Zhu Jinglun said calmly: "The matter has happened, do we want our expatriates to lay down their arms now?" ”

Hurd was very worried: "Your Majesty, this will make us diplomatically passive. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Zhu Jinglun sighed: "Are you sure you can guarantee the neutrality of Britain?" ”

Hurd nodded.

Zhu Jinglun said: "Our support for Germany on the Samoa issue made Germany choose neutrality, in fact, they also know that they are not capable of intervening, and the German navy is not yet large. France and Russia are the most worrisome. ”

Hurd asked, "Your Majesty means that we agree to the Franco-Russian demands?" ”

Zhu Jinglun sighed: "The French navy is still very worrying, if the French navy supports the United States, it will make us fall into great passivity." Once France and the United States form an alliance, we will no longer have the power to protect Madagascar. In the same way, if the Russians take advantage of the opportunity to go south, our country, which has the power to deal with the war with the United States, will not have the strength to confront Russia. ”

"Then you mean that we will give Madagascar back to France," Hurd said. At the same time, Russia is allowed to build a military base on Huludao? ”

Zhu Jinglun sighed: "Madagascar is an African base that is easy to win, and it will be difficult for the French to gain a foothold in Africa." But that's fine, leaving Madagascar, we have nothing to do with the Indian Ocean, and basically no conflict of interest with the UK. As for Russia, if we don't agree, we have to agree, unless we can accept war with the United States in the short term, there is no power left to stop them from going south. ”

Zhu Jinglun said, suddenly felt that a temporary retreat is not a good thing, Madagascar is connected to the Indian Ocean on one side, and the Red Sea on the other, leading to the Suez Canal, once the Ming Dynasty leaves here, it will neither pose a threat to India nor the Suez Canal, which will obviously greatly reduce Britain's fear of the Ming Dynasty.

And Russia is going south at this time, if Britain does not want to see Russia take the opportunity to gain a foothold in the Bohai Sea, they will definitely act, but Britain is unlikely to decide to engage in a ground war with Russia, they must still want to use the Ming army, they will at most send a navy to blockade Huludao.

The Ming Army's containment in the United States, Britain will definitely hope that the war will end as soon as possible, then they will actively mediate, in order to let the Ming turn their guns on Russia, Britain may also put pressure on the United States, so that the United States agrees to the conditions of the Ming Dynasty and ends the war as soon as possible.

No matter how you look at it, this is all beneficial to Daming.

Therefore, Russia can be allowed to go south for the time being, but it must not open too much of an opening for Russia, and it must continue to maintain contradictions with Russia.

So Zhu Jinglun said: "It is okay to make certain concessions to Russia, that is, we can allow Russia to carry out commercial development in Huludao, that is, we will allow them to build commercial ports there, but we will never agree to where they will build military bases." ”

Zhu Jinglun didn't believe that once the Russians opened a port, they would not transfer warships, and even if they said so, would the British believe it?

Hurd sighed and went to talk to France and Russia.

At this time in the Americas, Li Xiucheng's situation was very bad.

It's not that his level is inferior to Wang Haiyang or Yang Fuqing, but his position is too bad, his people are all arranged in the mountains of Nevada, which is far away from the main ports of California, when Zhu Jinglun sent someone to inform him, he sighed and did not refuse Zhu Jinglun's request, because he knew that he was not qualified to refuse.

So the brothers were gathered at once, and soon an army of 4,000 men was formed, but because of the Sierra Nevada area, there were two large Indian reservations, and the United States had also established two fortifications here with a large number of soldiers.

After the result was chosen, these troops immediately mobilized to the vicinity of Li Xiucheng's settlement, and demanded that the Chinese surrender to them, saying that they would not harm the lives of the Chinese, but only to confiscate the weapons in the hands of the Chinese.

These U.S. Army soldiers all know that the Chinese have bad guns in their hands, and they have all registered with the police, and in order to fight against the Indians who frequently hang out in the mountains, the police are allowed.

Although the Indian reservation is on the other side of the Nevada Mountains, these Indians have never thought of staying in the reservation honestly, the vast and uninhabited Sierra Nevada Mountains are their area of action, they are everywhere, robbing the miners in the mines, the Chinese villages, and even the passing trains, the US Army has suppressed them many times, and the Chinese have also excluded the armed forces to cooperate with the militia, expelling the Indians again and again, ensuring the safe production of the mines here.

After receiving the news that the Ming had declared war on the United States, the U.S. Army immediately sent most of its troops, a total of 3,000 men, to this place, and blocked all the intersections in the Chinese-populated areas, demanding that the Chinese accept their arrangements.

However, Li Xiucheng refused, not only refused to hand over his weapons, but also immediately occupied the main road of the mountain pass, blocking the American troops on the other side of the mountain pass.

So the confrontation began, the Americans even brought artillery, Li Xiucheng's situation was very dangerous, the Hakka enclosure they built was probably not able to withstand the bombardment of artillery, and they only had some light weapons in their hands, and it was completely impossible for them to be the opponent of the US army.

The Americans pressed up, and the encirclement became smaller and smaller.

"Nine thousand years old, what to do? Do it with them! ”

The loyalty of Li Xiucheng's subordinates was much higher than that of Wang Haiyang and Yang Fuqing's subordinates, because Li Xiucheng never abandoned these brothers, he came to the Americas with them, pioneered here, built houses together, and lived together for more than ten years.

They have been here incognito for so long, Li Xiucheng doesn't need to give these people any promises to let these people continue to work for him.

"Wait, call them out, I'll talk to them."

Li Xiucheng said.

His subordinates didn't know what Li Xiucheng was waiting for, and he felt that there was no need to talk about it at all.

"Nine thousand years old, what are you talking about, this group of foreign devils has bullied us for so many years, the big guy has long wanted to do it, there are many of us here, why should we be bullied by them. Wouldn't it be better to destroy the foreign devils, take their world, and let the nine thousand years old sit on the country. ”

They open up the wasteland here, but this area is mainly a mining area, drunk white Irish people often go down the mountain to make trouble, Li Xiucheng has always been forbearing, not wanting to provoke them, but the young Taiping soldiers in the area can no longer bear it, more than ten years, so that a large number of baby soldiers have become strong men, Li Xiucheng is becoming more and more unable to suppress them, he even thought, if it weren't for this incident, I'm afraid sooner or later he would have embarked on this road, so he raised troops this time, not all to help Zhu Jinglun, but also to help himself.

"Let me sit on the throne? Then listen to me! ”

The young subordinates snorted, who is still qualified to sit in the country except Li Xiucheng here, they are grown up under Li Xiucheng's heroic deeds, Li Xiucheng is their spiritual belief, and for so many years, if it were not for Li Xiucheng's property support, it would be difficult for them to survive the most difficult years of land reclamation.

The young man stopped talking, silently stepped forward, and shouted towards the American positions in the distance.

Young people have the advantage of being young, and he speaks fluent English: "Tell your heads to speak!" ”

Soon a strong man walked out on the opposite side, more than 1.9 meters tall, with a thick waist, a little red face, and a big head and a red nose.

The young man was immediately impressed by the man, for he looked like the rosacea Irish miners he had seen.

"You monkeys listen well, tell you nine thousand years old to come out and surrender honestly, and the provincial Lao Tzu will do it."

After the rosacea American officer finished shouting, there were bursts of cheers behind him, and there were whistles, this is a group of Irish soldiers, the strongest army in the United States is the Irish army, during the civil war repeatedly made military achievements, and even invaded Canada without authorization after the war, the purpose is just to cause a war between the United States and Britain, hoping that their home country Ireland can take the opportunity to get rid of British rule.

At least in California, the most anti-Chinese group is the Irish.

"Nine thousand years old, let's fight, I don't have anything to talk about with this group of devils."

After translating the words of the Irish officer, the young man again persuaded Li Xiucheng.

Li Xiucheng did not say: "You ask him again how they plan to protect our safety." ”

The young man sighed and acted as a translator.

U.S. military officers said they would send Chinese back home if they surrendered.

This reason really moved some Taiping soldiers, not because they didn't want to go back, but because they couldn't.

After the young man finished translating, he looked at Li Xiucheng.

Li Xiucheng looked at the sky: "It's almost time." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a gunshot rang out, and the swaggering, even chest-baring Irish officer, suddenly collapsed backwards into the trench, and a bullet from unknown ground hit him in the head.

There was a dead silence in the American trenches, and the officers ran up to see their officers.

They were an Irish brigade commander named Billy, nicknamed Bison. After coming to the United States, he worked as a gold digger, a wilderness hunter, and finally a bounty hunter for two years, a police sergeant for several years, and later joined the U.S. army, and successfully became a brigade commander by strangling Indians.

"It's the Indians!"

Suddenly, someone shouted, and the American soldiers suddenly found that on the hill near them, there were countless Indians, these people with bright feathers, riding on horses, and rifles in their hands, and it was these Indians who had just killed Bison Billy.

The Americans didn't have time to be stunned, the Indians roared, and already in groups of horses rushed from all directions, shooting as they ran, and the Americans began to shoot back, and the gunfire suddenly rang out.

"Let's kill it too!"

Li Xiucheng said at this time.

The white people placed them here and let them attack each other with the Indians, how could Li Xiucheng not see the sinister intentions of the white people, and how could he feel at ease.

He may not be able to deal with Wang Haiyang, Yang Fuqing, and the political situation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but his political talent is more than enough to win over the Indians.

In the past few years, the Indians did fight with them very fiercely, mainly because of the raids of the Indians, but Li Xiucheng held back his hatred, and after a clever ambush of the entire Indian raiding tribe, he did not kill the Indians, but let them go and gave them a lot of wine.

It was relatively easy to open up the land in the Americas, and the Taiping army had enough food for a long time, and they could also take out a large amount of grain to make wine, while the Indians were so addicted to alcohol that they could even sell their wives and children in order to drink.

That time, Li Xiucheng connected with the Indians, and every once in a while, he would send people to deliver wine to the Indian tribes in the mountains.

The subordinates thought that this was the old prince's weakness and spending money to buy peace, who would have thought that Li Xiucheng would pave such a road for today.

Who would have thought that the Americans would come to fight them, and these Indian savages would actually come to help.

Who would have thought that these people were invited by Li Xiucheng early in the morning.

Who would have thought that Li Xiucheng had long known that the Americans would take the initiative to attack them, so stopping the American troops here step by step was actually equivalent to presetting a position for the American troops, so that the American troops had to attack their mountain passes in the valley, and then the rear would be outflanked by the Indians.

Li Xiucheng personally led the charge, and the American troops, who had little combat experience, were quickly defeated, and after retreating back to their sandbag positions, they were squeezed into a small area by the Taiping army and the Indians.

At this time, Li Xiucheng asked people to shout for the US army to surrender, although the US army did not decide to surrender, but they all stopped the attack.

"Father!"

A voice drilled into Li Xiucheng's ears, and he couldn't help frowning.

"Who told you to come!"

It was his youngest son Li Rongfa who came, and Hong Tianguifu also came, holding a straight Nanmu box.

The only thing Li Xiucheng can't let go of is his son, because his eldest son died here a few years ago, and he has the only blood left.

"Nine thousand years old, I asked him to come with me. Before we came, Emperor Ming said that he wanted my father to watch us get into trouble, so I brought my father here. ”

Hong Tianguifu said, opened the Nanmu box, and inside was a human head, Hong Xiuquan's human head, which Zhu Jinglun asked them to bring.

Li Xiucheng sighed, he really couldn't figure out what it meant that Zhu Jinglun sent the body of the king of heaven to the United States, if he wanted the king to be buried here, then why didn't he send the bones together, but only sent a head, as for what to say to let the king of heaven watch them make trouble, Li Xiucheng thought that this was Zhu Jinglun putting pressure on him, he was very unimpressed, and even felt that the Ming Emperor was a little bit of a villain's heart, and he Li Xiucheng agreed, he would do it, and he couldn't inspire him in this way.

The positions of the Americans were silent, they had just been taken by surprise, many dead and wounded, and now they were surrounded again, and the officers began to discuss whether to surrender or not.

Most of the officers were reluctant to surrender because they could not trust the Indians, and the reason why the U.S. government offered a reward to buy the scalps of the Indians in the early years was, to be fair, because the Indians always robbed and peeled the scalps of whites, which made the American public opinion angry.

If they surrendered, they did not dare to guarantee their safety, but if they resisted, they felt that there was no chance to break out, so their attitude could not be agreed on for a while.

At this time, they saw two people walking out of the crowd of Chinese with guns in front of them, holding a box, and the mouth of the box was opened, revealing a head.

The head was right at their position, and the Americans didn't know what the Chinese were doing.

Suddenly, a soldier shouted in surprise: "Brigade commander, you are not dead!" ”

At this time, everyone saw that Billy the buffalo, who had obviously been shot in the head just now, stood up slowly, but his head was covered with blood, his eyes were dull, and he didn't answer when everyone spoke.

If the brigade commander is alive, everyone will not argue, and whether to surrender or not to listen to the brigade commander.

But Billy didn't answer everyone's questions, but pulled out the saber from his waist and put it around his neck.

Then everyone saw a scalp-tingling scene, the tall buffalo Billy stood on a sandbag, holding his own hair in one hand and wiping his neck with a sword in the other, as if he was seesawing, and even the tooth-aching sound of metal cutting through bones could be heard at a distance.

More and more American officers and soldiers gathered, all stunned by what the brigade commander was doing.

When they saw Billy cut off his own head with his own hands and carry it in the other hand, everyone was dumbfounded, they couldn't believe what they were seeing.

At this time, the headless Billy threw his head with one hand and the sword in his hand with the other, and the headless corpse jumped off the position and walked straight towards the Chinese.

At this time, not only the Americans were stupid, but also the Taipings, and even the Indians who were outflanking in the rear were stupid, they didn't see Billy cutting his head clearly, but they couldn't help but be frightened when they watched a headless corpse stride forward.

The United States is a complex place, where all kinds of myths are intertwined, myths from Northwest Europe, myths from Southeast Europe, myths of the Slavs, myths of the Greeks, myths of the Syrians, myths from the natives, myths of the Indians, myths from the Bible, myths of the Vikings, myths of the Indians, all kinds of strange myths and stories are intertwined, giving birth to even more bizarre American myths, and these Irish soldiers generally believe that there are witches in this world.

The more superstitious people they see all this now, the more frightening they become.

The Chinese are also superstitious, so the Taiping soldiers are also frightened, in the face of such a headless corpse, they really can't control themselves, some are frightened to retreat, some are frightened to move, and some even pee their pants directly.

Hong Tianguifu peed his pants because he had just boldly stepped forward, and the headless corpse was coming directly at him.

When the headless corpse walked up to him, he fell to the ground, his pants already running down with feces and urine, and soon exuded a strange smell.

At this time, no one cared about the smell in the air, but was horrified to see the headless corpse, and suddenly squatted down, holding the head of the Hong Heavenly King who fell to the ground with both hands.

Hong Tianwang's head was lifelike, as if it had been ten years ago, he was held up by the headless corpse, and then put it squarely on his neck.

Hong Xiuquan's eyes slowly opened, he saw the light again, and he also saw a very familiar person.

"Zhongwang is nine thousand years old!"

His voice was hoarse.

Li Xiucheng was also dumbfounded for a long time, he was not as frightened as ordinary soldiers, but when he saw the headless corpse walking towards Hong Tianguifu, he had a strange impulse in his heart, seeing the current scene, he knew where this impulse came from.

He took a deep breath, then knelt down:

"Minister Li Xiucheng, long live the King of Heaven, long live, long live!"

Li Xiucheng respectfully saluted the monster connected by the headless corpse and Hong Xiuquan's head.

When the soldiers of the Taiping Army saw this situation, they suddenly had the backbone of their hearts, and one by one they were either very excited or frightened, and one after another knelt on the ground and shouted, "Long live the King of Heaven, long live, long live!" ”

The U.S. troops on the opposite side threw their weapons to the ground one by one as if they were dead ashes.