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Qinhuangdao, which used to be extremely prosperous, has become a mess, the island's factories, wharves, anti-wave and railway roads have been completely demolished, the storage yard of the south wharf has also been destroyed and mined, and the berths are full of sunken ships and mines full of mud, so that the port with an annual throughput of 1.4 million tons has been completely scrapped. Originally, Zhou Xuexi, a representative of Zhili, had come to the capital to carry out activities in order to hope that the army could properly preserve the Kailuan Coal Mine, the Qinhuangdao Wharf, and the Qixin Ash Factory, but the General Staff Staff's reply to this was very rigid, that is, if Zhou Xuexi could guarantee that the Japanese Army would not use these facilities, then they could be retained, but if he couldn't, then he would be tried by a military court, and if nothing else, he would be shot for the crime of financing the enemy.

What will the Japanese army do, how can Zhou Xuexi guarantee, the shooting only made him tremble all over, and after withdrawing from the General Staff, he had no choice but to ask the British consul for help, so a diplomatic dispute was provoked again, but because Qinhuangdao was originally a port opened by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the result of this dispute was only the Chinese government's guarantee not to destroy the Kaiping coal mine, but the destruction of the Japanese army had nothing to do with China. However, although the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said so, the battlefield was in eastern Hebei, and there was a shell in the dark night, and who knew who hit it.

The factories in Qinhuangdao and the entire Tangshan were dismantled, and all the usable machines were shipped to Shanxi, where a new factory would be built, and Zhou Xuexi finally understood why the industrial loans from the Ministry of Industry were not invested in Zhili. Yang Jingcheng and these people should have expected that there would be a big war in Zhili.

The Huludao submarine base was bombed, and anyone who knows a little about today's shape knows that the Japanese army must land in Gyeonggi. And to land in Gyeonggi, the places that can be chosen are Qinhuangdao and Tianjin. However, it was known that the Japanese army would land here twice. But for the government, only Qinhuangdao can be destroyed. As for the railway from Beijing to Shanhaiguan and the port of Tianjin, it was preserved because the Xinchou Treaty stipulated that it could not be destroyed. In addition, the legation made many requests, such as to inspect the defensive positions of the defenders along the railway, but these were politely rejected by the Foreign Office, which made the Belgian minister angry and helpless.

For Lieutenant General He Zhaoxian, commander of the 8th Group Army stationed on the front line of Tangshan in Qinhuangdao, the government's various compromises to foreigners made it difficult for him to accept. Now sitting in the world, I feel that this country is not my own. Foreigners are rampant, and they have to intervene in everything, and these foreigners arrogantly think that they are the masters, and in the face of such a master, he does not see anything, and all people are blocked from the headquarters, causing a 'Chinese and foreign uproar' for a while.

This was the case on the Qinhuangdao side, and even more so on the Tao Dayong side of Tianjin, although the defenders were not ten kilometers away from Tianjin City. However, the forts along the Dagukou and other lines were ordered to be flattened by the Xinchou Treaty, so the Tianjin consular corps had to check not only whether the defenders had built forts along the coast, but also whether there were forts on the defenders' positions. All kinds of seemingly reasonable but unreasonable demands are annoying, and in the end, Tao Dayong is the same as He Zhaoxian. There are no foreigners, and those who want to inspect the forts are also invited to take care of themselves. The defenders will not receive them.

Many of the representatives of the legation were completely displeased by the various non-cooperation of the defenders of the two places, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and even the Prime Minister's Office often received notes from foreigners. Yang Rui, who was becoming more and more self-cultivated, went crazy several times and replaced the desk in the office several times. However, thinking that he could not affect the course of history, he had to make some forbearances, and in the end, it was only Qinhuangdao that was really effectively fortified, and the Dagu Estuary and the Haihe River could not be effectively defended at all, and even mines were not arranged.

Tianjin's defense was empty, and this was an important reason why the Japanese army dared to land in Zhili, and after the Japanese army went ashore at Dagukou, the Japanese naval gunboats could calmly and freely pass on the Haihe River, and the anti-landing operation could not be carried out. The real effective defense in the direction of Tianjin was Wuqing Langfang and other places on the north side of Tianjin, but even here, the legation had to take a note and order the defenders not to break the railway and not to build fortifications on both sides of the railway. All kinds of restrictions, all kinds of notes, made Yang Rui angry and began to be in a trance, is this still his own country? Knowing this, he should have set up his capital in Nanjing, so as not to have to guard against the foreigners' garrison in the capital every day and face an undefended Tianjin Haikou.

On the twenty-first day of April in the third year of Shenwu, on the day of Xinchou, the Japanese Navy cruiser fleet appeared off Tianjin, accompanied by hundreds of large and small merchant ships, the fleet was so large that it seemed that the entire Bohai Sea could not be put down, and the smoke spit out from the boiler was even more obscuring the sky and the sun, so that the whole sky was plunged into darkness. As soon as the Japanese fleet appeared, the Yiwu airship stationed over Dagukou immediately sent the enemy situation to the front-line headquarters, and the front finger urgently transmitted the information to the General Staff Headquarters, and half an hour later, Vice Admiral Xu Jingxi went directly to the Prime Minister's Office to present the news to Yang Rui, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he said: "Sir, the Japanese are here!" ”

Yang Rui, who was depressed because of the various notes of the foreigners, had no intention of doing anything at all these days, and threw all the big and small things to the office, while he was closing the door in the back house, in fact, he was just listening to the music of the Han Xianfeng. Xu Jingxi was in a hurry, and when he was welcomed in by Li Zilong, he didn't care about the music echoing in the back house, and only when he finished saying 'The Japanese are coming' and waited for Yang Rui to reply, he suddenly heard the singing in the house.

Xu Jingxi stood silently until the end of this song, and only woke up in Yang Rui's words after Han Xianfeng retreated, but he didn't hear what Yang Rui was saying in a daze, he just said to himself: "The Japanese naval landing fleet has not been found in Qinhuangdao for the time being......"

Seeing Xu Jingxi answer the question, Yang Rui extinguished the cigarette and said angrily: "I didn't ask you Qinhuangdao, I meant that I should go to the street and take a walk." As for military matters, it's good to go according to the plan, don't worry, nothing will happen, the legation protests then it will be pushed to the Japanese, anyway, by then our people have already been evacuated. ”

Yang Rui said that he wanted to go out for a walk. Li Zilong immediately said: "Prime Minister, it's not safe to go to the street now. Besides, the news of the Japanese landing will soon reach the streets by the envoys of various countries, and there will be a lot of chaos on the streets by then......"

"Fight as you go. The days have passed, so don't we eat when the Japanese come? Yang Rui stood up and straightened the crimson official robe on his body, and then took off the black gauze hat and flicked the dust, and then said: "I don't want a carriage this time, Xianfeng and I will walk around the city, we haven't eaten roast duck for a long time, we have to eat it this time." ”

The more Yang Rui is quiet, the more anxious Li Zilong is to open the country to the present. There are not a few assassinations of the prime minister openly and secretly, although every time the danger is saved, but now that the two countries have declared war on China, the situation is also a little turbulent. However, after getting along for a long time, Li Zilong understands Yang Rui's temper very well, and knows that the more quiet he is, the more determined he is. I had to hurriedly call Zhang Taiyan from the Ministry of Rites and Xu Huafeng from the Ministry of Works, thinking that these two came over to persuade them, and didn't want to wait for Han Xianfeng to enter and change their clothes, but neither of them came.

Yang Rui was dressed in a crimson official robe. Liang Guanbo belt; Han Xianfeng is a white robe with emerald edges, a green skirt, and a wide and bright belt, which is even more thin, and the waist is only a hand. After grinding in the house for a while, the red man and green woman went out on the street like this. And the members of the Prime Minister's Office Guards were dressed in civilian clothes in order not to disturb the people, and followed closely behind them.

Yang Rui rarely went out of the house and went to the street. But what the prime minister looks like, the people in the capital know. As soon as the two of them came out of the Prime Minister's Office, they had not yet arrived at West Chang'an Street, and the Xidan Archway of the Fish Market was surrounded by the people, but fortunately, the Prime Minister's official authority was still there, and the people along the street just paid attention and bowed, but did not block the street.

Crossing West Chang'an Street, and then south is the parliament next to Xuanwu Gate, and Yang Du and others who stayed behind suddenly heard that the prime minister was on the street, so they took some left-behind parliamentarians to wait on the street. After seeing Yang Rui and Han Xianfeng giving gifts, he smiled and said: "My lord is so interested today, but today is not the fifteenth day of the new year, and you must record attendance and deduct wages according to the regulations for absenteeism." ”

As soon as Yang Du's words came out, everyone laughed, as smart as Yang Du, how did he not know that the prime minister went to the street in simple clothes to appease the people, Yang Rui didn't care about his jokes, but said: "If you want to go to Qianmen Street to eat roast duck, do you want to go with you?" ”

The prime minister invited, and everyone readily agreed, and when they came out of the Xuanwu Gate, Yang Du approached and asked softly: "Is it really so dangerous, if you want to risk yourself?" ”

"The Japanese are about to land at Dagukou, if they don't come out for a walk, can the people be at ease?" For the sake of Yang Du is descendant, Yang Rui said some things directly, "How about the parliamentarians, the Kuomintang gang didn't rebel, right?" ”

"Nope. He urged everyone to stand aside from the government, and not to be bewitched by Liang Zhuoru and Sun Yixian......" Yang Du said this: "I wonder how Liang Zhuoru ran away to Japan and mixed up with Sun Wen." ”

"Liang Zhuoru, hehe, isn't he a bitch!" Yang Rui opened his mouth to say foul words, and Han Xianfeng next to him pulled him, but he continued disapprenorantly, "He has never advocated anything, he advocated the reform of the law when he was in Wuxu, and when he failed, he mentioned the republic, and finally saw the guilty ministers when the Manchu Qing Dynasty changed the law before his release, and turned to advocate the constitution, and in the end, Guangxu came out of the mountain, and he re-mentioned autocracy, Guangxu died and the country was destroyed, and he began to praise the republic again...... So over and over again, what is not a bitch? In the final analysis, this person wants to make trouble for you, and then asks you to appease him and give him an official. I've seen a lot of shamelessness, but I've never seen such shamelessness. ”

Yang Du didn't want Liang Qichao to be so unbearable in his heart, he wanted to say two good words, but seeing this, he had to say: "Zhuo Ru is a talent after all, if you really want to lock him up, then ......"

"China can do without talent, but it can't do without laws." Yang Rui said unhappily: "The more talented the lawless talents, the greater the danger." Huizi, do you want to punish the doctor? ”

Yang Rui's set of laws is the biggest to deal with, when he was used as a leak to leak the United States to put Wu Yangzeng, who was born in the United States, in prison, colleagues in the mining department protested that he not only closed the mining department, but even canceled the establishment, until now it has not been rebuilt, making the national mining affairs blank, prospecting can only be replaced by Tianzihao. According to credible rumors, the prime minister has also said that the mining department will be canceled for one day after he is in office, and if he wants to rebuild, he will have to wait for him to step down. The prime minister who is so stubborn can't help but think of Wang Anshi, and now he doesn't know why he is facing Liang Qichao again, which really makes Yang Du shake his head.

According to the costumes of the new dynasty, the parliamentarians also wore crimson official robes. More than a dozen of them, under the protection of the Prime Minister's Guard and the Parliamentary Guard. Surrounded by Yang Rui, he walked on Xuanwumen Street. At this time, the people of the capital heard that the prime minister went to the street and the Japanese army landed at Dagukou almost at the same time, and many people had just heard that the Orientals had come ashore. Here I was told that the Prime Minister was heading to Qianmen Street with his concubine. The former only makes people want to close the doors and windows, and even go out of the city to the countryside to avoid military disasters, and the latter makes people want to go to the street to see it - the prime minister is said to be the stars in the sky, and those who are lucky enough to see it say that the adults are eight feet tall and eight feet in circumference, but how many feet it is, you have to see it to know.

A group of people walked to the front door, and Yang Qingmao, the big shopkeeper of Quanjude, was worried when he heard the news that the Oriental people had come ashore. Three years ago, he was loved by the Prime Minister, and his first meal in Beijing was eaten in Quanjude. Quanjude's business has been unrivaled for a while, and the shop has tripled in two years, even so, the business is still too busy, and the limelight is catching up with the cheap shop next to it. Such a prosperous business, if it is because the Oriental people like Gengzi can burn, kill and plunder, then not only the whole of Jude will be finished, but the entire city of Beijing will also be finished.

Yang Qingmao was uneasy, and the guy who went out on the street also ran over. He stopped sweating and said, "The shopkeeper is here... Here it ......."

"What! The Orientals are coming? Yang Qingmao was shocked, reached out and grabbed the pole, and was about to take down the store outside to close the door.

"No... Be. It was the Prime Minister, and many members of the Diet came, saying that they were coming to eat roast duck. "The guy was out of breath and just got in the door. One hand was still pointing to the north.

"Ahh Yang Qingmao was taken aback and suddenly rejoiced, and said, "Quick! Fast. Prepare a few more ducks, I—" He spun around and then suddenly muttered to himself, "I have to go out to meet you." With that, he went out.

More than a dozen big shots entered Quanjude. With the addition of a bunch of guards, the store was suddenly full. After everyone took the silver awl and selected the duck, they sat down and waited patiently, and it took twenty minutes to eat roast duck in the summer, and they didn't want the duck to be served yet, Xu Huafeng and Zhang Taiyan came.

Yang Rui learned the tone of Yang Du just now, looked at the two of them and said with a smile: "What's the matter, absenteeism in broad daylight, this is to record attendance and deduct wages." ”

Xu Huafeng laughed when he heard this, Zhang Taiyan opened the folding fan and said, "The emperor has come out, can't a few of us come out?" ”

"Ahh Yang Rui was startled, stood up and said, "What's going on?" ”

"What's going on? Aren't you going out to eat on the street to calm the hearts of the people, when the emperor heard this, he felt that it was such a reason, and he also said that he wanted to come out. Sheng Shudong couldn't stop that kid, so he came out. "The Ministry of Rites has always promoted King Min as the emperor, and Zhang Taiyan is used to talking about the emperor on weekdays, so he can't change his words, "But this Quanjude will not come, it should be to the cheap shop next door." ”

The Prime Minister loves to eat Quanjude roast duck, everyone in the capital knows it, but everyone doesn't know that the reason why he eats Quanjude is because of the propaganda of later generations, saying that this is a time-honored brand. But time has moved forward for more than a hundred years, and this Quanjude is just an ordinary shop, and the cheap shop next to the fresh fish mouth is really a century-old store. It is said that the old shop of this brand was opened in the 14th year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, and the name of the cheap shop was written by Yang Jisheng, a member of the military department in the 30th year of Jiajing, so that the cheap shop has been nearly 500 years old so far. The prime minister loves to eat Quanjude, the emperor loves to eat cheap shops, the roast duck restaurant in the capital was popular for a while, this time Yang Rui went to the street to eat roast duck, and Zhu Kuansu also ran out of the palace under the pretext of reassuring the people.

"Then we're going to wait next to us!" Yang Du said, and so did the lawmakers behind him.

"That's not necessary, I'm just coming out of the palace." Zhang Taiyan said: "The emperor has ordered, saying that the monarchs and ministers eat their own ducks, and there is no need to be polite, so as to show that they are happy with the people." ”

Hearing that it was actually eating their own ducks and having fun with the people, Yang Rui laughed, Zhu Kuanji, a little kid, had also grown up, and heard that the queen was also pregnant with a dragon species, he suddenly thought that the prince who was born was surnamed Zhu, and his name was numerous, but it was not right to think about this time.

On the twenty-first day of April in the third year of Shenwu, on the day when the Japanese landed at Dagukou, the monarchs and ministers all gathered together to eat roast duck on Qianmen Street, so that later in order to commemorate this day, the Beijing restaurant made a Beijing roast duck festival, and the time was set on April 21, of course, this is a later story. At this time, the people of the whole city, who were a little panicked when they heard that the Orientals were coming, and heard that the emperor and the prime minister had gone out on the street, and their hearts couldn't help but settle down. After all, there are still prime ministers and emperors in this city, and there are hundreds of thousands of revival troops outside the city. Thinking about the former Ming Dynasty again, this capital has also been besieged several times, but Emperor Chongzhen is. The sky is bright, and the plague is rampant. The city was broken. Now that the Orientals are coming to fight, how can they break the city in three or two blows like the Manchu Qing Dynasty. At that time, the soldiers and horses of the Qin kings from all over the country will enter Beijing, and the Orientals will definitely retreat.

The comfort of the people is self-seeking, but the first thing to defend the city is to stabilize the people's hearts, and if the people's hearts are to be stable, the big people must show their heads, otherwise the big people themselves will run away, and the officers and soldiers will have the heart to defend the city. In the propaganda of the previous government, the emperor was to live and die with the capital, and the same was true of the prime minister and the officials of various ministries. In addition, the families of the four officials in Beijing have also been explicitly ordered not to leave Beijing, if you want to go out of Beijing, please resign first, as soon as this order comes out, the capital has really become an iron bucket.

Just when Zhu Kuansu and Yang Rui, the adults in crimson official robes, reflected the hearts of the people in the capital, at 10:11 in the morning, the first shell from the 305mm main gun of the Zhenyuan ship fell on the undefended Dagu mouth, because it was filled with Shimose explosives, and the fuse was also instantaneous. As soon as the shell touched the ground, it burst into flames, which was very eye-catching. Zhenyuan was the first, and then it's Itsukushima, Matsushima, Hashidate, and other old ships in the first noon period also began to shell Dagukou, and for a time the bullets were like flying locusts. The flames were like huge waves, and the entire Dagu mouth seemed to be missing in the violent explosion.

The shelling continued for more than an hour, and after the artillery stopped, the Japanese lead ship docked. The soldiers saw that there were no defenders and no fortifications. With the signal flag waving, the light cruiser began to approach the mouth of Dagu. The accompanying gunboats entered the Haihe River to clear the interior of the enemy, but as the British consul in Tianjin said, the Chinese did not dare to violate the Beijing Protocol, and no batteries were built along the Haihe River, nor were fortifications built nearby.

When the information was gathered to Commander Kuroki Weizhen, he was surprised: "Is it difficult that the people are really undefended?" ”

"Your Excellency, China is just a colony of the great powers, and the Yang clan looks tough, but he doesn't dare to be tough about things that can't be tough." Chief of Staff Shigeta Fujii looked like he knew this, "Let's give the order to land." ”

"It can't be that simple." Kuroki Weizhen was indeed an extremely cautious general, and he did not wait for Fujii to say more, and ordered the navy to search again, so he waited for more than an hour, and only waited for the navy team to search forward to be repelled by the defenders fifteen kilometers west of the Dagu Pass, and he believed that the vicinity of the Dagu Pass was really unfortified, and the Jingbong Railway had not been destroyed. With a happy mind, at one o'clock in the afternoon, the first troops began to go ashore, and after these divisions went ashore, they were deployed to the west with the support of gunboats, and the Beijing-Fengtian railway on the north bank of the Haihe River was also occupied by it, and the railway line from Tianjin to Tangshan and even Shanhaiguan and Fengtian was cut off.

In addition to the plan of the base camp, after these 13 divisions go ashore, four regular divisions and two reserve divisions will also be transferred from the direction of Andong to the battlefield, so that the situation of the front line of Anton and Gaizhou will change from offensive to defensive. This is actually the calculation of the General Staff Headquarters, that is, sea transportation is more convenient than land transportation, no matter how many divisions the Chinese army has, they will not be able to transfer their troops to Guannai in a short time, especially under the premise that Lu Guo also declares war on Zhinai.

The General Staff Headquarters and the Manchurian Army Headquarters both believed that as long as these troops were quickly transported to the Zhili Plain via Tianjin and Qinhuangdao, then the hasty Jianzhi would not be able to resist the 300,000 men of these 19 divisions, and after the rapid occupation of Beijing and the capture of the emperor and government officials, the only thing left was to cede the land and pay compensation. Because Qinhuangdao had been completely destroyed by the Chinese army, and the only real landing force that could be used for landing was Tianjin Port, the first batch of landing troops immediately advanced in the direction of Tianjin after they went ashore, so that they could seize more river banks and make subsequent troops land on both sides of the Haihe River.

As soon as the devil came ashore, he launched an attack after a little rest, which surprised Major General Tao Dayong at the front-line command post, whether he was taking aphrodisiacs or guns, although he wanted to retreat, but according to the arrangement of the General Staff, he had to hold on for a period of time, and he could only retreat when most of the devils went ashore. After a few phone calls, the artillery of the defenders stationed on both sides of the Haihe River began to do their best to delay the advance of the Japanese army. However, this is not a mountainous area, and after the second group of Japanese troops went ashore, the Japanese army began to outflank the defenders, and the Tianjin defense line was stipulated by the legation that it could not be defended, and the defenders retreated as soon as the Japanese army outflanked them, and at sunset, the 4th and 7th divisions that landed on the shore returned, and there were no defenders east of Tianjin.

The people of China retreated like this, and Tianjin was presented in front of everyone. This brought tears of excitement to the eyes of the Japanese Imperial Army, who had not been able to advance an inch in Liaodong for several months, this is really a blessing! It's just that these people who scream and jump are all tragic after a few hours. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)