On the same day, the message was returned to Xuan Jianzhang's hands.This is the advantage of modern communication conditions, not only the army, but now almost all of China, including the Qing court's territories, all large, medium, and small cities have their own telegraph offices, and there are Chinese banks and business names.Where there are Chinese businessmen, communication is not a problem.Xuan Jianzhang directly called back President Meng to Yixuan.Yi Liang was overjoyed, "It's still the president, I didn't expect it, it's so good, let's fight, but the Chinese army can't do it, divide the five or six thousand people in my hands into two halves, keep fighting upside down, and don't fight hard, see what he Li Hongzhang does" Xuan Jianzhang smiled and nodded, "Everything is arranged by the king of Xuanjun himself, this kind of thing, I am not convenient to give advice, if you need any help, you can come to me at any time." ”"It's not helpful, anyway, you don't need firearms, it's all big swords and spears, it depends on whether Li Hongzhang is ruthless or not, if Li Hongzhang fights back, we happen to have Kou Shixuan's division commander, please use the Huacui Evening News to help us publicize, just say that Prince Alcohol was insulted by Li Hongzhang in the peace talks with Li Hongzhang, and our unified inspection team decided to declare war on Li Hongzhang when he couldn't bear it." ”Xuan Jianzhang smiled and agreed to Yixiao's request, thinking that Yixuan was fun, the name of the unified inspection group was such a foreign faction, and I don't know how you came up with Yixuan hurriedly went back to arrange manpower, during this time, a loose group of Eight Banners Smoke Army, under Yixuan's proposal, also invited several company platoon commanders of the Chinese army to come over to help with simple training, otherwise, let alone fighting, it would not be good to walk.The march of a large army is really not something that ordinary people can do by walking around casually.Li Hongzhang saw the news from the Huacui Evening News, and was frightened, he didn't expect that Huaguo would really beat himself, and he was in a hurry."
My lord, let's run quickly, there are more than 20,000 Chinese troops, where can we deal with more than 20,000 Huai troops," Sheng Xuanhuai admonished.After the Qing court was equal to the name of the extinction, Li Hongzhang's Huai army was also sharply reduced because of several battles with the Chinese army outside the Guan, and after the sharp reduction, there was no money to replenish, so the army became smaller and smaller, and only about 20,000 people remained, and Li Hongzhang took him by his side."
Where do you run out of Huaxia, do you want to go to the territory of foreign devils to work and capital, even if you die, you have to die in Huaxia" Li Hongzhang said indignantly, this point, he is still very clear, saying that Li Hongzhang is a traitor, obviously wronged the old man, "You go to give an order, let everyone resist desperately, you are not allowed to fight back, you must not go out of the city" Sheng Xuanhuai was stunned, "This, Lord Zhongtang, what if they attack" "No matter how they attack, they can defend one day at a time." ”Li Hongzhang said helplessly."
Okay, I'll go tell the camp right away."
Sheng Xuanhuai went down, but he was thinking that he should flee quickly, once the Chinese army participated in the attack, it would definitely not be able to hold it, the image of the Chinese army in everyone's minds was invincible, and the all-rifle army was terrible in Europe.Three days later, February 22, 1877.Yixuan's army launched an attack on Li Hongzhang's army in Wuhan.has been playing for more than ten days in a row, and the two sides are more like acting.However, public opinion in the whole country does not see it that way, this is a war between the Qing army and the Qing army, and public opinion is in chaos, and there are those who support Hua Guo and Li Hongzhang.However, the majority of people who support Huaguo, everyone is becoming more and more aware of the situation, it is President Meng who does not want to have a large-scale bloody war, so he adopts a peaceful way to solve it Moreover, Huaguo is very good at building momentum, the more Li Hongzhang does not dare to fight back, the more powerful the newspaper advocacy, everyone sees Li Hongzhang's Huai Army, which is known as the first in the world, can't beat these big smoke army, how do you feel that the people in the Qing court's territory still have a trace of illusions, after all, the protection of the people depends on the army, President Meng originally did not intend to contact Li Hongzhang, Later, after thinking about it for a long time, it was decided to ask the president's secretariat to send a telegram to Xuan Jianzhang, and Prince Yixuan sent someone to forward it to Li Hongzhang.President Meng probably means this, you are my teacher, why did you go to Hubei first because your place is more important than Zuo Zongtang, and your relationship is closer to me, if the teacher does not miss the old feelings, the Chinese army will attack the most lethal in the last Chinese army, these words, once the Chinese army really attacks, it will not only be the current situation, how strong the Chinese army is, no one knows now, but not long ago, 20 divisions and more than 400,000 troops were sent to participate in the National Day parade, not to mention that they all brought guns and cannons.
President Meng's army came with bare hands, and the 20,000 or so people of the Huai army couldn't resist "Truce, don't fight, surrender, I surrender Xuan Yuemeng." ”Li Hongzhang sighed painfully, however, after sighing this breath, the whole person seemed to be relaxed, and let go of the big stone in his heart, after all, the unification of China is already imperative, he can be the first to take the lead in annexing Huaguo, and it is also very good Moreover, he Li Hongzhang brought not only tens of thousands of troops, but also more than half of the Qing court's territories, in terms of controlling territory and officials, Li Hongzhang is far above Zuo Zongtang, Prince Alcohol came to Hanyang to meet Li Hongzhang again.This time, Li Hongzhang still greeted him in person, but his face was not as good-looking as last time, and he let go of his worries, but he surrendered like this, and he was still unwilling Prince Alcohol smiled: "Li Zhongtang, we will meet so soon" "Prince Alcohol don't make fun of it, please." ”Li Hongzhang made a gesture of invitation, lowered his head, and welcomed Prince Alcohol into his mansion."
The president's meaning, surrender without any conditions, the army on the spot to accept the integration of the Chinese army, some people into the Chinese army system, others, etc., discharged, arrange work, the entire southwest, into the country, China will immediately send officials to receive, Li Hongzhang was appointed as the president's adviser, in the Chinese administrative system, ranked in the top 20."
Prince Alcohol announced President Moe's order to Li Hongzhang.Li Hongzhang sighed, there was no room for bargaining, and he was silent.Prince Alcohol smiled: "Shaoquan, you have already thought about returning to Huaguo, and you are still worried about the president's teacher, what are you afraid of?"
”Li Hongzhang sighed.Prince Alcohol laughed, "Okay, happy, signing, taking pictures, this is a historic moment." ”As soon as the camera took a picture, the photo of Li Hongzhang and Prince Alcohol shaking hands was immediately fixed forever at this moment.These two people were originally the princes of the Qing court, and the other was the top minister of the Qing court, but now they have become officials of Huaguo.t1706231537: