Now that the coalition forces have taken TJ, Qin Zhihong also saw that the general trend was gone, so he hurried to the capital to persuade his senior brother Wang Qingyi to withdraw as soon as possible.

Qin Zhihong's horse had already disappeared in the war, so he had to go to the capital on foot, but fortunately, the railway had been destroyed by the Boxers, so the coalition army could only march on foot and advance slowly, so they arrived safely in the capital along the way.

At this time, the Boxers were still besieging the Xishiku Church, and the defenders and believers in the church were also killed and wounded. Qin Zhihong immediately went to the post house where Wang Qingyi's senior brother was staying to find him, explained the situation to him, and told him that the foreigners had taken TJ and would soon hit the capital, and Qin Zhihong told Wang Qingyi that once the foreigners came to the city, the first thing the imperial court would abandon was the Boxers, and he wanted to make plans early.

Wang Qingyi turned a deaf ear, Qin Zhihong sighed helplessly, and went. At this time, Qin Zhihong was discouraged, feeling irretrievable, and the pride he had when he was under Nie Shicheng was gone, and now what he wanted was to go back to see Lian'er quickly, and hoped to avoid this catastrophe.

However, when he returned to the house in Xicheng, he was safe and sound, but only Lian'er was missing, Qin Zhihong couldn't help but be anxious, and hurriedly went out to look for it, in order not to be mistaken for a Boxer, he dressed up as a man and asked everywhere to find it.

There are many pharmacies in Dashilar, there is a boss surnamed Wang, Qin Zhihong has always been an old customer there, every time he buys medicinal materials, he has to go to him, Qin Zhihong used to let Lian'er go to Boss Wang to buy medicine on his behalf many times, this time his first thought was to go to Boss Wang's shop pù to inquire.

Boss Wang was also in the store at this time, and his Wang family pharmacy was also the foundation of his ancestors for several generations, so this time he heard that the foreigners were about to hit the capital, and he did not flee with his family like other people, but guarded the foundation of his ancestors and did not leave. When Qin Zhihong saw Boss Wang, he directly asked him if he had seen Lian'er, and Boss Wang told him that Lian'er had come several times a day and then left. Qin Zhihong didn't dare to stay too long, so he immediately left the Wang family pharmacy and continued to search in the capital.

Boss Wang is a loyal person, and when he left, he told Qin Zhihong that he could come to him again if he had any difficulties, and Qin Zhihong thanked him and continued to look for him in the north.

For two days, but there was no information, Qin Zhihong was even more anxious. At this time, it was already August, the weather was hot, Qin Zhihong had no intention of food and lodging, he had been thinking about Lian'er, but he couldn't find it everywhere, he thought, it's better to wait at home, if Lian'er comes back, he will go out if he can't find himself, but it's not good.

In the next few days, more bad news came, saying that the coalition army had taken Yangcun, the Qing army was defeated, and by the middle of the year, the coalition army had arrived in the capital, preparing for the assembly of troops from all countries to launch a general attack.

Qin Zhihong has been looking for Lian'er in the capital these days to no avail, in fact, Lian'er had already gone out of the city to find him when he rushed to the capital, at this time Lian'er saw that the coalition army was surrounding the capital, and she couldn't get in, so she had to wait outside the city.

The foreigners launched an attack from Dongbianmen, Chaoyangmen and Dongzhimen, but seeing that they could not be attacked, the British army went around to Guangqumen and attacked from this weak place of defense, and then soon the ** teams attacked one after another. At this time, the Empress Dowager and a group of ministers had already fled from Beijing for refuge, and the imperial court hurriedly called Li Hongzhang in the south to return to King Qin, preside over the "peace", and ordered the eradication of the Boxers.

At this time, the Boxers besieged Xishiku Church and Dongjiaomin Lane for a long time, but failed to capture it, and the coalition army had already entered the city to rescue, and in desperation, Wang Qing commanded his men and horses to withdraw from the capital.

But when they arrived at the Guangning Gate of the capital, the defenders of the city stopped them from leaving the city, and Wang Qingyi immediately said to the leader of the defenders:

"Why don't you let us out of the city?"

The general of the defending army laughed and said, "King Duan? Now that he has been taken down by the Queen Mother, he is ready to be convicted, but you still take the warrant he gave, you really want to rebel! Come on, take down all these rebels for me! ”

It was too late, it was fast, and hundreds of officers and soldiers immediately came out on both sides to surround these boxers, Wang Qingyi realized that now the imperial court was planning to suppress the Boxers, recalling Qin Zhihong's words to persuade him, he couldn't help but regret it, but now he had to fight hard and rushed out of the city.

However, the Qing army was all firearms, although unlike Nie Shicheng's troops, which had heavy weapons, which could compete with the coalition forces, and even make foreigners fearful, but the German Mauser rifles in the hands of the Qing soldiers were much more advanced than the broadsword and spear of the Boxers. The Qing army Boxers had no intention of surrendering, so the leader of the city gate immediately ordered to shoot, and in less than a quarter of an hour, hundreds of Boxer warriors were strewn all over the ground, and Wang Qingyi was also shot several times and died at Guangning Gate.

After the coalition army entered the city, the Qing army was immediately routed and the capital fell. The Russian ** team took the lead in hitting the Forbidden City, but in order to prevent the Russian ** team from entering the city and robbing, Seymour ordered that the army should not enter the Forbidden City, and then in order to retaliate against the Boxers and the Qing army for besieging the embassy and church, the soldiers were allowed to rob for three days, and after the personnel from various countries arrived, the soldiers were allowed to enter the Forbidden City to "visit".

Although nominally not visited, the foreigners of these countries wore winter clothes in the summer, banned the Forbidden City, looted all the places, and filled all the places where clothes could be stored. And other gardens, such as the Old Summer Palace, have been looted, although after Xianfeng Ye returned to Beijing, the people from the Old Summer Palace moved all the things recovered, but also suffered heavy losses, this time, the people are even more crazy, ran into the garden to move those stone carvings and the like back to their own homes to make grinding plates, and even the bricks and tiles have to be removed for their own use.

More than a month after the siege of the foreigners in the embassy, the robbery was considered "an unavoidable reward for the goddess of revenge". And Qin Zhihong has been risking his life to find Lian'er in Sijiu City in order to find Lian'er. In fact, there are many common people who do not hesitate to kill for money, foreigners from all over the world go to the capital, although the city is square and regular, but they can't help but be dizzy, so they ask the civilians where there is something to rob, and some people see that foreigners pay, but they are also happy to lead the way, lead them to various gardens and palaces to loot, and when they come back, they also fill their bodies. For decades, it was not uncommon for foreigners to attack the capital and often find locals as guides.

In fact, some people in the capital did not have much bias towards the coalition army and the Qing army, and even thought that it was just a foreign invasion, and it seemed a bit far-fetched to say that they had betrayed the country. China in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms when there was a situation of foreign invasion of China, and even the Mongols and Manchus entered the Central Plains, as for this coalition invasion, it is just a foreign race to attack another foreign race, but the previous foreign race was a fast horse scimitar to fight, this time people are "across the ocean to see you" is different. 、

But there is a more important difference here, that is, the foreign invasion in the past hundreds of years and finally entered the Central Plains, those foreign tribes are far behind the Chinese civilization in many aspects of culture and technology, so they have to choose Sinicization. In other words, a foreign swift scimitar can conquer our land, but our propriety and shame can conquer his people; However, after the Age of Discovery, the world pattern dominated by Western civilization made these foreigners who "crossed the ocean to see you" very confident and did not assimilate them to you at all, on the contrary, they still wanted missionaries to accept you as God's people.

On this day, Qin Zhihong searched for a long time, but there was no news of Lian'er, so he reluctantly went to Boss Wang's shop to inquire, but he didn't find anything. Just as he was about to leave, he saw a team of foreigners passing by, Boss Wang hurriedly prepared to close the store, but Qin Zhihong found that the foreigners tied up a person and rushed forward, and after a closer look, it was not who Lian'er was! At this moment, he couldn't help but be frightened, and hurriedly rushed over to stop the team.

A foreigner led by a tall man with a beard and big eyes, walking with a limp, obviously injured in the battle, seeing that someone was blocking the way, he couldn't help but be furious, Qin Zhihong hurriedly shouted:

"Ladies and gentlemen, I have something to say!"

Fortunately, this group of foreigners didn't know where to find a Han to be the translator, probably an official of the Prime Minister's Yamen, so the translator stepped forward to sue the foreigner leader Qin Zhihong.

But before the foreigner could speak, someone in the team immediately stood up and said: "It's him, military master, he is a boxer, and he is in the same group as this girl." ”

When Qin Zhihong saw it, he couldn't help but be surprised again, that person was none other than the little list he had encountered when he was spying on the news in Xujialou. It turned out that he fled since Chai Jiawa was conquered by the vermilion lantern, came to the capital, and made a living by doing long-term work for people, although he didn't know that Qin Zhihong and Lian'er were here to spy on the news, but then after thinking about it, he understood, and this time the foreigner entered Beijing, he took the initiative to lead the way for the foreigner, and accidentally found Lian'er, so in order to get a few rewards, he said that Lian'er was a boxer, and let the foreigner arrest him.

Qin Zhihong hurriedly said to Xiao Danzi: "Xiao Danzi, you and I have no grievances, how can you frame me?" ”

Xiao Danzi smiled and said: "Less, back then, you colluded with the Boxers to make them capture Chai Jiawa, don't think I don't know." ”

When Qin Zhihong saw him say this, he also understood that Xiao Danzi actually speculated that he was a Boxer, and there was no real evidence, so he said: "Chai Jiawa, who walked the rivers and lakes with my wife back then, was led by you into Master Chai's house, and finally cured the disease of ** milk, is this a fact?" ”

The little list replied without thinking: "This is true, so what?" ”

Qin Zhihong saw that Xiao Danzi took the conversation, so he continued: "I wanted to stay in Chai Jiawa and make a good living, but I didn't expect the eldest prince to kill his father and mother, and drive me out of the house, and then I was attacked by the vermilion lantern, I was not there at the time, what evidence do you have to say that I am a boxer of the Boxers?" Besides, my ancestors practiced medicine, and the cure of ** milk's disease can be proven, you have also taken medicine from me several times, I dare not say that the effect is remarkable, but it has also cured your disease several times, and you have long known this, is it just for a little reward to harm my life? ”

The translator immediately told the general meaning of these conversations to the foreigner, who originally thought that he had caught a boxer, but he didn't expect to hear the shameless behavior of the young master Chai Jiawa, and he was so angry that he slapped the little man in the face, and the little list was caught off guard and was suddenly dizzy.

But the foreigner was also skeptical, so he muttered to the translator for a while, and then the translator said:

"Jun Ye said, what you said is not to be believed, what method do you have to prove that you are a doctor and not a boxer?"

Qin Zhihong's mind was racing, and he came up with a countermeasure in an instant, so he said:

"Ladies and gentlemen, you look at this pharmacy, the villain is here to make a living with Boss Wang, and he grabs medicine for patients on weekdays, if you don't believe it, you can ask him."

The translator truthfully told the foreigner, so that the person took a few people to verify with Lian'er Dao Boss Wang's store, and sure enough, Boss Wang was very affectionate, which was completely consistent with Qin Zhihong's words, Qin Zhihong saw that there was a turnaround, Lian'er also looked at Qin Zhihong at this time, and her eyes were anxious and joyful, so Qin Zhihong was in high spirits and said:

"Master Jun, I see that you have an injury on your leg, it is better to let you take a look below, maybe there is a cure, and it is not too late for you to make a decision then."

The translator told the foreigner, but after the foreigner heard it, his face softened, and he muttered for a while, and the translator turned back to Qin Zhihong and said:

"Our General Bard said that we can give you a try, but don't play tricks, if you dare to do anything, we will kill you all." At this time, the translator also pointed to the small list, which also included him, this small list was tied to Qin Zhihong's life, and he couldn't help but hope that he could cure the foreigner's illness.

Qin Zhihong nodded with a smile and said, "Absolutely not." ”

So Qin Zhihong persuaded this foreigner named Bard to the consultation table, Qin Zhihong thought to himself, you come to my consultation table, it will be easy to do, so after some looks, Qin Zhihong said:

"General, you are rheumatism, and your right leg has been cut." So he asked the foreigner to lie down on the bed in the inner hall and take out the needle himself, and when Bard saw it, he couldn't help but be shocked, and he was about to have a seizure, but the translator was Han, and he knew that the needle was a classic Chinese therapy, which was used to secondary the human body's potential and treat all kinds of diseases.