"They must be lying, although Your Majesty did not join us, but they have the first town to escort, the first town has 10,000 troops, although the combat effectiveness is not as good as ours, but it is not an ordinary old army can be compared, the rebel army in the north is only a few thousand troops, Leshan control cannot be easily defeated, these rebel armies want to use tactics to shake the hearts of the army!" Some people don't want to believe that Xianfeng is dying.

However, some people put forward a cautious opinion: "Then why haven't we been contacted by the First Town after so many days?" ”

"Now Shi Qingxuan outside is grinding his fists and palms, I'm afraid they will launch a general attack in three or five days, and even if it is a strong pass like Shanhaiguan at that time, it will not be easy to hold it!"

"The fast guns of Shi Rebellion's department are too sharp, and their heavy artillery is very large, and they hit far away, and I am afraid that the city wall of this Shanhaiguan will not be able to hold it at that time!"

"Could it be that you still want to really surrender, with me Chen someone, you'd better not have this kind of thought, otherwise don't blame me Chen for turning his face and not recognizing people!"

"Whoever said they wanted to surrender, I was just thinking about it for our 20,000 soldiers!"

Seeing that the generals under his command quarreled after saying a few words, Shi Rongchun also fell into deep thought.

Now this situation is at the end of the road for them, it is not an exaggeration, it is not a matter to run all the way, the key is to not see the way forward.

Is Xianfeng still alive? Does First Town still exist? If they are still there, then why haven't they contacted themselves for so long, and the scouts they sent to the north have not found out the news of the first town, but have encountered a lot of routs from the first town. According to them, the First Town and the Chinese Army fought several battles. Each time it was a fiasco in First Town, but these people were the ones who escaped in the early stage. I don't know what has happened in the last few days at all.

Even if Xianfeng is still alive and finally arrives in Shengjing, how can he feed these tens of thousands of new troops in the bitter cold land of the northeast? If you can't afford to raise a new army, how can you resist the eastward advance of the Chinese army?

It is not an easy task to raise a new army, even if you save a year, it will cost millions of dollars, and now there are only a few people in the northeast, how many lands.

Today's Northeast is not the Northeast after the later generations broke into the Guandong, the current Northeast population is very small, most of them are people who stayed outside the customs after the former Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and at the same time, a large amount of land in the Northeast has not been developed. It is not the granary of later generations, and the term Northeast rice has not yet appeared.

The current Northeast is a veritable land of bitter cold, and it is a fool's dream to raise tens of thousands of new troops in such a place, not to mention anything else, not to mention that there is not enough food, let alone military salaries and weapons.

Shi Rongchun thought about it a lot, but no matter what he thought, he didn't think that the Northeast had any potential.

And now Shi Rongchun is still facing a very serious problem, that is, he will have no money to pay the soldiers next month. Moreover, the ammunition and rations stored by the troops have reached a state of exhaustion.

If there was no supplement of military salaries and ordnance and food, and without the Chinese army to attack, he would not have been able to last for two months.

There is no army supported by a regime in the rear, especially a modern army of nearly 20,000 men. It simply can't last long on its own.

Although he had urgently sent a request to General Shengjing to collect food and ordnance, no one knew if Shengjing's side could raise so much rice, grain and ordnance.

Moreover, it is actually easy to talk about food and wages, and the more critical issue is the issue of ordnance. The reason why the new army of the previous Qing army was able to fight against the Chinese army relied on the Tianjin Machinery Bureau.

It is precisely because of the existence of Tianjin Machinery Bureau. Duxing's troops were able to obtain a steady stream of ordnance and weapons, and now Tianjin was under the control of the Chinese army. The Tianjin Machinery Bureau also fell into the hands of the Chinese army, and now the ordnance of the Duxing A Department is used a little less, and there is no way to replenish it.

Is it really going to fall?

The Qing army in Shanhaiguan has not had a good time these days, not because there is a lack of food and clothing, nor is it that Shi Qingxuan's Sixth Army has launched an attack on Shanhaiguan, but because the Qing army has fallen into a large-scale controversy.

As time passed, a lot of news continued to spread into Shanhaiguan, especially the news from some deserters in the first town made them unable to sit still.

According to the news of those defeated soldiers, it can be judged that the first town has been completely defeated, and it is said that even Leshan, the commander of the first town, has been defeated and killed.

In this case, the possibility of Xianfeng being killed or captured is quite high.

Under the fluctuation of people's hearts, many soldiers and even some officers began to plan for themselves, and some soldiers had already secretly left the barracks one after another, and then either fled directly or ran to the side of the Chinese army to say that they wanted to do it anyway.

Four or five days later, even some middle and low-level officers couldn't help it, and began to secretly lead people to the side of the Chinese army and say that they would do it anyway!

The Qing Dynasty is finished, this is no longer false news, but it is gradually confirmed, in this case, is there any point in them continuing to fight with the Chinese army?

And this chaotic situation of the army's morale caused chaos in the whole army after Du Xing'a finally could not hold on and died of illness on the night of February 4.

There is no doubt about the importance of Duxing'a to the Manchurian New Army, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the Manchurian New Army was founded by him, and his authority in the New Army is incomparable to Shi Rongchun, Leshan and other New Army generals, and even for the Qing Army, Duxing's importance is much more important than Xianfeng.

Although Du Xing'a was seriously ill before, he didn't die anyway, so although the new army that fled was a little confused and there were some deserters, it was not a complete collapse.

But when Du Xing'a died, let alone ordinary soldiers, Shi Rongchun and other senior generals themselves fell out.

Some people said that they would defend Shanhaiguan to the death, some people said that they would simply run to Shengjing, some people said that they would simply disband on the spot, and everyone would disarm and return to the fields, and some people even shouted directly that they wanted to surrender.

As soon as Duxing'a died, there was chaos in Shanhaiguan, and this chaos was not personal chaos, but chaos under the leadership of senior generals.

On the same day, some people led thousands of troops to leave Shanhaiguan and go to Shengjing, and some people wanted to lead the army to surrender.

Although Shi Rongchun said that he was entrusted with a heavy task by Du Xing'a before and became the temporary commander of this army, but he was not Du Xing'a, he was able to control the whole army instead of Du Xing'a before, that is because Du Xing'a is not dead, it can be said that he relied on Du Xing'a's prestige to command the whole army.

Now that Du Xing'a is dead, Shi Rongchun doesn't have enough prestige to recover many generals!

As a last resort, Shi Rongchun led the troops of his descendant Second Town to forcibly block those troops who wanted to leave Shanhaiguan, trying to deprive other generals of their military power.

But the others were willing to lead the troops to resist directly.

So before Shi Qingxuan started to attack Shanhaiguan, the people themselves began to fight.

When Shi Qingxuan heard the sound of gunfire coming from Shanhaiguan, although he couldn't detect what was going on, judging from the news brought by some Qing army new army officers who came over anyway in the past few days, Shi Qingxuan was very sure that there must have been infighting in Shanhaiguan.

"Immediately send an order to the whole army to immediately launch a general attack on Shanhaiguan!" Shi Qingxuan can't wait any longer, if he waits any longer, no one knows what the result will be.

It is possible that the enemy army in Shanhaiguan will be torn apart, or it may be that someone will regain control of the army, but it is unpredictable what will happen at that time.

It is possible to surrender en masse, but it is also possible to continue to resist.

It is possible that they dispersed, some surrendered, and some ran to Shengjing.

These changes were all unpredictable by Shi Qingxuan, and Shi Qingxuan could not let the situation out of his control.

Therefore, no matter how the Qing army in Shanhaiguan changes, he must immediately launch a general offensive, and he must control the situation in his own hands.

As a result, a battle that was originally a difficult battle turned into a rather comical battle, the soldiers of the Sixth Army originally planned to storm Shanhaiguan, but as soon as they arrived at the city, a Qing army commander who was responsible for defending the city gate ordered the city gate to be opened, and then directly announced in front of the battle that it was anyway, indicating that they would submit to the Chinese army.

But on the other side, there are also Qing troops who continue to resist stubbornly and do not surrender.

Some generals saw that the situation was not right, and directly took people to leave Shanhaiguan, and then went straight to Shengjing.

After the Chinese army entered Shanhaiguan, Shi Rongchun sighed deeply!

Now in this situation, he is already in deep despair.

Escape to Shengjing? Wouldn't the Chinese army chase after them? When the time comes, it will be the same death.

Continue to resist? The same is death.

After thinking hard for a long time, Shi Rongchun finally made the choice to surrender, his personal life and death are nothing, but he can't let the tens of thousands of soldiers under his command die with him.

Besides, even if he is unwilling to surrender, looking at those officers who are bent on surrendering, it is estimated that as long as they do not agree, they will have to tie themselves up or simply kill them, and then surrender to the Chinese army.

An offensive and defensive battle at Shanhaiguan, which was supposed to be difficult and heroic, unfolded and ended in such chaotic circumstances.

In this chaos, three or four thousand of the nearly 20,000 Qing troops in Shanhaiguan fled to Shengjing, most of them more than 10,000 chose to surrender, and several thousand people stubbornly resisted and did not surrender, and were finally killed by the Chinese army and the Qing army under Shi Rongchun's command anyway.

And the losses of the Sixth Army itself did not exceed three hundred!

With the destruction of the Qing army in Shanhaiguan, it basically means that the Qing army in the north has been basically annihilated, and the few remnants of the Qing army are unable to set off a storm at all.

When the news of killing Xianfeng, capturing a large number of Manchu magnates, and recovering Shanhaiguan and defeating the last main force of the new army under Duxing A reached Nanjing, the whole Nanjing was filled with a festive atmosphere.

Even ordinary people can predict that with the death of Xianfeng and the destruction of the new Qing army, the so-called Qing Dynasty has been completely swept into the garbage heap of history!

In the future, the only master of the land of Kyushu is the Chinese Empire! (To be continued.) )