Bang!

The teacup in Li Hongzhang's hand slipped to the ground, waking up the dull-eyed Li Hongzhang. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"It's a big day!" Li Hongzhang sighed.

Li Hongzhang, who was already gray-haired, seemed to be aging by dozens of years at this moment, as if he was about to die.

The news that the 8th, 9th, and 10th towns of the Beiyang Army had rebelled and captured Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Anqing finally reached Yanjing, and the Qing court was shocked.

However, this was only the beginning, and then the other six towns of the Beiyang Army rebelled, the "short-haired thieves" went out of Sichuan to attack the city, and the 600,000 Qing troops were exhausted and other bad news spread to Yanjing in turn, and the Qing court was completely panicked and did not know what to do.

The Qing court also wanted to use the 100,000 Beiyang Army to exterminate the "short-haired thieves", but now all but the first town have rebelled, and more than three-quarters of the Manchu troops in the whole country are concentrated in the periphery of Siqi, and they have not resisted the "short-haired thieves".

In the end, Prince Yi Xun played Emperor Guangxu and Empress Dowager Cixi: You can ask the British for help.

Now that the Qing court has nothing to do, asking the British for help is also a last resort, and the Empress Dowager Cixi, who still holds the power of the Qing court, ordered Prince Yi Xun to represent the Qing court with full powers, regardless of any conditions, to ask the British for help, and must eliminate the "short-haired thief".

However, at such a critical moment in the Qing court, the Qing court still did not stop infighting, and Weng Tonggong and other Qing school ministers impeached Li Hongzhang and listed Li Hongzhang's ten major crimes.

Whether Li Hongzhang is wrong or not, the Empress Dowager Cixi knows it.

Li Hongzhang's ability in the Qing court is the highest, and he is loyal to the Qing court, but this time Li Hongzhang made too big a mistake.

So, the Empress Dowager Cixi issued an order to dismiss Li Hongzhang and investigate him.

In the end, Li Hongzhang was responsible for the formation and training of the nine towns of the Beiyang Army, which had rebelled, and Li Hongzhang's military deployment of the "short-haired thief", the 600,000-strong army did not hold back the "short-haired thief" for much time, and so on.

Li Hongzhang, who understood his fate, had already written his suicide note and waited for someone from the court to arrest him.

At the same time, Prince Yiyun also found the British minister to the Qing Dynasty, Sir Walter, and told Sir Walter about the current situation of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, hoping that Britain could send troops to help the Manchus.

When Sir Wall's body listened to the story of Prince Yiyun, his head was also confused, why in such a short period of time, the Manchu form would become so critical, and he needed to ask the British Empire to send troops to help.

Although cable telegraphs had appeared in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there were only some branch roads, and it was still very troublesome to transmit information.

Similarly, Sir Wall also understands that the information he is getting now is what happened a few days ago, and the real situation may be even more serious than what Yi Xun said.

Sir Wallace and Prince Yiyun did not continue to talk, although Lord Wallace was Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the British Empire, but it was not his turn to decide on such a major matter as sending troops to help the Manchus.

Of course, Sir Wall also knew that Britain had already decided that once the Manchu Qing Dynasty could not exterminate the "short-haired thieves", Britain would send troops with other countries to encircle and suppress the "short-haired thieves", but the price of sending troops had not yet been negotiated, and now the situation in the Manchu Qing Dynasty had changed dramatically, and everything was unknown.

It takes time to deliver a message, it takes time to send troops, and time passes slowly and waiting.

On the other side, the four major armies of the Han army are also advancing rapidly.

By the end of April, the Suzaku Army had captured most of the provinces of Susu and Shaanxi, and the first division of the main force of the Suzaku Army was preparing to march to Shanxi Province and wanted to penetrate Yanjing.

On May 2nd, the Blue Dragon Legion captured Xining, the capital of the Lunar Territory, most of the Qinghai Legion had been captured by the Blue Dragon Legion, and all the forces that dared to resist the Han Army were all killed, as of May 2nd, the Blue Dragon Legion had eliminated more than 10,000 enemies, captured 10,000 war horses, and countless cattle and sheep.

On May 4, the Xuanwu Army Corps took Yunan Province and Guizhou Province, and the Fourth Division, the main force of the Xuanwu Army, stopped advancing and was stationed on the Sino-Vietnamese and China-Burmese borders, while the Ninth Division entered Quang Chi Province after taking Guizhou Province and swept the Qing army in Queng Chi Province.

On May 7, the White Tiger Army had taken Hubei Province, and Hunan Province captured most of it, and the third and sixth divisions of the White Tiger Army took the Yangtze River as the dividing line to sweep the Qing army in the lower and upper reaches of the Yangtze River respectively.

The rapid advance of the four major armies was also inseparable from the efforts of the rear, and every time the four major armies captured a city, they handed over the city to the armed police and the security police, and there was no need to waste time for the captured city.

After the armed police and public security police maintained the security of the captured city, it did not take long for the officials selected in advance by the Han Kingdom to arrive in the city and form a provisional government, and under the control of the provisional government, the life of the common people in the city quickly returned to normal.

After doing this, just as the Gan regime had occupied Siqi, the provisional governments of the cities, with the help of agents of the Ministry of Intelligence, began to screen and capture the hidden enemies and the most heinous people in the cities, and by the way, they raided their homes and returned their collected wealth to the public, which was used to promote the development of the region after the war.

In addition, the Provisional Government's arrest of those who committed great treachery and evil crimes was also able to initially win the support of the local people, so that the decrees issued by the government could be smoothly passed and local stability could be maintained.