Iron Dynasty

Without food, no firearms and ammunition, how can we fight the royal army? Lu Fei has already surrounded Fuzhou, Luo Xin has also reached Nanchang, and the parliamentary army has been retreating. It won't be long before they will be able to reach Guangzhou!

In Guangzhou City, where the temporary parliament resides, Cao Kun was surrounded by a group of core members, and a look of impatience appeared on everyone's faces.

That's right, the problem now is that even if we have money, we can't sell weapons and ammunition, but we can't fight this battle with the hundreds of thousands of people summoned by the Blue Dragon King. Everyone understands that fighting them is not just a matter of courage. Those soldiers with wooden sticks on the front line are simply dying, they are too easy to collapse. Another person said.

Cao Kun and his son looked at each other. Their brows were furrowed. Their enthusiasm was gradually shattered by the cold reality. They finally realized the gap in strength between the two sides in this war.

The North now has an excellent industrial base, education system, and taxation system. They can produce tens of thousands of weapons and ammunition at any time, and the military academy can continuously climb out of the middle-level generals and enter the recruits recruited by the army leaders.

And taxes on agriculture and industry ensured the logistics of the war.

In this comparison, they had nothing. After losing the state of Chu, they found that the vast southern base was weak. Even if the British and the French taught them the technique of flintlock guns, they could not make enough firearms. Not to mention the conscripted musket, and the now-used Falcon rifle.

After all, in addition to the lack of skilled craftsmen, they also lacked the two most important things, coal and iron ore.

Now that things have developed, he finally realized a problem. From his point of view, Xiao Ming was actually planning to go south, because he had unknowingly controlled the most abundant coal and iron areas in Dayu.

The areas north of the Yangtze River, south of the Great Wall, Bashu, and Kanto were successively controlled by Xiao Ming. Before the war began, these places no longer sold even a little coal and iron ore to the south.

And it is also the reason why they are more embarrassed as the war goes on, because even if they have money, they cannot buy anything.

In addition, the coast was blocked by the Qingzhou fleet, and the supplies of France and the United Kingdom could only go from land, which again limited the number and speed of support.

At the same time, the support from France and the United Kingdom has become a little weak now, and they cannot continue to send supplies to him from far away, and the only support they can provide is from the colonies.

I know the war is being lost all the time, but we should trust France, trust England, and they will send their troops to help us.

Cao Kun looked like he was swearing and swearing, Trust me, if we continue to persevere, we will definitely win.

Cao Zhengtong echoed: Yes, we will get more support.

The congressmen were silent. They looked at me and I looked at you. The anger on their faces finally turned into a sigh.

Cao Kun continued: Everyone, please come back. Our Cao family will not retreat any more. We will fight Xiao Ming to the death here in Guangzhou. At that time, you will see them being defeated by our allied army.

I hope so.

said one MP.

Cao Zhengtong took the opportunity to say: But if we want to persevere, we still need to buy more things from the French and the British. This requires a lot of money, and you also need your generosity.

The members frowned and sighed again, and they asked the servants around them to go back to take the money and turn it over to the parliament.

After sending everyone away, Cao Kun and his son let out a sigh of relief. At this time, the Qinglong King came in from the door.

He said, Let these idiots stay and die, we should go.

Don't be in a hurry, be careful to show your feet. Cao Kun's expression became serious, he asked: How is the transportation of gold and silver treasures? This is the capital for us to live in the UK.

Naturally there is no problem. As long as you pass Dali, these things will directly enter the sphere of influence of the British. The Qinglong King said lightly.

Cao Zhengtong was a little unwilling to hear this, Father, did we just fail like this?

We underestimated Xiao Ming. It makes sense for him to be able to defeat the barbarians. The current battle is not determined by the number of people. What's more, there have been different voices in the parliament. The failures have made many people begin to question us. , today is an example. Cao Kun said slowly: For today's plan, I can only leave a retreat for myself, so that he can make a comeback in the future.

However, can I come back after this trip? Cao Zhengtong felt a little regretful.

It's better than dying here. The Qinglong King waved his hand, Being caught by Xiao Ming, none of us can survive.

Cao Kun nodded, and he comforted: Count Kerry promised that they would admit that we are the orthodox of the Great Yu Kingdom, that is, even if we go to the United Kingdom, we are still the actual rulers of the Great Yu Kingdom in name, and they will not admit it. The Great Yu Kingdom ruled by Xiao Ming, maybe one day, we will come back with the power of Europe. After all, we have given them enough things.

I hope so. Cao Zhengtong's eyes turned to the west, they had indeed paid enough.

They sacrificed 500 people on the way to escort the six students. The secret guard planned twenty-one assassinations on their way. The three students who followed the French only had one seriously injured student whose life and death were unknown, and they focused on Protected Britons also lost a cadet and two were shot.

But no matter what, they still managed to get to British India, and then they transferred a lot of wealth to prepare for their escape.

After all, the haze of assassination has been shrouded in their heads, and the city of Guangzhou is already restless.

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Fuzhou.

After a night of ammunition supplies, Lu Fei launched an attack on Fuzhou City early the next morning.

Three hundred field artillery slammed the cannonballs on the city wall of Fuzhou City in the roar, and the city wall of Fuzhou City collapsed with a violent explosion.

At the same time, a soldier with five grenades on his body crawled out of the trench and charged, plentiful enough to use grenades in luxury.

kill!

In the roar of the sky, the old soldiers led the new recruits across the ditch. The Royal Army, which had doubled in number, quickly gained an advantage, while the parliamentary army, which had already been exhausted and lacked ammunition, collapsed at this moment.

A large number of parliamentary army soldiers fled into the city, while the soldiers of the Hu Ben army were in hot pursuit, and the situation outside Fuzhou city became one-sided in an instant.

The situation on the battlefield was seen by Lu Fei, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. Just as he had guessed, the parliamentary army had now lost the spirit of the previous months, and they were afraid of being beaten.