As soon as he heard the news that the twist stopped advancing, Feng Sixian couldn't sit still, if this twist couldn't take advantage of this opportunity to sweep it away, then it would be a big trouble, after all, the infantry brigade of the first division was only temporarily subordinate to his eighth division, and it could be transferred away at any time.

With the strength of one of his infantry divisions, in such a chaotic situation, it is difficult to control the whole province, especially after the Yellow River seized Huai, the situation in northern Anhui is already a piece of erosion, and the Qing army took six or seven years in history to completely clear up, he is a person with ideas, and immediately asked: "Your Highness, can we defeat first?" ”

"Can't be defeated!" Pan Dingxin has already stolen the topic: "We must not lose again!"

The small setback of the horse team before, has affected the confidence of many Haoqiang in the Hongjun, if there is another fraud now, then maybe these Haoqiang will really be pulled over by the twist, but there are many people in the leadership of the twist who have had official contact with them before, and some people are even small officials of the public gate.

And Hu Yuanwei next to him disagreed with Pan Dingxin's opinion: "As long as His Royal Highness is in charge, what is a small setback!" I think it's better to retreat a little, or even give up the provincial capital!"

Anyway, it's not the first time he's lost Luzhou, so he doesn't have too deep feelings for the city, and in his thoughts, as long as he wins the final victory, he can do whatever he wants.

Feng Sixian's face can't get by, no matter how many times the city has changed hands, but before Anqing is recovered, this is the provincial capital of the entire Anhui, and it is Anqing that is recovered, who is the most suitable as a provincial city in Luzhou and Anqing, Feng Sixian himself does not have an idea.

Now everyone can see that the Hongjun will control the situation of the entire Anhui Province in the future, so many squires have come to Feng Sixian in advance. At the same time, they fought for their own hometowns, such as Pan Dingxin and Zhang Shusheng, the veteran generals of the Huai army, who advocated that Anqing had been dilapidated, and that Anhui should put the provincial capital in the ancient city of Hefei.

If you give up Luzhou directly now. Even if he could recover the city in the future, Feng Sixian felt that it would be very unfavorable to the next disposition of the Hong Army, so he immediately shouted: "Hu Zhifu, you are too confused! We are not the Qing Dynasty, as long as we take the provincial capital, we will never give up!"

"As long as you win, let alone Luzhou, Wuhu will give up. What!"

The two of them quickly quarreled over this matter, although Feng Sixian was much higher than Hu Yuanwei in terms of level, but Hu Yuanwei also regarded himself as Liu Chang's descendant, and among the people present. There are still quite a few people who proceed from a purely military point of view. Agree with Hu Yuanwei's suggestion.

Even those who thought that they wanted to hold on to Luzhou thought that they had to retreat a little bit and lure Ren Zhu's cavalry over to talk about it, but at this time Liu Chang suddenly spoke: "What are you doing with such a toss!" Tell Brigadier Zhou. Hit hard, don't be afraid of problems!"

Feng Sixian was suddenly frightened by Liu Chang's words: "Fight? I'm not afraid to scare Zhang Lexing away!"

"What do you want to do so much, when a stone is dropped, there is always a little splash, and there are old and young in the twist. Their entire clan is here, and if we are willing, we can keep them all!"

Liu Chang said with arrogance, and Feng Sixian suddenly quieted down: "Obey!"

And Pan Dingxin, the former general of the Huai Army, also became quite confident: "That's right, we have 10,000 old rainbow troops as pillars, I'm afraid of a bird!"

And Hu Yuanwei also changed his tone: "Guan Jian is riding step by step. First of all, I have to beat Ren Zhu across! He has two thousand cavalry, right? We can pull out at least eight thousand steps to ride!"

With their tone, the fate of the twister will change completely.

Fumar was the British envoy to Ningbo. But in recent times, he has spent much more time in Shanghai than in Ningbo.

Of course, his income in Ningbo will not be lost a penny, and most of the time, he can make the public debt of the Ningbo market fluctuate greatly with just one telegram, and the appointment of personnel in the port of Ningbo must also be approved by his honorable British minister.

Therefore, even if there was a better position for him to choose from, His Excellency Fumar was not happy, and at some times he even turned completely to the person he worked with, revealing many secrets that should not be revealed to the representative of the Hongjun in Shanghai, as long as the Hongjun could better cooperate with his work.

Today's banquet can be said to be the most luxurious dinner in the Shanghai Concession, silver tableware, snow-white porcelain plates, fine wine from Europe, and gentlemen in tuxedos at the banquet, all represent that this is a top feast, and even a number of ministers participated.

It's just that at the banquet, Fumar, the consul of Ningbo, didn't look good, and he didn't even bother to taste the wine shipped from Europe, but directly ate a few bites with a knife and fork and left the banquet.

This is obviously something that makes the consul feel bad, everyone speculates whether it is because the French are about to formally sign the agreement, you must know that in this negotiation, the French have also reaped a lot of benefits, originally Ningbo Port is only the world of Fumar alone, but now the French will also send a respected French consul, this French consul has almost the same authority as Fumar.

De Mons was keenly aware of this, but he didn't mind much, whether it was the French, the British, or anyone else, as long as it didn't interfere with his normal trade with the Rainbow Army, he didn't care about all these issues.

According to the reports of several of his agents, the price of arms in the whole of East Asia has risen slightly, and there is even a shortage of goods, and he has not been able to compete with the French and British governments in the newly opened trade in industrial and agricultural products.

You know, the two governments did not intervene directly, but they used millions of pounds in loans to support the influx of domestic industrial goods into China, and now some of the Hongjun have been replaced with their cotton cloth, belts, water bottles and other equipment.

Because of this, De Mons did not express much concern about Fumar's early departure, he was concerned about whether the construction of Hangzhou-Huzhou should be carried out head-on with the end of this round of offensive, although there were many accidents, but the enthusiasm of Westerners in Shanghai was higher than one wave, and everyone hoped that this railway could become China's Yili Canal.

He thought of the rows of trains speeding over the plains, when suddenly someone pulled his sleeve, and he looked up to see that it was the British Mr. Ryan, an old rival, an old friend, a cooperative partner, and a villain who stabbed him in the back: "Ryan? ”

"Follow me!" Ryan just whispered in his ear, "Mr. Fumar wants to see you!"

Something is wrong!

De Mences even suspected that the bond market in Ningbo would change dramatically tomorrow, and that it had absolutely nothing to do with the arrival of a French consul, who had no need to involve himself as a non-Englishman if he was dealing with a French diplomat.

Walking up the amber steps, Deemmons was already thinking about what was going on?

Was it a setback in the Rainbow Army's operations at the Two Lakes, or a riot in their newly occupied province of Fujian, or a violent clash between Christians and the populace in a certain area, or a very serious criminal case against foreigners!

But he must stand in the position of the Rainbow Army, stand in the position of Liu Jiehu, no matter what happens, he must be the most staunch ally of the Rainbow Army, even if the British want to declare war on the Rainbow Army, he must do everything in his power to send arms to the Rainbow Army.

At the thought of this, De Mons had already clenched his fists, and he had no intention of looking at the shoddy oil paintings in the corridor, and Mr. Ryan had already opened the door very solemnly: "Your Excellency Fumar is waiting for you inside!"

He stood guard at the door and didn't go inside, which made Demmuns even more sure that something big was going on.

Fumar had drunk, he had drunk more than two glasses of wine, and now he still had a goblet in his hand, and Deems had already taken off his top hat: "Your Excellency, you brought me here?" ”

"Yes!" Fumar's face was still very pale, and he said with a blushing face: "I know that you have always been an old friend of His Highness Liu Chang, and among the foreigners in China, there is no one who has a longer friendship with him than you!"

This was something that De Mons was very proud of, so his face suddenly became warm: "Your Excellency Fumar, no matter what happens, I am a true Christian!"

"Thank you!" Fumar agrees with De Mmons's intellectual curiosity: "No matter how many times we have interacted with them, we are civilized Europeans!"

Demons cautiously probed, "Did something happen?" I'll keep it a secret for you!"

"No, you don't need to keep it a secret!" Fumar lowered his voice, and there was even a look of fear on his face, this matter went against his usual philosophy and purpose, but he had to do this, and his face became a little flushed because of this: "It is precisely because you have a long and strong friendship with His Royal Highness Liu Chang that I came to you, hoping that you can pass on my personal friendship to His Highness!"

"Is it just your friendship?" De Mons was equally cautious: "There should be the friendship of many British friends, and I believe that General Liu will win the final victory of the whole of China, and will eventually become another great emperor!"

"Yes, a great emperor!" Fumar agrees with De Mons: "It's just that things have changed a little now!"

"Even if the French send troops again, I'm afraid it won't affect the final victory of His Majesty the Emperor, they have just taken the entire Fujian Province!"

"Yes, the news I got has an extremely close relationship with Fujian Province!" Fumar told De Mons bluntly: "Now three ships of munitions have arrived in the port of Canton, loaded with flintlock pistols, firing pistols, mini rifles, cannons, black powder, and everything you can think of for military supplies, and more importantly, it's free!"

"This is what the Russians sent to Governor Ye of Guangdong Province?" De Mons has already understood: "A few ships of arms will not affect the pace of His Majesty the Emperor to unify the whole of China!"

"Yes, as it should be!" Fumar threw out a bombshell message: "But the problem is that all three ships are American ships!"