Zaifeng has money, there is no doubt about this.

But Zaifeng has been in the officialdom for so many years, and he is very aware that the problems he is facing now cannot be solved by money.

He now has a very high status by Guangxu's side, and his performance is also very outstanding. Although Lao Yuan said in the announcement that he was not to blame for the past, and he had dealt with him for decades, Zaifeng knew that Zaitao's evaluation of Yuan Shikai was completely correct, and that person was unreliable.

Even Zhang Xun, who has a little friendship with Yuan Shikai, knows that he has to prepare a second way out, and he can't pin his hopes on Lao Yuan, how can Zaifeng pin his hope of life on Lao Yuan?

Zaifeng had his own thoughts, he felt that he had to leave China, and he could only feel safe when he was far away from Lao Yuan. He would have run away by now if he could, but now Akpolier had very tight control over Cullen, especially people like them, who had a bit of influence in politics, were almost under the watchful eye of the Russians.

Cooperating with Zhang Xun to negotiate with him and Lei Zhenchun is for one purpose, to let himself live until the Chinese troops enter Kulen, as long as there is freedom of movement, Zaifeng will definitely not stay here for a moment.

When Zhang Xun asked him for 200,000 yuan at the beginning, he gave it very happily, and when he asked for 500,000 yuan, Zaifeng was not happy. Just like Lei Zhenchun, if he asked him for one million, he would definitely take it out immediately, but if he wanted five million, he couldn't give it.

It's not that Zaifeng doesn't have it, it's not that he is reluctant, what do you need money to do when his life is in danger? After so many years, Zaifeng knew that it was impossible for Lei Zhenchun to say that he had taken five million taels of silver and let himself return to Beijing alive. The same goes for Zhang Xun, once he is satisfied. He would not allow himself to wait until the day when the Chinese troops entered Kulen.

"General Zhang, I really don't have any cash in my hand! You don't want to think about it, who put that real money at home? I'll be honest with you, I just exchanged my money for pounds sterling and deposited it in the British's bank a while ago, and you really can't get it out now! I've already sent someone to redeem it, how about a few days later? ”

Zaifeng didn't say that he didn't have any money, but he had to wait a few days. Things have come to this day, it can be said that they have to be extra careful, not to satisfy them and not to reject them completely, to make them feel that they can still squeeze out the money. This is a very technical job, and one does it wrong without carelessness. The head was taken off.

Zhang Xun's fingers tapped on the table a few times. It can be said that Zaifeng's strategy is completely correct, wait a few days, how long these days are Zhang Xun doesn't know.

After thinking for a while, he said with a very sincere look in his eyes: "It's not that I don't want to wait. It's just that we may not be able to wait now. The commando team is in Cullen. Yang Dagui is chasing the army of Russians. When this battle will start and when it will end, no one knows. If we don't have any movement after other people's things are done, I'm afraid it won't be easy to talk in the future. ”

Zaifeng nodded: "I know this!" But the problem is that silver is a hard commodity, and if you don't have it, you don't have it! If it's a weekday. I can exchange it at the bank of the Russians. But now the situation is tense, how rampant the Russians are now, you don't know what to do, yesterday it was because of a letter from the south, the Suqab family was killed cleanly, if I go to exchange money, you may not see me tomorrow. ”

Of course, Zhang Xun knew that in the face of extreme danger on the battlefield, the Russians here were really a little crazy, and their desire to control Kulen was even stronger. Suqab has been Guangxu's guard for many years, a Mongol, and now the commander of the Kulen Praetorian Guard, because of a letter that seems to be understood, none of the more than 30 members of the family escaped the doom.

He coughed lightly, picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea: "Lord Wang, then you give an approximate deadline, how many days will this one arrive?" ”

Zaifeng thought for a moment, and then stretched out five fingers: "Five days!" In five days, I will raise 500,000 dollars. ”

"Okay, then we'll wait another five days."

As soon as the two of them decided, the housekeeper outside the door came in at this time and handed Zaifeng a notice: "Master, the Russians just issued a notice, saying that from today onwards, a curfew will be implemented at night, and the emperor has asked someone to inform you to go to the palace, saying that there is something important to discuss." ”

Zaifeng nodded: "Well, I know it." Mr. Zhang, that's all we have to say, you don't need to send people here these days, I'm being watched very closely by the Russians here, and I'm afraid that moving around too much will arouse their suspicion. ”

Zhang Xun didn't say anything more, stood up and prepared to leave: "Okay, as long as the prince takes things to heart, I will naturally know what to do here." Farewell. ”

"No."

When Zhang Xun's figure left Zaifeng's palace in Kulun, Zaifeng let out a sigh, turned his head and said to the housekeeper: "You came just now, is there any news?" ”

The housekeeper immediately said: "If you go back to the master, our people have found the master of Zaitao, and the master helped to probe Yang Dagui's tone, and look at the meaning, he doesn't want to let us go." ”

After hearing this, Zaifeng let out a long sigh: "Becoming a king and defeating a man has been like this since ancient times, and now that people have won the world, how can there be a place for us under the nest?" As expected, as expected! ”

The butler's footsteps took a step forward and said: "Yang Dagui also asked Lord Belle to send a message to the prince, he said that how to deal with it will go through the court trial in the future, and no matter how much he says, he can't escape this procedure, and there is no need to send someone to talk to him about any conditions, there is nothing to talk about now." This is his original words, but it is followed by a sentence, if we can ensure the stability of Cullen, we can catch that person, and the punishment can be reduced. ”

As he spoke, the butler's hand pointed toward the palace. Zaifeng was silent for a while, thinking about something. Yang Dagui is more real than Lei Zhenchun and Zhang Xun, and more reliable than Yuan Shikai.

Although he was fierce on the surface, he didn't use those shady tricks, at least he didn't tell himself, as long as he took out how much money he had, he guaranteed that he was fine. Only people like Yuan Shikai said this, and they fooled themselves as fools.

Maintain the stability of Cullen? That's easier said than done! Don't say that Zaifeng doesn't have this ability, even Akpolier can't do it.

The Russians already had 20,000 soldiers stationed here in Kulen, plus the troops who had come to pursue the commandos. The number of troops has reached more than 60,000. Akpolil was able to maintain the situation when the Chinese assault team entered Kulen, but with the defeat of the Russian army at Daqingshan and the complete retreat from Beijing, the Russian soldiers here in Kulen were just as hopeless about the war.

They offered to go home, to Russia, and to leave while the Chinese troops had not yet arrived. But Akpolier refused their request. Akpolil knows very well that although the morale of the army is now broken, Kulen is the only way for General Kilingsky to retreat, and he now goes first to sell the hundreds of thousands of Russian troops around General Kilingsky to the Chinese!

When the request to return home was denied, the Russian soldiers, who had lost faith in the war, pursued the assault team no longer actively, on the contrary. Robbery. Strong, rape, murder and arson happen countless times every day, not to mention that the ordinary people here suffer from it. Even some Russians were not spared.

Akpolil receives many complaints on a daily basis. Russian citizens living here had thought that their army would keep them safe. But the Russian GIs looted their property and insulted their families.

Akpolir tried to calm the mood of the men, and punished those who violated military discipline very severely. But it didn't work. The soldiers' actions were only a catharsis for the despair in their hearts. The best way to solve this problem is to give the soldiers a new hope, and what the Russians lack most now is precisely that.

The situation at the front continues to deteriorate. General Kilingsky retreated with more than 500,000 troops, believing that he had wrapped up half a million men and that the Chinese had nothing to do with them.

This tactic has been recognized by military experts from all over the world, after all, the Chinese's strength is not as strong as the Russians, and Lao Maozi is fully capable of striking backhand. If the Chinese side stretches the line too long, it is likely to create a situation in which the forces cannot be concentrated in the event of a battle, and it is not impossible for the Russians to fight a beautiful counterattack.

If Yang Xiaolin blindly pursues the integrity of the formation, then the entire Chinese army will be held back by the slowest team, and it will be difficult to catch up with the Russians.

Western military experts have also thought about China, and they believe that even if Kizerosky holds hundreds of thousands of Russian troops together, Yang Xiaolin will inevitably have to go through a hard battle.

However, if Kizerosky's trick to escape is one foot high, then Yang Xiaolin's strategy of pursuit is one foot higher!

The Second Front, carrying all the Chinese artillery and armored units, followed the Russians in steady pursuit, keeping the ranks intact and delivering annihilating blows to the lone Russian troops.

And the 1st Front was the complete opposite, with no medium artillery, and the soldiers marched lightly with twenty days' rations on their backs! They also did not entangle with the straggler lines of the Russians, and when they encountered the small groups of Russian troops that fell behind, they simply ignored them and ran desperately forward along the left flank of the Kizerosky Corps at a distance of more than a hundred kilometers!

Yang Xiaolin's tactical intent is very clear, if you don't chase your Russian rear troops, they will go around from you, go around to your front, and block you!

Just let the First Front block your troops, put a defensive line in front of you so that you can't cross over, and wait for the Fourth Front to kill from the flank, and the second front to catch up from behind, it is a situation of encirclement on three sides!

Great detour, big encirclement!

This move really blinded the eyes of those military experts! Yang beats the ghost and actually wants to eat Kizerosky in one bite? He actually thought that he would use less than 400,000 troops to encircle and annihilate more than 500,000 Russians at once? This is somewhat appalling.

However, after careful analysis, there are still great opportunities for China.

The Russians are now running for their lives, and the morale of the army is not very high. Coupled with the extreme shortage of their combat materials, once they are blocked by the three defense lines of the Chinese, there is no need to fight, I will surround you for a month or two and you will be finished yourself!

Therefore, in order not to be blocked by the First Army, Kizerosky had to run faster than the First Army, and the Russians had to march at full speed. The two armies marched day and night like a race, and as the Russians marched at full speed, the hundreds of thousands of Russian troops, who had been huddled together, distanced themselves from each other in just two days. (To be continued......)