After listening to the introductions of Wu Quanmei, Wang Pengnian and others, Wu Chaoyue finally understood why the Qing-Russian coalition army fought to the end with the Taiping army, and at the same time decisively surrendered to the Wu army. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

It turned out that after Wen Xiang was exposed by Wang Pengnian for his true face of choosing to surrender to the Taiping Army, the sailors and generals of the Qing army were all very angry, not only very worried about their personal safety after surrendering to the Taiping Army, but also more reluctant to join the Taiping Army, which had a mess of system and law and was still showing its declining strength.

During the discussion, Ye Changchun, the most treacherous of the generals of the Qing army, even pointed out: "If Wu thief and Changmao start a war again, there is only the possibility of Wu thief destroying Changmao, and Changmao has absolutely no hope of victory." If we surrender the long hair, the long hair will not kill us in the future, and we will not die on the battlefield in the future, and we will inevitably surrender to the Wu thief again! ”

"In that case, why do we still have to surrender to Changmao and be humiliated twice, why don't we just surrender to the Wu thief and continue to kill Changmao, relying on military exploits to make a wife and a shadow?"

It was precisely because of this sentence that the generals of the Qing army made up their minds to surrender to the Wu army, first secretly arrested Wen Xiang, who wanted to push the Qing army's sailors into the fire pit for his own life, and then suddenly launched a sneak attack when the Taiping army warships came to accept the surrender, beat away the Taiping army's water division, and then decisively surrendered to Wu Chaoyue.

By the way, the Tsarist army was tied to a thief ship by the Qing army's sailors this time, and when the Qing army's sailors suddenly attacked the Taiping army, the Taiping army thought that the Tsarist army was also an accomplice, so they took the initiative to fire at the Tsarist army that had laid down their arms. Then, under the persuasion of the generals of the Qing army's water division, the Tsarist Russian army, which had no way out, had no choice but to follow the Qing army's water division to surrender to Wu Chaoyue.

After learning the truth of the matter, Wu Chaoyue of course smiled as much as he could, not only pardoned Wu Quanmei and Li Delin and other Qing army generals on the spot, but also announced in public that he would never kill a single soldier of the Qing army's naval division. At the same time, Wu Chaoyue promised the Tsarist army that he would give them humanitarian treatment in accordance with public international law, in exchange for all the remnants of the Qing-Russian coalition army to lay down their arms, and received two medium-sized steam gunboats, four third-class sail battleships, and more than 30 Qing army red single ships that can still be repaired without a single shot.

What made Wu Chaoyue even more happy was still behind, and he returned to Jiujiang with the enemy's surrender fleet on his toes, and when he passed through the lake, Wu Chaoyue was still a little worried that the Taiping army, which had suffered a big loss, would be angry and intercepted, forcing himself to be forced to engage in an armed conflict with the Taiping army. But what Wu Chaoyue never expected was that the Hukou Taiping Army only put forward such a small request as handing over Wenxiang.

Then, after listening to the introduction of the Taiping Army's envoy, Wu Chaoyue learned another truth, it turned out that in order to make the Taiping Army accept his surrender, Wen Xiang not only handed over the body of Lin Qirong's brother Lin Qinan to show his sincerity, but also promised to let the Taiping Army punish Lin Qinan's murderer, and even took the initiative to introduce the situation that the remnants of the Qing Russian Coalition Army were running out of ammunition, food and grass, so that the Taiping Army knew that the Qing Russian Coalition Army had only one way to die except surrender.

Coveting the remnants of the Qing and Russian coalition ships, and hoping to avenge his younger brother with his own hands, Lin Qirong chose to believe in Wen Xiang, but after being attacked by the Qing army sailors who suddenly repented, Lin Qirong, who suffered a big loss, of course believed that Wen Xiang was fraudulently surrendering, and swore to find Wen Xiang to settle the blood debt.

After listening to the introduction of the Taiping army envoy, Wu Chaoyue, who couldn't help laughing, directly told the truth to the Taiping army envoy, and the Taiping army envoy was dumbfounded, but he still hoped that Wu Chaoyue could hand over Wenxiang to him and take him back to Lin Qirong to hand it over. Wu Chaoyue shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, Wen Xiang can't be handed over to you, my army inscription lists the seven major culprits, and Wen Xiang is one of them." Since he has fallen into my hands, I must judge him myself, otherwise I will not be able to explain it to the rest of the world. ”

After that, in order to appease the Taiping army, Wu Chaoyue took the initiative to say: "In this way, I know that you are indeed a little wronged this time, and I did take advantage of you, in return, I will help you repair the ship." I know that you do not have a dock where you can repair large ships, and that the steamers and sailboats you captured last night can be transported to my dock in Hankow for repair, and I will charge you only the cost price. ”

The technologically backward Taiping army really did not have a dock to repair the large warships that had just been captured, and after a little explanation, the Taiping envoy took his leave and left, and Wu Chaoyue led the sailors to escort the prisoners out of the lake mouth and return directly to Jiujiang.

It was night, of course, there was a cheer inside and outside Jiujiang City, none of the Wu army was not jubilant, Wu Chaoyue, who had always been slammed at the door, was also rare and generous, and personally ordered to kill pigs and sheep to reward the soldiers of the three armies, and also made an exception to allow each soldier to drink three glasses at dinner, and the soldiers of the Wu army were thunderous, and everyone was happy.

But there are also discordant voices, at the celebration banquet, Wu Chaoyue personally appointed Jiujiang prefect Gui Zhongxing suddenly attacked, in public against Wu Chaoyue's decision to blindly treat Tsarist Russian prisoners of war, asked Wu Chaoyue to punish the Russian soldiers who had slaughtered civilians in Jiujiang City, and openly said: "Dashuai, the life of foreigners is life, and the life of our Qing people is also life, killing people pays for life, heaven and earth are fair!" If you don't punish these Rakshasa foreigners who killed innocent people, then you can only hang up your official position and go into hiding, and you will have no shame to face the parents and villagers of Jiujiang again! ”

The scene of the banquet that was jubilant just now suddenly fell silent, and almost everyone looked at Wu Chaoyue with fear, for fear that Wu Chaoyue would be forced to be annoyed and angry by Gui Zhongxing, but Wu Chaoyue laughed and said: "Fulfill the truth, you just think that I will only please foreigners, and will not seek justice for the people of the Qing Dynasty?" Who said that if I give the Rakshasa soldiers humanitarian treatment, I will not settle the account for their crimes of massacring civilians? ”

"Dashuai, do you still want to deal with them?" Gui Zhongxing asked with great joy.

Wu Chaoyue nodded, and said with a smile: "When you have time, you should read more books on international law, don't just concentrate on calligraphy and painting, the international convention requires that the prisoners be treated humanely, but it also allows the victorious country to liquidate the crimes of the prisoners, especially for prisoners of war who massacre civilians, the international convention allows direct execution." ”

"I'll leave this to you." Wu Chaoyue said: "Together with the local officials in Qizhou, collect the victims' testimonies, and also interrogate the surrendered Rakshasas and the rebellious sailors, look for the Rakshasa soldiers who participated in the massacre of civilians, find one and kill the other, no need to be soft, if someone on the foreigner's side asks, I will bear it." ”

Gui Zhongxing was overjoyed, and quickly knelt down to Wu Chaoyue to ask for guilt, Wu Chaoyue smiled and waved his hand, and encouraged a few words of Gui Zhongxing's stalk, love the people like a son, the atmosphere of the banquet returned to festivity, and everyone dispersed happily.

Although Gui Zhongxing's public attack proved that he only misunderstood Wu Chaoyue, what Wu Chaoyue did not expect was that this incident would lead to another unexpected consequence -- the next morning, Wang Pengnian, a general of the Qing army, suddenly asked to meet with Wu Chaoyue, and said that he wanted to complain to Wu Chaoyue about the massacre of Chinese civilians by Tsarist Russian soldiers.

Soon, Wang Pengnian was led to Wu Chaoyue, and knelt down directly to Wu Chaoyue, and said: "Dashuai, the crime will come to cry out for the people of the Northeast of our Qing Dynasty, please follow the rules you have set, and also punish those Rakshasa foreign devils who killed our Qing people in the Northeast." ”

"What do you mean by that?" Wu Chaoyue was a little confused.

"Dashuai, you don't know anything." Wang Pengnian said in a deep voice: "Since the thirtieth year of Daoguang, the Rakshasa people have been killing people and setting fire to the northeast of our Qing Dynasty, plundering and poisoning the people of the northeast of our Qing Dynasty, and creating a lot of bloody cases. Our Northeast magistrates of the Qing Dynasty were afraid of the Rakshasas, not only did they not dare to stop the Rakshasas, but also framed the Northeast people who resisted the invasion of the Rakshasas as anti-thieves and rebels, tortured them indiscriminately, and helped the Rakshasas to bully our Qing people. ”

"How do you know that?" Wu Chaoyue hurriedly asked.

"The Rakshasas brought a transport fleet this time, and there are also many slaves they captured in the northeast of our Qing Dynasty, most of them are Oroqen, Hu'er and Hezhe." Wang Pengnian explained: "The criminal general was responsible for transporting grain, grass and ammunition for the rebel party sailors before, and I had contact with them many times, and I knew it from them. ”

After that, Wang Pengnian added another sentence and said: "In the fleet of the Rakshasas, there are many troops from the Northeast, and there are countless people in it whose hands are stained with the blood of our Qing people. ”

Although some people will think that Wang Pengnian is too troubled and has a strong sense of justice, Wu Chaoyue likes Wang Pengnian's character, and immediately nodded and said: "Okay, I promise you, from now on, you will also follow Gui Zhongxing to investigate and deal with these Rakshasa riots who slaughtered civilians, and the Rakshasa soldiers and civilians captured by our army, you can hand them over to stand up and testify against the Rakshasa soldiers." ”

When Wang Pengnian heard the great joy, he hurriedly thanked Wu Chaoyue again and again, but Wu Chaoyue had an idea, and said secretly: "In fact, there is still oil and water to squeeze in this matter, in addition to washing away the infamy of Lao Tzu's traitor, you can also buy the hearts of the people in the Northeast, let those ethnic minorities in the Northeast stand on my side, and cut off the retreat of the Manchu court." ”

After thinking about this and thinking about it for a while, Wu Chaoyue immediately decided to send someone to contact the Hukou Taiping Army, briefing them on the situation, and asking the Hukou Taiping Army to help them let the captured ethnic minorities in the Northeast also come forward to testify against the Tsarist soldiers who committed war crimes. Coincidentally, Wu Chaoyue's side had just arranged for the envoy, and the Taiping army sent a messenger first, and made a request to Wu Chaoyue -- asking Wu Chaoyue to send technicians to help the Taiping army build a dock at the mouth of the lake, and provide technical assistance in repairing steam warships and sail battleships.

Knowing that Lin Qirong was not at ease to let the warships captured by the Taiping Army go to Hankou for repair, Wu Chaoyue of course agreed to Lin Qirong's request, and provided the architectural drawings of the dock on the spot, and asked the Taiping Army envoy to bring the envoy of the Taiping Army to Hukou to meet Lin Qirong, and asked Lin Qirong to help settle the war crimes of the Tsarist Russian soldiers.

This was originally just a small matter as big as a sesame mung bean, but after learning of Wu Chaoyue's intentions, Lin Qirong was surprised, not only agreed to help with all his might, but also followed the example, so that the Northeast people caught by the Taiping Army would first testify against the murderer at Hukou and settle the crimes of the Tsarist Russian prisoners captured by the Taiping Army. At the end, Lin Qirong couldn't help muttering a few words, and said: "I didn't expect that the little demon was still such a person, I used to think that he would only sell the country for glory and blindly curry favor with foreigners, but I didn't expect that when it was time to find foreign devils for revenge, he was not soft at all." ”

After muttering, Lin Qirong couldn't help but think of Yang Xiuqing's forced order to make way for the Qing-Russian combined fleet this time, and his heart was suddenly depressed, and he said secretly: "Long live the East King, you might as well surpass the little demon this time." ”

It is worth mentioning that after this incident, although Lin Qirong still remembered the matter of avenging Luo Xuan, he still felt that Wu Chaoyue was much more pleasing to the eye, and the more he looked at Wu Chaoyue, the more he felt that he had an appetite, and the hostility between the Hukou Taiping Army and the Jiujiang Wu Army was also reduced a lot.

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A few days later, when he sent the news of Wu's defeat of the Qing and Russian coalition forces to Nanjing by clipper, Yang Xiuqing not only was not happy that the strong enemy, including the main force of the Qing army's naval division, was annihilated, but on the contrary, he sat on the golden dragon chair, his eyes were dull, and his face was a little gray.

Yang Xiuqing's cronies in the Golden Dragon Hall were silent, because they all knew very well what Yang Xiuqing was thinking, and only after Hong Xiuquan was under house arrest did he gradually gain Yang Xiuqing's trust, and asked cautiously: "Long live the East King, but the worry is beyond the little demon, and the Kingdom of Heaven cannot control it, and it is possible to suffer from it?" ”

Yang Xiuqing didn't answer, because what Meng Deen asked was purely nonsense - the Qing Russian coalition forces that were so strong that Yang Xiuqing didn't dare to face them were all wiped out in front of Wu Chaoyue, and Yang Xiuqing, who had already suffered heavy losses from the main force of the lineage, had any confidence to defeat Wu Chaoyue? Can you not worry that after Wu Chaoyue destroyed the Qing Dynasty, he raised the butcher's knife against him again?

Seeing that Yang Xiuqing was silent for a long time, Meng Deen said cautiously: "Long live the East King, your subordinates have a plan, or you can solve the worries in your heart." ”

"What can you do?"

Yang Xiuqing finally spoke weakly, but Meng Deen didn't answer, just looked left and right, Yang Xiuqing understood, and first drove away the other subordinate officials in the palace, leaving only the henchmen to protect him, and then said: "Say, what way?" ”

"Long live the East King, it's actually very simple." Meng Deen said gloomily: "Join forces with the Qing Demon to break the Wu Demon together." ”

Yang Xiuqing's face changed suddenly, and his eyes were full of murderous aura when he looked at Meng Deen, but Meng Deen had no jealousy, and just said in a deep voice: "Long live the East King, your subordinates are loyal to you, so they dare to say such things." At present, surpassing the little demon soldiers is strong and strong, and it is already a certainty to defeat the Qing Demon, once the Qing Demon is dead, the Kingdom of Heaven will be difficult to support alone, and only by joining hands with the Qing Demon can we keep the foundation of my Heavenly Kingdom. ”

Meng Deen dared to say such things in front of Yang Xiuqing, who had been extremely firm in his anti-Qing position, the reason was, of course, that in order to weaken Wu Chaoyue's concessions to the Manchu court, Yang Xiuqing once borrowed the road to the Qing-Russian combined fleet.

The result was not as expected, between keeping the glory and wealth and sticking to the anti-Qing position, Yang Xiuqing was shaken again, and after hesitating for a long time, Yang Xiuqing still hesitated to say such a sentence, "I'm afraid that everyone in heaven will not accept it." ”

"Long live the East King, you can join forces in secret." Meng Deen said even more gloomily: "On the surface, he still fights against the Qing Dynasty, and secretly allies with the Qing Demon to fight against the Wu Demon." ”

Yang Xiuqing's eyes lit up, and she subconsciously remembered the past when she and Wu Chaoyue secretly joined forces against the Qing Dynasty, and said secretly: "This is a good idea." ”