Chapter 227 Crossing the Strait

The lower Mangarajia of the Ningwang clan is far larger than the land of the upper Mangara, and the resources on the land are more, and even in the Hai Song Dynasty, it was once known as Jinzhou, at that time, the gold mines of Xia Manraka were once the largest source of wealth in the Hai Song Dynasty, and the Bangka and Belitung areas on the island were famous for their gold mountains.

Now King Ning has concentrated the last group of troops that can be gathered in the Dinghai area, and almost all of the other troops have become undefended.

Li Zhe ordered the old marshal Yang Invincible to be the commander of the army, and led the troops in the rear to drive straight in, taking advantage of your illness to kill you, and taking advantage of this opportunity to seize the entire Lower Mangaraga, Xu Qingyuan's vanguard fleet was also supported by the rear, and was expanded into a huge fleet with 30 new steam warships and 70 old sail warships, assisting the old marshal Yang Invincible all the way south to conquer Lower Mangara.

Xu Qingyuan, a general, really impressed Li Zhe in this battle.

In fact, how could Li Zhe not have thought of the tactics used by Xu Qingyuan's fleet in the Battle of Tanjung, otherwise he would not have been able to promote steam warships and replace artillery in the army so vigorously.

But as an army general, he knew this idea, but he had not yet thought about how to use it in naval warfare and become a set of tactics that was actually feasible.

After all, naval warfare is very different from land warfare. However, he, Li Zhe, never commanded a single naval battle.

Originally, he first upgraded the equipment of his sailors, and then slowly collected examples of naval battles, studied them little by little, and slowly studied new tactics, and then spread them out in his own army, just like he did in the army.

Who would have thought that this Xu Qingyuan under his command would figure it out by himself.

It can be seen that there is never a shortage of talents in this era, as long as you give them the right opportunities.

Xu Qingyuan?

Li Zhe remembered this name, and the next advance of the Tianzhu Navy is very much in need of such talents!

After arranging the attack of the Tianzhu army in Lower Mangara, Li Zhe led his troops across the strait to direct the actions of the Tianzhu army in Upper Mangara.

Originally, the plan of the Tianzhu Army was that it was only a feint attack in Shangman, but the current situation made it impossible for Li Zhe not to take a hard bite on it!

In fact, as the war progressed, it may have been due to the successive defeats of the Ningwang Domain's army, and even the rear of a series of cities occupied by the Tianzhu army, and its resistance after penetrating deep into the interior gradually became somewhat dispensable.

According to the data of the staff officers of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, there was a feeling that the entire resistance movement in the occupied area of Lower Manchuria had a certain desire to die down. More and more local clans began to cooperate with the local Tianzhu Army, I am afraid that they are still too disappointed in their King Ning, this leader!

The current situation even made Li Zhe, the initiator who had made up his mind to fight a war, feel a little unbelievable.

No way!

In any case, King Ning's domain was once a prince who had enjoyed the country for hundreds of years!

How can such a country be conquered so smoothly?

Every day, the good news of the occupation of the enemy's territory in front of the front keeps coming out.

Until now, not only Li Zhe can't believe it, but even many subordinates of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion can't believe it.

No matter how it comes to this point, if God doesn't take it, he will be blamed, and now Li Zhe will carry out this war to the end even if he is holding his scalp.

Li Zhe led a large army across the Manraka Strait, and the bright color of the Jieyu he rode on was almost bright silver in the legends of the naval stations was extremely conspicuous, and as the war progressed, the number of steam warships in the Tianzhu Naval Division increased, and they were almost launched like dumplings.

The whole fleet walked on the sea like a dark cloud, and the smoke rising from the ships obscured the sky and almost the entire surface of the sea.

The pungent smell in the smoke was not very good, and countless fine dust sprinkled down and fell on the deck of the ship and on the sea, but in this era, the chimneys of these warships were not what everyone shouted in later generations, and the steam engine of this era represented advanced productivity.

Any ship that came across at sea, when it saw such a situation, consciously avoided it, and trembled like a small insect that had touched a steel beast.

This is unprecedented power, unrivaled power! The Tianzhu army in the fleet saw this situation on their side, and they were all more confident.

Li Zhe was on his ship, and in front of him was a huge military map.

"How about the six provinces in the north of the imperial court, are there any special moves?"

Wang Ming, who was next to Li Dan, did it, like the staff officers of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and saluted:

"No, apart from the opening of the border with Siam Province, which borders Upper Mangaraja, and the large number of refugees who have fled from Upper Mangaraja, there has been no movement. Moreover, in the six central and southern provinces, except for a fierce army stationed in Myanmar Province, they also lack the strength to do it! Rest assured, they can't intervene. ”

After all, the officials of the Great Song Dynasty are different from the local princes, although they are called Jiedu envoys, but after all, they are not border villages, and they do not have the right to recruit troops independently.

Moreover, the Fox Army is only a two-box army, unlike the current Weiyuan Army and the Japanese Army, after the full mobilization of Tianzhu, these two armies have all been expanded to the most extreme state of the five-compartment establishment, that is to say, the current Weiyuan Army and the Japanese Army, each army has nearly 60,000 soldiers, and the standing army of Tianzhu is already more than 100,000, not including the private armies of the naval division and the princes in various places.

All of these add up, and the entire Tianzhu now has a real army of more than 200,000 people.

Although only about 100,000 troops were put into the Manchurian battlefield, such a force, coupled with the equipment and tactical advantages of the Tianzhu army, such a battlefield, a mere imperial court army has no ability to come in and change the situation of the war.

Not to mention, in the north, Li Zhe has always arranged Shi Xiu's vanity to support the Japanese army to threaten the northern section of Myanmar Province.

Under the influence of these factors, at least the power of the six central and southern provinces of the imperial court is unlikely to have any impact on Li Zhe's overall situation.

Now, unless there are any changes in Jinling, the Great Song Dynasty court claims to have millions of soldiers, and naturally has enough strength to intervene in the war.

But now the problem is coming, the problem now is that the process of this war is too fast, in less than a month, almost the end of the war, the current situation is that Jinling is too far away from southern Xinjiang, even if it is to use flying pigeons to send messages, it will take nearly 20 days to go back and forth, no matter what kind of decision is made on the Jinling side, it seems that it is too late now.

There is no way, the territory of the Great Song Dynasty is too big.

Li Zhe's eyes seemed to be closed in the cabin, calculating the overall battle situation, and at this time, in front of the cabin door, an officer strode in, put his legs together, snapped a salute, and then reported:

"Governor Yudu, a few ships have been intercepted ahead, and the other party claims to be Zhang Qin, the minister of the Great Song Dynasty, and wants to ask to see him!"