Volume VIII 1248 Huangsha Manjing Division

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Coming from the south was a communications ship sent by Deputy Commander Vinya, a small clipper ship that caught up with the main fleet at the fastest speed and brought the latest battle situation to the commander-in-chief.

"Report to Your Excellency Commander! Our side has broken away from the battle with enemy ships in the waters north of the island of Taiwan, this is the battle report sent by Commander Vinya......" The tired soldier saluted and held the fire-lacquered wax-sealed file bag in his hands.

Stefansky pried open the wax seal with a paper cutter, opened the letter and looked at it, and immediately smiled. He glanced at Molière, "You guessed it right, although this battleship is powerful, it's a pity that it's only a real ship!"

The letter was handed to Molière, where it gave a brief account of the battle after the separation, and focused on the sudden boiler failure of the Zhiyuan.

"In the evening, the speed of the enemy ship suddenly decreased, and then black smoke billowed from the chimney, and panicked sailors were faintly running on the deck...... After that, our ship continued to maintain the suppression of the enemy until the sky was completely dark at night, and the black smoke of the Zhiyuan was always stored, and the speed did not recover......"

"I'm sure that the Zhiyuan has encountered a boiler failure, and although it will not lose power, it must have lost power! At present, the speed of the Zhiyuan has been hovering between 9 and 10 knots...... Our ship is now out of battle and is heading north to find your side to converge, and we have ...... safely."

Molière let out a sigh of relief and passed the letter to the other officers, and everyone was relieved that "Vinya's judgment will not be wrong, he knows more about the steam power system than we do, and his analysis is credible......"

All eyes were on the Commander-in-Chief, and Stefansky could read everyone's eyes, and he knew that the expeditionary force needed a small victory to recover the period, and the empire needed the gold to survive the financial crisis.

"Well, pass my orders, and the fleet is moving at full speed and ready for battle...... I'll take you to the gold!"

"Ula!" cheered from the command cabin, and the decline of the day's defeat in battle was swept away. From now on, the Russian fleet was divided into two parts, one after the other, and finally rushed towards Xiao Letian's trap without hesitation.

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The city of Beijing in spring is not a very pleasant season, although the spring flowers are very pleasing to the eye, but the imperial capital at the foot of Yanshan Mountain is affected by the dust weather every year, especially in spring.

Early in the morning, the sky in Sijiu City was dim as if it was wrapped in yellow table paper, and the sun hung on the horizon emitting a yellow glow like, looking so weak.

There was more and more dust in the air, and the breeze blowing from the northwest was full of earthy smell.

The guards, officers and soldiers in the Forbidden City were covered with armor and horse coats one by one by yellow sand, and they looked like clay statues from a distance, and all the people walking in the Forbidden City shrank their necks and tightened the cuffs of their clothes, so as not to drill through the loess.

At eight o'clock in the morning, the military aircraft Zhang Jing Li Tuo carried his basket from the left gate of Wufeng Tower into the imperial city, and walked to the military aircraft as quickly as a prawn.

Just as he was walking through the Taihedian Square, he suddenly heard a dense sound of footsteps from behind him, and when he looked back, he was still his old acquaintance, the old ginger who had drunk wine with Yang Zhi in Quanjude.

"What are you going to do?" Li Tuo asked while frowning, but he didn't expect that today's old Jiang was unusual, he didn't pay attention to him at all, and ran past him like a gust of wind.

"The military aircraft department has sent an urgent telegram, everyone hurry up and get out of the way...... Hurry up, hurry!"

Behind him, a little eunuch stuck out his tongue like a dog, "Oops...... Oh my mother, Lord Jiang, wait for me...... I have to accompany you into the palace!"

"Dead eyes, my father-in-law and I can't run, can't you run as a guard? Catch up with Master Jiang and ......"

In the scolding, two guards rushed forward, one left and one right, to protect Lao Jiang of the Prime Minister's Yamen Clerk's Office.

According to the rules of the Qing Dynasty, officials who are not of sufficient grade enter the Forbidden City on official business, and they must be led by eunuchs and guards throughout the whole process, especially small officials like Lao Jiang, who are not in the stream, and they must be guarded by guards.

Only high-ranking officials who have mixed with the third rank or above are eligible to move around some areas of the Forbidden City freely, but if they go to see the Queen Mother or the Emperor, they must also be led by eunuchs.

According to the rules, even if Lao Jiang has a big emergency to report, he has to let the guards and eunuchs accompany him, he has never seen such a scene, the official who delivered the letter ran as fast as a donkey, and the guards and eunuchs behind him chased after him and died, and he didn't catch up.

Countless people secretly looked at the diorama in front of them, and secretly said to themselves, "What's going on? It can't be that the British are going to attack Beijing again, right? Impossible, the relationship between the British and the Qing Dynasty is good now......

Only Li Tuoru was struck by lightning, and he had just faintly seen the running old Jiang secretly cocking his thumbs and tilting towards the sky. What does this mean? Thumbs up to the sky, there is only one meaning in the black words of these people, and that is the Ninety-Five Venerable.

"Damn, is there something wrong with Your Majesty? No, I have to hurry to the military aircraft department......"

When Li Tuo walked briskly to the military plane, he found that all the officials on duty stood up and looked at the side door in a daze, and some of them stuffed the fritters in their mouths and forgot to chew them.

"What is the urgent matter for the Prime Minister Yamen, and it is a sandy weather in the early morning, why don't you rest well, what is the old toss?"

Just when everyone was talking, a group of little eunuchs suddenly rushed out of the side door, and the big eunuch at the head was Li Lianying. I saw a red slap print on the face of the favored eunuch, and his eyes were red.

He shouted as he ran: "The military aircraft department, that adult is on duty today, hurry up and go to the Heart Cultivation Hall to wait for the queen mother to summon you...... Immediately sent someone to summon Prince Gong and Prince Alcohol into the palace...... Go and ask Lord Weng...... Hurry up, hurry up!"

At this moment, suddenly the yellow sand rolled in the west, and a gust of wind swept through the Forbidden City, and the heavens and the earth were suddenly covered by yellow sand, and there were eunuch guards everywhere who were dizzy and staggering.

"It's evil! This is evil! God is going to accept people again, why have we been so unhappy in the past few years? Why haven't we had a good day!"

Li Lianying was as hideous as a demon in the yellow sand, he turned his head and scolded, "What about the miscellaneous pieces that asked for the door bag just now......? Damn, I'll be slapped if you're harmed, and that's where your kid's life ends today......"

"Beat me, little ones, beat me to death, if I can't kill him, I'll kill you!"