The appearance of the airship was surprising but not surprising, because it was an open secret that Emperor Tongzhi had an airship unit, and the Eight Banners dandies in the capital often cursed!
He said that Emperor Tongzhi knew he was playful and that the airship was a waste of people's money and was given to him for parading in the sky. The airship he mentioned was just like the dragon boat of Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty.
As for the fact that airships once showed great power in Ili, Tianshan Mountains, they had heard of it but never seen it, so naturally they deliberately forgot about it and pretended that it didn't exist.
Anyway, you need a reason to curse people, and you need a reason to curse the emperor even more. Wasting money and wasting people has been the opening line of scolding the emperor since ancient times!
However, Guiziliu did not expect that Emperor Tongzhi would dispatch this killer weapon in the first encounter. Logically speaking, that little bastard Zai Chun should underestimate the enemy!
Guiziliu's concept for the Zhuozhou battle was actually just one. He took advantage of Emperor Tongzhi's mentality of underestimating the enemy and used counterintuitive tactics to completely defeat the Zhuozhou camp's garrison!
Precisely because this was the first time they fought, and they were taking advantage of the enemy's mentality of underestimating the enemy to carry out counter-attacks, no matter how much Guizi Liu deduced, he felt that it was impossible to use airships as a trump card right away.
How could he have imagined that Fu Qing would suddenly and urgently activate the genius Li Tuo before the war? This would become a famous poison warrior in the later period!
Having been immersed in the officialdom for many years, he is still the clerk who is most exposed to the dark side. He understands the evil side of human nature very clearly. He secretly observed Guizi Liudu for five or six years to analyze his character.
This kind of person has a unique intuition about conspiracies, that is, his nose is particularly sensitive, and he can immediately smell something wrong when there are changes on the battlefield.
We know there is a problem ahead, and the fastest support force is an airship. So what are we using if we don't have an airship?
It was the delay of the airship that finally allowed the train cannon to arrive and buy precious time!
The appearance of the airship had already surprised Guiziliu deeply, but the appearance of the train gun made him feel desperate!
First, he didn't know what a train gun was. There was no news about such a weapon in the previous intelligence. This kind of weapon, which was secretly modified in the Chinese northern industrial zone, had never appeared in the Qing Dynasty.
Second, he never expected that the Chinese would directly intervene with armed force. The intelligence reported back by Duobao stated that there was about a company of Chinese troops around Fu Qing.
This can still be explained. After all, the scale of more than 100 people is too small, and the Chinese can easily explain it with any excuse!
But these armored trains and train guns are already considered strategic weapons. There are more than 500 staff and soldiers on and off the train!
So many people directly opened fire with the 210 main gun, killing and injuring Emperor Guangxu's people. Isn't this a declaration of war?
"Damn it, when did Xiao Letian give the order to start the war? Isn't he hooking up with women in the Indian Ocean?"
"Didn't the message Kusanagi sent to Ito definitely prove this point? How dare they lie to me?"
"If the Chinese intervene directly, all my previous plans will have to be redone, damn..."
Just when Emperor Guangxu Yixin was having a splitting headache from analyzing, a guard suddenly shouted, "Your Majesty! A group of cavalry is approaching quickly from the distance... with a white flag!"
At this moment, Emperor Guangxu's position was far away from the sight distance of the armored train. Although the cannon could still blast it, Chinese observers could no longer directly detect the position of Guiziliu with their eyesight.
Security has been improved, but the disadvantage is that it is impossible to directly observe the new army's retreat plan!
Across the battlefield full of corpses, Guiziliu heard that a group of soldiers with white flags were coming from the opposite side, and he immediately forgot about his headache!
"What are you doing... Stop... If you come over again, we'll shoot..." The rebel's war supervisory team was searching for returning rebel troops who had retreated from the edge of the battlefield.
I saw a group of cavalry rushing over from a distance. I was so scared that I screamed and aimed my rifle at it!
But when they saw the twelve white flags, the squad leader ordered his men not to shoot, "It seems to be negotiating! Why are you carrying such weird flags..."
When Shimazu Dalang was far away, he slowed down his horse and shouted loudly, "If the two countries are at war, the envoys will come! We are here to negotiate... Please report to Prince Gong..."
Repeated over and over again, the war horse slowly approached the edge of the rebels!
"Come down... dismount... Who are these people? Come down quickly..." A group of rebel supervisors rushed over and surrounded Shimazu Dairo and others with rifles. The remaining people stretched out their hands to pull.
Shimazu Dalang quickly said, "Don't resist! We won't resist... We are here to negotiate! Please let us go to see Prince Gong!"
"We are officers and soldiers of the Chinese Foreign Legion, not members of the imperial court..."
The name of the Chinese intimidated the rebels, and the white recognition flag with Amitabha written on it also made the rebels less fierce.
After all, in the presence of Buddha and Bodhisattvas, everyone in the world should be a little in awe!
"Your Majesty is not someone you can just meet when you meet... Search him!"
Shimazu Dairo raised his hand and said, "No weapons, no modern weapons! As for the tachi, it is a ritual weapon of our Fuso people and a samurai paraphernalia, just like the jade pendant fan that you scholars carry with you..."
"The short one is the rib gap...it's what we use to kill ourselves and disembowel ourselves, not for fighting. Please don't worry..."
"You have so many muskets, so you're not afraid of us little toys, are you?"
At this time, Na Duobao rushed over on horseback. When he saw this scene, he snorted, "Little toys? During the bloody battle last night, your little toys killed many of us!"
"Pack up all these little toys and let your Majesty deal with them! Haha... I recognize you. Aren't you the leader of the group of people Fu Qing is protecting?"
Na Duobao pulled out Shimazu Dairo's sword. When he saw the gap and blood on it, the hairs on his back stood up in fear. This was really a murderous sword!
"With a murder knife in your hand and a Buddha and Bodhisattva on your back, you Fusang people... are all perverts!"
However, Shimazu Dairo was not angry at all. Instead, he bowed and said with a smile, "Thank you for the compliment... The world is so chaotic now that only perverts can survive!"
"Otherwise, you wouldn't have thought of such a perverted thing as using women, children and the elderly to charge into battle!"
"You..." Na Duobao was so stuffed that he didn't know how to retort. He sheathed his knife angrily, "Take them away and wait for His Majesty's disposal!"
When Guiziliu heard that the messenger was a group of Fusang people, his eyelids narrowed and he became suspicious, "Fusang people? Who do these people belong to?"
"Did Xiao Letian set a trap for me? Or was it Hyoutaro's people? Or maybe it was Ito's people... Damn, these Fuso bastards have always been hiding things, but they just won't go straight to me!"
"Damn it! Bring them in and let me see what they are up to?"
