Chapter 19 The Imperial Expedition

Compared with Ai Yuanyuan, the brainless zombie queen, Cixi, the old lady, is much more difficult to control, every day Zhang Huen can only control her to practice a bunch of old antiques in the Manchu Qing Dynasty during the day, and only return to the body to rest at night, but controlling the Queen Mother basically controls the direction of the entire movie.

Rong Lu and Nie Shicheng of Jingkou did not dare to start a war with the Boxers after receiving Yi's order, and the information brought by Li San made Zhu Honglan and others shout long live, and immediately ordered his subordinates to destroy the things that swept away the foreign culture, and turned into Fuqing and the foreign eradication; Fortitude, Zaixun, and Zhao Shuqiao came to the vermilion lantern camp, and when they saw the boxers in Shandong, Hebei, and Beijing and Tianjin, they were all kinds of dazzling, and all kinds of pretended gods and ghosts fooled these royal ministers, Zaixun was like seeing the Jade Emperor Rulai Buddha, and immediately knelt on the ground and called the senior brother, and the gangyi and Zhao Shuqiao's eyes on the side were about to bulge out, okay, a dignified Prince Qing knelt down, let's not kneel?

So these ministers of the dynasty changed their clothes, put on short clothes, wrapped in red scarves, followed the sincere monk into the divine fist, ranked under the vermilion light, above the rest of the people, and then met the chief military division Liang Qichao and the rest of the masters, Zaixun felt that the big thing could be done, and immediately asked people to behead the heads of the five loyal ministers, and the corpses were transported back to Beijing in coffins, only to say that they were killed by robbers.

When the news reached the capital, Li Hongzhang knew that it was difficult to protect, so he hurriedly invited the absence to go to Guangdong to serve as the governor of Liangguang, and some of the ministers of the lord and faction also went south, Cixi did all of them, anyway, as long as the Eight-Nation Alliance was brought over as soon as possible, in addition, in order to make things bigger, Song Qing was also dismissed, and his soldiers and Nie Shicheng were all under the command of Nie Shicheng, so that Rong Lu gave Yuan Shikai who intended to go south to die in Tianjin; In Gyeonggi, the three brothers Zaiyi, Zailan, and Zailan were allowed to dominate the nine gates, and the city gate was opened to welcome the boxers into Beijing.

Now the matter suddenly became a big problem, and the Boxers poured all the way from Tianjin. The Boxers from all over the country gathered towards the Vermilion Lantern, the senior brother of the Boxers in the world, and soon, 340,000 people became 560,000. Five or six hundred thousand turned into nearly one million, and they fell into a state of total loss of control from the beginning of Tianjin. Although Senior Brother Zhu Honglan made everyone sober up and treated the bandits and ordinary people differently, these people will kill and kill all the bandits and the people wherever they care about you.

They carried torches and steel knives, and when they saw the bungalows, they were in one place after another, or they colluded with the local ruffians, saying that they would set fire to any of the religious people, and as soon as the men in the house escaped, they were hacked to death with knives. Only the woman and the child were left in the room, and in the light of the skyrocketing fire, there were miserable cries. There are women who rush out of the fire. They mercilessly slit open her stomach with knives, and several more men threw her back into the fire by arms and legs.

Many of the parishioners who were killed were elderly, women, and children, as well as orphans adopted by the church, and the Tang newspapers in Tianjin were sent to Beijing one after another, and Cixi's desk was full of evidence of the Boxer massacre of innocent people, but Cixi turned a blind eye to all of these incriminating evidence. Only let Li Lianying issue an order to let Zhu Honglan, Liang Qichao and others purge the people, and not kill innocents indiscriminately.

But Yizhi became waste paper in the hands of Zhu Honglan again, although he was called Senior Brother. In fact, there are only 200,000 boxers in their early 2000s, and the fourth gate of Tianjin Gate and the second gate of Jingshi have completely fallen into the whirlpool of connivance of the Qing government. Some foreign missionaries and foreign engineers who built the railroad were dragged out and killed, and their bodies were hung on trees for public display, and they smashed the railroad everywhere. Pharmacies, stations, hospitals, anyone who is associated with foreign characters can't escape the methods of these boxers.

The panicked parishioners in seven or eight counties near Jingzhou fled to the Zhujiahe Church empty-handed. More than 3,000 people poured into a small village. More than 2,000 brave Boxers and more than 2,000 Qing soldiers surrounded Zhujiahe Village. The soldiers of the Qing army were fooled by the Cai brothers in Jingzhou City, and one of these two people was Xiucai. One was to raise people, and they told Chen Zelin, the commander of the Qing army who was passing through Jingzhou, that the Zhujiahe Church was a gathering place for traitors, and asked Chen to send troops to attack. The Boxers and the officers and soldiers launched a heroic attack on the "traitors", and it was a battle without suspense. The patriotic righteous men fought with guns and knives, first killing all the parishioners outside the church, then lighting the mats that had been poured with oil, throwing them into the church, and burning the people in the church to death. There were also those who escaped from the fire, and there were those who jumped from the windows of the church building, and most of them were killed instead of burning and falling.

When the massacre ended, a total of 2,500 people were killed, and only 500 escaped, and the commander of the Qing army, Chen Zelin, found that most of the people killed were women, children, the elderly, and the weak, where did the traitors come from, and there were only 2 foreigners, he was very angry and refused the Boxers' request to ask him to help attack the next church. But then the Boxers went to Rong Lu to sue him, and Chen Zelin's order came down immediately, which further stimulated those stragglers, who unscrupulously began to attack the churches on the periphery of the concession, and began to burn and loot the parishioners on the periphery of the concession.

The envoys of the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy saw that the fist and the people were in great danger and their own safety were in danger, and they jointly sent a note to the Qing government, but Cixi was gone, and it was not until the second day, when the nine gates of the capital were opened, and the red lanterns were worn to enter the Beijing Division, the envoys of the five countries realized the seriousness of the situation, so the second note came, if the Qing government did not issue an edict to severely punish the boxers who killed the congregation, and declared that the Boxers were an illegal organization to encircle and suppress, then they would carry out a joint naval demonstration.

But at this time, it was too late for anything, Cixi contemptuously tore up the note in front of the minister, and sat on the dragon bed mightily and domineeringly, shouting something, "If you want to fight, mourn the family will fight!" The declaration made the ministers of the five countries suddenly lose their brains, and without understanding what the situation was, they were dragged down by the Ouchi guards and thrown to the entrance of the vegetable market and cut off their heads.

Before the countries could react, Cixi met with the senior brother Zhu Honglan and the chief military division Liang Qichao in the Qianqing Palace, and named Zhu Honglan as the senior brother of the Commander-in-Chief of the Boxer Rebellion, and Liang Qichao as the commander-in-chief of the Boxer Rebellion, not only the foreigners thought that the Queen Mother was crazy, but even the Lord and the faction thought that the Queen Mother was crazy.

Just when the lord and the faction were preparing for mutual protection in the southeast, something more unexpected happened, Cixi released Guangxu who was quiet in Yingtai, although he did not give him real power, but finally let him listen to the government, Guangxu sat on the dragon chair and looked at Liang Qichao standing below and the boxers wrapped in a rod and red head, oh, not now renamed the government-run Boxers, I don't know what it feels like.

Cixi asked Guangxu to use the seal to send several edicts, in addition to declaring war on all countries, that is, to invite the governor of the world to enter Beijing to defend the capital, and then it was a recruitment sticker, not to spend money on the top, what green forest heroes, Shandong Xiangma, Northeast beard, but all those who are willing to help the Qing Dynasty to destroy the foreign have turned into Manchu officials.

The Boxers have now become the first regiment in the world, don't you see that the senior brothers have become the first product of the dynasty, the practice is even more crazy, they burned the church in Zhili, killed the priests, burned foreign banks in Beijing, attacked the embassy with the Qing soldiers, killed the embassy staff, and the whole Jinghua fell into the disaster of crazy killing and burning.

The reaction of foreign countries is not slow, nor fast, Zhang Huen, who manipulates Cixi every day, feels sleepy, why hasn't the eight-nation alliance army come yet, and in the dead of night, Cixi, the old lady, can be considered exhausted and fall asleep, and he can get out to deal with a little thing.

On December 12, 1899, 16 days after Zhang Huen came to this world, the Russian polar bear was finally the first to attack, and Luo Rongguang, the defender of their Dagu Fort, read out an ultimatum of the allied forces, which ordered that the defenders must give up the north and south forts before 2 a.m. the next day so that the allied forces could be stationed, otherwise they would be captured. Luo Rongguang immediately rejected the ultimatum and reported the news to Yulu, the governor of Zhili in Tianjin, asking for reinforcements.

Due to the bombing of the ammunition depot and the failure of reinforcements from Tianjin to come as scheduled, the defenders of the fort resisted for 6 hours, and the north and south batteries fell one after another, and most of the defenders were killed.

Cixi received the ultimatum sent by Yulu, the governor of Zhili, at the first time, and clapped her hands happily, and even Guangxu felt that her father was crazy. Cixi immediately appointed Dong Fuxiang as the commander, Nie Shi as the deputy commander, Zaixun, Zhu Honglan, Liang Qichao, Gangyi, and Yuan Shikai to help the Qing Dynasty destroy the five capitals of the foreign capital, and gathered a million troops to rush to Tianjin to fight, Rong Lu, who was originally used to defend the Beijing Division, was also sent out, leaving only the forbidden army of the three Yi brothers to defend the military division, and she herself had to take Guangxu to drive the expedition in person.

A cadre of ministers was crying and making trouble not to let her and Guangxu personally take risks, all of them were vetoed by the Holy Judgment Dictatorship, and they didn't care about any etiquette regulations, Cixi let Li Lianying be optimistic about Guangxu, and went out of the city with the army, and the people in the capital looked at the Queen Mother and the Guangxu Shengshang, and they didn't know what they were thinking, and they actually shouted long live again, and some young people also took the initiative to join the army, and the Qing army did not want to be accepted by the Boxers.

In this way, the mighty Fuqing Annihilation Army drove out of Beijing and killed Tianjin.

That night, Zhang Huen woke up from the room, Li San served him a bowl of ginseng soup as usual, his eyes were full of worship, he is now 100% sure that this immortal chief must have used some immortal method to control the old witch in the Forbidden City, or with the urine sex of the old witch, he would be willing to drive the ghost himself.

Sure enough, Zhang Huen asked him to pack his bags, go to the middle camp of the army with him, and hurriedly caught up with the tail of the army all night, and hid Zhang Huen in the Chinese army through the brothers within the Boxers, and the million army rushed to the south like locusts, and the vanguard Dong Xiangfu arrived outside Tianjin before the coalition army attacked the city, and united with Nie Shicheng, the governor of Zhili, and the four gates of Tianjin about 100,000 people to defend Tianjin, and the coalition army commanded the Russian general Li Niwei to lead the coalition army of 2,800 people to start a tentative attack, and was repulsed, Finally dragged until the arrival of Lafayette's army.

On the coalition side: 50,255 men and 50 warships.

In terms of supporting the Qing Dynasty to exterminate the foreign army: 12,000 Qing troops, 820,000 Boxers, and 135,000 rebels from all walks of life. (To be continued)