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Niu Ben and Luo Quan naturally felt sorry for Di Ying, while Xiao Ming felt sorry and was also thinking about a problem.

Can he completely eliminate the loss of talent?

After thinking about it for a long time, he felt that it was impossible, because now that the comprehensive education of the Great Chongqing Kingdom had been launched, and tens of thousands of people in the Great Chongqing Kingdom were learning modern scientific knowledge, it was impossible for him to keep an eye on everyone.

What he needs to focus on now is to supervise the cutting-edge talents who have mastered cutting-edge technology, such as Su Liangcai, Lin Wentao, Lu Tong, and Song Changping.

As long as they are active in the front line of scientific research, even if others choose to commit treason because of money, the technology of Dayu will always remain ahead.

What's more, the real technological advantage of the Great Chongqing Kingdom lies with him, not anyone else.

Moreover, at present, he is taking a steady and steady scientific and technological development route in Dayu Kingdom, and some advanced technologies have not yet been taken out in the scientific and technological spar.

At present, what is being developed is only the science and technology of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and every time the Great Yu Kingdom unravels a technological shackle, he will come up with higher technology.

In this way, the scientific and technological gap of the Great Chongqing Kingdom has been realized.

"Your Majesty, the old minister is willing to personally lead the troops and destroy Suzhou City! Personally slay the people of the Merchant Council! Niu Ben's eyes were filled with anger, although the dark line of Qingzhou City was still planted by the King of Chu, but now it was managed by the Merchant Council.

Now that the war is in full swing, the merchant council has overshadowed them at this time, how can Niu Ben not be angry!

"The old minister is also willing to go!" Luo Quan said loudly.

Xiao Ming sighed slightly, figuring out the joints, he was no longer entangled in the defection, although these six people were indeed tantamount to stealing some of their knowledge.

In addition, the current level of science and technology in Europe is basically equivalent to that of the mid-to-late eighteenth century, and various scientific and technological breakthroughs will soon follow, and what they bring with them will not last long.

Gathering his mind, Xiao Ming slapped the table fiercely, and he said: "You can't give the Merchant Council any more opportunities to grow, two generals, you mobilize the remaining troops to send them to Suzhou, in addition, don't worry about wasting ammunition, give me a hard fight!" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Niu Ben was excited in his heart.

Although this incident was not big, Cao Kun angered Xiao Ming, and from Xiao Ming's angry eyes, they could see how angry he was now.

Having made a plan to attack with all his might, Niu Ben gathered two divisions in the city equipped with falcon rifles.

At the same time, he mobilized 40,000 recruits who were still using the muskets of the conscription, and during the Northern Expedition, the conscription of the Great Chongqing State had been going on.

According to their plan, the infantry should be expanded to at least 200,000 men, so that the defense of the border areas of the Great Chongqing State can be easily controlled.

After all, after the end of the Northern Expedition, they suddenly had a lot of places where soldiers were needed, and just a small Goryeo had to have more than 20,000 people stationed in order for the king of Goryeo not to dare to have any dissent.

And the passes on the front line of the Kwantung and the Great Wall, in order to defend against the attacks of the barbarians, Luo Hong and Qi Guangyi's soldiers could not move, which was another seventy or eighty thousand people.

In addition, there is also the border between Bashu and Tubo, although the threat of Tubo is not as big as that of the barbarians, but it is still necessary to leave tens of thousands of people in Bashu.

In this way, he has enough remaining strength to attack, and after 60,000 elites, he can only recruit another 40,000 recruits who have been trained for six months.

On 7 December, under the victory of the two coastal cities of Songjiang City and Jiaxing City, the General Staff issued a decision to concentrate its forces on attacking Suzhou.

In Songjiang City and Jiaxing City, Lu Fei Luoxin each left 5,000 men to defend the city, and led the remaining soldiers to Suzhou City, while the army in Jinling City entered Taihu Lake through the Loujiang River with the help of the navy.

Landing on the shores of Taihu Lake in the west of Suzhou City, more than 100,000 people are preparing to surround Suzhou City.

At the same time, Li Chuyuan issued an order to Sima Hao, asking 80,000 Chu troops to approach Suzhou and fully cooperate with the royal soldiers to attack Suzhou City.

For a time, the city of Suzhou was shrouded in the haze of war.

Such a big movement was naturally seen by Cao Kun, and after hesitating for a day, he and the Qinglong King presided over a meeting and decided to retreat south.

"Father, did you just give up Suzhou City?"

Cao Zhengtong asked a little unwillingly, they left Suzhou City last night, and now they are leading the main elite transfer, leaving only some less valued members of the parliament and the old and weak soldiers to defend the city to delay the southward movement of the royal army.

And they are ready to establish their forces in Fuzhou, Nanchang, Guizhou, Changsha, Dali.

"Although the area south of the Yangtze River is rich, but there is no danger to defend, the merchant council can not gain a foothold in Suzhou, Xiao Ming did not intervene in the first place, but now he can only pursue stability, on the contrary, Nanchang, Guizhou, Dali are mountainous, and the people are fierce, which is suitable for our merchant council to survive for a long time, as for Fuzhou and Guangzhou in the south are important trade towns, which can allow us to continue to exchange for supplies through trade at sea, and the most important thing is that the closer south we get to the garrisons of Western countries, they will provide us with convenience." Cao Kun had already had a plan in mind.

Cao Zhengtong nodded, he looked back at the endless soldiers, and then at the people who were transporting grain and grass on both sides of the soldiers, all of which were the troops gathered by the Qinglong King during this time.

He believed that with such a position of the parliamentary army, as long as they arrived in the old land of Lingnan, they could establish a kingdom belonging to the merchant council.

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Lu Fei was confronting Sima Lang, the general of the Chu army, and both armies were now asking each other to get out.

Xiao Ming and Li Chuyuan were watching the farce below on a hill not far from Suzhou, Suzhou was very close to Jinling, so he decided to come to supervise the battle in person, but he didn't expect to pounce.

"Bastard, if you didn't do it on purpose, how could the parliamentary army in Suzhou City run away!" Lu Fei scolded.

When they arrived outside the city of Suzhou, they found that the city walls were nothing more than old and weak soldiers, who cried out to surrender after a shelling.

It was only then that he discovered that the city of Suzhou was already an empty city, and on the first night of their siege, the parliamentary army took advantage of the night to flee south.

As Sima Lang, who had been besieging the parliamentary army on the southern front of Suzhou, said that he did not know anything, and it was obvious that they deliberately let go of the parliamentary army.

"Keep your mouth clean, this is the land of our Chu State, and now that the parliamentary army is gone, you should also go back!" Sima Lang said angrily, he is the eldest son of the Sima family, and he has always been pampered, how can he stand Lu Fei's abuse.

If it was before, Lu Fei would definitely be angry and beat Sima Lang, but this time he smiled, because he knew very well that this Sima Lang was about to die.

Glancing at Sima Lang coldly, Lu Fei suddenly pulled out a short-barreled musket from his waist and shot it at Sima Lang's forehead, and then he shouted: "Hit me hard!" “

As soon as his words fell, the soldiers of the Tiger Army, who had already been prepared, immediately raised their guns and shot at the soldiers led by Sima Lang.

For a while, there was a lot of gunfire.

After Lu Fei killed Sima Lang, he quickly withdrew to his army, and the reason why the Sima clan can still exist is that they need Sima as cannon fodder.

Now that the parliamentary army was deliberately let go by the Sima clan, then there is no need for them to exist, because since they have chosen to go south, both the Chu State and the parliamentary army are their enemies.