Yixin's worries are very reasonable. Now the forces outside the customs have been completely changed due to the War in the Far East, and the pattern of the three powers has been completely broken!
It turns out that General Tepuxin of Heilongjiang was replaced by Hunchun, and the power of Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces were integrated together. Although General Shengjing was the most respected among the three generals outside the Pass, the power of Hunchun and the support of the little emperor , which made Shengjing General Du Xing'a complain very much!
Just when Emperor Tongzhi went to Europa, Guiziliu didn't know how he persuaded the queen mothers of the two palaces to give Du Xing Ajia the title of governor of the three provinces outside the Pass, and asked him to control the military horses of the entire three provinces!
But the imperial court underestimated the prestige of the generals who fought on the battlefield. Such generals gained their power through bloody battles, and the soldiers and civilians under them were already convinced. This was different from officials who were awarded by the imperial court!
Du Xing'a tried to infiltrate power into Hunchun's territory several times, but failed. Guiziliu and the others were so angry that they had no choice but to resort to the last resort, which was to buy neutrality with money!
It is difficult to win over a person like Hunchun, because it can be seen from the bloody battle he fought against the Rakshasa ghost along the Heilongjiang River that this person is too hard-boned and has too much loyalty to the emperor!
In fact, the imperial court is afraid of this kind of officials who are not very corrupt and have their own ideals, because you can't deal with them, and you can't raise them as slaves!
If you can buy this kind of official to be neutral, it will be a high price, but you still want him to surrender?
However, Yi Xin and others never expected that they would give Hunchun millions of taels of silver, more than a dozen beautiful women, and countless treasures and antiques!
This Hunchun will not refuse anyone who comes, and he will take whatever you give him, but when the critical moment comes, he still goes with Emperor Tongzhi!
This method of support is so simple, direct, and crude... Doesn't His Majesty want to be in charge? The servant sends Your Majesty 20,000 troops, 20,000 savages and horses loyal to the emperor and Hunchun!
The 20,000 people completely shattered all Yixin's illusions. Maybe he could defeat the 20,000 savages on the battlefield, but he knew very well that the shortcomings of Xishan Camp were actually the same as Xiao Letian's army!
It just lacks strategic maneuverability. The Qing Dynasty actually has no shortage of war horses. There are plenty of them on the Mongolian grasslands, and there are many young and old in the Hetao area. However, there is no shortage of horses but well-trained cavalry!
The new army can master the art of manipulating muskets in half a year of intensive training. However, if this cavalryman did not grow up on horseback, he would not be able to grasp the essence of it!
These 20,000 crippled horses can be said to come and go like the wind, and are as fast as wind, fire, and lightning. If they can be beaten, they will run away if they cannot be beaten! The Great Plains of Zhili is a place where they can roam freely. If they rescue the little emperor again, they will even have righteousness!
Once the strategy is launched in depth and the battlefield is expanded to the entire Zhili Plain, and even the plains and hills of the entire Gyeonggi region, the Xishan Army will be completely unable to catch up with them!
You can easily defeat these savages with muskets, but you can't destroy them. Just like a swarm of flies, you can only blast them away with all your strength. After a while, the flies will gather elsewhere!
If it drags into a protracted war, Xishan Camp will definitely be defeated!
Not only that, once the civil war breaks out, Emperor Tongzhi will use his status as emperor to crush himself. Needless to say, Zaichun can make Hunchun the military and political governor of the three eastern provinces with an imperial edict!
What if he was given the power of governor to control three provinces? Is the number of soldiers in Shengjing General Du Xing'a's hand enough to fill the gap between his teeth? Or if he made it clear, would he dare to fight Hunchun?
The barbarian armies from the two northern provinces are pouring down. How can the Eight Banners camp heads in the Liaohe Plain resist? Those are all the savage troops who fought with the bastard Rakshasa ghost!
Once the three provinces outside the customs are unified by Zaichun, Hunchun can represent the righteousness of the entire hometown outside the customs and electrify the whole country!
Just say that the land of Longxing, our ancestors, no longer wants you Yixin, drive you Yixin completely out of the land of Longxing, and use the ancestral temple in Shengjing to threaten the banner people all over the country. What do you think the banner people in the world should do?
You know, there are Mancheng all over the country! There were them in Nanjing, in Suzhou and Hangzhou, in Guangzhou, in Fuzhou, in Sichuan... There were gathering places for Manchus everywhere in the entire Qing Dynasty!
In their hearts they are still loyal to the emperor and the traditions outside the customs!
This battle was really fought in a fractious manner!
Desperate Yi Xin said to his son, "To deal with Zai Chun, you can only cut the knot quickly, kill him in the shortest possible time, and then make it a fait accompli!"
"The dead emperor cannot be resurrected. Only then will Hunchun and others, as well as the bannermen across the country, have no choice. They can only hold their noses and admit us..."
"Is there still such an opportunity now? My child... we let Zeng Guofan trick us!"
"That Tongzhou fodder farm... was our best chance, maybe our last chance!"
"Uuuuuuuuuuuah...I'm not willing to give in! I'm not willing to give in! Why don't God give me a chance!"
In the night, a sound like a wolf howled in Prince Gong's palace, but Zai Chun in the Forbidden City slept very peacefully. In the old camp of Shunyi further north of the capital, Ma Ming of the Yulin New Army finally saw General Hunchun's vanguard exploration horse!
"Your Excellency! General Hunchun is at the Niulan Mountain Fort twenty miles north. He will arrive at Shunyi at the end of the night..."
"Okay...what does Master Hunchun need? What do brothers need? I will arrange it for you here..."
"The general said that tomorrow morning before Andingmen opens the city, the kidnappers and horses will line up and wait for Lord Long Live's inspection... We brothers don't lack anything, just a mouth of hot water!"
"But the war horses are tired, so we must add some good fodder... Prepare more fodder and soybeans, and if there is any salt, put some more on it..."
"Haha... No problem, tell the general, I have thought about this in advance. I have plenty of salt, fodder, soybeans and black beans, and I have prepared more than 20,000 eggs..."
"Mix it with the fodder, and the war horse will be energetic immediately after eating it!"
The pioneer horse explorer who came to report licked his lips and said subconsciously, "What a shame...Guan Nei is really rich. We are reluctant to eat these eggs, but you can use them to feed the horses?"
"Why do you keep losing battles when you are so rich? It's really an embarrassment to our ancestors..."
Ma Ming never expected that his good intentions would be met with ridicule from the other party, and his face suddenly lost its composure. But before the other party gave him a chance to talk back, Tan Ma Xianfeng turned around and ran north to reply!
Ma Ming looked at the backs of these savages and gritted his teeth and said fiercely, "Damn, those wimps were the ones who lost the battle, not our new imperial army!"
"Isn't it amazing that you have fought Rakshasa ghosts? Grandpa, I also bombarded the Japanese warships at the mouth of the Minjiang River!"
"No one is a coward! There will be a chance to compete on the battlefield in the future!"
"What are you doing standing still? Prepare the fodder immediately..."
