Chapter 155: Iron Coffin Provocation (II)
87_87379 Spreading rumors, Gu Qixing has done a lot in Jinmen, and he is also familiar with it in Beijing, and there are interests in spreading rumors.
Nearly a million people gathered around the capital, and the rumors spread very fast, Li Dacheng and Gu Qixing finished talking for an hour, and the rumor that the Beijing division was going to run out of food had already spread with noses and eyes.
Naturally, the spearhead cannot be pointed at the imperial court, but can only be pointed at the foreign devils who are blocked in Tongzhou, the foreign devils have cut off the grain route, the Jingshi does not have much grain, and the news that the Zhenwei army is going to go out of the city to fight with the foreign devils is mixed in rumors.
They are not afraid that the Beijing division will not release grain, so many people stay around the Beijing division, there is always a way to let the imperial court release grain, but they are afraid that the Beijing division will have no food, no food, who will care about their life or death? After verifying everywhere, the news is naturally accurate, and the news from the Zhenwei army is particularly decisive, fighting to the death for the way of survival!
The food provided by the Jingshi for the relief of the victims was originally clear soup and little water, and if such a rumor came again, the situation inside and outside Sijiu City was extremely tense.
With Li Dacheng's order, the iron coffin of Li Ershen's general was naturally cast quickly, the rough beast-faced iron coffin, looking at it from a distance, the iron coffin one meter wide and three meters long, the weight is also outrageous, weighing five thousand catties!
The next morning, when the three thousand Zhenwei troops rushed to Tongzhou with a huge iron coffin, Li Hongzhang was stunned, and the officials left behind in the capital were also stunned.
did not stop the team of Zhenwei Army, Li Hongzhang took his entourage. Hurriedly found Gui Shun and asked to see Gui Shun's second master at home, Gui Shun didn't know about it, and took Li Hongzhang's men to his door, he could go home. But Li Hongzhang's car was blocked out of the door.
"General Li Ershen is dead, and there is no one in Baylor Mansion to find out that Li Ershen will be this person!"
Gu Qixing's indifferent reply almost tilted Li Hongzhang's nose in anger, so he still remembers the original words of General Li Ershen clearly!
'If you didn't die then, you won't die now, and you won't die for a long time afterward!' ’
It's just a matter of faking death and getting out. At this time, it will not be a son of man to disturb the general trend of the capital, once the war starts, what victory will the Qing court hold!
"The old man wants to see your second master Li, hurry up. Otherwise, the old man will break in! ”
Trembling and getting out of the carriage, Li Hongzhang didn't want to play any tricks with Second Master Li of Baylor Mansion, and now this situation is unbelievable!
"My second master said that Li Ershen will be dead, you are a ghost!"
Saying this in front of Li Hongzhang, Gu Qixing also felt very angry, who the hell would dare to talk to Li Zhongtang like this in the Qing Dynasty!
"What the am ...... Alas......
What else did your second master say? ”
Li Hongzhang, who was holding a stick of Western civilization, almost pulled a stick on Gu Qixing's head. Don't be so foolish, 'My second master said, Li Ershen will be dead. ’。 Isn't the second master of his family the second god general Li Er? It's so shirking, it's infuriating!
"My second master said, the iron coffin is provocative, and there is no harm in peace talks, foreign devils want to fight, and there is no result in talks. The foreign devil doesn't want to fight, and he won't fight no matter how you provoke him.
If you don't fight. The victims of the Jingshi are our dead holes, and they are left to eat us. Drink us to death?
Mongolia is in trouble in the three eastern provinces, just let the victims go over to eat and drink, hundreds of thousands of refugees have to enter Mongolia through Zhangjiakou, Shanhaiguan to enter the customs, and they have to let the foreign devils nod! ”
After listening to what Gu Qixing said, Li Hongzhang, who was holding a civilized stick, was stunned for a while in front of the Baylor Mansion before leaving.
Hundreds of thousands of refugees want to enter Mongolia and enter the customs, and this is okay to fool others, but they can't fool him Li Hongzhang, if the foreign devils have nothing to do with the matter of provocation, I am afraid that it is not hundreds of thousands of refugees who enter Mongolia and enter the customs, but hundreds of thousands of Zhenwei troops, right?
As early as the time of Liangguang, Li Hongzhang was not optimistic about the battle between Beijing and Tianjin, this time he was afraid that it would be another Mingyuan fire! But who would have thought that Gui Shun would make a Li Ershen who would be born out of nowhere, and in the Jingu area, the foreign devils who beat him cried and called his mother.
In the first battle of Jingu, the Zhenwei army and the people of Jingu suffered more than 300,000 casualties, and the foreign devils did not get well, and the number of casualties heard from the negotiation table had reached 70,000.
Hundreds of thousands of evil ghosts crawled out of the blood and fire, rushed to Mongolia, the three eastern provinces, Lao Maozi is going to be in trouble, Li Hongzhang has fought the Taiping Army, suppressed the twister, he knows very well how heavy the damage of large-scale bandits to a country, hundreds of thousands of bandits, enough to shake the foundation of a country, there is Li Ershen will plan, Lao Maozi is not only in trouble, this chaos is likely to be a rebellion to lose the country!
"Hah! Ha! Ha! ”
Li Hongzhang, who returned to Xianliang Temple, in the strange eyes of Sui Hu, looked up to the sky and laughed three times, holding a civilized stick, Shi Shiran went to rest, one generation does one generation of things, maybe this is also the way out!
Life is rare for seventy years, he can live for a few years, and Li Ershen will be such a vicious person to the death, he doesn't have that heart, this Li Ershen will be too vicious, and he will destroy people all over the family at every turn, who is not afraid?
The ruthless man is not entangled, and it depends on his plan......
Mr. Li Er is not convinced, Li Dacheng doesn't care, what he wants to see is the Eight-Nation Alliance Army camp in Tongzhou, which is the key, Li Hongzhang's attitude is nothing.
Anyone who saw the compatriot robe, after being killed, stripped off his clothes, the mood was not good, three thousand Zhenwei army soldiers, wearing Japanese and Russian military uniforms taken from the dead man, outside the Tongzhou coalition army camp for the Zhenwei army commander Li Ershen to set up a mourning hall, the coalition army camp immediately exploded.
Of course, there is a distance, but if the Eight-Nation Coalition wants to see it, it will naturally see that Japan and Russia can't stand such a provocation, but the coalition forces are not up to Japan and Russia, and the Germans of the coalition forces are now the commanders, assisted by Britain, France and the United States, although the number of people sent by Japan and Russia is large, but the right to speak in the coalition forces is really limited.
Tsarist Russia, which was not very well received in Europe, let alone had conflicting interests with the British in the Far East. Neither Britain nor France will let Tsarist Russia dominate the coalition forces; Little Japan, before the Meiji era, was just a colony, and it had no right to speak.
The rogue trick used by Li Dacheng was obviously to provoke a war. At this time, the clearer your moves, the more cautious the enemy is, and this is the case with the Eight-Nation Alliance in Tongzhou.
The Zhenwei army was just wearing the military uniforms of Japan and Russia, and the mourning hall was arranged there, and the military appearance was neat from a distance. There are really some elite army appearances, and if the Eight-Nation Coalition Army does not fight, they will naturally not fight.
On the side of the capital, the Zhenwei Army is not under martial law, so it is naturally unimpeded. The peace talks had already begun, and the Boxers were running and scattering, and naturally no one would go to compete with the embassy district, and the news soon spread from Tongzhou to the capital, and then from the capital back to Tongzhou.
More than a million people are about to run out of food, and the commander of the Zhenwei army dies, and the two things are mixed together, giving birth to a frenzied taste. Although there was no substantial progress at the negotiating table, the Qing side had already conceded defeat, although it did not agree with the initial offer made by the coalition forces. But for the huge compensation, people still have intentions.
In this way, the intentions of many countries have been achieved, and it is useless to fight again, and the losses of Japan and Russia are just around the corner, and the losses of the German expeditionary force after the first war are mostly half. It also left a deep impression on the minds of European and American countries.
Land warfare is not naval warfare, and technological superiority does not dominate a qiē. The first battle of Jingu is the best lesson, comparing the number of people with others in their own country. That's beyond measure, the population of the eight countries together is about the same as that of the Qing Dynasty, and it is obvious who will suffer in a war of attrition.
The Boer War that the British were experiencing was also a lesson from the past, and even if there was no war in the area of Beijing and Tianjin in the Qing Dynasty, many countries also thought that there was no need to continue fighting.
Tsarist Russia's brazen dispatch of troops to the three eastern provinces is also a very important factor, which not only touches the interests of the British, but also makes small Japan unaccustomed to it, and small Japan is also ambitious for the three eastern provinces, there is a conflict of interest between Japan and Russia, and small Japan, which is accustomed to taking advantage, will not do it, the British do not support it, and European and American countries are not cold, and little Japan is riding the wall, and Tsarist Russia cannot make any big trouble if it wants to.
Under the balance of all parties, the mourning hall in Tongzhou can be built as much as it should be, and the two sides are still arguing at the negotiation table, but for the refugees who began to move north near Jingshi, everyone has no explanation, Li Dacheng's temptation not only gave the refugees a way to live, but also allowed Li Hongzhang to touch the bottom line of the great powers, the compensation is a foregone conclusion, and the rest is only a matter of time.
Hundreds of thousands of refugees naturally cannot be moved overnight, and it involves the departure and stay of the Zhenwei Army and the Boxers lurking in Beijing, and it will take a month or two.
The refugees in Zhili want to go, the Zhenwei army also has to go, and the people who have made trouble in the Boxers in Beijing before also have to go, the refugees are not in a hurry to go, the Zhenwei army has to rest and recuperate before leaving, the first thing to leave is the Boxer Rebellion, and the peace talks, the main one, is to kill the Boxers, this is enough to force away the Boxers in Beijing.
As for what they want to do when they go to Mongolia and the three eastern provinces, Li Dacheng doesn't care, Mongolia and the three eastern provinces, the best choice is the three eastern provinces, the people of Zhili and Shandong, a considerable number of people have fled to the three eastern provinces, at this time they went to the three eastern provinces to meet Lao Maozi, the Boxers want to sink down I am afraid that there is no chance, to the three eastern provinces, they have to fight again!
The method of forcing out the Boxers is simpler, it is just a few rumors, peace talks are imminent, the foreign devils demand to exterminate the people who have participated in the Boxers before, the Zhenwei Army is already preparing, this is enough, many Boxer people, as well as a large part of the people of Beijing, have spontaneously joined the team to Shanhaiguan.
After the Battle of Jingu, the Zhenwei Army was extremely famous, and when they heard that the Zhenwei Army was going to join the ranks of the Boxers, many people did not dare to stay in Beijing anymore.
It is easy to force out the Boxers, and the stay of the refugees and the Zhenwei army is also a problem, the Mongolian xenophobia, most places are not suitable for farming, and the people and horses who go there should be mainly the Zhenwei army.
The three eastern provinces will not accept hundreds of thousands of refugees lightly, these people are different from the Boxers, and their livelihood in the three eastern provinces is also a problem, and now the three eastern provinces are experiencing war! Where there is no war, every inch of land must be valuable, and it is difficult to gain a foothold in a stable territory!
The imperial court and the government will not care about the life or death of these people, if the Zhenwei army abandons it again, most of them will still have to starve to death, are these people really useless?
Li Dacheng doesn't think so, since the Zhenwei army went to the three eastern provinces, it naturally needs grain and grass, and hundreds of thousands of refugees have gone to the three eastern provinces, what is needed most? Land!
As long as there is land, there will be food, and with food, the Zhenwei army will also have a stable rear, and the Zhenwei army will use it to reclaim, but it's a pity! The people of Jingu are just right, Li Dacheng has silver in his hand, and buying enough land for hundreds of thousands of people to live on sounds a little out of reach, but it is easy to implement.
The storage of the wicker side made the three eastern provinces vast and sparsely populated, and the policy of the imperial court also supported the reclamation of tuntian, more than one million taels of silver, which was enough to resettle these hundreds of thousands of people, of course, a certain amount of policy support was needed.
After all, the Zhenwei army went to Mongolia and the three eastern provinces, which was helpful to Li Hongzhang's in-laws, Zeng Guofan's line, Li Hongzhang's lineage, and Zhang Zhidong's lineage, had an unclear in-law relationship, Zhenweijun couldn't stay in Mongolia and the three eastern provinces, so he had to come back and grab land with them, and the north couldn't raise so many soldiers, and the Zhenwei army could only return to the south. It's just that everyone is a beneficiary of this matter, who doesn't contribute? (To be continued).