Well, he wiped everything clean with a word of the volunteers, Bi Sheng found that at this time they all seemed to like to play the volunteers, the Germans were volunteers in South Africa, and they are still fighting the British in Pretoria! Now that the Chinese are also volunteers, he really wants to ask how great the volunteers are, can the volunteers be irresponsible?

But he also knows that it is already very good for people to give themselves an explanation, to put it bluntly, the two sides have entered a quasi-war state, the Chinese navy has blocked the ports of Vietnam, and now the lack of public participation in the war is just for that image problem.

In fact, including him, the French government really doesn't want to go to war with China, not that it is afraid of China, although China's strength has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years, but if he really wants to go all out, he really doesn't believe that France will lose to China, but the problem is that France can't go all out, a large number of hungry wolves in Europe are staring at it, there are still huge colonies in Africa to watch, France can draw one-third of its strength to Asia, it is already very good, even the most optimistic French, do not think that one-third of France can beat China, This was not 1884, when a random fleet could show off its might along the coast of China, and even at that time it did not really show off its might.

But the problem is that it is not possible not to fight, face is still secondary, and more importantly, losing Vietnam means that France will be expelled from Asia, although there are still Khmer and Laos, but those two places have no value.

Bi Sheng, who protested to no avail, had to go back and report, the word volunteer almost made Du Mei's nose crooked, and now the artillery on the opposite side has begun to bombard the fortress on the north bank, and the 105 cannon has been determined, the appearance of this kind of Chinese army divisional standard artillery is enough to prove that the opposite side is the Chinese army, even if the Vietnamese buy heavy artillery, can they even buy artillery. Don't talk about one hundred and five cannons, even if you give them five or seven cannons, they may not be able to play.

But since they said that they were volunteers, he had no choice but to watch the cannons ravage the fortress outside the range of his cannons, but fortunately, the fortress was still very strong, and this newly built fortress for a year was the most important work after he moved the governor's palace to Hanoi. After all, everyone understands that ambition will grow with strength, and the Chinese cannot not fight the idea of Vietnam, and must be prepared, so they put their strength into the defense of Hanoi. The fortress was built of sturdy reinforced concrete, and the thick outer walls were difficult to penetrate even if the 105 guns were far away. Now, despite the thousands of shells, it is still standing.

The Vietnamese erected a pontoon bridge in the upper reaches of the Suli River, crossed the Suli River and then launched an attack on the fortress, although there was heavy artillery cover, but these monkeys who lacked combat experience still fell one after another under the machine guns and Haqikaisi tube guns, and on the open ground east of the fortress, thousands of Vietnamese corpses stretched out, and even the grass looked red. For the first time, Du Mei discovered that these Vietnamese could be so heroic.

What he didn't know was that the Chin Cha from Hue had arrived, and had brought with him a large stack of letters of appointment, starting with the Yellow Flower Detective and ending with the petty warlords below. There is no shortage of official positions and titles, and these are all genuine official positions, and Huang Huatan was even made a duke. Governor of Beiqi, An Shigong. The great honor made him and his little warlords one by one when their blood was boiling, not to mention that Qin Cha also brought a large amount of silver. Ruan Shanshu borrowed 5 million silver dollars from the People's Bank of China and gave 1 million to these people, causing those ordinary soldiers to lie on the ground and shout the emperor's grace, and it can be said that they are not afraid of death when they start a battle.

And with the start of the battle of Hanoi, the Vietnamese army south of the Red River also began to move, and in Annam, or the Zhongqi region, the French army only controlled Da Nang, and all other places had been abandoned, and even the railway was not capable of protecting it.

In fact, this communication artery between the north and south of Vietnam has been counted as invalid, this railway must pass through Hue, according to the original ceasefire agreement, the Vietnamese army and the French army are indeed not allowed to exchange fire in the city, and other countries, including the French army, are not allowed to enter the city without the permission of the Vietnamese king, they can go out of the city, but the French are not allowed to come back if they go out, the Vietnamese do not have this restriction, Chen Hu has already taken people out to blow up the railway bridge over the Xiang River. Coupled with the blockade of the coast, the supply of Governor Dumei and his subordinates in Beiqi has actually been completely cut off, and they can only rely on the ammunition and materials previously stored to fight, but fortunately, the reserves in these two places are still very sufficient, enough to support more than a year.

In this way, there are countless power vacuums, originally these local anti-French and law-protecting Vietnamese, some French expatriates who did not evacuate, and even some bandit mountain kings have been divided, but since the Chinese Navy blockaded the coast, the vast majority of them have come to the royal family, after all, even with their loneliness, they also know that at this time in the East, China is the boss, since the boss is helping the king, then who the winner is in the end, it is not difficult to see clearly.

Nguyen Shan Shu also gave these guys official titles under the instruction of Chen Hu, and then transferred them north to attack Hanoi, and after the conditions were made to conquer Hanoi, whatever they played, the property of the French in the city was their reward, so that all kinds of warlords rushed to the front line in Hanoi under the double temptation of fame and fortune, ready to die generously for their independence and freedom.

At this point, the fire of war in Vietnam has been fully ignited, and all that remains is to wait, wait for the arrival of the French, wait for the French Navy to take the initiative to attack the Chinese Navy, and then declare war and fight happily, and use victory to formally establish the hegemony of East Asia.

In the case of blockading the port, they have to fight if they don't fight, even if their army can find a coast to leave at will, the future supply of ammunition must also rely on the port, the entire French Indochina except Vietnam, there is no other port, unless it goes to Siam, but it can't be transported from land to Vietnam, and Siam is not so bold to dare to help them, it can be said that there is no other choice but to start the war.

"Alas, look at the world, when will the flames of war be extinguished!" Emperor Yang looked at the map and said with compassion or shamelessness.

At this time, the whole world was indeed in the midst of war, the British in Africa were fighting with the Boers, and the chiefs of Nigeria seemed to be in constant conflict with the British under the bewitchment of the Germans, and the Mexicans in the Americas were fighting with the Americans.

In addition, at the instigation of the Germans, Guatemalan President Cabrera, like many of his predecessors, shouted the slogan of the Central American Federation, preparing to unify Central America, especially in Costa Rica, where Yang Feng had told the Germans that there must be a big oil field, and there would be war again.

Aguinaldo and Liu Hengzhen led the Philippine warriors on the Asian island of Luzon to resist the Russian invaders unremittingly, and now they have held out for four years, countless warriors and invaders have fallen in the rubber forest, fortunately, in these four years, the international forces of justice have never stopped helping them, such as China, in addition, Germany also sneaks to stuff them with weapons from time to time, fortunately, Nikolai only cares about rubber production and does not care about how many gray cattle die, otherwise he has to turn his face with Emperor Yang and William.

Now with the addition of Vietnam, the whole world can indeed be said to be in flames of war, but these wars basically have his mastermind behind the scenes, which he selectively turned a blind eye to, including South Africa, if it were not for his weapons, the British would have taken Pretoria at this time.

"Your Majesty, if all countries were under your rule, I don't think there would be any more wars in this world, and then people would be able to truly enjoy peace and prosperity." Yuan Shikai on the side was like a standard traitor, and said with a smile.

"No, no, this burden is too heavy for me to pick up, we just need peace in Asia." Emperor Yang hurriedly said, but the expression on his face was still very happy.

He was on the train to Xi'an at this time, the Longhai Railway has been repaired to Xi'an, and the next step is to build the most difficult section from Baoji to Tianshui, because Emperor Yang previously said that where China's railway is repaired, his royal special train will go there, so the people of Xi'an are looking forward to the Emperor Xià, and also need to go to Luoyang, in fact, his main destination is Luoyang, the city has now become his second secret base, an aluminum alloy base based on Gongyi aluminum mine, Of course, it is now just a small electrolytic aluminium plant and an aluminium research institute.

In fact, the first experimental 2024 alloy aluminum ingot has been manufactured for him, and now the factory is being built, because almost all of his technologies are currently blank, and dozens of researchers have been exhausted in the past three years, Emperor Yang has established not only an aluminum alloy production line, but also the industrial production research of manganese, zinc, magnesium, chromium and other things as a supporting plant is also responsible for this research institute, including aluminum heat treatment technology, rolling, punching, casting processing technology, It is not surprising that researchers are tired of this number.

You must know that his researchers are not real scientists, they are all top students selected from domestic universities, and then sent here to use the technical information provided by him alone, while self-study and experimentation, the difficulty can be imagined.

Looking at the list of exhausted researchers in his hands, Emperor Yang couldn't help but sigh, and then said to Yuan Shikai: "Take it, find all their children when you go back, give each family a viscount, and the daughter who has no son will be a lord." ”

As soon as the goods were finished, the researchers were so moved that they cried and knelt on the ground. (To be continued......)