After five days of recuperation in Huailai County, Lafayette has recovered seven or eight points of spirit. The magpie was chirping early this morning, and Lafayette's mood was the sky in the liberated area, and the face of General Manager Li was also blooming with chrysanthemums. Yuan Shikai, Yuxian, and King Rebudan Jiaren, who knelt in front of the kang, and the King of Rebudan Jiaren, who came from the Horqin Mongols, and Wu Chenxuan, the number one loyal minister and lackey of our Great Qing State, behind the servants, in fact, my identity, the actual political envoy of Zheng Sanpin is not enough to reach this position, but there are only four of us soldiers in the county, and it is not okay if you don't come to kneel to ask for Sheng'an, unless someone plans to rebel. After greeting the Empress Dowager Wan'an, Mr. Li gave us peace under the signal of Lafayette.

"Chen Xuan, have the Qinwang Yishi of several adults settled down?"

"Empress Dowager Qiyu, Lord Yuan, Lord Yu's troops are stationed in the east and west of Huailai County, Lord Rebudan Jiaren's Mongolian iron cavalry has set up camp outside the north gate, Xiaguan's insurance regiment is stationed at the south gate, and the Qinwang Yishi horse foot has a total of 8,000 hanging zero. Just now, the lower officials and several adults have brought their respective personal guards to the front of the palace, and they asked the queen mother to show how to behave. ”

"That's very good, Xiang Cheng."

"Wechen is here."

"You have a lot of soldiers in your hands, and you are a veteran who has gone through battles, the mourning family thinks that these 8,000 righteous teachers will be taken by you first, protect the holy car well, get out of danger early, and the emperor has his own generous gift for the rescue of several Qing families."

"The ministers don't dare, the holy car is covered with dust, and the ministers are guilty of capital crimes. The ministers will be smeared with their hearts and brains to repay the grace of God. "Yuan Shikai didn't shirk it, in fact, when the defense area was just assigned, the four of us met each other, among the four, Yuan Shikai had the most soldiers and the largest officers, and several of us had a little friendship with him, so we had already reached an agreement to elect Yuan Shikai to lead the overall situation, if Cixi didn't call me first just now, I planned to keep my mouth shut, and let Brother Xiang Cheng deal with everything. Cixi asked me to deal with it first, I am afraid that she also has a discordant mind, and she is also afraid that Yuan Shikai will have a change in his elbows and armpits if he has other thoughts, so he will use me, a stunned young man, to check and balance. Sure enough, thinking of this, the Queen Mother Lafayette spoke again.

"Xiang Cheng, these personal soldiers are naturally to protect the holy car, and you can figure out how to assign this guard."

Yuan Shikai looked at Lafayette and asked him, but his eyes could be aimed at Wu Chenxuan Wu Brother behind him, and his feelings were for me to recommend Brother Wu, Yuan Shikai has been in the limelight recently, and he has been in the limelight recently, and he has just got an errand to take charge of the overall situation, and he is unwilling to take care of the thankless guards in his heart. He and Yuxian were in charge of Shandong with their front and back feet, and they wiped their butts with this predecessor, the two have not been on good terms, and the Mongolian county king only nodded his head and friendship, so the thoughtful Brother Xiang Cheng naturally knew how to push the boat down the river. "Empress Dowager Qi, Weichen thought that Lord Wu had been carefully escorted in the past few days, and his hard work was high, and Lord Wu was clever in using soldiers, and his soldiers were brave and brave. The ministers are willing to protect Wu Chenxuan and Lord Wu to temporarily take charge of the guards, and ask the Queen Mother for permission. ”

"Chen Xuan, what do you think?"

"The lower officials are frightened, they are loved by the Queen Mother, and they are recommended by Lord Yuan, and the lower officials are not talented, and they are willing to do their best to protect the holy car. However, the lower officials are young and knowledgeable, and they want to ask the Queen Mother to send a senior chamberlain as a supervisor to remind the lower officials to behave, and hope that the Queen Mother will be gracious. ”

When the brother in front heard it, he got it, this fox who is also a thousand years old has become a spirit, and he is playing with him as a stupid boy. Cixi was also stunned, and said in her heart that it was different to be an official, two days ago she was still a stupid donor landlord. Li Lianying's head was in charge, this master is probably a well-known figure in the court from now on, it is better to roll pancakes while they are hot, worship a handle and change the orchid spectrum, and there will be many ways to knock on bricks and nails in the future, as for this prison army, it probably has to be himself. Sure enough, Cixi sank slightly, and said, "That's very good, so let's do it, Chen Xuan is in charge of the four family soldiers, and he is temporarily in charge of the deputy minister of the internal guard." Xiao Lizi, you will temporarily lead the inner guard army first, let's do this first. Little plum, it's noon, let's pass the meal. A few Qing family members are also hungry, let's try the noodles brought by Chenxuan together. "Cixi finally seized the opportunity to let everyone share the instant noodles she ate until she vomited, but Yuan Shikai and they probably won't have this problem, in fact, there is no shortage of this thing in Lao Yuan's new army now, at least when I go to see him, there are people in his team carrying boxes of noodles.

"Who has instant noodles, take them out and share them, don't wait for my brother to do it." Xiao Heizi finally smelled the seasoning of instant noodles after gnawing on the dry food for two days, he carried a horsewhip and searched everywhere, and finally found the target outside the tent of the old hedgehog's class.

"Who should I be, Captain Xiao, you are still patrolling the camp. It's better to come early than to come by chance, this is just a good noodle, you also have two bowls. The old hedgehog was about to hide under the bed with the pot, and when he saw that Xiao Heizi's black face had come in, he simply beat the gangsters with a dead face. Xiao Heizi didn't have anything to do with an old hedgehog, so he simply made a fortune in a muffled voice, and took a bowl of noodles only to find out that it was the seasoning of instant noodles put in the hand-rolled noodles, and it was already a luxury to be able to drink a bowl of hot noodles. Xili snorted and dried a bowl, and was just about to exert his power, when he heard the noise of people outside the camp, it seemed that Wu Luzhen's four detachments were back, Xiao Heizi stood up, put the bowl down, and glared at the old hedgehog, "Go back and clean up your old guy." And he turned and went out. The old hedgehog smiled indifferently and slapped his pocket, "Little ones, I have a lot of good things." Let's go and try some game again. ”

Wu Luzhen returned to the camp with the team, but the four teams were not the only ones who came back, and the length of the team was obviously lengthened a lot. As for the changes, let's take a look at a passage from the memoirs of General Li Zhankui, who was the commander of the second platoon of the fourth detachment at the time:

"On the morning of the second day when we arrived in the capital, our shortage was replenished by the reinforcements brought by Captain Yang, and the four detachments were already reduced by seven or eight people, and soon our platoon was replenished with a new recruit. It seems to be called He Dazhuang, and he looks quite sturdy, but it is far from the strong man next to the captain, so we call him Erzhuang. This kid is a self-acquaintance, and along the way told us about his experience of flying from the sky, saying that when he first went to the sky, many people lined up to pee, and there were not a few who couldn't hold back and peed their pants. After flying for half a sound, most people get used to it, and no longer squeeze to the window to look out. Anyway, this kid who is excited can't do it, in fact, most of the old people in our four teams have gone through the battle of the flying soldiers in Nansi Lake, and they are no strangers to airships.

In the evening of the same day, the Wu detachment took us quietly to the vicinity of the city tower of Desheng Gate, and when we were lurking, we looked at the arrow tower of Desheng Gate and counted the window lattices. After the second watch, most of the moon was covered by clouds, and a few soldiers with white armbands and thorns quietly came down the rope from the city. After a while, the scouts went up to the head of the city and set up a soft ladder, and we went up to the city in turn, and with a stick of incense, we entered the urn city, opened the inner city gate, and acted separately on the street. According to a shopkeeper who led the way, there was a French general who did not live in the barracks, but lived in the palace, probably to dig treasures from the palace of Devil Six, and it seems that he was also a victim of Marco Polo. About three watch days we rushed to the east wall of Prince Gong's mansion, our team leader and the shopkeeper went to connect, an old man who looked at the garden in Prince Gong's mansion opened the corner gate for us, entered the palace, the team leader and they led the way in front, several first-class shooters of the two teams controlled the courtyard gate and the commanding heights on the upper floors respectively, I and the deputy of the squad followed closely with the squad leader, and the captain of the fourth squad led people to the French camp in the front yard. When I was about to touch the inner courtyard, I faintly heard gunshots in the distance, but it was not dense, one shot in the east and one shot in the west, and no one from the French soldiers came out to see, probably because there were coalition soldiers who came out to hunt wild food at night after the occupation, so it was not strange. Liu Xiaoer took a boning knife and opened the door bolt in three or two clicks, kicked a wine bottle behind the door, the bright wine bottle rolling sound echoed in the silent courtyard, a curse of foreign devils, anyway, we don't understand, I and Lao Fu and Erzhuang detoured to the back window to guard, they rushed in from the front, didn't hear the gunshot, but a foreign-haired man in a white shirt fell into the yard from the window with a dog chewing shit, I didn't think much about kicking his big ass, holding a gun against his yellow-haired head, This guy also knows each other, and he raises his hand and repeats the foreign words vigorously, but I don't understand it anyway. The old man rode on him with a gun on his back, twisted his arms backwards, and cuffed him with his thumbs, and he was honest, and this guy wore big pants and was barefoot. The team leader poked his head out of the window and threw his boots at him, and Erzhuang finally put them on him. Looking at the military uniform that the squad leader was carrying with a gun, this guy might be the French general we were going to arrest, but Lao Fu said that he saw that there was a woman in the house, and it looked like a woman from the Qing Dynasty. We are not the gendarmes of the coalition anyway. Er Zhuang and I looked at him, Lao Fu went into the house to search, and after a while, he brought out a big burden, the team leader and they were still picking up calligraphy, painting, porcelain or something, the woman tied up a four-horse hoof, gagged and threw it on the bed, and there was no time to pay attention to her at this time. A few shots were fired in the front yard, and after a while, the four squads gathered in the courtyard with a dozen or so foreign-haired soldiers, and the tricks taught by the boss were all used, with their thumbs tied behind their backs, and the wires around their necks were tied one by one behind a few carts that the old man found. Picked up the things to the car, the French bare-footed general also put in the car, I, Lao Fu and the deputy of the squad stepped on him with one foot, Lao Fu also drew a bayonet to gesture at his lower body, so frightened that the general almost fainted, lying on the bottom of the car and did not dare to move. We returned with a full load, the squad leader had a road map in his hand, according to his instructions, everyone went to Shaanxi Lane Hutong, where to meet a few brothers of the teaching team, they also tied two foreign hairs, look at the big gold medal on the shoulder, probably Qi is also a general or something, along the way there are a few brothers in people's clothes waiting for us on the side of the road one after another, or put things in the car, or take prisoners or something to join the team, from time to time there are a few big cars to join, anyway, we to Xizhimen all the way to the road is not idle. On the way, I vaguely saw a few soldiers of the second squad lighting a hole in the gate that looked like a barracks, in which the guns were ping-pong, and the two iron sweet potatoes were thrown into it and it was quiet with two bangs. At this time, the capital was already in a mess, with guns blaring in the south, south, and northwest, and some people were neighing. "As soon as the day dawned on the Xizhi Gate, there was no one in the gatehouse, but there was already a half-door in the inner building, the four squads led people and cars to withdraw first, our team went up to the city tower, and after a while, I saw the soldiers of the first and second squads driving a Western carriage and seven or eight carts to rush here, and there were Western cavalry with cowboy hats chasing about five hundred meters behind. There were still 300 meters away from Xizhimen, and there was a burst of gunfire on the position of the teaching team around me, and three cavalrymen immediately fell. When the first and second teams entered the city gate, we also hurried down, and hung a few tricks on the gatehouse and the gate. I went out for more than a mile, only to hear a few loud noises in Xizhimen, and it seemed that I had won the lottery. On the way, I quietly asked Lao Fu about tonight's harvest, he smiled, and made a gesture of eight and ten, I thought that each person's commission could have eighty taels, and I went to sleep boringly, who knew that this old boy meant that each person was enough to buy eighty acres of water to water the field, so when I received the passbook with Erzhuang, I counted a few zeros and was happy to hammer this old boy to a sturdy one, who let him not say earlier that we were happy to smoke it. ”