"Master General! Let's quickly withdraw the troops surrounded Fengtai. It's important to rescue Nancheng first!"

"After withdrawing the siege, that boy Chang Ruiqing ran out...... The 13th Division won't really fight, his model group will fight to the death!"

"Master! Now, I'll hurry up and visit the ministers of various countries and ask them to mediate!"

"Mediation? What kind of mediation method? It would be great if you can save your life if you have a disarm. Xuzhou will definitely not be able to go back!"

"We have to go back even if we can't go back! Otherwise, when Li Changtai's Eighth Division and Cao Kun's Third Division all came over, we would have no place to die!"

"It takes several days to fly even if you put wings on it. How can you go back to Xuzhou? Now you have to fight. You can only burn Beijing City with a big deal and go to Taihang Mountain to get into the grass!"

"Go outside the pass! We can protect the court to outside the pass. There is a place where they are full of people, and we always have our foothold!"

"It's useless to go. We don't have the emperor in our hands. Besides, will the people in the court follow us? Prince Chun can raise money everywhere to redeem his precious son so that he can continue to stay in Beijing to get four million yuan in preferential silver every year! Where is the court in his heart? What else is there in the Qing Dynasty? What are we doing these days?"

"They don't want this world of people anymore. Why are we still blind? It's so confused!"

In the Army Department of Tieshizi Hutong in Beijing, Zhang Xun's aides were in a mess. The news of the 13th Division was about to ring the death knell of this small court in Beijing. The princes and ministers who had come to the Army Department from time to time now mostly stayed in their doors, and some of them simply hid at the Six Kingdoms Hotel in Dongjiaomin Lane. The two concubines in the Forbidden City were crying all day long. As soon as they saw Zhang Xun, they cried, as if their lives were about to be lost! As for Prince Chun, they were just trying to raise money, uh, it should be gold. I heard that the banks inside and outside Beijing had run away all over the bank, either borrowing money or exchanging gold, and not asking about anything else... It's really a good father!

Duan Qirui's anti-rebellion army seemed to have some clues. According to news from Tianjin, Li Changtai had already taken over the job of the deputy commander of the Eastern Army, and Cao Kun also sent a telegram to serve as the commander of the Western Army. There are two divisions in one east and one west, with 30,000 people small! In addition, the 13th Division in Nanyuan and the model regiment of Fengtai are almost 50,000. How can Zhang Xun's thousands of braided soldiers withstand it?

Marshal Zhang now knows that it is almost over. Today, he is wearing a court uniform with a flower feather. He also has a yellow jacket given by the emperor. It seems that he is preparing to die for the Qing Dynasty!

This scared the crowd of staff around him. You are so old that you probably have enough life, but the people below are young and want to enjoy it for a few years.

These people were messing around with all kinds of ideas that didn't work at all, and there was a tendency to be louder and louder. Hearing the veins on Zhang Xun's forehead leaping, he finally yelled unbearably: "Stop it all!"

A loud roar shocked everyone in the room. Zhang Xun was born in the army and had a hot temper. Although he couldn't say he was killing people at any time, he would have no good ending to make him feel unhappy. Everyone was immediately silent.

Zhang Xun had a gloomy face, his eyes swept through the room, and finally fell on his two confidant aides, Wan Shenghou and Wang Baotian.

These two people are the ones who are most positive about restoration in Zhang Xunmu, but they are all at a loss now. Wan Shengzai shook his head slightly at Zhang Xun: "Master, take a step back and the sky is wide open..."

Zhang Xun said in a deep voice: "But there is no way out now..."

Wan Shengzai and Wang Baotian looked at each other, and Wang Baotian smiled bitterly: "Then put the team together and defended the city to the end. I think Duan Qirui doesn't want this city that is the best in the world to be destroyed by war, right?"

Zhang Xun raised his eyebrows and nodded slightly. Up to now, anyone can see that the situation is over. If there is anything else to rely on in his hands, it is probably only Beijing! Beijing is high and solid, and it is both the capital of the country and the interests of the great powers. Duan Qirui should not attack. At that time, he will naturally have to use behind-the-scenes transactions to solve the problem. In this way, the worst outcome is to turn on the power and step down and become an apartment in the Tianjin Concession. Anyway, he has already made a lot of money over the years.

"It is also a way to stay firm and wait for change, but Xuzhou..." Zhang Xun murmured to himself. There are still more than 60 battalions of braided soldiers in Xuzhou. If this force can be preserved, there may not be no chance of making a comeback in the future.

"Duan Qirui will not make things difficult for Zhang Wenzheng, Jiangsu is Feng Hejian's territory!" Wan Shengzai reminded. The Beiyang was originally Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang and Zhang Xun "square three-legged" but now when Zhang Xun fell, only Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang are left. If you don't fight to the death, then Duan Qirui will call Xuzhou controlled by the Braided Soldiers to Li Chun, the Jiangsu Governor of Feng Guozhang?

"Master, let's negotiate... Leave the green mountains here, don't be afraid of burning fire." Wang Baotian gritted his teeth and said, "I am willing to go to Tianjin to find Duan Qirui and Xu Shuzheng to talk. No matter what, I must keep the commander and the foundation of our Dingwu Army!"

Zhang Xun sighed softly and waved his hand: "You can't go to this matter, you have to ask Wang Pinqing (Wang Shizhen) to come forward." As he said that, he smiled bitterly again and ordered the staff officers around him: "Let Wang Jinbao and Lu Dayong retreat all their troops into Beijing City... I will go back and visit Wang Pinqing. There must be a way to understand this matter......"

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With Zhang Xun's order to withdraw his troops into the city, Chang Ruiqing, who was trapped in Fengtai City just now, immediately became very proud. Although this battle was a bit lucky and a bit nonsensical, it was a victory after all! It still won with less and created the miracle of "defeating thirty battalions with three battalions"! Well, in the history textbooks of later generations, they described the first battle commanded by the "Great Commander" in this way. I think there would be no mistake.

On January 24, with the power of the "Fengtai Victory", Chang Ruiqing "commanded" more than 1,000 elite troops of his model regiment. Under the cross-bow of the common people, he took the five-color national flag and left Fengtai County. He advanced ten kilometers eastward, turned a corner in Dahongmen Town, and then advanced northward, and "victorious meeting" came at the second battalion of the Model Regiment commanded by the Temple of Heaven and Wang Junhao. Then the entire army approached outside Zhengyangmen, Beijing, and established positions in the area between Dashalan and Bada Hutong! Well, that was the first time that the Chang's revolutionary family had visited Bada Hutong in his life, but he did not see a "fallen woman". The bustling and lively fireworks land in the past is now in a depressed state, as if it had just been washed by the revolutionary storm.

Chang Ruiqing's regiment headquarters was located in Shanglin Fairy Hall in Shaanxi Lane. Before he could deploy a siege, a large number of decently dressed shopkeepers came to visit. They were all heads of major shops in the commercial district outside Zhengyangmen. The leader was the surname Le, and he was the representative of the Le family of Tongrentang. He also had the name of the president of the chamber of commerce.

The shopkeepers saw Chang Ruiqing with a high hat and silver notes were sent over, and the praising words were extremely stingy. However, the meaning in the words was very clear, that is, please ask the commander of the Changda Group and the brothers of the Model Regiment to show mercy, don’t fight with the braided soldiers outside Zhengyang Gate! Later, Chang Ruiqing finally let go and patted his chest and promised: "Dear shopkeepers, please rest assured. Although brothers are just a vanguard in the anti-rebellion army, I will also give you some braids here. As long as the braided soldiers do not leave Zhengyang Gate, the brothers’ soldiers will not attack for force... Even if there is such a confrontation situation, it will be at most ten or eight days. When the anti-rebellion army arrives, it will be time for Zhang Xun to quit. The military disaster in Beijing will end here!"

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