army to carry out a fatal blow to the Liberation Army.

The original strategic goal of restoring the tobacco business in Guangdong was completely impossible to achieve at this time, and the big tobacco dealers at this time were killed, even if the Governorate of the Liberation Metropolitan led by Wei Ze gave in to the British at this time, it was a terrible job to re-establish these sales channels, not to mention that Wei Ze, who controlled the Guangdong region, had no reason to open the tobacco trade to the British.

But retreating is not a good choice, if you can't give Wei Ze a fatal blow, at least a blow that makes Wei Ze understand that the British ** team is not easy to mess with, Wei Ze can abandon Guangzhou City, or simply restore Guangzhou City. Use other places as the ruling center of the Governor's Office. How were the British able to put Weese? You can't threaten the opponent's core strength, prove that you have the ability to shake the opponent's core strength, and the opponent will never give in.

At this time, no matter what they say, they have to admit in their hearts that the combat effectiveness of the Liberation Army is not "so bad" as they imagined, that is to say, in the face of the manpower advantage of the Liberation Army, the British may still "encounter some trouble".

And it was the civilian officials who insisted on continuing to fight a decisive battle against the Liberation Army, and they already knew that this war operation would undoubtedly fail to achieve its original goal. But if they retreat without any victory, they will not be able to account for it at home. As talents cultivated by the civil service system, they know the eyes of the old foxes in China.

Just when the civilian officials were fighting and the military attachés were asking for a retreat, the appearance of one person affected the situation. Yue Shoushan, a Foshan tobacco merchant, fled to Guangzhou, the only Chinese tobacco merchant who had been in contact with the British before the war. The military meeting was immediately terminated, and the British began to receive the dogleg who should have made a great effort.

Yue Shoushan is worthy of being the head snake of Foshan, he saw the Guangfu Army showing an overwhelming advantage in the face of hundreds of rebels, and he immediately chose to flee for his life. Seeing that the Thirteen Elements were exterminated, Yue Shoushan had already prepared a back road. At that time, there was chaos, and Yue Shoushan took the opportunity to run away. He didn't even care about his family, he just drilled through the tunnel, walked through the canal, and was lucky to escape.

After escaping from Foshan, Yue Shoushan did not run away stupidly immediately, he first hid in a secret place. When the people who went out to search returned to Foshan, and the place was not so tight, they made up and walked 6 ways. It's just been ten days, and the inner torment makes Yue Shoushan look ten years older, although the tips are still black, but many of the roots have turned white. Although some people in the British have seen Yue Shoushan, they can't help but look at the old man in front of him who looks more than sixty years old and describes him as withered is Yue Shoushan, who was once black and high-spirited.

With such a person who has experienced specific things, the British can finally know in more detail what happened in Foshan. Yue Shoushan knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, crying and begging the British to send troops to exterminate the Restoration Society and avenge Yue Shoushan.

The British civilians, military officials, and generals learned one thing from the information provided by Yue Shoushan, and they sent Yue Shoushan down to rest, and the people who had just started the meeting continued the interrupted meeting again. Of course, the British had no intention of avenging a lackey, and the military attachés, who had just thought that it was necessary to withdraw their troops, put forward their own opinions, "The iron-making center of the Governor's Mansion is located in Foshan, and we need to destroy their ironworks!" ”

As a civil and military official in an industrialized country, there is no need to emphasize the significance of destroying the hostile iron-making center, and such a result is enough to explain it to the country. More importantly, destroying the iron-making center of the Liberation Army can indeed deal a heavy blow to the Liberation Army. In view of the strength of the Liberation Army, the main force of the Liberation Army will definitely be stationed in Foshan to protect their iron-making center, and if the British army continues to march towards Foshan, the probability of the two sides meeting is basically more than ninety percent.

Several conditions were met, and the British officials immediately restored the warlike nature of the British Emperor. As long as the Guangfu Army can be severely damaged in Foshan and the local iron-making center can be destroyed, this battle will be enough to achieve the goal of teaching the Guangfu Army a lesson.

There was a waterway between Guangdong and Foshan, but the channel was narrow and not suitable for the sail battleships of the British. So the British sent a fleet of steamships along the river to cooperate with the 6th Army to attack.

The news of the British march to Foshan soon reached the waiting Liberation Army, and there was cheers in the General Staff. Wei Ze once said that as long as the news could be sent to the British, the Liberation Army had a very important steel base in Foshan, and the British would definitely send troops to come.

Everyone will be skeptical of this judgment, there are too many directions in which the British can attack. The threat of withdrawing the fleet from the Pearl River and transporting troops to attack along the coast is actually greater and more in line with the strategy of long-term warfare. The ironworks did cost a lot of money to recover the Governor's Office, but no one felt that the British army had a reason to fight for it.

Foshan is in the southwest of Guangzhou City, deeper into the inner 6. The Liberation Army could mobilize nearly 20,000 troops to deal with the British army here, and the British attack on Foshan was more like suicide. This is a very unwise move from the point of view of war. Wei Ze's explanation was very simple, "When we went north to save Lin Fengxiang and them, were we afraid?" At that time, we were worried about how to cross the Yellow River, and the Qing army was a ball in our eyes. ”

"The British really think of themselves as shallots!" Comrades from Shandong and Hebei in the General Staff Headquarters shouted at that time. Although the comrades in the south did not understand that in the south they could only grow to two chopsticks, in Shandong they could grow into huge plants more than one meter tall. It's just that everyone is a young man, and they may learn other things slowly, and they can learn to scold people quickly. Everyone immediately understood that this was a mockery of the British for treating themselves too seriously!

Since Wei Zedu's ability to do things like a god is exactly the same as before, the comrades in the army are also working hard to complete their war preparations, trying to use their previous abilities in the subsequent war, cutting melons and vegetables to kill the British in the encirclement.

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