1890 King of Southeast Asia

On September 25, Liu Yiming sent telegrams to the heads of state or presidents of various countries, bluntly saying that Catholicism was morally corrupt and questioning the purity of church management and churches.

Among the nine countries with concessions in Tianjin, only France and the United States were non-monarchies, and the other seven were monarchies.

Among them, Japan believed in Shintoism, which had nothing to do with this, but was caught in other evil deeds.

In the other six countries, whether they believed in Christianity, Catholicism, or Orthodoxy, the regional managers were nominally kings or emperors.

For example, in the United Kingdom, King Edward VII was the head of government and the supreme leader of the Church of England.

Liu Yiming, as the emperor of a regional power, sent telegrams to the kings of various countries, which made the kings of various countries dissatisfied.

Isn't this a slap in the face?

However, no matter how dissatisfied he was, as a king, he had to hold high the "moral standard" and could only apologize more or less for the church management.

With this mixture, the pressure on Nanhua was reduced a lot in an instant, and only Japan was still holding on tightly.

After all, in their view, it is not wrong to do wrong, and whoever exposes him is at fault!

However, Nanhua has no time to deal with it. Now Nanhua wants to subdue the Qing Empire and let Zaifeng swallow the treaty!

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"Tang Shangshu, this is the last condition I can give. If your country cannot accept it, then I can only regretfully tell you that this negotiation will probably end here." Lin Pingzhi said irritably.

To be honest, he still admired the man in front of him. Within a week, Tang Shaochuan came to his house eight times and had three formal negotiations. The conditions were ground down to him bit by bit.

Since the country also asked Lin Pingzhi to end the war as soon as possible and take Tianjin Wei, Lin Pingzhi also took the initiative to make concessions, hoping to sign the contract quickly.

After all, this war, in Nanhua's view, has no meaning to continue. Go straight to the capital? What can you get?

Nanhua does not lack land. Even if it does, there is no need to find it in the Qing Empire. Having Tianjin Wei is enough.

"Lord Lin, please reduce the number of people for the sake of our common culture and ethnicity!" Tang Shaochuan almost pleaded.

Lin Pingzhi looked at Tang Shaochuan, a little dazed.

If Liu Yiming had not led the people to revolt, if the Dutch had not been corrupt and incompetent, would there be Nanhua?

If he had encountered the situation of the Qing Empire, would he have been able to do this?

Lin Pingzhi smiled and shook his head. At that time, there were a lot of surrenderists in Nanhua. If the military power was not in Liu Yiming's hands, Nanhua might have been just a Sishui Autonomous Region now?

"Brother Shaochuan, I'll tell you the truth. The right to station troops and Tianjin Wei are what my majesty has repeatedly emphasized. There is no room for negotiation."

"I asked your majesty. Prince Ning apologized and compensated us for our losses and military expenses of 200 million taels. These indemnities will be paid in three years without interest, and this batch of indemnities will be used to invest in the industrial construction of the Qing Empire."

"This is already the most generous condition. After all, this matter was caused by you..."

Lin Pingzhi said, feeling that Tang Shaochuan was a little pitiful.

"Alas~ How could I not know? I thank you first, but this matter still needs the regent to make the decision. I, the special plenipotentiary minister, only have the right to talk, not the right to judge." Tang Shaochuan smiled bitterly and accepted the title.

Lin Pingzhi shook his head as he watched Tang Shaochuan leave.

Although Zaifeng's political sense and means were not very good, he was not stupid. On the contrary, under the blessing of persecution delusion, he guessed Nanhua's thoughts.

On the contrary, those who were experienced did not believe that Nanhua would dare to do this. After all, no one could have imagined that the severity of the European war would make them have no time to care about anything other than the war.

On September 26, Tang Shaochuan came to the door again with a bitter face. Lin Pingzhi sighed and chose not to see him.

On September 27, Nanhua announced the suspension of negotiations...

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Time came to October 2 in a blink of an eye. In the past few days, Nanhua temporarily ignored the protests of the West against Nanhua's control of the Tianjin Concession.

Instead, it stepped up the mobilization of troops and withdrew the troops outside to Tianjin. The total number of Nanhua troops in Tianjin reached 40,000.

"Wind speed level 3, clear weather, can take off."

"Takeoff check everything is normal, request takeoff."

"Runway cleared."

"According to intelligence, the Qing Empire is equipped with anti-aircraft guns, the number is unknown, pay attention to safety."

"Received, start taxiing."

In the north of Tianjin Wei, four twin-engine biplane reconnaissance aircraft slowly ran into the paved runway and slowly accelerated. The one-kilometer-long runway, the twin-engine biplane reconnaissance aircraft almost took off successfully at the end of the runway.

The Type 07 large twin-engine reconnaissance aircraft is a "failed product" of the Nanhua Exploration Large Bomber, which was modified to be used as a reconnaissance aircraft.

It is 12.8 meters long, 26 meters wide, 4.3 meters high, 2.7 tons empty weight, 4.1 tons maximum take-off weight, 150 kilometers per hour maximum speed, and 6,000 meters practical ceiling.

It is positioned as a front-line reconnaissance aircraft, mainly used to detect enemy military deployments and provide guidance for artillery.

Most of the weapons were removed, leaving only two 12.7mm machine guns. The fuselage was reinforced with aluminum alloy, the fuselage was lengthened and the fuel tank was enlarged, which improved the battlefield retention capability.

Most importantly, a generator was installed under the cockpit, connected to the radio station in the cabin, enabling wireless communication.

However, due to the limitation of the generator power and radio power, the communication will become very poor if the distance exceeds 30 kilometers.

But this is already a groundbreaking product! That is, the plane is big enough, and it is directly modified from a bomber, giving up its aggressiveness.

In fact, this feels a bit like missing the point. It is better to make such a large reconnaissance plane to perform front-line reconnaissance and artillery guidance than to make it directly into a bomber.

But Liu Yiming didn't want the West to have too much sense of crisis. At this time, they were fighting hard on the airship, so let them continue to play with the airship!

The flight formation went all the way west, along the railway line.

After flying for about an hour, a sizzling sound of electricity came from the radio.

"Tune to 062, this is the fourth reconnaissance squadron, calling the ground position..." The reconnaissance plane communicator held the microphone and kept shouting.

Soon, the green light on the table lit up, and the radio receiver (radio) that had been waiting on a special frequency for receiving information received the message.

Well, I have to say that this communication system is separate, and the radio station used to send messages is specially made, small in size and expensive.

The radio receiver is modified from an ordinary radio. The specific improvement is to reduce the power and hang two pairs of headphones.

In short, everything is based on power saving and lightweight.

"This is the First Field Artillery Brigade, calling the Fourth Reconnaissance Squadron, please answer if you hear me."

"The Fourth Reconnaissance Squadron received, the First Field Artillery Brigade, our unit will provide guidance for your unit..."

After a brief exchange, the four reconnaissance planes formed teams of two and dispersed in the north-south direction.

"First Field Artillery Brigade, I have found your unit."

The reconnaissance plane found the arrows arranged by the First Field Artillery Brigade with cars.

Following the arrow to the west, it continued to drive at a speed of 120 kilometers per hour for six minutes and arrived over Langfang.

"The Qing army fortifications group was found, and now the altitude is lowered."

The reconnaissance plane slowly lowered its altitude from 6,000 meters to 3,000 meters, flying around the Qing army position.

"In the 210 direction, a Qing army artillery position was found."

"In the 270 direction, the second Qing army artillery position was found."

At this time, the army did not have a deep awareness of air defense and anti-reconnaissance, and the biggest impression of the sky was the airship.

According to the characteristics of airships, various countries have developed anti-aircraft guns.

These anti-aircraft guns are modified from medium and large caliber cannons, but the barrels are extended, and the shells are still ordinary shells.

The fully loaded airships fly at an altitude of only a few thousand meters, move slowly, and have to lower the altitude when dropping bombs, so these anti-aircraft guns are enough.

As for the sky and artillery, there are only artillery reconnaissance balloons.

"Reconnaissance aircraft calls the First Artillery Brigade, reconnaissance aircraft calls the First Artillery Brigade..."

"The First Artillery Brigade received, please provide coordinates."

The intense calculation and communication began. After about five minutes, looking at the direction of Nanhua from the reconnaissance aircraft, a cloud of smoke rose.

After dozens of seconds, the shells fell on the Qing Empire artillery position, and sparks lit up, taking away the lives of some onlookers.

"The explosion point is close, rest and correct the position..."

The First Field Artillery Brigade of Nanhua is already an old actor. After the equipment upgrade, it is equipped with 48 152mm field cannons and 8 203mm heavy siege howitzers.

This is an important strike force of the South China Army, but it is not usually used because the cannon is heavy and large and inconvenient to transport.

The army prefers to use the Third Field Artillery Brigade, which is equipped with rocket launchers and self-propelled howitzers, but the cannon is still stronger in terms of damage to fortifications and anti-artillery capabilities.

The bombardment lasted for about three hours, and it was confirmed that four Qing Empire artillery positions were destroyed, and a large number of fortifications were destroyed.

In the third hour of the bombardment, the firepower units of the division and brigade also joined in and carried out key bombardments on the north and south sides of Langfang.

After the bombardment, two gaps about 500 meters long appeared on the Qing Empire's defense line.

South China concentrated armored vehicles and trucks and dispatched two brigades at one time. In less than half an hour, the four towns to which Tieliang belonged were cut into three sections.

On October 3, the South China Army completed the encirclement of Langfang, but did not launch an attack, nor did it surround the other two parts of the Qing Empire Army.

In the afternoon of the 3rd, after the unsuccessful attempt to attack, the Qing Empire Army began to collapse.

On the fourth day, Nanhua made a gesture to encircle the enemy from both wings, and the outer Qing Empire army finally collapsed.

This made Zhao Dabao look up to them. He thought these people would turn around and run away.

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The harem.

"Nanhua is about to break in! One by one, they are still arguing in the court. How to resist the enemy? The whole court is full of traitors!" Zaifeng's face was flushed, and the blue veins on his forehead were clearly visible.

"Prince, what should we do? You must protect our orphan and widow!" Yulong could only cry.

"For now, the only solution is peace talks, but after the negotiations, my prestige as the regent will be greatly damaged..." Zaifeng was a little scared.

He was afraid that Nanhua would really break in, but he didn't want to bear the consequences of failure.

After all, he had always been against peace talks and asked to drag it out, and in this battle, three of the eight newly built towns were directly crippled and one was surrounded.

His power was greatly damaged!

But after thinking for a long time, he couldn't come up with any solution. Finally, he looked at the emperor playing with toys on the dragon throne and lowered his head.

"Please bear with it, Xianxun, and agree to their conditions!"

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