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Although we are well prepared for continuous resistance and guerrilla warfare, necessary landing counterattacks still need to be made. It is impossible to allow the enemy to land easily. In that case, it will be too detrimental to later operations.
The morale of the military and civilians will also be greatly reduced.
Nancheng Port is the largest port in the South and the most prosperous port. The imperial court collected as much as 80 million taels of customs silver from here alone.
Trade can produce far more wealth than agriculture.
Because the agricultural output in some places is very high, cheap and large quantities of food can be obtained through trade.
There are more than 70 forts in Nancheng Port, all of which are tall and strong, and they are all in a circular defense, ensuring that there are no defensive blind spots.
There are 450,000 troops defending the city, and 1.2 million reserves, assembled in various places.
The governor of Nancheng has made preparations to live and die with the city. Of course, he has also prepared a million bottles of the Fountain of Youth.
After the Dacheng Dynasty carried out modernization and reform, its mobilization power was far beyond what the ancient court could match.
The core of the so-called modernization is the emergence and use of national consciousness.
Adults have their own national consciousness, and five hundred years of dynasty rule are enough for this consciousness to sprout and grow quickly in the face of external threats.
Although Westerners said it was to popularize the secret of the Fountain of Youth, the court was right. If the secret was taken away, everyone's welfare would be gone.
Every Spring Festival relief, unemployment insurance, and various job opportunities disappear.
The Department of Light posted the export volume of the Fountain of Youth:
For five consecutive years, the annual export volume has reached 1.5 billion taels.
Of this huge revenue of 1.5 billion, 800 million was directly allocated by the royal family for education, 300 million was used for medical security, 200 million was used for poverty relief, and 100 million was used for various social relief. The royal family only retained
100 million went into the pile sealing warehouse as a reserve fund for emergencies.
"If we hand over these secrets, will we still have these funds? If we no longer have the Queen Mother as the head of the family, but are replaced by an emperor or a president, will they be willing to invest so much money into people's livelihood like the Queen Mother?"
"It's impossible. Look at the Prime Minister and Speaker of the Great Su Country. Before they came to power, they were originally from ordinary families. But after they stepped down, in just five years, they received huge remuneration from major financial groups.
Became a multi-millionaire!”
"Is anyone holding them accountable? No, because they did not accept donations when they came to power. They collected them after they stepped down. But are we fools? This clearly means delayed payment."
"Think about it, if it were replaced by such a speaker, 1.5 billion silver taels, and 10 million would be in our hands, that would be great!"
There are also many real letters from readers published at the back.
"That's right. I have three children, and my youngest son was seriously ill. Thanks to the free treatment quota at the Royal Hospital, the child was cured. If the Royal Hospital had no money, how could such a good thing be possible?"
"Me too, I lost my job this year. Just when I was at a loss, the Royal Relief Foundation sent me a six-month subsidy, which allowed me to breathe a sigh of relief, rent a new house, and find a new job. Otherwise,
If I do, I will become a little match girl and freeze to death on the street."
"And me, I got seriously ill at work, tuberculosis, and my black-hearted Western boss still wanted me to work. It was the Ministry of Light and the Royal Workers' Association who helped me, allowing me to take a year off and still receive my salary. Finally, I fell ill.
Then it was cured."
"Have you ever read the novel written by the famous Western writer Thu Win? Sugar, early rise and hard work. The hard-working Liya finally got tuberculosis. She got up early every day to work and believed that getting up early was good for her health. However, she still had to get up early when she was sick.
, even if I drink sugar water, I still can’t get better.”
Case after case makes adults believe that if they lose this battle, they will be treated like Western workers.
The reason why they have so many benefits and protections is entirely because they established a royal monopoly on the secret of the Fountain of Youth.
So for yourself and the royal family, you must defeat the enemy!
The role of the Department of Light far exceeds everyone's imagination.
Especially in terms of war mobilization.
Everyone's fighting spirit was high, and the recruiting grounds were nearly full.
Restaurants and hotels everywhere are crowded with young and middle-aged people rushing to apply for the army.
"I thought that most adults were afraid of death and only thought about a piece of land, a wife and children, but I didn't expect that they would have such a strong fighting spirit."
"Do you really think that all our land is given away for free? We are the real fighting nation, but the technology of agricultural civilization in the past was only so high. Now we should take advantage of this opportunity to occupy more land!"
"That's right, we clearly didn't provoke them, but they still came to beat us. Why not beat them all down in advance?"
"The imperial court has said that when you become a soldier, you will be given pills made from the Fountain of Youth. If you take one bite before you die in battle, you will be reincarnated. Why should you be afraid of death?"
Western intelligence agents, after discovering these situations, immediately passed the news back to the coalition headquarters.
"The fighting spirit of the Easterners is so high that we are stunned. We can't imagine what it will be like when you land and face millions of militiamen. They come from all over the country, bring their own dry food, are well-trained, and have similar skills."
Weapons and ammunition, how are you going to deal with these people?"
The commander of the coalition forces read a piece of information, but was greeted with sneers.
"Let them talk to our cannons, planes, and battleships!"
"A group of militiamen with only rifles and grenades, how can they go into the sea?"
"We can go to any coast at will, but can they deploy defenses everywhere?"
"They need food, and Dacheng's grain imports last year exceeded 100 million tons. Without these imported cheap grains, they would have revolted internally."
Everyone is still optimistic.
The commander of the coalition forces also put this information aside. He still had a lot of more important information to deal with.
Millions of militiamen are terrifying.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! But their training is low and they are not elite enough, so they are destined not to play a decisive role on the frontal battlefield.
The military of this era did not take guerrilla warfare seriously, because they would easily destroy the means of guerrilla warfare - scorched earth invasion.
Everywhere you go is scorched earth, where is the soil for guerrillas?
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The war has begun.
The first cannonball was fired from the Dasu people's battleship, the Sea Monarch, but it fell far away on the land in front of the Dongshan Fort.
At the same time, the forts opened fire one after another, engaging in exchanges of fire with the enemy ships.
At this time, the coalition fleet had dispatched three squadrons to bypass the main fort and land in a roundabout way.
The way to deal with the fort is to take a detour and land on the ground.
Many feudal troops were extremely brave when fighting head-on, but once they were detoured, their morale immediately dropped.
Quite simply, because they cannot guarantee that friendly forces can help them resist the enemy.
You can easily be cut off.
However, this detour led to an unexpected attack.
Groups of militiamen emerged from the fields.
A certain military chaplain recorded this in his notes.
"They shot at us from the rice fields, from behind the houses, from the ditches, and from behind the woods."
"Most of them are terrible at marksmanship, but there are always one or two sharpshooters. They are all well-nourished. There are always one or two unlucky ones injured in the random stray bullets."
"If you encounter a sharpshooter, it's a nightmare. You have no way of knowing where they are hiding."
"Some people are born with guns. They will even hide in a pile of dung that is common on the roadside and give you a shot when you are alone."
"This is hell."
"They say there is a fountain of youth leading to heaven, but I believe there is only poison leading to hell."
