It's June, and with that comes midsummer.

Midsummer in the Western Regions was certainly a disaster for the Tsarist Russian troops from the steppes of Eastern Europe and the mountains of the Caucasus, but it was also a terrible enemy for the children of Sanxiang and the newly recruited Chu army in Shaanxi.

In the first line of Dunhuang in Zhangye and the Turpan Basin, the average temperature in this season can reach more than 40 degrees, far exceeding the "furnaces" in Nanjing and Wuhan in the east.

In contrast, the Ili River Valley, which the Russians currently occupy, is blessed with abundant water and vegetation, bathed in the last rays of Atlantic moisture blowing from distant Europe, but the climate and body will be better.

Under such conditions, Zuo Zongtang, as in history, chose to launch an offensive after the crisp autumn weather in mid-August.

Before that, the main thing to do was to make some preparations for the western expedition, accumulate strength, and prepare for a thunderous blow.

This is the meaning of Zhu Fugui's "slow and quick battle", or "slow progress and quick decision" strategy in the micro-operation, that is:

"Slow advance" means to use a period of time to raise military salaries, accumulate grass and grain, mobilize troops, train officers and men, and make full preparations;

"Quick battle" refers to seizing the golden time of three to five months after the ambush to quickly resolve the situation, quickly cut through the chaos, and lay the foundation for victory in one fell swoop.

Of course, Zhu Fugui's micro-manipulation was not figured out by himself on the map at all.

He doesn't have that level.

"Slow advance and quick decision" was originally Zuo Zongtang's operational policy when he left the fortress eight years later, and although the enemy's strength and combat situation had changed, the general trend remained unchanged.

Of course, in history, Zuo Zongtang's "slow progress" was slowed down for a whole year and a half.

Because whether it is Ganlong, which is already barren and still overwhelms Qiangui to become the poorest area in our country in later generations, or Guanzhong, which has long been overdrawn and withered, it is difficult to provide the logistical support needed for large-scale operations.

And you only need to measure the map, and you will know that in fact, it is farther from Hunan to Ili than from Moscow to Ili (pictured).

Not to mention Zuo Zongtang's real logistics base, Zhejiang where Hu Xueyan is located.

And that's just one aspect.

In order to compete with the foreign guns, Zuo Zongtang also transferred skilled technicians from Zhejiang to transform the Chinese mountain splitting gun and the Guangdong caseless lifting gun in Lanzhou, and also imitated some German screw guns and breech seven-shot guns.

In this day and age...... To tell the truth, even if Zuo Zongtang wanted to build the Lanzhou Arsenal by himself, it was impossible to build it.

Because the gunsmiths of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang generations have long been abducted by the Ming Dynasty.

However, the Ming Hua 2.0 (the most advanced breech-loading firing pin rifle captured in the Ming and French Wars) was openly supplied by the Ming Dynasty, which would suppress the Russian smoothbore guns and even the new rifled guns of the British.

Not to mention the mysterious power from the East.

After the success of the last gas cylinder operation, Zhu Fugui became interested in the black technology of the Middle East.

Among them, the story that Israel's number one nemesis, Hamas, and Laiyang Steel Pipe Factory had to tell aroused Zhu Fugui's interest.

During the 2014 rocket war between Palestine and Israel, Israel seized a large number of Hamas rocket wreckage.

Most of these rockets are made of water pipes, seamless steel pipes, with 4 stabilizer wings welded to the tail and filled with explosive devices and guides. (pictured)

This is the famous Hamas Hassan rocket.

The technology content of this rocket is so low that it is outrageously low, and Hamas is running classes everywhere, striving to achieve "everyone can build it".

In fact, the so-called Hassan rocket is not a new piece of equipment in Zhu Fugui's current era.

As early as 1844, the British invented the Congreve rocket, the principle of which is exactly the same as the Hassan rocket.

On the fourth day of the eighth month of the tenth year of Xianfeng in the puppet Qing Dynasty, in Zhangjiawan, Tongzhou, the Mongolian cavalry led by Seng Lingqin was panicked in the sea of Kangreve rockets and was defeated.

In Guangzhou, Zhoushan, Nanjing, and Dagu, there are records of the use of these rockets everywhere.

But in general, because of the reliability and cost of the process, in this day and age, consumables such as rockets, which require a lot of high-quality steel, are certainly not as popular as artillery.

But Zhu Fugui has no such concerns.

As Saudi tycoon Zhu Salman, he asked the Laiyang Iron and Steel Plant about the price of high-quality "tap water pipes".

Then a new world was opened.

[Laiyang seamless steel pipe manufacturer 610*25 thick-walled seamless steel pipe Q345B seamless steel pipe factory grand ceremony steel pipe], the wholesale price is 5780 yuan...... One ton...... (pictured)

Take out a small target, that is, 17,000 tons, fill it with explosives, and that is 20,000 kilograms of rockets.

Thinking that these iron bumps were going to explode on the heads of the old men who could sing and dance, His Majesty Zhu Fugui was sad and didn't eat for three days.

Eat all the scallops and abalone.

All in all, under the all-round support of Daming's father, Zuo Zongtang's "slow forward time" will be greatly shortened.

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In addition to supporting Zuo Zongtang, Zhu Fugui had one last thing to do before leaving Tianjin.

That's early disaster relief.

The imminent demise of the Qing Dynasty is indeed a frequent occurrence of natural and man-made disasters.

Before the volcanic eruption in Indonesia where birds don't poop, Zhu Fugui really had no way to predict it in advance.

However, the disaster that occurred in the homeland of China, because of the traditional historical records of the Chinese nation, Zhu Fugui is still very clear.

In the second half of the rainy season in the Huaihai region, in the second half of the rainy season, there will be a disaster that occurs once in 20 years.

Although the words once in 20 years are not qualified to appear in news reports in later generations.

Once in 50 years, once in 100 years, and once in a thousand years, is the norm for news headlines.

But for the hundreds of millions of people living in the Huanghuai region today, a disaster that occurs once in 20 years is definitely a matter of life and death.

The mother river of the Yellow River is truly indescribable.

This old mother is definitely a menopausal grumpy genre, and she is by no means a loving mother.

In the fifth year of Xianfeng in the puppet Qing Dynasty, in 1855, the Yellow River was diverted at the Tongwaxiang Junction in Lanyang, leaving the Huai River system and returning to the north to flow into the Bohai Sea.

This is also the fixed waterway of the Yellow River in later generations, but it also experienced the incident of bald head bombing the garden mouth, and it was not until after the liberation that the waterway was considered stable after continuous efforts.

But now, it has only been 13 years since the Yellow River was diverted, and the memory of horror is still in the hearts of the people.

And the Yellow River left the Huai River like a scumbag, leaving behind a huge amount of sediment and raising the disappearing riverbed.

The term Huaihai was born at this time.

Huaihai Huaihai, the reason why it is called Huaihai, is that every year in June and July, the lower reaches of the Huai River will really become a vast sea.

And this year, the flood will be even more violent.

The specific losses are difficult to estimate, Zhu Fugui only knows that the relevant documents say that "the affected population is as high as tens of millions, the dead are 'scattered everywhere', and there are relevant records that 'the whole county is completely gone, and five people are alive alone'." ”