The "Muye" in Weng Tong's mouth refers to the Battle of Muye, which was the key battle of King Wu of Zhou's crusade against King Zhou, in which Yin Shang's army turned against King Su before the battle and counterattacked King Zhou.

Weng Tongxiao meant that if the Empress Dowager Cixi ordered Yuan Shikai to be arrested, then Yuan Shikai's subordinates would definitely turn against him.

Although the Empress Dowager Cixi didn't read much, she also heard what Weng Tongyi meant, so she asked, "Then how should we capture and kill this fang?" ”

"Empress Dowager Qiqi, if you want to capture Yuan Shikai, you must be unaware, didn't Yuan Shikai win a battle, we will use this as an excuse to order Yuan Shikai to return to Xi'an to be rewarded, and when Yuan Shikai arrives in Xi'an, we will take him down, and then kill him, Yuan Jun will not have Yuan Shikai, and it will definitely collapse."

The Empress Dowager Cixi thought for a while and praised: "Very good, Weng Aiqing, this matter will be left to you." ”

The Empress Dowager Cixi then sent an edict, saying that Yuan Shikai had a meritorious service in exterminating the snitch, and ordered him to enter Xi'an to be rewarded.

On July 25, Yuan Shikai wore red ribbons and rode a high-headed horse back to Xi'an, and when he was leaving, Feng Guozhang, one of the three heroes of Beiyang, carefully persuaded: "Lord Yuan, the road to Xijing is rugged, and you must be more careful." "Xijing" is the good name of Xi'an.

Feng Guozhang didn't dare to say directly, "The Empress Dowager Cixi may not trust you anymore, and this time I asked you to go back, I wanted to kill you", so he used "road" as an analogy.

Yuan Shikai didn't hear it, and said with a smile: "The Holy Lafayette is gracious, and this trip to Xijing must be smooth." ”

Feng Guozhang didn't dare to say it too bluntly, although he had a very close relationship with Yuan Shikai, but he would never dare to say such a thing, in case someone was accused of "vainly extorting the holy will and bullying the king", but he would lose his head.

Feng Guozhang smiled bitterly a few times and said goodbye to Yuan Shikai.

From Tongguan to Xi'an, there is a spacious and flat post road, Yuan Shikai only took one day to arrive in Xi'an, civil and military officials, villagers and people lined up outside Xi'an City for ten miles to greet Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai is proud of the spring breeze, completely unaware that the Empress Dowager Cixi and Weng Tongyi are planning to kill him.

Soon entered Xi'an and came to the palace, the palace was also full of lights, festive, Yuan Shikai did not feel cheating.

The little eunuch invited Yuan Shikai to the Qianqing Palace, saying that Emperor Guangxu would summon him personally, although Emperor Guangxu had become a puppet, but after all, he was the nominal emperor, and the Empress Dowager Cixi could still put on a show with him.

Yuan Shikai came to the gate of the Qianqing Palace, and his years of military career made him feel that something was wrong, because the soldiers outside the Qianqing Palace all looked serious, as if they were facing a great enemy, and there was no festive appearance at all.

This feeling flashed in Yuan Shikai's mind, and then he straightened his clothes, walked up the steps, and walked into the main hall in the voice of the little eunuch "General Yuan Shikai has arrived".

Yuan Shikai was stunned as soon as he walked into the main hall, only to see that the hall was empty, if it was summoned by Emperor Guangxu, the ministers, eunuchs and palace maids could stand in a room, but now, there was no one inside.

Without waiting for Yuan Shikai to react, he suddenly heard a whistle outside the palace, and he didn't know how many guards rushed in from outside the palace and flew towards Yuan Shikai.

Yuan Shikai is short in stature, and he has never practiced martial arts, so he may not be able to beat these guards, let alone fight so many people by one person, and he was quickly pressed to the ground by many guards.

Yuan Shikai exclaimed: "What are you going to do, I am the general Yuan Shikai, a meritorious man......"

"Yuan rebellious!" An old and majestic voice sounded outside the hall, Yuan Shikai turned his head to look, and saw Weng Tongyi walking in surrounded by everyone.

Yuan Shikai was furious, glared at Weng Tong and roared, "Why did you arrest me? ”

"Yuan Re, you colluded with the snitch, the evidence is ironclad, what else is there to say, come here, put Yuan Rei in the prison, and wait for the fall."

The guards hugged up, pushed Yuan Shikai and left, Yuan Shikai was pushed to stagger, turned his head to look at Weng Tonggong and shouted: "Weng Tonggong, when did I collude with the snitch, you explain it to me clearly." ”

"Tell me clearly?" Weng Tongyi sneered, "There's nothing to say, take it with me." ”

The guards put Yuan Shikai in the prison together, Weng Tongyi captured Yuan Shikai, and the next step was to disintegrate Yuan Shikai's new army.

At this time, there were two leaders of Yuan Shikai's new army, one was Duan Qirui, the other was Feng Guozhang, both of whom were the three heroes of Beiyang, and the other Wang Shizhen had been killed in the Battle of the Forbidden City.

Although these two people have certain talents, none of them have the strength to convince everyone, so they control Yuan Shikai, and the rest of them are scattered.

Yuan Shikai admonished the Empress Dowager Cixi, and asked the Empress Dowager Cixi to issue an edict, ordering Feng Guozhang to lead the first town of the new army (the town is the establishment of the new army, 10,000 people in one town), send troops to attack the Huaxia army, and order Duan Qirui to lead the fifth town of the new army, transfer the defense of Xi'an, and the rest of the soldiers to stay in Tongguan, and the Empress Dowager Cixi soon issued an edict.

The edict of the Empress Dowager Cixi was issued, and Feng Guozhang lamented when he saw the edict, "Lord Yuan has suffered an accident. ”

Duan Qirui hurriedly asked, "Why did Brother Feng say this?" ”

"Brother Duan, now rumors are spreading, the Holy Lord and the Queen Mother have long been untrustworthy to the adults, and now that the adults have just entered Xijing, the Holy Lord has issued a decree, asking us to lead the troops to battle, and the other to defend Xi'an, or let us take away a town of soldiers and horses alone, who will command the 30,000 left? Of course, the DPRK and China sent another important person. ”

Duan Qirui said anxiously: "Brother Feng, what do you want to say?" ”

"I want to say that the imperial court's move is to divide and disintegrate Lord Yuan's new army and send others to control it, as for Lord Yuan, he must already be in prison and his life will not last long." After Feng Guozhang finished speaking, he shook his head again and again and sighed.

"How can this be, Lord Yuan is a loyal officer of the Qing Dynasty, how could the imperial court make such a move?"

Feng Guozhang smiled helplessly, "Lord Yuan is Lord Li's cronies, Weng Tonggong and Lord Li have never been on good terms, Weng Tonggong has long wanted to replace the Tongguan guard with his own cronies, Lord Li is in Sichuan, unable to look north, rumors have spread in recent days, just gave Weng Tonggong a chance, Weng Tonggong up and down his hands, long sleeves and good dancing, Lord Yuan's life is not long." ”

Duan Qirui was silent, he didn't even have the idea of marching into Xi'an and rescuing Yuan Shikai, for Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang, marching to Xi'an and rescuing Yuan Shikai was a big crime of rebellion, they had a few heads and dared to do this.

Even if Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang and Yuan Shikai have a deep relationship and are willing to rebel for Yuan Shikai, but what about the officers and soldiers under them, is everyone willing to rebel for Yuan Shikai? What's more, Yuan Shikai has been caught, and it is not certain whether he is alive or not now.

Duan Qirui finally asked, "Then what should we do now?" ”

Feng Guozhang shook his head silently, "I decided to lead the troops to fight, as for Brother Duan, how do you decide, I can't help it, and I will leave." ”

After Feng Guozhang finished speaking, he politely said goodbye and led a town of men and horses to confront the Huaxia Army.

Lin Fei didn't know about the power struggle at the highest level of the Qing court, and when he heard that Yuan Shikai's new army had dispatched 10,000 horses, he felt that the number was still too small, so he ordered the troops not to attack Yuan Shikai's troops, as long as Yuan Shikai's troops did not attack, you should not take the initiative to attack, so the Huaxia army did not move.

When the Huaxia army stood still, Feng Guozhang on the opposite side sent a secret envoy to ask to meet the supreme commander of the Huaxia army.

At this time, the supreme commander of the Huaxia Army was Niu Dahu, who was a prisoner of war rescued by Lin Fei from Japan, and after five or six years of training, he had become an excellent commander.

Niu Dahu heard that Feng Guozhang sent a secret envoy, guessing that it was related to suing for peace and surrendering, so he informed Chiyo Shizuka and asked Chiyo Shizuka to meet him, Chiyo Shizuka soon saw the secret envoy, and the secret envoy saw that Chiyo Shizuka was a woman, and was quite displeased, until Chiyo Shizuka said "I was personally sent by Lin Fei, what you said to me, I can report it directly to Lin Fei", and the secret envoy turned angry into joy.

The secret envoy took out a letter, handed it to Chiyo Shizuka, and said in a deep voice: "This is Feng Guozhang's handwritten letter to Mr. Lin Fei, I hope it can be conveyed to Mr. Lin Fei." ”

Chiyo Shizuka took the letter, "Do you really want Lin Fei to see it?" Lin Fei can be in Dayu City, which is too far from here. ”

"Then you can see it."

Chiyo Shizuka opened the letter, only to see that it was written that Yuan Shikai was recalled by the Qing court and his whereabouts were unknown, and that Feng Guozhang planned to take refuge in Lin Fei, but the whole family was in the hands of the Qing court, and implored Lin Fei to take action and rescue all the children.

Chiyo Shizuka smiled and asked, "How many families does Mr. Feng Guozhang have?" ”

"There is only an old mother in the family, the wife died early, there are three aunts, and more than ten children......"

Chiyo Shizuka waved her hand lightly, "Don't say it, write down all these circumstances, and I will send someone to send Feng Guozhang's family to a safe place." ”

The secret envoy received Chiyo Shizuka's assurance, and Chiyo Shizuka immediately informed the head of the Xi'an Intelligence Station, the mausoleum keeper, and asked him to escort Feng Guozhang's family to a safe place.

The mausoleum guards acted immediately, at this time the Qing court did not strictly guard Feng Guozhang's family, the mausoleum guards' actions were very smooth, and soon Feng Guozhang's family was taken out of Xi'an City, and sent to the Huaxia army camp by small road.

Feng Guozhang learned that the family was out of the control of the Qing court, and immediately led his troops to surrender to the Huaxia Army, it turned out that Feng Guozhang was ready to surrender the Huaxia Army when he was negotiating with Duan Qirui, this matter was extremely confidential, and the thoughtful Feng Guozhang did not tell Duan Qirui.

Many of Feng Guozhang's subordinates were unwilling to surrender, Feng Guozhang allowed them to find their own way out, some of these people returned home, some returned to Tongguan, and reported everything to Tongguan, and the Qing court learned that Feng Guozhang had rebelled and rebelled. (Canghai shared the writing story on the WeChat public platform, please search on WeChat - qietingcanghai, that is, listen to Canghai's pinyin, reply 2 to watch)