During the coup d'état, Shengbao has been very active, but Yixin really doesn't look down on him, so when the coup happened, Shengbao was still fooling around in the Guantao area on the border between Zhili and Shandong. However, because Cixi's method of dealing with Guoxinga not only did not work, but also completely forced Guoxinga to rebel, Yixin had to ask the victory commander to return to Beijing to resist Guoxinga. Although he can't beat Guo Xing'a even if he wins and survives, it's good to pull him back to block the bullets!

Shengbao has always been under the remote control of Yi Xin, and he has never shown his face in front of the new master, of course, this time he is very positive. As soon as there was an accident in early October, Shengbao began to run to Beijing like a dog in early October. However, Guantao is nearly 700 miles away from Beijing, and Shengbao has a large army, so it is naturally impossible to fly back. Moreover, his troops are really enough, the composition is too complicated, and he himself is not very fair in the distribution of materials, which naturally leads to a very slow movement speed.

The famous generals of the late Qing Dynasty, such as Zeng Guofan, Zeng Guoquan, Zuo Zongtang, Li Hongzhang and others, were able to gain a firm foothold and be relied on by the imperial court because they had the Hunan, Huai, Chu and other armies they had trained. Monk Greenqin was able to become the last Great Wall of the Qing Dynasty because he was able to instigate the cavalry of the Mengdong Three Leagues, and he was able to move as freely as his own private soldiers. Katsubo has no such advantages at all, and he is the only commander who has ruled the enemy with a guest army. Although this also shows Katsubo's ability to win people's hearts, it is not easy to drive these miscellaneous guys.

After all, it is not a descendant who he brought up single-handedly, and Shengbao can't say anything about these troops at all, and everything has to be discussed. Therefore, Shengbao's troops cleaned up the small-scale bandits and fought a tailwind battle, but once they encountered a strong enemy, these guys did not contribute 100 percent. Before the defeat of Shengbao, the war was repeatedly lost, and it was these guys who refused to contribute to the harm.

Originally, the strongest troops under Shengbao's command were the defeated Mongol troops he took advantage of the chaos after the defeat of Monk Lingqin Bali Bridge, and then there were some of the elite of the Beijing camp that he brought back from Bali Bridge. But when Xianfeng was alive, he assigned the Mongolian cavalry to Seng Lingqin again, and when Shengbao left Beijing, Yixin left the Beijing camp in Beijing. Therefore, at present, under the command of Shengbao, the first class is the soldiers and horses of the Qinwang in various places that he detained when he was in Beijing, mainly the strongest Qingzhou soldiers and Ganshan soldiers in the green battalion. The second class is the Tianjin, Zhengding, and Xuanhua town standards that Shengbao withheld from him when Hengfu was the governor of Zhili, as well as the supervision standards of some of the governors of Zhili. Although they are also green battalions, they are all elites drawn from all over the country, although they are a little worse than the Ganshan green battalion, but these people have seen foreign devils, and they can be regarded as having seen the market. The third class is the Eight Banners of the Old Summer Palace Protector, the Flag Soldiers outside the Guan, and the Jingying Flag Soldiers that he forced to come. The Yuanmingyuan Protector and the Beijing Banner are both forbidden troops of the Son of Heaven, not only can they give Shengbao a façade, but the equipment is also very good, and the equipment of the flag soldiers outside the gate is a little worse, but the combat effectiveness is strong, and it is not lost to the elite of the Ganshan Green Battalion at all. The fourth class is the border army originally stationed at Gubeikou, and these people's equipment and combat effectiveness are worse.

The 10,000 people in the fourth class under Shengbao actually came from ten different systems. Although it has become a mess, these soldiers are still the root of Shengbao, because his other subordinates are even more chaotic than these people, and they are not of the same mind as him. There are about 30,000 people in the Shengbao Department, except for the 10,000 people from the four and ten groups, the rest are the bandits recruited by Shengbao. Those who can be called by name include Song Jingshi, Liu Zhankao, Wang Laifeng and other several groups of people, and if they can't be named, there are even more small groups of hundreds of people.

Yi Xin did not let Shengbao directly participate in the coup, in addition to Shengbao's arrogance and limited ability, the most important thing is that his group of people is too unreliable. But at the moment, Guoxing is aggressive, and something is better than nothing, so he let Shengbao Xingye rush back to Beijing Qinwang.

Shengbao claimed to have traveled day and night, and it took eight days to reach Gaoyang, but along the way, the excerpt who sued him had already arrived in Beijing. As soon as Shengbao's 30,000 army moved, it was as if 30,000 bandits had descended the mountain, and the place they passed through was like a locust crossing the border, and there was not even a whole brick left. Not to mention the gold and silver, the big girl and the little daughter-in-law, these bastards even grab the children's candy cubes, and the old ladies over fifty years old. In this way, he committed adultery and plundered, and he could march nearly sixty miles a day, which can be regarded as a victory and a good way to unify the army.

However, Yixin is not in a hurry now, because of the heavy rain, Guo Xing'a did not disturb the enthronement ceremony of the little emperor, and honestly stayed in Tongzhou. It seems that Guo Xing'a has no intention of marching quickly because the roads are slippery after the rain, and he still has to reorganize the army of Wenxiang and Ruilin in Tongzhou, so he will not attack Beijing for three to five days. Shengbaodu will soon go to Xiongxian, although he has not yet made contact with Guoxinga, but he can also threaten Guoxinga. After all, Shengbao's position is just behind Guo Xing'a, and he can form a front and back attack situation against Guo Xing'a. Yi Xin thought that the back was Shengbao, but the front was not the strength of the Beijing Division, and he didn't defend the city yet! How is it possible to strike. This so-called former refers to the Harukoo of Rehe. Chunyou also gathered all the soldiers and horses of Rehe, and he was going south to King Qin in the near future, so he could cooperate with Shengbao.

Shengbao ran for another two days, and finally reached Yongqing on October 11, and his vanguard finally made contact with the rearguard troops of the Gu'an army. Katsuho triumphantly gave the court a twist, claiming that he had begun to attack the Gu'an City, the base of the Gu'an army, and defeated the remaining troops of the Gu'an army several times. At present, Bi Yuntao's subordinate of the remaining troops of the Gu'an Army has been taken by his military might, and he is cowering in the camp and does not dare to engage in battle. He is urging his subordinates to move forward bravely, striving to break through the defense line of the Gu'an army as soon as possible, and take Gu'an to cut off the back road of Guoxing'a.

Shengbao's recital is very uplifting, but from the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces, Prince Gong Yixin, to the Manchu Dynasty, no one believes it, and everyone can come up with sufficient evidence to prove that Shengbao is talking nonsense. Shengbao is really a plus-size waste snack, and he can't even brag about it. Shengbao's own twists and turns said that he fought bloody battles with the remaining troops of the Gu'an Army on the front line of Yongqing for days, so how did he attack Gu'an City, Gu'an and Yongqing are separated by more than 50 miles! As soon as Guo Xing'a made a move, he destroyed the 30,000 army of Ruilin and Wenxiang, and you can defeat the remaining troops of the Gu'an Army in Shengbao? Now that you have defeated others, what about your beheading? What about your seizures? The most outrageous thing is that Katsubo didn't even figure out who the enemy was. Before Wen Yu, the governor of Zhili, turned against the water, he had reported to the imperial court on the situation of the Gu'an army, the garrison regiment of Fengsheng A was stationed in Gu'an, the infantry regiment of Bi Yuntao was stationed on the front line of Wuqing, and the temporary infantry regiment of Acton was stationed on the front line of Yongqing. You won the fierce battle in Yongqing, how could you get Bi Yuntao who was far away in Wuqing. Moreover, Shengbao's recital directly called the name of the general of the Gu'an Army, and did not mention the number of the Gu'an Army at all, indicating that he didn't even understand the establishment of the Gu'an Army.

Shengbao's recital really has a little dry material, he cited a large list of names, such as Han Guangtu, Wang Enming, Zhang Musheng, Liu Fuyong, etc., Shengbao said that this is the Gu'an Army officers at all levels that he killed. He is also very smart, these so-called Gu'an Army officers are below the company level, not a battalion level. But Sheng Bao obviously didn't know that Xianfeng had given Guoxing'a a reward, and all the officers above the platoon level in the Gu'an Army had grades, including these troops formed by Guoxing'a, even if they were platoon commanders, they were from the eighth grade. Therefore, all the officers above the platoon level in the Gu'an Army have a record in the imperial court officials, and there are no such people as Shengbao said.

And the list compiled by Shengbao can be seen at a glance as fake. Shengbao took it for granted that the flag people accounted for the majority of the senior officers of the Gu'an Army, and the Han people and banner people were about the same among the middle-level officers, so there must be more Han people among the junior officers, but in fact, the middle and lower officers of the Gu'an Army were all banner people and Han people, almost half and half. And Guoxing'a is very funny, most of the junior officers of the Gu'an Army's old ace units such as the direct subordinate troops, the first infantry regiment, and the first cavalry regiment are Han Chinese, while the junior officers of the new units such as the light cavalry regiment and the second infantry regiment are all banner people. The two regiments with provisional numbers are no longer new, and the middle and lower-level officers must all be banner people, and they must also be flag men from Gu'an, and they will definitely not be Han Chinese.

For various reasons, Shengbao's twists and turns were 100% made up by himself. And when he made up this recital, it is estimated that he did not even inquire into the opponent's military situation, and completely relied on his own fantasy. The more Yi Xin looked at this setback, the more she wanted to scold Shengbao, but in the current environment, it was not easy to do too much. While Yi Xin was debating how to phrase it, British Minister Bruce sent the Legation Counsellor Wittoma over.

Wei Tuoma also had to come, Guo Xing'a is now fighting with the Qing court, other countries can still watch the excitement, the British Empire can't sit still, especially those of them who participated in the signing of the secret treaty with Guo Xing'a. The 5 million arms order that Guo Xing'a proposed at the beginning and the matter of borrowing troops to help suppress it have basically been completed. Of course, there is a small misunderstanding in the 5 million arms order, Guo Xing'a originally said 5 million meant that the central government procured 5 million, but the British are affordable, as long as China buys the full amount. Because of the agreed relationship with Guoxing'a, Britain took the lead in lifting the arms embargo on China, and Li Hongzhang, Zuo Zongtang, and Zeng Guofan in Jiangnan all took out their family funds to smash them, and the imperial court also bought a batch of Shenji Battalion, and they had already bought enough five million.

Goxinga did everything he had promised, and the British had to fulfill it. The people sent to England by Goxinga are now studying in various colleges and universities, and the British have also prepared a medium fleet consisting of two steam battleships, three steam cruisers, five fourth-class steam warships (equivalent to destroyers), and three scissor sail supply ships, which are ready to return home with the cadets in a year and a half. Now that Guoxing'a and the imperial court are fighting, how can their secret covenant be implemented!

Originally, if Guo Xing'a had won, he would naturally have fulfilled the contract very well, but if Guo Xing'a had lost, their British would have been saved. But there was another part of their contract, which was the arms that Gohinga had provided to the British Empire. The material list and drawings were given to the British, but only 60 percent of the finished products were now delivered, and the machines and money of the British were all given to Goxinga. If Guo Xing'a is finished, who will they find for the rest of the guns. Originally, it was cost-effective for the British to exchange a few thousand guns for a medium-sized fleet, after all, if Goxinga couldn't give guns, their fleet didn't have to give them, but the British were in a hurry to use these guns.

After repairing the Qing Dynasty, the British wanted to go to Japan next door to practice their hands, because China had advanced technology and high-quality Schneider rifles provided by Guoxinga, so the British troops from India did not carry guns this time, and they were waiting to go to China to replace them with new guns! As a result, the British army in India is about to arrive, but the Chinese side is fighting, and the infantry has no guns, so what to fight! So this time Wei Tuoma came over, just to put pressure on Yi Xin, no matter how desperate Yi Xin wants to fight with Guo Xing'a, now there must be a ceasefire. At the very least, the communication route from Gu'an to Tianjin must be restored, so that Guoxinga can hand over the goods to the British army.

"The Governor of Zhili is now standing on the side of Guoxing'a, the road between Tianjin and Gu'an is smooth, you just go to Guoxing'a! He's in Tongzhou, and you can easily find him! After Yi Xin learned about Wei Tuma's intention, he kicked the pressure on Goxinga. At the same time, he was also afraid for a while, although he knew that Guo Xing'a and foreign devils colluded, but he didn't expect the collusion to be so deep!