Fuli once again sat in Xin'an, always paying attention to Zhu Jinglun's negotiations with foreigners. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

"Foreigners have been allowed to go to Guangzhou, adults must be careful, don't make trouble in Guangzhou, if a few foreigners die, the more than 10,000 British troops in Hong Kong will have a reason to do it."

Zhu Jinglun recounted to Fu Li the simple result of the negotiations with the British, and then discussed with Fu Li the issue of the Turkish and guest fights.

"Rich brother, don't worry, I will deal with foreigners here, but I heard that Heshan is fighting every day, and people are dying every day, so I can't bear it. Why don't you send someone down there to take a look? Let's see if we can persuade the local regiment to stop the army and make peace. ”

"Oh, Brother Zhu, you should keep an eye on Yingyi, these Yiren are even more uneasy. Heshan, I wrote back, asking you to think of other ways. ”

Zhang Qianshan is really inexperienced, and he can't suppress the large-scale fighting between the Turks and the Ke at all, and he was jointly sued by the county orders of the seven counties, but when he arrived in Xin'an, he found that Zhu Jinglun was in greater trouble here, tens of thousands of villagers gathered to fight with foreigners to surround the ancestral land, and the conflict between tens of thousands of people and foreigners was obviously greater than the fighting in Heshan and other counties.

So Fu Li instead persuaded Zhu Jinglun not to be distracted, to concentrate on staying and dealing with foreign affairs, and to deal with the situation here in Xin'an, if he really can't do it, he will cede Kowloon, anyway, it was ceded by the imperial court, and it has nothing to do with the governor, but if the common people fight with the foreigners, and finally the foreigners blame the court and want compensation, the court will ask for guilt.

In Fuli's eyes, there is only Bai Gui, Bai Gui's interests are his interests, this is his perspective on the problem, as long as the court does not ask Bai Gui, in his opinion, it doesn't matter if the land is cut.

"But those people you sent to the realm of foreigners are reliable? It is really safe to persuade the Nayi chief to withdraw his troops. ”

Zhu Jinglun had already told Bai Gui that there were more than 100 merchants' children with the group, and it was impossible to hide it, and the explanation of the mission of this mission was that the first was to go to the United States to appease the families of the soldiers who sank the American warship at the Humen Fortress, and the second was to go to the United Kingdom to reason with the Queen of England in person, and strive to report the bad behavior of foreigners in Guangdong to the Queen of England. It would be even better if the Queen of England could promise never to occupy an inch of the Vast East.

Zhu Jinglun's explanation is like a fantasy, but people in this era believe this, after Ye Mingchen was captured a few years ago, he was escorted to India by the British, he thought he was going to the United Kingdom, and he was ready to reason with the Queen of England, and planned to reprimand this small country with benevolence and righteousness, and use his benevolence and morality to convince the other party and make the other party repent.

These readers who read the Four Books and the Five Classics and the ancient classics learned these in the foundation of history, and those sages in ancient times used history books to tell them that righteousness is omnipotent, as long as they master the righteousness, they can convince people with reason, but the age in which the sages lived was the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the people themselves at that time had a very simple sense of morality, and if they were wrong, they would be wrong, Lin Xiangru rebuked King Qin Zhaoxiang, King Zhaoxiang would not be angry, Confucius reprimanded King Qi, and King Qi could only be respected, as long as the other party could expose their injustice, they would admit it.

According to the concept of these scholars, the Western world has long been a barbarian country with bad etiquette and music, poetry and books, and those Spring and Autumn righteousness will definitely impress them, make them reflect and introspect.

So Zhu Jinglun doesn't believe it, Bai Gui believes it, in other words, even if he doesn't believe it, with an attitude of trying, it doesn't matter, he doesn't care about the mission sent by Zhu Jinglun to the United States to apologize, and then negotiate with the British.

Bai Gui's first concern is the emperor's situation, the emperor is the most important in the hearts of these literati, even more important than the life and death of tens of millions of people in Guangdong, Bai Gui's second concern is whether Guangdong can coexist peacefully with foreigners, and not to cause another change in the country's current difficult situation.

Bai Gui's psychology is very clear, so after Zhu Jinglun finished speaking, he also felt that it was very important, and he should immediately write a letter to Bai Gui to ask Bai Gui to pay attention to the safety of foreigners after they arrived in Guangzhou.

After sending Fuli away, Zhu Jinglun continued to arrange military affairs, and the matter of the Tuke Arms Fight was put aside first, although the Tuke Arms Fight was revived, but at present it is mainly concentrated in the Yunxiang area of Heshan County, where the mountains and forests are dense, and it has to be fought for a while, but there may be changes here in Xin'an at any time.

The most important place in Xin'an is, of course, Chiwan Port, but the forts on the hill on the left and right of Chiwan Port have been built, and the two promontory, one on the left and one on the right, surround Chiwan Port like a embrace, and the British are unlikely to choose to attack from here, not to mention that it is related to the trade of more than a dozen countries, and British merchants account for the majority, and it is impossible for the British not to be unscrupulous.

The most dangerous place is still Kowloon, if Ergin and others must insist on ceding here, the British army is most likely to land directly from Kowloon, in history when the British later ceded the lease, there was a fierce conflict with the local clan forces, the British did not die a few, but the villagers suffered heavy casualties.

At that time, the Qing government did not care, and the villagers could only protect themselves, and of course they were not opponents of the British army. This time, Zhu Jinglun came forward, and there were more than 10,000 regular musketeers to help, and if the fight really started, the outcome was unknown.

At least the Swedish advisers were full of confidence, they said that their own forces were superior, they already had some foundation, and they had been trained by them for two years, and the quality of these soldiers was not much worse than that of the British army.

The cultural level of Western soldiers in this era is also very inferior, and who will be a soldier. With the exception of several Nordic countries, the illiteracy rate in the armies of other countries is very high, even the British army, which is also mostly illiterate.

Therefore, Zhu Jinglun also agreed with the Swedes' statement, but he was still not very relieved, although he believed that the technical level of his soldiers, and the combat experience had also been greatly improved through the last battle with the two sides in the Turkish and guest weapon fight, but military culture is a big problem, Westerners are used to the tactics of lining up to shoot, Zhu Jinglun is very doubtful that these peasant soldiers under his command can withstand this psychological pressure of shooting each other face-to-face, once on the battlefield, whoever collapses first will be defeated.

Westerners have been lining up to be shot like this for 200 years, and in their understanding, fighting a war is like this game of shooting at each other and exchanging lives for lives.

The Swedes are obviously more confident than Zhu Jinglun, but they also began to consider Zhu Jinglun's concerns, after all, these soldiers they trained have no experience in fighting Western armies, and there are no examples of direct collapse when there is no problem at all in technology, according to their understanding, the Indian soldiers who are also equipped with Western weapons and equipment are not as tenacious as Western soldiers in terms of fighting will.

As for their understanding of the Chinese soldiers, they knew that these soldiers were extremely tenacious, and they were amazed at the casualties they had, and in the process of suppressing the Turkish and guest fights, even if they found that the existing team suffered most casualties, as long as the officers did not give the order or fled, the whole army would be able to hold out to the end, and this was simply unimaginable in the Western army, once the West suffered a certain number of casualties, it would definitely collapse.

They have also seen that there is obviously no damage, just because there are individual soldiers timid, the phenomenon of the inexplicable collapse of the whole army, the Swedes understand that the Chinese army is probably the same as the French army, it may collapse inexplicably during the march, but the next day it may launch a shocking and courageous attack with inferior forces, in the eyes of the Swedes in Northern Europe, this is after all the characteristics of the sensual southern European nation, perhaps the Chinese are the same.

After communicating with Zhu Jinglun, they were not worried about the courage of these soldiers to attack the British army, nor about the tenacious resistance ability to be surrounded by the enemy, but about the total rout caused by the partial collapse in a large-scale battle.

Accordingly, they changed their battle plan, intending that once the British troops landed, they would not take the form of a frontal battle for a decisive battle, but would directly launch a continuous attack on the enemy, using superior forces and the high fighting spirit of the soldiers to attack, and destroy the British troops at the landing site and not give them the opportunity to launch a battle.

But after Zhu Jinglun saw the plan, he still denied it.

"You still don't understand what I mean, I'm worried that they don't have the experience of frontal fighting, and they don't have the mental preparation, to put it mildly, even I, I don't understand the way you fight in the West that shoot at each other head-on, we always feel that this method of warfare is too stupid, once people think something is stupid, they often don't stick to it. The same is true of my soldiers, and if they do not understand the rationality of this approach, they will inevitably resist it, and this resistance will be very dangerous if it is placed on the battlefield. ”

Zhu Jinglun has always felt that the Westerners' queuing and shooting tactics probably evolved from the knight duel method in the medieval era, although in modern times, it is not surprising that it is still those nobles who command the battle, and it is not surprising that it has a chivalric style, but China's military culture has been played bad by the literati, too much emphasis on kit kat and despisy of courage, that is, ordinary people, and they have also heard countless stories such as burning company camps and flooding the Seventh Army in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, so it is not easy for them to accept this kind of stupid battle that relies solely on courage.

Anyway, historically, this kind of queuing and shooting tactics is about to be eliminated, and the Eastern world, even Japan, which is drunk to death, basically does not adopt this combat method.

So Zhu Jinglun proposed to the Swedish adviser: "Therefore, I hope you can come up with a more suitable plan." My requirement is that you have to anticipate where the British might land, and then draw up a plan to stop the British based on that. ”

The Swedes understood, and went back to revise the plan. (To be continued.) )