Chapter 277: The Second Phase of the Eastern Crusade

London!

In the Royal Palace of the British Empire, Queen Victoria sits gracefully on a red chair, in her forties, still looking young and vibrant, with elastic and radiant skin. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

However, listening to the minister's report at this time, the white skin unique to the West showed a layer of dead flesh and blood.

"The stupid Oriental rabbit, who obviously dares to defy the British Empire, invade our concessions, and also dare to detain the ministers and capture the merchants of our country, has decided that it will not be tolerated."

The prime minister below roared, and secretly glanced at the supreme woman in the seat, whose power was like God, and sure enough, this woman was just as guessed, and when she heard her tell what had happened in the East, she became angry.

If it was before, Victoria would stand up and make a decision, point the sword to the east, send an expeditionary force into China, kill and rob, and Victoria was an active supporter of the Second Opium War, especially for the first time, taking the initiative to give a speech and instigating his subjects to launch an invasion of the Qing State.

It's just that this time the news she received seemed to be a little subtle, and she asked: "I heard that Louie's guy's people were completely wiped out in the East, and they also lost dozens of warships, fifty or sixty ships. ”

"The French expeditionary force is not completely annihilated, it seems that there are still more than 2,000 people, and most of their warships have indeed been lost."

Victoria's political skills are quite mature, and she smiled and didn't care about the prime minister's tricks: "So, this little guy who appeared in the east is very strong, defeating the French attack, I remember that it was a force of more than 20,000 people, this is also a bit too bad, you say that if we want to go on an expedition, how many people should we send appropriate?" How many battleships are suitable? How much military will it cost? ”

"This... The soldiers of the British Empire are good at fighting and heroic, and their weapons are much better than the breech guns of France, so at least 30,000, and the number of warships cannot be less than eighty, if you can, you can still pull France together. ”

"France! Louie, that guy is about to lose his family, does he still have the money to be on the expedition? Victoria showed a hint of sarcasm, if Napoleon I was there, she still had expectations for the French newspaper, Louis was a fool of the mouth, he never looked at it, did not pay attention to it.

The prime minister firmly said: "With the personality of Napoleon's family, I think he will not be reconciled, and he should be on another crusade to the east, and I think that if the time is not delayed, we will be able to receive an envoy from France the day after tomorrow." ”

"Well, if France is not sending an expeditionary force, I think this time we can have a good talk with the New Nationalist Army, and as long as they do not harm the interests of our British Empire, we can remain neutral in the East.

If the New People's Army does not recognize the debts of the Great Qing Dynasty, then they are our enemies, and they must be eradicated and the rule of the Great Qing State must be maintained, and a weak and cowardly Eastern Empire is very much in our interests.

By the way, what happened to the Central Asian side? ”

"Your Majesty, Ah Gubai has invaded Turpan of the Qing State and established the Zhedeshar Khanate, but the Russian side seems to be interested in approaching him."

"Then increase efforts to support him with more guns and artillery, so that he can continue to invade the land of the Qing Dynasty and occupy more Qing land. At the same time, it will develop its influence to the entire area south of the Tien Shan, and block the hand of the Russians north of the Tien Shan. Victoria said quite straightforwardly, and then asked, "How is the Bhutanese side?" Now it is possible to slowly infiltrate the western 1 Tibet of the Qing state, and take advantage of the Qing civil war to let the Indian side step up the seizure of the western 1 Tibet, at least in the next two years to find a way for the army to enter. ”

"Your Majesty."

The gaze returns to China.

Westward!

Aguba, the butcher of Central Asia, invaded southern Xinjiang at the end of 64 and successively occupied Kashgar, Yingjisha, Yarkand (Shache), and Khotan (Hotan); At the beginning of 65, he occupied Aksu, Kucha, Ush, and Turpan, established the Zhedeshar Khanate, controlled the entire new 1 territory, and began to fish the common people and massacre the local people.

One of the eighteen bandit leaders of the Hui butcher, Baiyan Huyuan, also took the opportunity to claim the emperor in Gansu, claiming to establish the Great Hui Empire, and began to attack and win over the armed forces of the Hui to occupy territory, because there was no pursuit of the Manchu forces, and slowly entrenched the three northwestern provinces of Qinghai, Ningxia and Gansu.

Inland provinces!

After the blood drops stabbed Zeng Guofan to deter a large number of former Manchu officials, Xiao Liuzi took back to the second palace of Tongzhi Cixi, and successfully made Tongzhi Chan Rang, officially enthroned as the emperor of the Manchu Dynasty.

Subsequently, Anhui Bao was overweight and was attached to the king of Fuyang, and Sun Kaihua was named the king of Xinyang.

Liu Kunyi of Jiangxi Province expressed his repetition and was named the king of Jiangxi.

Yang Changjun rejoined and was named the king of Huzhou.

Golgotha Li Hongzhang's various departments will add the Marquis.

The original Hunan and Han regimes were basically Waji, and only the army in the hands of Zeng Guoquan and most of the Yangtze River naval division in the hands of Peng Yulin maintained the territory near Anqing.

Unexpectedly, Zeng Jize, the son of Zeng Guofan, the original heir of the Xiang Han Dynasty disappeared in Anqing after a big quarrel with Zeng Guoquan, and did not inherit the throne of the Xiang Han Dynasty, and appeared in Chengdu, Sichuan Province two months later with a letter from home.

Zeng Guoquan then succeeded to the throne as the second and last emperor of the Hunan and Han dynasties.

The dotted New People's Army.

After the completion of the first phase of the Eastern Expedition, most of them took a month's rest, completed new training and adjustment of their establishment, and began to actively prepare for the second phase of the summer offensive.

In the Changsha war room, there was a crowd, and the leaders of the main forces in the first stage were all gathered, and Tie 13 was arranging the next battle plan.

"According to the requirements of the marshal, in the second stage, our goal is to sweep away the provinces south of the Yangtze River, this time in addition to the help of the marshal along the Yangtze River, the rest of the places will depend on us, do you have confidence."

"Yes!"

Everyone stood up at the same time, full of confidence, although the main attack this time is Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Anhui, are some mountainous areas, the road is not easy to walk, can not get sufficient supplies, but touch the guy on the waist, the confidence in victory rises spontaneously.

Looking at everyone, Tie Thirteen was quite satisfied, and his morale was very high, so he said: "Next, I will announce the order, this time, the Middle Route Eastern Expeditionary Army is still assisting, going down the Yangtze River, eating Wuchang, Jiujiang, until Anqing, blocking the Yangtze River waterway for our army, you don't have to worry about this."

First of all, the third column went out of Shaoguan and Yizhang to attack Ganzhou in two ways! Take the first step to attract the attention of Jiangxi. ”

"Yes!"

Yang Daliu of the third column replied sonorously, and now he had 8,000 breech mini rifles in his hand.

"The fourth column will attack Ji'an from Chaling and Lianhua County, your troops can attack a little slower, you don't have to attack hard, hit under the city of Ji'an, you can surround it first, and go south all the way to eat Ganzhou with the third column."

"Yes!" Liu Tiancheng also stood up and replied that his fourth column did not fight any hard battles in the first stage, although there were quite a few people, but the combat power still needed to be improved, and there were only 2,000 flintlock pistols and 4,000 breech mini rifles in terms of weapons.

"The first column was divided into 10,000 men and 15 Jiang troops to attack Yichun and Xintu from Pingxiang, and then went south to blockade Xingan County. Chiang's 15th Division continued to advance along Zhangshu and Fengcheng to Nanchang. ”

Zhang Xiumei wanted to say something, Tie 13 said: "Commander Zhang, this is arranged by the marshal, you can be literate and martial, there must be someone in Hu1 South, there is no way, those who can work hard." ”

Zhang Xiumei heard that she felt a lot more comfortable in her heart, and accepted the order to sit in Changsha, not to mention the 10,000 people who were assigned out, and the remaining 30,000 in his department, after reorganization, eliminated the old and weak, and only 15,000 people remained. The formation of a 16th division is also considered to be in the official establishment, and it is four regiments, and the other temporary security regiments and engineer regiments are also left in the south of Hu1.

"The second column is divided into half of the people, and along the Pingjiang, Xiushui, and Ningwu attacks to deter Nanchang and Jiujiang, but your department is mainly to grasp and fight steadily, and you are not in a hurry to attack, and your task is also to assist."

"Yes!" Jiu Song stood up and nodded back, he knew that it was an assist, but in fact, his way was still quite important, it was a double-sided assist, that is, to help the middle road and Bangdong Road, plus the early stage from Xiangxi, the loss was not small, plus the army was only three thousand nier rifles, so he gladly accepted it.

"Except for most of the first column that stayed in Hunan, I personally led the direct attack from Liuyang, Shangli along Wanzai, Yifeng, and Gao'an to the city of Nanchang. But my side is hidden, so guys, you have to make a big noise. ”

"It's the Commander-in-Chief!"

Everyone didn't expect that Tie 13 would lead the main force of the Second Division to attack Nanchang along the path, this was going to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger, and everyone understood that his Second Army (already 7 regiments) had just been reloaded with 10,000 American breech guns. (To be continued.) )