President Meng smiled: "Lord Zhongtang, you're telling a joke, I mean, there may be robbers, do you want to say that I'm a robber?" ”

President Meng said with a smile, naturally there is a majesty, majesty, and the appearance of the person, and the age of the person, it has little to do with the person's power, with the power of the president Meng today, naturally he is not angry and arrogant!

Li Hongzhang looked at Zeng Jize, and then at Xuan Yuemeng, "Is there no room for negotiation?" ”

Zeng Jize sighed and said: "It seems that Lord Zhongtang, I can't go back with you to see the Queen Mother, with her heart, she must think that I am not good at negotiating, and even partner with Yuemeng, the matter has come to this, it is useless to say more, however, if Lord Zhongtang conveys Yuemeng's meaning, I think the Queen Mother of the two palaces and the emperor will be considerate." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Li Hongzhang smiled bitterly and shook his head, "Return to the emperor?" Whether the emperor can survive this month or not, it's all said! ”

President Meng was surprised, although he knew very little about history, however, Emperor Tongzhi probably died at this time, he still knew, it seems that history does have his own certainty! Emperor Tongzhi, this guy, in the end, contracted a dirty disease with Zaicheng to go to the land of fireworks.

"Then Zhongtang will go back quickly, I still say the same thing, my Huaguo, there will always be a place for Zhongtang Lord! In the Qing court, it is the middle hall, if you are willing to come to my side, it is still the middle hall! Zhongtang is the person I value the most in the Qing court! President Meng said sincerely.

Let's not talk about the system or not, if Li Hongzhang is willing to come to his side as a consultant, it is better than anything else, because Li Hongzhang understands the country, understands the hearts of the people, and knows the West very well.

Li Hongzhang nodded with a wry smile and said, "Yuemeng, don't say it again, your kindness, the old man understands it!" Ji Ze, since you have made your choice, then, take care of yourself. ”

Zeng Jize knew that he didn't say dark words in front of the Ming people, and Li Hongzhang had already seen through his thoughts of wanting to cast Xuan Yuemeng, so he had to hug his fists and say, "I'm sorry, Li Zhongtang." ”

Li Hongzhang said: "Don't say these sour words, I can have today, all thanks to Ling Zun, who is also my mentor, Lao Zhongtang, it's a pity that Li Hongzhang is incompetent, and he can't be like Lao Zhongtang, holding the Qing Dynasty to fall immediately!" ”

Meng President Khan, you are already in a lot of holes, how can you help it? If Lao Tzu hadn't seized power now, in the future, your Qing court would have made a papier-mâché fleet come out, and then give it all to the little devils, and then all of it to the sea, and then compensate 200 million taels of silver, and help Japan to become an Asian power and a world power?

However, the loyal and patriotic plots of these sour literati, President Meng still admires, without these thoughts, China, a huge country, cannot be prosperous and unified from generation to generation, but this is the end of the system! It should be said that if you are looking for the original and chasing the original, you should blame the old Zhu of the Ming Dynasty, not Zhu Yuanzhang, who is a stupid man, who raised a large group of Ming princes like pigs, and raised the Ming Dynasty to collapse, where is there a slave and a Manchu Qing? Without the entry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, with the industrial initialization of the Ming Dynasty, it was the Manchu that developed again, and it has been more than 200 years since the fall of Emperor Chongzhen, and China should have entered the capitalist economy a long time ago!

The country should have become a capitalist country a long time ago, and it should not be dragged back to the era of slavery by the Manchurians who drank blood!

The day after Li Hongzhang returned to Wei County, President Meng left for Beijing, while Xuan's mother and Xu Xiangzhi remained in Tianjin.

He was accompanied by the President's Guard and the President's Secretariat, the First Brigade of the First Field Division of the Chinese Army was transferred from the Hongpu Military Academy Teaching Brigade to accompany them, and the other three battalions of the 111th Regiment remained in Tianjin.

Beijing's urban defense system is composed of city walls, ancillary buildings such as arrow towers, corner towers, enemy platforms, moats and garrison troops.

When he arrived at the tall and magnificent Yongding Gate, President Meng was fascinated by the beauty of this Yongding Gate.

President Meng has been to Beijing, however, he didn't know much about military affairs before, and he didn't pay much attention to it, just a quick look, and now, President Meng has realized the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancients.

Yongding Gate is the main gate of the outer city wall of Beijing in the Ming and Qing dynasties, located on the central axis of Beijing, in the middle of Zuo'anmen and You'anmen, it is the largest one in the outer city gate of Beijing, and it is also the thoroughfare that enters and exits the capital from the south.

Yongding Gate was built in the 32nd year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, meaning "eternal stability". The shape of the city tower is the same as the inner city, the heavy eaves rest the mountain three drops of water pavilion type building, the ash tube tile green glazed tile cut edge top, the face is five rooms wide, and the width is 24 meters; There are three rooms deep, 10.50 meters deep, and 26 meters high.

During the Qing Dynasty, the main force of the Beijing garrison was the Xiaoqi Battalion (Flag Battalion), and the division was stationed in the inner city of Beijing (Mancheng), with the yellow flag in the Anding Gate, the yellow flag in the Desheng Gate, the white flag in the Dongzhi Gate, the white flag in the Chaoyang Gate, the red flag in the Xizhi Gate, the red flag in the Fucheng Gate, the blue flag in the Chongwen Gate, and the blue flag in the Xuanwu Gate.

Each flag is equipped with an official hall, a barracks and a stacking house (outpost).

In addition to the Xiaocai battalion, the Beijing urban defense garrison also includes the forward battalion, the guard battalion, the infantry patrol battalion, the Jianrui battalion, the firearms battalion, the Shenji battalion (set up in the 11th year of Xianfeng), the tiger gun battalion.

Among the nine gates of the inner city, eight gates except Zhengyang Gate were also defended by the soldiers of the Eight Banners according to this distribution, and were divided by the soldiers of the Manchurian, Mongol and Han armies.

However, the city gate leader (the officer in charge of guarding the city gate) is served by the officers of other banners: the leader of Andingmen is blue, the leader of Deshengmen is blue, the leader of Dongzhimen is white, the leader of Xizhimen is red, the leader of Chaoyangmen is white, the leader of Fuchengmen is red, the leader of Chongwenmen is yellow, and the leader of Xuanwumen is yellow.

Zhengyangmen is rotated by the Eight Banners.

Among the seven gates of the outer city, the Han army with the yellow flag is on the east gate, the Han army on the yellow flag is on the west gate, the Han army on the white flag is on the Guangqu gate, the Han army on the red flag is on the Guang'an gate, the Han army on the blue and white flags is on the Zuo'an gate, the Han army on the red flag is on the right Anmen, and the Han army on the blue flag is on the Yongding gate.

During the Qing Dynasty, the Eight Banners of the Xiaocai Battalion generally did not live on the city walls, but lived inside and outside the city gates for defense.

Only when the emperor left the palace and went to the Old Summer Palace, the Temple of Heaven and other places did he go to the city to defend the city.

However, the soldiers stationed on the Xuanwu Gate to defend the city fired letter cannons (noon cannons) at noon every day.

In the Second Opium War, due to the heavy defense of Beijing, the British and French troops who had reached the line from Deshengmen to Andingmen in northern Beijing gave up their attempt to attack Beijing and attacked the Old Summer Palace and Haidian instead.

In the battle of the Eight-Nation Alliance's attack on Beijing, the city of Beijing also played a very strong defensive role.

The Qing garrison took advantage of the high and wide walls of the Mancheng (inner city) to shoot at the besieging army from a high position on the wall.

The Russian and Japanese troops tried to blow up the gates of Dongzhimen and Chaoyangmen with cotton wool, but the soldiers who tried to light the fuses were repeatedly killed by the defenders on the wall.

For example, on the night of August 13, although the Russian army broke through the gate of the arrow tower of Dongbianmen, it was still attacked by the Qing army in the urn city and could not advance, and it was not until the morning of the 14th that the reinforcements arrived to capture the Dongbianmen tower.

Even after the coalition forces broke through the outer and inner cities, the walls and gates of the imperial city still played a certain defensive role.

In the early morning of 15 August, the US military bombarded the Tiananmen Gate with artillery, but did not open it, and finally used a ladder sent by Japanese engineers to climb the city and seize it.

In addition, in the "Guang'anmen Incident" on July 25, 1937, a brigade (battalion) of the Japanese army stationed in Fengtai drove into Beiping City on the grounds of "protecting overseas Chinese" and "protecting the embassy area of Dongjiaomin Lane", and when its convoy entered Guang'anmen, more than 20 Chinese soldiers defending the city gate condescendingly sniped at it with machine guns, forcing the Japanese army to abandon its attempt to enter Beiping, proving that the city of Beijing still has important defensive significance in modern warfare.

When the 112th Regiment of the 1st Brigade of the First Field Division of the Chinese Army came over, the Qing army was routed and fled, otherwise, it would not have been taken so easily.

Such a strong city, the capital of China, was taken by President Meng with almost no effort, which was not envisioned by President Meng at the beginning of his entry.

The Qing army fled and did not fight, which also proves that the Empress Dowager Cixi, or the political short-sightedness of the Qing government, pulled the elite of the Huai Army to Beijing early to garrison, and President Meng came with a complete First Field Division of the Chinese Army, which was useless. (To be continued.) )