Chapter 362: Some Things Must Not Be Done
For the time being, press Huang Xu's end.
After giving Feng Zicai the order to retreat, Seng Greenqin and Prince Gong have been waiting for this army in Xuzhou, but they are waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, wait
Hearing this, Seng Lingqin and Prince Gong were shocked beyond words, and what they were most worried about still happened.
This situation is changing much faster than they expected, if they don't take decisive action and let the situation develop freely, maybe the next Feng Zicai will most likely become the two of them, thinking of this, the two of them shuddered.
They have to move faster.
As a top priority, they need to burn another fire for Emperor Xianfeng, forcing him to agree to the retreat of the army to Beijing, and this fire is the destruction of Feng Zicai's department and the capture of Feng Zicai, they believe that as long as Xianfeng knows the news, he will definitely order the withdrawal of the army, because, he must understand that Feng Zicai's army is gone, it means that half of the Qing Dynasty is gone, if the army in Xuzhou does not retreat, then what awaits them may be a more tragic ending, so, The only path Xianfeng could choose was to withdraw the remaining army to the Beijing division as soon as possible, in order to fight again.
The final result was as they expected.
After receiving the report, Xianfeng not only agreed to their request to retreat, but also urged them to retreat as quickly as possible, Xianfeng was really anxious, he didn't want Seng Greenqin to bury the only little capital in his hand, besides, the Beijing division also needs to be heavily defended, so it is Xianfeng's most urgent thing to let Seng Greenqin and Prince Gong lead the army to withdraw to the Beijing division.
The moment they received the edict of Xianfeng's retreat, Prince Gong and Monk Greenqin were relieved.
The ensuing retreat was carried out in extreme secrecy, and by the time the Taiping discovered that the Qing army had withdrawn, Xuzhou was already an empty city. When the Taiping generals saw this, they all scolded the monk Lingqin and Prince Gong, scolding them for running faster than rabbits.
However, Huang Xu knew that the strategic purpose of the Taiping Army had been achieved, and as soon as the main force of the Qing army retreated, they could go straight to the Qing court and the Qing court, and it didn't matter if Monk Lingqin and Prince Gong ran or not, because. As long as the Qing court's Jingshi is broken, those who run away can be caught again.
And Huang Xu led the army into Xuzhou City, just a little rest, then began to sweep forward, they started from Zaozhuang, all the way forward, even down a number of important towns, straight to the periphery of Langfang, they stopped, Langfang is in addition to the Beijing division Shuntian, another important town of the Qing army, is the most rearmost barrier to the Beijing division, so, the Qing army established a large number of fortifications here, and stationed heavy troops to defend.
After Huang Xu led the army to arrive outside Langfang, it took a lot of effort, and finally at the cost of more than 10,000 people, he finally captured Langfang.
After entering Langfang, Huang Xu ordered the army to rest in Langfang while letting people mix into Shuntian and inquire about the situation of Shuntian, preparing to wait for the arrival of Zeng Guofan's army to attack Shuntian together.
After Monk Greenqin and Prince Gong led the main force of the Qing army back to Beijing, the urgent messages for help from all over the country flew into Beijing like snowflakes, and in the face of these distress letters, Monk Greenqin and Prince Gong could only express their scoundrels, and Xianfeng was left with only sighs.
With their acquiescence, a large area of the Qing court's territory became the bag of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom one by one, and in the end, they could only hold on to a lonely city in Shuntian.
Faced with this unfavorable situation, Emperor Xianfeng convened an important military meeting in his imperial study, and the core of the discussion was what the Qing Dynasty would do.
The protagonists of the meeting were three people, Xianfeng, Prince Gong, and Monk Greenqin.
"Prince Gong, you are the emperor's uncle, tell me, what should we do?" Xianfeng, who was full of tiredness, was the first to ask Prince Gong Yixin.
Since the army withdrew from Xuzhou, Xianfeng has never slept well, such a thing happened, can he still sleep, if he can still sleep in this situation, it can only be said that he is really admirable.
"Your Majesty, there is no other way than to fight to the death." Prince Gong looks a lot older, and his voice has changed a lot.
"Fight to the death? How to fight to the death, can Prince Gong say it more clearly?" Xianfeng frowned, obviously not very satisfied with Prince Gong's answer.
"How to fight to the death, you have to ask the monk and the prince, he is the commander of the army." Prince Gong is not a stupid person, he can't say what he can't say, so this peach has to be given to Monk Greenqin.
Although Xianfeng was a little dissatisfied, Prince Gong's words were indeed unflawed and reasonable, so he could only focus on Monk Greenqin in order to get an answer from him.
Monk Greenqin secretly scolded Prince Gong in his heart, he felt that this Prince Gong was too uninteresting, and he pushed himself out at this time, didn't he have the heart to see his own jokes.
However, now it is the emperor who asks in person, and he must give an answer, so he pondered and said: "Your Majesty, we are stationed on both sides of the Beijing Division, each stationed an army, and the Beijing Division is a corner of each other, helping each other, advancing and retreating together, this is one of them. Second, we need to build three new lines of defense in addition to the Beijing division to prevent the enemy from pushing through the Beijing division, third, the four gates of the capital, with heavy troops, to strictly defend to the death, and fourth, to draw elite troops to form a mobile force, specifically sneak attack the enemy's grain routes, destroy their important facilities, and wait for an opportunity to assassinate their important generals. Your Majesty, as long as we are determined to resist, we will definitely defend the Jingshi."
'What if you can't hold it?' Xianfeng then asked.
"Can't hold it, this..."Monk Lingqin didn't expect Xianfeng to ask like this, a little overwhelmed.
To be honest, he really hadn't thought about it yet
"Your Majesty, we can hold it." The embarrassed monk Lingqin looked at Prince Gong for help, and Prince Gong knew that this matter could not be joked, so he quickly took over the topic.
"What if it happens, if we can't hold it, what will we do, we must not sit still, we must think of the way back." Monk Lingqin can not want to, anyone can not want to. But Xianfeng must think, he is the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, he didn't think about the city in the people, the king of the city died, if the city was really broken, he would not wait for death here.
As soon as Prince Gong heard this, he heard it a little, Xianfeng did not have the determination to fight to the end, he was already thinking about the way back, this is normal, he is the emperor of the emperor, how can he throw his life here.
"In case you can't keep it, please ask the emperor to move Shengjing and make it again." Prince Gong groaned slightly, and seemed to have come up with a good solution.
Shengjing is the birthplace of the Qing Dynasty, that is, the place in the three eastern provinces outside the Guanwai, where the ancestral tomb of the Qing Emperor is located. Fleeing there is also a choice, you can still be the emperor, and that place has been operated by several generations of emperors in the early Qing Dynasty, everything is quite complete, although all kinds of software and hardware facilities are worse than Shuntian, but it is not much worse, the only fly in the ointment, that is, the territory is too small.
"Well, this is a good way, but even if we move the capital to Shengjing, will we be able to keep the foundation of the Qing Dynasty?" Xianfeng is greedy is insufficient, when is it now, saving his life is a problem, he is still worried about the foundation of the Qing Dynasty, I really can't figure it out.
"This....this... Your Majesty, as long as we work hard, the Qing Dynasty will definitely be able to restore its former glory." Prince Gong can only shout some empty slogans.
"Come on, there is a surface, this is all an empty appearance, we have to have something practical." Xianfeng pretended to be deep and authentic.
Listening to Xianfeng's tone, he seemed to have something to say.
"The ministers are stupid, and please ask the emperor to teach you." Prince Gong said respectfully.
"Yesterday, my concubine Xi gave me a plan, I think there is a lot to do, I wonder if the two Aiqing are willing to listen to it?" Xianfeng proudly authentic.
He felt that he had really found a good helper.
"Please ask the emperor for advice." Although the two of them had doubts, they still had to listen respectfully on the surface.
"Two words, foreigner." Xianfeng stretched out his two upper fingers and said mysteriously.
"Foreigners? Ah, Your Majesty, I can't help it, I can't help it." Prince Gong listened to the word foreigner, and he still didn't understand it, and then after thinking about it carefully, he understood what Xianfeng meant, and he was shocked.
Let the foreigners help, isn't that luring the wolf into the house, and besides, this wolf is even more ruthless than the wolf of the Taiping army, besides, they fight with the Taiping army, it is a family matter, what to do with the foreigners, if this kind of infighting involves the foreigners, everything is difficult to say.
It has to be said that at this point, Prince Gong is indeed a very far-sighted person.
Xianfeng listened to Prince Gong's words, his face sank, he was very unhappy, he snorted coldly, pointed at Monk Lingqin and said: "You say, you talk about it, can we ask foreigners to help?"
Xianfeng needs a bosom friend too much, and he hopes that Monk Lingqin will not let him down.
"This....this..."Monk Greenqin has been here for a long time, and he hasn't let out a fart.
His thoughts are actually similar to Prince Gong's, but Prince Gong's good words just now have made Boss Xianfeng unhappy, if he pours cold water on the side again, it will definitely make Long Yan angry, but, if he agrees with the emperor's intentions, it is too far from his own heart, and it is really too far wrong, so. He is in a dilemma.
"Hurry up, your monk Lingqin is also a person who commands thousands of troops, no matter how you say anything, you are so sticky." Xianfeng was very dissatisfied with the attitude of the monk Greenqin, and his words were authentic.
"Yes, what the emperor taught me is that it's just that, it's just that the minister thinks that the emperor's idea is really good, if it can be so, the Qing Dynasty will definitely be safe." After Monk Greenqin said these words, he felt that his face was so red.
Monk Gelinqin was famous for his outspokenness in the Qing Dynasty, and now he has learned to speak nonsense with his eyes open and echo the holy will.
"Monk Greenqin, you are a fallacy to confuse the public, you are a defilement, you are harming the emperor and the Qing Dynasty, how can you talk like this, how can you do this." When Prince Gong saw that Monk Greenqin actually said something against his heart behind his heart, he couldn't help but be furious, and shouted at Monk Greenqin loudly regardless of his feelings.
"Prince Gong, pay attention to your words and deeds, do you still take me in your eyes?" Xianfeng saw that Prince Gong had lost his temper so far, and he couldn't help but be angry.
Xianfeng was not angry because of Prince Gong's words, he was angry because Prince Gong refuted the words of Seng Lingqin, Xianfeng finally found a confidant, but was scolded by Prince Gong in person, that is not the same as saying that his emperor is also at fault, isn't this slapping him Xianfeng's face, this is repayable, it is really unreasonable.
"Your Majesty, you can't, you must not pull foreigners in, it's easy to invite God, it's hard to send God, even if you rely on the strength of foreigners, you really repel the Taiping Army, will the world be peaceful, can the emperor sit firmly in the country, I'm afraid not. The foreigners have not died in my heart, and we are still taking the initiative to send them to the door, isn't that just in the hands of the foreigners, this kind of thing, we can't do it, Your Majesty." Prince Gong slammed his head and desperately admonished him.
Prince Gong's enthusiasm turned into a lot of sad words.
"Yixin, you are so bold, you dare to accuse me, aren't you afraid that I will cut off your head?" Xianfeng saw that Prince Gong was becoming more and more unrestrained and angry, he pointed at Prince Gong's nose and yelled.
"Your Majesty, the minister is not afraid of cutting off his head, if the emperor really plans to do this, it is really better to cut off the minister's head and give the minister a good time, lest the minister see something he doesn't want to see in the future." Prince Gong cried.
He said anything today to dissuade Xianfeng, and he must not let him do this.
"You, you...; I'm really angry, okay, you want to die so much, I will fulfill you, come on, take Prince Gong off to me, send him to the prison, and wait for the fate." Xianfeng shouted.
"Slow, please calm your anger, Prince Gong is also loyal, for Prince Gong's many years, for the sake of the community, please ask the emperor to be gracious and spare him this time." Seeing that Xianfeng was really coming, Monk Greenqin quickly knelt down and pleaded.
"Monk Lingqin, do you want to do it against me?" Xianfeng is in full swing, see who bites whom.
"The emperor is angry, the emperor is angry..."Monk Greenqin knew that there were many mistakes in saying that there were many mistakes, which could only cause Xianfeng's temper to be greater, so it was better not to say it, and when he was angry, there would be no trouble.
"You two get out of here, don't let me see you again, get out!" Xianfeng rests in the bottom of the tunnel.
Xianfeng had obviously made them dizzy. He had never seen such a disobedient courtier dare to contradict him.
As soon as Monk Lingqin heard that Xianfeng told them to get out, he quickly covered the mouth of Prince Gong, who still wanted to admonish him again, and dragged him out desperately.
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