Chapter 68: The Seizure of Power (II)
Jinzhou. A.D. 1** 4th September 25th.
This Xiongzhen, which connects the inside and outside of the Guan, shows a gray style in the early autumn sun. There are few people on the city streets, and even the most lively teahouses outside the streets of Qiying in Jinzhou are deeply locked. On the top of the city, only the blue triangular flag of the Fengtian Shengzi horse foot training army led by Fengsheng, the deputy capital of the Han army, was fluttering weakly.
After the First Battle of Tianzhuangtai, the main force of 70,000 field battles in southern Liaoning collapsed. Feng Sheng'a took his Fengtian Shengzi horse training army to flee first, and the first devil's cannonball may not have fallen, they have already turned around and run wildly, and more than 10,000 people fled to Jinzhou in one day and one night. The entire corridor of western Liaoning is open in front of the devil. As soon as the defeat of Tianzhuang Tai was brought over by Fengsheng'a's rout, tens of thousands of people in Jinzhou City immediately began to flee, and Shun, the deputy commander of Jinzhou's supreme administrator, almost fled. was still left by Fengsheng Ah Qiang, and the city guards under his command, the staff leader, and the assistant leader all ran away. Although Changshun reluctantly stayed in Jinzhou City, he didn't care about anything, and handed over all the power to Fengsheng, and he burned incense and worshiped God in the mansion and trembled.
Although Fengsheng A's Shengzi training army has a Shengzi in the camp number, it is different from the elite Shengjun of the Huai Army. It is a so-called training army established with the Fengtian Banner Battalion as the backbone. In the three northeastern provinces, the atmosphere of the Fengtian Banner Battalion is the most similar to that of the uncle of the Yanjing Banner Battalion, and it is also the most incapable of fighting. These more than 10,000 people are called duck egg soldiers by the people of Northeast China, which means that they will be broken when touched. In addition to eating food, playing prestige, and smoking a lot, he has no ability. Among the 70,000 troops at the beginning, the two main forces of the Yi Army and the Jilin Lian Army, which were able to fight, were defeated so badly, and they still expected these masters to keep Jinzhou?
More than 10,000 Shengzi practiced the army and fled to Jinzhou, and sure enough, they forcibly occupied people's houses, plundered grain and grass, bullied and dominated the market, and made a lot of fun. The world thinks that Fengsheng Ah fled first in battle, and now he does not restrain his subordinates and disturbs the place. Song Qing and they retreated, and they must visit Jinzhou and impeach Fengsheng! Song Qing hangs the title of the assistant minister of the Qincha, and Yiketanga hangs the title of the minister of the Qincha meeting, both of which are the top bosses of this Fengsheng'a!
No one expected that Feng Sheng'a would stay in Jinzhou City. Song Qing and Iktanga also took Goshha into the city aggressively, but they didn't know what Feng Sheng'a told them. Two generals with the title of Qincha actually withdrew from Jinzhou, one stationed in Beining and the other stationed in Tashan, and neither of them entered Jinzhou for half a step. Feng Sheng'a, the general with the smallest rank in southern Liaoning, has become the situation of the Chinese army, and there are rumors that he is going to take over the position of the minister of the general office of Xu Yifan! There are even more evil rumors, saying that Fengsheng Ah escaped justifiably on the orders of the Queen Mother Lafayette, that is, he wanted the southern Liaoning army to defeat the battle and give the emperor who presided over the war a good look!
There is nothing more upside down than this. After Shengzi practiced the army, he was even more proud to double his practice in Jinzhou City, regardless of the fact that this was their hometown. Disappointed by the war, and unable to provoke these masters, the people of Jinzhou simply fled from the city in an endless stream to join relatives and friends, making this Guanwaixiong town almost a dead city.
And Fengsheng'a also has no intention of seriously deploying the defense of Jinzhou City, and the more than 10,000 troops almost choose the place where they are stationed, and they choose a good house in the city to live in if they are comfortable as an official. The soldiers lived outside the city with a small number of restraints and foreign salaries, and went to the countryside every now and then to collect grain, pull cattle to make tooth sacrifices, and even more nothing to do with the husband, waiting for the people to take money to ransom people. In the past few days, Jinzhou City has never seen the scene of rectifying the troops, but the spontaneous gambling houses and gambling stalls formed everywhere are in full swing, and everyone can't afford to smoke during the day, and they don't sleep at night to gamble money. Feng Sheng'a ignored all this, and the only move was to send his own Goshha pro-military battalion to guard the official telegraph room in Jinzhou City, and every hour he had to report the news to Guangji Temple, and he went to Yanjing City like crazy to telegraph, and he didn't know what news he was waiting for.
In just a few days, even the local bannermen in Fengtian could see that in the western Liaoning Corridor, if the army could expand the offensive, there would be absolutely no ability to resist. And Fengsheng Ah escaped like this, and acted like this, he was actually reused, to save the situation in the Liaoxi Corridor, the only way to kill Fengsheng Ah is to thank the world!
Yingqi, the guard of Fengtian City, went directly to Dian Yanjing and cried: "Lafayette and the emperor don't plan to ask for the place of their ancestors?" Rather than this, a banner person like Fengsheng Ah can't be counted on, so we can really only count on Xu Yifan! ”
But in the past two days, no matter how chaotic and changing the situation in western and southern Liaoning, no matter how many people are waiting for news from Yanjing, this center of the empire has never moved! Within a few days, there was an endless stream of telegrams, newspapers, and court mails sent here, but they were nowhere to be found!
No one can say what happened to this empire.
Just because of this matter, Feng Sheng's temper is so evil these days, and he can't smoke a lot. He is fifty-four years old this year, according to his resume, he has been in the army since he was a child, but he does not have the slightest military temperament, his clothes are clean, his beard and hair are smooth and neat, and his appearance is also very elegant, and he has the bearing of a child of a family. Just looking at the appearance, Qiu Ba, who looks like an old tree root like Song Qing, looks like heaven and earth, and the people below also say that Master Feng has a good temper and is not difficult to serve, but these days, it is different!
Today, he made an exception at noon, and turned over from the couch one by one, and wandered around anxiously in his official hall. The favored subordinate who ran to the room came in with a new cigarette skewer, and he didn't know which one of the sorrowful bowels of Lord Feng was touched, and he went up to be two Wanluan pig hands, plus a Jinhua ham. The fight made people roll all over the ground, and everyone was silent, and Lord Feng was very phlegm today!
Even when the hour came, the Goshhatong band, who was supposed to come to report the news of the official telegraph office, probed their brains at the door of the official hall and did not dare to come up.
After Feng Sheng'a finished beating his subordinates, he turned around two more times anxiously, only to see his Gosh Hatong belt, Feng Sheng'a stomped his feet: "Don't get in yet!" Is there any good news? ”
That Tong Belt is the nephew of Fengsheng Aguobole's family, and he is the most favored by Fengsheng. Tianzhuangtai also worked very hard to escort Feng Sheng'a to escape in the first battle - you must know that when the order to retreat was given, the Shengzi training army collapsed with a buzz, and the escape road was crowded, thanks to this nephew who led the battle and commanded the foreign guns and sabers of the Goshha to greet the deserters who were blocking the way, and fled all the way to Jinzhou with Master Feng!
Lord Feng gave an order, and the commander suddenly rolled in, and after beating a thousand, he was speechless. Feng Sheng's face turned pale, and he touched his smooth forehead: "No news yet?" What happened to Yanjing City? What's wrong with Galeries Lafayette? ”
Feng Sheng's words couldn't be spoken, but he just turned around in his heart. At the age of fifty-four, he became the deputy capital of the white flag, far from the peak of the banner man's eunuch journey. He was eager and eager, this time in the battle of southern Liaoning, as soon as Lafayette's bait stretched out, he was busy biting the hook!
Grange Terrace, because of his actions, he has beaten a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, to say that he doesn't have nightmares, it's fake. But when it comes to this, there is only strong support. Song Qing asked them for their guilt, he pulled out Lafayette's tiger skin to block the drive, Song Qing and Yi Ke Tanga knew that the water in the capital was deep, so they didn't dare to care. But no one can say what is going on in the capital now! In case of...... What if the emperor has a firm foothold there? What if Galeries Lafayette can only be honored? If nothing else, Song Qing and Yi Ke Tang Ah alone can bite him to death!
The more time passed, the cooler his mind became. But the unilateral machine of the official telegraph office, those white long yards of paper these days, turned out to be motionless!
Feng Sheng's nephew also knows a little bit of the inside story, he is Feng Sheng's most intimate person, and he is a relative, at this time, seeing Feng Sheng's irritability that there is no way to go to the sky and no way to enter the ground, he stubbornly persuaded: "My lord, even if Yanjing City doesn't send a telegram for a while, it's nothing to worry about, Song Qing and Yi Ketang, what else can you do with adults?" Let's just wait......"
"Foolish bastard! What am I afraid of Old Man Song and Iktanga? Feng Sheng Ah let out a gaffe. His white skin suddenly shook involuntarily, and he wanted to have a seizure but didn't know where to attack, turned around a few times, sat down on the chair dejectedly, and hugged his head deeply.
“…… There are dead people in Grangea, who died miserably...... Mountains of corpses and a sea of blood...... This is a debt, a debt of iniquity...... Nothing else, Liaoyang there, but there is still a living two hundred and five! That's the person who cut off the heads of Ye Zhichao and Wei Rugui...... One day the court did not understand the title of his minister, and did not support me for a day, as soon as I closed my eyes, I thought of Tianzhuang Terrace...... For more than 200 years in the Qing Dynasty, how could such a thing be lowered? But no one has helped him! ”
The commander also gave Feng Sheng'a a chill down his spine, but he was a little arrogant, and stiffened his waist: "My lord, if Xu Yifan dares to come to Jinzhou, his subordinates will hack him for your lord!" The foreign pill that leaked five times faster at the bottom was also a big hole in his head! ”
Rao was bored, Feng Sheng'a still sneered, and squinted at the past: "Just us?" 70,000 people can't win against 20,000 devils, so Xu Yifan's 10,000 soldiers will destroy 20,000 devils! That's the Heavenly Killing Star! We only have to hold the waist of the imperial court, I see, Xu Yifan still doesn't dare to blatantly do anything to the imperial court! God bless, the telegram from the imperial court will come soon...... I don't want the prestige of the minister anymore, and it's better than anything else to pass this pass safely! ”
After saying a few words, Fengsheng's own tears were about to fall, and he was busy settling down, maintaining a little majesty, and then made up his mind to stomp his feet: "Roll up and cover!" I went to the telegraph room and fell asleep, waiting for news from Yanjing! Assign people again, go to the capital quickly, if the mountain doesn't come, I'll go to the mountain. With enough silver, I have to find a way to ask what's going on, and after this pass, I'll go home and pick up the child! ”
As soon as the words fell, the commander retreated and transferred people in a loud voice, and Feng Sheng'a also called the housekeeper to pack up his things and prepare to change the telegraph office. He didn't rest either, just stood there and watched his subordinates pack their things.
When the military gate was in a hurry, suddenly there was a shouting and whistling sound from the northeast direction, first very light, then slowly getting bigger, and being swept by the wind in gusts. Crashed into the ancient tower in the Guangji Temple that was used as a line, and the corner of the tower was stirred with a crisp light sound.
Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked to the northeast, all of them pricking up their ears.
The whistling sound was silent for a while, and then it sounded again, from faintly dull to gradually high-pitched, it seems that there are countless waves of people, rolling towards Jinzhou, it seems that in the fierce battle of Tianzhuangtai, the soldiers of the various armies who fought hard and died in the country, at the last moment the mountain roared tsunami-like unwilling voices!
Feng Sheng's face was pale, and he stood at the bottom of the steps of the courtyard in a daze, and the subordinates who were packing up their things were all frozen there.
Voices also sounded in the city of Jinzhou, and the chaotic footsteps, cries, and shouts sounded all over the city. It's like headless flies scurrying around. Inside the military gate, there was a deathly silence.
I don't know how long it took before I heard the sound of footsteps, and the Gosh Hatong belt rushed in with a dozen of his subordinates sweating profusely, and at a glance he saw Fengsheng staying in front of the steps.
"My lord, the Yi Army came from the northeast, waving the military flag, in addition to the blue flag of the Yi Army, there is also the Canglong Banner of the Praetorian Guard! Line up and enter the city! All pulled out! ”
Feng Sheng's throat made a gurgling sound, his hand stretched out but he couldn't say a word, in the past two days, his worst fears have become a reality! Before the telegram from the imperial court arrived, Xu Yifan had already arrived in Jinzhou and bewitched Yijun. Xu Yifan is still the minister of the Liaonan Army, Song Qing will be afraid of him and pull out the tiger skin of Lafayette, that heavenly killing star doesn't know if it will! Lafayette, Lafayette, why did you forget about my Fengsheng?
"Closed City...... Closed ...... Beat...... Hit ......"
He stammered the order, but he didn't believe it worked. The one who leads the soldiers, let the soldiers obey you and fight to the death for you. There is no second word, only strict discipline, taking them to fight seriously, and sharing weal and woe with the soldiers. Regardless of whether the Fengtian Shengzi horse training army with the flag camp as the main force has the quality of normal military training, he sent an order from Tianzhuang Terrace to flee first, and also lost his majesty as a commander, and retreated to Jinzhou, not because he didn't want to master the troops, so that they could be obedient, and it was true that the command could not move. Just let them go, everyone can still be perfunctory. At this time, it is impossible to say how many soldiers there can be in Jinzhou, and it is impossible to say where the officers are, so it is even more useless to let them close the city and resist!
Why didn't you fight in the Grange in the first place? Why are you so salivating for the bait of the Minister of the Imperial Mission? Even if you can't win Xiao Yueben, you won't wait until today's scene!
Although Feng Sheng'a gave the order, the whole person did not regain any composure, he just stood there stiffly, and still maintained the posture of raising his hand to order. Cold sweat poured down his forehead like a cascade. In his world at this time, it seems that only the battlefield of Tianzhuangtai is left, and the black waves on the shore of the Bohai Sea are rushing towards him layer by layer! In those waves, there are countless souls!
Fengsheng Ah stayed there, but the Gosh Hatong belt was quite a bachelor, knowing that the adult was already scared stupid, he stepped forward and grabbed Fengsheng Ah, dragged him down the steps, pulled out the saber with the other hand, raised his arm and shouted: "Protect the adult!" Retreat to the telegraph room. Everyone is holding on to it, as long as Yanjing's telegram arrives, let's come out with the holy decree to see who dares to bite Lao Tzu's bird feather! As long as we wait for Yanjing's holy decree, we will have a way to live! ”
A dozen goshkha rushed up, escorted the two and ran out of the line, each setting up a foreign spear and drawing a saber. The life of the big guy is tied to Fengsheng'a, and he can only survive in death. Those subordinates who cried for their fathers and shouted for their mothers wanted to follow, but they were kicked away by these wolf-like Goshha.
As soon as I went to Yuanmen, I saw that the streets of Jinzhou were full of scattered soldiers, most of these banner men were gambling all night, and they were corpses during the day, and they were all awakened at this time, running around the streets in disheveled clothes. The Yi army's attack on the city is so terrifying, no one knows what the result will be. The city is empty, the four gates are wide open, and everyone is running around like flies, crying dad and calling mother. Seeing Feng Sheng'a come out, everyone scolded, if it weren't for him, how could the big guy be like this? The Praetorian Guard's Canglong Banner has been provoked, this heavenly killing star is coming, who knows how many heads have landed!
Those Goshkhas just dragged Feng Sheng'a to the telegraph room guarded by the pro-military barracks as if they were facing a great enemy, and almost dragged him to the ground. Fengsheng's official uniform was also torn, his hair was messy, his eyes were straight, and in the midst of this hustle and bustle, he just cried: "Unjust debt!" ”
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"Shaoquan, what's going on?"
It was still noon, and Shi Duo rushed into the Fayuan Temple, which was temporarily used as Li Hongzhang's capital trip, in sweat.
This time, Li Hongzhang came with troops, and there were already many personal soldiers, and the Anhui guild hall where he lived in Beijing was no longer at the mercy of him. Only borrowed this ancient temple in the capital as a line.
When Shi Duo, the first military aircraft foreman in Cixi's hand, rushed in, Li Hongzhang was taking a nap. What kind of identity is Shi Duo, Li Hongzhang's Goshha can't stop him even if he wants to, so he rushed outside the dormitory, opened his voice and shouted loudly. A few goshkha simply knelt in front of him and kept kowtowing. Shi Duo didn't want to stop after shouting, so he wanted to rush straight into the bedroom, but at this time, he heard Li Hongzhang's voice in the bedroom: "Lord Shi, what is it, don't even let people rest for a while?" I, Li Hongzhang, have worked hard enough? ”
Thinking of Li Hongzhang's current role in the cause of the post-party, even if he is like Shiduo, he has to swallow his mouth and spit to give face, and he stood still with hatred, and shook the book in his hand loudly: "Shaoquan, you come out and let's talk!" ”
When he came out, it was two or three bags of cigarettes, and the foreigner clocked for a quarter of an hour. Shi Duo's face was pale, and he couldn't stop spinning around in the small courtyard outside the dormitory, and he couldn't stop breathing. At this time, Li Hongzhang came out with his clothes tidied up, and it was only three or two days after arriving in the capital, Li Hongzhang lost weight again, it was like skin wrapped in bones, but his eyes were twice as deep, and no one could see what this last important minister of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, who had already been formed, was thinking now.
As soon as he came out, he saw the number book in Shi Duo's hand, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
"Lord Shi, what's the matter? Weng Tonggong and they blew up the prison? Or is the little devil not allowed to make peace? ”
Shi Duo raised the book in his hand that was about to be rubbed, and tore open his voice, as if there were beads of sweat on his head: "Shaoquan, what's going on?" Lafayette's personal message in the morning asked me to leave everything alone and go to the Prime Minister's Yamen Telegraph Room to wait for the telegram from Fengsheng in Liaonan. When I arrived at the Prime Minister's Yamen, I smashed the number book, and I didn't find the number of the telegram sent to Jinzhou, not to mention Jinzhou, the entire three northeastern provinces, and the Prime Minister's Yamen Telegraph Room didn't send a single telegram out! Don't you want to be informed of the changes in the imperial court? What are you doing these days? Twenty-two should be sent, today is twenty-five! Okay, let's not care about the previous account, I sat there to urge the telegram to send a report, and the telegram student actually said that you Shaoquan personally issued a military order, without your hand, the telegram room sent a report without authorization, and the head was cut off! Am I still the Minister of Military Aircraft? What I say is listened to or not? Tell me, what the hell is going on? ”
Shi Duo spoke quickly and quickly, and he was so angry that in the end, he almost let go of his voice and shouted: "There is Liaonan, Lafayette is afraid of chaos, you don't know!" How to explain? In the end, I, a foreman minister, got Fayuan Temple to come to you! ”
Li Hongzhang listened quietly, and spread his hands with a smile: "Lord Shi, the telegram has been sent out early, and I can't find it, and my old man doesn't know why...... I'm not doing a good job, waiting for your impeachment. ”
At this time, if you can leave Li Hongzhang, you still need to run to Fayuan Temple in person? Why Li Hongzhang did this, Shi Duo couldn't figure it out. He just knew that if he couldn't wait for Fengsheng's telegram today, he wouldn't be able to explain it to Cixi!
Shi Duo took a step back, calmed his breath, gritted his teeth and said, "Shaoquan, let's not talk about these. Even if I'm unlucky...... Do you want to send this telegram again? The telegraph man is at your command! Do you want me to invite the emperor to the telegraph room, or do you want me to invite the queen mother to the telegraph room? The words are here, what do you do? ”
Li Hongzhang stood there, his thin old face was described as not moving, he looked up at the sky to the north, and muttered: "My old man has tried his best......" This sentence was so soft that no one could hear it except himself. In the end, there was only a hint of a mocking smile on his face, not mocking others, but mocking himself.
Do your best, do your best? Now that we have decided to sink with this broken ship, and decades of work have been ruined, what can we do with this little consolation on conscience? Will this delay of a few days leave a little hope for this country? Xu Yifan is an immortal?
He waved his hand and said loudly, "Go!" Go and send a report, give Feng Sheng, promote him to be a messenger, he will be a prince in this life! To take Xu Yifan's position, who made him so able to make trouble with the little devil? We are in the Qing Dynasty, and what we want is loyal ministers! This thing and the telegram telling the world that we surrender will be sent together! Nail the coffin, let's knock it louder! ”
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Hundreds of Praetorian Guards surrounded Xu Yifan, followed by more Yi Jun. Jinzhou's city defense is so weak that it is almost none. Fengtian Shengzi horse foot training army can no longer be called an army at all. On the way here, Li Yunzong also discussed with Song Qing and Nie Shicheng in a serious manner, if Fengsheng and them closed the city, how to break through the city defense.
Thousands of teams have easily taken over the defense of Jinzhou Simen, and the Shengzi Mabu training army will either simply escape from the city and disband themselves, or they will drop their weapons and wait for the Yi army to disarm and receive it, without the slightest resistance. And Xu Yifan took the brigade and went straight to the telegraph room of the Jinzhou Metropolitan Yamen.
He was so anxious, not only did he learn from the defeated army that Feng Sheng'a had fled there, but more importantly, this newspaper channel must be in his hands! He summoned the Yi army to rush to the city and take over the military power, not by the hundreds of people around him, those hundreds of people were only enough for him to save his life. It still relies on his legal surname as General Fengtian, the title of Minister of the Imperial Mission!
The city went so smoothly, and he was secretly glad to be there. Xu is Yanjing's imperial party has not yet broken with the Hou party. The latter party has not had time to deal with the imperial party, and he, the so-called coup force backbone who was inexplicably pulled into the imperial party. Thankfully, Lao Tzu arrived just in time!
They traveled all the way, and everywhere there were Shengzi Lianjun who had no time to escape, kneeling and waiting to receive the disposal. Officials are no longer officials, and soldiers are no longer soldiers. They all squatted and knelt there, scolding, and most of them were scolding Fengsheng. Li Yunzong, Nie Shicheng, and Song Qingall followed his horse tightly with tense faces, and they didn't look at those Shengzi training troops, but just galloped towards the telegraph room. Pu Yang and Chen De had already taken Xu Yifan's Goshha to take the lead and grab it.
Seeing that he was about to arrive at the Yamen of Jinzhou Metropolitan Government, he heard a few gunshots, cutting through the sky of Jinzhou City. Everyone was shocked, whether it was the Praetorian Guard or the Yi Army, they all hurriedly took off their guns. The surrounding Shengzi training army was crying and screaming, thinking that the Yi army had shot them to take revenge. They got up and ran in a hurry, and the Yi army got up and down with guns and horsewhips, and let them squat again. These people all hated the Shengzi training army and left them to flee first, as well as the style of these banner camp masters, and they didn't take it lightly. There were four or five thousand elites in the Yi army who entered the city, and the Shengzi training army left in the city was at most a thousand people, and four or five people waited for one, and they couldn't make noise if they wanted to, so they had to continue to stay in fear, and then scolded Fengsheng.
"People are under the low eaves, and they don't fucking bow their heads! Shoot, shoot the gun! At the beginning, I had the ability to shoot us at the Grange! What if you want to kill all the guys? ”
"Staying in Jinzhou City, do you think you are really bad? Now that Zhenqin is here, it won't stop! ”
"Now it's the Han people who are in charge...... In this country, with this group of waste members, our flag people can't sit steadily! ”
The sound of horses' hooves was loud, and Pu Yang had already rode alone to meet him, his sleeves rolled high, and his bald head was not wearing a hat. Facing Xu Yifan's horse's head, he shouted: "My lord, Fengsheng Ana's gang of rabbit cubs still dare to shoot at our Qinchajie flag!" ”
Xu Yifan glanced at him, he was never polite to Pu Yang, and scolded him after holding the horse's head: "You have a burning stick in your hand?" Give you a bunch of people to snatch that broken fence! Bring Ascend to me! ”
Xu Yifan opened his mouth, and Wang Chao, the acting officer of the "brother-in-law" battalion, hurriedly gave an order, and suddenly a team of Praetorian Guards came out of the crowd. Pu Yang has been the head of Goshha for so long, and he is crazy with envy of the officers who lead the troops. At this moment, Xu Yifan gave him a team of people to take to fight, his eyes were red with excitement, and his nostrils were wide open: "Come with Lao Tzu!" ”
Seeing the Praetorian Guards jump off their horses and pick up their guns and leave, Song Qing, who was following behind Xu Yifan, couldn't help but speak: "Lord Xu, ......" Xu Yifan turned around and glanced at him coldly, and Song Qing had to bow his head again. Yijun City has swooped down, and there are a lot of squatting and kneeling Shengzi horse training troops all over the ground, and they have already gotten on Xu Yifan's thief ship, and they still want to leave some face for Fengsheng A? Let's take it one step at a time...... In fact, now he has a little regret, Xu Yifan came resolutely, how good it would be if he had more time to think about it carefully? The blood surged, and it turned out that he and Yijun are now in Jinzhou!
The gunshots in front of him suddenly rang out intensively, all of which were the crisp whistling of the German Mauser, and the sound of bullets drilling into the wall, all of which were full of crying fathers and mothers in the yamen. Compared to fighting this devil, cleaning up these duck egg soldiers is really not a dish in front of the Praetorian Guard.
When Xu Yifan and his brigade arrived outside the Dutong Yamen, the Praetorian Guards had already suffocated the resistance on the wall with a row of bullets, and planted a few boys who dared to shoot. Then the door was slammed, the wall was climbed, and the shouts rushed into the Dutong Yamen, and the shouts of killing went straight inside. Only two bullet-riddled vermilion doors remained, wide open.
Xu Yifan glanced at the scene in front of him, took the lead and jumped off the horse, and the leather boots and spurs slammed on the stone ground at the entrance of the yamen, which was a crisp sound of metal impact, which shook the hearts of the Yi generals behind him.
"Let's go! Go in and see what Fengsheng looks like, just in time, everyone has time to send him on the last ride! As he spoke, he strode in, Li Yunzong and the others followed with a roar, and Song Qing and the others could only follow hard.
This Lord Xu is refreshing to do things, but it is indeed so domineering that it makes people's scalp tingle!
Inside the Dutong Yamen, there were no traces of battle at all, only a few corpses of inverted frieze ghosts in the corners. As soon as these guys shot at the Praetorian Guard, that little bit of single-minded bravery collapsed. The corridor of the courtyard was full of Feng Sheng's own soldiers who had dropped their weapons, kneeling dejectedly. Under the pressure of the bright bayonets of the Praetorian Guards, he did not even dare to raise his head.
Xu Yifan didn't look at them, and took the people behind him for a few turns and walked straight to the telegraph room. When he arrived at the door, he saw Chen De guarding there with a gun on his back, and the door of the telegraph room was wide open, and a crying voice came from inside: "Lafayette, Lafayette, I am a loyal minister, please, hurry up and send a telegram!" I'm a chincha, I'm a chincha! ”
The voice of the cry was out of tune, and there was a dull sound of bumping. As soon as Song Qing and the others heard it, they knew that it was Fengsheng! Xu Yifan was stunned and asked Chen Dedao: "What diorama?" ”
Chen De was always respectful and respectful in front of his brother-in-law, but at this time, he couldn't hide the contemptuous look on his face, and tilted his head inside: "The one surnamed Feng is kowtowing to the telegraph machine!" Packing up such a loose bag, we have been in a hurry for the past two days! ”
Xu Yifan rushed in with everyone, and saw that in the telegraph room, several telegraph students in long shirts were cowering and huddled in the corner. In the room was an automatic Morse code transmitter, with long, undrilled strips of paper neatly stacked. Next to the transmitter was a corrugated unilateral automatic receiver, on which the paper tape was attached, just lying there quietly.
And a middle-aged man in untidy official clothes was being grabbed by Pu Yang by the collar of the back of his neck, but he was still struggling regardless of it, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing to the unilateral automatic transmitter: "Lafayette! I'm a loyal minister, wow! The court wants to support me, it's not me who wants to run, throw away those tens of thousands of lives in Granged, this unjust debt, I can't carry it alone! Buddha Bodhisattva, please move, pass it over! ”
Feng Sheng'a has completely collapsed, from the moment he knew that Xu Yifan was also coming, and the Praetorian Guard Canglong Banner appeared, he was almost bold! Anyone who has escaped has no courage to speak of. In his mind, only Ye Zhichao Wei Rugui's bloody head remained! There are also the mountains and seashores in the area of Grangeotai, and the corpses are piled up! is also a fugitive, and the fear of Xu Yifan cannot be avoided. Xu Yifan is not the minister of the Qincha army, so he dares to kill Ye Zhichao, who is also the minister of the Korean Association to suppress the Qincha, what is he a Fengsheng? When people reach the moment of life and death, their intuition is extremely awake, Xu Yifan is here to kill him!
Since he tricked the Yi army into attacking the city with him, what kind of means can tie the Yi army more closely to his chariot? Only he has the head of the Ascendant!
It's not that he doesn't want to make a telegram saying that he is already the new minister of the Qincha, and Xu Yifan has been deprived of his post. However, since the Qing court replaced the post decree with the telegraph, in order to ensure that the holy decree was not falsely transmitted, the rule of the centralized government was maintained. This telegram conveys the decree that the relevant officials can read the draft of the telegram and confirm that it is valid to automatically receive and report the received military aircraft header for power generation, and this draft cannot be forged. He is already a cowardly person, and he doesn't dare to imagine that he will turn against Xu Yifan if he wields a fake telegram, and as long as he checks it, he has another sin of falsely transmitting the holy decree! I'm afraid that even Song Qing can kill him with this charge!
When the matter came to an end, his Goshhatong and his nephew persuaded him to pinch a piece and wait for the real call from the imperial court to come. He fought to the death and blocked Xu Yifan and them for him for a moment. Who knew that his own soldiers were vulnerable, and his nephew was also beaten into a hornet's nest by a row of guns, and when he was still hesitating whether to fake it, Xu Yifan's soldiers had already rushed in!
Xu Yifan and the others looked at Fengsheng and kowtowed to the telegraph, but Pu Yang couldn't help it. The Praetorian Guards all had contemptuous smiles on their faces, but the Yi Army was all blue in face. They lost tens of thousands of lives by such a guy, and they were guarded in Daling River in a gray manner!
Fengsheng Ah kowtowed a few times, and struggled to turn around, Pu Yang couldn't pick him up, Xu Yifan came over, he was feeling embarrassed, and he slapped him in the face: "Be honest!" You're really a dead pig and you're not afraid of boiling water! ”
Feng Sheng'a was unconscious, his eyes were scattered, and he found Song Qing who he knew: "Lord Song! You name it! It was Galeries Lafayette who asked me to do this, and we all have to listen to Galeries Lafayette! Don't you dare to enter Jinzhou? It's not the tens of thousands of brothers I killed, it's not my unjust debt! Song Qing couldn't bear to look at it, and turned his head away.
Xu Yifan looked at it quietly for a while, and suddenly shouted: "How many years has Lafayette been raised by Zhengrong!" Did the emperor tell you to back down? ”
Feng Sheng'a turned his head: "You are Xu Yifan!" ”
Xu Yifan nodded slowly: "I am Xu Yifan." ”
"You're going to kill me!"
"It's not like I'm going to kill you...... It's the tens of thousands of unjust souls in Tianzhuangtai, and it's the laws of heaven and the country that want to kill you! You touch your conscience, I will do this punishment for heaven, are you wronged or not! ”
Xu Yifan explained lightly, at this time, the seizure of power was successful, and all he had left was exhaustion. In this war, dealing with this kind of fugitive general has made him feel that it is enough. Why is it that in this war, such people are always coming one after another, and there is an endless stream?
He had so much to do that he didn't have time to dwell on these people. From now on, no matter how long he has to maintain this Qing Dynasty in form, but the discerning people in the whole world should be able to see that he, Xu Yifan, has embarked on a completely different path in this last days!
"Drag it out, Ming Zhengzheng will be punished, and the whole army will be ordered!"
Inside, whether it is the Praetorian Guard or the Yi Army, they all stand solemnly. Watching Fengsheng Ah being dragged out like a dead pig, wherever Xu Yifan's whirlwind swept away, it was always the head of the road. The head of another flag man was at his feet!
Since Song Qing, everyone has a chill down their spines and is relatively speechless. In the deathly silence, the sound of an electric bell suddenly rang, and everyone was startled. Everyone turned their eyes to see a telegraph student cowering in the corner and said, "Receive the news...... Received ......"
The electric bell that received the number vibrated two or three times, and the German-made corrugated unilateral automatic receiver worked, and the paper tape that received the report was slowly spit out, showing the number of the telegram and the dots of Morse code.
Xu Yifan nodded slightly, and a telegraph reporter walked over cautiously, looked at the trumpet, looked up and said, "Beijing!" Military! ”
Xu Yifan's hairs stood up, and when he turned his head to look at Song Qing and them, these Yi army generals were all pale. Under Xu Yifan's cold gaze, they all lowered their heads.
"The troublesome thing is done, although it is disgusting, but I have to do it. Now it's finally time to get down to business, Song Junmen, reorganize the battalion, let's be ready to counterattack southern Liaoning at any time! ”
Several generals of the Yi Army are all full of spirits, things have come to this point, is there any room to turn back? Follow Xu Yifan and hit him headlong, if he hits it, he is a national hero. Even if they lose, according to the posture of the Praetorian Guard and the Yi Army, what can the imperial court do to them? Xu Yifan is so domineering, but he has lived a nourishing life for more than a day.
This thought flashed through the minds of the generals of the Yi Army, and everyone beat them a thousand times: "Obey the orders of your lord!" After that, he didn't dare to stay in this room any longer, and strode out to gather the troops. If you want to fight, you have to prepare for a war!
After Song Qing and the others went, Xu Yifan just turned his head and looked at the newspaper tape that was vomiting more and more. After watching it for a long time, he didn't mean to ask someone to translate it immediately, but looked back at Li Yunzong who was standing on the side: "Yunzong, guess what kind of news is sent over there?" ”
Li Yun straightened his face, but [***] replied: "Is this important?" ”
Xu Yifan laughed, laughing so hard that the telegraph students shrank up. Suddenly, he stopped laughing and shouted to the sky, "Okay, you can fuck it!" Lao Tzu didn't come in vain! ”
A.D. 1** 4th September 25th.
Xu Yifan killed Fengsheng Ah, and indeed gained the power to take charge of the armies in southern Liaoning. On the same day, the Qing court sent a telegram, sent it to the court, and notified the world with a newspaper from the palace, and the Qing Dynasty sued for peace. The Weihai armies in southern Liaoning stopped resisting, gave up the Weihai fortress, gave up Pyongyang, and the Beiyang Naval Division hung a white flag and went to sea to deliver the ship, exempting Xu Yifan from the rank of general Fengtian and the general office of the southern Liaonan army.
History, at this moment, fell to the darkest bottom.
(To be continued)