O Emperor!

That's a bit of a tangling question!

It's not that Xianfeng is embarrassed, he is a fourteen-year-old boy, and it is not a shame to recognize a half-old man who is almost fifty as a godfather, and he is still much better than Shi Jingjiao.

But the problem is in faith.

His main supporters are the Eight Banners and the Mongolian princes, and these, especially the latter, are all Buddha believers, and an important reason for his recognition is that he is also a Buddha believer, and the original Buddha in Beijing still follows him! But would the sudden conversion to Yahweh cause resentment among the Mongol princes? His minister, who is actually the Great Qing Dynasty Hai Zijin Liang, is the prince of Mongolia.

The other eight flags......

Well, don't worry about Eight Flags.

And those Han ministers......

Well, the Han ministers don't care, if they need to, they will also worship Confucius and Yawei at the same time, their ancestors have already done that.

In this way, the only thing that really worries is the attitude of those Mongolian princes, especially monks.

Fortunately, soon the offensive of the Ming army solved all his concerns for Xianfeng, just half a month after the Russian envoy arrived in Chang'an, Xiangyang's Zeng shaved head finally surrendered to Yang Feng under the persuasion of Zuo Zongtang, and the Qing army that retreated to Luoyang abandoned Luoyang under the threat of the Ming army to protect Shaanzhou and guard the gate of Guanzhong with Kuoshan as a barrier, and even the new army of the Eight Banners was also invested in the defense line of Kuoshan, and Baoding and Zhengding were also abandoned one after another. The dividing line between the Ming and Qing dynasties was thoroughly advanced to the Yanshan Taihang Mountain and the Qinling Mountains, which are the steps of Chinese geography, and the nearest Ming army was less than 500 miles away from Chang'an in a straight line.

Xianfeng had no other choice, if he could not get Russian assistance, he could only consider abandoning Guanzhong and continuing to flee west, and if he continued to flee west, he still had to pray for the protection of the Russians.

In that case, let's do it simply!

On the ninth day of July in the third year of the Ming Dynasty, the Tatar Qing Emperor loved Xinjueluo. In the palace of Chang'an, he was baptized by an Orthodox priest who came with the Russian envoy, officially became a believer in Yahweh, and recognized the Russian Tsar Nicholas I as his godfather, and the Russian Empress Alexandra. Feodorovna was the godmother, and at the same time, the Qing Empire and the Russian Empire signed a treaty of alliance, under which the Russian Empire would provide all forms of military assistance, including sending troops, to the Qing Empire to help the Qing Empire suppress the rebellion within its territory and restore its rule over China......

Of course, Russian assistance will take time.

Whether it was sending Cossack cavalry to help the Qing army in battle or providing arms support, it would take time, and even if Nicholas I knew that he had an additional godson, it would take at least three months!

Not to mention that he still has to transfer troops.

His soldiers had to travel thousands of miles to get there.

In fact, at least before the end of this year, Xianfeng will not see his Russian father's army.

It would take a long time for the two sides to transmit information alone, they did not have the radio of the Ming army, and at this time, the cable telegraph had just begun to be tested in the United States! The news was to be sent to Semipalatinsk by post horse, where the Russian army was also to be delivered all the way to Moscow by fast horse, a long distance, and the order of Nicholas I was sent back to his governor in Siberia, who transferred the Cossacks, and then the Cossack cavalry rushed to Guanzhong......

I'm afraid half a year is not enough.

It's going to take close to a year.

In other words, the efficiency of the Russian bureaucracy is not much better than that of the Qing Dynasty.

Fortunately, this problem is not serious, Monk Greenqin has personally rushed to Shaanzhou, he knows the current situation of the Qing Dynasty, and he did not oppose Xianfeng's baptism, anyway, it is just a formality, not to mention that he also knows that the Buddha can't help the Qing Dynasty, but the Russians can really help the Qing Dynasty, and he knows very well the combat effectiveness of the Russian army just after fighting with the Cossacks.

This was the last straw for the Qing Dynasty.

After the Russian-Qing alliance was confirmed, he immediately led the Eight Banners New Army, the main force of the Qing army, to the front line of Kunshan, where he had to hold out for at least a year before waiting for Russian reinforcements.

Fortunately, the situation was in his favor.

Although there is not only one passage into Guanzhong, but the Ming army's dependence on logistics, it is destined that they can only take the Cuihan Road, all guns and cannons-based Ming army, logistics is not a mountain sheep intestine trail can be solved by the packees, those mountain roads can not drive four-wheeled carriages, many places are plank roads How to go this? The only effective is water transportation, but the Qinling Mountains are not mountainous areas in the south, any mountain stream can be navigable to support transportation, not to mention that there are ports along the coast for the Ming army to supply, only the Yellow River can support the Ming army's operations, although there is Sanmenxia obstruction, but the Yellow River is still the main channel of Guanzhong outward, and Shaanzhou is the throat of this line, whether it is along the Yellow River water transport or the land route of the Cuihan Road, can not bypass this strategic point.

It can be said that as long as Shaanzhou is in hand, it is impossible for the Ming army to enter the pass.

The danger of Kunshan and the mountain transportation between Kunshan and Luoyang also weakened the firepower advantage of the Ming army to the greatest extent, relying on the new army that was trained in the northwest, and there was no pressure on Seng Lingqin to hold on until the arrival of reinforcements from the Russian father.

For a time, the confidence of the Qing Dynasty skyrocketed.

Little did they know, however, that they were about to die.

Xiangyang.

"Sinners knock to the God Emperor!"

Zeng Guofan and Hu Linyi kowtowed at the feet of the God Emperor.

"Forget it, you have been pardoned, so go back to your hometown honestly!"

Yang Feng waved his hand and said.

"Thank you God Emperor for not killing!"

After Zeng Hu and the others finished speaking, they got up cautiously, and looked at Zuo Zongtang quite lost, Zuo Zongtang's progress was still very fast, at this time he was already a department-level official in the Ministry of Officials, and Zeng Hu and the others who had fought for our Qing Dynasty for many years could only return to their hometowns to farm. Although theoretically they can take the civil service exam, but with their background, it is estimated that it is difficult to put down their faces to squeeze in those young people, starting from the lowest civil servants, after all, a governor and a governor are also former feudal officials, with full of loneliness, the two turned around and left, and at this time a young clerk walked up to them and saluted.

"Uncle Zeng, the little nephew is just going to Wuchang, so it's better to take the two of you for a ride."

The clerk said with a smile.

Zeng Guofan looked at him and was stunned for a moment, then showed a smile and said, "It's Gradual, how is Ling Zun at this time?" ”

"My father is still in captivity."

Li Er, who is just in his early twenties this year, said embarrassedly.

His father Li Wen'an and Zeng Guofan were in the same year, originally in the criminal department as a Beijing official, but at this time his fate changed, and he was transferred to Sichuan as an official, but he was not a big official, the current news is cut off, and he doesn't know how his father is, but the flexible Li Er devil is very smart to take the civil service exam in Hefei, and I don't know why he was transferred to the side of the emperor, it can be said that the future is already bright, at this moment Zeng Guofan asked his father, and what the father and son said are also two camps, it is inevitable to be embarrassed.

Zeng Guofan, who understood this, also smiled awkwardly, then changed the topic, and together with Hu Linyi and the families of the two, boarded a southbound wooden sailing ship with Li Hongzhang.

"This is the general trend of the world!"

Zeng Hu and the others, who were standing side by side on the deck, looked at them and sighed.

Next to them is a small inland river steamer that is going upstream, on the wide Han River there is a long queue that can not be seen, braving the billowing black smoke and breaking the waves, countless soldiers in red military uniforms on the boat stand with guns, beside them from time to time you can see a cannon fixed on the deck, and even the ship is full of war horses, these troop transports and those civilian ships going down the river form two staggered torrents, showing what is irresistible on this ancient river.

On the nearest troop transport, two generals looked at them, Zeng Guofan smiled and nodded at him, and the latter nodded in return.

"That's Lin Fengxiang, the commander of the Eleventh Army, and next to him is his chief of staff, who is also his younger brother Lin Shaozhang."

Li Hongzhang next to him said in a low voice.

"Xianfeng is finished!"

Hu Linyi said with a long sigh.

"He just thought about blocking the Han River, but he forgot that there was also a Han River, Hanzhong, Guanzhong and Sichuan were completely cut off, and without Sichuan's grain, Guanzhong would become his grave."

Then he added.

However, he guessed wrong.

The God Emperor is not so petty! What's the point of fighting a man? Wouldn't it be better to go straight to Chang'an from the meridian road?

Although militarily this is completely a desperate gamble, but if the Divine Emperor drives the expedition in person, it will be completely victorious, and the army led by Lin Fengxiang is going to fight him directly in Chang'an, if Xianfeng did not form an alliance with Nicholas I, Yang Feng may not have this interest, but now that his goal has been achieved, of course he will not continue to let Dao Guang Disc occupy the pass. The next thing is to really fight with the Russian-Qing coalition army, this battlefield must not be put in Guanzhong, this kind of war will definitely cause a large number of civilian casualties, not to mention that after cutting off the connection between Guanzhong and Sichuan, Guanzhong will definitely face a shortage of food, coupled with the consumption of extra Russians, it is specified that there will be a famine and even cause starvation all over the field, after all, the food that can be produced by this land is limited, and it can neither feed Xianfeng and Baqi, nor can it feed gray livestock.

Previously, he stayed in Sichuan, that is, to avoid famine in Guanzhong.

So Guanzhong can't be a battlefield.

The rest of eastern Gansu is not good, and there are many Han people in this land.

The whole of Gansu has a population of more than 16 million.

However, at this time, Gansu included Ningxia, part of Qinghai and part of Xinjiang.

The goal of the god emperor is to drive Xianfeng out of Guanzhong with a thunderous force, until he is driven to the poor ravine of Longyou, and then continue to rush west, and Longyou will not be able to support the Russian-Qing coalition army, Xianfeng must rely on the Russians for help, and he can only continue to retreat, until he retreats to the Tianshan area, so as to receive reinforcements from Russia nearby, and there are also Mongols loyal to him.

This battlefield is more suitable.

Anyway, even if there are civilian casualties, Yang Feng will not feel distressed.

If there is a tug-of-war with the Mongolian tribes and the Russian army going south in the Hetao area, it will undoubtedly be perfect.