Chapter 896

Because of the absolute strength of trade, the international price of silver today is actually determined by the Ming Dynasty. Without this foundation, silver as a carrier of currency will lead to all kinds of unnecessary losses in the Ming Dynasty's international trade, just like the end of the Qing Dynasty. There is no doubt that there is no need for currency reform now, that is, for the future. One thing is certain, Chen Ping judged that his father was going to make a fuss about the right to issue currency, and he would not allow Dafa Bank to continue to control the right to issue currency.

Why is this so, Chen Ping doesn't understand, even if he has been the president of Dafa Bank for so long, Chen Ping does not have much attainment in theoretical knowledge of finance. Chen Ping, who had thought about it repeatedly, decided to wait and see what happened, and the top priority was to start summarizing and researching this aspect. The profit model of the bank issuing money is summarized to prepare for the future.

Chen Xie didn't know that his practice of laying the groundwork in advance triggered Chen Ping's research investment in financial theory. The reason why it is necessary to foreshadow it in advance is because it is terrible to hand over the right to issue currency to private individuals. During the chaotic period of the Republic of China, every bank could issue banknotes, as long as there was a credit guarantee, and I shuddered to think about it.

It's still the silver standard, and who knows in the future? This thing is always changing with the progress of the times. At the end of the day, it's the interests that play the role. Chen Xie didn't want that after he left the Ming Dynasty, the consortium headed by Chen Ping would be strong enough to turn the country into a puppet. At least these people can't be allowed to turn the Ming government into puppets.

The battle in Valencia has been going on for five days, and from the third day onwards the fighting has entered a "white heat", at least that's how Condé sees it. Under the cover of heavy artillery fire, the coalition forces bravely attacked, and were able to advance more than 100 meters every day. The army of the Ming Dynasty hid in bunkers and kept shooting. But the resistance was not too intense. They often held out during the day, and at night, the soldiers of the Ming Empire would abandon their bunkers and hide in the back bunker to continue the battle. Gloomily, the coalition forces paid huge casualties, but not a single corpse of a Ming Empire soldier was found.

"Tell Sun Laosan. Stay in Callite obediently, it's not time for them to perform. Li Ming touched his chin with one hand and stared at the map, now he was most worried about the coalition army running away. In order to hold back the coalition forces, there was only one brigade of troops on the front, and one brigade as a reserve. The other two divisions, both hid in Callet.

To put it mildly, if you just want to defeat your opponent, you can do it with a single Marine Division. The problem is that he can't afford not to drag on for a few days. The aim is to gag the Army. In the future, there will definitely be a fight in this lip service, and the reason is very simple: the originally promised landing time was advanced, and the original plan was to launch a landing campaign after the main force of the coalition forces came into contact with the main force of the army, so as to completely drain the blood of Spain in the soft underbelly.

Now it is equal to the Navy and the Army, the question is. Li Ming didn't know that the army in turn set him along. What such a thing as encircling and annihilating the main forces of the enemy's army. Slowly you yourself suffered, the army went to Madrid, the capital of Spain. Even if you are awesome, no matter how many enemies you destroy, you can compare to the glory of occupying the capital. Still worried about stepping on the top of the army? Beauty doesn't kill you!

"The Ming will punish all enemies and ...... under the sun-shining land." The soldiers, singing majestic songs, strode north along the mountain road. This tune is naturally plagiarized. If you want to say that the song is huge and suitable for the army, the Soviet March can be ranked in the top three. So, someone did a plagiarism that became the current "Ming March". With the lyrics, a group of invaders sang very energetically. Kill someone else's capital.

"Report that the vanguard and the Spanish defenders have abandoned the city and fled as they reached Epdoliano." When the signal corps reported, Yin Jie was riding a horse on the edge of the mountain road to look at Madrid, and although he was very happy to hear the news, he looked back at the baggage troops who were marching the road, and the heat in his heart cooled down a lot.

It's all to blame on the bastards in the navy, if only they knew that they would land directly from Barcelona, and fight north from Gibraltar, the terrain on this road is too terrible. Speaking of which, what are the guys in the staff of the North African Corps who made this battle plan in their heads? Knowing the ghost terrain of Spain, he still engaged in such a battle plan.

The vanguard is fifty kilometers away from him, the commander of the European legion. If the war were to be fought according to a normal opponent, a supply line of 50 kilometers alone would have killed the Eurolegion. It's all a mountain road, and even if you rob it, you won't be able to grab much food. "Order the troops to speed up the march, the vanguard has already got food."

The current state of the entire European legion is that there is a shortage of food, and each unit carries three days' worth of food, and everything else depends on looting. Fortunately, the whole army passed through this mountainous area, that is, three days of effort. The current situation is that he, the commander of the European Expeditionary Force, has to bring his own compressed biscuits, drink water from mountain springs, and drink it after boiling.

In order to boost morale, Yin Jie couldn't sit on the horse all the time, he had to come down after walking for a while, follow the soldiers, and when he saw the soldiers who couldn't walk, he had to let the horse out. Fortunately, the entire European Legion grabbed a large number of cattle and took on the task of transporting ammunition, otherwise no matter how advanced the weapon, it would be blind without ammunition.

The aristocratic guards of Epdoliano were greedy for life and feared death, leaving the city and running away, which was originally the logistics supply place for the defense line of Mount Morena, hoarding a large amount of food and ammunition, but now all of them are cheaper for the expeditionary force, completely solving the problem of food supply. In addition, a large number of livestock and vehicles were seized, which greatly improved the logistical situation of the expeditionary force.

After a short day of recuperation, the expeditionary force continued northward, and at Ciudad Real, it encountered resistance from the Spanish army, but not fiercely. The 53rd Division, which took the lead, sent people to inform the generals in the city according to the usual practice, surrendered to avoid death, and resisted the massacre.

Leo Liver, the general of the Spanish garrison, put the battlefield outside the city, and the 5,000 defenders held on two hills, and the battle lasted for two whole days. Thus, there was no fighting in the city, and the good military discipline of the expeditionary force was once again restored to normal track, with the gross intervention of the stick of the gendarmerie.

Li Ming waited for a full ten days, and even abandoned the small town of Torrent, but the army kept telling him that it was almost there, it was almost there. This Nima is really pitiful, it's all scheming. In fact, at this time, only two infantry divisions were approaching the east, and had just reached Albacete, a few days away from Valencia.

At this time, Li Ming realized that something was wrong, and the continuous battles consumed a lot of the strength of the coalition army. The casualties of about 30,000 coalition troops have caused the coalition offensive to be less ferocious than before. At this time, the Marine Corps actually invested only three infantry regiments, and even artillery was not used much. This abnormal phenomenon was initially suspected by Kong Dai, but a few occasional shellings made him misjudge, that is, the army of the Ming Empire that came across the sea was unable to support the logistics supply of the two fronts, and the range of the bulky naval guns was insufficient, and it was not easy to carry ashore, which led to the artillery fire of this army being very ordinary, often firing a dozen rounds, and stopping at a critical time.

The French army, which was the main force of the coalition forces, suffered more than 8,000 casualties in the past battles, and under normal circumstances, the combat effectiveness of this army was not good. Fortunately, this time there were allies, and the French army was put into battle one by one, not independently, so that it would not cause a collapse.

Li Ming's patience finally ran out, and he ordered the main force to attack, and the time was chosen at five o'clock in the morning.

Under the cover of night, the assault teams of two divisions of the Marine Corps entered the pre-war assault positions. In the darkness before dawn, patiently wait for the passage of time. This move is a textbook tactic of the Ming army, taking advantage of the darkness to enter the pre-observed position to hide, and launch an attack before dawn. It can be said that even under the conditions of the Korean War, it was still able to penetrate the defense line of the United Nations Army head-on.

The coalition forces of this era, where have they seen this trick. At five o'clock, a red light flashed in the sky, like countless thunderbolts exploding, the earth was shaking, and the air was trembling. The first to fire were the six capital battleships that entered the harbor, twenty 150-caliber guns, pouring ammunition on the small town of Torent. The main force is the limit of the range of the main ship's guns, and other guns can't hit this.

At the same time, the artillery regiments of various divisions that had been leading but not firing were launched, 36 cannons of 105 caliber, plus 36 75 mountain guns, and the camps of the coalition forces inside and outside the small town were all plunged into an infinite sea of fire without exception.

In the headquarters outside the town, when Condé was awakened by the sound of artillery, he rushed out of the farmhouse where he lived, looked at the coalition troops who were hiding like ants on a hot pot, and knew that something was wrong. Such a fierce artillery fire is not at all the kind of solid bullets that the coalition forces can think of, this is all things that explode when they land, I have seen it before, but it is not as fierce as this time, especially the large-caliber naval guns, a shell exploded, and the people standing more than ten meters around had to fall.

The ferocious artillery preparation lasted a whole hour, and the navy, a big dog with many ships, did not worry about ammunition at all. This guy has completely blinded the coalition forces. Although the generals of all walks of life tried very hard to control the troops, this is not even a coalition army of modern armies, where is it so easy to control, especially in the dark, in the camp of the entire coalition army, continuous bombing of the camp. The soldiers dropped their weapons one after another, briefly identified the direction, and ran towards the place where there was no artillery fire.

The first to collapse were the Portuguese, then the Swedes, and the French were able to control it at first, but when a 105 shell exploded next to Condé, the French also collapsed. Miraculously, it was the army of the Holy Roman Empire that carried it down, and under the leadership of a general, about 10,000 people did not run away and retreated in formation.

The reason why they were able to resist was that they were in a relatively backward position, and the attacks on them were all small-caliber 75 mountain guns. (To be continued......)