Chapter 44 Peace talks (4)

"Nie Shicheng and the others are very hard, it can be said that it is even harder than you are under Tianjin City. When you see Nie Shicheng, say hello to him on my behalf. There is another person named Feng Zicai, I hope they are fine." This is Yang Yi's explanation before Li Xiucheng left. Li Xiucheng knows Nie Shicheng's status in Yang Yi's mind, but Li Xiucheng is a little unaware of the Feng Zicai that Yang Yi talks about, but since Yang Yi values ​​so much, he should be close to each other.

The counterattack army can almost be said to use madness to describe their marching speed. All mules and horses were used to load artillery, and the infantry were running continuously with their legs. It took more than two thousand miles from Shanhaiguan to Qingyunling. Many soldiers almost exhausted the last bit of energy in their lives, and then fell on the road and could never get up again.

Early this morning, when the front-line troops chased the Russian army, many soldiers were so tired that they sat on the ground and could not move. However, when they heard that they had caught up with the Russian army, they immediately stood up and rushed to the Russian army.

When Li Xiucheng arrived at the battlefield, the Russian army was defeated. The Chinese army was chasing the Russian army that fled everywhere. The guns and ammunition on the ground were thrown everywhere. The Russian army's cannons that had been fired after the shells were left unattended and they were thrown on the battlefield.

Li Xiucheng was looking for Nie Shicheng and the others everywhere, and prayed in his heart that Nie Shicheng and the others must have nothing to do. Finally, at the foot of Qingyunling, Li Xiucheng saw Nie Shicheng and Feng Zicai sitting on the ground.

Before the smoke and dust on his face could be wiped, the large sword that had been cut was randomly inserted into the ground beside him. Nie Shicheng and Feng Zicai sat side by side on a thick log. This log was originally used by Nie Shicheng and the others to smash the Russian army, and now there are blood stains of the Russian army on it.

"Mr. Nie, Li Xiucheng is ordered to come and reinforce." Li Xiucheng soon came to Nie Shicheng, stood attentively and saluted.

Nie Shicheng struggled to stand up, but Li Xiucheng quickly stepped forward to support him and was gently pushed away by Nie Shicheng.

"You are good. You have traveled more than 2,000 miles in ten days and appeared on the battlefield in time, without letting the Russian Russians run away." Nie Shicheng tried his best to smile, but his smile seemed to pull the wounds of countless sizes and sizes on his body. Nie Shicheng bared his teeth in pain.

Li Xiucheng felt sad and quickly grabbed Nie Shicheng's hand and said, "Sir, you don't have to say that you are the real heroes. You are too hard." From Tianjin to Northeast China, Li Xiucheng has been alive and dead for a long time. In the battle of Tianjin, his younger brother Li Shixian was killed in battle. But now he saw Nie Shicheng as the governor of the three provinces, and he was so injured, the hardship of this battle can be imagined. Thinking of this, Li Xiucheng felt a little scared. If his reinforcements were half a step late, Nie Shicheng and the others might not be able to stand here. How should he explain to Yang Yi? It would be fine if the Russians ran away. If Nie Shicheng broke, Yang Yi would not feel sorry for him.

Seeing that the tears on Li Xiucheng's face were all gone, Nie Shicheng joked, "You guys, why are you crying?" He said that, but after this disaster, there were still a few of the 25,000 soldiers left? The young men who were still alive under his command a few days ago have now almost all died on this hill, and more than half of the soldiers who died cannot find the complete body. Thinking of this, Nie Shicheng felt sad, and a warm feeling surged into his eyes. He quickly turned around and looked at the hill behind him, letting a pool of tears flow on his face.

"Order the troops and assemble." Nie Shicheng, who had recovered, issued such an order. After a while, he did not hear the assembly trumpet sounded. Nie Shicheng subconsciously shouted: "Why don't you blow the assembly trumpet?"

"Sir, he is the 17-year-old doll..." Feng Zicai answered with difficulty, but he clearly remembered in his heart that the young 17-year-old doll was shot several times and fired a grenade.

"Hurry up and make someone call and ask the brothers of the Fourth Army to come here to gather." Li Xiucheng hurriedly issued an order.

"Brothers of the Fourth Army, gathered." In an instant, shouts rang everywhere on the hills. The shouts echoed back and forth on the empty hills, gathering louder and louder, summoning the soldiers of the Fourth Army to gather and summon the gathering of heroic souls all over the mountain.

"Route and report the number!" Feng Zicai shouted a command.

"1,2,3,......121,122,123." The sound of counting did not continue. The battlefield solidified at this moment, and it was so quiet that it was suffocating. "124..." A weak voice broke the tranquility. A soldier carried by a stretcher raised his hand hard, shouted hard, and then hung his hand helplessly.

All the soldiers present shed tears in this moment. Although they had experienced too much life and death, how can they not be excited at this last moment of victory?

"Brothers, we have won!" After Nie Shicheng's heart-wrenching roar, countless cheers suddenly sounded on the battlefield, and it was won! Since the Opium War, the Chinese nation has had such a happy victory? For this victory, many heroes have sacrificed their young lives. The earth testified, history testified, and the heroic souls testified, and the Chinese nation has achieved a truly great victory in fighting foreign humiliation.

"I heard you want to see me? I am your opponent this time, Nie Shicheng, the governor of the three northeastern provinces in China."

Looking at Nie Shicheng standing in front of him, after listening to Nie Shicheng's self-introduction, Pi Deluofu completely understood and understood why he failed. The wounds on Nie Shicheng's body shocked Pi Deluofu. Pi Deluofu had put on his military uniform, came to Nie Shicheng, stood at attention, then saluted a military salute, and said loudly in gorgeous noble Russian: "You are a real warrior, I salute you! I have no complaints if I can defeat you." Pi Deluofu knew clearly what the title of governor means in China? This time, the translation did not stutter, but quickly expressed Pi Deluofu's meaning clearly.

"No, the person you should pay tribute to is not me, but all the heroes who sacrificed their lives for the victory of the Chinese nation in this battle. They defended the dignity and pride of the Chinese nation with their passion and life." After saying that, Nie Shicheng turned around and left Li Xiucheng, leaving only Pi Deluofu in a daze at the scene.

In Beijing, after eight hundred miles rushed to Beijing, the court cheered all over the civil and military officials. Even Zeng Guofan, who had always been steady, could not help but burst into tears: "How might it be! How might it be." Other ministers were even more praising the emperor and the queen mother. "What is the best for me to be blessed with all my blessings, the queen mother is boundless, bless me to the Qing Dynasty for thousands of years, long live my emperor, etc." No one mentioned those soldiers who died.

Looking at the ugly behavior of these people, thinking about the tricks they had in private, and some people, on the surface, cheering but their eyes were full of resentment and disappointment, Yang held the war report in one hand and stood quietly in the crowd. At this time, what Yang Yi remembered was a sentence that Marshal Peng Dehuai said after the victory of the Korean War: "The eloquent proof of history that imperialism can conquer a country as long as it is a few cannons on the coast are gone."

Through the curtains, Cixi, who was full of joy, stared at Yang Yi, who was awake alone in the crowd, felt a sense of sweetness in her heart, and her body couldn't help but feel hot. At this time, Cixi thought more about Yang Yi's strong body.

"I'm tired from the Ai family, so let's go here today. Lord Yang stays here. The Ai family has something to discuss with you. Let the others leave the court."

After the battle in Northeast China and Qingyunling, the situation in the Northeast developed very smoothly. The battle to pursue and eliminate the remaining enemies in the territory went smoothly. The vanguard troops chased and killed the remaining Russian troops who fled all the way, and within two days they chased the Sino-Russian border. At this time, the pursuit troops hesitated, and looked at the remaining Russian troops who fled back to the country, should they chase or not? This problem is too big, and the people below dare not take their own initiative and quickly reported it.

When receiving the report, Nie Shicheng and Li Xiucheng were still together. Li Xiucheng slapped the table and said, "Chasing, why not chase, the Russians can fight, why can't we chase, no matter what method you use, we must destroy the Russian fleeing army, and never allow any Russian army that invaded me to escape punishment."

"Yes, I said it well, why not chase it?" Nie Shicheng also shouted loudly.

The Chinese army took advantage of the victory and crossed the border in one fell swoop. The Russian army, who thought it would be safe to escape back to the country, became prisoners of the Chinese army in their sleep. In addition, the Russian military targets along the way were also devastatingly damaged by the Chinese army. None of the military camps, granaries, and ammunition depots were spared. After entering Russia, the Chinese army advanced more than 100 kilometers.

The Chinese army crossed the border, which the Russian government never expected. The 100,000 troops that invaded China were completely wiped out, which was already a mess. Now they are still coming to the door, but now Russia has no decent army in the Far East to stop the Chinese people's progress. After receiving the war report, the Tsar and his ministers could no longer sit still, and hurriedly mobilized the army from the Western Front to go to the Far East to block the Chinese army's advance.

The army mobilized by the Tsar hastily arrived at the battlefield, and the Chinese army has already taken a large number of prisoners and transported away a large number of supplies, and took the initiative to retreat. After all, this is fighting on other people's territory, so it is not fun to go deep into the army alone.

The key reason why Li Xiucheng dared to cross the border was that Yang Yi had instructions before the war: "If possible, you must cross the border, even if it was one meter in the past. This has great political significance and will be of great help to the negotiating table in the future and can also serve as a deterrent effect on Tsarist Russia."

The war against the invasion of the Three Kingdoms army, which lasted for more than half a year, finally ended. After making great sacrifices, the Chinese army won a huge victory. They captured as many as 90,000 British and French prisoners and 60,000 Russian prisoners, and wiped out a total of 240,000 enemy troops. The Chinese army also paid a heavy price of nearly 100,000 people. Since the war was over, the next thing was everyone's bargaining at the negotiating table.

At the end of 1860, the political situation in Europe was intensified. News of the victory of the Chinese army spread throughout Europe. The world suddenly discovered an awakened sleeping lion in the East and was shocked. The British army, which had been circulating for more than two hundred years, suffered such a huge defeat in an international war for the first time. The domestic opposition immediately made a big fuss, marched, demonstrated, and called on the people to demand the ruling party to step down. The slogan they put forward was: "Let the children go home."

The opposition party held a massive parade in major cities in Britain, including London, Manchester, and Liverpool. The women and the elderly in the parade shouted their children's names while shouting the slogan of the government's resignation.

Although the anti-war momentum is fierce, some deadly elements have called for the expansion of the war against China, and the British Empire will not allow failure. However, these voices were immediately drowned in the sea of ​​people without any resounding.

Faced with the turbulent waves of the opposition, the ruling party had no choice but to say that their army was defeated? There are still a large number of prisoners being pinched by others, and the bodies of a large number of soldiers are also brought back. But they don’t seem to worry about these things. The Prime Minister soon apologized to the people of the whole country in a wave of opposition, and then voluntarily resigned at the request of the Queen.

The opposition party got what it wanted and got the opportunity to form a cabinet. The first thing that a new cabinet could do was to form a negotiating delegation immediately and go to China.

France, Napoleon III's empire was also in turmoil. The news of defeat was like a plague, which quickly spread throughout France. The representative forces of the bourgeoisie began to rise again and were always about to subvert the rule of the French emperor. The neighboring Prussia even assembled a large number of troops on the border and stared at the French territory. In the chaos, Napoleon III's advisers suggested that the emperor's first priority at present was to negotiate with the Chinese, and to bring back the ashes of captured soldiers and soldiers who died in foreign lands. This was the first priority to calm the people's hearts.

The French government also quickly sent a negotiator team to rush to the distant China with the British.
Chapter completed!