【201】Thousands of miles of rivers and mountains open up a new face (5)

As the second and third divisions surrounded the city of Beijing, and released Prince Gong Yixin to enter the city to negotiate before the battle, the city of Beijing became a pot of porridge, all the grain stores were closed, and the people hid at home, waiting for the moment when the sky would change. The princes and ministers gathered outside the Forbidden City, waiting for news, and the important ministers of the court were summoned day and night in the palace to discuss countermeasures, and they were not allowed to go home after eating, drinking, and Lazar, and many old ministers were exhausted.

Yixin hurriedly entered the city, and before she could go home to change her clothes, she was summoned all the way to the palace. When he saw Cixi again in Xinuan Pavilion, he suddenly found that the middle-aged woman in front of him was haggard and panicked, and she no longer had any aura to speak of.

"See the Queen Mother." Yi Xin made a bow.

"Prince Gong! How did you delay so long! What is the reason why Yao Fan sent you! Cixi personally went into battle and asked impatiently.

"The minister is incompetent, Yao Fan not only refused to recruit An, but pulled Li Hongzhang over, Li Hongzhang has now betrayed! Dedicated to Tianjin! ”

"Incompetence! Impotent!!! Li Hongzhang, this dog thing! In vain I have always trusted him!! ”

Yi Xin said sadly: "Yao Fan promised his ministers that as long as Beijing City does not resist, he can keep the city safe. ”

Cixi was filled with grief and indignation when she heard this, picked up the tea bowl on the table and threw it out, but instead of aiming at Yixin, she fell on the body of Shen Guifen, the secretary of the Ministry of War.

"Shen Guifen mistook the country!" The military department is full of Shangshu Guangshou shouted.

Shen Guifen was so frightened that he quickly knelt down, trembling all over, and didn't dare to say a word, at this moment he hoped that Yao Fan would quickly attack the city.

"What to do! What do you say? Cixi shouted in a gaffe with a sharp voice, and then pointed the finger at Yixin: "Prince Gong, didn't you also betray that thief!" ”

Yi Xin was escorted all the way from Cangzhou to the front line in Beijing, which can be described as a dusty servant, and after hearing this at this moment, he couldn't care about fatigue, and said urgently: "The minister is for the love of Xinjue Luo, and he dare not betray his ancestors!" Dowager! For today's plan, I can only ask foreigners for help. ”

When Cixi heard this, she was like holding a life-saving straw: "Even if this is the case, don't go quickly!" Prince Gong, I now decree that you will be appointed as the Minister of Care, and the Prime Minister will be the first qiē affairs of the DPRK! You must persuade foreigners to come forward, don't be reluctant to spend money! ”

Saying that, Cixi said to the Minister of the Interior, Shi Zeng: "Quickly allocate 500,000 taels of silver from the inner treasury, don't be stingy with all kinds of antiques, prepare generous gifts, and do it now!" ”

So Yi Xin temporarily crammed and began to carry out silver dollar diplomacy against the British Legation in Beijing.

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After waiting for 24 hours without Yi Xin replying, the PLA launched a general assault on the city of Beijing, the mortars accurately hit the wide city wall, the demolition team blew open the city gate, and the whole army rushed in, capturing countless bannermen defending the city in this one-sided attack.

"Report! The second division called, and it has attacked Dongzhimen! The top platoon is leading the militia team to attack Andingmen and Qihuamen! ”

"Report! The third division called, and it has taken Zhangyi Gate, Nanxi Gate, and Yongding Gate! ”

"Report! The second division and the first regiment have occupied the drum tower, and the main force has begun to attack the Forbidden City to the south, and the top platoon is leading the militia to attack Desheng Gate and Xizhi Gate! ”

"Report! The third division called, and the Shunzhi Gate has been blasted, and the militia team is currently attacking the Pingzemen and Qianmen with the city wall! ”

"Report! The second division and the third division have completely controlled the nine gates of the inner city! Surrounded the Forbidden City Tiananmen, Di'anmen, Dong'anmen, Xi'anmen! ”

"Report! The militia regiment has already controlled the seven gates of the outer city! ”

"Report! The Second Division has already taken Di'anmen and rushed into Jingshan! ”

"Report! A group of foreigners with guns stormed Tiananmen Square, and division commander Hu Guangting ordered to shoot and suppress, resulting in the killing of 27 foreigners and the wounding of six prisoners. ”

Report ,..................

The telegram flew like snowflakes to the Cangzhou base camp, and Yao Fan sat motionless waiting for the final result.

Li Hainiu hurriedly paced in the headquarters: "It is not a trivial matter to kill so many foreigners, I am afraid that the foreigners will have to negotiate next." ”

Li Jun looked at Yao Fan anxiously: "Chairman, the foreign minister will never give up at this time, this is very difficult, Hu Guangting will really cause trouble, how can he kill so many!" ”

Yao Fan said lightly: "The war is ruthless, the foreigners don't stay in the embassy, but they come out to find fault, it is obviously an insult to our army, Hu Guangting killed well, killed a hundred examples, deterred the foreigners, made them dare not move, and objectively protected the lives of the foreigners." ”

Zhou Si said: "The second division, the third division plus three militia regiments, more than 10,000 people to suppress Beijing, there should be no big problem." ”

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The chaotic fighting in Beijing was in full swing, and the gunshots were "popping, bang!" "The streets were deserted like a frying pan, mixed with the sound of grenades, and the citizens were all hiding in their homes, speculating in horror about the situation outside.

A large number of Qiding prisoners defending the city were escorted to the Temple of Heaven by the militia, and after the Forbidden City was blasted through the Di'an Gate, the People's Liberation Army immediately rushed in and occupied the four gates of the Forbidden City.

The forbidden city has been in chaos at the moment, the guards and eunuchs and palace maids guarding the city saw the red flags fluttering everywhere outside from the city wall, and they were already frightened to the soul, and if they were a little sober, they began to pack up the soft and steal the objects in the palace, and even some eunuchs stuffed gold and silver bills into their assholes, hoping to escape the search and take them out of the city.

The concubines of the harem trembled, only feeling that the end was coming, because they were afraid of being raped by the imaginary "thieves", there were those who hung themselves and threw themselves into the well to swallow gold, and there were howling and crying everywhere in the forbidden city.

Cixi took the five-year-old little emperor to carry the bird, listening to the bursts of gunfire coming from outside the city, staying in the Dongnuan Pavilion helplessly, and almost pleading to the ministers who were also trapped around him: "You want to think of ideas, tell that Yao Fan to withdraw the army, everything is easy to discuss!" ”

The ministers looked at Cixi blankly, as if they were looking at a dying person, and no one wanted to talk. ”

Cixi was extremely angry and screamed: "This imperial city is for him!" Let him let me and the emperor go! Go to Xi'an! Go Kanwai! You can go anywhere! ”

"The Queen Mother, the glue thieves outside the city shouted, saying that as long as they surrendered, the new government would never embarrass the emperor and the Queen Mother. The glue thief also said that he would only give one hour to consider, and after an hour he would bombard the forbidden city. The Minister of the Guard, Desheng, had a haggard face and knelt down on one knee and replied.

"An hour...... Cixi clutched the hem of her robe, her heart was numb.

"Queen Mother, according to the news obtained these days, this Yao Fan is still trustworthy, after Li Hongzhang dedicated the city of Tianjin, the whole city is full of Han and Han Dynasty, and everything is safe. I heard that Yao Fan's soldiers were brave and disciplined, except for occupying the envoys of the yamen and changing the garrison in Tianjin, the rest of the soldiers were all stationed in the barracks outside Tianjin. Xu Tong, the servant of the ministry, said.

"You quickly send someone out of the city, discuss with Yao Fan, and ask him to let me and the emperor go out of Beijing in person, and I will give him this forbidden city." Cixi was still struggling.

None of the ministers responded, and suddenly Li Hongzao, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, said loudly: "The ministers are willing to go." ”

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Hu Guangting stood on Jingshan Mountain and looked at the forbidden city, with two mortars on the top of the mountain.

"Lao Zhang, do you think that the old witch of Cixi can agree to open the city?"

Political Commissar Zhang Erpao hesitated for a moment and said: "We wish she opened the city, let's waste shells in the province, in case we break the valuable guys in the city, the chairman is afraid that he will be unhappy." But again, the chairman said that there was little hope. ”

Hu Guangting said irritably: "Since there is not much hope, it is better to blast the city gate quickly, I am really anxious to wait like this."

Yang Weiyi said nervously: "Lao Hu, don't mess around anymore, you killed so many foreigners just now, and you have already stabbed the basket." ”

Hu Guangting said with a dark face: "How did I know that those foreigners were so arrogant!" The troops shouted to them to stop, did they listen? A group of people rushed to the martial law area in front of Tiananmen Square with guns, and the machine guns didn't have long eyes. I can't even save the health if I go, what can I do? ”

The three were speechless.

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Li Lu's company was responsible for occupying Beihai, Zhonghai, and South China Sea, and Li Lu led his infantry platoon to be in charge of Zhonghai, and after rushing into Zhonghai, he captured more than 100 eunuchs and palace maids, and these people were selected by Li Lu to a large courtyard and locked in various rooms in the courtyard.

"Maotou, you have a good look in the yard, whoever dares to move will be killed immediately." Li Lu commanded.

"Yes! Heads! ”

"How many times have I told you! Don't call me chief! How can this title be screamed! ”

"It's a platoon commander!"

After the Battle of Botou, Li Lu left the relationship of the company commander and pulled Maotou into his platoon to make up for the lack of a sacrificed soldier. The company commander remembered that Li Lu fought bravely and was wounded and became a combat hero, so he agreed to his request, but ordered Li Lu to be responsible for bringing Mao Tou up and becoming a qualified soldier. These days, Li Lu has taught Mao Tou and the new militiamen in the platoon all kinds of discipline, queues, shooting essentials, bomb throwing essentials, and bayonet essentials whenever he has free time.

Although Maotou is still too big in a small military uniform, he is already a proud PLA soldier driven by the happiness of a full meal.

"Platoon commander, this Beijing city is really big, and the hundred people in our village add up, I'm afraid it won't be defeated."

"Nonsense, a thousand doesn't add up."

"Platoon commander, this Forbidden City will be for Chairman Yao in the future, right?"

"Of course, if the emperor is overturned, he is naturally the biggest of our chairman, who lives if the chairman of this land does not live?"

"This house is so good, it is more spacious than the landlord's hall in my hometown."

"Nonsense! This is the house where the emperor lives, isn't it big? In the eastern wall, the house is bigger. ”

"Platoon commander, why doesn't the division commander hit the eastern city wall?"

"What the hell are you doing here, take care of these eunuchs and palace maids."

As the two were talking, the eunuch in a room opened the window and beckoned: "The military master is good, let us go, we have a big gift for the military master." ”

Li Lu approached the window with a calm face: "What kind of gift?" ”

The group of eunuchs in the room found a burden out of nowhere, and the eunuch led by him took out the burden through the window and said, "Master Jun, please see, this is one hundred taels of silver, full of official silver." ”

Li Lu sneered: "These emperor lackeys still want to buy us with silver." ”

Mao Tou listened to Li Lu's words, and immediately raised the rifle in his hand to aim at the eunuch in the window, so frightened that the room screamed and dodged, and a large number of people knelt on the ground.

"Maotou, confiscate the silver, Lian Li has assigned a task, and all the seized property will be handed over as military pay."

"Yes! A qiē seizure to be returned to the public. Maotou took over the heavy burden while carrying the discipline of the troops.

Li Lu ordered: "Go and call a group to come in, search these eunuchs well, and see how much silver they have carried!" I really thought that our People's Liberation Army had never seen silver in the soil buns, and the salary in our platoon was more than 300 taels every month! Go to the countryside to fight local tyrants, we don't even seize thousands of taels of silver! ”

Maotou adored and said: "That's it!" One hundred taels of silver, not enough to support us for half a month. ”

Li Lu educated: "Last time, the company read the chairman's notice to everyone, our whole army is now not counting the militia and civil affairs cadres, there are more than 20,000 commanders and fighters in the army alone, and the monthly salary alone will cost 300,000 taels. The clothes we wear, the rice and noodles we eat, the guns we carry, the bullets we shoot, which one of them doesn't cost money, these emperor's dog slaves, eat our blood and sweat, and greed for our silver, and today they want to spit it all out! ”

Maotou was also inexplicably angry, ran out of the courtyard and called a group of soldiers, and began to force the eunuchs to strip naked and search their bodies one by one with bayonets.

"Take it off! I'm not going to stab you to death! Maotou shouted at the eunuchs with a bayonet.

"Platoon commander, do you want to search the palace maid?" The leader of the first row, He Lao Liu, asked.

When Li Lu heard the question, he hurriedly said: "Discipline is clear, it is not allowed to molest women, the women are locked up first, and they will be left to the female soldiers of the health company to search for them." ”

He Laoliu smiled: "The platoon commander wants to be a nurse in the health company, right?" ”

Li Lu scolded: "Fart, Lao Tzu has a wife in the countryside!" ”

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