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From Hong Renji's extremely indignant expression and tone, Zaiyuan learned that because the Puzhou Qing army ignored the repeated warnings of the Celestial Empire Red Army, used Pujin Pass as a bridgehead, repeatedly invaded the area controlled by the Celestial Empire Red Army, harassed the localities, robbed the people, and spying on the military situation, and caused many conflicts between the two sides, Yan zhòng affected the normal production and life of the people of the Celestial Empire, who had just escaped the flames of war and longed for stability and peace. Entrusted by the broad masses of toiling people, in order to punish those gangsters who ignored the instructions of the two sides not to invade each other and not to carry out any armed action during the peace talks, the Red Army of the Celestial Empire could not bear it anymore and rose up to defend itself and fight back.

The subordinates who came with Hong Renji laid out a large amount of evidence in front of Zaiyuan, including spies who crossed the river to spy on the Red Army of the Celestial Empire and were captured, prisoners who crossed the river to carry out harassment activities by disguised civilians, and various confessions drawn by guerrillas who led troops to attack the Biaoyamen of Puzhou Town, the fortress of the Red Army of the Celestial Empire on the other side of the river, as well as the captured orders of the Qing army, military uniforms, weapons, and so on. This qiē thing proves that the Red Army of the Celestial Empire definitely did not fire the first shot, and the action taken this time was really forced.

Facing Hong Renji, who obviously came to ask for an explanation, Zaiyuan really had nothing but sweating profusely. He was surprised, what happened at the same time, how did people get all the human and physical evidence in the first time, full of reason, but what about our Daqing? Not only did nothing come in, but there wasn't even a single message. Especially when he thought that Hong Renji would soon show this stall of things in front of the sightseeing group of the great powers who gathered in Jinan and waited for the good news of peace talks between the two sides, Zaiyuan was even more dizzy, and he wanted to find a wall and hit it headlong.

It is really a coincidence that Zaiyuan was angrily reprimanded and ridiculed by Hong Renji and later tourist groups from various countries, and could only prevaricate all aspects with "must strictly supervise such violations of negotiations", and not long after there was nothing else to say, the vice president of Zhongyi Salvation, who was responsible for the garrison of the Yellow River defense line west of Wuzhi County, and the letter from the military department of the capital, as well as the letter from Wang Yixin, arrived.

Mian Xun said that the capture of Pujin Pass by the Taiping Red Army was a premeditated act. He aggrievedly sued Sù Yixin, the Ministry of War and Zaiyuan, but Puzhou and Guanzhong were across the river, and the East and West confronted each other, and it was a self-evident matter for both sides to send spies. As for the Taiping Red Army's behavior of harassing its accusations under the pretext of harassing the Qing army, it was even more wrongful. In view of the fact that the two sides are engaged in peace talks, whether it is Pujin Pass or Puzhou City, although the Qing army is personally controlled by Kong Guangshun, the governor of Shanxi, it is not very tight. Especially before the peace talks broke down, Kong Guangshun did not have much war readiness, and even if he sent spies across the river, there were very few, where was there any reason to openly go to provoke?

The captured soldiers mentioned by the Taiping Red Army were actually some regimental training in Shaanxi, homesick, and had received promises from the Red Army on the other side, so from time to time there would be three or five people who practiced bravely crossing the river to visit relatives. After going back and forth, they actually colluded with the "red bandits" and started a rake. There is also the guerrilla of the Yamen, the chief soldier of Puzhou Town, who was obviously a rebel who betrayed the Qing Dynasty and secretly defected to the "red bandits", and now he actually started it......

In Wang Yixin's letter, there is more helplessness. He repeatedly admonished Zaiyuan that it was imperative to carry out the negotiations, because because of the Russians' restraint, we had no other way to choose but to insist on drawing the Yellow River as the boundary, and other conditions could be relaxed when appropriate. At present, the most important task is to find ways to use the power of the great powers to oppress and even ask the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to mediate the Pujin Pass incident in a pragmatic manner and seek truth from facts, and return the Pujin Pass. Finally, he also told Sù Zaiyuan that the current situation in the capital is not very good, and the remnants of Cixi are not willing to be lonely and are looking for an opportunity to make waves. According to reliable information, Li Hongzhang has left his post without permission and secretly returned to the capital, the purpose of which is not very clear, but it is conceivable that he must have wanted to get in touch with Cixi.

Seeing these belated news, Zaiyuan did not go crazy, but waved his hand lightly, blasted away a group of idle people, locked himself in the door, and sat silently for a long time, with two lines of bitter tears on his face.

Zaiyuan was not proficient in military affairs, and if it weren't for the fact that at a military meeting before coming to Jinan, he had heard Li Hongzhang talk about the possible strategy of the "red bandits" in the future, and he really couldn't understand how effective Pujin Pass was.

He originally thought that Shandong and Henan had been lost, and the capital had lost its strategic barrier, and the only thing he relied on at the moment was the Yellow River. If Zhili wants to consolidate, Guangping Mansion (Handan) and Shunde Mansion (Xingtai) have become the two major fulcrums. But through Li Hongzhang's analysis, Zaiyuan understood that relying solely on the natural danger of the Yellow River, if he wanted to completely protect the two prefectures of Guangping and Shunde, it was only one aspect. At present, the Taiping Red Army is gathering in Henan and Shandong, and it seems that once the peace talks break down, there will be a tactic of directly forcing the army to cross the Yellow River to the north. Li Hongzhang thought that this might be a trick used by the "red bandits."

Li Hongzhang summed up the behavior of the Taiping Red Army in the northwest and believed that since the "red bandits" were willing to make peace with the rioters, they actually did not want to make a big move there. So, the "red bandits" gathered nearly 200,000 troops in Shaanxi, was it just to deal with the Qing army in Shaanxi and Gansu? Apparently not. According to his analysis, "Guangping and Shunde are the southern gateways of Zhili, facing the Yellow River in front, blocking Zhangshui in the second, and Taihang in the west." Even if the enemy from the direction of Henan and Shandong crossed the Yellow River and Zhangshui, they would not dare to continue to penetrate unless they conquered these important prefectures and counties. Of course, once they conquer these important places, they can gradually go deeper, attack the hinterland of Hebei, and go straight to the capital. After all, this requires a lot of effort, the effort of personnel, and the payment of time. As for Puzhou, it is close to the Yellow River, Pujin Pass is on the west bank of the Yellow River outside the west gate of Puzhou, choking Pujin Ferry, which is an important passage between Guanzhong and Shanxi. From the direction of Shanxi, it is a springboard from Shanxi to Guanzhong; From the perspective of Guanzhong, it is a bridgehead from Guanzhong to Shanxi. In addition, through Pujin and Yiguan, Pusaka is also an important passage between Guanzhong and Henan and Hebei. ”

Li Hongzhang analyzed, "Break the pot pass first, level the party, and drive into Ye for a long time." Zhili is the western barrier of Taihang Mountain, once Shanxi falls, the southern part of Zhili is under the overlook of Shanxi. Taihang Mountain is the western barrier of Zhili, and several passages through Taihang Mountain are very important for the safety of Zhili. To ensure the stability of the Taihang barrier, the focus is to ensure the control of the various passes of the Taihang. However, to ensure the control of the Taihang Pass, it depends on the control of several important military towns west of the Taihang Mountain, such as Puzhou, Shangdang, Taiyuan and other places. If they are guarded by Zhili, they can strengthen the Taihang barrier; On the contrary, since then, the two underground Linzhili have become a high-rise trend. In history, there are many successful cases of attacking Hebei from Shanxi. Before launching the Unification War, Qin had already captured Anyi of Wei, Taiyuan of Zhao, and Shangdang of Han, and controlled the entire territory of Shanxi. The southern flank has occupied Hanoi and parts of the Zhangshui Basin. In the battle of Qin to destroy Zhao, Qin sent two armies to attack Zhao, and one army went down to Jingcheng to attack the north of Handan; An army went out of Hanoi and attacked the south of Handan. After the destruction of Zhao, the Qin army went north, and the troops were in Yishui. Yishui fought a battle and broke the Yan Dynasty coalition army. The remnants of Yan retreated to Liaodong. The entire Hebei region was incorporated into Qin's territory. During the Western Han Dynasty, Hebei was slightly determined, and it was relied on Han Xin to lead the army north to first enter Shanxi to destroy the Wei and Ping dynasties, and to break the main force of the Zhao army led by Chen Yu in Jingcheng, so he was able to go east to Taihang, pacify the Zhao State, and force the Yan State. ”

In the end, Li Hongzhang asserted, "If the red bandits want to take Zhili, they will never send troops from Henan and Shandong, as they put on the surface, and they will definitely attack Shanxi and copy the rear road of our army." Therefore, the Pujin Pass is of paramount importance. ”

Alas, such an important place, how can it be said that it is lost? It's all peace talks that cause trouble!

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