The chaos of the night, the chaos was only in Shandong, Feng Guifen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, only received the military order, but the order to transfer did not come down, and after the telegram order was obtained in Shandong, he was busy all night, at dawn, calls came from all over Shandong, and the British and French troops retreated.

"Inform Shi Dakai, two days later, move to the area of Jinkou, inform Wei Huozi, the British and French artillery buried at the Bali Bridge, all the guns of the British and French forces came out, transferred 500 light artillery, and in a month's time, the ammunition was prepared and sent to Jinkou City!

The remaining artillery, part of which was left at Bali Bridge, and part of which was packed and sent to Shandong and the three eastern provinces, were transported by train to Beijing in a few days! ”

Yang Meng, who lost his temper last night and worked all night, did not change his expression after getting the news of the retreat of the British and French forces, but according to the current situation, he issued an order to prepare artillery.

"Third master, how do you know that the British and French forces are only feinting?"

Last night's battle had been characterized as a feint, but the third master of his own family, as if he had known this, only used a threatening military order to scare the Shandong soldiers and horses, and they were stubbornly guarding the coast one by one.

"Analyze the situation! These feint fleets should have come from Canada and Australia, and the orders they received were probably to test the defense of the Shandong Peninsula and the Liaodong Peninsula.

If there are no men and horses in the local area, they will take advantage of the situation to land and establish a beachhead, and if the place is a little tougher, they will naturally retreat!

In ten days at most, the Anglo-French troops will land in Beijing and Tianjin, let Yang Fuliang's men and horses enter Shandong, and step up the training of Shandong's Lianyong militia.

Yunnan released 500,000 pieces of paper shells in stock. Change the guns of the Beijing suburban militia group. Firearms of the Beijing suburb militia. Part of it was sent to the three eastern provinces, and the rest to Shandong!

In the area south of the Yangtze River, 500,000 paper shell halls are put in, and Wuzhuang is currently the main one! ”

The British and French coalition raids on Shandong and Liaodong were the signal flares of war in Yang Meng's view, and Yang Meng, who had not planned to drop guns on a large scale, was forced to drop guns by the tactics of the British and French forces.

Hong Kong Island threatens Guangzhou, Zhoushan threatens Shanghai, Shandong threatens the north, and Liaodong threatens the three eastern provinces. The strategic deployment of the Anglo-French forces is also remarkable, and Shandong has now become a battleground for soldiers, and once the Anglo-French forces choose to land in Shandong and Beijing and Tianjin, the war situation will be endless.

For Liaodong, it should be the attention of Tsarist Russia, the three eastern provinces have 300,000 horses and horses of Devil Six, plus 200,000 horses to be recruited in the future, relying on local supplies, it is enough to block the Tsarist Russian soldiers and horses by land. And the number of 500,000 should be able to win the battle.

The battle situation in Beijing and Tianjin. It is difficult to predict if you don't hit a certain distance, and now it seems that the commanders of the Anglo-French alliance are still more cautious, such caution is not a good thing for Yang Meng, the division of troops is the cautious attitude that should be had, once the Anglo-French alliance division of troops, the war will be on a national scale.

The reason why Yang Meng reserves a large number of guns is actually very simple, that is, in order to prevent defeat, once Beijing and Tianjin are defeated, the war situation cannot be controlled, Yang Meng will destroy the industrial base of Guangzhou, and turn Yunnan and Huang'e into the world's largest gun factory, one million Maybe the European and American powers don't think so, if it's 10 million, or even 100 million?

Once defeated, Yang Meng will turn the whole country into a terrifying battlefield, if there are more guns, he will plant a fart field, he will rob without eating and drinking, and after robbing his own family, he will go out to rob outsiders, it is nothing more than that this era is an era of bandits, and it is really not Yang Meng will turn the entire Qing Dynasty into a bandit nest.

"Third master, release a million at once, is it more?"

"Not much! The guns are all in the hands of their own families, and five million is not much, so let Xishan, Huang'e, and Yiliang prepare to manufacture gun-making machinery in large quantities!

We don't have enough stock! ”

"Third master, it's extravagant!"

"Not necessarily! I can't say that after this war, many countries will buy guns through us? Since someone wants it, they will focus on single-shot copper-shelled Dresser, and do firearms trading, which is also to make a lot of money! ”

One million will be released at once, and the Yang family's inventory will be 20%! And the third master has to make guns on a large scale, these are just an order in the signing room, but when you get to the bottom, you have to fill it with mountains of gold and silver!

Yang Meng didn't care about this, in the future, to fight Tsarist Russia in the north, the civil war in Millican, and the war in Europe, I am afraid that sophisticated firearms are needed, and a firearm from design to production will take at least two or three years of effort, and then put it into the army, and then put it into the army, it will take another year or two.

And Yang Meng has a huge and deformed military industry in his hands, and there is a market for the single-shot Dresser, and within ten or twenty years, Yang Meng doesn't care about what it looks like abroad!

He is a trader, as long as the price given is enough, even if it is the British and French alliance, Yang Meng can sell it to them.

"Got it! Third master, since the beginning of last month, the area around the Bohai Sea has been frozen, will this affect the landing of the British and French forces? ”

In the coastal waters of the Bohai Sea, it will freeze in winter, sometimes a few miles of ice shell, sometimes dozens of hundreds of miles of ice shell, these ice shells have a great impact on sail warships, and when encountering large ice mounds, they can be much more powerful than mines.

"Nope! They will only be happy that the coastal freeze is conducive to their landing, and it is not conducive to our battle above the ice shell, so that the landing of the British and French troops will be much less difficult.

Moreover, this frozen sea surface is extremely suitable for the transportation of artillery, and Britain, France and Russia all have experience in ice transportation, which is equivalent to expanding the scope of their landing, and they will not give up such an opportunity. ”

The freezing of the Bohai Bay is only in the coastal waters, and the thickness of the ice shell is not small, it should be about about a foot or so.

"Third master, there are eleven days left before the New Year, could it be that this British and French alliance wants to make us unable to celebrate the New Year?"

Xu Ziwei's statement is novel, but it is very likely, he was busy and dizzy during this time, and Yang Meng didn't know that the New Year was coming.

"! It's an ambush too! Forget to inform Shi Dakai that the British and French troops are likely to land on the 30th, so that he is a little guarded!

His men and horses have no artillery, and they can't do it. You can go back first! ”

Play with guns. A month or two can be done quickly. But this artillery will not be done, and learning to shoot artillery may only be a matter of one or two months, but if you can shoot accurately, you need to study and hone it for a long time.

Yang Meng has a special artillery force, Wei Huozi's Jiangnan militia regiment, and the Southwest militia regiment of Gongwei Jingshi's division both have an artillery unit of 5,000 people. Therefore, Yang Meng is not equipped with artillery in the Zhilu militia that has formed an army in the short term, and in the past few months of training, this artillery is basically useless if it is not equipped, and it can scare and scare people, but it will slow down the marching speed, and it will be the same if it is not installed.

After Xu Ziwei's reminder, Yang Meng also thought that the British and French forces would fight this New Year's ambush, after all, the 500,000 horses of the Beijing division were brought back to Europe by European and American reporters. Although the exact number of the Anglo-French army is unknown, it is against half a million horses. There will be no less than 150,000 people.

It is said that Cao Cao Cao arrived, and the shadow of Guangzhou sent the information that the British and French combined fleet had set sail in a big way, and with the previous events of the last raid on Shandong and Liaodong, the shadow that was being cut down in large quantities also came up with all his tricks, basically approaching the fleet to reconnoiter the British and French forces.

Two days to Zhoushan, four days to Shandong, on the afternoon of the 29th of the Lunar New Year, the British and French combined fleet assembled in the Bohai Sea, menacing!

"Let's go! Let's go to Shi Dakai's camp and see the landing of the British and French forces! ”

Yang Meng's camp is also set up in Jinkou City, approaching the New Year's Festival, God also gives face, on the city wall of Jinkou, without binoculars, you can see the fleet of shadows on the sea, from a distance is a large black shadow, presumably the number of ships, will not be too small.

"Third master, I don't know when the battle will start in this front, let's go back to Beijing, right?"

Facing the large shadows on the sea, Yu Biao blocked Yang Meng's way, this battlefield, looking at it from a distance, is nothing, watching the battle at close range, it is absolutely impossible!

"Humph! What are you afraid of, the heavy artillery of the British and French forces can't walk on the ice, and the artillery that comes down from the ship has a range of only two miles, let's fight outside three miles, can they still kill Lao Tzu? ”

The landing operation, there is nothing to see, Yang Meng wants to see the spirit of the British and French coalition army, how is the combat power of this army, you can estimate it from a distance, the landing operation can not be the most elite troops, just can estimate the combat strength of the entire British and French coalition army.

"Third master, that's the battlefield, I heard that the British and French forces are bringing cavalry, once the cavalry comes ashore, anything can happen!"

Yang Meng wants to leave, Yu Biao doesn't let him, this battle is not a doll play, looking at the situation on the city wall of Jinkou, it's not impossible, watching the battle at close range, a general like Yu Biao is not allowed, not to mention the third master of the Yang family.

"Four miles! No matter how far you go, you can't see it really, Lao Tzu's personal guards are five hundred Kangba Jing Riders, with their protection, Lao Tzu can rest assured! ”

made some concessions, Yang Meng pushed Yu Biao away, there are some things, he must know as a commander, and the combat power of the British and French coalition forces is one of them, relying on intelligence, Yang Meng does not dare, what if the intelligence is negligent? If he doesn't see the combat power of the British and French forces with his own eyes, he won't feel at ease!

When he arrived at Shi Dakai's camp, the winged king of the Taiping Army, also had a calm face, looking at Yang Sange who was patrolling the camp before the battle, he also felt more lonely in his heart, if the king of heaven and the king of the east can have such an enterprising heart as Yang Sange, why is the kingdom of heaven like this?

"Shi Xianggong, how is the front?"

"The Anglo-French alliance has strict laws, and it is not easy to deal with!"

After letting Yang Meng go to the clairvoyant mirror, Shi Dakai pointed in a few directions, and Yang Meng also took a look at the situation on the sea through the high-powered telescope, which was not optimistic!

Although the weather this year is dry and cold, the scope of ice on the sea is not large, only less than ten miles in area.

The Anglo-French forces were very familiar with the ice, and they took advantage of the cracks that the warm currents melted on the ice to wash small ships into the cracks, so that the British and French troops could land directly without small boats.

The closest sea ship to the coast is only two or three miles away, and without a telescope, Yang Meng can clearly see the sailors who are busy on the sea boat.

"Shi Xianggong, how thick is the ice there?"

The ice surface at sea is not as smooth as a mirror, and many stacked layers of ice have become the best cover for the British and French forces, while the sea surface near the shore is not much covered, and the British and French forces have an advantage in fighting on the ice.

Yang Meng pointed to a small boat farthest from the beachhead, and asked about the thickness of the ice, if it was possible to march over there, then the ice battle would basically be useless.

"Seven miles from the shore, the ice is more than half a foot thick! That place can only be walked, and the thickness of the ice shell around the ships in front of them is more than a foot, and the iron cannon can easily go ashore! ”

Shi Dakai pointed to the nearest places on the shore where the sea boats were crammed in, and said what he was worried about.

"Not only that, the British and French forces are going to build a pontoon bridge on the sea! These small sea boats are the docks, and they are good!

Shi Xianggong, in the first battle on this coast, we have to retreat a little, and wait for the British and French troops to come ashore before fighting! ”

There are too many ice piles on the sea, the British and French forces have cover, but Shi Dakai's men and horses have no cover, so rushing up is just looking for death! (To be continued......)