On the evening of the 18th, under the bloody red glow in the west, the convoy entered Jinmen City.

The long convoy passed through the densely packed streets and alleys to the Western Hospital in Zizhulin.

On top of the carriages, the seats were crowded with wounded anti-Japanese soldiers, Jiangnan soldiers, Lu Dong Army, Lu Yong, and Ting Army soldiers waiting for treatment.

The bodies of these wounded soldiers were thickly wrapped in bloodstained gauze, which was chilling to look at.

The bluestone road was bumpy and bumpy, and while the carriage was shaking, some seriously injured soldiers were squeezed into their wounds, and from time to time let out a desperately suppressed moan of pain.

The sound of horses' hooves and the cooing of wheels.

The city was full of awe.

According to the arrangement, after these wounded soldiers have been examined and screened by doctors at St. Mary's Hospital, the hospital will receive the wounded soldiers who cannot be treated by the military station branch for treatment, and the rest will be sent to the Dagu military station branch hospital.

On that day, Li Jingfang had been busy at St. Mary's Hospital until the early hours of the morning before he finished arranging things.

Early the next morning, Li Jingfang got up early and wanted to go back to his home before leaving for Dagu Military Station, meet his old father, and at the same time meet his wife and younger siblings at home.

However, before Li Jingfang could get into the carriage, he was urgently summoned by Wang Wenshao, the deputy minister of the Beiyang Office, and at the same time got a shocking news that the Japanese warships were coming to Tanggu.

Soon after, the second telegram was sent from the battalion office of the Dagu Naval Division: The Japanese ship group was sailing towards Beitang, and a faint thunder came from the north, suspected of shelling.

Suddenly, the civil and military ministers in the Governor's Mansion of Zhili were all full of fear,——Could it be that the Japanese soldiers planned to land from Beitang like the British and French forces thirty years ago, and then make a detour to attack the rear flank of the Dagu artillery group?"

In the lobby of the Governor's Palace, everyone was flustered and depressed, and they were all thinking about the military disaster in Jinmen back then, and it would be possible that it would be repeated today.

Didn't they all say that they had made peace, why did they still fight?

It's unreasonable!

About an hour later, a third telegram came: the Japanese warships sailed to the sea at the mouth of Dagu and began shelling the southern artillery group.

The entire Jinmen was disturbed.

Tens of thousands of people, carrying valuable goods, poured out of Jinmen City with their families and fled in all directions.

And those people who were unwilling to leave Tianjin flocked to the Zizhulin Concession to seek shelter from foreigners.

It's only half a day's work, and the entire Jinmen is already depressed and empty.

Yanjing, the Forbidden City's Heart Palace.

Cixi Lafayette sat behind the wooden puppet Emperor Guangxu with a curtain down, and after listening to the urgent report of the Prime Minister Yamen about Tanggu, he was silent for a long time behind the jade curtain.

The important ministers of the hall were silent, all anxiously waiting for the corresponding regulations of Lafayette.

"Is there any news of He Changying, where has his army gone?"

Hearing Cixi's inquiry, Sun Yuwen, the secretary of the Ministry of War, was slightly stunned, thinking to himself that Lafayette asked what this irrelevant thing was for?

Now it's about how Tanggu dealt with the Japanese warships, and He Changying's team is about to run to the Beijing Division, no matter how sharp it is, it is beyond the reach of the whip?

Sun Yuwen didn't dare to hesitate, and hurriedly kowtowed and replied: "Emperor Qi, Empress Dowager Qi, He Changying's anti-Japanese army left Qiaoshan Town on the 16th, and according to the army's itinerary, it is estimated that it will arrive in the suburbs of Beijing in the past two days. ”

"It's good to fight a dozen——, there are foreigners' concessions in Jinmen, so many industries, don't foreigners just love money? Hmph, it's broken, and the mourning family doesn't believe that they don't feel distressed, and they don't blow up! ”

Cixi snorted coldly, and said: "Let the army of the Ninghe battalion go to guard the Jinmen, isn't the anti-Japanese army boasting that no one can break through their city defenses?" As the saying goes, a cannon has no eyes, and there are thousands of foreigners in the purple bamboo forest——"

Although Cixi did not say it thoroughly, the ministers in the palace all understood.

"Emperor Qi, Empress Dowager Qi, the minister proposed to transfer the 8,000 thousand troops of Luanzhou to Jinmen, plus the city defense battalion, and the Jinmen brigade ,——"

Xu Yongyi, Minister of Military Aircraft, opened his mouth to make a move: "In case the Dagu Fort cannot be defended, there are still four or five thousand people who retreat, and with these nearly 20,000 troops, it is enough to resist the Japanese soldiers." ”

Cixi glanced at Xu Yongyi lightly through the bead curtain, and she was sometimes annoyed and angry about this core of the imperial party who was too upright and talkative.

"Since we want to negotiate peace, we have to abide by the rules and let foreigners know the credibility of our Qing Dynasty; ——The mobilization of the 4,000 troops of the Ninghe battalion was just to avoid the misery of Jinmen, and the transfer of Liu Kun changed the taste of this dish and became a war; This matter needs no further discussion! ”

After listening to Cixi's assertion, many of the ministers kneeling below were instantly enlightened.

What a 'snipe and clam fight'!

It is best to finish the Jinmen Brigade, defeat the Japanese soldiers, and kill the foreigners in the purple bamboo forest in the bombing.

Then it's perfect!

The 5,000 vertical and horizontal anti-Japanese army in Jinjing, compared with the 10,000 vertical and horizontal anti-Japanese army in Tianjin, is not a concept at all.

Although he forgave He Changying's courage, he didn't dare to do anything.

But I'm afraid that if this kid loses his temper after the war, under the instigation of Li Jingfang, Jia Qisheng, Jiang Zikang, etc., it will be a big trouble to compete to receive Lao Li's Beiyang.

Lao Li's eldest son, Li Jingfang, became the logistics chief of He Changying's Mountain Customs Corps, and Lao Li's heart, the Beiyang Naval Division, hid in Port Arthur.

Li Jingfang, Ding Ruchang, Liu Buyun, Jia Qisheng, Xu Bangdao, Jiang Zikang, Jiang Guidi, Cheng Yunhe, Xia Qingyun, and Tang Shaoyi, the left and right hand of Yuan Shikai, the successor of Lao Li who had been trained before, all gathered together.

If there is no greasy and no shadow of Lao Li in this, then it is really a living liar!

Moreover, after the purple bamboo forest was blown up, the foreigners and the Japanese were angry, and the Qing Dynasty was able to turn left and right from it, and the fishermen benefited.

"Fortitude, you go to meet with Britain and the ministers of various countries, and ask why Toyo has not kept the agreement? Inform them that before the Japanese soldiers in Jinmen retreat, as a punishment for the failure of the Toyo to keep their promises, the daily supply of military rations to the Japanese soldiers outside the city will be halved! ”

"Hum—"

The hall was suddenly full of ears, and they all felt that Lafayette's will was a little incomprehensible.

The Japanese did not keep their promises and brazenly sent troops to attack Jinmen.

According to the routine 'international axioms', it is only right that the Japanese should be forced to withdraw their troops through the operation of foreigners while mobilizing the large army for defense.

Now Lafayette's will, not to mention whether it will anger the Japanese army outside the city, at least give the Japanese an illusion that as long as they can endure eating less than half of the eggs and meat every day, they can continue to send troops to attack Jinmen as they want.

In the third year of Guangxu (1877), he was rewarded for rehabilitating Yang Naiwu and Ge Bi's case, and then according to the procurator, the political envoy, the governor of Shanxi, and the governor of Jiangsu, all the way to the official fortune.

Until this time, because of the main battle of Li Chen, Zhang Zhiwan was replaced by Emperor Guangxu and promoted to the Minister of Military Aircraft.

Fortitude has always been tough and domineering, especially tough on foreigners, Lafayette asked him to inform foreigners, and if it doesn't work, the two sides will break up unhappily.

That Japanese soldiers are still fighting Jinmen?

After listening to Cixi's edict, a group of old foxes in the hall trembled in their hearts and cried out again and again:

Lafayette, we are precious porcelain, and we still need to use this strategy to deal with the coarse tile jars of the small anti-Japanese army?

When the Chinese New Year's Eve is thirty thousand Xiang Army, controlling the southeast half of the rivers and mountains, under your palm, it is still up to ashes!

Can't everything wait for the treaty to be signed and the Japanese soldiers retreat?

Besides, we are in the Qing Dynasty, and we lack a few eggs, a few taels of pork, and we are scheming with these poor ghosts?

If it really annoys the Japanese army outside the city, it will be a real monstrous disaster!