"Slow down, slow down......"

"Be careful! Don't slide down......"

In the mountains from Puziling to Xujia Village, on a winding path, Qin soldiers holding horses are moving slowly.

In the past few days, the supplies and military supplies of the Qin army's attack troops were all carried by these cavalrymen in this way, leading horses and carrying goods, and moved to the front line little by little.

Now, their horses did not have bags of neatly groomed goods on their backs, and their status was restored to that of cavalry.

Li Changle should not have imagined that the Qin army would be able to pour a cavalry over Yichang, and when the sound of horses' hooves galloping sounded behind them, Li Changle might not cry.

However, the battle in Yichang no longer attracts everyone's attention.

On the Vietnamese side, Liu Zhuo's troops had returned to Yunnan, and in the offensive launched against Kunming, the various Hunan and Huai armies scrambled to retreat, and there was no longer a battle that could be called a 'battle to the death'. This was a very different story.

Before, the Xianghuai army was in Yunnan, although it was not the opponent of the Qin army, and it was almost defeated in every battle, but the Xianghuai army was still able to fight and was willing to fight. But now, the attitude has made a 180-degree turn, which has really made many people at home and abroad lose their attention.

And Shi Dakai, who was standing behind the British, still had no desire to fight the Qin army. Tens of thousands of elite Taiping soldiers are guarding their own territory in a daze,? No matter how brainy the outside is, they still don't move.

The 'great rout' of the Xianghuai army in Yungui caused a shock in the whole world. "Ta Kung Pao" and many other Chinese and foreign newspapers commented on this, and the uselessness of the Hunan and Huai Army in their remarks all involved the words 'the army has no will to fight'. Chinese and foreign newspapers have always believed that. The passage from Sichuan to Hubei was controlled by the Qin army, and tens of thousands of Hunan and Huai troops could not return to their homes now. Who has the heart to fight?

To be more daring, the Qin army has completely occupied Hunan. Zeng Guoquan, Liu Rong and other Hunan army bigwigs surrendered, and the Hunan army outside became rootless, and it would be strange if they were still willing to fight to the death with the Qin army now.

Involving the Huai army, it was said that the Qin army drank the Yangtze River, and all the land of Anhui in the south of the Yangtze River was taken away, and it was uncertain when the Qin army would move northward and smash the Huai army's nest in Huaibei, and the Huai army was worried about the safety of their homeland at this time. In a place where Yungui can't beat the eight poles, he is desperate to fight with the Qin army, and the soldiers of the Huai army are definitely unwilling.

And the fact is also as these newspapers say, after the Qin army captured Kunming, it continued to advance northward, which was really the same as playing, before the army reached the destination, the defenders slipped away one step earlier. It is better to march into Guizhou, than to march to Guizhou.

Moreover, more than a dozen anti-Qing forces that were active in Guizhou itself were no longer suppressed by the Huai army. As long as they don't take the initiative to provoke the Xianghuai Army, Liu Changyou, Liu Mingchuan, Zhang Shusheng and others will not beat them.

So. The eyes of the whole world were all focused on the Yunnan-Guizhou battlefield after the Spring Festival, Zhang Zhongkui took Yichang Mansion, and directly connected the Jiangxi part by water. It's not so noticeable.

The arrival of a large number of military supplies from Jiangxi quickly swelled the 'pockets' of the more than 4,000 Qin Army infantry officers and soldiers who came to Yichang across the lofty mountains and mountains. From military rations to ammunition, these people are simply more comfortable than the remaining troops in Hanzhong.

Li Changle searched in Dangyang for more than half a month. Then reorganize the defeated army, and a month has passed in the blink of an eye. The strength in his hands has only recovered to 6,000. In front of the Yichang battlefield, which was already heavily armed, the Qing army, which had less combat strength than 6,000, could not even talk about a threat at all.

With the retreat of the Xianghuai army in the southwest from Yunnan to Guizhou. If there is a plan to retreat from Guizhou to Sichuan, the Hanzhong part of the Qin army will once again attract attention. The Xianghuai army wanted to go home, but the way home was stuck by the Hanzhong Qin army, can the elite of the tens of thousands of Xianghuai army regroup and have another earth-shattering battle with the Hanzhong Qin army?

The whole of Sichuan is condensing the eyes of people all over the world. Liu Xian knew that after swallowing Guizhou, Liu Zhuo would definitely not be able to provoke Sichuan again. The troops in his hands are too small, and the dozen or so anti-Qing forces in Yungui, as well as many toasts and leaders, are also objects that need to be cooked. At least for half a year, Liu Zhuo didn't have a look to the north.

In the spring, it is Hubei that will really be hit.

The Hunan part went north, and the Jiangxi part traced the river to Wuchang, and if necessary, Hanzhong would also send troops to reinforce Yichang and go down the river to take Xiangyang.

Therefore, on 10 February, Liu Xian arrived at Hukou, accompanied by Peng Yucheng, Ma Rulong, and many other cadets of the advanced class of the military academy.

Of course, the course of these people is not over, but the battle of Hubei can also be an example to open the eyes of these old-style soldiers who came out of the battle with cold weapons.

With the complete decline of the French from the colonial power in the Far East, the relationship between the Qin army and the Western world seemed to have eased a lot. In just one month, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of the Qin Army ordered tens of millions of silver dollars of machinery from Britain, France, Germany and the United States, and at the same time, because of last year's war, China's fist products such as raw silk and tea, which had greatly reduced the trading volume, were also rapidly recovering their share of previous years.

At the same time, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce also led many raw silk lines in southern Jiangsu, Fujian and Zhejiang, invested in the machine qì silk reeling factory, and signed a unified opinion on the division of raw silk related quality and level, that is, according to the eight words of raw silk 'fine, round, even, white, clean and flexible', each point is divided into upper, middle and lower three grades, the best is expressed in A, the second is expressed in B, and the most is C. After the raw silk is classified, the raw silk of each quality is clear at a glance, and it is convenient for foreigners to sell it to foreigners.

The reason for the establishment of the machine qì silk reeling factory is that the quality of silkworm cocoons of the same quality is far better than that of raw silk obtained by hand. And the new Qin government advocates private factories, and the investment in a silk reeling factory is not expensive.

Then there are a series of measures related to the raw silk industry, such as incentives for the people and the cultivation of excellent silkworm seeds, as well as the classification of silkworm cocoons, and the unified price of silkworm cocoons collected from silkworm farmers.

That Zhejiang Province was obviously still under Zuo Zongtang's control, but as soon as the post of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce was published, the bosses of the silk shops in Zhejiang ran to Shanghai one by one.

Hangzhou General Xi Yuan clamored to eradicate the rebellion, but the real leader in Zhejiang was Zuo Zongtang. He didn't speak, and the voice of the thousands of Eight Banners New Army in Xi Yuan's hands couldn't even be heard in the whole city of Hangzhou.

However, more than eighty percent of the machinery and equipment of tens of millions of silver dollars were ordered by the Xinqin government. The new Qin government, which had to vigorously develop heavy industry, purchased seven or eight million silver dollars of equipment for iron-making, steel-making, prospecting, coal mining, and munitions.

Liu Xian is preparing to develop the Ma'anshan iron ore mine, as well as the Daye iron ore mine in Wuhan, plus the tungsten mine in Jiangxi.

With the increasing caliber of cannons, the demand and status of special steel are getting bigger and more important, and tungsten alloy is also time to appear. Although the tungsten alloy industry in the history of the original time and space was developed step by step from electric filament, Liu Xian knew that as long as tungsten ore has a reasonable process, tungsten can be processed into products by powder metallurgy billet, extrusion, forging, rolling, spinning and drawing. The microstructure, tensile strength and plastic-brittle transition temperature of the resulting tungsten alloy equipment will be greatly improved.

What's more, the bamboo wire lamp will be available next year. Liu Xian felt that it was not a big deal to bring tungsten filament lamps into the world more than 30 years earlier. And maybe this incident can also promote and enrich the positive image of China in a certain way.

"The Battle of Wuhan, what we want to fight is a quick word!" Liu Xian said to the group of senior classes with the rank of major general and lieutenant general in front of him, and also said to the many staff officers around him.

Li Hanzhang is not a fool, he will not be stupid and leave the three towns of Wuhan alone by the river. While dealing with the threat from Hunan, Li Hanzhang always kept nearly 10,000 troops to defend the city. In addition, troops were also stationed in other important transportation places along the river, apparently to prevent the Qin army in Jiangxi from going up the river.

All the way to Jiangxi, the only advantage of the Qin army was that it completely occupied the convenience of the waterway. As long as there were enough ships, the army could reach the foot of the three towns of Wuhan directly. In fact, Liu Xian is also preparing to do this.

"The morale of the troops is high, and the soldiers' desire to fight is very high!" Li Xueming made a guarantee.

Until now, the Qin army is still not a real new type of army. It seems that the belief of the country and the nation is far less inspiring and rallying the morale of the army than that of the fields.

However, the concept of fighting foreigners, putting military merit first, fighting a civil war, and losing military merit has also been formed in the army. Moreover, the objects of the civil war were divided into three, six, nine and so on, and the strongest grade was to fight the Hunan Huai Chu Army, then the Eight Banners New Army and the Training Army, and finally the Green Battalion and the reactionary Xiangyong.

Liu Xian was quite pleased with this. Being able to recognize the beating of foreigners as 'the first in military merit' shows that the concept of 'country and nation' has still developed and pioneered, although you can know with your toes that foreigners have the strongest combat effectiveness.

It took two full days for the dispatch of troops, with the garrison regiment as the main force, and more than 8,000 soldiers of the Qin army supplemented by two integrated battalions all arrived at Hankou. The more than 2,000 Qing troops stationed in Hankou were bombarded by gunboats and gunboats, and they were all taken down in a single charge after the successful landing.

At this time, Hankou was still only one concession area for the British, and Wuhan Station reported that the land prices in the British Concession had soared in recent days, and countless dignitaries and landlords had bought land and houses in the British Concession, which had raised the boundary of the British Concession in Hankou by more than three times.

The Qin army hit the current part, and the French beat them twice, and everyone in the world understood it. Except for the world's number one power, Yingji, the Qin army is no one and no bird! The transfer of property to the British Concession will be unpredictable in the long run, but in the short term, the Qin army will not turn against the British.

When Liu Xian arrived in Hankou, the Qin army, with the cooperation of naval artillery, had already attacked Hanyang on the other side of the Han River. At the same time, the Military Intelligence Department reported that the Hubei Green Battalion garrison in Xiangyang and the training of a small unit, as well as more than 2,000 Henan troops, were traveling day and night, at a high speed of 40 miles a day, to reinforce Hanyang.

Liu Xian didn't even bother to take a look at such a military situation. By the time these Qing troops arrived in Hanyang, Wuchang City had already been trampled under Liu Xian's feet. (To be continued......) R1292