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In the past ten days, Guo Ye has lived a very chic life, he has nothing to read, fish, and never take him out of the house anyway, and no matter who visits, he is gone!

However, there are some people he must meet, and the person who came is none other than Zhang Chunping, who has just been promoted to the general office of the telegraph office, and Zhang Chunping has been in office for two months.

In the past two months, Zhang Chunping in accordance with Guo Ye's instructions, while building the entire telegraph bureau team, while began to use the resources of Shandong, urgently set up telegraph lines, the first line, is from Jinan to Beijing, in order to be able to complete the laying of this telegraph line as soon as possible, this guy used his brains, and actually started to build from Jinan, Dezhou, Baoding, and Beijing at the same time, and divided the construction team that was originally not much manpower into four dials, and the speed was suddenly improved, and in a month and a half, the telegraph line from Beijing to JinanIt was successfully opened, and the original telegraph line from Jinan to Shanghai and from Shanghai to Hong Kong was connected into a single line, which was completely unimpeded with the outside world!

After completing this line, Guo Ye immediately ordered Zhang Chunping to start building a telegraph line from Beijing to Tianjin, a line, going in the opposite direction, also extremely fast, and now it has begun to come to an end, but the original remaining telegraph lines in Shandong Province have been used up, so they can only temporarily pause, waiting for the arrival of the telegraph line purchased by Xue Fucheng from the United States.

Yesterday, Zhang Chunping came to the Guogong Mansion again, and today he came to the door again, this kid has a problem again? Probably not......

Guo Ye asked Zhang Chunping to enter the study, and Zhang Chunping actually had a slight sweat stain on his forehead!

"Chunping, what's the matter? I said it, I need to be quiet these days, be quiet, if there is anything, just make your own decisions, is there anyone in Beijing who dares to embarrass you? ”

Guo Ye asked.

Zhang Chunping said in a low voice: "Dashuai, something has changed!" ”

Seeing Zhang Chunping's solemn face, Guo Ye's heart tightened, the things that can make Zhang Chunping nervous seem to be small!

"What's going on?"

Zhang Chunping took out an excerpt, handed it to Guo Ye, and said, "This is a telegram sent back from England, and Shi Dakai specially sent it to you......"

Guo Ye frowned, Shi Dakai, what can he do in England?

Guo Ye unfolded the excerpt, this is the telegram copied by the secretary in the telegraph office, and the handwriting is neat and does not dare to be sloppy!

Guo Ye's face changed slightly after reading the excerpt, he didn't expect that for this matter, England and France would be so excited!

"Yes, yes! Approaching 100,000 troops, and a mixed fleet, hehe, yes, yes, I really look down on me Guo Ye, I look down on me Guo Ye too much! ”

Guo Ye sneered.

Zhang Chunping wiped the sweat on his head and said urgently: "Dashuai, this is not a trivial matter!" With a hundred thousand Western troops, plus a powerful fleet, how can we resist it? The Western weapons are excellent, the ships are strong and the guns are sharp, but they are by no means comparable to the Taiping army......

Guo Ye frowned slightly, and his heart was also a little shocked, 100,000 Western troops, his own Lu army combined, only about 50,000 people, this is still counting the surrendered Taiping army, although Zeng Zuo Li also has more than 100,000 troops, but the combat effectiveness is far inferior to the European army, the Sino-French war, the Huai army at its peak and the French army fought, 40,000 people against the French army more than 10,000 people, all of them are a fight, although it is claimed that the Qing army won, but the Qing army's casualties are far greater than the French army, and only repelled the invasion of the French armyHow can it be called a victory? At best, it's a pyrrhic victory!

Now Britain, France, and Spain are going to mobilize more than 100,000 people! With such a strong force, it really can't be underestimated......

"Dashuai, you have something to say......"

Zhang Chunping said urgently.

Guo Ye waved his hand, so that Zhang Chunping didn't speak, and his mind began to calculate quickly.

According to the information given to him by Shi Dakai, now the three Western countries are still mobilizing their troops, and it is estimated that in ten days at most, the alliance of the three countries will go straight to China under the escort of the fleet, and they will arrive in Shanghai in about a month and a half, which means that there is really not much time left for themselves, only one and a half months of preparation time!

A month and a half seems to be a long time, but Guo Ye also needs time, the current Lu army is distributed in Zhili, Shandong and Anhui, Zuo Zongtang's Chu army is far away in Fujian and Zhejiang, Li Hongzhang's Huai army is far away in Huguang, all of them are high mountains and far away, if you want to concentrate on Jinggi and bring it, where is it so convenient? The farthest army in Hunan is no less than 3,000 miles away from Gyeonggi!

Even if the army marches with all its might, the army marches forty miles a day, it will take two or three months, and it will be too late! Even the army of Zhejiang, which is closer, is almost 2,000 miles away from Gyeonggi, and even if it is transported through Cao, it will take a month!

Guo Ye's head is really a bit big, special, British, French, so much bullying is too much, and he bullied Lao Tzu again! This time, Lao Tzu is definitely not finished with you!

But after all, it's not so easy to do, the most elite combat power of the Lu army is now almost the same as the elite combat power of France, the French army is the strongest in the world, from the Napoleonic era, to the present, it has been tested by war for a long time, and all of them are sharpened from blood and fire!

"Chunping, immediately send a telegram to Jinan, asking the Shandong Arsenal to make every effort to produce weapons and ammunition, day and night, the big war is imminent, we must have sufficient weapons and ammunition! In particular, artillery and heavy machine guns were produced in full force, and all the heavy machine guns in the arsenal were immediately distributed! ”

"Yes, Dashuai!"

Zhang Chunping agreed.

Guo Ye continued: "Also, order all the divisions under the Lu Army to enter a state of combat readiness and practice twice a day, especially the newly joined Taiping Army, and also increase live-fire training, and their shooting level must be improved!" Ordered Gao Qi to recruit two regiments of new troops within a month, and keep quiet, his first division was all moving closer to the Shandong border, and deployed along the canal as much as possible, and made every effort to collect merchant ships for backup! The two brigades of Yan Chunyu's 2nd Division were ordered to move in the direction of Dezhou, and the 6th Brigade moved in the direction of Yantai and entered Weihai Weijun Port! Similarly, Yan Chunyu was in Jinan and immediately began to expand the strength of the Second Division, and in a month's time, it was necessary to expand the strength of a brigade and urgently prepare for war! ”

"Marshal, what about the third division of Lord Guanting?"

"Third Division?"

Guo Ye hesitated for a moment, and said helplessly: "The third division is within reach, any movement is under the monitoring of others, we have no way to move, let's do this first, the third division plus the twenty battalions of the Hunan army has more than 20,000 troops, even if it is a war, it can resist the attack of the Three Kingdoms Alliance for a period of time, waiting for the first division and the second division to come to help." ”

(To be continued.) )