On September 20, Lin Fei held a strategic decision-making meeting in Dayu City, at which Lin Fei made a report entitled "It is advisable to chase the poor and brave the poor, and not to sell the name and learn from the overlord", asking the Huaxia army to attack Sichuan in one go and completely destroy the Qing court.

Lin Fei ordered the Huaxia Army to attack Sichuan from the south, north, and east.

In the north, with the Luoyang Front Army as the main force, starting from Xi'an, first taking Hanzhong, and then taking Sichuan, the route of the march is basically the same as that of the Three Kingdoms period, and Deng Aizhong will destroy the route of Shu Han.

The most difficult place to fight on this road is Jianmen Pass, because Sichuan is surrounded by mountains, so the attack on Sichuan is bound to pass through countless high mountain passes, Jianmen Pass is one of them.

Jianmen Pass is a typical terrain of "two mountains sandwiched one way", the mountain road in the middle is only fifty meters wide, the mountain road is set up with the Guancheng, the artillery is erected on the Guancheng, the trenches are densely covered in front of the Guancheng, let you have thousands of troops and horses, don't think about passing the pass.

How dangerous the terrain of Jianmen Pass is, Li Bai once wrote in "Shu Dao Difficulty": "The flight of the yellow crane is not yet passable, and the ape wants to climb through the sorrow." ”

How difficult is Jianmen Pass to fight, the battles that occurred in Jianmen Pass in history are large and small more than 50 times, the vast majority of them ended in the failure of the attacker, and there are only three successful examples of the attacker, two of which are detours to break the pass, and only one is to break through the city head-on.

To the east, with the Hubei Front Army as the main force, along the Yangtze River upstream, this route needs to pass through the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, how dangerous the Three Gorges are, there is no need to repeat it.

In the south, with the Yunnan Front Army as the main force, it attacked Yibin, an important town in southern Sichuan, and everywhere it passed, it was a plateau and a mountain, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Therefore, it is indeed not so easy for the Huaxia Army to capture Sichuan, but Lin Fei made it clear that he would take the Qing court at all costs and completely liberate the Chinese compatriots, and the generals of the Huaxia Army responded in unison.

At the end of the meeting, Xiyun approached Lin Fei and said with a smile: "I didn't expect my husband to compose poems." ”

Lin Fei was stunned, "When did I compose a poem?" ”

Xiyun raised his white fingers and pointed to the title on the document - it is advisable to chase the poor man with the remaining bravery, not to sell his name as a scholar overlord, and said with a smile: "Isn't this just a good poem?" ”

Of course, this poem is not Lin Fei's original, it was "plagiarized" by Lin Fei, the appearance time of this poem was in the middle of the twentieth century, Lin Fei didn't think much about it, and used it directly, the senior officers and staff officers present didn't know much about poetry, and they didn't think so, but Xiyun, a talented girl who read poetry and books, saw the taste of this poem at a glance.

Lin Fei originally wanted to be modest and put this matter aside, but after thinking about it, Xiyun usually "despised" himself in poetry, so Lin Fei decided to erect an image of a talented man with eight buckets and five cars of learning in Xiyun's heart, so Lin Fei smiled and said: "Usually I don't perform as well as you in poetry, that's me letting you, in fact, when it comes to poetry, you are not an opponent." ”

Xiyun asked with a smile, "Is it true?" The husband wrote a poem and came out to listen to it. ”

Lin Fei thought to himself that I am a person from the future, how can I lose to you than ancient poems, so he began to search for the poems in his mind, and suddenly found that the previous Qing Dynasty could not be used, because Xiyun had read all of them, and after the Qing Dynasty, he couldn't think of a single sentence for a while.

Lin Fei hesitated for a long time, and he didn't recite a single poem, Xiyun snorted disdainfully, laughed at Lin Fei a few words, and turned to leave.

Lin Fei sighed secretly, thinking helplessly, no matter what era he went back to, he couldn't go back to the late Qing Dynasty, and when he returned to the late Qing Dynasty, he couldn't use any of the methods of teasing talented women with ancient poems.

At the same time that Lin Fei commanded the Huaxia army to march, there was chaos within the Qing court, and it was Zhang Zhidong who was guarding in Sichuan, and then Li Hongzhang came again, and now Weng Tongyi and the Empress Dowager Cixi also came in, and several powerful ministers of the Qing court were concentrated in Sichuan, a small land.

The Huaxia army has been heavily pressed, and the Qing court ministers still have not forgotten the infighting, first of all, Li Hongzhang, who is scheming, he is very clear about what is going on with Yuan Shikai's "collusion with snitches and intent on rebellion", that is, Lin Fei used a trick to discord, and then Weng Tongyi took the opportunity to kill Yuan Shikai.

Li Hongzhang naturally couldn't swallow this breath, but he didn't dare to overturn the case for Yuan Shikai, because Lin Fei built a monument to Yuan Shikai in the Dayu City Martyrs Cemetery, which has proved that Yuan Shikai is Lin Fei's person, so Li Hongzhang pointed the finger at Su Mingzhen, who was promoted by Weng Tongyi, if it wasn't for Su Mingzhen, Tongguan would not have been lost, Li Hongzhang instructed his subordinates to impeach Weng Tongyi for "incompetent appointment, dereliction of duty, and negligence".

The Empress Dowager Cixi was depressed because of the loss of Tongguan and the embarrassment of fleeing, and took the opportunity of someone to impeach Weng Tonggong to push Weng Tongxi's official position to the end, but the Empress Dowager Cixi said very politely - Nian Weng Tonggong is old, and he is allowed to return to his hometown for retirement, but Weng Tonggong is from Jiangsu, and now Jiangsu is Lin Fei's world, so Weng Tonggong can only be idle in Chengdu.

The Empress Dowager Cixi disposed of Weng Tongxiao, which was regarded as a bad mouth, and the next thing was to build a palace in Chengdu, and select palace maids and eunuchs to fill it, and the financial resources were insufficient, so let's loot the people and make the people of Sichuan miserable.

When these things were arranged, the Empress Dowager Cixi began to think about the next things, at this time, all countries in the world were standing still, and there was no mercury-like offensive of the British and French forces in the early days of the First Nanyang World War, and the Empress Dowager Cixi felt that there was no hope of defeating Lin Fei.

The Empress Dowager Cixi then brought Li Hongzhang over and instructed Li Hongzhang: "At this time, I have no way out of the Qing Dynasty, you go to Lin Fei to negotiate." ”

Li Hongzhang secretly smiled bitterly and asked, "Negotiation?" How to talk about it? ”

The Empress Dowager Cixi thought for a while and said: "Mourning the Western States, there is a constitutional monarchy, why don't we follow suit and let Lin Fei take charge of national affairs, my Qing Emperor is only the monarch, and let Lin Fei worship my emperor every year." ”

Li Hongzhang is very helpless, Lin Fei has surrounded Sichuan on three sides, and the western part of Sichuan is a cold snowfield, I have no way to retreat, why should Lin Fei make you a constitutional monarchy.

Li Hongzhang sighed and said: "Queen Mother, a constitutional monarchy is absolutely impossible, and I think that now we can only seek autonomy by relying on the dangers of mountains and rivers." ”

Empress Dowager Cixi nodded, "Li Aiqing, you have full authority in this matter, you are tired of mourning the family, so go and rest first." ”

The Empress Dowager Cixi stood up with the support of Li Lianying and walked to the harem, her back was extremely lonely, a great empire that lasted for more than 270 years was already declining, and it was an elegy.

Neither Li Hongzhang nor the Empress Dowager Cixi mentioned the matter of exile abroad, and for the Manchu nobles such as the Empress Dowager Cixi, foreign countries were full of strangeness and fear, and they would not go to foreign countries under any circumstances.

Li Hongzhang came out of the palace, found the most famous American businessman in Chengdu, and asked this American businessman to mediate and negotiate with Lin Fei.

It was impossible for Li Hongzhang to see Lin Fei, because Sichuan was too far away from Dayu City, so Li Hongzhang met Niu Dahu first and discussed with Niu Dahu, and Niu Dahu reported Li Hongzhang's conditions to Lin Fei.

Niu Dahu is not a diplomat, and he doesn't know any "skills and strategies" when negotiating, he only knows one thing, that is, whoever has a hard fist will listen to whomever he wants, so Niu Dahu told Li Hongzhang as soon as he came up: "Unless the Qing court surrenders, we have nothing to talk about." ”

Li Hongzhang's negotiations in his life have almost been groveling, and he has never been tough, and it is the same today, Li Hongzhang said with a wry smile: "General Niu, don't be like this, listen to our conditions, we want autonomy and non-interference with the Chinese Empire." ”

Niu Dahu replied bluntly: "No, there is no way to be self-governing, our Majesty said that there is only one way for you to choose in the Qing Dynasty, that is, surrender, and it is unconditional surrender, after surrendering, our Majesty can guarantee that Emperor Guangxu and the Empress Dowager Cixi, including other princes and ministers, will not be killed." ”

When Li Hongzhang heard Niu Dahu's words, he was quite moved, so he said: "I will report these conditions to the Holy Lord, and then make a decision." ”

The two sides immediately adjourned, and Li Hongzhang reported Lin Fei's conditions to the Empress Dowager Cixi, who heard that Lin Fei had asked the Qing court to surrender unconditionally, and immediately became furious, "What a snitch, how can I bend my knees and surrender to the rebellious ministers!" ”

Li Hongzhang then rejected Lin Fei's surrender conditions, Lin Fei knew very well that the Qing court had illusions about the terrain of Sichuan, and believed that the Huaxia army could not break through the natural danger of Sichuan, so Lin Fei ordered Niu Dahu to break through the Jianmen Pass and deter the Qing court.

On September 26, the Huaxia Army launched an attack on Jianmen Pass, the mountain road of Jianmen Pass was rugged, and the large howitzers could not go up at all, so the Huaxia Army used the Qiankun Bow rocket launcher and the Tiantianjian Arrow rocket, and within an hour, the Huaxia Army launched more than 100 Tiantianzhen Arrow rockets on the Jianmen Pass Tower, which was loaded with burning warheads, and the Jianmen Pass Tower was wooden, and it was ignited in an instant.

The guards of Jianmen Pass and the Qing army had long been interested in Lin Fei, especially when they heard that the Qing court had fled into Chengdu, and even looted the people's wealth and built the palace, they were even more disappointed with the Qing court, so they surrendered one after another.

Jianmen Pass is not the only barrier in Chengdu, there are still many dangerous passes in the follow-up, but Jianmen Pass was breached within an hour, which deeply shocked the Qing court, and the Qing court suddenly felt that those dangerous terrain did not work.

In order to save her life, Empress Dowager Cixi could only secretly inform Li Hongzhang that as long as Lin Fei promised not to kill the Manchu high-ranking officials, she was willing to surrender.

The news was passed all the way to Lin Fei's hands, and Lin Fei quickly assured that as long as the Empress Dowager Cixi surrendered, she would never kill the Manchu high-level, and the Empress Dowager Cixi had no choice but to notify Li Hongzhang and sign a surrender document with Lin Fei. (Canghai shared the writing story on the WeChat public platform, please search on WeChat - qietingcanghai, that is, listen to Canghai's pinyin, reply 2 to watch)