Han Xiufeng sharpened a sword for two years, but whether this sword was sharp or not, Xianfeng was still not very relieved. He actually ordered Mu Yin, the minister of military aircraft, to be the minister of military parades, and went to the stable outside the north gate of the Old Summer Palace to see how the soldiers were training.

As a result, with Mu Yin's military parade, the news that Han Xiufeng had quietly trained an elite army in Nanyuan spread widely, and the civil and military officials of various ministries and institutes on duty in the Old Summer Palace ran over to see the excitement.

Zhan Shi Yin Zhaoyong of Zhan Shifu was also one of them, and found that the army stationed in Heying and Nanyuan was not only well-trained, well-armed, but also had high morale.

Xianfeng didn't want to press the last capable soldier in his heart, but he couldn't withstand the seconding of Prince Hui, Zhou Zupei and other princes and ministers, so he could only order Han Xiufeng to lead the river camp and more than 100 horse armor troops to Tongzhou, and at the same time let the big head pass on a "camera act" message.

Bao Jun was frightened, but Han Xiufeng was very calm.

Because from the moment the brothers came to the Old Summer Palace, they expected this possibility. What's more, the soldiers are trained in the battle formation, not on the school field, and they have long wanted to find an opportunity for the brothers to go to the battle formation to experience and experience, if you have not seen real foreign soldiers, you have not seen how foreigners fight, and expecting them to escort them is equivalent to gambling on the safety of the emperor.

The only thing to worry about is to listen to the dispatch of the monk Lingqin or Shengbao before the battle, and now that the emperor has asked the "camera to act", Han Xiufeng has nothing to worry about, so he immediately asked the brothers to take off their yellow coats, change into the clothes they wore during the exercises, put down the bedding and other baggage, and only bring weapons, three days of dry food and a skin bag of water to pull out.

Thinking that these more than 600 soldiers are now also counted as people from the Internal Affairs Bureau, Bao Jun didn't care about inviting the emperor, so he ordered the Guangchu Division to send 4,000 taels of silver, and the soldiers and Yong each gave 5 taels, Yongxiang, Wang Hedong and other 8 banners and the military attache of the Green Battalion ranged from 52 to 10 taels each.

After sending the silver, he also sent it all the way for five or six miles, pulling Han Xiufeng and Rong Luqian to tell them to be cautious and cautious, and never fold this tiger and wolf army that should have been used to protect them.

Although he had not been dealing with him for a long time, seeing that this top boss was not only not pedantic, but also very clear in major matters, Han Xiufeng was really moved, and said goodbye to Baojun with Rong Lu and others, and then went straight to the direction of Tongzhou without hesitation.

It was getting darker and darker.

With Rong Lu's order, the soldiers lit the torches that had been prepared earlier, for fear that someone would not be able to see clearly and fall down or fall behind, and ordered each team to take out the hemp rope as they did during the exercise, and everyone had to grab the hemp rope and walk. The official road from the capital to Tongzhou is already wide, and most of the soldiers are locals in Wanping, Gu'an and Tongzhou, so they are more familiar with this area, although they go at night, they are not worried about getting lost.

Rong Lu's buttocks were all in pain, he took out his pocket watch and looked under the torch held by the groom, and then turned around and asked, "Fourth master, it's already ugly, do you want the brothers to rest, eat some dry food, and drink saliva?" ”

Thinking that it had been nearly three hours before he knew it, the horse team was fine, and the speed of the foot team was not as good as before, Han Xiufeng muttered: "It's okay." ”

Thinking of the marching rules that he had explained before, Rong Lu didn't dare to let the brothers rest like this, but raised his head and shouted: "Yongtai listen to the order!" ”

"Humble duty!"

"Send a message to the master, each team stops and stands by in place."

"Huh!"

One to the other, the front to the front, the back to the back. After a while, a large group of people and horses, like a long dragon, stopped in such an orderly manner. At night, I couldn't see clearly, and I could hear what was going on around me with my ears, so although the soldiers of each team stopped, they still didn't dare to make a loud noise.

Rong Lu looked at it, and then said: "Yongxiang, hurry up to the front to give an order, order Team B to dismount, let Orhai hand over the horses to the groom to take care of, and then take the brothers to the front to guard!" Fuchun, Changge, and their respective subordinates are on alert! ”

"Huh!" Yongxiang answered, took the torch in the hand of a soldier, and rode his horse to the front to give the order.

"Wang Dusi, the brothers of the life team are resting on the spot, they should and pee quickly, and if they want to sit down and rest, they will quickly sit down and rest for a while, not only to go far, but also to make loud noises."

"Obedience."

……

Rong Lu kept giving orders, the team retreated to both sides of the official road to rest, the torches were extinguished one after another, and the halters on the mouths of the horses and mules were not long removed and put on again, only to hear the whispers of the brothers, and they couldn't see where the teams were at all, so naturally they didn't have to worry about being shelled.

Han Xiufeng walked to a crop field and finished untying his hands, and was following the faint starlight to observe where he was and how far he was from Tongzhou, when he heard a commotion in front of him.

Without waiting for Han Xiufeng to speak, Rong Lu, who had also just finished untying his hand, said eagerly: "What's the matter, twenty-one, hurry up and take a look!" ”

"Huh!"

"Wang Hedong, Wang Hedong!"

"In!"

"Keep all the places on guard!"

"Obedience."

Han Xiufeng felt that this arrangement was inappropriate, turned around and looked around, and saw a bush not far from the west, and immediately said: "Zhonghua, Hedong, let the brothers go over there to fortify, don't be so close to the official road." ”

"The subordinate obeys."

With Han Xiufeng's order, the soldiers who had just sat down and rested for a short time moved again, and the teams had just retreated to the side of the bushes, and were asking the horsemen to lead the horses back a hundred paces, Yongxiang and Orhai brought a few of the A team riding schools that should have been on guard in front of them, escorting three grizzled soldiers over.

"What's the matter, you three are deserters?" Han Xiufeng held the torch that Xiao Shandong had just lit, and asked the three defeated soldiers who were trembling with fear.

"I didn't hear the adult's question, why don't you hurry up and reply?" Yongxiang lifted his leg with a kick.

Bing Yong, who had just knelt down, hurriedly said: "Lord Yu, Lord Yu, the small one is not a rout, the small one is Wanping people's clan, and the small one wants to go home." ”

"You're not a deserter, why are you here, walking at night in the middle of the night?"

"The adults spare their lives, the little ones are really not deserters, they are the ones who have suffered defeats in front, all the officials have run away, the horse team is gone, the little ones don't know who to listen to, so they follow and run, and they run and run here."

"Lost the battle ahead?" Han Xiufeng stared at him and asked.

One knew at a glance that it was a rout transferred from outside the customs, and while kowtowing and begging for mercy, he cried and mourned: "My lord doesn't know, the foreigners have been shooting for most of the day, and they have released guns for most of the day, and the guns are raining and the shells are like hailstones, and we can't rush to them at all, and many people have died!" ”

"Where did you shoot and shoot?" Han Xiufeng asked.

"Bali Bridge, after fighting for most of the day, I don't know how many brothers died!"

"Have you seen the monk king, have you seen Lord Katsuho?"

"Lord Yu, the last time I saw the monk was in the afternoon, he led the Mongolian horse team to charge, but he met the foreigner's horse team, and then disappeared." As soon as they thought of the rotten battle fought in the afternoon, the defeated soldiers outside the Guanxi were full of fire, and they glared at the defeated soldiers around them angrily, gritted their teeth and said: "Our horse team rushed into battle, and they were good at foot, and they actually clubbed there for an afternoon, watching us fight with the foreigners. ”

"And then?"

"My lord, this battle was fought in a hurry, several horse teams did not make an appointment, the first to rush first, the last to rush back, two or three hundred horses at a time, the foreigners set up several layers of phalanxes inside and outside, the guns were really dense, the small ones couldn't rush forward at all, so they followed Shangguan and retreated, and then ...... Later, when the foreigners pressed on the whole army, they released a few rows of guns, and the infantry team broke up. Thousands of people, I'm afraid that the people behind haven't seen the foreign soldiers, so they will run away! ”

It is expected, because most of the infantry teams led by Shengbao are temporarily recruited Lian Yong, and there are only more than 1,000 real soldiers, and many Lian Yong don't even have a decent weapon, how to fight this battle.

Han Xiufeng pondered for a moment, and then asked, "So the Bali Bridge was not guarded?" ”

"I didn't hold it, a lot of brothers died, and the little one saw that the bridge was full of corpses, and it was really a river of blood."

"Where's Tongzhou City?"

"The little one didn't know, but then everyone was running, and the little one couldn't stand on his feet, so they were dragged back and ran all the way here."

Han Xiufeng felt that he couldn't ask anything more, so he simply turned around and said, "Give them some dry food and let them go." ”

"Huh!"

……

As soon as the three defeated soldiers were sent away, Rong Lu and others surrounded them and asked eagerly: "Fourth master, what should we do now, should we still go to Tongzhou?" ”

"Naturally, you have to go, but you don't have to go to the city." Han Xiufeng weighed it and looked around at everyone: "Let the brothers rest for a while, and when the brothers are full of food and drink, we will stay away from the official road, send more scouts, and quietly touch the direction of Tongzhou." ”

"And then?"

"When you get to the vicinity of Tongzhou, you can act at the opportunity." Han Xiufeng thought for a while, and then explained: "Wait a little longer and it will be dawn, see if there are any people nearby, if there are, find a few more guides who are familiar with this area." After daybreak, there will be more and more routs, so the scouts will take a few more questions about the situation ahead. In short, since we have come out, we have to fight, but we will never fight a battle that we are not sure of. ”

"Just a fight?" Yongxiang couldn't help but ask.

"How many battles do you want to fight?" Han Xiufeng asked rhetorically, and said meaningfully: "Do you know why the emperor asked us to act with the camera, and why Lord Baojun told us thousands of times?" Let's put it this way, our life and death are small, and the emperor's safety is big. The war is so rotten, if even we are scattered and crippled by foreigners, who will escort us at that time? ”

"Ignorant."

"Don't blame yourself, hurry up and explain to the brothers that there are opportunities to make contributions, and if you really fight, you must not fall in love."

"Understood!"

"Hurry up and prepare, extinguish all the torches, we can't be confused and bombarded by foreigners before we see the foreigners, and we will be killed and injured by the foreigners."