Chapter 366 Occupy Jinan

Of course, Yang Dongfang doesn't want to use silver, and now that the country is developing, silver must be used everywhere.

So Yang Dongfang insisted on saying: "Of course, my country has been in war all year round, and the loss of silver is serious, and it has reached the point where there is no silver available, so let's use dollars, they are light and more convenient to carry, aren't they?" ”

Ah, Sang Rich wanted to scold, what is no silver available, your China is so big, can't you even take out this mere 100,000 taels?

There's no silver, there's no dollars, what's the fuss.

Well, the dollar is the dollar, fortunately, the amount is not too huge, and the addition of a layer of price increase is still acceptable, I just hope that the federal dollar will not depreciate.

Seeing that Sonrich agreed, Yang Dongfang was simply generous, and he was sending Prussia a little favor, he knew that Prussia now dared to meddle in the affairs of the East and take the risk of selling weapons to the New People's Army, which in itself was intriguing.

It is worth making deep friends, and for the time being, I don't want to be hostile to all European countries.

Something must have happened in Prussia, or in Europe, and it didn't exist in the original history, then the answer is a bit of a must-have.

Traverser, is that you? Hey!

stretched out an olive branch, Yang Dongfang was not so arrogant that he couldn't accept it, so he next said that the 10,000 breech guns sent by Ah Richie would also be bought, of course, it was still paid in dollars, who told him that there were so many dollars now that he couldn't use them up.

This made Ah Thornridge overjoyed, and he finally emptied the cabin and could return with a full load.

There was not much disappointment, but the expectations were too high, and after the negotiation, Yang Dongfang didn't care about this matter, and asked Liu Yongfu to send a general over.

At the same time, Guo Songtao, one of the eight staff members of Zeng Guofan, a famous general of the Hunan army, and the former governor of Guangdong, was released to be responsible for secretly contacting the Prussian authorities.

Guo Songtao, who had been an envoy to Britain and France in the original history, was very capable, so Yang Dongfang entrusted him with this important task, after all, with the surrender of Bao Chao, the Hunan army has become a thing of the past, and it has completely ended.

The so-called employment is not suspicious, suspicious people are not needed, all kinds of waste are waiting to be revived, and there is a shortage of talents.

After dealing with this matter, Yang Dongfang did not delay, and ran to Kaifeng by himself.

Of course, when I went, I took half of the Guangxi Navy Division with me, and now that the Yellow River is rising and returning, the warships can play a great role, killing Jinan from Kaifeng in one go, and cutting off the connection between the two rivers and the Huai Army.

Jinan Yang Dongfang made several feints, but they were all with strategic goals, the most recent was to capture Pingyin, which was dozens of kilometers away, but this time he really wanted to capture here.

In addition to the regiment and sailor brought from Guangzhou, it was Ren Tianming's 8th Brigade.

The 13th Brigade was responsible for guarding Kaifeng, Zhengzhou and other places, and could not continue to advance eastward.

However, there are enough 10,000 men in the 8th Brigade, because in fact, the Huai Army has already been mobilized by the New People's Army and divided into two parts, north and south, one staying in Xuzhou and Huai'an, and the other in Shijiazhuang and Hengshui Gongwei Beijing.

Jinan and other places are basically very empty, only some local regiments practice to save face, as for Yang Dingxin's Huai army, it was crippled in Xuzhou a few years ago.

Therefore, a brigade is more than enough to attack or defend the Yellow River.

The Guangxi Navy Division adapted to the hydrology of the Yellow River and the weather in the north for a few days, but fortunately there was no situation in the summer, and soon entered the battle, going down the Yellow River, and all the strongholds and wharves of the Huai Army and the Manchu Qing Dynasty were swept away and controlled along the way.

According to their speculation, the New People's Army was going to occupy territory this time, and it would have to sweep away Henan and other places before attacking Shandong.

I didn't expect that the New People's Army also had a water division, which appeared directly on the Yellow River, and I panicked all of a sudden, and many officials fled at the moment.

They know that if they don't run, they won't have a chance, Jinan is backed by mountains on three sides, one is facing water, once the New People's Army Navy controls the Yellow River and kills outside Jinan, there is no chance when they are walking.

They don't think anyone is going to come to their rescue.

So when Yang Dongfang arrived in Jinan, the provincial capital of Jiancheng directly surrendered, and after hesitating, Yang Dongfang brought people into the city and found that there was no trap or anything like that.

So I found someone to come over.

The person who was found was an eight-grade civil official named Zhang Jushi, Zhang Jushi said with sincere fear: "I heard that Yang Dashuai himself, the commander, the governor, the Taotai, the prefect and others all left first, and as soon as the adults left, no one restrained the generals, and General Liu and others also took people away. ”

With such a big city, it turned out that he didn't have the confidence to defend it, so Yang Dingxun simply fled with people, but Yang Dongfang was still very confused and continued to ask: "There should be more than these reasons!" ”

Zhang Jushi was so frightened that he immediately knelt on the ground, sweating on his forehead and said, "Yes... Because, because, the emperor has ordered that when there is no way to defend it, it is mainly to preserve the strength and can be retreated. ”

"Returnable..?" Xiao Liuzi will be so good, Yang Dongfang's eyes were like knives staring at Zhang Jushi, and this person hurriedly added: "This is all because of the suggestion of the King of Huainan to transfer the people of Shandong to Manchuria, and the court has long had the intention of abandoning it, and Lord Yang went to Zibo. ”

"It's a bit interesting to move the people of Shandong to Manchuria, it turns out that Xiao Liuzi has already prepared! But that's fine, let's go to develop the Northeast first, immigrants have been scolded by the people since ancient times, so it saves a lot of trouble. Yang Dongfang thought about it, and Zhang Jushi echoed:

"What the marshal said is extreme, it is precisely because of this that the sky has made the people of Shandong boiling, many people are unwilling to move to Manchuria, and are forcibly immigrated, their wives are separated, and the people in private are all looking forward to it, the new people's army and the marshal are coming, the soldiers have no fighting spirit, and the people resist it, although the new people's army has not had a soldier in Shandong, Shandong has already become the Shandong of the marshal."

This sycophant shot well, Yang Dongfang asked Zhang Jushi's experience of being a soldier, and appointed him to pacify the city, so he ordered the troops and sailors of a regiment, and went east to Binzhou and Kenli County.

When I arrived here, there were indeed more than 1,000 Huai troops at this time, and the militia was as many as 7,000 people.

However, these guys are all frightened birds, and in the face of more than a thousand new people's troops, they scattered without blocking them, and each of them went to save their lives.

Tens of thousands of people and countless ships were left behind to move to the northeast.

These ships are in different places, and I don't know how many times the Manchus have transported them with these rudimentary things.

The arrival of the New People's Army naturally brought freedom to these people, and most of them dispersed after a thousand thanks, and a small number of them chose to join the New People's Army, Yang Dongfang did not refuse, and sooner or later he would have to recruit the security group.

Therefore, three regiments were formed, and on the spot they built trenches nearby, built camps and forts, built river protection batteries, and guarded Kenli and Lijin.

The naval division also guarded the entrance of the Yellow River to monitor the arrival of British and French warships.

Sure enough, a few days later, the vanguard of the British and French warships arrived late, but after being shelled, they found that Jinan was occupied by the New People's Army, and they couldn't help but be annoyed, and secretly regretted going to fight Taiwan and support Yangzhou.

As a last resort, I had to notify the second echelon to go to Laizhou to land.

After Jinan fell into the New People's Army, Kaifeng, Handan, and Jinan formed a triangle to control the Yellow River and support each other, and the threat to Zhili was further increased, and the Beijing-Tianjin area became even more panicked for a while.

The control of the Yangtze River by the New People's Army has cut off the food supply channels in Beijing and Tianjin, and now that the Yellow River has been lost, even the last bit of supplies into Beijing has been cut off, and Beijing and Tianjin will have no food to eat in less than a month.

Public grievances alone will pull the Qing court into the water.

Of course, the impact on the Sulu Huai army was greater.

Because of this, the Huai army was surrounded by the New People's Army, attacking from three sides, there was no way out, and the only way out was to take a boat to the sea, but how many people could this take away.

Therefore, after receiving the news of the loss of Jinan, Li Hongzhang completely abandoned Yangzhou and moved his base camp from Huai'an to Haizhou.

At the same time, the troops in various places were tightened, and the troops of Shandong were withdrawn from Laiwu to Mengyin, and from Zibo to Qingzhou.

In the west, the soldiers and horses of Heze and Shangqiu retreated directly to Xuzhou, not caring about the lives of those landlords and old rich gentlemen.

While shrinking the defense, he also sent people to ask Britain and France to support him by sea, and asked the British and French armies to defend Laizhou and Qingzhou together, and invited British and French warships to enter Haizhou and Jiaozhou.