Well, he wiped everything clean by saying "Volunteer Army". Bi Sheng found that everyone seemed to like to play with the "Volunteer Army" at this time. The Germans were volunteers in South Africa, and they are still fighting the British in Pretoria! Now the Chinese are too
The Volunteer Army, he really wanted to ask: The Volunteer Army is so great, but the Volunteer Army can be irresponsible?
However, he also knew that it would be good if someone could give him an explanation. To put it bluntly, the two sides have entered a quasi-war state. The Chinese navy has blocked the Vietnamese ports. The reason for not openly participating in the war is just for the sake of image. He really wants to go all out to lose face.
Landing directly in Saigon, France could only stare and draw circles.
In fact, including him, the French government really doesn't want to go to war with China. It's not that they are afraid of China. Although China's strength has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years, if they really want to go all out, he really doesn't believe that France will lose to China. But
The problem is that France cannot go all out. There are a lot of hungry wolves in Europe watching, and there are still huge colonies in Africa that need to be watched. If France can devote one-third of its strength to Asia, it is already very good, even if it is optimistic.
The French do not believe that one-third of France can defeat China. This is not 1884, when a random fleet can show off its power on the coast of China. Moreover, even then, it did not really succeed in showing off its power.
But the problem is that it won't work without fighting. Face is still secondary. More importantly, losing Vietnam means that France will be expelled from Asia. Although there are still Khmer and Laos, those two places have no value.
Bi Sheng, who protested to no avail, had no choice but to go back and report. The word "volunteer army" almost made Du Mei's nose angry. Now the artillery on the opposite side has begun to bombard the fortress on the north bank. The 105 cannon has been confirmed. This kind of Chinese army division belongs to
The appearance of standard artillery is enough to prove that the enemy is the Chinese Army. Even if the Vietnamese have bought heavy artillery, how can they also buy artillery? Let alone 105 artillery pieces, even if they are given 57 artillery pieces, they may not be able to play.
But since they said it was a volunteer army, he had no choice but to watch helplessly as those cannons ravaged the fortress outside the range of his own cannons. Fortunately, this fortress was still very strong. This newly built one-year-old fortress was
His most important task after moving the Governor's Palace to Hanoi. After all, everyone knows that ambition will grow with strength. It is impossible for the Chinese not to have an idea of Vietnam. They must be prepared for any danger, so they have put a lot of effort into the defense of Hanoi. This
The fortress is built of solid reinforced concrete, and the thick outer walls are difficult to penetrate even with 105 cannons from a long distance. Even though it has withstood thousands of cannonballs, it still stands tall.
The Vietnamese set up a pontoon bridge in the upper reaches of the Suli River, crossed the Suli River continuously, and then launched an attack on the fortress. Although they were covered by heavy artillery, these monkeys who lacked combat experience still fell to the machine guns and beggars one after another.
Under the Kais swivel gun, thousands of Vietnamese corpses were spread out on the open ground east of the fortress, and even the grass looked red. For the first time, Du Mei discovered that these Vietnamese could be so brave.
What he didn't know was that the imperial envoy from Hue had already arrived, and brought a large pile of letters of appointment, starting from Huang Huatan to the small warlords below. There was no shortage of official positions and titles, and they were all genuine.
In terms of official positions, Huang Huatan was even given the title of Duke, Governor of Beiqi, and An Shigong. The great honor and favor made him and his little warlords excited, not to mention that the imperial envoy also brought a large number of silver rewards. Ruan Shanshu
He borrowed five million silver dollars from the People's Bank of China and gave one million silver dollars as a reward to these people, causing the ordinary soldiers to lie on the ground and shout about the emperor's grace. It can be said that they were not afraid of death when fighting.
And as the Battle of Hanoi began, the Vietnamese army south of the Red River also began to take action. In the Annan or Zhongqi area, the French army only controlled Da Nang, and other places had given up. Even the railway was unable to protect it.
In fact, this major transportation artery connecting the north and south of Vietnam has been considered useless. This railway must pass through Hue. According to the original ceasefire agreement, the Vietnamese army and the French army are indeed not allowed to exchange fire in the city, and other countries, including the French army, do not have a Vietnamese king.
It is allowed but not allowed to enter the city. You can leave the city, but the French are not allowed to come back after they go out. The Vietnamese do not have such restrictions. Chen Hu has already led his people out to blow up the railway bridge in Xianghe. In addition, the coast is blocked
, Governor Dumei of Beiqi and his men had actually been completely cut off from supplies, and could only rely on the previously stored ammunition and supplies to fight. Fortunately, the reserves in these two places were still sufficient, enough to last for more than a year.
This equals the emergence of countless power vacuum zones. Originally, the anti-French and French-protecting Vietnamese, some French expatriates who did not evacuate, and even some bandit kings in these places have separated themselves. However, since the Chinese navy blocked the coast, most of them
They all came to the royal family. After all, even with their ignorance, they knew that China was the boss in the East at this time. Since the boss was helping the king, it was not difficult to see who the winner was in the end.
Ruan Shanshu, under Chen Hu's instruction, also conferred official titles on these guys, and then sent them north to attack Hanoi. He also set out conditions to capture Hanoi. They could do whatever they wanted, and the property of the French people in the city would be their rewards. In this way, everyone
Under the dual temptation of fame and fortune, the Lu warlords rushed to the Hanoi front line one after another, preparing to die generously for their independence and freedom.
At this point, the war in Vietnam has been fully ignited. All that is left is to wait, wait for the arrival of the French, wait for the French navy to take the initiative to attack the Chinese navy, and then declare war and have a good fight, using victory to formally establish the dominance of East Asia.
In the case of blockade of the port, they have to fight even if they don't have to fight. Even if their army can find a coast to drop down, future ammunition supplies must rely on the port. Except for Vietnam, there is no other place in French Indochina.
The port, unless they go to Siam, cannot be transported from land to Vietnam, and Siam is not so bold as to dare to help them. It can be said that there is no other choice but to go to war.
"Alas, looking at the world, when will the flames of war be extinguished?" Emperor Yang looked at the map and said with pity or shamelessness.
At this time, the whole world was indeed in a state of war. The British in Africa were fighting the Boers, and the Nigerian chiefs seemed to be in constant conflict with the British under the instigation of the Germans. The Mexicans in the Americas were fighting the Americans. Currently, Santos has
After San Luis Potosi was captured, poor Díaz had no choice but to flee to Victoria City again under the protection of the US military.
In addition, under the instigation of the Germans, Guatemalan President Cabrera, like many of his predecessors, loudly shouted the slogan of the Central American Federation and prepared to unify Central America. Especially Yang Feng had told the Germans that Costa Rica must have large oil fields.
, there might be another war there.
On the Asian island of Luzon, Filipino warriors led by Aguinaldo and Liu Hengzhen are still resisting the Russian invaders unremittingly. They have persisted for four years now. Countless warriors and invaders have fallen in the rubber forest. Fortunately, these four
In the past year, the international justice forces have never stopped helping them, such as China, and Germany has secretly given them some weapons from time to time. Fortunately, Nikolai only cares about rubber production and does not care how many gray animals die, otherwise he would have to fight with Emperor Yang
You can't fall out with William.
Now that Vietnam is added to the mix, the whole world can indeed be said to be raging with war, but he is basically the mastermind behind these wars. He selectively turns a blind eye to this. Including South Africa, if it were not for his weapons, Britain would be
Pretoria should have been taken long ago.
"Your Majesty, if all countries are under your rule, I think there will be no more wars in this world, and then people can truly enjoy a peaceful and prosperous age." Yuan Shikai on the side was like a standard traitor, with a smiling face.
said.
"No, no, this burden is too heavy for me to bear. We just want peace in Asia." Emperor Yang said quickly, but the expression on his face was still very happy.
He was on the train heading to Xi'an at this time. The Longhai Railway had been built to Xi'an, and the most difficult section from Baoji to Tianshui needed to be built next, because Emperor Yang had previously said that wherever China's railways were built, his royal train would start.
Where to go, so the people of Xi'an are eagerly looking forward to His Majesty the Emperor. In addition, he also needs to go to Luoyang. In fact, his main destination is Luoyang. This city has now become his second secret base, relying on Gongyi Aluminum Mine.
Of course, the aluminum alloy base is now just a small electrolytic aluminum plant and aluminum research institute.
In fact, the first experimental 2024 alloy aluminum ingot has been produced for him, and the factory is now under construction, because almost all of his technologies are currently blank. In the past three years, several researchers have died from exhaustion.
Ten, Emperor Yang established not only an aluminum alloy production line, but also the supporting industrial production research of manganese, zinc, magnesium, chromium and the like. It also included aluminum heat treatment technology, rolling and punching.
, It is not surprising that this number of researchers is exhausted from various processing technologies.
You must know that his researchers are not real scientists, they are all top students selected from domestic universities, and then sent here alone to use the technical information provided by them to learn by themselves while experimenting and groping. You can imagine the difficulty.
Looking at the exhausting list of researchers in his hand, Emperor Yang couldn't help but sigh, and then said to Yuan Shikai: "Take it, find all their children when you go back, give each family a viscount, and the daughter who has no sons will become a viscount."
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As soon as he finished speaking, the researchers were so moved that they cried and knelt on the ground. (To be continued...)