Chapter 200 conquer Tongzhou

"King of Liao?" Hearing this word made Zhao Dongyun spit out the sip of tea he was drinking!

Damn, can this old woman Cixi have nothing to entertain herself? What era is this? King of Liao, even if you give up the throne to me, I will consider it!

Now it is 1906. Among the people, the consciousness of 'country' and 'nation' has been initially awakened. I have not seen a large number of revolutionaries making trouble every day to talk about republicanism. At this time, shouting republican slogans in response to the current situation is the awareness that a politician should have.

After the absurdity of the first few seconds, Zhao Dongyun couldn't help thinking of another idea. This is king. Countless heroes have been fighting for it for thousands of years since ancient times!

If you don't consider the objective facts, that is to say, don't consider what will happen to the queen, whether the generals under your command will support it, and whether there will be a lot of abuse in China. To be honest, it is still quite attractive to be king.

Every man has a lonely dream in his heart!

For a moment, Zhao Dongyun really wanted to agree to be a king of Liao, but then he thought of Cixi!

Later generations may have seen her ignorance and backwardness, which led to the defeat of the country, but if you open your eyes and look carefully, you will find that this woman is really not simple. She has been in power in China for half a century, and all the people who play politics with her will end up in tragedy...

It can be said that in the modern century, this woman has been the number one person to play with power. Unfortunately, she is a Manchu and represents the interests of the Manchu dynasty. If she is a Han dynasty and put it in the Han dynasty, she is estimated that she will be the women who praises countless emperors and Han in later generations...

Think about it carefully, Cixi has not done much in the past two months. When Yuan Shikai was not dead, she suppressed the royal faction and continued to support Yuan Shikai, thus calming the possible turmoil in Beiyang at that time. However, after Yuan Shikai was assassinated, she quickly changed her original intention and adopted a policy of soliciting differentiation. A Zhili governor and an army minister pulled Wang Shizhen and Feng Guozhang down the imperial camp, thus turning the dispute between Beiyang and the court into an internal dispute in Beiyang.

And now he has put his mind on Zhao Dongyun. He is a king of Liao, which has never been seen by many monarchs for more than 200 years in the Qing Dynasty.

With a history of more than 200 years, there have been only a few times that Han people have been made kings, and they were all in the early days. Well, those who were crowned are the famous Prince Wu Sangui of Pingxi, Geng Jingzhong, King of Jingnan, and King Pingnan of Guangdong. However, their end was relatively tragic, and they were later cut off by Kang Mazi.

As for the future, there has never been the title of Han people as king. Well, there are those who have been posthumously awarded to a few ministers after their death, but none of them have been sealed alive, let alone true.

Cixi's sentence not only made Zhao Dongyun the king of Liao, but also the words 'three provinces of the country', that is to say, this seal is a real seal. This kind of seal is not a king in the ordinary sense, which means that Zhao Dongyun will have independent military finance and even diplomatic internal affairs. Well, at that time, this so-called Liao and The relationship between the Qing Dynasty can be generally regarded as the relationship between the Qing Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty before the First Sino-Japanese War.

Such a large-scale ruler will never take it out, even if the country will be subjugated, but Cixi dares. Perhaps for her, this country is just a bargaining chip for her to play with power!

To tell the truth, it must be false that Zhao Dongyun is not interested in calling himself emperor, but he can come to this point. With the army of three towns and two associations, nearly 100,000 people from the Soviet line are loyal to him. He relies on not only playing machine gun tactics. Without any political means, he can't climb to this level today.

So although a trace of heartbeat flashed in his heart, he concealed it well and did not express it at all. Instead, he showed a shocked and unbelievable expression and said to Lin Shaonian, "I said that Lin Shumi, times have changed, and this old trick doesn't work!"

Lin Shaonian looked at Zhao Dongyun's gaffe before and after and now this sentence also made him feel cold. From the moment he saw Zhao Dongyun's gaffe and spraying tea, he knew that Zhao Dongyun would never agree to this condition!

If this kind of thing was placed 30 or 50 years ago, it may still be very attractive, but in this era when even the emperor was shouted to be expelled from power, it is better to give Zhao Dongyun hundreds of thousands of silver directly than the attraction of a king of Liao!

And take a step back and say that this king of Liao is only a false name for Zhao Dongyun, because without this king of Liao, who dares to say that the three eastern provinces are not his Zhao Dongyun's territory?

Accepting the king of Liao only got a false name, but the consequences of withdrawing from the army are extremely serious, even Zhao Dongyun can't bear it.

After listening to this, Lin Shaonian's face gradually became serious, and then said seriously, "Then in Yang's opinion, how can we stop this war!"

At this time, Zhao Dongyun stood up and said, "It's very simple. I, Zhao, have two requirements. First, correct the murderer of Yuan Gong! Second: Obey Yuan Gong's will and establish a constitution to create a republic! As long as the court agrees to these two items, I, Zhao, will withdraw from the customs immediately without saying a word!"

Looking at Zhao Dongyun's generous statement, a trace of anger flashed in Lin Shaonian's heart. Not to mention that both of them were agreed, and none of them could be agreed. Especially the former, Zhao Dongyun, Wang Yingkai and Duan Qirui listed the list of murderers of Yuan Gong. It was getting longer and longer. At the beginning, there were only Zai Feng, Zaixun, etc. People, and then with the official uprising, those who opposed the three coalition forces of Wang Duan and Zhao were included in this list. Now even Feng Guozhang and Wang Shizhen are among them, and several governors in the south who opposed them are also listed. Well, several military ministers such as Lin Shaonian and Qu Hongzhen are also on it!

It can be said that if the so-called murderers of Yuan Gong are corrected, it is estimated that more than half of the central and local ministers of the contemporary Qing court will die... Especially the important role in the royal family, it is estimated that except for Emperor Guangxu in the palace, everything else will have to die. Wang Yingkai even killed his three-year-old son, Fu Yidu. Included in it.

Although it seems that it is not a big problem to create a republic, what the Beiyang people require is a virtual monarch republic like Britain, that is to say, to give the royal family a little fancy every year, and come out as a signboard when necessary. At other times, the emperor will not care. I have a Beiyang people in everything!

Although the royal family has also been forced to agree to implement the constitution in recent years, what they want is a constitutional monarchy with real power. Referring to Germany and Japan, although the emperor has been limited by certain power, he still guarantees some power.

It can be said that the two conditions proposed by Zhao Dongyun are absolutely impossible for the Qing court to agree, because if it agrees not to use Zhao Dongyun and others to conquer the capital, the court itself will have to collapse first.

It can also be seen from the conditions put forward by Zhao Dongyun that Wang Duan and Zhao have no intention of negotiating with the imperial court at all, and they don't even have the intention to practice Xu Jun's constitutionalism. Whether it is Wang Yingkai, Duan Qirui or Zhao Dongyun, they all think about the presidency!

This secret negotiation is destined to be fruitless. After Lin Shaonian left, the third town led by Zhao Dongyun and the First Cavalry Association continued to launch a fierce attack on the east line of Beijing, especially the sixth association led by Gu Lanyu, which was quite active. After defeating one battalion after another in the sixth town, it has Successfully forced the Ministry of the Sixth Town to retreat!

Then the Sixth Association continued to advance, and this promotion also had a significant impact on the Tongzhou front line. It was thought that the direction of the Sixth Association's advance was the flank of Tongzhou, and it was estimated that the Sixth Association would be able to detour to the side of the Tongzhou defense line, and then the Sixth Town troops in Tongzhou would fall into The danger of attack back and forth.

In this case, Wang Shizhen can't take care of so much. Although it is important to stop Zhao Dongyun's third town, it is more important to keep the strength of his troops. Therefore, when the Sixth Association succeeded in detour, Wang Shizhen personally led the 12th Association of the Sixth Town to retreat from Tongzhou.

In the process of retreat, there will inevitably be losses, and at least hundreds of people will be lost.

After Wang Shizhen's sixth town completely retreated from the front line of Tongzhou, it also means that the battle of Tongzhou, which has been fighting fiercely for more than half a month, has come to an end!

"In the past 20 days, in a series of battles around the capture of Tongzhou, our army has invested a total of 10 infantry battalions, five cavalry battalions, three artillery battalions and several other troops, with a total combat and logistical force of 23,000. The enemy's defense of Tongzhou should include the 11th Association of the Sixth Town, all the 12th Association and artillery and other troops. In a series of battles, our army caused more than 1,800 casualties, captured more than 200 people, captured 500 guns and six artillery pieces.

This is just an estimate of the casualties of the enemy, because it is difficult to count the enemy's casualties on the battlefield. It can only be said that it is approximate, but the casualties data of the third town itself will be much more accurate.

Fang Biyong continued: "Since our army entered the customs, it has been fighting for more than a month. At present, a total of 220 people have been killed and 1870 injured!"

After listening to this casualty number, Zhao Dongyun secretly estimated the comparison of casualties and felt that this data was still relatively objective. He mainly attacked, while the sixth town opposite relied on fortification defense, but his casualty rate was still smaller than that of the other party, which showed that there was no blind attack at the grassroots level of the army, but sufficient It has played mortars, circuitous maneuvers and other tactics.

Of course, this is also related to the low casualty rate of Beiyang troops. Although the sixth town has only retreated after more than 1,000 casualties, but how many people there are in the sixth town, which is only 12,000 in total. Even if some temporary conscripted soldiers are strengthened, the number will not exceed 15,000. Now the proportion of casualties has exceeded More than 10%.

And this casualty ratio is actually quite good for a modern army that only relies on personal loyalty and money!