In a French hotel in the city of Fuzhou, Britain, Germany, France, Russia, Italy, and the United States sent representatives to Fujian Province to contact the Xingzhong Society gathered here, and the purpose of these countries was similar, hoping that this newly rising power could replace the Qing Dynasty, suppress or even eliminate Lin Daxin's forces, and in the process, let several countries obtain certain benefits, of course, this is not an easy thing, the Xingzhong Society is now facing the encirclement and suppression of several armies of the Qing Dynasty, And the one that has Lin Daxin has the world's second-largest army and the world's second-largest navy in terms of total tonnage.

Nima, to be honest, this task is too difficult for the Xingzhong Society, and the current Xingzhong Society does not know if it can survive the encirclement and suppression of the Qing Dynasty army, but several European and American countries have their own ideas.

British representative Eric said to the representatives of the other five countries: "This is a golden opportunity, I think all the countries here do not want to face a Lin Daxin who owns the entire population and land of the Qing Dynasty, in that case, needless to say anything else, the interests of our countries in Asia may be eaten away by the greedy Lin Daxin, as for the current problem of the Xingzhong Society, I think it is very easy to solve, as long as our six countries send a large number of arms to the Xingzhong Society, as well as a large amount of money, and even we can send instructors to the army of the Xingzhong Society, Increasing the combat effectiveness of their army and relying only on the army of the Qing Dynasty will not be able to exterminate the Xingzhonghui supported by our six countries, but the fall of the Qing Dynasty will become doomed. And when the final Xingzhong meeting will deal with Lin Daxin, several of our countries can directly participate in it and get more benefits. ”

The representatives of several other countries couldn't help but nodded, their six countries almost include several of the most powerful European and American countries in the world now, and the strength they gathered together is believed to be that Lin Daxin, no matter how demonic he is, he can't jump up.

French representative Pierdons also said confidently: "The Xingzhong Society is very well-established in the south of the Qing Dynasty, I believe that our investment will pay off, let's study the share of countries that are ready to support the Xingzhong Society, and the return that the Xingzhong Society should pay in the future!" ”

The representatives of the six countries quickly formed a unity and decided to form a group to negotiate with the Xingzhong Society, so the representatives of the six countries immediately went to the headquarters of the Fujian Provincial Provisional Government formed by the Xingzhong Society, and found Sun Wen, the president of the Xingzhong Society.

Although Sun Wen hoped to get the support of foreign countries, he did not want these countries to unite and put forward any excessive conditions for the Xingzhong Society, after all, the purpose of the Xingzhong Society was for the prosperity and prosperity of the Chinese nation, and too many conditions for these powers were not in line with the purpose of the Xingzhong Society, and the comrades in the association would also oppose it.

A series of cooperation plans with the Japanese, at present, only four people in the Xingzhong Association know, and two of these four people oppose the return of South Korea, the Ryukyu Islands, the Ogasawara Islands, and the Kuril Islands to Japan in the future, and they do not want to think that if there is no arms supported by the Japanese, the Fujian ** Army can now build 6 towns, and even with the arrival of the second batch of Japanese arms, the Fujian ** Army will expand more troops.

If these six great powers all put forward similar demands to Japan, Sun Wen decided that he would rather have no support, otherwise the Xingzhong Society itself might fall apart.

Sun Wen considered the gains and losses, and decided to meet with the representatives of the six great powers in advance to see what they could demand. However, Sun Wen speculated that these six great powers were mixed together, and the conditions put forward would not be relaxed.

Sure enough, as Sun Wen expected, the assistance of the six great powers to the Xingzhong Society was very large, compared to the little things of the Japanese was nothing at all, but there is no free lunch in the world, the more you get, the more you pay, and the requirements put forward by the six great powers are definitely beyond Sun Wen's bottom line.

The British offered to maintain the current British interests in China, hoping to lease Weihaiwei to the British after Xingzhonghui had been ruled by the entire Qing Dynasty, and made territorial claims to the province of Lanfang occupied by Lin Daxin.

The French also demanded that their interests in China be maintained, and after the Xingzhong Society had been ruled by the Qing Dynasty, the French leased Canton Bay and demanded that Taiwan be ceded to France.

Russia demanded the return of the Far Eastern Province, Baikal Province, Saisi Province, and Saidong Province occupied by Lin Daxin, and hoped to lease the port of Arthur.

Italy and the United States wanted to divide Luzon equally, and Germany wanted to lease Qingdao.

In short, the conditions put forward by the 6 great powers frightened Sun Wen, if he dared to agree to such conditions, it was definitely the rhythm of his own death, but in the face of the 6 great powers, Sun Wen did not say that the matter was too high, and did not say that the conditions were too high to agree, but just said that the high-level of the Xingzhong Society needed to study it, in fact, it was a polite refusal, but the representatives of the 6 countries did not know, and happily went back to wait for the news.

Sun Wen immediately gathered several major high-level leaders of the Xingzhong Association and several bigwigs of the party, and mentioned the conditions of the six great powers, and immediately the crowd was excited, this is the rhythm of carving up, without the rotten eggs of your six great powers, we will not be able to make a trough cake, and the high-level leaders of the Xingzhong Association and the bigwigs of the party are completely in agreement, and no longer pay attention to the six great powers and countries suspected of taking advantage of the fire to rob.

The representatives of the six countries waited until April 25, when the news of the outbreak of the war came from Pucheng, Fujian, and they did not wait for Sun Wen's response, and then the representatives of the six countries discussed and decided to put pressure on Sun Wen, and they found the Japanese and asked the Japanese to stop their arms support for the Xingzhong Society, hoping that Japan would stand with their six countries.

Originally, Japan had reached a series of cooperation plans with the Xingzhong Society, but in the face of the six great powers, Japan did not dare to do anything against it, so it informed the Xingzhong Society that the third batch of arms could not be given at present, and that six rogue countries were involved, and that it was necessary to turn our Japanese Empire into a rogue state like them, so it was temporarily unbearable to the brothers of the Xingzhong Society.

After Sun Wen got the news from the Japanese, he was furious and threw several teacups in a row, and the time had reached April 27, and the situation in the whole Fujian was very bad for the Xingzhong Society.

On April 25, the 4th town of the Wuwei Army first entered Fujian Province and launched an attack on the Fujian ** Army in Pucheng, the 4th town deserves to be one of the first 13 towns of the new army, the soldiers are well-trained, well-armed, and the ammunition is sufficient, and there are 54 mountain guns with a caliber of 75 mm.

Under the cover of artillery fire, the officers and soldiers of the 4th town broke through the 2 positions of the Fujian ** Army outside Pucheng in only half a day, pushed the battle line to the city of Pucheng, and guarded the 2 positions outside the city of the Fujian ** Army, more than 3,000 people were killed, more than 3,000 people were captured, and the remaining nearly 7,000 people fled into Pucheng, and more than 20 artillery pieces were lost, while the 4th town only suffered less than 800 casualties.

At this time, there were nearly 54,000 people in the Fujian ** army in the two towns in Pucheng, but the rapid loss of the fortifications outside the city made the Fujian ** army in Pucheng suddenly a little unstable, fortunately, Wang Heshun, commander-in-chief of the Fujian ** army, personally led the 500-person guards at this critical moment, entered Pucheng, stabilized the military heart of Pucheng, and attacked the troops of the 4th town head-on, and the 4th town left the corpses of more than 1,000 officers and soldiers under the city of Pucheng, so as to stop the first day of the attack.

On the 26th, the 3rd town of the Wuwei Army, the 10th town of the Beiyang Army and the 13th town of the Dingwu Army led by Iktanga also came to the outside of Pucheng, and the new army of the 4th town began to launch siege battles in turn, and because of the idea of a quick battle and a quick victory by Iktanga, the 4 Towns Counterinsurgency Army did not besiege Pucheng, but launched a fierce attack on the north and east of Pucheng.

The Fujian ** army in 2 towns in Pucheng was a little unbearable under the offensive of the Qing army in just 1 day, and the city fortifications of Pucheng were destroyed by the artillery fire of the Qing army, so Wang Heshun immediately decided, and on the evening of the 26th, he took the initiative to withdraw from Pucheng with nearly 48,000 troops, and retreated to the Wuyi Mountain area behind Pucheng, where there is also a Fujian ** army in 1 town, Wang Heshun is ready to use the terrain of Wuyi Mountain to block the Qing army, if there is no terrain advantage, just like in Pucheng, It was simply impossible to resist the offensive of the new army in the 4 towns of the Qing Dynasty.

However, most of the Fujian ** army has just been expanded, including members of the Xingzhong Society, members of the party, new officers and soldiers of the uprising, officers and soldiers of the patrol battalion of the uprising, prisoners of war of the Fujian New Army, prisoners of war of the Fujian patrol battalion, ordinary people, the personnel are complex, the training time is short, and the combat effectiveness and cohesion can be imagined, Wang Heshun took the 48,000 Fujian ** army to withdraw from Pucheng at night, and when Wang Heshun led the army all the way to Wuyi Mountain, The 48,000-strong army had broken up almost a quarter of its strength on its own, leaving just over 36,000 men.

As soon as Wang Heshun saw this situation, he immediately sent a secret telegram to Sun Wen, asking Sun Wen to make a plan as soon as possible, the combat effectiveness of the Fujian ** Army in the 2 towns of Pucheng was relatively strong compared to other towns, but the result was only 2 days, and there were more than 36,000 people left of the 60,000 people in the 2 towns.

Just 2 days after the war, the Fujian ** army in 1 town was defeated, and the 4 towns of the Qing army lost less than 3,000 people.

In order to cope with Fujian Province, the Xingzhong Hui and Hui Party planned an armed uprising in Hubei, Sichuan, and Anhui at the same time some time ago, when the Fujian ** Army was attacking the entire Fujian Province, and the results were quickly extinguished without exception, and a large number of personnel planted in the new army in the above-mentioned provinces were completely lost, and the personnel of the Xingzhong Hui and Hui Party in several provinces also suffered heavy losses.

Sun Wen summoned several high-level leaders of the Xingzhong Association and several bigwigs of the party to a conference room at the headquarters of the provisional government of Fujian Province, ready to discuss the current shape of Fujian Province, but as soon as the meeting began, he received two bad news, 3 or 40,000 Qing troops in the area of Yandang Mountain in South Zhejiang Province entered Fujian Province and launched an attack on Fuding County, and the offensive was fierce, and the Fujian ** army in that one town in Fuding County was a little unable to hold on.

In addition, about 20,000 or 30,000 Qing troops in Guangdong Province also entered Fujian Province almost at the same time, launching an attack on the Fujian ** army in the Zhangzhou area, and the war was also unfavorable to the Fujian ** army. Now the Fujian ** army in Zhangzhou and Fuding County has sent telegrams to Fuzhou City asking for help.

Sun Wen's face was a little pale and asked Dai Yuheng, a senior member of the Fujian ** Army in the conference room, who was also Wang Heshun's deputy and a member of the Xingzhong Association, "Brother Dai, can the newly expanded troops go to the front line?" ”

Dai Yuheng smiled bitterly and said: "We used the second batch of munitions shipped from Japan to prepare to form the Fujian ** Army in 2 more towns, but now the number of people has only been recruited less than 20,000, and they have just been trained for a few days, and they can't go to the battlefield at all, otherwise these recruits will have to break up with a gun." ”

At this time, a senior executive of the Xingzhong Association said in frustration: "Now we need reinforcements in three directions, we are concentrating the troops near Fuzhou City, only 30,000 people in one town, and the combat effectiveness of our Fujian ** Army is weaker than that of the Qing Army, and the reinforcements of 10,000 troops in each direction in each of the three directions are like a drop in the bucket." ”

Then the whole conference room fell silent, could it be that the great shape that occupied the entire Fujian Province would be in vain? Many people in the conference room were unwilling, especially a few bigwigs of the party, a few gangs in the party, for this uprising can be said to spare no effort to support, Xingzhong will ask people to give people, ask for money to give money, a few party gangs, more than 100,000 gang members participated in the Fujian ** army.

A bigwig of the Hongmen Sect broke the calm and said: "I think it's better to talk to those foreigners and see if they can help us, as for the conditions they put forward, we can talk about it, it's normal to ask for money on the spot." ”

The high-level member of the Xingzhong Association who spoke just now shook his head and said: "No, the conditions of those powers are too harsh, and now our situation is to talk with those powers, and there is not much room for maneuver." ”

The bigwig of the party Hongmen continued: "But if we don't look for those foreigners, our Fujian Province will not be able to resist the attack of the Qing army at all, and the combat effectiveness of the Fujian ** Army we have just formed is not half a star compared to the full new army." Ladies and gentlemen, the old man thinks that it is the most important thing to get through the current difficulties, and it is better to endure the humiliation once. ”

Then the conference room became silent again, and everyone looked at Sun Wen, waiting for the decision of the ** leader.

And Sun Wen's face was even paler at this time, grandma, what do you mean by this, if I agree to the conditions of the great powers, won't Sun become a traitor? You must know that those powers are all rushing to the land of the Qing Dynasty to cut meat.

But if we don't look for the great powers, how can the current situation be solved? Do you want my grandson to run away? Sun Wen was extremely entangled, and his brows were furrowed together. R1152