In March, the weather has just warmed up.

Unexpectedly, a spring rain made the weather in Luoyang City a little steep.

"Your Majesty, Feng Zuoliang, the secretary of the Ministry of War, asks to see you!"

In the Chen'an Palace, Zhang Lingyang, who was reviewing the recital, heard the voice, looked up, and saw that it was Xiao Fuzi peeping at him, but there was an indescribable smile on his face.

"Could it be that there is good news from Tianzhu?" Zhang Lingyang thought about it, it must be because of the great victory in the sky, Xiaofuzi who got the news would react like this, and hurriedly put down the imperial pen and said: "Hurry up!" ”

"Feng Zuoliang, the secretary of the Weichen Military Department, knocks to see Your Majesty!" Entering the Chen'an Palace, Feng Zuoliang was anxious to salute.

"Aiqing is exempt!" Zhang Lingyang helped Feng Zuoliang and hurriedly asked, "But there is news from Tianzhu?" ”

"Your Majesty is like a god!" Feng Zuoliang complimented and said, "Your Majesty, a month ago, General Sun Dingzong defeated the Yingyi reinforcements in Mumbai, and now he has controlled the entire territory of Tianzhu. ”

"Really?" Zhang Lingyang was a little incredulous.

In Zhang Lingyang's view, England, as an empire on which the sun never sets, deserves to be the first in the world in terms of military strength, but Sun Dingzong captured the entire territory of Tianzhu so easily, Zhang Lingyang couldn't have imagined it.

"Indeed!" Feng Zuoliang replied, "A month ago, Jianning commanded Zhang An to personally lead people to blow up the walls of Mumbai City, so that our army could enter the city smoothly. After two days of street fighting, General Sun finally took Bombay completely and captured the Yingyi commander Nard. ”

Swallowing his saliva, Feng Zuoliang said again: "At the same time, the 40,000 soldiers who General Sun had previously divided his troops south to Bhopal also arrived in Bhopal a month ago, and took Bhopal bloodlessly. ”

"That's great!"

"That's great!"

Hearing the news, Zhang Lingyang turned around excitedly.

Who would have thought?

Who would have thought?

The invincible English Empire was defeated by the Great Zhou, and the Great Zhou also captured the entire territory of Tianzhu.

You must know that Tianzhu is now the most important colony in England.

The loss of Tianzhu can be said to have cut off the largest arm of England and greatly damaged its national strength.

Originally, Zhang Lingyang thought that with 100,000 troops and 20,000 firearms battalions, Sun Dingzong could capture several states in the east of Tianzhu, which was considered a lot of hard work, but he didn't expect Sun Dingzong to give himself such a big surprise.

Unable to suppress the joy in his heart, Zhang Lingyang hurriedly said: "Little Fuzi, immediately draft a decree to entitle Sun Dingzong as the Marquis of Wu'an, and the other generals will be rewarded according to their merits, and the front-line soldiers will be rewarded for half a year." From this month onwards, the imperial court will distribute bereavement pensions to all fallen soldiers, and their children will be specially given to study in the royal academy. ”

"Slaves obey!"

Xiaofuzi replied and went back to draft the order.

However, at this time, Feng Zuoliang did not leave, but said: "But Your Majesty, according to General Sun, because of the difficult time of attacking Bombay City, there are now less than 10,000 people left in the firearms battalion in Bombay City.

Moreover, General Sun also learned from the Yingyi prisoners that in a month's time, the second batch of reinforcements from the Yingyi side would arrive in Tianzhu.

General Sun was worried that Tianzhu's defenders were insufficient, so he asked His Majesty to increase troops to Tianzhu. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Lingyang calmed down and asked Feng Zuoliang, "What about General Sun's letter?" Hurry up and show it to me! ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" As he spoke, Feng Zuoliang presented Sun Dingzong's handwritten letter.

Looking at it, Zhang Lingyang's brows furrowed slightly.

Because of the previous strategy, most of the firearms battalions in the Great Zhou were stationed on the northern border, making the firearms battalions in the southern region very insufficient.

Even if Zhang Lingyang adjusted his strategy after realizing his mistake in the early winter of last year, it was inevitable that for a while, several provinces in the south would not be able to train qualified firearms battalions at all.

In the south, especially in the southwestern provinces, the number of firearms battalions is simply insufficient, and even if Zhang Lingyang wants to increase troops to Tianzhu at this time, the southwestern provinces cannot transfer many soldiers.

Thinking of this, Zhang Lingyang said: "I will send an order to several guards near the Great Wall, so that their firearms battalion will enter Tianzhu from the direction of Western Xinjiang.

However, Feng Aiqing, in Tianzhu's logistics, the military department must not make the slightest mistake. ”

Feng Zuoliang replied: "Your Majesty, rest assured, the Ministry of War has prepared sufficient weapons and ammunition, as long as Your Majesty and the cabinet approve it, you can be transferred to Tianzhu." ”

"That's good!" Zhang Lingyang nodded, and let Feng Zuoliang retreat.

After that, Zhang Lingyang personally repaired a letter and ordered someone to urgently transmit 800 li to Xining Houma Jinzhong on the other side of the Great Wall, and asked him to send 100,000 firearms battalions to Tianzhu.

Originally, last year, Zhang Lingyang wanted Sun Dingzong on the Burmese side to use the idea of attracting the British army as bait, and then send troops from the west to attack Tianzhu.

However, because Sun Dingzong fought smoothly on the Assam side, Zhang Lingyang's plan to enter Tianzhu from the northern border was completely disrupted, and the soldiers had to retreat.

At this time, Zhang Lingyang had to once again order the transfer of troops from the north into Tianzhu.

But fortunately, the climate in the north is good now, and you can directly pass through the grassland from the Great Wall to the western Xinjiang. And now there is no shortage of war horses in the Great Zhou, and the soldiers of several guards along the Great Wall are all good at riding, so it will not take long to rush from the Great Wall to the western frontier.

If you want to say that it is delayed, it is only that there will be a delay in the journey of going out of the western Xinjiang into Tianzhu, because that section is mostly a mountain road, and it is not easy to walk.

But fortunately, they didn't need to carry any materials to Tianzhu from along the Great Wall this time, so relatively speaking, there was not much difficulty.

Zhang Lingyang estimated that from the Great Wall to Western Xinjiang, if you hurry up, you don't even need seven days, even if you have to go through the mountains to reach Tianzhu from Western Xinjiang, you can reach the northern part of Tianzhu, and these troops of the Great Zhou will take at most half a month.

Therefore, Zhang Lingyang is not very worried about whether the soldiers from the north can rush to Tianzhu within a month.

Now Zhang Lingyang is worried about whether the Sichuan and Shu sides can provide enough weapons and ammunition.

The firearms division on the Sichuan side has been built for a year, and in the past year, the weapons and ammunition consumed by the Zhou army in Tianzhu have been completely provided by Sichuan and Shu.

Through Sun Dingzong's twists and turns, Zhang Lingyang understood that the consumption of weapons and ammunition in Tianzhu was extremely serious, so what Sun Dingzong lacked most now was not food and grass, but weapons and ammunition.

Because grain and grass are not provided by Da Zhou at all.

Not to mention that Tianzhu can provide enough grain and grass, but Tianzhu is not enough, Myanmar can also provide it.

If you can transport weapons and ammunition from Sichuan and Shu, it will be faster to form, but if you can enter the palace and transfer weapons and ammunition from several other firearms divisions in the Great Zhou, it will take at least two months before the materials can be transported to Tianzhu.

This is also a matter of no way, even if the British army is wiped out in Tianzhu, but England is still an unshakable maritime hegemon, and the Great Zhou lost more than 20 warships in attacking a Franc machine colony, not to mention the England of = Burma hegemony.

Therefore, the delivery of weapons and ammunition to Tianzhu from the sea is something that cannot be thought of.

But if it is transported by land, the continuous mountainous area in the southwest is a big trouble, so it is said that it will take less than two months to transport materials from Luoyang to Tianzhu, and it will not be possible to reach it at all, so Zhang Lingyang will have worries in this regard......