Chapter 366: Strange Tales on a Rainy Night (2nd Update)
Ruilin and Wenxiang were beaten too badly this time, they had never seen such a scene of the sky falling apart, it was really terrifying. If it weren't for Wenxiang's quick response, he would have pulled Ruilin and led the army to withdraw from Tongzhou City as soon as possible, and the Gu'an army would have been able to raze the entire Tongzhou to the ground. Even so, there were only 28,000 of their 30,000 troops left, and the Gu'an army lost 2,000 soldiers without seeing anything. The two adults in the Baliqiao camp could only sit speechless and cry a thousand times.
Of course, there is also a bit of a windfall, and their motley army, which keeps making trouble, has completely stopped this time. The Eight Banners soldiers, who have been calling for endless battles, are still clamoring for a bloody battle to the end, but their faces already have a look of despair. The arrogant and uninhibited elites no longer had to be scared, but took advantage of the remaining fortifications of the Bali Bridge when they resisted the British and French forces last year, and began to engage in civil engineering works with all their might, as if they were going to build another city on the Bali Bridge. The flag soldiers outside the gate have all become stupid, and there are shamans who dance the great gods in individual camps, and I don't know if these people are stupid or crazy. Some officers from Jilin and Heilongjiang began to gather together to mumble, and the frightened Wen Xiang hurriedly transferred people to look at them, for fear that they would murder himself and Ruilin, and go to Guoxing A to surrender.
The best performers were the Zhili Green Battalion, whose popularity barely fluctuated, and they no longer went out to rob the people. Packed up all his things, and packed himself neatly every day, as if he was ready to fight at any time. Seeing Wen Xiang was very moved, if it wasn't for Ruilin to stop him, he would have given a reward to the Zhili Green Camp. Ruilin knows the people of the Zhili Green Camp too well, he is good at cleaning up, but they are not for the war, such a bastard is ready to escape. As long as the Gu'an Army attacks again, these bastards will definitely disappear without a trace in an instant with the property they have looted these days.
"Bochuan (Wen Xiangzi), this Guoxing Azi is more fierce than foreign devils, how should we deal with it?" It was pouring rain outside, and Ruilin could only worry about it with Wenxiang in the military tent.
"Brother Chengquan, you are also a person who has been in battle for a long time, so you don't have any good plans?" Wen Xiang has seen foreign devils, but he has never seen the Gu'an army fighting, and he was also surprised when he saw him today. Guoxinga's equipment is much better than that of foreign devils, and no matter how powerful the foreign devils' artillery is, there is no such feeling of falling apart! Ruilin is counting on him to give advice, and he is also counting on Ruilin to plot to break the enemy!
"I can only hope that the heavens will be beautiful, and if this heavy rain does not stop, we will be able to hold off Guoxinga. When the army of Keshuai and the monk king returns to the division, our chances of victory will be greater! Wen Xiang kicked the ball back, and Ruilin had only one way to rely on God's help.
When the Gu'an army attacked Tongzhou, it was only drizzling, and after most of the day, it turned into a heavy downpour. Ruilin has no skills, otherwise he is going to set up an altar at Bali Bridge, and he will rely on asking for rain to deal with Guoxing. Ruilin thought that the Gu'an Army was an all-firearms unit, and with such a heavy rain, the weapons of the Gu'an Army would definitely not be able to be used, and he didn't know that there was also a thing called fixed closed ammunition. But the second point he thought was right, with such a heavy rain, it would be very difficult for the Gu'an army, whether it was cavalry or infantry, to march. Guo Xing'a could not continue to advance towards Beijing, and he could be regarded as having completed the task of intercepting Guo Xing'a.
"It's up to God!" Wen Xiang is not optimistic at all, this rain will stop sooner or later. Guoxing A is much more powerful than he imagined, even if Seng Lingqin and Shengbao arrive, what can they do to defeat him!
In the midst of the thunderstorm, Wenxiang and Ruilin fell into a long silence, both praying that the heavy rain would continue. At the end of the day, that is, at about nine o'clock in the evening, the two brothers were ready to go to rest, but one of the soldiers entered the tent with a body of water, and the Gu'an army actually sent two messengers over. The Gu'an army sent people at this time, and eighty percent of them were persuaded to surrender, but what if Guoxing A Tianliang found out that he was suddenly willing to surrender! The old brothers, with all kinds of beautiful fantasies, asked people to bring the messenger up.
There were two messengers, both of them wearing robes and hats, and it was dark outside and they couldn't see clearly in the rain. After entering the military tent, the two of them went to the clothes and hats, and after seeing the appearance of the two through the candlelight, Wen Xiang almost crushed the teacup in his hand, and Ruilin almost sat on the ground, because the two people who came knew each other, one was Su Shun and the other was Guoxing.
Wen Xiang's excited heart reached his throat, and he almost shouted for someone to take down these two people, as long as these two first evils were caught, a disaster would be eliminated. After pouring a sip of tea, Wen Xiang calmed down, and the two of them entered the army alone, they were already turtles in the urn, and they didn't have to lose their own bearing for the time being.
After the Gu'an army took Tongzhou lightly in the morning, Guo Xing'a was going to sleep well in the city and wait for the weather to clear, but Su Shun clamored to persuade Ruilin and Wenxiang to surrender. Guo Xing'a thought that he was going to write a letter of persuasion, but Su Shun wanted to go in person, and of course Guo Xing'a would not agree to his two actions. But Su Shun insisted that he had worked with Wenxiang for many years, and that Wenxiang was a sensible person, and he could say that Wenxiang could be moved. Guo Xing'a gave several examples to argue that Wen Xiang was Yixin's person, and Su Shun didn't believe it.
The two quarreled until the evening, and Guo Xing'a didn't say that Su Shun would be moved, but looking at the heavier and heavier rain and the roaring thunder and lightning, Guo Xing'a had a magical idea, he wanted to go with Su Shun. This time it was the turn of the generals of the Gu'an Army to quit, Guo Xing'a was too risky, although after Guo Xing'a explained his plan, everyone thought it was good, but it was still unacceptable for Guo Xing'a's handsome behavior. In the end, Goxing Alai came, but he was wearing body armor modified from soft armor in the arsenal, and brought two pistols and more than 70 rounds of ammunition. Wen Xiang and they are also cold weapon thinking, seeing that Guo Xing'a didn't bring a sword, they didn't search his body, otherwise their Chinese military tent would definitely be old and happy.
"Su Zhongtang, Guo Yunshuai, the two of you came to visit at night, I don't know what to see!" Wen Xiang was steady and steady, so that his voice was not so excited.
"Rui Chengquan, Wen Bochuan, I just want to ask you one thing today, you are still not the courtiers of Emperor Daxing, or are you not the children of my Eight Banners!" Guo Xing'a was drinking hot tea very leisurely, as if he was just watching the excitement, but Su Shun began to ask questions in a solemn tone.
"Su Zhongtang, my generation is naturally the courtier of Emperor Daxing, and it is also the son of the Qing Dynasty!" Ruilin felt that Su Shun's words were very unreasonable.
"Since you are a courtier of Emperor Daxing, why don't you uphold Emperor Daxing's will! Since you are my children of the Qing Dynasty, why don't you uphold the ancestral family law of my Qing Dynasty! "Su Shun has a style of asking for guilt.
"We have not disobeyed the Daxing Emperor's orders, nor have we betrayed the family laws of our ancestors." Wen Xiang is an important member of Yixin's party, so he is too lazy to listen to Su Shun's crooked reasoning.
"Emperor Daxing ordered me to wait for the eight ministers to praise all government affairs and assist the young master, and now the devil is six edicts to commit murder and kill the ministers of Gu Ming, why don't you ignore it. The Queen Mother's curtain violates the family law of the ancestors, why don't you fight against it, and even help the abuse! "Wen Xiang is also a master, he has been mixed in the military aircraft for so long, and he is not far from Yixin, from Sushun to Xianfeng, no one regards him as Yixin's party.
"Su Zhongtang, what can I say! You said that Emperor Daxing ordered you and eight others to praise all government affairs, but the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces said that you tampered with Emperor Daxing's edict, and no one else was present at that time, you said I should believe you! Or should I believe in the Queen Mother! "The curtain of the two palaces is indeed against the ancestral system, of course Wen Xiang will not say this to Su Shun, all he can say is Xianfeng's will.
There is a big loophole in Xianfeng's deathbed edict, that is, when Xianfeng issued his will, except for the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces, the Eight Ministers, and Guo Xing'a, there was no important minister present, and Guo Xing'a was still confused. Xianfeng was worried that Prince Hui Mianyu and others would oppose his arrangement, so he deliberately arranged it this way. He originally thought that the two palaces and the eight ministers would be able to testify to each other, so that authenticity would not be a problem. Which Cheng thought that the Queen Mother of the Two Palaces and the Eight Ministers were arguing, and the two sides said differently, and there were no witnesses, which would be embarrassing.
"The Queen Mother of the Two Palaces was coerced by the devil six, and the fifth can testify to us!" Su Shun excitedly pointed to Guo Xing'a, he was also a little weak in this matter, the eight of them did not change the edict, but they added a sentence into it.
The accused Guo Xing'a didn't speak, just smiled shyly.
"If Yun Shuai hadn't raised troops with you, he would really be a witness, but in the current situation of the two of you, if Yun Shuai is in this situation, who else in the world will believe it!" Wen Xiang glanced at Su Shun, this invincible guy is too naïve.
"Alas!" Su Shun sighed angrily and sat down in his chair.
"Two, ...... today" Su Shun had no nonsense to say, Wen Xiang wanted to explain the scene and take people, but Guo Xing'a, who had not spoken, interrupted him.
"Don't worry, don't worry, Sixth Brother Su is here to waste saliva, I'm here to tell a story, how about you two listen to me tell a story?" Goxinga is very relaxed.
"Yun Shuai, please speak!" Wen Xiang was a little vague, Guo Xing's performance was really unfathomable, there must be a conspiracy in this, but he couldn't think of it.
"It is said that during the reign of Gaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty, there was a general of the forbidden army named Liu Qi who fought a very beautiful battle in Shunchang, which was known as the great victory of Shunchang in history. One of the examples is very interesting, and I've always liked it......" Guoxing Asu babbled about it, the story was very interesting, but it had nothing to do with the current situation.
In the trance of the rain, there seemed to be more wind sounds like a hole flute, and the story of Goxinga also entered*.
Liu Qi selected 500 people who dared to die and took advantage of the rainy night to rob the camp. It was a thunderstorm night, and there was no torch burning in the camp of the Jin army, and it was pitch black, just like this night! Ruilin felt that Guo Xing'a's story was told with emotion, and if Guo Xing'a didn't go to tell the story as a general, he would definitely be a famous person, but Wen Xiang frowned.
"After the five hundred Song troops infiltrated the golden camp, they all lay on the ground and waited quietly for thunder! Suddenly, a lightning bolt crossed the sky, and all the Song troops jumped up, and killed the person with braids when they saw it! Because the Song army does not have braids, those who have braids are Jin Jun! After the lightning, the Song army was all on the ground, and the Jin army was killed countless times, but they didn't know where the enemy was! As Guo Xing'a spoke, Wen Xiang's brows furrowed deeper and deeper.
Like the story of Guoxing'a, in the camp of the Qing army in Baliqiao, there are also countless ghostly figures active in the lightning. They all had bamboo whistles in their mouths, and whenever the lightning flashed, they blew their whistles softly, and then plunged their bayonets and daggers into the chest of the stunned man in front of them. Some of the Qing army also noticed the anomaly, but they couldn't see the enemy in the darkness, and then in the lightning they would say "ghost", and then they would also turn into a dead corpse.
Towards the end of Guoxing's story, Wen Xiang also saw a ghostly figure outside his military tent by the light of lightning, and he knew that everything was over.
"Yun Shuai is amazing! We are defeated! Wen Xiang sat down in a daze, and Ruilin was still confused.
"The little trick I learned from the ancient book is very interesting, so I'll share it with you!" After telling the story of Guo Xing'a, he leisurely picked up the teacup again.
"Yun Shuai's use of soldiers is really unpredictable! We are not wronged! I just hate that I didn't take down the two early! Wen Xiang shed two lines of tears, he was sorry for Yixin, and the door to Beijing was opened.
"Actually, from the moment I walked into this tent, you have already lost! Mr. Bochuan forgot, buddy, I don't have a good husband! Hahaha......" Guo Xing'a smirked, although he didn't rely on a pistol, but this time he was very well dressed.
"Come on, come on! ...... "Ruilin didn't know what was going on, and when he heard that Guo Xing'a meant to be an assassin, he called out to his guards again and again, but no one answered.
"Come on, send the two adults down to rest! I'm going to stay here tonight! Guo Xing'a also shouted.
"Huh!" More than a dozen soldiers of the Gu'an Army walked into the tent and set up Wen Xiang and Ruilin very disrespectfully.
The next morning, the sky cleared, and the clear blue sky made people very comfortable, but hundreds of corpses were carried out from the camp of the Qing army in Baliqiao, which affected everyone's mood a little. They were all men who stood guard and got up at night last night, and these people died valiantly in the night without even seeing the enemy. In addition to them, 26,000 of the 28,000 Qing troops in their sleep were captured. When they came to their senses and faced the muzzle of the Gu'an army, they only had a pair of pants, and the pants obviously could not withstand muskets and bayonets, so they obediently became prisoners. The Qing army also ran more than 1,000 people, all of them gods from the green camp of Zhili, and Guo Xing'a couldn't figure out how these people were shocked and how they ran in the darkness. But they did get out, and they took everything except their weapons with them, which was a great miracle on the battlefield.
On the morning of the same day, Yixin in Beijing got new news, and two more people signed "Seeking Gong Gui Against the Party", one was Wenxiang and the other was Ruilin. The 26,000-strong army under the command of the two of them was all against the water.