The war on the Shenzhou Continent has been in a prolonged state, which has long been expected by the senior management of the Great Zhou Republic and Dujiyisi. This was determined by the comparison of the strength of the two sides in war.

The Western Song Dynasty had hundreds of thousands of elite infantry who had undergone actual combat and rigorous training, while the Eastern Song Dynasty also had a population of 100 million, and it was also an industrialized country. It was no problem to mobilize and equip millions of troops.

It is basically a delusion to want to defeat two such opponents by relying on a quick decisive battle.

Of course, the series of offensive operations launched by the coalition forces of the Song Dynasty on the ground in Henan Province were beyond Du Jiyisi's expectations.

Before General Zhao Liang was blocked in front of Xiangcheng, Yancheng and Yingchang, they were still busy for a while. They also knew that General Zhao Liang's goal was the Yellow River Dam. This was almost the only weakness of the Great Zhou Republic in this war.

However, the organization and mobilization capabilities of industrialized countries are not on the same dimension as those of feudal countries like the Western Song Dynasty. The victory that General Zhao Liang won in Henan was soon submerged by the quickly mobilized sea of ​​troops.

In addition to the amazing mobilization ability of industrialization, the improvement of the Central Plains Canal capacity brought by the steam engine has also become a huge weight that overwhelms Zhao Liangjiang.

After more than 200 years of "Comprehensive Management of Huang, Huai and Transport", by the 226th year of the Republic, the water transportation system with Wuzhang River, Bian River, Cai River, Jinshui River, Yellow River and Yongji River as the main trunks was not only not broken, but also played a more important role than ever before!

Speaking of the Central Plains water transportation system, it is inevitable that it will involve the current industrial, agricultural and urban layout of the Great Zhou Republic.

After more than 200 years of capitalism, the population distribution in the Great Zhou area became very uneven. Four metropolitan areas including Yanjin, Xuhai, Liaohe, and Kanto, Japan appeared. 60% of the 140 million local population live in these four metropolitan areas. The remaining more than 56 million people are distributed on extremely vast land.

At this time, the territory of King Xi had become the land of the Great Zhou Republic, and the princes and princes of the Xi State became rich men who held annuity from the Great Zhou Republic. Therefore, the land of the Great Zhou Republic became very vast, not only including the Mongolian Plateau in later generations, the northeast inside and outside, but also the entire East and West Siberia.

During the First Industrial Revolution, the metropolitan economy that supports the concentration of population could only be light industry represented by the textile industry.

The four metropolitan circles in Dazhou are all textile industry centers, but they have various development priorities.

Among them, most cities in the Liaohe River Basin are supported by the wool textile industry and its related industries. Pastoral areas near the Liaohe River can provide a large amount of high-quality wool, making the wool textile industry in the Liaohe River Basin cities in a favorable competitive position.

In Yanjin area, cotton and wool spinning coexist because Yanjin area is at the intersection of the grassland and cotton planting zone.

Xuhai area is the world's largest cotton textile production center, because Henan and Shandong are now large provinces for cotton cultivation.

The Kanto urban circle in East Japan Province has developed into the center of the silk weaving industry. This is because the Japanese archipelago is the most suitable area for planting mulberry trees and silkworms in the Great Zhou Republic, and the silk quality there is not below the silk produced in Jiangnan.

From the textile industry layout of these four metropolitan areas, it is not difficult to see that the rural areas of the Great Zhou Republic are actually part of industrialization. The production there is consistent with the demands of industrial and commercial cities.

In this case, how to reduce the transportation costs in inland areas such as Central Plains and Hebei and improve transportation efficiency has become a problem that the entire country needs to spend a lot of effort to solve.

Vigorously developing water transportation is naturally the only choice before the emergence and popularity of railways.

Therefore, over the past 200 years, the canal networks spread across the Central Plains, Hebei, and eastern and western Shandong have been carefully maintained.

After the emergence of steam engines, the first thing people think of was not the railway, but the steam engine was loaded on inland river ships for inland water transportation.

So in the 226th year of the Republic, steamboats emitting thick smoke were often seen rumbled by a long wooden boat without power on the inland rivers spread throughout the Central Plains.

Because of the use of steam power in inland river transportation, the transportation capacity of the Central Plains Canal system has increased sharply. While injecting new vitality into the economy of Henan and Hebei, it also made the army mobilization on the battlefield of the Central Plains very quickly.

The mobilized forces in Xu Hai and Yanjin areas can be transported to the Henan front line through inland water in a very short time. Logistical supplies can also be sent to the front line in large quantities at very low costs.

Under such circumstances, the Great Zhou Republic also had the possibility of concentrating a large number of troops on the Henan battlefield.

It is not a concentration of 100,000 levels, but a super-large battle cluster that can concentrate on millions of scales!

Faced with such a huge mobilization and ability to mobilize troops, the strategies of the war-torn military strategists in the Western Song Dynasty were completely worth mentioning.

Although in October and November of the Republic of China, the coalition forces of the two Song dynasties (mainly the Western Song army) fought several beautiful field battles in the prefectures of Ru, Ying, Cai, Luo and other prefectures in Henan Province. However, despite the arrival of winter, the Yellow River entered the frozen season and the plan to explode dams and flood fields was completely bankrupt.

The Song Dynasty coalition forces had to start shrinking in early December. Because by the spring of the following year, the new recruits mobilized by the Zhou Kingdom had almost completed the training, and there were millions of people!

For the main Western Song army on the Henan battlefield, so many enemies are simply invincible.

Moreover, in the consecutive battles in September, October and November, the Western Song army also suffered great losses and no victory was easy. After three months of battle, on the Henan battlefield alone, the Western Song army suffered more than 150,000 casualties and missing people...

Now the war on land is in a stalemate. This is a life-and-death battle between two industrialized countries with a population of over 100 million (the Western Song Dynasty is no longer a role), and it is impossible to decide the final victory or defeat in the short term.

But the situation on the sea is completely different!

The main force of the most powerful Nanyang fleet in the Eastern Song Dynasty had left Xingzhou Main Port at this time and moved to the Guowa Naval Fortress on the west side of the Tianzhu Peninsula of the Eastern Song Dynasty.

Guowa is Goa, which originally belonged to the Zhaloqi dynasty of the Indian Zhu. Later it was seized by the Eastern Song Dynasty and became the largest stronghold of the Eastern Song Dynasty on the Indian Peninsula, as well as a trading center and naval base.

After more than 100 years of operation, Guowa has grown from a small Western trading port to a overseas vassal state of the Eastern Song Dynasty with 10,000 square miles of land, more than 500,000 people, and developed commerce, mining, shipbuilding and agriculture.

Zhao Liangbi, the Prince of Guo of the Eastern Song Dynasty who now ruled this vassal state, was from the Liang generation of Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty, and was of the same generation as Zhao Liangjiang. However, his peers were different. Zhao Liangbi was a hard-working and hard-working life, and was busy fighting for the country on the battlefield at a very old age. Zhao Liangbi was a happy life. He was born in Xihai Palace in Guozhou City, the capital of Guowa County. He was not a legitimate son, but was born to his father and the concubine married to the Polo family of the Tianzhu, and he was half of the blood of Tianzhu Baifan.

However, his father Zhao Bicheng had a son, so he was not divided into legitimate and illegitimate children. So he was the prince of the prince not long after he was born, and he enjoyed all his glory and wealth. When he was in his twenties, his father died, so he naturally ascended the throne and became the prince of a country overseas!

He, the king of Guowa, is also very good. Guowa has a good geographical location and is a window for foreign exchanges on the west coast of Tianzhu. It has Zua Port, the best natural port in Tianzhu. It has many big rivers, abundant water resources and extremely convenient water transportation.

What is even more rare is that the climate of Guowa County is very cool in central and southern India. Its inland areas appear cooler because of its high altitude and is completely suitable for Han people to live in.

In addition, the inland areas of Guowa County are rich in iron ore, clay, limestone and other minerals. These minerals can be transported to Guozhou City through convenient water transportation, either processed locally, or exported through seaports, bringing a lot of wealth to Guowa County.

However, the biggest source of wealth in Guowa County is not minerals, nor even trade, nor agriculture, but finance.

In the past 200 years, the Indian Peninsula has also had many disputes and rise and fall. It is even more chaotic than the three heroes in Shenzhou, China, and there are not so many rules.

Among the three great Chinese heroes, the Great Zhou, the Eastern Song Dynasty, one republic and the other united, are all capitalist rule of law society, and the protection of private property is still very sufficient.

But the place where Tianzhu is different. This is where "power is prosperous and power is lost."

Therefore, the "outside place" of the Indian kingdom of Guowa County emerged and became the place where the heroes of the Indian kingdom store wealth and step down and take refuge.

During the development process of more than a hundred years, wealth from all over the country in Tianzhu has continued to flow into Guowa County.

Over time, the financial industry of Guowa County and the country has a foundation for its vigorous development. 200 years later, the entire financial lifeline of India was in the hands of the small Guowa County and the country.

Looking west from the west wall of the Xihai Palace, located on the south bank of the Zua River and surrounded by water on three sides, the Zua Riverside Street is lined with three-story and four-story buildings with Chinese-style roofs, each with more and more grand buildings. These tall buildings belong to the Great Zhou, Eastern Song, Egypt, Mongolia, Jinzhang, and the big banks in Guowaben. Zua Riverside Street is therefore called Guowa Jinzhang.

The funds entering and leaving these banks every day can be counted in tens of millions (two)!

The ups and downs of the heroes in India were half determined by battlefields and palace conspiracies, and half by banks on the Zua Riverside Street.

As long as the bankers on the Zua Riverside Street are willing to lend money openly, the warlords with a little skill can rise up.

Zhao Liangbi, the Prince of Guowa, is also a big banker and owns 55% of the equity of Tianzhu Bank. He is also the actual controller of the Guozhou Securities Exchange.

This joint exchange is the largest stock exchange on the west coast of Tianzhu. It controls 70% of the issuance and trading of the majority of Tianzhu Peninsula. At the same time, hundreds of stocks are listed and traded on the Guozhou Stock Exchange. The daily trading volume is also in millions.

It can be said that the ups and downs of the Indian Peninsula, Zhao Liangbi, can almost master the ups and downs of the Great Wall of China.

It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the most powerful man in India!

However, this man who has been on the Peninsula of India for more than ten years has now encountered a war that makes him feel helpless.

Prince Guowa moved his eyes from the tall buildings on the Zua River to the wide Zua River.

The wide river surface is now filled with huge sail warships, one after another, four long queues are lined up on the river surface. The total number is no less than a hundred!

The main force of the Nanyang Fleet of the Eastern Song Dynasty is now anchored on the Zua River!

This fleet was followed by the Zhou fleet that escorted Wu Yuankai to Egypt to get married.

The fleet that escorted Wu Yuankai had long entered the Red Sea and should have arrived at Suez Port now.

The main force of the Eastern Song Dynasty Nanyang Fleet did not receive the invitation, so it was inconvenient to enter the Red Sea. So a reconnaissance squadron was left in the colony of the Pilgrim Island (Socotra Island) near the Gulf of Aden, and then drove the main force to the Guowa County State. While waiting for the Zhou Fleet to leave the Red Sea, the news about war and peace was sent from the country.

In the years since the reign of the throne of the Prince of Guowa, many heroes of India have begun to fight. However, he is still very scared about the decisive battle between the three heroes of Xia that may break out.

This war seems different from the past, and the result is likely to be the unity of three parts!

Will he, the prince of the Eastern Song Dynasty, still be the one who is still there?

It is best not to fight such a war...

But God does not follow others' wishes!

Just a month ago, the news of the war in China spread to Guowa County.

Now there is a state of full-scale war between the Eastern Song Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty.

However, Marshal Pan Wuyang, the Admiral of the Southern Ocean Navy of the Eastern Song Dynasty, who led the main force of the Nanyang Fleet to Guowa, was full of confidence.

Because in Pan Wuyang's view, the Eastern Song Navy now has a rare opportunity. The powerful Nanyang Fleet has blocked the three first-class battleships in the Great Zhou!

As long as they can be eliminated on the Little Western Ocean, the comparison between the Eastern Song and Great Zhou on the first-class battleships will become 6 to 7. Although one less ship, it will be greatly improved compared to 6 to 10 before the war.

In Marshal Pan Wuyang's view, it was absolutely stupid to send three first-class battleships to escort Wu Yuankai to Egypt.

Taking the opportunity to annihilate the three first-class battleships of the Great Zhou Dynasty was also the only chance for the Eastern Song Dynasty to win the war.

The rise and fall of the Eastern Song Dynasty, here is a battle!
Chapter completed!