Chapter 647 The little luck of Lafayette
When Yang Feng led the Ming army into Chang'an City, accompanied by a huge explosion, the floating bridge connecting the banks of the Wei River was broken by a barrel of gunpowder. Xianfeng, on the north bank of the Wei River, felt sad and forgot the south. With loneliness and sadness, he began his long journey to escape west under the escort of the Russian Embassy Guard.
Two days later he arrived in Fengxiang.
On the same day, Senggelinqin led the cavalry back to the rescue.
But as soon as he left Tongguan, he received news that Yang Feng had conquered Chang'an. He understood that the situation was hopeless. He immediately stationed troops in Tongguan and ordered the new army to give up Shanzhou. In the next few days, as Lin Fengxiang led the 11th Army headquarters and an infantry brigade to Chang'an, the Ming army in Luoyang began to cross the mountain. Senggelinqin finally gave up Tongguan and crossed the Yellow River to flee north to Shanxi. However, he did not defend Shanxi, but relied on his strong military strength to control the Shanxi merchants who regarded them as saviors.
He looted all the landlords, and then led this huge army, including 20,000 cavalry and 30,000 horse infantry, and brought the looted food, livestock, gold, silver and treasures to the north to Yanmen Pass to escape to Datong. Because of his looting, the Taihang Mountain defense line, which was mainly composed of the green camp regiment training, collapsed. The Ming army almost broke into the Jinzhong plain without any blood, and then completely killed the major families of the Shanxi merchants for the crime of traitors, especially those royal merchant families in the early Qing Dynasty who even dug out bones and crushed bones and raised ashes.
Just like a bandit, Senggelinqin, who led his army to loot all the way, did not stop at Datong. Instead, he robbed all the places in Daibei and fled to Guisui.
He is a smart man.
These places are no longer possible to be kept. Since this is the case, let the gentry do their part in the end for the Qing Dynasty.
At the same time, under the persuasion of Deng Tingzhen, the governor of Sichuan Lin Zexu finally announced in Chengdu that anyway, the Green Camp and the Governor of the Three Gorges Front, under the Hanzhong Admiral Hu Chao, led the army to raid Chengdu in order to save his wealth. The Eight Banners New Army, headed by the Second General of Jingzhou, was cut off, and the 20,000 Eight Banners New Army, who were attacked by the Green Camp and the Ming army, had to abandon the Three Gorges and flee to Guizhou. They were together with Jiang Zhongyuan, the last loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty, and the Yunnan Qing army, who was also attacked from both sides by the enemy and had to hide in the mountains and forests, became a group of bandits who had troubled Guizhou's public security for many years. In the continuous clearance, they were wiped out little by little or simply disappeared in the deep mountains and dense forests and became savages.
At this time, Xianfeng had already fled to Liangzhou.
After learning the news, Senggelinqin was abandoned and Guisui along the Yellow River to Liangzhou to meet with Xianfeng. The Mongols, who were loyal to the Qing Dynasty, protected the Qing emperor to continue to flee west. Their long escape finally stopped in Dihua, and convened a meeting of Mongolian tribes in Dihua to continue to be respected by the Qing emperor. Similarly, the first Cossack cavalry also arrived at their welcome. However, this time, only part of the Mongolians in West and North Mongolia and some princes in South Mongolia chose to surrender to the Ming Dynasty.
Although they were abolished all official titles.
Even they and their families were forced to move to Nanjing. Their pastoral areas were garrisoned by the Ming Dynasty and managed by them. From the tax paid by the herdsmen every year, they collected a portion of their living expenses...
Of course, how much this is given to them depends on their mood.
And he can only be won for three generations.
But even so, some princes and princes in Mongolia in southern Mongolia chose to surrender. The wars over the years have exhausted their young and middle-aged people, especially the first tribes of the Ulanqab League that went south to the south, almost all the middle-aged people were gone. The scene of women taking children to survive on the grasslands with their children, even those princes and princes themselves wanted to cry. After Senggelinqin abandoned Shanxi and Xuanda, they had already faced the Ming army's military front and either surrendered or exterminated the clan. They did not think that those women with children could resist the invincible Ming army. In the end, these Mongolian princes and princes accepted their fate sadly, and wrote a table for the God Emperor to give land to the God Emperor, and then went to Nanjing to be kept in captivity.
The other part, including the Korqin tribes in Senggelinqin's hometown, continued to follow the Japanese devils in Shengjing.
The latter is actually like separatist.
Under the support of the Eight Banners of the Northeast and the princes and princes of the Eastern Mongolian tribes, the Japanese Six controlled the Northeast as the Shengjing left behind, leaving only ministers who were nominally considered Xianfeng. Especially after his mother committed suicide, there was only a little incense between him and Xianfeng.
And he has faced the Ming army directly.
His brother could not provide him with any support. In fact, the Eight Banners left behind in the Northeast even wanted to surrender, but unfortunately their envoy was shot directly outside Shanhaiguan, so they had no choice. For the next five years, they fought to the death for survival, landing from Shanhaiguan north and Jinzhou, and fighting with the Ming army attacking in four directions in North Korea and Vladivostok Fortress. Although they received the help of the Russian army in the Far East, they could not stop the Ming army's machine guns and cannons. When the Japanese fled north to cross the Nenjiang River in the fourth year, they drowned in an ice hole, and even the bodies were not found. A very small number of remaining bannermen hid in the forest, just like their ancestors came from the Tungus Forest and returned to the Tungus Forest.
As for his brother...
His brother lived another five years after his death.
In fact, Dihua was captured by the Ming army in the same year when the Japanese drowned Six. Senggelinqin shed the last drop of blood for the Qing Dynasty. He was shot into a sieve by the Ming army's machine guns, but Xianfeng was rescued by his Russian father's men and arrived in Moscow.
He ended up committing suicide.
Because the Crimean War broke out.
Faced with the encirclement of the British and French coalition forces on the Western Front and the continuous erosion of the Ming Dynasty on the Eastern Front, and limited by the military's ability to send troops, Nicholas I, who knew that he could not compete with Yang Feng for Central Asia and Siberia, had to choose to surrender when the Ming army conquered Tyumen and marched towards Yekaterinburg. Because the transportation route was too long, the Ming Dynasty, who was also unable to continue to attack forward, quickly agreed to the peace. The two sides reached a ceasefire in 1854 of the Western Region, and signed a treaty in Dihua to restore peace with the Erthis River as the boundary. At this time, the Ming army had already destroyed Kokhan, Bukhara and Shiva Khanate, and the Ming territory advanced to the Caspian Sea.
As a gift to this treaty, Xianfeng was given to Yang Feng by his Russian father.
However, Xianfeng was hanging on the way.
Fortunately, Emperor Yang Shenhuang didn't care about such trivial matters. Even Xianfeng's corpses were handled by Dihua's garrison themselves. Yang Feng's rebate to Nicholas I was a complete set of equipment for the 200,000 Ming troops on the battlefields of Central Asia and Siberia. From front-loaded rifles to cavalry rapid-fire rifles to various caliber cannons, they were sold to the Russians at the price of new products and transported to the Russians on the battlefield of Crimea through the Caspian Sea.
In the end, on the battlefield of Balaclava, the brave British cavalry were directly beaten into a sieve by Russian cavalry with rapid-fire rifles. Then the gray animals holding pre-natal rifles of the Ming Dynasty flooded the British and French coalition forces under the city of Sevastopol. This protracted siege was finally declared to end with the defeat of the British and French coalition forces. Nicholas I completed the turnaround on the battlefield of Crimea.
But he did not become a winner either.
After all, Sevastopol was originally his territory, and he just completed the rescue. The support provided by Yang Feng was not enough to allow him to complete the pre-war plan invasion of the Balkans. Also because of Yang Feng's support for Russia, especially the step-by-step advance of the Ming army in the Indian Ocean, Britain and France were no longer interested in stalemate with Nikola. In the end, they chose to cease the war and began peace talks.
During the peace talks, a great anti-British uprising broke out in India. The Ming army sent Marines to forcibly land in Kolkata under the escort of ironclad ships on the grounds of protecting the expatriates. The British navy stationed in India silently watched them establish a safe zone on their territory.
Under Yang Feng's threat to India, Britain and France quickly reached a ceasefire agreement with Nicholas I.
Immediately afterwards, the British fleet led by the Duke of Wellington and the Royal Albert drove to India, but in the face of the Ming army's latest ironclad ships, these wooden sail battleships still did not dare to fight. After all, the latter was steel and they were wood. They had just evolved to Armstrong guns, and they were obviously unable to fight with the scary thick cannons of the Ming army, and in the end they could only acquiesce to the existence of the Ming army in the safe zone of Kolkata.
Then there are more security areas.
This kind of security zone of concession was soon spread across the east coast of India. Even Colombo, which was not inferior to India, appeared. The British could only restrain themselves and restrain themselves. The smuggled arms also appeared in large quantities in the hands of the Indian uprising army, including the famous Queen Zhansi. The Ming and Britain began to fight openly and secretly in India...
This struggle lasted for many years.
Eventually it even evolved into a great melee between Indian states.
In the Americas through the war between Ming and the United States against Mexico, the Ming Dynasty seized California, which was originally Mexico and Oregon, which was originally amid disputes between the United States and Britain. Although they were wary of the Ming Dynasty's beginning to colonize America, the United States was no longer able to stop the giant beast at this time. Fortunately, they also obtained an agreement that the Ming Dynasty would not expand east of the Rockies. Of course, not including the British colonies, in fact, both sides maintained friendship for a long time since then, while building railways from both east and west, while using the Indians as media to continue to fight. This open and secret struggle also continued for a long time.
The 23rd year of harmony in the Ming Dynasty.
In 1865, the Western Liberty.
In the farmland outside a small town to the Ming American colony of Jinshan Prefecture, a thick young woman was lying on the armrest of a new cart, looking at the road ahead with sadness.
She was about thirty or forty years old, and her eyebrows could still see her pretty appearance when she was young, but she was no longer as old as the wind and sand eroded by the years. Although she was not as good as those middle-aged women, her figure who worked all year round was no longer as graceful as a girl's age. The muscles on the arms in front of her rolled up sleeves were obviously visible, and her palms were even more calloused. The thick skeleton on her thick fingers could be seen, indicating that these hands were also full of strength...
Well, although it is a bit weird to describe a young woman like this.
A thirty-year-old young woman.
At this moment, she was looking at the road ahead, where a team of cavalry was galloping by. A young officer at the front, wearing a new green uniform, a hat and helmet, a cloak behind her back, a caravan and a sabre inserted beside her saddle, and a revolver with a waist. He rode a white horse on the field road after the rain.
She looked at the agile figure reluctantly.
She knows who this is.
This is the battalion commander of a nearby garrison. It is said that he is the nephew of Chen Cheng-ying, the governor of the American colony. He has excellent grades in the military academy and has been received by the Emperor of God! Since he was stationed nearby, he has immediately become the dream target of the girls around him. Of course, he is also the dream target of the lonely young woman like her. However, the difference is that they know so well that this is just a dream.
She couldn't help but sigh.
Because at this moment, on the other side of the cavalry galloping past, a man with dirty hair as hair as a chicken coop was driving a worn carriage and slowly approaching her.
The two children playing with earthworms behind her immediately rushed over cheering.
This is her man.
Soon, the ugly man who was nearly forty and stinking with sweat all over her body stood in front of her with a smile, and then took out a small cloth pocket from her arms with his trembling hands...
"You've found gold!"
The young woman's eyes lit up instantly, and she grabbed the cloth bag and exclaimed.
Immediately afterwards, the light of gold appeared in her vision, and the dirty cloth bag was filled with sand gold of different sizes and colors. She grabbed a handful of them, making these small particles representing wealth fall like sand. The light of gold kept flashing. At this moment, the figure of the white horse just now had already disappeared, and there were only these golds in her world...
"It costs at least two hundred dragons! We can buy slaves, we don't have to farm ourselves, we can buy new clothes."
She murmured excitedly.
The man next to her, who was actually a mute, also smiled happily, and then kept gesturing that he could continue to go shopping for more. The stream he found was gold. Although the children beside them didn't understand what this thing represented, they were infected by the happiness of their parents and smiled happily.
"Go home, reward you!"
The young woman pulled her and said.
She is Cixi, the old Buddha who had controlled an empire for decades in history. At this moment, she felt unprecedented happiness for the sand gold worth 200 dragon yuan.
Just as she took her mute man back to her poor cabin and comforted the latter in her way, the cavalry that had just passed by her sight stopped in front of the gate of the Holy Temple in Jinshan Prefecture City. The cavalry battalion commander Chen Yucheng hurriedly dismounted and walked into the Holy Temple. Then he knelt down with a pious look on his face and kowtowed on the stone floor. In front of him were hundreds of military and political officials, including the colonial governor, kowtowed to the ground in the same posture, quietly listening to the sound from the latest phonograph in front...
Chapter completed!