Chapter 253 Tears
In order to get rid of Zhou Charter and his subordinates, Cixi took three-prongs.
First, send people to contact the Japanese and promise to cede Liaodong in exchange for the Japanese army to stop attacking, so as to free up their hands and pull out the 100,000 Qing troops against the Japanese and transfer them to the front line of the Yalu River.
Second, Song Qing ordered his troops to gather on the front line of the Yalu River to prevent Zhang Jun from returning to China, so as not to echo Zhang Jun and Guangxu. When the time is ripe, the army will cross the Yalu River and eliminate Zhang Jun's forces in Pyongyang.
Third, Li Hongzhang was ordered to contact the Russian minister to agree to the Middle East railway plan proposed by the Russians in exchange for the Russians to remain neutral. Once the Qing army went to war with Zhang Jun, Russia would not provide any assistance to Zhang Jun, and even, if possible, Russia sent troops into northern North Korea. Cixi even promised the Russians that northern North Korea will be Russia's sphere of influence in the future.
Cixi has laid out the situation. Cixi is not worried about the Russians and Japanese. These foreigners want benefits. Driven by interests, they will act according to the will of the Empress Dowager.
Cixi is most worried about Song Qing!
Actually, as long as it is the army of the Qing Dynasty, Cixi is not at ease!
Can Zhou Charter rebel, and won't others rebel?
Cixi will press a nail beside Song Qing!
This nail, Minxiu is the best candidate!
She is the niece of the Empress Dowager, and she is full of hatred for Zhou Charter!
It's just that Minxiu is a girl. Although she likes to fool around in the barracks, she is still a lay man for marching.
It is difficult to deal with Zhou Charter, even the generals of the Qing Dynasty, not to mention a little woman who grew up in the family of princes!
Cixi secretly summoned Yetao. Now, the father and son of the Ye family have become the prince of Duan and become the red man around the Empress Dowager. Ye Zhichao has been released from prison. Now he is idle at home. There have been rumors that Ye Zhichao will become an official again.
Yetao recommended Duan Qirui to Cixi.
Duan Qirui is a graduate of the first phase of Tianjin Wubei School, and his graduation results are "the best". In the winter of 1888, Duan Qirui was allowed to study in Germany with the first place. He entered the Berlin Military Academy with official fees and studied artillery for a year and a half. At the same time, there were five students who went to Germany, including Lai Chuanwu, who was personally ordered by Empress Dowager Cixi. After studying at the Berlin Military Academy, Duan Qirui stayed alone in the Essenkelber Arsenal for an internship. In 1890, he returned to China and served as a member of the Beiyang Ordnance Bureau. Later, he was transferred to Weihaiwei Military Academy as an instructor.
Among the previous graduates of Tianjin Martial Arts School, Duan Qirui is outstanding in terms of achievements, qualifications and abilities. Moreover, Duan Qirui has nothing to do with Zhou Charter. If the Empress Dowager can personally promote Duan Qirui, Duan Qirui will certainly repay her kindness.
Cixi agreed to Yetao's recommendation, personally awarded Duan Qirui the position of vice general of Wupin, and followed Minxiu to Song Qingying to serve his life.
In this way, Duan Qirui came to the Wuwei Army from Weihaiwei and served as the deputy general of the Hezi Army, while Minxiu disguised herself as a man, under the name Meng Mingshi, as the commander of the Hezi camp.
In fact, Duan Qirui is the military chief officer of the Hezi Army. Minxiu does not interfere in any military affairs and let Duan Qirui be the master.
Duan Qirui lived up to expectations. After coming to the Hezi Camp, he deployed the Hezi Camp to camp outside Jiulian City. Although it is not the forefront of the Yalu River, behind the whole Yalu River defense line, he can monitor all the front-line departments at any time, which is also the core task of the Hezi Army.
In the daytime, Li Guoge ordered people to clean up the snow in the Hushan Valley and opened a five-meter-wide passageway in order to facilitate the passage of Zhang Jun. This action aroused Duan Qirui's vigilance.
The snow in Hushan Valley is extremely deep. In order to transport military supplies, it is also necessary to clean up the snow, but there is no need to clear such a wide passage.
This channel must be prepared for the passage of large troops!
Duan Qirui quietly covered a pocket array at the Hushan Pass.
At the beginning, Duan Qirui did not expect that Zhou Charter would personally lead Zhang Jun to cross the river. He thought that Li Guoge had opened a passage in the valley to provide food, grass and ammunition for Zhang Jun. Duan Qirui knew that Zhang Jun's logistical support in North Korea was extremely difficult and would definitely find ways to obtain supplies. The Empress Dowager Buddha has made up her mind to get rid of Zhang Jun, and to get rid of Zhang Jun, the first thing to do is to trap Zhang Jun in North Korea and block Zhang Jun's logistics supply line.
When Zhang Jun appeared at the Hushan Pass, Duan Qirui found that this was a large army of more than 2,000 people. What surprised Duan Qirui more was that Zhou Charter, the general of Zhang Jun, appeared in the team.
Although the Empress Dowager Buddha did not publicly declare Zhou Charter as a traitor, Duan Qirui knew that the layout of the Empress Dowager Buddha was to attack North Korea and destroy the Zhou Charter in the future. And now, Zhou Charter is automatically sent to the door, which is a good thing falling from the sky.
What surprised Duan Qirui more was that Zhou Charter did not resist and was automatically bound.
Duan Qirui arrested Zhou Charter, but he did not dare to make his own determination. Although Zhou Charter has offended Buddha, until now, he is still the general of Yizhou and the prime minister of North Korea, and a senior official of the Qing Dynasty. Only the emperor and the empress dowager can handle Zhou's charter, and then, he and Shuo Gemin embroidery on behalf of the empress dowager!
So, Duan Qirui brought Zhou Charter to Minxiu's military account.
Minxiu sat on the marching chair, and her hands and feet were cold.
There is a charcoal fire in the military tent, but the cold comes from the bottom of Minxiu's heart. The piercing cold freezes Minxiu's body into black ice!
For Zhou Charter, Minxiu came from the warm high house courtyard in Beijing to the Yalu River where the north wind roars. Her purpose is revenge!
She always thought that the other side of the Yalu River was her sworn enemy! For this enemy, she is willing to become the eagle claws of the Empress Dowager Buddha!
Now, Zhou Charter is standing in front of her, and Minxiu has finally firmly grasped the life and death of Zhou Charter!
However, Minxiu is not happy at all. On the contrary, her heart is boundless sadness!
Minxiu is a girl, but she is a girl who never cries.
She thinks she is strong enough. She looks down on those girls who shed tears easily. They are too pretentious!
However, today, when her enemy stood in front of her, Minxiu cried for the first time in her life!
She finally understood a truth - her so-called strength is actually that she has never experienced the hardships of life!
What can a man have with a master? From childhood to later, she didn't have to worry about food and clothing, or even that someone would fight against her! No one dares to provoke her. Everyone follows her nature. Does she have any reason to shed tears?
From childhood to age, there is only one person in the world who dares to fight against her!
So, she cried!
Duan Qirui found Minxiu's tears and hurriedly said, "General Meng, with humble military affairs, so he will leave." Duan Qirui is a smart man. Ge Ge's tears told him that he still didn't know too much about some things!
Minxiu's tears stopped abruptly: "Is there any military business that is more urgent than this!"
"Yes!" Duan Qirui had to stay in the military tent, with vague worries in his heart. He was extremely smart. Minxiu's tears told him that it would not be a great achievement to catch Zhou Charter. If he didn't do it well, it would cause him big trouble.
"What are you doing back?" Minxiu asked coldly. There were no tears in her eyes, but they were full of cold light.
Zhou Charter no longer dares to be slippery. He suddenly found that Minxiu's tears were as crystal clear as Jin Shu's tears, which was equally frightening!
These are two completely different girls, but their tears are the same pure and flawless!
The eyes are the window of the soul, but tears are the exit of the soul!
Zhou Charter sighed in his heart, how could a girl with such tears be a bad girl?
"I'm going back to Liaodong!"
"What are you doing?"
Zhou Charter popped out of his teeth: "Revenge!"
Minxiu and the cherry trembled slightly. They saw two flames in Zhou Charter's eyes.
"For whom to avenge?" Cherry asked urgently.
Zhou Charter moved his body and said to Duan Qirui, "Brother Duan, please take down the dog skin bag on my waist."
Duan Qirui looked at Minxiu, and Minxiu nodded slightly.
Duan Qirui took off his dog leather bag and sent it to several cases in front of Minxiu.
Minxiu gently opened the dog leather bag, which contained a pile of photos.
Then, Minxiu suddenly closed her eyes! And the cherry next to him made a scream!
In the photo, there are mountains of incomplete corpses, man who had a caesarean section and breasts. The woman in the room, the headless child, the fragmented old man, and the smiling executioner next to the body!
It was a brutal killing carried out by the so-called civilized army in Lushun!
The Japanese army claims to be a new army of modern civilization, but their behavior is worse than that of barbarians!
They are defiling civilization!
In the eyes of Japanese soldiers, the people of the Qing Dynasty are not even as good as pigs and dogs! They are killing innocent people in Lushun by slaughtering!
Incredibly, the court of the Qing Dynasty did not say a word about it!
Three months have passed since this incident, and the court has never explained to its subjects that there was a tragedy of Japanese slaughtering the city in Lushun! They didn't even protest to the Japanese!
The Japanese do not treat the Chinese as human beings, and the imperial court also does not regard their people as human beings!
"Where is this? Who did it?" Minxiu gritted her teeth and asked.
"Lushun! The first division of the Japanese army, the commander of the division, Yamaji!" Zhou Charter gritted his teeth and said, "This is a Japanese war correspondent. His name is Tsuaki Kamei. The Japanese killed him in order to kill him."
"Lushun!" Minxiu's body trembled and made a trembling sound: "Why didn't the Empress Dowager Buddha talk about it, the emperor didn't talk about it, and no one in the princes and ministers of the capital talked about it!"
Duan Qirui sighed: "Guge, Americans and the British have talked about this matter, but the emperor and the empress dowager..." Duan Qirui shook his head and sighed.
Cherry asked in a trembling voice, "General Duan, is this true?"
Duan Qirui nodded. The Japanese army slaughtered the city in Lushun and has already spread all over Shandong.