"Sneak attack, this is a despicable and shameless sneak attack! The Japanese army was taking advantage of the Qing Dynasty's trust in the envoys of various countries and used shameless acts, so they won the war! You and I, all of us, should remain angry at the actions of the Japanese army and apologize for the trust of the Qing Dynasty, which is a provocation and humiliation to the entire Western axioms! ”

Shi Alan shouted loudly: "If it weren't for the Qing army's trust in European civilization, how could the Japanese army capture Tongzhou so easily?" Even if it can be won in the end, the Japanese army will definitely suffer countless casualties! ”

However, the war has only facts, not assumptions.

On the morning of the same day, Nie Shicheng, Li Zhanchun, Ding Huai, Wan Benhua, Zhang Guolin, and a group of generals escorted Yi Cheng and fled back to Yanjing City like a lost dog.

Only 6,000 of the 10,000 troops entered the city, and the rest were either killed and captured in battle, or fled to various places like frightened birds.

At this time, Cheng Wenbing, who was stationed in Zhangjiawan, was shocked to hear the news of the fall of Tongzhou from the mouth of Feng Guozhang, a military staff member sent by Nie Shicheng.

Cheng Wenbing immediately ordered the whole army to abandon the city and flee to Beijing, and finally retreated to Yanjing with six precious 80 rapid-fire guns before the Japanese Tongzhou attack force pounced.

Emperor Guangxu, who got the fall of Tongzhou, was so angry that he directly sprayed a mouthful of blood, and then broke the heads of several eunuchs who stepped forward to support him, and was furious in the main hall.

Emperor Guangxu had red eyes, almost roaring in exhaustion, and ordered to take off the official hat of Nie Shicheng, the governor of Zhili, and immediately lock it up and pursue him for the crime of 'stupidity', 'cowardice' and 'defeated army'.

At the same time, he issued an order to reprimand Li Zhanchun and other Tongzhou generals, all the generals took off their crowns, temporarily led the military horses of the headquarters, and once there was any more fear of the enemy, they would all be punished on the spot!

At the same time, he ordered his brother-in-law Zhirui and the infantry commander Rong Lu to jointly manage the defense of the capital, and they must destroy the Japanese soldiers under the city.

At this moment, Emperor Guangxu, whose face was as red as a lobster, kept shouting and jumping nervously in the Forbidden City's Heart Nourishing Palace.

At this time, his heart was filled with despair, fear, humiliation, and boundless regret and anger.

The armies are so unbearable, once the Japanese soldiers enter the capital, what can they do?

Now that the telegraph has been cut off, and the outside world has been cut off, how can this be?

Why didn't I give the order to go out of Beijing yesterday?

I blame that dead old woman!

It's not that she stuck a stick, I left the capital yesterday!

By the way, and ——, foreigners?

"These damn foreigners, who dare to collude with the Japanese to deceive me, should all be cut by a thousand cuts!"

Emperor Guangxu shouted loudly: "Zhirui, you led the Ruiwu army to suppress Dongjiaomin Lane and arrested all the foreigners in prison, I want to make a good trial of why they colluded with the Orientals?" I really think I'm a clay figure in the temple, don't I dare to kill them! ”

As soon as Guangxu's words came out, the whole hall was suddenly shocked, and even Zhirui was so frightened that his feet weakened.

Now it's just this Oriental, and it's about to break the capital, and if it provokes foreigners, and it's all the foreigners of Taixi, can the Qing Dynasty still have a way to live?

"The emperor thinks twice!"

"Your Majesty, never, never!"

"The emperor——, ministers are going to die!"

Including Weng Tongxi, Li Hongzao, and Changlin, these core members of the imperial party all shouted in unison with a frightened face.

However, at this time, Guangxu couldn't say a word with his mouth open, but was shocked and looked at the palace gate stupidly.

There, the Empress Dowager Cixi, who had not appeared since her return to power, appeared at the door of the palace again at this time, looking at herself angrily with hatred of iron and steel.

Feeling the strangeness of Guangxu, the hall suddenly fell silent and silent.

Although the ministers couldn't know what was happening at this time by looking up, they all knew that something amazing was happening now.

Even some alert and well-informed people have vaguely guessed something.

In this world, there is only this big Buddha who can suppress the hot-blooded emperor who is in a rampage!

"Dear father, why are you here and no longer cultivating in the garden?"

Guangxu's heart trembled, and he spoke a little straightforwardly, and he didn't choose to speak.

"Knock on the Queen Mother!"

All the ministers, no matter what their intentions were to shout this, were at least relieved.

As soon as the Dinghai Needle arrives with Lafayette, the emperor will not insist so much, and this matter will not be worse, right?

"If the mourning family doesn't come again, the ancestors will be ruined by you!"

As soon as Cixi opened her mouth, she shocked the ministers.

Emperor Guangxu was even more humiliated, his face was red, and he stood trembling and did not dare to speak.

"Li Lianying, hang the curtain again."

Cixi's fluttering words were like a giant drum beating on the eardrums of Guangxu and his ministers.

Everyone was stunned and couldn't wake up for a long time.

"This curtain hung here before the war was officially over;"

Cixi sat down behind the bead curtain, looked at Guangxu who was swinging all over, and shouted majestically: "Your Majesty, what are you doing with the pestle?" I don't know that the Qing Dynasty has reached this time, and it is no longer the time for you to lose your child's temper! ”

"Yes, Erchen knows."

At this moment, Guangxu's face was pale, his eyes were bloodshot, his voice was hoarse, and he walked towards his dragon chair step by step as if there was a weight of ten thousand pounds.

Then, like a marionette, he sat down quietly.

"The war has been fought until now, you are not angry, the armies are not angry, and in the end, I have to be angry with my old wife;"

Cixi whispered through the bead curtain: "Yi?, you sent envoys to the camp of the Japanese soldiers and told them that it was all right." ”

The hall was silent.

'Shut it up. ’

If it is said that sending envoys to the East to sue for peace, it is somewhat of a fig leaf, and now sending people to the military camps of the Japanese to sue for peace is tantamount to surrendering bare-bottomed.

However, no one dared to make a strange sound at this time.

On February 18 of the Western calendar, the Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty once again lowered the curtain to listen to the government, overthrew Guangxu, and led the war between the Qing and Japan.

In the afternoon of the same day, the Japanese army surrounded Yanjing City.

The Qing army sent envoys, holding dragon flags and white flags, to the Japanese army camp to sue for peace.

Soon after, the envoys of the six Western countries returned to Yenching, accompanied by the 'rat minister' Komura Shotaro, who brought with him the Minister of the Oriental Army, Aritomo Yamagu, "on the conditions for suspending the capture of Yenching."

First, the Japanese army will return the city of Tongzhou to the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty can station a outpost of the Qing army to carry out normal telegraph contact, and the Japanese army will keep the telegraph line of the Great Qing Dynasty unblocked, and will not prevent the telegraph exchange between Yanjing and Tongzhou.

Second, the Qing Emperor was required to immediately order all reinforcements to return to their respective places and not to enter Zhili; The Naoli armies were also required to return to their respective stations immediately and not to come to Beijing, otherwise it would be regarded as a deliberate breach of peace, and the empire would capture Yanjing, capture the Qing Emperor and all the imperial families and go to Hiroshima for trial.

Thirdly, the Qing troops of Lushun, Ludong, Liaodong, Fengbei, and Korea in the Great Qing Dynasty were no longer allowed to make any unfriendly provocations against the imperial army; No army may attack the Oriental soldiers who are directly subordinate.

Fourth, the Qing Dynasty's beggar envoys needed to rush to Hiroshima as soon as possible to sue for peace in order to end the war as soon as possible.

Fifth, the Qing Dynasty needed to provide food, quilts, and other expenses for the Japanese troops outside the city.

The conditions were sent to Cixi, and she nodded in agreement without hesitation, but when she saw 'Liaodong, the Qing Army of Korea', there was a trace of confusion in her eyes.

Then Cixi told Yi that Fengbei, Liaodong, and Korea had lost telegraph contact, and the Qing Dynasty was temporarily powerless in these three places.

The news was transmitted back to Komura Shoutaro, and then brought out of the Japanese army camp outside the city, and Yama Prefecture Aritomo also knew that the Qing Dynasty was telling the truth, and immediately agreed to temporarily demarcate the three places of 'Fengbei, Liaodong, and Korea'.

In the afterglow of the sunset on February 18 of the Western calendar, the Qing Dynasty and the Japanese 1st Army reached a cease-fire agreement.

That night, the news spread to the north and south of the Qing Dynasty and even to the rest of the world through the radio station in Tongzhou.

And then—

The whole Qing Dynasty was in an uproar.

Nanyang was in an uproar.

Europe, North America was in an uproar.

The whole Dongyang, Jinda, Weihaiwei, and all the Oriental people were plunged into an all-night carnival.

And at this time, a large fleet had just entered the Bohai Bay.