"Great victory! Great victory! ”

"Li Weiguo, King of Wu, won the Battle of Songhu again, annihilated 200,000 British and French troops, and raised the prestige of our country!"

On the streets of Shanghai, newspapers from various countries got the news as soon as possible, and it was quickly published in the newspapers of the next day, spread throughout the streets and alleys of Shanghai, and soon spread to all parts of the country, and all the sons and daughters of China received this exciting good news.

If it was the victory of the first Battle of Songhu that only made the people of the whole country no longer afraid of foreigners, but there was always a bit of a psychological shadow, and now the second Battle of Songhu was won again, and the 200,000 British and French troops were wiped out, when they heard the news, the people of the whole country were not afraid of foreigners at all.

What foreigners have three heads and six arms, and what foreigners eat people's hearts, all of them have become floating clouds and fly away, replacing the impression in people's hearts that foreigners are vulnerable, and they are not the opponents of my Heavenly Empire at all, and they will be destroyed in minutes.

Foreigners are no longer terrible, and the Chinese people can finally stand up with their backs straightened and no longer be bullied by foreigners.

"What? Foreigners don't give money for dinner? Beat him up! ”

"What? Did a foreigner touch your woman? Damn, chop his snatch! No, castrate him directly! ”

"What? Foreigner girls have big breasts and big butts, and they are good to give birth to! So what are you waiting for, rob him! ”

……

Ordinary people all over the country rushed to tell each other that they had been bullied by foreigners before, so they had to take revenge.

"What? The imperial court is not allowed to take revenge? Even protecting foreigners? ”

"Yes, in the eyes of the imperial court, foreigners are masters, we are dogs, of course we are not allowed to take revenge, of course we have to protect foreigners!"

"Phew! Look at Li Weiguo, the king of Wu, under his rule, we ordinary people are the real masters of the house, I heard that the foreigners in the provinces south of the Yangtze River do not dare to be arrogant at all, and they are governed obediently. ”

"Hey, why were we born in Jiangbei, why not in Jiangnan? What a sin to follow this court! ”

"Fuck the court. Lao Tzu now only recognizes Li Weiguo, the king of Wu, he is the real son of heaven, we Han people have been dog slaves for hundreds of years, and it is time to turn over! ”

The crowd was immediately angry and dissatisfied with the imperial court, and once this pent-up grievance broke out, it would definitely be a landslide and a crack.

Everything is afraid of comparison, but now the Nanyang controlled by Li Weiguo is prosperous, and the people live and work in peace and contentment. Even the foreigners were defeated. But under the control of the imperial court, the north betrayed the country to seek glory, squeezed the hard-earned money of the common people, curry favor with foreigners like pugs all day long, and betrayed the interests of the country and the people.

The two are contrasted, and the judgment is made.

In the north, there are more and more ordinary people who worship Li Weiguo and desperately want Li Weiguo to cross the river and go on a northern expedition. In the past, they just held it in their hearts and didn't dare to say it, but with Li Weiguo's strength expanding unprecedentedly. Even the 200,000 Anglo-French troops were defeated, and the imperial army in the north and Li Hongzhang's Beiyang Army could not do it, which shows that Li Weiguo's military strength has the ability to crush the north, and the hearts of the common people are bright. It's time to welcome Li Weiguo, the king of Wu, as he goes north.

The common people have rods and scales in their hearts, and Li Weiguo, the king of Wu, is a Han Chinese, with strength and compassion for the people. It would be a pity if such a person did not come to be emperor.

Originally, there were two oceans, the north and the south, and the common people in the north were under the high-pressure rule of the imperial court and had to support the imperial court. The support of the common people in the south for Li Weiguo was originally a balanced situation in the hearts of the people.

However, with the victory of the Second Battle of Songhu, the common people in the north turned to support Li Weiguo, and in this way, Li Weiguo already had the qualifications to win the Ninth Five-Year Plan in terms of popular support.

This has always been a problem that plagued Li Weiguo, when Li Weiguo also had a strong military strength and could directly conquer the world in the Northern Expedition, but he was too young to lack the foundation of the people, the Qing Empire's hundreds of years of slavery education was not in vain, and a large number of ordinary people died in the Qing Dynasty, which was an insurmountable obstacle for Li Weiguo. Now that this obstacle has been broken, the Qing Empire grovels to foreigners and extorts tyranny against its own people, finally allowing the common people to see the true face of the imperial court and no longer be so loyal.

Of course, to be able to shake the hearts of the people in the north in such a short period of time, Li Weiguo also spent a lot of energy, at least his two organizations, the China S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, have infiltrated all parts of the north for more than ten years, and after years of conscious and targeted propaganda and agitation, they have finally awakened the insensitive people, so that they have their own souls for the first time, no longer want to be slaves, and want to turn over and become masters.

This kind of thing can only accumulate slowly, and it is usually not visible, unless it reaches a critical point and suddenly erupts in a day.

What ignited this critical point was Li Weiguo's brilliant victory in the Second Battle of Songhu, which inspired the hearts of the people of the whole country, as if they had given them a reassurance.

They may not understand military affairs, but they will compare, the court is afraid that foreigners can't beat foreigners, and Li Weiguo can kill hundreds of thousands of foreigners' troops twice, even foreigners can beat it, can't they beat the court?

The mentality of the common people in the north has not attracted the attention of the imperial court, because at this moment the imperial court has become a pot of porridge.

Yi Xin scolded Li Hongzhang for misleading the country in Chongqing Mansion, because he was old and cunning, and judged that Li Weiguo could not be completely killed this time, so he had decided to give up the military operation. It's a pity that Li Hongzhang sent an urgent report, informing him that the British and French forces had successfully landed in Chuansha and were about to capture Shanghai, Yixin, who didn't know the situation, immediately believed it, and felt that Li Weiguo must be finished this time, so he immediately ordered Yiketanga to lead the last elite of the Qing Empire, 300,000 Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banner Army from Chongqing Mansion down the Yangtze River, to attack the two provinces of Huguang, intending to seize the important land of Huguang, and then march east along the river to attack Shanghai, and join forces with the British and French forces and Li Hongzhang's Beiyang Army, and completely annihilate Li Weiguo's Nanyang group.

However, when Iktanga led his army to raid Wuchang Mansion, he was ambushed by a large number of warships of the East China Sea Fleet.

The warships of the Qing army are not comparable to the sail battleships of the East China Sea Fleet, even after the first battle of the South Gate Port of Chongming Island, the sail battleships of the East China Sea Fleet suffered great losses, and the remaining dozen or so battleships were still able to exert strong combat effectiveness, and the battleships of several thousand tons were by no means comparable to the small warships of more than 100 tons of the Qing army. Besides, the warships of the East China Sea Fleet were all equipped with rear-loading rapid-fire guns, and their combat effectiveness exploded instantly, sinking more than 1,000 Qing warships in less than an hour, killing more than 100,000 Qing soldiers and wounding them.

The remnants of the Qing army turned around and fled. Some jumped directly into the water and fled to the river, 300,000 Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banner Army, before they could go ashore, they were defeated by the East China Sea Fleet, and finally fled back to Chongqing Mansion with less than 30,000 Qing troops, and everyone had a mental breakdown, even if a small group of Nanyang Army appeared, they would immediately flee from the wind, and the fear of the Nanyang Army had been imprinted in their bone marrow, and they could no longer have the courage to fight with it.

The 300,000 Manchurian and Mongolian coalition forces were defeated. made Yixin age dozens of years in an instant, and now he got the news that Li Weiguo won the second Battle of Songhu and the news that 200,000 British and French troops were wiped out, Yixin suddenly understood the ins and outs, he was pitted by Li Hongzhang, and he was also pitted by Li Weiguo, so angry that he vomited blood and suddenly half a liter, and fainted.

Iktanga's ability to escape was still remarkable, and he fled back to Chongqing Mansion with the remnants of the Qing army. Seeing that Yixin vomited blood and fell into a coma, he immediately took Yixin and the 30,000 remnants of the Qing army to withdraw from Chongqing Mansion and fled directly back to Beijing.

Of course, this can't be blamed on Iktanga. It is true that he lost the battle, and he will not easily give up Chongqing Prefecture and the whole of Sichuan, but he has no choice, and he has 30,000 frightened troops in his hands. It can't stop Huguang's Nanyang Army at all.

What's more, the commander of Huguang's Nanyang Army is Chen Jingnan, who is a contemporary Zhuge Liang-level figure. He can smoke a lot of cigarettes in Yiketanga, and he is not an opponent in a 10,000 battle of wits and courage with Chen Jingnan, rather than die in Sichuan, it is better to go back to Beijing and take care of the aftermath, maybe this time the children of the Eight Banners will have to withdraw to Guannai.

As soon as Yiketang'a left, Chen Jingnan commanded the Nanyang Army composed of the original Hunan army personnel in Hunan and Hubei towns to march to Chongqing, and the Chongqing prefect went out of the city directly to ask for surrender, because he also knew that the 300,000 troops of the imperial court were finished, and it was impossible for him to hold on to the thousands of miscellaneous troops in Chongqing, not to mention that he was a Han Chinese, and he must have taken the initiative to surrender at this time to have a good end. After decades of being a prefect, he still has a vision.

Chen Jingnan sighed, he hurried to Chongqing, or let Yixin and Yiketanga escape, if they can be caught, the subsequent Northern Expedition is estimated to be twice the result with half the effort.

It's a pity!

It was impossible for Chen Jingnan to chase after him, because he had more important things to do. He was not polite to the prefect of Chongqing, and with a wave of his hand, the Nanyang army entered the city, and then the troops were divided into four routes, sweeping the entire Sichuan Province, and at the same time asked Shanghai to send officials to take over and bring the entire Sichuan Province under Li Weiguo's rule as soon as possible.

Most of the prefectures and counties in Sichuan Province surrendered without a fight, except for a few prefectures and counties under the jurisdiction of the banner officials, but basically they were just mantis arms as a car, and soon fell.

Chen Jingnan is also very ruthless, don't you not surrender, then you must have the consciousness of death. However, all those who resisted, regardless of the officials and the people, were executed and did not accept surrender.

For a time, many places were full of blood,

Not accepting the enemy's surrender, in principle, is not in line with the military regulations of the Nanyang Army and the decree of the Wu Wangfu, but Chen Jingnan just carried it out, and in the eyes of outsiders, he was very puzzled by his behavior, only Chen Jingnan himself knew that he did it on purpose.

In the first battle of Wuchang Mansion, the 300,000 Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners Army were destroyed, and the credit was huge, no less than the second Battle of Songhu. But Chen Jingnan is unwilling to take this credit, he is very content, he is already a very good minister, and if he rises further, he will be a master, as a minister, how can he not know the stakes.

Many famous advisors in history did not end well in the end, not because the masters they served were narrow-minded, but because they themselves did not know how to advance or retreat, were arrogant, and had no one in their eyes, and eventually they would inevitably invite death.

But Chen Jingnan is different, he can see it, even if he knows that Li Weiguo is broad-minded, he will not take risks easily.

Since you have made great contributions, you will immediately commit another crime that is neither light nor serious, and the result will inevitably be that the merits and demerits will be compensated.

This is the result that Chen Jingnan wants, and everything is in his calculations.

Sure enough, within a few days, Li Weiguo's instruction arrived, and the content was exactly what Chen Jingnan expected.

Chen Jingnan was very satisfied with this, and immediately continued to do things with great interest.

Due to Chen Jingnan's "violations", the Nanyang Army had a lot of bad names in Sichuan. However, it was not entirely negative, but also had a positive effect, and the ferocity of the Nanyang Army inevitably deterred the small plots of those conspiracies, so that they did not dare to stumble behind their backs, which made the officials of the Nanyang clique who came to take over the local government affairs much easier, greatly reduced the resistance, and accelerated the domination of the whole of Sichuan.

"Congratulations to the prince, the hearts of the people of Jiangbei are available, it's time for the Northern Expedition and the Ninety-Five Supreme!"

In the palace of King Wu, hundreds of civil and military officials gathered together, celebrating the victory of the Second Battle of Songhu and discussing the next Northern Expedition.

The news sent back by the S.H.I.E.L.D. from all over the country shows that the people's will has fallen to Li Weiguo's side, the two elements of the Northern Expedition were already in place five years ago, and the elements of the people's will are now mature, and the Northern Expedition is no longer hindered.

"This king can be here today thanks to the great help of your ministers, who will never give up their support for this king. I would like to thank you all. Li Weiguo smiled slightly, thanked everyone, and his attitude was sincere.

"The prince is polite!"

"This is our duty as courtiers!"

Don't look at the humility of the civil and military officials on the surface, in fact, when everyone sees Li Weiguo personally thanking them, their hearts are warm, and even many die-hard people are even more excited and tearful, even if Li Weiguo wants them to die now, they will obey the order.

Li Weiguo nodded, returned to the desk, and suddenly looked serious, and asked, "The Northern Expedition battle plan has been completed?" ”

"Back to the prince's words, the General Staff has perfected the entire Northern Expedition battle plan!" Wu Yong immediately stepped out of the ranks, on behalf of the General Staff, and replied respectfully:

Li Weiguo nodded, and then asked, "Can all the war readiness materials be ready?" ”

"Back to the prince's words, the General Logistics Department has mobilized 400,000 tons of military supplies, which is enough to support the army's six-month Northern Expedition, and the follow-up million tons of military supplies will continue to be supplied as planned to ensure the smooth operation of the entire Northern Expedition." Fu Xuexian, director of the General Logistics Department, came out to answer.

Li Weiguo asked again: "Can the troops be in place?" ”

Li Yi, head of the Military Command Department, said: "Back to the prince's words, the military order has been issued to all companies, and all troops are ready for battle. ”

"The Ministry of Civil Affairs has recruited tens of thousands of civil servants and volunteers, and is ready to resettle the people in the war zone!"

"The Governor's Department has recruited 10,000 qualified civil servants to take over the government administration in the occupied areas at any time to ensure the normal operation of the government's functions."

"The Ministry of Finance has allocated 200 million yuan and 1 million tons of grain, which will ensure the stability of the currency and the stable supply of grain in the occupied areas!"

With the reports of various departments, everything was completed as planned, and they waited for Li Weiguo to give an order.

After listening to everyone's reports, all departments have been prepared, and Li Weiguo's heart was suddenly full of pride, with such a team, why worry about not being able to defeat the whole world.

"That being the case, this king now officially announces that after the sacrifice to the heavens tomorrow, he will swear to the Northern Expedition, and I hope that all his ministers will work together to sweep the world."

A group of civil and military officials had been waiting for this day for a long time, and they were immediately excited, and shouted in unison: "Obey the prince's order!" (To be continued.) )