Chapter 1658: Recognize Reality

Hearing Magistrate Chen's words, Magistrate Di and Magistrate Jiang were silent.

If they couldn't fool around, it meant that the next offensive would be fiercer. And the previous collapse at the first touch made them realize the gap between the two sides, and also realize that if they continued to fight, their bargaining power would only get lower and lower.

And in fact, after this battle, their 100,000-strong army had fallen below 100,000. Although there were no statistics, this was an inevitable thing.

In the first wave of attacks under the cover of artillery fire, thousands of people had to die.

And then because of this huge gap in combat effectiveness, it brought a major blow to the military heart and fighting spirit. In the subsequent hasty retreat, some fell behind carelessly, some deliberately fell behind and ran away, and some people with small ambitions fooled their subordinates to form an organization and run away to be bandits.

This kind of non-combat attrition was even more than the casualties of the two sides fighting. After more than half a month, under Wang Yan's rapid advance, the two people's troops were not even 80,000, and they were already hurt.

After all, they had been fighting for so many years, and the common people were also very slippery. They couldn't even roll people. Especially since there was Wang Yan's propaganda, the common people all ran to the west, so that the places where they fought before were empty cities.

That is, the rear of the Xiang-E region, which had not been involved in the war, still had vitality and was considered stable. But the soldiers recruited by Magistrate Jiang and others also came from there...

Then if they wanted to recruit soldiers again, the difficulty would be great. After fighting for so many years, they were all struggling to hold on...

"Magistrate Chen, is there no room for discussion?" Magistrate Di asked tentatively.

"How do the two Magistrates want to discuss? Dragging on to fight, how to calculate the consumed grain? You occupy the place here, and it is unknown when you will repeat it. Foreigners in the south also have movements, and it seems they are going to send troops to help. Now let you breathe, and it will be raising a tiger to cause trouble later. Everyone is a smart person. If it were the two Magistrates, could you give me a chance to breathe at this time?"

Seeing that the two were still silent and didn't have a precise word, Magistrate Chen put down the teacup. "The thoughts of the two Magistrates are already known to me. What will happen in the future, no one knows. The two Magistrates should seek more blessings for themselves. Goodbye."

"Magistrate Chen!" Magistrate Jiang stood up and stopped him.

Magistrate Chen stopped his steps and turned back to look: "What else does Magistrate Jiang have to say?"

Magistrate Jiang exchanged eyes with Magistrate Di, and the two exchanged eyes, as if they had made some major decision.

He said: "Magistrate Chen, foreigners have already started to act. They are coming to reinforce us, with about 20,000 troops, all equipped with new firearms. Although the artillery is not as good as yours, it hits much farther than what we are using now."

Magistrate Chen understood, this is to be a wall grass, stepping on two boats.

"Magistrate Jiang, since you said it, say it in detail."

"Foreigners are not fools. Do you think they can fully trust us?" Magistrate Di said on the side. "And it's not just this side, there are also foreign support in the capital. You continue to chase and fight us, and you don't know when you will meet the foreign troops. Don't worry, Magistrate Chen, when that time comes, we will definitely reveal the news we received in advance to you."

"Yes, also fight the foreigners a ruthless one. To tell you the truth, I have long been unable to see those foreigners showing off their power." Magistrate Jiang had a face full of flesh, saying righteous words.

Magistrate Chen smiled and nodded: "I hope the two Magistrates will keep their words. If you miss the big event, it will not be easy to end."

"Magistrate Di, rest assured, after this battle, how can the two of us not know that we are far from Wang Yan's opponent? Foreigners are across the ocean, no matter how powerful they are, what can they do? The so-called production, we can't compare, but the guns and cannons are not bad. Those tens of thousands of people don't have a chance of winning. Only the imperial court doesn't understand and is still unwilling to give up."

"Then the two Magistrates can hurry up and retreat. After a few days, the second wave of offensive will be launched. Since you don't surrender and don't stop fighting, the two Magistrates should be careful. Selling the foreigners' news can save your lives, but it cannot save your power. That's all I have to say, you take care of yourselves, goodbye."

Magistrate Chen arched his hands and turned away without hesitation...

Only Magistrate Di and Magistrate Jiang were left in the hall. They sighed in unison and sat back to continue drinking tea.

"It's really a road with many forks in the south and north of life. Who would have thought that the one surnamed Chen would be so decisive and have such good luck, and the troops created by Wang Yan would be so capable of fighting."

Magistrate Di sighed and asked, "You say, can Wang Yan get the world?"

Magistrate Jiang said: "It depends on how they fight with the foreigners. If they can win against the foreigners, then Wang Yan can get it. If they can't win, then everything will be finished. Magistrate Di, you say, is it better for Wang Yan to win, or not to win?"

"Why does Magistrate Jiang ask knowingly? No matter if Wang Yan can win or not, the good days for the two of us are over. Everything is fate, and nothing can be done by oneself..."

Of course, it is better not to win, so they can retain their status and the glory and wealth they possess. If Wang Yan wins, although they can save their lives, they will not live a very good life.

They are not fools. After a lifetime of various conspiracies and playing with people's hearts, they naturally will not believe that Magistrate Chen defected and became a prime minister, and they can be in the same high position.

Pang Qingyun couldn't see clearly, but they saw it clearly...

Wang Yan received Magistrate Chen's report and nodded: "If the news is accurate, then save their lives. It's hard for Magistrate Chen to run so far."

"Doing things for Master, helping Master rebuild China, such a big event, how dare I say it's hard? The old minister is just afraid of not being hard enough, afraid of not being able to do more things for Master."

"Doing more things is a good thing, but Magistrate Chen is over fifty years old, so you should also pay attention to your health. Only by living long can you do more things. You and I are considered to be in harmony, and you are reliable in doing things, so it is better to be long-term."

"With Master's auspicious words, the old minister will have the protection of the gods and will definitely live a long life."

Wang Yan laughed loudly, and Magistrate Chen also accompanied him to laugh. It was truly a good play of the monarch and minister being in harmony.

It was not that Wang Yan was hypocritical. Since defecting and coming to work in Huoshan, Old Chen had been working diligently, getting up earlier than chickens and sleeping later than dogs. Wang Yan had no shortage of various administrative affairs. After all, it was one-third of the Shenzhou, with a population of over 100 million, and there were really too many problems.

Especially since Wang Yan was still pushing for new policies, various problems emerged one after another. Although Old Chen was a feudal bureaucrat, his IQ was online and his experience was rich. What new policy? It was just a redistribution of interests. Being an official has always been doing such a thing. Figures at the level of Old Chen, the frontier official, are naturally very familiar with it.

Plus Wang Yan's strength and the strength of the military, these territories occupied by Wang Yan were already in a mighty reform trend.

In short, Old Chen did quite well and shared a lot of work for Wang Yan...

The war continued, and under sufficient firepower, the Qing army was retreating steadily.

Wang Yan had nothing else, but he had many guns. And now on the Shenzhou battlefield, there is no need for so many schemes. On the basis of normal dispatch, whoever has more guns and cannons and stronger firepower will have the upper hand.

This is a strange scene in the era of war method transformation. Cold weapons and hot weapons are intertwined, the wheels of the era roll over, and people are the dead bones under the wheels.

In the past, the Manchu Qing and the Heavenly Kingdom fought, which completely belonged to the vegetable chicken pecking at each other. Although their guns and cannons were not few, and there was foreign aid, there were still those firearms from before in the team, which were slow to fire and shot close, far less rich than the front-line combat troops under Wang Yan who had a gun in their hands.

However, Wang Yan did not advance rapidly, but took steady steps and fought steadily, slowly pushing the front line, sweeping over like a bulldozer.

The important thing is to occupy new territory while governing, stabilize order, and restore production and life. Compared to taking down the whole world directly, the benefits of this are the greatest.

Because the war's destruction to the local area is too great, if he pushes horizontally and quickly all the way, the subsequent resources will not keep up. Now maintaining stability like this, other places also have order, and production in various places is also recovering in a planned way. Taking down a place, one year later, it will be able to raise one and a half new places.

At the same time, on the other hand, Wang Yan's troops are also very scattered. The Manchu Qing has to fight, but other places cannot stop. For example, Yunnan and Guizhou, for example, Shangan and the border, the plateau, these places also need to be taken care of, and they are also forces that can be utilized, and they all have corresponding resource output. So he fought very slowly.

It is still the logistics war that Wang Yan has always insisted on.

And a more important reason is, foreign devils! He cannot be full of holes internally after fighting, and cannot withstand any wind and waves. If it is not an iron bucket, it must have no major flaws, and guarantee the most basic stability internally.

Manchu Qing and Heavenly Kingdom are small meanings, more importantly, moving towards the world.

There is no reason why only foreign devils can fight over, and he cannot fight over...

Two months after the war started, he finally fired at the foreigners.

After the war started, because of the smoothness of the first battle, the troops led by Shi Dakai, Zhao Erhu, and Pang Qingyun completed the meeting, and then the command of this side was handed over to Shi Dakai, who implemented and implemented Wang Yan's established policy and strategy to slowly push the front line. Zhao Erhu was the deputy commander to supervise, and Pang Qingyun was the general fighting below, listening to orders.

According to the established strategy, after taking Wuchang, Jiujiang, and Yueyang, they continued to push south to attack Changsha and Nanchang. And just after taking Changsha and continuing to fight south to the Hengyang area, Pang Qingyun, who was the vanguard, encountered the foreign army.

Dawn was breaking, Pang Qingyun held a single-tube telescope, looking at the foreign camp not far away.

"The one surnamed Di and the one surnamed Jiang are still doing things, and didn't give us fake news." His words revealed excitement and agitation.

For so many years, foreigners have been riding on their heads to show off their power. Regardless of whether they have conscience or not, this feeling of being bullied is always bad. Today, it is finally his turn to kill foreigners, and it is exciting to think about it.

"General, they are all to save their old lives, and dare not go against us." The subordinates laughed and echoed on the side. "Shall we fight now?"

"Fight, don't let them run away."

"Yes." The Assistant Regional Commander responded and left.

After a while, soldiers quietly approached and built a firepower network. Not long after they finished the layout, the roar of artillery came from afar, and shells shot from the air, blowing this foreign camp into pieces.

The foreigners still in their dreams left the world peacefully, perhaps crossing the ocean to return to the embrace of their Lord. After all, there is no place for them in the Heavenly Kingdom here.

And those who didn't die ran out in a panic with weapons, looking for bunkers to resist. However, the soldiers who had long been ambushed outside, how could they let them go, and killed them with a burst of random guns while talking and laughing.

This is the key role of information. Knowing the place and the number of people, sneaking over and directly taking them all in one pot, without any effort. And this was just one place where Pang Qingyun led the team himself, and there were several other places that launched attacks.

Magistrate Di and Magistrate Jiang, selling teammates is truly thorough, without any psychological burden. Dead friends cannot die poor, let alone dead foreigners. It is truly no harm at all, and only good for them.

And if Wang Yan doesn't say it, no one knows that they sold it. After all, the army under Wang Yan fights, and it is often mysterious. They all did their homework when they were security guards, and they used all of them when they fought. Wherever they go, it seems like a home court...

And this battle is just a beginning. Occupying the advantage is naturally to expand the results quickly. Wang Yan's strategy is to fight and manage slowly, accumulating the strength for the next attack, rather than letting people run away before this battle is fully fought.

So Magistrate Di and Magistrate Jiang gave full support, selling teammates frantically on one side, and expressing their wholeheartedness for the Great Qing on the other side, hypocritically providing various support to the foreigners.

They are also clear, Wang Yan blocked the way back in the north, the Heavenly Kingdom cannot let them borrow the way, and they can't fight. If they go around from the sea, they probably don't have a future. But because the whole family is small, they cannot defect. It can be said that after discovering that they were not Wang Yan's opponent, they were already cold-hearted.

Foreigners are just like that. After the weapons of both sides are leveled, they can't cut grass without double. In itself, they can't fight Wang Yan's side, and there are these two people, Magistrate Di and Magistrate Jiang, so the foreigners naturally suffered a big defeat.

More than half of the 20,000 troops here were damaged, leaving less than 8,000, and they retreated to Guangzhou without stopping, saying nothing to fight.

It was also at this time that people fully saw the weakness of the foreigners and the strength of Wang Yan.

The Great Qing court was a bit numb, not knowing what to do next.

It was the middle of winter, with heavy snow in the capital, and I don't know how many people were frozen to death.

Yesterday, the ministers submitted a table saying that the auspicious snow signaled a good harvest, and praised Vanguard Commander fiercely, as if it were another prosperous age. Today, the news came, and the Vanguard Commander Emperor was so angry that he lay sick in bed.

In the Hall of Mental Cultivation, the ground dragon was burning vigorously, but the Vanguard Commander Emperor was lying on the couch covered with a quilt, his forehead covered with a square towel, his face pale, his lips cracked, and the whole person looked drowsy.

A group of military council ministers were given seats, watching Cixi feed Vanguard Commander medicine in person, silent...

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