"Send someone to Jingshi again, inform the imperial court of the movement of our army, let them come east as soon as possible, and we will send an army to Jixian to meet the holy driver!"

After saying this, Du Xing'a as if he had lost his strength, he knew very well that after he made this decision, the two hundred years of the Qing Dynasty would be completely defeated, and if he was lucky, it would be possible to hold the Northeast Longxing Land, and wait for the follow-up of the general trend of the world, and try to enter the Central Plains for the second time, if he was unlucky, he failed to hold the Shanhaiguan, I am afraid that the Northeast will also fall into the hands of the enemy, and then the Qing Dynasty will be really finished.

Even if Hunan, Yunnan-Guizhou, Guangxi, Shaanxi-Gansu, Shanxi and other provinces and allegiance to the Manchu Qing Dynasty at present, even if the Hunan army continues to resist in the southwest region and Nade in Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu, it is already difficult to change the overall situation of the world.

Perhaps the decision to withdraw to the outside of the border caused Du Xing'a to suffer a major psychological blow, perhaps because of the wind cold, and Du Xing'a began to have a fever that night.

But even though he fell ill, Duxinga still arranged for the troops to carry out a strategic retreat, and arranged a considerable number of troops to break the back.

In the early morning of the next day, the Qing army went out of the city one after another, and at the same time, the 3,000 cavalry under the command of the Qing army played the role of a death squad in order to cover the retreat of the main force, and tried to pursue the Ninth Auxiliary Defense Division to the south many times.

When the Eighth Division hurriedly launched a general attack on Tianjin and defeated more than 8,000 Qing troops in the city, Du Xing'a had already led the Qing army out of Tianjin a full 20 kilometers away.

After leaving Tianjin, Du Xing'a, who was lying in the carriage, continued to have a high fever, and the whole person was already in a state of sleep, and the command of the retreating Qing army had been taken over by Shi Rongchun.

And on the carriage. Although Du Xing'a fell into a coma, his expression was still full of pain, tears occasionally flowed from the corners of his eyes, and he said various words vaguely in his mouth.

"He ran away again!" After Shi Qingxuan learned that the Qing army fled without a fight and gave up Tianjin directly, his face was incredulous. And then there was a hint of irritation.

This Duxing'a is really addicted to running, running all the way back to Zhili Tianjin from northern Jiangsu, after arriving in Tianjin, Shi Qingxuan originally thought that Duxing'a would have a duel with him, but he didn't expect him to run again, this is Tianjin, the last gateway to Beiping, he gave up Tianjin directly means giving up Beiping.

"Chase, chase them, don't let them slip away!" Shi Qingxuan only glanced at the retreat route of the Qing army, and immediately knew that everyone was Xing'a and did not retreat to Beiping. Instead, he had to retreat to Shanhaiguan, or even directly into the Northeast, which Shi Qingxuan could not tolerate.

This Northern Expedition, if it is said to be to conquer Beiping, is better to completely annihilate the Qing Army under the command of Duxing A.

As long as the Duxing'a department is annihilated, then Beiping will go down without a fight, and the Manchu Qing will naturally be destroyed, on the contrary, if Duxing's troops are allowed to run away. The occupation of a Beiping does not have much military value, at most it sounds better in a political sense.

And so. The next very interesting scene happened, after the Sixth Army took Tianjin, it did not directly attack Beiping, but ignored Beiping, and its main forces, including the Eighth Division, the Ninth Division, and the Ninth Auxiliary Defense Division, directly caught up with Duxing'a's troops and went straight to Tangshan.

The strategic task of conquering Beiping was lost to another unit of the Sixth Army, the First Division.

When Baoding was just conquered. Song Xiangtang, who marched to Zhuozhou, received a military order from Shi Qingxuan, asking him to lead his headquarters to capture Beiping, and stated that the main force of the Sixth Army had already pursued the enemy to Tangshan and even to Shanhaiguan, and it was impossible for him to send reinforcements.

Song Xiangtang did not have a look of embarrassment in his heart, but showed a look of ecstasy!

This is the capture of Beiping. The great credit for completely ending the puppet Qing political center, and this credit is about to fall into his own hands, how can this make Song Xiangtang not ecstatic.

As for whether he can take Beiping, Song Xiangtang is not worried about this, the essence of the Qing army in the Zhili area is only in the departments under Duxing A, although there is a first town of the Qing Army and a number of Beijing camps in Beiping, but even ordinary people know that the predecessor of the first town of the Qing Army is the Eight Banners New Army.

Everyone knows what the New Army of the Eight Banners is, and although they are also equipped with flintlock pistols, artillery and other weapons, the quality of the soldiers is not much stronger than that of the Green Battalion and the old Eight Banners.

With so many new army units in China, this Eight Banners New Army can be regarded as the bottom, which is not only known to the Qing army generals such as Xing'a, but also to the Chinese army generals such as Song Xiangtang.

In addition to the first town of the Qing Army, there were also a number of Beijing battalions, and these green battalions or the old army of the Eight Banners were simply vulnerable in front of the royal army units of the Chinese army.

Besides, although the first division said that the main force was less, there were still two auxiliary defense divisions behind it, and although the combat effectiveness of this auxiliary defense division was a little worse, it could also make up the number.

Therefore, only in terms of the strength of the enemy and our own, even if Song Xiangtang is not 100% sure, he is 78 sure to win Beiping.

This also shows that the order given to him by Shi Qingxuan, as it said, was for Song Xiangtang to attack Beiping alone, but it was better to directly send a great battle to Song Xiangtang, how did this not make him excited.

"Pass the order and speed up the march!" Song Xiangtang can't wait to see the city wall of Beiping and set foot on the streets of Beiping!

On January 20, Shi Rongchun fled east to Ninghe with the main force of the Qing army, while Du Xing'a was still in a semi-sleepy state, and he was no longer able to take charge of detailed command.

At the same time, Shi Qingxuan personally led the Eighth Division, the Ninth Division, and the Ninth Auxiliary Defense Division of the Sixth Army to pursue urgently, and the forward troops were about six kilometers away from the Qing army in front, and the main force was about ten kilometers apart.

The 1st Division, which was marching towards Beiping, had captured the areas around Zhoukoudian and Fangshan, and the troops had reached Changxindian.

On this day, the city of Beiping was already full of panic, and a large number of people dragged their families out of the city to try to escape the scourge of war, of course, more people still hid at home.

Today, even those who are backward in the news already know that the Chinese army is less than dozens of miles away from Beijing, and even to some extent. The Chinese army has already entered the boundary of the capital division, but it has not yet reached the city wall.

The prices on the streets, especially the price of rice, rose three times a day, and because they were afraid of a long siege, the people in the city began to rush to buy all kinds of daily necessities, especially rice and grain.

The soldiers patrolling the streets were panicked and even frightened, although the city was full of flags. Numerous soldiers were on it, but most of them were panicked.

Approaching the afternoon, Emperor Xianfeng, who looked tired, looked at the many ministers below: "What, is there no way at all?" ”

A few people on a few sides, you look at me, I look at you, and then they all don't speak, seeing that these people don't speak, Xianfeng remembered what these people said in the past that it was easy to exterminate the Chinese rebel army, and then he couldn't help but be angry. directly picked up a piece of jade paperweight on the desk and smashed it out.

"A bunch of waste, it's all a bunch of waste, what's the use of me!" Emperor Xianfeng's originally pale face turned bloody: "And that Du Xing'a dared to flee without a fight, is there still me in his eyes!" ”

The lowly people remained silent, and no one spoke, because they had no way to deal with the current situation.

Most of these people are civil officials, so it's okay for you to let them talk about it. But if you ask them to come up with a way to resist the attack of the Chinese army, at most, it means that as long as the soldiers fight bravely. Fight to the death and don't retreat or something like that.

What's more, now Emperor Xianfeng is obviously angry, when he doesn't speak, Emperor Xianfeng just throws the paperweight on the ground, but if he takes the initiative to speak at this moment, and also says the wrong thing, maybe Emperor Xianfeng will directly smash the paperweight on your head.

More than 10 people were present. Except for Emperor Xianfeng, who scolded loudly above, everyone else knelt honestly, but didn't say a word.

After scolding for a long time, Emperor Xianfeng was probably tired of scolding, and gasped after sitting down again. picked up the tea and took a sip, but the tea in the cup was too cold, so he threw the teacup in his hand directly.

But this time, he didn't scold anything, but stared at the group of ministers below with a gloomy face, and then said: "Master Peng, tell me what kind of regulations are here of the Military Aircraft Department!" ”

Peng Yunzhang, who was named by Emperor Xianfeng, raised his head at this time, but he did not speak immediately, but pondered for a long time, this person is not very proficient in foreign affairs because he has lived in Beijing for a long time, and he is always very cautious whenever there is foreign affairs, especially military affairs, and this caution is also one of the reasons why Emperor Xianfeng admires him, otherwise he would not have been allowed to serve as the foreman of the military aircraft.

I saw Peng Yunzhang speak after a long time: "In the opinion of the minister, regardless of whether it is appropriate for the Lord to abandon Tianjin without permission, how to punish it." But now the army of the capital has retreated to the west of Shanhaiguan, and now looking inside and outside Gyeonggi, there are only less than 20,000 people in the first town and the capital camp, which is ...... to guard."

Before he finished speaking, Emperor Xianfeng interrupted him and said directly: "Aiqing means to leave?" ”

Peng Yunzhang's answer was: "In Weichen's humble opinion, now Gyeonggi is undefendable, and now the only way to retreat to the northeast is to make a comeback!" ”

Emperor Xianfeng no longer looked at Peng Yunzhang, but at Mu Yin, another minister of military aircraft: "You are in charge of the military department, you can tell me, can this be held?" ”

Mu Yin suddenly heard Emperor Xianfeng's inquiry, and was a little stunned for a while, so anxious that his head was sweating and didn't know how to answer, this answer said that if he could keep it, everyone knew that this was nonsense, not to mention other people, he Mu Yin himself didn't believe that he could defend the Jingshi by relying on the first town and the old and young people in Jingying, but if he couldn't keep it, wouldn't he slap himself in the face and say that he was incompetent, and it was difficult to guarantee that Emperor Xianfeng would not be angry.

Speaking of Mu Yin is also quite unlucky, although he is in charge of the Ministry of War, and has the identity of the Minister of Military Aircraft, logically speaking, he should be the first person in the Manchu military system, but in fact it is not the case, in today's Manchu military system, Du Xing'a, the 'Prime Minister's New Military Department' supervises, supervises and supervises the military ministers of the three provinces of Shandong and Henan are the big guys, and Mu Yin, who is in charge of the Ministry of War, is at most in charge of some Eight Banners and Green Battalions, and then he is responsible for raising military expenses, grain and grass and the like.

In other words, in fact, Mu Yin did not really control the military power of the Qing Army.

But no matter what, he is the only person in charge of military affairs in the Military Aircraft Department, and he can't keep his mouth shut in the face of Emperor Xianfeng's inquiry at this moment.

can only say: "Now that the first town and the Beijing camp are fully prepared, the slaves will fight to the death with the soldiers, and never let the rebel army step into the Beijing division!" ”

But Emperor Xianfeng is not a person who is easy to fool, he doesn't want to listen to Mu Yin's words, so he said with a cold face: "Don't talk about these useless things, you just need to tell me whether you can hold it or not!" ”

Mu Yin didn't speak, because he didn't dare to speak, so he could only use silence instead of answering!

Seeing that Mu Yin didn't speak, Emperor Xianfeng also got the answer he wanted!

Standing up again, he didn't look at the ministers again, and said as he walked inside: "Prepare for the East Hunt!" ”

Mu Yin and the others raised their heads and saw Emperor Xianfeng walking in alone, his young body was already slightly bent, and he was coughing while walking!

Looking at the lonely figure, the eyes of a large group of people couldn't help but moisten!

This is to give up the Jingshi East Hunt, which also means giving up the Qing Dynasty that has occupied the country for two hundred years, but the first to cry is not Mu Yin and a group of Manchurians, but Peng Yunzhang, a Han man, who cries and cries when the listener is sad and the hearer is in tears! (To be continued.) )