Chapter 209

On June 21, when the new moon was covered by dark clouds, at the time of the third watch when the stars and moon were dark, hundreds of new officers and soldiers relied on ropes, and even directly buckled the brick cracks with their hands, and quietly climbed the city by night, and climbed the city wall of Tongzhou City. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At the same time that the city wall was occupied by the new army, dozens of intelligence agents who had been lurking for a long time under the city immediately planted the red flag of the Commander's Office all over the city after receiving the signal from the city wall, and fired indiscriminately along the streets, firing guns and shouting wildly in the streets.

"The soldiers stationed in Korea are coming, the soldiers stationed in Korea are coming! The North Korean army has entered the city! ”

Shouts like this plunged the city of Tongzhou into a little chaos, but after a moment of chaos, the city was quiet again.

For the people in Tongzhou City, it seems that they have been waiting for this day to come, indeed, in the past few days, those who should have fled have already fled, and the rest are ordinary people who do not know where to flee.

Now, well, North Korea, no, the North Korean garrison has finally entered the city, and now it can be stopped.

Not really! This time in the city of Tongzhou, it has not stopped, not to mention the militia groups from the countryside, knocking on doors everywhere to ask for silver. But even the ruffian green skin who robbed by fire really made the people's lives miserable, robbing the shop is considered light, maybe looking at someone's little daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law, it will be a big crime.

Now, no matter whose soldiers and horses come over, for the people of Tongzhou City, there is no difference. Even they had to wait in their hearts for the people of that family to come. Clean up this messy world. Now it's all over now. The people with a wide heart can't help but feel that their souls are comfortable, and I don't know how many people fell asleep on the day of the fall of Tongzhou City!

Only a very small number of ordinary people, because of the fear of war, rushed out, the city was in chaos, and among the boiling voices, it was easier to hear a sentence clearly:

"South Gate, South Gate!"

The refugees fled to the south gate, while the long-dormant intelligence officers entered the city through the north gate with their troops, and then took control of the gates. When the troops entering the city saw the people fleeing in a hurry, they did not stop them, but immediately put up a notice to reassure the people. For the Chinese people, any obstruction is not as good as a notice to reassure the people. However, from ancient times to the present, this notice of peace of mind is often posted only after the city is seized and the sword is sealed, but now, the knife has no blood, and the notice is posted.

Although this notice was posted in a bit of a hurry, the notice posted finally made people feel a little relieved. The people who had fled from the city returned to the city one after another, and when they returned to the city. Only then did they find that those troops stationed in the DPRK wearing black dresses did not take the opportunity to loot, let alone block the road, and even many of them just set up bunks along the street, all of them looked like they were frozen to death and did not break their houses.

The seemingly kind and undisturbing "rebel army" really subverts their perception of "soldiers", but when the green-skinned scoundrels who took advantage of the fire to rob were shot on the street, the bloody scene still made people feel the cold killing intent of this army.

However, it was only an hour of effort, which when Tongzhou City finally returned to its former tranquility, for a while, the previous advanced troops had quietly bypassed Tongzhou City and marched towards the capital, and behind them, tens of thousands of troops were also marching along the official road to the capital.

The soldiers of the Beijing battalion on the towering city wall of the Beijing Division, when the sky was about to dawn, really saw the so-called "rebel army" for the first time, and saw those rebel troops wearing black Western-style military uniforms, digging trenches in the fields a few miles away from the city.

At dawn outside the towering city walls, there will still be thick smoke and fire -- last night, when the "rebel army" was approaching the city, the Beijing battalion soldiers who retreated into the city poured barrels of foreign oil on the houses outside the city in order to block the "pursuit" of the rebel army, and then set fire to the houses around the city.

Last night's fire burned almost all the houses outside the city wall of the capital to ashes, and even until this there will be many places burning, and it is impossible to calculate how many people have been swallowed by the flames that have burned all night, and the people who have lost their homes are everywhere outside the city, they look at the rebels in foreign military uniforms numbly and uneasily, and even when they accept relief, they only accept it numbly, only when they look at the burned homes, the faces will show a trace of pain, and the soldiers will feel that they are individuals, And not the soulless walking dead.

He breathed in the choking smoke through the faint morning light, and when he looked at Chaoyangmen, which was less than a kilometer away, his anger churned more violently, and his breathing became short, and when he came to the capital, after witnessing the devastated outer city, Shang Dequan, as the commander of the First Army, first felt annoyed.

Is this the so-called government-run business?

"Sir, at 4:15 a.m. today, the 10th Regiment first arrived at the outskirts of the capital, and after making contact with the Beijing battalion soldiers, the Beijing battalion soldiers burned the entire outer city ...... with fire oil during the retreat."

When mentioning that the Beijing soldiers set fire to the city, Sun Daolin's face was full of anger.

"How can this group of bastards do it, when we are fighting, we are still thinking about destroying the people's houses as little as possible, after all, the life of the common people is not easy, they are good, they can't wait to burn it clean!"

The staff officer's grumbling only drew echoes from the surroundings.

"It's not distressing for the cub to sell Yetian, it's not heartbreaking to cede so many places to foreign devils, and it's still heartbroken to set fire to the house? Do you really think these flag men are Chinese? They never thought of themselves as Chinese! ”

In the midst of the complaints of his subordinates, Shang Dequan, who was wearing a straight military uniform and a German Zeiss binoculars on his chest, although he was on fire in his heart, he could only calm down as much as possible, and he must not be angered by all this in front of him.

With his white-gloved left hand on the handle of the saber, Shang De couldn't help but look at the capital in front of him. The saber he was holding in his hand was a German Western-style saber from Solingen, a gift from the Commander-in-Chief. In fact, the saber of every commander above the regimental level. They were all given by the adults themselves. It's an honor.

If you take the capital...... That's the real honor!

At this time, when this thought came to him, the palm holding the saber was sweating, and even he could feel the black Orlov fast horse under his crotch as if sensing his thoughts, the muscles of his neck trembling spasmodically, and the rough air constantly spurting from his nostrils. The sun slowly rose, and a ray of sunlight fell obliquely on his thick body, and his right cheek felt a little hot in the sunlight.

And Shang Dequan is in his heart. That thought kept churning, those eyes stared at the Jingshi in front of him, for the sake of this city, he even abandoned the large army and came to the front line in person.

Shang Dequan, who was the commander of the First Army and wore the rank of major general on his shoulder, was extremely tall in the eyes of outsiders at this time, and more than a dozen meters to his left, more than a dozen Chinese and foreign reporters were also looking at the city wall with complicated eyes, and three of them had already set up their cameras. From a little farther away, choose a wide backdrop in the sun. At least include a corner of the city wall, take a picture of his side photo, at this time the image of Shang Dequan riding a horse can be described as extremely tall.

For Chinese and foreign reporters, they clearly know that the general in front of them may take the capital of China at any time, and perhaps the photo they took today will appear in important newspapers and periodicals around the world tomorrow, with the corresponding column headlines, and what they want to witness at this moment will be history!

Compared with those reporters who are eager to witness history, after the initial anger, Shang Dequan calmed down, as the commander of the First Army, he knows better than anyone that on the surface, the First Army has as many as four divisions, and these four divisions are nearly 50,000 soldiers forcing the Beijing Division, and it seems that the Korean garrison has put the noose around the neck of the capital, waiting for the final strangulation.

But in reality? Among the four divisions, except for the second division, the other three divisions were only newly built divisions mainly held prisoners, that is, the second division, and they did not fight a tough battle, and the first division, which had the strongest combat effectiveness, was now holding back the main force of the Beiyang Army at Yuguan.

And what does he need to face?

In addition to the more than 100,000 flag soldiers of the Beijing battalion, there are also the elite of the Huai army that may rush at any time and the divisions of the king of Qin in various places, although the intelligence shows that except for the flag battalions stationed in the local areas and the old, weak, sick and disabled sent by the governors in various places, there is no longer the so-called "division of the king of Qin", but who knows where the situation will evolve in the future?

In other words, the Qing army still has a great advantage in terms of strength, while the troops stationed in Korea -- have no superiority at all, and even together with the superiority in combat strength, this will be completely gone, and these newly built divisions rely entirely on cruel military discipline to maintain combat effectiveness, and how long can this kind of troops that rely on "punishment battalions" and "tithes" to maintain their combat effectiveness last? This is also a problem!

But no matter what, they have come to this point, and this drama must be sung, so that the whole world thinks that they are determined to capture the city, and let the whole world see that the Korean garrison only needs one charge to take the capital. He felt much better and breathed a little easier when he thought about it.

"Ready?"

"Sir!"

Sun Daolin turned his face to Shang Dequan and reported,

"The engineering units are ready, and as soon as the order is given, the ...... can be dismantled by blasting"

Nodding, it is not difficult to blast and dismantle the city wall, in fact, it can be said that it is very easy, only a few hundred kilograms of explosives are needed. Shang Dequan glanced at the city's smoke-like wall like a sleeping dragon, and he knew that perhaps this would be the last time he would see this wall, and ...... Will there be another chance?

"Sir, as long as you give an order, at sunset today, you are guaranteed to be able to take the capital!"

Sunset!

When the officers of the front line were eagerly trying to get down to the Beijing Division in one fell swoop, in the Global Hotel on the banks of the Haihe River in the British Concession in Tianjin, Zhang Peilun, a "member of the political staff of the Zhili Administration," stared at Song Yuxin in front of him for a long time without saying a word.

Take the capital before sunset!

This is Song Yuxin's promise, if it was in the past, he might immediately push back with ruthless sarcasm, but now he can't say anything. A month ago, who would have thought that Tang Haoran would be able to get to this point, if someone said at that time that the tens of thousands of new troops stationed in North Korea could fight all the way to the capital, it was estimated that it would be regarded as a joke by the entire yamen, not to mention anything else. Even the Beiyang Yamen is enough for him to drink a pot.

But now. No one can laugh. Whether it is a loyal minister or a virtuous person. Now they all want to take the opportunity to seek private interests, in order to protect themselves, just like himself now, the so-called "Zhili political councilors" are actually the "political representatives" of the governor of Zhili, this is Sheng Xuanhuai's imitation of the Western parliamentary method to make the "council", but the Western parliamentarians are all elected, and these "political councilors" representing the local governors are appointed by the governor. Represents the interests of local governors. More precisely, as the personal representative of the governor, he bargained with the imperial court, at least until the war subsided, and the government of the Qing Dynasty would undergo earth-shaking changes.

It is precisely because of the interests that the reactions of all parties to the current situation are different - the garrison army is marching towards the capital little by little, and here, in the face of King Qin's holy decree, the yamen has once again dealt with the matter, as for the other seven governors, they are all good words, but there is no one who is really King Qin.

When the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang ordered Yuan Shikai's new army of Taiwan to enter the king of Beijing. But who would have thought that Zhongtang had already begun to negotiate with Yuan Shikai to go to Zhejiang on the other side of the two rivers. Help him pacify the rebellion in Hangzhou, as for King Qin, no one will take it true at this time, that is, the 100,000 soldiers newly recruited by Zhongtang in Shandong, Zhili and Henan, it is just in the name of the imperial court, and those 100,000 people will be ready to train the new army in the future.

"Tell me, what do you want?"

After being silent for a long time, Zhang Peilun said this sentence helplessly, in fact, it is better to order directly at this time, this Song Yuxin came to Tianjin from North Korea, not just to taste the Western food of the Global Hotel, if it is about the authenticity of Western food, Incheon is not necessarily worse than Tianjin.

However, as soon as the negotiations began, Zhang Peilun set the tone, in fact, this tone was set by Lord Zhongtang. Although Lord Zhongtang has set the tone, it does not mean that there is no room for maneuver, and even if necessary, Zhang Peilun will definitely "replace" Lord Zhongtang.

"Lord Zhongtang asked me to tell Lord Tang that the army will be withdrawn to North Korea, and that Lord Zhongtang can ensure the safety of Lord Nakdang, as for this North Korean government affairs...... Since then, the imperial court and Beiyang have not asked! ”

Zhang Peilun's words are full, but in fact, they left a foreshadowing, the court does not ask, Beiyang does not care, it does not mean that the future council will not ask, but now no matter what, you have to let him strike the army and return to the court, otherwise, whether there will be a council in the future is another matter.

Faced with Zhang Peilun's conditions, Song Yuxin did not speak, and even he endured the discomfort and drank a sip of red wine in the glass, this blood-like wine tasted very bad in the mouth, but now his interest is not to drink.

"Brother Young Qiao, this ......"

A smile appeared on his face, and Song Yuxin, who knew that the other party was pretending, looked at Zhang Peilun and asked rhetorically.

"If that's the case, doesn't that mean that we have lost so many people and spent so much money on the war, and in the end we have gained nothing? This...... If I agree, I'm afraid it will be difficult to return to North Korea to explain to adults......"

Song Yuxin is telling the truth, if it is just to keep the one-third of an acre of land in North Korea, there is no need to even fight so much, he believes that with the relationship between adults and foreigners, he can completely use the help of foreigners to keep the position of the commander in North Korea, but the problem is that now that it has come to this point, if you want to stop, you must first get enough benefits.

"Confess?"

Asking rhetorically, Zhang Peilun stared at Song Yuxin and said.

"For Lord Tang, without giving some explanation to the imperial court, it is already the best result, brother, junior brother asks, even if you conquer the capital, what can you do?"

"Conquer the capital?"

The words paused slightly, if it was put aside, maybe Song Yuxin would have thought about it, but now he was full of confidence, and in the face of Zhang Peilun's questioning, he said with a smile.

"Your Excellency, a few days ago, Nanpi's Zhang Gongzi has arrived in Seoul!"

"What!"

His brows jumped suddenly, Zhang Peilun glared at Song Yuxin, the corners of his lips jumped slightly from time to time, and he asked rhetorically after a while.

"In that case, why do you Song Jieqi need to come to Tianjin?"

Zhang Peilun's rhetorical question, on the contrary, turned the situation back a little, Zhang Nanpi sent his son to Seoul, there must be some agreement with Tang Haoran, if so, is it still necessary for him Song Jieqi to come to Tianjin?

"My lord asked me to tell Lord Zhongtang that this country can't be chaotic, and the only Zhongtang in China today can turn the tide and fall, and some things are still inseparable from Lord Zhongtang!"

Whether it's sycophants or facts, Song Yuxin's words made Zhang Peilun think for a moment, and then he looked at Song Jieqi and said.

"What your adults want, I can't give it to Zhongtang!"

It's not that they can't give it, but they can't give it, if they give them the Northeast, what does it mean for Beiyang? Zhang Nanpi, the reason why they offered a bid to win him Tang Haoran over, didn't it be his containment of Beiyang? At some prices, Zhang Nanpi and they can open it, but Lord Zhongtang can't open it here, even if it is now.

Of course, more importantly, Zhongtang has already concluded that Tang Haoran will never take the capital! All he needs is a potential, and then he borrows it to get what he wants.

"Brother Youqiao, how long can Zhongtang block it?"

Song Yuxin's rhetorical question made Zhang Peilun's mind sink slightly, and finally he just replied softly.

"Block it for as long as you can! The middle hall can afford to drag it, but you can't afford it! ”

At this time, the hole cards of both sides have been shown, one side can not repel the other side, and the other side, although there are troops, but can not beat the capital, when the hole cards are shown, Song Yuxin pondered for a moment and opened a new price.

"One hundred thousand! He only kept an army of 100,000 in his house every day! Never recruit a single soldier! Although there are 100,000 soldiers, more than eighty percent of them are stationed in Heilongjiang, Jilin and North Korea! ”

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