The group of pigtail pigtail braided men mentioned by Nicholas were the two important ministers of the Qing court, Aixin Jueluo Shanqi and Murcha Tieliang, who were appointed by the Empress Dowager Cixi, who had fled to Oros, to command a Qing army of more than 10,000 people under the Eight Banners to follow the Hubei army back to the vicinity of the capital.

The Eight Banners Qing Army followed the Hubei Army Brigade into the mainland of China, although the children of the Eight Banners were all riding horses along the way, most of them were tired and half dead, compared with their Eight Banners ancestors, it was not the same thing at all, if the Eight Banners ancestor Nuer Hachi knew underground, he would be angry and then angry to death.

However, in the past few days, Shanqi, Tieliang and others have been immersed in the excitement of the hope of recovering the country as they watched them set foot on the familiar land of mountains and rivers.

However, the commander of the Hubei army ignored the Eight Banners and forbade the Eight Banners to move freely, and the Eight Banners were escorted by the Cossack cavalry like a group of prisoners, and could do nothing but walk with their heads down.

Seeing that he was about to enter the capital, the news finally came from the commander of the Hubei army: "Please invite the commander of the Qing army!" ”

Shanqi and Tie Liang were so happy that they almost jumped up, and the other Eight Banners were even more jubilant, thinking that their day of raising their eyebrows was finally coming.

However, when Shanqi and Tieliang saw Nicholas, they gave a cold order: "You immediately send someone to persuade all the subjects of the Huaxia Empire to surrender to the Oros army!" ”

The two finally listened to the interpreter and finished this short order: "Persuasion? But ......"

This time, without Nicholas's order, the interpreter of the Ejun army cocked his mouth and spoke half-intelligible Chinese and directly reprimanded Shanqi and Tieliang: "If you don't hurry up and persuade you to surrender, what else can you do?" Can you fight? ”

Shanqi and Tie Liang were speechless, their faces were red and white for a while, and they had to turn around and shake the big pigtails behind their heads and return to the Eight Banners station.

When Shanqi and Tie Liang returned to the camp and reluctantly arranged for their men and horses to go out separately to persuade them to surrender, many of the soldiers of the Eight Banners stopped doing it, and they screamed nonsense:

"We are back to restore the country, why do we need to persuade those lowly minions to surrender?"

"Mahler is forced, dangerous, this is too dangerous, without the use of force, will they surrender in vain?"

"Lao Maozi just wants us to die!"

"Hmph, these old Maozi, they don't pay attention to righteousness, they actually want Lao Tzu to do such things, after Lao Tzu successfully restores the country, he must give these old Maozi good looks!"

There are also some Eight Banner soldiers who have come up with some strange ideas: "Why don't we use some gold and silver, and let Lao Maozi do the work for us!" ”

Shanqi and Tie Liang were so angry that their faces turned pale, but these children of the Eight Banners were able to escape to Oros, and their families were either powerful or noble, and many of them were children of the royal family with the surname of Aixin Jueluo, and they had no ability to fight, but the mouth cannon released by the big mouth was more powerful than anyone else.

The two of them thought that it would not work to forcibly give an order, these children of the Eight Banners were all relatives of the emperor, and they could not be beaten, and they could not be punished, so they could only flicker.

As soon as the two of them combined, they came up with a way to fool these Eight Banners disciples: "We are not enough people in the Eight Banners now, and if we want to restore the country, we have to ask for hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, and now when we arrive in the capital, everyone acts separately to recruit troops and horses, and whoever recruits the soldiers and horses will belong to whom, and whoever has more soldiers and horses, then everyone thinks that this must be a lot of credit!" ”

"Recruitment? That's what you need! ”

"To get, to get, this must be done!"

I heard that recruiting soldiers and horses can make meritorious contributions for themselves, and the minds of the children of the Eight Banners immediately became lively, and they felt that if they really won the world, how could they be rewarded for meritorious deeds? Obviously, it will be judged by whose soldiers and horses have more meritorious deeds.

Shanqi and Tie Liang went around in a circle, and finally returned to obey the order of the Hubei army to persuade them to surrender, and said to the children of the Eight Banners while the iron was hot: "Yes! If the generals of the Huaxia Army were to be brought over, wouldn't it be that there would be tens of thousands of more soldiers and horses all of a sudden! ”

The children of the Eight Banners immediately had a new idea:

"That's right, if the generals of the Huaxia Army in the capital surrender, it will be a gun with a gun, a cannon with a cannon, what are they afraid of with Lao Tzu?"

"With soldiers and horses, you still need to run to the place where Lao Maozi's bird doesn't, and lie at home to swallow clouds and spit!"

"We took these soldiers and swept the world! Haha......"

When they got here, the children of the Eight Banners hurried out.

As a result, in the operation, there were some quarrels and farces over who went where, and Shanqi and Tie Liang became peacemakers for this purpose, and mediated bitterly.

But the strange ideas of the children of the Eight Banners are impossible to realize.

Of course, the generals and soldiers of the Huaxia Army will not surrender to the decaying and declining children of the Eight Banners, that is, the honest tenants who used to cultivate the Eight Banners Grange, because Hu Zhen distributed all the cultivated land of the Eight Banners Grange to everyone to cultivate, and at this time became the biggest beneficiary of the Chinese Empire's overthrow of the Qing court, and they would not bird the Eight Banners at this time.

Many of the children of the Eight Banners relied on their familiarity with the capital to sneak into the granges outside the city, trying to find some tenants who had given a little favor to them in the past, and arrogantly let them follow them, saying that they could raise the flag to join the Eight Banners, and from then on they could eat and drink spicy food.

Who knows, these tenants who are better immediately let the Eight Banners go away, and those who are ruthless immediately tie up the people and send them directly to the Huaxia Army, and even more, with the ancient outdated idea of taking the enemy's head, they directly beat the Eight Banners to death, cut off their heads and send them to the Huaxia Army.

Most of the Eight Banners disciples did not have any good results.

And the children of the Eight Banners who wanted to go to the capital to persuade them to surrender were detained and captured by the Huaxia Army before they reached the edge of the city gate, and some of the children of the Eight Banners immediately turned around and ran away when they saw the Huaxia Army, but they were sniped by the Huaxia Army on the spot.

Only a small number of Eight Banners succeeded in bringing back a group of Eight Banners compatriots whose property had been confiscated but who refused to support themselves and lived on the streets.

After the news spread, the children of the Eight Banners found more Eight Banner compatriots, numbering more than 20,000 people, and they were all willing to join the ranks of the crusade against the Huaxia Army.

However, Nicholas's request to persuade the Chinese army to surrender was not successful in persuading even a single recruit of the Chinese army.

Seeing that there were more than 20,000 people in disheveled clothes, empty-handed, and chaotic formations in the ranks of the Eighth Banner Army, but there was no news of successful persuasion, the representatives of the Hubei Army stationed in the Eight Banners Army turned pale with anger.

Commander Nicholas soon received a new order: "In view of the fact that the strength of the Eight Banners Army of the Great Qing State has been greatly strengthened, order them to immediately launch a strong attack on the positions of the Huaxia Army and assist the Hubei Army in seizing the capital!" (To be continued.) )