The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 441 After this war, Qing Dynasty and America will become neighboring countries (Please subscribe and vote)

In Wanping County, at the Fengtai Daying parade ground, there was a solemn and murderous scene.

The opium-smoked warriors of the Eight Banners, the vegetarian and Buddhist Mongolian cavalry, and the Yanzhao men who were begging for food and working as tenants not long ago, all stood solemnly in the training grounds, holding the eight-colored banners of the Eight Banners, with their foreign rifles on their shoulders and their bayonets cold and sharp.

They were the foreign rifle force that Emperor Xianfeng had put together with great difficulty after he had emptied the national treasury and the inner treasury, and sold a lot of Qing sovereignty to foreigners in exchange for support. This was an army that Emperor Xianfeng had built with all his strength. If he couldn't defeat the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, then he didn't know what else he could do to save the Qing Dynasty. So these days, he was really worried about this force day and night, but the flag camp in this force always looked crooked, and when compared with the 30,000 or 40,000 Han troops, it immediately fell behind.

This really pissed off Emperor Xianfeng. Everyone knew that the Bannermen got more than the Han army, ate better food, and even had better uniforms and foreign rifles. They also had foreign officers from Britain and France to help train the soldiers. But after more than half a year of training, these Eight Bannermen were still the same. They didn't know how to stand or sit properly. They complained when exposed to the sun and yawned when they trained for a while.

The most outrageous thing is that Xianfeng had several incognito visits to Fengtai Camp quietly, and he actually saw the Han army and Mongolian soldiers training hard, while the so-called Eight Banners troops were lying under the shade of trees, playing with money and smoking opium. Seeing this scene, Xianfeng's heart was broken! There were only four words in his mind - the Qing Dynasty was finished!
But by that time, Xianfeng had already drawn the arrow to the string and had to shoot!

The coffers of the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Internal Affairs were already empty. If he didn't fight a good battle, he didn't know whether he could afford to support the 80,000 well-fed and well-dressed Eight Banners New Army. The foreign envoys also kept urging him - their expeditionary fleet was about to arrive, and they would launch a full-scale attack on the Russians by next summer at the latest.

If the Qing Dynasty cannot cooperate, they will have to borrow troops from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and then the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will be their ally!
For a time, Xianfeng was at his wit's end! Just then, Tupolev and Woren brought him a chance. Tupolev brought him the Shroud of Christ, which could counter the Book of the Prophets, and also brought him a clever plan to "attack the south with a voice from the north" and join forces with the Russians. Woren brought him a clever plan to worship Confucius and Mencius to counter the Heavenly Father and Heavenly Brother.

Well, on one side, Confucius and Mencius are fighting against Heavenly Father and Heavenly Brother, and on the other side, the Shroud of Turin is against the Book of the Prophets. This means that Confucius, Mencius and Christ are all supporting the Qing Dynasty.

And the effect of these two sides dancing together looks really good!

After Emperor Xianfeng announced that he would march north to fight the Russians, the Eight Banners soldiers, who had been in a state of disarray, actually recovered at a speed visible to the naked eye. Emperor Xianfeng later made more than a dozen incognito visits, and each time he saw progress!
More and more Eight Banner soldiers were training seriously, while those who were lying in the shade smoking opium or gambling together were becoming less and less common. After just over a month, the banner camps of the Eight Banner New Army had taken on a whole new look. Although they were still a little inferior to the Han army camps, they looked like a powerful force.

Now Emperor Xianfeng finally gained confidence. He issued an imperial edict of reward three days ago and ordered the Eight Banners New Army to swear to go to war that day.

At this moment in the parade ground, 70,000 to 80,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners New Army were lined up in neat rows and in complete silence. Among them, the Banner soldiers wearing black official uniforms gave off a dark murderous aura.

In just one month, these flag camps have undergone a complete transformation and have developed a high morale to fight the foreign devils to the death!

Outside the parade ground, two horses were riding side by side, slowly galloping towards the parade ground. The two people on the horses were wearing black silk fur coats, sable hats, and beautifully decorated swords. They were Emperor Xianfeng and Prince Gong. Dozens of knights in yellow jackets followed far behind, leaving room for the two most powerful brothers in the Qing Dynasty to speak. No one knew what Emperor Xianfeng, who was about to lead the army in person, would say to his good brother?
Emperor Xianfeng rode on his horse, his back straight, looking quite majestic. Prince Gong, who was even taller than him, was standing beside him, a little behind him by half a horse's head, looking like a loyal subject, with only respectful expression on his face. As for what he was thinking in his heart, only God knew.

Seeing that they had reached the parade ground, Emperor Xianfeng turned to his brothers and said, "Sixth Brother, after I lead the army in person, Beijing will be handed over to you! There are still many Eight Banners soldiers in the capital. Although they are not new troops, they can still be trained. I will hand over all the foreign instructors in the new army to you. You will lead them to continue training. In addition, there are tens of thousands of Beiyang New Army led by Li Hongzhang in Tianjin. With them watching Haikou, we don't have to worry about the traitor Luo Yaoguo coming across the sea to launch a surprise attack."

Prince Gong smiled slightly, "Your Majesty, please rest assured! With me in Beijing, nothing will go wrong. Your Majesty, you will lead the army in person this time, and you will surely be victorious. When the time comes, I will bring Li Hongzhang and the newly trained Eight Banners soldiers to follow Your Majesty in the southern expedition, and I guarantee that we will be able to wipe out the Guangdong bandits and rebellion in one fell swoop!"

Xianfeng nodded and said, "This battle will definitely be a success. It's all settled! So your Beiyang Minister's Office must have several ferries that can travel between Lushunkou and Dengzhou City."

Prince Gong patted his chest and assured, "Your Majesty, rest assured. I have asked Wenxiang to do it personally. Four American ships have been rented, and the Lushunkou wharf has been repaired in the name of preparing for the opening of the port. In addition, I have also used the silver from the Beiyang to order hundreds of thousands of dan of wheat and beans, which will be shipped to Lushunkou soon. Your Majesty will not be short of military rations for the southern expedition!"

Xianfeng smiled and said, "Everything is ready. I have also received reports from the Governor-General of Huguang and the General of Jingzhou. Huguang is suffering from drought. It has not rained for several months. Now it is already autumn harvest time. A famine is inevitable. Huguang is the granary of the Taiping rebels. Food is the most important thing for the people! Hehe, this is all because of Confucius blessing me, the leader of the world's famous religion!"

Prince Gong said: "That is because the emperor has great fortune and the Qing Dynasty has turned for the better."

At this time, Xianfeng had already reined in his warhorse and stood a few hundred feet away in front of the 70,000 to 80,000 well-organized and solemn Eight Banners New Army formation. Looking at the large formation of battalions and square formations in front of him, tears were already flashing in Emperor Xianfeng's little eyes.

"With the blessing of our ancestors and Confucius, my new army has finally been trained." Xianfeng suddenly turned his head and shouted, "Tu Lama!"

"I am here." Tupolev drove his horse forward and came to Xianfeng's side. "Take a look," Xianfeng raised his whip, "Can such a powerful army fight against the Russian foreign rifle team?"

"Yes! That's great!"

Tupolev looked at the army in front of him with rifles on their shoulders and bayonets like a forest, and couldn't help but gasp.

The tactics of line-up shooting are actually very easy to practice. It's nothing more than lining up, loading, shooting, and hand-to-hand charge. As long as you are willing to spend time practicing over and over again, anyone can do it. The problem is that there are not enough people!
In this era, having more people is actually the hard truth!
Even in the battles led by Emperor Napoleon, which can be used as examples for future generations to learn from, the elite French army under his command could not achieve a very good exchange ratio. As long as the opponent used the same tactics and methods, it would be good to have a one-for-two or one-for-three exchange.

After all, no matter how good the command is, in the end it will still be implemented in the tactics of lining up and being shot. This kind of fighting method is to kill one thousand enemies and lose eight hundred of your own! In the end, it all comes down to population.

And China's 400 million people may have to add the population of England!
Hundreds of thousands of people die of starvation every year. If they were to be sent to the front lines to fight and be shot, no one in the world would be able to bear it.

As long as the Qing Dynasty had foreign guns and truly learned the tactics of foreign guns, it would be like one of the great powers!
Xianfeng nodded in satisfaction, his face full of domineering: "Tula Ma, please go and make it clear to your Governor Mu. I am not afraid of his Russian soldiers. I just don't want to lose both sides with him and let England, France and the Guangdong bandits in the south take advantage. This time, as long as he is willing to withdraw from the Heilongjiang River basin and let me report a great victory, then I can temporarily not take back the northern part of Sakhalin Island and share it with Russia. If he dares to cheat with me, hehe. I will really send troops to help England and France. By then, his losses will be great."

"Your Majesty, rest assured," Lama Tupolev said respectfully, "Governor Mu is having a hard time dealing with the British and French coalition forces now, and he will definitely not dare to plot against the Celestial Empire's territory again."

Xianfeng laughed and said, "That's more like it!"

As he spoke, the high-spirited Emperor of the Qing Dynasty rode his horse forward and rushed towards his Eight Banners New Army!

"Your Majesty! It's Your Majesty!"

Zhao Sanduo heard the shouts of his comrades, and his heart suddenly became hot. The emperor is a good emperor. He has been eating meat every day with the emperor these days! The food standard of the Eight Banners New Army Banner Camp is to have meat every day - even if it is silk, it is still meat! And there is also a heavy silver of one and a half taels per month! There is also a travel fee for sending troops! This is really the emperor's great grace! So he has to protect the Qing Dynasty and destroy the foreigners, even if he risks his life, to repay the emperor!

"Long live the emperor! Protect the Qing and destroy the foreigners"

Thinking of this, Zhao Sanduo took the lead in waving his arms and shouting.

"Long live the emperor! Protect the Qing and destroy the foreigners!"

Then, slogans like thunder and waves resounded throughout the entire school grounds.

"Ji Gao, I will go to Zhejiang and Fujian to collect the territories myself. After that, I will give you two choices. One is to be the governor of Zhejiang of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and you will be in charge of the four prefectures of Hangzhou, Ningbo, Shaoxing, and Taizhou. The other is to be the governor of Fujian of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and you will be in charge of the entire Fujian province except Taiwan Prefecture. In addition, you have to help me do something big, something that will make you famous in history!"

In Yu Garden, Shanghai, Luo Yaoguo, who had received reliable intelligence and was convinced that Emperor Xianfeng was really going to march north to Russia, was negotiating with Zuo Zongtang the price of surrender. Well, it seemed that the Shroud of Turin was really effective, and Luo Yaoguo's prophecy really failed!
"Oh? Is there any great event that will go down in history?" Zuo Zongtang's eyes lit up. He was most interested in things that would go down in history.

Luo Yaoguo said solemnly: "Since Xianfeng really wants to go to war with Russia, then you will take the two regiments of my Nanyang New Army's First Town and your two regiments of the Nanyang New Army's Second Town, and follow the British and French forces to attack Russia in the name of the Qing Army. I will let Yu Wanqing and Jean Pierre go with you, and remember to bring back the benefits after the battle!"

"Benefits? What benefits?" Zuo Zongtang asked.

Luo Yaoguo smiled and said, "The Alexander Archipelago in the northwest of the New World! After this war, the Qing Dynasty and the United States will be neighbors!"

(End of this chapter)