On the 19th, Zhili Province was an extremely long and difficult day for all forces in the Qing Dynasty.

This was the second day after Emperor Guangxu was stripped of his rights, and after the horror and shame of the first day, he finally regained a trace of sanity and calm.

began to endure the fiery hatred for Cixi in his heart, honestly played the puppet, and waited aggrievedly for a new opportunity in the future.

The bigwigs of the imperial party saw that half a year after the old witch 'left' the political arena of the Qing Dynasty, the re-entry was still so fast and vigorous, and they all chose to wait for a new opportunity in the future with the emperor.

And Lafayette Cixi sat in the center of the Qing Dynasty, began to set up a chessboard, and invited Li Hongzhang's family to Beijing, to play a game of 'wild fox' with Lao Li Wenfang.

At this time, in the small courtyard of the Li family next to the Chaoyin Temple in Jinmen, Li Hongzhang, Zhang Peilun, and Li Jingfang were also sitting opposite each other.

The bright moon is shining, sprinkled with clear light all over the courtyard.

The three of them deliberately sat in the small courtyard in the cold spring, surrounded by a blazing charcoal fire, reading the will of the imperial court.

"Still don't worry about me, a bad old man!"

Li Hongzhang smoked a cigarette pouch, looked at his eldest son and said, "Resign from He Changying's errands, and enter Beijing with me tomorrow morning." ”

"Father—"

Li Jingfang looked at Li Hongzhang with a surprised face.

"Do you really not understand, or do you pretend not to understand?"

Li Hongzhang glanced at his son-in-law beside him, and some words were Li Hongzhang's identity, so he couldn't say it.

"After listening to Bo Xing's words just now, I realized that the anti-Japanese army actually has so many secrets, and——"

Zhang Peilun looked at Li Jingfang with a smile and said, "There must be more, deeper things hidden down here!" ”

Li Jingfang's voice was a little hoarse: "There are some things that only those who come from Lushun know, but their mouths are very tight; I'm in charge of logistics, and I've put together these things, and even Xu Bang Daojia won't beat them more than I know. ”

"The Lushun Army, the strength of the anti-Japanese army in southern Liaoning is close to twenty or thirty thousand, as well as the tens of thousands of people in Zhili, as well as North Korea; - Tsk, I really can't see that He Changying, this kid has so much courage and ambition. ”

Zhang Peilun's face seemed to be smiling, with a hint of mockery.

Li Jingfang listened to Zhang Peilun's yin and yang strange voice, and felt a little unhappy in his heart, frowning slightly and said: "It's right to say courage, but the word 'ambition' is a bit heavy. ”

"I'm still using a light one! The combined forces of the three cities of Shanhaiguan, with Liu Kun's help to cover up, can pinch their noses and admit it in this period, but the Lushun joint army has really touched the bottom line of the imperial court; ”

Zhang Peilun felt that Li Jingfang was insulting his IQ, and what he said this time was more straightforward and easy to understand: "If I were the imperial court, I would ask He Changying, if you fight, you will fight well, and eat the friendly troops along the way, what does he want to do?" ”

Li Jingfang was silent, which was why he wanted to come back and have a good talk with his father.

"He didn't have any chances, including taking a step back, to take over Beiyang; All his small actions have blocked his way in advance and are desperate! After the peace is negotiated, the imperial court will do its best to limit and decompose his forces, without any surprises! ”

Zhang Peilun made the final decision.

"Not after the peace talks, but now it has begun. - Lafayette has always suspected that there is a shadow of me in this, and this time I went to Beijing to prove the innocence of the old man, so you must also go. ”

Li Hongzhang said faintly: "I really can't understand it! This He Changying doesn't look like a faint person, and the battle is good, but ——, is it so urgent to do this? ”

Li Jingfang also sighed resignedly: "Is it a little too anxious, he is only in his early twenties, so he can't wait?" It's a pity! ”

"Pss

Zhang Peilun smiled deliberately: "He is not faint, but he is too smart and has his own little abacus; Now don't talk about Zhili, there are not many available elite soldiers in the entire Qing Dynasty, and he He Changying has tens of thousands of troops in his hands——,"

Zhang Peilun said in a cold voice: "This is his self-righteous 'smart'!" ”

As Zhang Peilun pointed out almost straightforwardly, these can easily connect the nine clans, and can make tens of millions of square meters of land collapse, and the 400 million Qing people will be bleeding and drifting.

Li Hongzhang and Li Jingfang both changed color.

"Shut up!"

Li Jingfang snorted in a low voice, looked left and right with a blue face, and then sat down.

"He doesn't stand a chance!"

Zhang Peilun asserted: "As long as he dares to open half of the opening, at least half of the soldiers under his command will immediately disperse, and he will become the sinner referred to by thousands of people in the world, and the only man in the world to crusade; There is also the Japanese Chen Bing Zhili, and it is impossible to give him any chance,—— he has killed so many Japanese soldiers! ”

"Lafayette wants to talk about the way, how do you know that you are really wrong, in fact, I am just a chess watcher; It's night, let's sleep, and I have to rush into Beijing tomorrow morning!

Li Hongzhang stood up a little tiredly, before Sheng Huaixuan, then Yuan Shikai, and last year's He Changying, Li Hongzhang had a lot of expectations.

But one is indecisive and falls with the wind.

One is ambitious, bold, black-hearted, stoic, tenacious, and very heroic; However, it is too much to avoid harm and seek profit, and does not set up dangerous rocks.

Where do you know what is going on in this world, sometimes you have to have the heroic courage to take your life.

Only this He Changying, Li Hongzhang was the most satisfied.

However, his faint moves in the past two months are almost to the point where 'Sima Zhao's heart is known to everyone'.

The rise time is too short, the foundation is too shallow, and there is no time to cultivate the real henchman power.

Li Hongzhang couldn't see He Changying's slightest chance of winning.

Yanjiao, 20 miles southeast of Zhangjiawan, at the confluence of the Liangshui River and the North Canal.

Suzhuang Village.

The Liangshui River and the North Canal, one from the northwest and the other from the north, converge in Suzhuang Village to form an irregular narrow Yangtze River Delta area.

5,000 original anti-Japanese soldiers, 3,800 Gan troops, 2,700 Jingtang men who joined along the way, a total of more than 11,500 people, were stationed here.

On the morning of the 19th, the cavalry of the anti-Japanese army arrived at Yangdi Village, 20 miles south of Suzhuang Village, and encountered the Qing soldiers who had broken south from Tongzhou, and were shocked to hear the bad news of the loss of Tongzhou.

At noon on the same day, the first cavalry battalion arrived at Suzhuang Village, and learned from the mouths of the people who fled south that the Japanese army burned, killed, and plundered in the Yanjing area, and surrounded Yanjing City.

The news was fed back to the large anti-Japanese army on the march, and He Changying ordered the cavalry battalion to stop continuing to advance and put up guard posts in the vicinity of Suzhuang Village, Wu Yingcun, and Rulin Village.

It should be discovered by the reconnaissance company in disguise and marching north.

At 17 o'clock in the afternoon, the main force of the anti-Japanese army arrived in Suzhuang Village, and at the same time, the reconnaissance company also brought back the exact news of Yanjing.

"Encircling but not fighting, and keeping the Tongzhou telegraph unimpeded, the Japanese army is forcing to sign an alliance under the city!"

Tang Shaoyi shook his head again and again and said, "Tricky, tricky." ”

"Whatever, let's fight a battle first, and let the court know that we are here;"

The newly appointed commander of the cavalry regiment of the Anti-Japanese Army, Zhao Dabang, shouted angrily: "One more revenge for the blood feud in Jizhou!" ”

Yin Wenxin on the side rolled his eyes when he heard it.

He was a battalion officer of a cavalry battalion, and He Changying forced him into the general staff, but he called Zhao Dabang mallet, a rough man, to lead the newly established cavalry regiment.

To say that he is in a good mood is to fool the ghost.