In fact, Qian Jiang is just doing this too much, he is in the trend of history, and of course his knowledge and knowledge cannot be compared with Zhang Yuntian from the future, so Rao is extremely smart, and he never expected that the latter has the ability to know the future.

However, this ability of prediction is limited to the present, and as Zhang Yuntian's influence in this era grows bigger and farther, the future is destined to change dramatically.

Zhang Yuntian lingered in the cottage for several days, took out dozens of stolen silk from the warehouse, put them in the carriage, changed into the clothes of a wealthy businessman, sat comfortably in the car, and the other fifty minions dressed as coachmen, porters and guards, and the group went straight to the daimyo's mansion.

The geographical location of the Daimyo Mansion is very special, although it belongs to the boundary of Zhili, but it is adjacent to Shandong and Henan, belongs to the junction of the three provinces, is a three-regardless position, and then to the north after this place, it is the boundary of Zhili through and through.

Zhili can be regarded as the foot of the Son of Heaven, although there are occasionally some rogues, but most of them are transiters, and there are few arrogant people like the bearded man who dare to set up camp near the state capital, so Zhang Yuntian's road is quite smooth, although occasionally there are some robbers who don't know whether to live or die, all of them are unceremoniously taken under Zhang Yuntian's command.

The whole team has expanded from 50 people at the beginning to 150 people, and it is indeed an exaggeration to escort more than a dozen boxes of goods by so many people, in order not to arouse the suspicion of the government, Zhang Yuntian purchased cheap goods on a large scale every time he went to the state and county, loaded them into horse-drawn carriages, and the goods became more and more and longer, and the convoy became longer and longer.

Due to the cargo and the difficulty of the road, the road stopped and stopped all the way, and it was already early September when I arrived in the capital.

At this time******** monk Geqin had retreated to Tongzhou, and he commanded 17,000 horses and infantry to be stationed on the line from Zhangjiawan to Bali Bridge, holding the road from Tongzhou to Guangqumen in Beijing.

He also ordered the deputy commander Ildong Adu to lead a Mongolian horse team of 4,000 men to defend the Bali Bridge; Another 1,000 Chahar Mongol horses were led by the governor Na Ma Shan, to defend the southeast of the Maju Bridge, so as to prevent the enemy from advancing westward from Matou and making a detour to attack the Beijing Division; Admiral Cheng Bao led 4,000 green battalion soldiers to defend Tongzhou.

Shengbao, the deputy capital commander, led 5,000 people from the Beijing camp to garrison the area east of Qihuamen to Dingfuzhuang, as a reserve force to support Seng Gelinqin and protect the Beijing Division, Monk Gelinqin led a total of 30,000 Qing troops, including nearly 10,000 Mongolian horses.

Bali Bridge is eight miles away from Tongzhou in the east, thirty miles away from the capital in the west, it is the throat of Beijing City from Tongzhou, if it falls here, the invaders will arrive in Beijing in less than half a day, so although their own troops are three times that of the British and French forces, Xianfeng still feels unsafe, and is ready to go to the Mulan enclosure for autumn hunting, saying that it is autumn hunting, in fact, it is planning to escape and take refuge.

Half a month later, the most humiliating battle in history, the Battle of Bali Bridge, was about to begin, more than half of the 30,000 elite of Seng Geqin were killed and wounded, and the French army in the British and French forces killed 3 and wounded 17, and the British army died 2 people and wounded 29 people.

This is not a battle at all, it is simply a massacre.

After the commander of the Anglo-French army returned to France, he was named "Count of Baliqiao" by Emperor Napoleon III, and made him a senator, but this tragic battle was rated as "a battle that made people laugh", which was really a great shame for the people.

Zhang Yuntian, who had already predicted the outcome, had no intention of helping at all, because as long as this incompetent Qing government continued to be in power, such a fiasco would not stop (there would be an even worse Sino-Japanese naval battle decades later), and instead of maintaining his poor dignity that had long ceased to exist, it was better to overthrow it and build a stronger country again.

Zhang Yuntian bought a small mansion in the capital and lived in it, selected dozens of good shooters from the corpse guards, each of them was issued with an anesthetic gun and a bundle of syringes, and the others were each issued with an explosion-proof shield and a machete, and they were trained in the hospital all day.

Now that Emperor Xianfeng is still in the city, he is heavily guarded everywhere, especially the Old Summer Palace is heavily guarded, and it is not advisable to rush in, all Zhang Yuntian has to do now is to quietly wait for the time to come, but this opportunity will definitely not let him wait too long.

On September 21, 1860, in the early morning, the sky was just bright, in the southeast of the capital, there was a faint earth-shattering sound, one after another, endlessly, the whole city was chaotic into a pot of porridge, from time to time there were Qing soldiers' fast horses galloping into the Old Summer Palace from outside the city, the more intense the cannon outside the city, the more fast horses came and went, they were all solemn, and even covered in blood, lying on the back of the horse, barely supporting, the fierceness of the war in the south of the city can be seen.

At more than ten o'clock in the morning, there was a commotion at the gate of the Old Summer Palace, followed by a group of horse infantry to open the way, and then the emperor drove out, followed by all kinds of exquisitely made sedan chairs, which should be the concubines and heirs, followed by some personal palace maids and eunuchs, and then a frightened minister, and finally by the military attache of the Yellow Banner escorted the rear team.

The whole team made a lot of soup and went all the way north out of the city.

This way is like a parade, the artillery outside the city is full of fire, the emperor in the city is out of the palace, as long as he is not a fool and understands what is going on, it must be a battle that is unfavorable, and the foreigners are about to hit the capital.

Lao Bai was so frightened that he hurried back to his home, locked the doors and windows, for fear of being broken in, and some passing merchants saw this, hurriedly packed their luggage, and rushed all the way north.

The entire capital was suddenly plunged into panic and chaos.

The emperor's horse team had just left the capital for less than half an hour, and the soldiers guarding the city did not know what news they had heard, and quietly dropped their blades one by one, changed into civilian clothes, and did not know where to go.

Zhang Yuntian knew that the time was ripe, and he took all the one hundred and fifty corpse guards out and came to the main gate of the Old Summer Palace.

At this time, the Old Summer Palace had not yet recovered from the chaos, and there were only a few Qing soldiers guarding the door.

Zhang Yuntian waved his hand, and more than 100 corpse guards rushed in frantically like hungry tigers, frightening the remaining palace maids and eunuchs inside, fleeing in all directions, shouting loudly.

The corpse guards ignored it, they followed the pre-arranged lineup, a team of ten people, each team was equipped with a tranquilizer gun, an explosion-proof shield and a hand-to-hand combat warrior, and began to search for the treasures in the gardener's garden, Zhang Yuntian was not idle, he took out the architectural scanning device (mentioned at the end of chapter 24 of the second volume) and put it in the open space of the square, and then, thousands of crystals poured out like a swarm of bees and flew out in all directions.

After about ten minutes, the holographic image of the Old Summer Palace as a whole began to appear little by little on the architectural scanning device.