Sixty, our friends all over the world (Part 2)

Sixty, our friends all over the world (Part 2)

After the famous eunuch party general and former commander of the Jingjun, Eunuch Guo Boguo, climbed the rope ladder to board the flagship, General Feili Taylor, with a haggard face, received the father-in-law in his commander's cabin. In addition, there were naturally two strong vampires who were almost never separated from him.

As a specially designed fleet flagship, the Clock battleship has two spacious and luxurious lounge cabins in the tail building, rather than just a comfortable captain's room - because it also accommodates the same pampered fleet commander.

In order to facilitate planning and command operations, Feili, in accordance with her own habit, removed all the partitions that were originally located between the lounge and the conference room, so that in the spacious floor-to-ceiling glass windows directly opposite the stern of the boat, which is the best lighting position, a long conference table nailed to the deck, with huge military maps and sand tables spread out, and a large copper teapot with steaming steam.

After boarding the "Clock", Feili finally understood why most fleet officers like to drink black tea through their own personal experiences - whether it is the fresh water stored in a wooden barrel before departure or the river water that was temporarily fired along the way, even if it was precipitated with alum, it was still filled with a faint smell, which could only be barely covered by the aroma of tea.

As for the coffee that is also very popular among Westerners... There is no instant coffee powder these days. If you want to carefully grind the coffee beans on bumpy boats, then cook them in a small pot for an hour or two, and add filters. If there is no servant doing it for you, it will be too troublesome.

Of course, as a magician, he can use watermaking to give himself some pure water at any time, but the clock is not the Aoki. Without the magic power that can be infinitely obtained in the carrier-based Mither energy core, he must carefully save and use every skill position to deal with the possible battles at any time... It would be a bit too luxurious to use watermaking when there is obviously water drinking.

As for the endless water cup that can be used three times a day, it is like any cheap magic prop made by industrialization. The water quality produced is probably worse than that of river water... So everyone has always used it to make ale.

Faced with this situation, Feili drank black tea with the crowd... This is probably one of the reasons why the Navy was misunderstood as a noble military.

However, as the saying goes, from frugality to extravagance, but from extravagance to frugality is difficult. Perhaps the stomach and intestines have been spoiled by the high-quality pure water on the Xiangrui. After changing to the clock, due to the unacceptable conditions of the local environment, he actually pulled his stomach for several days and was able to fully experience the horror toilet on the wooden sail warship - in fact, it was a row of small circles chiseled in the air on the side of the ship, so that the crew took off their pants and squatted, making it convenient to step on the circle.

It looks like this kind of squat toilet is nothing strange, but the problem is that the water surface is four or five stories high below. When you step on the pedals on both sides, you can feel dizzy - those who suffer from acrophobia will definitely feel dizzy!

Not to mention that this warship has been in the water for a long time. The wooden board on the side of the ship is somewhat decayed. When you step on it when you go to the toilet, you sway and creak, making people often worry about whether you will kick the wooden board through it and let yourself fall down with the feces...

The most unlucky time, when Feili was using the toilet at the stern, she happened to encounter a strong wind blowing from behind. As a result, a strong airflow penetrated the cesspool from the side and blew out, causing his hair to stand up. The feces that had just been pulled naturally followed the trend... As a result, she had to take a shower carefully, and when she was sleeping at night, she was complained about the smell of odor...

Therefore, when seeing those sailors always like to hang cages on the bow of the boat, and never blown back to the wind, Feili always admired their bladder spray and good luck.

Divide-Separation-Line

Judging from the appearance, Guo Bo and Guo are a thick and strong man with big arms and round waist. Apart from the fact that his lips are smooth and not very conspicuous, he could not notice the unique yin-absorbing spirit of the eunuchs in his body, but instead was filled with the fierce majesty of a warrior on the battlefield... He is truly worthy of being the remnants of the eunuchs who made all officials of the court frightened, the former commander of the Jing army who fought repeatedly, and the number one general in the revolutionary camp.

Regarding Feili's questions about the "missing" of Zhenjiang Fortress, he gave a straightforward answer that made Feili's eyelids twitch.

——The reason why you can’t find the Zhenjiang Fortress in your sight is because it has never existed!

As the saying goes, the country of the end of the world is full of demons. When a dynasty declines to its extreme, all kinds of strange things will appear.

"... More than ten years ago, the court began to build river defense and coastal defense fortifications. Some of these fortifications were undertaken by the Ministry of Works and local governments, while the other part was under the supervision of the Ministry of War. However, the Minister of War was born into a Manchu royal family and was also an insatiable person, known as "Mr. 80%", because no matter who wanted to get the national defense project fund from him, he had to pay 80% of the rebates first... Well? How can you build the project with only 20% of the project funds? Simple! You have already given him 80% of the rebates, so how can you do this project? Just draw it on the map!

The so-called Zhenjiang Fortress is of course the same thing - "Mr. Bazhong" divided all the project allocations with others, and then sent a servant to take a look and found that there was a Jinshan Temple that had been abandoned for many years... Well, I think you should have seen it. In short, Lord Shangshu ordered the local government in Zhenjiang to recruit a group of civilians, clean up the broken temple, then set up a few cannons into the Buddhist temple, and installed an astronomical telescope brought from a thrift store on the top of the pagoda, and stationed a team of green camp soldiers. This is what is done!

Afterwards, although some young men in the court jumped out one after another and proposed to investigate the matter thoroughly, because there were too many officials involved in the upper and lower levels. After repeatedly dragging them down several times and killing a bunch of people for no reason, no one dared to get into trouble again."

Guo Bo smiled and held a teacup in his hand, telling some old secrets from the court, "... Not long ago, when his subordinates led their troops to raise an army in Zhenjiang, they drove away the green camp soldiers in the temple and dragged away all the earth cannons inside... I think there should be nothing there!"

After hearing such an incredible answer, Feili almost fell into a state of inability to think.

If a country plays "map opening the border", it has a little more motivating morale. Then wouldn't this even more ridiculous "map defense" be a pure self-deception?

And the old lady Guo Bo, who started to talk about the news, continued to sell the secrets of the court he knew:

"...In fact, this '80% Mr.' has done something even more exaggerated than the Zhenjiang Fortress. When he was the Minister of War, he was ordered to supervise the construction of Yangzhou City Defense Fortifications. It took two years to spend 1.2 million taels of silver in the court. In the memorial, he claimed that it was "a iron wall, solid as a golden soup" and "the city defense cannons are like forests, and one cannon is destroyed for more than ten miles". The late emperor believed it and felt that the capital was already worry-free.

However, when his predecessor Tukan Khan led tens of thousands of cavalry to the south, he broke through the Jianghuai defense line the following year and arrived at Peking University, the capital of Yangzhou, the imperial court hurriedly sent people to cross the river to supervise the battle, but found that the cannons on the Yangzhou city walls were all nailed with rotten wood, and they were painted with black paint on the outside. As for fortifications and other things, they were only drawn on the drawings, and nothing was seen on the ground, and even the moat was dried up...

As a result, Yangzhou City was naturally broken in one battle, and the capital was martial law for more than half a year. The imperial court lost more than 100,000 troops to pay the last batch of powerful generals, exhausted the last little vitality, and barely took Yangzhou City back... But afterwards, this '80% gentleman' was not punished at all. From then on, all the civil and military officials in the court were heartbroken, and the decline of the country's power was no longer possible..."

"...It is true. As far as I know, when any country is on the verge of collapse, no matter how low-level officials or even a minor official in charge of the shoe cabinet can arbitrarily destroy rules and regulations for their own interests."

Vampire NV professor Rebeca casually said, "...As for senior officials, they sell official positions and titles, nepotism, dare to do anything, without a trace of loyalty, and just want to seize the time to make more pension money before the country is destroyed, and then flee to a foreign country as a residence... This kind of thing is also very numerous in the era of the melee of the nations in the Feren continent!"

Although Rebecca's words are as philosophical as in the past, the pragmatic Fili is obviously more concerned about the current issues.

"...If this is the case, will we still spend time attacking Zhenjiang? Or will we advance directly to the imperial capital Nanjing? Anyway, they do not have the ability to use artillery fire to cut off the Yangtze River channel, and they cannot threaten the safety of the fleet's rear path..."

Mr. Guo, who was originally very excited, was stunned when he heard this.

"…This… does Zhenjiang Fortress exist? Is there any relationship between whether we fight Zhenjiang or not?"

He scratched his hair and said with a smacking mouth, "...I heard that the revolutionary comrades of our party were very excited. In recent days, three thousand Jingjuns have been mobilized and gathered in Zhenjiang... If the battle dies prematurely, it will be very harmful to morale!"

This time, it was Feili and the two NV vampires' turn to be stunned when they heard this.

"...Three thousand people?! Wait, Commander Guo, are you talking about the "Jingjun" you mentioned all eunuchs?"

Feili swallowed with some difficulty and exclaimed in disbelief, "...As long as you have money and guns, there is nothing strange that you want to raise a team of three thousand people among the people. But if you want to raise more than three thousand eunuchs... there are so many eunuchs scattered among the people?!"
Chapter completed!