Hu Xiaoyan didn't sleep that night, he sat upright in the chair of the headquarters all night, squinting his eyes and thinking about his thoughts.

Not many people could sleep this night.

Wang Tingjiao and Li Ze both did a good job, they improvised a simple offensive to block the retreat of the coalition army, while Ma Yukun opened the way with Maxine in front, throwing torches in front while the army pressed the border. Finally, at around two o'clock in the morning, the inner city coalition army was completely defeated.

At about three o'clock in the morning, he received the news that the coalition army had been basically purged. But Hu Xiaoyan didn't mean to be happy.

The so-called trapped beast is still fighting. The Japanese army itself was ferocious, and when there were not many bullets, they chose hand-to-hand combat. Some of the Japanese soldiers looked as if they were dead, but the new soldiers did not pay attention, and the Japanese soldiers, who were originally corpses, jumped up and launched hand-to-hand attacks. As a result, the soldiers of the new army died in the darkness of the night, and almost 5,000 of them died. In the breakout battles that preceded this, the total number of soldiers killed by the Forces nouvelles was less than two thousand.

That's the gap! The gap between the qualities of the soldiers, the gap between the abilities of the commanders!

This was after the death of the Japanese commander Yamaguchi Sotomi and the absence of a unified command system for the Eight-Nation Alliance. If Yamaguchi Suchen is still stocked, how many people will the new army have to die to take the inner castle? Ten thousand or twenty thousand?

Hu Xiaoyan doesn't know! Ma Yukun is outdated! Wang Tingjiao, Zhang Shaozeng and others have not grown up yet!

The next day, under the wounded command of Ma Yukun, the New Army began to clear the city of Beijing from lone coalition soldiers and deserters. He is also responsible for some ruffians who take advantage of the fire to rob. Although martial law was imposed in the city of Beijing, there were always some people who were not afraid of death and ignored military orders. Chinese are always good at hurting their own people.

Hu Xiaoyan also disarmed the US soldiers after the next two rounds of preliminary negotiations. More than 2,000 soldiers led by General Wilson were officially escorted into the prisoner of war camp. General Wilson, on the other hand, was retained by the U.S. Embassy. Wilson became the embassy attaché, which meant that he had diplomatic immunity. The defense of the embassy was handed over to about 300 soldiers selected by Hu Xiaoyan from the prisoner of war camp. Hu Xiaoyan also asked Jiang Yanxing to lead more than 500 people to "protect the embassy". Jiang Yanxing led the team to capture the coalition forces, and he had some "prestige" among the coalition captives.

Two days later, the order of Beijing City basically returned to normal, and the materials prepared by Hu Xiaoyan in advance also began to enter Beijing City. All the supplies in Beijing are supplied by the outside world, and many Beijing residents have run out of food at home during the siege of the city in the past few days.

Russia and Japan eventually joined the negotiations under the persuasion of the British, but they refused to negotiate on the grounds that Hu Xiaoyan was not of sufficient rank. Hu Xiaoyan is the premier of Yamen (still private) from the General Department of Mining of Qipin, and his level is really not enough. But those who are of sufficient level, such as Prince Gong and others, Hu Xiaoyan will not release them.

The families of several princes of the Manchu Qing Dynasty have more or less suffered some military disasters, and ordinary soldiers of foreigners don't know whether you are a prince or not. They are also in the midst of a headache, and they have not yet realized the importance of their own identity, and Hu Xiaoyan has also placed them under house arrest in disguise, so that they cannot obtain information from the outside world. In those days, there were no telephones, and even wireless transmitters were owned only by Hu Xiaoyan in China.

Li Hongzhang had already received a telegram from Hu Xiaoyan, and at Hu Xiaoyan's urging, he began to prepare to enter Beijing with suspicion. Before that, Hu Xiaoyan chose to keep it as it was.

He couldn't express his opinion, it was simple. His level is really not enough! On the other hand, Hu Xiaoyan does not want to conclude peace talks anytime soon. Quite simply, the news of the occupation of Beijing by the New Army spread throughout Europe, the United States, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty with Hu Xiaoyan's repair of the embassy's telegraph lines. The Russian massacre was also poked out with this wave of victories. If the Manchus had failed, no one would have stabbed this out without interest, which would have made them a thorn in the side of Russia. But now that the Eight-Nation Coalition has failed, Hu Xiaoyan is the primary target of the Eight-Nation Alliance's retaliation, and conscientious Western and Russian journalists who secretly took pictures of the massacre have published photos in Shanghai newspapers.

Now this newspaper is on Hu Xiaoyan's desk. Hu Xiaoyan is in trouble!

Rationally speaking, this matter cannot be good, since Hu Xiaoyan has mastered the power of Beijing, then he must take this responsibility! He must seek justice from Russia.

But in fact, can he afford the burden? can't afford it, let alone him, and Li Hongzhang, Yuan Shikai or Cixi, the old lady, can't afford it. Without him, you can't beat it.

Neither Yuan Shikai nor Hu Xiaoyan could defeat the Russians. The Russian army in Siberia was now numbered at just over 20,000 after being evacuated twice. It doesn't seem to be much in terms of quantity. But that's not how combat effectiveness counts. These people are all scoundrels, condemned prisoners. Not being afraid of death is the basic characteristic of these people, and at the same time, the quality of the officers of the Siberian Army is much higher than that of the Russian ** officers of the coalition army.

In fact, the only forces that could really fight the Eight-Nation Coalition were the Japanese army and the American army. Many of the officers from other countries actually came to gild. Also, what army can a backward and barbaric country like China fight? The Eight-Nation Alliance's early 20,000 people, under the leadership of Seymour, all entered Tianjin smoothly, if it weren't for Seymour's audacity to send only two or three thousand people to Beijing to die, where would there have been so many things later?

China's army is actually a weak chicken in the eyes of the Eight-Nation Alliance. Historically, they have easily breached the city of Beijing. The number of dead and wounded was less than 10,000, while the number of casualties on the Manchu side was in the hundredth thousand. That's the gap!

And the Siberian officers are regular non-commissioned officers of the Russian army, and all of them are veterans of the battlefield, and they will not make the same mistake as Seymour and Alekseev underestimating the enemy.

If Alekseev and Yamaguchi Suchen and others had been a little more vigilant after entering the city of Beijing, they would not have been successfully attacked by Hu Xiaoyan so easily. Hu Xiaoyan's successful sneak attack is really lucky!

Without the airship troops, Hu Xiaoyan would not have been able to defeat the 20,000 Russian troops in Siberia, even if Hu Xiaoyan now had more than 30,000 troops. What's more, the Japanese army in Korea is eyeing the Japanese army, and if it were not for the repeated warnings of the Russians to the Japanese army, it is believed that the Japanese army has appeared on Chinese soil.

But today's airship is not the airship of twenty years from now, and the current airship has neither GPS nor radar. After flying out, maybe it is a trivial matter not to find where the enemy troops are, but it is a big thing that they can't find their way back to the base!

After the heavy casualties of the new army under Hu Xiaoyan, there are now only about seven or eight thousand people who can move. This is the number of trained troops recruited from Anhui, from which a total of almost 20,000 troops have been recruited. The casualty ratio is more than 60%! The remaining more than 20,000 people, of which about 5,000 were Boxer soldiers who had been reorganized before and after the war, and the rest were scattered armed guards.

I believe that needless to say, everyone understands how much combat effectiveness these temporarily reorganized troops can have. In a word, it's just the scum of the five.

Of course, the 2,000-person pseudo-special forces who survived are still there, and the 200-strong special forces are still there, which gives Hu Xiaoyan a little confidence. Now there are only 2,200 troops that can fight.

"Hu, it's really good that you're here." Those who can come in without saying hello are no one else except Ma Yukun and Clinde. Ma Yukun was still reorganizing the army, so it was Clint who came in.

"Mr. Clinder, you have betrayed the trust I have placed in you." Hu Xiaoyan handed the newspaper to Clinder.

"The Russians are so barbaric that they don't deserve to be part of the civilized world. I would propose to His Majesty the Emperor that sanctions be imposed on the Russians. Rest assured, my friend. No matter what decision you make, Germany will always stand firmly behind you. Clint yelled exaggeratedly.

The history books say that Baron Clinder was short-tempered and irritable. Obviously, the people who wrote the history books must not have known Clinder. How can he be an angry and short-tempered person as a minister of a country? It's just a protective color.

Hu Xiaoyan's eyelids didn't move.

"Governor Li has received the authorization of His Majesty and the Cabinet of our country, and is now rushing to the capital. When the time comes, he will negotiate with you about the aftermath, and I will not be involved. ”

Clint was stunned: "You don't participate?" ”

This caught Klinder a little off guard! He had spoken to Dou Nale, and both of them had reached an agreement on Hu Xiaoyan's rule of the Manchus. After all, a person who understands Western culture well and has a positive attitude towards bilateral trade cooperation is very important to the European world. Don't you see that the British did not occupy Tianjin of the Manchu Qing Dynasty after launching the ** war? After the Gengzi Incident, Britain, France, the United States and other European countries did not choose to occupy Tianjin and Beijing, they just sought the opening of the door! For Europe and the United States, war is only a last resort, and if they can achieve commercial development without war, it is the pursuit of Western businessmen. Merchant making money is king, just as businessman hates war!

"Mr. Hu, I think you should think again. I've spoken to other knights like Dou Nale, and it's our shared hope that you'll be in the center. "Clint is in a hurry, who knows if a different person will agree to open up the mainland market of the Qing Dynasty? In the same way, now that the countries of Europe have suffered heavy casualties, and the Manchus are also in a mess, with a different person, who knows if a consensus can be reached?

"Don't think about it, at least I'm just a small person in the Qing Kingdom now. I'll talk about it when I get into the center someday. ”

Clinder blinked, he seemed to understand something, but he didn't seem to quite understand.