Super dictator.

Last time, Cixi asked Guizi Liu how things were going.

This time, I will continue to talk about it last time.

Although Cixi was sitting in the bath, some parts of her shoulders were exposed to the water, and it was quite special in the misty bath.

But Yixin said without looking sideways: "The American Tian Bei is willing to mediate and secretly communicate with Japan."

The mediation by the British was unsuccessful, so Cixi approached the American ambassador to China Tian Bei to continue mediating, and this time she planned to hire an American as a consultant to go to Japan to seek peace.

Cixi nodded and said: "Now that Lushun has been captured by the Japanese, our Qing Dynasty's Beiyang defense line has been opened. Fortunately, Nie Shicheng led his troops in Dakaoling to achieve a great victory. Presumably the Japanese will not open their mouths."

Cixi underestimated the appetite of the Japanese too much. Although there was a small defeat on the Eastern Front, but the capture of Lushun, the entire Bohai Sea area was left to gallop with his navy, and he could directly attack the Beijing and Tianjin areas of the Qing Dynasty. How could the Japanese be willing to let it go.

"By the way, have you thought about who is going to negotiate?" Cixi asked again.

"Returning to Lafayette, the servant thinks that Zhang Yinhuan, the servant of the household department, can be appointed as a full-fledged minister first. If the peace negotiation is blocked, he can then send a higher-level official to go." Yi Xin replied respectfully.

After thinking for a while, Yi Xin said again: "If the emperor strives for war, he may ruin the important matter of peace."

Cixi said displeasedly: "The hair on the emperor's mouth has not yet grown, and he is young and energetic. What do you know? Now my Qing Dynasty is in danger, as if it is on the crater of a volcano, and it will erupt at any time. The orders of the governors of all places to the capital Yang Fengyin violates, my Qing Dynasty now has more internal troubles than foreign troubles, if it wins the war against Japan, it will be fine, once it loses, the Qing Dynasty will exist in name only and be controlled by Han people everywhere."

Yixin nodded and said, "Yes, the emperor is too young to think about things enough. Now that the war has been defeated again and again, if we don't talk about peace, what will be the face of the Qing Dynasty when the Japanese capture my 'Land of Longxing'? Not far from death."

The land of Longxing in the Qing Dynasty refers to Fengtian, which is also the target of the Japanese First Army, but fortunately it was temporarily blocked by the Eastern Route Army.

The two worried about the war again, and Cixi winked at Li Lianying.

Li Lianying hurriedly withdrew and dismissed the serving maids, leaving only Yixin and Cixi in the room.

"Sixth Prince, are you still blaming the Ai family for dismissing you back then?" Ci Xi suddenly asked quietly.

Back then, Guizi Liu's prestige almost surpassed Cixi's. Cixi could tolerate it, but the royal family had no family affection.

"Slaves don't dare!" Guizi Liu said with no expression of joy or anger on his face. After being abandoned for more than ten years, I believe that no matter who it is, it will be unwilling.

"If you don't dare, why haven't you been walking around the palace all these years?" Cixi suddenly stood up and questioned.

"Lafayette is busy with everything, and the slaves dare not enter the palace to disturb him." Yi Xin swallowed and said.

"Really? Ai's family is fine today." With a light tug, Cixi pulled Yixin into the bathtub.

After Yiketang'a failed to attack Phoenix City, he quickly returned to defend Lianshan Pass and Saimaji area, and did not give the Fifth Division any other opportunities.

In addition, Youpeng of Shan County deliberately adjusted his strategy, focusing on the west road, and on the east front, the war eased down for a while.

Apart from following Nie Shicheng to patrol the defense line and visit the wounded soldiers all day long, Wei Jichen went to the training base in his own room to train as hard as he could, hoping to improve his marksmanship and martial arts to a higher level.

After Nie Shicheng led most of the troops back to Dakaoling, the imperial court's awards also came down.

This time Guangxu was very generous, maybe because of the long drought and nectar, he couldn't help but feel unhappy, Wei Jichen was promoted from deputy general to chief soldier, from a second-rank officer to a full-time second-rank officer.

As the commander-in-chief of Nanyang Town, Wei Jichen didn't even know where Nanyang was, but that didn't stop him from being the commander-in-chief of Nanyang Town. Stationed in Lutai, Tianjin.

When he becomes the general soldier, he can bring several battalions of troops in his hands, but Wei Jichen is obviously still a solitary battalion now, and only the Weizi battalion is in his charge. Of course, once a battalion officer acts with him, Wei Jichen It will be able to crush people to death with a senior official.

The garrison of the Qing army in Dagaoling became very happy for a while. If it hadn’t been for the news that the Japanese captured Lushun and it was not appropriate to celebrate, they would have fallen out a long time ago. Even so, the generals were much more friendly when they met each other.

Even some generals of the Ming Army nodded and smiled when they met Wei Jichen. Everyone is sensible. If Wei Jichen hadn’t won the flag of the [-]th Regiment and killed Major General Li Jianshang of the [-]th Brigade last time, the court would not have What a rich reward there will be.

Now that the military flag has been handed over to the imperial court, I heard that Li Hongzhang used that flag to make a fuss everywhere. If the Japanese had not just captured Lushun, their morale might have plummeted.

Even so, the Japanese were very annoyed. I heard that Youpeng from Shan County sent a special telegram to the Japanese base camp requesting his resignation as the commander of the First Army for this matter.

And Wei Jichen's letter of "Today is Lijian Shangwen, tomorrow is Nozu Daoguan, and the day after tomorrow is Shanxian Youpeng" and Lijian Shangwen's head were also received by Shanxian Youpeng.

A friend from Shan County was hit by this double blow, and I heard that they were all the same person. Wei Jichen from China did it, and couldn't help being so angry that he didn't go out in his room for three days. to what extent.

On this day, Nie Shicheng called the generals to discuss matters again. Unlike the last time he learned about the court's awards, Nie Shicheng seemed a little worried this time.

Wei Jichen, Hu Dianjia, Zhou Dingchen, Ma Jinxu and others stood up in the big tent.

Wei Jichen took a quick look and found that Nie Shicheng had only summoned his direct descendants and some generals of the Yi Army this time. It seemed that the matter was not related to the entire Dakaoling.

When all the generals lined up on both sides and were silent, Nie Shicheng said: "Everyone, Xiuyan guards Feng Sheng'a and Nie Guilin sent me a letter asking for help. Deploy 2000 troops to support."

Youpeng in Shan County stepped up the offensive on the west road, and Nie Shicheng knew it. Now that the two generals sent another letter for help, he had no choice but to send troops to reinforce it.

The crowd started to look up and down, lowering their heads not to meet Nie Shicheng's eyes. It is not a good thing to go for reinforcements. Not to mention the fatigue along the way, if the reinforcements are not in time, they will be punished.

Wei Jichen thought for a while, and he felt that there was not much fighting on the east road now, and it was not an option to stay here all the time. He couldn't even earn a little merit, so he might as well go to the west road to try his luck, maybe the main task would be returned to himself finished.

Thinking of this, Wei Jichen no longer hesitated, took a step forward and said, "This subordinate is willing to go to reinforce Xiuyan."

Nie Shicheng nodded in satisfaction, but Wei Jichen didn't have that many people under his command. Although he had supplemented his battalion not long ago, it was only about [-] people.

Nie Shicheng turned his attention to Ma Jinxu, the general of the Yi army. Ma Jinxu happened to have more than 1000 people under his command, plus Wei Jichen's troops, isn't that just right?

What's more, among all the armies, only Yi Jun can be trusted by Nie Shicheng.

Ma Jinxu was uncomfortable with Nie Shicheng's gaze, so he had no choice but to step forward and said, "Biaoxia is also willing to lead the troops to Xiuyan!"

"Okay, the two of you will lead 2000 troops to reinforce Xiuyan, Zijie, the old man will assign the first battalion of the 'Fengjun' under your command, and you will be in command of the 1000 troops. I hope you will not let the old man down." Nie Shi said earnestly. Said.

"Thank you Nie Shuai for your attention, Zijie will definitely live up to expectations." Wei Jichen bowed and replied solemnly.

Fengjun was originally stationed in Fengtian, Jilin. At the beginning of the First Sino-Japanese War, seven battalions accompanied Zuo Baogui, the commander-in-chief of Gaozhou Town, to fight in North Korea. Later, Zuo Baogui died in battle and was killed in Pyongyang.

The few battalions of Fengjun under him naturally had to accept the fate of being reorganized everywhere.

Seeing that the important matter had been decided, all the generals smiled and started talking and laughing, as if they were not the ones who lowered their heads just now.

"General Ma, please take care of me in the future." Wei Jichen greeted Ma Jinxu with a smile.

Ma Jinxu returned a salute with a smile, and carefully looked at this young but well-known general soldier Wei. He was already in his 30s when he thought he was promoted to the position of general soldier. .

"The name of the god of death, Zijie, can make the Japanese collapse and run away. Ma will rely on you a lot in the future." Ma Jinxu said jokingly.

In the last battle, many Japanese soldiers were captured. When these prisoners saw Wei Jichen, they yelled 'Death' in horror. Suddenly, the name of Wei Jichen's death began to spread.

"General Ma was joking. Who doesn't know that you blocked the reinforcements from the Japanese so that our army could quickly wipe out the [-]th Regiment." Don't be stingy with your compliments.

Sure enough, Ma Jinxu smiled and said: "It's easy to say, easy to say, Ma has to go down and make some preparations."

"General Ma, go slowly!"

After everyone had left, Wei Jichen went up to meet Nie Shicheng alone.

"Nie Shuai, boy Wei Ziying is still short of a sentry officer, and now I'm here to ask Nie Shuai for someone." Wei Jichen had a look on his face that if you don't give me, I'll be with you forever.

Nie Shicheng took a sip of tea lightly, and then said calmly: "Zijie won't fall in love with anyone in my camp again."

The last time Wei Jichen valued his personal soldier Wang Huaiqing, and then tortured Nie Shicheng for a few days, and finally passed.

Wang Huaiqing is also a well-known figure in later generations. During the period of the Republic of China, this person was known as General Toilet. Because he marched and fought, everyone liked to carry a toilet. I don't know if it was for convenience or something else.

When he chooses soldiers, he never asks about marksmanship or war skills, as long as they are loyal and reliable, so he mostly chooses loyal and honest soldiers from the countryside, but their combat effectiveness is not very good.

Fortunately, this person has another great advantage, that is, he is also a loyal and brave person. When the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China in later generations, Nie Shicheng died in battle, and Wang Huaiqing insisted on carrying his body. Handed over to the hands of the Nie family.

"It's easy to say, easy to say! Nie Shuai, brother Rongcai is very talented and has a soldier's armor hidden in his chest. Can you borrow brother Rongcai to serve as a sentry officer in our army?" Wei Jichen asked seriously.

Unexpectedly, after Nie Shicheng listened, he spouted the tea he had just drunk into his mouth with a puff.