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In the northwest suburbs of the capital, a straight official road leads from the city to the Summer Palace, and on the two lush willow trees next to each other two hundred meters away from the roadside, He Yuanlong, Ye Wen and other five people have been guarding for three days.

The capital has never been a beautiful city, and the lack of water and sand has always plagued everyone in this huge city. The powerless civilians have no choice but to endure in silence, but the powerful have a way to avoid the bad season.

Among them, the Empress Dowager Cixi, who held the power of the Qing Dynasty, was the most extravagant, and she always went to live in the Summer Palace with mountains and lakes for a period of time throughout the year.

Even though the garden was destroyed twice, once by the British and French forces in 1860 and once by the Eight-Nation Alliance in 1900, it was still repaired at tens of millions of taels of silver under Cixi's advice, and became her favorite vacation spot.

According to the news from the comrades of the League, the weather has been very dry and dusty recently, and Cixi, an old woman, may go to the Summer Palace, and she has already mentioned it twice to the eunuchs around her. So He Yuanlong and the others ambushed on the side of the road in advance, preparing to give her a long-distance sniper.

In the past three days, He Yuanlong and others sat bored on the branches of the willow tree, eating hard pancakes and drinking water in bamboo tubes in order not to attract attention. Since I didn't expect to wait so long, I drank all the water no matter how sparing I was.

The five of them had a layer of dead skin on their lips, and their throats were so dry that they wanted to jump down immediately to find water to drink. But this is the capital, and the official roads are full of people, and jumping from a tree will inevitably attract the attention of passers-by.

"No, I'm dying of thirst, I'm going to find water to drink." Lin Keding shouted at He Yuanlong, who closed his eyes and recuperated.

The five people were divided into two groups, Lin Keding, Tang Nian and He Yuanlong were in one group on the same willow tree, and Ye Wen and James were on the other willow tree.

He Yuanlong opened his eyes. stared at Lin Keding and said, "No, if you are exposed, there will be no such a good opportunity in the future, bear with it for the time being." ”

Lin Keding had already said several times before that he would go down from the tree to find water to drink, but he was blocked back by He Yuanlong, and this time he seemed to have changed his mind and became unrelenting.

"Bear with me. If I don't talk about sniping any longer, I'm going to die of thirst in the trees. Don't you say, Tang Nian? Link couldn't say anything, and began to pull allies.

Tang Nian was lying on the thick tree trunk, his eyes were half-narrowed, his head was nodding up and down, and he knew that he was half-asleep at a glance. After being woken up, he said in a daze, "Who is calling me, I haven't finished my ice coke yet." ”

"I'm still dreaming. Wake up and go down with me to find water to drink, and don't wait to die in this tree. Lin Keding stretched out his right foot and stepped on Tang Nian's thigh.

"Well, what did Brother Long say?" Tang Nian was trampled awake, glanced at He Yuanlong and said.

He Yuanlong still insisted on that opinion: "Bear with it a little longer, maybe Cixi will come out of the palace soon." When I get back to the modern day, there's so much Coke in the fridge that I can blow my stomach up. ”

Tang Nian suddenly hesitated and didn't speak for a long time.

"! Tang Nian, you didn't even listen to me. You used to follow me like a fart. Link was on fire. The former little follower actually dared to refuse his idea?

"Who the are you talking about, what's worth following in terms of your secondary two appearance? I'm with my cousin Ye Wen. Tang Nian was so sarcastic, and the old things suddenly came to his heart, and he felt that he was very embarrassed, and refuted it as if he had been poked in the death hole.

He Yuanlong snorted: "Shut up for me, you want to bring the Qing army here, right?" Stay until tonight. If you haven't harvested yet, take advantage of the night to get water from the trees. ”

Such an offer barely satisfied Lin Keding and kept his mouth shut, and the willow tree became quiet again. After a while, even the birds, frightened by the sound, returned to the treetops and began to sing. The chatter kept going.

The sun gradually rose from the east to the middle, throwing its infinite heat into the earth, and in such hot and dry weather, Yehenara, who felt like a steamer in the palace, woke up in the morning and felt a little unbearable and decided to go to the Summer Palace for a few days off.

"Go to the Summer Palace to recuperate, don't bother me if you don't have anything important." She instructed the ministers of military aircraft like this, "Also, call the emperor over and let him accompany me, an old woman, for a few comfortable days." ”

On the surface, it seems that the Yehenara clan takes care of Guangxu very much, but in fact, every minister knows the reason, which is to prevent anyone from contacting Guangxu while Cixi is away, and the purpose is to cut off all contact with Guangxu to the outside world.

"Wow!" The ministers of military aircraft responded in unison.

The queen mother and the emperor went out on patrol, and the faction was naturally not small. Five thousand palace guards were dispatched en masse, plus hundreds of eunuchs and palace maids, dragging a two- or three-mile-long human dragon on the official road.

All the pedestrians on the road were driven to kneel on both sides to make way for the procession. So He Yuanlong saw more than a dozen palace guards in yellow coats, galloping on the road, driving all the burdens and ox carts to both sides, and he realized that the opportunity he had waited for three days had come.

"Attention, our target may be coming, set up the gun for me!"

At this time, there were no special sniper guns, and He Yuanlong and the others were holding American Springfield rifles with German-made scopes, which were very good at dealing with targets that were only 200 meters away.

As an aside, these five guns were bought by He Yuanlong with money, and the alliance said that he had no funds and could not afford them.

Boom, boom! The sound of footsteps was no longer as clear as a few people walking, but gathered into a strong noise, constantly attacking the people on the side of the road.

Two bright yellow sedan chairs of twelve appeared in He Yuanlong's field of vision, but the windows were blocked by white veils, and it was impossible to see whether it was Cixi or Guangxu sitting inside. Fortunately, there had been an arrangement before, He Yuanlong's group sniped the front sedan car, and James's group sniped the one behind.

Ever since leaving the palace, Yehenara has felt a little restless in his heart, and some unpleasant memories have always sounded. Just like the time when she fled to Shanxi six years ago, the embarrassing experience of not even having to eat baked cakes for two days kept appearing in her mind.

"Damn foreigners, you are all the ones who hurt you! If you agree to replace Guangxu's rabbit cub, will I declare war on you? Why do you need your consent to change the emperor! ”

This old woman cursed in her heart, but the Qing army, which had been defeated repeatedly, could no longer give her the slightest support, so she could only say it in private.

Yehenara suddenly felt like a needle in his heart, and felt a sense of crisis. She lifted the corner of the window curtain and looked out, only to see a row of willow trees growing a little further away from the roadside, nothing strange. (To be continued.) )