649 Decisive Battle of the Qing Court

Tianjin dispatched troops to attack the city of Beijing very quickly, after entering the city quickly controlled the main intersections and gates in the city, at this time the sky has been slightly bright, hundreds of people have known the news of the Huaxia army to attack the city of Beijing, the high-ranking officials and magnates were so frightened that their whole bodies trembled, and hurriedly packed up the gold and silver and fled.

However, when they fled to the city gate, they found that the city gate had been controlled by the Huaxia army, and the Huaxia army did not allow anyone to go out.

The high-ranking officials and magnates knew that the Huaxia army would definitely confiscate their property, so they panicked and dug a cellar in their yard, wanting to hide all the gold and silver treasures.

Those little rich and noble people did not run away, they were all nervously watching the movements of the Huaxia Army, and as for the poor people at the bottom, they were all looking forward to the Huaxia Army.

Since the end of the Nanyang World War, Lin Fei has launched the offensive of "peaceful evolution", and has trumpeted the benefits of China and the disadvantages of the Qing Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty.

After dawn, Huaxia Jun immediately went out to Anmin, telling the citizens of Beijing that everything was business as usual, and Huaxia Jun also specifically told the high-ranking officials and magnates that the Huaxia Empire would not confiscate their private property, so that they should not worry.

The reason why Lin Fei did this was to try to maintain the stability of Beijing, although Lin Fei broke through Beijing, but the entire Qing State was still in the hands of the Qing court, the Guangxu Emperor and the Empress Dowager Cixi also fled, it is said that they fled to Xi'an, but now their whereabouts are unknown, Lin Fei needs a stable Beijing, as a base for the Huaxia army to attack North China.

On 24 January, Li Mingming entered Beijing on behalf of Lin Fei and announced the establishment of a military government, and all the laws and regulations remained the same. In order to show that Beijing is now the Chinese Empire, Li Ming launched a campaign to change hair and clothes, requiring all Qing people to cut off their ugly braids, and some high-ranking officials and magnates who were unwilling to cut their braids were directly pulled to the entrance of the vegetable market and shot.

As for clothing, the people of the Chinese Empire wore Western-style clothes and trousers, and Li Ming asked the Qing people to choose their own clothes, either to wear Qing costumes or to change into Chinese costumes.

The Huaxia army also occupied all the warehouses in Beijing, occupied the household department, and controlled all the documents of the household department, and the documents stored in the household department were very important, including the population and land information of the whole Qing country, Lin Fei wanted to control the entire Qing country, these things were necessary.

The Huaxia army also went to arrest Li Hongzhang, Prince Qing and other officials of the dynasty, but unfortunately, these people, including their family members, have long disappeared, it turns out that these people took advantage of the chaos to flee during the fierce battle last night, as for where they fled, it is unknown.

Beijing changed the court overnight, the Qing court was driven away, the Huaxia army was in charge, the whole world was shocked, in Dayu City, reporters from all over the world blocked the door of Lin Fei's palace, hoping to get first-hand news.

At 8 o'clock in the morning of January 24, Lin Fei held a press conference, which was attended by Lin Fei in person.

Facing reporters from all over the world, Lin Fei solemnly declared: "The Chinese Empire has officially declared war on the Qing Empire!" ”

The audience was amazed, the world had long known that a big war broke out between Huaxia and the Qing Dynasty, but when this big war really broke out, they were still shocked.

Lin Fei cleared his throat and said loudly: "The reason why we in Huaxia want to declare war on the Qing Empire is entirely because the Qing court is corrupt and incompetent, poisoning the people, and we Huaxia sent troops to rescue all the poor people, hoping that the people of the Qing country can stand on the side of Huaxia and help the Huaxia army overthrow the Qing court." ”

The reporters reacted indifferently, they had heard too much of this kind of scene, Lin Fei continued: "At nine o'clock this morning, I will send a four-way army to attack the Qing country. ”

The audience once again resounded with exclamations, and the four-way army attacked the Qing Kingdom at the same time, which was simply shocking!

Lin Fei smiled slightly and said, "Okay, this press conference is over." ”

After Lin Fei finished speaking, he turned around and left, the reporters didn't do it, they still had a lot of questions to ask, so they rushed to ask: "Emperor Fei, the Qing court has signed a large number of treaties with Western countries, how do you plan to deal with these treaties, will you recognize these treaties?" ”

"Emperor Fei, the Russian Empire has robbed the Qing State of one and a half million square kilometers of land, will you take back these lands?"

"Emperor Fei, the British Empire is still leasing Hong Kong Island at this time, will you send troops to recapture Hong Kong?"

"Flying Emperor, the Japanese Empire is still occupying Lushun at this time, and there are also garrisons in Shengjing, how will you treat Japan?"

Lin Fei ignored these issues, Lin Fei knew very well that these things were related to the core interests of the great powers, and if Lin Fei claimed not to recognize those treaties, it would inevitably cause a violent shock to the great powers, and it was even possible for the great powers to temporarily make peace because of the interests of the Qing Dynasty and join forces to deal with Huaxia.

If Lin Fei claims to recognize those treaties, he will push himself into an embarrassing situation, and if he wants to regain the lost territory in the future, he will be tied and lose the support of the people, so Lin Fei decided to play ambiguous in this matter, not recognizing or denying it.

Lin Fei walked out of the press conference hall, and there was a faint excitement in his heart, he finally declared war on the Qing court, the corrupt and incompetent Qing court, which had poisoned the Chinese people for hundreds of years, and now it was finally time to overthrow it.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the strong brigade of the Fourth Route Army began to attack the Qing court, and in the direction of Liugong Island, the Taiwan fleet covered the 9th Division of Taiwan's Fourth Army and attacked Liugong Island.

The 9th Division then went ashore to attack Weihai, the defenders of Weihai were defeated under the strong offensive of the 9th Division, and the entire Weihai was surrendered to the 9th Division, after the 9th Division went ashore, it immediately controlled the grain warehouse in Weihai, Weihai was an important military town, the Qing army hoarded a large amount of grain here, Lin Fei instructed the various troops to pay attention to collecting the enemy's grain during the battle, and to feed the war with war.

In the direction of Fujian, Taiwan's 8th Division, 800th Division, 801st Division, and 802nd Division, with a total of more than 60,000 men in the four divisions, crossed the Taiwan Strait from Taipei and went straight to Fuzhou, the capital of Fujian Province, while the 803rd Division went straight to Kinmen and Xiamen.

Because of the existence of the Taiwan garrison, Fujian was the focus of the Qing court's coastal defense construction, and for this reason, the Qing State spared no expense to hire American military engineering experts to build fortifications along the coast of Fujian.

Therefore, the fortifications of the Qing army, most of them are fancy shelves, and the magistrates, in order to cope with the inspection of their superiors, even found paste-mounted craftsmen and tied a number of fortresses with paper, which looked like the real fortresses from a distance, how to resist Lin Fei's strong army, so as soon as the battle was launched, the Chinese army drove straight in.

In the direction of Guangdong, the First Group Army of Hainan Island sent the 1st Division, the 100th Division, and the 101st Division to cross the Leizhou Strait and enter the Leizhou Peninsula.

After a day of fierce fighting, by 6 o'clock in the evening, the Huaxia Army had conquered Weihai, Fuzhou, Xiamen, Leizhou and other important cities, and after leaving the troops to control the important cities, it continued to advance inland.

The only thing that went wrong was the advance in the direction of Guizhou, when the 15th Division in Guizhou was attacking, it encountered the stubborn resistance of Hunan Lianyong, who was trained by Zhang Zhidong, and his combat effectiveness was not comparable to that of ordinary Qing troops.

At seven o'clock in the evening, Emperor Guangxu, who had been disappearing, finally appeared in Baoding and issued a "Confession for the Snitch", in which he counted how Lin Fei rebelled against the Qing Dynasty, and the words were extremely vicious, and finally called on "the loyal and righteous people of the world to rise up and punish him".

Emperor Guangxu also announced that the Qing Dynasty would take Xi'an as its "temporary capital" and return the capital to Beijing until the day of expulsion of the snitches.

At the end of the edict, Emperor Guangxu shamelessly claimed that "if all friends help the Qing Dynasty, then the Qing Dynasty will be grateful, and the territory will not be divided", which is a naked betrayal.

The world powers were unwilling to watch Lin Fei swallow the Qing Kingdom alone, but they couldn't spare their hands, Britain and Germany fought for the interests of South Africa and the Middle East, Japan and Russia were red for the interests of the northeast of the Qing Dynasty, France, Italy and Austria-Hungary wanted to help the Qing State, but their strength was really weak, and they had more than enough strength but not enough strength.

The only one who has the ability to help the Qing is the United States.

At 8 p.m. on 24 January, the US ambassador to China and Kang Youwei asked to see Lin Fei.

When Lin Fei heard that the U.S. ambassador was actually coming with Kang Youwei, he understood his intention and asked people to invite Kang Youwei and the U.S. ambassador in.

What Lin Fei didn't expect was that Kang Youwei was aggressive as soon as he entered the door, and reprimanded Lin Fei: "Emperor Fei, you are brazenly attacking my Great Qing Dynasty, intending to usurp my Great Qing Dynasty foundation, such an act is really intolerable. ”

Lin Fei's brows furrowed slightly, and instead of being angry, he smiled, "Kang Youwei, you have always made me unhappy for so many years, do you remember what you said when I killed the Japanese?" ”

Kang Youwei was stunned for a moment, shook his head slightly, and Lin Fei said sharply: "You said that it is okay for the Japanese to kill our civilians, but it is not okay for me to kill Japanese civilians, don't you remember this?" ”

These words were said by Kang Youwei to Lin Fei during the Nanyang World War, when the Japanese army massacred Chinese civilians, Lin Fei slaughtered Japanese civilians in retaliation, but he didn't expect Kang Youwei to reprimand Lin Fei fiercely, saying that the Japanese army was unkind, and you Lin Fei couldn't be unjust.