mage in the late qing dynasty

Chapter 546 Enemies with the whole world
In the past few days, the rebel army suffered heavy casualties and their numbers dropped sharply.

Some of the newly added wall grass saw that the wind direction was wrong, and some secretly became deserters.

When Sun Gongwu went to Vietnam, he really went to buy weapons.

The batch of 88-style committees sent by Zhao Chuanxin was taken over by Sun Gongwu's people, and they were supposed to be transported to Zhennan Pass, but they were detained by the French in Fangcheng.

After Sun Gongwu heard the news, he couldn't help being shocked.

At first, he thought that it was easy to make mistakes because when it was transported into Youfu Mountain, it was easy to be noticed by the Qing army around it.

I never expected that the French side would join in.

He was busy buying another batch of weapons in Vietnam, but was detained by the French in Wendeng again...

Seven days later, Huang Mingtang looked at the scarred and exhausted soldiers on the Zhennanguan Fort, and four big words floated in his heart-the situation is over.

He Wu said to Huang Mingtang: "Governor, the ammunition is about to run out, when will Mr. Sun's weapons arrive?"

He Wu, who used to like to put on a show, has no image now. His long braid was burnt and part of his eyebrow was burnt off, and there was still a burn. His face was covered in black and gray, but he couldn't clean it in time. He looked very embarrassed. .

Huang Mingtang muttered but couldn't answer.

After a while, he let out a long sigh: "I regret that I should have trusted Lu Rongting so lightly that I lost today."

It turned out that Lu Rongting, the Pingxiang general of the Qing army, had expressed to Sun Gongwu that he intended to do anything anyway.

Lu Rongting was originally born as a gangster in the Jianghu, and he is used to being both sides.

He just put a smoke bomb on Sun Gongwu. During the process of the rebel army attacking Zhennan Pass, the only place Lu Rongting was inclined to the rebel army was that he delayed the pace of counterattacking the rebel army at the beginning until the Qing government issued a decree. He was strictly ordered to send troops, so he had no choice but to obey.

Through the window, Huang Mingtang looked at the rebel soldiers staggering outside, and suddenly saw Shuangxi and Wang Long who were bandaging the wounded among them. The two stood out among these people because they were not injured and their clothes were clean.

Then I remembered that because Shuangxi beat the Frenchman, Sun Gongwu left him alone, and the "frustrating talk" between Shuangxi and Wang Long that day made Huang Mingtang very angry, so he kept ignoring them, and also didn't let him go. They engage in combat.

Huang Mingtang turned to He Wu and said, "Get ready, we will retreat in the early morning."

He Wu looked downcast.

He thought it would be successful this time, and his status would undergo an earth-shaking change.

It failed again.

He stood there blankly, a little dazed.

Huang Mingtang shouted out of the window: "Mr. Zhang, come in."

Shuangxi looked up, gave some instructions to the wounded, and led Wang Long into the room: "Governor Huang, why are you looking for us?"

Huang Mingtang sighed: "I should have listened to you back then."

The biggest reason why they didn't listen to Shuangxi was that at that time he and Sun Gongwu still hoped that Lu Rongting would betray the Qing Dynasty.

Looking at it now, it was obvious that they were played by Lu Rongting.

Wang Long was very dissatisfied: "What kind of an afterthought is there at this time?"

Huang Mingtang was not angry this time, and said with a wry smile: "We will retreat in the early hours of this night. I am afraid that the Qing army will obstruct us, and we need a small team to rear up. At the critical moment, I hope that the two of you can help and lead a team of 20 or [-] people to delay the Qing army. pace."

Double Happiness was taken aback.

This person... is really shameless.

Wang Long was even more furious: "What? Let us die, you run for your lives, right?"

Huang Mingtang was at a loss for words, and after a while he pleaded: "Both of you, you have also seen that there are countless wounded outside. If there is no delay, they will not be able to leave. The rebel army needs to keep the fire..."

Shuangxi frowned in thought, and before Wang Long could say anything else, he interrupted and asked, "Do you have a retreat plan?"

Huang Mingtang shook his head before he thought that far.

Shuangxi came to the map, took out a brush and drew a picture: "Just open a gap in the Zhennanguan Fort, take a small road, and retreat into the Yanzi Mountain in Vietnam. If you can meet the weapons and ammunition in the backyard, you will not be afraid of the Qing army chasing you.

We will lead the team to resist the delay one or two. "

When Wang Long heard the words, he kept silent.

He knew that Double Happiness must have his plan.

Huang Mingtang looked at the map, his eyes lit up: "Mr. Zhang really understands battle formation. Thank you both, the rebel army will not forget you, and Mr. Sun will not..."

If we follow Double Happiness' method, the probability of getting out unscathed will increase by a few percent.

Shuangxi said coldly: "I didn't leave the post because you guys would remember it. I gave up the post because of the local people. After the Qing army, they will definitely take revenge on them."

A trace of shame appeared on Huang Mingtang's face, but it was fleeting.

Those who make big things don't care about small details. Looking at history, it is inevitable to change the past and make new ones. Casualties are inevitable. We can only wrong them.

Seeing this, Shuangxi shook her head.

After leaving the door, Wang Long cursed: "These capitalists are extremely weak, and they can call cold-blooded high-sounding. They are the kind of hypocrites Captain Zhao said. If they can succeed, they will not be much better off in this world."

Double Happiness did not speak.

He Wu followed.

He picked 15 people for Double Happiness.

All of these 15 people were wounded, each of them was weak, none of them had a fast gun, they were all pistols, with very little ammunition, and no supplies at all.

Wang Long laughed angrily: "You want us to die right away?"

He Wu was wronged, but his mouth was stubborn: "Don't you know that the rebel army has run out of ammunition and food now?"

Shuangxi pursed her lips, and held back Wang Long who was about to beat someone up: "That's it, it doesn't matter."

……

Hong Kong Island.

Li Guangzong paid close attention to the development of the situation.

There were more than a dozen newspapers on his desk, which included reports about Zhennan Pass and what happened on Ao Island about Zhao Chuanxin.

Newspapers published the news that Zhao Chuanxin prevented the Qing court from firing cannons to apologize. The author said with strong subjective emotions: I said that Zhao Chuanxin was a bandit, and I secretly thought that Zhao Chuanxin was a hero in the world.

Later, a poem written by Zhao Chuanxin is attached.

Li Guangzong smiled, sir, can he compose poems?Why haven't I seen him do this before?
Putting down the newspaper, he sank into thought.

Recently, people on Hong Kong Island took to the streets to protest and began to boycott Japanese goods. Radical merchants took out Japanese goods, piled them up on the street and burned them.

I don't know if it was a spontaneous organization or someone secretly contributed to it.

The boycott of Japanese goods quickly spread, from Hong Kong Island, Guangdong, to Wuzhou, Nanning, Shanghai, and the news spread to Nanyang, and overseas Chinese responded one after another.

Japan's commodity exports to China plummeted.

Li Guangzong witnessed the gloom on the faces of Japanese businessmen.

The boycott of Japanese goods this time is undoubtedly an awakening of national consciousness.

The people are no longer at the mercy of others, and the Qing court is weak, but they use their own methods to defend their dignity.

Li Guangzong felt this surging power.

He couldn't help thinking of what Zhao Chuanxin once said to him: "The times have changed."

At this time, Toad Boy came in a hurry: "The deputy head, New York called, it turned out to be Morgan, that Morgan with billions of dollars."

There was horror on his face.

He never thought that he could have a "close" contact with someone of Morgan's level.

This can last a lifetime when you go out.

Li Guangzong was very calm: "Bring it to me to have a look."

Morgan is a fart, isn't he subdued by Mr. Zhi?
Toad Boy handed him the telegram, Li Guangzong looked at it, frowned, first wrote the content of the reply, and then wrote another telegram: "Send the second copy to Ao Island, and have someone pass it on to the head."

At this time, Benjamin Goldberg came with rice.

He said: "Uncle Li. When will my master come back? Mistress is in a hurry to go home and see my little junior sister."

Li Guangzong heard this foreign child's nonsense, and he couldn't laugh or cry: "We have to wait and see if the new Portuguese governor is obedient. Sister Hua can go first, and I will send someone to protect her. It happens that the annual meeting in Lugang Town is coming soon. Xuantianzong will send people to communicate."

Benjamin Goldberg has been all over Hong Kong Island these days and doesn't think there's anything new.

He said, "Master promised to take me all over China, but when he came back, he hit the back of his head with his busy feet."

Knowing that Zhao Chuanxin valued this apprentice very much, Li Guangzong said to Toad Boy, "Here's the letter, and I'll fill in some more sentences."

……

Jiu'ao Mountain.

Zhao Chuanxin has returned.

The Erchenmaru was snatched away, the warships of Japan and Portugal were scuttled, the envoys of the two countries were injured, and the Qing court was prevented from firing cannons to apologize. These things made Zhao Chuanxin's reputation soaring.

But to Zhao Chuanxin himself, this is just a trivial matter.

However, the beliefs in the old sacred altars have been gathering too fast recently.

Zhao Chuanxin lay on the chair, looked at the old holy altar that was already full, and opened the Holy Light Passage.

He got up, and in a blink of an eye, he stood on the small road 120 meters away. The snot-nosed children playing there looked at Zhao Chuanxin who suddenly appeared, and they were all stunned: "Uncle, when did you come?"

Zhao Chuanxin said cheerfully: "I just came here, you guys continue to play."

As he spoke, he broke off a branch of the Du Ying tree and walked back with his hands behind his back.

A group of snot-nosed children followed behind, laughing and playing.

Zhao Chuanxin felt the belief gathered from all directions, and saw that the liquid in the old sacred altar condensed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and it looked like one-tenth in a moment.

By the time I walked back to the recliner, the liquid had already collected one-third of it.

He was playing with the old sacred altar in his hand. According to the test just now, he used all his faith to open a channel of holy light, and he could flash at least 20 and [-] meters away.

With his reputation at this time, the time to fill up the old sacred altar should not exceed 10 minutes, and the fastest is 5 minutes.

The fly in the ointment is that the reserves of the old sacred altar are limited, and when it is full, the remaining power of faith will dissipate.

The common problem of human beings is that they are forgetful. Chinese people also like to make gods, and they prefer to step on the shrines when they collapse.

Zhao Chuanxin thought to himself: Maybe at some point, he will be forgotten, or the house will collapse.

Just thinking about it, Chuan Shuiju hurried over with a telegram: "Master, I have a letter from you."

Zhao Chuanxin took it, and saw that it was from Li Guangzong.

It recorded the content of the telegram sent by JP Morgan, Miao Cuihua anxious to return to Lugang Town to see her daughter, and Benjamin Goldberg's wish to "wander" in China.

JP Morgan said: Mr. Zhao, I learned that Marconi's radio technology originated from Tesla. He invented radio a long time ago. He also knew that Marconi stole his method, but he just didn't care.The Wardenclyffe Tower he built was not for radio, it was a huge device that could absorb and output energy from the universe.He is a lunatic, if the cosmic energy can really be used by people, it will be a huge blow to you, me, and the whole world.So I'm asking for your opinion, and I'm going to make his experiment impossible.

Zhao Chuanxin was stunned.

Nikola Tesla didn't tell him that.

He also believed that Wardenclyffe Tower was just emitting radio devices.

This is a typical example of not handing in homework. No wonder JP Morgan withdrew its capital.

Zhao Chuanxin also understood JP Morgan's concerns.

If there is any free cosmic energy, the first ones to suffer are old guys like Rockefeller and JP Morgan.

Whether it is oil, coal, or the trains and ships that run on oil and coal, factories, steel industry...and all aspects of life, they all need to be innovated.

The existing industrial structure is likely to be broken.

Zhao Chuanxin suddenly became enlightened, no wonder JP Morgan tried his best to suppress Nikola Tesla in history.

He even did not hesitate to use his own influence to erase all traces of Nikola Tesla from American textbooks, so that he remained unknown for a long time.

When he was in school, Zhao Chuanxin only knew the great inventors Edison and Einstein, but he didn't know Nikola Tesla at all.

It turned out to be the case.

Although Zhao Chuanxin felt that absorbing cosmic energy was a bit nonsense.

However, if there is such a small amount of results, I am afraid that it will also set off a huge wave.

Zhao Chuanxin can be against several people, or one or two countries.

However, it is impossible for him to be an enemy of the whole world, do you know without that ability?

He immediately wrote a letter: Tell Nikola Tesla to stop the experiment immediately, but to come to China with various experimental data, immediately, immediately.

Hand the letter to Chuishuiju: "Telegram to Li Guangzong, he knows what to do."

In such a conspicuous place as New York, of course, this kind of experiment cannot be carried out.

But there are still some remote areas in the country.

Zhao Chuanxin showed a sly smile.

As soon as Chui Shui Ju left, a thin young man ushered in on Jiu'ao Mountain.

It was none other than Aixinjueluo Zaizhen who had been tied up by Zhao Chuanxin...

(End of this chapter)