On September 25, Liu Yiming sent a message to various countries or presidents, bluntly saying that Catholicism was morally corrupt and questioning church management and the purity of the church.

Among the nine countries with concessions in Tianjin, only France and the United States are non-monarchy countries, and the remaining seven are monarchies.

Among them, Japan believes in Shintoism, which has nothing to do with it. It's just that they were beaten up and killed by rabbits and other evil deeds were committed.

In the remaining six countries, regardless of whether they believe in Christianity, Catholicism, Orthodoxy, or the Eastern Orthodox Church, the regional administrators are nominally kings or emperors.

For example, in the United Kingdom, King Edward VII is the head of government and the supreme leader of the Anglican Church.

As the emperor of a major regional power, Liu Yiming sent inquiry telegrams to the kings of various countries, which made the kings of various countries dissatisfied.

Isn't this a slap in the face?

But no matter how dissatisfied, as a king, he must hold high the "moral standard", so he can only express more or less apology for the church management.

With such a mix-up, the pressure on Nanhua was greatly reduced in an instant, leaving only Japan who was still clinging to it.

After all, in their view, there is nothing wrong with doing something wrong, and it is the fault of whoever exposes it!

But Nanhua has no time to deal with it. Now Nanhua wants to subdue the Qing Empire and let Zaifeng swallow the treaty!

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"Tang Shangshu, this is the last condition I can give. If your country cannot accept it, then I can only regretfully tell you that this negotiation will probably come to an end." Lin Pingzhi said irritably.

To be honest, he still somewhat admired the person in front of him. Within a week, Tang Shaochuan came to visit eight times and formally negotiated three times, and the conditions were gradually improved on him bit by bit.

Since the country also asked Lin Pingzhi to end the war as soon as possible and capture the Tianjin Guard, Lin Pingzhi also took the initiative to give in, hoping to sign the contract as soon as possible.

After all, in Nanhua's view, this war has no meaning in continuing. What can we get if we go straight to the capital?

There is no shortage of land in Nanhua. Even if it is lacking, there is no need to look for it from the Qing Empire. Tianjin Guards is enough.

"Mr. Lin, for the sake of our two countries having the same language and race, please reduce it even further!" Tang Shaochuan said almost in a pleading tone.

Lin Pingzhi looked at Tang Shaochuan in a daze.

If Liu Yiming hadn't boldly led the crowd to revolt, and if the Dutch hadn't been corrupt and incompetent, would there have been Nanhua?

If he encountered a situation like the Qing Empire, could he achieve this?

Lin Pingzhi smiled and shook his head. There were a lot of surrender factions in Nanhua at that time. If the military power had not been in the hands of Liu Yiming, maybe Nanhua now is just a Surabaya Autonomous Territory?

"Brother Shaochuan, let me tell you the truth. My Majesty has repeatedly stressed that the right to garrison troops and the Tianjin Guards has no room for negotiation."

"I asked Your Majesty that Prince Ning apologized and compensated us for our losses and military expenses of 200 million taels. The compensation will be paid in three years without interest, and this batch of compensation will be used to invest in the industrial construction of the Qing Empire."

"This is already the most generous condition. After all, it was you who caused this matter..."

As Lin Pingzhi said this, he felt that Tang Shaochuan was a little pitiful.

"Oh~ I don't know. Brother Fool has already thanked Brother Xian. However, this matter still has to be decided by the Regent. As a special and plenipotentiary minister, I only have the right to negotiate, not to judge." Tang Shaochuan smiled bitterly,

I accepted this title.

Lin Pingzhi looked at Tang Shaochuan's leaving figure and shook his head.

Although Zaifeng didn't have a good sense of politics and his methods were not very good, he was not stupid. On the contrary, with the blessing of persecution paranoia, he guessed what Nan Hua was thinking.

On the contrary, for those experienced people, no one believed that Nan Hua dared to do this. After all, no one could have imagined that the brutality of the European War would leave them no time to care about anything other than the war.

On September 26, Tang Shaochuan came to the door again with a bitter look on his face. Lin Pingzhi sighed and chose not to see him.

On September 27, Nanhua announced the suspension of negotiations...

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Time flies to October 2. In the past few days, Nanhua has temporarily ignored the Western protests against Nanhua's control of the Tianjin Wei Concession.

Instead, they stepped up the mobilization of troops and reduced their external troops to Tianjin. Nanhua's total troops in Tianjin Guards reached 40,000.

"The wind speed is level 3, the weather is clear, and we can take off."

"Everything is normal during takeoff check, please take off."

"The runway is cleared."

"According to intelligence, the Qing Empire is equipped with anti-aircraft guns. The number is unknown. Please pay attention to safety."

"Copy that, start sliding out."

In the northern part of Tianjin Wei, four twin-engine bi-wing reconnaissance planes slowly ran onto the paved runway and accelerated slowly. On the one-kilometer-long runway, the twin-engine bi-wing reconnaissance planes did not successfully take off until almost the end of the runway.

The Type 07 large twin-engine reconnaissance aircraft was a "failure" of Nanhua's exploration of large bombers and was repurposed as a reconnaissance aircraft.

It is 12.8 meters long, has a wingspan of 26 meters, is 4.3 meters high, has an empty weight of 2.7 tons, a maximum take-off weight of 4.1 tons, a maximum speed of 150 kilometers per hour, and a practical ceiling of 6,000 meters.

Positioned as a frontline reconnaissance aircraft, it is mainly used to detect enemy military deployments and provide guidance for artillery.

Most of the weapons were dismantled, leaving only two 12.7mm machine guns. The fuselage was reinforced with aluminum alloy, and the fuselage was lengthened to enlarge the fuel tank and improve the battlefield retention capability.

The most important thing is that a generator is installed under the cockpit, which is connected to the radio station located in the cabin to enable wireless communication.

It's just limited by the power of the generator and the power of the radio. If it exceeds 30 kilometers, the communication will become very poor.

But this is already an epoch-making product! In other words, this aircraft is big enough and can be directly modified from a bomber, without the aggressiveness.

In fact, this feels like a waste of time. To make such a large reconnaissance aircraft to perform frontline reconnaissance and artillery guidance, it is better to make it directly into a bomber.

But Liu Yiming doesn't want the West to have too much sense of crisis. At this time, they are fighting on the airship. Let them continue to play with the airship!

The flight formation headed west and along the railway line.

After flying for about an hour, the sound of sizzling electricity came from the radio.

"Change to 062, this is the Fourth Reconnaissance Squadron, calling for ground positions..." The reconnaissance aircraft correspondent held the microphone and kept shouting.

Soon, the green light on the desktop turned on, and the radio receiver (radio) used to receive information received the message after waiting on a special frequency.

Well, I have to say that this communication system is separate, and the radio stations used to send out messages are specially made, small in size, and expensive.

The radio receiver was modified from an ordinary radio. The specific improvements were to reduce the power and attach two pairs of headphones.

In short, everything is focused on power saving and lightweighting.

"This is the 1st Field Artillery Brigade, calling the 4th Reconnaissance Squadron. Please answer if you hear me."

"The 4th Reconnaissance Squadron has received it, the 1st Field Artillery Brigade, our department will provide guidance to your department..."

After a brief exchange, the four reconnaissance aircraft formed a team of two and dispersed in the north and south directions.

"First Field Artillery Brigade, I have discovered your unit."

Reconnaissance aircraft spotted arrowheads lined up with cars from the 1st Field Artillery Brigade.

Follow the arrow to the west and continue driving at a speed of 120 kilometers per hour for six minutes until you reach the sky above Langfang.

"The Qing Army fortification group has been discovered, lower the altitude now."

The reconnaissance aircraft slowly lowered its altitude, from 6,000 meters to 3,000 meters, and flew around the Qing Army's position.

"In the direction of 210, a Qing Army artillery position was discovered."

"Direction 270, the second Qing Army artillery position was discovered."

At this time, the military did not have a deep awareness of air defense and anti-reconnaissance. The biggest impression on the sky was airships.

Countries have developed anti-aircraft guns based on the characteristics of airships.

These anti-aircraft guns are modified from medium and large caliber cannons, but the barrels are lengthened, and the shells still use ordinary shells.

A fully loaded airship can fly only a few kilometers high, moves slowly, and has to lower its altitude when dropping bombs. These anti-aircraft guns are enough.

As for the sky and artillery, there are only artillery reconnaissance balloons.

"The reconnaissance plane called the First Artillery Brigade, the reconnaissance plane called the First Artillery Brigade..."

"The First Artillery Brigade received it, please provide the coordinates."

Intense calculations and communications began. About five minutes later, looking from the reconnaissance plane in the direction of Nanhua, thick clouds of smoke rose.

After dozens of seconds, the artillery shell fell on the Qing Empire artillery position, and sparks lit up, taking away the lives of some who were watching the aircraft.

"The explosion point is too close, don't keep your bearings..."

The 1st Field Artillery Brigade of Nanhua is already a veteran actor. After the equipment upgrade, it is equipped with 48 152mm field cannons and 8 203mm heavy siege howitzers.

This is an important strike force of the South China Army, but it is not used in normal times because the cannon is heavy, large and difficult to transport.

The Army prefers the 3rd Field Artillery Brigade, which uses a mixture of rocket launchers and self-propelled howitzers. However, in terms of its ability to damage fortifications and counter-artillery capabilities, cannons are still stronger.

The bombardment lasted for about three hours, and it was determined that four Qing Empire artillery positions were destroyed, and a large number of fortifications were destroyed.

During the third hour of the shelling, the firepower units of the division and brigade also joined in and carried out focused shelling on the north and south sides of Langfang.

After the shelling ended, two gaps about 500 meters long appeared in the Qing Empire's defense line.

Nanhua concentrated armored vehicles and trucks and dispatched two brigades at once. In less than half an hour, the four towns to which Tieliang belonged were cut into three sections.

On October 3rd, the Nanhua Army completed the encirclement of Langfang, but did not launch an attack, nor did it surround the remaining two parts of the Qing Empire Army.

On the afternoon of the 3rd, after trying to attack to no avail, the Qing Empire army began to collapse.

On the 4th, Nanhua made a gesture of outflanking the enemy from both sides, and the outer Qing Empire army finally collapsed.
To be continued...