Berlin, the capital of the Kingdom of Prussia, in the northeast corner of Charlottenburg Palace is a kennel with twenty-four top Stobels.

The Stobel is a breed of hunting dog endemic to Prussia, as King William IV of Prussia was a keen hunter, and the servant in charge of the kennel took special care of the hounds.

It was dark and dreary on this night in mid-March. Several of the servants in charge of the hounds slept very soundly today, and even the one in charge of the vigil fell crooked in their chairs and snored sweetly.

The twenty-four Stobels seemed to have a premonition, and kept letting out a low growl, and were restlessly moving back and forth in the kennel.

Suddenly, a blue point of light flashed in the corner of a kennel, and the point of light quickly expanded into a halo of about twenty centimeters in diameter. The Stobel in the kennel immediately had its ears stretched out diagonally backwards, its limbs firmly stomped on the ground, its body stiffened, its coat erect, its mouth half-open, and its threatening sound whirring.

An electric baton protrudes from the halo and swings it teasingly at the hounds in the kennel, then immediately shrinks back, revealing only a short piece of the club's head.

The hounds roared angrily and pounced. A hound gripped the stick so tightly that it almost stuck its head into the halo.

A silver needle stabbed straight through the aura, and before the hound could react, the autoinjector injected a small tube of liquid directly into its body.

Immediately after, blue sparks flashed from the head of the electric baton.

"Whew~" The Stobel let out a terrible scream, let go of its mouth and retreated.

Another hound pounced......

The barking of dogs grew louder and more intense, and soon alarmed the guards guarding the palace.

Soldiers on patrol came over to take a look. Odd! There was nothing in the kennel, except that the hounds seemed to have been hurt in some way, barking wildly into a corner.

Ten days later, King Wilhelm IV of Prussia went hunting in the forest with his men. While chasing their prey in the woods, two Stobels suddenly suffered a rabies attack and bit William IV off the horse on the spot.

On March 20, the news reached Keelung through the airwaves.

"Not bad!" Bai Baoxiang was very excited, "Ma Jiayi's work in Jinyiwei is beautiful!" Silently overturned William IV. ”

He tapped his middle finger lightly on the table.

Well, now that what needs to be done has been done, and Lidorn has already had a certain tacit understanding with the Prussian side, just waiting for Wilhelm I, Bismarck and others to come to the fore and push Germany towards reunification.

Looking at Bai Baoxiang's complacent appearance, Ren Xuefeng on the side couldn't help but say, "Chairman Bai, with all due respect. The development of human history may be a step-by-step progression, or it may be extremely variable and chaotic. ”

Bai Baoxiang's two eyebrows furrowed together, "You mean that there is uncertainty about the reunification of Germany in Germany. ”

"We in the Political Research Office believe that Britain is a-stick in Europe, and France is a neighbor of Germany, and they both want Germany to remain divided. The division of Germany was based on the balance of power between the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia. Although Germany in the original plane eventually entered the reunification, it is still unknown whether Germany in this time and space will be unified. Ren Xuefeng is the head of the Central ~ Propaganda Department, and also serves as the director of the Political Research Office of the Ministry of Rites.

"We are not God, and it is difficult to determine the future of Europe." Bai Baoxiang nodded slowly, "But no matter how it develops in the future, the most important thing is that we must be strong enough!" ”

The Executive Committee has been balancing the gap between farming and rapid expansion.

The time was already late March, and Bai Baoxiang felt that the time had dragged on long enough, the Keelung and Kaohsiung warships that had returned from the Americas had completed their rest, and the coast guard had also returned victoriously from Guangdong. We should quickly liberate the whole of Taiwan and show our muscles to the outside world.

The battle to liberate Tainan began first of all from the sea.

On 25 March, four steam ships, "Keelung," "Kaohsiung," "Dinghai," and "Dunan," together with 10 coast guard ships, directly captured Penghu, cutting off the springboard between southern Taiwan and the mainland.

In the early morning of the 26th, the sky had just revealed a trace of fish belly white, and Lin Richeng, the owner of Qingpu Village and the head of the Qingpu People's League, got up from the bed.

When he came to the courtyard, although the dew was very strong, Lin Richeng did not feel cool at all. He strode up, twisted his waist and sat on his hips, and began to practice his fists and feet every day.

The butler walked over lightly and stood beside him with his hands down.

Lin Richeng finished practicing his fists and feet, and sweat broke out on his forehead. The housekeeper carefully handed over the dry towel, "Master, many leaflets of the Ming bandits fell from the sky at night. ”

Lin Richeng snorted, and continued to wipe his sweat as if nothing had happened, "Ming bandits know how to engage in these strange tricks!" ”

Since three months ago, he took the lead in "defending the land and defending the homeland", digging deep trenches from Dajia Creek to Qingpu Village, building earth forts one after another, and the entire Qingpu has become a big fortress.

The common people of Qingpu are also armed, and the men are all brave soldiers, according to Qi Jiguang's "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness" and "Actual Record of Military Training" in the "Binding Army" law, ten people are a team, eight teams are a sentry, four sentry is a battalion, and three battalions of soldiers and horses are compiled. The elderly, women and children are in charge of logistics. Lin Richeng purchased a batch of weapons by himself, and the government also sent 600 guns and bird guns, 20 mountain splitting cannons, 30 foreign guns, and more than a dozen instructors to help train the troops.

However, the Ming bandits just didn't come to attack, they only knew what kind of tricks and tricks they used in the middle of the night, and sprinkled some leaflets from the sky, saying nonsense such as "exterminate the Tartars and rejuvenate China."

I don't know how many times this leaflet has been sprinkled, from Qingpu to Kaohsiung, Taiwan's Fucheng, Chiayi County, and Changhua County, all of which have been sprinkled inside and out.

At first, Qingpu Village was still a little nervous, busy collecting and burning one by one. Now they have long since turned a blind eye, and the villagers are still rushing to collect leaflets to wipe their butts.

After wiping off the sweat, Lin Richeng threw back the towel, took the purple clay pot, and drank a big sip of tea.

Readily! The thick tea was just hot and cold, and he breathed a sigh of relief and burped loudly.

The housekeeper looked at Lin Richeng's face carefully, "The leaflet said that the Ming army has taken Penghu, and then it will attack Tainan." ”

What the? The bandits are coming!

Lin Richeng worked hard with both hands. The green tendons on his hands burst for a moment, and then there was a burst of ecstasy, okay! The Ming bandits are finally coming.

After more than three months of hard training, the villagers seemed to have changed from croppers to soldiers who ate grain and worked as errands. But the Ming bandits can't wait for the left and the right can't come, Qingpuzhuang has always been like this, all the people are soldiers, sitting and eating empty mountains, and letting the countryside be deserted, this is not a thing.

Thankfully, the bandits are finally coming!

Seeing Lin Richeng's eagerness to try, the housekeeper carefully took the purple clay pot. He didn't dare to say the last words of the Ming army's leaflet, "...... If you have the heart of China and are willing to serve the Ming Dynasty, every household in Zhuangzhuang hangs the red flag of the sun and the moon, and the Ming army will not commit any crimes. If you are stubborn and dare to hit a stone with an egg, you will die without a place to bury! ”

"Ring the bell now!" Lin Richeng was a little excited, he didn't care about breakfast, turned around and strode towards the Tugu Temple-Qingpu Zhuang People's League Command Post.

"Bell, bell, bell, bell!"

The bell rang, and Qingpu Village immediately became in a commotion.

"A team has gathered~~"

"The second team has gathered~~"

At the same time as the teams and posts gathered, all the battalion officers and sentinels gathered at the Tugu Temple in Qingpu Village.

"Kneel~" Miao Zhu dragged a long voice, "The emperor and the queen of heaven bless me Qingpu as solid as a rock, and the generals will open the official flag victoriously and succeed!" ”

After worshipping the gods of the eight directions, Lin Richeng was just about to give a lecture, when suddenly a soldier came to report, saying that a strange object had risen over the opposite bank of Dajia Creek, like a strange demon bird.

"Demon birds?" The faces of the battalion officers and sentinels were a little panicked.

Lin Richeng was also a little panicked in his heart, but his face was positive, "What are you panicking about?" The left and right are just tricks. ”

Walking out of the Tugu Temple, I saw a black dot rising in the distance above the direction of Dajia Creek. He looked through his monoculars and felt that there seemed to be a basket underneath the demon bird, and there were several people in the basket.

"This demon bird is a bit similar to the appearance of Kong Ming lanterns." Lin Richeng's master has seen a lot, "Don't be afraid, my generation has its own heroic righteousness, this demon bird doesn't dare to come down, it will be finished at once!" ”

"I see!" Lin Richeng snorted coldly, "I know, the flyers that are distributed every night should be this demon bird!" ”

After stabilizing the morale of the army, he immediately asked everyone to rush back to their own defense area, "Everyone must strictly guard against it, people are in the position, and they must not break through their own defense area." ”

At about eight o'clock, Chen Rong hurried back to the camp by the Dajiaxi River.

Chen Lane is the sentry officer guarding the front line of Dajiaxi, and in the face of Lin Richeng's doubts just now, he patted his chest and boasted about going to Haikou, "Don't worry, the regiment commander can rest assured that the hundred foreign guns in the hands of his subordinates are not for dry rice." As long as the left and right flanks work together, my position will be as solid as a rock. ”

Through the lookout of the barracks, seeing the undisturbed appearance of the river, Chen Rong's nervous heart settled down slightly, "There is no movement on the other side?"

"It's this demon bird that is doing the trick!" One of his officers pointed to the hot air balloon on the other side, "The cold wind has been blowing by this river for three months, and this big movement only happened today." ”

As soon as the officer's words fell, he heard the sudden whistling of cannonballs in the sky.

The coordinates of the various camps and deep trenches in Qingpu Village, without ~ man-machine reconnaissance has already been completed, and twelve 75-mm breech steel cannons were lined up on the north bank of Dajia Creek.

These guns were produced by the Keelung Military Factory working overtime, the material was made of cannon steel produced by Taipei Iron and Steel Group, and the style of the artillery was imitated from the Krupp rifled gun during the Franco-Prussian War.

The newly formed artillery battalion was commanded by battalion commander Tan Ke and instructor Ye Danqing, and under the leadership of deputy brigade commander Li Da, they conducted intensive training for more than a month and achieved remarkable results.

With an order, dense shells rained down on the south bank of Dajia Creek.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ......" a continuous explosion sounded over the barracks.

"Gun position No. 1, two meters to the left! Three meters back! ”

"Gun position No. 3, five meters to the left! One meter back! ”

……

Each gun emplacement was fired one by one according to the artillery drill code, and the artillery observers on the balloon continuously carried out calibration according to the position where the shells landed.

Burning flames and rolling smoke can be seen everywhere on the Yong camp in Qingpu Zhuang Township. Those brave men who stayed in the deep trenches and barracks suffered heavy casualties, many were buried by the earth clods before they could react, and others were directly shocked to death by the impact of the explosion. The villagers were all stunned, and they ran backwards without being dead or injured.