Liu Yanzhi, who was said to have hit the heart, blushed and said no more, which can be regarded as approving Mr. Zhou's plan.

After resting for half an hour, the small team re-embarked on the road, the target is still Beijing, Liu Yanzhi walked a trip half a month ago, familiar with the road, it was the hot summer season, it was hot to walk at noon, they only took advantage of the early morning and evening to hurry, walked for more than ten days, and arrived in Zhili.

Teacher Zhou is familiar with history, Cixi left Beijing on July 21 of the year of Gengzi, went out of the city from Xizhimen, went straight to the northwest, and suffered all the way through, which also produced many folk legends, Cixi lacked food and clothing on the way to the west, and ate a nest head as a delicacy, and then it was good to take this mouthful, of course, this is not necessarily groundless, according to research, Cixi has been surrounded by all kinds of false news, and the bullets of the Eight-Nation Alliance fell to the Forbidden City before they knew that the catastrophe was coming, and they went very hastily, and the soldiers around the Beijing Division were in chaos, It is also difficult to obtain supplies, so it is necessary to prepare some food for the Queen Mother Lafayette.

So they purchased a batch of pastries when they were on the way to the south, Chinese pastries are flour and sugar, a large amount of sugar can ensure the long-term storage of food, even dog days will not be spoiled, in addition to buying some miscellaneous items, it is estimated that they can come in handy.

At this time, Tianjin has fallen, Tongzhou has also been occupied, the door of Beijing is wide open, the most tragic battle for the defense of Beijing is about to begin, the war is raging everywhere, there are routs everywhere, they inevitably encountered several battles, Zhou Jiarui's three strong entourage was killed one, wounded two, seeing that it was not useful, Mr. Zhou gave a few taels of silver to the two wounded, and sent them to fend for themselves.

On 18 July, the day before Beijing was besieged, Liu Yanzhi and others infiltrated the capital, at this time Beijing was still in chaos, full of armed men with unknown numbers, and the area around Dongjiaomin Lane was still rumbling with cannons, and this piece of land was as solid as a rock under the siege of tens of thousands of Qing troops and the Boxers.

Due to the Boxer Rebellion, there were a large number of vacant houses in the city, and the three of them found a place to hide, hoarded drinking water and dry food, and did not go out day and night, just waiting for the twenty-first day to come.

Two days later, in the early hours of the morning, the battle for the defense of Beijing finally began, the artillery was intensive, sometimes stray bullets fell into the city, the southeast direction was blazing, and half of the sky was red.

"It's almost time to go." Zhou Jiarui took out his pocket watch and looked at it, took a deep breath and said.

Liu Yan glanced straight at the reverse of the city wall, where there were countless heroes fighting to the death against the invading foreign enemies, at this moment he wanted to stand on the Zhengyang Gate and fight side by side with them, but he couldn't, because this kind of behavior was meaningless.

At this time, Lin Huaiyuan had roughly guessed the plan of these two people, so he was very cooperative, although he was a civil official, he often rode a horse, and he would play in the courtyard with a sword for a while when he had nothing to do, so Liu Yanzhi found him a waist knife to carry on his shoulder, and he could also go up at a critical moment.

The three of them wore military robes, brought weapons and luggage, and rode to the back gate of the imperial city, that is, near Di'anmen to wait.

At more than six o'clock in the morning, two carriages came out of Di'anmen in a panic surrounded by a group of eunuchs and guards, and hurried westward to Xizhimen.

"The Queen Mother and the Emperor are in the car." Zhou Jiarui said.

Lin Huaiyuan's gaze became eager, and he subconsciously wanted to run over and bow down to say goodbye, Liu Yanzhi grabbed his reins and shook his head, it is obviously not the best time to follow rashly now.

The three men followed the convoy, and the fleeing procession had already emerged in the street, and no one paid attention to the three knights.

The carriage of the Empress Dowager Cixi is just an ordinary folk car, without the bright yellow of the royal family, not only the car does not dare to attract attention, she even put on a blue cloth coat, dressed as a folk old woman, Cixi is not the first time to flee in a hurry, when Xianfeng Ye was still there, the British and French troops came to the city, she followed the emperor all the way to Chengde, so she was very experienced.

There are too many people in the palace, plus the princes and ministers of the capital, the emperor's relatives and relatives, if you want to take them all, the team is at least a few thousand people, and now the foreigners' army has entered the Zhengyang Gate, and no matter how long it drags on, no one can leave, so she only brought the emperor, the queen, Concubine Jin, a few princes and the eldest brother and others, and there are not many accompanying guards, twenty or thirty imperial guards, all equipped with foreign guns, and they can resist for a while when they encounter chaos.

If there are few people, they will go fast, and in a blink of an eye they will arrive at Xizhimen, where there is also a war, bullets are whizzing around, Cixi lifted the curtain, and saw a small group of foreign soldiers crawling out of the gap in the collapsed city wall, the bayonet was bright, she was frightened, and told the eunuch who was driving the car to hurry up.

The siege of Xizhimen was the Japanese army, according to later records, the Japanese army at this time was eager to move closer to the Western civilized world, and the military discipline was one of the best in the Eight-Nation Alliance, and the American army of another army with slightly better military discipline, the Japanese soldiers in black jackets entered the city, and the huge Beijing city made them dizzy, and they couldn't figure out the direction of the imperial city, and an officer asked the people who were watching the excitement on the side of the road, and the people were happy to point to the southeast and tell them that the emperor lived there.

"Thanks for the pointers." The Japanese officer, who was proficient in Chinese, saluted and was about to direct his subordinates to drive in, when he suddenly saw a suspicious convoy on the road, followed by a group of high-ranking Qing officials wearing colorful python robes on foot, accompanied by elite Qing soldiers, suddenly suspicious, and ordered his subordinates to lie down and shoot.

The battle broke out suddenly, the ministers of the prince Baylor were so frightened that they fell to the ground, the guards had already been on guard, desperately protecting the queen mother to break through, they all used British-made thirteen fast guns, loaded with more ammunition, fast rate of fire, and a burst of fire pressed down the Japanese firepower.

The Empress Dowager Cixi just breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly heard the gunshots, it turned out that the guards shot indiscriminately, the bullets were finished, the Japanese army raised their heads to fight back, they were well-trained, accurate marksmanship, in the blink of an eye seven or eight guards were shot and fell to the ground, a bullet penetrated the cart, pierced a hole in the curtain, and Cixi was shocked to hold the Buddha beads tightly, and there were words in her mouth.

If the dignified Queen Mother was captured by a foreigner, how could she have the face to see Xianfeng Ye under Jiuquan, not only did the face of the first emperor be lost, but the faces of the ancestors of the Qing Dynasty had no place to rest, at this time, Cixi couldn't help but think of Concubine Zhen who was ordered to drown in the well by herself an hour ago, and the reason she used was also worried that Concubine Zhen was captured and decent, and retribution would come in a blink of an eye, could it be that the ghost of Concubine Zhen, a slut, was doing it?

The Empress Dowager Cixi was in a state of confusion and regret, and suddenly the gunfire on the opposite side weakened again, and the carriage took the opportunity to rush through the blockade and rushed through Xizhimen, the city of Beijing was too big, the Eight-Nation Alliance was too small, and faced the threat of street fighting, so no one cared about the fleeing refugees, they were lucky to pass through Xizhimen.

It was Liu Yan who shot straight just now, he used the same British-made Martini Henry rifle, but the accuracy was much stronger than that of the guards, and the first shot put down the Japanese officer, followed by the gun and the gun did not miss, and the sharp reduction in Japanese firepower was his credit.

This letter of nomination was sent, and the three of them appeared in a grand manner, they rode up to keep up with the team, and the accompanying imperial guards saw that they helped out, and they were wearing military robes, there were too many Qing troops in Beijing, Wu Wei Army, Gan Army, Yi Army, Eight Banners Green Battalion, no one could figure it out, anyway, it was their own people, so they didn't exclude saying hello.

Xizhimen this place, the Empress Dowager Cixi is very familiar, when you go to the Summer Palace, you always have to pass through this gate, when you pass by in the past, the loess mat road, Yiluan is purged, but now it is escaped in the rain of bullets, think about the glory of the past, it is really like a different world.

"Little Lizi, let's go out of the city, right?" Cixi asked.

The chief manager Li Lianying was sitting next to the handlebar, the scene just now scared him to death, and he was still shocked at the moment, and when he heard the master's question, he hurriedly replied: "Back to Lafayette, let's come out safely." ”

"How much did the escort lose money?" Cixi continued to ask, there is such chaos outside, and it is impossible to have no soldiers around.

Li Lianying glanced back, her heart was half cold, and she replied, "There are more than a dozen people." ”

"Let's go." Cixi was even more panicked, if she met another group of foreign soldiers, she would completely stop cooking.

The handlebar shook a whip, the carriage sped up, and it began to rain, but fortunately, this is the royal road that is often walked, not muddy, and the car does not feel anything, and the royal relatives who followed the walk suffered a sin, a trot, so tired that he couldn't breathe, and his lungs were about to run and bleed, but he didn't dare to stop, Lafayette didn't wait for anyone.

The eldest brother Pu Jun is one of the unlucky people who don't have a horse to ride, he is only fifteen years old, it is the age of young and vigorous, Lafayette and the emperor and queen have a car to sit on, others ride a horse and he walks, this breath can't be swallowed.

"Hey, which soldier are you from, give me the horse to ride." Pu Jun panted and pointed at Liu Yan and shouted.

Liu Yan glared at him and didn't speak.

"This should be Pu Jun, a waste one, you don't need to give him a good face." Zhou Jiarui and Liu Yan walked straight together and said in a low voice.

"Are you deaf?" Pu Jun continued to shout, "And the one with glasses, your horse also let it out." ”

Liu Yanzhi raised a gun with one hand and aimed it at Pu Jun, so frightened that he took a few steps back and grabbed a guard: "Escort!" ”

The imperial guards didn't pay attention to him, not long ago Pu Jun broke into the palace with a group of Boxers, shouting that he wanted to kill Emperor Guangxu, it was the guards who desperately blocked him to let him succeed, so the guards didn't want to see this kid, and they usually just gave him a face, and now the soldiers are in chaos, it's good not to shoot him with a black gun, who will stand up for him.

Pu Jun was furious, he didn't know where he got the strength, he caught up with the carriage, and shouted in the voice of the male duck unique to the boy's voice change period: "Lafayette, Lafayette, there are people who rebel." ”

The Empress Dowager Cixi was upset, and when she heard Pu Jun shouting rebellion, she felt a sigh in her heart, and it happened that the handlebar style also tightened the reins and stopped the carriage, so startled that she opened the curtain and was about to ask Pu Jun what was going on, but she saw a group of Boxers in front of her, blocking the road to death, overturning two mule carts on the side of the road, the naked female corpse was lying horizontally, and the boxers were wrapping the robbed silk on their bodies.

The Eight-Nation Coalition Army entered the city of Beijing, the Boxers who were originally shouting to help the Qing Dynasty to destroy the foreign ran faster than anyone else, they mixed with the defeated Qing soldiers, and became soldiers and bandits, this group of bandits was specially blocked outside the city to rob refugees, men killed, women raped, none of them let go, they just made a cannon deal, and saw the business come to the door, and immediately looked at the carriage that Cixi was riding, the greed and cruelty in their eyes, frightened to turn their hands for the clouds and hands for the rain of the old queen mother.

"There's!" A boxer pointed to the Empress Dowager Cixi in the car and shouted excitedly.

It's over, if it falls into the hands of foreigners, at least it can die decently, and it falls into the hands of boxers, the dignity of the Great Qing Kingdom and the Aixin Jueluo family is really not left at all, although Cixi is already a sixty-five-year-old woman, but if she is properly maintained, she looks like a woman in her forties, and she is quite confident in this, but this point has now become a burden, she would rather die than be insulted by the chaotic people.

The guards hurriedly escorted them, but in the face of thousands of rebels and bandits composed of Boxers, their little force was tantamount to using their mantis arms as a car.

The eldest brother Pu Jun was even more colorless, and he didn't shout anymore, so he ran back with his legs.

"Yanzhi, here's your chance." Zhou Jiarui reminded.

Liu Yan slapped his horse forward, the rifle in his hand kept ringing, the enemy was too dense, he didn't even need to aim to hit the gun, the bandits were knocked down, not only did not retreat, but relied on the crowd to catch up, Liu Yan ran out of bullets in the rifle, grabbed a red tassel gun that stabbed at him, shook the gun, and killed the Quartet.

The Empress Dowager Cixi lifted the curtain and was reluctant to put it down, she saw a scene that could only be seen on the stage, a white-robed young general with a gun in the enemy formation killed seven in and seven out, but saw the blood flying, one by one thieves were picked up in the air by the gun, the young general was like entering a no-man's land, killing corpses all over the field, ghosts crying wolves.

According to later records, after the Gengzi Revolution, the Empress Dowager Cixi's favorite Peking Opera was "Changban Slope", and more than once the famous martial artist Yang Xiaolou was summoned into the palace to perform this excerpt.

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