Let's push the time forward ten days, no, no, it shouldn't be pushed back to fifteen days ago. Just after the news of the successful listing of Jiangnan's first military stock, Huazu War, was delivered to Beijing, a top-secret telegram left the Forbidden City.
The young eunuch disguised himself as a purchasing agent and headed north to Chengde. However, while resting at Gubeikou, he secretly sneaked into a business and used the only telegraph machine at Gubeikou to send a telegram to the far north.
Ninggu Pagoda, this is the most feared name since the founding of the Qing Dynasty. It is the place where Manchu prisoners died, and it is also the place where the guards stationed in Longxing. Although there were only a few battles here under the Eight Banners system, But his status is very high.
The vast land from Xingkai Lake southward to the mouth of the Tumen River was under the jurisdiction of General Ningguta. Before the Beijing Treaty between China and Russia was signed, even the east of the Ussuri River, including Vladivostok, was under the jurisdiction of Ningguta. General Tower's territory.
However, since the Rakshasa ghost came, General Ning Guta's life has not been so comfortable. Originally, he was in the rear area, and he didn't have to think about anything else except being wary of wild beasts. But let the Rakshasa ghost stir up the situation and create a frontier frontier.
There hasn't been a war for many years. General Ning Guta has more than 40,000 Eight Banners soldiers under his command. However, he knows better than anyone how much free pay he has and how powerful his combat effectiveness is.
Hunchun, General Ning Guta, had already turned more than half gray in just this winter. That meeting with Xiang Shaolong made him have mixed feelings.
A gangster who followed Xiao Letian, even in Hunchun in the past, he didn't wear a half-open eyelid, but this kind of person was able to swagger into the palace with His Majesty's imperial edict, and he had no way to do anything about it.
Things have really changed. This world is becoming increasingly difficult for people to understand.
It is true that Emperor Tongzhi did not govern personally, but Zai Chun was the emperor of the Qing Dynasty after all, and he was Xianfeng's only son. This right of inheritance was the purest in the entire history of the Qing Dynasty.
Hunchun was naturally a loyal minister of the emperor. Even if the young emperor did not personally govern, as long as the imperial edict of the young emperor was not too difficult to handle, he would still obey it.
Isn't it just to let those volunteers enter the transit Maodong? This is not a big deal. As long as they don't cause trouble, Hunchun will turn a blind eye and get by.
In fact, in his subconscious mind, those who can fight against Rakshasa ghosts are all good men.
"Hey! I did it once before. When we first signed the treaty, I didn't accept those Rakshasa ghosts at all. I also led my troops across the river to fight with them."
Recalling the battle with the Rakshasa ghost with real swords and guns, Hunchun was still frightened. The sharp muskets were really not something that Qing Dynasty bows and arrows could handle, and he was driven back to the country in just one round.
Well, Hunchun understood from that time that fighting the foreign devils was called a national war, and it was not a burden that a garrison general could shoulder. If the imperial court had not mobilized a large army, I am afraid that the land in Jiangdong would never be recovered. .
The imperial court did not dare to fight, and General Ning Guta wanted to fight but did not have the strength to fight. Now a Far East Volunteer Army was born, leading the survivors of Hedong to fight with Lao Maozi. Hunchun was happy to watch the excitement to relieve his anger, so the Volunteer Army came to his defense area. He welcomed Dong with both hands, not to mention the emperor's imperial edict.
But who would have thought that these volunteers could be so tolerant. In just one winter, they poached the hearts of countless people like mercury pouring down the ground. When people on both sides of the Ussuri River mentioned the volunteers, no one did not mention Big Thumbs.
Under the instigation of this group of people, countless ordinary people joined the volunteer army and became large soldiers. You said that the remnants of the Chinese Empire on the east coast were unwilling to fight with the foreign devils, so it was understandable that they rebelled as soldiers. How did it end up that these young people from the Qing Dynasty on the west coast, They all got in head first, and nine cows couldn't pull them back?
If things go on like this, won’t all the people’s hearts be stolen? How can this be done?
Hunchun is the most typical traditional Manchu general. The official position system of the Qing Dynasty is very interesting. Inside the pass and outside the pass belong to two different systems. Manchus and Han are mixed inside the pass, while outside the pass is the private area of the Manchus. Here, a large number of the original simple and simple traditions of the Manchus are preserved. Their character is not infected by the five desires and six dusts like the Manchus in Guan Nei. The spring breeze in Guan Nei has already softened their bones.
Manchu generals like Hunchun still have a lot of spirit in their hearts. They are loyal, brave, tenacious, and courageous to take on responsibilities. To put it bluntly, they really take their positions as a kind of responsibility and responsibility.
Hunchun is entangled, Hunchun is conflicted! Seeing the Rakshasa ghosts running the Far East little by little, the resentment in his heart could not be calmed down, but when he saw the volunteer army gradually growing in size, he felt very unwilling to do so.
In the entanglement of conflicts, Hunchun could only drink to drown his sorrows until the telegram arrived.
"General! General" followed by the sound of hurried footsteps, the door of the study room was suddenly knocked open, and Hunchun's most trusted lieutenant fell to the ground without chewing shit.
There was a crisp sound, and the white porcelain wine cup was smashed on the table. "Crazy, what do you look like? With your rough and rough character, how dare I reuse you!"
The deputy general didn't care about apologizing and knelt down on the ground, "General! The Forbidden City's secret telegram, the Forbidden City's secret telegram! The Queen Mothers of the two palaces used treasures, Prince Gong and Prince Chun signed the Forbidden City's secret telegram!"
"What?" Hunchun stood up suddenly, knocked over his chair, grabbed the telegraph newspaper, and read three lines in a row. "How could this happen? How could this happen?"
The deputy general crawled on the ground and choked with sobs, "How could the imperial court do this? Open the Heilongjiang defense line and let the Rakshasa Ghost Cavalry cross the border. They are going to sneak attack the Far East Volunteer Army."
"Let us seal the border so that not a single grain of food can cross the border. This will starve our brothers who are fighting to death."
"That's enough!" Hunchun slapped the table, "Who is your brother? You idiot, you have to swallow these words in my stomach after you leave this door! We are Manchus, they are Han people, what do you mean to them? When will we become brothers?"
Hunchun's eyes filled with tears, "Let's go to the telegraph room. I want to send a telegram to the Heilongjiang General. I want to ask him what's going on with the court?"
The Heilongjiang general Tepuxin was stunned by the imperial court's secret message. He opened the Heilongjiang estuary and let 100,000 Cossack cavalry pass through? The country has never heard of such a thing for more than two hundred years!
But not only did the telegram arrive, but now a Rakshasa businessman outside the general's palace even came to visit, and it was said that he was carrying a secret telegram from the Rakshasa ambassador.
"Call in!"
After the signing of the Sino-Russian treaty, the number of Rakshasa merchants on the ground in Heilongjiang began to increase exponentially. They brought European glass, muskets and other industrial products from Route 6, and also took away furs, medicinal materials, gold and silver from here. .
Everyone knew that there must be Rakshasa ghost spies among these businessmen, but the Manchu and Qing Dynasties were too weak to control the swarming Tsarist Russian business groups and could only let them run rampant outside the customs, and Heilongjiang was the hardest hit area.
"General, I think you have received the secret message from your government. Now one hundred thousand Tsarist Russian cavalry regiments are gathering in Amur Province north of Heilongjiang. At six o'clock tomorrow morning, please release the river defense at the mouth of the Songhua River. Our cavalry regiment will move along the Songhua River all the way south"
"Although this is an order from your court, we also know that this will bring certain troubles to your command, so here are five thousand taels of gold as a personal gift from me to the general. The same General Ning Guta Hunchun, we I also have a gift for you, I hope the general will accept it!"
