Chapter 399 Northwest Ding

When the situation in the northwest came to an end, the Northern Theater Command ushered in the first batch of negotiators from Britain and France, who were tough and threatened Iron 13 to release British and French soldiers and officers, otherwise the two countries would officially declare war and attack the Chinese Empire, sending hundreds of warships and 100,000 troops to attack.

They said it aggressively, but Tie Thirteen didn't eat this set of words at all and didn't reply, and directly beat people out and drove them out of the country.

So these people went to the eastern capital of Jinling, in order to avoid the encounter of Beijing, the state of the crossing was a lot gentler, expressed their willingness to make friends with the Chinese Empire, recognize your government, but also asked the Chinese Empire to show sincerity, release the prisoners, return the consular ambassador or something to them, and everyone can do business well in the future.

After all, the Yangtze River Delta is the largest part of their import and export trade with China, and it would be of great benefit to them to resume trade as soon as possible.

Li He was much kinder than Tie Thirteen, and invited them to drink tea and said slowly: "Oh, this is a good thing!" That's a good thing! Is this long overdue? Fighting, killing, hurting and being kind, we are a country of etiquette in China, and we like others to come to our house to do business. ”

"Yes, yes, yes! Commander Li really knows the general situation, the dragon and the phoenix among the people, and I also ask Commander Li to talk to the emperor of your country. The British and French envoys praised Li He and then sent a bank draft that could be exchanged for 50,000 silver, Li He did not hesitate, and accepted it directly, and then said:

"I like you Westerners to be so simple and generous and direct, in a few days I will talk to our Majesty, and return those prisoners to you, but you also have to prepare a ransom, ordinary soldiers will be 200 taels of silver per person, the price of a lieutenant will start at 1,000 taels, and the price of a school officer will start at 10,000 taels, and the general will directly order 100,000 a to count you as cheaper, and the price will not increase."

The British and French envoys looked constipated, your sister still dares to ask for ransom, and it is so expensive!

"Oh! That's right! Now that we are building railroads and telegraph lines, your soldiers will soon become skilled technicians, and the price will increase at that time, otherwise you will be redeemed by you, and we will delay our project and influence the development of our country, which is very unkind. ”

Your sister, who is not kind to let our soldiers build roads and wires as porters, and left angrily at the moment.

Soon the news of the defeat in the East reached Europe, and Europe was in an uproar, and many countries gloated, especially Germany, which quickly sent ambassadors to hold secret talks with the Chinese empire to carry out more business.

The French emperor Napoleon III angrily threw away his beloved treasures, and vowed to conquer the East in person and send a larger army, but was persuaded by his ministers on the grounds that the East was not worth such a large investment, and Germany was rising.

Their resources should be used in Europe, and there is a problem on the Mexican side, and more troops need to be invested to maintain the Mexican Empire, otherwise it will be overthrown by the natives, so there is no money and no soldiers in four words.

When the news reached the British mainland, it was also shaken, and the British people marched and demonstrated, demanding that the Cabinet come to power, accusing them of incompetence and burying tens of thousands of soldiers of the empire, who must be responsible.

Soon the Liberal Party led by the Earl of John Russell fell, and the Conservative Party led by the Earl of Derby came to power.

The new cabinet was reorganized, and the British people continued to march and demonstrate, saying that they would quickly rescue those captured soldiers, and at the same time, the families of the Chinese consuls and merchants who were detained also launched a march to rescue their families.

The new government immediately set about this task and sent envoys to China to negotiate, and soon the French side also sent representatives to negotiate with China to redeem the prisoners, and at the same time was the first to recognize the legitimacy of the Chinese Empire, of course, they had a condition that the Chinese army withdrew from Vietnam and was not allowed to fight Saigon, which naturally the Chinese Empire would not agree to later, of course, this matter could not be discussed until 1866, when the British and French representatives were still at sea.

Returning to Gansu, the Salar people of Xunhua were soon attacked by the north and south, with heavy casualties, and then asked to surrender, but the emperor did not allow it, and the clan was wiped out.

The area around Hezhou was peaceful, and armies from all directions gathered in Lanzhou to prepare to end the last battle in the northwest.

Because of geographical reasons, the main force is still on the south bank of the Yellow River, in the east and west directions of Lanzhou.

Soon Bai Yanhu really shamelessly released cruel words, the New People's Army really attacked Lanzhou and slaughtered the Han people in Lanzhou, so Yang Dongfang ordered the eastward army to stop at Jinxian County, pretending to stop the attack, but it made a big noise to attract the White Army to defend heavily in the east.

Other departments have penetrated into the Gaolan Mountains, infiltrated on a small scale, attacked and occupied small mountain roads, actively contacted Ma Zhanao, and responded to Lanzhou City to obtain information about Lanzhou City.

The north of the Yellow River is fully occupied by the New People's Army, but there is no heavy army of the New People's Army here, and it is separated by a wide Yellow River, which is easy to defend.

Just sent a small number of people to inspect Heti, and the focus was still on Jin County in the southeast.

From autumn to winter, the cold wind from the northwest howls like a knife, and the dry and cold air makes people feel that they are clenched and shivering.

The white army patrolling the river in the middle of the night became more and more lazy, you pushed me, I pushed you, and finally squatted under the wall and roasted the fire, half asleep.

Suddenly, there was a sound of footsteps approaching, and several people wearing long thick cotton clothes approached, and the people on duty became alert and shouted softly: "What people! ”

"Buddies, have worked hard, the emperor has ordered, now it's winter, this day is getting colder and colder day by day, starting from tonight, I will send five jars of wine every night to treat everyone."

"What! There is such a good thing, from today onwards there will be wine on the evening cruise. ”

Hearing this, Baijiu leaned over one after another, and under the leadership of the leader of the team, he drank a bowl of wine one by one, and the leader of the team said: "Okay, I drank the emperor's wine, and I will patrol the river later." ”

Everyone nodded yes, thanking the brothers who sent the wine by the way, and invited them to drink a little too, but just stood up, their eyes were a little foggy, and the whole person was shaky.

"Why are you a little dizzy on this day..!"

"Why don't I have any strength in my body?"

After a while, the river patrol team was all fascinated, and the person who delivered the wine showed his fangs, wiped the river patrol team neck one by one, took the torch, and shook it to the north.

Soon the surface of the Yellow River roared, stirring up the uneasiness of the night, and a pontoon bridge gradually extended, and black shadows crossed the river from the opposite side.

"I don't know which general! In the lower Marin Mountain, I was ordered by the commander of my family to lead the army to cross the river here. ”

Yang Dongfang glanced at him and only said: "My surname is Yang, where is Ma Dashuai, and what is the situation in the city." ”

Ma Linshan was stunned for a moment after hearing this, but he reacted very quickly, and it was not a fool to be sent by Ma Zhanao to perform this task, so he immediately knelt down and said, "Your Majesty. Your Majesty. Lord Yang, Dashuai, they are now in Seongdong. ”

"Good! Lead the way ahead. ”

Soon Yang Dongfang and others came to the city cave, this gate is a small gate, which has been controlled by Ma Zhanao and others, but the use of force has already alarmed the white army in the city.

After a while, the white army patrolling the inner city ran over, and a bloody battle broke out between the two sides immediately, and the shouts of killing spread throughout the whole place in a moment, and the various units of the New People's Army under the guidance of Ma Zhanao and others captured various key points, and Ma Zhanao himself led a team of New People's Army to Bai Yanhu's residence.

"Ma Zhanao, you bastard, you actually eat inside and outside, you actually surrendered to the New People's Army, and you should join forces with me in Lanzhou." Bai Yanhu heard that the New People's Army had entered the city, and his subordinates saw Ma Zhanao leading people to attack the residence, and quickly passed him, and when he came out, he found that it was Ma Zhanao's troops, and Bai Yanhu was so angry that he smoked.

Ma Zhanao saw Ma Zhanao standing outside the high school and scolded a fool, and then said to a battalion commander of the New People's Army: "The one who wears white clothes and gold crowns is Bai Yanhu." ”

"Shoot! Kill Bai Yanhu. ”

The new army pointed their guns at Bai Yanhu one after another, so frightened that he hurriedly jumped away, Ma Zhanao saw this and said to Ma Haiyan: "Follow me and kill Bai Yanhu." ”

With the musket cover of the New People's Army, Ma Zhanao bravely rushed forward, and soon killed it, Bai Yanhu saw that the situation was not good, and fled from the back door early, and did not stay at all, and then took a team of 100 people to come out of the West Gate, and there was no nostalgia and infatuation for Lanzhou, as if he had calculated that there would be such a day, which made Ma Zhanao, who was chasing him and wanted to be captured alive, depressed.

He didn't expect Bai Yanhu to be so decisive and ruthless, so he had to send Ma Haiyan to lead the New People's Army to chase after him, and he returned to Lanzhou City to help Yang Dongfang control Lanzhou City.

Bai Yanhu fled, and a large number of white troops in the city were defeated to the east of the city, so three-quarters of the white army and the Hui bandits in Lanzhou concentrated in the east of the city, and promoted Yu Deyan as the boss, counterattacking to recapture Lanzhou City.

Yang Dongfang did not launch an attack that night, but cleared out the north and west of the city, rescued the Han people who were held hostage, and continued to compress the east of the city step by step, waiting for dawn.

After dawn, the New People's Army in Jinxian County advanced from the east and southeast, while the small units of the New People's Army scattered in Tianquan Mountain entered the city from the west city to strengthen the forces in the city.

Originally, Ma Zhanao proposed to persuade these people to surrender, but Yang Dongfang did not give this opportunity and only said: "They have no intention of repenting now, and they have not taken the initiative to ask us to surrender, if I agree with you to persuade them, it seems that they are very important, even if such people finally submit to our Chinese Empire, they will rebel in the future."

Therefore, I don't need this kind of half-hearted people in the Chinese Empire, what I want is eternal peace in the northwest. ”

Ma Zhanao's heart was shocked, and he didn't say much.

Soon, the New People's Army attacked on three sides, the shelling continued, and the stubborn White Army and the Hui bandits were beaten to the point that they had no power to fight back, and then they realized that their numerical superiority was useless, so they wanted to surrender.

However, the attacking officers received an order to annihilate them all, and without being polite, they kept advancing, firing artillery and shooting.

The eastern part of the city was soon bombed into ruins, piles of corpses buried under the loess, the white army and the Hui bandits could not bear it and had to break through to the southeast, out of the city they had no cover, all of them were surrounded on the hill five miles away, waiting for the final fate.