The protracted war on the Shenzhou Continent had long been expected by the high-level leaders of the Great Zhou Republic and the Duji Yisi, which was determined by the balance of strength between the warring parties.

The Western Song Dynasty had hundreds of thousands of elite infantry who had undergone actual combat and rigorous training, while the Eastern Song Dynasty also had a population of 100 million and was also an industrialized country. Mobilizing and equipping millions of troops is not a problem at all.

Trying to defeat these two opponents in a quick decisive battle is basically wishful thinking.

Of course, the series of offensive operations fought by the two Song Dynasty coalition forces on the ground in Henan Province also exceeded Du Jiyisi's expectations.

Before Zhao Liang was blocked on the front line of Xiangcheng, Yuncheng, and Yingchang, they were really in a hurry for a while - they also knew that Zhao Liangjiang's target was the Yellow River Dam. This was almost the only weakness of the Great Zhou Republic in this war.

However, the organizational and mobilization capabilities of industrialized countries are not at all in the same dimension as those of feudal countries such as the Western Song Dynasty. Zhao Liang's victory in Henan was soon overwhelmed by the rapidly mobilized sea of troops.

In addition to the astonishing mobilization capacity of industrialization, the increase in the transportation capacity of the Central Plains Canal brought about by the steam engine has also become a huge weight that overwhelms Zhao Liangjiang.

After more than 200 years of "comprehensive management of the Huang, Huai and Yun", by the 226th year of the Republic, the water transport system with the Wuzhang River, the Bianhe River, the Cai River, the Jinshui River, the Yellow River and the Yongji River as the main trunks was not only not damaged, but also played a more important role than ever before!

When it comes to the water transportation system of the Central Plains, it is inevitable to involve the industrial, agricultural and urban layout of the Great Zhou Republic today.

After more than 200 years of capitalism, the population distribution of the Great Zhou region has become very uneven. Four major metropolitan areas have emerged, including Yanjin, Xuhai, Liaohe, and Kanto, Japan. 60% of the 140 million local population lives in these four metropolitan areas. The remaining 5,600,000 people are spread over an unusually vast land.

At this time, the territory of King Xi had become the territory of the Great Zhou Republic, and the princes of the Xi State had become rich men who received annuities from the ruling government of the Great Zhou Republic. Therefore, the territory of the Great Zhou Republic has become very vast, not only including the Mongolian Plateau, the inner and outer northeast, but also the whole of Eastern Siberia.

In the first industrial revolution, the economy of the metropolitan area was supported by the textile industry.

The four metropolitan areas of Dazhou are all textile industry centers, but they have different development priorities.

Among them, most of the cities in the Liaohe River basin are based on the wool textile industry and its related industries as the pillars - the pastoral areas close to the Liaohe River can provide a large amount of high-quality wool, which makes the wool industry in the Liaohe River basin cities in a favorable competitive position.

The Yanjin area is where cotton and wool spin coexist, because the Yanjin area is at the intersection of the prairie and the cotton-growing zone.

The Xuhai region is the world's largest cotton spinning production center, because Henan and Shandong, which are close to Xuhai, are now large cotton growing provinces.

The Kanto City area in East Japan Province developed into a center for the silk weaving industry. This is because the Japanese archipelago is the most suitable area for growing mulberry and silkworms in the Republic of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the quality of silk there is not inferior to that of the silk produced in Jiangnan.

From the layout of the textile industry in these four metropolitan areas, it is not difficult to see that the rural areas of the Great Zhou Republic are actually part of industrialization. The production and the needs of the industrial and commercial city there are consistent.

In this case, how to reduce the transportation cost of inland areas such as the Central Plains and Hebei and improve the transportation efficiency has become a problem that the whole country needs to make great efforts to solve.

And vigorously developing water transport, before the emergence and popularization of railways, is naturally the only choice.

Therefore, in the past 200 years, the canal network covering the Central Plains, Hebei and western Shandong has been carefully maintained.

After the advent of the steam engine, the first thing that came to people's minds was not the railway, but the steam engine was loaded onto inland river vessels for inland water transportation.

Therefore, in the year 226 of the Republic, on the inland rivers throughout the Central Plains, it was common to see steamboats with thick smoke dragging a long boat with no power, rumbling back and forth.

Because of the application of steam power in inland river transportation, the transportation capacity of the Central Plains canal system has increased sharply, which has injected new vitality into the economy of the hinterland of Henan and Hebei, and also made the mobilization of the army on the Central Plains battlefield very rapid.

The mobilized forces in the Xuhai and Yanjin areas could be transported to the Henan front in a very short period of time through inland water. Logistics supplies can also be sent to the front line in large quantities at a very low cost.

In this case, the Great Zhou Republic also has the possibility of concentrating a large number of troops on the battlefield in Henan.

It's not a concentration of 100,000 levels, but a super large battle cluster that can concentrate millions of scales!

In the face of such a huge mobilization of troops and the ability to mobilize troops, the strategies of those experienced military strategists in the Western Song Dynasty are not worth mentioning at all.

Although in October and November of the 226th year of the Republic, the combined forces of the two Song Dynasty (mainly the Western Song Army) fought several relatively beautiful field battles in the prefectures of Ru, Ying, Cai, and Luo in Henan Province. But despite the arrival of winter, the Yellow River has entered the freezing season, and the plan to blow up the dam and flood the fields has completely failed.

The combined forces of the two Song Dynasty also had to begin to shrink in early December. Because by the spring of next year, the recruits mobilized by the Zhou State have almost completed their training, and that is millions of people!

For the Western Song Army, the main force on the battlefield in Henan, so many enemies were simply invincible.

Moreover, in a series of battles in September, October and November, the Western Song army also suffered heavy losses - no victory was easy, and after three months of fighting, the Western Song army suffered more than 150,000 casualties and missing on the battlefield of Henan alone......

Now that the war on land is at a stalemate, it is a life-and-death battle between two industrialized countries with a population of more than 100 million (the Western Song Dynasty is no longer a character), and it is impossible to distinguish the final victory or defeat in the short term.

But the situation on the sea is completely different!

The main force of the Southern Ocean Fleet, the most powerful in the Eastern Song Dynasty, had already left the port of Xingzhou at this time and moved to the Gowa naval fortress on the west side of the Tianzhu Peninsula in the Eastern Song Dynasty.

Gowa is Goa, which originally belonged to the Zalou dynasty of Tianzhu. Later, it was seized by the Eastern Song Dynasty and became the largest stronghold of the Eastern Song Dynasty on the Tianzhu Peninsula, as well as a trade center and naval base.

After more than 100 years of operation, Guowa has developed from a small trading port in the Western Ocean to an overseas vassal of the Eastern Song Dynasty with 10,000 square miles of land, a population of more than 500,000, and developed commerce, mining, shipbuilding and agriculture.

Zhao Liangbi, the king of Guojun in the Eastern Song Dynasty, who now rules this vassal state. He is a good generation of the Great Song Tai clan, and Zhao Liang will be the same generation. However, his peers have different lives, Zhao Liangbi is a hard worker, and he is still busy fighting for the country on the battlefield at a very young age. But Zhao Liangbi is a happy life, he was born in the Xihai Palace in Guozhou City, the capital of the Gowa County. He is not a concubine, but born to the concubine married by his father and the royal family of Tianzhu Polo, and has half of the blood of Tianzhu Baifan.

However, his father Zhao Bicheng made him a son, so he didn't have to divide his concubines. So not long after he was born, he was the son of the prince of the county, and he enjoyed all the glory and wealth. When he was in his twenties, his father died, so it was logical that he became the king of the county. Became the master of an overseas country!

And he, the lord of the country of Gowa, is also very good, the geographical location of the country is very good, and it is the window of foreign exchanges on the west coast of Tianzhu. It has the best natural port in the whole Tianzhu, Zua Port, and there are many large rivers in the territory, which is very rich in water resources and waterway transportation.

What's even more rare is that the climate of Gowa County is very cool in the south-central part of Tianzhu. Its inland areas are cooler because of their higher altitude, which is completely suitable for Han Chinese habitation.

In addition, the inland areas of Gova County are rich in iron ore, clay, limestone and other minerals. These minerals can be transported to the city of Guozhou by easy waterway, processed locally, or exported through the seaport. It has brought a lot of money to the country of Gova.

However, the biggest source of wealth for the country is not minerals, not even trade, not agriculture, but finance.

In the past 200 years, the Tianzhu Peninsula has also been a source of strife among the nations. Compared with the three heroes of Huaxia Shenzhou, it is more chaotic, and there are not so many rules.

Among the three heroes of China, the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Eastern Song Dynasty, one republic and the other United States, are all capitalist societies ruled by law, and the protection of private property is still very sufficient.

But Tianzhu is different, this is a place where "power is in Chang, power is lost".

Therefore, the "outer land" of Tianzhu also came into being, and became the place where the Tianzhu heroes stored their wealth and took refuge.

In the course of more than 100 years of development, the wealth of Tianzhu has continued to flow to Gowa County.

Over time, the financial sector in Gowa County has had the foundation to flourish. 200 years after the United States, the financial lifeline of the entire Tianzhu is in the hands of the small Guowa County

Looking west from the west wall of the Xihai Palace, which is located on the south bank of the Zua River and surrounded by water on three sides, the streets on the Zua River are lined with three- and four-storey buildings with Chinese-style roofs, each one more magnificent. These high-rise buildings all belonged to the Great Zhou, Eastern Song Dynasty, Egypt, Mongolia, the Golden Horde, and the big banks in Gowa. Zua Riverside Street, which is why it is also known as Gowajin Street.

The funds that come in and out of these banks every day can be tens of millions (two)!

The rise and fall of the Tianzhu heroes was determined by half the battlefield and palace intrigues, and the other half by the banks on the streets of the Zua River.

As long as the bankers on the streets of the Zua River are willing to lend money openly, the Tianzhu warlords with a little skill will be able to rise to the top.

And Zhao Liangbi, the king of Guowa County, is also a big banker, owning 55% of the equity of Tianzhu Bank. Moreover, he is also the actual controller of the Guozhou Securities Stock Exchange.

The Stock Exchange is the largest stock exchange on the west coast of Tianzhu, controlling 70% of the bond issuance and trading on the Tianzhu Peninsula, as well as hundreds of stocks listed on the Guozhou Stock Exchange. The daily trading volume is also in the millions.

It can be said that the ups and downs on the Tianzhu Peninsula, Zhao Liangbi, the king of the county, can almost master the seven seven eight eight through the method of financial manipulation.

It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the most powerful man in Tianzhu!

But this man, who has been calling for wind and rain on the Tianzhu Peninsula for more than ten years, has now encountered a war that makes him feel powerless.

The King of Gowa shifted his gaze from the high-rise streets of the Zua River to the wide Zua River.

The wide river was now crowded with warships that reminded them of the huge sail ships, one after the other, and four long lines were formed on the river. There are no less than a hundred of them!

The main force of the Nanyang Fleet of the Eastern Song Dynasty is now moored on the Zua River!

This fleet came to follow the Zhou fleet that escorted Wu Yuankai to Egypt to become married.

The fleet escorting Wu Yuankai had long since entered the Red Sea and should have arrived at the port of Suez by now.

And the main forces of the Nanyang Fleet of the Eastern Song Dynasty did not receive an invitation and it was inconvenient to enter the Red Sea. So the colony of Elysium (Socotra) near the Gulf of Aden left a reconnaissance detachment and sailed its main force to the country of Gova. While waiting for the Zhou fleet to leave the Red Sea, he waited for news about war and peace from home.

Over the years since Zhao Liangbi, the king of Guowa County, ascended the throne, he has manipulated the Tianzhu heroes to start a war. However, he was still very afraid of the possible outbreak of the decisive battle between the three heroes of Zhuxia.

This war seems to be different from the past, and the result is likely to be unified!

When the time comes, will he, the county king of the Eastern Song Dynasty, still have it?

It's better not to fight such a war......

But the sky doesn't follow people's wishes!

Just a month ago, news of the war on the Chinese mainland reached the country of Gowa.

Now between the Eastern Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty, it is already in a state of all-out war.

However, Admiral Pan Wuyang, the commander of the Nanyang Navy of the Eastern Song Dynasty, who led the main force of the Nanyang Fleet to Gowa, was full of confidence.

Because in Pan Wuyang's opinion, the Eastern Song Dynasty Navy now occupies a rare advantage - the main force of the powerful Nanyang Fleet has blocked the three first-class battleships of the Great Zhou!

As long as they can be wiped out in the small Western Ocean, the comparison between the Eastern Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou on the first-class battleships will become 6 to 7. Although there is still one less, it is a big improvement from the 6 to 10 before the war.

In Marshal Pan Wuyang's view, it was absolutely stupid for the Great Zhou Republic to send three first-class battleships to escort Wu Yuankai into Egypt.

And taking the opportunity to annihilate the three first-class battleships of the Great Zhou was also the only chance for the Eastern Song Dynasty to win the war.

The rise and fall of the Eastern Song Dynasty is a battle here!

After receiving the news of the war, Pan Wuyang immediately sent an envoy to Egypt on a large food merchant ship to deliver a diplomatic urging to the Egyptian Empress Anna II, demanding that the Egyptian government abide by the principle of neutrality and expel the fleet of the Great Zhou Republic that had taken refuge in the Red Sea.

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