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On November 19, the third month after the fall of the capital, Wang Sirui led his troops to regain control of the capital and capture the headquarters of the coalition forces, forcing the coalition forces to negotiate with the Qing court.

On 29 November, the Qing court negotiators, Prince Heshuo Gong Yixuan, First Class Su Yibo Li Hongzhang, Plenipotentiary Minister Zhang Fuhua, Niu Menglei, and other officials from the Prime Minister's Foreign Affairs Department arrived in the capital together.

"I didn't expect this battle to be so tragic!" Standing under the gate of Xibianmen, he sighed in shock.

At this moment, how can the city wall still have the mighty and huge figure in the past?

The walls were littered with crater defects, black everywhere, and even blood.

If it weren't for the fact that the Yellow Dragon Banner of the Great Qing Dynasty was planted on the city wall, no one would dare to believe that this city was now under their control.

"Yes, these hundreds of thousands of troops can't resist the attack of foreigners, who would have thought that this capital could be returned to our hands?" Zhang Fuhua also echoed.

Although none of them looked at Wang Sirui, a little grasshopper, in their eyes, they had to admire it in their hearts when they looked at the traces left by the war on the city wall in front of them.

"Li Zhongtang, there are a lot of capable people under your command!" Niu Menglei said suddenly.

Li Hongzhang frowned slightly, glanced at Niu Menglei, but did not answer his words.

In fact, Li Hongzhang is also very depressed, where did this Wang Sirui come from? Although the Zhili Training Army is not the main unit under his own hands, after all, it was formed by his own hands, and the appointment of the following battalion management bands also needs to be signed and appointed by himself.

Even before they took office, Li Hongzhang would personally meet with each other to show encouragement, and of course, spur.

But about Wang Sirui, Li Hongzhang didn't have any impression in his mind.

However, the imperial court gave very direct evidence, proving that Wang Sirui's identity did belong to the Zhili Lianjun, and even saw the appointment document signed by Li Hongzhang himself.

And Li Hongzhang has always wondered, did he really sign this document? After a long time, Li Hongzhang shook his head helplessly, he had to deal with so many excerpts every day, how could he remember the excerpts he had approved a few months ago?

Maybe this excerpt was sandwiched between other excerpts at that time, and it was signed without careful reading, right?

Seeing that Li Hongzhang didn't reply, everyone was too lazy to find themselves bored, and the group hurriedly entered the capital under the protection of thousands of guards.

After entering the capital, Li Hongzhang's brows wrinkled even tighter for a while.

The walls of the house were littered with bullet holes, which told them that there had been a fierce battle here.

Could it be that the battle in the capital is really so fierce?

If this is the case, then how did Wang Sirui defeat the foreigners? For a while, Li Hongzhang became more curious about Wang Sirui.

However, the minds of the others are not in the city, but in their own face.

Seeing that Wang Sirui did not come to Xibianmen to greet them, there were only more than 100 troops in Xibianmen, and they were still guarding the city gate, and there was not a single army to greet them.

What made them even more unacceptable was that among the more than 100 people guarding the city gate, almost all of them had some incomplete clothes, dirty, and even many wounded.

"Why didn't Wang Sirui come to greet Lord Wang and Lord Li?" Zhang Fuhua pointed to the company commander guarding the city gate, and reprimanded with a displeased face.

Zhang Fuhua's question made Xu Zhiyou, who was guarding the city gate, very unhappy.

scolded in his heart: 'Mother, when you lords were fighting, one of them ran faster than the other, and after this battle was over, you came back and started pretending to be uncle?' Those of us who worked the battlefield still have to take care of your face? What the hell are they all these things? ’

Although I was worried about my mother, on the surface, Xu Zhiyou didn't dare to have any dissatisfaction, so he could only reply patiently: "The commander is encircling and suppressing the remnants of the foreign soldiers in the city, and he has ordered someone to inform the commander, and it is estimated that the commander will come soon." ”

"Hmph......" Zhang Fuhua snorted coldly, and twisted his face to the side angrily.

Wang Sirui went to lead a team to encircle and suppress foreign soldiers? Who will believe this?

Although his official position Wang Sirui is not high, I am afraid that no one in this capital will have a higher official position than Wang Sirui, right?

A dignified commander of the second grade, the highest military commander in the capital, would personally lead the team to fight? I'm afraid that even an ordinary person would not believe that what he said was true.

Although Zhang Fuhua didn't believe it, he couldn't refute Xu Zhiyou's words.

After all, this capital city was indeed recovered by them, even if Wang Sirui was sleeping in the house now, he Zhang Fuhua could only choose to believe Xu Zhiyou's words.

"Little brother, what about the casualties of the troops?" Li Hongzhang did not question Xu Zhiyou's words, but entered his role.

No matter what, this unit is also adapted from the troops under his command, at least on the surface, Li Hongzhang still has to care about it.

"Lord Hui, the casualties of the troops are very large, when one of our battalions came out, there were still more than 400 people, and now there are only so many left, and the situation of other battalions is also very similar to ours." Xu Zhiyou replied according to Wang Sirui's previous explanation, in short, it is a concept, how miserable it is, how miserable it is.

"Oh? So many casualties? Li Hongzhang frowned tightly, not that he didn't believe Xu Zhiyou's words, but even felt that he had underreported.

But Li Hongzhang frowned not because of this problem, but because he knew that Wang Sirui only had more than 4,000 people under his command, and nearly three-quarters of the casualties were killed, which means that now there were only about 1,000 people left in his hands.

How can there be only a thousand people guarding the capital? I'm afraid I won't even be able to guard the city gates.

There are a total of fifteen city gates in the inner and outer cities, even if an average of one gate is guarded by 100 people, it will have to be more than 1,500 people, and there is still security in the city to manage, and the remnants of foreign soldiers have to be cleaned up?

"And how many of you are there now?" Li Hongzhang continued to ask.

"About 3,000 people, after entering the capital, we began to recruit the defeated troops left in the capital to supplement the losses of the troops, and at the most there were more than 6,000 troops and nearly 7,000 people." Xu Zhiyou continued to answer according to Wang Sirui's explanation.

In this way, Wang Sirui's men have almost lost nearly 10,000 people. This casualty figure is also apt to describe it as a heavy loss.

It's just that a force of 3,000 people is not safe for them at all.

As soon as the foreigners' negotiation team enters the capital, they will immediately be able to find out their reality and reality, and with the foreigners' urine, I am afraid that they will be countered at that time.

But the foreigners will come over in the next few days, even if it is a temporary transfer of troops, it will be too late.

For a while, Li Hongzhang complained a little about the court.

If it weren't for the imperial court to limit Wang Sirui's troops to 4,000 people, they wouldn't be so passive now.

Moreover, this battle will not be fought at all.

Wang Sirui recovered the capital, this is already their most glorious time in this war, and it is impossible to fight such a beautiful battle.

Local officials in Shandong and other places have also reached agreements with foreigners, which is why the imperial court has wanted to negotiate with foreigners in advance several times.

There are no reliable troops around, and those feudal officials are on the side of the foreigners, if the imperial court does not compromise as soon as possible, the consequences will be very serious, and even the Qing Dynasty may come to an abrupt end.

Li Hongzhang quietly glanced at Yixuan and found that Yixuan was also looking at him with the same eyes, and the two of them understood the meaning in each other's eyes at the same time, and nodded to each other.

"The Commander is here!" Xu Zhiyou pointed to a group of people running towards the city gate in the distance and reminded.

Xu Zhiyou's voice attracted the attention of these bigwigs, and they all looked at the team of people in the distance.

In a short time, a team of dozens of people ran all the way to them.

The leader was a young man who was a little frightened, with a gun in one hand and a bandage on his left hand, and blood was faintly oozing from the wound.

"The last general, Wang Sirui, will meet your lords." Wang Sirui handed the rifle in his hand to the soldier behind him, stepped forward and greeted with one hand.