Guo Ye ordered the cavalry to be recalled and prepared to return to Beijing; In the East China Sea, at this time, the British, French, and Western fleets also completed the rendezvous with the Japanese army. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Outside the Shanghai Beach, the fleets of the three countries lined up, and on the flagship battleship "Elgent", all the high-ranking generals of the four countries gathered together, and the famous Japanese general Saigo Takamori led the Japanese army to the East China Sea, leading 25,000 troops on British ships.

"General Dundas, on behalf of His Majesty the Emperor, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to your country for your kind help, in order to participate in this military operation, our Imperial Japanese Empire has mobilized the most elite troops in the country, and I hope to help your country!"

Saigo Takamori bowed deeply and said, the three countries in front of him are not the current Japan can provoke, although now the four countries have sent 30,000 troops, but the difference in combat power is too great, it is estimated that France only needs to dispatch 18,000 people, can completely defeat their own 20,000 or 30,000 people, the power is not at the same level at all, in front of the three countries, he is just a small follower!

All the generals had already come to the "Elgent", Dundas sat in the center, and on both sides Mozak, Morenster, the commander of the army, the French general Bazin, the British army lieutenant general, and the Spanish army lieutenant general Hawes sat on the seats, and none of them stood up, still sitting steadily.

Saigo Takamori felt a huge humiliation, this is the gap between the strong and the weak, he sees that these generals need to bow and greet, they can ignore it, what is it, isn't it your current ship? Wait, when we help His Majesty the Emperor unify Greater Japan, at most thirty years, we will enter the ranks of the great powers, and when the time comes, hum, Lao Tzu must return this shame doubled!

It's just that after that, the current Saigo Takamori can only be like an angry little daughter-in-law who doesn't dare to let a fart go, and honestly bows there.

"General Saigo Takamori, don't be polite, sit down......"

Dundas said lightly, Dundas knew that now the empire is trying its best to win over Japan, fully support Emperor Mingxiao of Japan to unify Japan, and bring Japan under the control of the British Empire.

"Thank you, General Dundas!"

Saigo Takamori hurriedly thanked him and did it on the side.

Dundas continued: "We are about to enter the Yellow Sea, now is the time for us to divide our forces and advance separately, one Tianjin Wei and one Weihai Wei are the best place for us to start, we have agreed a few days ago that the two fleets of the French Empire and the Kingdom of Spain will be combined into one, all the way north, and directly attack Tianjin Wei, you have more than 20 large and small warships combined, plus 50,000 or 60,000 troops, of course one Tianjin Wei is not a problem; The British Empire is willing to join forces with Japan's General Saigo Takamori to attack Weihaiwei, strive to take Weihaiwei in the shortest possible time, advance all the way north from Weihaiwei, and strive to enter the territory of Zhili in the shortest possible time, and form a situation of sea and land attack with the British and French fleets in the Gyeonggi area! ”

"General Dundas, then it's decided, I and Morenster will attack Tianjin Wei, fifty or sixty thousand troops are enough to wipe out the Qing army, the question is you, hehe, can you successfully defeat Guo Ye's descendant army?"

Mozak laughed.

Dundas raised his eyebrows and sneered: "General Mozak, you also underestimate our British army, isn't the Chu army under Zuo Zongtang in Fujian the elite of the British army?" Won't I still be defeated by a fight? Twenty or thirty thousand troops were scattered by me! Although the Lu army is strong, I don't believe that it can be much stronger than the Chu army! At least two days, at most five days, Lao Tzu will definitely defeat the Lu army in one fell swoop! ”

The British are actually very shrewd, it seems that the French and the Spaniards have taken advantage, and they are really going to suffer a big loss, and the defense of Gyeonggi is empty, and the number of troops is definitely not a few, and now it has been six or seven days since the fleet arrived at the mouth of the Pearl River, even if the Qing government is stupid, it will urgently gather troops near Gyeonggi to gather in the Gyeonggi area, there are a lot of troops in Beijing, plus more than 10,000 Hunan troops in Tianjin, it only takes a long time for the Gyeonggi area to gather more than 100,000 troops, Even if the Qing army's combat strength is again, it can't stand up to many people; On the other hand, Shandong, although Guo Yelu's army is strong, but after all, it is more than 10,000 troops, as soon as Tianjin Wei is attacked, then Shandong will definitely not get reinforcements, no matter how strong the Lu army is, how strong can it be? There are 30,000 infantry under his command, plus 30,000 in Japan, 60,000 against less than 20,000, at least a difference of three to one! In this way, you can't kill Weihaiwei's Lu army?

And the most important thing is that Japan is not France and Spain, in front of themselves, tell them to go east, they don't dare to go west, good cannon fodder, when the Japanese army is in front, when grabbing benefits, the Japanese army can only watch from the sidelines, how to drop? Little Japan dares to express its disbelief?

But the French are not the same as the Spaniards, who listens to whom? They are all strong countries, why should Lao Tzu be cannon fodder? Why are you going to grab the benefits, Lao Tzu is watching from the side? If the military order cannot be unified, it will become the biggest shortcoming of France and Spain, while the British can go to Shandong to pick up ready-made cheap! Absolutely cheap, now Shandong is full of gold! Rich very!

However, Dundas is smart, Mozak and Bazin are not fools, Guo Ye left too much shadow on the French back then, they would rather face the 50,000 green battalion soldiers of the Qing government than the 10,000 Lu army! The gap between the two is not only in terms of troops, but also in terms of weapons and equipment and the gap between commanders and generals!

Shandong's Lu army followed Guo Ye's southern expedition to the north, and there were no less than 100 battles big and small, that Yan Chunyu had already become famous in a war a few years ago, and a small group of cavalry in Shandong back then tossed tens of thousands of twisted bandits to death. That's definitely a hard nail, the British want to pick up the cheap, let them, anyway, Lao Tzu doesn't want to be unlucky!

The generals of the four countries each had a ghost, so they divided their troops, all the way to Tianjin Wei, all the way to Weihaiwei, left Shanghai, and rushed to the north.

Dundas led the fleet of the British Empire, his heart was full of excitement, Shandong, Lao Tzu is here, the last time he robbed Beijing, he didn't grab it, this time, Lao Tzu grabbed it in Shandong! (To be continued.) )