"Long live my emperor, long live, long live!"
"I love your life."
"Sushun called you here this time because there is a big event. Prince Senggelinqin won a great victory at Baliqiao. You guys should discuss what to do next."
Sushun: "Your Majesty, Yi Weichen thinks there are a lot of strange things about this victory."
"First of all, Prince Zeng Gelinqin was defeated by the British and French coalition forces several times in the past. How come he suddenly won the battle this time and captured 2,000 British and French coalition forces."
"This matter still needs to be sent to verify. I'm afraid it's a trap set by the British and French forces. The emperor may encounter something unexpected if he returns to the capital rashly."
Others also nodded, recognizing Sushun's meaning.
As soon as these words came out, Emperor Xianfeng was indeed shaken.
"Then what do you think we should do?"
"Your Majesty, we should send someone to verify now to see if the news is true, and then make a decision."
"If the news is true, we will also consider continuing to negotiate for peace. I believe that the British and French coalition forces will not continue to fight. Continuing to fight will be detrimental to both sides."
"Then who will verify it?"
At this time, Sushun looked at the people around him.
Everyone else lowered their heads as low as possible, not even looking at him solemnly.
They feel like this is a chore, whoever wants to go, and they don't want to go anyway.
Emperor Xianfeng coughed a few more times and continued to wait to see what Sushun had to say.
Sushun himself would definitely not go back. How could the dignified chief minister of military aircraft take such a risk?
Sushun: "Go back to the Emperor. As long as he is loyal to the Emperor and patriotic, and anyone whom the Emperor can trust, it will be fine. Please make your decision."
Sushun looked at the group of people who basically followed him. He didn't dare to offend anyone, so he had no choice but to kick the ball to Emperor Xianfeng.
It's quite high-sounding to say that the people sent by the emperor are all people whom the emperor can trust and who are loyal to the emperor and patriotic.
I have to say that this promotion was well done.
Emperor Xianfeng squinted his eyes, looked at this group of people, and finally focused on Aixinjueluo Zaiyuan.
Prince Yi's heart skipped a beat when he saw the emperor looking at him.
"Prince Yi accepts the order."
"I accept the order!"
"Prince Yi was ordered to be the general representative of the negotiations with the British and French Allied Forces, and to go to Tianjin to negotiate with the British and French Allied Forces again, and to verify whether the Battle of Bali Bridge was a victory."
Prince Yi's legs were trembling.
You must know that the negotiating envoys of the British and French coalition forces are still in prison in the capital at this time.
What should I do if I go to Tianjin to negotiate and are caught and threatened by them?
But what can we do if we don’t go? The emperor has already issued an order.
Prince Yi had no choice but to accept the order.
"I accept the order."
Prince Yi took some people to the capital. He wanted to see if the battle was really won. If it was true, he would have leverage in this negotiation.
The next day Emperor Xianfeng received another message from Seng Gelinqin.
The British and French allied forces' baggage troops were completely annihilated on the border between Tianjin and Tongzhou.
They also shared their speculations.
Emperor Xianfeng felt chills all over his body. Such a mysterious power suddenly appeared and was not under his control.
I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, but what this group of people are doing right now is helping them and giving him some comfort.
It seems that Senggelinqin's great victory this time is real, and it seems that these meritorious officials should be well rewarded.
The specific reward will have to wait until the crisis is completely eliminated.
After Prince Yi came to Beijing, he saw that everything in Beijing was good.
He also found Guiziliu.
Guiziliu could actually rebel at this time, but he didn't have the intention.
So he didn't want to rebel at all.
In other words, Xianfeng guarded against him as much as he guarded against thieves.
Prince Yi learned from Prince Gong that the city of Beijing was really defended this time.
He was also very happy, so Prince Yi moved on to find Seng Gelinqin.
After returning to his hometown with Seng Gelinqin, he also sighed when he saw that Seng Gelinqin only had 4,000 available soldiers.
These people are all warriors of the Qing Dynasty and loyal ministers of the Qing Dynasty.
It was they who saved the last face of the Qing Dynasty.
Especially when he saw the 2,000 British and French troops in the prison camp, he felt that these people were his destiny talismans.
With them here, I will definitely be safe.
It is impossible for the British and French allied forces to ignore these thousands of people.
When Prince Yi left Tongzhou for Tianjin, his back straightened a lot.
The last time he negotiated with Elgin and the others, Elgin ignored him.
This time I even went to pay homage to Elgin’s grave.
Prince Yi came to Tianjin and discovered Li Hongzhang's army outside Tianjin.
Li Hongzhang was sent outside Tianjin by Seng Gelinqin.
Put pressure on the British and French coalition forces and let them know that the Qing soldiers had completely wiped out the main force of the British and French coalition forces.
Make them surrender.
Currington was shocked when he learned the news of the defeat of the British and French forces.
He could not figure out how all the 15,000 British and French troops sent out were wiped out.
No one could escape back to Tianjin, and the entire army was wiped out.
They listened to Li Hongzhang and two thousand British and French troops were captured.
What about the 13,000 British and French allied forces, all of them died in the Qing Dynasty?
Isn't this an international joke?
The British and French expeditionary forces attacked the shrinking Qing Empire.
The main army of the Qing Empire was outside to encircle and suppress the Taiping Army. How could such a force defeat them?
It is impossible to say that Li Hongzhang and others are telling lies.
How could Li Hongzhang bypass the British and French forces and surround Tianjin with 20,000 people?
Li Hongzhang and others surrounded but did not attack, mainly because they were afraid of the artillery of the British and French allied warships.
We can only put pressure on them from the outside.
Prince Yi came to Li Hongzhang's camp and brought the latest news from Emperor Xianfeng.
Continue to negotiate peace.
Li Hongzhang felt that it was right to negotiate peace, mainly because of how to negotiate peace.
This time the Qing Dynasty was on the winning side, and the Qing Dynasty must have taken advantage of the peace negotiation.
But I'm afraid that Prince Yi will make a mistake.
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Clinton is a soldier. He doesn't know how to negotiate. Let him fight.
Now the British and French allied forces have been wiped out, leaving him alone with ten thousand people.
The ten thousand of them are all the logistics personnel on some ships. When fighting a war, it is okay to let them sail the ship.
Less than half are actually put into use.
On the opposite side, Li Hongzhang's troops had wiped out more than 10,000 of their troops.
So he didn't dare to fight rashly.
The main reason was that he discovered that Li Hongzhang's army also had a group of foreign spearmen.
Like their weapons, there are also several cannons.
It's the same as them, it's just a joke.
The weapons are all the same.
In fact, it was Bai Tao who gave Li Hongzhang the idea.
Distribute the captured foreign guns to the soldiers to give the enemy a deterrent.
In fact, foreign guns and cannons have no ammunition and are just fake.
They knew they were fake, but the British and French forces on the opposite side, especially Clinton, didn't think so.
Currington guessed that these were their captured weapons.
But he didn't know how much ammunition the other party had seized.
At first, he thought that even if the Qing Dynasty seized the firearms, they would not use them.
As a result, on the second day after Li Hongzhang and others arrived, Bai Tao and Li Xia each took a musket and fired a shot at the British and French allied flag on Tianjin City.
Four people knocked down four flags!
