Chapter 31: The Sacking of the Old Summer Palace

After another ten minutes, the whole picture of the magnificent Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens was in full view, and countless crystals completed their tasks and gathered back from all directions.

Zhang Yuntian put away the building scanning device and began to collect treasures little by little according to the map summarized and presented above.

Everywhere the corpse guards went, they would dismantle the precious things in the house and on the wall, such as gems, antiques, scrolls, picture albums, etc., and then pile them up in the courtyard, leaving one person to guard, and the rest of the people continued to go to the next place to collect, leaving another person in each place to prevent eunuchs and palace maids from taking advantage of the chaos.

In terms of the speed of collecting treasures, even the thousands of greedy British and French troops may not be Zhang Yuntian's opponent, because the former needs to be collected, carried, and secretly hidden some small items while others are not paying attention, which greatly reduces the efficiency.

And everywhere Zhang Yuntian went, as big as a two-meter-high gilded pagoda, as small as a jade ruyi carved from white jade, as long as he touched it, it was all in the void, so every time he arrived at a courtyard, he stayed for a minute or two at most and immediately longed for the next place, even with such efficient actions, he ran non-stop for a full two hours, only swept half of the treasures in the Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens.

After a while, Zhang Yuntian came to a Western-style garden, not far away there is a white three-story building, quite European-style, there is a small bridge carved with dragons and phoenixes in front, and then there is a fountain outside.

The structure of this fountain is very unique, there are six bronze statues on the north and south sides, a total of 12, but only one spouts water from the mouth, and the other bronze statues just stand there like ornaments.

Zhang Yuntian came to take a closer look, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, these twelve bronze statues are not human figures, but the body is like a person, but the head is the famous zodiac, the whole is made of red copper, whether it is the texture of the clothes or the folds and fluff on the head of the beast and other subtleties, are clear and realistic, carved lifelike.

This fountain is not just carved and delicate, the twelve zodiac signs represent the twelve hours, each hour, will spew water from the corresponding animal head, this is 1:20 pm, it is not the time, so the head of the sheep is spraying spring water outward.

Such a design would not be difficult to achieve if it were modern, but the Qing Dynasty did not invent the circuit board, and this fountain was not controlled by electricity or manpower.

These stupid forks! Zhang Yuntian secretly scolded in his heart, the British and French troops only saw the beautifully crafted beast head, but they didn't know that the value of the entire fountain was hundreds of times more precious than those few decorations!

Fortunately, I have already figured out the structure of the entire fountain through the guò architectural scanning device, otherwise no matter which one is moved, it will cause irreparable damage to the fountain as a whole!

He walked to the side of the bronze statue, gently stretched out his hand, and the entire bronze statue disappeared out of thin air, leaving only a brick and stone repair base, concocted in the same way, and after a while, the bronze sculpture of the zodiac was stored in the void as a whole.

In this way, I was busy for half a day, until three or four o'clock in the afternoon, all kinds of bronzes, jade, porcelain, lacquerware, gold and silver products, cloisonne collected dozens of cars, as for the books and picture scrolls, there are more, such as the Eastern Jin Dynasty great painter Gu Kaizhi's "Female History Picture Scroll", Ma Yuan's "Cave Mountain Crossing Water Map", "Hanjiang Solo Fishing Map", Liang Kai's "Snow Landscape Map", "Li Baixing Yin Map", "Six Ancestors Intercepting Bamboo Map", Li Di's "Red and White Hibiscus Picture" and so on.

There are also precious books and cultural relics such as "Siku Quanshu", "Quanshu Huiyao", "Ancient and Modern Book Collection", "Chunhua Pavilion Post" facsimile version, and so on, which have collected as many as two or three containers, and take out one of them at random, all of which are priceless treasures!

After completing this great project, Zhang Yuntian was so tired that he collapsed, and casually got into a no-man's dormitory, sent corpse guards to guard the door, and went to bed with a loud roar, and fell asleep groggy.

This sleep was extremely sweet, until noon on the second day, Zhang Yuntian woke up leisurely, and saw several palace maids who were caught by the corpse guards holding basins and towels in their hands, standing there trembling one by one.

Zhang Yuntian was not polite, he learned what he looked like on TV, and stood in the center of the room, and sure enough, several palace maids didn't need to be instructed, they immediately got busy, wiped their faces, handed water, and served attentively and thoughtfully, and lowered their heads one by one, as if they were afraid that they would lose their virginity if they were seen in their faces.

The more they are like this, the more curious Zhang Yuntian becomes, he casually held up the chin of a few palace maids, looked at it carefully, and couldn't help smacking his lips, these palace maids are mediocre, no wonder they are still palace maids after so long, I am afraid that Dan Fan is a little beautiful, or can speak well, and knows how to please people, has already been taken to Chengde Summer Resort, how can the master bear to leave them here to die?

At this time, the Battle of Bali Bridge had already ended, and Seng Geqin and the remnants of Shengbao and others established a second line of defense outside the capital.

Although the Anglo-French alliance had not yet entered the city of Beijing, the British ambassador Ergin and the French ambassador Gro had already begun to discuss how to "discipline" Emperor Xianfeng, in order to force him to submit and sign a new treaty, they were hesitating whether to burn the Old Summer Palace or the Forbidden City.

A few days later, the cannon outside the city sounded again, but this time it only lasted for more than ten minutes and then there was no sound, presumably the last line of defense of the Qing army had been instantly defeated, and the invaders were about to step into the capital, which happened to be October.

It's time to teach them a lesson, Zhang Yuntian soothed his muscles and bones, and gathered all the corpse guards at the main gate of the Old Summer Palace, and those who could shoot were issued with an M4A1, a body armor, a steel helmet, five grenades, and the others were all standard steel knives and spears.

The role of these corpse guards is not to kill the enemy, but to defend the city gate, after all, the British and French troops are nearly 10,000 people, just with their own hundred or so people, if they are not properly distributed, it is likely that the enemy will take advantage of the loopholes and enter from other city gates.

Zhang Yuntian had agreed with Qianjiang that when the foreign soldiers entered in October, he would defeat the enemy outside the city, and if he allowed the remnants to flee into the city, this prediction would not be accurate, so this battle could not help but win, and it would be a complete victory!

An elite army that surpassed the entire era, under the leadership of Zhang Yuntian, galloped towards the city gate, and the subsequent battle would also be a massacre, but it was definitely not himself who was killed.