Yi Shan nodded and said: "Tell the person who came to notify me that I will be here shortly."
After the soldiers left, Yishan immediately asked: "Mr. Zhang, why do you think Muravyov suddenly came to see us?" Yishan's small eyes rolled around, and his chubby face gave people a thief feeling. , said: "Could it be that Muravyov wants our soldiers to attack Sankou Pavilion? If so, how should we respond?"
Zhang Zhidong said: "General, I don't deny that this may happen, but we still have to insist that the Russian army cannot attack Sankou Pavilion head-on, and we can't go. Moreover, if we want to reap the benefits, we must encourage the Russian army to do so." Only by fighting Li Zhen can we gain benefits, otherwise the goal of defeating Li Zhen and Muravyov will not be achieved."
After a pause, Zhang Zhidong continued: "Originally, I was thinking that even if the Russian army lost to Li Zhen, it would not be beaten everywhere. Unexpectedly, the Russian army failed every time, and something changed. Please let me think about it."
In fact, Zhang Zhidong had no plan to attack Li Zhen.
He fooled Yishan into doing things according to his ideas.
Unfortunately, Yishan still believed it, worshiping Zhang Zhidong as a god, and said seriously: "I'll leave everything to you, sir. As long as I defeat Li Zhen, defeat Muravyov, and conquer the area north of Heilongjiang, I can do it." I will definitely recommend you to Mr. Zhang when the time comes when I receive a heavy reward from the emperor. Mr. Zhang will be granted the title of Marquis and Prime Minister, which will be just around the corner."
Zhang Zhidong bowed and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty."
After a pause, Zhang Zhidong said again: "Your Majesty, we don't know what Muravyov is going to do yet. Let's go there first and adapt to circumstances. It depends on the situation."
"Okay, let's go."
Yishan took Zhang Zhidong with him, left the camp, and headed towards the Russian camp. At Muraviev's camp, Russian generals gathered one by one. Everyone sat in their respective positions. Yishan and Zhang Zhidong came over. After that, he sat down directly.
Yishan said: "My Lord Governor, do you have anything to do with me?"
Muravyov did not answer, but looked sullen.
Yishan asked for trouble, touched his nose, and smiled, but a coldness flashed in his eyes.
If you don't tolerate me, I will take care of you later.
Yishan comforted himself in his heart and sat quietly, waiting for Muravyov to speak. Zhang Zhidong looked at Muravyov. After seeing Muravyov, he speculated in his mind what Muravyov was going to do. , especially since Muravyov has been silent. He thought that the purpose of Muravyov coming to him was not to storm the Three-Kou Pavilion, otherwise Muravyov could just say it directly.
"Cough, cough, cough,."
Muravyov coughed twice and his expression became serious.
After looking around, he said in a deep voice: "Due to insufficient preliminary preparations and too little information, the attack on Sankouting failed one after another. Now, the Russian army has lost more than 4,000 soldiers, which is a serious loss. Everything was caused by my miscalculation and underestimation of my opponent. Moreover, it was also my failure to fully consider the situation of Sankou Pavilion, which led to the serious losses of the army. Next, we adjusted our measures and modified the attack on Sankou Pavilion. strategy."
"How to attack?" Yishan asked.
Muravyov said solemnly: "I will force you to do it with my life."
"Pfft."
Yi Shan burst out laughing and said: "Governor Muravyov, you actually want to threaten me with your life. This is so outrageous. If I were Li Zhen, I would laugh even in my sleep when I learned that you threatened me with your life. This is really Best joke I’ve heard this year.”
Zhang Zhidong sat aside, with a dark face and twitching corners of his mouth.
How did he end up with such a top product?
Force each other with life.
Did Muravyov say it was his own life?
Zhang Zhidong sighed softly. He admired Yishan's stupidity to the extreme and respected this man who was full of scum. At the same time, Zhang Zhidong had a bad premonition in his heart. He felt that Muravyov This old fox is probably going to take a cruel move, and Li Zhen may be the one who has a headache next.
Muravyov stared at Yishan and remained silent for a long time.
Like Zhang Zhidong, he was 'impressed' by this superb Heilongjiang general.
The Northern Qing Dynasty has such talents, it would be strange not to fail.
Muravyov said: "General Yishan, I admire your intelligence very much. You are such a smart person and your ideas are so powerful that they cannot be measured by common sense. I didn't expect that you could guess that I wanted to use my life." Go and force Li Zhen, it's awesome, it's really awesome, there is no smarter person like you in this world."
When Yishan heard it at first, he was a little embarrassed.
After hearing this, I knew it was sarcasm.
Muravyov changed the topic and said in a deep voice: "What I said is forcing Li Zhen with his life. I am not using my life to force Li Zhen. I am using the lives of the people of the Qing Dynasty to force Li Zhen. Next, let the soldiers arrest him immediately. All the people around the Three-Kou Pavilion, all common people from the Qing Dynasty, were gathered together and thrown outside the Three-Kou Pavilion."
Having said this, Muravyov's eyes flashed with coldness, and he said in a deep voice: "As long as Li Zhen does not open the door of Sankou Pavilion, I will kill five hundred people in one day. Even if Li Zhen is hard-hearted, But if I kill five hundred people a day, I don’t believe Li Zhen can survive it.”
After Zhang Zhidong heard this, his expression suddenly changed and he became extremely angry.
"Snapped,."
Zhang Zhidong stood up, slammed the table, and said loudly: "Mr. Governor, you can't do this. The people of the Qing Dynasty are also human beings. They are innocent and cannot be arrested."
While speaking, Zhang Zhidong looked at Yishan and signaled Yishan to retort.
However, Yishan did not agree.
In Zhang Zhidong's mind, if there was a stalemate, the situation would definitely be unfavorable to him, but if he used the people to coerce Li Zhen to open the three-kou pavilion, the Russian army could march straight in and continue fighting Li Zhen.
In this way, he had another chance, so Yishan did not support Zhang Zhidong.
Muravyov said: "Mr. Zhang, if you are willing to risk your life to force Li Zhen to open the door, I will not arrest the people. However, if you are willing to risk your life at Sankou Pavilion and Li Zhen does not open the door, I will still do it." Capture the people." After a pause, Muravyov said: "General Yishan, it is necessary to capture Sankou Pavilion. I can understand if you don't attack Sankou Pavilion. After all, our army cannot win, but if we capture the people If you don’t participate, then I find it incomprehensible.”
Yi Shan smiled slightly and said boldly: "Don't worry, Mr. Governor, I fully support it. Just arrest some people. This is easy. In two days, I will arrest thousands of people for you."
Muravyov rarely smiled and said: "Your and my armies went in different directions. Within two days, we drove all the people outside the Three-Kou Pavilion and forced Li Zhen to open the gate of the Three-Kou Pavilion, otherwise they would kill the people."
Yishan nodded and agreed with Muraviyov's suggestion.
After the meeting, Zhang Zhidong ignored Yishan and walked out without saying a word, feeling depressed.
ps: For the second update, Xiaodong will continue writing, and for the fourth update, it will probably be very late, so I’ll read it tomorrow.