Chapter 244: The Blood of the Eunuch
There are only more than 20 skilled eunuchs who have the courage to accompany Ren Liang, and the equipment is only the long sword and waist knife that they carry with them, and then there are the two shooting bird guns in the imperial equipment warehouse in the park. No one had ever seen a foreigner, and they didn't know what the foreigner was capable of, but they had only heard the legend of the foreigner defeating Monk Lingqin. With such a nervous mood, everyone hurried to the Zhixian Gate to ambush.
"Regardless of the rest, hit when you see it! We are guarding the palace of the Qing Dynasty and the home of the Long Live Lord, and we must not let these lowly people defile this holy land! Ren Liang used a shot to fire the bird gun, and shouted in a low voice to the brave eunuchs while loading.
The firing bird gun is commonly known as the lightning strike gun in China, and there was one in the Qianlong Dynasty, and the gun is a unique Chinese strange firing smoothbore design. There are three main types of xanthate, white medicine and green medicine. Xanthate is a mixture of potassium chlorate mixed with realgar powder, which was used by the Qing army's royal forbidden army before the First Opium War*. It's just that potassium chlorate mainly relies on imports, and the Qing Dynasty has always been a big importer of potassium chlorate. Many of the earthen firearms in the Taiping Army also used this xanthate as *. Baiyao, on the other hand, is the world's most common product*, and it all depends on imports. The green medicine is Lei Yin, which was completed by the Chinese Ding Shoucun, and can be produced and sold in China. However, a large amount of silver is required as a raw material for Thunder Silver, and the production cost is high, and it is only used by the Royal Guard. Under normal circumstances, the people mostly use yellow medicine to fire the gun, while the official army mostly uses white medicine and green medicine to fire the gun.
Ren Liang and other skilled eunuchs used thunder silver starting pistols, which were originally royal nobles who went to the Old Summer Palace with Xianfeng to have fun, and they used them for hunting. The body of the gun is very beautifully decorated, although it is smoothbore, but it is also extremely accurate, but because it is only used for hunting, the weight of the gun is relatively light and the range is limited.
The French troops outside the garden did not carry heavy weapons, and they did not have an effective means of attacking in the face of the high walls and heavy palace gates of the garden. And they were outside the garden, and not a single shadow of the defenders was found, not even a target to shoot. The platoon commander of the forward, Second Lieutenant Colin, looked at the tall palace wall and scratched his head for a while.
"Platoon commander, we should send a few people to climb over the wall to investigate, such a big palace is so quiet, there must be some conspiracy hidden here!" Captain Bino, a military commander who had fought for many years in Crimea and North Africa, made a proposal to Colin.
"Good suggestion, you stay in command, I'll take someone up to have a look!" Colin is a young man with dreams, he is brave and hungry for honor, so he takes the initiative to be the vanguard of the army, and now he has to go to the park to find out the situation himself.
"I'd better go! You should stay and command the troops! "Bino's experience in combat makes him a better suited task.
"No, dear senior, I'd better go! If something happens, we need your experience! Colin rejected Bino's offer.
Colin and three French soldiers set up a ladder and climbed the palace wall. Inside the wall, Ren Liang and another skilled eunuch were squinting and searching for the traces of the intruders, and suddenly found the head poking out of the wall, and they pulled the trigger without hesitation. Firearms are also one of the training subjects of skilled eunuchs, and the marksmanship of the two of them is also quite good, and they all hit the target. The skilled eunuch who gave Ren Liang a shot hit a Frenchman in the shoulder and knocked him down. Ren Liang's marksmanship was better, and he directly hit Colin's nose, but Colin happened to be sideways at the time, and the bullet pierced his nose, but the injury was not particularly serious. Of course, the once handsome young man can only be a nasless ha-fan in the future.
Looking at Colin and the others who fell from the wall, Bino hurriedly stepped forward to rescue the wounded, and at the same time confirmed that there were indeed ambushes in the park. However, there were four people who climbed over the wall, but there were only two gunshots, indicating that the ambush firepower in the park was very sparse.
In response to this situation, the experienced Bino quickly devised a new combat scheme. Of the 50 soldiers in the forward squad, 20 attacked the palace gate in the front, and 30 climbed over the wall to suppress the Qing troops in the garden. And wait for the opportunity to enter the park and open the palace gate, and then attack inside and outside to eliminate the ambush in the park.
Bino's plan went very smoothly, Ren Liang's two bird guns faced thirty rifled guns, and they were immediately beaten and completely powerless, and after the French opened fire, there was no more gunfire in the park. After the two French soldiers entered the garden, the gate of the palace was quickly opened, and the French army rushed into the Yuanmingyuan, the royal garden of the Qing Dynasty.
Inside the Gate, the French army led by Bino encountered their enemy, not the expected ghost troops, but less than thirty young men in fancy costumes. Binot, who is from France, doesn't understand that these strange clothes in front of him represent the identity of these young people, and at the same time mark their rank, they are eunuchs, private servants of the royal family. But the weapons of the skilled eunuchs really impressed Bino, the firearms just now were gone, they only had swords and waist knives in their hands, and the only long-range weapons were only five strong bows.
"The royal garden of the Qing Dynasty, the forbidden place of the palace, idlers are not allowed to enter!" The skilled eunuchs lined up, and Ren Liang stood in the center with a horizontal sword, shouting at the invaders.
However, the language between the two sides is not comprehensible, there are great differences in culture, and the distress is completely different, so Bino did not make any thoughts, and directly organized his subordinates to shoot the formation and launched a salvo at the skilled eunuchs. At a distance of more than 30 meters, the raid that began without saying a word made the skilled eunuchs suffer a great loss. They once again jumped high and low to dodge the bullets of the foreign guns, but the rifles were far stronger than the pistols, and this time the enemy's fire was more than ten times denser, and most of the skilled eunuchs lost the opportunity to show their superb martial arts in front of the enemy.
Ren Liang dodged the first round of bullets, pressed his body very low, and rushed towards the enemy like an arrow from the string. The French, who had no time to reload, could only use their bayonets to affect the rushing warriors, but Bino raised his pistol. A skilled eunuch who was holding a bow and arrow just now was hit by two bullets in his body, but he was not dead for a while, and with his last strength, he shot an arrow, hitting Bino's left arm, so that the pistol that was originally aimed at Ren Liang was also crooked to the side.
Ren Liang finally rushed into the array of the French army, but he was also besieged by dozens of people, and the French army was covering the retreat of Cao Chang, who had been wounded. Ren Liang, who stabbed three French soldiers with his sword in a row, also had his left leg cut by a bayonet, success was possible, but Chengren was in front of him. Ren Liang, who was determined to die, threw the sword at Bino with all his strength. The sword pierced through Bino's chest, and Beno let out a scream and fell to the ground.
In the face of the approaching French army, Ren Liang danced his fists and feet, and fought with the French army with his bare hands. Although the bayonet fighting skills of the French army are known as invincible in Europe, a dozen soldiers are still beyond the strength of a martial arts master. Ren Liang still has a chance, and he can still rely on his martial arts to drag a few more enemies to hell together.
"Bang!" With a gunshot from behind, a large hole was opened in Ren Liang's chest, and the bullet pierced his chest. A French soldier who had just loaded his bullets, desperately injured his own people, and shot Ren Liang's cold gun in the back.
"Long live Lord, the slave Ren Liang was ordered to take care of the garden, and if he was not in a good position, he could only die with his body! Long live the Lord, Fushou Kangning! Ren Liang, who fell to the ground, silently crossed a sentence in his heart, and then closed his eyes unwillingly.
Follow-up reinforcements from the French army also rushed over, and thousands of French soldiers and hundreds of British soldiers rushed into the undefended Old Summer Palace. However, in the face of the beautiful Old Summer Palace, they have not yet begun to loot, because at the moment their main task is to search for ambushes. The desperate resistance of Ren Liang and other skilled eunuchs convinced them that there were a large number of ambushes hidden in the Old Summer Palace, and it was even possible that the ghost troops were hiding here.
"Wilson, this place is huge, but we haven't found a single ambush in the area we've searched so far, and they don't mean to stop us! It seems that there are only two dozen young warriors here, and there are no other armies! A French lieutenant colonel consulted with his British colleagues.
"We didn't find any signs of the enemy, and there doesn't seem to be anyone else here except the garden's keepers. Those brave young people are only guards here, not real soldiers! Wilson finally had the opportunity to lead his troops into battle, and although it was a search for the Northwest region, it also made Wilson excited, and he finally got rid of the fate of being the head of the miscellaneous army.
"Look what this is, there are not many people here, but there are a lot of treasures!" The lieutenant colonel of the French army grinned and took out a small table clock from behind him, covered with gold skin, and inlaid with all kinds of precious stones.
"Oh God!" Wilson's lips also tugged at a knowing smile.
"Bang!" Suddenly, a gunshot rang out in his ears, and the lieutenant colonel's smiling head was directly blasted into a rotten watermelon, Wilson's smile also froze on his face, and he shrank his neck violently in fright.
"Bang!" Then came a second gunshot, and Wilson's military hat flew into the sky, his hair was much less, and his scalp was a hot pain.
"There is an ambush! Alert! Wilson, who threw himself on the ground and rolled away, shouted at the top of his voice.
......The soldiers began to fire aimlessly in all directions, but the mysterious gunman was completely gone, that is, there was no return fire, no sneak attack or sign of being hit. Like a ghost hiding in a corner, he flashed and then vanished.
"Bang!" While Wilson was looking closely, gunshots rang out again in the yard in the distance, and a guy who was hiding gold cutlery in his arms had been shot in the head from behind.
"Ghost troops! Ask the generals for help! The Ghost Force is in this garden! There were several cold gun incidents one after another, and Wilson, who was in a hurry, instantly felt that he had fallen into the trap of the ghost army again.