After discussion by the Provisional Executive Committee, Japan's request for the restoration of the Consulate in Tianjin finally decided to accede to the request of the Japanese side and allow the members of the former Japanese Consulate in Tianjin to return to Tianjin and still use the original Japanese Consulate in Tianjin. Naturally, the Japanese side agreed with all their mouths.

In fact, at the seminar, many people opposed Japan's restoration of the Tianjin Consulate, and the reason was very simple: in the old time and space, few people had a good impression of Japan. Therefore, except for anime and romantic action movies, everything related to Japan is opposed by some resentful young people without thinking.

Although Japan had won the First Sino-Japanese War at this time, and through the Treaty of Shimonoseki, it received 230 million taels of silver from the Qing court in compensation and occupied the island of Taiwan, but at present, the country that poses the greatest threat and damage to China is not Japan, but Russia.

And if the traverser wants to divide the Eight-Nation Alliance, Japan is also a direction that can be broken through, because Japan's interests in Tianjin are limited, and there are basically no interests in Shandong, the next target of the traverser.

In addition, an important source of information for the travelers is to listen to and decipher the telegrams of various countries, which is also an important reason why the travelers allow the consulates of various countries to still exist in Tianjin, but now there is a lack of Japanese consulates in Tianjin, so the travelers cannot obtain information on the Japanese side, and if the Japanese consulate is reopened, it will undoubtedly make up for this defect for the travelers.

Fukushima Yasushi arrived in Tianjin on the last day of the date set by the crosser's reply, and the countries did not collectively respond to the crosser's negotiating principles, and only Russia and Germany had previously expressed their refusal to accept the crosser's negotiating principles in their own names.

However, the situation changed the next day, and the Eight-Nation Coalition Army stationed in Beijing sent troops to capture Xuanhuafu, Zhangjiakou and other places.

The Qing court, which was temporarily residing in Taiyuan, was shocked, and thought that the Eight-Nation Alliance, which had been defeated by overseas Chinese, had been severely damaged and had no more strength to launch an attack, so that some people even asked the Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor for orders to send troops to recover Beijing. As a result, they were all stunned, and then they realized that although the Eight-Nation Coalition Army was beaten by overseas Chinese and suffered heavy losses, it still had considerable combat effectiveness.

Although Xuanhua Mansion and Zhangjiakou are still quite far from Taiyuan, the Empress Dowager Cixi, who has become a frightened bird, can no longer live, so she ordered to set up a westward journey to Xi'an on the same day. At the same time, he also sent a telegram to Li Hongzhang, demanding that Li Hongzhang do everything possible to negotiate peace with other countries, and that all the conditions put forward by various countries can be agreed upon. Although Guangxu asked Cixi to stay in Taiyuan and preside over negotiations with other countries, the Empress Dowager Cixi naturally would not let Guangxu get out of her control and forced Guangxu to go with him.

After receiving the telegram from the imperial court, Li Hongzhang also breathed a sigh of relief, and he was also quite gloating in his heart, you think that the foreigners will be easy to deal with after a few defeats, but now you know how powerful the foreigners are, and if you want to negotiate with the foreigners, you have to rely on me Li Hongzhang, and at the same time I am a little worried, I don't know how this group of overseas Chinese will deal with the attack of the Eight-Nation Alliance? Will they send troops to attack Beijing, or will they stand still in Tianjin?

It turned out that the decision of the Eight-Nation Alliance's attack was made after repeated consultations among various countries and at the same time soliciting the opinions of the commanders of the Eight-Nation Alliance. Although most countries have the idea of negotiating with overseas Chinese to end the war, it is obvious that they will not be able to gain any benefits from negotiating according to the conditions put forward by the overseas Chinese, and if they want to grab more benefits at the negotiating table, they must make some military achievements.

Now the Eight-Nation Coalition Army definitely does not have enough strength to attack Tianjin, but it is still more than enough to fight the Qing court, so as to create pressure on the Qing court and let them know that the Eight-Nation Alliance is not easy to deal with, and in addition, it can exert pressure on overseas Chinese through the Chunting Court. Therefore, all countries decided to defend, so that the Eight-Nation Coalition Army stationed in Beijing launched the campaign of attacking Xuanhua and Zhangjiakou to win the main battle for themselves.

Although the countries do not yet know the history of the overseas Chinese, through the analysis of the intelligence collected in Tianjin in the previous stage, the naval strength of this group of overseas Chinese is obviously higher than that of the army, and they have six or seven large surface warships, with strong firepower and accurate shooting, so they have successively won several very brilliant victories at sea, such as the total annihilation of the eight-nation coalition fleet at Dagukou and the defeat of the German fleet.

But comparatively speaking, the army of overseas Chinese is weaker than the navy. On the one hand, the number of overseas Chinese's army is only more than 1,000, and although the overall quality is not bad, the number is too small after all; on the other hand, the large-scale conscription of overseas Chinese in Tianjin also shows from another side that the overseas Chinese's army is relatively weak.

After the failure of the attack on Tianjin, the Eight-Nation Coalition Army retreated to Beijing, and now there are still about 13,000 troops, and a large number of defensive offensives have been built around Beijing, so the officers of the coalition army have full confidence that they can hold Beijing. He even hoped that the overseas Chinese would really launch an attack on Beijing, so as to deal a blow to the momentum of the overseas Chinese in a defensive war and to vent a bad breath for themselves. As a matter of fact, the overseas Chinese have occupied Tianjin for nearly two months, and they have no intention of continuing to attack Beijing, and it is estimated that the overseas Chinese also know that it will be difficult to conquer Beijing with their own army strength, and if the overseas Chinese occupy Beijing in one go, I am afraid that all countries will have to accept the principle of negotiation with the overseas Chinese.

It is precisely because of such factors that the countries have finally decided to take a tough attitude to deal with the negotiation principles put forward by the overseas Chinese, so that the overseas Chinese know that they should not think that you can get carried away after a few victories, and that we still have a certain amount of strength. If we want to negotiate peace, we must give in and make concessions at the negotiating table.

After the response attitude of each country is proposed, the next step is to see how overseas Chinese respond.

On the one hand, the overseas Chinese do not have enough certainty to attack Beijing, and on the other hand, let the Qing court do the work of the overseas Chinese, and the countries can stay out of the matter, although the overseas Chinese do not take the Qing court too seriously, but after all, it is in the name of returning to China, so they cannot completely ignore the attitude of the Qing court. Fukushima Yasumasa is considering the appropriate time to submit the terms of negotiation for each country to the overseas Chinese.

However, no one expected that the response of the overseas Chinese would come very quickly, and only one day later, the overseas Chinese issued a public statement in the name of the Provisional Executive Committee, first of all, strongly accusing the Eight-Nation Alliance of attacking Xuanhua, The imperialist military action in Zhangjiakou shows that this is a violation of peace, and shows that all countries have no sincerity in settling the war through negotiations, but only use negotiations to delay time and prepare for the next military action, and this also shows once again that the fundamental cause of this war is the hegemonic mentality of all countries, not the Boxer Rebellion in China. At the same time, it announced that it would temporarily suspend all negotiations with other countries, and that it would retain the right to carry out all means of retaliation in the next step, and that all the consequences of everything that happens thereafter will be borne by each country.

To be honest, the wording of this statement was stern and resolute, and it was indeed somewhat unexpected by various countries, and they originally thought that even if the overseas Chinese were dissatisfied with the actions of the Eight-Nation Alliance, they would consult with various countries in private, after all, there are now several channels of communication between overseas Chinese and other countries, and they can communicate effectively, but they did not expect that overseas Chinese would respond to the toughness of various countries with a super tough attitude, and took the initiative to terminate the ongoing negotiations and contacts with various countries, which is tantamount to announcing that the two sides will continue to go to war。

For example, Russia and Germany originally hoped to continue the war, while Britain, France, and the United States were very disappointed; in fact, they did not want the war to continue, but only hoped to use a tough attitude to force overseas Chinese to make concessions, so that they could gain more benefits at the negotiating table. Therefore, I also regretted it at this time, and I knew that I should not have used such drastic means.

In fact, if it were in Europe, it would not have happened when the two sides had already formally begun negotiations and contacts, and one side would launch a military action, unless one side had an absolute advantage. And a country like the Traverser, which has an absolute military advantage, will never accept this result.

However, in the subconscious of various countries, they still regard overseas Chinese as Qing countries, so although the traversers have an absolute military advantage, they are still unwilling to face this reality, and as a result, the negotiations between the two sides have completely collapsed.

However, it is useless to regret it, and now no one can take the initiative to retreat, so we can only see a real chapter on the battlefield, but in a short period of time, it is obvious that all countries will not be able to provide effective support to the Eight-Nation Alliance, after all, it is not of much significance to send two or three thousand people to the aid and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition, since the Eight-Nation Coalition has the confidence to hold Beijing, then it can only believe in the confidence of the Eight-Nation Alliance, so the countries can only send a telegram to Beijing, asking the Eight-Nation Coalition to prepare and fight a battle to defend Beijing.

And Fukushima Yasumasa in Tianjin is also very depressed, because at this time, he will go to overseas Chinese, and the negotiation conditions submitted to various countries are boring, and now he can only wait and see what happens.

The atmosphere of the great war suddenly gathered in Shanghai and Beijing, and all countries were waiting for the attack of overseas Chinese.