In the last years of Qianping, the seizure of the throne by the dragons led to chaos and difficulties in the government, and also led to the emptiness of the treasury and the large-scale corruption of the officials, so that the imperial court was very short of money for several years after Emperor Shunhe ascended the throne; Although some of the treasury was enriched by copying some corrupt and corrupt officials, there were continuous wars in northern Xinjiang, so the imperial court was still short of money. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info but now it is different, in the past two years, with the gentry integrated food and the introduction of the new policy of the imperial court, as well as the disappearance of the war in northern Xinjiang, so the imperial court's finances are abundant, the basis of the imperial court's preparation for the new Guanning War is to rely on the development of military weapons and abundant military spending, so the imperial court has the strength to gather more than 600,000 heavy troops to Zhili and prepare for the Guanning War in the spring of the next year.

In the first Guanning War between the two countries, the Middle East Sea Kingdom relied on the first field division to completely annihilate the most elite 110,000 Guanning troops of the imperial court, which gave the imperial court a huge deterrent, so this time the imperial court was extremely cautious and prepared more than 600,000 heavy troops for this purpose; And another reason for the arrogance and self-confidence of the imperial court is the news from Yanshantang that there are more than 100,000 musketeers among the more than 600,000 troops prepared by the imperial court, which may be where the real confidence of the imperial court lies.

After all, the imperial court did not have the advanced steel and military technology of the East China Sea Kingdom, so the firearms technology lagged behind a lot; Because of the backward manufacturing technology of the barrel, the Taiyuan Firearms Factory mainly produced breech guns and artillery, of course, there were also a small number of rear guns; But in any case, the output of the imperial court musket is very considerable after all, otherwise it would be impossible to equip more than 100,000 troops.

The imperial court did not have the technical ability to synthesize ammonia, so their raw materials for gunpowder were mainly derived from saltpeter; In contrast, the East China Sea has an inefficient synthetic ammonia industry and a primary chemical industry, so the weapon power of the East China Sea is far from being comparable to the imperial court; The only advantage that the imperial court has is the numerical superiority, but the strength of the war is not only a comparison of numbers, but a contest of comprehensive strength, so the numerical superiority did not improve the combat effectiveness of the imperial court, but in essence, it added greater pressure to the military logistics of the imperial court.

On the other hand, in the East China Sea, the land forces of the Marine War Department in the south can be temporarily disconsidered, and the naval forces can also be considered for the time being, and the field divisions and cavalry divisions of the War Department alone are far from being comparable to the imperial court! The field division is equipped with a lot of heavy firepower, and the rifles are also fired in bursts, while the cavalry division is mainly rifles and cavalry guns, as well as sabers and grenades and other equipment, and the War Department even has five heavy airships and more than 30 light airships; Comparing these forces, there was no possibility of victory for the imperial court at all.

However, the accounts of the war are not calculated in this way, and Fu Ning has no intention of and cannot attack the Jingshi region now, because that may cause a general upheaval in the land under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, so the scope of attack of the East China Sea State should not exceed the line of Changli, Lulong, and Chahar; However, Fu Ning also wanted to prevent the imperial court officials and troops from breaking into the east of Ningyuan, because the imperial court only needed to infiltrate thousands of cavalry into the Kwantung Mansion was enough to cause huge losses to the Kwantung Mansion, and might even greatly disrupt the development pace of the Kwantung Mansion, so the imperial court's preparations for the war this time actually brought great trouble to Fu Ning!

There are still about four months before the beginning of spring of the following year, but the gathering of troops and preparations for war are gradually in place, so it is likely that the court will first launch a small-scale tentative war in winter, and then a large-scale Guanning war in the spring of the following year; Therefore, although the East China Sea still has plenty of time to prepare for war, the development of the situation still makes Fu Ning very worried.

The military forces cruising in the north of Kwantung Province have begun to gradually retract and assemble, and the four field divisions of the War Department have been deployed on the front line of Ningyuan, Qiantun, Lingyuanyuan, and Lamagou, and the Guangning Hall in the rear has also prepared a field division on standby; The cavalry division has also assembled three divisions in the Houtun area to stand by, and the follow-up military forces are still being assembled; The Department of Communications is also mobilizing forces to urgently lay the light rail railway from Ningyuan to Qiantun so that Qiantun can be connected to Ningyuan, Quang Ninh, and Liaoyang through the light rail railway, so as to support the upcoming Second Guanning War.

One angle is that the East China Sea State is seizing the day to carry out the large-scale development and construction of the Kwantung Prefecture, and the other angle is to try to avoid causing turmoil in the land under the jurisdiction of the British Dynasty, so Fu Ning very much hopes that this war will not happen! But the actions of the imperial court were obviously iron-hearted in preparing for war, so Fu Ning had a headache.

Once the war breaks out, it is likely to disrupt the development rhythm of the Kwantung Prefecture, and if you are not careful, there may be court cavalry infiltrating and causing huge blows and losses to the Kwantung Prefecture; From this point of view, it is better for the War Department to let go of the war and lead the war to the enemy's land, so as to avoid the Kwantung Prefecture being affected; However, if the flames of war are brought to the enemy's land, the war may cause a comprehensive turmoil in the Central Plains, which is exactly what Fu Ning does not want to see!

In the past two years, the rumors about the division of land and land in the East China Sea have greatly disturbed the hearts of the peasants under the rule of the imperial court, and the consequence of the chaos is that the imperial court has sat on the crater, but because the situation is developing too fast, the imperial court has not yet discovered the unusually large "volcano"; Fu Ning didn't want this volcano that might swallow tens of millions of people to erupt, so he couldn't smash the imperial court now, so he had to make the imperial court retain a certain deterrent and central power. The world is not chaotic, and the world is not at peace! The intelligence of the Intelligence Department shows that there have been sporadic peasant uprisings in Sichuan because of the lack of troops, including the small-scale uprisings of the White Lotus Sect, which indicates that a peasant war that swept the north of the imperial court may break out at any time, but unfortunately the imperial court cannot see it, but is making every effort to prepare for the war against the Kwantung Prefecture in the coming year!

How to avoid the outbreak of the second Guanning War, for this Fu Ning racked his brains to think, the reason for the difficulty is that he hopes to accurately control the scale and area of the war, but it is extremely difficult to control.

At the joint meeting of the Military Affairs Department and the General Staff Department, Zhang Qi put forward a plan, that is, the Admiralty would send troops to attack Jiangning, Yangzhou, Anqing and other places to disrupt Jiangnan, while the Marine War Department in the south would send troops to capture Liangguang, so as to contain and make the imperial court return to defend the Yangtze River and Lingnan. As soon as this plan was proposed, it won the full support of the entire Military Affairs Department, but Fu Ning shook his head after thinking twice, in order to prevent the eruption of the volcano of the peasant uprising, it was not appropriate to stimulate other areas of the imperial court, so the war must be controlled in the Guanning area, and the scale of the war must be precisely controlled.

Many people put forward a lot of plans and suggestions at the joint meeting of the two divisions, but they were all vetoed by Fu Ning one by one; The difficulty of the meeting finally provoked the Minister of War Tian Yanwu, "Boss! This doesn't work, that doesn't work, I can't fight this battle! You might as well let me sit still after taking the Shanhaiguan!" It's better than what makes me shrink now! ”； Tian Yanwu stood up and complained and then sat back at the conference table, but Tian Yanwu's complaint made Fu Ning suddenly brighten up, and Fu Ning's brows, which had been frowning for more than half a month, suddenly relaxed!

Yes! As long as the East China Sea Kingdom takes Shanhaiguan and Chahar, and then controls the pass of the Yanshan Mountain Range, then all problems will be solved! Fu Ning's thinking has never been more cheerful!

If you take Shanhaiguan and Chahar and control several passes in the Yanshan Mountains, then you can avoid the infiltration of the imperial cavalry into the Kwantung Mansion, and it will not affect the development and construction of the Kwantung Mansion; And the War Department is absolutely capable of defending the newly captured defense line of the Yan Great Wall, so as long as the War Department does not attack forward, it will not excessively stimulate the imperial court, in that case, the imperial court will shrink its strength to protect itself after the attack is unfavorable, and the deterrent power and power of the imperial court center will not be weakened too much, and it will be able to continue to stabilize the situation in the northern provinces of the imperial court, and a large-scale peasant uprising war will not break out in the short term!

Tian Yanwu did not expect that his complaint would solve the core problem of the war, in fact, the core problem of the situation in Guanning has always been Shanhaiguan; Because whoever controls Shanhaiguan will have the initiative, but this issue has been ignored by Fu Ning for a long time, and now he remembered it because of Tian Yanwu's reminder.

After the thinking was clear, the military plan was much easier to formulate, and then the military aircraft staff officers of the military division department of the Ministry of War came up with the battle plan as quickly as possible, and after receiving the order, the field divisions and cavalry divisions were fully prepared for combat, and then quickly attacked in the cold winter.

In order to make the attack sudden and rapid, the War Department and the Military Division spent a lot of effort, and the War Department's radio and airships were all used for a time, and even the Special Regiment of the Second Guards Division directly under Fu Ning was temporarily transferred by Fu Ning to the War Department's airship troops, and then the military force quickly captured Shanhaiguan with an unusually strong attack force and speed, followed by Xifengkou, and then Panjiakou and Gubeikou also quickly fell into the control of the East China Sea State, and the 40,000 cavalry of the imperial court were locked up in Chahar outside the Great Wall of Gubeikou. The War Department quickly dispatched three cavalry divisions to encircle and annihilate it!

The Second Guanning War broke out in such a surprising amount of time, and then ended the first act at a jaw-dropping speed, and in just more than ten days, the imperial court lost more than 100,000 elite troops, including the Great Wall defense line of Shanhaiguan Chahar and the entire Yanshan!

After that, the field division and cavalry division under the War Department of the East China Sea State quickly switched to local defense, and the Department of Communications urgently mobilized forces to lay a simple rail railway from Qiantun to Shanhaiguan to facilitate and speed up the transportation of military supplies.

The military forces of the Eastern Sea Kingdom did not attack again, but they still shocked the entire British court; The furious Emperor Shunhe killed dozens of palace ladies and smashed an entire room of porcelain and items on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve!

Changwu, the general of the Northwest, was ordered to be dismissed and imprisoned by the angry Emperor Shunhe, and the king of Beijing County, Shuirong, who interceded for Changwu, was also stripped of the title of county king, and Changwu's sister, Chang Guifei in the palace, was also implicated and sent to the cold palace.

The great court of the imperial court lasted for three days, and no one dared to say "war" or "peace"; No one dares to say that they can win this war, so no one dares to say the word "war"; And in the face of the angry Emperor Shunhe, no one dared to propose peace, because maybe the word "and" would be ordered by Emperor Shunhe to cut off his head as soon as the word "harmony" came out!

The rapid loss of the defense line of the Great Wall of the Imperial Court, the deterrent power of the military power of the East China Sea State, and various other rumors quickly plunged the entire Zhili Province into a storm, and the more than 500,000 heavy troops gathered in the Zhili Province began to fall into confusion and confusion, and the situation in the imperial court did not improve until the end of the first month, after Emperor Shunhe calmed down. After Emperor Shunhe regained his composure, he quickly promoted two generals, the new northwest general Wei Lilong's task after integrating 200,000 troops was to be responsible for defending the Miyun Zunhua defense line and recovering the Great Wall on the first line of the Beikou Coast, and the new Guanning general Shen Shixi was responsible for defending the Changli Lulong defense line and recovering the Great Wall at Shanhaiguan after integrating 200,000 troops, but whether the task could be achieved Even Emperor Shunhe himself had no confidence.

The officers and soldiers in charge of the tentative counterattack of the imperial court were bloodied by the rain of heavy machine guns and bullets of the East China Sea State before they could even touch the edge of the Great Wall Pass, so they began to move to full defense and abandoned all attempts to counterattack.

The Foreign Affairs Department of the East China Sea is nominally a division-level organization, but in fact it is a "cold yamen", compared with other departments, the foreign affairs department has the least human and material resources, so the director Hong Bin has always been extremely demanding of tasks, and now there is a task, so the director Hong Bin directly applied to go to Yanjing in person to take charge of the work of "seeking peace".

Fu Ning's task to Hong Bin was very simple, one was to sue for peace on both sides, and the other was to obtain the court's consent for the free entry and exit of the displaced people in Shanhaiguan.

Emperor Shunhe was very surprised by the action of the envoy of the East China Sea Kingdom when he arrived in Beijing to ask for peace, but the surprise that the East China Sea Kingdom gave him one after another was too much, and he had never figured out the hole cards and ways of acting of the East China Sea Kingdom, so he gradually felt numb to the various strange behaviors of the East China Sea Kingdom.

As soon as Emperor Shunhe saw Hong Bin, he angrily rebuked, "I have always been friendly and friendly to the East China Sea, but the East China Sea has started wars in vain, killing my soldiers and plundering my territory!" ――What do you want in the East China Sea?! ”。

After Hong Bin knelt down, he straightened his waist and returned without humility or arrogance: "Last year, there were only 210,000 soldiers in Zhili Province, but at this time last month, there were 650,000 heavy soldiers in Zhili Province; Since the court is plotting a lot, then my Donghai Kingdom naturally has to take precautions. -- The people of the Han family are the people of the Han family, and my king can't bear the cannibalism of the Han family, so he has already said to the soldiers, not out of the Shanhaiguan Pass, not out of the Great Wall! Recently, I heard that the imperial court transferred 50,000 recruits from Shanxi Xiying to Fangshan in western Beijing. ”

After a pause, Hong Bin continued, "Donghai is willing to release all the prisoners unconditionally, but I hope that the two sides can turn hostility into friendship again; In order to prevent the recurrence of war, the East China Sea Kingdom is willing to protect the Great Wall for the imperial court, but it will never leave the Great Wall, so I hope the emperor can understand one or two! ”。

Hong Bin's words were so blocked that Emperor Shunhe couldn't say a word, so he could only stare angrily.