"I! We will never negotiate a traitorous covenant with other countries for the sake of the traitorous court! ”

On 22 May, Wu Tingfang, who had been ordered to negotiate with the envoys of various countries, suddenly appeared in Tianjin, summoned reporters from several countries, and told the world that the imperial court wanted to cede Tibetan Province, Xinjiang Province, Heilongjiang, and Jilin, and at the same time promised more privileges to buy off the great powers of various countries and seek the inside story of the interference of the great powers.

The last straw that crushed the camel came out of Wu Tingfang's mouth, and the people who originally had a trace of expectation and eagerness for the imperial court would be completely blinded by Wu Tingfang's secrets about the DPRK and China.

"It's a family mess, why do you need to sell the country for foreign aid!"

Humanity and tears, even the courtiers who are loyal to coexist with the court, this will also be desperate. The original people who scolded Yuan Shikai for rebelling against the ministers and thieves in the Tianjin Concession will also stop talking, but they admire his coarse foresight, especially looking at the newspaper, Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army and the Guangfu Army outside the Guanwai to resist the Russian military reform, one has fallen into Liangxiang, and the other has fallen into Tongzhou, and everyone understands that the gas of the Qing Dynasty is going to be exhausted.

The situation in the capital of Tianjin was a hundred times more miserable than the internal invasion of the Anglo-French alliance during the Xianfeng period, the defeat of Seng Lingqin and Shengbao in, or the defeat of the soldiers and the advance of the coalition army during the Gengzi period! Because of the defeat of the brave in groups of three or five, bare-backed, carrying guns and knives, casually entering the city, casually slashing at the closed door of the mansion, so the nine cities are all closed, and the Standing Army of the Beijing Banner sends troops to guard them, and they have to enter and enter only when there is urgent business.

The grain store has long been robbed of the robbery, the closure of the business, this more than a month, all rely on the outside of the city to sell money, the city gate is closed, the kitchen of every house panic, even the imperial dining room is no exception, compared to the isolation of the nine cities, every family is closed, if there is a person who goes out, the ** of the ten is to find out the real news. However, no one knows that in hearsay, which sentence is true and which sentence is a rumor.

Some say that outside Dongzhi Gate and Chaoyang Gate, the vanguard of Yuan Shikai's Beiyang Army has arrived, and some say that the Temple of Heaven has arrived at a number of "Han rebels" wearing tea and green military uniforms and carrying six-foot spears.

This statement can be determined to be a rumor, the Empress Dowager Cixi still lives in Ningshou Palace, and is still dealing with military and political affairs in the palace, and is still issuing a decree there, with the army of King Qin in Shaanxi, Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou, and the King of Qing and other countries to negotiate with the troops of various countries in Tianjin to intervene.

But the situation has come to this point, except for Xiao Gongwang and others in the city who are shouting that they want to level the world with the Beijing flag, and they still believe that there is still some hope in the Great Qing Kingdom, I am afraid that there are those who are hysterical and will have a miracle of heavenly soldiers and generals descending to help in the war, and no one else has any hope that they can be saved. Therefore, each has his own plan. Of course, the Minister of Military Aircraft cannot only be for personal reasons, but also have to take care of the Empress Dowager Cixi and the emperor.

"I have to plan a way out for the two palaces in advance!"

Lu Chuanlin said to Qu Hongli:

"I think there is still only a way to escape to Shanxi, and there can be an escape to Shaanxi, maybe ......."

"Impossible, Sheng Yun sent a telegram saying that the people in Shaanxi are in turmoil, that is, they disguised themselves as peasant women like last time, and escaped from the game of Yuan Shikai and Chen Wei by luck and fled to Shanxi, what about the chaotic people in Shaanxi? What should I do with Chen Reverse, who fought from Henan to Shaanxi? Fleeing towards Sichuan, now that Chen Rei's army has invaded Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Sichuan will not be able to hold out for long. ”

"That'...... How can that be? ”

Yixuan asked, now they are still in this group of people, and they are still here inside and outside, trying to protect the queen mother and the emperor in many ways, thinking about the current anxious and bitter situation, I can't help but feel sad.

Qu Hongli pondered for a while.

"It's really not good, just flee to Dongjiaomin Lane, there is the embassy area, as long as we escape, whether it is him Chen Wei or Yuan Shikai, he will not dare to move us."

"Shelter from outsiders!"

Yixuan shook his head.

"I don't think so. Moreover, Galeries Lafayette may not be willing. ”

"Even if Galeries Lafayette doesn't want to, what can he do? It's hard to really wait until the thieves fall into the capital, and then ...... the queen mother and the emperor?"

"Alright! You go to Dongjiaomin Lane to try it! Look at the country's willingness to protect the Queen Mother and the Emperor! ”

At a time when the ministers of military aircraft began to work for the queen mother and the emperor's surname, there was also a group of people in the capital who began to be busy.

The sky was almost winding, a crescent moon, a few faint clouds, in the dark and dreary courtyard, only an electric light in the study was on, a person sitting on the side of the table stretched out his arms, suddenly turned the two palms outward, making a "hollow flower" shape, his mouth made a "boom", and then viciously popped out a few words from between his teeth.

"If you can't stop them, you will blow them up!"

The deep voice only made the atmosphere in the room suddenly tense, and Ye Gongliang raised his eyes to look at everyone in the room.

"Either we stop them, or we kill them!"

Looking at the silent people, his voice was thick.

"Once they escape to the legation, it is very likely that they will be used by outsiders, but I am afraid that after the recovery, they will be indulged by foreigners, and then there will be more trouble!"

"Captain, in that case, we'll have to blow them up with explosives!"

Zhang Zhiyue shook his head helplessly and sighed beside him.

"Now there are 240,000 banner soldiers in the capital, as long as they can hold knives, they have all been recruited to defend the city, even if we rob Guangxu and Cixi, how can we send them out of the city at that time, relying on our hundred and ten people, it is still more ......stable to blow them up with explosives."

"Keeping them will be useful in keeping them!"

When Ye Gongliang was talking, he took out the map from the side.

"Fuxun, once you act, you take the brothers of the Honghan Society, control the area from East Chang'an Street, and the south is the wall of the embassy area, and the Qing soldiers on the city wall do not dare to shoot at the embassy, at least 400 meters long ......"

"Captain, what do you mean, the family is going to use ......"

"It's an airplane!"

Ye Gongliang nodded, with some smugness on his face.

"The family is going to use two planes to get those two out of the city, and our task is to tie them up before they enter the embassy, and the internal line in the palace will provide information at that time."

As he spoke, he drew a few routes on the map.

"Once they succeeded, everyone retreated to the churches along these routes, and those churches were the territory of foreigners, and the Qing soldiers did not dare to go in and search ......"

The panicked people in the imperial city only know that the Queen Mother of the West, Lafayette, wants to borrow foreigners' soldiers to protect the capital, but those greedy foreigners are asking for a higher price there, as for what they want, it is not what their group of ordinary people know.

In the first few days, some people in the outer city began to flee, and the banner people in the inner city also fled, but more of them stayed here, but compared to those who wanted to be loyal ministers of the Qing Dynasty, there were also some people who began to prepare for the escape, although they did not dare to be clear, but they entered the night, and there were no scruples.

In Qingwang's Mansion, there were more than a dozen carts parked at the door, and a group of servants were carrying a large wooden box onto the car. Several servants each walked out with a large porcelain jar and gently put it on the car, and several servants focused on their hands and feet. The worried Qingwang Mansion Dabei Zaizhen hurriedly spoke.

"Take it easy, be careful, it's all valuable stuff!"

Zai Zhen's heart hurts, if this big family business seems to be really going to be thrown away, although he is not willing to leave the family business in his heart, but he also knows that this will not lose the family business, maybe after a while, he will have to lose his head, this is not Gengzi's foreign devils, this time it is those dog slaves who rebelled, and the rebellion was to kill.

This will carry out a large wooden box and put it on the car, and Zai Zhen hurriedly came over to take care of it: "Light, light!" ”

"One more trip and you'll be done."

The housekeeper of King Qing's Mansion said a word beside him, and before the speaker fell, a shout suddenly came.

"What for?!"

The people who were busy with their lives, including Zai Zhen, were startled, but he knew that if someone found out that Qingwangfu was packing up his things and preparing to flee, maybe someone would take a copy at Lafayette's, but it was all over, everyone looked back hurriedly, only to see a person coming out of the shadows next to him, and the housekeeper of Qingwangfu, Shun Erye, greeted him while watching vigilantly.

"It's the four, right?"

"It's me! Second Master Shun! ”

"What are you doing here?"

"No, I'm here with my brothers to patrol the sentry, and when I hear there is movement in front of the prince's mansion, I'll take my brothers out to take a look."

A person walked out of the shadow over there, that person was wearing a uniform, and a waist knife was pinned to his waist, although the capital was full of 24 banners, and everyone who could hold a knife went to the city to assist in defense, there were many people but few guns, and many people were carrying waist knives and spears left by their grandfathers in this city to assist in defense.

"Yo, Big Belle, the minions have said goodbye to you!"

The one who walked out of the shadow saw Zai Zhen standing in front of King Qing's mansion, and hurriedly asked for peace.

"Hmm!"

"Big Baylor, you're moving things!"

The four who came out glanced at each other.

"Is this going to be transported to the embassy area, or to Tianjin, this Tongzhou is occupied by the rebel army from outside the Guan, but don't transport it to Tianjin, maybe it will be robbed on the railway at that time!"

The four said, they didn't mean to leave, just looked at the big Baylor in front of them.

"Lord Belle, you can speak, the brothers are waiting over there, as long as Lord Belle, you say something, the four will immediately call the brothers to greet you!"

"The four,"

Jae-jin, who was sweating on his head, walked down the steps and said.

"Ordinary Lord Belle treats you well!"

"That's that, Lord Belle, aren't you benevolent!"

The four smiled, his eyes were still staring at the big cart with a mouthful of boxes, he knew that the head was full of gold and silver, if it was someone else, I am afraid that it would have left a long time ago, and there are a few princes of the Manchu Dynasty who do not clean up the soft and soft houses at home. Jae Zhen's face was flushed, if he hadn't been worried about the person hiding in the shadows, I'm afraid he would have shot this dog minion a long time ago.

"The four!"

With a smile on his face, Shunji took out a silver ticket from his sleeve.

"The brothers are estimated to be tired from the night patrol, this little meaning, take it to the brothers to drink tea!"

By the light, looking at the number of 2,000 taels on the silver ticket, the four faces suddenly squeezed out a smile.

"Hey! Second Master Shun, gotcha! Lord Belle, the minions will retreat first, what is the use, you can just speak"

With that, he turned around and left. Second Master Shun looked back and saw the annoyance on Lord Belle's face, and just sighed.

"Big Belle, that's it now, those who used to be slaves respected us, and now ......"

"It's fine. Lord Belle, I naturally understand. Is it all loaded? ”

"It's not close!"

As soon as he entered the shadows, the four lit up the silver ticket in his hand, and looked at the brothers standing next to him with greed on their faces and said.

"What's the matter, I'm not wrong, as long as our master shows his face, he will be the big Baylor of Qingwangfu, and he has to respect us!"

"Fourth master, you really have you, even King Qing's bamboo bar, you dare to knock on it!"

The soldiers next to him had a smile on their faces, but their eyes were staring at the silver ticket, they were all used to being poor, and the silver grain in this court had not been seen for two months, even in the past, they had never seen so much silver.

"Bullshit!"

The four eyes are horizontal.

"What the hell King Qing, when the rebel party enters this forty-nine city, he King Qing is not as good as our group of birds!"

As he spoke, the four faces showed smugness.

"There are so many flag people in the capital, the sea of people who are working hard, the court has not given us an errand, when this is used, to think about letting our masters sell their lives, this even King Qing wants to escape, the Qing Kingdom must have no point, our fathers are alive, maybe before the city is broken, we can still get a few thousand taels of silver, and then do business, buy land, there is always a way to live!"

"That's ...... That's it, the fourth master is high......"

The four were proud, and finally he raised his face again and said a word.

"Let's go, let's go to Duanwang's mansion......"

Speaking of which, more than a dozen soldiers walked towards Duanwangfu under the leadership of the four, and when they left, Ye Gongliang, who was wearing a uniform, walked out of the alley, looking at the group of people, a smile appeared on his face, compared to the desperate resistance in the city in other places, women and children went into battle, but the people of the Imperial City Genli Banner were "lively", for them, nothing was more important than survival.

"I hope ......"

The clear light of the moon sprinkled coldly on the earth, Jingnan Huang Village, the sound of laughter sounded from the bonfire at the edge of the village from time to time, the soldiers sitting around the bonfire, from time to time talking and laughing, or smoking cigarettes or telling meat jokes, but their eyes were staring at the cauldron on the fire rack, the tempting aroma of meat filled the air with the boiling water, and the children hiding by the wheat straw in the distance were also drooling and looking at those military masters.

These military masters are much kinder than the adults say, the chickens and grain they get from the Zhuangzi are all paid for silver, and the act of paying the silver and staying in the drying field outside the village has somewhat won the favor of some villagers, but for them, it doesn't matter what the people think, the important thing is the fragrant chicken soup that is burning in this pot.

As they sang around the stove, a dull sound of gunfire came from the pitch black distance. Then came a second, third, and fourth gunshot, coming from the southern outpost.

"Hostile"

Suddenly, this thought flashed through Zheng Changgeng's mind like lightning, and before he could speak, the soldiers who had been waiting around the bonfire to eat chicken and drink chicken soup grabbed their weapons.

At this time, a soldier ran through the wheat field after the harvest. He urged loudly.

"Pick up the enemy at the outpost!"

The pot was overturned by the sergeants, and a pot full of chicken soup was poured into the firelight, and the fire suddenly dimmed, and the soldiers who had just picked up their weapons were fully armed and ran towards the foxhole dug in the evening in the field. The gunfire in front of them stopped, and the stopped gunfire made a hint of foreboding rise in the hearts of the soldiers, and as soon as they jumped into the foxhole, they saw the shadows of several rows of foxhairers approaching in the fields illuminated by the crescent moon. According to the machine gunner, the light machine gun was set up and swept wildly at the skirmish line in the field. There was a heart-rending scream from the field, and then the other party immediately fell in the field and fought back.

"Are you sure it's the Qing army?"

Zheng Changgeng, who was lying in the foxhole, looked at the brothers who were shooting continuously according to the gun, and asked the brothers who were withdrawn from the front.

"I don't know! Didn't see it clearly"

The sentry replied truthfully.

"Corporal Liu wanted to take advantage of the grave to get closer to observe, but the gun went off!"

Sou...... The guns and bullets swept against the scalp only made Wu Peifu's scalp cold, and the two people he encountered before were obviously veterans who had been in battle for a long time, and he found that he was not encountering one or two standing army routs, but a group.

"Machine gun"

The series of gunshots made Wu Peifu's heart tighten, and the standing army had machine guns, but what he was thinking about was not the defeated soldiers of the Beijing Banner Standing Army, but another group of people. The sound of this gun is strange, and when he was reconnoitring in the northeast, he had come into contact with the anti-Russian army, which had a hand-held machine gun.

It was another short point shot, and Wu Peifu, who was close to the ground, noticed that the gun flame was almost close to the ground, and if it was a stun gun...... "stop shooting...... Stop shooting! ”

With his heart tight, Wu Peifu shouted loudly.

"Battalion commander!"

The people next to them shouted in confusion, and suddenly stopped, there were several corpses lying in the field, and the groans of the wounded soldiers were much clearer as soon as the guns rang, and they stopped, but the opposite side did not stop.

"Sixth, point your spear at me!"

Wu Peifu, who was close to the ground, shouted, took out a handkerchief from his pocket, stuck it in the bayonet of the soldier's rifle next to him, and motioned for the man to raise it.

"White flag?"

The sudden white flag raised in the field surprised Zheng Changgeng, and this thing ...... "Stop shooting!" ”

After only a few minutes, the gunfire suddenly stopped, and a few bold children who were picking up chicken by the campfire to eat heard that they were not shooting, and hurriedly hid again, looking towards the side where the gun was fired.

"Sir, what's going on!"

Seeing the people walking towards this side with white flags in their hands under the moonlight, everyone had some doubts in their hearts, but more of them were puzzled.

Holding a white flag in his hand, after walking more than 100 meters, Wu Peifu stopped, and there was also a person on the opposite side who walked towards this side, and the person approached, although it was by virtue of the moon that was not clear, Wu Peifu still saw the military uniform on this person's body, and it was really anti-Russian army, no! Now it should be the Liberation Army.

"It's you!"

When I got closer to Zheng Changgeng, I found that the person holding the flag was actually a little familiar.

"Lieutenant Zheng!"

Wu Peifu's eyes widened, it was him! The two have had a relationship in the past.

"Misunderstanding...... Misunderstand! Company commander, they are the ...... of the Beiyang Army"

Right here a figure limped in this direction, shouting loudly.

(To be continued)