"Squad leader, escort the ministers of the imperial court to Beijing, are we going to be recruited?"

"Accept a fart Zhao'an, what a minister, let's not bird them, the court is a ball, seeing foreigners is like a mouse seeing a cat, bullying the common people to one is stronger than the other, that is, this moral nature still wants to recruit us. 81?Chinese.?8?1(1)"

"Then if we don't recruit An, what are we going to do to welcome Qin to Beijing?"

At present, our main contradiction is the contradiction between all Chinese and foreign invaders, which is called the contradiction between the enemy and ourselves, so we should unite all Chinese who can unite and unanimously deal with foreign invaders, and the imperial court is also the object we can unite, otherwise we will ignore them!"

In the midst of the soldiers' discussions, Li Zhuangyong interjected: "None of the people in the imperial court are good things, and foreign devils are all the way, counting on uniting them to deal with foreigners, sooner or later they will stab us in the back, and according to me, any ministers should be killed." ”

A soldier said: "Li Zhuangyong, why are you so full of fighting and killing, don't you remember the political lesson that the instructor gave us? What is the main contradiction and what is the secondary contradiction, we and the foreign invaders are the contradiction between the enemy and ourselves, and we and the imperial court belong to the class contradiction, and at present, of course, the contradiction between the enemy and the enemy is the main contradiction, and I think the instructor is very reasonable. ”

Li Zhuangyong glared at him and said, "What do you know? None of the people in the imperial court are good birds! Calling my brother to his face and stabbing him in the back, when we were in trouble, he still advocated supporting the Qing Dynasty to destroy the foreigners? At that time, the imperial court was very polite to us, and they all said that we were righteous people, but what was the result? As soon as the imperial court turned its face, it accused us of rebellion, and many of our brothers died at the hands of the imperial court. ”

Another soldier said: "Li Zhuangyong, you just pull it down, what are you doing with the Boxers? The imperial court is not authentic, but you Boxers have not done anything good, saying that it is to help the Qing Dynasty to destroy the foreigners, who have you helped up, and you have killed a few foreigners, so that you have a hand in bullying your own people, what is the difference between this and the imperial court?"

Li Zhuangyong couldn't help but be furious and said, "What did you say?"

Not to be outdone, the soldier said: "What? Is what I said wrong? How did the instructor teach us? The Boxers represented the backward productive forces, and although they had patriotic enthusiasm, they used backward and stupid methods, blindly and xenophobic......

At this time, the squad leader Jiang Haidong also showed signs that something was wrong, and hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, everyone should say a few words, just obey the order, let us do whatever we want, and ask so much." Let's all hurry up and get ready, it's going to be out tomorrow!"

After listening to Jiang Haidong's words, everyone stopped arguing and dispersed to prepare their own things. And Jiang Haidong stopped Li Zhuangyong and said: "Brother Li, I know that you have always been obsessed with the things of the Boxers in the past, but the elders don't like the Boxers very much, so it's better to mention the Boxers less, I heard people say that after this battle, our battalion has made a lot of contributions, and Battalion Commander Luo plans to let you be the squad leader again, at this juncture, you don't want to make mistakes again." ”

Li Zhuangyong was stunned for a moment, finally nodded, and said, "Brother Jiang, don't worry, I won't make trouble for you." ”

Jiang Haidong listened, and was also a little relieved, and said: "Okay, I'll rest assured, hurry up and pack your things, we'll be out tomorrow." ”

After Jiang Haidong left, Huang Huaping came over and said, "Brother Li, are you going to be the squad leader again?"

The expression on Li Zhuangyong's face changed a few times, and finally shook his head and said, "No, I won't be the squad leader anymore." ”

Huang Huaping was stunned for a moment and said, "What? Why is this not the squad leader?"

Li Zhuangyong said: "I was originally a Boxer, and I joined the People's Army just to fight foreign devils to take revenge, but although the People's Army also fought with foreign devils, it was not to kill all the foreign devils, not only did not kill the captured foreign devils, but also had to negotiate with foreign devils, so if I stayed in the People's Army, I could not take revenge." ”

Huang Huaping said: "Didn't the instructor say that those are prisoners, we can kill foreign devils on the battlefield at will, but we must not hurt the prisoners for no reason, and Brother Li, didn't you kill a lot of foreign devils on the battlefield? ”

Li Zhuangyong said: "There is no good thing for foreign devils, all of them deserve to die, only by killing all the foreign ghosts, can it be regarded as revenge, have you forgotten the bad things I told you about the foreign ghosts and ghosts that they have done in China?"

Huang Huaping hurriedly shook his head and said, "No...... I didn't forget. ”

It turned out that since Li Zhuangyong saved Huang Huaping on the battlefield of Shanhaiguan, Huang Huaping has always been very grateful to Li Zhuangyong, and completely regarded him as a life-saving benefactor, and Li Zhuangyong also has the heart to pull Huang Huaping, so he usually tells Huang Huaping some stories about his previous Boxer Rebellion, of course, he will not say anything like "invincible", but fight churches, The killing of foreign priests and so on, of course, also talked about many evil deeds of foreigners, some of which are sincere, such as churches harboring criminal parishioners and oppressing the Chinese people, but most of them are fabricated, for example: countless human hearts, livers, and lungs were found in a certain church; human skins and eyeballs were found in a certain foreigner's house, and babies cut out of a pregnant woman's womb; in a foreigner's hospital, human bones that have now been eaten by foreigners, and so on, which made Huang Huaping feel terrified. However, because of his gratitude to Li Zhuangyong, he is convinced.

Li Zhuangyong said: "In short, I don't want to stay in the People's Army any longer, since the People's Army doesn't want to kill foreigners, then I will kill them myself, so I plan to leave the People's Army and pull a group of old brothers from the Boxers in the past, and we will do it ourselves, specializing in killing foreigners." After a pause, he said, "If I leave the People's Army, will you come with me?"

Huang Huaping was stunned for a while, and then said: "Brother Li, your life was saved by you, so what you say is what you say, I listen to you." ”

Li Zhuangyong nodded, patted Huang Huaping's shoulder, and said, "Good brother, I really didn't misunderstand you. ”

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Early the next morning, the group left Zhuozhou and headed for Beijing.

When they saw the long line of American prisoners escorted by the People's Army, the two ministers, as well as the Qing soldiers who were traveling with them, felt a great shock. Although I have also heard of the achievements of overseas Chinese in Xi'an, but after all, they have heard of them, and they have no substantive understanding, and I always feel that it is a bit exaggerated, but watching these nearly 1,000 foreigners bow their heads one by one, and march under the escort of the bayonets of the soldiers of the People's Army, since they have not seen the battle of the People's Army, they can't help but have a sense of awe for the People's Army at this time.

Since the Opium War, the Qing Dynasty's foreign wars have always been less victorious and more defeated, and the few limited victories have also been won without force, and it is a great thing to be able to kill one or two hundred foreign soldiers in battle, and it is unique to capture so many foreign soldiers at one time. Although neither Prince Zhuang nor Zhao Shuqiao had ever led soldiers, they still understood the basic common sense, and it was much more difficult to capture prisoners on the battlefield than to kill and wound the enemy, so this time overseas Chinese were able to capture so many prisoners, and you can imagine how many foreign soldiers they killed in this battle.

If it was really the battle fought by the overseas Chinese, it would be fine, but Prince Zhuang and Zhao Shuqiao both knew that the army of overseas Chinese was basically the recruited Qing people, and the Qing army, which was also composed of the Qing people, whether it was the Hunan army or the Huai army, it was okay to suppress the rebellion in the country, but they were afraid of the enemy like a tiger for the foreigners, but they didn't know what good strategies the overseas Chinese had for military training?

Since they are overseas Chinese, they only sent more than 1oo people to escort these prisoners, and did not tie up the prisoners, this is too bold, even if they are not afraid that the prisoners will be difficult in the middle, but they are not afraid that they will take the opportunity to escape. However, after walking for a while, Prince Zhuang and Zhao Shuqiao were also a little relieved, because these prisoners behaved very honestly, and they didn't look like they wanted to run at all, and a few soldiers who were convenient on the way returned to the team honestly after finishing their work. The two are not only secretly surprised, but overseas Chinese really have a set.

In fact, it is said that it is the US military, but in fact the grassroots soldiers are all Filipinos, and the Americans only serve as officers at all levels, and of course there are a small number of real American GIs, but on the one hand, because they have lost on the battlefield, what qualifications do the generals of the defeated army have to put on a fight; on the other hand, in this foreign country, the language is not understood, and they are unarmed, even if they escape, they can flee there, not to mention that they have already been informed that overseas Chinese are preparing to negotiate with the United States, and once the negotiations between the two sides are successful, they are expected to be released and return to China。 Since they are real US ** officials and soldiers, even if the United States doesn't care about those Filipino baboons, it won't ignore them. Therefore, the officers of Major General Chaffee, the chief general of the US army, rarely restrained and demanded that the soldiers obey the orders of the overseas Chinese and not disobey them.

Although at the time of the surrender, the People's Army shot more than 4o soldiers, including Americans and Filipinos, but Major General Chaffee knew very well what these people had done during this time, in short, this was by no means something that people could do. The KPA only killed more than 4o people, which is already very merciful.

The closer you get to Beijing, the more people there are, the smell of chickens and dogs, the curling smoke of cooking in the villages, the peasants working in the fields, and the small markets even opened in some villages and towns, which is in stark contrast to the desolate and dilapidated scene of the Qing army on the way to Beijing, and also makes Prince Zhuang and Zhao Shuqiao sigh.

The group rested for a day on the way, arrived in Beijing in the afternoon of the next day, and entered the city at Zuo'anmen, although there were soldiers in front of the city gate to check the personnel and vehicles entering and leaving the city very strictly, but there were still a lot of people and vehicles coming and going, and there were long queues in and out, waiting for inspection, which also showed that the order in Beijing was basically restored to normal.

However, the soldiers defending the city had already been notified, so they allowed their group to enter the city without much inspection.