"Li Jingxiao, Gan Hong, Feng Zicai!"
"Who is it? Who is it?"
"Who came up with this idea?"
"Li Jingxiao, it must be Li Jingxiao, it must be him, he is the only one who is so despicable, bastard, bastard!"
"No, no, Li Jingxiao is in Henan, how could he go to Anjiang to handle this matter?"
"Feng Zicai, it must be Feng Zicai, this old immortal thing must be him."
"Asshole, I'm going to kill you, kill you."
"Commander, how should we explain to the country?"
"Send a report to the country and say that the person in this photo is not one of ours. It must have been taken by the Tenglong Army who forced our prisoners to cooperate."
"But will they believe it?"
"I heard that besides us in France, other countries, including England, have voices reprimanding us."
"Especially the Prussians, Italy, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire."
"If you don't listen, you have to explain. Even if we did it, we won't admit it."
"yes."
"You and the people below you should keep your mouths shut, don't let me hear even a little bit of the information you reveal."
"Yes, Your Majesty Commander!"
"Go down."
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After Gan Hong destroyed the Ruan dynasty, he readjusted his troops.
The 21st Army continued to defend Yunnan and northern Annan Province.
The 11th Army defends Guangxi and Hanoi in Annam Province.
Tenth Army defends the Mekong River coast.
The Ninth Army defends Saigon, An Giang and other cities along the coast and across the Mekong River.
In addition, the past governors sent by Li Gaozhang also redivided the cities of Annan Province.
In the past, the Nguyen Dynasty, Luang Prabang Lancang Kingdom, Vientiane Kingdom, and Champasak Kingdom all had very small territories.
In order to show that they have many provinces, some towns and cities were divided into provinces.
This is different from the administrative division of the Tenglong Empire.
In order to facilitate management, those cities were changed into towns or counties.
The area near Hanoi was renamed Hanoi Province.
The territory of the original Lancang Kingdom in Luang Prabang was renamed Lancang Province.
The territory formerly controlled by the Vientiane Kingdom and some areas controlled by the Nguyen Dynasty were renamed Vientiane House.
The original territory of the Kingdom of Basak and part of the territory of the Nguyen Dynasty were renamed Basak Province.
The southern city of Annam Province and the territory of the former Khmer Kingdom were renamed Saigon Province.
Hanoi Province is the largest area, so the entire Annam Province is divided into five provinces.
It won't look as messy as before, and management will be more convenient.
In addition, the population in these areas is not large, mainly the elderly, women, and children.
Young adults are basically invisible.
There are more young and middle-aged people in Hanoi, and immigrants from all over the country are basically stationed here.
Li Jingxiao also asked Gan Hong to organize blind dates for soldiers in Annan Province.
This order caused most of the soldiers from the Yunnan Military Region of the Tenglong Army to settle down in Annan Province and find wives in Annan Province.
Because wars have stopped in various parts of Annan Province, soldiers also have time to rest. After getting married locally, they can go home and have children after rest.
The birth rate of newborns in Annan Province has greatly increased.
In the next few years, there will be a big explosion of Han and other ethnic groups in Annan Province.
This is also more conducive to the management of the Tenglong Empire.
Li Jingxiao walked with Zhao Lingxi on the street.
"Brother Xiao, it's snowing again."
"Yeah, it's snowing again."
"It was recorded last winter that tens of thousands of people froze to death in our Tenglong Empire, mainly the elderly, weak, women and children."
"I don't know how many people will freeze to death this year."
"Brother Xiao, the winter clothes we sell are so cheap, and we are also selling coal in various places, there shouldn't be too many people freezing to death, right?"
"If you haven't gone to the mountains and seen it, you can't imagine that many of our decrees may not be fully implemented by all officials."
"I hope I did a good job last year and tens of thousands of people will be dead by the end of the year."
"The nine provinces of Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, Annan, Northwest, and Anxi that we just won this year are very weak in industry."
"These places are mostly old and weak, and the people don't have much money. I'm very worried about whether officials in various places can make preparations for winter cold protection."
"Brother Xiao, don't be too anxious. Our Tenglong Army has already done a good job. During the reign of the Qing Dynasty, countless people would freeze to death in the past year."
"We will get better and better every year in the future."
"Yeah, let's go, let's go around and see how the people are preparing for the winter."
"Okay brother Xiao."
Because the weather in the Tenglong Empire is getting colder and colder, wars in various places have to stop.
The west and south sides were the first to end the battle.
They had nothing to do with the weather. The main reason was that the defense battles in the two places turned into battles of recovery.
The west regained the Northwest Province and Anxi Province.
More kingdoms were destroyed in the south, but the territory was much smaller.
It's just that the recovered Annan Province was much larger than the original Annan Province.
The fighting in Tibet has always been a small fight, and the soldiers on both sides are not adapted to fighting on the plateau.
The troops of the Tenglong Army are all people from Liangjiang, Fujian, Zhejiang, Taipei, Sichuan and other places. They have no experience in plateau life, and their combat effectiveness has been greatly reduced after arriving in Tibet.
After entering the Tibetan border plateau area, the combat effectiveness was halved.
The British soldiers, whether they were European soldiers or other colonial soldiers, had never lived on the plateau. After arriving at the border of the northern gate of Feibian Country, one by one they kept falling ill.
Most soldiers suffer from severe altitude sickness.
Even many local soldiers from Flying Pancake Country are not suitable to fight here.
Therefore, among the major battlefields, only this one is the gentlest, where man and nature are fighting.
This is not a good thing for the heroic Tenglong Army.
The Tenglong Army fought many times with the Qing Dynasty on the northern battlefield. The Tenglong Army's previous attack on the Qing Dynasty was one-sided.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and 80,000 American troops arrived on the frontline battlefield.
Zuo Zongtang did not let the United States defend the capital, Baoding Prefecture, Tianjin Prefecture and other places.
These places were important cities of the Qing Dynasty, and they were afraid that the United States would not be able to take them back if they took them.
The defense line of American soldiers was deployed in the area of Zhengding Prefecture in front of Baoding Prefecture, here.
Prince Gong wanted the Americans to guard Quang Binh Prefecture, but when the American troops arrived at the front line, the Qing Dynasty fell in Quang Binh Prefecture.
The Qing Dynasty was forced to move its front back.
The 80,000 American troops and Zuo Zongtang's 80,000 new troops jointly defended Zhengding Prefecture, Zhaozhou, Shenzhou, and Hejian Prefecture.
This 160,000-strong army put a lot of pressure on the Tenglong Army.
The pace of Tenglong Army's advance was greatly slowed down.
Especially Zuo Zongtang has now become the commander-in-chief of the Qing army again, and he has done a good job in the deployment and layout of troops.
Fortunately, the Tenglong Army had veterans such as Bai Tao, Li Xia, and Ma Zheng in charge, so many of Zuo Zongtang's small moves failed to succeed.
Bai Tao ordered the troops to fight steadily and eliminate the Qing Dynasty's effective forces bit by bit without taking risks.
Taking risks in front of Zuo Zongtang is easy to suffer big losses.
At the end of another year, Li Jingxiao had already visited several provinces for inspections. Starting from Henan, his first stop was Hubei, where he inspected the development of local light and heavy industries.
Then I went to Sichuan, especially Chongqing in Sichuan. Chongqing has now developed into a large mansion on the same level as Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province.
