After some politeness, the naval soldiers of the Saint-Martin Empire were well accommodated, and Qiu Yu'an specially vacated a military camp near the harbor to settle these naval soldiers.

Qiu Yu'an personally cleaned up Marshal Dinant and other officers, and during the banquet, Qiu Yu'an asked with the strength of wine: "I wonder what Marshal Lu Dao thinks about this rebellion?" ”

Dinant slapped the table angrily and said: "Those rotten nobles in the capital, every day they only know how to deceive the emperor and oppress the people, even in the year of great calamity, will cause such a big disaster. ”

Qiu Yu'an pretended to whisper: "Lord Marshal, don't raise your voice, be careful of being listened to." ”

Marshal Dinant said: "Except for the generals of your Chinese Lord, who are my cronies, how can it be leaked." ”

Qiu Yu'an looked around at the officers eating and drinking in the hall and said, "Be careful that the wall has ears, I'm afraid that the officers under your command are from noble backgrounds." ”

Dinant snorted coldly and said: "General Qiu still doesn't know what to do, our navy is different from the army, the navy is adrift on the sea all the year round, often attacked by storms, and often fights with the Boston Empire, the mortality rate is very high, so those nobles will not join the navy at all." They will only join the army, which can mix up military merit without fighting, which is why the army is so fragile that even the rebel army composed of civilians cannot defeat it. ”

The navy has always looked down on the army, and he is angry when he thinks that the heavily defended port of Rio has been captured by the rebels. Qiu Yu'an comforted him and said: "Although the combat effectiveness of your country's army is indeed lower, we have begun to reorganize your army's troops, and I believe that in the near future, the army will be able to change its old outlook." ”

Marshal Dinant drank the wine in his hand and said indignantly: "I hope so. Marshal Dinant, who was in anger, did not understand the meaning of Qiu Yu'an's words at all, and did not say anything about the change of the Chinese army to the Imperial Army of St. Martin.

Qiu Yu'an said tentatively: "There are too many corrupt and mediocre officials in your country, and it is difficult to escape the blame for coming to the emperor of your country." ”

Marshal Dinant obviously drank a lot, and he had no scruples about spitting out the truth after drinking. Marshal Dinant raised his wine glass and snorted: "The emperor's ability is insufficient, and there is no virtuous minister to help, so we are also in a hurry, and there is no way." ”

Qiu Yu'an said: "Actually, before I came, I accidentally heard my young master say a solution. ”

Dinant was puzzled: "Your young master is ......"

Qiu Yu'an came to his senses, it turned out that he didn't know who the young master in his mouth was, and he hurriedly explained: "It's the Fang lord of the Chinese Territory." ”

Marshal Dinant suddenly realized: "It turns out to be the famous Fang Lord, I don't know what the Lord of the Dao Dao has to say. For Fang Xiaoyu, Dinant is obviously also famous for a long time.

Qiu Yu'an said: "The young master said that the St. Martin Empire now lacks a wise enough emperor, and the best way to do it is to implement a constitutional monarchy. ”

"What is a constitutional monarchy?" In this world, all of them are imperial countries, and this constitutional monarchy only has a few embryonic states such as the Saar Empire, and the complete form has not yet appeared, so Marshal Dinant is very unfamiliar with this term. Qiu Yu'an didn't understand it very well, but Fang Xiaoyu once explained to him in detail that he could still do it according to the script.

Qiu Yu'an said with a smile: "This constitutional monarchy is that the emperor is the spiritual leader of the people, and the real power is in the hands of the cabinet. The cabinet is the actual administrative body elected by the people themselves, and exercises the rights of the state every four years, and if they do not do well, the people will not elect them in the next election, so these cabinet members will inevitably work hard to stay in this position, which creates a virtuous circle, the politics of the country will be much clearer, and the emperor will be more idle. ”

Marshal Dinant said thoughtfully: "But if the cabinet members break the law, who will care?" ”

Qiu Yu'an said: "This is to make a constitution before the formation of the cabinet, the people elect a parliament, the constitution can only be passed or changed by more than two-thirds of the members of the parliament, with this constitution there is a legal basis, once the cabinet makes a mistake, the parliament can vote to dissolve it, and then conduct another election, so that the cabinet has executive power, and the parliament has the right to supervise." ”

Marshal Dinant slapped his thigh and said, "It's really good, this way is so good, Lord Fang is really a genius, he can actually think of such a good method." ”

Qiu Yu'an didn't know much about this system, so he could only deal with it vaguely, anyway, he had already taught what Fang Xiaoyu said to Dinant as it was, as for whether he understood it or not, it was his business, but seeing Dinant's glowing eyes, it seemed that he understood.

Before parting, Marshal Dinant grabbed Qiu Yu'an and said vigorously that he would definitely visit this magical young lord when he had time. Back at his residence, Qiu Yu'an breathed a sigh of relief, Fang Xiaoyu's task for him was finally completed.

Before Marshal Dinant arrived, Fang Xiaoyu gave Qiu Yu'an a task to test whether any of the senior officers and officials of the St. Martin Empire were dissatisfied with the emperor, and to prepare for the Chinese Lord's control of the St. Martin Empire in the future.

The first to be tempted was Field Marshal Caolan, but Caolan was a little weak, belonging to the kind of people who belonged to people and Yiyun, this kind of person could be controlled for his own use, but it would be extremely difficult for him to control the political situation of the Saint-Martin Empire.

Therefore, Qiu Yu'an once again tested Marshal Dinante, and the result made him very satisfied, the officers at all levels of the navy had long been dissatisfied with the emperor, and at the same time opposed to the army, and in the future, Marshal Dinant and Marshal Caolan would control the political situation of the San Martin Empire together, which should be nine out of ten. As for whether to defect to the Chinese Leader, if the two marshals are not fools, they should know how to choose.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Chinese army to stand still, the rebels gathered most of their troops and launched a general attack on the city of Santa Maria again, and the rebel soldiers desperately attacked the city regardless of their personal safety, while the defending Imperial government army of St. Martin resisted desperately.

Both the government and the rebels saw the battle as a life-and-death battle between success and failure, with the rebels being able to rule across the river from the Chinese army if they were victorious, and the government army being able to attack the Chinese reinforcements inside and outside and break up the rebels.

This time the attack and defense of the capital was extremely fierce, and the soldiers on both sides were red-eyed, fighting for their lives regardless of their own safety, and many soldiers did not hesitate to die with the enemy. The battle lasted for five days, and the soldiers on both sides were exhausted, but the top brass on both sides refused to admit defeat, gritted their teeth and desperately persevered.

After receiving a report of the crisis of the government army from the scouts, Qiu Yu'an did not dare to play too much, in case anything happened to the royal family of the San Martin Empire, the reinforcements of the Chinese leader would lose their moral support, so on the other side of the Amazon River, he immediately ordered the troops to cross the river and attack.

After a few months of preparation, the first batch of troops to cross the river has reached 300,000 people, plus the 200,000 cooperative troops recruited from the people, trained and controlled by the armed police, these more than 30 divisions of troops have been strictly trained by the Chinese leaders and purged by the officers, and their combat effectiveness has been greatly improved, and at the same time, their sense of identity with the Chinese leaders has been greatly increased.

In order to cover the crossing of the river, the Chinese army moved out all the 105 mm and 155 mm long-range heavy artillery, and under the cover of their reckless bombardment, a large number of ferries were like arrows from the string to the opposite bank, and the soldiers of the St. Martin Empire on board held rifles and looked firmly at the rebels on the opposite bank.

A large number of heavy howitzers equipped with the Chinese Consulate Army have a long range and good power. Amid the heavy explosion of shells, the rebel soldiers, who had never been subjected to such artillery bombardment, had no idea that they could only minimize their injuries by lying down during the shelling, and they threw away their rifles and ran around, and these people who were running were quickly knocked down by the subsequent shells.

The rebels' positions were in shambles, with broken hands and feet, and broken intestines and flesh everywhere. The mutilated corpses and wailing crippled soldiers filled the entire position, causing many of the St. Martin's Imperial soldiers who had just rushed to the position to lie on the ground, their stomachs churning, followed by a violent vomiting, some even vomiting with acidic water.

Under heavy shelling, the San Martins army met with minimal resistance from the Chinese army, and the army soon crossed the Amazon River and established a solid beachhead. Hearing that the army led by the Chinese leader had broken through the defense line of the Great River, and that the rebels besieging the capital were even more frenzied, they decided to take a desperate gamble.

The Chinese Army, which was only 120 kilometers away from the capital, left five divisions of the Cooperative Army to consolidate the logistics base, and all the troops that could be drawn included the seventeen divisions of the Imperial Government Army of St. Martin, and the three divisions of the Cooperative Army and the Fourth Army of the Chinese Guards marched towards the capital together.

Because the speed of crossing the river was not fast enough, the troops came, but the horses came very little, in order to save time, the vanguard could only run forward to support, not to mention that most of the troops were pack horses and horses that could not run fast, and it was useless to ride them.

"Quick, speed up." Zhao Qingyun, the head of the vanguard regiment who was running at the front, anxiously urged the soldiers who were running forward at this time. This vanguard regiment is not the army of the Saint Martin Empire, but a main regiment of the Fourth Army of the Chinese Guards, in this race against time, those who are not good enough to reach the destination quickly, only the Guards soldiers who have been rigorously trained for many years can have been marching at the speed of running all day.