Heavily armed cavalry brigade, Mauser guns, the latest Chinese hand mines!
Eighty-eight-caliber field artillery, mortars for siege, these good things are not over yet, not long after the mortars passed the main venue, just when everyone thought there was nothing behind!
There was a sudden buzzing sound in the sky, and Ulan Geli's face suddenly turned pale. He suddenly thought of something that frightened him the most!
"Airship! It's a Chinese airship..."
"Hahaha... It's an airship made by our Germany. Long live His Majesty the Emperor!"
Many people in the mission heard exclamations. The German minister even waved his hat and shouted the slogan "Long Live the Emperor," but he was cheering for the Kaiser rather than the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty!
A huge airship in the sky was pressed down at an altitude of about 20 meters, and began to fly over from the east at the slowest speed. The propeller rotated slowly, and a huge vortex of air was rolled up!
On both sides of the airship pod are operators wearing warm leather jackets, raising their hands and saluting the audience on the ground!
What made Ulan Geli even more panicked was that steel rivets were used on both sides of the airship's pod to create two huge, stubby iron wings, with black ** one after another on them!
"Haha...this is my airship force! Master has sent me two in total, and one of them will be sent to the Western Region! Send it to Marshal Zuo's front line!"
"With such an airship, there are a pair of eyes in the sky!"
Ulan Geli was so depressed that he was about to vomit blood. This Zai Chun was also quite irritating. He was carrying two huge bomb throwing racks. You said they were for reconnaissance?
But no matter how sad and angry he is in his heart, he must not show it at this moment. Now all fools have understood that Emperor Tongzhi is standing up for the Chinese people and wants to unite the Chinese people to put pressure on Tsarist Russia!
I am afraid that Tsarist Russia will not gain anything from this negotiation!
The airship slowly flew over everyone's heads. Emperor Tongzhi stretched out his hand and pointed to the west, "Come into battle immediately after the military parade, and set off to the west immediately!"
The Military Department of the Qing Dynasty has made various preparations. In the open field outside the Old Summer Palace to the west of the parade ground, tens of thousands of civilians, tens of thousands of livestock, and countless carts are waiting for the arrival of the army!
Supplies have been bundled on many carriages. These are military rations, artillery shells, bullets and other war supplies. There are also a large number of newly stamped silver coins sent over as military pay!
There is also a batch of empty vehicles. It is impossible for the soldiers to carry all the combat equipment after the military parade. The horses will be exhausted!
Those non-combat equipment, including field tents, blankets, leather, etc., must first be put on carts and pulled by livestock to Xi'an!
Even the airships in the sky have to land, put away the airbags, dismantle the pods, disperse them into more than a hundred large trucks, and send them all the way to the Western Regions!
This is a huge project, and nothing can go wrong. Outside the walls of the Old Summer Palace, it has become a large construction site for tens of thousands of people!
Three thousand cavalry brigades, more than a hundred cannons, plus airships... With just this amount of personnel and equipment, the Qing Dynasty recruited a full 10,000 civilians. This shows what a huge project this army combat operation is!
There was a lot of business outside the palace wall, but inside the palace wall, Prince Chun Yixuan stood on the top of the hill, holding on to the pine tree and looking out at the scene outside the wall. He heard the commotion outside this morning!
I didn't even eat breakfast before running to the top of the mountain to watch the parade. I watched the entire military parade from a distance. Although I couldn't see clearly, I could still feel the tense atmosphere!
After the weapons and equipment were removed and loading began, he finally guessed!
"Your Majesty wants to send troops to fight? Where to fight? Apart from Zuo Jigao's side, where else to fight?"
"By the way...a few days ago, the eunuch from the palace came to me to deliver a message, saying that Dihua was a great victory in the Western Region, and he gave me a severe warning...could it be that the Royal Forest Army is going to send more troops to the Western Region?"
"Hey... Your Majesty! You are making wedding clothes for the Han people! So are Zuo Zongtang and us really of the same mind?"
"Be careful of raising a tiger! If Zuo Zongtang and the Chinese unite, even if the Western Region is recaptured, you won't be able to rule for a few years!"
"Then Xiao Letian is tricking you step by step!" Yi Xuan howled in despair, but who could hear him? He had already left the power center and couldn't even send the news!
The military parade took less than half a day. When the ministers from various countries took off their hats and bowed to Emperor Tongzhi again, Zai Chun rode past Ulan Geli, and the horse stopped!
The condescending Zai Chun looked at Ulan Geli who was bowing and said coldly, "The Qing Dynasty and Tsarist Russia have always had border disputes!"
"It's time to talk... Hanlin scholar Feng Fu, as the minister of the Ministry of Rites, is honest and prudent. I appointed him as the special envoy for negotiation to discuss the border demarcation between our two countries together with the Chinese special envoy Cai Bixia! "
"Your Majesty!" Ulan Geli looked up in shock, "Your Majesty! Since when did Tsarist Russia have a border dispute with the Qing Dynasty? We have already signed a treaty before!"
"Everyone has already signed and used the treasure. Does your Majesty want to unilaterally tear up the treaty?"
The treaties Ulan Geli mentioned were the "Tianjin Treaty", "Aihun Treaty" and "Beijing Treaty" signed between the Qing Dynasty and Tsarist Russia after the Second Opium War!
This series of unequal treaties demarcated the borders between the Qing Dynasty and Tsarist Russia in detail. Vladivostok was lost at that time!
Now that Zai Chun was about to restart border negotiations, Ulan Geli immediately became anxious.
"Your Majesty! Are you going to declare war with Tsarist Russia? We had a war with the Chinese before, so negotiations are natural now!"
"We have not declared war with the Qing Dynasty, so why do we need to negotiate? What's the problem with the original border? Don't forget, this is a treaty signed by your father!"
"Enough!" Zai Chun shouted, "What do you mean no war? Did General Hunchun fight you in Heilongjiang? Did you violate the previous treaty?"
"You brutally massacred the remnants of the Qing Dynasty in the Far East. Do you really think I don't know about it?"
"How dare you talk about the treaties signed by my father? That's nonsense... all the treaties were signed by the criminal Prince Gong Yixin!"
"It has nothing to do with my father. It is an unequal treaty signed while my father was seriously ill!"
"Let me ask you! Britain and France went to war with the Qing Dynasty, and we lost. It is natural for us to pay compensation and sign a treaty!"
"What do you, Tsarist Russia, rely on? It's nothing more than blackmail and collaborating with the Japanese to harm the interests of the Qing Dynasty!"
"I am here to tell you clearly! I am not a lord who can be bullied, and the Qing Dynasty is not a country that can be bullied!"
"These are my exact words! You can tell the Tsar exactly as they are!"
"If you want to negotiate, I will open the door! If you want to fight...hehe, I will accompany you to the end!"
The iron-blooded words made Wu Langeli's face turn pale, and his head was spinning, while the surrounding generals and officials of the Qing Dynasty were excited and excited!
"Long live my emperor! Long live! Long live!" The new army burst into fanatical roars.
