Chapter 243: The Last Soldier of the Empire
People with strong martial arts are far superior to ordinary people in terms of strength, speed, reaction, and body coordination, so in hand-to-hand combat, ordinary people are by no means opponents of people with strong martial arts. Ren Liang and his skilled eunuchs are all strong martial artists, of course, no matter how fast and strong they are, they can't compare to bullets, but their speed can be shorter and longer than the finger that pulls the trigger.
Ren Liang and the others can see and listen to all directions, so every move of Fushun and the others has not escaped their eyes. It was only because of their confidence in their own martial arts and their ignorance of foreign guns that they did not do anything to Fushun and others, but focused their attention on Han Ying. But when Fu Shun and the others raised their guns to aim and pulled the trigger, all the skilled eunuchs had already dodged in advance, and they all dodged high, vertical and low. However, they didn't expect that Fushun and others' pistols could be fired continuously, and after dodging one shot, they all stopped for a while, giving Fushun and others a chance to pursue, and were beaten by the second and third shots.
It is also Ren Liang and his subordinates who are extraordinary, and they are very familiar with the surrounding environment, and they concealed their bodies with the help of trees, flowers and stones, so they reluctantly avoided the random fights of Fushun and others. However, they have all been forced to retreat to the side, making way for Fushun and the others to escape.
"Get out!" Fu Shun led everyone to reload while rushing in the direction of the algae garden.
Everyone has gone through hundreds of drills, so they are very proficient in technical and tactical movements. The two people who had not participated in the strafing just now also continued to shoot at the skilled eunuchs as they ran, suppressing them so that they could not move. Taking advantage of this opportunity, everyone swam across the river and ran to the algae garden. Fushun, who was the first to cross the river, let the two surveyors with the drawings turn around and kneel on one knee by the river, aiming behind him to cut off the queen. But when everyone crossed the river, Han Ying stayed on the west bank and never crossed the river, but only made a gesture to everyone to break off alone.
"Instructor Han!" Several soldiers who came out of Han Ying's own hands all wanted to rush back to the West Bank to rescue Han Ying.
"Withdraw!" Fushun stared at Han Ying for a while, and Han Ying didn't have any excited look on his face, but a relieved smile. Fushun had just heard that Han Ying was inextricably linked to the Old Summer Palace, and since he decided to stay and make a decision, Fushun could only fulfill him. Moreover, the task of the miscellaneous affairs section is the first, and the completion of the task is greater than everything, so Fushun decisively issued the order to retreat.
"Captain!" Several soldiers still couldn't bear it, and Han Ying on the other side had been surrounded by Ren Liang and others.
"Execute the order!" Fushun's answer was only four cold words.
The people of the Miscellaneous Affairs Section are only allowed to have one feeling, that is, loyalty and love for the organization, and infinite loyalty to Goxinga. All other feelings are superfluous burdens, and will be overwhelmed by loyalty to Goxinga. Fushun's resolute order was also quickly executed, and the time was not long, and Han Ying was left alone in the Old Summer Palace.
Ren Liang was a little stunned by *, when he sent two money darts, the other party could fire six shots in a row, which was really too powerful. If everyone is equipped with such firearms in the future, I am afraid that no one will practice these decades of hard work. He didn't waste manpower chasing Fushun and the others, but led people to surround Han Ying who was left alone.
"Why didn't you leave?" Ren Liang also saw that Han Ying was deliberately staying, and if he wanted to rush out just now, a group of skilled eunuchs would not be able to stop him at all.
"How is An Yun?" Han Ying took out his * and handed it to Ren Liang with the handle of the gun upside down, indicating that he had surrendered.
"You're for that little prodigal hoof?" Ren Liang asked incredulously.
"She suffered a lot for me! I'm such a coward that I haven't had the courage to come back all these years! Han Ying just stared blankly at the sky, and let the group of skilled eunuchs tie up their ropes.
"Bad fate!" Looking at Han Ying, who was tied up as a hairy crab, Ren Liang put away his resentful expression. just sighed, and escorted Han Ying back to the station, ready to report to Wen Feng, the minister of the garden, about Han Ying sneaking in. As for who the people who escaped and what the purpose of these people was, it was not his business, and Han Ying would also be handed over to Wen Feng for interrogation.
At this time, because of the panic of the soldiers, Lao Maozi's news was not as timely as before, and the French army that had dispersed Seng Lingqin and Ruilin had arrived in Haidian, and there was no news of Yixin's exact location. Originally, in history, the coalition forces did not know the news of Xianfeng, but now because of Guoxing's troubles, the coalition forces, which were almost a month late, already knew the news of Xianfeng's escape, so they wanted to capture Yixin instead. However, Yi Xin was not honest, always going back and forth between Beijing and the Old Summer Palace, and the coalition forces had no chance to catch the traces of the plenipotentiary minister of the Qing Dynasty, so they could only send a small force to search west. Then a battalion of the 1st Brigade of the French Army, in the evening, touched the gate of the Great Palace of the Old Summer Palace.
Looking at the magnificent garden complex in front of them, a group of countrymen from France were dumbfounded, there were too many things they had never dreamed of, and then the officers quickly judged that this place must be full of dangers. Such a huge garden must be guarded by a large number of guards, and now these guards may be lurking in the garden. The battalion commander immediately asked for help from the rear, and they found a huge garden, and at the same time a large number of Qing troops were hiding in it, which needed at least one regiment of troops to support.
Of course, at this moment, everyone didn't know that in the huge Old Summer Palace, there was actually no guard army, and his only protective force was only sixty skilled eunuchs. There will be such a grand occasion, thanks to Xianfeng's father, Daoguang Ye who is willing to spend twenty-five taels of silver to make a patch. Daoguang Ye, who practiced frugality, dismissed the defenders of the Old Summer Palace and replaced them with skilled eunuchs, which greatly saved the expenses of the imperial court. However, there are 5,000 defenders, and there are only dozens of skilled eunuchs, even if everyone is undefeated in the East, this manpower is a little stretched, but Daoguang Ye creatively solved this problem.
The palace maids and eunuchs who should be used are all with them, and they follow their masters back and forth between the Old Summer Palace and the Forbidden City, which saves a lot of manpower costs. At the same time, as a closed royal garden, no one dares to enter the forbidden land unless they eat the bear's heart and leopard gall. The inside and outside of the Old Summer Palace are virtual and real, and outsiders have no way of knowing, and they don't know how many treasures there are in the Old Summer Palace. In short, it was to scare a group of people with the name of the royal forbidden land, and then use no oil and water to fool away a wave of people, and finally really met the stunned green, and it was the skilled eunuchs who did it.
Ren Liang and the others knew almost nothing about the outside world, they knew that Emperor Xianfeng went to Chengde, but the emperor had to go every year, so they didn't make any fuss at all. Although they also felt the panic outside, they still stuck to their posts, waiting for the emperor to come again next year.
But today Ren Liang experienced a different feeling, first Han Ying, who had been missing for a long time, suddenly ran back, and took a lot of children to play in the garden for a while. Then he kept rummaging in the yard, as if he was looking for something again, and when he was caught, he still looked at death as if he were at home. Then he found the sound of people moving in the direction of Xianliang Gate, and the royal forbidden land carefully designed by Daoguang Ye did not seem to deter all the people with bad intentions. Ren Liang, who had just escorted Han Ying to the steward's office, looked anxiously in the direction of Xianliangmen, and it seemed that the military disaster was about to befall the Old Summer Palace.
"Brothers, the guys, get ready to meet the enemy!" Ren Liang hurriedly ordered everyone to prepare equipment for the battle.
"Master Ren, it's foreign soldiers killing outside!" A skilled eunuch of some age reminded everyone.
"Foreign soldiers are foreign soldiers, and he doesn't have three heads and six arms, as long as they dare to violate the palace ban, we have to take them down!" Although Ren Liang heard about the achievements of foreign devils, he didn't care.
"Ren Ye, it's not that the brothers are not dedicated, but you don't know that the foreign devils are all genuine foreign devils, and the monks and kings are not their opponents, which is really powerful. Long live the Lord has already hunted in the north, and it is useless for us to guard this place except to wait for death! Why don't we go! There are only 60 of us, how can we guard such a large courtyard! A eunuch who was also an eight-grade skilled eunuch began to persuade Zou Degui to run away, and he had just run over from the coast.
"Brethren, I think everyone knows that Long Live Lord is out! Give us this huge Old Summer Palace, we are the servants of the Long Live Lord, so we should give the Long Live Lord a good look at this home! No matter who is outside, those who are good at breaking into the palace without a holy decree will be beheaded by public rules. A musket from Fushun just now made Ren Liang's heart palpitate, but he almost didn't hesitate, and decided to defend the Old Summer Palace, he wanted to keep the rules in the garden.
"I heard that the prince of Monk Lingqin was defeated by these Yangyi, you are afraid of death and dare not go, I don't blame you, take off your clothes and fend for yourself! I am willing to have a name in history, and follow me vigorously! Ren Liang made a circle with some emotion, and then turned around and left. The skilled eunuchs in the old city were all frozen by Ren Liang and did not move, and several of Ren Liang's apprentices and people who could talk to him had already taken their weapons, and then happily followed behind Ren Liang and walked in the direction of Xianliangmen.
"An Yun is in Anyou Palace, if I can't come back, you can get out and find her by yourself! If I come back, I will cure you again for violating the palace prohibition and bumping into the Lord!" Before Ren Liang left, he stopped beside Han Ying, whispered a few words in Han Ying's ear, and then walked to the virtuous gate without looking back.
If there is no big fluttering moth of Guoxing'a, Ren Liang's not chic back will be the last resistance of the Qing Empire to the invaders in the Second Opium War. The last soldiers of the Qing Empire to face the British and French invaders were two dozen eunuchs, people who were ridiculed, ridiculed, despised and spurned. They were faithful to their duties, and proved their loyalty and bravery with their own blood, at least they did die in battle, and the likes of Monk Grinqin were still alive.