Chapter 405 Attack Ah Gubai

"That's it! I'm done with being the logistics captain for you, and then you'll stay in Saigon honestly when you're young, I'm back to Nanjing, and the French are now so anxious that they are jumping up and down! ”

Xiao Qi was a little reluctant and said: "Your Majesty, Phnom Penh really has to be handed over to the French, there are no big cities on the Mekong River, so this is more decent." ”

"Don't worry, it's just for the French temporarily, without this piece of meat, how can the French want to stay here, I said that all the west of the Mekong River is for the French, even the two provinces of Vietnam are no exception, for the time being, let them help us pull hatred, and when it's almost over, we will come and collect it, and then everything will fall into place."

If there were no French, some of the fleas in Vietnam would have come out in advance to make trouble, and we have no excuse to stay here for too long, a permanent garrison or something. And I also want the French to develop to Siam (Thailand), poke that honeycomb, they no longer have the base of Yuedi, if there is no Khmer meat, they may not have the courage to eat honey! ”

"Isn't it easy to do without a big city here? 200,000 immigrants from Guangxi, 200,000 immigrants from Gaozhou, Lianzhou and other places in Guangdong, and I will open up new cities along the east coast of the Mekong River to open up wasteland and expand land. Yang Dongfang did not hesitate to talk to Xiao Qi about the general trend, and persuaded him to guard Saigon and not mess around with things in the future, and then flew back to Nanjing.

Hearing that Yang Dongfang had arrived in Nanjing, Lan Meng hurriedly asked to see him: "Your Majesty, I finally waited for you to come over. ”

"Duke Lanmeng, don't worry, isn't it Saigon, Phnom Penh? This little thing is worth getting angry about, in this way, as long as you agree to our plan, all the west of the Meigong River will be given to you, I will give you Phnom Penh, we will take the Mekong River as the boundary, the west of the entire China region will belong to you, and the east will belong to us, and we will not interfere with each other, and we will not interfere with each other, how about it. ”

"Ahh Your Majesty, you said to return Phnom Penh to France, and you gave us the west of the Mekong River. Lan Meng thought that he had heard it wrong, he was not on the same line with Yang Dongfang at all, this was too jumpy, he still wanted to ask the teacher for his guilt, but the emperor was so happy.

Yang Dongfang said impatiently: "Of course, mine east of the Mekong River, yours west of yours, and Siam (Thailand) are also yours, so I will ask you if you can do it, if not, I will let the frontline troops continue to fight westward, or send the South China Sea Fleet to defeat Kunshan Island." ”

Yang Dongfang was straightforward, and said quite strongly, for a while, Lan Meng was a little confused, and even more scared, and suddenly lost the image of a diplomat and a negotiating ambassador, nodded and said: "Okay!" Yes! Your Majesty, don't hit Kunshan. ”

Lan Meng is not like the British, who made Yang Dongfang angry all of a sudden, and threw away the good meat of Hong Kong, so he hurriedly agreed.

Because he knew that he had to agree, otherwise the French power would have to roll out of Southeast Asia.

Now there is the Khmer, and there are two provinces in southern Vietnam that have made a lot of money.

As for Siam, you can really do it if you have the chance.

In the past, Siam was not moved because it wanted to leave a neutral area with the British to avoid friction, but now it is not feasible to develop eastward, so if you want to get a larger colony in the east, you can't help but attack Siam.

In the face of interests, who cares about the stinky fish of Britain.

Yang Dongfang sneered in his heart: "It's good to agree, let's develop westward, move Siam, fight with the British, if it weren't for the fear that you will soon have a big enemy, Germany, and don't want to weaken your strength too much, Lao Tzu doesn't need you to fight Siam with the British, and continue to stay in Southeast Asia." ”

There are no eternal friends between countries, only eternal interests, Prussia wants to drag Britain and France with itself, Yang Dongfang doesn't want Prussia to mess up Europe and fight with Britain and France.

Although he is now friendly with Prussia, Yang Dongfang doesn't want Prussia to expand too quickly, at least let him have a strong enemy in Europe and mess up Europe, so France is too weak to treat him, and now France is weak enough, from politics to military affairs.

Soon the peace talks between China and France ended, and the two countries temporarily coexisted peacefully in Southeast Asia with the Mekong River as the boundary, established normal diplomatic relations, and realized normal trade and investment.

Of course, the French side paid a ransom to redeem some soldiers and officers on the basis of 200 taels of silver for each ordinary soldier and more than 2,000 taels for school officers, which was naturally 300 taels on the surface, and the two countries concealed the true ransom of 2,680,000 taels of silver, which was claimed to be 4 million taels to the outside world.

After making peace with France, there was one thing that Yang Dongfang did not expect, that is, France took the initiative to give up its support for the puppet Qing Dynasty, saying that it would not have any form of funding, hoping to be good with China and seize the Chinese market before the British, which made Yang Dongfang depressed, so that the Northeast was not missing a fish.

The British who were so late to realize it were dumbfounded when they heard the news, and felt incredible, France was really willing to pay such a high ransom, is this still a Western power? Are you still a strong teammate?

As a result, he was angry that the French side had negotiated peace with the Chinese Empire alone, and felt that France had lowered the image of the Western countries as tall and mighty.

Yang Dongfang ignored the British side for the time being, went to Lanzhou from Nanjing, and officially ordered Zuo Zongtang to be the deputy commander of the Western Theater, responsible for the liberation of the Western Regions military and political affairs, and commanded the troops to advance into the Western Regions.

Because the road was not easy to walk, in order to save time, starting from Suzhou, Yang Dongfang personally only led two cavalry regiments to advance alternately and sweep the villages along the way.

Six days to capture Hami, and then did not go west to fight Turpan, the face is to go north over the East Tianshan Jiuqu dangerous road to hit Qitai, at this time from Urumqi is only three hundred miles.

Two days later, they arrived at Dihua (Urumqi), attacked this place by surprise, and killed 3,000 enemy bandits.

At this time, Yang Dongfang established a space gate on the East Tianshan Mountain east of Dihua, and Zuo Zongtang and other generals from the northwest gathered in Lanzhou with all the troops to rush to avoid the hard work of the laborers.

"Zuo Aiqing, it's up to you next." After rushing for so many days, Yang Dongfang felt that this time was really tired, thinking that the north and south had been fighting for many years, and there was no such hard work, hundreds of thousands of miles were uninhabited, either high mountains or yellow sand covered the sky, extremely hot and hot, and the cold wind at night was disturbing.

"I will live up to His Majesty's trust!" Zuo Zongtang, Liu Jintang and others said movingly.

Soon Zuo Zongtang arranged the task as the deputy commander of the Western Theater: "Jin Shun was the pioneer of the North Road, commanding the headquarters and Zhang Yao's department, and the Ningxia Cavalry Regiment went west to conquer Jichang Prefecture, Suilai County, Wusu Hall, and Tacheng, and conquered Houtun troops to police the Russian army;

Liu Jintang led the brigade as well as the Hezhou Cavalry Regiment and the Pingliang Cavalry Regiment as the pioneer of the South Road, and attacked Tuoxun after attacking Dabancheng.

Tuoxun, the gate of Agu Bai is open, and you will flee in panic, you will open the way with cavalry, pursue until you take Yanqi and Korla, rest first and wait for the arrival of our army, and march westward.

Bao Chao lived in the middle, but once Liu Jintang captured Tuoxun, he marched east to liberate Turpan and other areas.

The other cavalry divisions and infantry troops rested in Urumqi and waited for His Majesty's command. ”

"Yes!"

Soon, with Dihua as the center, the Chinese army advanced north and south at the same time, restoring the territory, and at the same time, there were constantly sappers coming to Dihua City, building houses and expanding the city.

Soon they were accompanied by militia and 100,000 people from Sichuan, who quickly cultivated fertile land in Dihua and other places, and each person was given more than 100 acres of land.

Jin Shun's army went north very smoothly, except for the two Hui bandits who were stubborn and were completely annihilated, the people of all nationalities along the way had long looked forward to the arrival of Wang Shi, and were warmly welcomed, and took the initiative to lead the way to fund and liberate the entire northern territory in half a month.

The southern attack was not fast, and it took four days to capture the city of Taban, and it took five days to reach the outside of Tuoxun.

The reason was that the road from Dabancheng to Tuoxun was too desolate, either a desert or a barren mountain, and the cavalry could come quickly, but the infantry was more difficult, so that the overall marching speed was delayed.

At this time, Tuoxun City, Ah Cooper was still drinking with his men, and Bai Yanhu reminded:

"My great king of Hongfu, the Chinese army is coming violently, we must hold Tuoxun City, otherwise the Chinese army will drive straight in, and there is no danger to defend, so we should directly transfer the troops in Turpan and the manpower of Yanqi and Korla in the rear."

"Bai Yanhu, you are too alarmist, how powerful can the Chinese army be, taking Dihua is just a sneak attack over the East Tianshan Mountain, if I had expected them to come from the north, I would definitely fight with them in Dihua." Ah, Cooper's youngest son said disdainfully.

Ah Gubai's eldest son, Burke Huri, said: "Father, I think General Bai is right, he has rich experience in fighting with the Chinese army, and knows a lot about the Chinese army, these Chinese troops are not Qing State, they are well-armed, and they are not easy to deal with, Dabancheng was conquered in less than half an hour, which can be seen, so we must defend here and transfer more troops over." ”

Ah Gu Bai nodded in basic approval, but his youngest son snorted coldly: "The general of the defeated army, father, we have already put one-third of our strength here, enough to deal with the Chinese army, the Chinese army has come from afar, it has long been a tired division, as long as our cavalry takes the initiative to attack the baggage troops that are harassing them, Dihua will soon take it." ”

Ah Gu Bai drank strong wine, cut the mutton with a knife, pinched a piece and threw it into his mouth and chewed it, looked at the eldest son, then at the younger son, and finally swept a little Bai Yanhu before saying: "Just do what Zack said, I can't transfer all the troops to the east, otherwise Kashgar will be chaotic, and if we really can't defeat the Chinese army, then the city resistance will consume their strength, and if necessary, please ask the Russian army to attack the Western Regions from Tacheng and capture Dihua to block the way of the Chinese army." Hey! ”

The next day, 3,000 cavalry of Cooper took the initiative to meet the Hezhou cavalry regiment.

"Captain! The cavalry of the rebels is coming at us! ”

Ma Zhanao smiled: "Oh! It seems that Ah Cooper treats us as soft persimmons, and the carbine battalion is ready to give me the edge of the rebel attack, and the other three battalions will charge and kill me later. ”

Yang Dongfang of the Hezhou Cavalry Regiment only equipped them with a battalion of rifles, so Ma Zhanao directly took out the good steel and sharpened his knife to kill the foreigners.

Soon the cavalry of Cooper rushed to the scene, they were not equipped with many rifles, and they were all Mini rifles, the two sides exchanged fire, and they immediately made a decision, only to see the bandits constantly falling, the men and horses overturned, the sand and dust were everywhere, and the troops behind were pulling the horse ropes.

Ma Zhanao then drew his saber to attack, and the cavalry of the two horses urged the horse to pursue the enemy, and the momentum was like a sword inserted into the enemy, and the enemy was slashed and killed, and the bandit soon could not hold on, and withdrew to the city after dropping 1,800 corpses.

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