In the Xinuan Pavilion of the Forbidden City, Prince Gong Yixin said to the Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu: "Lafayette, the emperor, the minister has reached an agreement with Lin Daxin, and the imperial court will canonize Lin Daxin as the governor of Qinghai, Tibet and Gansu in the past few days, and after the war between the imperial court and the Eight-Nation Alliance, Lin Daxin will lead the Dingbei Army and the Northeast Navy to immediately participate in the war to protect the safety of our southern provinces of the Qing Dynasty, and so on to repel the Eight-Nation Alliance, Lin Daxin also promised to withdraw from the southern provinces, and the southern provinces are still the southern provinces of our imperial court. Cixi and Guangxu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief after hearing this, no matter what, Lin Daxin agreed to send troops, and the Qing Dynasty was saved, and Sichuan Province was still saved, and it was not blackmailed by Lin Daxin, as for the three provinces to give Lin Daxin before repelling the Eight-Nation Alliance, or to Lin Daxin later, it doesn't matter anymore, Lin Daxin can agree to send troops is the most important thing.

As for Tibet, it is definitely a bird that does not for the imperial court, although it nominally belongs to the Qing Dynasty, and the imperial court has set up a minister in Tibet to manage the affairs of Tibet, but it is still the world of the Tibetans, and it is good that the imperial court does not allocate money to Tibet every year, and don't want to get any taxes from Tibet at all.

Gansu and Qinghai were able to pay some taxes to the imperial court every year, but the two provinces were vast and sparsely populated, and there were many battles between the Mongolian, Tibetan, Hui, and Han ethnic groups.

In fact, Gansu and Qinghai are equivalent to 1 province, originally the imperial court did not set up a province in Qinghai, but set up Qinghai in Qinghai ~ minister, which belongs to the jurisdiction of Gansu Province, but a few years ago after Xinjiang Province was occupied by Lin Daxin, the imperial court in order to strengthen the rule of the Qinghai region bordering Xinjiang Province, Qinghai was divided from Gansu Province into a separate province. The governor of Qinghai was appointed and he was asked to train the army. Beware of Lin Daxin's Dingbei Army in Xinjiang.

However, Qinghai Province is too barren, and Qinghai has been a province for more than three years. But the army doesn't talk about the new army, even the patrol battalion that has been transformed from the green battalion, there are not many, but now the imperial court doesn't have to worry, Qinghai is about to become Lin Daxin's bag.

The Empress Dowager Cixi said: "Then so be it, Your Majesty, give the decree of canonizing Lin Daxin as the governor of Qinghai, Tibet and Gansu provinces." ”

Emperor Guangxu nodded helplessly, and gave the three provinces of Qinghai, Tibet and Gansu to Lin Daxin, Guangxu was still very distressed in his heart. There are only a total of how many provinces there are in the Qing Dynasty now, and this time three provinces have left the imperial court, and the land area that the imperial court can control is getting smaller and smaller.

Prince Gong Yixin then said to the Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu: "Lafayette, Emperor, the Eight-Nation Alliance has become more and more tough on the attack on foreigners in Beijing, and has given an ultimatum to the Prime Minister's Yamen, and we are limited to give an answer within 3 days, otherwise we will ......."

Emperor Guangxu said angrily: "These foreigners are really unreasonable, dear father, it seems that this eight-nation alliance is determined to deal with our Qing Dynasty." ”

Empress Dowager Cixi's eyes flashed. "Since Lin Daxin has promised to send troops, the Eight-Nation Alliance of foreigners will not let us go of the Qing Dynasty this time, Prince Gong, without further ado. On behalf of the Imperial Court, you have officially declared war on the 8 countries that are pressuring us! ”

"Huh? Dear Dad, are you saying we declared war first? Emperor Guangxu shouted in surprise.

Prince Gong Yixin was not surprised, but said approvingly: "Lafayette is wise. Since there is no way to avoid war, it is better to declare war first. to show the imperial court's determination to resist the Eight-Nation Alliance. ”

Cixi actually wanted to declare war, just to breathe a sigh of air. didn't think of anything else, the eight-nation alliance was pressing step by step, so that this woman who had ruled the Qing Dynasty for half a century was already angry, and now that Lin Daxin agreed to send troops, Cixi also had confidence.

However, when Prince Gong said this, Cixi nodded and said, "It is exactly as Prince Gong said!" ”

On May 18, 1902, a powerful news spread all over the world, the ancient Qing Dynasty actually declared war on Britain, Germany, France, Russia, Italy, the United States, Austria-Hungary, and Japan in the name of Emperor Guangxu this morning.

There is also news that foreigners do not pay much attention to, the Qing court canonized Lin Daxin as the governor of Qinghai, Tibet and Gansu provinces.

In the afternoon of the same day, the envoys of the eight countries received the instructions of the country and declared war on the Qing Dynasty at the same time, and then the legations of the eight countries were surrounded by soldiers from the first town of the Wuwei Army.

However, the Qing court did not let the soldiers storm the legation, but only surrounded the legation and told the Qing envoys of the eight countries that during the war between the two sides, the personnel of the legations were not allowed to go out, and those who disobeyed were treated as spies.

This is also the Qing court itself to leave a way back for itself, and did not do things to the end, otherwise the personnel in the Beijing City Legations of the eight countries would become the first batch of prisoners of the Eight-Nation Alliance after the two sides declared war.

After the Qing court and the Eight-Nation Alliance declared war on each other, Lin Daxin immediately jumped out to announce that he supported the imperial court in declaring war on the Eight-Nation Alliance, and that the Dingbei Army and the Northeast Navy under his command were ready to resist foreign invaders at any time.

Lin Daxin didn't expect the Qing court to be so tough this time, and suddenly declared war ahead of the Eight-Nation Alliance, but since the Qing court gave Qinghai, Tibet and Gansu to himself, he Lin Daxin would not be able to speak, so he immediately came out to cheer for the Qing court.

The imperial court's declaration of war frightened the common people of the Qing Dynasty, I don't know how the imperial court had a convulsion, and it will declare war with 8 countries at once, and most of them are Western powers, isn't this the rhythm of looking for death? Fortunately, Lin Daxin then stood up and chose to support the imperial court, otherwise the people would have to fry.

However, with the spread of the details of the imperial court's declaration of war, the people of the Qing Dynasty knew that these eight countries had long been plotting against the Qing Dynasty, forming an eight-nation alliance, preparing to carve up the southern provinces of the Qing Dynasty, and because of the attack on foreigners in Beijing a while ago, the Qing Dynasty was required to compensate the Eight-Nation Alliance for 40 million taels of silver, and also to demarcate Jiaomin Lane in the east of Beijing as the embassy area, in the embassy area, our Qing people are not allowed to live, and the Eight-Nation Alliance can send troops to garrison the embassy area. In addition, we need to forever prohibit the common people from forming or joining any organization hostile to other countries, and those who violate it will be executed, and the provincial officials must ensure the safety of foreigners, otherwise they will be immediately dismissed from their posts and never hired.

A series of harsh terms given by the Eight-Nation Alliance suddenly made the people of the Qing Dynasty excited, and shouted good about the declaration of war by the imperial court, the foreigners were too bullying, it was simply unbearable, but most of the Qing Dynasty people were still a little worried about the upcoming war, after all, it was not 1 or 2 countries, this time it would be fighting with 8 powerful countries at the same time, that is, the famous Dingbei Army and the Northeast Navy, can they win in the end?

The Qing Dynasty's initiative to declare war took the Eight-Nation Alliance by surprise, but war was a matter of time or time, and the Eight-Nation Alliance did not make a fuss, but stepped up the mobilization of their respective forces, and because Lin Daxin also jumped out, the Eight-Nation Alliance changed its tactics and prepared to attack in two ways.

All the way is the original eight-nation alliance plan, the land forces of various countries under the escort of the combined fleets of various countries, landed in the southern provinces of the Qing Dynasty, and first occupied the southern provinces of the Qing Dynasty, but now Lin Daxin, who has a tense relationship with the rulers of the Qing Dynasty, also supports the Qing Dynasty, and the warships dispatched by various countries need to be more at the beginning, after all, they will fight with the powerful Northeast Navy.

On the other hand, the Eight-Nation Alliance is preparing to directly use the long border between Russia and Lin Daxin, and the armies of various countries will directly attack Lin Daxin's territory from Russia.

The army attacking the southern provinces of the Qing Dynasty was mainly the Japanese army, plus the army sent by several other countries, while the army attacking Lin Daxin's territory was of course the Russian army as the main force, as well as the army sent by several European countries.

After urgent consultations, when the Eight-Nation Alliance attacked the southern provinces of the Qing Dynasty, the Japanese Army would invest 700,000 troops in 35 divisions, the British Army would invest 80,000 troops, of which 70,000 would be servants, the remaining 10,000 would be British regular troops, and France would invest 50,000 troops, of which 30,000 would be servant troops and 20,000 would be French regular armies.

Germany will send 8,000 troops, Russia will send 8,000 troops, Italy will send 5,000 troops, Austria-Hungary will send 3,000 troops, and the United States will send 500 troops.

The Eight-Nation Alliance was preparing to send an unprecedentedly large fleet to the southern part of the Qing Dynasty, and the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy would send most of its main warships, as well as most of the fast-defending cruisers, destroyers, and torpedo boats, and Britain and France would not only draw most of their warships in Asia, but would also form a strong expeditionary fleet from the mainland to the southern part of the Qing Dynasty.

Germany, Russia, and Italy will also each send a strong expeditionary fleet, only the United States and Austria-Hungary will send a weaker fleet, Austria-Hungary because its navy is already weak, can not send any strong fleet to the Qing Dynasty, and the United States is reluctant to send too many warships.

Attacking directly into Lin Daxin's territory in Russia, Russia is ready to dispatch a staggering 1.8 million troops, while Germany and France will each send 150,000 troops into Russia to attack Lin Daxin's territory.

In addition, Austria-Hungary will send 80,000 troops along the way, Italy will send 60,000 troops, and Britain will send 20,000 troops.

The above is only the number of troops that countries are preparing for the first wave of attack, and as the war escalates, most countries have promised that they will continue to invest troops, and only the United States is a little vague. (To be continued......)

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