Listening to Guo Songtao's conditions, or the conditions of the Qing Dynasty, Li Yongji shook his head with a smile, and then asked the other party: "Are these mentions really proposed by your imperial court?" ”

"Of course." Guo Songtao replied immediately.

"Your Emperor said it himself?" Li Yongji continued to ask with a smile.

"This ...... It was Prince Gong who confessed it personally. Guo Songtao is an honest man, he didn't talk nonsense, he just said stubbornly, "However, Prince Gong is now presiding over the government of the Yiqiē Dynasty, so what Prince Gong said represents the imperial court." Prince Gong also said that as long as you retreat south of the Yangtze River, you will not be to blame for the past, and everyone will be fine. Of course, if you don't think it's appropriate, you can talk about it again, for example, with the Huai River as the boundary, that's okay, as long as you ......"

"Lord Guo!" Li Yongji interrupted him, "If you are going to be replaced, you are me, can you agree to these peace conditions under the current circumstances?" ”

"If it were me, of course I would say yes." Guo Songtao said, "I know that Dashuai has always loved the people like a son, and he is good at fighting wars, and it is the people who suffer. What's more, now that there are foreigners wreaking havoc outside, and there are cults causing chaos inside, if the two families continue to fight, it will be the people and the country who will suffer in the end. Therefore, please think twice for the sake of the people of the world. ”

"It's kind of funny." Li Yongji nodded, "But, if I'm not mistaken, the Qing Dynasty was ruled by the Manchus, the Manchus were only a small group of people, but most of the Han people were ruled." For example, if you are also a Han Chinese, are you willing to be ridden on the head by the Manchurians? ”

"This, the Manchurians are all a family." Guo Songtao frowned, "The Manchu and Han people are all the same, so why do they distinguish each other?" ”

"Manchu and Han people are all the same? Not necessarily. Li Yongji shook his head, "You are a fool for me, don't look at the Qing Dynasty for so many years, but the Manchus and the Han have never been different." Regardless of treatment, education. It's all different.

For example, as far as I know, the Manchu people can get money without working, and all of them are raised by the imperial court, which is equivalent to a group of parasites, which is equivalent to the Han people using their own labor to raise the group of parasites that do nothing, and conversely, this group of parasites can also be used as a prestige on the heads of the Han people who provide for them, do you think such a society, or such a country, is it reasonable? The common people, especially the Han people, who account for the vast majority. Would you be happy? ”

"This, actually, in fact, ......" Guo Songtao is not good at debating after all, especially not good at sophistry, so he immediately didn't know what to say when he heard this.

Seeing the other party like this, Li Yongji knew that the other party was indeed an honest person, and it was not interesting to be quick with his tongue, so he no longer persecuted, but continued: "That's it." Let's not talk about such profound things, let's talk about the power comparison, look at the size of the fist.

Now my army is in full swing, and the soldiers are everywhere. Except for a very small number of stubborn people, they all descend from the wind, and it can be said that the people have returned to their hearts. At this rate, I will be able to take the city of Beijing in no time. Then he ascended the throne as emperor himself, and then gained the whole world. Well, in this case. How stupid would I have to be to listen to you and retreat south of the Yangtze River? Or rather, why did you want me to go back? Just a few dry conditions? Don't you think it's ridiculous? ”

"This, IMHO." Guo Songtao suddenly said, "Your soldiers and horses are indeed mighty, but if you want to say that you can directly conquer Beijing City, it may not be. ”

"Oh, why do you say that?" Li Yongji asked with a smile.

"Well, in that case, I'll tell you the truth." Guo Songtao sighed, "It's not a secret, it depends on the current situation, if you want to say that the Qing Dynasty can rely on its own ability to stop you, even I don't believe it, but why do I still come here to be on this errand?" Am I stubborn? Is it foolish and loyal to the court? No, no. ”

"Oh? I'll have to hear why. Li Yongji said.

"I'm afraid you don't know yet." Guo Songtao said, "My lord, oh, it is His Royal Highness Prince Gong, he has signed a secret agreement with the Russians to borrow Russian soldiers to defend the city of Beijing. Once you have fought the city of Jinan, the Russians will send troops, and when the time comes, it will really be a disaster. ”

"Borrow the Russians to defend the city?" Li Yongji frowned, "What you said is true?" ”

"Of course." Guo Songtao said, "The Nikolai who came with me is the Russian envoy, and he was supposed to talk to you with me." Originally, I was the red-faced lord and he was white-faced to threaten, who knew that when I met a twister on the road, it turned out to be like this.

However, what I said is true, Prince Gong really has a secret agreement with the Russians, if you really refuse to agree to negotiate peace, those Russians will send troops, and when the time comes, no matter how strong your soldiers and horses are, I am afraid they will not be the opponents of the Russians, right? ”

"The Russians are going to deal with me?" Li Yongji narrowed his eyes, "It's kind of interesting, but how do they get to Beijing?" Walk? No, is it a boat? ”

"I don't know." Guo Songtao shook his head.

"I see, thank you very much for this news." Li Yongji smiled and said, "Look, are you interested in coming to me to do things?" ”

"Huh? This ......" Guo Songtao was stunned, and then smiled bitterly, "Dashuai said that he laughed, now I am still an envoy of the imperial court, if I take refuge in you at this time, then what will I do in the future?" What do people think of me? You won't take me seriously like this, will you? ”

"Hehe, I'm not that superficial. However, since you have your own considerations, I will not force it. Li Yongji said, "But I still have to say that with the smooth march of our march, more and more people have come to work with me recently. ”

"Thank you for your attention." Guo Songtao hugged his fists and said, "However, the court treats me well......"

"Needless to say." Li Yongji waved his hand, "In this way, my door is always open, when you figure it out, when you come to me directly, it doesn't matter if you are not willing to work for me, I have said it, don't force it."

However, Master Guo, to be honest, I really want to recruit you, not for anything else, because among today's Chinese, there are talented, especially those who are willing to open their eyes to the world and are willing to sink their hearts into foreign affairs, there are really not many talents, and you are one of them with real materials! In the near future, if China wants to continue to take off, foreign affairs are an indispensable part.

A person has talent. But not showing up for some ridiculous reasons is not only a waste, but also a crime, a crime against the whole country and the nation! Therefore, you must have a clear grasp of where to go in the future. ”

"Dashuai said this, I'm really ashamed." Guo Songtao smiled bitterly and arched his hand, "However, everyone has their own ambitions, and I hope the handsome man will understand." ”

Seeing Guo Songtao, he still hasn't let go. Li Yongji smiled again: "Well, since you said so, let's never mention those again." Well, let's do it, we're going to start the Jinan strategy soon, why don't you follow with me and take a look? ”

"Is this appropriate?" Guo Songtao frowned, "I'm just a negotiation envoy, what if this ......"

"It's okay, look at how our elite army fights. Just spy on your court. Li Yongji smiled, "That's it!" ”

In this way, Guo Songtao, who was originally a negotiator of the Qing court, was persuaded by Li Yongji in a daze. dragged the troops of the Jingwu Army and embarked on a journey to attack Jinan.

As for the hapless Russian envoy, Mr. Nikolai, in order to get further information, Li Yongji did not ignore him. Instead, he was given anti-inflammatory drugs, and as a result, he quickly lost his fever and fell into a deep sleep. It doesn't look like it's life-threatening.

Seeing this, Li Yongji also sighed and said, it is really a fighting nation, life is hard, of course, his leg cannot be saved, and he will have to be amputated in the end.

In short, Yi? Sending Guo Songtao over originally wanted to delay time, but I didn't expect that I didn't know if Guo Songtao was honest or he had other thoughts, but he couldn't delay, but instead told the Russians about secretly helping the Beijing court.

It was the information provided by Guo Songtao that made Li Yongji speed up the offensive operation, and changed the attack on Jinan City, which was originally scheduled to be a week later, to an immediate attack, which was also counterproductive for the Qing court.

Originally, Tai'an City was not far from Jinan, and the 50,000 army led by Li Yongji himself basically realized the bicycles and mules and horses, so the speed of progress was not fast.

What I want to say here is that Li Yongji's 50,000 army, the real A army is only 30,000, that is, all the first division of the Jingwu Army, plus Li Yongji's independent brigade formed with the guard battalion as the core in the sniper battle in Xujia Village; The other 20,000 were all second-level troops, including Feng Zicai's 10,000 and Zhu Fugui's 10,000. As for what to do with the cities that were defeated, they were all handed over to Wang Sanwu's troops.

Li Yongji did this in order to mobilize troops more conveniently, after all, Li Yongji has a golden finger, and the pressure on logistics can be greatly reduced, but if he lets others fight, due to the problem of road conditions, the consumption may be even more.

As for logistics, Li Yongji has already calculated, although the daily consumption of 50,000 troops is not a small amount, but the main consumption is actually food, arms and materials, because after the troops were dispatched from Xuzhou, they were basically looking at the wind and surrendering, and there was no big battle to fight, but there was no consumption.

In terms of food supply, there are currently three methods:

The first method is to send supplies from the rear, which is also the most common method, but usually the speed of supplying troops is much smaller than that of attacking troops, so if you wait completely for supplies from the rear, the speed of the attack will be limited.

The second method is to rely on Zhang Xinda to provide, although Zhang Xinda can only provide 100 tons of materials a day, but if it is high-calorie food, it is enough to supply 50,000 troops, not to mention Dou Bifeng, he can also provide himself with 50 tons of materials every day, if all are exchanged for food, it can completely meet the 50,000 army, which is why Li Yongji chose 50,000 people.

The last method is to eat the enemy, that is, directly attack the opponent's city, and then use the food in the opponent's city to replenish it.

In fact, so far, the last method, that is, the method of eating the enemy, is the most important way to supply food to the Northern Expeditionary Army of the Jingwu Army at present, otherwise, Li Yongji would not have picked the big city to fight directly, the reason is that the materials in the big city are more sufficient.

As for the first way of transporting grain supplies in the rear, it was mainly an insurance, while the materials provided by Zhang Xinda were mainly some non-staple foodstuffs, with the purpose of improving food and increasing the speed of recovery of officers and men.

In the past, although Li Yongji was enough to supply himself with food just by eating the enemy, for the sake of stability, he still had to wait for contact with his rear supply line before resuming the offensive.

But now, since I heard that the Russians wanted to intervene, in order to prevent accidents, it was natural to have to be fast, and we couldn't continue to wait so slowly, and we had to launch the Jinan Battle in advance! (To be continued......)