Tuqing: My first love was Cixi

Chapter 181 The sky is falling! Approaching the capital! (New alliance leader Xiao Chenyu congratulates)

(Congratulations to Xiao Chenyu for becoming the new leader of this book, thank you)

I heard that time passes very slowly when a person is at his last moment. It may even feel like you will live through another life.

From Weng Tongshu, we seem to have a clue.

Before he died, the way he looked at Su Yi became extremely complex and ever-changing.

First there was extreme horror.

Even if he thought about it eight hundred times, he would never think that Su Yi would use this method to solve the problem.

As an enemy, he once put himself in Su Yi's shoes and thought about the problem, and found that there was no solution at all.

Dexing'a went to Yangzhou to seize military power, but Su Yi had no idea.

His Weng Tongshu went to Jiujiang to be the magistrate and stabbed Su Yi in the back.

He even imagined what means Su Yi would use to fight and what methods he would use to drive away Weng Tongshu.

I really didn't expect that Su Yi's method was so simple.

Physical destruction!

In the history of the Qing Dynasty, which frontier official dared to do this?

This... this is rebellion.

Kill two imperial envoys at once? What do you, Su Yi, think?

Don’t you want the future?

You, Su Yi, are so smart, why would you do this?

I, Weng Tongshu, is about to die. Before I die, am I not qualified enough to listen to your true words?

Don't let me die with my eyes open!

Facing Weng Tongshu's eyes, Su Yi frowned slightly.

Is your heart out of whack? Why hasn't this knife killed him yet?

Then, he pulled out the dagger and aimed it more closely.

Then, he stabbed it in with a sharp knife.

"Ah..." Weng Tongshu made a strange sound in his throat.

Then, finally, completely dead.

Full of infinite unwillingness, reluctance, and fear.

There was even pleading.

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Hong Renli stepped forward and slapped Su Yi with his palm.

I feel like he shouldn't have killed someone himself.

"You are also a person with children. Try to do as little as possible in the future." Hong Renli said, then took the dagger in Su Yi's hand and gently cut off Weng Tongshu's head.

Then he grabbed Dexing'a's braids and gently cut them off, then cut off his head.

Your method is too neat.

Does the cook eat the cow?

"The way things are now, you should hurry up and take Chang'er as your concubine. In the future, the brothers of the Taiping Army will have a greater sense of belonging with you." Hong Renli raised his two heads, shook them gently, and wiped out the remaining The blood was shaken dry.

"Lin Qirong and Zeng Tianyang must be extremely happy if you do this today. You prove with facts that we are in the same group." Hong Renli kicked the remaining bodies of Weng Tongshu and Dexing'a one by one as he spoke. Arrived outside the cabin.

On the shore at this time!

Hundreds of headless corpses were arranged neatly.

Hundreds of soldiers are digging an extremely huge hole.

It's almost done, the dig is big enough.

Then these hundreds of headless corpses were thrown down together.

Pour dozens or hundreds of barrels of oil on it.

Then a torch was thrown down.

Suddenly, the fire burst into the sky!

The Taiping Army men were using lime to kill each person's head, and then placed it neatly in the box.

The bodies of Dexing'a and Weng Tongshu were not left behind, but were burned on fire.

The fire was so bright that it attracted people.

A group of cavalry came, about a dozen of them.

I don’t know if it’s from Huai’an or Yangzhou.

All this was discovered from a distance.

But Su Yi and Zeng Tianyang's people, more than a thousand people, were silent.

In the firelight, they looked faintly at the dozen cavalrymen.

These dozen cavalrymen seemed to be trapped.

Don't dare to move.

They will never forget this scene in their lifetime.

In particular, many soldiers with disheveled hair were carefully scratching their heads and then placing them one by one in the big box.

The fire that shot up into the sky didn't know what was burned, but it must have been countless corpses.

In fear, these dozen Qing cavalry even forgot to escape.

Hong Renli saw it and waved his hand.

Dozens of soldiers raised their rifles and aimed at the cavalry.

Suddenly, these dozen Qing soldiers ran away like they were waking up from a dream!

After all, Hong Renli did not order the shooting.

These dozen Qing cavalrymen survived the disaster and cried with joy.

We didn't see it, we didn't see anything.

Thank you for your mercy.

Thank you for your mercy!

According to common sense, all these witnesses should be killed.

But it doesn't matter, it's even better with these witnesses.

After all, there are more than a thousand people here, all dressed as Taiping soldiers.

The best thing to distinguish between the Qing army and the Taiping army is their hair.

Everyone even took their time.

After the flames were extinguished, hundreds of soldiers dug up earth and buried the five hundred headless corpses.

Then everyone got on the boat, turned around, and returned to Yangzhou.

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on board.

"Master Su, this time is a good thing for us." Zeng Tianyang suddenly said: "When we were in Jiujiang before, we would rather commit suicide than surrender to you because we felt that we were not the same people, but now we feel inexplicably connected. "

Su Yi smiled, raised his glass and said, "Respect the veteran general."

Zeng Tianyang said: "Now the Tianjing side is much better than before. King Yi is a little more well-behaved. Lin Qirong, Chen Yucheng, and Li Xiucheng are in charge of the military. With the three of them joining forces, they can suppress Shi Dakai, and they feel that they are getting better and better." posture."

Hong Renli next to him sneered disdainfully.

"Forget it, forget it, don't say these words." Zeng Tianyang said: "It depends on your destiny."

Then, he took out a bamboo can, took out a cigarette, lit it beautifully, and took a puff.

"Good stuff, good stuff..."

Zeng Tianyang said: "You need to send more. Brothers are very addicted. After eating, especially when going to the toilet, it doesn't smell bad after smoking."

Hong Renli left directly.

Su Yi said: "Old General, I'm giving you a batch of cigarettes for your brothers to smoke. You are getting older and this stuff is not good for your health."

"That's nonsense." Zeng Tianyang said: "After I finished smoking, I felt refreshed, my joint pain was relieved, and the moisture in my body was much better. It's obviously a good thing."

Su Yi was speechless and couldn't explain.

"The key is that this thing is much easier to smoke than the tobacco in the pipe. It's fragrant and strong. How did you do it?"

Su Yi said: "Then do you think this thing is easy to sell?"

Zeng Tianyang said: "It's easy to sell, of course it's easy to sell. Just bring it and make sure it sells well. Tianjing City is short of everything except money."

"However, you can't pack it in bamboo barrels. There are many people in Tianjing pretending to be powerful. You have to give them respect and sell it more expensively."

Su Yi suddenly laughed and said, "It's coming, it's coming."

Then, the two of them talked lightly.

A lot of business will be done with Tianjing City in the future.

Hong Xiuquan and his group robbed so much money that they couldn't spend it at all.

Moreover, this group of people are very rustic. They can't even open their eyes if they have slightly better things, and they are scrambling for them.

Su Yi would be sorry for herself if she didn't scrape a fortune from Hong Xiu's body.

The fleet left the canal and headed for Gaoyou Lake.

We are about to return to the river section of Yangzhou and pass through Shaobo Town Camp.

This time!

The patrol ships of the Qing army still came to intercept.

As usual, one hundred taels of silver were handed over.

Then, the lazy officer wanted to let him go.

However, an officer on the shore was shocked to find that these ships had blood stains and signs of battle.

"Stop them, stop them."

Then, the Qing troops on the shore rushed over.

"Dangdangdangdang..."

The bell was rung.

The Qing troops from the camp in Shao Bo Town rushed out like a tide.

And this time!

Zeng Tianyang's ship suddenly opened its gun jacket and opened fire directly.

Hundreds or thousands of soldiers raised their foreign guns and opened fire violently.

"Bang bang bang bang..."

Out of reach.

All the Qing troops on the river were killed.

A large number of the Qing troops on the shore were also knocked down.

then……

The Qing troops in Shaobo Town immediately fell to the ground, hiding behind the bunker, motionless.

Zeng Tianyang and Su Yi's fleet continued sailing, calmly leaving the Yangzhou River section and entering the Yangtze River.

After walking far away, I couldn't even see his back.

Only then did the soldiers at Shao Bo Town’s main camp shout loudly: “The enemy is attacking, the enemy is attacking!”

Then, hundreds of people fired fiercely at the river.

"Bang bang bang bang..."

It crackled for a quarter of an hour.

Then, the commander of Shaobo Town Camp said: "Go to Yangzhou to report the victory, report the victory to Master Tominga, and say that the reverse navy attacked, but we repelled it, and the casualties are uncounted!"

The staff member next to him said: "Sir, if you can't report victory, just pretend that nothing happened."

The general asked: "Why?"

The staff said: "This group of rebels entered the canal. There are blood stains everywhere on the boat. Who knows what they did? Let's pretend we don't know for now, so as not to get burned."

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General Jiang Ning and the head coach of Jiangbei Camp, Tuo Ming'a, was in a state of confusion.

He didn't know what to choose.

He had already received the news from the DPRK and China in advance.

Several big bosses from the Military Aircraft Department, as well as several princes from the court, all sent secret envoys to him.

Su Yi has completely fallen out of favor, and will be in bad luck next.

The emperor appointed Weng Tongshu as the prefect of Jiujiang, and the Jiangnan camp allocated 5,000 troops to Weng Tongshu.

Therefore, after Weng Tongshu arrives in Jiujiang, he will fight against Su Yi.

Dexing'a also came, and went south in the name of the imperial envoy to take away Wang Shiqing's new army and take it to Tianjin to fight against the foreign barbarians.

The order from above asked him to cooperate with Ming'a.

If Wang Shiqing's army rebels, the main force of his Jiangbei camp will suppress it.

De Xing'a's people have not arrived yet, but his personal letter has arrived by speedboat.

In the words, he kept calling Tomin'a his brother.

Not only did they ignore the past grudges, they almost wanted to act like brothers again.

Weng Tongshu's letter is the same. He deeply reviewed his past mistakes and said that he would follow Brother Toming's lead in the future.

Letters were also sent from Tomina's backers in the capital.

There is only one content!

Don’t misread the situation and learn to take sides.

Su Yi is going to be in bad luck and will step down in a few months at most.

Therefore, let Tuominga draw a clear line with Su Yi in time.

Moreover, let him establish a good relationship with Dexing'a and Weng Tongshu.

The most important thing is not to disappoint the emperor.

Tomin'a is loyal, but his loyalty is also limited. It cannot exceed his glory and wealth, let alone his wealth and life.

But now in this posture, he has made a decision.

He would not do anything about Su Yi's trouble.

But he wouldn't know how to get close to Su Yi.

Before you know it, draw a clear line.

Then he must take action to show his political attitude.

Go and greet the imperial fleet in person.

So, early this morning, Tuoming'a, as the commander-in-chief of Jiangbei Camp, took many senior generals and officials from Yangzhou Prefecture to the canal dock to greet the imperial ministers Dexing'a and Weng Tongshu.

This is also a statement that he Tuominga supports the emperor at all times.

According to the letter, it will probably be this morning.

On the entire canal dock, more than a hundred officials were waiting eagerly.

Among the crowd was New Army coach Wang Shiqing.

He was filled with indignation at this time. When General Su Yi passed through Yangzhou, no officials from Jiangbei Camp and Yangzhou Prefecture came to the dock to greet him.

Even when Master Su Yi walked around the city, no one left the city, not even to exchange a few words.

Now, Mr. Su Yi's political enemy, Weng Tongshu, the prefect of Jiujiang, is coming, and Dexing'a, the deputy commander of the Xianglan Banner, is coming. Instead, you go out in full force to greet him?

This doesn’t mean that it’s too much to bully others, so what is it?

However, officials from Jiangbei Daying and Yangzhou Prefecture waited and waited at the dock.

None of the imperial fleet came.

At this time, not only Jiangbei Camp was waiting.

The Jiangnan Camp is also waiting, because the emperor has already sent a secret order. Before Weng Tongshu goes to Jiujiang, he will first come to the Jiangnan Camp to borrow five thousand troops to help defend Jiujiang.

In name, Su Yi's new army was transferred to Tianjin, fearing that Jiujiang's defense would be empty. For He Guiqing, Su Yi was already an absolute political enemy at this time.

In the beginning, the two sides still had a close relationship.

But when He Guiqing went to Guangzhou to negotiate and failed, he became half a political enemy.

But now, they are complete political enemies.

Especially not long ago, there was a conflict between the Su Yi fleet and the He Gui Qingli Financial Bureau fleet. The Bai Fei fleet directly broke into the card and opened fire.

This directly brought the conflict between the Jiangxi governor's office and the governors of Liangjiang into the open.

Su Yi's move can be said to have caused him, the governor of Liangjiang, to lose all face.

Therefore, if Weng Tongshu goes to Jiujiang to fight Su Yi, of course He Guiqing fully supports him.

Not only did he come to the Jiangnan camp in person, he also made sure to let Weng Tongshu get the five thousand soldiers and horses as quickly as possible. Moreover, he, the governor of Liangjiang, would personally go to see Weng Tongshu take office to support Weng Tongshu, the prefect of Jiujiang.

As a result, I waited until the afternoon at the Jiangnan Camp, but no one showed up.

He frowned thickly. Could it be that Weng Tongshu was still staying at the Jiangbei camp?

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Time keeps passing.

Tuoming'a led the Jiangbei Camp and Yangzhou Prefecture officials, who were even more anxious.

Ordinarily, it should have arrived a long time ago.

This...it's already afternoon.

Everyone was talking about it.

Although everyone had sent people to bring food and wine at noon, I wasn’t very hungry.

"Master Su Yi, you have fallen this time."

"According to this situation, in three to five months at most, another group of imperial envoys will be ushered in, announcing the dismissal of the imperial envoys as the governor of Jiangxi."

"Why bother? It's really not worth it to offend the emperor just to run a bird factory."

"Why didn't the Imperial Envoy fleet come? Could it be that the Huai'an Prefecture was flattering and picked the people up first, and they wanted to stay in Huai'an Prefecture for a day before coming back?"

"No, no, the military situation is like a fire, they must have come to Yangzhou first."

"That's right. Without the military power of Su Yi's new army, the court will be uneasy. The imperial envoys will just want to fly over."

And at this time!

Several warships came closer and closer.

Someone at Jiangbei Camp immediately shouted and asked: "Is the imperial fleet coming? How far is it?"

But the faces of the people on these warships were full of fear and horror.

Before they even got close, the people on the warship shouted loudly: "Sir, this is a bad thing, a big thing is not good!"

"The imperial fleet was attacked!"

"The ship is scarred."

"The ship is empty!"

As soon as these words came out, Dexing'a almost couldn't believe his ears.

Under attack? Empty?

This, how is this possible?

This, this is in the canal.

The sailors never enter the canal.

This, this is an imperial fleet with several hundred guards.

Could it be that all the imperial envoys fled after being attacked? Where did you escape to?

"Where? Where?" Tomin'a trembled.

"Canal in the middle section of Huai'an and Yangzhou."

Tomin'a has the intention to care about nothing and pay no attention to anything.

However, he is General Jiangning, and he is the boss of the entire Jiangbei defense, and this is his fault.

"Prepare the fleet, prepare the navy, and go investigate the scene!"

"Go and try your best to rescue the imperial minister."

He still didn't believe that someone had the audacity to raid the imperial fleet.

Did the people below make a mistake?

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The next morning!

Tomin'a led thousands of people to the ambush site.

Most of the ships were hijacked.

The remaining ships, which did not sink, were riddled with holes in the canal and were stuck somewhere.

Yes, this is an imperial envoy ship.

The flag above is still there.

Every ship was filled with blood, showing the intensity of the battle.

But there was no one inside these ships, not even corpses.

Where have you gone?

Even if you run away, you should leave a body behind.

At this time, Tomin'a was still feeling lucky, maybe the imperial guard had escaped and was hiding now.

"Sir, here, here..." someone suddenly shouted.

"Everyone is here, you, come here and see... ugh!"

Tomin'a led everyone over to take a look.

Suddenly, the whole person felt terrified.

Almost fainting.

I saw that the large pit dug was densely packed with burnt corpses.

Lost his head.

Hundreds of them in total.

This...this...were all killed?

Oh my God? Oh my God!

Who did this?

Who is so bold?

Did it happen due to reversal?

But why did Fa Ni target Weng Tongshu and Dexing'a?

Besides, how did Fa Ni know the imperial envoy's itinerary?

After thinking for a moment, a name came to mind.

Suddenly, his whole body felt dizzy.

Cold all over.

Boundless fear enveloped his whole body.

No, it couldn't have been him.

Is he crazy? Doing such a thing would mean rebellion.

It means that the entire clan will be killed.

But no matter who did it, this is a huge disaster.

After a long while, Tuoming'a trembled and said: "Quick, send someone to Beijing as quickly as possible to report back to the Holy One!"

"The imperial fleet was attacked and probably all destroyed."

Then, Tomin'a couldn't bear it anymore and sat directly on the ground.

For him, even for the entire Jiangbei.

The sky is falling!

Innocence is shattered!

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Tianjin battlefield!

Tan Tingxiang, the governor of Zhili, led seven or eight thousand soldiers and horses, abandoned Dagukou, and fled desperately.

He kept his head buried and ran away.

It took a day and a night to run more than a hundred miles.

Finally escaped to Tianjin City.

Then he breathed a long sigh of relief.

A big city like this can give people a sense of security.

After entering Tianjin, he fell into another kind of uneasiness.

What should I do next?

Now the emperor is waiting for him to send good news every day.

Now, Tan Tingxiang finally understood Ye Mingchen's situation at that time. The emperor seemed to be addicted to good news.

Once you send him good news, you should send it every day and send several waves of people a day to remind him.

And it must be a happy news.

Once you send out good news at the beginning, if the news later is not good news, or not so good news, the emperor will be unhappy.

What should we do now?

Dagokou is lost.

Tan Tingxiang racked his brains and thought of various ways.

Put the blame on Ronglu and say it was all his fault of the Tianjin New Army that led to the fall of Dagukou?

No, he, Tan Tingxiang, is the coach. He cannot escape the blame for the defeat.

Moreover, Tianjin and Beijing are too close, and the emperor has many people here.

I can't hide it no matter what.

After many days of fierce fighting, they moved into Tianjin and lured the enemy deeper?

This doesn’t work either!

After a while, the Admiral of Zhili and the Tianjin General Soldier came in and asked Tan Tingxiang to give orders on how to defend Tianjin City.

Tan Tingxiang said: "Our Tianjin is a big city with high and thick walls. The foreign barbarians only have more than a thousand troops, so why can't they attack us?"

"When the foreign barbarians attacked Guangzhou, they had an army of tens of thousands."

"Yangyi's naval guns are at sea and cannot hit Tianjin City. Only a few ships along the Baihe River can hit Tianjin."

"The emperor's decree allows me to resist for a month and wait for Wang Shiqing's new army to come for reinforcements."

"Then, staying in Tianjin City for a month is the same."

"With tens of thousands of troops, it's impossible to defend a city as big as Tianjin for a month."

"Since Su Yi's new army is said to be powerful, let's just wait for Su Yi's new army."

The governor-general of Zhili is so negative, let alone the people below.

Next, although generals at all levels were setting up defenses, their morale was completely different.

When they were at Dagokou, many Qing troops still had a spirit of bloody courage.

But now, I just feel frustrated!

And right now!

There was a shrill ringing of bells outside.

Immediately afterwards, the sergeant rushed in.

"Commander, it's not good, it's not good!"

"The foreign fleet is here."

Tan Tingxiang was shocked.

Is Yang Yi crazy? I have just withdrawn to Tianjin City with my army, and your battleship is here?

Then, Tan Tingxiang climbed onto the city wall and looked out.

Sure enough, the White River was densely packed with foreign warships. (Baihe, now called Haihe)

They didn't fire first, but kept gathering.

Next, the entire city of Tianjin fell into extreme unrest.

Countless people were hiding at home.

Although tens of thousands of soldiers guarded their respective positions, their morale was low and they were terrified.

There are more and more Western warships on the Baihe River.

then……

Fire again!

"Boom boom boom boom..."

Historically, Western warships only bombarded the suburbs of Tianjin.

At this time, these naval guns were bombarding the Tianjin city wall indiscriminately.

The entire city fell into extreme unrest.

Almost every half an hour, there is a bombing!

However, the entire Tianjin garrison planned to just do nothing.

like a statue.

And next, something even more terrifying happened.

The Western Marines landed again, about two thousand people.

This army appeared outside Tianjin.

At this time, the panic in Tianjin reached its extreme.

Just when everyone thought that the foreign army was going to officially attack Tianjin.

The British commander just looked at the top of Tianjin City with contempt.

then!

The Western warships on the White River actually moved.

However, it is not towards the Bohai Sea.

Instead, go straight up along the White River.

This...are you going to enter Beijing?

Beyond the Baihe River, it is the Yongding River.

Yongding River leads directly to the capital.

Although, a section of the Yongding River is silted up and is impassable.

But the small foreign warships can really approach the capital along the Yongding River indefinitely.

Then, two thousand British and French marines marched toward the capital along the south bank of the White River, protected by battleships.

Tan Tingxiang, the governor of Zhili, was terrified.

Yangyi, what does this mean?

This, instead of attacking Tianjin, they are going to directly attack Beijing?

Are foreigners crazy?

But regardless of whether the foreigners are crazy, Tan Tingxiang is definitely going crazy.

If Dagokou falls, Tan Tingxiang may not die.

Even if Tianjin city falls, he may not die.

But... if the foreign troops are allowed to reach outside the capital, then he, the governor of Zhili, will die!

At this time, he couldn't care about anything else.

He shouted: "Send people to Beijing quickly, send people to Beijing, and inform the emperor!"

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Note: I woke up after sleeping for more than three hours to type, so I wrote this chapter at eleven o'clock.

I can’t think of anything to say to ask for a monthly ticket, so I’ll knock one on the table for everyone! Thank you for your monthly ticket, I'm going to bed.

(End of this chapter)