The brigade of boxers continued on their way, and only thirty or fifty people gathered around the crossing group and questioned their origins.

"If you have any foreign goods, let us check it." A man who looked like a senior brother shouted, he had two plate axes stuck in his waist, probably the god of Li Kui, and a group of boys behind him, all carrying knives and sticks, and their eyes went straight to the carriage.

The Boxers hated foreigners the most, and even hated them with foreign goods, and any little foreign goods they found would bring ruin, not to mention that what was hidden in the carriage was not ordinary foreign goods, but a pair of genuine foreign mothers-in-law, mothers and daughters.

Even the horses felt the aura of slaughter, snorting uneasily, their hooves digging holes in the ground.

"We are from the Yamen of the Governor of Shandong, escorting Lord Yuan's family to Jinan Mansion, can this senior brother give advice?" Liu Yan clenched his fists and replied loudly, while inadvertently revealing the handle of the barge gun.

Hearing the four words of the governor of Shandong, the murderous spirit of the boxers immediately turned into low eyebrows and pleasing eyes, no one dared to say half a word, and they walked around from the side, which surprised everyone.

"I didn't expect this tiger skin to work." Lei Meng sneered.

"It was Yuan Shikai's name that scared them away." Liu Yanzhi said.

"Yuan Datou?" Lei Meng was stunned, "Is he so good?" ”

"I have studied history, Yuan Shikai was very iron-fisted when he was the governor of Shandong, and invited a group of Boxer leaders to the governor's yamen, and let them perform invulnerability in public, and as a result, they were all shot indiscriminately, and that's it."

Liu Yanzhi's explanation relieved everyone, it seems that the later thief Yuan Shikai was still a sober-minded official at this time, and his journey in Shandong was much more relaxed.

Facts have proved that except for the two Boxers in Lunan, the entire territory of Shandong is quite peaceful, and the burning of the church was not something that happened during Yuan Shikai's tenure, but a good thing done by his predecessor Yuxian.

A few days later, the small team finally bypassed Dongyue Taishan, successfully arrived at Jinan Mansion, lived in a clean inn, took a bath and ate, and slept well, Zhao Shunchen went south and north for many years, friends abound on the rivers and lakes, he went out alone for half a day, and brought back a big news, the foreigner's army landed at Dagukou and was marching to Beijing.

"Tianjin has already started a war, and the north is not peaceful." Zhao Fuchen was worried, he was not worried that Beijing City would fall into the hands of the enemy, but he was afraid that the trip would be delayed, and his family would be worried.

"It's okay, they beat them, we'll go ours." Lei Meng said, "Let's bypass the battlefield." ”

"Since you are not afraid, then Zhao will give up his life to accompany the gentleman." Zhao Fuchen said indifferently.

After resting in Jinan Mansion for a long time, the small team set off again, all the way to the north, the simple carriage bought before was too slow, and was sold by Liu Yanzhi for a four-wheeled carriage made by a big workshop in the provincial capital.

When I went on the road, I was fortunate to meet Governor Yuan's eight-lift sedan chair, the messenger carried a big wooden sign with "Quiet" written on it to open the road in front, the eight-carried green sedan chair was followed by a red tasseled hat on the left and right, a saber on the waist, and on the shoulder was a new German-made Mauser gun, a blue steel barrel, a bright bayonet, with a wide Chinese robe and boots, there was a strange feeling.

From Jinan Mansion to Tianjin Wei, it is a plain, there are Zhao Fuchen with him, what store to live in, what to eat, they don't have to worry about it, but the further north the atmosphere, the more wrong the atmosphere, it is said that Yuan Shikai severely cracked down on the Boxers, so the boxers in Shandong have gone north, and in the entire Zhili area, at least hundreds of thousands of boxers are active.

On both sides of the straight official road are wheat that is about to ripen, a gust of wind blows, the wheat waves are rolling, the wheat field is empty and no one is working, the men's boxers, the women's red lights, who cares about the crops in the field.

In the early summer season, the weather in northern China is still very cool, and there are only downed telephone poles on the main road, and there are no pedestrians.

Lei Meng and Zhao Yuanchen walked side by side in front, Zhang Wenbo and Guo Yuhang were behind, Liu Yanzhi was in charge of driving the carriage, Sophie was sitting in the car with the child in her arms, the curtain was raised, and the two of them spoke in Chinese and French.

Liu Yanzhi has excellent language talent, amazing memory, can learn fluent English by watching Hollywood movies, and has an original Frenchman next to him, learning French is naturally not a problem, at least now there is no problem with daily conversations, and it is an authentic Parisian accent.

As we got closer and closer to Tianjin, Liu Yanzhi could smell the smell of gunpowder in the air, Chinese-style black powder, and the picric acid and TNT used by Europeans, and it seemed that the war had begun.

Outside the city of Tianjin, they finally witnessed a modern war.

The two sides of the battle are the Qing army and the Eight-Nation Coalition Army, fighting a field battle, the Qing army pressed thousands of people, waving the flag, it was majestic, their flagpole was very long, the flag was colorful, there were the general's recognition of the flag, there was the command of the command of the battle, there were also all kinds of variegated flags that did not know what to say, just for the good looks, from a distance, it looked like the entrance ceremony of the Olympic Games.

The other side doesn't know which of the eight countries it is, it already looks like a bit of a modern army, there are no eye-catching flags, the military uniform is also khaki, there is a sparse line of skirmishers, and in the hand is a rifle with a bayonet.

The two armies began to shoot at each other about a mile apart, the Qing army was very miscellaneous in clothing and weapons, but listening to the sound of gunfire were imported fast guns, the smoke of gunpowder was not large, and it was a picric acid propellant instead of black powder, but it was obviously inferior to the coalition army, and from time to time someone was shot and fell to the ground, and it was clearly their bright and eye-catching banners and uniforms that pointed out the target to the enemy, and this was the gap between the times.

The crossing group and the people of Tianjin witnessed the battle together, and it is amazing that there were onlookers in the battle, and there were many people who watched the excitement, more than the soldiers who fought the battle, and everyone obviously did not care who lost and who won, so they wanted to have a lively time.

There are few coalition soldiers, only one hundred and ten people, insisting on shooting for half an hour, and the banner of the Boxer suddenly appeared in the rear of the side, and the momentum of this group of people is different when they fight, and countless shirtless men are not afraid of death before charging with big swords, it is estimated that they drank Fu water before, believing in the myth of invulnerability, otherwise where did they get the courage.

The small coalition forces did not carry machine guns, and their rifles alone could not resist this death charge, and they were instantly defeated and fled in a hurry.

This local battle seemed to be won by the Qing Dynasty, but the development of things was unexpected, and I don't know why, the Qing army and the Boxers fought again, and the two sides shot at each other and fought happily.

It no longer makes sense to look at it any further, the crossing group is marching west under the leadership of Zhao Yuanchen, Tianjin City is in the center of the war, and it is not wise to enter the city at this moment.

was walking, Liu Yanzhi, who was driving the car, suddenly grabbed the reins: "Huh~~~"

The horse pulling the cart stopped, he jumped out of the car and walked into the bushes on the side of the road, everyone thought he was out of the bushes, but they didn't expect Liu Yanzhi to take out a British Indian mercenary from the bushes a moment later.

The soldier was wearing an Indian-style Baotou, wearing a khaki military uniform, without a gun, with a leather bullet pouch still on his body, his face was dark and panicked, and he still had a gunshot wound on his leg, and blood had soaked his pants and leggings.

"Kill it, the scourge of the province is harming the people of Beijing." Lei Meng said: Every Chinese will never forget the notoriety of the eight-nation coalition army, which was occupied for the first time and the people were slaughtered.

Liu Yanzhi didn't pull out his gun, it was not easy to replenish the bullets, and those who could use knives didn't need guns, he slowly drew his knife and ordered the Indian mercenary to kneel in English.

"Spare my life, I'm also eating with a mouthful." The Indian soldier actually spoke with an authentic Shandong accent.

"Are you Chinese?" Liu Yan said suspiciously, looking carefully, the soldier was really an East Asian face, but he was tanned, coupled with Indian Baotou and Western-style military uniforms, he preconceived that he was an Indian mercenary in the British army, and the mercenary was genuine, but not from India, but from Shandong.

"I'm from Weihaiwei, Shandong." The soldier pleaded, "There is a seventy-year-old mother and a three-year-old child in the family, and they are counting on me to eat. ”

Liu Yanzhi put the knife on the soldier's neck: "You fucking dog traitor, why do you want to give your life to the British!" ”

The soldier kowtowed like pounding garlic: "The official spares his life, the military salary of the foreign devil pass is more, eight taels of silver a month, more than planting land in a year, my family has more land and less land, and there is no way to live if I don't eat food and become a soldier." ”

Liu Yan said directly: "Bah, you still have a reason to help foreign devils beat the Chinese, I have to kill you today." ”

Lei Meng and others also shouted: "Don't talk nonsense, kill him, what Lao Tzu hates most is a traitor and a traitor." ”

Sophie hid in the car with the child in her arms, preventing young Catherine from seeing the bloody scene.

Zhao Fuchen's face was expressionless, and he didn't care.

Liu Yanzhi raised the knife, and the man no longer begged for mercy, but instead killed him: "Kill!" Both horizontally and vertically are dead, and in the next life I will still be on an errand for the British! ”

"You should be proud to be a traitor, right?" Liu Yanzhi put down the knife instead, "I want to hear it, why do you want to be a traitor so much, so want to be a traitor?" ”

The man was fearless, dragged his injured leg and sat on the ground, and talked eloquently: "I don't know what a traitor is, this Qing Dynasty was not originally a Han enthronement and sat in the palace, the Queen Mother of the West, the emperor, are all full of people, this official government is not the official government of our common people, it is the official government of the imperial court, it is the official mansion of the lord, it is the official mansion of the landlord's owner, the year before last the family was plagued by locusts, a grain of crops could not be beaten, the government not only did not give relief, but also sent a wolf-like official messenger to collect grain, my father was killed by them in order to protect the seeds and grain of the coming year, and my daughter-in-law also jumped into the well, The landlord took away the two acres of thin land at home, and if I hadn't eaten the food of the British, the old lady and the baby would have starved to death. ”

Liu Yan said straightly: "That can't be a lackey for the British." ”

The man said: "What's wrong with the British! The British are righteous, the British talk about the rules, the British don't drink the blood of the soldiers, eight taels of silver a month, they do what they say, not only give full military salaries, but also give new clothes to wear every quarter, and the sorghum rice and pork are enough for a meal, I have never eaten a full meal in my life, and I have never been hungry for a meal since I entered the gate of the Huayong camp, such a master, I am willing to work hard for him. ”

Liu Yan was speechless.

"The country does not know that there is a people, and the people do not know that there is a country." Zhao Fuchen said from a distance, the old dart master is well-informed, and he has already seen through it.

"What's your name? What kind of soldier was in the Huayong Battalion? Liu Yan asked directly, retracting the knife into its sheath.

"My name is Liang Dingbang, corporal of the second company of the Huayong Battalion." The Weihai mercenary pointed to the V-shaped rank mark on his arm and replied proudly.

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