"Your Excellency, there is no need to discuss this issue, the Empress Dowager of Beijing will either open the city gate and invite me and His Majesty the Emperor to enter, or I will directly blow up the city wall and walk in by myself in the posture of the occupiers under their fearful gaze, they have no other choice." Just when his female secretary spent the whole night looting the Summer Palace, and then returned to Qinhuangdao with those treasures beloved by Cixi, Yang Feng was saying to the visiting British minister Bao Kele in an unquestionable tone.

Of course, Cixi is not prepared to rely on sticking to Beijing to solve the problem, even if her Eight Banners elite soldiers can hold on for a year, it still makes no sense to take Yang Feng, her goal is to use sticking to Beijing to make Yang Feng retreat from the difficulty, and turn her head to betray Guangxu again, in the end, Yang Feng can not help Guangxu without a bottom line, he is a player who plays an exchange of interests, if the price of attacking Beijing makes him feel uneconomical, and then give him what Guangxu promised, this guy will change his position, which Cixi sees very clearly.

Therefore, while arranging the city defense, she also asked Bao Kele, who had already gone to Tianjin, to be a lobbyist, and she didn't care whether it was successful or not, and the key was not to cut off the channel of dialogue between the two sides.

Bao Kele left Beijing before the fall of Tongzhou, and then was personally invited by Rong Lu, of course, it must be indispensable for labor costs, in fact, at this time in Beijing, the envoys of various countries basically went to Tianjin, what if a cannonball misses and flies to the embassy? If someone else is injured by mistake, you can naturally extort it, but if it is accidentally injured by Yang Feng's army, you have to consider yourself unlucky, so far the number of diesel engine warships built by the British Navy has reached 20, and there are more than 20 ships under construction, but the diesel engine research has not been built so far, even if it is broken, you have to go to Sweden to find Yang's power system company to buy, and now some sober-minded people of insight have called on the government to be vigilant against this situation of being controlled by others in key technologies, and even asked to stop the construction of diesel engine warships.

The British government would like to. But look around, almost all naval powers are building, even the declining Turkey has directly ordered two 7,000-ton armored cruisers from Sweden, with the advantage of having the Baku oil field, the Russian tsar even announced that all new warships in Russia will use diesel engines in the future, this is not counting, because of the shortage of oil, almost all the major British consortia have formed their own oil companies, exploration and exploitation of oil in the whole world, if the British government stops building diesel warships. One can imagine how these angry predators will happen to the current government of Roulin.

Prime Minister Salisbury even lamented that Britain was gradually being kidnapped by oil, of course, he was just embarrassed to say that he was kidnapped by Yang Feng, in this case, I am afraid that even if Yang Feng's army really injured their envoys by mistake, they had to swallow their anger, in this case, they should not hurry up and avoid the right and wrong place in Beiping.

It's a pity that Tianjin is not safe, because the loyal army or rebel army on the eastern front has also reached the city of Tianjin, and Luo Rongguang, who is stationed in Dagukou, rejected Ronglu's request for him to support Tianjin, and clearly told him. The duty of the defenders of Dagukou is to guard the country, and if there is a foreign enemy, they should fight to the death, but they will not care about the affairs within the country. Not only did the defenders of Dagukou refuse to support Tianjin, but the defenders of Beitangkou also refused, for the same reason, poor Rong Lu was now counting on Bao Kele for this trip. Otherwise, he would have to take his 7,000 men to fight a decisive battle with a brigade of Yang Feng and a brigade of the defected New Army.

"Your Royal Highness King Zhennan, we just hope that the two of you can sit down and resolve their differences through negotiations. After all, once a war breaks out, the damage caused to civilians is too great, and for humanitarian reasons, it is best to avoid such things as much as possible. Bao Kle said with a smile on his face.

"No war? Yes, as long as the defenders of Beijing lay down their arms, welcome the emperor back to the palace, and then tie themselves up and wait for punishment, won't there be no need for war? Yang Feng said.

"Huh?!" Bao Kele didn't dare to discuss this issue anymore, he had already determined that this time Yang Feng had to send Guangxu back to the throne, in fact, for this Chinese war between the emperor and queen, the British government did not have much inclination, and even they welcomed Guangxu more, after all, now Guangxu's slogans outside seem very enlightened, and said that once he returns to Beijing, he will carry out reforms. After Russia took northern Japan, the British had no choice, they needed a strong enough China to block the Russians' expansion in the Far East, as for whether China would rise, this is not considered for the time being, and even if China really rises, it will be a matter of the future, and now it is the most important thing to block the Russians on land.

"Your Excellency, perhaps you should go and meet our Emperor Xià, and you may find that he is a more suitable choice than the Empress Dowager." Yang Feng looked at him and said lightly.

"Well, I think it's time for me to meet the Emperor." Bao Kele shrugged and said, of course he understood what it meant to go to see Guangxu as a British minister, but since Yang Feng insisted on supporting Guangxu, Britain had no choice.

At this time, the battle outside Beijing had already begun.

"What are they doing here?" Zai Yi looked at the hundreds of trucks that drove out of the camp in the distance, and it could be seen from the binoculars that these trucks were not filled with soldiers.

"They're going to fill the moat!" The chief adviser of the city beside him, Oyama Yan, immediately understood the enemy's intentions, and if these trucks were filled with earth, they could fill a large road in a moat that was only fifty meters wide in one trip.

"Fill the river, how do they unload the truck, do they find a group of soldiers with shovels? Isn't that a target for us? Zai Yi said with a smile.

"Master, the tail of the car can be lifted by itself, and the soil inside will fall directly, and the slave has seen it by the canal." One Goshha said cautiously.

"Huh?" Zai Yi was dumbfounded for a moment, he slapped Goshha on the back of the head and scolded: "I know you didn't say it earlier, dog thing!" ”

"Quick, fire, stop them!" In Goshha's resentful gaze, Zai Yi shouted to the artillery next to him with great momentum, on the three-kilometer city wall on both sides of Chaoyang Gate that he defended, there were two hundred cannons, accounting for almost half of the number of artillery in Beijing, and the loyal and brave army was only 20,000 people, and it was impossible to encircle on all sides, and there were no troops even in other directions, only the east of the city was an attack surface, the main attack direction was Chaoyangmen, and there was no one in the direction of Dongzhimen, anyway, the Qing army did not have the courage to kill it, Dongbianmen belonged to the outer city, and it would not attack there either.

After receiving his order, the dense cannons on the city wall immediately opened fire, but with the technology of the Qing artillery, it was obvious that it would take quite a bit of luck to hit the convoy three or four kilometers away.

"Your Royal Highness, you must waste cannonballs, and when they get closer, use machine guns to ......" Before Da Shanyan finished speaking, he heard a sudden whistle overhead, and the old guy threw himself into a bunker surrounded by sandbags next to him, and then a huge fire ball exploded not far away, and Zai Yi rolled in with a scream, and before the two of them could settle down, it was like a volcanic eruption, and the entire city wall was instantly overwhelmed by countless explosions of fire.

Although this round of shelling did not cause much damage to the Qing army because of the adequate protection of the bunkers, almost a third of the soldiers still fled from their posts crying and crying, and even ran directly to the city.

"Come back, don't run!" Da Shanyan roared speechlessly, his hatred for Yang Feng is deeper now, it is obvious that if it wasn't for that demon to make trouble, it should be the Japanese army he led at this time, to face these pig-like opponents, what a happy thing it would be!

It's a pity that the fleeing Qing army didn't listen to him, and at the same time the second round of shells fell, and not only the shells, but also a small number of poison gas shells in them, this time they ran more, and Dashan Yan angrily picked up Zai Yi, who was curled up in the shape of a hedgehog under his feet, and shouted: "Your Highness, you must stop the soldiers from escaping!" ”

Zai Yi held his head blankly for a moment, and didn't come to his senses until Da Shanyan shouted for the second time.

"Order the Warlord, whoever runs again will be cut directly!" He touched the thumping heart, and finally got back to some state, and said viciously to Goshha, under the big mountain rock building, the Qing army arranged the supervision team at all the passages under the city wall, but because there was no order, coupled with the surprise, it was rushed away at once, and after getting the order, the supervision team immediately raised the ghost head knife, and the rout soldiers who ran halfway had to return to the city wall slowly, of course, those who ran away could only run.

By this time, the shelling of the Loyal Warriors had also stopped, and the trucks were already approaching about two kilometers.

"Don't waste shells, get closer with a machine gun!" Oyama Rock said.

At the same time, however, all the trucks turned around and headed north, followed by a tracked bulldozer and a tracked trailer from behind, also chasing the convoy north.

"What do you mean, change Dongzhimen?" Zai Yi was directly stunned.

Dashan Yan was also at a loss, and the two looked at each other with big eyes, but at this time, Zaixun of Dongzhimen was in a hurry, he happened to be good-looking and lively, and suddenly became a lively one.

"Hurry up and get ready to shoot, Ma, you're not such a bully, how good it would be to hit Chaoyangmen well, why do you have to run here?" He said with a sad look on his face.

However, he was pleasantly surprised to find out that he was not the target either!

"Andingmen, quick, go to Andingmen!" Dashan Yan suddenly let out a hoarse scream. (To be continued......)