Chapter 104: The Three Giants of the Post-Manchu Era
Yang Lie did not sell military trucks to Nalan Yuanshu, so Nalan Yuanshu and the elite of his division could only take the traditional way of marching from the Zhangjiakou camp to the Beijing division quickly: horseback.
One person with three horses, changing horses without changing people, Nalan Yuanshu finally arrived at Tongzhou City outside the Beijing Division within three days, and then walked around the city and went straight to the Forbidden City.
After Nalan Yuan told the Jingshi, he did not go straight to the nine gates of the Forbidden City, but began to set up camp three kilometers away from Chaoyang Gate, because he knew that the weapons and equipment of the Huai army under Li Hongzhang had no heavy artillery, only mortars, and the maximum range of mortars was 2,700 meters.
At this time, Tie Liang and his elite on the Manchu side had also arrived outside the Forbidden City, and had already set up camp. Coupled with the Manchu Eight Cavalry of the Fengbei Camp brought out by Li Lianying, a total of three forces.
At that time, Li Lianying only left his deputy to urge the Manchu Eight Cavalry of the Feng Taipei Battalion to send troops, but the old soldiers of the Manchu Eight Cavalry of the Manchu Eight Cavalry of the Feng Taipei Battalion did not bird him at all, and in desperation, Li Lianying's deputy found Prince Gong Yixin.
Prince Gong Yixin, as one of the few capable people in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, knows the importance of the situation, and if he is not careful, the entire Qing Dynasty will be busy, and he is also a person who knows the soldiers, and knows that the Eight Banners soldiers who simply rely on the Fengying Beida Camp have no effect at all except for sending people to their heads, so he simply hit it off with Li Lianying's entourage, not only the Eight Banners old soldiers in the Fengbei Battalion, but also the stragglers under the Admiral of the Nine Gates gathered together, and pulled them outside the Chaoyang Gate together, waiting for the arrival of Tieliang's army.
Tie Liang was very close to Chaoyangmen in Tongzhou, and arrived in one day, when Tie Liang wanted to attack the city, but was persuaded by Prince Gong Yixin, Prince Gong Yixin obviously felt that Li Hongzhang had no fear, and resolutely waited for Li Lianying to come back, and asked for the details before sending troops.
As a result, Li Lianying didn't wait, and waited for Nalan Yuanshu.
I thought that Nalan Yuanshu would join forces with them, but I didn't expect that Nalan Yuanshu didn't pay attention to them at all, but instead camped away from them. Helpless, Prince Gong Yixin and Tie Liang had to hurry to Nalan Yuanshu's camp to discuss the siege with Nalan Yuanshu.
Nalan Yuanshu had long observed that Prince Gong Yixin and Tie Liang came together, and he didn't let the guards do any tricks of recognizing orders and not recognizing people, so he directly let the guards let Prince Gong Yixin and Tie Liang in.
In this era, three of the most outstanding people in my Qing Dynasty have finally come together.
"Nalan, why don't you join forces with us, but instead set up camp so far away from Chaoyang Gate?" As soon as he entered the camp, Tie Liang asked loudly.
"Because I don't want to die!" Nalan Yuanshu said coldly.
"What do you mean?" Prince Gong Yixin's eyes narrowed and asked in a cold voice.
Nalan Yuanshu did not speak, but signaled Prince Gong Yixin to silence and wait, and after a while, a horse team of dozens of people roared over, and the cavalry on the horse team did not bow down after dismounting, but gave a salute from the Yuanxia Expeditionary Force.
"Great commander, there are no hostile personnel hiding within a radius of three miles."
Nalan Yuanshu also saluted from the Chinese Expeditionary Force to show respect. Then Nalan Yuanshu waved his hand and motioned for the cavalry to return.
"There are plains within a radius of three miles, how can there be enemies to hide?" Tie Liang said impatiently.
"How impossible! There are plains within a radius of three miles, and you can't hide people at all? It's a joke, to paraphrase Yang Lie, you don't know anything about power. Don't say that the radius is three miles, that is, in front of you, do you know if there is a gun pointed at you? ”
"What do you mean?" Tie Liang was furious.
"Literally!" Nalan Yuanshu snorted coldly and whistled loudly.
"Hula~", eight soldiers immediately appeared out of thin air, and even two soldiers came out of Tie Liang's feet, making Tie Liang tremble.
I saw that these soldiers were dressed in camouflage uniforms and camouflage masks, and the whole person blended into the ground under their feet, and the guns in their hands were also painted with camouflage colors, and if you didn't look carefully, you really couldn't tell that someone was hiding.
"This ......" Tie Liang was speechless.
"Nalan is afraid that there is an enemy hiding within a radius of three miles?" Prince Gong Yixin's expression froze.
"No, I'm not afraid that there are enemies hiding within a radius of three miles, I'm afraid that there are Yang Lie's people among our enemies."
"Yang Lie? Is it he who provided weapons to Li Hongzhang? Tie Liang's eyes widened.
"Yes, that's him!"
"If anything?"
"I'm going to turn my head and put it on the spot, I don't want the elite I've worked so hard to die here." Nalan Yuanshu said coldly and ruthlessly, ignoring Cixi and Guangxu in the Forbidden City.
"Nalan, you!" As soon as Tie Liang was about to open his mouth to scold angrily, he was grabbed by Prince Gong Yixin.
"How can you tell if there is someone hiding Yang Lie in Li Hongzhang's Huai army?" Prince Gong Yixin hurriedly asked.
"Hair!" Nalan Yuanshu pointed to his braids, "Everyone in Yang Lie's army has short hair. ”
"Bandits!" Prince Gong Yixin gritted his teeth and said, saying a word that had not been mentioned in nearly twenty years.
"Bandits?" Nalan Yuanshu sneered, shook his head disdainfully, stopped talking, and looked up at Chaoyang Gate in the distance.
"Nalan, I don't believe that you are disloyal, unfilial, unkind and unjust, and I don't believe that you are a general who is afraid of war, but you said that if there were Yang Lie's people in Li Hongzhang's Huai army, you would turn around and leave, why?"
"Because Yang Lie is very strong, I don't want the last elite of the Qing Dynasty to be buried here." Nalan Yuanshu said coldly in a very calm tone.
"How strong?!" Prince Gong Yixin asked unrelentingly.
"If we face Yang Lie, we don't have the slightest chance of surviving, it's surviving! And Yang Lie will not have a single casualty. ”
"Hiss~ Impossible!"
"Nothing is impossible! To paraphrase Yang Lie's words, this world has changed! ”
"There are no Yang Lie's people in Li Huaizhang's army, this king can still be sure of this!" Prince Gong Yixin said with great certainty.
Afraid that Nalan Yuanshu would not believe it, Prince Gong Yixin patted his chest again and again and said, "Don't look at Li Hongzhang blocking the nine gates of the Beijing Division and occupying the Forbidden City, but this king is not a fool of nothing, this king has his own news channels, and there is no one in the chaotic army with short hair." ”
Nalan Yuanshu didn't exhale, but nodded calmly, but whispered bitterly in his heart: "Sure enough, it seems that Yang Lie wants to use this battle to choose who is the one who can really cooperate with him......"
"In that case, why don't we attack immediately?!" Tie Liang pointed to the hole where Chaoyangmen was blown open and said, "With just one charge, my horse team can reach Chaoyangmen, and then go straight to the city gate along this hole, and Chaoyangmen can change hands in a backhand!" ”
"Yang Liejun has a weapon, called the Type 88 heavy machine gun, with a caliber of 12.7mm, a maximum rate of fire of 600 rounds per minute, and an effective range of 1,500 meters......" Nalan Yuanshu said slowly, pointing to the hole where Chaoyang Gate was blown open, "As long as you put two of them here, you can form a perfect crossfire network with the rifles on the city wall, I want to ask Lord Tieliang, how many elites do you have that can withstand consumption?!" ”
As a person who knows soldiers, Tie Liang has also seen Western firearms, and knows the power of Western firearms, hearing Nalan Yuanshu say this, his face instantly turned bloody, "Then what should I do, can't I just look at it?" ”
"Of course, if we don't attack, won't we really become disloyal, unfilial, unkind and unrighteous people?" Nalan Yuanshu said unusually calmly.
"And who's going to be the striker?"
"Them!"