To Shanxian Youpeng's surprise, he encountered his first real bloody battle in Liaoyang. The defending troops, mainly the Hunan Army, led by veteran Wei Guangtao, actually started a street fight with him in this ancient city.
.Although the flag army was frightened by the artillery fire and fled before the Japanese army entered the city, Li Guangjiu, a veteran general who had followed Zuo Zongtang in the Western Expedition and the son of Li Xubin, the number one general of the Hunan Army at that time, still led the 10,000 Hunan Army.
Here he fought with the Japanese army for three full days, using the lives of 4,000 Hunan troops to leave the only respectable battle in the Liaodong battlefield. It was not until the Japanese army set fire to the city that Li Guangjiu protected the seriously injured Wei Guangtao and led the remaining troops to withdraw.
Liaoyang.
The Japanese army also lost more than two thousand people in this battle, but these were meaningless. They got what they wanted, and Fengtian officially opened its doors to them.
After hearing the news, Cixi immediately panicked. She had to know that it was the ancestral tomb of the Qing Dynasty royal family. If the Japanese took over the ancestral tomb and tore up the ancestral tomb, how would she be able to see her ancestors in the future?
"Lao Liu, you understand Western affairs. Hurry up and find foreigners to help you make peace. We can't fight this war. If we continue to fight and disturb the tomb of Taizu and Taizong, we will be guilty of a big crime." She said to Guiziliu with a frown.
She said that she had treated her brother-in-law like dough over the years, and now that she was in trouble, she wanted him to go out and jack up the tank.
"Empress Dowager, hasn't Liu Kunyi arrived at Yingkou? As long as he can retake Haicheng, he can push directly to the rear of the Japanese army. At that time, the crisis in Fengtian will naturally be resolved. From the battle of Liaoyang, it can be seen that the Hunan army is still very capable of fighting, and there are friends in Shan County
We are alone and helpless. As long as our troops from all directions arrive, we will definitely be captured." Jaap Liu said hurriedly, and at the same time he secretly despised his sister-in-law in his heart. You treat me like a fool. If you ask for peace from the Japanese army at this time, you will have to spit on it.
Drown.
This is such a shameless thing to do. Japan was almost reduced to ruins by the Eight-Nation Allied Forces. Here, 30,000 lone troops beat the imperial court to sue for peace. It is too unbelievable. What’s more important is that the Eight-Nation Allied Forces
Almost half of them are Chinese. You are willing to embarrass yourself, but I am not.
"Old Liu, please be careful. We, orphans and widowers, are in a state of chaos now." Cixi said. She was determined to let her brother-in-law go out to top the tank. Speaking of which, she was worried about the wild boar skin.
I don’t really care about his grave. His surname is Aisin Gioro and his surname is Ye Henala. Whether his grave is someone’s fault. But the problem is that now I am the boss of the Aisin Gioro family, so here
You have to do things in a certain way.
But she also knew that it was really embarrassing to ask the Japanese for peace at this time. This morning's newspaper just said that Taiwan's Admiral Yang Feng captured the famous Japanese city of Tokushima, and Sichuan's Admiral Song Qing and others defeated the Japanese army again in Tokyo. Now the imperial court is running away.
Going to beg for mercy from a partial Japanese army would probably make foreigners laugh to death. But otherwise, if the Japanese invaded Fengtian and humiliated the boar-skin grave, she would be unanimously opposed by the princes of the royal family.
Accusation. That’s why I thought of this best-of-both-worlds method. Anyway, I am an orphan and a widowed mother. I have a reason to pretend to be stupid, and then let Guiziliu get scolded!
Guizi Liuyi saw that his sister-in-law was determined to let him go out to top the tank, so he simply found a scapegoat.
"Queen Mother, Li Hongzhang has always been responsible for foreign affairs. Why don't we leave the peace negotiation to him?" Guiziliu said, he would not be fooled like this. Are you looking for a scapegoat? Don't I?
Will he look for it? So he pushed Li Hongzhang out without loyalty. Besides, the Minister of Beiyang has always been responsible for foreign affairs in recent years, and the Prime Minister's Yamen has become in name only.
"Speaking of Li Hongzhang, the Ai family is still angry now. If he had transferred Nie Shicheng and others from Yashan to Liaodong, how could the Japanese disturb Taizu? Speaking of which, the Han people are just unreliable. Now let's say something as a family
If we dig deep into our hearts, we really can't continue this battle." Cixi said seriously, and at this time she stopped pretending to be stupid.
"What the Japanese want is nothing more than some money, or at most some land. What they want for money is nothing more than collecting more taxes. The Qing Dynasty has no shortage of money. Each of its 40 million people can only get 40,000 taels from one tael. We can compensate
Let alone the earth, the world belongs to us, and we can give it to whomever we like.
But the Han people have become more powerful, and they want our country. In the past, our Eight Banners could fight and conquer the country thousands of miles away, but this thing is not only conquered, but also defended. Let alone now, when we fought the long hair
Our Eight Banners have become useless, but at that time there was still a monk king who was more or less controlling. After the monk king died, the Ai family had to worry a lot in the past few years to maintain the current situation.
You want to engage in Westernization, so I feel that the Aijia is suppressing you, but have you ever thought about who benefits from the Westernization? They are the Han people. Don’t the Aijia know that the Beiyang Navy has not added a ship to fight for so many years?
Is it dangerous to come here? But the Ai family can't give Li Hongzhang more help. We Manchus have no hope, so the Ai family must limit the strength of the Han people, at least so that they can't rise to the point where they dare to be ambitious.
Why don't the Aijia want to fight this war? If there is no war, we have reason to lay off the soldiers in the hands of the Han people, and then slowly train our Manchus. But when there is a war, we have to let them expand their troops. Just like this, the battlefield
Isn't there only one among us Manchus who can fight, Yike Tang'a? Do you think if the Han people join forces to seize this country at this time, Yike Tang'a can stop it?
This war has barely lasted a year. If it had lasted more than ten years like Changmao's war, the Han people would probably have tens of millions of soldiers and generals in their hands. Even if they didn't want to be ambitious at that time, they would still have it.
Therefore, we cannot fight this war, even if we pay some compensation to the foreigners and cut some land." This time Cixi finally told Guiziliu what was in her heart.
Of course, her sincere feelings did not move Guiziliu. Anyway, there was no difference between him taking the blame and Li Hongzhang taking the blame. As long as she didn't take the blame, it would be fine. Besides, there was another advantage to letting Li Hongzhang take the blame. If he didn't want to
If you want to make peace, then bring in the troops from Yashan, withdraw the Japanese troops, and have friends in Dashan County, Liaodong. Don’t think that I don’t know what kind of hookup you and that Yang Feng are having now. You two will get rich with gold and silver.
The whole boat is full of people, but my wife and I are left to live in the sun. How can there be such a good thing in the world?
When Li Hongzhang received an imperial edict from Cixi asking him whether he should ask the British to mediate peace talks with the Japanese army to prevent Taizu Taizong's mausoleum from being disturbed by artillery fire, he was immediately dumbfounded. He naturally understood that Cixi was asking him to jump into a fire pit. Who would do this job at this time?
The child will immediately become the target of public criticism. To say that he is drowned in saliva is an understatement.
He was not stupid enough to accept such a job that was doomed to be unfortunate, so he hurriedly replied with a telegram to urge Chen Wei to sue for peace easily. There was a friend in Shan County who was alone and helpless. He would not be able to survive for long. As long as Liu Kunshuai's army arrived, he would be forced to return.
Beware, Fengtian's danger will be resolved by then.
He received a reply immediately after sending this memorial. Liu Kunyi's troops were insufficient, and the combat strength of other armies was worrying. To ensure safety, it was necessary to mobilize the Yashan Army back to defend Liaodong, transport it by sea and land directly at the entrance of the camp, and at the same time order Lushun to defend
The army mobilized elite soldiers to march north, and Cixi had been thinking about the more than 20,000 elite soldiers in his hands for a long time. If these people were not consumed on the battlefield, she would have trouble sleeping and eating.
Li Hongzhang weighed it again and again and decided to send her some people back from Yashan. Liu Mingchuan, Nie Shicheng and Zhang Gaoyuan did not move and continued to serve as nails in Tianan and Chenghuan. It was said that Oshima Yishang had started to attack again. As for him
It doesn't matter why you still have the guts to attack. Then let Ye Zhichao lead 5,000 people to Liaodong, plus the 5,000 recruits from Shandong to make up 10,000 people.
However, this guy was also very insidious, and the speed of troop deployment was extremely slow. It took Ye Zhichao's troops five full days to withdraw from Yashan. By this time, some friends from Shan County had already reached Fengtian City. At the same time, Liu Kunyi led
The 30,000 Qing troops who had been cobbled together also began to counterattack Haicheng. Youpeng of Shanxian County placed an entire brigade here. Just as the Japanese artillery fired at Fengtian City, the Qing artillery outside Haicheng also fired.
"My sons, kill me!" Amidst the explosion of artillery shells, a bearded old general leaped on his horse and shouted with his sword. More than 3,000 cavalrymen behind him immediately began to charge, and the scene of thousands of horses galloping could be seen.
The Qing troops were all excited, and the Japanese artillery shells kept exploding among the cavalry, but the tough Northwest soldiers were not afraid, and rushed to the Japanese trenches ahead with strange roars, and then the Maxim machine guns on the opposite side rang out.
During this period, Shanxian Youto received more than thirty Maxims from the Qing army, and all of them were assigned to Lieutenant General Sakuma Matai who stayed in Haicheng. Now these death-spraying killing machines have become Dong Fuxiang's cavalry from the northwest.
These poor guys with single-shot black carbine rifles have never seen this thing. They came one by one with dreams of dyeing their heads red with blood, only to have their dreams shattered by machine guns in less than five minutes.
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Countless cavalrymen fell in the charge, and the corpses of men and horses stretched forward on the Liaodong plain.
Just like when he followed Zuo Zongtang to fight Aguba, Dong Fuxiang, who was rushing at the front with a saber, was hit directly in the leg by a bullet. The guy screamed and almost fell off his horse, and the BMW under him also fell off the horse at the same time.
After receiving several bullets, he screamed and turned around and ran away. At this time, his cavalry were also disrupted by machine guns, and they ran back one by one. The Qing infantry who were charging behind them were dumbfounded.
The frightened horses didn't care about them, they rushed the infantry into chaos, and the originally aggressive attack collapsed in an instant.
Liu Kun, who was last to watch the battle, gave the order to withdraw his troops with a livid face. At the same time, the leader of the Hunan Army also understood that the war was no longer the image in his mind. (To be continued...)