Since Daoguang still has a task, Yang Feng simply loosened the rope for him, and the Ming army that captured Wuchang should not continue to attack Hubei and Sichuan, so that Daoguang can still get some food and salary from Sichuan and Henan......

It is said that the monk Lingqin also needs food and salary to fight in the war.

Their task is also daunting.

In order to completely stabilize the rear, they inevitably have to kill on a large scale, this kind of thing can't solve the problem without killing people's heads, and Yang Shenhuang has to do their logistics work.

And the gentry in Guanzhong must also be full of enthusiasm for this, after all, they can grab the land, in fact, these guys are not good things, they are more enthusiastic about cleaning than anyone else, for example, the original history of the Tuke Brawl, in fact, these guys are behind the trouble, in order to achieve the purpose of cleaning and annexing other people's land, these guys basically have no bottom line for the land. In short, in order for them to go all out to clean their houses, Emperor Yang no longer continued to persecute Daoguang, not only did the Ming army in Hunan not cross the river, but even the Ming army in Tianjin did not attack Beijing but went south to Shandong, preparing to join forces with the Ming army going north from Haizhou in the Jining area and then cut Shandong, so as to show Daoguang his attitude and tell him that Emperor Yang supported him.

Anyway, there is a person in Jining who the God Emperor has never forgotten!

At this point, the Quzhou family is very sensible, although the Quzhou Confucian family faced the Ming army, but never stood up and raised their arms to lead those regimental exercises, but tried to dilute their sense of existence, until now Quzhou has not formed a regimental training, but the foreign gun teams in the Hangzhou and Ningbo areas continue to arrive in batches.

However, the Ming army did not attack, and the two sides played a confrontation across the river on both sides of the Qujiang River.

And the Ming army on the Yangtze River went straight to Anqing.

The governor of Huguang, Cheng Xucai, and the less than 10,000 defeated troops he gathered, plus the Jiangning garrison of the Eight Banners, the 20,000 foreign guns organized by the Jiangsu gentry, and even the Yangtze River Naval Division, including two British gunboats, a total of more than 30 sixth-class warships, all flocked to Anqing at this time. This army, which can be said to be the most modern army in the history of the Qing Dynasty, is preparing for a decisive battle with the Ming army downstream in Anqing, and even here they still have a certain advantage in strength, after all, they still have the Yangtze River Water Division. In addition to the stronger power of rifled guns, the tonnage of the Ming army could not be compared with the warships of the Yangtze River Naval Division, and the Yangtze River Naval Division was also commanded by the British army, and there was no problem of insufficient command level.

In fact, the inland river fleet hastily formed by the Ming army in Changsha would definitely not be able to defeat the Yangtze River Naval Division.

So the two sides also turned into a stalemate.

In this way, the southern battlefield turned into a temporary silence.

The Ming army formally formed the first front army and took Luo Outline as the capital to command, commanding the first, second, and sixth armies, in addition to the Yangtze River fleet, and set up a military headquarters in Wuchang to be fully responsible for the operations downstream, and at the same time in Wuchang to use the steam engine transported in the rear to build a new type of inland river warship, which is not only used for the attack on Nanjing, but also must be used in the future to go up the Three Gorges to attack Sichuan, so they are all shallow water heavy artillery and high horsepower, which can basically be driven to Chongqing in most seasons.

The Qing army also continued to increase its troops.

In order to fight against the Ming army, the gentry of Jiangsu, Anhui, and Zhejiang provinces were almost mobilized, and these guys were not short of money anyway.

At this time, it was not yet the end of the Qing Dynasty, after being repeatedly sucked by foreign powers.

Even at that time, they still played with tens of millions.

In this era, the gentry of these three provinces, especially the two provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, can mobilize no less funds than Yang Feng, and this is the time for them to make the last struggle, Yangzhou salt merchants, Jiangsu silk merchants, Zhejiang tea merchants, Qian Zhuang Tuan, those big landlords who sit on 10,000 acres of fertile land have all let go of their usual stinginess. A large amount of silver was dug out of the cellar to build guns and cannons to build warships, and groups of soldiers were recruited, and almost all the British in Zhoushan were hired by them, because the number was still not enough, they even went to the island to hire the Dutch, and there was even a tea merchant who didn't know how to get in touch, and the Dutch merchant ship pulled a boatload of black slaves, and actually put on a big wrap to form the first Kunlun battalion in the Qing Dynasty.

Anyway, they did their best.

In short, one battalion after another battalion of foreign guns was transferred to Anqing, and together with Quzhou on the southern front, they formed the defense system of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, plus the countless forts built along the coast before, the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang built a huge turtle shell for themselves.

Of course, this is just a stubborn resistance.

They themselves know this very well, they are just supporting, they are waiting, waiting for Victoria's expeditionary fleet, as long as Victoria's expeditionary fleet defeats Yang Feng, then all their dangers will disappear, these guys have promised to pay reparations on behalf of Daoguang, and even promised that as long as the British help them keep Jiangsu and Zhejiang, then the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang is completely open to the British, British warships can enter and leave the Yangtze River at will, and British merchants and even missionaries can also live and preach anywhere at will. In short, they will welcome Victoria with open arms.

Well, they've decided to leave Daoguang behind.

After all, Daoguang can no longer protect them, Victoria is obviously more reliable, they no longer need the glory of the Qing Dynasty, what they need is Victoria's sunshine to shine, during this time, with the introduction of a large number of British mercenaries, they already know a lot of things, such as the British system, such as British technology, such as British military strength, especially the huge naval fleet.

They knew that the four suffocating giants of the last time were not worth mentioning in the British Navy at all.

There are a bunch of such giant ships.

There are more than twice as many as that, 74-gun third-class ships, and people have a lot of 120-gun first-class ships! And the sixteen giant ships of the bandits are also not worth mentioning in front of others, Yang Feng only defeated a small fleet, and Victoria was able to drive more than a hundred battleships of at least three ranks, even those that were said to be able to destroy a city with a single salvo......

Well, such a giant ship is sailing into Calcutta.

Calcutta.

"Send a telegram to Canton, the British fleet has arrived in Calcutta!"

Chen Hua, a merchant from the Dutch East Indies colony, stood on the second floor of his business, opened the curtain and looked at the approaching sail forest in the port, and said to the female secretary behind him.

The latter expertly tapped on the transmitter buttons.

"Two 120-gun ships of the first class, Trafalgar and St. George, of the same type, thirty-four thirty-two-pounder guns on the upper deck, thirty-four thirty-two-pounder guns on the middle deck, thirty thirty-two-pounder guns plus two sixty-eight-pounder guns on the lower main gun deck, two eighteen-pounder guns on the aft deck, fourteen thirty-two-pounder guns, two eighteen-pounder guns and two thirty-two pounder guns in the bowhouse, two sixty-eight-pounder guns actually carried, one hundred and fourteen thirty-two pounderers, four eighteen pounder-pounds, a total of one hundred and twenty guns. Sixteen ships of the third class of seventy-four guns, of the same type, Avenger-class, with the same equipment as the Melville, the British are not stupid, and they are not very distressed if they send these old ships out to sink in battle. ”

Chen Hua said with a sneer.

At the heart of the fleet are the Trafalgar and St. George, two brand new ships that have just entered service, but all that remains is the old ones.

Sixteen Avenger-class.

And only this class of seventy-four guns and three ships of the British built forty-three, the earliest Avenger was built more than half a century ago, with the advent of the steam age, especially the iron plate technology is becoming more and more mature, these old ships are about to fall into the fate of chopping wood. You must know that at this time, the East India Company had already used iron-hulled ships, and the French had begun to study the installation of ironclad on battleships, and the Ming army relied on steam-powered warships to run rampant in the East, all of which proved that the era of steam-powered ironclad ships was no longer unattainable.

How long can these aging warships shine?

"The sunset is infinitely good, it's just near dusk!"

Chen Hua looked at the spectacular battleship formation on the dock and sighed.

"Even then, it's not easy to deal with!"

Next to him was actually an employee of the Jinyi Guard system.

Daming Jinyiwei has a full-time foreign intelligence department, these people are hidden in various ports with the help of Chinese merchants in Nanyang, and the farthest has even reached Europe, and the female secretary in the back is also, the radio she uses is Jinyiwei's, this business is nominally a trading company run by Dutch East India businessmen, mainly dealing in sugar and spices, but in fact it is also Jinyiwei's intelligence station in Calcutta.

"There's nothing hard to deal with, the God Emperor will shoot even if he drives all the warships of the British Navy."

Chen Hua said.

At this time, there was a knock on the door behind him.

The female secretary, who had finished sending the news, quickly closed the lid of the transmitter, and this vital machine was placed on the table in such a grand manner, and then she casually put the stack of papers on it.

And the brocade guard opened the door.

A plainly dressed white man stood outside and politely took off his hat.

"Will, didn't you go to the docks to meet the fleet?"

Chen Hua said with a smile.

"Chen, Mr. Chen, I'm here to return your notebook, you accidentally dropped it in Mr. Richard's office and I picked it up, and I have to ask for your pardon, I read some of the above contents."

Will said shyly.

"Ah, that's not a secret, it's just some of my thoughts when I was studying, I like to take a notebook with me to write down something, thank you very much for sending it."

Chen Hua said magnanimously.

"Mr. Chen, can you lend me the book you read?"

Will said wistfully.

"Of course you can, this is just one of the books of the Holy Oracle, every one of our disciples of His Majesty the Divine Emperor has it, even if you are not a believer of His Majesty the Divine Emperor, you can buy it for a small amount of money in any city shrine in the Ming Dynasty, and it is a complete set, but it is obviously after the war is over."

Chen Hua smiled and took out a copy of the God-Emperor version of Das Kapital from the drawer, handed it to him and said.

The latter hurried with both hands.

"Thank you, Mr. Chen, no, Mr. Chen!"

Will held the book like a treasure, kept bowing to Chen Hua, and said gratefully.

"You're welcome, the Chinese characters you know shouldn't be enough to really read, if you don't understand any words or content, you can come directly to me or others, and I will tell them to help you."

Teacher Chen said with a smile.