This year's hot summer is destined to get hot again. On the last day of July, the capital, Naha, Shanghai, Jiangning... Almost all cities with high-quality officials stationed in the city have received a telegram from a distant place!

Zuo Zongtang, who was conquering in the vast sea of ​​the Western Regions desert, was silent for more than half a year and suddenly sent a shocking telegram!

"Dihua's great victory! Encircled and annihilated 50,000 main force of Agubai, and Agubai fled to the southern border in a hurry!"

"The northern border of the Western Regions is recovered!"

"The business road leading to Tacheng is restored to traffic! The northern border is worry-free, and a battle of decisive power will be won!"

After Zai Chun received the telegram, he knocked all the cheese crisps in his hand over. "Really? Will Zuo Jigao falsely report the numbers? He really wiped out 60,000?"

Zaichun knew what was going on in war, and he knew how bragging the soldiers in this era were. Encirclement and annihilation and defeat were completely different concepts!

In ancient wars, sometimes both sides invested 100,000 troops, but in the end, they could not die for more than a month. If one side could not withstand the pressure, they would naturally withdraw their troops!

As long as the withdrawn soldiers are still alive, they can continue to fight after several months of cultivation. This kind of battle that only hurts the skin and does not move the muscles will be embellished by the coach to make an epic victory, and the cowhide can be blown to the sky!

This is a routine that most soldiers know, just deceive the superiors and hide the subordinates!

However, these head coaches, especially experienced old coaches like Zuo Zongtang, cannot easily use the word "encirclement and annihilation". Once they dare to use encirclement and annihilation, this means that this victory is absolutely able to stand the test and can be investigated by the court at will!

Encirclement and annihilation can't escape. From officers to soldiers, you have to stay all the dead bodies and prisoners in the established system. One level after another, and the corpses of officers and soldiers, you can piece together it into a large army!

As long as the battle of encirclement and annihilation is victorious, the enemy will not be injured in flesh but will directly remove the arms and thighs, and destroy the seeds of an army!

If the military system is lost, it will not be restored later!

"Your Majesty! Zuo Zongtang reported the encirclement and annihilation, a great victory, and the entire northern border was recovered, and the road to Tacheng was smooth and safe!"

"Everything in the northern border is safe, and Dihua Mansion has returned to the court!" Ermao shouted excitedly.

"Hahaha... OK...Master Zuo really made the Qing Dynasty famous. He really won, he really won! He immediately called a meeting of Ministers of Military Affairs to discuss how to reward the army in the Western Expedition!"

The Forbidden City suddenly became very happy. The good news stimulated the capital to have a carnival all night. Zaichun opened a curfew for three consecutive days, and the people could play all night.

The first telegram was just a good news. In the next few days, it was full of detailed telegrams, recording the entire process of the war, recording the casualties of both sides, and material consumption and other details!

Zuo Zongtang's victory also caused a sensation in Jiangnan. Don't forget that the Western Regions Development Bank was invested by Chinese businessmen. There is a special bond being issued in the stock market!

The great victory in Dihua and the good news of the recovery of the northern border! It directly stimulated the rapid progress of the capital market, and all stocks involving the concept of the Western Regions soared!

Interestingly, Naba, an ordinary canning factory, took over the order to produce canned fruits for the Western Region army, and the market was considered a concept stock in the Western Regions, and its stock price doubled in three trading days!

How high the market fanaticism is, it can be seen!

Xiao Letian is in Naha at this moment, and after receiving the telegram, he was naturally very pleased that the Western Regions are an indivisible territory of China, not only because there are endless oil and mines underground, but more importantly, geopolitics!

The larger the area of ​​the Western Regions, the greater the barrier effect on the Central Plains. The more areas controlled by the Han people in the Western Regions, Tibet, Mongolian Plateau, and the safer it will be!

That is a big strategic buffer zone!

"Where is our information? Have you sent it..." Xiao Letian asked anxiously.

"Bringing... the first batch of spies infiltrated by the Western Region Bank have sent us a detailed telegram, which is even more detailed than those in the Forbidden City!"

The Western Regions Bank followed Zuo Zongtang's army. This war to pacify the Western Regions shows that it was attacked by the Qing Dynasty, but anyone with discerning eyes knew that without the Chinese and Qing dynasties, it would be impossible to fight.

The Qing Dynasty actually did not provide much military expenditure to the Western Expedition Army. Most of the expenses were raised by Zuo Jigao himself. In addition to the import of money and grain from various provinces, most of the remaining ones were raised by the Chinese capital market!

Money and food are provided by the Chinese, and arms are even more so!

In the information, almost all the credits were put on the 88-caliber rear-mounted field guns provided by the Chinese!

Although this Chinese homemade artillery that imitates Prussian post-loaded steel cannons has a caliber of only 88 mm, the shells used are all the latest fixed-loading bullets and high-explosion # drugs!

The fire speed is fast, the range is long, and the accuracy is high... The most important thing is that the caliber is reduced and the weight of the artillery is reduced. It is directly mounted on a two-wheeled car and a horse can be easily pulled away!

Xiao Letian is really worthy of Zuo Zongtang. Almost 90% of the artillery produced in Tanggu Industrial Zone is limited to the Western Regions!

In the Battle of Dihua, Liu Jintang and Xu Zhanbiao's troops were the vanguards, with a total of more than 20,000 people carrying 220 88 artillery pieces!

At this time, Dihua, which was later Urumqi, was Agubo's last important stronghold in the northern border. Hami, Turpan, and Zhenxi Prefecture had all been recovered by Zuo Zongtang.

Agubo, who was frightened, began to desperately recruit elite troops from Dihua. The 60,000 troops were already all Agubo's old masters!

Seeing Zuo Zongtang's 20,000 vanguards dared to approach Dihua, Aguber ordered an attack arrogantly, and the 60,000 troops charged like a fan, pulling out long yellow sand and smoke in the desert.

What made Aguber even more ecstatic was that there were only a few soldiers in the Qing army position directly in front of the 60,000 army. A layer of antlers and sandbags were thinly arranged, and there were only a few cannons behind them.

The main cavalry of the Qing army was scattered on both wings and moved quickly to the distance.

"The Qing army is going to escape... They gave up the central army... and the whole army will kill..."

The unsightly Agubo had no idea what kind of terrifying firepower was in front of him!

Facing Agubo's main force was the carefully disguised artillery position. The vanguard army concentrated more than 200 artillery pieces and used a camouflage net made of burnt yellow hay to hide these cannons in the yellow sand all over the sky!

The rear-mounted artillery was officially unveiled during the Franco-Prussian War. Now even Tsarist Russia is not equipped, let alone the local warlords of Central Asia like Aguber!

The ambush received the order to act uniformly, and the disguised grass net was opened. More than 200 black holes were aimed at 60,000 enemy troops. A steel flame fell from the sky, almost burning the desert!

Boom boom boom... Boom boom boom...

Reload, fire, load, and fire again... The dense crowd of charges does not need to adjust the shooting elements at all, and you do not need to aim!

The powerful fire rate of the rear-mounted artillery has exceeded the imagination of these Central Asian warlords!
Chapter completed!