When Xie Teng and Qin Yuhai left the Trafford with the soldiers, Liu Ximing and the others suddenly became a lot more casual, and overnight, they got along with the foreigners, and were freed from the prisoners and coolies under the stairs, not only changed their clothes to foreigners, but also boarded the foreigners' ship, and the foreigners on the original ship were locked up in the house where they were previously imprisoned.

A soldier said to Liu Ximing: "Ben Chang, are we dreaming? Now we are really free?"

Liu Ximing glared at him and said, "Why don't you bite your finger and see if it hurts?"

The soldier said, "Don't tell me that I bit it just now, and it hurts." ”

Liu Ximing said: "Isn't that the end?"

Another soldier said: "Ben Chief, do you think they are really overseas Chinese? I have never heard of a Chinese founding a country overseas!"

Before Liu Ximing could speak, another soldier said: "There are many things you haven't heard of, aren't they all gone, you look at their appearance one by one, they are all yellow skin and black hair like us, they are all descendants of China, and the accent is not to mention, is this still fake? I just hope that they can drive the foreign ghosts and children out of the Qing Kingdom, and let us be able to settle down for a few days." ”

Liu Ximing nodded and said, "This is the right reason, whether they are descendants of China or not, but they can just help us fight foreign ghosts in the Qing Dynasty." ”

Another soldier said, "Ben Chang is right, but have they been able to beat foreign devils?"

Immediately, someone retorted: "Why can't you beat it, hasn't they already taken down this Dagu mouth? And during the day, you didn't see the foreigner ironclad ship sunk in the sea, and those foreign ghosts and ghosts caught by them, is this still fake? I think there are at least more than 2,000 people, when can we catch so many foreign ghosts? ”

A soldier on the side also said: "Yes, yes, I have seen his warship, and that one is called Daah, which is several times larger than the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan ships of our Beiyang Naval Division." My mother, is there such a big ship in the world?"

However, someone immediately retorted to him: "That's not necessarily, there are not many foreign ghosts left in Dagukou, and they are attacking Dagukou at night, and they are caught off guard by foreign ghosts, but the strength of foreign ghosts and children cannot be underestimated, I heard that there are tens of thousands of foreign devils in Beijing? And how do they look at it, there are only one or two thousand people, I think enough is enough, unless they are just the vanguard troops, and there are large groups of people behind." ”

Some people Fu He said: "Yes, yes, I have also seen their warships, the size is indeed not small, but what is the use of just big, the ship has to be strong, I think there is only one gun on each warship, and the caliber is only three or four inches at most, such naval guns, not to mention that they are not as good as the ironclad ships of the foreign devils, even the guns on our sea dragon ships are not worse than them, if the foreign ghosts send the ironclad ships over, how can they fight." ”

"Who sank those warships in the sea, but I have seen them all, there are several large ironclad ships, but they are no worse than our Dingyuan and Zhenyuan at the beginning, since people can sink these warships, there are naturally other people's methods. ”

Originally, Liu Ximing still listened to the soldiers' talk with a very relaxed attitude, but when he heard the soldiers talk about the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan ships, Liu Ximing's heart couldn't help but tighten, it turned out that he had served as a gunner on the Zhenyuan ship and participated in the Battle of Dadonggou. And now the scenes of that naval battle are very clear in Liu Ximing's mind, and every detail has not been forgotten.

The soldiers talked and laughed, and only then did someone realize that Liu Ximing hadn't spoken for a long time, and couldn't help but say, "Ben Chang, what's wrong with you?"

Liu Ximing came back to his senses at this time, and he smiled and said, "I'm a little tired, let's rest early, we have to get up early tomorrow." ”

When the soldiers heard this, they stopped laughing and went to sleep, and in a short time the cabin was full of sound. However, Liu Ximing couldn't sleep, he studied in the Fujian Shipbuilding School, so he has more knowledge than ordinary soldiers, and he still has some understanding of the situation of the world's navy. The two ships are still there, and they are not opponents, but this overseas Chinese fleet has completely annihilated the fleet of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and Liu Ximing's heart is also very strange, with the small cannons on these warships, how did he do it.

In the battle of Dadonggou, although the Beiyang Naval Division lost, the two ships of Ding and Zhen were hit by hundreds of bullets per ship with their solid thick armor, but they still stood still, so that the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, Ito Youheng, could not help but sigh, "How can I not sink these two ships", and in the fleet of the Eight-Nation Alliance, as far as Liu Ximing knows, at least the armor of the Russian battleship Sisoy is a few points thicker than that of the Ding and Zhen ships, and although the Russian is only an armored cruiser, it is also a few thicker than the Ding. The two ships in Zhen are not much different, and the tonnage of these two ships is far above the two ships of Ding and Zhen, so it can be said that a single ship has almost no chance of winning against the two ships of Ding and Zhen.

But now these two 10,000-ton giant ships are lying quietly in the seawater, and I don't know how this group of overseas Chinese did it. And Liu Ximing thought that if the overseas Chinese had returned to China a few years earlier, then with their help, the Qing Dynasty might not have lost the First Sino-Japanese War. I don't know if they still want people, if I can join them, I will definitely be able to avenge the First Sino-Japanese War.

Thinking of this, Liu Ximing couldn't sleep, and his mind was full of thinking about how to join the fleet of this group of overseas Chinese, even if it was just a small soldier.

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When night fell, the entire Dagukou was silent, and the noise and excitement of the day completely stopped. But Gong Jinyan lay on the couch and tossed and turned, and she couldn't sleep. Because of what happened during the day today, it had a huge impact on her, not only to let her go from a female prisoner who allowed foreign devils to be freed in one fell swoop, but also what the female officer named Gao Jun said to them.

Unlike other women, Gong Jinyan is a person who has participated in the Boxer Rebellion, and she is still an official member of Red Lantern Zhao. It turns out that Gong Jinyan is a native of Tianjin, born in a farming family, but his father is a child, although he was not admitted to Xiucai, but after all, he is literate and hyphenated, and he also teaches some children to tell stories in addition to farming.

After Gong Jinyan got married, both parents died, and the land property was naturally inherited by Gong Jinyan and his wife, plus the husband's field, there were twelve or thirteen acres, in this era, it was already a good family, plus the two of them worked hard, and the field was quite prosperous, so the life was not enough than the above, more than the bottom.

However, a scoundrel in the same village saw that the crops in their fields were growing well, and he did not know that it was the result of their diligent cultivation, but he only said that it was a dozen acres of good land, so he proposed to them to buy these ten acres of land.

Gong Jinyan and his wife were naturally reluctant to sell, so the two sides argued, and the scoundrel actually recruited a few friends who drank and meat, beat them up and forcibly took away the property. The husband and wife naturally couldn't swallow this breath, so they sued each other to the government. Knowing that this scoundrel was actually a parishioner, he invited the father of God who moved out of the church to come forward and put pressure on the county magistrate to shelter the scoundrel. The magistrate naturally did not dare to offend the foreigner, not to mention the priest of the foreigner, but not only did he not punish the scoundrel, but on the contrary, he also sentenced the husband and wife to frame good people, falsely accuse the truth, stir up the church, and disturb the friendly country, and put the husband and wife in prison pending trial.

Because of the lack of money to take care of the jailers and the fact that he was holding his breath, Gong Jinyan's husband died of illness in prison within a month, and Gong Jinyan also suffered a lot of torture in prison. But at this time, the Boxer Rebellion spread from Shandong to the Hebei and Tianjin regions, destroying churches everywhere, killing foreigners, attacking the concession, and freeing the prisoners in the prison, and Gong Jinyan escaped from the prison because of this.

After being released from prison, Gong Jinyan did not hesitate to join the Boxers, because she was a daughter and could read and write, so the elder brother of the Boxers asked her to join the red lantern and worship the Yellow Lotus Our Lady Lin Hei'er as a teacher, and led the Boxer Rebellion and the red lantern to return to their village, killing the scoundrel who framed his family, and burning down the church where the scoundrel took refuge, killing all the priests, nuns, and parishioners in the church, and killing more than 30 people in one go, avenging her husband.

Since then, Gong Jinyan has followed the Boxers and the red light with an iron heart, from a weak woman to a resolute anti-foreigner, and learned martial arts from the senior brother and sister, and is naturally convinced of the magic skills of the Boxers, and every time the battle of attacking the concession, killing foreigners, burning churches, and punishing the people is at the forefront, and there are no less than ten priests, nuns, and parishioners who have died in the hands of Gong Jinyan. For a while, she was also well-known in the red light, and she was quite appreciated by the Yellow Lotus Mother Lin Hei'er, and she was also promoted to the level of senior sister, ranking sixteenth. In the red light, she is called the Sixteenth Senior Sister.

At this time, the great powers formed the Eight-Nation Alliance to attack China, and in the battle of attacking Tianjin, the Boxers were defeated by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and the so-called invincibility was completely shattered, and the red light also suffered heavy losses, Lin Heier died in the chaos, and the other leaders did not know life and death. And Gong Jinyan escaped from the battlefield by luck and changed into ordinary people's clothes, so she escaped the pursuit of the Eight-Nation Alliance.

However, Gong Jinyan didn't dare to stay in Tianjin, so she fled to hide near Dagukou, but was caught by the Japanese army stationed in Dagukou as a peasant girl in a nearby village, Gong Jinyan naturally didn't dare to admit that she was a member of the red lantern, and was taken back to Dagukou by the Japanese army and locked up in the barracks as a camp prostitute, but Gong Jinyan is a person who has experienced the pain of prison after all, so she can still bear these **.

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