The news of the peaceful liberation of Xi'an quickly spread throughout the land of China, and the next day, the headline of the Nandu Newspaper was such a comment: "There are nine tripods in the world, and six have been lost". If the world is divided according to classical Chinese Kyushu, Liangzhou, Sichuan, Chengdu-Chongqing Plain, Jingzhou, Hubei, Hunan, Hanjiang Plain. Yuzhou, Henan Great Plain, Xuzhou, Anhui, Northern Jiangsu, Huaihai Region, Huaihai Region. Qingzhou, Shandong Peninsula, and Yongzhou's just won the Guanzhong Plain in Shaanxi. Six of these Kyushu states were already under complete control of the Republican Army.

In fact, it is the remaining three states, Yangzhou, that is, the Jianghuai and Jiangnan regions. The Ming Dynasty is now a dead duck with a hard mouth, basically the north of the Yangtze River was occupied by the East China Republican Army, after the Battle of Jiujiang, the republican army's troops pushed to Anqing, and then arrived at Ma'anshan, almost forced to the door of the southern capital, Yangzhou said that the Ming Dynasty occupied has not lived up to the name, and Yangzhou City in northern Jiangsu is in Jiangbei.

And in Jizhou, Shanxi, the land of the Three Jin Dynasty, Cao Yucheng now has a headache for the Republican Army entering Shaanxi, and the dream of Sui in the Tang Dynasty is completely shattered. Yanzhou in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, in the northeast of Nanshan, Hebei Province, is only a conceptual place name, and because the Yellow River has been diverted many times in history, the hydrological turmoil related to the survival of the city is violent, so there are few cities surviving in history to form a large economic belt.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the world is about to change. The most important thing for the peaceful liberation of Xi'an is to set a standard for the southern capital of Beiping, and there are only a few big cities in the world that are qualified to be the capital. Xi'an counts as one. The capital is not something that the city can do with money. The two port cities of Guangzhou and Shanghai, although prosperous, but the humanities are a little worse than the capital, and the strategic location can not effectively control any plain area, you say Shanghai, he is by the sea, a city in the middle of the East China Plain, such as Hefei, where people feel that they are separated by a river and look like 108,000 miles. I can't see myself as a person from the plains at all.

To be the capital city of China, there must be a place to establish a foundation, that is, people on a large regional plain regard you as their own people, and then uniformly obey and allocate production around this city, and then fight the world. If the capital is set up in Shanghai, let alone fight the world, Anhui Province on the other side of the Yangtze River will randomly pull up a rebel force, and you will have to spend it on this great plain, which was originally your foundation, and you will not get enough people to occupy the world. Only the southern capital, which straddles the two rivers, is qualified to geostrategically control most of the area south of the Yangtze River.

So if you want to set up a capital, just look at the city in the middle of #China's major plains. If the Republican Army prefers the southwest of Anhui to do the foundation of Shu Han, then Chengdu's cultural heritage is enough, and it radiates the Chengdu-Chongqing Plain, which can unite the population on this plain, but Chengdu cannot be the capital of the whole country, because Shu is difficult and too isolated from other population and economic belts in China. Weaker control over the rest of China. It's a hard wound.

When the republican army won the entire East China Campaign, and then waved its division into Henan, then there were many people who could be the capital, Luoyang, and Kaifeng. can build a capital, and Zhengzhou can be charged. And now after Shaanxi Xi'an has been taken, the situation in the world has changed abruptly. After the Battle of Jiujiang, the troops of the Republican Army took Anqing with the cooperation of the East China Military Region on the north bank of the Yangtze River, and then took control of Ma'anshan, and the line of fire was directly pushed to the southern capital dozens of kilometers away. As for Beiping in the north, it is still in the hands of the imperial army, but there are no more soldiers to fight on the Great Plain of North China.

It is rare that there is no one-sided criticism of the Zuo family in the Nandu newspaper. The Jinling Times also published the biography of Li Ling. "Turning thousands of miles, the arrow is exhausted, the soldier opens his empty fist, risks the white blade, fights for the enemy in the north, and wins the death force of people, although the ancient famous generals are also" used this sentence to defend the Zuo family.

This is what Jiangnan Times wrote, the Zuo family has been loyal and good for generations, corresponding to the emperor's order, thousands of miles of rebellion, but the world was overturned. Ammunition ran out of food to defend the northwest territory, spared the lives of the people in the city, and stopped the festival. (The Zuo family has been sent out of the country with the Republican Army salute.) Therefore, this behavior was considered by some literati to be the noble behavior of Boyi and Shuqi not eating Zhou Su. In fact, Ren Di didn't want this group of people who didn't know how to work but talked about it in the newspaper. ）

Now the newspapers of the Ming Dynasty are debating in two parts, one of which believes that the Zuo family has fulfilled their obligation to serve, and the other side is Qingliu, who believes that Zuo Santong did not show that he would rather break the jade than show that he would be disloyal to the Ming Dynasty.

No matter what the newspapers say, they all speak according to their own interests, thinking that the media in this world is an altruistic and neutral commentary of the public. Then you're too young.

Ren Di's plane, when Napoleon was restored, a newspaper in Paris reported!

The first message, "Monsters from Corsica have landed in Puerto Ruan." ”

The second message, "The unspeakable man-eating demon king is approaching Glas. ”

The third message, "The despicable and shameless thief has entered Gellenoble." ”

The fourth message, "Napoleon Bonaparte occupies Lyon." ”

The fifth message, "General Napoleon approached Fontainebleau." ”

The sixth news, "His Majesty the Supreme Emperor arrives today in his faithful Paris."

The media that lamented the three links were partly the local media in Nandu and partly the media controlled by Beiping, and now these two cities are very concerned about Xi'an's three-day artillery immunity, and no matter how much the warlike citizens pay lip service, they must start thinking about whether the war is worth it when the shells really fall on their own families.

As for the Donglin Party members in Zhejiang, most of their family property began to transfer to Hai Song. Their status gradually changed to that of foreigners. No matter how tragic the mainland is, as long as it can block the front of the Republican Army.

The bustling city of Nandu had turned into a large barracks at this time, and the soldiers of the Republican Army strangely stopped living in Ma'anshan. Began to build shore defense batteries on both sides of the Yangtze River, 325 mm caliber fortress guns, 20 meters long barrels, like a peerless swordsman guarding the Yangtze River. The muzzle of the black hole is a silent deterrent.

One of Haisong's warships had been tested once. The terrifying sound of cannon fire spread throughout the river, piercing the mist that filled the river, and the waves near the fort seemed to be shocked by this sound. Twelve such heavy guns on both sides of the Yangtze River fired a salvo at the poor four-thousand-ton steel gunboat. The distance of heavy artillery from this battleship varied from seven to twelve kilometers.

Compared with the army's 75 mm guns, the destroyer's naval guns are giants, but if you want to compare them with the fortress guns, that is, to find a pump. The moment the salvo was fired, the river around the tentative destroyer was like the end of the world, and the heavy artillery shells fell, and the light flickered in the water curtain of the kinetic energy impact of the cannonballs, and finally the water curtain was shattered by the shock wave. Steel shrapnel shot vigorously from the shattered water waves, splashes, and gouache mist. Some shrapnel poked directly into the steel plate of the destroyer, just like a toothpick falling down with gravity and poking into the milk skin of yogurt.

It's just the effect of a near-miss. Unfortunately, a shell hit the bow of the ship directly. The explosion effect is like us taking a sip of water and suddenly spitting it into the restaurant paper, which is instantly washed away. The iron-hulled structure of the front half of the battleship disappeared in an instant.

The blast wave of flames from the explosion instantly swept through the entire hull structure, and the people inside were absolutely fainting at this huge decibel pop. Hundreds of tons of water poured into the ruined hull, quickly leaving a huge whirlpool on the river's surface.

The power of the fortress cannon is right in the face of the silent slap in the face in the city of Nandu, and just ten days ago, there were newspaper people in Nandu who towered on Ma'anshan, and the fortress cannon was a wire and wood sheet pipe that could not be fired. However, it turned out that this fortress cannon was indeed a cannon steel made of thick and heavy billets forged thousands of times. Such a fortress cannon stood next to the southern capital. After the disparagement of the literati who did not care about it was the fear of exaggerating a few glasses. The streets and alleys of Nandu began to go viral, and the Republican Army wanted to raze Nandu with super heavy artillery.

In particular, some armament experts analyze that the ultimate firing range of such land heavy artillery may reach more than forty kilometers. It has already made Nandu panic. This sentiment was only alleviated after the peaceful liberation of the ancient capital of Xi'an.

The People's Daily began to use the ancient capital of Xi'an to express an attitude that the Republican Army was patient with China's top cities. The destruction of a huge battleship in a single salvo was truly shocking. Such a destructive force poured out in their own city, and no one can take it lightly. After receiving the guarantee of the Republican Army, the cultural values of Nandu often appeared in the newspapers of Nandu. At the same time, careful attention was taken not to irritate the IRA.

Needless to say, how high the value of Nandu is. Other cities can be taken down by indiscriminate artillery bombardment, but Nandu is worth besieging with a siege. coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes. The emperor who welcomed the Son of Heaven back and threatened with a dagger in the palace curtain issued the edict he needed to promulgate one. And Zhao Weiguo's current means is to point at the land of the Son of Heaven with a cannon sword in front of the people of the world. It is also a kind of coercion of the Son of Heaven to order the princes. Either follow the orders of the Ming Dynasty and fight the Republican Army, or surrender. At present, there are only two kinds of people in the land of the Ming Dynasty, one is those who abide by the rule of the Workers' and Peasants' Party, and the other is those who abide by the laws of the Ming Dynasty.

Now the legal theory of the Workers' and Peasants' Party may not be good, and those literati have 10,000 excuses to oppose the rule of the Workers' and Peasants' Party, and the legal theory of the literati can establish a country independently, but the legal theory of the Ming Dynasty cannot be opposed under any circumstances with their crooked reasoning. According to the Confucian concept revered by these literati, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty had no excuse for overthrowing it. The Ming Dynasty achieved such an extent that orthodoxy could not even find fault with the discerning literati.

The republic intends to fully inherit the land of the Ming Dynasty. In this chessboard of the Chu River and Han Realm, as long as the "handsome" chess pieces of the Ming royal family are there, other chariots, horses and artillery don't want to escape from this chess game with land.

Now the republic is already going to think about the capital. The location of the capital, Guiyang, the original revolutionary base, or a series of cities in the Jianghuai region that made great contributions to the Great Revolution, are not qualified. This is something that cannot be helped, after the Ming Dynasty established the capital of China, there are only two cities that are most suitable for the capital. One south and one north.

The southern capital spans the north side of the river, which can control the Jianghuai impact plain, go east along the river to the port city, and go south to Hangzhou. The advantage of Nandu's unique strength is not the local so-called feng shui of small soil slopes and convex dragons. Rather, it is in the center of a vast plain that can be followed by the third largest river in the world to gain port status inland.

The only one in the whole of China who can challenge the status of the capital of the southern capital is Beiping. Beiping's strategic position is better than that of Nandu after the development of the Northeast Plain, so that Beijing can control the Northeast granary to the north, control the North China Plain to the south, and go east to the Bohai Sea, and the Bohai Sea is a tiger's mouth shape by the Liaodong Peninsula and the Jiaozhou Peninsula in Shandong can easily hold the inland sea. It is difficult for the general fleet to break in. (The Qing Dynasty is a wonder, don't explain it.) Although it is close to the sea, it has the strategic depth of the entire Bohai Sea.

After the Battle of Shaanxi, Ren Di's Republican Army continued northward, reaching Lanzhou ten days later, and the Lanzhou defenders surrendered. The strategic passage of the Hexi Corridor was completely opened, and Ren Di and Yunchen joined forces with Shengli.

Ren Di saw Yunchen's chapped lips and dusty face, and said, "You have worked hard. Yun Chenhe said: "Where is it, you have done a very good job." You are a very reliable friend. ”

The meeting between Ren Di and Yun Chenhe also means that Ren Di has to hand over the troops in his hands again. The entire Northwest Front will be commanded by Yun Chenhe.

Yun Chenhe took a sip of water and said, "Ren Di, do you know what Lao Zhao means by transferring you to the north?" Ren Di said: "There is a lack of an industrial base in North China. Yun Chenhe shook his head and said: "This is only a part, Lao Zhao is going to set the capital in Beiping, he wants a person who can fight and rest assured to send over, I can't leave here, you have to admit that you are not familiar with me." Li Ziming's old business is naval warfare, not land warfare. He basically fought land battles by relying on equipment and a sea of people to push through. You've taught him a lesson in this mission, how to build an army army. As for Lu Ming, by the way, I'm weird, are you really just a reserve ensign? What exactly happened to your newbie mission? I'm really curious. ”

Ren Di digressed the topic. said: "Why is the capital of Beiping, and the southern capital should be at your fingertips now." Yun Chenhe said: "Strategy, in the final analysis, is still the strategy of the country, the capital is in the role of stabilizing most of the country's territory, and the other role is either to confront the enemy of the same level in the future." The future national strategy is to attack from the East China Sea in the future to become an oceanic country. But the current maritime hegemony is Hai Song, and the boundaries of the sea have long been fixed, even if we spend decades of hard work to build ships. The South Sea Islands, the isolated island continent of the Eastern Ocean (Australia), the probability that we can take it down is very small.

The decision to make the capital of the south means that the control of the north has become weaker, and now this plane of the North Asian Ice Sheet Continent (the Siberian Plain, the plane of Yunchen and the plane of Rendi is different, and the geographical terms are different) are all our territory. The capital is set here to help to get a thorough understanding of the North. You won't let those people in Nandu who can't touch the iron pillars in the north and don't have common sense know more about the north than Beiping. Only by understanding the north as a northerner can you effectively control the north. ”

Ren Di said: "In other words, now the northern strategy is determined by me?" Yun Chenhe said: "That's right, knock down all the warm land near the sea within 500 kilometers of the coast of Northeast Asia." The frozen plains to the west don't care, we just swear sovereignty. No country in this technological condition can hoard power on the tundra to shake up our domination on the East Coast. ”

Ren Di smiled bitterly and said, "This task is a bit difficult. ”