The Anglo-French forces withdrew from their positions on the Salt River overnight and retreated to the sea.

Of the more than 160 warships that set out on the expedition, only ninety-nine remain, with nearly half of them lost. Of the nearly 200,000 marines in the Anglo-French coalition, less than 60,000 remain, and nearly 30,000 were wounded to varying degrees, and most of the wounded would be crippled and had to end their military careers early.

Standing on the deck, Glo, Scott, and Bronce all looked heavy, and the loss was enough for their respective national parliaments to send them to court-martial.

"We have to go north to attack Beijing, only by taking Beijing and plundering enough property to bribe those old guys, we will have a way to live, otherwise we will wait to be a prison for the rest of our lives."

Glo's political vision is extremely high, much stronger than his military acumen.

Scott frowned and said: "But we have less than 30,000 soldiers to fight, whether we can capture Beijing, I no longer have the confidence in my heart to win, you must know that the Qing army has deployed hundreds of thousands of troops over there." ”

Seeing that Scott had no confidence, Brons persuaded him in the spirit of helping Glo, "If the army on the Beijing side is as advanced and powerful as Li Weiguo's Shanghai army, then we will immediately withdraw to Europe without you saying it." But don't forget that not all Qing armies are as strong as the Shanghai army, and we are confident that we can defeat other Qing armies. ”

"I don't think I could have done anything better!" Scott thought for a moment and finally nodded in agreement.

"Gentlemen, add coal, raise sails, let's go and conquer Beijing together!"

Glo shouted happily, thinking that this was something to be happy about, but unfortunately the crew members did not have any expressions, and they reacted coldly one by one.

It is no wonder that after two defeats in succession, less than 60,000 of the 200,000 British and French troops remained, and half of them were wounded and disabled. Anyone in this situation will not be happy.

Glo felt very embarrassed when he saw that no one responded to him.

The Anglo-French fleet finally sailed away from the mouth of the Yangtze River and began to move north, aiming directly at Tianjin.

Before leaving, Scott stood on the deck, watching the Shanghai soldiers who had just crossed the Salt River to the beach. "I swear to God, I'll come back for revenge!" Certain! ”

The news of the withdrawal of the British and French troops soon spread back to Shanghai, and by this time Li Weiguo had already returned to Yuyuan in advance, because the war had reached this level, and there was no suspense that the Shanghai army would win a big victory.

"My lord, the report has been written, you can take a look."

Li Hongzao handed over the written report to Li Weiguo for review.

"Don't read it, I'm relieved of what you wrote!"

Li Weiguo said with a smile, just a reassuring sentence. It is enough to represent trust.

Don't look at it as just a trivial matter, for Li Hongzao, it is enough to move him.

"I don't know what Xianfeng's expression will be when he sees this invitation?" Li Weiguo said suddenly.

"It's not hard to guess!" Li Hongzao said with a smile: "First, the whole country celebrates and rewards the merits of the adults, and the second is to prepare to cut the military power of the adults, promote and surrender secretly, and transfer to the capital as an official." ”

Li Weiguo nodded and snorted coldly: "If it weren't for the fact that there are too many minions loyal to the Qing Dynasty. I really want to raise an army immediately and overthrow the court. Expel the Tartars and restore China! ”

"Drive out the Tartars and restore China!"

Li Hongzao repeated it, and his eyes suddenly lit up, and he was a little excited. But soon he calmed down again, and advised: "Your Excellency, don't be in a hurry. The Qing Dynasty ruled for more than 200 years, and it was deeply entrenched, and there were so many die-hard servants that I am afraid it is difficult for us to imagine. In addition, with the strong combat effectiveness of our Shanghai army. It is believed that once the war of extermination is launched, the autumn wind will sweep away the leaves and destroy the absolute superiority of withering and decaying. This is our military advantage, and we can unify China in a short period of time, but the problem is that Nuoda's China, with tens of millions of square kilometers of land and tens of thousands of people, needs hundreds of thousands or even millions of officials loyal to adults to govern it. And the adults are too young, although there are some elite talents under their hands, but unfortunately the quality is enough but the quantity is seriously insufficient, so the top priority for the adults is to continue to accumulate talents, and when the time comes, the military victory will be achieved, and the talents will be accumulated enough to quickly manage the country. ”

Li Weiguo understood what Li Hongzao meant, it is simple to overthrow a dynasty, but it is not easy to establish a new dynasty. If there is not enough talent, then it is necessary to continue to use the officials of the previous dynasty, and then all the stereotypes and bad habits of the previous dynasty will continue to corrupt the new country.

History has proven that the Xinhai Revolution failed, the Republic of China failed, in the final analysis, the main problem lies in their incomplete revolution, those officials of the Qing Dynasty cut their braids and changed their clothes and became officials of the Republic of China, and they quickly corrupted the officialdom of the Republic of China to the end, which is the consequence of changing the soup but not the medicine.

As a later generation, Li Weiguo is very aware of this, so he agrees with and likes Li Hongzao's words very much, and immediately became a confidant.

"You are very right, when the dynasty is changed in the future, we must completely eliminate these tumors of the Qing Dynasty, and we must not let these outdated habits and corruption be passed on to New China."

Li Weiguo paused and said, "It seems that I have increased my efforts to develop education. The existing Danfu University can only maintain the personnel transfer of Jiangnan Province and Zhejiang Province every year, and if we want to manage the huge China in the future, it is far from enough to have only one Danfu University. ”

"Call Rong Hong!" Li Weiguo instructed Zhuang Jiuxia, the chief of the guards beside him.

"Didn't you send Lord Rong Hong to the Middle East to negotiate the purchase of land? Probably haven't come back yet. Zhuang Jiuxia reminded.

Recently, because of the decisive battle with the British and French forces, Li Weiguo forgot that Rong Hong had sent an envoy to the Middle East to negotiate with the officials of the Persian Empire about buying land and digging for oil.

"I feel it, it's really not enough manpower!"

Li Weiguo sighed, and instantly paid more attention to Li Hongzao's proposal, and decided to speed up the cultivation of talents.

The British and French fleets went north and it took about half a month to reach the Bohai Sea. According to the original historical process, the British and French forces would first occupy Luda and Yantai before launching an attack on the Dagukou Fort.

However, the course of history has changed dramatically, and Li Weiguo is not sure that the British and French forces will do so at this moment.

The Shanghai army began to recuperate, and the bereavement and aftermath of the dead officers and soldiers were given top priority and priority. The shortfall in the troops in each town will be replenished by selecting elites from the second-line B legions, but the weapons and equipment are seriously damaged, and a big battle will be lost. As a result, more than 40,000 Patriotic rifles were damaged to varying degrees, and almost all the rifling of the Type 59 infantry guns were smoothed out, and all the barrels had to be replaced.

Fortunately, when the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau first developed the Type 59 infantry gun, it knew that the life of this gun barrel was not long, so it produced a lot of spare gun barrels, which could quickly repair one-third of the artillery, as for the remaining artillery. It can only be used as a smoothbore cannon temporarily, and the impact on the Shanghai army in a short period of time is not too great, of course, provided that the British and French forces will not come back.

The post-war work was so cumbersome that the members of the shogunate around Li Weiguo were busy.

However, as the leader, Li Weiguo was idle, unless some major military and political decisions needed to be decided by him personally, most of the other matters were handled by his subordinates, and finally reported to Li Weiguo here to sign and seal.

At this time, the office door suddenly opened, and Su Sanniang walked in.

Since Li Weiguo almost died on the battlefield a few days ago. Su Sanniang's emotional attitude towards Li Weiguo suddenly took a 180-degree turn, in the past, when Li Weiguo touched her little hand, she would put on a tigress posture of not giving up, but now even if Li Weiguo's salty pig hand touched every inch of her body, she will not be angry anymore.

It's just that if Li Weiguo wants to overthrow her, there is still a certain degree of difficulty, just because the two once worshipped brothers. Su Sanniang once wanted to take care of Li Weiguo like her own brother, but she was a little resistant to the love between sisters and brothers.

Feudal women are like that. The idea is conservative, and it is not as popular as sibling love in later generations.

For this reason, Li Weiguo regretted it a lot, and knew that he shouldn't have worshiped Su Sanniang today.

Li Weiguo looked up, and suddenly his eyes lit up.

I saw that Su Sanniang was dressed very beautifully today, and she wore the women's version of the military uniform that Li Weiguo personally designed for her. Long hair and shawl, convex and backward all over the body, full of uniform temptation, especially a pair of snow-white and translucent beautiful long legs, enough to kill all otaku in seconds.

Su Sanniang stood at the door. A pair of beautiful eyes looked at Li Weiguo quietly, full of tenderness.

"Am I beautiful?"

"What's the daze? What do you ask? ”

Boom!

"Beautiful, so beautiful!" Li Weiguo swallowed his saliva, nodded hurriedly, and stared at Su Sanniang intently.

This was the first time Li Weiguo saw Su Sanniang's becoming a lady, and he was immediately stunned.

Hearing Li Weiguo's praise, Su Sanniang suddenly became shy, a flush rose on her face, and then she walked towards Li Weiguo excitedly.

It's just that Su Sanniang forgot that she was wearing the high heels given to her by Li Weiguo at this time, and it was easy to step on the air when she wore this kind of shoes for the first time.

Sure enough, Su Sanniang didn't take a few steps before she stumbled and almost fell.

"Oops!"

Hearing Su Sanniang's scream, Li Weiguo hurriedly rushed over to help her up, and said with concern: "You have to walk slowly in high heels, the idea is to focus on the forefoot, otherwise it will be easy to break your feet!" ”

With Li Weiguo's support, Su Sanniang stood up again, took a few steps forward, and stepped on the air again.

"You hate it so much, why do you want to give people to wear such shoes, it hurts to death! Don't wear it anymore! ”

Su Sanniang suddenly became impatient and kicked off her high heels.

Li Weiguo suddenly rolled his eyes and teased her: "I just praised you for being like a lady, but you instantly turned back into a woman!" ”

Su Sanniang suddenly said angrily: "What's wrong with the female man? Don't you like it? ”

"Who said that? It doesn't matter if you're a lady or a woman, you love it as a husband! ”

Li Weiguo hurriedly explained, and suddenly asked, "Aren't you resolutely not wearing this suit?" Why did you wear it today? ”

Su Sanniang glared at Li Weiguo and said with a smile: "It's not because this skirt is too short, and the thighs are exposed, what kind of body is seen to be?" Don't you scold me for being a **? But since you like it, people only wear it once and try it. ”

Li Weiguo was immediately happy, women in this age are dressed very conservatively, and the skirt exposing her feet and necks will be criticized, not to mention that this mini skirt exposes too many thighs, which is too exposed. When Li Weiguo made this set of women's military uniforms, it was just a whim, wanting to let his female secretary wear it, and finally gave it to Su Sanniang for several years, and he almost forgot about it.

"Then why aren't you afraid of being seen today?"

Su Sanniang smiled slyly and said, "Of course I'm not afraid, because there are only two of us at the moment, and everyone else has been sent away by me." ”

Li Weiguo suddenly sighed, and then remembered that Su Sanniang was his secretary general, and the office was next door to him, if he drove the people in the secretary's room away in advance, naturally no one would see her wearing this temptation outfit.

"Pretty smart!"

Li Weiguo praised Su Sanniang, his eyes fell on Su Sanniang's snow-white and slender beautiful legs, and he couldn't help touching them.

"So resilient!"

"Don't!"

Su Sanniang symbolically resisted, but it didn't work at all in front of Li Weiguo, but it was her shy appearance that she wanted to refuse and welcome, and the ** sound of ecstasy instantly ignited Li Weiguo's bath.

"Wow! It's so big and more resilient! ”

"Don't-don't-don't-oh-you tap, you're going to blow up there!"

"Where? Over here? Is this it? ”

"Uh-huh, do you look like a slut? Do you look down on people? ”

"Nonsense! How could I look down on you? You are my daughter-in-law, and I like to train ladies into sluts, so that there is a sense of accomplishment! But you can only be my own slut! ”

"Don't be your slut! You're bad! ”

"Dare to talk back? See how the husband cleans you up! ”

"Don't-woo-"

……

(Two million words omitted below...... ）

"Husband, this is the military expenditure related to this battle, and it has cost more than 10 million yuan, which is really too expensive!"

Shen Ziyan suddenly pushed the door in from the outside, holding a bill of military expenses that had just been counted, with an unhappy expression.

But she quickly exclaimed, "Ah! Husband, what are you doing? ”

Shen Ziyan thought at first that Li Weiguo was fooling around with the female soldiers, and was about to get angry, but unexpectedly recognized Su Sanniang.

"Sister Su? Is that you? How do you dress like this? -- You are—"

Su Sanniang's face was crimson, full of shame and indignation, and she couldn't wait to find a crack to get into.

"It's he who wants to force me!"

Su Sanniang pushed Li Weiguo away, hurriedly tidied up her clothes, and didn't explain, so she ran back to the next room while no one was there.

"I said--don't slander me like this, you're my daughter-in-law!" Li Weiguo suddenly smiled bitterly.

"Haha! Kill me! Shen Ziyan was stunned for a moment, and then laughed heartily regardless of her image, laughing so much that tears were about to come out.

"Okay, don't laugh, do you see your husband laughing like this?" Li Weiguo pretended to be angry and said.

Compared with Su Sanniang, Shen Ziyan is much more honest, and she is a standard lady, but she didn't dare to talk back to her husband, so she immediately held back her laughter, but soon couldn't help laughing again.

Li Weiguo was speechless for a moment. (To be continued......)