Facing the early morning sun, three green signal flares appeared in Lin Haijiang's telescope? The firing position turned out to be in the harbor of Huiwan, and the smoke rising from the direction of the port seemed to be a troop of troops exchanging fire there?

Lin Haijiang frowned, he knew that this must be the bold Cheng Zhigang who suddenly discovered some new fighter, but with a mere company to seize the dock held by at least a thousand French troops and 2,000 sailors, this surprise attack was obviously accompanied by a complete danger.

"Full reinforcements, the battleship suddenly rushed into the harbor!" Lin Haijiang left Cambridge after giving the order, although the French army posed no threat to the Imperial fleet, but Lin Haijiang did not want his subordinates to worry about him, so he left the bridge.

Not long after Lin Haijiang left the bridge, the battleship's main guns began to shoot at alternate intervals between marches, looking at the coffee in the coffee cup in front of him swinging, and the ripples in the circle seemed to be a face of death!

Lin Haijiang smiled slightly, he himself had never had any beliefs, after drinking a cup of coffee, Lin Haijiang leisurely picked up an English novel that he didn't know what to say, and fell asleep without turning it a few times.

The guards outside the cabin glanced through the porthole, and the two smiled knowingly, the Führer rarely slept for a while, because only the Führer's rest was the most reassuring time for them.

In the rumbling cannon, Lin Haijiang slept unusually peacefully, as if the sound of the cannon was a lullaby, for this expedition to the Indochina Peninsula, Lin Haijiang can be said to have worked hard, this should have been after his unification of the country, but now it is putting the cart before the horse.

Lin Haijiang had to be cautious, because at the moment the country was still in chaos, the foreign powers intervened, the Manchus were incompetent externally, but they were able to loot the people's wealth internally, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom frequently changed its movements to consume the people's fat and people's cream, and these two big losers were uselessly consuming China's vitality, and the sooner they solved the problem, the sooner they could devote themselves to the construction of the restoration of the surname.

Lin Haijiang had no good solution to the many thorny problems faced by the country once it was recovered, so he could only follow the example of later generations and carry out several large-scale campaigns, first classifying the old bureaucrats and gentry into the opposition between the empire and the people, and then implementing various movements step by step, adopting the planned economic system, and politically participating in the politics of many people.

Lin Haijiang did not have the time and energy to re-plan and build the economic system, and if it would take at least 30 years for China's economic system to get on the right track with a steady approach, Lin Haijiang would not have the patience of 30 years, so he could only use extreme methods to destroy them all and concentrate and redistribute effective resources, similar to an outright revolution.

If anyone dares to block Lin Haijiang's governance at this time, then Lin Haijiang will not hesitate to crush it and crush his bones and ashes! After all, a radical revolution allows for mistakes, as long as the mistakes are within the permissible range.

Lin Haijiang slept for a few hours, and when he woke up, the battle was already over, Lin Haijiang took a traffic boat to the Huiwan pier, and the French battleship captured by the marines in front of him made Lin Haijiang slightly stunned, because the appearance of this battleship and the layout of the bridge are too much like a Blitzkrieg-class protective armored cruiser? If it weren't for the obvious traces of battle on the ship and the marines on the deck guarding the prisoners, Lin Haijiang would have almost regarded this Marina as his own warship.

Lin Haijiang was very excited about being able to capture a warship, this gift from the French was definitely beyond Lin Haijiang's expectations, according to Lin Haijiang's original words when he held the hand of Captain Mesidos of the Marina: You are so polite! It's really too polite, rushing all the way to make it and then send it over, what kind of spirit is this? This is the spirit of internationalism!

Accompanied by Cheng Zhigang, who was dancing with flying eyebrows, Lin Haijiang inspected the Marina, and Lin Haijiang just couldn't understand why the French like to name a woman on a battleship?

Cheng Zhigang immediately reported a very important clue to Lin Haijiang, the most fierce resistance with the ship during the attack was the Praetorian Light Cavalry, and there was no war room on the Marina? Only a woman's room full of scent? And there are a lot of lace underwear and so on, saying that, Cheng Zhigang took out an almost transparent lace skirt from his arms and showed it to his respected head of state!

Lin Haijiang forcibly controlled the urge to kick the commander of the armed reconnaissance assault company who had just made a great contribution, and coughed dissatisfiedly, Cheng Zhigang hurriedly put away his skirt, and Cheng Zhigang, who was flushed, secretly breathed a long sigh of relief when he saw that the Führer didn't say anything.

Lin Haijiang immediately said to the intelligence staff officer who was following on the side: "Immediately find out what kind of woman is so important, is it the wife of Napoleon III?" ”

In a burst of laughter, Lin Haijiang walked towards the captured French prisoners of war, the French prisoners were all concentrated on the dock, these disheveled and frightened French prisoners looked at the blackened bayonet on the Imperial II rifle in the hands of the marines in a daze.

This could be the first time that a French soldier has seen such a pitch-black bayonet? But they had no doubt about the function of this bayonet, because just a few dozen minutes earlier, several officers and soldiers who had tried to cause chaos had been mercilessly stabbed on the dock by this black bayonet, and now their blood had begun to turn black, and a few nasty flies were buzzing around.

When Lin Haijiang, who was surrounded by the stars and the moon, arrived, a French colonel hesitated for a moment and said loudly to Lin Haijiang in French: "Your Excellency, Honorable General, I am very ashamed of your sneak attack, and I solemnly ask you to give us the treatment we deserve!" ”

After the translation, Lin Haijiang smiled and said: "I am not a general, I am Lin Haijiang, the head of the Chinese Empire, between your combat effectiveness and performance, I can forgive you for bringing weapons into our territory, the Chinese Empire has declared war on the Second French Empire two months ago, there is no such thing as sneak attack and no sneak attack, and there are only winners and losers in war, there is no process but results!" ”

After listening to the translation, the French colonel seemed to be shocked and emphasized: "This is free Indochina, an overseas colony of the Second French Empire under a reasonable and lawful treaty, and we have been illegally attacked by you in our own colony. ”

Lin Haijiang paused for a moment and estimated the number of prisoners and continued: "I can give you humane treatment, but this resettlement fee will have to be repaid by your political axe, if the French political axe refuses to pay when the prisoners of war are repatriated after the war, then you will have to stay in the Chinese Empire for paid labor to offset your debts!" ”

Lin Haijiang took a few steps closer and said to the French colonel: "I solemnly warn you, when you talk about this place in the future, I hope you will use the standard and accurate word Indochina, which has been an inseparable part of China since ancient times, remember?" ”

Looking at the French colonel who was taken aback and became more and more timid, Lin Haijiang turned around with great satisfaction, looking at the brand-new protective armored cruiser on the dock, Lin Haijiang subconsciously felt that he should be kind to France, after all, they generously gave him a battleship.

In a villa outside the small city of Anning, fifty kilometers away from Huiwan, Kashgar. Major General Duras looked at the ragged and frightened El? Colonel Raffarin didn't even know what to say? Who is the enemy? How many troops do they have? Where is the goal? All Kashgar. What Major General Duras was anxious to know was nothing to say.

Kashi. Major General Duras was perfectly able to conclude that it must have been the sound of gunfire, El? Colonel Raffarin was busy running away, for this hypocrite, who usually pretended to be a gentleman and always had a sense of imperial interests, should leave his troops behind and flee alone at the beginning of the attack? Kashi. Major General Duras had an indescribable nausea.

Kashi. Major General Duras looked at Elr with cold eyes? Colonel Raffarin said: "My dear El? Colonel Raffarin, you abandoned your ships and troops and fled back like that? You can't even say who the enemy is, how many troops they have, their intentions? This is a naked betrayal, you are a shameful deserter? Are you still waiting for Prince Athena to give you a medal? ”

"Drag this shameful deserter down!" Kashi. Major General Duras waved his hand impatiently. Colonel Raffarin's face turned blue and trembled, and he couldn't tell what he could say, and was soon dragged down by the guards.

Prince Ashina, who had been standing in the living room of the villa, walked out slowly and looked at Kashgar. Major General Duras said: "You are doing the right thing, my general, France does not need deserters. ”

Kashi. Major General Duras looked at this woman who was known as the most attractive woman in Europe, and couldn't help but lose his temper slightly, his 57-year-old heart was still beating faster, and the romantic component of the French blood made him swear to Prince Athena that he would immediately rush to Tushan to stop the enemy army and recover the port.

Prince Athena smiled and nodded, she seems to have a natural surname of conquest for men, and so far no man has been able to be calm and calm in front of her!

However, Athena was most worried about the battleship Marina at the moment, because her favorite jewelry and clothes and even five of her seven dogs were still on the ship, but when she thought that someone had sworn to her that the Marina was the strongest warship in the world, Prince Athena was slightly relieved, such a large battleship should not be easily occupied by the enemy, and there were one hundred and twenty Praetorian Hussars accompanying the ship.

Compared to the jewelry on the Marina, Prince Ahena actually hopes most is to be able to take the sister ship of the Marina, the Prince Ahena named after her to complete her first and last trip before her wedding, although Britain, the Netherlands, Spain, and even Prussia are wrestling for her life's events, but Ahena knows that the dust will not settle so quickly, and she naturally has to estimate a worthy price with the title of the first beauty of the European royal family.

It was her luck to be born in the royal family, but it was also her misfortune, and her beauty was destined to serve and sacrifice only for the good of the country.

After occupying all the ports of Huiwan, Xu Wenshu's First Marine Brigade launched a semicircular defense, and the battleships stopped outside the harbor and continued to conduct artillery test firing to correct the shooting of Zhu Yuan, and an artillery battalion that was landing in the square of the town was used as an ideal artillery position.

According to the battle plan drawn up earlier, the sail warship formation carrying the task of transporting and delivering troops and materials will return to the Haikou base immediately after unloading the troops and materials, while the task of the 1st Marine Brigade is to cooperate with the warships on the sea to hold Huiwan Town, wait for all six brigades to land in depth, and then develop an attack in depth, while the remaining two brigades will land later.

For this operation, Lin Haijiang had already dispatched the maximum number of troops he could commit, all of the eight Marine Brigades, and eight field artillery battalions equipped with new artillery.

However, this is only one-twentieth of the troops invested in Lin Haijiang's plan to pacify the Indochina Peninsula in ten years, and for the imperial territory that can once and for all the Indochina Peninsula, Lin Haijiang can be said to have forgotten to sleep and eat, and the established policy of first unifying the south and then to the north has shown a small fluctuation here, and Lin Haijiang, who has passively carried out comprehensive adjustments, can now draw only ten marine brigades and the First Army Corps selected and adapted from the original naval division stationed in Guangzhou, and the second, third, and fourth army corps are now all being trained in Hainan. The First Mountain Infantry Corps is a sharp sword in Lin Haijiang's hands, and the so-called technique is specialized, and Lin Haijiang is not prepared to let the mountain infantry take on the combat mission of ordinary infantry until the last resort.

Tu Son is located in the southeastern suburbs of Hui Wan, about 26 kilometers away from Hui Wan Port Wharf, later it is a famous summer resort in Vietnam, Tu Son Scenic Area is located on the Tu Son Peninsula, across the sea from the famous Cat Ba Island! Here the French built a simple fortress town, where all the main forces of the French army were stationed.

And arrived in Kashgar in Tushan. Rear Admiral Duras also received a report of the enemy's situation, and the subordinate fleet of the Chinese Empire had almost poured out of the nest and had completely occupied the port of Huiwan, but it was very strange that they did not take advantage of the victory to attack inland? Instead, did you choose to defend in place?

Kashi. Major General Duras stood in front of the map, since the last time he failed to attack Yanjing in a joint attack with the British army, the troops and supplies originally transferred from Crimea have been transferred to Africa one after another, why don't those guys who regard Indochina as important as a triumphal arch really estimate and experience the real madness of the Far East madman who is as weak as a kitten in their mouth?

Now more than a dozen ironclad ships of the other side have been blocked at the gate, and the ironclad ship Marina that His Royal Highness Prince Athena came to have also become the trophies of the other party. Duras knew that if he did not exaggerate his report to the country, I am afraid that with the surname of His Majesty Napoleon III and the usual practice, he would probably be the unlucky one!

Kashi. In his report, Major General Duras described his actions as extremely critical, the Chinese Empire can be described as attacking the country, dozens of warships, more than 100,000 enemy troops landed, follow-up troops are still in an endless stream, the beachhead has been lost, in order to protect the safety of His Royal Highness Prince Athena, Kashgar. Major General Duras temporarily decided to send his most elite troops to protect His Royal Highness Prince Ashina, and as a last resort, he decided to sacrifice his honor to negotiate with the enemy in order to keep Prince Athena safe.

Kashi. Major General Duras fabricated the whole battle and his pessimistic expectations, because he knew very well that this superstition of his would take at least two months to earn into the hands of His Majesty Napoleon III, and that he would only rely on the forces in his hands for more than half a year to wait for reinforcements to be brought? This was obviously very unrealistic, and he believed that as long as he preserved His Royal Highness Prince Achina, Napoleon III would not have done anything to him, and for the sake of the face of the Second French Empire, he might even become a hero who resisted the barbarian invasion in the East!

Kashgar for a rainy day. Major General Duras's plan is how to conceal Prince Ashina's true identity, how to negotiate a brilliant laying down of arms, and most importantly, how to get out of this damn place safely, and then fight or break through Kashgar. Major General Duras did not give it a consideration at all, Kashgar. Major General Duras is not an idiot, before the coalition army attacked Yanjing and met with the Marine Brigade of the Chinese Empire, tens of thousands of people could not eat the other party's 3,000 people, and now the other party can be said to be pouring out, and those battleships that disappeared from the sea are obviously returning to transport troops again.

And the Indochina Peninsula is a tropical jungle, multi-ethnic, multi-religious, and the situation is extremely complicated, leaving the port for supplies into the jungle, Kashgar. Major General Duras can even guarantee that most people will die of yellow fever, malaria and other diseases in less than a week! The rest will starve to death in the primeval jungle that covers the sky, the domain of the Grim Reaper, and no one will be able to cross most of Indochina to British-controlled India.

In the villa, more than forty kilometers away from Tushan, Ashina's face was already anxious, because several Janissary light cavalry who had fled back from the dock reported that the enemy was the Chinese Empire, which had previously declared war on the Empire, and that the other side had dispatched roughly twenty or more ironclad ships, most of which were even more tonnage and artillery than our Marina.

When Athena learned that the Marina had been captured by the opposing infantry, she was completely speechless, in her opinion, the artillery on the hill, the garrison back to Bay Town, the warships and sailors in the harbor? The whole Huiwan is a military camp!

The Marina, which docked at the first pier of Huiwan, was actually robbed by the enemy on board the ship? Even a layman like Athena herself thinks how incredible this is?

Navy Colonel El who escaped from the battle? Raffarin, the sworn Kashgar. Major General Duras, Athena suddenly found that she could not trust any of these people, and that she was going to return to Paris as soon as possible, without mentioning the foolish idea of going to the overseas colonies.

(To be continued)