Compared with Shanghai and other places, Jiangning, an important town in the south of the Yangtze River, the sound of artillery from midnight until the sun shines, it is still rumbling, the billowing smoke covers the sky of Jiangning, and the heads of the standing army and the new army inside and outside the city of Jiangning are hung on the high walls of the standing army and the new army barracks.

The battle of the outer city ended with the capture of the Jingkou Banner Battalion, and the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion in Jiangning City was defeated at the first time, but the real battle was in the Mancheng City, which was located in the east of the city, was originally the old city of the Ming Dynasty Imperial Palace, the city wall was extremely strong, and the fortifications were complete. Half a world ago, after the Taiping army fell into Jiangning, the banner camp of the city was slaughtered, and the city was destroyed after the recovery of the Zeng State Domain.

At this time, there were nearly 10,000 households in Jiangning's city, and after the battle in the outer city, Jiangning's general Kuifang not only ordered the banners to go to the city wall, but also recruited men from all households in the banner camp to 60 to 14 to defend the wall.

Near dawn, fierce fighting intensified in the city of Jiangning, and at dawn, even the women and children of the banner camp also went to the city wall to treat the wounded soldiers, and even some women also picked up guns and shot at the outer city. The artillery camp on the Purple Mountain, as well as the forts of Tianbao City and Fugui Mountain, were constantly bombarded all over the city, and although the arsenal had been blown up at night, the battle continued until dawn.

Compared with the few shells fired in the city, the attacking Guangfu army did not directly climb the city wall, and when they continued to use mortars to bombard the inner city, they also used field artillery to bombard the city wall in an attempt to blow up a gap in the city wall.

Tianbao City is on the west peak mountain, built on the silence of the cliff, and can overlook the whole city. After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom established the capital of Nanjing, on the top of the Tianbao Peak at an altitude of 267 meters above sea level and the dragon neck at the northwest foot of the peak, with the local hard tiger skin stone, built into two military fortresses of the Tianbao City and the Bunker City, as the strategic point of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it controlled the Yaohua Gate in the northeast, the fork in the road, and the Qilin Gate and Shangfang Gate in the southeast. In the later period of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Taiping army confronted the Hunan army, and the Hunan army also captured Nanjing after the first capture of Tianbao City.

The five most important fortresses in Jiangning, such as Oolong Mountain, Shogunate Mountain, Yuhuatai, Lion Mountain, and Fugui Mountain, were in the uprising last night, but there was no bitter battle of the Hunan army that year, and most of the fort soldiers were Han soldiers, and they had already been influenced by the Honghan Club, and it was more accurate that the monthly salary of 6 taels was affected, and it was almost the same uprising in the city.

At this time, Tianbao City, which was the general headquarters of the Jiangning Uprising, raised the binoculars, Xiao Xinren's brows were furrowed, and after an hour of shelling, every piece of masonry on the wall of the city was clearly visible, most of them had been blown up and mottled, but the city wall was still standing there, the last obstacle between him and what he desperately wanted.

"If it weren't for the dog'......"

Thinking about the casualties that would be paid for the strong attack, Xiao Xinren sighed helplessly, as the commander of the first division, he clearly knew that the future task of the first division, the first division would be used as the main force to block the enemy in Huaibei, and it was obviously overkill to use it to storm Mancheng.

When I put down the binoculars, I looked at the small cannon on the Tianbao City, although the Tianbao City is the Tianbao Fort, but there are only a dozen small cannons, Liu Kunyi acted during the Liangjiang period, when the Wulong Mountain and the Shogunate Mountain constructed the "Jiangjiang Fort", the only Krupp cannon in the Tianbao City was moved to the Shogunate Mountain.

"No guns!"

Thinking that the telegram mentioned two 260-mm shells in Guangzhou, that is, the whole city of Guangzhou, Xiao Xinren couldn't help but feel a little annoyed, and sighed Cai Songpo's luck, the artillery on the forts on Shogunate Mountain and Yushan Tai could not be pointed at Jiangning City.

In the future, the shells are still focused on good, 88 mm is too light! Thinking about it in his heart, Xiao Xinren asked a staff officer beside him again.

"How's the tunnels dug?"

"Sir, at the current pace, it will be at least until evening!"

There was no heavy artillery to bombard the city, only blasting operations were used, and among the engineers of the Liberation Army, there were many excavators recruited from iron and coal mines, and what they were best at was digging tunnels.

"Is there any news from Hangzhou?"

In the 8,000-volume building in Hangzhou, a young woman-like girl is hiding in the second-floor roll room with a baby who has just completed the moon, which is a two-story old-style wooden building, through the branches of the plum blossom tree in the yard, through the gap between the buildings that were blown up outside, you can see a section of the city, the gap is like the appearance of a mouth after the front teeth have fallen.

After a while, the pale-faced young woman just held a baby in her arms, stood in front of the window of the 8,000-volume building for several hours, staring blankly at the smoke and fire coming out of the city, listening to the gunfire that had faded there, last night's rebellious Han army blew open the gates of the city, and the sound of gunfire and explosions rang out in the city all night...... This will ...... The gunfire slowly went out, and even the sparse gunfire stopped. The black smoke that filled the city did not have a trace of blood on her face, and he knew what it meant that the gunfire had stopped.

Just as she looked at the baby in her arms with tears in her eyes, she looked at the blasted city gate in front of her, and a group of people came out, a large group of people came out of the city under the guard of the rebels with guns.

Women with weeping babies, children supporting grandfathers and grandmothers, and soldiers in ragged clothes with blood-stained gauze wrapped in their faces, with their simple belongings, rolled along the road in a huge torrent of refugees.

This is...... Slowly the crowd is approaching, isn't that Qing Liu'er! It's not Yan Wu who is on crutches, isn't that ...... One acquaintance after another appeared on the street, and none of them died?

The door in the library was suddenly pushed open, and a happy lady came over, this is Mrs. Ding from the 8,000-volume building, and she is the one who saved their mother.

"That lady! Don't hide! ”

Mrs. Ding said with a smile, holding an Anmin notice in her hand.

"This governor's axe is still reasonable, and he didn't kill anyone!"

Sure enough, on the notice held by Mrs. Nadin, the girl saw the words "No Unauthorized Killing".

"Madame...... Then they are ......"

Mrs. Ding's face changed slightly.

"This changes the world, naturally...... You know, this city used to be full of ...... The house is not bought by myself, and of course it is not ...... to leave"

Mrs. Ding said, but the young woman's face showed some joy, just didn't kill indiscriminately, I don't know if there is anything wrong with my man...... "Guangzhou General Chunlu, Mongolia is the yellow flag, last night saw that the Han army was strong, so he accepted the reorganization with the banner soldiers, and allowed to pay according to the salary. After the adaptation, his weapons were confiscated by Commander-in-Chief Cai, and they were all disbanded. Chunlu begged for a dismissal salary, and Commander-in-Chief Cai was not ambiguous, and agreed to approve it, but he took the salary, waved a big pen, and wrote the three words "Da Tomb Qiu", and the flag soldiers were afraid of it, and they all dispersed. ”

"The governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Sheng Yun, saw that the general trend had gone, and committed suicide by swallowing gold. The Fuzhou general Pu Shou learned of the defeat and fled to the house of Mingyu in the Mongolian camp at the east gate. Honghan will track and search, capture and escort him to Fuzhou, and the whole territory of Fuzhou will be recovered......" Listening to the content mentioned in the staff telegram, Chen Moran just smiled, the recovery of this place sounded like a drama, except for Jiangning, the war in various places has stopped, and the process is thrilling and ridiculous.

"Jiangning gateway town Jiangjingkou flag camp, relying on four Krupp guns and six motor boats, two gunboats as support, according to the battalion to the death, after a night of fierce fighting, up to the deputy capital of the commander of Mu, thousands of flag soldiers in the lower camp, not to mention heavy casualties, the flag camp has many burned its room, the family and the martyrs, most of the flag camp was destroyed in the fire. The wounded, prisoners, and surrenderers were dragged by the standing army and the new army of the uprising to the riverside and beheaded to vent their hatred......"

Hearing the news, Chen Moran only raised his eyebrows slightly and didn't say anything, there are always some inevitable things in the process of national recovery, and he has been very restrained, just like Hangzhou released all the flag battalion soldiers and their families.

"The Guangdong branch of the League set up a patrol camp at Jiangkou, checked the pedestrians in the process, caught the flag soldiers, beheaded them on the spot, and after the flag soldiers were caught, they did not speak until they died. The more you don't say it, the more you will kill it. ”

“…… The rebels with swords and guns set up checkpoints in various places, counting the number of people who passed, and when they counted to "six", those who read "six" were beheaded......"

Hanging a transparent yellow curtain in the Dongnuan Pavilion, accompanied by the sound of a porcelain cup breaking, standing outside the princes and ministers hurriedly lowered their heads slightly, from the dawn of the day, the capital was chaotic, the princes and ministers were frightened by the changes in the south of the Yangtze River, and the more than one million banner people in the city were also stunned by the rebellion of the five provinces.

I originally wanted to block the news, but early in the morning, the streets were full of leaflets, and once the news spread, the price of grain in the capital rose by more than sixty percent, and the original Hunan officials muttered in their hearts, and officials from all over the south of the Yangtze River also muttered.

In some places in Hunan, some people's names have been engraved, although they are all from the Shunzhi Ye will start some, the dead "number of classics forget the ancestor, things Qing Han annihilation", but as long as you think about the name engraved on the stele of the house, county, and township, for the passers to "pay respect", no one does not feel that the scalp is numb.

In case of...... Everyone's hearts are thinking about the word "what if", thinking of the county commanders and prefects in the southern provinces who are forced to "go against the right" one by one, whether they are helpless or sincere, and atone for their sins with what they have done, but they sigh in their hearts, this has been more than 20 days since Hunan Province, and overnight, half of the Qing Dynasty has been lost, how can this not make people sigh.

The most terrifying thing is not the big sword of the Guangfu army and the rebellious people who cut the banner, but the stone tablet of "forgetting the sect", as long as you look for this in case, if it is true, maybe the world "falls", and then the stele is really engraved with your name, which is hundreds of years of infamy, and it is more powerful than the history book Annihilation.

"Absolutely! That crippled Chen really did a great job! ”

The calm heart Li Shengduo, who had just mastered the matter of the temple sacrifice, sighed in his heart that Chen lame man came to annihilate him, his "Han Annihilation Monument" forced everything as if he had no soul, he looked ahead, and saw Lord Ge Baohua Ge, who was sweating on his head, his face was yellow and bloodless, Lord Ge was Zhejiang Shanyin, Shanyin...... Well, it seems that the prefectural order has been reversed.

Looking at Xu He, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites over there, he doesn't look like he has lost his soul, his family is from Jiading, Jiangsu, and he is also a place of rebellion. When the Queen Mother was talking to those princes and slaves, Li Shengduo seemed to be looking for the "difficult brothers" who were also fallen people at the end of the world, and almost half of the people in this Dongnuan Pavilion were lost and in a trance.

Not really! The generals of the north and the prime minister of the south, since ancient times, the talented people went out of the south of the Yangtze River, and the civil and military ministers in the capital are not in the flag, and the ten people are six or seven from the provinces of the south of the Yangtze River.

The name on the stele, that or Qin Hui's treatment, thinking about it makes people panic, it is a thousand years of infamy, not to mention that he bears the infamy, even the clan can't raise his head, this stele is immediately to the county and township, maybe it has to be written into the history books, this thousand years of infamy...... Thinking about it makes people feel cold in their backbones, this is comparable to taking it to the neck of the elders in the family, forcing them to rebel and be more powerful, that is, to the neck of the father and mother, and you can also say "loyalty and filial piety are not both", maybe you can also get it into the record of loyal ministers, but a stone tablet is a stone tablet that has made them settle down for a thousand years of infamy.

With his heart so tight, Li Shengduo still swept his gaze on the face that caused people.

Hey! Why is it that Master Zhang of the Ministry of Officials has a better face than the previous days? …… Thinking that Zhang Baixi is from Changsha, Hunan, that is the first place of rebellion, it is said that after the "Han Dynasty Monument" came out at that time, Zhang was almost bedridden with annoyance, especially when the words "Hunan people are not revolutionary, they will dig his ancestral grave", he was even more angry and almost did not spit out a few mouthfuls of blood...... But he, Lord Zhang, looks like he is still in his heart. That face is much better than ten days ago, could it be that he cares about the infamy behind him and the ancestral grave at home?

There's got to be weird here, can't it be...... Thinking of the sentence "Being in Cao Ying, the heart is in Han", Li Shengduo was moved, thinking that he was also from Hunan, what if it was ...... Let's go back and visit Mr. Zhang to see if I can find any good solution.

Suddenly, behind the curtain, Cixi, who was already angry, cried again, and the ministers quickly knelt down. Cixi sobbed and waved her hands, and the ministers knelt or not, looking at each other there.

As Cixi stopped mourning, the ministers slowly returned to their thrones.

Cixi, who was sitting behind the curtain, spoke there.

"I remembered what happened when I first came out of Beijing, chasing after the Eight-Nation Alliance, and the emperor and I could only sleep in the broken temple, having nightmares every day! I dreamed that the coalition army was chasing and killing our mother and son, and I was so frightened that I woke up several times in one night. Now, the affairs of foreigners have just been settled, but there is chaos in the south! ”

Thinking about the past few years, Cixi was first angry and then panicked, and she couldn't help but have tears in her eyes, and her anger burned.

"The chaos in the south has been going on for more than 20 days, the troops that should be transferred have been adjusted, and the silver that should have been paid has come out, but now, it is all chaos in the south, and the ordinary people are shouting the word loyalty one by one, but now, where is the loyal minister and the righteous son? The prefect and the county order vied for the first to obey the rebellion, and those who did not obey the rebellion actually hung up the seal and fled! ”

Thinking of the contents of this telegram, the Empress Dowager Cixi's face turned pale, and she looked at the princes and ministers who were standing there with angry eyes, and saw those Han officials who were uncertain, and for no reason there was a fire, but when it was sent out, she still put the fire away.

After all, it is still necessary to rely on these ministers to work together to get through this hurdle, and at this moment, a little eunuch brought over a telegram and handed it to the eunuch standing in the Dongnuan Pavilion.

“…… According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, at the meeting of the Shanghai Consular Corps, the British and American consuls vetoed the interference proposed by the German and American consuls, and the Shanghai Consular Corps said that the great powers should be neutralized, and the Beijing Legation also agreed with the decision of the Shanghai Consular Corps......"

The telegram read by the little eunuch only surprised everyone in the Dongnuan Pavilion, from Cixi to the princes and ministers, and when they were surprised, another eunuch walked in and handed over another telegram.

The traitor Chen Moran sent a diplomatic note to all countries:

To all friendly nations, in order to maintain world peace and promote the happiness of mankind, all the external actions of the Liberation Army are hereby foretold to avoid misunderstanding. (1) All treaties concluded by the Qing Dynasty with other countries shall continue to be in force. 2. Compensation for foreign debts shall remain as usual, and shall still be amortized by the provinces in full on schedule. (3) The property of the peoples of all countries within the territory occupied by the temporary political axe shall be protected. 4. The acquired rights of all States shall also be protected as a whole. 5. The treaties made between the Qing government and the other countries, the rights promised, and the national debts borrowed by the Qing government axe were established in this case, and the provisional government axe will not be recognized. 6. Whoever helps to clear the political axe in order to obstruct the temporary political axe shall be regarded as the enemy. 7. Any goods that can be used as war purposes shall be confiscated by any of the countries that have been recovered. ……”

Two pieces of news in a row only made everyone breathe a sigh of relief, the attitude of these powers is neutral, in other words, they don't ask, and then the traitor's note is not to play the weakness of the powers, those foreigners have always been mercenary, and now the interests are not offended, so they naturally do not need to take the trouble to help clear up.

Just when everyone was shocked, Li Shengduo saw that Zhang Baixi stood up sideways and knelt on the ground.

"The minister thinks that the troops gathered in Hubei today should not move recklessly, and the naval ships are even more in the sinking of the ship in Wuhu. The minister recommended Yuan Shikai, the minister of Beiyang and the governor of Zhili, as the commander, commanding the new army of the two towns of Beiyang, and with the authority of the new army of the left and right towns, he went south to Jiangsu to quell the rebellion! ”

Finally, someone opened her mouth to mention a reasonable performance, and Cixi nodded when she heard this.

"Xuan Yuan Shikai admonishes!"

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(To be continued)