Li Hongzhang figured it out.

Anyway, the holy decree issued by Daming didn't give him a Li person, isn't there still a stubborn guy in Zhejiang?

Li Hongzhang understands Zuo Zongtang as a person.

This guy belongs to the temper of a donkey who whips and walks upside down, unless it is something he really agrees with, otherwise even if the king of heaven comes, don't want to force it.

Zhu Ming asked him to go on a crusade against the Russians......

Isn't that ...... Isn't it......

Probably not, right?

Li Hongzhang was a little unconfident, and hurriedly sent a secret agent to Hangzhou to find out the truth.

It didn't take long for the news to be sent back by Kuaima:

"Report! According to the people of Hangzhou, three days ago, Lord Zuo carried a big coffin, lit up 50,000 troops and 130,000 people, and went to the west! ”

When Li Hongzhang heard this, he only felt that the world was spinning.

"Ji Gao mistook me!"

Li Hongzhang shouted, vomited blood and fainted.

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The declaration of war on Russia this time was relatively hasty.

The most obvious thing is that Daming did not engage in the trick of declaring war on France 31 minutes before the start of the war, but before the army was assembled and the non-commissioned officers on leave had no time to recall, he telegraphed the whole world and announced that it had declared war on Russia.

The reason for this posture is mainly because the place in the outer northeast is also impossible for both the Ming Dynasty and Russia to be ready for battle in a short period of time.

In a sense, fighting east of Lake Baikal, including the Russians' so-called Amur Region, Primorsky Krai, Sakhalin, Hokkaido, Kamchatka, Chukotka Region, Alaska Region, and so on, is not a military capability at all, but a logistical support capability.

Although it is said that fighting a war is, in the final analysis, fighting logistics, this sentence is applicable everywhere.

But fighting in the polar permafrost, it means much more than ordinary.

It is no exaggeration to say that whoever can make the soldiers eat hot noodle soup will win this war!

And when it comes to logistics, to be honest, I'm invincible tomorrow!

In fact, due to the United Kingdom and France's economic blockade of Daming, there is now a slight overcapacity problem in Daming.

The reason why it is said to be slight is mainly because of the Protectorate of the Japanese Island, tens of millions of propertied people in the Qing Dynasty, the Aztec Confederation, the Southern Confederation and other places, all of which are part of the dual circulation of the internal and external economies of the Ming Dynasty.

Before actively promoting pork to Prussia, Zhu Fugui was also a move to find a way out for the Daming pig industry.

In fact, in the first two years, Zhu Fugui relied on the pig industry of the Ming Dynasty to export pork to future generations and earned a lot of foreign exchange.

It's a pity that the price of the second senior brother has plummeted in the past two years, which suddenly made Daming's pork a little unsalable.

At present, the per capita pork consumption of Daming has reached 34 kilograms per year, and the total meat consumption is 38 kilograms, which is not far from the 60 kilograms in later generations.

And because the meat of bison, moose and other animals hunted legally and legally in the western wilderness is not included in the calculation, the per capita meat consumption of Daming is even higher.

Of course, these figures do not include the residents of the Wajima Prefecture.

Due to the predominance of the female population and the long-standing tradition of not eating meat, the per capita meat consumption of the Wajima Prefecture is currently less than 8 kilograms.

twice as many as the Indians of later generations.

But just like that, for hundreds of years, white rice and dried fish have been the standard for the aristocracy, and they have been terrified, and there is a feeling that they have suddenly become rich and can't grasp it.

For the sake of the physical and mental health of the Japanese people, Zhu Fugui could only make canned pork and sausages and sell them to the Germans in exchange for the gold mark of William's brother.

In addition to the production of meat, eggs and milk for food and agriculture, the automobile production that Daming is proud of has also experienced overcapacity due to the slow population growth (not exceeding 10 million for a long time).

In this context, it is a good way out to release production capacity through a low-intensity, stable attrition all-out war.

The Austrian painter listened to it and absolutely called it an expert.

In addition, Zhu Fugui also has a reason to conquer Tsarist Russia.

That is to completely plough out the Manchu northeastern dowry theory.

Although Zhu Fugui doesn't quite understand why his own slaves can be called dowries with the things of the master's family, it is undeniable that this statement still has many believers in later generations.

In order to prevent such noise from appearing in the future, Zhu Fugui decided to use facts to announce to the world that Heishui Duhufu, Andong Duhufu, and Nuer Gandusi have been the Chinese homeland in the same vein since ancient times.

The Ming Dynasty has a strong propaganda over the entire Northeast region, and it has nothing to do with the pseudo-Qing Dynasty.

On the contrary, the truth is only within the range of cannons, and the Ming will use cannons and bayonets to tell this ancient and uncultivated land who is its true master.

Therefore, throughout July, the industrialized machine of Daming began to rumble again.

Iron and steel mills, shipyards, canneries, garment factories, tractor factories......

All kinds of military-related factories and mines have begun to work overtime at full capacity.

Daming Water Division Xinjin Headquarters, Daming Water Division Maguan Base, Daming Water Division Xiongdao Base, Daming Water Division American Concession Base, Daming Water Division Xinqiong Base......

The ships of the naval divisions in various places began to assemble in Japan under the orders of the Generalissimo's Office.

A mysterious giant ship also slowly sailed out of the Xinjin military port and embarked on a journey to the North Pacific.

At the moment, according to intelligence, the station of the Pacific Fleet, which the Russians had just built in the Far East, is still on Temple Street, the so-called Nikolaevsk.

Temple Street is located at the mouth of the Heilongjiang River. (pictured)

Temple Street is not a good harbour, it is too far north to freeze early on.

So the Russians have already begun to build the port of Vladivostok, the so-called Vladivostok (which means the conquest of the East).

Many places will refer to Vladivostok as an "ice-free port", but strictly speaking Vladivostok is not an ice-free port.

The Golden Horn Bay in the inner harbor of Vladivostok is not frozen, but the outer harbor of Peter the Great Bay will freeze, and the freezing period in winter is as long as 100-110 days, but it is not serious, and it can be guaranteed to be navigable all year round with the help of icebreakers, which can only be called half of the "ice-free port".

Of course, on the island of Hokkaido, which is currently controlled by Tsarist Russia, the port of Sapporo is an ice-free port.

But a port that is not connected to the Trans-Siberian Railway, the value of the port on the island is obviously not comparable to that of the mainland port.

Therefore, the ultimate goal of Tsarist Russia was Lushun, which was further south.

The goal of the Daming Navy Division was to blockade Temple Street, control Vladivostok and Sapporo, and prepare to go south to intercept the Baltic Fleet that the Russians might send.

Compared to the vigorous and resolute actions of the Navy, the dispatch of the Army is much smaller.

In this war against Russia, the total number of troops mobilized by the army was only 25,000, and the more cold-resistant elites in each army were selected to form the Fourth Army of the Ming Dynasty, which was tentatively designated as the Royal Polar Expeditionary Force.

(First Army: Wu Mu Army, Second Army: Dingguo Army, Third Army: Railway Army)

The expeditionary force is more than half motorized and has 70 ultralight tanks and 300 artillery pieces.

The reason why the army is small is mainly because today, when the Trans-Siberian Railway has not yet been built, Tsarist Russia's ability to invest in the Far East is really limited, and there is no need for the Ming Dynasty to invest mismatched resources and cause waste.

According to the literature, until 1920, there were only 400,000 Russian immigrants in the Far East, more than half of whom emigrated after the opening of the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1904.

Therefore, no matter how bold the estimate of Tsarist Russian immigrants in the Far East and Alaska is, there will be no more than 50,000.

Even if Maozi fights the nation per capita, men can tear dogs and bears with their hands, and women can carry logs to sweep thousands of armies, Zhu Fugui believes that 25,000 elite soldiers are enough to make them disappear into the snow.

For the warriors of the Ming Dynasty, the biggest enemy was probably not the Russians, but the terrible weather.

How to survive in the polar climate, survive the winter, and prepare for the inevitable counterattack of the Russians in the spring of the next year is the most important question for the Royal Army Polar Expeditionary Force.

Therefore, the military headquarters did not arrange for them to go directly to the outer northeast region, but first went to Xiong Island, where the climate is similar, to station.

There, the expeditionary forces will be specially instructed by special operators who have previously trained in the polar regions.

After two months of intensive training, they will land in Alaska and the Far East in mid-September, the most suitable time for extremely low tundra operations, plough and sweep all Tsarist targets they can find, and take control of major cities.

If you enter these areas too early, it means that the Ming Dynasty will completely abandon the tank as a land killing weapon, as well as the supply of vehicles.

Because the unconstructed polar permafrost will become extremely muddy in the middle of summer, and it is impossible to pass through heavy equipment, and even men and horses will sink into it.

In order to avoid the situation of "report to the chief, our tank has sunk again", Zhu Fugui specially chose this time point to fight.

Of course, this is also a valuable experience left by the Austrian painter.

This was the time of the Battle of Leningrad.

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Before the official war against Russia, Zhu Fugui shifted his eyes to the south and placed it in Wuchang, an important town in the middle of the Yangtze River.

It is rumored in the rivers and lakes that being a Ming dog is the greatest happiness.

This is not unfounded. (Do not correct mistakes)

As long as he does things for Daming, Zhu Fugui will never treat him badly.

What's more, under such circumstances, Zuo Gong resolutely gave up Zhejiang's basic plate, carried the coffin into Xinjiang, and carried out a real national war.

How can such a mind not make people white?

Since Su Xunzong was able to issue an order in history, heavy transport planes were able to allocate materials from all over the world, and 600 T-55, T-62 and PT-76 tanks, 300 BMP-1 tracked combat vehicles, BTR-60 and BRDM-2 wheeled armored vehicles, 400 artillery, mortars and rocket artillery, plus more than 100 fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, a total of 1 billion rubles of supplies were airdropped to Ethiopia in an instant......

Then my Ming father, Zhu Fugui, can naturally give an order and use the steamer stuffed with the Yangtze River to send Zuo Zongtang a large amount of materials and technical guidance to recover the Western Regions.

From instant noodles to lard bullets, from pot camel machine dump trucks to canned bacon, Zhu Ci's father's love will accompany the Chu army to pull out thousands of mountains and wade through thousands of rivers, and take a step further than they in history.