The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 453 Good news, England sent the Eight Banners Army to rescue the Qing Dynasty! (Please subscribe, please vote)

Guangzhou General's Mansion.

General Jierhang'a of Guangzhou, who had just won a great victory in Shaozhou, was now like an ant on a hot pot, spinning around in the signing room, looking as if he was about to dig a hole in the ground. The generals and deputy generals of the Eight Banners troops under his command had pale faces, looking like a group of unlucky people who were about to face a disaster.

These gentlemen had previously followed the newly appointed Guangzhou general to Shaozhou. Oh, that feeling was like saving their lives from the hands of the King of Hell. If Luo Dagang, the thief, had not withdrawn his troops and returned to Hunan to rescue Feng Yunshan, they would have been cursed by their ancestors in the underworld!
So after the "Shaozhou victory", none of these Eight Banners uncles wanted to stay in Shaozhou for a second longer, and they all asked Jierhang'a to "return to Guangzhou" as soon as possible. In their eyes, Shaozhou was a ghost place, and staying there for one more day would shorten their lifespan. But who could have thought that just as they returned to Guangzhou, before they could even sit down and smoke, a group that was even scarier than the Taiping Army led by Luo Dagang arrived in Macau!

The existence that is more terrifying than the Taiping Army is the Crusaders sent by the Roman Catholic Church to support the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom! I heard that in the West, the Crusaders are also considered elite, just a little bit worse than those of England, France, and Russia. Back then, thousands of English "heavenly soldiers" rode on large sea ships and strolled around the coastline of our Qing Dynasty, beating the Eight Banners and Green Camp soldiers along the coast of the Qing Dynasty. This time, the Pope of Rome sent 10,000 Crusaders to help the Eighth Master of God (Shi Dakai) fight Guangdong. Can Guangdong still be a place for bannermen?

Jierhanga and the generals, governors, and deputy governors of the Guangzhou Eight Banners New Army were all in despair! They couldn't even defeat the Taiping Army, and now the Western Crusaders came to help. Wouldn't this mean they were doomed?
The group of bannermen officials in the signing room saw that their general was just wandering around like a headless fly, without any ideas or official rules, and they all started discussing ways to retreat.

"Hey, have you heard? Ye Zhijun has been thinking about a way out. If Guangzhou cannot be defended, he will lead the Guangdong training army and the Green Camp soldiers to flee to Zhaoqing."

"Run to Zhaoqing? That place is not that far away! If Guangzhou is gone, can Zhaoqing be defended?"

"You don't understand this, right? The Xijiang River outside Gaoyao City, the capital of Zhaoqing, has been blocked by Ye Zhijun's Dubiao Water Camp. All the merchant ships passing by have been stopped... I heard that there are more than 2,000 large ships detained on the river outside Gaoyao City!"

"Two thousand large ships? What does he want to do?"

"Hey, what are you doing? Of course, I'm going to Guangxi along the Xijiang River!"

"Guangxi? Guangxi is extremely poor! Besides... isn't Hong Xiuquan from Guangxi? If the Taiping Rebellion takes over Guangdong, will they let Guangxi go?"

"That's definitely not possible, but we can still keep running."

"Where are you going? Yunnan or Guizhou?"

"Of course not, it's in the south of Guangxi."

"What? South of Guangxi, could it be..."

"Ahem, what are you talking about? Don't you know what you should and shouldn't say?"

Jierhanga listened to his subordinates talking more and more outrageously, almost letting the cat out of the bag, so he quickly stopped his "dance steps" and turned around to glare at these guys who were so careless. The subordinates immediately became timid and did not dare to talk back. They all lowered their heads, like eggplants hit by frost.

Jierhanga's eyes widened, and he was about to scold him a few more times, when he suddenly heard hurried footsteps outside the door, and saw Ye Mingchen walking in with big strides. The adults sitting in the room all knew that the governor had gone out of the city early this morning to negotiate with the foreign consul Parkes, and they didn't know how the talks went. Could they ask the English to come forward and discuss with the Roman Catholic Church and explain to them that the Heavenly Father God worshipped by Hong Xiuquan and the God of their Roman Catholic Church were not the same "Emperor". Hong Xiuquan's God was a Chinese god who spoke Hakka, not a foreigner...

Ye Mingchen was full of excitement, and he bowed to Jierhang'a: "Master Ji, there is salvation, Guangzhou City is saved, the English are going to send the 'Eight Banners' to help us fight the Roman Crusaders!"

Jierhanga was stunned: "What? England also has the Eight Banners Army? What kind of banners? The Union Jack?"

Ye Mingchen waved his hand and said, "No, no, I didn't make it clear. The English wanted to secretly help our Qing Dynasty. They sent 1,500 British soldiers from Hong Kong, dressed in the clothes of our Qing Dynasty Eight Banners soldiers, to help us fight the Roman Crusaders in Macau."

"What?" Jierhanga was stunned again, "Are they really going to help us fight the Roman Crusaders? Are they kidding us? I heard that the English also worship God. Could it be that the God they worship is the same as the God of the Roman Catholic Church?" "That's right!" Ye Mingchen gave a thumbs up, "Lord Ji, your opinion is great. I have already checked it out. The God worshipped by England is the Anglican God, which is not the same as the Roman Catholic God. In history, these two groups have had many quarrels and even fought!"

"Oh? Then which one won?" Jilhanga asked hurriedly.

"Of course England won," Ye Mingchen said. "At that time, the Spanish Kingdom on the Roman side sent an invincible fleet to attack England, but it was beaten to a pulp by England's powerful ships and guns. The Spanish fleet suffered a miserable defeat."

Gilhanga sighed: "Whoever runs into England's powerful ships and cannons will be in trouble!"

Ye Mingchen smiled and said, "Fortunately, the English are on our side now."

Jierhanga nodded and asked, "What about the terms? Have you negotiated them?"

Ye Mingchen said: "Of course the negotiation was done. England put forward three demands. First, we send 10,000 troops and they send 1,500 troops. Both of us will fight under our banner to attack Macau together. Second, after Macau is recovered, Macau will be managed by the Governor's Office of Hong Kong of England. Third, Guangzhou will be open to foreigners after the war."

Jierhanga raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "Oh, Ye Zhijun, you finally got it?"

Ye Mingchen smiled and said, "Hey, isn't this open after the fight is over?"

Jierhanga did not bother with Ye Mingchen, who was obsessed with "not letting foreigners into the city", and said, "Okay, okay, you can handle this matter yourself. Tell me quickly, how are we going to attack Macau? Macau's castles, artillery batteries, and checkpoints are not easy to deal with!"

Ye Mingchen smiled and said, "Don't worry, Lord Ji. I and Parkes have already worked out a way to lure the enemy out of the city and then destroy them in the wild."

"Lure the enemy out of the city? How do you lure them out?"

"Master Ji, please listen to me carefully."

The strategy of luring the enemy that Ye Mingchen and Parkes, two military enthusiasts, worked out actually doesn't need to be "explained in detail" because it can be explained in three words: a declaration of war!
Just send an envoy to Macau with a declaration of war from Ye Mingchen and Jierhanga to Cardinal Paul de Doria of the Roman Catholic Church. Make an appointment with him and start a big move on the Xiangshan land outside Gongbeikou.

This plan is simple to say and even simpler to do. After Ye Mingchen came out of the General's Mansion and returned to his Governor's Office, he immediately asked someone to call Wu Chongyao, the richest man in Guangdong, a red-topped businessman, a holder of the second-rank hat and the title of provincial governor, a big opium dealer, and the owner of Jardine Matheson, who had rich experience in surrender and treason, to come and tell him how to deal with the foreign devils. Wu Chongyao was an expert!

So the task of going to Macau to issue a challenge was given directly to him!
Although Wu Chongyao was a big businessman, he looked just like an official. He had a fair face and a long beard, regular features, a tall and straight figure, and walked steadily. When he wore the second-rank official uniform, he looked like an important official of the Qing Dynasty.

However, during this period, our important official Wu was a little bit restless. Why? The situation in Guangdong was in a mess. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was attacking aggressively from the north, and the Tiandihui was rising up from within. The country was already on the verge of collapse. Why did the Western Roman Catholic Church join in the fun? It sent 10,000 crusaders all of a sudden, saying that they would help the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom conquer the world. This sounded like a fairy tale. Could it be that Hong Xiuquan, the traitor who was dancing with gods, really became the second son of God? This shocked Wu Chongyao, and he felt that his worldview was about to collapse!
So, when Ye Mingchen got the task, he boarded the steamship of Wu Jia Yihehang without saying a word and rushed to Macau overnight. He arrived at the "Wangjia Wharf" in Macau's Inner Harbor at noon the next day.

As the saying goes, hearing is believing, seeing is believing. This time he must see with his own eyes what the Roman Catholic Church's Crusades are like. It would be best to ask in person whether Hong Xiuquan is the second son of God.

If Hong Xiuquan is really the second son of God, then he must surrender quickly. He, Wu Chongyao, can also worship God!

(End of this chapter)