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The 100,000 Qing troops, who were still high-spirited in the morning, were not only beaten by 5,000 divine soldiers and lost their armor at noon, but also lost Shunde Mansion.

When Seng Lingqin fled to Baoding Mansion, there were only 16,000 remnants left around him, and the rest were waiting for the dead to die, scattered, and disappeared.

He hurriedly ordered 800 li to expedite the battle situation to the capital.

Along with the news of the defeat, there are also excerpts in Henan and Shandong, and now many state capitals in Henan, except for Kaifeng, have fallen into the hands of the True God Cult, and some prefectures and counties in Shandong are also controlled by the True God Sect, and Jinan Mansion is surrounded by more than 100,000 twisted troops, asking for troops to rush to help.

At this time, in the Yangxin Hall of the Qianqing Palace, the little emperor sat on the dragon chair with an ignorant face, and a military minister below buried his head low, and the whole hall was as silent as water, and the air seemed to be frozen.

After a while, Cixi suppressed the anger in her heart, took a long breath, and asked in a cold voice: "The cult not only resists the decree and disrespects, but also gathers people to rebel, the thief army has conquered Shunde Mansion and is approaching the Beijing Division, there are no soldiers available at the moment, Zhu Aiqing is discussing how to fight this battle?" ”

There was silence below, and no one answered.

"Gui Liang, you are both the Minister of Military Aircraft and the Governor of Zhili, what good plan do you have?"

Gui Liang shook his head and said in his heart: The monk Greenqin, who has always been known for his bravery, has been defeated, and the 100,000-strong army has only 10,000 left, what other good strategy can there be at this time except to escape?

But he would never dare to mention such a mention of escaping, because when the British and French forces attacked Beijing, it is said that the queen mother strongly opposed Emperor Xianfeng to go to the autumn hunt in private.

"Back to the Queen Mother, Weichen thought that the city should be defended now, in order to wait for the soldiers and horses outside the gate to enter Beijing to escort, although the thieves are menacing, but it will be difficult to last with the outnumbered people, then we should be together inside, since the big thief soldiers!"

"Hmph, it's hard to last a long time!" Cixi snorted, "Monk Lingqin's 100,000 army was defeated by the thieves in one blow, how long do you think these thousands of soldiers and horses in the Jingshi can hold out?" I'm afraid that if we don't wait for the reinforcements outside the gate to arrive, we will all become prisoners of the thieves! ”

Seeing that Gui Liang was deflated, Zhou Peizu, a scholar, hurriedly took a step forward and said: "The queen mother is wise, and the minister thinks that it is not a good strategy to defend the city and wait for reinforcements!" Instead of fighting hard, it is better to cure thieves with thieves! ”

Cixi raised her eyebrows, "Go on!" ”

Zhou Peizu saw that there was a play, and he couldn't help but feel a little proud in his heart, and said eloquently: "Now the thieves are leading the troops from Henan to the north, and their intention is not necessarily that the Beijing Division, with its tens of thousands of people, how dare to be the enemy of the world, if Weichen is expected to be good, the thieves are just threatened by the army of the monk king, and they have to hit it, as for the twisted bandits in Shandong, it is nothing more than to make more benefits, Weichen thought that he could seal the bandit leader Song Jingyang as the governor of Henan Province, and promised to give one million taels of silver, more than 100 beauties, in order to lead the two thieves to fight!" ”

"One million taels of silver?" Gui Liang gasped, "Scholar Zhou is so generous, he actually wants to give a million taels of silver to the bandit?" Isn't this raising tigers for trouble, opening the door to thieves? ”

His words were unintentional, but the listener was intentional, when the British and French forces attacked, Emperor Xianfeng was not also cutting the land and paying compensation, it didn't matter what he said, Cixi's face immediately sank, but there was a gauze curtain to cover it, this change was far away, and it was not real.

Zhou Peizu waved his hand and said: "Lord Guiliang's words are wrong, the one million taels of silver given by the next is just a verbal talk, if the bandit leader wants to get money and food, he must lead troops to untie the siege of Feng, so it will inevitably conflict with the cult, the foundation of the cult is attacked, and it will inevitably raise troops to help, so the snipe and clam are fighting, we can watch from the wall and enjoy the benefits of the fisherman!" ”

"Well, that's a good idea!" Cixi rarely showed a smile, the current Qing Dynasty is like a dying old man, there will always be one kind of illness or another, even if she demolishes the east wall to make up the west wall, it is still not enough after all.

Don't you know that the Qing Dynasty has fallen into a vicious circle, unable to defeat the foreigners to cut the land and pay compensation, and increase taxes when there is no money, the people are forced to raise troops to rebel, and the Qing army sent troops to suppress it, which once again exacerbated the financial crisis, so the taxes were increased again... In addition, corruption is rife among officials in various localities, and if they cannot be brought under the rule of officials, any measures will be empty talk.

Abundant? Seeing Cixi's approval, he also said: "The minister thinks that in order to be precautionary, he should contact the legal envoy and ask foreigners to send troops to help suppress the cult, which will definitely achieve half the result!" ”

"Oh?" Cixi's eyes lit up, she had learned the combat effectiveness of foreigners, if foreigners could come forward, the chances of winning this battle would naturally increase a lot, and the French envoy's attitude towards the Qing Dynasty was much friendlier than that of the British envoy, and the possibility of sending troops was greater, it was just a big deal to spend more silver, as long as these foreigners had silver, everything was easy to talk about, she nodded: "Okay, just according to King Gong's wishes!" ”

In Cixi's eyes, this crisis seems to have been resolved, but including Yi? and a number of military ministers, they made thousands of calculations, but they only missed Zhang Yuntian's ambition and the combat ability of the True God Sect.

Of course, the speed of the army is not as fast as that of the messenger, but even if the messenger runs fast, it is not as fast as the radio communication.

On the one hand, he selected the backbone of his cronies and reorganized two musket battalions and one artillery battalion by using the captured foreign guns and the breech guns left by the British and French troops when they fled; On the other hand, the breeding of the corpse guard vaccine was accelerated, and in just three days of repairing the army, another 5,000 troops were converted, forming three trap camps.

At this time, the state capitals of Henan have come with good news, the believers are rushing to join the divine soldiers, and now the total strength in Henan has reached 50,000, if it is not for Zhang Yuntian's special instructions, you must select the strong to join the army, not to fill the number indiscriminately, I am afraid that this number can easily exceed 200,000.

In order to dare to break through the Beijing division before the arrival of King Qin's Qing army, Zhang Yuntian left 4,000 green battalion soldiers and 1,000 corpses to guard the city on the fourth day, and took the remaining 25,000 people to march north in three directions.

The first route was Fan Jinghui led the 15,000 Green Battalion Army to Tianjin to prevent the Beijing division from breaking the city, Cixi fled by boat from Dagu, and if they were allowed to join Zeng Guofan in Jiangsu, then this battle would definitely drag on for some more years.

Yang Yuanpeng led 5,000 corpse guards of the Green Battalion to the northwest to guard the main transportation routes and prevent Cixi from escaping from the west to the interior.

Zhang Yuntian himself took 5,000 elite divisions to the Beijing Division.