Chapter 211 Loyal and Righteous Son

In the morning, a train stopped five or six kilometers away from Xizhimen Railway Station. As soon as the train stopped, it became lively the next moment. Two or four temporary workers, six people, or even eight people carried their burdens and unloaded the goods from Tianjin or Dagu from the train.

Ten days in a row, this area is ten miles away from the station, and it is as lively as an ant's nest every day. The whistle of the train sounded over the railway, and the white steam covered it like fog, transporting more and more soldiers and guns and ammunition from the south from Dagu to the capital. The train brought a large number of supplies, which were stored, including food, ammunition, water and the army, and everything that might be used in an upcoming siege was transported here.

Almost after the restoration army arrived in the capital, the logistics department began to recruit workers around the capital. It was just a day's effort. A labor force of more than 6,000 people was formed under the encouragement of a "high salary" of one cents a day. The task of these people was to assist the war. When the three divisions that arrived in the capital from outside the customs pulled up a front around the capital and began to try to attack the capital, the group of workers began to unload combat supplies from Shanghai, Ma'anshan and other places from the train.

After several tentative sieges, the labor team began to be responsible for digging the foundation under the command of the officers. The workers built several solid concrete foundations at a distance of more than 100 meters from the railway. At the beginning, the officers and soldiers who jumped off the train did not know why they dug the foundation there.

However, when the workers made a group of big guys from the arsenal of the Tianjin Beiyang Army, people finally understood why the foundation was to be built. In the past three days, the most heavy task of the workers was probably to transport the dozens of tons of gun tubes from the train to the foundation.

"Try harder...hey..."

With the deafening sound of the trumpet, as the workers pushed the tail of the gun desperately, a thick barrel on the log kept rolling forward, and the gun body glowed with metal light in the sun. At this time, it was already stained with too much mud, and hundreds of workers dragged the heavy barrel like a mule in the mud.

"One 240mm cannon, two 210mm cannons, and six 150mm cannons!"

Lin Yuqing, who followed Cai E, looked a little proud. These cannons were "robbed" from the Tianjin Beiyang Armory. For this reason, he even visited Yuan Shikai specially, but when he visited, a team of officers and soldiers had occupied the armory.

"These cannons are all things that foreigners don't want after the demolition of the Dagu Fort! I didn't expect it to be cheap for us!"

Lin Yuqing grinned, but his face looked like he was taking advantage of it.

"Dagu is the gateway to Tianjin, the gateway to Tianjin and even Yanjing. Several foreign invasions continued to invade after the landing of Dagu. Before the invasion of the Eight-Nation Alliance, there were four forts on the north and south sides: the main fort is on the south bank of the mouth of the Haihe River, with 20 cannons installed; and there is a north fort on the north bank of the mouth of the Haihe River. There are 74 guns on it; there is also a new fort in the northwest of the North Fort, with a total of 20 guns installed; there is also a northwest fort in the northwest of the North Fort, and 20 guns are also installed. The guns on these forts are mostly Krup, Armstrong and domestic imitation products. They are extremely powerful. The forts are broken and the guns are transported away..."

"It's true! Commander, I checked the documents. The four 280mm and two 210mm Kryp cannons on the turret were pulled to Qingdao by the Germans. The two 800-pound all-steel back-prong guns made by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau were pulled to Lushunkou by Lao Maozi. The two families divided the Kryp cannons, leaving us not Jiangnan. The cannon made by the bureau is the Armstrong cannon. I guess if the two families didn't think it was troublesome to make the shells, I guess this guy wouldn't stay for us!"

Compared with the grief and indignation on Cai E's face when talking about something, Lin Yuqing showed a pity. In his opinion, the most regrettable thing was that those big guys had been pulled away.

"Commander-in-chief, if the two 800-pound guys are here, I will definitely bring them over, and then aim at the wall, connect them, and fire two cannons to ensure that the wall can be blown up to the sky! A bunch of bastards, Gengzi didn't see them work so hard at that time!"

Lin Yuqing, who was dozens of miles long and dozens of meters high, was the annoyed. He lost the lives of more than a hundred brothers on the city wall. Originally, he wanted to learn from the Eight-Nation Alliance to attack the capital from the sewer, but as a result, the Qing army, who had suffered a loss once in the year of Gengzi, actually blocked a few sewers with soil, which could not be taken by coincidence. Let's change to a strong attack. The troops were ordered to conduct a tentative reconnaissance of these gates in the west of Yanjing, and the result was also unsatisfactory.

"Gengzi, the foreigners came here. They were three points weaker when they saw the popularity of foreigners, and not many people wanted to fight with foreigners. When the Indians touched the outer city from the sewers, there were onlookers on both sides of the river. Even the Qing army was watching. No one shot. In Hangzhou, even eight or nine-year-old children went to the wall to defend it. When the foreigners came, they thought that they were just losing some money and cutting some land. Anyway, it's not theirs, but this time it's different. They know that if they lose, there will be nothing!"

Staring at the faint wall in the distance, Cai E said.

"Compared with all over the city, from now on, the twenty-four flags of the capital are slippery and slippery. In other places, not only men, but also old, weak, women and children are all up to the city. The city is jumping into the city, jumping into the well, and the whole family [***], but this place..."

He shook his head. The backbone of Manren was manifested in those small places. As for the capital, the news from the city was that many of the flag people who had recruited, that is, they did not work hard.

"It doesn't matter whether he has backbone or not. Anyway, I'm sure about this city!"

Lin Yuqing's eyes showed the impulse of some young people, and he stared at the wall.

"Commander-in-chief, these 5,000 heavy shells have been shipped from Ma'anshan and Shanghai today. You can't bear to..."

Turning his head and looking at the commander-in-chief, Lin Yuqing knew that the commander-in-chief was sending warships from Guangzhou to the capital. There was no way that the troops in the capital now, that is, the Guangfu Army and the Beiyang Army. The young master would not agree with Yuan Shikai to command the troops, so he transferred him from Guangzhou to the capital.

As for the inside story mentioned by some people, it is not what he considered. The adaptation of the Second Army in Guangzhou and what to prevent local officers from supporting troops from being self-respecting, all have nothing to do with him. In Lin Yuqing's view, whether it is the commander-in-chief of the family or the commander-in-chief in front of them, if they want to betray the young master... No wonder he is.

The 5,000 shells he said are new shells made by Jiangnan and Ma'anshan Arsenal. They use bitter acid high explosives as charges, which are much more powerful than the black gunpowder used in the old shells. They were originally produced in the fort of Wusong, Guangzhou, Xiamen and other places after the restoration, but now But he was transferred to the capital.

"How can the ancient capitals of the two dynasties be completely destroyed by the flames of war? Let me write another letter of persuasion!"

Cai E shook his head. In his heart, he did not want to see the ancient capital of the two dynasties destroyed by war. Almost as soon as he arrived in the capital, he ordered to stop shelling and bombing of the capital. In the past few days, the division commander Lin mobilized all 132 cannons and fired more than 50,000 shells into the capital. Perhaps for him The greatest glory is to take down the capital.

"Women's benevolence!"

He muttered in his heart, but there was not much emotion on his face. Lin Yuqing just looked at the 240mm cannon being assembled. If he didn't come, he would definitely bombard the palace as soon as the cannon was assembled.

At noon, the plane that took off from the Xishan campus flew into the capital again and dropped a letter of persuasion written by Cai E, who had just taken office as the commander-in-chief of the northern theater. The letter of persuasion to surrender must be given in the city before noon on the fourth day of June. If you don't answer, you will immediately start attacking the city. There is a paragraph of the intention of the persuasion to persuade Cai E to surrender. .

"I can't bear to destroy the buildings of the capital's two dynasties, so I can persuade you with reason!"

At noon, the Empress Dowager Cixi suddenly found that the sound of gunfire for ten days had disappeared! The light golden sunlight slanted down from the palace wall! The Empress Dowager Cixi listened to the disappearance of the gunfire, but she was there thinking that it was the arrival of the army of King Qin or the assistance of various countries, "Old Buddha, Old Buddha!"

Suddenly, there was a cry of panic, which broke her imagination. The Empress Dowager Cixi looked out of the window and saw Yi Qian rushing in, and Li Lianying had already greeted her. There is no need to wait for Li Lianying to come in to report. The Empress Dowager Cixi stepped out of the door with the curtain by herself.

"Old Buddha!" His look changed greatly, and his head was full of sweat.

"Come on, come on, it's too late if you don't leave!"

The Empress Dowager Cixi, who was still fantasizing about a glimmer of hope just now, was shocked and asked urgently.

"This...what's going on?"

"The people who stayed on duty in the embassy told me that they said that the rebel army had got more than a dozen cannons from the Tianjin Beiyang warehouse. When they pressed them outside the city, they were about to bombard the city wall. If they didn't persuade them to surrender, they would not open the city and surrender tomorrow, they would attack the city. If they would not leave, they would really not leave."

Yi Qian connected and answered a sentence.

"Isn't it a cannon? These days, there are a lot of shots!"

"Old Buddha, you have to go!"

Yi said angrily.

"And it has to be fast."

The rebel army is still outside the city, separated by an outer city and the inner city. There is no need to panic too much about the last Forbidden City. Why did these cannons scare him? The rebel army failed to open the city wall after ten days. What's terrible?

"Laofo, you don't know that... The cannon was removed from the Dagu Fort. In the past, it was all warships, and warships could sink. This... This city wall is almost the same as paper paste. Guangzhou... Guangzhou was sunk by a cannon!"

The Empress Dowager Cixi, who was shocked, asked urgently.

"At this point, I'm afraid I'm really going to leave! Can you protect yourself?

"I can't afford this heavy burden!"

Yi Qian replied.

"There are no soldiers in my hands, not to mention that even if there are soldiers, they may not be able to go out of the city."

"That,"

The Empress Dowager Cixi pondered a little and said hurriedly.

"Find the military aircraft quickly!"

The military aircraft minister did not call himself, but only two came, one was Qu Hongyu and the other was Rongqing. They also came to warn that they could see the coastal defense cannons outside the city with binoculars from the wall, but when they asked how many doors there were, they were not clear.

"I ask the holy driver to go out of the patrol immediately, otherwise I can't bear to go on."

Qu Hongqi knelt on the ground and pleaded.

"Go! I also know that I should go. However, at this time, how to go? Where are you going? Have you ever thought about it?

Qu Hongzhen and Yiqi immediately looked at each other speechlessly. They only sighed that the city was surrounded and there was indeed no possibility of escaping. That is, they escaped, but where did they fled? Thinking about her own life, the Empress Dowager Cixi couldn't help crying, and there were countless grudges in her heart.

"I invited the Empress Dowager to stay in the palace!"

Rong Qing, who was ridiculed as a "pure minister" because the official was very honest and honest, suddenly knelt down and said.

Qu Hongzhen and Yiqi stared at Rongqing, who was kneeling on the ground, and suddenly became angry.

"You...you...Rong Laosi, what are you doing!"

Yi Qian jumped up and pointed to Rongqing and scolded.

"I invited the Empress Dowager and the emperor to stay in the palace. If the city is broken, I will be martyred!"

Rong Qing, who was kneeling down, said again that he did not invite the emperor who was "in-government again", but ran here to invite the empress dowager, just because he knew that the emperor's in-government was just a show, and it was the empress dowager who was really in charge.

"You...you..."

The blue-faced Cixi pointed to Rongqing, and she couldn't speak. She didn't expect that Rongqing, who she pulled up in one hand, would say this at this time. Although she wanted to be martyred to the country, he did not die in the year of Geng Zinian himself... "I asked the empress dowager to give a decree to encourage the officials and the people to coexist with the capital. If the city breaks the empress dowager, the emperor will The newspaper..."

At this time, two more people came, one was Wang Wenshao and Lu Chuanlin. The two had just arrived at the military minister Zhilu. When they heard that the Empress Dowager Cixi had summoned, they immediately rushed to wait for the order.

"When I came, the military report came from General Liang on the wall."

Wang Wenshao, who knelt down, hurriedly reported.

"The anti-military cannon has been set up, and it can be fired into the capital at any time."

The Empress Dowager Cixi, who had scolded Rong Lao Si accurately, was suddenly confused when she heard this. She only looked at the ministers and said it for a long time.

"So, what should I do?"

Who should answer this? The military aircraft ministers have arrived. Naturally, the foreman should be answered by the military aircraft, but now he has no idea at all. The only idea is to escape.

"Prince Qing must have a way!"

Seeing that King Qing did not want to speak, Lu Chuanlin pushed the words to King Qing.

"Please ask the Empress Dowager to ask King Qing."

"There is no other way."

Yi Qian said with his scalp.

"I have to escape to the embassy."

"Is the embassy willing to take us in?"

The Empress Dowager Cixi asked.

"Yes! Although the embassy was withdrawn, the counselor still stayed here. He said that he was willing to take in the emperor and the empress dowager.

"Yi Ben, I didn't expect that in the end, our mother and I would escape to Japan like Kang Liang and the rebel party!"

Thinking that the Empress Dowager Cixi finally choked.

Seeing this situation, the ministers met and blamed themselves together, but the Empress Dowager Cixi wiped her tears and asked by name.

"Lu Chuanlin, what do you think I should do?"

"There is another way to give it a try. Hurry up and send a telegram to Yuan Shikai in Tianjin and Zhang Zhidong in Nanjing. They were all favored by the empress dowager. Although they followed Chen Yi, they still have some old feelings and make peace with Chen Yi. As long as they can keep the sence of the royal family, they can agree to any conditions, as long as Chen Wei agrees. If there are other envoys from various countries as guarantors, in the future, whether Chen Yi will be the president or the emperor, he will not dare to leave the royal family.

Lu Chuanlin paused for a moment and said:

"It's better to do this than to escape to the embassy to avoid outsiders, and it's more face-looking."

"And Duan Fang, he is also in an important position in Nanjing now, and he has to send him a telegram!"

Wang Wenshao added that everyone who can think of it has to think about it.

The Empress Dowager Cixi, who had no idea at this time, nodded repeatedly.

"That's the only way to do it, that's the only way to do it! Hurry up and do it. The sooner the better!"

She added another sentence in a trembling voice.

"The surnames of our mother and son are all here."

As soon as she said this, Rongqing, who had been kneeling on the ground, suddenly laughed. With misery in his laughter, he looked at the people in the room.

"Good!"

With a long voice, Rongqing stood up. He looked at the empress dowager and stared at the military ministers.

"In the year of Jia Shen, Li Thieves broke the city, and Emperor Chongzhen hanged the coal mountain and died in the country. The imperial princes and relatives in the imperial city were martyred in the sea, but what about now? For 260 years, the backbone of this flag man and the integrity of the scribe have been fucking lost!"

There is no greater sorrow than heart death. At this time, Rongqing still cares about the division of dignity and inferiority as before. Some of them are just the sadness of death when he sees this ugly scene. He didn't expect that at the moment of the subjugation of the country, from the empress dowager to the military ministers, one by one, they thought about either to escape or surrender.

"You... celebrate the big boss of the company!"

Rong Qing pointed to Yi Qian.

"When the nine doors were closed, I began to transport my things to the embassy. There were also more than one million taels of silver in foreign banks in Tianjin. You...you...and you...you...you all want to escape, save your life, and save your own money, but some of them are thinking about the Qing Dynasty!"

A questioning only made everyone lower their heads and didn't want to see the crazy Rong Lao Si. Rong Qing, who had no scruples, pointed his hand at Cixi again.

"Old Buddha, Empress Dowager, you are also thinking about running away and surrendering. In the year of Gengzi, you fled. You tried your best to measure the power of China and form the heart of friendship. Can the hearts of the people in the world not be dispersed? Can the people not oppose it? This time, your old man is going to surrender the rebel party again. All dynasties..."

The Empress Dowager Cixi, who had never been scolded like this since she became the Empress Dowager. Listening to his words, her expression changed greatly. The corners of her mouth and her right eye were pulled, and the blue veins of her temples protruded. The blood-blooded angry face, Li Lianying, who had seen more than once, still felt very terrible.

"Bold, drag this damn bastard slave out and kill me!"

(to be continued)