The Wu army soldiers, who were red-eyed, did not notice that the defenders of the city were already retreating to the south city in a panic and rushed on the streets of the city full of fleeing flagmen. The Wu army soldiers could not see the specific actions of the enemy brigade, so the Wu army soldiers led by Li Chendian only knew how to do two things, kill! rob!

"Dog Rebellion! Take your life! Death! Death! Death for me!"

Although Wu Chaoyue and the Wu army's propaganda department repeatedly shamelessly claimed that all military operations against the Qing army were for the purpose of clearing the monarch and restoring the national crisis, they had no selfishness. They would not kill innocent people indiscriminately, nor would they learn from the Taiping Army to slaughter the Manchus, and would unconditionally protect the lives and property of the people of the Eight Banners.

However, when it was really time to enter the city of the Eight Banners, the soldiers of the Wu army had a tacit understanding and collectively forgot the promise of the Wu army. They rushed on the streets of the city with swords and guns stained with the blood of the flagmen. Whether it was Qing soldiers or the people of the bannermen, the Wu army soldiers would chop each other. They would use spears to repair the swords and spears to pick the key points. They would never show mercy. They would kill each other if they dared to fight back and dismember the body of the Wu army. When they were killed, they would grab the package. Large and small bags quickly hung all over the whole body of the Wu army soldiers, but the corpses of the bannermen were covered with layers of layers, and the blood melted the ice and snow, filling the ditches.

This is just the prelude. The real nightmare of the Banners of the City is still behind. When the Wu army auxiliary soldiers composed of refugee beggars and Eight Banners slaves rushed into the City, the Banners of the City truly realized what hell is. Those refugee beggars who were poor and frightened not only attacked more ruthless than the main combat soldiers of the Wu army, but also did not let go of the old and children of the Banners of the City. Even if these old and weak women of the Banners hide in the alley, they would rush up and kill them first and then kill them. When they snatch things, they even stripped off their cotton jackets and clothes on the Eight Banners of the people of the body, so that these eight banner parasites who are retribution can only go to hell with their butts naked when they reach the underworld.

The beggars and refugees incorporated by the Wu army were only cruel because of their poverty. They transformed from warriors in the Tiger God Camp into slaves of the Eight Banners who were auxiliary soldiers of the Wu army. Relying on their familiarity with the terrain environment, they kept going to the rich and powerful Banners' houses. They also liked to go to their original master's house. After killing into their master's house, they killed and robbed them. They also liked to press the old master's wife and daughter on the bed, and used their hot body to warm the old master's wife and daughter's body, and fulfilled their last loyalty. Several wealthy streets in Chaoyangmen were everywhere, and the screams of women and men's lewd laughter were everywhere.

Of course, these Eight Banners slaves who are used to being slaves are also very smart. They know who should eat meat and who should drink soup. Most of the good things they snatched were handed over after the war. Even if they keep some, they dare not hide too much.

The constant noise from the city made the Wu army soldiers outside the city itchy, and they were eager to rush into the city to rob, but Zeng Guoquan frowned and was worried because Zeng Guoquan was too clear about the situation of his own army. Most of the core backbone Hunan Army were poor mountain farmers. Later, the soldiers who added to the main team were basically poor people in Henan, and more than 80% were from generation to generation. If such soldiers were put into the golden nest of Beijing Mancheng, if they were not careful, they would definitely be in chaos in the army and the military discipline could not be restricted, giving the enemy the opportunity to take the opportunity to counterattack.

Fortunately, there is also a dog-headed military advisor Zhang Zhidong who is good at understanding people's hearts. He also saw the danger that the soldiers could not restrain after entering the city, so Zhang Zhidong also quickly gave Zeng Guoquan an idea and said: "Jiu Zheng, you should immediately order the entire army to hand over all the spoils seized after entering the city to the city to be uniformly distributed. Then we told our soldiers that we should not just rob, and we should first block the nine gates of the city, block the bannermen in the city's roads to leave the city, and then catch turtles in the jar and seize the property of the rioters."

Zeng Guoquan nodded and quickly sent someone to pass on orders to announce that all the seized spoils were handed over to the unified distribution. The army also asked the army to block the city gates and block the roads first, and then scraped the ground and searched the enemy three feet away, and asked that every Wu army soldier, including the auxiliary soldiers, know this.

After the order was conveyed, the uneasy mood in the army improved slightly. Zhang Zhidong took the opportunity to stand up and rode his horse through the Wu army's soldiers and shouted, "Soldiers, it doesn't matter! There are many good things in the people in the capital, but compared with the things in the Forbidden City, these good things are all beggars!"

"Do you know what Ru kiln is? A palm-sized Ru kiln inkstone can be sold at a sky-high price of thousands of taels of silver during the Taiping period! Any tea cup from Ru kiln is enough for your whole family to have a lifetime of food and clothing! Such a good thing has been installed in the warehouse of the Ministry of Internal Affairs!"

"In the Forbidden City, what is gold? Even the copper jar used to put water to put out fires is plated with gold! Have you ever heard of the golden toilet? Have you ever seen the entire jade chamber pot? There are these things in the Forbidden City! Sooner or later, it is all yours! But it cannot be tight. Only by controlling the inner city first and killing all the rebellious army in the city can we truly get these things!"

"Have you ever been a bad person in the **** Palace? Have you ever been a bad person in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Revenue Bank? Stand out and tell brothers from other places what is going on in those places! Brothers who have never been to these places should also remember that only by taking down the city first and defending the city, these things will belong to us! Think about it carefully, if we can't take down the city and defend the city, how many good things can we take away? In order to steal these good things, will the rebellious army chase us to the end?"

After doing enough ideological work first, Zeng Guoquan dispatched troops and dispatched troops to seize control of the entire city gates. However, even so, Zeng Guoquan still did not forget to instruct every general who led the army to strictly restrict military discipline and must not rush to rob the troops, and directly threatened that those who could not do this would be beheaded on the spot!

Thanks to Zeng Guoquan's usual strict military management and extremely high prestige in the army, after the Wu army entered the city, although the newly recruited auxiliary soldiers were still somewhat difficult to restrain, and they couldn't help but plunder. Fortunately, the main army was not in chaos, and the generals led the team also took timely suppression. This was why there was no major chaos. He basically seized the entire city gates in an orderly manner and gradually controlled the key points of the city gates. But for granted, in order to open the road and seize control of the city gates, these Wu army soldiers also repeatedly slaughtered the Eight Banners Manchus along the way and at the city gates.

Angrying that Li Chendian did not listen to the hello and took the lead in robbing, Zeng Guoquan was very rude to hand over the task of occupying the three gates of the south of the city to Li Chendian, and asked Li Chendian to immediately lead the army to restrain the auxiliary troops who were about to lose control and join forces to seize the three gates of Zhengyang, Xuanwu and Chongwen that connected the outer city. The important task of occupying the Forbidden City was handed over by Zeng Guoquan to the honest and obedient veteran Zhu Hongzhang.

When Zeng Guoquan's messenger found Li Chendian, the packages stolen by Li Chendian's army had already piled up in Xianliang Temple. Although Li Chendian, who had already been robbed red, was unwilling to accept Zeng Guoquan's prestige, he could only obey the orders honestly and quickly command the army to restrain the auxiliary soldiers who were about to lose control, and dispatched troops to seize the three gates in the south of the city.

The Qing army commanders such as the Japanese devil Liu and Hui, who took the initiative to retreat to Nancheng, helped Li Chendian's great help. As the main force had already escaped into Nancheng, they just saw the Wu army coming, and the Qing soldiers guarding the three gates of the city had already fled into Nancheng. The monks who guarded Nancheng were unwilling to consume too much strength in street battles, so they did not let the Nancheng defenders defend the three gates with all their might. Therefore, although Li Chendian's army also took some trouble, they still captured Zhengyang, Chongwen and Xuanwu.

When it was dawn, all the vital points of the Nine Gates in the city fell into the hands of the Wu army. The veteran Zhu Hongzhang also successfully captured the Forbidden City, which was abandoned by the Japanese Six, and confirmed from the palace maids and eunuchs that Cixi and Ci'an had already taken the lead in advance with Tongzhi. After the news was sent out, Zeng Guoquan led the battalion, the Wu army cavalry and a large number of Wu army auxiliary soldiers entered the city from Chaoyang Gate, and walked into the Beijing city with dead bodies in the rising sun, officially replacing the Qing court taking over the main city of Beijing, which had been shamelessly occupied by the Eight Banners Manchus for more than two hundred years.

The blood of the dead bodies and blood everywhere did not affect the excitement of Zeng Guoquan and the Wu army soldiers. Looking at the Forbidden City, which had already been filled with the Wu army flag, everyone cheered constantly, and they were all happy. Zeng Guoquan was also itchy in his heart, hoping to rush into the Forbidden City and go to the palace city and the Golden Palace to open his eyes.

Thanks to Zhang Zhidong who was still calm, he kept reminding: "JiuSupervisor, we still have to calm down. Now is not the time for us to celebrate victory. Nancheng is still in the hands of the rebellion party. The main force of the rebellion party in Guanwen's headquarters will soon arrive. The people in the city are deviating, and our auxiliary soldiers are also unstable. If we cannot act calmly at this time, not only will we not be able to protect the results we have already obtained, but it is not impossible to be defeated by the rebellion party to win."

He looked at the Forbidden City, which was not far away, and quietly swallowed his saliva, Zeng Guoquan turned to Zhang Zhidong and said, "Don't worry, Xiaoda, I am not the kind of person who doesn't know the priorities. Tell me, what should we do now?"

"First, Jiushuo, you must not live in the Forbidden City. You can't make a fuss about rebellion." Zhang Zhidong whispered: "If you know about Zhennan in the future, you may have ideas."

"You don't need to teach this. I am a minister of the Qing Dynasty. Of course, I wouldn't be so ignorant of the sky and the earth. I just moved into the Forbidden City." Zeng Guoquan nodded and replied.

"Second, rectify the army and prepare to welcome the counterattack of the rebel army, and stick to the city full of money and food waiting for our reinforcements." Zhang Zhidong also said: "Openly declare that our Shanxi friendly forces are coming soon to stabilize the morale of the army."

Zeng Guoquan nodded again, and Zhang Zhidong said again: "Third, let the list be released to safeguard the people, prohibit the army from plundering and harming the people, open warehouses and release grain, and provide relief to the poor bannermen in the city to stabilize the hearts of the people."

"No robbery is allowed, you still want me to open the warehouse and release grain?" Zeng Guoquan, the number one iron rooster in Hunan, glared.

"If you don't do this, what should you do when Guan Wen's main force counterattacks the city? When the bannermen in the city make trouble to respond?"

Zhang Zhidong asked back and whispered: "JiuShip, I understand your thoughts, but you can't be anxious. Now is not the time to take action. You have to repel the reinforcements sent by Guan Wen and Luo Bingzhang first. When our Shanxi friendly forces arrive, they will lay a strength advantage, and it will not be too late to take action."

"But in this way, we don't want to take it alone." Zeng Guoquan said with a frown.

"Jiu Shuai, it's very satisfying to eat it alone, but if you can't swallow it, it's troublesome."

Zhang Zhidong answered even more frowningly. Zeng Guoquan thought about it carefully and found that it was the same. He could only nod his head with tears in his eyes and decided to give Shanxi Wu army a share of the pie in the future. Then, Zhang Zhidong made two suggestions to Zeng Guoquan, one was to immediately hoard food and ammunition in the Forbidden City to prevent the situation, and the other was to strive to eliminate the Qing army in the Nancheng before the reinforcements arrived, and relieve the pressure to defend the city in the future. Zeng Guoquan also nodded in agreement and immediately put it into practice.

Although it was very uncomfortable, many Wu army soldiers could not understand it. However, Zhang Zhidong's suggestion to stabilize the people still achieved the ideal effect. Seeing that the Wu army did not rush into the house to kill and set fire, they also sent people to transport grain to various places in the city to distribute. The Banners of Mancheng, who were already like frightened birds, quickly felt relieved and began to believe that the announcement of the Wu army posted by the Anmin on the streets of all sizes was true. The Wu army had no intention of massacre the city, and their resistance to the Wu army was greatly reduced. Although they did not support the Wu army to control the city, they also had no intention of fighting with the Wu army to the end. Anyway, everyone who was a slave was a slave, as long as they could save their lives.

In addition, Zeng Guoquan also honestly set up his command center in the Nanfu Office next to the Forbidden City, and continued to regard himself as a minister of the Qing Dynasty. He did not dare to take the liberty to make a move and directly moved into the politically sensitive Forbidden City. As a result, this action immediately gave all officials in the capital a chance to go down the steps. The officials in the capital who failed to escape from the city ran to Zeng Guoquan for a visit, and wept and sincerely welcomed the King of Zhennan to fight against rebellion into the capital. He couldn't wait to say that he had actually had the plan to serve the Wu army to eliminate the thief leader of the sixth rebellion of the Japanese. The Wu army also suddenly recruited a large number of officials who could barely do something, and had enough personnel to manage the big and small streets in the city and appease the people.

The most important thing is of course the management of the army. In order to appease the soldiers, Zeng Guoquan, who had obtained more than 2 million taels of cash in the Ministry of Revenue Bank's bank deposit, announced the reward of the siege immediately, and decided to reward each main soldier of the Wu army with thirty taels of silver. The commando doubled, the pension for the injured and killed was also doubled, and the auxiliary soldiers were each rewarded five taels of silver. The Wu army cheered in unison and smiled happily. Then Zeng Guoquan announced the news that the Qing army was about to counterattack, requiring the whole army to prepare for war and defend the results of the battle, as well as the rewards and pensions that were not too late to be distributed one by one, and the spoils that had not been available for booking and distribution.

A daytime passed quickly. After it was dark, the exhausted Wu army soldiers were taking turns to rest and sleep. Sure enough, cheers came from the south city. Countless torches appeared outside You'an Gate, officially announcing the arrival of the main force of the Qing army's Zhili. The news came to Zeng Guoquan who had just lie down. Zeng Guoquan's face was very serious. After a while, he said to himself, "Whether you can make a fortune depends on whether you can last until our reinforcements arrive."

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The one who arrived at the battlefield in the capital that night was the front team of the Qing army in Zhili. After Tiansei, the main force of the Qing army in Zhili led by Guan Wen personally arrived outside Yongding Gate and met with the Qing army in the south city. At the same time, the main force of the Qing army in Tianjin led by the Zhili governor Heng Fu.

So far, the number of Qing troops on the battlefield in the capital has reached more than 43,000, of which nearly half are the Qing troops equipped with advanced weapons. Not only has they regained the upper hand in the quality of troops and weapons and equipment, but also because of the Nancheng, there are a large number of auxiliary soldiers to be recruited and can surpass the Wu army at any time.

After meeting with the ghostly-faced old fox Guan Wen, he did not ask why the Japanese and others voluntarily gave up the whole city. Instead, he first inquired about the situation of Ci'an, Cixi and others. After learning that Ci'an and Cixi had successfully escaped to Miyun with Tongzhi, Guan Wen breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Okay, as long as the two palaces and the emperor are safe and sound."

"Official platform, what should we do next?" Guizi Liu asked quickly.

"Go back to the prince, of course, he will fight back with all his strength to retake the North City and the Forbidden City." Guan Wen replied with a cold expression: "But before this, we have to do two things. The first is to ask the two palaces to move the horse as soon as possible to prevent Zunhua from happening. Miyun is still closer, so he has to guard against the Wu thieves who find out the news, and the light cavalry will raid and kill the two palaces' holy drivers."

After the Japanese nodded six times, Guan Wen said again: "Prince Gong, the second thing is that the slaves are brave enough to ask the two palaces to issue edicts to grant slaves the power to control all the troops in the battlefield in the capital. Please ask Prince Gong to serve as the military supervisor."

Hearing this, before the Japanese Liu agreed, our monk prince jumped three feet high and shouted: "Kun Wen, you are so brave, dare to speak to Prince Gong like this? What qualifications do you have to control the Qing imperial guards, including the Knight Camp and the Forward Camp?"

Guan Wen didn't say anything, and he was too lazy to see the ugly face of the monk who couldn't wait to take over power and fight for power. Fortunately, the Japanese Six was a sensible person, so he immediately said: "Don't worry, the official platform is in charge. I will ask the two palaces to issue an edict. Before that, if you want to mobilize the royal imperial guards, you can directly tell me that I was ordered to stay in the capital, and the general manager had full power and had the power to control the camps of the imperial guards in the capital."

The monk's face became even more ugly, but Guan Wen bowed to the Japanese and said respectfully: "Thank you, Prince Gong. I will live up to the prince's trust and will definitely regain the inner city with all my strength."

After saying that, Guan Wen quickly said: "Please organize people to go outside the inner city gates and shout slogans, claiming that Zeng Guoquan's rebel traitors are ready to take away the treasures in the palace and abandon the city. If the Wu thieves and soldiers make money, they will leave. Don't stay in the inner city and die."

When the Japanese heard this, they were overjoyed and quickly arranged people to act according to their plans. However, the official text was endless. They asked Japanese soldiers to immediately organize people to print leaflets, inciting the Banners of the City and the Eight Banners who joined the auxiliary soldiers of the Wu army to turn against each other, open the city gate to welcome the Qing army into the city, and then shoot the entire city with bows and arrows. Not to mention that there were so many soldiers using primitive bows and arrows in the Qing army in the south city.

The matter is not over yet, Guan Wen personally picked up a pen and wrote a book to Zeng Guoquan, pointing out that although Zeng Guoquan has a strong city to defend, the city has a lot of food and grass, but the morale of the army is unstable and the people are not attached to it, it is destined to be difficult to defend for a long time. He advised Zeng Guoquan to stop when he saw the good news and quickly take the spoils out of the city to escape, and not stay in the city for death for nothing, and promised not to chase after it. Then he sent an envoy to slap the white flag and openly send it to Zeng Guoquan.

As soon as Guan Wen, who is also a master of attacking the heart, his face was of course too ugly and ugly. The Japanese Liu and Mr. Hui and others praised him. The younger Prince Chun even said directly: "It's better to have an official platform. We finally know what to do. Unfortunately, someone fell into the trick of Wu Thief and received the memorial from the official platform and did not deliver it to the two palaces in time. Otherwise, we would have to spend so much effort to counterattack the inner nine cities?"

The monk looked up at the sky with his head raised, looking at the arrogant look with disdainful look at the young man, Prince Chun, but Guan Wen refused to give up and said regretfully: "It's a pity that I wasted a day of time yesterday. If our Nancheng army could properly counterattack the inner city yesterday and not give Zeng Guoquan the opportunity to quickly gain a foothold, maybe we can directly retake the inner city today."

"The sixth brother and Mr. Hui and the others wanted to counterattack, the monks..."

The sudden emergence of Guan Wen's personal soldiers interrupted Prince Chun's further slander of the monk Prince, and handed over a copy of Zhengding urgent report that had just been delivered to Guan Wen. After taking it, Guan Wen took it and took it apart, his face changed suddenly. His hand holding the urgent report of the military could not help but tremble. The Japanese Six next to him saw something was wrong and hurriedly asked, "What happened to the official platform?"
Chapter completed!