Speaking of which, the Russians Nikolai and Guo Songtao are both envoys, and it is said that there should be no problem with security, after all, the two countries are in a confrontation and do not cut the envoys, not to mention that the Jingwu army has always been close to the foreigners, so they don't feel that there is a problem with security, so they are bent on thinking about how to talk about it in the future negotiation process.

It's a pity that they shouldn't have been, they just shouldn't have taken the land route!

The envoys who negotiated with the Jingwu Army actually had two ways to contact the Jingwu Army at that time:

One is to take a boat to Shanghai, and then from Shanghai to Suzhou, the capital of the Jiangnan Military Government, and take the regular way of meeting.

Another way is to take the land route, that is, to arrive in Cangzhou first, and then go straight to Jinan from Cangzhou through Dezhou, and then contact the Jingwu army from the Jinan front.

There is no doubt that the first method of taking the sea route is the safest and safest, but the problem is that Li Yongji, the head of the Jiangnan government and the Jingwu Army, is said to be still in Xuzhou.

If you don't find Li Yongji directly, you are afraid that the other party will take advantage of the time when you are arguing with the other party, and the Jingwu army will continue to march into the army.

So after thinking about it, they felt that it was better to take the land route and contact the main force of the Northern Expedition of the Jingwu Army as soon as possible, so that they could meet Li Yongji as soon as possible, and once negotiations began, a ceasefire would come first, so that the Manchus would be given more time, and the Russians would be happy to see it.

It was with this kind of thinking that they went straight from Cangzhou to Dezhou under the protection of a hundred-strong Qing cavalry team, intending to rest in Dezhou for a while, and then go directly to Jinan.

However, the bad thing is that they brought a Qing cavalry team with them.

To know. Out of Cangzhou, it is the scope of activities of the Twist Army, if they are the same as Li Hongzao at the beginning, dressed as ordinary merchants, maybe there is not much problem, after all, the Twist Army at this time is still reasonable, only robbing officials, not ordinary merchants, but they took the Qing cavalry, and swaggered out of Cangzhou. That is, not to take the twisted army active in this area in mind.

The general of the Twist Army who is active in this area is called Sun Kuixin, and he is also a capable person, he was originally mixed with Zhang Lexing, but later he had a disagreement, so he came out to work alone. Originally, he was mixed up in Cao County, but when Seng Lingqin's soldiers gathered, he had to temporarily avoid the limelight.

Unlike others, Sun Kuixin at that time did not run south to west, he ran north. Then he went directly to the Binzhou area and re-established the flag to recruit troops.

The Binzhou area was notoriously poor at this time, and it was famous for asking for food, and this Sun Kuixin came here to recruit new troops. Hula pulled up 50,000 soldiers and horses again, and then he led this army of soldiers and horses to fight in a mobile battle, breaking through Zibo and Weixian. After dragging the local soldiers and horses exhausted, the Qing army was defeated in Zouping, and then actually began to besiege Jinan!

Then. It is true that the Qing army in Jinan did not dare to go out of the city to face the battle, but Jinan City was not something he could gnaw down lightly, so he just surrounded Jinan, so he waited for the news of the defeat of Seng Lingqin, and then waited for the 30,000 troops of Shengbao!

At the beginning, he also led the troops to fight a little with Shengbao's troops, but was beaten by Shengbao, knowing that Shengbao was not easy to deal with, Sun Kuixin led the troops back to Binzhou, and after a short rest, he began to plan to attack Texas again.

In other words, when Guo Songtao led his troops south, it happened to be when Sun Kuixin attacked Texas, and their envoy group happened to hit the muzzle!

Sun Kuixin's soldiers and horses are mostly poor beggars who can't read big characters, where do they know what the envoy is, they only know that they saw a Qing army team, and then they spontaneously gathered their troops, like bandits, they hit an ambush on the road, and once they made dumplings for the Qing soldiers of the envoy group.

In the end, most of the envoys were slaughtered by the excited Twist Army's white flags, and only a few people who looked like high-ranking officials, such as Guo Songtao, and Nikolai, who was a foreigner, survived.

Although these captives had to be escorted back to the banner owner Sun Kui's heart and did not want their lives, because these people usually hated foreigners and the Qing army the most, they were abused a lot along the way.

Especially Nikolai, who is a Russian envoy and an earl, where has he received this kind of treatment, not only did he resist fiercely and hurt people, but he also wanted to take the horse and escape, but he was caught up by this group of twisters and broke his leg, and then dragged behind the horse and ran, and when he was sent to Sun Kuixin, he had been tossed for half his life, not an ordinary tragedy.

Sun Kuixin, as the leader, is of course not so uneducated, and after personally interrogating it, he immediately knew that this envoy group was a big fish!

You must know that at this time, no one doubts that the Jingwu Army will win the Northern Expedition, after all, the Jingwu Army is different from Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang's Northern Expedition at the beginning, it first defeated the 300,000 troops of the Qing Army, and then took advantage of the aftermath of victory and went all the way to the north.

300,000 troops, if it was the heyday of the Qing Dynasty, it really didn't take this seriously, but at this moment, the 300,000 army is the bottom of the Qing army, and it can defeat so many troops in one breath with less than 100,000 people cleanly, and the strength of the Jingwu Army can be seen, at least it shows that the Jingwu Army has the qualifications to compete for the world.

To say that Sun Kuixin didn't know much about the Jingwu Army in the past, but as the war unfolded, especially when he was defeated by Shengbao, and Shengbao was scared away by the Jingwu Army, he knew that the Jingwu Army was a hard stubble.

In the past, Sun Kuixin never had the opportunity to get on the line with the Jingwu Army and climb the friendship, and now the favor sent to the door is not in vain!

Moreover, Sun Kuixin also got an important piece of news from other captives, that is, Emperor Xianfeng had left the capital and went to Chengde for refuge, and took a large number of troops with him when he left.

You must know that in the past, Sun Kuixin only dared to toss in Shandong, but he really didn't have the courage to fight Cangzhou, but now, the situation is different.

Most of the defenders in Texas are armed with regimental training, and they are twisted troops, and they have dealt with the regimental training in Texas too many times over the years, and they have deep grudges against each other, and it is difficult to make the other party surrender, but Cangzhou is different.

Although there are also defenders in Cangzhou, most of them are regular court soldiers and horses, and they have never been to Cangzhou in the past, and they have not dealt much with the people over there, and the defenders of Cangzhou must be more well-informed, and they must know about the emperor's escape, so the other party probably does not have much to resist, so it should be easier to fight Cangzhou than to fight Texas!

Once Cangzhou is laid, the entire capital is in front of you, if there are really less than 5,000 people in Beijing now, it is really a good opportunity!

Thinking of this, Sun Kuixin sent someone to escort Guo Songtao and Nikolai to contact the Jingwu Army, and at the same time ordered all the soldiers and horses, and stopped fighting Texas, turned his head and went straight to Cangzhou, to grab a handful in the capital.

Not to mention what Sun Kuixin is thinking, and whether his actions can be successful, at least Guo Songtao and Nikolai finally don't have to worry about it. However, after such a toss, their hearts have disappeared a lot, especially Nikolai, who was saved even if his fortune was saved, but his legs were estimated to be unable to be saved.

Along the way, Guo Songtao and others were finally brought to the city of Tai'an by the Twist Army, and handed over to the vanguard of the Jingwu Army.

The general of Tai'an's elite army at this moment is none other than Li Yongji, and the troops he leads are not more than 10,000 people as rumored by the outside world, but 50,000 people, and they are basically the main elite forces.

In other words, it was not the vanguard of the 10,000 elite army that captured Tai'an, but the main force of Li Yongji, but the elite army marched too fast and did a good job of concealment, which made people misunderstand.

That's right, Li Yongji personally led the troops, that is, he went to Beijing City, he really planned to take the shortest land route, and then crashed all the way, smashed the Yellow Dragon, and finally defeated Beijing City, and then ended the ruling power of the Qing government, and then ascended the throne and established the country.

Speaking of which, Li Yongji really wanted to slow down the king, but the plan couldn't catch up with the rapid changes, since he had torn his face with the Qing Dynasty and annihilated the main force of the Qing army, it was already inappropriate to slowly retract and play what kind of slow king.

Therefore, what Li Yongji has to do now is to go all out on the Northern Expedition, and then go straight to Huanglong, end the rule of the Qing Dynasty, and unify the whole country as quickly as possible.

As for whether all kinds of problems will be hidden after premature reunification, this is easy to do, Zhang Xinda said it well, after the unification of the whole country, he will be the founding monarch, he is justifiable, and whoever refuses to accept it at that time will be called rebellion, and on the other hand, if he sends troops to suppress it, it will be called rebellion and banditry, and the nature is completely different.

When Guo Songtao and Nikolai were sent, he was preparing to attack Jinan City, this time, because Shengbao, who was sitting in Jinan, could not open the city and surrender when he saw himself like the previous defenders, so he was ready to use the 155mm ultra-light howitzer provided by Zhang Xinda, and then forcibly break the city!

Guo Songtao didn't expect to see Li Yongji so soon, and he didn't expect that Li Yongji had actually led the army to reach the city of Tai'an.

But it doesn't matter, seeing Li Yongji is a victory, so even if the Russian envoy Nikolai has a fever and is unconscious, and can no longer use the identity of the other Russian to exert pressure, Guo Songtao still puts Prince Gong in Yi? Everything that has been explained has been said.

Prince Gong? Although the terms of peace are only expedient, on the surface, they are still very substantive.

Specifically, the two sides first ceasefire in a comprehensive manner, and then took the Yangtze River as the boundary, north of the Yangtze River is the territory of the Qing Dynasty, and south of the Yangtze River is the territory of the Jingwu Army.

At the same time, the Qing dynasty recognized its equal standing with the Jingwu army, was willing to treat the areas under Li Yongji's rule as an equal state, and was willing to sign non-aggression pact, just like the Southern Song and Jin states in the past. (To be continued......)