Part 1 Chapter 26 Temporary Appointment (2 more)
"A great victory in Zhennan Pass!"
The little eunuch stumbled to the door and fell down with a thump. The urgent thing in his hand reached into the door.
"Send it quickly!" Cixi was happy, and Xiao Guangxu's face also showed joy.
"My minister Feng Zicai urgently reported to the two palaces! Wenyuan, Zhennan Pass, the Shanghai Bureau will handle Chen Congyun, and General Yang Yuke, who has arrived at the front line since the war, personally posed arrows and stones. Wenyuan held two days ago, and Zhennan Pass fought hard for a day and night in the back. Yang Yuke was injured, and Chen Congyun led his troops to fight fiercely with more than 10,000 French troops for a day and night. On the 26th, Wang Debang, Su Yuanchun, Wei Gang, and the rest of the troops rushed to help one after another. The bandits fought hard for a day and night, exhausted, and Yu and others led their troops to counterattack, and the bandits were defeated. At this point, the bandits lost 2,000 soldiers, three,000 puppet troops, and they were infinity to seize them. Zhennan Pass won a great victory."
Xiao Guangxu finished reading the urgent report in a trembling voice, and looked at Cixi excitedly.
"What did you say? Didn't Li Hongzhang say that Pan Dingxin was urgently telegram? Zhennan Pass was in danger, so would he send reinforcements? Why did it win in the blink of an eye? Didn't Pan Dingxin say that the French army is in great power and cannot resist?" Cixi thought she had heard it wrong, and she was still a little unbelievable. Two thousand French troops, how much water is there in this battle?
"Teacher Weng, tell me, can you believe this?" Cixi asked Weng Tonghe suspiciously. Before Weng Tonghe could answer, there was another shout outside the door: "Zhang Zhidong is in urgent need of power! Li Hongzhang is in urgent need of power! Zuo Zongtang is in urgent need of power!"
"What's wrong? They're all together?" Cixi's eyes flashed and her expression was unstable.
Li Lianying quickly answered the telegram thousands, and Cixi sternly said: "Remember!"
"My minister Zhang Zhidong suddenly heard from Feng Zicai, Wang Xiaoqi, the great victory in Zhennan Pass, the law of killing and wounding, three thousand puppet troops, two thousand prisoners. The special telegram was sent to the emperor and the queen mother."
"My minister Li Hongzhang congratulates Empress Dowager, Emperor Pan Dingxin urgently reported that the victory in Zhennan Pass was a great victory, and three thousand enemy puppets were killed and injured, and the capture was infinite. I would like to send a message to congratulate you, wishing the emperor long live and the empress dowager a thousand years old."
"The great victory in Zhennan Pass, Chen Congyun's achievements are of great significance! I am Zuo Zongtang, who congregated the emperor forever and the empress dowager forever."
After reading the three congratulatory messages, Cixi finally laughed, picked up the orchid and smiled, "This great victory in Zhennanguan is not fake."
"Empress Dowager, I think that Zhang Zhidong's incident of Pan Dingxin cannot be faked." Weng Tonghe was really good at speaking when he was still picking. Cixi frowned and said, "I will ask Li Hongzhang what is going on in this matter first, and then leave it to the Military Affairs Office for discussion."
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On the 28th, two days after the great victory in Zhennan Pass.
In the camp, Pan Dingxin and Feng Zicai were arguing. One wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue Liangshan, and the other threatened that the main force of the French army was still there and should not advance rashly. Wang Xiaoqi, Su Yuanchun, Wei Gang and others did not say a word, and Wang Debang looked at Pan Dingxin coldly with his eyes slanted.
Where is Chen Congyun?
Chen Congyun's arms, holding the order of the temporary agent Yang Yuke obtained from Pan Dingxin, and a document to recruit troops from various parts of Guangxi, sneaked out of the camp.
Seeing Chen Congyun come out, Wan Shusheng and others quickly surrounded him.
"grown ups!"
"Everything is here! Very good! I'll listen to me carefully. You all go out and rush to the prefectures with rushing horses. As long as there are team training, I'll get them back. I won't mind too much." Chen Congyun's rude words became more and more casual.
Everyone burst into laughter and dispersed.
Chen Congyun and Yang Yuke's two men were completely disabled in this battle. After the war, the remaining soldiers were gathered together, and they were injured and could stand only 300 people. Otherwise, why would Chen Congyun be so anxious to get rid of people?
Li Yaozu is now like Chen Congyun's guard captain. After everyone went down, he came up with unwillingness to laugh and said in a low voice: "Sir, they all have work to do, you can't favor one or the other, right?"
Chen Congyun slanted the boy and said with a smile: "I know you can't hold it back. Please listen to me and go back to Longzhou immediately to select young people from the mountains. I don't want any of them over 25 years old. You can get me a battalion of people back, can you do it?"
"No problem, sir!" Li Yaozu was happy now, and pointed at Li Xiaosan beside him and said, "Li Xiaosan, my sister, when I am not here, you must protect the safety of sir."
"I understand, brother-in-law!" Li Xiaosan answered aggrievedly.
"Damn!" Chen Congyun laughed and scolded, slowly walking into the camp. Sheng Xiaoqi quickly followed and asked in a low voice: "Master, where are you going?"
"Where to go? Go back to sleep! Remember, when the king of heaven comes, I will block my way."
After saying that, Chen Congyun walked in and kept muttering: "Mom, where can I get dozens of Maxim to come back? The six-barrel machine gun is so bad that it has only fired more than a thousand bullets, and it is fucked out. The Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau has produced all the defective products."
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"Yuansun! The imperial edict was issued. Chen Congyun directly led the general rank and temporarily led Yang Yuke's troops to reward him after the war. Strangely, Zuo Zongtang and Zhang Zhidong not only did not have any obstruction to this matter, but instead agreed in unison. What do you think about this matter?" Li Hongzhang narrowed his eyes and looked at Sheng Xuanhuai with a low voice.
"The imperial edict is to give face to the Zuzhongtang Lord. Zuo and Zhang are probably because Shen Zigui made great contributions this time and could not erase them even if he wanted to. It would be better to go with the flow and make them generous." Sheng Xuanhuai's answer was appropriate. Li Hongzhang smiled and nodded and said, "Shen Zigui this time has indeed given me the face. Qingsun, go and do it, just say it's my intention. Shen Zigui's supply will be superior. In addition, tell Qinxuan that the victory in Zhennanguan has led to Zhang Zhidong's participation. Shen Zigui has not submitted a memorial to this time. How to write this memorial is too important to Qinxuan."
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Chen Congyun slept until dawn the next day, got up, washed up, put on a comfortable local shirt, and ate it voraciously in front of the table, Li Xiaosan hurriedly came in.
"Sir, Pan Shuai came to pay a visit in person. He is already outside the camp gate?"
"Meet? Pan Dingxin?" Chen Congyun was shocked, reached out to wipe the oil from his mouth, and stood up.
"Brother Zigui, Pan has disturbed me." Before Chen Congyun could go out to greet him, Pan Dingxin had already come in with a smile, with an intimate expression.
"Ship Pan, the official has never gone out to greet him. Don't blame him." Chen Congyun said politely, and cursed in his heart: "You bastard."
"If you don't talk about it, I came here because I had something to ask for my return." Pan Dingxin said, his eyes swept around, and Chen Congyun immediately understood and thrust at Sheng Xiaoqi. Sheng Xiaoqi immediately retreated with tactfulness, leaving only two people in the tent.
"Ship Pan, what are you going to show me?" Chen Congyun politely bowed and gave up his seat.
Pan Dingxin drew a text from his sleeve and handed it to Chen Congyun with a smile and said, "Brother Zigui, Lord Zhongtang is very optimistic about you. He strongly recommends you to take the title of general in the two palaces of the court. The sage will arrive soon. After the victory of Zhennanguan, Li Zhongtang reads my official's memorial and said it was too sketchy and asked me to write a more detailed one. Now, I wrote a new memorial. Please ask Lord Shen to take a look. If you are good, sign your name. I will send you a urgency to the court."
Chen Congyun took the memorial book and looked carefully. He couldn't help but feel angry. The memorial book was written in Chen Congyun's tone, talking about how Pan Dingxin personally came to the front line in the battle to boost morale, and sent 300 personal soldiers to reinforce Zhennan Pass at the critical moment. If Chen Congyun hadn't repeatedly advised him and had to think about the overall situation, Pan Dingxin would not have retreated to Haicun and Yunyun.
Chen Congyun wanted to smash Pan Dingxin's face immediately, but behind this damn god was Li Hongzhang. Compared with Li Hongzhang, Chen Congyun is just a baby and a burly man, and he is N heavyweights.
Seeing that Chen Congyun's expression was gloomy, Pan Dingxin smiled slightly and came forward and whispered: "Zi Gui, Master Zhongtang said, "What's in the 'Ding' Army warehouse? As long as it's what you want, you must adjust it quickly." As he said that, Pan Dingxin took out a large envelope from his arms, slowly placed it on the table, and gently pushed it to Chen Congyun.
"Haha! Pan Shuai, why should you be polite? They are all their own family." Chen Congyun took the envelope without hesitation, stuffed it into his arms, and shouted politely twice, shouting happily: "Come here, please serve me."
Pan Dingxin left with satisfaction. As soon as he left, Chen Congyun took out the envelope. There was a thick silver note inside, with a denomination of 5,000 taels. Chen Congyun stuck some saliva on his finger and counted it. There were a total of 60 pieces, 300,000 taels.
"Good, this guy is really rich."
"That's, the Qing magistrate for three years, with 100,000 snowflakes. He was the governor of Pan Dingxin, and he won't earn a million taels in a year?" Sheng Xiaoqi said angrily, meaning that Pan Dingxin gave less.
At this time, there was a noise outside the door. Chen Congyun gave Sheng Xiaoqi a blank look and said, "Talk too much, go and see what's going on outside?"
Ten large trucks of arms entered Chen Congyun's camp. Among them, there were 2,000 quick guns and 200,000 bullets. Sheng Xiaoqi ran out of the door and happened to run into the master who came to ask for delivery with documents, so he led the master in.
"Mr. Shen, Pan Shuai has an order, saying that the Lord led his troops to fight hard for several days, and the bullets were not enough, so he sent some supplies for special lives. Please check it out."
"Thank you, Mr. Pan!" Chen Congyun bowed politely, looking at the number on the document, his face was really filled with laughter. The military supplies were naturally more abundant. Chen Congyun had a conscience-abiding sex, so he naturally had to find enough material compensation.
"Sir, please tell Pan Shuai that the sixth battalion of new soldiers will arrive today in our headquarters, but in a hurry, the military uniforms are not good. This..."
"Don't worry, Lord Shen, Pan Shuai has made arrangements for this matter, and the military supplies needed tomorrow will be delivered."
Chapter completed!