Chapter 150: Arriving at Dagukou
Li Hongzhang has been secretly investigating Ren Chao's details, and Li Hongzhang has never been at ease about this guy who suddenly popped up, so Li Hongzhang has been secretly investigating Ren Chao's details. Li Hongzhang, who has been in a high position for a long time, has become accustomed to the feeling of being in control, and this Ren Chao is undoubtedly beyond Li Hongzhang's control, especially with the gradual growth of the Tiger Army, which makes Li Hongzhang extremely uneasy.
"At present, I only know that Ren Chao's ancestral home is Hejian Mansion in Zhili Province, and I heard that he was an orphan since he was a child, and later joined the Renzi Army after being introduced by a distant relative. Those who know the details of Ren Chao have all died in the sea with the Gao Sheng, and none of the more than 200 people who were rescued by the passing French warship knew the details of this Ren Chao, and Ren Chao is also the only survivor who is not rescued by the French warship. Zhang Peilun sighed and said.
"It seems that this kid should not die!" Li Hongzhang muttered casually.
"It can be regarded as a great calamity, if you don't die, there will be a blessing in the future, in just half a year, this Ren Chao has been promoted from a small chief to a general soldier, such a speed, it can be said that there is no one before, and it is difficult to have someone in the future!" Zhang Peilun couldn't help but sigh.
"The times make heroes! Suddenly I feel old! Li Hongzhang couldn't help but shake his head and said.
"Nakado-sama is not old at all." Zhang Peilun slapped a little sycophant at the right time.
Li Hongzhang smiled and waved his hand and said, "Okay, you go get busy!" After speaking, he walked towards the house with his hands behind his back. Zhang Peilun responded, and then hurriedly ordered someone to send a telegram to Ren Chao.
The telegram was sent from Beijing to Weihaiwei, but Ren Chao was no longer in Weihai by this time. After the Tiger Army regained Weihai, Ren Chao was ready to wave his army north to rescue Beijing. At that time, Ren Chao's chief of staff, Yang Jichang, had built a postponement of Ren Chao's rescue of Beijing, and it was best to wait until the little devil broke through the city of Beijing, and then the Tiger Ben army went north to recover Beijing in one fell swoop, but Ren Chao did not use this construction. Ren Chao said, "I must not watch the little devils run rampant in our territory!" So after the Tiger Ben Army rested in Weihai for a while, Ren Chao led the 4,000 Tiger Ben Army to Dagukou by boat. At this time, under the escort of the Jiaolong fleet, Ren Chao had already arrived at Dagukou.
"You're not a troop coming back from Liaodong?" The defenders in charge of reception at the port couldn't help but ask when they saw the unique military uniform of the Tiger Army.
"We are the Tiger Ben Army under the command of Lord Ren Chaoren, the chief soldier of Jiaoao Town, and we are ordered to enter Beijing to escort King Qin." Wang Jing, commander of the Third Brigade of the Tiger Army, said proudly. In fact, at this time, Ren Chao had already set off in advance before he received the holy decree, but in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, Ren Chao specially explained what he said. However, this is not a false decree now, because the decree has already been sent to Weihaiwei via the guò telegraph line.
"What? Are you the Tiger Army? How did you get there so quickly? The official's eyes widened and asked, it turned out that Dagukou had just received an order from Li Hongzhang to prepare to receive the Tiger Ben Army, and specially ordered them to come down, as soon as the Tiger Ben Army arrived, he immediately arranged for them to rush to Jingshi.
"Ahh Is this still called fast? The wrecked ship is slowly dying. Wang Jing was stunned for a moment and couldn't help but complain, how did he know that Dagu had just received a notice!
"Oh! It's good that you're here! I'll arrange for someone to unload your ship right away. Lord Zhongtang specially explained that as soon as you arrive, you should rush to Beijing immediately! The official said quickly.
"This brother, let me ask you where the little devil is now?" At this time, Ren Chao happened to get off the boat, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but ask.
"This Lord is not Lord Ren!" When the official saw Ren Chao wearing a second-grade top, he immediately guessed Ren Chao's identity.
Ren Chao nodded slightly and acquiesced, and the man immediately took a step forward and knelt down on one knee and said, "See Lord Ren for your humble position!" ”
"Brother, you're welcome, please get up." Ren Chao is really not used to this etiquette of kneeling and kowtowing at every turn, and he is slightly disgusted by this.
The man got up and said with a smile on his face, "Lord Huiren, I just heard that this little devil has broken through Bazhou, and at the current speed of the little devil, he will soon hit the city of Beijing!" The queen mother has already taken the emperor and hundreds of civil and military officials to patrol Rehe! Lord Ren, you said that this little devil is really so powerful, I heard that the little devil has three heads and six arms, he can't be killed with a gun, he can't cut through a knife, and he is bloodthirsty like life, and he is extraordinary. "Emperor Guangxu didn't want to visit Xingrehe, but what he said as an emperor didn't count at all, because there was a father Lafayette above him! As soon as his father spoke, even if Guangxu was unwilling to do so, he could only obediently follow Lafayette to the Rehe Palace, but this Chengde Summer Resort was originally the summer residence of the Qing Dynasty emperors, that is, the place where the Qing Dynasty emperors took refuge in the summer, but now it is winter, and Guangxu and Cixi ran over not to escape the heat, but to save their lives.
"Haha!" Ren Chao couldn't help laughing, "Who are you listening to?" The group of tiger soldiers next to him couldn't help but laugh when they heard this.
"The humble position is to listen to some brothers who have withdrawn from Liaodong, why is there something wrong?" The man asked cautiously.
"Of course not, is this just nonsense? I tell you, the little devil is the same as us, he has a head and two hands, and he will die if he is shot with a gun, and he will bleed when he is slashed with a knife. Ren Chao said with a smile, these frightened bird-like routs, in order to shirk the responsibility for defeat, are so shameless to exaggerate the horror of the big and small devils, and under the false rumors, the little devils have become three heads and six arms when they get here, no wonder the saying always says that three people become tigers, and people are terrible!
"What the adults say is true?" The man obviously didn't believe it, because more than one person had told him how powerful the little devil was, how did it get into the mouth of this Lord Ren, and there was nothing special about the little devil?
"What, is it necessary for this official to lie to you? This official went from North Korea to Shandong, and fought with more than 100 little devils, and the devils who died in the hands of our Tiger Ben Army were forty or fifty thousand people, if it was really as you said, the little devils all had three heads and six arms, and they were invulnerable, and the official still had his life? But there is one thing that the little devil is really different from us. Ren Chao sat on the boat all the way, and he was already suffocated, and he was in a good mood immediately when he got off the boat, so he was in the mood to chat with this person.
"Which one?" The man hurriedly asked.
"There is only one thing, this little devil has short legs and a short body, like a dwarf, or how to call it a little devil!" Ren Chao explained with a smile.
"Then why are they so good? More than 20,000 people in the Ming army were stunned in front of the little devils, and they didn't even insist for half a day, and they lost more than half. The emperor was furious, and Liu Shengxiu, the commander of the Ming Army, was directly dismissed and questioned, and went down to the prison of the Criminal Department. The man asked with a puzzled expression, and couldn't help smacking his lips and shaking his head as he spoke, and he didn't know whether he was sighing at the power of the little devil or pitying Liu Shengxiu.