"By the way, I've always had a question, and I hope Brother Chenxuan can solve my doubts." In the dormitory of the headquarters of the old battalion, Wu had not woken up yet, Duan Qirui quickly woke up from the medicinal properties of ether, and the condition of his wife was also a big stone in his heart, which was nothing more than a later recuperation, with the care of the Hongjitang Ledong family of the Chamber of Commerce, the means of recuperation may not be worse than that in the palace. "It's this rescue of the two palaces, I have inquired carefully, Zhang Xun's turtle son doesn't tell the truth, and he is sloppy, but his subordinates are also the people I trained, I know that his old Zhang's brushes can't deal with the elite of the Japanese army, and this time there can be thousands of prisoners of war I'm afraid that eight * nine times out of ten are related to your brother. I have just seen your brother's background, and I can guess together, but with your recruits of less than 800 people, even if you have a few rare weapons, you can't shake the small noses of the two brigades. Could it be that there are also masters to help? ”

"I don't tell lies in front of your brother, there are no masters, and they are high-level, but they are just showing weakness, arrogance, and disturbing their spirits, and they are just unprepared." I also frankly admit that these achievements are the handiwork of my insurance group, anyway, these old Yuan are clear, and it doesn't make much sense to hide it, Lao Yuan knows that I am not a person who grabs credit and eats alone, not to mention that even if these credits belong to me, Lafayette can't promote me from a white body to the position of a feudal official, which is more or less concerned about the rules of officialdom. "Well, though, some small tricks always have some effect."

I explained in detail the architecture and use strategy of the projectile gun, and as for the advantages and disadvantages, Lao Duan, this old gunner, is naturally a clear man. He also had a deep understanding of the combination of machine guns, trenches, and barbed wire. I also mentioned a little about the special shells used at that time, that is, the aerosol anesthetic shells that stunned Kawasaki Daisa. Otherwise, I might not be able to capture two or three hundred captives if I left a few hundred of them.

Thinking about being at the base just now, it was just that Miss Du took a small iron pipe and gently sprayed it on herself, and she fainted without seeing the smoke or fog, and woke up in the dormitory of the old camp. Lao Duan is very confident in my high-tech products, and I am very relieved to keep Lao Duan tight-lipped. After all, people in this era can't accept the story of time travel, if Lao Duan goes to tell Yuan Shikai, I'm afraid that Yuan Datou will be slapped dozens of mouths in front and back, so that he can sober up. If you go outside to preach it, it is estimated that the symptoms of madness will be firmly attached to Lao Duan's brain. It's light and line, who believes it, don't look at the old Duan who is talking to me about whether there will be a chance to turn the tables if my new weapons can come in handy in the Gengzi War, Guan Bao will wake up tomorrow morning, first of all, he has to wonder if his adventure yesterday is a dream, even if he can wake up, he has to beat the drum in his heart, after all, this year is about "Zi Bu Silent Strange Power Chaos", the most mysterious is just a miscellaneous book such as Chat Zhai Zhiwei, Fengshen Bang, Mountain and Sea Classic, come and go are dizzy and wake up, At most, the approximate scope of the base was calculated, and without evidence, Lao Duan didn't dare to say anything about it.

After listening to my explanation of the aerosol anesthetic bomb, Lao Duan looked clear, probably thinking that it was just a large bottle of anesthetic gas, and I didn't bother to correct it, so let him go. Lao Duan muttered to himself: "I said, it's easier to catch a small nose than to catch piglets in a pigsty, otherwise it's a means." ”

"Nani, you mean unconventional means."

"Yes. General Fukushima, although there is no physical evidence, has already heard some information about the fact that the Imperial soldiers were not captured in the war, but most of them were stunned by a kind of gaseous shells fired into the camp while camping, and were captured under uncontrolled circumstances. Wearing a bottle bottom glasses, Kondo, with a simple face, sat down and answered the general's question in a regular manner, "Your Excellency General, it is almost certain that the imperial soldiers were attacked by the shameless Qing slaves, who used despicable methods to kidnap loyal and brave samurai. ”

General Fukushima agreed with Kondo's statement, after all, the Fifth Division was brought to China by him, and the losses in this sweeping sweep that was almost an armed parade were too great, and it was difficult to explain to the Ministry of War in any case, and he did not want to become the first general to be transferred to the reserves. "However, this kind of cannonball is very tactical, and the imperial army may be able to use it, I wonder if I can get information from that merchant group training in the Qing Kingdom. Although this kind of matter is related to defense, it is not convenient for the army to intervene at the moment, can Kondo-kun send capable ninjas or intelligence personnel to assist in investigating this matter? ”

"This is a contemptible honor, and it is the honor of my Xingya Association to serve His Excellency the General and the great *Japanese Empire* army." Kondo's excited eyes the size of two mung beans were actually the size of peanuts. "We will do our best to investigate this matter, please wait for good news."

"Please" The two kimono dwarves bowed to each other solemnly, but judging from the three-inch figure, it was the two rabbits who were greeting the New Year.

"That's good" An hour later, Kondo reappeared at another izakaya in the Japanese concession. But the guy he spoke to this time was dressed in a tweed Scottish plaid suit. The middle distribution style is meticulous, and it is a bit of an aristocratic style. In fact, this guy is a Chinese national, and one of the three musketeers of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Komura Shoutaro: "Do you know which word I admire the most in your words just now?" ”

"Please forgive me for being ignorant" Kondo just said to Komura is the same as what he told Fukushima, and he knows what is going on in the mind of this young man of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "Is it a tranquilizer cannonball?" Kondo made one up blindly.

"No, it's a kidnapping" Komura took the intelligence summary report handed over by Kondo, and while flipping through it quickly, he chuckled and said, "Kidnapping, it's too accurate." Hehe, there are Qing slaves who have suffered. ”

"I don't know how much you know about the regimental training force that is against us?"

"We know quite a few of them, but only for things that are on the surface. This armed army has been formed for about a year and a half, nominally subordinate to Yuan Shikai's Wuwei Right Army, but we did not find that there are officers of the Wuwei Right Army in the opposing team, the number is not more than 1,000, but they have undergone strict Western-style armed training, the guns and ammunition are Austrian-made Manlixia guns provided by the British, it is reported that there are several artillery, but it should not appear near the Beijing Division. Their leader was five (actually six), and the big leader was a wealthy merchant who had recently returned to China, so he had sufficient funds and the best supplies in the Qing army. Last year, I participated in the battle to exterminate the bandits, and I still have some experience in suppressing bandits, but I haven't heard of their records. ”

Kondo did some homework during the investigation, and was quite interested in the sudden rise of the Chamber of Commerce Insurance Group, after all, in the tradition of the Great Qing Dynasty, the Eight Banners were better than the Green Battalion, the Green Battalion was better than the training army, and the training of the army was better than the regimental training, but since the change of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, this inequality is basically nominal, and the views of the government and the opposition, at home and abroad, from the high-ranking officials and nobles to the three religions and nine streams, are highly consistent, and the "scum" can be summed up in one word. The training of the army is also very different, and some of the decayed battalions are basically the level of the green battalion, but the military guards of the darling of the imperial court are still useful. In the past, the long-haired twisters were in turmoil, and how many Eight Banners Green Battalions did not accept anything, and they had to rely on the regimental training of Han landlords to train the Hunan Army and the Huai Army to survive this scene.

At present, the army of the Great Qing State can be divided into three categories: the veteran and brave Eight Banners Green Battalion that "fled from the wind", the Yi Army, the Huai Army, and the Wuwei Army, which "encountered the enemy", and the new armies such as the Mongolian Iron Cavalry and the Wuwei Right Army, which "exchanged fire and turned in". However, this regimental training is not like regimental training, and the new army is not the new army, and the Jinan Chamber of Commerce Insurance Regiment has less than 1,000 people, but it has fought thousands of miles, killing thousands of enemies and capturing more than 1,000 people, so even Kondo himself doubts the authenticity of his investigation results. Now that the two palaces have taken refuge in Jinan Mansion, no matter how powerful the spies of the other seven foreign Maozi countries are, they cannot get into Jinan Mansion to find out the news, and Japan, which is also of the East Asian race, naturally has taken the lead in this regard, and dozens of Japanese intelligence officers belonging to different countries and their Chinese employees have infiltrated inside and outside Quancheng. For a time, Jinan Mansion was full of crises and spies.

Let's put it this way, if the passers-by and vendors around the prisoner of war camp and the old Dewang Mansion want to say that they are all arrested and tortured in the prison to extract confessions, they must be wronged. But if you catch one by one, there will definitely be some slips through the net.

No, I was drinking tea and chatting with Chief Manager Li, waiting for the Queen Mother to summon me, while watching the eunuchs in charge of the execution conduct "meticulous" questioning of a group of criminal suspects who had just been caught and were stalking outside the palace. The chief manager took the brothers to observe in person, and these grandsons really sold their strength.

"This is really useless, so I only took half a pillar of incense to recruit it." Manager Li looked at the guy who had just begged for mercy with disdain, "Little ones, check the true body of this thing, and see if it is a slave who betrays his master for glory or an authentic widow?" "The eunuch in charge of the punishment was just about to serve the main dish of the golden needle and blood, but I was stopped by me who was very interested.

"That's it, it's worth the effort" I pulled the eunuch in charge of the torture aside, and the old eunuch who had just done the ** dissection test couldn't even straighten his waist in front of me, and obediently listened to my lecture, "Look at the feet of this goods, if the big toes are very separated, and the accent is not from Fujian and Zhejiang, then eighty percent of them are Japanese people, why?" Nonsense, the poor can't afford to buy shoes, and it's strange to pull flip-flops when they are young, and their toes are closed. Then look at the root of the thigh and waist to see if there are any marks rubbed by the crotch cloth" The old eunuch was also sincere, and immediately ordered the little eunuch to take off the pants of the goods and take a closer look.

"Hey, Sensei flipped over." I shouted, "Look at the little bird that is not the size of a bean sprout, it must be a wolf, this one doesn't need to be checked." ”

"Hahaha" The soldiers and eunuchs around him all laughed forward and backwards, and the tea bowl that my godbrother Li Da Guan laughed directly at was also thrown away, and the people were soft, if it weren't for the quick eyes of the little eunuch who was waiting behind, Li Lianying and Li Boss would have been able to sneak out under the chair.

"The Empress Dowager ordained, Xuanshan Shandong's political envoy....Wu Chenxuan and Lord Wu came to see you." A male duck voice, it seems that I have to go to report, I looked at the chief manager Li, who was still smiling and did not get angry, waved his hand directly, signaling me to go. I followed the little eunuch into the wing room with a cold face.

It's really neat today, and Lafayette is still in the room and hasn't come out. Yi Xuan, Li Hongzhang, Rong Lu, Yuan Shikai and other red-topped people were all present, Yuan Shikai looked solemn in a daze, saw me come in, and deliberately swept the "Peace Talks Minutes" with his eyes, indicating that I was concerned about peace talks, I was still guessing, Li Hongzhang and Old Man Li couldn't wait to announce:

"Today, the Coalition Army Headquarters and Dongjiaomin Lane have come to Zhun Xin, inviting us to enter Beijing for negotiations, and the Queen Mother has already granted it. Let's all go back and prepare, and tomorrow we will go out of the city at the north gate and enter Beijing to negotiate. ”

Okay, Li Dazhongtang said a word, without waiting for **oss to come out, everyone scattered one after another, look at this posture, probably Cixi didn't show up just now. It seems that this Cixi also cherishes feathers, with a face of "I don't know, it's all the tricks made up by the people below". Perhaps after we signed the extremely harsh "Xinchou Treaty", everyone in the country can say: "Qin Hui, the traitor, Li Hongzhang, and other Gang of Five", it is not known whether the five-member group headed by Li Hongzhang and Li Dazhongtang and with me attached to the tail will be sent to the top tank as temporary workers of the Qing court.