Chapter 405: Going on Patrol?
Since the order of the command center of the green paint area was to blow up any section of the city wall, Hao Dajian did not need ground guidance to carry out any precision strikes. He drove the F-35 "Feidian" at high speed over the city of Beiping and dropped all the remaining bombs.
A 1,000-pound bomb, two 500-pound bombs, and two 250-pound bombs crashed into a section of the city wall of Beiping City at extremely high speeds by inertia. After the loud explosion, three huge openings were blown out of this section of the city.
Two of the openings soon collapsed, and the collapsed bricks formed a nearly 45-degree slope that connected to the outside of the city. Judging by the standard of mechanized vehicles, Hao Dajian's air raid obviously could not be regarded as achieving the goal of breaking through the enemy's fortifications.
But these two landslides are already a catastrophe that can make their heads move in the eyes of the Qing army guards, but if there is a thief who enters the capital from the city wall they are responsible for, it will be the best fate for them.
"The walls are falling! The walls are falling! "What the guards feared most had finally happened, the collapse of the walls was not the worst thing, it would be enough to send troops to defend the gaps, but the shouting of the frightened soldiers would cause even more chaos.
"Cut down those noisy soldiers!" The defenders of this section of the city wall are decisive in killing, and they know that they must stabilize the situation as soon as possible, otherwise they will not have to wait for the anti-thieves to attack the city, and the defense line here will be finished.
It's so weird! I have obviously strengthened my vigilance, but I was still easily blown up by the anti-thieves and collapsed the city wall, how can this battle be fought!? The guard's heart was full of despair.
On the other side of the moat, where the fire does not shine, how many thieves are hidden who want to attack the city? Who are they? Could it be those "pseudo-Song" men and horses who annihilated Maozi's army in one fell swoop outside the gate? But how did they get here, and they haven't heard the news that Shanhaiguan or Tianjin Wei has fallen? Almost all the Qing generals who learned the news of the collapse of the city wall were confused.
Cixi, who had just been woken up from the bed, turned blue, and her hands were already shaking so that she couldn't hold the teacup steadily. Earlier, when the mansions of the princes and ministers were bombed, Li Lianying also suppressed the news that she wanted to wait for dawn to report to Cixi, after all, it was not worth it to recruit Lafayette to get up for the sake of a few minions. But this time it's a big event about the city wall being blown down, who has the courage to press it and not report it?
Cixi also had no ideas at this time, she was a good hand at playing checks and balances and infighting, but she really didn't know much about military things. She was frightened, she felt that the current situation was the same as when Xianfeng fled to Chengde Summer Resort with her twenty years ago, well, it should be that the current situation is more dangerous, the last time Xianfeng escaped, that Yingyi and Fayi had not yet reached the bottom of the wall of the capital!
Just when Cixi was hesitating whether to flee, another piece of bad news came to her. The news that the Grand Theater of the Summer Palace in the western suburbs was almost flat, finally passed through the layers of night curfews and was delivered to Cixi.
"What? The big theater of the mourning family was burned down by the 'pseudo-Song'? Didn't you just add a team of soldiers and horses from the infantry yamen? Cixi couldn't calm down anymore, and the folds on the old face were about to droop.
"Lafayette, I'm afraid this is the 'pseudo-Song Dynasty' strategy to divert the tiger from the mountain, once the soldiers and horses in the city move to defend the Summer Palace, the capital is empty, I'm afraid it's ......." The one who spoke was Prince Gong Aixin Jueluo Yixun, after the defeat of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the First Sino-Japanese War, he was reactivated.
Prince Gong Yixun, nicknamed "Devil Six", was removed from the title of King of Yizheng in the fourth year of Tongzhi (1865) because of the suspicion of Cixi, but the old witch did not completely exclude Prince Gong, who launched the Xinyou coup with her, from the center of power, and waited until the tenth year of Guangxu (1884) The old witch finally deposed Yixun under the pretext of losing the Sino-French War.
After the defeat of the First Sino-Japanese War of the Japanese Dynasty, the emperor Weng Tongshu said goodbye to the political stage completely because of a trip to the horse pass. Although Li Hongzhang did not sign the "Treaty of Shimonoseki" that almost ruined him in the original time and space, this old fox gave up a lot of power on his own initiative, and he felt that he was no longer able to save the dilapidated house of the Qing Dynasty.
Weng Tongshu's withdrawal and Li Hongzhang's semi-retirement made a vacuum in the power center of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and Guangxu and Cixi both wanted to reach into this power vacuum. In the end, Prince Gong Yixun became the winner, he was a more acceptable role for both Guangxu and Cixi, and now he is reappointed as the Minister of Military Aircraft and the Minister of Yamen, the Prime Minister of the Foreman.
"Galeries Lafayette, things haven't gotten that bad." Rong Lu said. Although Yixun didn't say anything after saying two things, everyone knew that he meant to ask the Queen Mother and the Emperor to "go on patrol".
In fact, Yixun's suggestion to "go on patrol" was in Rong Lu's eyes to make a move against himself. After all, the suggestion of increasing the number of guards in the Summer Palace was put forward by him, and now Yixun says that it is a plan of the "pseudo-Song Dynasty" to divert the tiger from the mountain, isn't this to slap himself in the face?
Rong Lu is very sure of making this judgment on the current situation, judging from the current ability of the Great Song people to bomb wherever they say, they will definitely not use this kind of strategy to make themselves lose ground in front of Cixi. As for saying that the Great Song people came to attack the city without concealing themselves, it is even more ridiculous, why didn't they directly kill Guan Guan and Cixi in the palace if they wanted to take the capital? Isn't that much easier than blowing up the city walls directly?
However, at this time, Rong Lu was not as favored as after the Wuxu coup in history, and Cixi did not fully believe his words, and the old witch was more inclined to say that her "old comrade-in-arms" Yixun at the time of the Xinyou coup d'état, thinking about how to escape.
The straw that broke the camel's back finally appeared, and the news that the two bridges near the capital had been blown up by Hao Dajian finally made Cixi decide to flee. The "Pseudo-Song" has begun to blow up the bridge to block the road between the capital and Tianjin Wei, and Beiyang's soldiers and horses in Tianjin Wei can no longer be counted on, so they can only go out on patrol! Cixi thought to herself.
Cixi, who had little military talent, thought that the army of the "pseudo-Song" had landed somewhere along the long coastline between Shanhaiguan and Tianjin, and that the two barriers of Dagu Fort and Shanhaiguan had lost their effectiveness, and she had already had the idea of fleeing. Now that she received the news that the transportation hub to Tianjin Wei had been blown up, she was even more frightened, and she couldn't sit still anymore.
Cixi had already heard of the fact that more than 6,000 soldiers and horses of Tsarist Russia were completely annihilated by the puppet Song Dynasty in one day outside the Guan. Originally, she also hoped that Shanhaiguan could keep the "Pseudo-Song" out of the pass, and the Dagu Fort and the foreigners stationed in Tianjin could prevent the "Pseudo-Song" from landing, but the "Pseudo-Song" bypassed the two important towns she regarded as Jincheng, and she could only repeat her husband's old trick of patrolling 25 years ago.