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Although it is now Yixin, Zaiyuan, Duanhua, Seng Lingqin, Guiliang, Mianxun, and Qiying gathered together, the atmosphere is different from the past, and it is quite dull. The military intelligence reports that came one after another in front made everyone here feel depressed, and no one wanted to say anything more.

Originally, Yixin still wanted to wait for Yixun to come, but he waited left and right, but there was no trace of Yixun, and he waited for nearly an hour before he received a message from Yixun, he was very unwell, and it was difficult to attend this meeting. Hearing that Yi Xun was sick, Yi Xin frowned, and didn't think about anything in his heart at all, but he just felt that the seventh master, who was loyal to save the ** president, was not very old, and this body was too bad to withstand a little blow, alas, how could he afford to take on the heavy responsibility if he continued like this for a long time?

"Since the Seventh Prince is in poor health, we won't wait for him. You've all heard a little bit about it just now, and there's another piece of unfortunate news. Yixin looked at Qi Ying with a bitter face, "Lord Qi, let's follow what you said when you came, you said that it is very likely that a naval battle broke out on the Tianjin Wei side, did you get any detailed information?" ”

"This ......," Qi Ying smacked his lips and grinned, "I don't know why, Igonatiev's recent activities are very secretive, and I said a few days ago that every time I meet him, in addition to listening to him constantly complain about your king, I always talk about things that are not painful." When they were with Li Hongzhang, they were even more cautious. This morning, I deliberately came to the door, and I happened to meet them who were secretly talking with Li Hongzhang about something, and I thought that Igonatiev would definitely invite me to participate, but what I got was that I was told to go back first. I only occasionally heard a little about what happened in Tianjin Wei from the whispered conversation between the two legations. However, from their extremely panicked looks, I can conclude that this time something must be a small matter. The Russians probably wanted to block the news in the same way that they had concealed Weihaiwei's defeat. ”

"That's it......" The bitterness on Yixin's face became even stronger, and his mouth seemed to mumble to himself, "What about the local officials of Tianjinwei, why don't they report to the imperial court in time what happened in the local area?" ”

"Retribution?" Monk Lingqin snorted vigorously, "The Russians have been tossing and turning in Mukden for several months, until the barracks are all built in Mukdenfu, didn't that bastard's Fengtianfu Yin finally report the news?" Everywhere, as soon as they get involved, the local officials will immediately turn into dogs behind their butts. Who doesn't know, officials everywhere are not afraid of the imperial court, they are afraid of foreigners. As long as the foreign father is happy, will he still be worried about being promoted and making a fortune? Li Hongzhang: Those people are not a good example of this. ”

Hearing Monk Lingqin mention that the Russians can be promoted and make a fortune if they wait well, Yixin's face unconsciously burned. Yes, isn't it that he, the king of parliament, also relied on the support of the Russians to stand up, not to mention the bureaucrats below who know about speculation and drill camps, and don't think about the society at all.

"Alas...... Don't talk about those unclear topics," Yixin hurriedly arched his hand at Monk Lingqin and diverted the conversation, "King Monk, you and King Yi have both seen their strength, and King Monk is said to have visited their military camp in private, and has had face-to-face contact with the training and life of their lowest soldiers. According to you, what kind of scale will the so-called Tianjin naval battle really exist? At present, the land war is still going on, and a large area of land in Zhili is still in our hands, what is the purpose of their attack on Tianjin at this time? Aren't they afraid that the stalls will be too big? ”

"Sixth Master, you haven't seen the people in their control area, so it's hard for you to imagine the huge potential they have." Although Zaiyuan has been fiddling with the big cigarette pouch in his hand today, he didn't smoke it, "Let's not say that Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other fish and rice towns are still in their hands, even the people of Shandong who have just suffered from the floods we have seen, if they are for them, they will be willing to tighten their bellies, or pull out something from their throats to support them." Look at us again...... Alas......"

"Yiwang is right. The people are like this, and their soldiers are even more unimaginable to us. Monk Greenqin looked at Yixin, who was frowning, and nodded, "Any soldier at the lowest level can casually say that the purpose of their soldiers is to overthrow and beat us lords and nobles who ride on the necks of their poor people and fight for the right to be an upright person." Bloodshed as a soldier is neither for money nor for any attempt to gain fame, and how much combat effectiveness such an army will have, I am afraid that everyone is not unclear psychologically. ”

"Alas...... I believe this, but we will never be able to bring such an army. Duanhua sighed, "Even the majestic Eight Banners Iron Cavalry like us back then didn't just fight for a lifetime of glory and wealth. ”

"Unfortunately, I didn't have the opportunity to visit their sailors, but in private I did make extra careful inquiries with officials from the observer missions of the United States, France, and other countries. It is said that their sailors, in terms of numbers alone, were far inferior to the huge fleet of the Russians. But even so, at Weihaiwei, although the Russians concentrated most of the main forces of the fleet, they were defeated at their hands. In the first battle of Weihaiwei, in addition to their courage to fight, one of the reasons is that they have killer weapons in their hands, and many of their things have never been seen and heard of by those self-righteous foreigners. ”

Monk Lingqin looked at everyone in the room and sighed, "I heard the French say that when they planned to defeat the Russian Third Fleet in Weihaiwei, the French offered to send a fleet to help them directly, but they refused. Later, both the French and the Americans offered to send warships to fly their flags into the war, but they still did not agree. It can be seen that even the French at that time would never have imagined that they were so powerful. In addition, according to a French official, even the French army is buying and using the weapons and ammunition they make, although they are surprisingly expensive, they are very useful. In his words, a thick city like our capital city will not be able to withstand the blow of their powerful artillery fire. ”

Of course, it is not excluded that the Americans and the French have moisture when they speak, but there is one thing in their words that has been completely verified. The vast majority of the Russians who came to our aid were not real soldiers, but a rabble, and these bastards came to us for a clear purpose, that is, to get rich. It is quite possible that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would go to war with the Russians on the Weihai Sea in Tianjin. Moreover, the current Russians are even less of their opponents at sea. The question is, did they just sweep away the Second Fleet of the Russians there this time? Monk Lingqin said, and began to set up a tea bowl array on the kang table again, "I guess it won't be that simple." Let's see, due to the indiscriminate deployment of the Russians, coupled with the fact that our eyes are focused on the Yellow River defense line, the Russian fleet drifting out on the sea, in fact, the defense of Tianjin Wei is quite fragile. With the Weihaiwei in front of me, I guess the Russians will probably not be able to hold there at all. Once they landed in Tanggu, it would be a flat river from Tianjin to the capital. ”

"This ......" Yixin, who heard that white sweat began to ooze from his forehead, first looked at Monk Lingqin in disbelief, and then muttered for a moment, "If this is the case, wouldn't the capital be in danger?" ”

"yes, it's dangerous." Monk Lingqin nodded.

Yixin slowly stood up, took two steps in place, and suddenly turned his head to look at Monk Greenqin, "Monk King, Mianxun's three thousand elite horse team has returned, plus the strength in the capital, if the Russians really want to do something, we can deal with it." So...... So I think about it, let's not care if they dare to go ashore in Tanggu or not, let's be prepared first. I would like to ask you to command the men and horses to be stationed in the line from Tongzhou to Langfang for pre-fortification. ”

"King Gong means that I should resist them who might kill me?" Monk Lingqin looked at Yixin with a strange face and asked.

"Yes, right now, except for you, the monk king, I'm afraid that no one can take on such a big responsibility." Yixin sincerely and eagerly waited for Monk Greenqin to give him an affirmative answer.

"Alas......" What Yixin didn't expect was that the king of the Mongolian county, who was once not afraid of heaven and earth, followed his words, let out a sigh, and his head actually shook vigorously, "King Gong, it's not that I'm timid, it's not that I don't want to help you, it's just that I can't stop them at all." The rescue ** that the court has worked so hard to raise will not work, let alone me. To tell the truth, in order to perpetuate the foundation of the Qing Dynasty for 10,000 years, we Mongolians are fighting in the east and west, and there is not much left. ”

Looking at Yixin's disappointed and shocked expression, Monk Greenqin lowered his head slightly, "To be honest, if it weren't for the fear that you would lose King Gong at the hands of the Russians, I would have been going to return to my Horqin steppe after I came back this time." In fact, only that is the real home of my monk Grinqin. ”

Yi Xin was gloomy. After a long time, he looked at a few people in the room, "Alas...... Originally, I casually said that the emperor was going to move Rehe and Fengtian to prevaricate the Russians, although I have seriously considered whether this issue is feasible in the past few days, but I have never been able to make up my mind, whether this should be done or not? Now it seems that I am afraid that this is the only way to go. ”

"I agree with King Gong's idea," Hearing Yixin say this, Monk Greenqin raised his head and patted his thigh, "Move to Rehe first, and in the end, if it's really bad, you can retreat into my Horqin, or that sentence, with my Monk Greenqin, there is you Prince Gong." In short, Mukden is never to go. ”

"If you talk about it, you can't go to Rehe either." The big cigarette pouch in Zaiyuan's hand banged on the table, glanced at the monk Greenqin, and then turned to Yixin, "Sixth Master, have you thought about it, once we leave the capital, with the current situation, where can the Qing Dynasty's decree reach in the future?" What's more, escorting people away from Beijing is bound to take away a large number of elite people, wouldn't the capital be handed over to others? And once the capital is lost, Fengtian can't be returned, so won't the Qing Dynasty be over? ”

"What if...... What if we just retreat back to the outside of the border? Qiying asked timidly.

"If she is still hanging the curtain, it may be the best choice to return to Guanwai, the problem is that now it is this prince who is the auxiliary government, and this king can grovel and be shameless, but the emperor must not be someone else's emperor." Yixin's answer is crisp and neat, and it will never drag the mud and water.

"Since you can't go outside the gate, and you can't go to Rehe, King Yi, then we can only sit here and wait to be trapped in the lonely city?" Duanhua looked at Zaiyuan and was a little confused.

"Yes, you can only sit and guard." Zaiyuan raised his hand and pointed around, "In the words of the foreigners, there are treasures everywhere in the capital, as long as we escape the clutches of the Russians, and then concentrate the armies outside in advance and carefully deploy the city defense." Then, even if they come, as long as we can't hold out, they will be unable to break through this fortified city for a year and a half. ”

"I don't think so." Mianxun, who didn't want to speak on this occasion, interjected, after all, he was a person who had really fought with the Celestial Empire Red Army on the battlefield, so he wouldn't believe that there was any other city that could stop the footsteps of the Taiping Red Army. "You haven't fought against them, and you don't know how mysterious their tactics are, and you never play your cards according to the usual rules."

"What you said was a real fight, but what I said was different." Zaiyuan raised the big cigarette pouch pole in his hand at Mianxun, then looked at Yixin and said, "The court surnamed Lin once said that he wanted to get a complete Beijing city. If you listen to someone else, you will not think so, but if you look closely at what they are doing everywhere, you will believe that he is telling the truth. Therefore, the real offensive and defensive war in the capital cannot be fought at all. ”

Yixin felt that Zaiyuan's words were simply joking, "Okay, according to what you Yiwang said, we have been guarding for a year and a half, what can we do?" There is nothing in the capital, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians are finally waiting to be starved to death by one place? The siege battle that happened in Hangzhou the year before last, presumably King Yi, you won't forget jì, right? ”

"Negotiation." Jae-won didn't care about Yixin's mocking look, and looked at the others, "While holding on, continue to start negotiations." ”

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