Mrs. Xing made a list of things that needed to be sorted out, and after a long time, she also found that the imperial capital liked the calligraphy and paintings of the Ming Dynasty, especially Tang Bohu's, and the strange thing was that this old Xiucai was not a great Confucian, and he couldn't send those paintings before he died, and in fact, it didn't cost much.

In fact, in the new time and space, it was the elders who promoted the rise of Tang Bohu's paintings, the reason is naturally very simple, most of the elders are ordinary science and engineering college students, and they can know the general historical trajectory thanks to those palace fighting dramas, and their understanding of the Ming Dynasty scholars, many people learned about this person from the Tang Bohu who infiltrated Washington as a servant to soak in the autumn fragrance movie, and even had no understanding of his real miserable experience life.

Naturally, Li Dingguo's people did not receive any satisfactory answer.

The relationship itself belongs to the Shaanxi villagers who are very far away, according to the seniority, Li Dingguo can only kneel in front of Mrs. Xing, as for the incorporation of Mrs. Xing, he didn't even think about Li Dingguo himself, he knew that since people took the ship of the imperial capital, it would be dead set and would not change.

Li Dingguo's request was to confirm that Mrs. Xing would not launch a surprise attack and strike at their most vulnerable, and at the same time was very interested in the Mauser gun held by Mrs. Xing, which had made many of the scouts he personally taught hate, and Li Dingguo had seen the power of this Mauser gun in the imperial capital, but the elders were skeptical about the time bomb exported to Zhang Xianzhong, so they naturally did not allow it.

"You guys are going to Nanjing, and if you go downstream, there won't be many places where you can gather a lot of boats to stop you."

"It's all up to Mrs., our major general said that once the city is broken, it will definitely give Mrs. benefits!"

"Come on, you have now looted so many ships in Sichuan and Hubei, and the entire Yangtze River is yours, and it is very convenient to transport people and grain, so you won't care about me."

What Mrs. Xing said was naturally the Yangtze River transportation problem.

For the history of mankind, the history of water transport is a history of war, or in other words, the history of war can often be related to water transport.

Originally, she didn't know that firewood and rice were expensive, but by commanding under the rule of the Council of Elders, receiving the replenishment in the imperial capital was also through water transportation, she naturally knew how important water transportation was.

How did a small island nation of Britain almost conquer the whole world?

The huge strategic and logistical advantages of sea power countries are difficult for people in land power countries to understand.

During the Opium War, if the British dared to concentrate all their combat strength and fight a general battle with our Qing Dynasty, we would be able to find out the existence of 100,000 troops when we met again in the Qing Dynasty, and we would have survived to death.

But people don't fight you head-on!

Use the fleet to bombard the batteries to attract the defenders' firepower, and then the marines and land forces land at the weak points of the Qing army's defenses and maneuver to the rear of the Qing army's flanks, and use field artillery to occupy the commanding heights, bombarding on both sides, and the result is often to completely defeat the defenders at a very small cost.

This is Napoleon's three-plate axe: the artillery charges the cavalry, and the cavalry charges the infantry.

When we have nothing to do about it, we are also seeking change, that is, emptying the coast and withdrawing inland for fortification, in an attempt to annihilate the enemy through land warfare. At this time, the real horror of Britain was revealed, the British army rode the wind and waves, and the speed of maneuvering was many times faster than the Qing army running on land on two legs, and it could concentrate its forces to attack anytime and anywhere; The Qing army fortified various parts of the interior, but instead dispersed its forces, but was still broken by the British army.

The emperor transferred troops from the frontier to the southeast coast, and it was cold before the daylily arrived, but the British army could concentrate thousands to 10,000 troops to land at any point on the coastline and then launch a fierce attack.

What the controller of water transportation can control is the rhythm, the low cost of grain transportation, and the initiative to run away if something is wrong!

In the war of conquest of India, India's population exceeded 100 million, Maratha, Mysore and other strong states in population, size advantage is very limited, the British army from the sea to concentrate forces to attack, plus the British and Indian army and allies, and even have a large advantage in troops, but the Indian army's population advantage can never be played, because the British are impossible to fight with you!

This kind of tactic can almost fight a big country, unless you give up dozens of miles of coastline, then you are really at the mercy of others' aggression.

Before the Industrial Revolution, the logistics of ancient land warfare were a bottomless pit and extremely inefficient. Therefore, Sun Wucai said: "Eat the enemy for one minute, be my twenty bells", because in the huge grain transportation team, the troops, people, and livestock themselves have to eat on the way to transport grain, so the grain and grass prepared in the rear is actually far greater than the actual consumption of the front-line army, and the manpower and material resources consumed to transport grain are huge, and the conditions are difficult, so because of the large-scale conscription that leads to the world's turmoil and even the destruction of the empire, there are countless examples, and it can be described as turtle speed, in contrast, the waterway and sea route are much faster, so many people say that Dongwu always comes so fast when he engages in backstabbing, This is also one of the reasons.

If a land power country fights with a sea power country, who is the first hand is very important, if the land borders on both sides is fine, the sea power country is often cowering on the island, how do you help others?

For example, in the Hundred Years War between Britain and France, Britain was far inferior to France in terms of size, national strength, and agricultural strength, but it dared to wage war against France year after year, why? Because as long as the Royal Navy controls the English Channel, there will be only two outcomes of the war against France, a stalemate and a draw or a defeat for France. The Hundred Years' War between Britain and France, since the end of the naval war, has been under the rhythm of the British, France has fought hard for more than 100 years and only drove away the British forces on the European continent, the local is full of devastation, the cost is huge, but it cannot directly take London to sign the alliance under the city, the British should eat and drink at home, and they are very moisturized.

This is also why the British Empire dared to declare war everywhere in its heyday, anyway, only I fight you, without you to fight me, whatever the quarrel is, it will be won anyway.

Similarly, why did Zhang Xianzhong dare to attack Nanjing thousands of miles away, and when there was chaos downstream, he could profit from the chaos, and even if Nanjing made preparations and resisted the attack, with the fleet in hand, Jiangnan was full of good places that were rich and oily, as a former official of the government, he knew very well.

Although Zhang Xianzhong is in Sichuan, he definitely has a heart in the south of the Yangtze River, and the current situation is that it is different from the situation in the old time and space, after Zhang Xianzhong defeated Sichuan, he didn't even have time to breathe, and he was killed by Haoge's surprise attack under the leadership of many traitor troops.

But now, the Hauge ghost knows which pit it rots, and the imperial capital has no interest in those lands that will sooner or later be the dishes on their plates, and under their money offensive, there can be no existence that does not kneel and lick.

Therefore, compared to Nanming, who was full of traitors in the old time and space, in fact, the order was still maintained very well, but there were countless bloody winds hidden in the secret, and careerists were constantly breeding, even if it was a small landlord, he would occasionally dream of the excitement of his yellow robe.

Although Sichuan is known as the land of abundance, it is also relative, and it is still not enough to see Jiangnan, which is rich by relying on overseas trade.

This is Zhang Xianzhong's psychological motivation for attacking Jiangnan, in his opinion, although he can't understand why the elders have always insisted on not sending a large army to the south, but as a lackey literati said, the world is inhabited by virtuous people, Lao Zhang is embarrassed, and he started directly and conceded and conceded.

Mrs. Xing's meaning is very simple, her troops will definitely not be able to run on the river, and Li Dingguo can't fight Jiangnan, so she can attack any city at will, but she knows too well the fact that under the leadership of Jiangnan literati, the military equipment is lax, and the people are resentful.

However, Mrs. Xing now has a son to raise, and she will not give up such a good opportunity.

"Don't say anything, your general has earned enough this time, so you can't let me run for nothing."

The man couldn't accept it, and hesitated: "But there are a lot of rich people here." ”】

"What are you talking about, I'm now an officer, an officer! The imperial capital has a prison army with me, how can I fill my own pockets and do things that rob the people. ”

These words make people misty, "But we don't rob the rich, what do we eat, the money of those rich people is also robbed of our poor people!" ”

For any common people, their cruelty may seem unreasonable to later generations, but it will be ordinary to them, because this is how the landlords bullied them.

This kind of killing has been going on for more than ten years, and it has reached the point where people are no longer surprised for many years.

Mrs. Xing said, "Then you say, how should I tell my brothers under my command, they just do this to watch you get rich, and they can only drink the northwest wind here, so it will be difficult for me to convince the people." ”

"So what do you say?"

"Go back and tell you the young general, I won't say anything about the things in Anqing City that belong to me, anyway, you have the final say on how many things you rob, what I want is a sum of money that satisfies me, I will leave when I get the money, and I will never interfere with your attack on Nanjing!"

Mrs. Xing's calculation is very prepared, she wants to make a detour to rescue Nanjing in Anqing, it is almost difficult to rush over, as for fighting with Li Dingguo here, it is even more impossible, she still understands the truth of the snipe and clam competing for the benefit of the fisherman.

Li Dingguo is also afraid of this, if it is a head-on enemy, he is still confident, after all, Mrs. Xing's manpower is too small, and she has also collected a lot of official firearms of the Ming Dynasty, so it can't be too bad, but I'm afraid that Mrs. Xing will not hum or ha, and then suddenly kill her.

"General Zuo, this is a good opportunity, give a sum of money, Mrs. Xing will leave, we don't have to worry about the rear, we can attack Nanjing with peace of mind, there are almost no strong soldiers around to support Nanjing, when the time comes, General Zuo will enter the city to assist the prince to ascend the throne, we will echo each other in Sichuan, and make some hard money, don't lose a big because of a small one, Jiangnan is a rich city than this small Anqing City, but there are as many as cow hair."

Zuo Mengeng didn't understand this truth, but he was used to being poor since he was a child, and Zuo Liangyu was pampered to the only remaining son, so he was really reluctant to spend money, but he quickly found an excuse: "It's too much deception, a girl, after the death of a man, she sold herself to a wild man, in exchange for a firearm, and there was no one in her eyes!" ”

Li Dingguo frowned, he never liked this second ancestor very much, it happened that there are more troops than him now, although the war is not a few heads, but now it is a stage of cooperation between the two sides, and this idiot must be respected.

"We must say, there must be a result tonight, pack up everything, and start sailing on the boat tomorrow, this job is not easy, in fact, there are some large belongings, it is okay to throw them to Mrs. Xing, as long as she agrees, don't make trouble for us."

Zuo Mengeng's eyes suddenly lit up and said, "I have an idea." ”

Li Dingguo hesitated: "You mean ......?"

"That girl is only a thousand people, but he can be majestic with many firearms, but at night, I see what use his firearms are!"

Li Dingguo's expression changed, and he said: "Our people must rest, tidy up, and throw away what should be thrown away in Anqing City, and get on the boat quickly!" Leave a small group of people to answer. ”

Zuo Mengeng said with a cruel smile: "Didn't those homeless people tremble, saying that they wanted to be some general, I will be a general for him, and let them go to the camp tonight, if they win, the captured firearms will be divided in half between our two families, and if they lose, they will just die a group of goods who fill in the pit." ”

Li Dingguo knows that although this strategy is vicious, it really has the possibility of success, especially as a previous rebel army, almost all of them are this method, slowly growing, that is, if you are hungry, you don't know anything, you can go desperately if you give a steamed bun, and a woman is willing to her body for you.

These scoundrels knew almost nothing, and according to the investigators and their own past negotiators, Mrs. Xing's camp was almost uncovered, that is, as long as they rushed closely, the power of those firearms would be null and void.

Li Dingguo judged in his heart, offending Mrs. Xing didn't seem to be a terrible thing, the most important thing now is indeed to protect her flank from being threatened, it's a big deal to be prepared with both hands, not to mention that as long as she does it, then tomorrow she can only watch Li Dingguo and Zuo Mengeng get on the ship and attack Nanjing.

Li Dingguo said: "Then I still have to send some gold and silver to appease, in this way, let's say that I can clean up the city overnight, not to go away, send some first, and then wait until tomorrow, the calculation is clear, and then send it over to invite Mrs. to enjoy, however, my people are only afraid that they can't go anymore, they have to be replaced, General Zuo, do you have any talents who can speak well, and then go to explore the tone." ”

"Okay, there are a lot of people like this under me, and I don't feel sorry if I send a few to die, but if you can buy some of the firearms."

(End of chapter)