Nourishing Heart Palace, West Warm Pavilion.

The two queen mothers and the young Guangxu Emperor sat on the top, and the six kings and the seven kings were the heads of the civil and military forces, the prince Baylor, the minister of military aircraft, the six Manchu and Han scholars, and the scholars and scholars ......, and the first and second rank officials in Beijing were all present.

Why so? Of course, it was because the news of the fall of Guangzhou reached the capital.

Tens of thousands of new troops of the Eight Banners, thousands of training and supervising troops equipped with new guns and artillery, plus nearly 10,000 old troops of the Green Battalion, completely fell in just three days. The entire upper echelons of the Qing court are going to be bad!

This is not the same as when the Qin army fought the green battalion. Everyone in the world knows that the green camp is rotten and unbearable. Therefore, it is reasonable that the Qin army was overwhelmed at the beginning. Guangxi's defeat was also due to the fact that the Qin army had deep ties within it and that Guangxi had little training. But the Battle of Canton was different. Tens of thousands of children of the Eight Banners, Ruilin's supervision, and Guangdong's military training are all the fundamental forces of the Qing court's war with local Xinjiang ministers. The Qin army did not invest as many troops as the new army in the defenders of Guangzhou, and as a result, after the official attack, the huge city was finished in only three days. The governor of Liangguang and the general of Guangzhou were martyred by their families, and the deputy commander died in battle one step earlier......

When the news reached Beijing, these heads and brains in the center of the Qing court, especially the heads and brains of the identity of the flag people, all had a feeling of broken hearts.

Several of the senior officials were martyred, which proves that the resistance of Guangzhou was exhausted and tenacious. But even after all the efforts made in this way, it still could not resist the Qin army's capture of Guangzhou City with inferior forces, which highlighted the absolute superiority of the Qin army in combat strength.

Before the court meeting, Cixi's hands trembled after reading the telegram, and she asked Dolonga, "Could this be fake?" ”

Duolonga replied: "Back to the words of the Queen Mother." The minions thought it was true. The credibility of Ta Kung Pao is still worth trusting. Moreover, the rebels are menacing, even if this article has an element of exaggeration, it should be treated as a truth. ”

And the Eastern Empress Dowager Ci'an has never seen such a big battle, except for chanting the blessing of the Buddha, it is useless. In terms of militaristic affairs. She is really far worse than Cixi.

"The minister thought that he should convene a meeting. Leave it to be reported later. "Duolong Ake does not have the prestige of Yuan Shikai in the future, and in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there are still four years old in the military aircraft department on the courtiers, which is a hurdle that he can't overcome.

…… Well, maybe it's three. Wenxiang's illness has not improved these days.

"Queen Mother, Liu Kunyi, the governor of Liangjiang, has personally led the 14th battalion of the Huai Army to Hangzhou. Liu Bingzhang, the governor of Jiangxi, is gathering troops and horses, and Wang Desheng, the chief soldier of Nangan Town, has already waved his army into Guangdong......"

"Zuo Zongtang, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, called, and the predicament of Mawei mines is still ......"

"Luo Dachun, the land governor of Zhejiang, has supervised the 10,000 Chu army to go south......"

"The Chu army Wang Debang troops arrived in Quanzhou ......"

"Liu Changyou, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, guaranteed Zhang Shusheng as the governor of Guangxi, Liu Shiqi as the governor of Guangxi, and Zhou Shengbo. The three armies are about to drive to Guangxi ......"

"Xi'an General Rong Lu has arrived in Fengxiang, and the overseer army is attacking Fengxian County......"

At the beginning of the court meeting, a large stack of folds came up with an uproar. It seems that there is no gratifying progress on either side, but with such an uproar and a large list of contents, the atmosphere of the entire Xinuan Pavilion immediately became a lot more lively.

Are the Xianghuai and Chu armies still very hard-working? There was no dry use of silver to paddle the water, and the imperial court allocated millions of taels of silver, and allowed the warring local ministers to set up their own gold checkpoints, and put down their powers. Overnight, the imperial court seemed to have returned to the original scene of suppressing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but in the end, the efforts were not in vain, and the Xianghuai and Chu armies were still loyal.

Today, the Manchu and Han ministers in this Xinuan Pavilion. Almost all of them experienced the Taiping Rebellion. The psychological endurance is quite outstanding.

Guangzhou is the first city in the southern sky, and it is very shocking and throbbing to lose it. But as long as the Xianghuai and Chu armies don't come out of the moth, everyone's hearts will have a bottom. So much so that the next agreement was given to Ruilin and Changshan, and the ministers in the Xinuan Pavilion all disappeared from yesterday's hesitation and fear.

At the end of October, the Qing court made Jing Lian the minister of the Qin Mission, and led 5,000 Janissary troops. 5,000 Zhili trained the army and went south to quell the rebellion. This is since Liu Xian raised the army. The first team sent out in the city of Beijing.

The news reached Liu Xian on the same day. Seeing that the minister of the Qincha who went south was Jing Lian, he was very emotional. It was in Xinjiang that year. The two of them are still comrades-in-arms in the trenches, and now they will become enemies of life and death. This person and Duolonga are two of the few people who have a good impression in Liu Xian's senses!

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In the city of Guangzhou, the confiscation work is still in progress.

With so many officials and nobles, how much business should there be in the mix? The property confiscated directly in the Yamen Mansion is not counted, and the silver deposited by Ruilin, Changshan, and Zhang Zhaodong in the foreigner's bank is not mentioned for the time being, except for the Guangdong Customs, where the foreigners occupy the majority of the capital, and the Qin army just cleaned the entire city of Guangzhou, and the countless merchants who had anything to do with and colluded with the officials spit out too much silver. The people Qin Jun took the money very reasonably, they only took the amount of the official's shares, not digging up the roots. But just like this, in just five days, Qi Dalin also copied more than three million taels of silver. In the bloody land of Guangzhou, even if the Thirteen Lines have become a cloud of the past, there is no fake at all!

For these businessmen who colluded with corrupt officials in the past, after the silver was in their hands, the Qin army had no restrictions on them. They can only go in and out of Guangzhou. It is said that before and after the war, a large number of Cantonese fled to Hong Kong and Macao, and few have returned until now......

What was really targeted by the Qin army was the comprador class in Guangzhou, as well as a large number of opium and chip merchants.

The former, Qin Jun is the same as staring at it first, these people have the support of foreign forces behind them, Qin Jun will not be afraid, but before the matter is negotiated, Liu Xian will not rashly do anything to them. Even in his heart, he hated this group of traitors no matter how much.

Then, they colluded with foreigners even deeper. But Liu Xian, who is already planning to ban smoking, doesn't even care about the opium merchants behind these people, will he care about the inferior things of these pigs and dogs?

It's not thirty-five years ago!

At that time, the foreigners, especially the British, did not insist on the opium and chip trade, and their business in China was a loss. But now? In many ports, legitimate economic trade has greatly squeezed the share and status of the opium and chip trade. Liu Xian will vigorously develop industry, which will also require a large number of imported industrial machinery from European and American countries, and this count in tens of millions of silver dollars should suppress the backlash of opium and chip merchants.

Moreover, in recent years, opium and chip dealers have made a bad reputation in Europe and the United States.

Therefore, after the operation of raiding the house is over, the knife edge of the Qin army will be aimed at the owners of those big and tobacco houses. Anyway, at the beginning of November, before Liu Xian came to Guangzhou, before the fleet arrived in Guangzhou, Qi Dalin had to do everything well. Naturally, the Guangzhou Station of the Military Intelligence Department will fully cooperate with the army's operations.

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Zhaohua, Sichuan, east is Dajian Mountain, south is Jianzhou, north of Hanzhong, a Jialing River makes the waterways on both sides very smooth.

Tang Yougeng, the governor of Sichuan, was holding a telescope and looking at the position of the Qin army opposite. In the case of the enemy on all sides, it is really self-defeating to return to Sichuan and counterattack.

Around Tang Yougeng, there were more than a dozen officers of all sizes. These people are Tang Yougeng's old subordinates, who followed Tang Yougeng to fight with Shi Da, fought with Chen Decai, fought from youth to prime and middle-aged, fought from Sichuan to Hubei, and then returned to Sichuan from Hubei, and then passed through Guizhou and fought in Yunnan. After more than ten or twenty years of fighting, the Sichuan Green Battalion can be regarded as the most capable green battalion soldier in China in today's era.

And there is Luo Bingzhang in the front, and Wu Tang in the back, and the two Sichuan governors have a lot of trust in Tang Yougeng. The soldiers under his command are well-armed, and they are all of the same level as the training army.

In Tang Yougeng's telescope, two round balls suddenly appeared, and a basket was hanging underneath, two people in each of them, could it be the artillery school balloon!

"Turtle son's, foreign things are interesting. Lao Tzu is also looking for the two of them! ”

I had already seen the people in the hanging baskets under the two balloons looking towards me. Tang Yougeng put away the binoculars.

"Let's go. At one o'clock in the evening, it's time to eat the cannons! ”

An artillery battalion under Tang Yougeng was wiped out by a burst of artillery fire because of the loss of this thing. In the same pit, he will not fall a second time. But...... war is not something that can be decided by just one or two new things.

The total number of Qin troops on the opposite side was only more than 3,000, but the strength of Tang Yougeng's troops exceeded 8,000. The absolute superiority in strength made him feel that as long as he fought fiercely, he could completely defeat the rebels on the opposite side.

As the clock ticked to noon, violent explosions rang out on the battlefield. It was deafening and overwhelming, obscuring any sound on the ground. Flames and gunpowder smoke continued to rise on the front-line positions of the Qin army.

"Damn, I said how big is your surname Tang, and you don't rely on strong soldiers and strong horses? This is also a famous general in Sichuan, I bah! Wei Ming was on the front line to observe the movements of the Qing army, and unfortunately caught up with this burst of artillery. But he didn't have anything to fear. A timid man in this era is very capable of commanding cavalry!

The cavalry unit did not learn the infantry artillery coordination. But I haven't eaten pork and never seen a pig go! Wei Ming's vision is not bad at all.

In his eyes, the Sichuan army's infantry artillery coordination is very bad! Or not at all!

At this time, Tang Yougeng's infantry had not yet shown their heads.

The shelling did not last long, and when they saw a lot of smoke columns rising from the Qin army's position, the Sichuan artillery on the opposite side stopped with satisfaction, and the front line sounded the ghost cry of 'Wow Ya Ya' almost at the same time, and groups of infantry neatly placed their guns to attack the Qin army's position. The bright bayonet made Wei Ming's eyes at the back of the telescope almost glaze up.

Tang Yougeng directly threw in 2,000 troops, intending to crush the Qin army's position in one fell swoop. And after the 2,000 people lined up in a horizontal formation, they launched an attack, and the momentum that erupted was quite terrifying.

But Wei Ming only smiled coldly when he looked at the Sichuan soldiers in the distance. He didn't need to worry about this battle at all, and he didn't need to send two brigades of cavalry. Only Shi Donglai Camp could easily clean them up. (To be continued) R640