After conquering Jinan, considering the important position of Jinan and the fact that there were still 120,000 surrendered troops, if one was not handled well, I was afraid that something would change, so Li Yongji stayed here for three more days to deal with the situation in Jinan.

First of all, the main problem is the 120,000 surrendered troops, which include both the original troops of Shengbao and the strong men who were forcibly captured later, of which the captured strong men are the most important component.

Since the discipline of the Qing army has always been bad, after these people were arrested and sent to serve as soldiers, they did not learn much in the good and learned a lot in bad habits, so if they were dismissed so simply, I am afraid that it would hinder the local social order.

For this reason, Li Yongji singled out the soldiers and horses of the headquarters that originally belonged to Shengbao, that is, the 20,000 people, and the remaining 100,000 people plus Zhu Fugui's 10,000 people formed a production and construction corps, which was called the Jinan Construction Corps.

The Jinan Construction Corps is divided into five divisions, each with about 20,000 people, and their task is not to fight a war, but to engage in local construction; for the time being, the main task of the Jinan Construction Corps is to repair the road from Jinan to Xuzhou.

Due to the lack of cement and asphalt, the roads built by the Jinan Construction Corps are still made of rammed earth and paved with sand and gravel, but they are wider than ordinary dirt roads.

This new gravel road is actually not suitable for the road, because the gravel paved on the road is relatively large, and it is not good for people and carriages, so this is actually a railway foundation, which is to prepare for the construction of a railway on it in the future.

In addition to organizing the construction corps, another important thing was the interrogation of the Russian envoy Nikolai.

Since this Mr. Nikolai had a good body and a good special medicine, he only slept for one night and woke up the next day, although his legs were no longer numerous, but his mind was still clear.

Since they know that there will be a war with Russia sooner or later, and the Russians are also meddling in China's internal affairs this time. wanted to help the Manchu Qing against him, so Li Yongji didn't have a good face towards him, and when he saw that he was awake, he immediately began the interrogation process.

Li Yongji asked, of course, what are Russia's intentions and what preparations have been made. Ignatiev is also tough, and in the face of Li Yongji's interrogation, he just scolded and threatened, and he didn't leak a word at all.

"Why toast and not eat. Eat and drink. Seeing Ignatiev's attitude, Li Yongji, who had expected it, shook his head, "Mr. Russian envoy, now that I already know that you are going to help the Qing court deal with me, do you think I will be polite to you?"

To tell you the truth, I saved your life just to get what I want to know from you. If you're willing to tell the truth, then it's easy for everyone, and I'll treat you the same way I treat the envoy. But if you still don't cooperate, then I can only look at you as a spy, and I don't think I need to say more about what will happen to you at that time, right? ”

"I am the special envoy of the Russian Empire to China." Nikolai. Ignatiev tilted his head. continued to say with an arrogant attitude, "I came here this time to mediate the conflict between you and the Qing Kingdom, if you don't appreciate it." Then let me go, if you still want to be rough with me, and get something out of my mouth that you shouldn't know. That's a fantasy! Believe it or not, if you move me, the Imperial army will surely avenge me! ”

"yes, I see." Li Yongji no longer looked at Nikolai lying on the bed. Ignatiev turned his head to Zhou Dadao beside him, "Old Zhou, you have been leading the troops to fight recently, so I don't know if your original interrogator's skill has fallen." ”

"Hehe, how could it be, this is the craftsmanship of the housekeeper, how could it be left behind." Zhou Da said with a smile, "Dashuai, you hand him over to me and promise to make him obedient." ”

"Okay, I'll leave it to you." Li Yongji nodded, "Play casually, you don't need to tell me the details, as long as you still have a breath, you can ask for information." ”

After Li Yongji left, Zhou Dacai turned his head to look at Nikolai and smiled gloomily: "Hehe, I haven't played foreign devils yet, but I have played some of them this time." ”

Two hours later, Li Yongji came to the ward again and found that Nikolai was at this time. Ignatiev is like two people from before.

The original Nikolai. Ignatiev is just unconscious in his legs, but he looks quite energetic, but now he has no eyes, more than half of his hair has been pulled out, six of the nails of his hands have been pulled out, and the lower part of his body is still covered with gauze, and he looks like he has been treated inhumanely.

Covering his mouth with a handkerchief, Li Yongji asked Zhou Da next to him, "How is the question?" What did he say? ”

"Damn old hair!" Zhou Da had a gloomy face, leaned over to Li Yongji, and whispered everything he asked.

"The land north of the Heilongjiang River and east of the Ussuri River have been ceded out? Even the Ili region was given to the Russians? Listening to Zhou Da's words, Li Yongji's face also sank, "Moreover, there is already a fleet escorted by three Russian gunboats, with five thousand Russian soldiers, quietly landing in Tianjin?" ”

"That's all I asked." Zhou Da said hatefully, "Damn old Maozi, I know they didn't have a good heart, Dashuai, what should I do next?" ”

Nodding, Li Yongji personally looked at Nikolai and began to ask again: "Is it true that 5,000 Russian soldiers have landed in Tianjin?" When? ”

"Hehehe." Nikolai grinned, "I'm not afraid to sue you, as early as when I came to negotiate with you, our soldiers had already landed in Tianjin, otherwise, how dare I come over to mediate with the Qing State for you?" ”

"Are these Russians still in Tianjin?" Li Yongji asked again.

"Who knows." Nikolai grinned.

"Hmph, be honest!" Zhou Da immediately threatened on the side.

Zhouda's intimidation seems to have had some effect, Nikolai. Ignatiev's mouth twitched, and then he said: "I really don't know, I'm just a special envoy, and the specific matter of leading troops is not my responsibility." But as far as I know, they should still be in a barracks somewhere in Tianjin. ”

"Hmm." Li Yongji nodded, and then asked some more things, such as asking Emperor Xianfeng is currently in Chengde, and Prince Gong Yi? After starting to prepare for the new army and the like, I found that I could no longer ask anything useful.

Although Li Yongji knew for a long time that the Russians would intervene, he didn't expect the other party to intervene so quickly, and actually sent gunboats and 5,000 soldiers over, when did the Russians do things so neatly?

As a matter of fact. This Nikolai. There is something that Ignatiev has not yet said, that is, the Russians have been preparing for this for a long time, or is it that as early as when Emperor Xianfeng was still in Beijing, he talked to Prince Gong? Hook up and match.

It's just that at that time? I haven't thought about the idea of borrowing troops yet, but Russia has long thought of sending troops to intervene, and the relevant preparations have already been made. As soon as they opened their mouths, the Russians immediately dispatched the warships of the East Siberian Military District with their soldiers and horses as fast as they could, and they wanted to start naked interference in China's internal affairs.

Of course. There is also Li Yongji's own responsibility here, because Li Yongji was friendly with Britain, France and the United States, and ignored the Russians alone, and the Russian envoys in Shanghai had asked to see Li Yongji many times, but they were all blocked out, and now, the Jiangnan government under Li Yongji is getting closer and closer to Britain, France and the United States, and the trade volume is constantly increasing, and everyone has received a lot of benefits. Only the Russians did not gain anything here.

The Russians were arrogant, and the North was what they valued the most, so they, or rather the Russian Governor-General of Eastern Siberia, Muravyov. He devised a strategy to divide China and defend the Manchus, hoping to divide China into multiple parts, or at least keep the Manchus.

But. Emperor Xianfeng was still a bit backbone before, and he didn't care much about the Russians, and Li Yongji did not start the Northern Expedition at that time. Coupled with the constraints of Britain, France, the United States and other countries, the Russians are quite calm.

But now Li Yongji obviously wants to eliminate the Manchu Qing and unify China, according to Li Yongji's previous history, he may not have a good impression of Russia, so at this time Russia accelerated its intervention in China, hoping to make the Manchus and the Jiangnan region very hot, at least to maintain the north of Beijing and Tianjin.

It was under this phalanx that the Russians sent troops to Tianjin, the purpose of which was to help the Qing court defend Tianjin and Beijing. Whether or not to agree to the harsh Sino-Russian Beijing Treaty, the Russians will send troops to intervene.

"But five thousand people want to interfere with us? It's too underestimating us. Li Yongji smiled, "It's okay, I want to see if you can interfere!" ”

Since it was confirmed that a new enemy had appeared, this time Li Yongji did not rush to send troops, but slowly rested his troops in Jinan and organized the Jinan Construction Corps.

By the time the supply troops in the rear arrived in Jinan and the Jinan Construction Corps was basically organized, a week had passed.

It was at this time that Li Yongji received a surrender envoy sent by Dezhou, asking the Jingwu Army to send troops to Dezhou to accept the surrender of Dezhou.

The initiative of Texas to surrender, in fact, is also reasonable, after all, the 100,000 troops of Jinan City Shengbao have been completely defeated, and it is said that the Jingwu army has no losses at all, and the 100,000 troops have almost all surrendered, in the face of this strength, the Texas defenders do not dare to fight unless they are fools, and surrendering in advance is the best way.

I didn't surrender early before, because I haven't figured out what happened in Jinan, and when I figure it out, it will take time to discuss, and when I have discussed it, I found that the Jingwu Army was still in Jinan, so I hurriedly sent someone over to contact me about the surrender.

This is called fighting for the table, you must know that if you surrender when the elite soldiers are in the city, then the situation will be different.

The envoy sent by Texas was a man in his forties, named Wang Baorong, who was said to be the general office of the Texas regimental training and the actual head of the Texas garrison, so looking at it this way, the other party's surrender was quite sincere.

When I asked, I found out that this Wang Baorong used to be a dart walker, he had opened a dart game, and he was still a master of playing big guns. The reason why Texas can be so stable is all due to Wang Baorong and the Flower Gun Club he formed, otherwise, the small Texas would have been captured by bandits a long time ago.

Not to mention, this Wang Baorong did have a few moments, a tiger wielding a white ash pole and a red tassel spear in one hand, which could penetrate the green bricks with one shot, and danced twelve spear flowers at once, cleanly and neatly almost at the same time to poke the twelve parts on the straw man.

Li Yongji just watched the excitement, but Wu Shouyun beside him said that this was a real master, and he had to be careful himself.

"Oh, master, how is that better than you?" Li Yongji asked with interest.

"It's hard to say." Wu Shouyun shook his head and said softly, "If it's bare-handed, I'm probably between five and five with him, but if it's playing with weapons, I'm definitely not his opponent." Of course. Playing with muskets, no matter how good his martial arts are, if he touches my pistol, he will definitely lose! ”

This is also true, since he discovered that the power of firearms is invincible, Wu Shouyun later put a lot of effort into practicing marksmanship, whether it is a pistol, a rifle, a submachine gun or a machine gun, he can't put it down. As for Li Yongji, he also gave him enough guns and ammunition to play with.

Today, Wu Shouyun's marksmanship is one of the best in the elite army. In a single marksmanship, such as the rifle field, he may not be the strongest, but he is better in all-round, as long as the elite army has equipped with firearms, he can use them proficiently, and reach the first-class level.

From Wu Shouyun's body, Li Yongji suddenly remembered a movie "Divine Whip" he saw in his previous life, and there was a line in it: The braids are gone. God stays.

It is true that the Chinese have only been suppressed before, but as long as they have the opportunity, they can quickly adapt to new things. Not worse than others.

At this time, Wang Baorong had already put away his gun, and Li Yongji also hurriedly applauded and praised, and then. In order to open the other party's eyes, Li Yongji let Wu Shouyun go, but not let him play martial arts. Instead, let him perform marksmanship.

Wu Shouyun, as the leader of Li Yongji's guards, is actually the most accustomed to using a pistol!

At the beginning, in order to give him stronger attack power and protection ability, Li Yongji specially provided him with a series of modern pistols, and in the end, Wu Shouyun still chose the 11.1 mm caliber Desert Eagle!

This is, of course, because the Desert Eagle is beautiful and powerful. Although the recoil of this gun is very large, Wu Shouyun has a lot of kung fu in his hands, and it is not difficult to control this gun at all, and once he can control it, the ferocious firepower of this gun can make anyone who sees it tremble.

Sure enough, when Wu Shouyun smashed seven green bricks ten meters away with seven consecutive shots, Wang Baorong was stunned and immediately bowed down.

After some conversation, it was found that Wang Baorong knew more about the situation in Shandong and the Beijing-Tianjin region, so Li Yongji immediately decided to take him by his side as a guide, and Wang Baorong readily agreed.

Seeing that Jinan's side was already relatively stable, and Dezhou also surrendered in advance, Li Yongji simply appointed Feng Zicai as the garrison of Jinan and Zhu Fugui as the deputy garrison, so that the two of them could guard Jinan together. With the 20,000 men and horses of the headquarters led by them, plus the 100,000 surrendered troops, I believe that holding Jinan will not be a problem.

Next, Li Yongji personally led the main force of the 30,000 resting Jingwu Army and continued to march towards Texas.

The army had just left Texas and arrived at Nanpi County on the border of Cangzhou, when a ragged rout suddenly appeared in front of him, and he stopped and asked, only to know that this rout army was actually Sun Kuixin's twist army.

Because Sun Kuixin had sent someone to send Guo Songtao and others before, Li Yongji still had a little impression of this person and this army of soldiers and horses, so when he saw that the other party was so miserable, he asked people to take them in, and sent someone to find their generals and ask what was going on ahead.

The general who led this rout was called Liu Tianfu, who was originally Sun Kuixin's deputy, and when he was brought to Li Yongji, before he could say a few words, he immediately burst into tears.

When he finally finished crying, the other party began to tell the situation ahead.

It turned out that after Sun Kuixin inadvertently obtained the envoy headed by Guo Songtao and others, he heard that the defense in the Beijing area was empty, so he had a thought, wanting to break Cangzhou before Li Yongji's Jingwu army, enter the rich Beijing-Tianjin area to grab a handful, and then turn around to Hebei, sit and watch the Jingwu army and the Qing army fight, wait for the time, and wait for the price to sell.

However, the ideal is very plump, the reality is very skinny, he thinks well, but he didn't expect Cangzhou to be as easy to fight as he thought, on the contrary, it is still a bone that is more difficult to gnaw than Texas, or rather, he doesn't know that Cangzhou has a more ferocious enemy!

Indeed, the local green battalion soldiers in Cangzhou really have no intention of fighting, and the local regimental training soldiers also have other ideas, thinking that they will surrender as soon as the elite army comes.

But none of them expected that a mixed cavalry composed of Eight Banners and foreign soldiers suddenly came behind them, and they took over the city defense of Cangzhou at once!

That's right, this army of soldiers and horses is the 3,000 Eight Banners stationed in Tianjin and the 2,000 Russian Cossack cavalry, they rushed to Cangzhou just to block the Jingwu Army and prevent the Jingwu Army from continuing to attack Beijing!

Due to the urgency of the military situation, so this time it was all cavalry, and it was a coincidence that this army had just arrived in Cangzhou, and Sun Kuixin led his troops to call, and as a result, two thousand Cossack cavalry quickly attacked, and all of a sudden Sun Kuixin's troops were scattered, and even Sun Kuixin was killed in the battle outside Cangzhou.

This Liu Tianfu was able to escape, also because he was organizing grain and grass in the rear at that time, and Sun Kuixin's army was more than 20,000, even if it was not used, it would take a lot of effort for the other party to arrest him, so he was spared.

However, the ferocity of the Russian cavalry also frightened Liu Tianfu, and hurriedly led the remnants of the defeated army to run back.

"In other words, it was the foreigners who defeated you?" Li Yongji asked immediately.

"That's right, they're all foreigners, they're all foreigners with yellow hair and green eyes!" Liu Tianfu nodded hurriedly, "They are all a head taller than us, riding high-headed horses, screaming in their mouths, fierce and tight, we are not opponents at all, the 20,000 army was only rushed by them, and they were all scattered!" ”

"Do you know how many people are on the other side?" Li Yongji asked again.

"I don't know." Liu Tianfu shook his head, "I'm just busy running, how do I know this, but there must be thousands...... No, there must be tens of thousands! Yes, that's right, there are tens of thousands of cavalry! ”

"Tens of thousands of cavalry?" Li Yongji immediately frowned.

Just as Li Yongji was about to continue to ask something, a terrible high-frequency whistle suddenly sounded, which was the warning sound issued by the alert troops after discovering the enemy! (To be continued......)