It's just that Yixin really doesn't want Guo Ye to leave Beijing City, not only is his power getting bigger and bigger, but now at this time, when he leaves Beijing City, once foreigners come to the door, what should he do? Guo Ye is the only one who can compete with foreigners in Manjing!

However, the military situation in the northwest is unwaiting, hundreds of thousands of people rebelled, one is not good, that is another Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, even more fierce than the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, this is to shake the fundamentals, foreigners make trouble, at most give some silver, open two commercial ports and pull down, but the rebellion is to overthrow the Manchu Dynasty!

Yixin gritted his teeth and asked, "Guo Ye, if you want to go, then fight quickly and end the counterinsurgency and return to Beijing as quickly as possible!" ”

Guo Ye nodded and replied: "That's nature, the northwest is cold, there is yellow sand everywhere, there is nothing to do, what am I doing in that ghost place?" ”

"Queen Mother, please appoint Guo Ye as the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, the minister of the Northwest War of the General Office of the Qin Mission, and lead the Lu army to Shaanxi to quell the rebellion!"

Yixin bowed and said. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Ci'an nodded and replied, "Since that's the case, then let Guo Ye do this errand......"

The court discussion stopped, and the next thing was to urgently mobilize the army and set off, fortunately, the third division and Baoding Town were close at hand, and nearly 20,000 troops quickly gathered together, and Guo Ye led the expedition.

Guo Ye is out of Gyeonggi, thousands of miles away, the British Empire, and now it is planning a new operation.

Buckingham Palace.

Duke Bit convened the two commanders of the navy and the army to discuss the matter of sending troops, and it was not an easy task to mobilize 30,000 army and half a fleet, this was to go on an expedition to China, how could it be possible without adequate preparations.

"Duke Bit, I thought that if we dispatched 30,000 troops, and the three countries dispatched a total of 80,000 troops, we may not be able to take advantage of China, you must know that China's total strength is now more than 600,000, and the elite troops participating in the war in a row exceed 200,000, even if their weapons are poor, it is difficult for us to achieve absolute superiority......"

Army Commander Franks said in a deep voice.

"Not necessarily!"

Admiral Dundas on the side replied, "It is true that there are many Chinese, but the combat effectiveness of their army is unimaginable, and the weak Chinese soldiers, even the citizens of the British Empire, still want to fight?" And China is vast, although they have a lot of troops, but they need to be stationed on tens of millions of square kilometers of land, in a short period of time, scattered throughout the country's troops, simply can not gather together, we are opposite the point, defeat Chinese will not take too much strength, you know, from the southernmost Guangdong to Beijing City, the distance is more than 5,000 miles, Guangdong's troops want to rush to Beijing City, at least three months, three months, hehe, we are afraid that we have already taken Beijing City......"

Dundas participated in the first Opium War, at that time he was only a lieutenant, he witnessed the rotten combat power of the Qing army, and he was disdainful of the Qing army at all, in his opinion, there was no need for Britain, France and Spain, just the British Empire sent 20,000 or 30,000 people to easily deal with the Qing government and force them to sign an alliance under the city!

Duke Bit frowned and replied: "General Dundas, don't be careless, the current China is completely different from more than ten years ago or twenty years ago, although most of the Qing army's combat strength is low, but the elite soldiers under Guo Ye are very powerful, as early as a few years ago, the British Empire and the French army have already learned their strength, although we won the final victory in that war, but it was just a miserable victory, now Guo Ye's troops are better than before, and it is not so easy to deal with them!" Why did the Union Army win so quickly in the just-concluded American Civil War? Isn't it because Guo Ye personally prepared the Sixth Army for the United States, which greatly increased the combat strength of the Union Army, and as a result, the Confederate army was completely out of breath? ”

Dundas's face turned red, which she had ignored.

"Franks, how many troops do you think we need to achieve final victory?"

Duke Bit asked.

Franks said in a deep voice: "Mr. Prime Minister, I think the question is not how many troops we can send, but that our elite British Imperial Army should not suffer huge casualties in such an inconsequential battle!" Why don't we find a thug to charge ahead? ”

Duke Bit frowned and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

"Mr. Prime Minister, I think we can take this opportunity to arm the Japanese on a large scale, first, so that they can charge for us in the next war and help us resist the bullets of the Qing army, and second, hehe, isn't France fighting us for Japan now? Once the war is over, Japan's civil war is bound to break out, and the Japanese government army, which has mastered advanced weapons, will be able to defeat the shogunate in one fell swoop and drive the French forces out of Japan in the next war. ”

Duke Bit was in high spirits, glanced at Franks appreciatively, and laughed: "Okay, good, kill two birds with one stone, Franks, you are too smart!" It's definitely a brilliant idea! ”

Dundas on the side also became excited, and said with a smile: "Franks, this time you took the lead, I admit that this idea makes me very excited, admire, admire!" ”

"So, how many Japanese are most appropriate?"

Duke Bit asked with a smile.

"Mr. Prime Minister, according to my opinion, if we want Japan to play a role in the war and be able to achieve absolute superiority in the future civil war, we need to prepare weapons and ammunition for them that are enough to arm 30,000 people, including 40,000 rifles, 100 artillery pieces, no less than 4,000 boxes of ammunition, and no less than 20,000 shells, which are enough to ensure that in the future civil war, the Japanese government army will have a certain advantage!"

"Okay, according to your idea, raise 30,000 obsolete old muskets, 10,000 new muskets, 100 infantry guns, plus 4,000 boxes of ammunition, 20,000 shells, haha, the price, let's get a discount, in order to win over the emperor of Japan, we make a little less, it's worth it!"

Duke Bit laughed.

"Well, Mr. Prime Minister, I think we can also provide Japan with a loan of one million pounds to support them to buy our equipment, then their customs revenue will be mortgaged, and then Japan's customs will also fall under our control......"

(To be continued.) )