The Empress Dowager Cixi was furious and ordered to kill Feng Guozhang's family, but when the soldiers went to arrest people, they found that Feng Guozhang's family had disappeared.

Weng Tonggong immediately went to make arrangements, and Yuan Shikai's subordinate Duan Qirui was relieved of military power after returning to Xi'an.

Duan Qirui was a generation of heroes in the Lin Fei era, and he was not easy to bully in this era, Duan Qirui petitioned the imperial court, requesting to guard the area of Gansu, and secretly instructed his subordinates to make it difficult for the new commander in every possible way, so that the Qing court could see that my Duan Qirui's soldiers could only be brought by Duan Qirui, and no one else could.

Weng Tongyi disagreed, but considering that Duan Qirui's subordinates were difficult to control, and leaving Duan Qirui in Xi'an, sooner or later there would be trouble, so he agreed that Duan Qirui would go to Gansu to defend the town.

Duan Qirui then raised troops and left Xi'an, a land of right and wrong.

On July 25, Weng Tonggong began to interrogate Yuan Shikai, but at the beginning there was no public trial, and Weng Tonggong interrogated Yuan Shikai in private.

When Yuan Shikai was first caught, he was still indignant, denounced the traitor as a traitor, and there was no way to serve the country loyally, and even wrote a blood letter to the Empress Dowager Cixi, but it was useless, and no one cared about Yuan Shikai at all.

By now, Yuan Shikai has thought everything through, Weng Tongyi is going to kill himself, now it's useless to talk about the country's righteousness, let's think of a way out for myself.

Yuan Shikai said to Weng Tongyi in an almost pleading tone: "Lord Weng, it seems that I have been an official in the same dynasty for many years, and I am the old department of Li Zhongtang, so I beg my lord to open up the net and let me live." ”

Weng Tongyi sneered again and again, "Yuan Shikai, you have already taken refuge in the snitch, if I let you live, that is, if I am in the same stream with the snitch, how can I let you go." ”

Yuan Shikai saw that Weng Tongyi was going to kill himself, and there was no way to recover, so he could only accept his fate, so he said: "Lord Weng, this way, don't torture me, what do you say, I confess, and don't hurt my family, okay?" ”

Weng Tongyi thought about it and felt that it was enough to get rid of Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai's family, whether to kill or not had little impact, and as for torturing Yuan Shikai with torture, it was even more meaningless, so he readily agreed.

Yuan Shikai then confessed to the crime of colluding with the snitch and intending to rebel, and on July 27, Yuan Shikai was beheaded to show the public, and to Yuan Shikai's family, he remembered that Yuan Shikai had made meritorious contributions to the war, and he was extrajudicial and pardoned.

It's a pity that Yuan Shikai, a generation of heroes in Lin Fei's era, died under Lin Fei's discordant plan and died in the infighting of the high-level of the Qing court.

Lin Fei heard the news of Yuan Shikai's death and ordered someone to erect a monument to Yuan Shikai in the Dayu City Martyrs Cemetery, with the purpose of confirming Yuan Shikai's charge of "colluding with the snitch and intending to rebel".

So in the history books of China, Yuan Shikai became a tragic hero who failed to revolt and was killed by the Qing court, as for Chiyo Shizuka and the mausoleum keeper, as well as the nursery rhyme full of proverbs, it will always be drowned in the long river of history, and no one will ever mention it again.

After Yuan Shikai's death, Weng Tongyi allocated his cronies as he wished, and Su Mingzhen, the general soldier of Shaanxi, served as the general soldier of Tongguan, the commander-in-chief of Tongguan defense, and the troops stationed in Tongguan were still Yuan Shikai's new army, but at this time there were only 30,000 left, 10,000 were brought to Gansu by Duan Qirui, and 10,000 were surrendered to Lin Fei by Feng Guozhang.

These 30,000 new troops, although they have Yuan Shikai in their hearts, they dare not disobey Su Mingzhen's words, even if they really want to be disobedient, no one will take the lead, because the two major leaders Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang, one has gone away, the other has surrendered, and none of the remaining officers has the prestige of "ascending to the heights and shouting, and the responders gather", and it will not be a big thing at all.

The first thing Su Mingzhen did when she came to Tongguan was to lead the Tongguan garrison and go out to fight the Huaxia Army.

Su Mingzhen did have people who could make good decisions, and when Su Mingzhen was about to leave the customs, he persuaded Su Mingzhen: "General, don't you remember the famous general Ge Shuhan of Li Tang?" ”

The ancient Chinese literati were like this, when they said a thing, they didn't like to say it directly, they liked to go around a bend, with the help of allusions, the taste of it, let the listeners read it by themselves, Su Mingzhen hadn't read too many books, and he was annoyed when he heard the staff say "Li Tang", and said angrily: "What Li Tang Zhang Tang, what do you say directly." ”

"Yes, yes, forgive me, Ge Shuhan is a generation of famous generals, during the Anshi Rebellion, he guarded Tongguan, rashly went out to meet the battle, but was broken by the chaotic army, general, your situation today is the same as Ge Shuhan."

Su Mingzhen was very angry when she heard that her staff said that she would be defeated, snorted coldly, and beheaded the staff member for the crime of bewitching the army's heart, and then led the troops out of the customs.

The garrison of the Huaxia Army was in Lingbao, more than 60 kilometers away from Tongguan, and Su Mingzhen decided to go straight to the garrison of the Huaxia Army.

From Tongguan to Lingbao, there is a narrow mountain road of more than 30 kilometers, and it was here that the rebels of the Anshi Rebellion ambushed Geshuhan's Tang army.

Niu Dahu, the commander of the Huaxia Army, saw that Su Mingzhen and his troops were menacing, and guessed that they would also take this road, so he sent three divisions and nearly 50,000 troops to ambush on the mountain road, just waiting for Su Mingzhen to come, and then encircled and annihilated them in one fell swoop.

On August 1, Su Mingzhen led the troops into the mountain road, and the Huaxia army immediately launched a full-line attack, most of the Qing army were Yuan Shikai's old troops, unwilling to be loyal to Su Mingzhen, they heard that Feng Guozhang had surrendered to Lin Fei, and they also had the intention of surrendering, and when the Huaxia army launched an attack, they surrendered one after another.

The elite of the 30,000 Qing army led by Su Mingzhen was completely annihilated by the Huaxia army in less than a day, and Su Mingzhen died in the chaos.

As soon as the Battle of Lingbao ended, Niu Dahu immediately ordered the first division directly under him to attack Tongguan.

At this time, Tongguan, guarding the city are all old, weak, sick and disabled, combat effectiveness is almost negligible, the Huaxia army has put more than a dozen HP-2 75 mm howitzers in front of the pass, a fierce bombardment, the Tongguan defenders are dead and fleeing, a charge, Tongguan has fallen into the hands of the Huaxia army, this is 10 o'clock in the morning of August 3.

Tongguan was lost, Xi'an was in danger, the Qing court was completely chaotic, Xi'an was already the border of the Qing Dynasty, and then went west, but it was about to go to Lanzhou.

Yang Changjun, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, proposed to go south and go to Sichuan, but everyone knew that it was absolutely impossible to go to Sichuan, at this time Yunnan had been occupied by Lin Fei, and southern Sichuan was already Lin Fei's territory, and now Lin Fei was going to occupy Shaanxi again, so that Sichuan was in a situation of being attacked by the north and south, and it was only a matter of time before it was broken.

In a panic, one person stood up and became the "savior" of the entire Qing court, this person was the Japanese ambassador to the Qing Dynasty - Kodama Gentaro.

Kodama Gentaro has always been by the side of the Qing court, and Kodama Gentaro was originally an advisor, but later found out that the Qing army generals did not like to ask him, so he was idle and quietly watched the open and secret battles of the Qing court officials.

Kodama Gentaro asked to see the Empress Dowager Cixi, and said directly to the Empress Dowager Cixi: "Empress Dowager, there is only one way in front of you now, and that is to go to Japan. ”

"To Japan?" The Empress Dowager Cixi was very surprised, and Kodama Gentaro explained: "That's right, it is to go to Japan, go to Japan to re-establish the Qing government, and in the future, the countries of the world will defeat Lin Fei, and the Qing government can return to Beijing." ”

"But Japan is a long way to go, how can you get there?"

Kodama Gentaro said with a smile: "The Queen Mother doesn't have to worry, we have already arranged it, you can go north to Mongolia first, then from Mongolia to Russia, and finally from Russia to Japan, all the way to the protection of the Russian army, absolutely no harassment by the Huaxia Army." ”

The Empress Dowager Cixi was very reluctant, and when she arrived in Japan, she was sent under the fence, and when there were still people holding the moon to the stars of the Qing court, the Empress Dowager Cixi politely rejected Kodama Gentaro's proposal, and issued an edict to hundreds of officials to take refuge in Shu.

At noon on August 3, the Empress Dowager Cixi took the Guangxu Emperor and many princes, ministers, and palace maids and eunuchs, all the way south to Sichuan, leaving Yang Changjun, who was loyal to the Qing court, to block the Huaxia army.

At three o'clock in the afternoon of August 4, the Huaxia army arrived in Xi'an, Yang Changjun led the troops to resist to the death, Yang Changjun also succeeded in bewitching many people, making the people feel that the Huaxia army is a demon king who kills people without blinking, if they are allowed to enter the city, everyone will suffer, so the people of Xi'an also help the Qing soldiers to defend the city.

The battle lasted for three days, and it was not until August 8 that the Huaxia army fully occupied Xi'an, and Yang Changjun committed suicide.

When the Huaxia army entered Xi'an, they searched for the whereabouts of the Qing court, and soon learned that the Qing court had fled into Sichuan, and quickly reported the news to Lin Fei.

When Lin Fei heard the news, he breathed a sigh of relief, it is better for the Qing court to flee to Sichuan than for the Qing court to go into exile abroad, if the Qing court goes into exile, it will be the rhythm of jumping out to find trouble for himself during the New Year's holidays.

Lin Fei ordered the Huaxia Army, going north and south, occupying the whole territory of Shaanxi, the west of Shaanxi, as well as Gansu, Ningxia and other provinces, the Qing court's control over these provinces has not been strong, and now the Qing court has fled to Sichuan, these ground is at your fingertips, Lin Fei ordered the Huaxia Army, after liberating the whole territory of Shaanxi, continue to move westward to liberate Gansu, Ningxia and other places.

Lin Fei liberated the whole territory of Shaanxi at the same time, but also sent troops into Shanxi, Shanxi by virtue of the danger of Taihang Mountain, has been the Huaxia Army turned away, now the Huaxia Army liberated Shaanxi, equivalent to outflanking Shanxi's back road, Shanxi Governor Liu Wantong surrendered to Lin Fei, Shanxi officially liberated.

On 6 September, the Huaxia Army liberated the entire territory of Shaanxi.

On September 10, the governor of Shanxi surrendered, and the Huaxia army entered Shanxi.

On 15 September, Duan Qirui, who was stationed in Gansu, led his men to surrender, and Lin Fei immediately liberated Gansu, and then the rest of the western Qing Kingdom also fell into the arms of the Chinese Empire.

The time soon came to November, and the entire Qing Kingdom was already Lin Fei's world, leaving only Sichuan, which was still in the hands of the Qing court. (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)