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Chapter 85 The two-front battle that came together

After Anton returned, it was July, and there was no accurate statement about the joint investigation of the killing of the slaughtered parties. However, not long after, the Qing court rebuked the Da Shang, saying that Wang Yi killed innocent Japanese civilians, which was contrary to the peace and asked him to compensate the Japanese people for their losses.

Wang Yixin said, "You don't do so much serious things, why are you scolding me for nothing?" Later, after investigation, it turned out that it was a censor in the capital who had nothing to do and wrote a memorial. Now he was very popular. Princes and nobles, officials in the cabinet, officials from the border formed gangs and private affairs, abused the law, abused the people, sold the country for honor, licentious and extravagant, and unfair governance. Local governments still ruling the people, forcing donations and taxes, plundered the land and killed the people, killed innocent people, and officials and gentry became more and more bullying the good, hoarded goods, raised the prices of grain, and harmed the people. You didn't care about so many things, but ran away and said I killed the Japanese.

Wang Yi was not polite and sent people from Beijing to get two buckets of manure and poured them in front of the house. Later, he set fire to the kitchen and toilet. He then tied the censor, took off all his clothes, and threw them in the Eight Great Hutongs.

Since then, the censor probably suffered severe mental stimulation and submitted a memorial to ask his mother to resign. The court also knew what was going on, so he said a few words to keep him and agreed.

Li Hongzhang and Zuo Zongtang, the gang of officials who knew Wang Yi, could probably guess that only Wang Yi could do such a traitor.

On October 4, 1879, the Governor's Office of Zhili.

"This Wang Yi is really... so much so that he can cause damage, but he is just right!" Ding Richang laughed. It was obvious that he didn't look down on those so-called Qingliu on weekdays.

"It's not the right way." Zhang Peilun next to him didn't care. He was originally a Qingliu, but because he was now home and was worried, he became Li Hongzhang's aide.

Li Hongzhang smiled but said nothing.

Zhou Fu frowned and said, "Wang Yi is a little unbearable and will make a big plan! The court is just a rebuke. Whether to compensate or not is not his own decision. At worst, he can sue the Japanese in Shengjing, so why bother with the Censorate?"

Ding Richang said at this time: "I think Wang Yi doesn't want to pay the Japanese money! The matter in Ryukyu here is not yet decided, and his own people are starting to make trouble first..."

Speaking of Ryukyu, Li Hongzhang obviously had a bad face. Ding Richang also knew that he had made a mistake and hurriedly said, "Wang Yi is also, I don't know the hardships of the country. I originally thought it was a great talent, but now it seems that he is just a clever man!"

Li Hongzhang glanced and said, "Don't mention this matter again. If Japanese Minister Fuyang Yumoto comes to harass him again, he will ask Wang Yi to go to Yingkou to make a case. He said that this happened in Fengtian and General Shengjing will fully handle the matter."

Zhou Fu and others nodded.

While the few people were talking, Wu Rulun rushed in and said, "Sir, please see!"

Everyone was surprised, but Li Hongzhang, who had received the telegram and looked at him for a few times, looked bad.

"Mr. Li, Wang was surprised to hear that General Chonghou, Shengjing, could not withstand the coercion in Tsarist Russia. He signed the "Rivagea Treaty" without the permission of the court. The contents of the contents are as follows... This matter was informed by my close friends abroad. Although I was not sure, I still had nine points. I hope the court will make a decision quickly!"

The same telegram was also Zuo Zongtang from the Governor General of Shaanxi and Gansu. After reading this letter, the old man smashed the teacup in his hand! In the study, he cursed: "The traitor will ruin the country! The traitor will ruin the country!"

After sending the telegram, Wang Yi shook his head and turned around and called Zheng Haitao.

"Haitao, I am Wang Yi!"

"team leader!"

"I'll tell you the news. General Chonghou, the general of Shengjing, went to Tsarist Russia to negotiate. In order to survive, he sold all the rights and interests of Xinjiang and Mongolia!"

"This grandson, I was not a good thing when I saw him! Captain, what should I do?" Zheng Haitao opened a mountain mining in Mohe, training his new Mongolian cavalry under his command. Seeing the old scorpion bringing people to have fun on the east bank of Heilongjiang, he had no choice but to look at it and be greedy.

"Chonghou, don't worry, I won't let him go!" Wang Yi gritted his teeth and said, "Grandpa, then peel him off and light the sky lantern!"

Zheng Haitao smiled and said, "The remaining bones were broken, so he built a toilet and buried it!"

The two laughed.

Wang Yi continued: "Mr. Zuo Zongtang will definitely not sit idly by the matter in Xinjiang, but we cannot let the Tsarist Russians calm down. If necessary, cross the river and take back all Yaxa and Duo Chen."

"Yes, captain!"

"Your side now includes the old Scorpion's hidden sword, and there are 6,000 insurance team members. Including logistics, the production is not more than 9,000. Among them, there are nearly 4,000 cavalrymen. I will send you two thousand Mongolian cavalry, three thousand infantry, one artillery battalion, and two thousand logistics soldiers."

Now Zheng Haitao is so happy and said, "Thank you, Captain, please ensure you complete the task!"

"If you defeat Yaquesa and Duochen, no Russian men will keep any adults or children! No one will keep any woman over thirty-five years old. As for those young Russian women, you will catch them for me. Don't be ugly and give them to the soldiers as concubines in the future. But remember for me, if you catch someone, the military discipline cannot be broken! If this matter is really not possible, let the old scorpion do it!"

"Yes!" Zheng Haitao thought about it and made a bunch of horses for the team members... The captain could figure it out.

After the conversation between the two, Wang Yi called Wu Xiao again. At this time, Wu Xiao also knew about Chonghou and began to draw soldiers from all over the country.

Wang Yi can only do so much about Xinjiang, so he has tried his best.

Zhao Liewen listened aside and nodded secretly.

After returning to the dormitory at night, Wang Yi lay on the bed, feeling indescribable. How could such a huge country fall into such a field? The Tsarist Russian country is so large and has so many people than us. There are also many problems. Why do we have to be passively beaten? Why can't we go to other people's land to commit murder? At worst, I will help me shed some crocodile tears in the future, which is enough. Wang Yi fell asleep while thinking about it.

After September, Wang Yi began a new plan. General Shengjing's mansion owed him 500,000 taels of silver. Although he had agreed to postpone the return for two years, Wang Yi decided to pay more interest. That is the railway construction right!

Yingkou and Dashiqiao are about 19 kilometers apart, Dashiqiao is about 30 kilometers apart from Haicheng, and Haicheng is sixty kilometers apart from Anshan. Wang Yi decided to connect these four places by railway! The name he gave was - well, a new type of land vehicle operation experiment.

The reason why Wang Yi built the railway was, on the one hand, because the Liaohe River freezes in winter, and internal transportation of the Dashang system could only rely on horse-drawn carriage transportation. On the other hand, it also provided new growth points for the economy. With the successive production of two major steel mills, Anshan and Benxi, Wang Yi did not want to sell most of the steel he produced to foreigners, so after careful consideration, he decided to build a large-scale railway.

After the reforms of the Da Shang Dynasty in recent years, the people of these four major regions have long been accustomed to the existence of new things. They are no longer as closed and hate new things as before. Many people have given up the traditional way of making a living for landlords and started to go to factories and learn technology. Although the landlords along the road have doubts about the railway, the major families in the Grain and Oil Price Alliance are now the only ones who follow Wang Yimao. Wang Yi said that the railway can make money, that is, it can make money. What the people are afraid of now is not that they do not build railways, but that Wang Yimao will not take them to build railways.

Because Wang asked the industrial laboratory to conduct pre-study of various power locomotives a year or two ago, two projects have been successful now - steam locomotives and electrical locomotives, and internal combustion engine locomotives are still under development. The experimental name given by Wang Yi before was actually not aimless.

Wang Yi built a railway in Anshan, and all the bandits who worked were captured. They had just completed the construction of the Dashang Second Steel Plant, which is the internal railway construction of the Benxi Steel Plant. This time, Wang Yi was transferred to build a new railway, but the scale this time was definitely not comparable to the previous two times. Fortunately, Dashang did not lack railway experts, nor did it lack an infrastructure team. The newly completed bandit suppression work in Andong added a lot of new labor to Dashang.

At the Dashang Fiscal Year 79 semi-annual report release conference, Wang Yi proposed a plan to establish two new companies. The first one is the Dashang Railway Construction Company, and the second one is the Dashang Railway Company.

Among them, the Dashang Railway Construction Company is under the responsibility of Ren Bingchun, and four construction teams are divided into two railways, and one railway is promoted to achieve complete completion by the beginning of next year. First, the two sections of Anshan to Haicheng and Haicheng to Dashiqiao are built, mainly considering the convenience of raw material supply and the differences in early and late winter in various places.

Dashang Train Company, led by German Klaus Heisen, is currently mainly producing steam locomotives. Electric locomotives need to cooperate with Shen Baiyu's Dashang Electric, and there are still many difficulties to overcome. In fact, the world's first electrical railway has been put into trial operation in Berlin this year, and Wang Yi and others are not leading in this project.

Officials from Yingkou, Dashiqiao, Haicheng, and the three places expressed silence on this matter. As long as the officials in these three places knew that Wang Yi wanted to do whatever he wanted, no matter whether you agreed or not. And if you stood in front of him, you would be against him, against Da Shang, against the people, against the entire country, so this kid might have something to do. No one in the Shengjing General's Mansion said, either he would be unrelated to himself, or he had close ties with Da Shang or the grain and oil price alliance behind the family, or he was really afraid. General Qi Yuan, Shengjing, himself had a good impression of Wang Yi, and he also learned the news about Chonghou this time. In addition, he still owed Da Shang 500,000 taels of silver, so he turned a blind eye.

In order to prevent accidents, Wang Yibian sent 300 Mongolian cavalry teams to guard all over the country, and at the same time began to preach correct traffic safety knowledge in nearby villages and towns. He did not want to be like China's first railway, which eventually turned into a people's movement because it crushed people to death. That would be a tragedy.

Fortunately, the lands built by Wang Yi had either bought them in advance or were from the grain and oil price alliance. Occasionally, Wang Yi would persuade him to speak kindly, and he would have to pay a lot of money to compensate. If he really didn't show his face, Wang Yi would not let the other party have a good time.

About three months later, the railway was built in Anshan-Haicheng-Dashiqiao-Yingkou. The reason why it was completed so quickly was mainly because the terrain of this area was flat.

When most people saw the steam train whizzing past in front of their eyes with a terrified and unfamiliar look, they felt the tremendous momentum of the first industrial revolution for the first time!

At the train station, Wang Yi spoke to all the personnel attending the train opening ceremony, including local officials and railway company shareholders.

The railway company is a holding company of Dashang, and the other major families have shares. The one who invests the most is Fatty She from Wanguo Hotel, followed by the Tong family in Chaoyang, and then the Li family in Fengtian... The Zhang family in the Bajiaotai did not enter the company. Their funds were used to build a manufacturer of various parts of the railway system.

After the speech was completed, Zhang Quanbao stood beside Wang Yi, looked at the brand new locomotive, and went up and touched it a few times.

"It's so hard!"

When Wang heard this, he almost stopped crying and sweated in his forehead. Fatty She heard it from the side and almost thrust over.

"It's a shame for you!" Zhang Quanbao pointed at the two of them and sighed: "Human hearts are not old! Human hearts are not old!"

When the train ran away in front of everyone, everyone listened to the long whistle of the car flute and looked at the white smoke rolling out as the smoke began to move slowly but was full of force. The steel dragon gradually moving faster and farther away, everyone was surprised by the power of the train...

"This is the speed of the industrial revolution, never stopping, it will only get faster and faster. If we cannot catch up, we will be pulled further and further until we are abandoned by the entire era!" Everyone heard Wang Yi's words, and seemed to have a place in their hearts touched.

This train show was deliberately arranged by Wang Yi. How is a country's pride and national cohesion cultivated? It is gradually created after overcoming disasters, achieving successes, and winning gloriously. Wang Yi will not waste such opportunities!

"Everyone has dispersed. The train will need to be tested for half a year to find out the loopholes in each link before we can launch passenger service."

Everyone coaxed him and was a little disappointed. But they knew that this was a complete arrangement and everyone invested in it. If there was a car accident, it would be bad. Wang Yi said this so that everyone felt relieved. Although Wang Yi usually looked at people more radically, he did things step by step.

Because of the construction of this railway line, it directly hit the shipping industry in the Liaohe River. Most of the steel in Anshan Iron and Steel Plants began to use railways for transportation. Taikoo and Jardine had no choice but to see it. Qichang has now changed its course and started to take the long-distance trade route. Although it is also done in the offshore and river channels, it is all old ships running. This is mainly because it does not want to run Li Hongzhang's ships too much. The two sides have a tacit understanding on this point.

Li Hongzhang had already obtained photos of Wang Yi building the railway. The scene of the people cheering on it was in sharp contrast to the scene of the public enemy of the Wusong Railway back then! Old Li was silent for a long time and sighed.

"I am not as good as Wang Yiduo!"

When the declaration announced that the construction of the Ying'an Line Railway was completed, only a few people cared about this news. Because people are now protesting over Chonghou's matter. After the contract was signed, domestic public opinion was in an uproar and condemned Chonghou for losing power and humiliating the country. Even Yishu, who has always been peaceful, believed that the treaty had lost too many rights and it was better not to sign it if it was signed.

Zhang Zhidong reported to him: "If it is like the New Testament, the empty name of the two characters Yili, and the reality of Xinjiang is thousands of miles away." He asked the court to immediately "take Chonghou, who "misunderstood the country and beautify the enemy" and "refer to the Ministry of Justice to understand the justice of the canon" and think that later generations are warned.

After hearing the news of the signing of the treaty, Zuo Zongtang said angrily: "I have only a wasteland left in Yili. There are Russian tribes within one or two hundred miles of the northern border, and they are trapped in thousands of miles. How can I survive?"

The Qing government also refused to approve this agreement with a great deal, and dismissed Chonghou from office and handed over to the Ministry of Justice for punishment, and appointed him as a prison sentence and executed him in the autumn. However, the people waited for a long time but did not wait for Chonghou's head.

After that, the Qing court issued an edict to send envoys to the British and French minister Zeng Jize (the eldest son of Zeng Guofan) to serve as the Russian minister, and went to Russia to negotiate and re-contract. When Zeng Jize arrived in Russia, Russia had already sent envoy Buce to urge the signing of the treaty. After learning about it, Zeng Jize asked the Russian Foreign Ministry to order Buce to return and re-negotiate the Ili issue. At Zeng Jize's insistence, Russia's acting Foreign Minister Gilles, Deputy Ministers Remeni and Buce participated in the negotiations.

In order to increase bargaining chips for negotiations, the Qing government sent Zuo Zongtang to lead a large army away from Suzhou (now Jiuquan City), leave Jiayuguan, and advance towards Yili. In order to show his determination to recover Yili, the old general Zuo Zongtang ordered people to prepare coffins before going to the expedition and "carry the coffin to go out" to boost morale. After Zuo Zongtang's army arrived in Hami, Xinjiang, he prepared to deploy three routes to recover Yili: one route from Jinshun to enter Jinghe and feint attack from the front; one route from Zhang Yao to cross the Tianshan Mountains from Aksu to attack southern Yili; the other route from Liu Jintang crossed the Bingling Mountains through Wushi to the rear route west of Yili.

But no one expected that the old coach Zuo had not moved yet, but the sound of cannons began to roar in Heilongjiang!

Dawn on December 3, 1880.

Albazin Town, this is the ghost name given to this Yaksa by the Russians. The two Russian infantry regiments stationed here were about 2,500 people. While they were still sleeping in the warm bed, there were a few loud noises, and a large section of the low city wall became ruins.

The cavalry team wearing white cloaks came from somewhere and began to rush into the city that was taken away by the Tsarist Russians in the rising sun at dawn. Then the infantry followed, and the rapid gunshots echoed in the city. The first one was attacked was the Russian barracks, and the Russian officers who wanted to organize a counterattack shouted loudly, but were shot through the chest by a sniper. Then the infantry rushed in, and the grenades were thrown into the barracks that were hiding all over the Russians. Then the Type 1 general-purpose machine gun began to strafuse the barracks, and the shooting would stop after all the Russians were broken.

The cavalry began to rage in the city, and as long as they match the characteristics of men and elderly Russian women, they would be shot by the Type 1 carbine.

The old Scorpion led people to the cavalry team, and the logistics team was with them, where more than ten four-wheeled carriages were taken away by the old Scorpion, and at the same time, the Hanmin of Jaxa would also leave. If you stay, you would not have a good end.

Two hours later, Jaquesar returned to peace. The brigade began to pounce on Duochen. Some artillery soldiers had already set out in advance under the cover of cavalry and infantry, and Zheng Haitao led the team himself. There was an alien Cossack cavalry regiment, totaling more than 1,600 Tungus people. However, Zheng Haitao's men were carrying three thousand cavalry, and even without the cooperation of other troops, he could clean up the opponent.

Because it was already dawn, the Russians in Duochen soon discovered an abnormality, and then the brigade of cavalry began to rush out in full armed forces, but as soon as they unfolded their formation, they were caught off guard by the infantry's Type 1 general machine gun.

The powerful power of the machine gun bullets made the Russians and their mounts look like a piece of rag, and the more they were smashed, the messy internal organs were scattered on the snow. Thirty machine guns seemed a little useful to deal with more than a thousand people. The Cossack cavalry's dead charge was more like a moth to throw a fire. But after hundreds of people broke all over the ground, the remaining Tungus people finally understood that the army in front of them, which was from somewhere, was very different. They needed a leader, but at this time they found that the officers had become dead souls at any time. The large bloodstains on their chests could not be blocked even if they were wearing cotton jackets.

Finally, someone began to collapse. In a short period of time, fear was contagious like a plague. They began to show their backs, allowing the snipers to pick them happily. At this time, the six teams of 500 people each launched a charge like a blade, and the Type 1 carbine also began to have their own violent state, and the spit out flames swallowed all the lives of the enemies. In just a quarter of an hour, the battle came to an end.

When the last alien Cossack cavalry knelt on the ground and said something no one could understand, the answer was just a gunshot.

Zheng Haitao did not participate in the battle, or in the massacre, but just watched from the side that his cavalry, whether Han or Mongolian or other ethnic groups, had only one task now, to clear the battlefield. A team of cavalry and infantry had rushed into the town and did the same job as Jaxas.

The logistics team was late at this time, and everyone began to replenish ammunition and rescue the wounded, while the rest began to confiscate the spoils.

At this time, fifteen scouts cavalry rushed over and saluted: "Report to the regiment commander!"

Zheng Haitao replied with a bow and said, "How is the situation?"

"We deliberately did not cut the telegram wire, everything is normal nearby."

Zheng Haitao nodded, and Zhang Quande rode his horse and rushed back. The guy was amused and smiled and said, "It's so good to fight!"

"Uncle Quande, you can't go to the battlefield without hiding it from me in the future, otherwise there would be something wrong, the captain must cut me off."

"I'm afraid he will do anything!" Zhang Quande shouted, waving the Type 1 carbine in his hand, which was a bandit. "By the way, have the earth piles sent back the news?"

Zheng Haitao smiled and said, "The Tsarist Russian troops on Miao Street have begun to assemble. It seems that we can have a big game this time."

"Is this a big deal? It's a waste of time. If Vladivostok can be brought down, it's going to be satisfying!"

While the two were talking, another group of Tsarist Russian women came over crying.
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