This time, the Empire's Noon Gate Writing Incident, the "Liuqiu Times", "Liuqiu Express" and other mainstream newspapers only gave the third edition of the report, and the reporter who wrote the article praised the quiet queen's forgiveness...... Of course, it is also in favor of appropriately adding some content of the Four Books and the Five Classics and other scriptures to the examination.

However, this kind of report can only attract readers who have a close relationship with them to read it carefully, and the mainstream public opinion is still closely concerned about the war on the mainland.

In fact, the folk newspapers of the Great Song Dynasty, like the folk newspapers of the Federal Empire, devoted the first and second editions to the news of the war with the Tatar bandits.

It can be said that every piece of relevant news touches the hearts of people on both sides of the strait every day...... Even the white or black freedmen, who could only speak but could not read Song, inquired about the state of the war every day.

The official declaration of war and the dispatch of troops by the Great Song Dynasty set off a public upsurge to expel the Tatar bandits!

After the Great Song Dynasty went south, the willingness of the Northern Expedition was not strong, on the one hand, due to the system, they have always emphasized literature and light on military force, and there was no outstanding military general, in fact, in the era of cold weapons, their military value was inherently lower than that of the thriving nomads.

On the other hand, because the results of the Northern Expedition before the Great Song Dynasty were repeated defeats, most officials did not support it, and the people were even more unwilling to bear the burden of rent and tax increases in vain.

But now it's different!

The successive wars of the Federal Empire made the entire Great Song Dynasty see the weakness of the so-called Tatar iron cavalry, and in this alliance between the two countries, the Federal Empire made an oath and made a promise to completely endorse the Great Song army.

No one in the Great Song Dynasty ever doubted the integrity of the Federal Empire.

What's more, two army divisions of the Federal Empire are winning one after another, and their momentum is like a bamboo!

The recapture of the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun is not only the interests of the Great Song Dynasty, there are dry fields where cotton, peanuts, wheat and other crops can be grown...... If you buy a piece of land, even if you rent it, the income is very considerable.

Traffickers in Korea and Japan don't know how to bring in more black labor from afar, it's really cheap!

…… It will be too late if you don't go to war......

When many officials and ordinary people had a trace of such thoughts after reading the news in the newspaper, the Great Song Dynasty's participation in the war came naturally...... And as the war progressed, investment was increased.

The entire Da Song Dynasty is enthusiastically supported, and those who are interested have already begun to plan for future investments.

Revenues from cash crops such as cotton and peanuts are impressive.

Fa Ke, who was trusted by the two generations of officials of the Great Song Dynasty, commanded the Northeast Route Army and joined forces with the Federal Imperial Army; Lü Wenhuan, of the well-known Lü military group, commanded the elite troops drawn from Goryeo and Japan and from the southeast to attack the Hetao area of the Tatar bandit group, intending to cut off the route of the Tatar bandits to the west, and at the same time turn to the east to form an iron pincer attack with the northeast route army that stormed the capital area!

The news of the Great Song Dynasty's dispatch of troops even cheered the soldiers and civilians on Hainan Island, and even some local big businessmen wanted to form a righteous army to go north.

After Wen Tianxiang heard that the Great Song Dynasty had sent troops, he immediately sold part of his family property on Liuqiu Island, and wanted to return to his hometown with like-minded friends to recruit rebels in the name of the Wen family.

The time has come to be loyal to the country!

In fact, he had wanted to follow the army of the Federation Empire to the north, but he was not allowed to ...... War is a soldier's business, and if you have to rely on the people to charge into battle in the end, it will be an insult to the imperial army!

Wen Tianxiang had the status of being the tutor of the crown prince Zhang Zhansheng, and the people in the imperial military department spoke to him politely...... But this explanation still made Wen Tianxiang very unhappy.

In fact, he still does not agree with what King Zhang Anguo said about "the rise and fall of the world, the husband is not responsible", but he very much agrees with the truth that "the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband"!

For this reason, he has published his opinions in major newspapers, and has been recognized by quite a few people...... I don't know who brought out Ouyang Xiu's "Theory of Friends", and at that time the first literati society was formed on Liuqiu Island, which was named the Friends Society.

As mentioned earlier, it was the norm for people in the Great Song Dynasty to form societies with common hobbies and aspirations.

Just as Wen Tianxiang was busy working for the community, the war broke out unexpectedly, and the Great Song Dynasty officially declared war and sent a large army.

At this time, he couldn't sit still, so he resolutely returned to the Great Song Dynasty with his colleagues in the community...... Well, all this is a private matter, and it does not violate the laws of the Empire.

After the news that the Imperial Marines had successfully landed on the north bank of the Haihe River and were about to penetrate the capital city was officially released, countless people set off firecrackers in major cities on both sides of the strait!

No one seemed to be worried about the defeat of the Imperial Army, and they all believed that the Imperial Army would definitely go from one victory to another...... The result did not disappoint them, and soon the big news of the occupation of the capital city came!

Almost all newspapers put the news on their front pages, and they all chose to print it in red.

I don't know which big shop applied in advance to set off fireworks for the citizens of Badaohe on the Imperial Plaza for free...... On this night, the sky over the Imperial Forum continued to burst with colorful sparks, almost until dawn.

The townspeople cheered day and night, but only some superficial news was known.

The city of Zhuozhou, the gateway to the capital region, was breached, and the capital city was also breached, and Kublai Khan, the leader of the Tatar bandits, fled west with his guards...... The Empire's two armies on the mainland converged in the capital......

They certainly have no way of knowing what's behind the news.

At that time, the raid of the Imperial Marines caught the big leader Kublai Khan by surprise, and the entire Tatar bandit group was suddenly in chaos.

They hastily formed a mixed army of nearly 10,000 people, in a vain attempt to delay time by relying on the tall city defense of the capital, hoping that the army heading south would quickly return to the defense.

But the Imperial Marines simply did not give them time or opportunity to delay.

They fired almost all the rockets and mortars they carried, and even the marching guns fired high-explosive shells at high elevation angles...... The Imperial Marines were not worried about their logistical baggage, and the two fast-moving ironclad gunboats on the Haihe River had become a convoy of transport ships on the river, and they were now fully responsible for transporting all kinds of munitions and supplies from the forward base at Dagukou!

Let's shoot and blow up their lair!

The situation in the capital has been clarified, and Kublai Khan, the Tatar chieftain, has already issued an order for the northern Han people in the city to serve as servants of the southward army.

Therefore, the people who can still live in the city now are basically the families and servants of the Tatar nobles, as well as a considerable number of nobles or merchants who have been evil for many years.

Let them taste the slaughter, let them also listen to the wails of their loved ones!

The counterweight stone cannons previously placed at the mercy of the Dadu city walls, as well as the thick bronze cannons, were largely useless.

They were either burned by rockets or blown up by mortar guns!

Even many houses in the capital city were on fire...... Puffs of black smoke poured into the sky, and they formed various images in the various tangles in the air.

The members of the Imperial Marines were amazed to find that the black smoke that rose into the air seemed to suddenly converge, writhing and transforming into an ugly black dragon, and then dispersed in a northwest direction!

Leave it alone, keep firing and use all the shells!

It was an artillery bombardment that lasted nearly twenty minutes, the longest artillery bombardment of the Imperial army to date.

Until the last rocket is gone, with the Imperial Assault Brigade in front and the Marines behind, they will directly attack the capital.

The walls of the capital city had long since been devoid of defenders, and the south gate had long since been blown away, and it seemed that only the collapsed broken wood, cement, and masonry were the last obstacles.

The members of the Stormtroop shouted to kill the enemy, and they led the charge into the capital with their bright swords.

At this time, they were counterattacked, and quite a few Tatar remnants hid behind the ruins, and they attacked the team members with flintlock pistols, bows and arrows, and some even formed small groups to resist!

Casualties began to appear, but the stormtroopers were undaunted...... And the Marines who arrived afterwards fiercely suppressed the counterattack of the remnants of the Tatars, grenades, revolver pistols, rifles with bayonets, these were sharp weapons in street fighting.

Except for the remaining personnel, when all the troops were committed, the explosions, gunfires, and shouts of killing in the capital gradually stopped.

The Great Song Garrison Marine Corps who accompanied them into the city observed that he didn't care about wiping the dirt mixed with sweat and dust on his face, he looked up to the sky and laughed: "Haha, this is like a bloodless siege of the city, now the old man has a lot of insight!" ”

Having captured the lair of the Tatar bandit group, he seemed to be happier than the marines.

His assistant reminded him to observe the style of the walls of the capital.

After looking around, the Great Song Dynasty observer suddenly understood, isn't the city wall officially modeled after my Great Song Dynasty...... It doesn't seem to be lower than the walls of my Great Song Xinbian Capital City.

He muttered, "There is no great city in this world that cannot be conquered...... I, the Great Song Dynasty, will be friends with the Federal Empire forever. ”

But the joy of capturing the capital was soon diluted, and they searched the city for a long time, and they looked through many whole corpses and corpses, and could not find the shadow of the great leader Kublai Khan.

After the strict interrogation of the captives, they learned from a few words that the great leader Kublai Khan seemed to have fled from the north or west gates after the cannon sounded, and also fled with a lot of cavalry.

A captured Tatar official cried viciously: "The eagle of the sky will not be caught by the robbers of the sea!" ”

In the face of such ineffective provocations, no one answered him.

The Marines know what to do next...... And that's just the beginning...... They will soon have to join up with the two Imperial Army divisions and their elite soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty who are heading north, and there will be a steady stream of military supplies delivered here by sea.

The Great Song Observer sighed at this time: "If there are three or four times the number of troops, we will be able to fully surround the capital, and we will definitely not let that big boss escape!" ”

However, this is just an exclamation.

For a while, everyone put their hopes on the Great Song army that would go north to attack the Hetao, hoping that they would be able to intercept the remnants of the enemy fleeing west!

As a result, until they waited for the two imperial army divisions, they did not wait for any good news from the Great Song army that attacked the land of Hetao.

Fa Ke, the commander of the Northeast Route Army of the Great Song Dynasty, was extremely excited, and he took a few people to run around the capital, haha, this will be the territory of my Great Song Dynasty!

Hua Yin, commander of the 1st Independent Mixed Division of the Army, and Tao Mu, commander of the 2nd Division, held a meeting with their men and their officers of the Marine Corps.

Everyone exchanged combat experiences with each other.

The Imperial Army suffered far more casualties than the Marines when it conquered Zhuozhou City, the gateway city of the capital.

If it weren't for the use of ironclad chariots to attack close to the city wall, if it weren't for the elite soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty who acted as the main force to attack the city, perhaps their own casualties would have been greater, and the time to reach here would have been longer.

For no other reason, the Imperial Army did not have the luxury of the Marines, and they could not carry as much ammunition.

They were impressed by the comparison of the capabilities of sea transport versus land transport.

Division Commander Hua Yin profoundly concluded: "The army must be combined with the navy to do so......

They eventually wrote a detailed battle report and sent it to the military headquarters, and then began to regroup the army in the metropolitan area in preparation for the next battle.

Fa Ke, the commander of the Northeast Route Army of the Great Song Dynasty, was in a hurry and led the army to the west first.

Hua Yin, the commander of the first division, looked at the back of their marching army and said to Tao Mu: "They can now independently challenge the Tatar bandits?!" ”

Tao Mu, the commander of the second division, looked at their loose formations and the four-wheeled carriages wrapped in iron sheets, and said lightly: "They also need great military merit...... Besides, everybody knows we're behind them. ”

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This is the end of the book...... In the process of writing this book, I personally suffered too much, and the unfortunate fate never spared me.

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