Smiling slightly, Liu Jun put the telegram on the table on the side, immediately picked up the pen placed in the office, drew a red circle on Chengde, and pulled out a red line again. This red line starts from Chengde all the way, then passes through the Eagle Hand Camp and Wuling Mountain, and then stops directly into Xinglong.

With a snap, Liu Jun threw down the pen in his hand and turned to look at Zhong Lin beside him. "Order, let the Eighth Army rest and recuperate, leave one regiment, and the rest of the men and horses immediately advance to Xinglong."

In the city of Beijing, in the Summer Palace, Cixi kept walking back and forth in her bedroom. Now her mind is in turmoil.

Since getting the matter of Zhili and Liangguang, Cixi has been seriously ill, and now she relies on decoction potions every day to maintain. If this was in the past, she would have been resting in the dormitory with peace of mind, but now, she has every such treatment.

Although Zhili and Guangzhou, although it is not the source area of their own taxes, the military position of these two places is very important, especially Zhili, which was originally set up to protect Beijing, but now, day and night defense, it is difficult to prevent thieves, Li Hongzhang, who suffered a thousand knives, actually took refuge in Liaodong, so that Beijing's east gate was opened.

Although Liaodong is not attacking from Tianjin now, Cixi hates to understand that this is only because the Liaodong army is not fully prepared yet, and once it is ready, Tianjin's troops will approach Beijing as soon as possible.

Holding on to her sick body, Cixi once again directly entered the Qianqing Palace and began to listen to the government again, but this time, unlike in the past, before, she was dealing with government affairs in various places, and now, just to listen to the opinions of the ministers, whether to fight to the death or move the capital.

Now the imperial court has been divided into two factions, one faction is the minister headed by Zhang Zhidong, who advocates moving the capital, leaving Beijing, and then going south to the Liangjianghuguang area. On the other hand, the officers headed by Nie Shicheng, the current secretary of the Ministry of War, advocated using the troops of King Qin from all over the country to fight to the death against the Liaodong Army on the outskirts of Beijing.

The reasons for both sides are good and good, which makes it difficult for Cixi to decide. Therefore, in the past two days, she has not been able to make up her mind, whether to move the capital or fight Liu Jun to the death with Liu Jun in the suburbs of Beijing, fight to the death, and protect the ancestral territory.

In all fairness, he wanted to move the capital, but Nie Shicheng's words were good, that is, there were hundreds of thousands of Qinwang troops in various places, and there was hope that the Liaodong army would be defeated.

Uncomfortable, uncomfortable in my heart, Cixi has not encountered such a difficult thing for many years, even when facing Su Shun and others, it has never been so difficult.

"Lafayette, Zhang Zhongtang is here." Li Lianying, who had been outside, trotted to Cixi's side.

Zhang Zhidong, Cixi frowned, lowered her head and pondered, and immediately returned to her position to sit down before signaling Li Lianying to go out and summon Zhang Zhidong.

"Weichen Zhang Zhidong see Lafayette."

"If there's anything you need, just say it." Cixi no longer has the original hypocrisy and politeness, and now she just wants to know what happened to Zhang Zhidong.

Zhang Zhidong looked at Cixi, who was expressionless, and after taking a deep breath, he took out a telegram from his sleeve and said cautiously: "Chengde is lost." ”

What? Cixi stood up from her position at once, walked to Zhang Zhidong's side at once, and grabbed the telegram from Zhang Zhidong's side.

It was the first time Zhang Zhidong saw Cixi lose his temper like this, but he couldn't say anything at this time, so he could only swallow his saliva and kneel on the ground.

"Damn, damn it," Cixi's hand holding the telegram trembled. Saying several damn things in a row.

"Lafayette, now that the Eighth Army of the Liaodong Army has begun to move south, it has passed the Eagle Hand Camp, and it is estimated that it will be able to reach Wuling Mountain tomorrow." That's not all, Zhang Zhidong's words completely made Cixi worse.

After Wuling Mountain, it is Xinglong, Xinglong is coming, that is Miyun, once Liu Jun's troops reach Miyun, then it will not take a day for Beijing City to be under the shelling of the Liaodong Army.

"Lafayette, there are only 20,000 Qinwang's army in Beijing now, and more are still in Handan, we ......"

"Needless to say. The mourning family knew that Cixi interrupted Zhang Zhidong's words.

She knew that Zhang Zhidong hoped that she could give up Beijing and move the capital.

Move the capital, I have also decided, the question is, where to move the capital now, to the east, don't think about it, Liu Jun's territory, south, then there is almost no place that can stop Liu Jun, Henan is a horse Pingchuan, Hubei, there will be a Yangtze River natural danger at that time, but don't forget, Liu Jun also has two powerful naval divisions, the Beiyang Naval Division and the Fujian Naval Division, although these two major naval divisions cannot come up with large warships, but the cruiser and torpedo cruiser want to blockade from the Yangtze River, it is a very simple matter, If you want to resist the Beiyang Sailor and the Fujian Sailor with the wooden boats of the Yangtze River Sailor, you might as well buy a rope and crash to death.

"The mourning family understands what you mean, but the mourning family has not yet decided, where should the capital be moved?" After taking a look at Zhang Zhidong, Cixi said what she thought.

Zhang Zhidong had long seen Cixi's thoughts, that is, he was unwilling to go south. Taking a deep breath, Zhang Zhidong could only name another place, Xi'an.

Xi'an is blocked by the Qinling Mountains, and there is also the natural danger of Tongguan, as long as the Qinling Mountains are held, relying on the troops in Shaanxi, Gansu, Xinjiang, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, it is not impossible to make a comeback.

"Galeries Lafayette, Wechen thinks that at present we can move west and move the capital to Xi'an."

Sian? Cixi narrowed her eyes. Started walking back and forth.

Xi'an is the garrison of the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, and the current governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Song Pan, is his own cronies, so this is a way to move the capital to Xi'an.

Zhang Zhidong saw where Cixi was and kept thinking about it, thinking that Cixi hadn't thought it through yet, so he immediately stood up and said, "Lafayette, there is Qin in the east of Xi'an." Tongguan natural risk, the Yellow River, we moved the capital to Xi'an, retreat can enter Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou. You can enter Shanxi, Hebei, Henan. ”

"Needless to say." Cixi interrupted Zhang Zhidong's words, turned around and looked at Li Lianying beside her: "Go and call the emperor." ”

She decided to move the capital to Xi'an.

On September 26, 1902, the 16th day of Liu Jun's order to fight against the imperial court, Beijing, the capital of the Qing Dynasty for more than 200 years, ushered in the second disaster since the founding of the Qing Dynasty.

Early in the morning, the people of Beijing found that the roads from the Forbidden City to the outer city of Beijing were blocked by rows of guards wearing yellow vests, and there were 20,000 new troops who had been guarding the capital.

"The Qing Kingdom is over." Seeing thousands of Ouchi guards walking around the city and the nervous new army, many ordinary people shook their heads and looked at these guards in a daze.

At noon, the people who watched the excitement saw the Yellow Dragon Banner of the brigade and hundreds of ordinary guards wearing yellow vests and peacock feathers holding waist knives in their hands, and the majestic guards were slowly moving outside the south gate of Beijing around a group of very richly decorated Kowloon sedan chairs, and outside these guards, there were indeed groups of Eight Banners cavalry wearing armor, as well as the new army with foreign guns and cannons on their backs.

In the Admiral's Mansion of Jiumen in Beijing, Nie Shicheng stood at the door, looking at the Da Nei guards who passed by from time to time and the Shanxi army of the Qing army who came to King Qin, shook his head helplessly, sighed, and turned back to the Yamen.

He knew that the Great Qing Kingdom was over.

A few days ago, after he resisted and opposed the relocation of the capital in the imperial court, he received an order early the next morning, that is, he was dismissed from the military department, transferred to the post of commander of Jiumen, and led 15,000 soldiers to garrison Beijing.

Nominally stationed in Beijing, in fact, Nie Shicheng knew that this was Cixi kicking herself out of the imperial court, and the imperial court had moved the capital, giving himself a nine-gate admiral to garrison Beijing, what else was the role.

Nie Shicheng's temper suddenly came up, pretending to be sick and not in the court, he had already lost confidence in the court.

He knew that this was what Cixi meant. Cixi could not tolerate her own objections at this juncture. Helpless, he could only move out of the military department after receiving the holy decree and came to the Yamen of the Admiral of the Nine Gates.

"My lord, the two palaces are already out of the city." A staff general walked in and looked at Nie Shicheng in the courtyard.

"Got it, let's go down." Nie Shicheng nodded slightly, took a deep breath, and turned back to the study.