1475 The back of the Volunteers
Let's push back the clock by ten days, no, no, no...... It should have been pushed to fifteen days ago, just after the news of the successful listing of the first military stock in Jiangnan, the Chinese War, was transmitted to the city of Beijing, a top-secret telegram left the Forbidden City. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The little eunuch disguised himself as a procurement errand out of the palace, and went straight north to Chengde, but when he was resting in Gubeikou, he led people to secretly infiltrate a business and used the only telegraph in Gubeikou to send a telegram to the far north.
Ningguta, this is the Qing Dynasty since the founding of the country, the most frightening name, here is the place of death of the full of prisoners, but also the Gong Guards stationed in the land of Longxing, in the establishment of the Eight Banners, although there have not been a few battles here but the status is very high.
The vast land from the south of the Xingkai Lake to the mouth of the Tumen River was under the jurisdiction of General Ningguta, and before the Sino-Russian Treaty of Beijing, even east of the Ussuri River, including Vladivostok, was the territory of General Ningguta.
However, since the arrival of the Rakshasa Ghost, General Ningguta's life has not been so comfortable, it was originally a big rear, and there was no need to think about anything other than beware of wild beasts. But let the Rakshasa ghost mix it up like this, and it became a frontier frontier position.
There have been no wars for many years, and General Ningguta has more than 40,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners under his command, but he knows better than anyone how much he has paid and how much combat effectiveness he has.
Ningguta General Hunchun's hair had turned white in just one winter, and that meeting with Xiang Shaolong made him have mixed feelings in his heart.
A high-roller who followed Xiao Letian didn't use a half-eyelid clip in Hunchun in the past, but this kind of person was able to swagger into the hall with His Majesty's holy decree, and he didn't have any way to do it.
It's really changed, and the way of the world is getting harder and harder to understand.
Emperor Tongzhi did not have a pro-government, but Zaichun was the emperor of the Qing Dynasty after all, and he was the only son of Xianfeng, and this inheritance was the purest in the entire history of the Qing Dynasty.
Hunchun is naturally a loyal servant of the emperor, even if the little emperor is not in power, as long as the little emperor's decree is not too difficult, he will obey it.
Isn't it just to let those volunteers enter the transit cat winter? This is not a big deal, as long as they don't make trouble, Hunchun will turn a blind eye and get by.
In fact, in his subconscious, those who can fight with the Rakshasa ghost are all good men.
"Hey, I used to be a master once, when I first signed the treaty, I didn't accept those Rakshasa ghosts at all, and I also crossed the river with soldiers to fight them......"
Thinking back to that time with the Rakshasa Ghost real sword and real gun, Hunchun felt palpitations, the sharp musket was really not something that the Qing Dynasty bow and arrow fire gun could deal with, and he was driven back to the country by others in just one round.
That's it, since that time, Hunchun has understood that competing with foreign devils is called a national war, but it is not a burden that a garrison general can pick up, if it is not for the imperial court to mobilize a large army, I am afraid that the land of Jiangdong will never be recovered.
The imperial court didn't dare to fight, General Ningguta wanted to fight but didn't have the strength to fight, and now a Far Eastern Volunteer Army was born, taking the remnants of Hedong to work with Lao Maozi, and Hunchun was happy to see a lively and relieved mood, so the volunteers came to his defense area Maodong He welcomed it with both hands, not to mention the emperor's holy purpose.
But who would have thought that these volunteers could be so able to toss, and in just one winter, they would poach the hearts of countless people like mercury, and the people on both sides of the Ussuri River did not mention the volunteers.
Hundreds of people under the bewitchment of this group of people joined the volunteers as the head soldiers, you said that those remnants of the Celestial Empire on the east coast are unwilling to do with foreign devils, and it is understandable to rebel as soldiers, why in the end, these young people in the Qing Dynasty on the west bank also got into it, and the nine cows couldn't pull it back?
Isn't it all stolen from the hearts of the people in the long run?
Hunchun belongs to the most typical Manchu traditional generals, the official position system of the Qing Dynasty is very interesting, Guannei and Guanwai belong to two different systems, Guannei Manchu and Han are mixed, and Guanwai is the Manchu people's own land, here retains a large number of original Manchu simple character, not like the Manchu people in Guannai have been smoked by the five desires and six dusts, the spring breeze in the Guannai has already soaked their bones.
A Manchurian general like Hunchun still has a breath of energy in his heart, loyalty, bravery, tenacity, and the courage to take responsibility...... To put it bluntly, they really take their positions as a kind of responsibility and responsibility.
Hunchun is entangled, Hunchun is contradictory! Watching the Rakshasa ghost run the Far East little by little, the resentment in his heart could not be calmed, but when he saw the volunteers gradually growing, his heart was very unwilling.
In the midst of the entanglement and contradictions, Hunchun could only borrow wine to drown his sorrows, until the telegram came.
"General, General......" With the sound of hurried footsteps, the door of the study was slammed open, and Hunchun's most trusted lieutenant fell to the ground with a dog chewing.
There was a crisp snap, and the white porcelain wine cup was smashed on the table, "Crazy, what do you look like? With your rough character, how dare I reuse you!"
The deputy general also didn't care about making amends, and knelt on the ground, "General! Forbidden City Secret Telegram, Forbidden City Secret Telegram! The Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces used treasures, and Prince Gong and Prince Alcohol signed...... The Forbidden City's secret electricity!"
"What......" Hunchun stood up suddenly, knocked over his chair, snatched the newspaper, and read ten lines at a glance three times, "How can this be?
The adjutant general crawled on the ground and choked unbearably: "How can the imperial court do this! Open the Heilongjiang defense line and let the Rakshasa ghost cavalry cross the border...... They're going to attack the Far Eastern Volunteers......"
"Let us seal the border, not a grain of grain can cross the border, this is to starve those brothers who are fighting to death......"
"That's enough!" Hunchun slapped the table, "Who is your brother? You idiot, you have to swallow this sentence in my stomach when I get out of this door! We are Manchurian, they are Han Chinese, when did you become brothers with them?"
Hunchun burst into tears, "Let's go, go to the telegraph room, I want to send a telegram to General Heilongjiang, I want to ask him, what happened to this court?"
Heilongjiang General Tepuxin, who was also stunned by the secret lightning of the imperial court at this moment, opened the mouth of the Heilongjiang River, and released 100,000 Cossack cavalry to cross the border? The national dynasty has never heard of such a thing for more than 200 years!
But not only did he report the arrival, but now a Rakshasa businessman from outside the General's Mansion even came to visit, and it was said that he was carrying a secret message from the Rakshasa ambassador.
"Called...... Call in!"
Since the signing of the Sino-Russian treaty, the number of Rakshasa merchants on the land of Heilongjiang began to increase exponentially, and they brought European glass, muskets and other industrial products by land, and took furs, medicinal herbs, gold and silver from here.
Everyone knows that there must be spies of Rakshasa ghosts among these merchants, but the Manchu Qing Dynasty is weak and has no control over this swarming Tsarist Russian merchant group, so they can only let them run rampant outside the pass, and Heilongjiang is the hardest hit area.
"General, I think you have received a secret telegram from your government, now 100,000 Tsarist Russian cavalry regiments are assembling in Amur Province north of Heilongjiang, tomorrow morning at six o'clock please let go of the river defense at the mouth of the Songhua River, our cavalry regiment will go south along the Songhua River......"
"Although this is an order from your imperial court, we also know that this will cause some trouble to your command, so here are five thousand taels of gold as my personal gift to a general...... The same Ningguta General Hunchun, we also have gifts to give, I hope the general can laugh!"