A few weeks ago.

Choshu Domain, beautiful you.

Originally, Miyu was just a strong fortress built by the Choshu Domain, but the Mori House was built because it was surrounded by mountains to block the main road, and it was built of triple earth and stone, which is quite strong.

However, more than half a month ago, the fortress had changed owners, and in the eyes of the new owner, this place was quite important.

"Your Excellency Lieutenant Colonel McCann, you have solved a big problem for us in France!"

"Glory to France, glory to God!"

In front of a pit on the outskirts of the city, a French general laughs as he looks at the anthracite coal fields.

And beside him, who constantly complimented him, was McCann, the captain of the mutinous Choshu Domain.

Thanks to the fact that his grandmother was French, McCann was able to speak fluent French with a Quebec accent.

When he heard that the French had sent troops to assist the shogunate in the war, McCann knew that his best chance to break away from Asia and join Europe had come!

Therefore, he decisively left an anti-poem and led his troops to take refuge with the French.

·

Colonel Grammond de Casta really did not expect that my Second Empire of Great France would be so manifest.

Even if you fight on the easternmost island of Japan in the Old World, there will always be warriors from the civilized world who come to submit.

Of course, the guy in front of me, who claimed to be a lieutenant colonel in the United States of America, was dressed very strangely.

However, the military information he provided helped him a lot.

Colonel Castanet smiled again and touched the top of McCann's bare head.

McCann had no choice but to smile and said, "Your Excellency Colonel, my scalp was too itchy before, so I shaved the Japanese hairstyle, and now I have cured my skin disease and am ready to stay back." ”

"Hahaha, you're too sensitive! I think your hairstyle is pretty good, at least it's much better than Dixie's! ”

Castanet rubbed it again, and I have to say that this anti-human hairstyle feels good.

In fact, Casane's words are sincere.

He himself suffers from severe hair loss, and if he takes off his hat, then his hairstyle at the moment is actually very similar to McCann's.

He really just felt cordial and connected.

How nice it would be if everyone in France could get a haircut like that!

Shaking his head and throwing this unrealistic idea out of his mind, Castanet smiled, "Brother McCann, don't worry, we France and Millican already have a deep traditional friendship......"

"That's right, we Americans have always remembered the outstanding contributions of the French lords to the liberal democracy of North America!" McCann hurriedly chimed in.

"Well, that's it!"

Castanet nodded, and continued, "This time you have provided vital information for our Second Empire, taking several fortresses, and also bringing us information on the easy-to-mine Daling Anthracite Coal Mine, all of which will be recorded by my loyal clerk!" ”

"From Quebec to Yokohama, the glory of France will be known to all, and your name will be remembered along with our deeds of filial piety to God in Japan."

·

Taking McCann and others to visit the high-quality coal mines here, Castanet was very satisfied.

This was very beneficial for the restoration of production in the colonies after the war.

To be honest, the war in the Far East was more difficult than Castanet had anticipated, and the odd troops with shoddy Ming (confiscation) weapons (scraps) caused a lot of trouble.

This time, the Second Reich dispatched the Far Eastern Fleet and formed 8 infantry regiments in India and Cambodia, each led by a rear admiral and himself, a noble colonel.

I thought it was just a military parade to show off force, but I didn't expect it to meet stubborn resistance.

But it doesn't matter.

Just like in the battle in Beijing five years ago, the guy called Maori would have been quick to crawl at his feet and lick his boots.

After all, who else but Count Ben has his boots for him to lick?

You must know that Rear Admiral Lametelli is not such a talkative person as himself.

Compared with a well-cultivated, elegant aristocrat like himself, a pure soldier like Lameritus is very barbaric.

According to their tradition, these barbarians who dared to persecute the saints would be thrown into the sea to feed the sharks.

The thought of that guy from Rametelli made Casane a little upset.

Although Castanet was the commander-in-chief of the Japanese War, and he was also a nobleman, Rametelli had a higher military rank, and had participated in the Mediterranean War, and he had worked so hard that many times the unruly navy would not fully carry out his orders.

In Castanet's opinion, these navies are deliberately not working, and Admiral Lametli simply looks down on himself as a noble child!

The navy actually failed to attack the port of Shimonoseki several times.

Although the batteries in Shimonoseki were destroyed with heavy artillery, the subsequent landing battles were always unsuccessful.

According to Lametelli, there is a small military force in Shimonoseki, but its combat effectiveness far exceeds that of the Japanese samurai, and it is likely that Zhu Fugui's troops.

The reason why he could not complete the landing was entirely because of this force.

Talking about this, Ka Deathneta and the officers around him all laughed, "Even if the Akito has the strength of the Mexican army, can they still fly to Japan?" It must be an excuse given to itself by the incompetent Navy! Hahaha! ”

"Huh? Lieutenant Colonel McCann, why don't you laugh? Aren't our Colonel's jokes funny? ”

"Oh...... No...... Hahaha"

McCann smiled and smiled, his expression becoming more solemn.

……

Since that day, McCann's right eyelid has been throbbing.

He remembered the ancient Eastern curse he had heard when he was a laborer in the Ming Dynasty: the left eye jumps wealth, and the right eye jumps disaster.

This caused him to suffer from insomnia.

And according to Murphy's Law: if you're worried about something happening, it's more likely to happen.

Something terrible happened.

The troops at the front, approaching the mountains outside Shimonoseki, collapsed without warning.

Like a herd of beasts that saw a flood, they fled desperately backwards.

To be honest, the French soldiers of this era still vaguely maintain the glory of the past, and it is not easy to have such a rout.

But the problem was that the French army on the front line was actually less than 5,000 men, and the shogunate and the allied forces of the shogunate and the daimyo were more than 60,000.

And out of those 3,000 French troops, of whom there were real Frenchmen, there were less than 1,800 people.

The other 2,200 people, all Indians and Cambodians.

Unlike the British Indian servants, because of the colonial location, the French could not recruit the red-headed Ahsan, that is, the Sikhs, who were full of martial virtues, and they could not recruit the brave and warlike Gurkhas.

The ordinary Ah San who believed in Hinduism recruited by France were too weak in combat, but the Khmers recruited from Cambodia were still brave.

Can the Khmer ......

That used to be the dog of Daming!

A big debuff was added on top, and these Khmer mercenaries didn't behave much better than the shogunate's old-style troops.

As a result, the main force of the anti-Ming Dynasty became the more than 6,000 shogunate new troops and 1,800 French soldiers.

It is conceivable that when the 30,000 main forces of the Ming Dynasty wearing jungle camouflage and amateur-level individual equipment are full, the situation will be one-sided.

What's more, the hilly and mountainous terrain that is common in southwest Japan is where the Hanqi Type 1 ultralight tank shines its might.

At that time, Chang Kaishen bought Italy's CV33 to fight in Burma, cheap and fuel-saving is one thing, and it is also an important reason to be suitable for fighting in hilly and mountainous areas.

The rout began with the Indians, spread to the Khmers, the Japanese, and rolled back to the positions of the French.

In the end, regardless of color and race, the Shogun-French coalition army turned into 50,000 or 60,000 pigs scurrying around the mountains and forests in the southwest.

Along with the defeated army, came to the United States, and the news of the almost total destruction of the Far Eastern Fleet.

The news came from the port of Yokohama, that is, from the rear of the city.

The shogunate fleet, which fled back to Yokohama, reported the terrible scene of the naval battle of Meifa to the Tokugawa shogunate.

Tokugawa Yoshiki, of course, this waste does not have the ability to block the bad news.

Therefore, the news of the two defeats arrived at the headquarters of the Maku-French coalition army almost simultaneously from the south and the north.

What else is there to think about here?

Despite looking down on Rametelli, Castanet doesn't really think he's a waste.

Even such a veteran has been fed fish in the sea, how can he stop these fierce Mingren?

Don't talk about yourself, even if His Majesty Napoleon I commands, there is no way to reverse the situation, right?

As a result, more than 3,000 French troops, including McCann, fled without a fight and joined the rout.