On the first oil well that has been extended with the hopes of many people, the cantilever of the pump pumping machine is still swinging up and down, as if it will never get tired, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing, so the oil workers jokingly call this pump a kowtow pump. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

But now, the dozen or so oil workers who have returned from their studies in the Australian oil fields have become a mass of rotten flesh that has been stripped of their skin, and the ** who has lost their blood has become pale and stiff, blurry and shrunken, as if they have become a wild dog that has been skinned.

Except for the tattered blue overalls around them, which can prove their identity, it is impossible to tell who it is.

And they are not miserable, the soldiers who guard the oil fields are miserable, they are not only skinned and cramped, their bodies are either stirred, or they are thrown into the sea of fire and burned to charcoal, or they are piled up into a mountain of corpses that cannot even distinguish the parts.

Li Mo looked away and turned his back, as a modern person in his bones, he had never seen such a miserable picture, and he couldn't help but feel a little sour at the same time.

Can you just turn around?

The human skin, plastered with the exterior walls of the makeshift barracks and the cement troughs, reminded him all the time that this was still a cruel world, just like he used "suffocation" in Borneo, when he used the butcher's knife on others, he was also facing the hidden arrows of others.

The long-distance attack of hundreds of kilometers from Shaanxi Province was indeed beyond everyone's expectations, and it had something to do with the soldiers letting down their vigilance, but the problem was that they were not ready for a tragic battle.

But now this blood is enough to make the Northwest Military Region more vigilant, so Li Mo didn't get angry at anyone, but just looked at it lightly.

"The Russian-designed Mosingana rifle is the symbol of the French Chatero light weapons factory." Chen Ping carried a rifle left behind by the attacker and walked in front of Li Mo.

After he and Li Mo got the news last night, they immediately took a helium airship specially built for the General Staff and rushed here overnight, although the two of them had been imagining the scene here since they set off, but when they really saw it, they knew how bloody and cruel it was.

This is the epitome of war in this era, there are many things that kill you and slaughter the city and exterminate the clan, Young Master Li himself is doing such a thing on Borneo Island, not to mention that there is no idea that it is more cost-effective to injure the enemy than to kill it in these years, and the thinking left over from the era of cold weapons is still very stubborn, so even if this kind of thing does not happen here, it will happen somewhere else.

Soldiers, fighting to the death on the battlefield, in addition to fighting for the ideals of a country, are actually struggling for their own lives, and everyone wants to live until the end of the war and usher in a good day.

In this case, Sun Jiugong and the Northwest Military Region Command could not escape the blame, but Li Mo did not want to issue any reprimands, and did not want to interfere in the details of military operations, because he knew that his identity and mentality must be leveled at this moment, and as long as the war was not over, it was impossible for him to intervene in the actual command, which would only interfere with the actions of the officers and make the entire battle plan fragmented.

So what he really resents is not this ***, but the gun in Chen Ping's hand!

As a military fan, he is very aware of this kind of famous Russian gun that has been in service for 60 years in later generations, with a total output of 17 million pieces, and that the Ministry of Armament has also borrowed this famous Russian gun when designing the Type 97 semi-automatic rifle, and because of the lack of light weapons manufacturing plants in Russia at present, most of the manufacture of this rifle has been placed in France and the United States, so it is not unusual for the logo of the French arsenal to appear.

The appearance of this gun in the hands of that group of people can only prove one thing, that is, Russia has fully intervened in the northwest, and does not hesitate to provide this kind of rifle that the domestic troops urgently need to equip to the rebels, which shows that the guy of Nicholas II has been ready to move again after the last lesson, and he is already determined to interfere in the northwest, and wants to rely on local erosion to raise strength to swallow himself in one bite!

"What a big appetite!" Li Mo sneered twice.

Although the equipment of the Tsarist army is not as good as his own, but at this moment, time, space and history have changed, and he has to deal with it carefully, and it is almost certain that Nicholas II has placed many more rifle orders in France than in history, and it is likely that there is also financial support from Britain and France, otherwise with Tsarist Russia's weaker capital and logistics capabilities than himself, he would not be able to build a large navy at the same time, and at the same time be able to arm enough land forces equipped with rifles.

Li Mo slowly took the Mosingana rifle, pulled the bolt and saw the unfinished bullet inside, quickly withdrew and held the bullet in the palm of his hand, then handed the gun back to Chen Ping, and turned his head to look at the kowtow pump that was still undulating next to him.

"Put them together and cremate them, and bury all the ashes in the martyrs' cemetery built in Tongzhou, and engrave their names according to the rules." Li Mo took a deep breath and said slowly.

Ping nodded.

"Tell Li Enfu that I don't care what method he uses, I will get this oil field done for me within a month, and if the heavy snow closes the road and the transportation capacity is difficult, let the Air Force help!"

"Order Tang Xiao, from now on, the automobile factory will suspend all civilian orders, and make every effort to produce wildcats and trucks, I will see a hundred wildcats and a thousand trucks in three months!"

"Order the 9th Infantry Division to be stationed in Kulen at once, the 10th Infantry Division to be stationed in Manchuria and Mohe, and the 11th Infantry Division to be stationed in Ningguta."

Li Mo paused, pinched the 762 mm bullet in his palm fiercely, and his eyes flashed with cold light: "You tell Sun Jiugong, I have made all the preparations here in the northeast, and the northwest can fight whatever he wants, there is nothing here, even if he pierces the sky!" ”

"I'll carry it for him, too!"

In the sea west of the Natuna Islands, the Fiery Cross moves slowly.

The old sea wolf looked up at the dense dark clouds, and loudly scolded several shipwrights, telling them to quickly add another layer of tarpaulin to the cargo hatch and other parts, so as not to wet the cargo inside.

This is a sea vessel under the name of China Merchants Shipping Company, which often travels between Sumatra, Hong Kong and Guangzhou, and the business was very prosperous in the early years, but in recent years, since the Pacific Freight Company came to Nanyang and set up a Southwest Pacific Freight Branch, the business has plummeted. 【 I want: super fast update 】

No, people's method of charging by the box has put the original main scattered small households of the original China Merchants Shipping Company into the bowl at once, plus the large ships of the people, they can transport a lot of goods at a time, and they also stay in many ports in the South Seas along the fixed route, unlike their own straight and straight, so the cost has been reduced a lot.

I don't know who came up with that kind of method, so that every time I call at the port, I can unload a batch of goods at the same time, and load a batch, so that the ship will not fail to go around the South Sea, which is really enviable and jealous!

As people drove more and more big ships to grab business, almost all the business in the southeast coastal area and even all parts of the South Seas were robbed, and even many foreigners liked to use other people's ships to run long-distance business, and the China Merchants Steamship, which had been established for a few years, fell into a predicament.

Originally, I couldn't support it, but I didn't expect Luzon to save the Yong Signature, and those merchants pulled people from the mainland one by one, which really made the boat owners on the southeast coast make a small profit.

But not long after Luzon ended, the Great Qing Kingdom was gone!

Look at the young boatmen on the deck, who have just come to cut off their braids, which are left by their ancestors! In the past, it was a great crime to kill the head, but now there is no one in charge.

The southeast coast is in chaos, the officials don't care about anything, the squires hide at home and don't go out, the foreigners are getting worse, like blood-sucking grasshoppers in the ditch, everywhere, what worries him is that the price of food and things has also risen, and it used to be a small profit to run a boat, but now the silver earned is not enough to go back!

In the face of such chaos, he, an old sea wolf, didn't know what it was like, but the business had to run, otherwise he wouldn't even have anything to eat.

So even if I heard that there was a war in this area a few days ago, I still had to go east slowly against the thunder, but fortunately, with the arrival of the Chinese army here, there are a lot fewer pirates here, except for the occasional inspection by foreigners, there is no need to worry too much about the safety of the sea.

After a while, the dark clouds above the head gradually dispersed, and they all said that this South China Sea was the face of a doll, and they were not wrong at all.

The old sea wolf sniffed, and put the big braid that he was reluctant to cut off to his neck, and in front of him was the island of Anambas in the mouth of foreigners, but the old sea wolf likes to call this return island, because as long as he crosses this string of small islands that choke the throat of the South China Sea from Malacca, it is considered to be a step into the Qing ......Dynasty. Chinese? Hey, in short, it's back to our sea!

It seemed that he was about to arrive at home, and the old sea wolf was in a much better mood, and he took out a clairvoyant mirror from his waist, ready to take a look at the hometown island first to experience the taste of going home, but as soon as his eyes were attached to the camera, the whole person was stunned.

I saw that on the small island of homecoming in the distance, two sailor guns were facing each other, and one of them was still hanging the British flag!

And the other?

Blood Cloud Dragon Claw!

Good boy! Why did Hua fight with the British? That's not a good thing, what a ship the British's sailor is! The old sea wolf came back after a while, and hurriedly shouted: "Turn the rudder and get out of here." ”

"What's wrong? What's wrong? ”

It was rare for everyone to see the old sea wolf so nervous, so they hurriedly looked into the distance, only to see a string of black spots and found nothing abnormal, so they immediately asked.

"...... over there." The old sea wolf raised his fingers tremblingly and swallowed his saliva: "The Chinese sailor is confronting the British!" ”

"What!"

"Holy shit, are these foreigners going to bully our Chinese sailors again?"

In the midst of the disturbance, the Yong Signature immediately turned a corner and flew to the side, bypassing the sea area that he wanted to see but was afraid of harming himself.

And they don't know that the island of return at this moment is a different scene.

Philitman waved his hand at Long Guozhang, who was about to hand him a cigar, but also took out one from his pocket, Long Guozhang swept the corner of his eyes, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, let's smoke mine, this is a Cuban cigar!" ”

The corners of Philettman's mouth twitched twice, when did the commander of the British Far East Fleet smoke a Luzon cigar, while the opponent smoked a good Cuban cigar?

Hurriedly snorted coldly: "Your Majesty Long, we are here to talk about Borneo, not to discuss cigars, don't you think it is a very serious matter for us to talk about cigars here every day, but let those soldiers confront each other and not be able to rest?" ”

"That's right." Long Guozhang patted the table and immediately ordered the assistant next to him: "Order the fleet to retreat five nautical miles and sleep all." ”

“……。”

Philitman really wanted to snatch the cigar from Long Guozhang's mouth, turned around and stuffed it into his mouth again, and said: "Your Majesty Commander Long, I didn't let Sampson come down to participate in the meeting today, I just wanted to sit down with you and have a good talk, don't you think that if we go on like this, it will not be good for us?"

Although our country is exterminating those Boer rebels, do you think that with the strength of our British Empire, we will not be able to deal with a handful of rebels? And I would like to remind you that the Royal Navy of the British Empire will never give in, and I will not be stingy in sacrificing some capital ships if necessary. ”

"Can you believe it? Even if all my Far Eastern capital ships are gone, our British Empire will have the ability to replenish them in a few months! Philettman's eyes froze: "I don't know how long you can replenish?" ”

Long Guozhang's face was calm, he didn't seem to hear Philitman's words, but he chuckled in his heart, this guy is really not a good stubble, he knows very well where the advantages and disadvantages of the two sides are, and he really poked the big weakness of his side, although the dock and shipyard are enough at the moment, but when it comes to exploding warships, he is really not a British opponent.

Moreover, for Britain, the loss of a Far Eastern Fleet was only painful, but for its own side, it was undoubtedly a disaster, when the thousands of miles of sea frontiers would be pounced on by enemies from all sides and bitten to pieces.

**The naked threat, although like a cold sword, did not change on Long Guozhang's face, still maintained a faint smile, and said: "Your Majesty, I don't want our two countries to meet each other, you know, every sailor is a valuable asset, but we can't watch our expatriates being arbitrarily ***, so even if we pay our all, we will fight to the death!" ”

"Don't take half a step back!"

The confrontation between the two suddenly made the air in the tent temporarily set up for negotiation freeze, and everyone looked at each other like this, as if no one wanted to speak first.

Filitman thought about it, but still took the lead in breaking the silence and said coldly: "Your Majesty, Commander, I don't want to spend so much nonsense, tell me what you want, otherwise I'd rather go to war!" ”

I don't want to spend it, the Navy Ship Comprehensive Experimental Center is still waiting for the old man to go back and cut the ribbon! And I'm going to go back and stare at the McKinson experimental heavy cruiser, and I don't have time to play with you!

After finishing the written test, Long Guozhang immediately took out a document and put it on the table: "Your Majesty, we can compensate for the losses caused to your country and the Netherlands before, and we are very willing to share the interests of Borneo Island with you, but there is no doubt about one thing, as a civilized person, I believe that your country does not want to see the kind of thing that happens to the indigenous people of the hundreds of thousands of people under Dutch rule, so we must take over the Maluku Islands, the Sulawesi Islands, and all the islands around Borneo Island, including Natuna!" ”

"Of course, the Kingdom of Brooke, which does not include Sarawak, which is protected by your country." Long Guozhang added.

Maluku Islands!

Sulawesi Islands!

And Borneo and all the nearby islands, including the island at your feet, which the Chinese call Homecoming!

This is equivalent to cutting the Dutch-controlled East Indies in half, what bullshit to protect the diaspora, that was decades ago! At that time, Li Mo didn't know where he was, it was all an excuse!

This spoiler, arsonist! His ambition and appetite are just too great!

"Impossible!" Philitman coldly spat out three words, and he didn't even put forward the price conditions. But this was not difficult for Long Guozhang, I saw him push the agreement document in front of the other party, and his eyes narrowed: "Your Majesty Fillettman, do you want to visit our battleship?" ”

"What did you say!"

As soon as the words fell, Philettman stood up suddenly, his eyes widened, did he hear it wrong? type battleship! It's the battleship with ten main guns!

Looking at Long Guozhang, who was holding a cigar and being leisurely, he thought about the mysterious and powerful battleship that had puzzled him for half a month and had the potential to change the direction of the development of various *** ships, and then look at the agreement document in front of him!

Philettman was a little unsure of what to choose.

One year of residence into a gathering, two years into a city, three years of capital.

Five dynasties and ten kingdoms, the Later Shu Emperor Meng Chang because of his love for hibiscus, ordered people to plant hibiscus flowers all over the city wall of Chengdu, every time the flowers bloom, forty miles for splendor, so Chengdu is also known as Rongcheng.

Sichuan is the heart of the southwest land, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the west, the Three Gorges in the east, the Bashan and Qinling Mountains in the north, and the Yunnan and Guizhou Mountains in the south.

As the core of Sichuan, Chengdu is a rare prosperous place in the west, with the reputation of Tianfu Jinhua and outstanding people, and many well-known characters were born in this land.

In the early years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong slaughtered Chengdu first, and then the Manchu Qing Dynasty broke the city and resented the Sichuan people to resist the Qing Dynasty, and launched an unprecedented large-scale ***, the entire Sichuan was ten rooms and nine empty, Chengdu was cut off from people within five or six years, and later the Kangxi Emperor implemented the edict of Huguang to fill Sichuan, and Chengdu and Sichuan gradually recovered.

In particular, it can be seen that Sichuan has a tradition of resisting foreign aggression, and the Sichuan army of later generations has played the momentum of the entire Chinese nation, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the backbone.

Nowadays, the northern land has changed its face, which will inevitably affect the country of abundance, but what is strange is that unlike the stubborn and conservative in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the students in Chengdu not only do not reject China, but think that this is a revival of the Han people, especially Li Mo's Chinese theory, which is constantly recited.

In fact, throughout the history of the late Qing Dynasty, there is a very strange phenomenon, whether it is Changsha, Wuhan, where the revolution broke out, or the Sichuan Baolu Movement that ignited the Xinhai Revolution, they are all located in the inland area, to say that these places came into contact with the Westernization Movement much later than the southeast coast, and the news is also closed, but these places have become the leaders of later generations to promote national change.

And at this moment, in the Sichuan Governor's Palace, there is also a proud person bred by Bashan Shushui.

Liu Bingzhang looked at Liu Guangdi, who was sitting opposite, and shook his head with a wry smile: "Pei Cun, this is the sixth time you have come here. ”

Liu Guangdi smiled slightly, when the change failed, he and Tan Si and others were pushed to the entrance of the vegetable market to behead, but they didn't expect a surprise soldier from the sky, but they were rescued.

However, at the beginning, he did not agree to join China, but he couldn't resist the temptation of the other party, and went to the three northeastern provinces that were considered deserted in the past, and was deeply moved by the changes there, and agreed to the emperor's invitation to temporarily serve in the Prime Minister's Office.

With the unification of the north and the army meeting in the northwest, he finally couldn't sit still, and took the initiative to ask Ying to return to Chengdu, hoping to persuade Liu Bingzhang, the governor of Sichuan, to withdraw from the southeast mutual insurance and not continue to advance.

But he didn't expect to come five times, and he was rejected five times, but the more he did this, the more he didn't give up, the importance of Sichuan is self-evident, not to mention that as a Sichuan person, he didn't want the land of Tianfu to be slaughtered by war again.

What's more, he can see that Li Modi is indeed dedicated to the country, far better than the Manchu Qing Qing to build and develop the country, he is young and weak, but he is magnificent, just a few years to drive away the Manchu Qing after the Opium War, let the Chinese nation rise again.

Although he didn't dare to say that he could sit side by side with the foreign powers, at least at this moment, the foreigners in the place he ruled no longer dared to bully the Chinese at will, and they no longer dared to put up the card that the Chinese and dogs were not allowed to enter!

Thinking of this, Liu Guangdi was not full of pride, and said with a smile: "Lord Liu, before I came, the emperor personally told me that in the battle of Zhenhai, my lord played my Chinese dignity, supervised Shu for ten years, worked diligently and loved the people, repaired water conservancy, opened up fertile land, benefited one party, and also supported learning, donated money to build academies, and cultivated people for my China."

In the Chongqing teaching case, the adults were not afraid of foreigners, punished the gentry, channeled the people's anger, and made decisions for the people of Sichuan, which really made him admire him very much.

What's more, haven't adults seen it clearly all these years? The Manchu Qing Dynasty had no way, the erosion was extreme, and the local security and expropriation were tyrannical, and the repeated prohibitions made the foreigners rampant and could use opium to poison the land of China.

The emperor can't bear to see China continue to sink, raise troops overseas, and save the building from the general.

He came and told me that if the adults were able to cite his inappropriateness, he would rather take off his yellow robe and go back overseas to be his Duke of Leisure. ”

Liu Bingzhang didn't know that Liu Guangdi was reasonable, but every decision he made involved in tens of millions of lives in Sichuan, and he really didn't dare to be careless, and he had already signed the Southeast Mutual Guarantee, if he rebelled, what would others think of him?

seemed to guess Liu Bingzhang's concerns, Liu Guangdi smiled: "My lord, a piece of paper protects each other in the southeast, so that the monarch is not the king, the minister is not the minister, the country is not the country, the people are not the people, and the coastal provinces have become a paradise for foreigners to blackmail my China, suck blood and extract the marrow, and loot the people's fat!" Why should such an agreement be followed? ”

"Now that the Manchu Qing Dynasty is dead, and all parts of the country are thinking about changes, why can't adults take that step? Why do you have to keep filial piety for the remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty? Why can't you keep your Chinese heart?! ”

Three whys in a row, so that Liu Bingzhang couldn't help but feel troubled, if he had been before, he might have only listened to Liu Guang's first words, and then sent him away with a smile, but with Li Mo's army already controlling most of the northwest, it was like a cold and shining knife hanging above the head of Sichuan, if he continued to insist, I am afraid that it would really be another sword disaster for Sichuan!

What's more, Liu Guangdi said a lot, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has long since died out, and even his hometown of Anhui has long been incorporated into China, according to the letters from relatives there, schools are now being built in various parts of Anhui, children can learn, and railways have been built, and many factories have been set up, and it is already a flourishing faction.

And there are only a few princes left in the southeast who are still alive, and Baylor can't help Adou, why should he watch the country continue to be *** for them, and let the foreigners benefit?

Thinking of this, Liu Bingzhang suddenly sighed deeply: "Xiu Qian, go and bring the scissors to the old man." ”

Liu Xiuqian, the chief on the side, heard that his father wanted scissors, and he couldn't help but be stunned, so he hurriedly ran to find a pair of scissors from the side room and handed them over: "Father, you are." ”

Liu Bingzhang took the scissors, suddenly grabbed his braids, and said lightly: "Seeing Penglu, I am overjoyed, and the brothers are condolence and laughter. The rich have thousands of books, and a drunken hypnose poem. The innocence is almost worth the surname, why should you learn from the gods. Xinglai sells wine to attract friends, and cuts money for cooking. ”

"That's it!"

"Today, the old man has become a disobedient person!" After speaking, he flicked his braids, raised the scissors violently in front of Liu Guangdi and a few children, and cut them down fiercely.

When the braid was cut, he threw away the scissors and held the long braid from childhood to today with both hands, his old eyes were slightly red, and he was stunned.

"Father, father?" Liu Xiuqian was so frightened that he hurriedly shouted twice, Liu Bingzhang let out a sigh, and suddenly laughed.

This stunned smile, not to mention Liu Bingzhang, even Liu Guangdi thought that he was sad and consoled: "My lord, why are you doing this?" The emperor and Hua have never stipulated that they are not allowed to grow hair and keep braids. ”

"No!"

Liu Bingzhang, who was still laughing and stunned, suddenly said loudly: "When I just lifted the scissors, the old man's heart was like ashes, and he thought that this scissors were about to return, but after cutting them, he found that this braid was the culprit, and he had trapped my China for hundreds of years!" ”

"A cut flies up, and the world is opened! Hehe, the old man finally understood, understood! Liu Bingzhang handed the cut braid to Liu Guangdi, bent down in the chair and said: "Pei Cun, bring the braid to the emperor, please tell the emperor, the criminal Liu Bingzhang woke up today, he is really ashamed, so." ”

Before Liu Bingzhang finished speaking, Liu Guangdi suddenly laughed: "My lord, you should keep this braid and hand it to the emperor yourself, I think the emperor will probably come to Chengdu in a few days." ”

It's time to tour Chengdu?! ”

"Yes, the emperor has set off from Shaanxi, all the way to observe the people's situation, and will soon arrive in Chengdu, and the emperor asked me to tell Lord Liu that over the years, under the acting of the adults, the people of all ethnic groups in Sichuan have lived and worked in peace and contentment, so please also ask the adults to be the governor for a few more years and do their best for Sichuan."

"In addition, the emperor heard that the adult's physical and intellectual brothers like to collect books, and also have some research on oracle bones, so I hope that he can serve as the director of the National Library of China, specifically for sorting out the scattered folk lone rubbing, for future generations to study and appreciate, and promote our Chinese culture."

"Promote Chinese culture!"

"Good, good!" Liu Bingzhang said three good words in a row, and laughed.