On the same day, more than 2,000 troops of the Eight-Nation Alliance, organized by Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, the United States, Japan, and Austria, under the leadership of British Admiral Seymour, marched from Tianjin to Beijing, and were repeatedly attacked by the Boxers on the way.

Yuan Shikai had long been possessed by the divine power of the Doctrine and the Regiment, and he did not believe that these rabbles could block the attack of the Eight-Nation Alliance.

When the Boxers blocked the Eight-Nation Alliance, he immediately sent Feng Guozhang to lead the troops to Dezhou to garrison and guard the gateway to Shandong. He wanted to protect Shandong's achievements in exterminating the Boxers and prevent the Boxers from entering Shandong.

Yuan Shikai's order to Feng Guozhang was: close to the prefectures and counties of Zhili, prohibit the Boxers of Zhili from entering the country, and if they forcibly enter, they will be eliminated on the spot.

The Eight-Nation Coalition marched towards Beijing, and Cixi was afraid, and this old woman was more afraid of death than anyone else.

On the 15th, Yuan Shikai was urgently ordered to lead the team or send a capable general to lead the army to help.

On the 17th, the Eight-Nation Coalition captured the Dagu Fort. At this time, Yuan Shikai was facing a difficult choice.

Raise soldiers for a thousand days, and use soldiers for a while.

If you don't send troops to Qin Wang, when the capital is in danger, how can the new army led by yourself with special training stay out of the matter?

Not to mention that the future is not guaranteed, it is not good to lose your life.

If you send troops, it will definitely be meat buns and dogs, and if you don't go back, the *** you have worked so hard to manage will be buried. He was in Shandong, and he was so bold in exterminating the Boxers, didn't he rely on this army?

After some hard thinking, Yuan Shikai's mind was opened. Under the pretext of preventing foreign powers from taking advantage of the situation by sea, a small number of men and horses were sent to preserve their strength as the first priority.

Therefore, he said: Beijing division is the foundation of the world, and it is urgent to mention the division of the first brigade, and the starry night gallops on standby, but Shandong "is the throat of the north and south, the sea and the frontier are important, and Weihai, Jiaoao, Britain and Germany are forced to deal with it...... Harboring evil intentions and waiting for the gap to move...... Today, there is a direct Yanshan, and the Qingyun bandits have infiltrated the various subordinates of Wuding, and the Yulai army can be suppressed at any time. …… Moreover, the Eastern Provincial Railway is being established, and the hearts of the people in Jiaozhou, Gaomi, Changyi and other places through it are fluctuating, and the Yulai army can be suppressed at any time. If all the departments are removed, I am afraid that chaos in the eastern province will start and external troubles will be able to take advantage of it. …… As a last resort, he gathered 3,000 people and sent Sun Jinbiao to bring them into Beijing. ”

Hearing the tense situation in Shandong created by Yuan Shikai, Qing Zheng. The government felt that Shandong's coastal defense was also very important, and the three thousand soldiers and horses did not solve any problems, so Yuan Shikai stopped sending troops into Beijing.

Three thousand people had already set off, but it was not Yuan Shikai's descendant troops led by Feng Guozhang, but a ragtag army that he had put together temporarily.

Fortunately, the team didn't go fast, and quickly sent fast horses to chase back.

Cixi in Beijing convened an imperial council for two consecutive days to discuss the matter of war with foreign countries.

The thing is clear, in the First Sino-Japanese War, a small Japan, has never fought anyone, and it has ceded land and paid reparations. It's only been a few years! What is capable of so many world powers going to war at the same time?

As long as the head is not flooded, this current issue can always be recognized. Anyone with a little common sense should know how to choose.

Emperor Guangxu and Xu Jingcheng, the servant of the ministry, were resolutely opposed to war.

But at this time, the Qing court was already controlled by Zai Yi and other people whose heads were in the water. They didn't believe anything, they didn't listen to anything, they believed in the Boxers' miraculous possession and invulnerability.

Seeing that the Empress Dowager Cixi was a little hesitant, Zai Yi took out the note from the foreigner to the Qing court, which had been forged a long time ago.

The content of the note was: strongly demand that Cixi stop discussing politics and return power to Emperor Guangxu.

The method of falsification of this note is not very clever and it may not be difficult to identify. At this time, how could a foreigner suddenly send such a note? It's not that there is no contact channel, and if you send someone to ask, it will really look like a big white? But as soon as people get into a dead end, they often become as stupid as they get!

Suddenly stabbed Cixi's life, the old woman who lost her mind left everything behind and decided to gamble.

On June 20, 1900, the German Minister Klinder left Dongjiaomin Lane, where the embassy was located, and went to the Qing Imperial Palace. The Li Yamen negotiated the evacuation of the minister.

Unfortunately, on the way, he encountered Zaiyi's Tiger God Battalion with his head in the water.

This is a group of crazy people, and the German minister Klinder was killed by these people, which is the famous "Klinder incident" in the Gengzi State Incident.

In ancient China, the two countries paid attention to the fact that the two countries did not cut off the two countries, and the murder of foreign envoys was undoubtedly an extremely serious incident, and the situation became more and more out of control.

What followed was a chain of events.

On 21 June, the Qing court issued an edict informing its subjects that they would go to war with the foreign powers and issuing a decree to reward the Boxers as "righteous people."

Later, he sent Zaixun and Fortitude to lead the Boxers.

Immediately afterwards, he ordered the governors and governors of the provinces to "recruit the righteous people into a regiment and use them to defend against foreign insults", and especially emphasized that "the provinces along the rivers and coastal areas should be especially urgent!" At the same time, orders were given to repair and recondition the old ordnance.

In order to show the preferential treatment of the Boxers, a special reward of 100,000 taels of silver was also awarded.

On June 26, Yuan Shikai received an edict from the imperial court to send 3,000 men and horses to reinforce Tianjin.

"The army has been galloping thousands of kilometers back and forth, and in this scorching heat, it is inevitable that fatigue and illness will be combined. If you return to Tianjin, there are still more than 800 miles of travel, and I am afraid that it will not be able to reach it suddenly; Even when it arrived, it was exhausted and tired, and it was difficult to worry about it. ……

"What is particularly worrying is that bandits in Weixian County suddenly burned down American churches and killed and injured two parishioners. The Jiaoao Germans dispatched horsemen and artillery teams yesterday, and the Gaomi area traveled in the name of guarding the churches, with the intention of watching Weifang. ……

"If we divide troops to aid Tianjin, I am afraid that it may not be helpful, and it will delay the defense of the east. …… In addition, the bandits in the mainland are gradually burning and need to be suppressed, and they are empty in many places. The minister's duty is to defend the land, survive and die together, such as greedy to help the name of other provinces, and forget the fact of the fortification of the province, the minister really does not dare. ……”

Obviously, Yuan Shikai wanted to repeat the old trick and put up a lot of situations, so that the court took the initiative to speak and withdraw his fate.

However, those who control the government and government have their heads in water, how can they still care about the affairs of Shandong, and only care about their own safety and that of the Jingshi.

Yuan Shikai was strictly ordered to send troops in accordance with the order, and he was not allowed to use the excuse to pass the buck. Yuan Shikai had no choice but to resist the order, so he had no choice but to send Xia Xinyou to lead the six battalions of soldiers north.

Regarding the matter of the imperial court's order to recruit the Boxers to resist the insults, Yuan Shikai said: Shandong is different from Zhili, and the good people "have no intention of gathering together", and "those who are idle are all You Yong, Yanzhi, horse thieves, and bandits." If they are recruited into a group, the bandits will definitely "openly gather together", "it is the fact that they have not been insulted, and the officials and people in the interior have already suffered from it first, which not only makes the source of pay cut off, but also causes the enemy to suffer from the abdomen and back, and can be defeated immediately." "Still advocating" the ban according to the rules. Proposed: "Promote fair gentlemen and determine to hold group exercises." ”

Previously, Yuan Shikai had sought advice from Liu Kunyi, the governor of Erjiang, and Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, through Sheng Xuanhuai, the minister of railways, on the imperial court's strategy of resisting the foreign powers by borrowing the Boxer Rebellion.

Because he knew that both men were firmly in favor of suppressing the Boxers.

Liu Kunyi, the governor of Erjiang, is a person who is outspoken, daring to act, and brave to take responsibility.

When he changed the law in Wuxu, he took a clear stand against the change, and he also wrote a book to scold Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao for harming the dynasty. brought Guangxu with him, which made Long Yan angry.

After Cixi heard about it, not to mention how happy she was at that time, she felt that Liu Kunyi was really good.

But not long after, he also made Cixi angry.

After Cixi re-established the government, he wanted to abolish Guangxu, but he also resolutely expressed his opposition, and threatened to provoke the people in disguise.

Cixi did not dare to go her own way, the opposition of the great powers was a factor, and the most important thing was the strong resistance of Liu Kunyi and others.

When Yuan Shikai asked Liu Kunyi, the governor of Erjiang, for his opinion, he immediately made it clear that this was a "false move" and he would definitely not carry it out.

Zhang Zhidong is different from Liu Kunyi, he is an old fritter and tumbler in the officialdom. At the time of the change, he was an active supporter of the change.

Yang Rui, one of the six gentlemen of Wuxu, was once his confidant.

I just saw that the wind was not in the right direction, so I quickly stayed out of the situation.

This time, when he received this edict, he could certainly see at a glance that this was a faint move. But where to go, he didn't dare to act without permission, so he asked Li Hongzhang's opinion.

After the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War, Li Hongzhang became the target of public criticism after signing the Treaty of Shimonoseki.

He was self-aware, and afterwards he took the initiative to find a job far away from Gyeonggi and became the governor of Liangguang.

When Zhang Zhidong asked him for advice, his answer was very artistic, and he concluded that this edict was "corrective", that is, something must have gone wrong, and it was "absolutely impossible to obey fate".

After listening to Li Hongzhang's words, Zhang Zhidong knew what to do. So when Yuan Shikai asked him, he conveyed Li Hongzhang's words, and also expressed his opposition attitude.

With these people's statements, Yuan Shikai also knew what to do.