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When the emperor and ministers were all panicked and helpless in the Palace of Heart Cultivation, the direction of the power of the Jingshi changed sharply without warning.

After the Second Opium War, the Taiping War, the Twist, and the Sino-French War, the Empress Dowager Cixi, the Qing Dynasty giant who has been hiding behind the scenes since the beginning of the Qing-Japanese War in the First Sino-Japanese War.

After knowing the war situation in Jizhou on the morning of the 17th, he finally took the authority strongly, bypassed Emperor Guangxu and a group of military ministers, and directly intervened in the Qing-Japanese war.

The Empress Dowager Cixi sent a letter to Prince Yi and ordered him to visit the British minister Ou Ge in Dongjiaomin Lane, and asked the British to fulfill their previous promise to prevent the Japanese army from attacking Tongzhou and retreat to Yangjiabo Town on the Bohai Sea southeast of the Ning River.

After that, Cixi instructed the infantry to lead the Nine Gates Admiral Rong Lu, close the Nine Gates of Yanjing, and strictly prohibit idle people from entering and leaving.

At the same time, a telegram was sent to the envoys waiting in Nagasaki, demanding that they leave for Hiroshima for peace talks immediately.

After getting Yi's will, he hurriedly prepared a carriage and ran to Prince Chun's mansion in Dongjiaomin Lane, asking to see Ou Gegan.

Although Oger had received a secret telegram from London before, he knew that the Japanese Weihaiwei army was about to land in Zhili, and the situation would evolve in the future, and it was very complicated that it could get out of control.

However, he still swears to Yi? It was promised that the British Empire would definitely guarantee that the Qing Dynasty's Yanjing City would not be attacked by the Japanese army, and after the Japanese General Kuroki accepted the military power of the 1st Army, he would also keep his promise and lead the army to retreat east to the Ning River.

In fact, British Foreign Secretary Kimberley said in a secret telegram to Oggon that no matter how the situation evolved, it was necessary to try to persuade and coax the emperor of the Qing Dynasty to leave Yanjing and flee south, so as not to slide into a long-term abyss in the Qing-Japanese war.

Although Dongyang used the annihilation of the 3rd Brigade of Shanhaiguan as an excuse to use the Weihaiwei army into the Bohai Sea with the intention of reinforcing the 1st Army, this behavior annoyed the British.

However, when the Qing envoys arrived in Nagasaki, they no longer took a boat to Hiroshima, and Guangxu instead sent a tough telegram to the kings everywhere.

All this made Britain realize that because of the changes in Shanhaiguan, the Qing Dynasty, which had always been accustomed to repeated and unruly treaties, had the intention of continuing to fight.

Well, maybe Toyo is right this time!

Therefore, Kimberly put forward the bottom line of the British government in his secret order to Ogg, the Japanese army could defeat all the Qing troops outside Yanjing, but it was absolutely not allowed to set foot in Yanjing.

Otherwise, it would mean that the East was a barbaric country that was completely untrustworthy, and the British Empire would sever all diplomatic and economic ties with the East, and at the same time would not rule out the use of force to help the Qing Dynasty defend itself against foreign humiliation.

After receiving the solemn promise of Ou Gegan, he rushed to the Summer Palace to meet his sister-in-law Cixi, who was still a little hesitant after hearing the joy for the first time.

So, Cixi handed over the choice of whether to leave Beijing for hunting to Guangxu.

In Cixi's original words, 'He is the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and it was his will to fight with the East, and now that people have hit the door, whether it is to escape or to die, and it is not that I, an old woman who cares for the elderly in the garden, can afford to take the idea.' ’

Because of the 'Ogerg' thing, almost all the opinions in the court were almost unified, and the idea of patrolling Xi'an was immediately overturned.

Especially the Guangxu Emperor, as a young emperor in his early twenties, full of enthusiasm and ambition, wants to reproduce the former glory of his ancestors' 'all nations come to court'.

It is even more unbearable to endure the humiliation of 'the Japanese soldier criminal, the emperor is afraid of hunting in the west' that is destined to be recorded in the history books.

"Even if it is to negotiate peace, we must stand upright and awe-inspiring to talk about peace, and we must not let the Japanese Island laugh at my courage!"

In the sunset on February 17 of the Western calendar, Emperor Guangxu almost shouted this 'sonorous oath' with a kind of fanaticism, thus making the final decision.

Since the emperor has made up his mind, the ministers below have to carry out the emperor's will no matter how bitter they are and how worried they are in their hearts.

The first is the city defense of the capital, which is a first-class event, 130,000 troops, just their respective city defense divisions, and if they are noisy, they will let a group of bigwigs in the military department blow up their heads.

The second is the grain and coal reserves of the Jingshi, although there is already the promise of the world's number one empire, but the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Government are not old people, and the basic truth of being prepared is still clear.

Then there is the security of the capital division, don't let those ruffians take advantage of the chaos and harm the capital.

And—

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In this way, I was busy in a mess, and I was busy until it was dark at night, and I didn't come out with a clue.

"Da, da, da-"

"Get out of the way, get out of the way!"

At this time, several fast horses swept in from the Guangqu Gate and rushed towards the Forbidden City with a roar.

Soon, the Japanese army appeared in the east of Tongzhou City, and the news of the Chaobai River crossing spread throughout the Beijing Division.

Jingshi immediately disturbed.

"It's coming so fast!"

Although it was expected, this news still shocked Guangxu and the ministers of civil and military affairs, and their hearts were full of 'groans'. - It's time to come, it's still coming!

Tongzhou City.

As the sun sets, Prince Gong Yi?, Nie Shicheng, Governor of Zhili, Cheng Wenbing, Governor of Hubei, Li Zhanchun, General Soldier of Anhui Wannan Town, Ding Huai, Chief Soldier of Yunnan Army, Wan Benhua, Chief Soldier of Caozhou Town, Zhang Guolin, Governor of Zhejiang, Wang Wenjin, Left Squire of the Military Department, Li Minchen of Jinmen Dao——

A group of Qing army ministers stood at the head of Tongzhou City, looking at the area of the Chaobai River in the east.

In their sights, the British Minister Ogg, the Consul General of Tianjin, the Consul General of Tianjin, the Consul General of Yantai, Alinger, the American Minister, Tian Bei, the French Minister, the French Minister, the Russian Minister, Cassini, the German Minister, and the Italian Minister, Martina.

The envoys of the six countries rode in six large carriages, each with a conspicuous national flag of their own country, escorted by 200 Western cavalry, and drove to the Japanese camp at the Yunchao River five miles to the east.

"Generals, this battle has basically stopped until now; How it went, it's all here to go, and I don't need to say more, alas—"

Prince Gong? I want to say something, but now these generals, except for a light pole commander Nie Shicheng, who has fought with the Japanese soldiers, can only be regarded as meeting with the Japanese soldiers today, and they suddenly lost their interest in talking.

After watching it for a while, Yi? Feeling tired, he waved his hand to signal that all the generals were waiting for the reply from the foreigners, and went straight down the city wall to rest.

On the city wall, everyone's faces were ugly and silent.

"Why are there so many Japanese soldiers, didn't you say that He Changying, Liu Duxian and them wiped out 3 infantry wings and 1 cavalry brigade in Shanhaiguan?"

When Nie Shicheng was in the Jizhou defense line before, in the gentle plains, he never achieved today's condescending perspective.

At this time, when he stood on the city wall, and took advantage of the high terrain in the west and low in the east of the Tongzhou area, he could see the situation of the Japanese army at a glance from the single-hole telescope.

Seeing the military camps stretching for miles from Sutuo Village, Gengzhuang Village, to Huotun Village, on the north and south banks of the Tide Reduction River, Nie Shicheng couldn't help but be shocked and asked.

"Liu Kunyi captured nearly 1,000 prisoners at Shanhaiguan, including Major General Yamaguchi Suchen, the commander of the 3rd Brigade of the Japanese Emperor; According to the confession of the Japanese soldiers, after breaking the pass, the Japanese army still had about 278,000 troops, leaving 10,000 in Shanhaiguan, but Youpeng in Shan County incorporated 10,000 Japanese soldiers into the army. ”

Wang Wenjin on the side opened his mouth to explain: "This matter was spread out to show the military strength of the Japanese soldiers, so I didn't send a message to all places, and I only found out about it yesterday." ”