After the train departed, Zhao Guanhou also ordered his soldiers and horses, left Jinmen, and headed for the capital. Feng Lu didn't know that his private collection was already obtained by Zhao Guanhou at this time, and he thought that he had deceived the world and played the realm. Although he knew that they had moved ordnance in Xigu, the specific amount was not clear, and he did not want to ask, as far as he was concerned, the loss of the Xigu arsenal had nothing to do with him at all, and he would not suffer losses if it was pushed to the head of the Flying Tiger Regiment in the future. On the contrary, Zhao Guanhou's relationship in Shandong can help him settle his family, and he can't be lazy about this army, and the grain and Taiwan supplies are very sufficient.

Although Cheng Gongting did not send his family away, he also recognized Zhao Guanhou's favor. The deputy general, Ren Sheng, led a battalion of the horse team and a battalion of the infantry team, escorted Zhao Guanhou's men and horses along the way, and escorted the brigade to Yang Village, and the two were separated.

From Yang Village to the north, it is already the world of the Flying Tiger Regiment at this time, and there is a red wave rolling everywhere in the mountains and countryside. Even if Zhao Guanhou had an army of 2,000 men, he had to be vigilant when marching to avoid attack. Fortunately, the boxers did not have the courage to attack the official army, and there was no danger along the way, and when the brigade arrived close to Fengtai, they met the Wuwei Chinese army sent by Han Rong to respond, and there was no accident.

This Wuwei Chinese Army wanted to be established when the Wuwei Army was first formed, but it has never been formed. The biggest difficulty is the source of soldiers, all the soldiers of the Wuwei Central Army are Jurchens, and there is no need for outsiders, and this army can also be regarded as one of the strategies of Dajin to restore the national prestige and control the military power.

Since the Hongyang Rebellion, the Jin court has been deeply troubled by the unbearable battle of its own soldiers and horses, and is bent on building an iron-blooded strong army to regain the glory of its ancestors. It's just that time has passed, and today's Jurchens are no longer comparable to those of the past, and the children of all banners are suffering from wearing armor and going into battle, and serving as a guard of honor is okay to respond to the story.

The Wuwei Central Army was slow to recruit and not have enough manpower, and the troops could not be formed, so they were still forcibly transferred to the army after the year to recruit the school-age children of various banners and decorate the façade, as for the combat effectiveness, it was very suspicious, and the entire army existed in name only. The name of the armed guard army is the fifth army, but it is actually the fourth army, which is almost the consensus of the entire armed guard system.

Fortunately, Han Rong is the middle hall, the official authority is still there, this horse team has a big order in his hand, and the boxers dare not stop it, after the two armies meet, they cross the Lugou Bridge and arrive at the outer city of the capital. The capital is the best place, and although the outer city cannot be compared with the inner city, it is also a very prosperous place. But now, as far as the eye can see, the ruins seem to have just been hit by a fire.

Looking at the Flying Tiger Regiment with angry eyebrows near the house, it can be seen that these ruins are the rich results of the Heavenly Fire Divine Power, and the Chinese army who led the team is also a second-grade official, comparable to Zhao Guanhou, and slightly older. Said to Zhao Guanhou: "Zhongtang has something to say, after you arrive in the capital, you will go to the mansion to wait for Zhongtang first, and as for the soldiers, go to the outer city first." I have the will, and then I choose the station. ”

Mrs. Jenson, escorted by a group of soldiers, went to Dongjiaomin Lane, and Ten Gege followed her. The other horses set up camp in the outer city, Huo Qiu took a huge amount of money back to Shandong, and the people around Zhao Guanhou who could use it were the Yuan brothers. He instructed the two: "Be vigilant, and be on guard at the highest level." As soon as a boxer or rear army wants to enter our camp, I will be beaten to the death. In short, we can't suffer, it doesn't matter if something big happens. ”

With this Chinese soldier, he came all the way to the Han house in Dong'anmen. Han Rong is so luxurious, and the private house is also generous, and when he came to the door, as soon as the Chinese army said, several people knew that this was an important guest, so they were busy inside, and poured a bowl of tea for Zhao Guanhou.

Han Rong has always had an old asthma disease, the former was ill and asked for leave and sick leave, but now that the troubles of the group are getting more and more serious, he can only cancel his leave to be a director. It is said that at this time, he should be in the military plane, but somehow he is still at home.

The door went in quickly, and it didn't come out slowly, and he replied, "See you in the middle hall in the West Flower Hall." Leading Zhao Guanhou, he went all the way to the study of the West Flower Hall of the Han Mansion and retreated.

Walking into the room, I saw that Han Rong was not the only one in the room, there were two other colleagues here, one of whom was Chongli, the commander of the infantry army. Because of his hard work in arresting Kang Liangyu's party, and his ability to escort him, he has been promoted to the secretary of the criminal department. The other is his cheap father-in-law, King Qing.

As soon as he entered the room, he heard Han Rong's rapid gasping there, panting and phlegm like pulling a bellows, which was extremely clear. first saluted Han Rong, and then bowed twice and six times to King Qing, King Qing snorted, and did not let him get up, but said, "Raise your head." ”

After Zhao Guanhou raised his head, King Qing looked him up and down, as if he had never seen him before, which made Zhao Guanhou always feel that this prince's attitude towards him was not quite right. After a long time, King Qing snorted, "You kid, listen, after Zhonghua asked about you, you go to my house, I have something to ask you." By the way, call the old ten, this matter must be done urgently, and it cannot be delayed. ”

At this time, Han Rong finally took a breath, drank two sips of tea in a row, and smiled awkwardly at the two of them, "My body makes the two of you laugh." I see, maybe one day, I will also follow in the footsteps of the sixth master, I don't know if I can also get a Wenzhong when the time comes. ”

"Zhonghua, what did you say? You are an old sick man, and you can't be anxious. Illness is not a day, it can't be a day, slowly recuperate, there will always be a time to get better. The main thing is that the current situation is critical, otherwise you will be cured for two or three months. ”

"Lord Xie cares, but as you said, I want to raise it for two or three months now, but who gave me this work. Zhao Guanhou, I heard that you have been in Jinmen for a few days, why did you stay there and not leave, and you were not in a hurry to enter Beijing? Don't you know that I'm in a hurry here? ”

"If you go back to Zhongtang, you don't dare to delay your official business, but as soon as the Tuanmin dismantle the railway, the road is difficult to pass, and the action is difficult. Second, the family members of the right army did not get on the bus, and the soldiers were uneasy, the military spirit was unstable, and they were embarrassed to take on the task. Now is the time for Erlang to die, and he will not let their hearts settle down, for fear that they will be entrusted by the middle hall. ”

King Qing snorted, "It's a good mouth!" Zhonghua, you talk to him, I'll avoid it first, anyway, when he comes to my house, I will have something to ask him. After speaking, he left his seat and went out of the study first.

Han Rong saw King Qing go out, so he motioned to Zhao Guanhou to get up, "If you have something to say, you don't have to kneel all the time, I have a few words to ask you here, you need to tell the truth, you can't have half a word of lies." I heard that now Shandong has become the world of foreigners, so foreigners are running to Shandong, but what is going on? ”

"Zhongtang, this is absolutely untrue. Shandong is the world of my Dajin, and it is by no means the world of foreigners. It's just that as soon as Shandong came, there was no Flying Tiger Regiment to make trouble; Second, the people and religions lived in harmony with each other and never harmed each other. Although the foreigner is domineering, we use etiquette to restrain him, and he is not good at doing nonsense. The foreigners ran to Shandong to avoid the Flying Tiger Regiment, and when the people of the regiment went, they should go back to their local areas. On the one hand, Yuan Gongbao pacified the local area and exterminated the bandits, and on the other hand, he used heavy troops to guard against foreign soldiers in Jiaozhou Bay and Weihaiwei, which is called saluting first and then soldiering. If we are reasonable, let us reason with him, and if they want to use force, we should meet with them. But if they do not fight with us, this provocation cannot be started on their own, lest it be true. ”

"Shandong's matter, I will send someone to investigate again, if what you say is true, it is a credit to you. The imperial court does not discriminate against foreigners, generally speaking, you should not think about settling with foreigners, but you can't treat foreigners as enemies, this method is good at the moment. Let me ask you again, I want Yuan Weiting to send troops to King Qinwang in the capital, but he only sent four battalions of soldiers, saying that he was preventing foreigners from taking Shandong. These four battalions only have 2,000 soldiers, but is it enough? ”

"I don't dare to say that it is enough, but as long as Zhongtang says a word, the two thousand brothers are willing to die for the court, and we will do what the court says, and there will be no disobedience. Although there are not many soldiers with humble duties, the equipment is quite sharp, and a foreign gun in the water can resist for a while when fighting, and it lives up to the trust of the middle hall. ”

Han Rong looked at Chongli, who nodded slightly, and suddenly asked, "Zhao Guanhou, now the foreigners want to transfer 2,000 men and horses into Beijing to protect the embassy." Suppose you want your four battalions to block these two thousand foreigners, can you stop it? ”

Zhao Guanhou said: "If you can't stop it, you don't dare to pack a ticket, you can only say that you can fight to the death and go all out." ”

Han Rong snorted, "When Dong Wuxing entered the capital some time ago, he said that he didn't have any ability, so he would only kill foreigners. Compared with him, you have a lot of confidence in this, is it so useless for you to defend the right army? ”

Zhao Guanhou hurriedly bowed his hand, "Zhongtang Rongyu, if you say that you want to kill foreigners, as long as there is an order from the imperial court, we should try our best to kill." But before the order, a foreigner did not dare to kill indiscriminately. There are a lot of foreigners in Dajin Kingdom, and the imperial court didn't say who to go to war with, so how dare we kill people indiscriminately. If foreign soldiers are not allowed to enter the city, the lowly will negotiate with the commander of the foreigners, and try to delay by diplomatic means. If they refuse to listen, then we will fight a battle, and we will have equal strength with each other, but the inferior troops will have no guns and no artillery, and their firepower will be outmatched. But if you are a little faithful, you will resist him to the death, and you will be able to stop him for three days and five days, and there will be no problem. ”

Han Rong heard that the meaning of Zhao Guanhou's words was that he always didn't want to make enemies with foreigners, and more importantly, he wanted to know who to fight with. In fact, this question is also his idea. Until now, even he, the Minister of Military Aircraft, doesn't know who he wants to fight against, and it can't be all the foreigners, right? If that's the case, it's crazy.

He coughed a few times, took another sip of tea, and his tone softened a lot. "Guanhou, sit down. You are the one I picked up, and I have believed in you. I also know that you have your difficulties, but now that the country is like this, it is difficult for everyone to do it, and everyone is not relying on a little loyalty and fighting for their own lives to do things. There are people in the court who are involved in the impeachment of you, but don't worry, with this official here, no one can touch you! I ask you, if you want to fight foreigners, you are such a thing, if I let you exterminate the bandits, do you dare? ”

Zhao Guanhou did not hesitate: "Dare!" As long as there is a big order in the middle hall, it will be as little as seven days or ten days as slow, and it will be guaranteed that there will never be a Flying Tiger Regiment in the city of 49! ”

What he said was categorical and neat, which lifted Han Rong's spirits, and his scorched face also turned a little bloody. "Guanhou, there are tens of thousands of people in the Flying Tiger Regiment in the capital, and they know how to spell, do you dare to fight two thousand people?"

"If you go back to Zhongtang, tens of thousands of people are just a rabble, as long as you say a word, we will fight! As for the theory of magical powers, it is all false. In Shandong, there are many boxers who have been suppressed, and their general leader, Zhao Laozhu, was also arrested by people with a humble position. The so-called magic powers are all the left side doors of some Jianghu warlocks, and to put it bluntly, it is not too difficult. ”

"So, what they'll do, so will you?"

"Naturally, it will. It's just that as a court official, he can't do that evil law. It would not take much effort to expose their tricks. ”

Han Rong's face was overjoyed, and a stone fell to the ground. Dong Wuxing's military guard army had extremely poor discipline, and originally there was only a little loyalty available. But since entering Beijing, Dong Wuxing has been kind to Duanwang again, and he has gradually become a big tail, and he dares to disobey Han Rong's orders, and gradually becomes a supreme official.

Han Rong had no way to say that he couldn't restrain his troops, which would be embarrassing. But if he left it alone, he had to bear the blame for the basket provoked by the rear army of Wuwei, and he was reluctant to carry this black cauldron.

Just before Zhao Guanhou entered Beijing, there was already a catastrophe in Beijing. The soldiers of the Wuwei Rear Army killed Uesugi Bin, the secretary of the Fuso Legation, cut off his limbs and dug out his internal organs, and the method was extremely cruel.

Han Rong originally wanted to punish the soldiers who committed crimes in the Houjun Army to appease the anger of Minister Fusang, but he didn't want Dong Wuxing to publicly resist the order, saying that if he wanted to kill, he would kill Dong Wuxing, and none of his soldiers could be killed, and if he killed one, he would mutiny.

This kind of verbal threat is almost the same as rebellion, Han Rong was shocked, and he hated to lure the wolf into the house. In the armed forces of the capital, the Tiger God Battalion and the Shenji Battalion are controlled by Duanwang, and the Wuwei Rear Army is in collusion with the boxers, and the Wuwei Central Army is just a name and does not have much combat power.

In the event of a conflict, the Chinese army is not an adversary at all. Now that the two thousand right troops arrived, Zhao Guanhou openly expressed his hostility towards the boxers, and he finally grabbed a life-saving straw, his spirit was greatly invigorated, and his body felt a lot refreshed.

He asked, "Madame Jensen came with you?" ”

"When I go back to the middle hall, Mrs. Jenson has come with her humble position, and now she has gone to Dongjiaomin Lane to visit a few friends. If we want to negotiate with foreigners, we always have to have some acquaintances before we can talk. ”

"That's a good thing, we have to negotiate, but we have to find some acquaintances, familiar with the way, so that we can talk. No matter what, foreigners are always human, and if they are human, they have to understand human feelings. We impress him with favors, and we are not afraid that he will not be accommodating. Guanhou, you sit down and talk, you come from Jinmen, what you see along the way, tell me, I want to listen to the truth. What is the situation out there now......

After Zhao Guanhou gave a detailed account of the chaos in Jinmen, from the pursuit and killing of the first official of the imperial court in broad daylight, to the killing of students on the street, as well as the establishment of an altar in the governor's yamen, and the complete destruction of the railway. Han Rongqi's cough became serious again

"Ahem...... Cough...... Fenglu, you useless thing! As the minister of Beiyang, I ended up doing this errand, and I didn't finish with you. If I don't take off your top this time, I won't be this military plane. Accept it, you wait here, Guanhou, you follow me into the West Garden, to see Lafayette. Say these words to the Buddha face to face. ”

"Zhongtang, your body is ......," Chongli hurriedly dissuaded, "You can accompany Guanhou on this trip." ”

"It's useless, your grade is not enough, you may not be called when you hand over the sign, and besides, as far as your future is concerned, you can't touch Duandi. I also let it go, I don't want to spill this life today, I also have to touch Duandi, I can't let him continue to obstruct the Holy Hearing, and someone has to explain the matter here to Cisheng. If it continues like this, our Dajin Kingdom will be in danger! Prepare a horse outside the door, Guanhou, follow me! (To be continued.) )