Chapter 1937: There are oddities Because of Zhu Houzhao, a war in Francois is ready to start, and on the other side of the sky, it seems that he is not willing to be calm.
At the exit of the Ming Dynasty, this continuous wall divides the inside and outside of the pass into two worlds.
Ye Chunqiu went out of the customs without looking back and boarded the steam train in the north.
In a separate carriage, Ye Chunqiu sat on a specially set sofa, watching the scenery outside the window fly by, and fell into his own thoughts.
As far as he was concerned, he had already planned that he would only stay in Jingshi for a short time, but now that the obstacles of the new policy were clear and had been implemented smoothly, he finally said goodbye to Kannai completely and returned to his main territory.
Ye Chunqiu knew that he had more important things to do.
Although he had been in charge of the Beijing division during this time, after months of preparation, the Ottomans had already received news that one of their armies had been deployed near Persia and was ready to attack at any time, and the war preparations under the Lu State had been completely completed after being carried out in an orderly manner.
Now, everything is ready, only the east wind is owed.
The Western Crusade is about to begin.
Obviously, Ye Chunqiu attaches great importance to this campaign, for this westward expedition, Lu Guo paid 100 million taels of silver, the railway line extending to the west, frantically advancing, countless steel workshops, sending the formed rails to the extreme west by steam trains, tens of thousands of craftsmen, in that bitter cold environment, crazy to lay the railway.
Fortunately, the rails of this era did not have high technical requirements, so the laying of rails was, in a sense, a matter of money and manpower.
The construction of the branch lines has now been temporarily halted, because all the steel and rails, as well as the sleepers, are given priority to supply the main road.
The small cabinet approved one decree after another, all of which are making every effort to ensure the rush to build this railway, and now, the main road has reached the first line of Hot Springs, which is the gate of Jungar, the fortress of the steppe Silk Road, and after the rise of Mongolia, it has become an important town connecting the four khanates.
In this uninhabited place for thousands of miles, countless craftsmen, relying on the materials transported by the railway, under the scorching sun, worked day and night.
Now, the whole line has been completed, which can be called a trace.
For this railway, Lu Guoxia used almost all his strength.
Now, the new army is also ready to go, and now the 50,000 new army has begun to dispatch 30,000 people to take the steam train to the journey thousands of miles away.
The atmosphere in Qinglong City, the mood for war has also been high, the merchants have always been the most interested in conquest, war means consumption, consumption means the need for more production, and production is profitable.
The most important thing is that after the victory of the war, there will inevitably be a large amount of land annexed, which means that there will be more markets, and with the market, there will be demand, and there will be more demand and more benefits, and no one will be more willing to do war business.
Permeated with this emotion, Ye Chunqiu finally returned to Qinglong.
The news had already been published in the newspapers that day, and it was clear to everyone that an expedition unprecedented was about to begin.
Sure enough, Ye Chunqiu had just returned to the palace, and before he could take a breath, he ordered people to gather all the military and political personnel non-stop.
After a meeting, some railway lines were temporarily closed to civilian channels, countless supplies and ammunition were transported to Hot Springs, and groups of new troops also stepped into the carriages of the train and began the journey that lasted seven or eight days.
At this time, Ye Chunqiu was not in a hurry to set off, the soldiers and horses did not move, and the grain and grass went first, but he noticed a news, which was brought by Lu Wangwei, saying that the Ottomans did not send the previously agreed army as promised, and they promised that there would be a scale of 100,000 people, but in fact, the scale was only 30,000.
In Istanbul, where tension had intensified, there was a large build-up of military horses to the north, and a considerable number of Ottoman troops, instead of moving south, were heading towards Bulgaria.
The information revealed by this news made Ye Chunqiu a little worried, his eyebrows sank, and he immediately asked people to find Ye Maocai.
Ye Maocai soon came to Ye Chunqiu's office, and after saluting, he listened to Ye Chunqiu and said straight to the point: "What the hell is going on, why did the Ottomans suddenly not talk about what their envoys said?"
Since it is a war, and the Lu State has made all preparations for this western expedition, at this time, any mistake may lead to fatal consequences.
Ye Chunqiu didn't dare to take it lightly.
Ye Mao showed a little shame, and said: "It's still investigating, it's just that the manpower has just been arranged, and there is still some need to be prepared, as for the Ottoman officials, they just deduced that their army would arrive in full later, but I thought that they might be hiding something, and didn't want us to know, Your Highness, I don't dare to take it lightly, and I will try my best to find out." ” "But," he paused, and it was evident that His Royal Highness King Lu would not be satisfied with this answer, so he cautiously continued: "However, according to many signs, there are some inferences that it is very likely that the Ottomans are in trouble in the north, and they have not told us the true situation, and they are afraid that they are also wary of us, and they are wary of us, lest we see their weakness. ” Ye Chunqiu frowned slightly, in fact, Ye Maocai's inference coincided with himself.
But in Ye Chunqiu's memory, the main northern opponent of the Ottomans is the Francoman, and at this moment, the Francoman, has been in a relatively passive situation, to put it bluntly, the Francomans rarely take the initiative to attack, basically the Ottomans beat him every once in a while, and they relied on the fortress on the first line of Vienna to defend.
But what happened now, could it be that the Ottomans wanted to fight on two fronts, one side south to Persia, and the other side wanted to attack Vienna If so, this is inevitably too arrogant and self-confident.
Thinking about it this way, Ye Chunqiu felt that it was unlikely, this risk was too great, the Ottomans did not need to open two fronts so urgently, only a fool would do this.
Ye Chunqiu thought for a while, and finally muttered: "Continue to contact the Ottomans, on the other hand, try your best to spy on the news, regardless of the cost." ” Ye Maocai said with a straight face: "Obey." ” aa2705221: