Feng Yunshan was stunned when he heard this, and turned his head to the messenger and said, "Could it be that my captive army has not yet attacked the city?" ”

The messenger replied: "Holy King, our brothers of the First Division have begun to attack Chaoyang Gate and Dongzhi Gate since yesterday afternoon, and the two artillery regiments directly began to bombard the city wall, and the Qing Demon has little power to fight back, but because the city wall is too thick, it cannot be broken for the time being. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 After occupying the outer city of Beijing, King Xin led eight marine regiments of the 5th and 10th Divisions to attack Zhengyangmen early this morning, but because of the lack of artillery, he was organizing the officers and men of the naval division to disassemble the artillery from the warship and transport it to Zhengyangmen. ”

As soon as Feng Yunshan heard this, he knew that this messenger was a soldier of the herald company of the 1st Division of the First Division. The messenger did not mention it because the Eighth Division was going to make a detour to the west of the city, presumably because it was a long way away and had not yet begun to attack the city.

It's just that this famous devil in history, how could he ask for negotiations? Feng Yunshan couldn't help but guess.

Although Gong Lao Liu in this era, because of his own reasons, he had no chance to sign a traitorous contract with the foreigners, and he couldn't become the devil six, but now when he was about to capture Beijing, he proposed to negotiate again, could it be that he really wanted to surrender?

Regarding the rumors of wild history, it is said that when Daoguang was in the establishment of the prince, the age difference between Prince Gong Yixu and Xianfeng Yixu was only more than a year old, but Yixu was a little stupid, and he was lame, and he had smallpox, a pockmarked face, and his body was weak. However, Yixun is good at homework, riding and shooting, swords, guns and kung fu, can be literate and martial, and is extremely smart.

Originally, Daoguang was going to pass on the throne to this Gong Lao Liu. But Xian Laosi, who was later the Manchu Emperor Xianfeng Yixu, according to the method taught by his teacher Du Shoutian, hid his clumsy benevolence, cried bitterly to show filial piety, and successfully won the favor of Daoguang and was made the crown prince.

Maybe at the beginning, Gong Lao Liu, who was still young and not very sensible, didn't know what was at stake, but now that they have grown up, he must have regretted that he didn't be chosen in the first place.

And now, when he encounters the capture army and besieges Beijing, Xianfeng abandons the capital and escapes from other places.

In addition, Feng Yunshan really couldn't think of any other reason for this Gong Lao Liu to take the initiative to ask for negotiations! He is a dignified Prince Gong, and he will never take the initiative to surrender to the Holy Kingdom, and if the prince does not do it, he is willing to be a prisoner, right? When he said it, Feng Yunshan didn't believe it.

No matter how bad it is, he can just abandon the city and escape. In the north of Beijing, he did not send troops to attack and besiege it, and he deliberately wanted the Qing soldiers in Beijing to escape from the north of the city.

Anyway, let's hear what he has to say.

So, Feng Yunshan led the captive army and rushed to Xizhimen, the closest to the Old Summer Palace. said that it was the latest, but in fact there were sixteen or seventeen miles away, and by the time Feng Yunshan arrived at the army formation of the Eighth Division of the First Army, three miles outside Xizhimen, it was already evening.

Feng Yunshan decided to negotiate with the Manchus at the Sanbeizi Garden, which was four miles away from Xizhimen. It was the private residence and garden of Qianlong's favorite retainer Fukangan, whose owner fled into Beijing and became an empty house, and is now occupied by the 5th and 10th Divisions of the Marine Corps led by Luo Xuan, and has become an operational headquarters and a front-line lookout.

This is also the closest to the Forbidden City in Beijing except Jingshan, a small dirt slope, Feng Yunshan knew that this place would be built into the Beijing Zoo in the future.

Before he reached this small hillside, Luo Xuan led people to greet him.

"My subordinates meet the Holy King!" Luo Xuan led a group of soldiers to fight for the captivity, and from a distance, he knelt down and saluted very solemnly, which made Feng Yunshan stunned for a while.

"King Xin, what are you doing here? You and my brother, why are you so formal, and it seems to be so raw? Feng Yunshan asked directly.

"Holy King, now that my captive army has besieged Beijing City, it is only a matter of time before the city is broken, and the Qing Demon Dog Emperor has fled north. It won't be long before the rivers and mountains of this pure demon will be yours of the Holy King. If you have the world, you should be the emperor, the holy king, and your subordinates should also pay more attention, and they should not abolish the rites at will. Luo Xuan's words surprised Feng Yunshan.

He couldn't have imagined that even Luo Xuan had this kind of thought, and looking at the expressions of the other deputy division commanders and regiment commanders of the captive army, Feng Yunshan knew that they were similar. Presumably because he felt that he was about to capture the city of Beijing, he would sooner or later claim the throne as emperor, and he would treat himself differently than before.

This is also human nature, no one is exempt from vulgarity, not to mention, they are all people of this era. Feng Yunshan had some understanding in his heart. It's just that the so-called lonely widow, in the future, he has really become a generation of emperors, presumably he has no brothers and friends, and the rest is just the loneliness of the high place.

Feng Yunshan forcibly abandoned this thought, and did not correct Luo Xuan and the others, but just stepped forward to help him up, and said, "How is the situation of the Qing Demon in the city?" ”

"Holy King, the Qing Demon in the city is guarding behind closed doors. Yesterday, when the army had not yet arrived in the west of the city, his subordinates sent a reconnaissance battalion to look out on the slope of this hill, and found that the Qing demon organized a large group of brave men in the city, carried cannons to add city towers, and also demolished the bricks and stones in the city to arrange the city head, and actively prepared fortifications. Luo outlined.

Such? Feng Yunshan thought about it. In this way, the two people who stayed in Beijing and presided over Beijing's defense, Gong Lao Liuyixun, and the Mongolian monk and monk Greenqin, have some different opinions?

One is ready to settle through negotiations, and the other is ready to defend the capital? Or are the two actually channeling well, just wanting to negotiate and delay time, while at the same time desperately resisting and waiting for the army of rescuers from all over the country to come to relieve the siege?

Feng Yunshan simply didn't bother to guess, the negotiation was fake, and his own strength was real. Even if the Manchus promised to surrender themselves, wouldn't they have destroyed them? Wait for them to organize their troops, and then come back to counterattack? Feng Yunshan was just an ordinary engineer in his previous life, so he didn't even know this.

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At the same time, in the evening, outside a temple in the outer city of Beijing, a 14-year-old boy was pulling another young man in his twenties, making noise in the alley next to the temple.

"Big brother, are you crazy? The Manchu court is almost done playing, and you still work for them? "The young man has dark gray eyes and a high nose bridge, which is slightly different from the locals, but what he speaks is an authentic Beijing film official dialect.

The young man, who is called the eldest brother, looks very similar to the young man, but his face is already covered with thick hair, and he looks like two brothers at a glance. He said angrily: "I, Bai Yanlong, am a martial artist of the imperial court, and Ada is also an official of the imperial court, and now that the imperial court is in trouble, how can I be disloyal to the imperial court and flee back to my hometown?" ”

"Hmph, it was Ada who asked me to come back to you." Although the young man was young, he had a hint of maturity that did not match his age, and said in an old-fashioned tone: "I don't believe you will go home with me and ask Ada!" He was already in a hurry to pack up his belongings and prepare to return to his hometown in Jingyang County, Xi'an Prefecture. ”

Hearing what the young man said, the young man who called himself Bai Yanlong was stunned, and while following the young man to the end of the alley suspiciously, he muttered: "It's okay to go back to your hometown." Now the capital is already in extreme chaos, the price of salaries, rice and other goods has skyrocketed, and even this outer city is full of displaced people, and there are many more people who came to the temple to beg for food today than yesterday. Hey, this capital is no longer a place where people have lived. ”

The young man turned around and said hatefully, "That's it! I wish I had left the capital as soon as possible. It's bustling, but it's not the place for us to stay! Not to mention the bullying Manchu and Mongolian officials, even those Han soldiers who are slaves are also hateful! It's better to live with our own old watches! ”

The two grumbled all the way back to a separate house in an alley not far away.

As soon as the young man entered the house, he saw a middle-aged man who was urging several servants to tidy up his belongings, and asked, "Dada, did you ask Yan Hu to call me back?" Said that he would leave the capital early tomorrow morning and return to his hometown in Jingyang? ”

"Not bad! Yan Long, you are the eldest grandson of my Bai family, and you still need you to take care of a large amount of family business. How can you bet your life here, to help the Manchu Qing government, and go up the city wall to resist those Han thieves? The middle-aged man said with a reproachful face. Then, he explained: "Our Bai family in northern Shaanxi is also a wealthy family in Jingyang, and our roots are still there." ”

"Now that the emperor has fled, the people in the capital are panicked, and the outer city has been directly occupied by thieves. The hundreds of officials in the entire capital have fled for their lives, and those who are incapable of entering the office are disheartened, and they are already the face of the country. Even if the inner city holds on for two months, it is estimated that it will be powerless, and it will be breached sooner or later. We should have left the land of right and wrong sooner. I'll leave in the early hours of tonight! The middle-aged man sighed and continued to pack up his belongings.

The young man still didn't want to leave, and said with some hesitation: "Dada, then you are a foreigner in the imperial court, so you will resign like this?" And the identity of the son's martial arts......"

"Yan Long, are you reluctant to accept the identity of this Laoshizi martial arts? Confused! In today's troubled times, what do you want to do with this martial arts identity, you see that I don't even pity the outsiders of the fifth grade, what kind of martial arts do you regret? The middle-aged man was a little angry, and said worriedly: "I don't blame you!" I didn't figure it out myself, I should have left the capital two days ago. You must know that after the battle of Bali Bridge two days ago, a large number of officials and businessmen in the city left one after another, and they are smart people. ”

"Fortunately, it's not too late, the thieves from the south have not blocked the outer city, and we are still barely able to leave as ordinary merchants. If in another day or two, the siege battle will be fierce, whether it is the government in the inner city or the thieves outside the city, they will all catch the brave and brave, and then maybe they won't be able to leave! ”

"Yes! Dada, big brother, it's better for us to leave early! I heard from some of the Eight Banners brothers in the city that the thieves had sharp muskets, and the 10,000 cavalry on the Bali Bridge were also defeated, with more than half of the dead and wounded, and even the first brave general of the Qing Dynasty, the monk Wangye, was almost killed. Big brother, no matter how powerful your martial arts are, can you compare to foreign guns? Everyone wants to escape, but you still want to go to the inner city to resist the city wall. The boy was also of the same mind as his father, and persuaded him in an old-fashioned manner.

"Okay, okay, don't I listen to you all anymore? I left the capital tonight and went back to my hometown, I haven't seen Baba for several years, so I miss him. The young man finally agreed.

That night, not only the Bai family, but also many officials and businessmen fled from Beijing overnight. Even in the inner city where the city gate was closed, there were many people who stuffed gold and silver to buy off the Manmeng banner soldiers guarding the city tower, and put hanging baskets or ropes down the city tower to let them escape the capital overnight.