Yi Kuang was not a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty. This can be clearly seen from the fact that he took money from Yuan Shikai and forced Empress Dowager Longyu to sign an abdication edict. Therefore, it is not good to make this choice under the current circumstances.
Strangely, the two of them were thinking about how to betray Cixi when an officer from outside ran in and reported that the enemy troops had arrived at the city gate.
Zai Zhen's heart suddenly twitched, and the empty head of his own soldier suddenly appeared in his mind.
"How many people are here?" he asked calmly, but the look on his face betrayed him.
"There are countless people all over the mountains and plains!" the officer answered him with a very artistic sentence.
However, Zai Zhen couldn't feel a trace of artistic atmosphere. The scene in front of him with his brain flowing, and the feeling of being hungry and scratching his heart became more and more clear.
"Get ready to meet the enemy immediately. No one is allowed to fight without my order!" Of course Yi Kuang understood his son's virtue. Seeing that he was a little frightened at this time, he simply gave the order on his behalf.
The officer hurried out to deliver the order. Of course, this order was completely unnecessary. Now all the Eight Banners disciples on the city wall were so frightened that their faces turned pale, and their upper and lower teeth were chattering. Even if there was an order, no one would dare to attack. When will they see it?
The sight of more than 20,000 troops besieging the city, especially the hundreds of cannons and the black muzzles, made both of them weak in the legs.
At this time, Yi Kuang couldn't go back anyway, so he quickly arranged for a close confidant to go out of the city. He said he was going out to inform the rebels, but in fact he went out with a million taels of silver notes to give as gifts. The money Cixi gave him
Only half of it is cash, and the rest is silver notes. The cash coins are prepared to reward soldiers and silver notes to reward officers. It is convenient for him now.
"Huh?!" When he took the banknote handed to him, Chen Zhong was almost dumbfounded. He really didn't expect such a good thing. Before the fight started, the enemy gave him money first.
"Sir, my prince is also loyal to the emperor. He did not participate when the Queen Mother deposed the emperor. It was too late to find out afterwards. Now it is too late for the emperor to be happy for him. But after all, the whole family is in Beijing, and
The Queen Mother was also very kind to him. She could not change sides at this time, but she did not dare to stop the Holy One, so she had no choice but to make this move. This one million taels of silver is an apology to the soldiers of the rebel army. Please also ask
Forgive me, General." Yi Kuang's confidant said humbly.
"Ah, this million is just to buy me the general and not attack you. That's fine, but this million is a bit too small, right? I still have more than 20,000 troops here, and I can't even share a few of them!
"Chen Zhong learned from Yang Feng in this aspect.
"How much do you think is appropriate for this?" the confidant asked hurriedly. Bargaining is a serious business.
"Let's add another one million. Your prince just wants to wait and see. He is also worried that it won't look good outside, so he just wants me to act with him. Naturally, the appearance fee for this acting cannot be too small." Chen Zhong said lazily.
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Adding another million taels is just a trivial matter to Yi Kuang, but after all, this is not Prince Qing's Mansion in Beijing. It is impossible for him to carry another one million taels of silver notes with him, and Xianghe County cannot scrape up much. In this case
He had no choice but to find a way out of the money that had been distributed, but in this way, the conspiracy between himself and Yang Feng would not be concealed. What if someone is still loyal to Lafayette?
"How many of your men might not be of the same mind as us? Do you have any numbers here?" He asked his son sinisterly.
"I'm afraid it's hard to tell Shan Qi," Zai Zhen said.
Sister Kawashima, her father is now the Fourth Association President, and he is considered the most militant in the clan. He should have been the ruler originally. After all, he is older than Zai Zhen and has a higher title than Zai Zhen, but his father is just
An idle iron-hatted king with little real power would naturally not be able to compete with the most popular Yi Kuang in front of Cixi, which also led to him never being very convinced of Zai Zhen.
"Does he like to fight? Then let him take his people out to attack the camp, ask your cronies to pick out all those who are unlikely to be with us, and say to select warriors to attack the camp at night, and then tell
You bring people to act as backup for them, make the trick more realistic, and when they are all dead, you can use their money to give Chen Zhong as a gift." Yi Kuang said sinisterly.
This poisonous plan shocked his son. He raised his thumb and said: "High, really high!"
As for how to get Shanqi out, this problem is easy to solve. He is currently leading a group of radical officers to express dissatisfaction with Zai Zhen. Everyone knows that sticking to Xianghe will prevent the enemy from crossing the city to attack Beijing. This is pure nonsense.
, here is just a short walk away from Beijing. There are more than 20,000 people, and just leaving 5,000 is enough to contain the second town, and then the rest will go straight to Beijing, so hiding in the city is equivalent to selling Beijing away.
to the enemy.
"What do you know? This is my commander's clever plan. We first retreat to the city to show weakness to him, and then gather the elite warriors who dare to die as the vanguard. I personally lead the army as the rear team, and take advantage of his paralysis to suddenly attack in the middle of the night.
Isn't this much better than standing in the trenches waiting to be hit by poison gas bombs? Then Yang Ni's troops are nothing more than poison gas, cannons, and machine guns. If it is a melee, these will become decorations. We are all ancestors of playing with knives.
Are you still afraid of those fake foreign devils with the stuff that has been passed down?" Zai Zhen said confidently.
Guitaro, the consultant next to him, almost didn't laugh, but when he saw Yi Kuang's sharp eyes, he didn't dare to say anything. Anyway, he was here to earn wages. Since they were willing to die, then let them go.
If Zhen planned like this, none of the forwards would be able to come back, so he should be honest by then.
He knew that this plan was tantamount to suicide, but those people in Shanqi knew nothing. The little wisdom their ancestors had was just made up by Luo Guanzhong. When it was passed to them, they would hear the opera every day and be filled with thoughts of waving a big flag to cover it up.
Then the enemy army was defeated. Do they know how long it would take for more than 10,000 people to squeeze out of the crowded city gate?
Since everyone had no objections, Zai Zhen started to make military arrangements and put all the generals who usually did not deal with him into the vanguard. At this time, those people also saw that something was wrong. Shan Qi asked with a gloomy face: "Big
Handsome, is this arrangement too confusing? If we were to organize an attack, we should at least be familiar with each other. Now that the various departments are put together, the coordination may be a bit rusty."
"No, no, these forwards must all be those who dare to fight. I am very familiar with the bravery of all of you, so I specially brought you together so that you can form the strongest force." Zai Zhen said.
Since he said this, Shanqi couldn't say anything more. You can't say that you are not brave enough, right? In this way, the army was arranged and then opened the city gate at night and prepared to kill the generals. Of course, what Shanqi didn't know was,
Just before that, a close aide of Zai Zhen had already slipped out from the other side of the city gate, and then rushed to Chen Zhong to report the news.
Chen Zhong was amused when he heard the news.
"You didn't lie to me, did you?" he asked curiously.
"General Mingjian, the villain will never dare to deceive you. My prince said that the vanguard are all people who are loyal to the Queen Mother. These people will definitely change if they stay in the army. In this case, I have to ask your Excellency to help get rid of them."
The messenger quickly said with a smile.
"I'll just trust you for once, that handsome guy." Chen Zhong nodded and said, and after that he left him alone while he was reading.
"Don't you need to make arrangements in advance, sir?" the messenger said cautiously.
"Arrangement? What arrangement? If you don't report their arrival, you will die!" Chen Zhong said funnyly, in what age are we still doing things like cutting down camps? He decided that it would be good to use these fools to train troops.
Otherwise, I wouldn’t have encountered such a good opportunity!
Poor Shanqi naturally didn't know that he had been betrayed. It took him more than ten minutes to rush out of the city gate with his three thousand elite men. They were all wearing white cloaks and had grenades inserted all over their bodies except for rifles. Then
With a ghost-headed sword stuck on his back, he looked very majestic. They stood densely packed together on the snow, killing each other in the snow.
At this time, Shanqi deliberately looked back and found that Zai Zhen was indeed following behind with a large group of people. This was relieved. Of course, he understood that Zai Zhen meant to deceive him this time, and he would definitely do the same if it were him.
Whoever came from a family of intrigues didn't know who was doing this, they just didn't know how hard the trick was.
Large snowflakes were falling on the top of the head, and in the silence there was only the sound of falling snow. Taking a breath of cold air, Shanqi, wearing a white cloak, looked at the lights of the Zhongyong Army camp in the distance, and couldn't help but feel a sense of pride in his heart.
Come.
After this battle, maybe there will be a legend among the storytellers in Beijing about a good man who fought hard in the snow, just like Ding Feng in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. At that time, Zai Zhen's little thing was nothing, this is
What is a real general's job? What is the skill of getting a horse back in a sneaky way? Killing a blood-stained robe in the enemy camp will show the true nature of a man.
Speaking of which, he has always been very doubtful about the authenticity of Zai Zhen's deeds. Based on his understanding of this guy, this is too unbelievable. Besides, the noble officers who disappeared and returned last time were bought back by their families. This
He knew more or less that it was possible that they could buy it back, but the losses that Yang Feng admitted were real, so he didn't quite understand.
"Master?" Goshiha next to him looked at his dazed master and reminded him carefully.
Only then did Shanqi come back to his senses. He imitated Zhao Zilong on the stage, swung his cloak, held a pistol in his left hand and a knife in his right hand, and shouted in a low voice: "Good men from Manzhou, follow me to kill the enemy!"
After saying that, he lowered his head and rushed forward with a low body. (To be continued...)