Chuansha, Sanjia Port.

Ten years ago it was a small fishing village in the middle of nowhere, and it is still the same ten years later, except for the addition of a coastal defense fortification, nothing has changed.

Compared with the bustling Shanghai two hundred miles away, there is a huge contrast.

Villagers here have complained more than once about the Nanyang junta and hope to get investment in development, but each time they have been reported, nothing has been heard.

Ten years ago, they were all impoverished villages, but now they are all large towns with dense populations, buildings and prosperous economies, while small villages on the east bank of the Huangpu River, such as Sanjiagang, have no investment or development projects other than poverty relief funds.

They are also citizens of Shanghai, how can they be so favoritistic.

For ten years, the people on the east bank of the Huangpu River have been yearning for life on the west bank of the Huangpu River, and Li Weiguo, the supreme ruler of Nanyang, seems to have deliberately pretended not to know, which makes the people on the east bank feel dissatisfied.

However, with the outbreak of the Second Battle of Songhu, the common people on the east bank of the Huangpu River finally heard the good news, that is, Li Weiguo, the supreme ruler of Nanyang, personally issued an order that all Shanghai residents east of the Huangpu River should be ordered to move their families to the west of the Huangpu River within five days.

The people of the villages on the east bank of the Huangpu River who got the news suddenly boiled, and the long-envious life in Shanghai finally opened their arms to them, pawned their family property, and moved their families to the west bank of the Huangpu River, and their own relevant officials were responsible for the resettlement.

The entire east bank of the Huangpu River soon became an uninhabited area, and the troops of the Nanyang Army quickly carried out a sweep, clearing the walls and fields, leaving nothing for the British and French invading troops, and destroying the houses. Grain was burned, wells were buried, rivers were blocked and turned into still water, and then poisoned, causing the east bank of the Huangpu River to quickly bare thousands of miles.

On the Huangpu River, on a luxury cruise ship of Wu Wangfu, Li Weiguo, accompanied by Li Hongzao, the governor of Liangjiang, and others inspected the transfer of refugees.

The pontoon bridges on the river are crowded with people, and they are crossing the river in a tense and orderly manner, with the army and police maintaining order.

"This is the last group of evacuees, and they are all expected to cross the river this afternoon. Then we will destroy the pontoons. Li Hongzao said beside him.

Li Weiguo nodded, very satisfied with the entire immigration work.

In order to defeat the British and French invading army, Li Weiguo tried his courage for ten years, and now at the last moment, he wants to kill the British and French invading army on this land again and win the final victory in the second Battle of Songhu.

Once upon a time, Li Weiguo took advantage of the opportunity of the Crimean War to attack the Americans, deter the British and French powers, and buy himself three years of respite and development for the country. After that, the first Battle of Songhu broke out. Li Weiguo once again led the Shanghai Army Group to defeat the British and French invading forces, and won himself and the country five years of respite and development. Winning the Second Battle of Songhu would be enough to win another ten years of peaceful development time for yourself and your country.

This is because, after each victory, Li Weiguo's strength continues to grow. The cost of the war of aggression that the great powers want to wage will become more and more expensive, and the time interval between the two sides to break out again will continue to be extended.

Britain and France are currently the most powerful countries in the world, and their combined economic and military capabilities are completely capable of fighting more than a dozen wars of the scale of the Battle of Songhu at the same time. If Li Weiguo wants to rise, and if China wants to rise, it will inevitably be strangled by the British and French powers, so it is impossible for the two sides to make peace, unless one side is completely victorious and takes the lead.

After the second Yapian War in history, the Qing government got a 30-year opportunity for peaceful development, that was because the Qing government completely succumbed in front of the British and French powers, but now it is different, Li Weiguo's strong rise rewrote the ending of the second Yapian War, and the defeated British and French powers naturally will not stop, so the two sides fought again, known as the third Yapian War.

From Li Weiguo's point of view, his assessment was that as long as he won the Third Yapian War and severely damaged the British and French forces in the Second Battle of Songhu, he would win ten years of peaceful development.

Such a judgment is made on the basis of two aspects: world dominance and the cost of war.

First of all, the world dominance, as the Qing Empire, which is still the world's largest in terms of economic aggregate, even if it is still a feudal serf country, it is also the target of aggression and plunder by Britain and France and other powers, so it is impossible for the British and French powers to make the Qing Empire strong and impact the world order dominated by Britain and France, so it is doomed that the two sides cannot live in peace, and can only use war to solve this problem.

The second is the problem of the cost of war, although the British and French powers managed the fiasco of the Second Yapian War and the First Battle of Songhu, but the losses did not hurt the bones, so in order to continue to enslave the Qing Empire and prevent the rise of the Chinese nation, they launched the Third Yapian War again.

However, Li Weiguo believed that if the British and French powers lost the Third Yapian War, then the war costs of the British and French powers would become very high, because the core interests of the British and French powers were in Europe, and they would expedition to China from Europe, even if Britain recruited troops from India, Australia, and other places nearby, and France recruited troops from Africa, the cost of the war would be quite high, and once the war was defeated, the losses would be heavy, and it would be impossible to launch another war of aggression against China in a short period of time.

Based on these two points, Li Weiguo gave a ten-year concept of peaceful development, of course, provided that Li Weiguo needed to win the final victory of the Third Yapian War.

"Lord Wang, you are really far-sighted, you have not developed the area east of the Huangpu River for more than ten years, I'm afraid you are just waiting for this battle, right?"

Li Hongzao suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and seemed to have figured out Li Weiguo's strategic concept from the immigration process.

Li Weiguo was slightly surprised, but he didn't expect Li Hongzao to understand his strategic deployment, so he smiled slightly.

"The area east of the Huangpu River is surrounded by the sea on three sides, and once the great powers come to attack, they will inevitably bear the brunt, if it is not so, how can this king make such an arrangement."

"The prince's arrangement is correct!" Li Hongzao supported: "The minister didn't understand it before, but now he knows that the benefits have been lost." This time, all the residents in the east were relocated inward, and the initial estimate of the cost was 3 million yuan, but if the east bank had been vigorously developed like the west bank of the Huangpu River, the loss now would be at least 300 million yuan, and the difference between 3 million and 300 million is a hundred times, which proves that the prince's original decision was correct. What a far-sightedness, the ministers are full of admiration. ”

Li Weiguo laughed, this sense of accomplishment made him feel very comfortable.

Li Hongzao continued to ask: "I wonder if after this battle, will the prince still let the eastern region be desolate?" ”

"What do you say?" Li Weiguo did not answer the rhetorical question.

Li Hongzao smiled slightly and said: "Since the prince dares to let the British and French troops go ashore, he even does not hesitate to move all the people on the east coast inward, and he has not developed the economy of the east coast for more than ten years, which shows that the prince began to lay out today's battle ten years ago, and the prince is full of confidence." The minister thought that this battle would be won. ”

Li Hongzao paused and continued: "The prince has planned for the navy to complete coastal sea control within five years, and now the victory in the battle of the Yangtze River estuary shows that the navy has completed the first phase of the task. And the second stage of the prince's task is to require the navy to complete the offshore sea supremacy within ten years, that is to say, the coastal area will no longer allow the navies of the great powers to invade, then it means that after ten years, we will no longer have to fight on the mainland, and the navy is enough to block the enemy. Then the eastern region can naturally be vigorously built. ”

Li Weiguo smiled, this Li Hongzao is worthy of being a boss-level capable minister, and he really looks at the problem.

"You are the governor of Liangjiang, it is your business to build or not!"

Li Hongzao suddenly bowed down and said: "The minister has thanked the prince for the grace of tens of thousands of people in the Pudong (east of the Huangpu River)!" ”

Li Weiguo smiled: "What grace." This is what the king owes them, and he will take due care of it in the future. ”

Li Hongzao thanked him again.

At this time, bursts of gunfire were faintly heard in the distance of Pudong.

Li Weiguo looked up, and Zhuang Jiuxia handed over the telescope. He said casually: "The vanguard of the British and French forces has arrived in Tangzhen Village, and they should be in the midst of a firefight with the town defenders of Chuansha Town." ”

Li Weiguo nodded and said, "The migration work here is almost complete. The telegram ordered Chuansha Town to guard the mansion and hold on until 3 p.m. to evacuate. ”

Zhuang Jiuxia received the order and immediately sent someone to issue a telegram order.

According to Li Weiguo's strategic plan, the Huangpu River will be used to cut off the attack of the British and French forces, and the 200,000 British and French troops that have landed will be blocked in the eastern area of the Huangpu River, and then a decisive battle will be held.

Li Weiguo is ready to eat 200,000 British and French troops in one go, and he has this confidence.

Klaus, Guba, and others, who were in the camp of the British and French forces in Sanjia Port, knew that Li Weiguo deliberately let go of the Chuansha coastal defense and let them land, and knew that Li Weiguo was also preparing to have another battle of Songhu with 200,000 British and French troops in the Chuansha area, but they did not believe that Li Weiguo would still be able to win.

Ma Lin said: "I don't believe it, can Li Weiguo repeat the brilliant results achieved in the last Battle of Songhu?" ”

Guba agreed: "I don't believe either, he's not a god? In the last Battle of Songhu, our 200,000 British and French troops were defeated and lost 130,000 people, that is, our equipment is not as good as theirs, this time our weapons and equipment are the same, Li Weiguo also dared to let our 200,000 troops go ashore, he was purely looking for death. ”

Klaus smiled: "You have forgotten, the information we released on the surface is only 100,000 people, Li Weiguo should not know that we secretly sent 100,000 people, he will definitely regret it." ”

At this time, Lieutenant General Raymond of the French Army suddenly asked: "Don't you think that Li Weiguo dares to sell us advanced weapons and equipment manufacturing technology such as patriotic rifles, and he himself has no hole cards?" ”

Britain and France have different military commands, Britain is an island country, and the navy is the main force, so the navy commands the army, so Klaus and Marin still hold the command of the army even after they go ashore, but France is different, France is a land power, but at the same time develops the army and navy, so the navy and army are separated and do not belong to each other.

As the commander of the French Army, Raymond has less right to speak on land, so Klaus and Marin have to pay attention to Raymond's words.

"General Raymond is too worried!" Ma Lin said with a smile: "Li Weiguo is a shrewd guy, although he has advanced weapons and equipment such as patriotic rifles, but he is willing to sell these advanced weapons and equipment to us, not that he is stupid, but very smart, because he understands that even if he does not sell it to us, the industrial capacity and technical reserves we emphasize will soon be developed, rather than waiting for us to develop it ourselves, he should take the opportunity to sell it to us at a high price, this is Li Weiguo's logical thinking, a typical profiteer, will not do loss-making business, Therefore, whether or not to sell us advanced weapons and equipment has nothing to do with war. ”

Ma Lin hit the nail on the head, and indeed said Li Weiguo's thoughts, his judgment was very accurate, and if Li Weiguo was here, he would praise him.

Raymond was of noble birth and was not good at such profiteers, but he could also understand what Marin meant.

It's just that Raymond is purely from a military point of view, and his military intuition tells him that Li Weiguo has a conspiracy, and Li Weiguo is digging a big pit waiting for the British and French forces to jump down.

Seeing Raymond's suspicious look, Klaus persuaded: "General Raymond, our intelligence shows that Li Weiguo's army still uses patriotic rifles, etc., although they have been improved, but they have not changed much, and the advanced breech-loading rifle we use is not pure in the absolute generation difference like the last Battle of Songhu. It is worth mentioning that their infantry artillery has added a large-caliber artillery equipment, the original 59 infantry gun caliber has been upgraded from 70 mm to 75 mm 62, and there is also a batch of 64 125 mm guns, and we also have 80-pounder large-caliber cannons, which is enough to match. ”

Raymond asked rhetorically, "Are you sure the information is accurate?" You must know that we have suffered heavy losses in the last few battles, all of which were caused by misintelligence. Also, the last time we fought in the Battle of Songhu, we suffered a big loss in equipment, wasn't it also a mistake in intelligence? ”

This Nima which pot is not opened!

Clauston's face darkened, he was the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, and the intelligence of Britain and France was aggregated for him to deal with, obviously France had no colonies in the East, and the intelligence was very weak and almost negligible, and the sources of intelligence were almost all provided by Britain, which had a large number of colonies in Asia. After several battles, the British army suffered a big loss, although it can be attributed to a mistake in intelligence, but Klaus is the commander, and no matter what, he is slapping him in the face.

"This—"

Nima, there are no words to refute!

Klaus was entangled and wanted to say something, but unfortunately he was short of words and was speechless.

Just then, the guards came in to report.

Crowston was overjoyed, he finally didn't have to talk to Raymond, it was too tiring.

However, when Klaus listened to the guards' report, he was even more dumbfounded.

"What? The whole Pudong is thousands of miles away? Not a single one? ”

"Yes, Your Excellency, not only is there not a single man, not even a whole house, not a grain of grain, not even a water source available, for our soldiers have all fallen after drinking the water from the river."

The guards smiled bitterly, the first thing after landing was the Sanguang policy, ready to grab some good things from the Chinese people, but unfortunately the enemy was more ruthless than them, and the Sanguang had already been gone, leaving only one card, which said "Want Sanguang?" I'm sorry, you're late, hurry up early next time", which suddenly made the British and French forces dumbfounded.

Klaus felt broken and scolded: "I'm Fak......&......**¥&¥&...... ¥&......" (To be continued.) )