After a secret conversation with Wang Feng, taking advantage of the night, Huang Kaiguang left quietly, it was impossible to say that he was not nervous, but he was more excited and excited.

Although he should have taken a great risk to the Democratic Alliance Army, and found out that it would definitely be the end of the family and extermination, he did not hesitate, but in the end he took this step bravely.

Risk corresponds to opportunity, Wu Chongyao's government he is not optimistic at all, compared with the original Liangguang Governor Yamen, except for the addition of thirteen lines of tooth merchants, Britain, France and the United States advisory group, all other aspects are changed soup without medicine, basically the original team of the Governor's Yamen and the Governor's Yamen, just these people, even if there is the support of foreigners?

He did not think that the Wu Chongyao regime would be able to withstand the attack of the Democratic Alliance.

In addition, as he himself said, small and medium-sized businessmen are wary of the power of tooth merchants, and tooth merchants usually squeeze small and medium-sized tooth merchants through the privileges of industry associations. Comparatively speaking, the Democratic Alliance is easy to accept as a third party with no serious connections, and the fair and just environment under its rule is even more desirable.

In addition, Wu Chongyao's government's cession of land to Vietnam has also caused great dissatisfaction, you know, Vietnam has always been a vassal state of China, but this is good, the heaven and earth are hanging upside down, the sun and the moon are replaced, and the suzerainty actually cedes land to the vassal country, especially Zhennanguan, which is not acceptable to people with a little nationalist thinking.

The last reason is related to Huang Kaiguang himself, he and Wang Feng do not know each other, if they do not stand up to support the Democratic Alliance at this time. Then this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity was quite abandoned, and he also helped build a steel mill for the Democratic Alliance. Two million taels of silver is a huge amount of money for the Huang family, and there is no way to watch it go down the drain.

Combine all of the above. Huang Kaiguang felt that the hope of success was about seventy percent certain, so he secretly contacted some trustworthy small and medium-sized businessmen to secretly work for the Democratic Alliance, of course, the most important thing was that he had confidence in Wang Feng, and he firmly believed that Wang Feng had won the mandate of heaven!

Just like a well-known old saying, investment is risky, and you must be cautious when entering the market, Huang Kaiguang fully considered the comparison of risk and return, so he firmly invested in Wang Feng. In short, this is a big deal, and it is done, and the Huang family will soar into the sky

Although it was the New Year's period, the city was in a depression, the streets were deserted, the people were huddled at home, and the sporadic gunfire brought great pressure to them. I endure it every day.

In the tense atmosphere, three days passed in a flash, and this day was February 4, which is the tenth day of the Lunar New Year. As a division of the Democratic Alliance Army bypassed Guangzhou that night and was stationed at an equidistant distance between Guangzhou and Foshan, the skirmishes suddenly stopped. This anomaly gave the citizens of Guangzhou and the defenders a very bad premonition.

"Is it going to start today?" A lot of people looked out the window, for them. The victory or defeat of the war is not too important, it is all Chinese. It doesn't matter who invades whom, they just want the war to end as soon as possible.

Early in the morning, Ye Mingchen, Wu Chongyao, Bao Ling, Pa Xiali, Jing Yihua, Genui, Ruan Boyi and other dignitaries boarded the city wall facing north of Guangzhou, according to their judgment, the water network in the north of the city is sparse, suitable for large corps operations, if nothing else, the Democratic Alliance Army should launch a strong attack on Yuexiu Mountain from the northwest to the southeast, because the west is affected by the Beijiang River and cannot deploy too many troops, and the east has Baiyun Mountain, although there is a road between Baiyun Mountain and Yuexiu Mountain, but it is equivalent to being separated from the entire battlefield. Therefore, the east and west wings only feint to lead the way.

Sure enough, as soon as the sun appeared above the horizon, I saw a large sparse black shadow slowly pressing down.

Ye Mingchen picked up the binoculars and looked at it, the Democratic Alliance Army stood in a loose formation, about an average of 30 people as a combat unit, all carrying guns, each combat unit was equipped with a small cannon, this kind of combat formation was chaotic at first glance, but he didn't dare to despise it, after all, the name of the person, the shadow of the tree, and the three words of the People's Alliance brought him heavy pressure.

But what made him gasp was that the two teams at the front were all cannons, with slender and slender tubes, some of which were dragged by more than 20 war horses, and some of which were dragged close to 40 horses, which was obviously super heavy artillery.

"Fifteen, ten, fifteen, twenty" Ye Mingchen couldn't help counting, the more he counted, the heavier his mood became, the two kinds of heavy artillery were about two hundred, and in the flanks in the distance, he could faintly see small artillery dragged by four or five war horses!

Although Wu Chongyao's government received some artillery from the British army, but the number was less than 100, and it was basically temporarily requisitioned from India and Singapore, not the latest model, because it was impossible to accurately locate the artillery position of the Democratic Alliance Army in advance, you know, the artillery pays attention to preemptive strike, and it will be very disadvantageous to wait for the Democratic Alliance to open fire and then pull it over, so these artillery pieces are all transported to Yuexiu Mountain, located in the north-east direction outside the city of Guangzhou, not far from the city wall, which can contain the attack in the north and east directions, which is obviously a very correct deployment. At the same time, Yuexiu Mountain is also heavily guarded.

And the original artillery in Guangzhou, that is, no one has any hope at all, the rate of fire is slow, it can't hit far, the shells won't explode, except for the loud sound, it's useless, even if there are nearly a thousand guns, what's the use? Only a few light guns with a short range but easy to carry could be deployed on the position for firing iron bullets.

Bao Ling put down the binoculars, glanced at Jing Yihua, and said with a calm face: "If the quality of the artillery of the Democratic Alliance Army can keep up, I can be sure from the appearance that his artillery performance has caught up with our most advanced British artillery, and all this is related to the greed of the Americans, if the United States did not provide him with lathe technology, how could he have the ability to build artillery?" ”

Jing Yihua's face was not very good-looking, and he said without showing weakness: "I'm afraid the most fundamental reason is that your country was wiped out last time, if it wasn't for the capture of a large number of advanced weapons and equipment, what was the use of him getting the lathe?" ”

"Alright, alright!" Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Genui hurriedly persuaded: "Gentlemen, now that the enemy is present, don't quarrel, Wang Feng is very cunning, what kind of face did he have when he wanted to get technology from us?" Groveling and passionate, now that he has the skills he needs, his wings are stiff, what kind of face is it? We must remember this lesson and absolutely not engage in any technical cooperation with him in the future. ”

"Humph!" Bao Ling snorted coldly: "We have no problem in the UK, but we are afraid that some countries will be consumed by the desire for profit and will not be able to withstand the temptation of petty profits." ”

The key point is that the power of the local government in the United States is too great, and the central government of the United States is only in the position of the co-master, and it does not have much binding force on the Americans in China.

For example, Jin Nengxiang, the former consul of Shanghai, the hospitals in Suzhou have been opened, and the city is like a city, so a lot of profits make Jingyihua swallow his saliva, I heard that Jin Nengxiang and Wang Feng have reached an agreement to open a branch in Nanjing in the future!

Another example is the City Bank of New York, which will open a branch in Suzhou next year, and the Whitney Company, the benchmark of the American lathe industry, is also investing in the production of lathes in China, and there are many other Americans who are panning for gold in China!

All in all, now the economic and trade exchanges between China and the United States are very close, in addition to industrial products, agricultural products in the United States have also begun to enter the Chinese market, corn, wheat, potatoes, soybeans are well received, farmers in the south are expanding the scale of planting, shipyards have also begun to design ocean-going freighters that can carry more goods, and China's silk porcelain is not only very popular in the United States, billiards is also in short supply, there are Americans in Shanghai who specialize in distributing billiards made in China!

Americans like to play billiards, the previous billiards were made of ivory, and the price of ivory is comparable to gold, except for the rich, no one can play at all, but now it is different, the Chinese use a special material called plastic to make billiards, and the texture and weight of ivory are almost the same, but the price is about five times cheaper, this five times is still the distribution price in the American market, so that billiards from the rich class into the middle class, only in the first half of last year, billiards exported to the United States, including billiard cues, reached 12,000 sets!

Therefore, trade has never been unilateral, if the United States embargoes and sanctions against China, it will affect the interests of many people, and the United States governments at all levels cannot afford this consequence.

Taking a step back, China has a population of 400 million, and in the course of the Democratic League's vigorous march toward modernization, it has gradually given birth to a middle class of considerable size, which is not xenophobic, has considerable spending power, and is expanding and developing at a terrible rate, which is a fatal temptation for the American capitalists.

After all, the United States is different from old capitalist countries such as Britain and France, it has no colonies, cannot suck blood, and completely depends on industrial and agricultural production and trade for a living, but the Europeans of the United States do not look down on industrial products, and can only go all out to open up the Chinese market for the time being, and the population of the United States is far inferior to China, which means that the trade dependence between the two sides is greater than that of China.

After all, in terms of geographical space, the United States is closer to China than Europe, and trade is more convenient, Britain and France can not sell industrial products to China, and digest them in Europe, but the United States can't, in the past, they could sell opium in China, but now the military government of the Democratic League has banned it, and even tobacco has great restrictions, forcing Americans to only do legitimate business in China.

Jing Yihua was silent, no one understood what Jing Yihua was thinking, the city was temporarily quiet, and everyone turned their attention to the Democratic Alliance army in the distance.

The 50 British land cannons captured at the beginning were already slightly backward in technology and were towed to Xiangshan Port to blockade the sea in case of emergency.

Two-thirds of them are 122 mm caliber and one-third are 152 mm caliber, which are respectively equipped in the artillery brigade of the First Division and the independent artillery brigade of the First Army, and the other combat units are currently only equipped with 75 small mountain guns.

And both artillery brigades will take on the task of today's main attack! (To be continued......)