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Zuo Zongtang appeased the armies, gathered all the generals together, and then respectfully put Zeng Guofan's testament aside, and then passed the third town commander Fang Hua to come to the main hall, and ordered Fang Hua to take the ten articles written by Zeng Guofan to go outside the city, looking for the supreme commander of the Chinese Empire to hand over to Lin Haijiang, if Lin Haijiang agrees to these ten articles, the Beiyang New Army can lay down its arms. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Xu Guangyuan and a group of other young officers expressed great dissatisfaction with Zuo Zongtang's arrangement, until Zuo Zongtang blushed and angrily reprimanded: "What do you all know? Seeing that he has no power to return to the sky, in the spirit of God's virtue of a good life, he has made sacrifices in order to protect you, is there anything more precious than life in the world? The death of the marshal gave all of you a way to live, but I still have to go to Beijing with the testament to die, if Lin Haijiang agrees to the ten articles of the marshal, you will have no worries about your surname, if you don't agree, tonight I Beiyang all the officers and soldiers hang up their armor and go out of the city to fight to the death with Lin Haijiang! Even if the whole army of my Beiyang Ten Towns is exhausted, I will bite him and Lin will come down with a piece of meat! ”

The panting Zuo Zongtang looked around at the generals present, and all the generals bowed their heads and were silent, after all, the majesty of being the governor of the Beiyang New Army was still there, and he had been in charge of the seven towns for a long time.

Zuo Zongtang carefully invited Lin Haijiang from the two compromises of Zeng Guofan, and the one he copied before Fang Hua took to the enemy camp was handed to Xu Guangyuan and other commanders to read, and each person was passed on, and then a person knelt down and cried in a low voice, and finally everyone knelt down to read the excerpt! For a while, the originally boiling blood also cooled down, and Xu Guangyuan and the others understood Zeng Guofan's good intentions!

The whole city of Nanjing is like the sky has fallen, there are officers and soldiers of the Beiyang New Army sitting everywhere along the street, some are whispering in groups, some are holding rifles in their arms and looking up at the dazzling sun with expressionless faces, due to the death of Zeng Dashuai, the city has become a mess, people's hearts are panicked to the extreme, all kinds of news fly through nowhere, one will say that the whole army is preparing for a half-food war meal and go out of the city at midnight for a decisive battle, and then it will be rumored that the whole army is preparing to break through Foxiao, and there will be news that Zeng Daren ordered Lord Zuo to supervise the overseers, The whole army laid down its arms, disarmed and surrendered.

The word surrender is almost an unacceptable shame for some young radical Beiyang officers, whether it is disarming or surrendering, for them it means the same! But for ordinary Beiyang soldiers, they eat food and become soldiers just to find a way to survive in this troubled era, and secondly, they can support their families, and laying down their arms means that the war is over, if the Chinese Empire can agree to the conditions on Zeng Dashuai's legacy, then for them the war is over.

If the war is over and you are still alive? Is it shame or happiness? No one knew that the officers and soldiers had thought differently, and with the suppression of officers at all levels in the towns, there was much less chaos in the city, but an inexplicable decadence began to spread, as if everything was no longer important.

When Fang Hua explained his intention to Zhang Zheng, the commander of the Second Army Corps on the Chinese Imperial side, Zhang Zheng immediately arranged for someone to contact the Führer, and then Fang Hua was sent to the war room of the Nanling destroyer by gunboat, and he believed that Lin Haijiang, the head of the Chinese Empire, had really arrived at the front line in person? And right on one of the largest warships moored above the river!

Lin Haijiang was still a little inexplicable when he saw the third town of Beiyang to control Fang Hua, Zeng Guofan will never surrender Lin Haijiang knows this better than anyone, but the main force of the Beiyang New Army Ten Towns has lost at least forty percent of its troops, and it is already facing the point of collapse, in letting his heavy troops besiege the city on all sides, if he does not surrender, he will only fight to the end, in the face of these famous generals in history, Lin Haijiang has not yet thought of a countermeasure, after all, this is the blood of the Chinese themselves, so Lin Haijiang has been waiting for the opportunity to move.

Wuhan side of Monk Greenqin is just too low luck, if Monk Greenqin can launch this attack ten days earlier, then the defeated may be the Fourth Army of the Imperial Army, it is a pity that Monk Greenqin launched the attack ten days late, perfect plan and tactics, but only one thing is not expected by Monk Greenqin, that is, he surrounded the Chinese Empire with two corps, two other Marine Corps brigades and two artillery brigades!

Monk Greenqin's bloody mouth is equivalent to the barrel of a shotgun! The result was naturally very simple and clear, after discovering the problem, Monk Greenqin was tightly clamped by the two iron pincers of the Fourth Army of the Chinese Empire and the First Army of the Mountain Infantry, so that the back road was cut off by the marines, and the army collapsed!

Lin Haijiang knew that Zeng Guofan would definitely take action after learning that Seng Lingqin's entire army was annihilated, but he didn't expect it to be a surrender?

When he received Zeng Guofan's letter, Lin Haijiang's mood was still a little heavy, Zeng Guofan's Beiyang has always been the target he wants to defeat, and now that Beiyang is defeated, Zeng Guofan was martyred, but Lin Haijiang's heart was very depressed? Or is it more appropriate to be empty? For a moment, it seems that all the short-term targets have disappeared?

Lin Haijiang slowly opened the envelope, one of Zeng Guofan's was not to destroy the imperial mausoleum of the Qing court, such as the defeat of the Qing Dynasty to treat the Qing court abdicate the royal family, the second is that all Beiyang officers and soldiers who surrender and lay down their arms can have the right to stay free, the third is that Zuo Zongtang must be allowed to enter Beijing, send people along the way to protect his safety, and send people to rescue Zuo Zongtang's family and relatives, so a total of ten, it can be said that each of them is closely related to all Beiyang officers and soldiers, and none of them can be related to him personally.

Zeng Guofan is a generation of Confucianism, tough and modest, Lin Haijiang closed the letter and glanced at Fang Huadao, the commander of the third town of Beiyang who came to deliver the conditions: "Two hours later, you lay down your weapons at the Zhonghua Gate, and we will pay the soldiers who are willing to return to their hometowns, and those who are willing to stay must abide by the Chinese Imperial Citizenship Code and shave their hair to be easy to wear, understand?" We must explain the policy to your officers and men, and we will absolutely not force anyone, but for the Eighth and Ninth Towns of Beiyang that participated in the robbery of Nanjing, we will conduct an open and fair military trial of the officers who are mainly responsible, because their behavior has deviated from the norms of personal surnames. ”

Lin Haijiang hesitated for a moment and continued: "Please inform Zuo Zongtang, after the disarmament, I will bring the senior generals of the former enemy's general headquarters to pay homage to Mr. Zeng Guofan, and order the preparation of a good golden silk nan wooden coffin to Mr. Zeng, and his descendants and body will be handled according to Zuo Zongtang's opinion, and the honor guard of the Supreme Command of the Empire will cooperate in the ceremony, after all, the dead are great, Mr. Zeng Guofan is not only our opponent, but also a generation of famous Confucians who are respected by us, and the sacrifice chosen by Mr. Zeng is very great." ”

Fang Hua didn't expect that the Lin Yi in their mouth would be so young and so reasonable? Even went into the city to worship in person? These were all greatly unexpected to him, Fang Hua couldn't help but quietly look at Lin Haijiang a few times, the momentum between Lin Haijiang's gestures made Fang Hua a little helpless, such a tyrant who dominates the world still has such an approachable side? Whether it's true or not, at least he can give enough respect after the person passes away, he really deserves Lin Haijiang to win the world!

On July 27, 1862, the Beiyang armies had all been disarmed, but Lin Haijiang concentrated the officers and soldiers in the Beiyang New Army separately, and the good name was to give the other party's officers treatment, although some people said that this was Lin Haijiang's trick, but it was true that the food and accommodation conditions of the officer barracks were much better than those in the soldiers' barracks.

Most of the soldiers of the Beiyang New Army are to serve as soldiers to eat food and pay to support their families, and carrying a gun to Zeng Dashuai is carrying a gun, and carrying a gun to Lin Haijiang's head of state is not also carrying a gun? Therefore, some people who have no worries at home, and who are hot at the salaries of the Imperial Chinese Army, stay, and they are ready to see the situation, after all, those who go home to work in agriculture are given five double guns, which is a piece of hard goods with one or two halves of miscellaneous silver!

However, the Beiyang New Army also knows that it seems that it is not easy to enter the Imperial Chinese Army to carry guns and eat food? It has to go through the process of rectification training and military skill assessment, but the military uniform of the Chinese Imperial Army has already made them envious, compared to the Beiyang New Army with straw sandals, the Chinese Imperial Army is as enviable as a big guy.

At this moment, Lin Haijiang took all the officers above the division level of the Imperial Army in Nanjing to worship Zeng Guofan, Lin Haijiang saw Zuo Zongtang, a hero who made great achievements in recovering Xinjiang Province in history, in the Golden Dragon Hall where the red tiles were removed, and the senior officers in Beiyang were basically guarding the soul of Zeng Guofan.

In front of the spiritual throne, Lin Haijiang led everyone to bow respectfully, because there was no family answer, the Beiyang generals temporarily made family members to thank them, and the Beiyang generals were looking at Lin Haijiang, the commander of the Nanyang Navy of the Qing Dynasty, and now the head of the Chinese Empire, most of them have never seen Lin Haijiang himself, most of what is known about Lin Haijiang comes from rumors in the market, Lin Haijiang can deign to come to pay homage to Zeng Guofan, although some people secretly think that it is a cat crying mouse to do embroidery, You must know that the recruits of the Chinese Empire did not search their bodies after disarming, and if any of the Beiyang generals hid a pistol, the consequences would be unimaginable, so Lin Haijiang was able to come, which in itself was a very admirable courage.

After the worship ceremony, Lin Haijiang and the Beiyang generals stood face to face and looked at each other, after a while, Lin Haijiang smiled slightly: "We were enemies before, you bleed and killed on the battlefield, you have your court to be loyal to, there are relatives at home to take care of, and we also have the people of the world to save, now that you have laid down your arms, then we are no longer enemies, maybe in the near future we will become friends!" ”

(To be continued)