Originally, the battle of Bali Bridge in history was delayed for ten days because of the stirring of Guoxing'a, a big fluttering moth. Monk Greenqin had the intention of sneaking up on Montauban, but he was afraid that the defense line would be empty and let the foreign devils sneak into Beijing, so he honestly watched the ten-day drama with a question mark in his head. Guoxing'a made a big fuss in the Heavenly Palace, Monk Greenqin watched in Zhangjiawan, the coalition army searched the mountains and inspected the sea to catch mosquitoes, and Monk Greenqin was still watching in Zhangjiawan, as if those things had nothing to do with him.

Montauban and Grant are also one and the same, and they have never been able to figure out who the enemy really is. They ran faster than rabbits, and they couldn't even catch a shadow. The level of training, equipment level, tactical style, etc., are obviously not taught by the same master as Monk Greenqin, but except for the Qing army, there is really no other armed nearby. Fortunately, after the missionaries reported the news, this mysterious armed force really disappeared, and there was no more attack, so that the two generals had some snacks. It seems that they have really gone to support Monk Greenqin, and they have been replenished to Monk Greenqin's defense line, and they will not come out to make trouble.

"These guys who hate it to the extreme should be the emperor's Praetorian Guard of the Qing Dynasty, the legendary Eight Banners Forbidden Brigade." France is a country full of romance and love, so the imagination of the French army is also a little better than that of the British, and at the communication meetings of middle and high-ranking officers, there can also be nonsense without any basis.

"There are more than 100,000 in the Eight Banners Forbidden Brigade!" Guo Huaya once talked to Wilson about the Eight Banners, in addition to the great achievements when they entered the customs, of course, they also talked about the number.

"So many?" Everyone exclaimed.

They have not been able to figure out how many people there are in Goxinga, and the coalition forces are very careful not to make simple additions, because they find that Goxinga's troops are extremely mobile and are likely to appear in multiple places in a short period of time. Each force faced no more than 4,000 enemies on its own, and taking into account the suspicious troops that always appeared outside the battlefield, the coalition estimated that the strength of Goxinga should be between 5,000 and 7,000. Although they did not have many troops, they were extremely luxuriously equipped, and perhaps some of them were more advanced than the Coalition Forces, so the Coalition Troops took them very seriously. This kind of elite troops, there are five or six thousand, which is already a headache for the coalition army, if there are hundreds of thousands, there is no need to fight, just pack up and return home.

"Impossible, how can this barbaric and backward country have so many elite troops!" Robert, who fled back with a dozen people, didn't want to believe that China would have so many strong soldiers.

"Unless there is a miracle, China is a place rich in miracles, and the establishment of the Qing Dynasty is a miracle in itself. Two hundred years ago, the Qing Dynasty conquered China, with a population of 100 million, with less than 100,000 troops. These Praetorian Guards are the descendants of the 100,000 people back then, their ancestors were extremely strong, and their emperor also gave them knightly treatment, and these knights are likely to still maintain the strong combat power of their ancestors. "Wei Tuma doesn't know much about military affairs, but he is an expert in Chinese history.

"If there really are 100,000 such troops, why are they so slow to move, and this time only a few thousand. If they attack with all their forces, they will probably drive us back to the sea. Everyone looked at Wittoma with a blank eye, wondering if this was some mysterious law of the East.

"I don't know about that! Although the Janissaries rarely left Beijing, they did occasionally go out to put down rebellions. This time they are mysterious, and it is indeed incomprehensible! "Wittoma only explains what he knows, and he never talks nonsense about what he doesn't know.

"This barbaric and backward country has absolutely no capacity to produce those advanced weapons, and their weapons are definitely imported through merchants. Although they have 100,000 brave soldiers, they are not well equipped and can only arm a few thousand people at present, so they can only send small troops to fight! Grant thought of a possible reason, a strong army needs strong military industry support, and the Qing Dynasty obviously did not have such an arsenal.

"Yes, definitely! They suddenly disappeared, in addition to reinforcing the main force of Seng Lingqin, it is possible that they went to Beijing to replenish ammunition! Everyone suddenly brightened up, and Grant's idea was filled in at once.

The coalition officers were reasonable, but the reality was very different, and Gohinga had more troops than they thought, and there was plenty of ammunition. The reason for the sudden withdrawal was that the coalition forces were afraid that they would pay too much attention to themselves and lose the advantage of semi-stealth, and second, they really couldn't move. In less than six days, Guoxinga organized two major battles, galloping thousands of miles back and forth, and the troops were exhausted, and Guoxinga himself was dizzy. couldn't fight, so naturally he couldn't fight, so Guo Xing'a obediently returned to Gu'an to rest.

No matter how patriotic he is, Guo Xing'a can't rely on a sneak attack behind enemy lines to bring down the coalition army, where is the strength of the people! What really determines the course of the war is the frontal battlefield, and Guo Xing'a can only play a small role in the later stage and affect the frontal battlefield. If Seng Greenqin can withstand it, Guo Xing'a is the best assistant, and if Monk Greenqin still pours a thousand miles, Guo Xing'a can only disgust the coalition army. Whether the Qing Dynasty can escape the humiliating "Beijing Treaty" still depends on the performance of Seng Greenqin, but Guoxinga is not optimistic about Seng Greenqin at all, and this Mongolian prince has not changed much in history.

With the heads of nearly 4,000 foreign devils in hand, Guo Xing'a is not in a hurry to perform, these ugly heads have made Guo Xing'a the most dazzling general in the post-war Qing Dynasty. The army wants to rest, but Guo Xinga doesn't want to be idle, he wants to go to the frontal battlefield to see. First, to see if there is still any possibility of saving Seng Lingqin, and second, to observe the actual situation of the coalition battle. No one can say whether Xing'a will fight the coalition again, after all, not every time you can sneak attack someone, you have to be prepared. So Guo Xing'a took the guard platoon and transferred the elite of the 100 reconnaissance battalions, and secretly ran to Zhangjiawan together to peek at the situation on the battlefield.

"What the fuck are you doing?" After observing the deployment of Monk Greenqin, I felt that my brain was a little messy.

The camp of the superintendent of Seng Lingqin was located in the Guojia Tomb between Tongzhou and Zhangjiawan. More than 17,000 horse infantry under his command were stationed on the line from Zhangjiawan to Bali Bridge, guarding the main road leading to Tongzhou and Guangqumen in Beijing. The deputy commander of the subordinate army led a horse team of 3,000 men to garrison the east and south of Zhangjiawan, and the commander of the department, Cheng Bao, led a green battalion of 4,000 soldiers to defend Tongzhou; Shangshu Ruilin of the Ministry of Rites led 10,000 Jingying and Yiledong Adu, the deputy commander of the capital, led 4,000 horse infantry to defend the Bali Bridge as a backup for the Monk Greenqin army. In addition, there were about 2,000 men in the southwest of Zhangjiawan to prevent the enemy from advancing directly to the west, bypassing the defense line of Seng Lingqin and pointing directly at the Beijing division. The deputy capital commander Shengbao also commanded 5,000 people in the Beijing camp and stationed in Dingfuzhuang, east of Qihuamen, in order to support the monks Lingqin and Ruilin.

Monk Greenqin's deployment, attacking or defending, and the troops with different combat strength were all mixed together, which really made people unable to understand what he wanted to do. Although Zhangjiawan Town was withdrawn, there were still thousands of troops left around for some reason. The main force is behind, and it is definitely not for these people to fight a decisive battle with the coalition army, but Zhangjiawan has given up, what is the use of leaving these people, it is better to shrink the force. Moreover, although the Qing army had a large number of troops, it was scattered everywhere, and it was not able to mobilize effective combat strength at all. In this fortified formation, there is also an offensive that implies a corner-like attack, and Seng Lingqin seems to be counting on the 4,000 Green Battalion to give the coalition army an unexpected surprise.

"The terrain around Zhangjiawan is not conducive to cavalry charging and killing, so the monk king let it out!" Pi Runmin is a person who has been the chief military division, and he knows a little bit about marching formations.

"Then what do you want to do with these people? This does not advance or retreat is a few meanings, and I want to sneak attack! "Guo Xing'a has never understood the ancient military formation.

"The monk king is afraid that he is afraid that the foreign devils will divide his troops to attack the Beijing Division, and he wants to drag them away!" Pi Runmin still has some vision.

"The coalition forces obviously have no intention of dividing their forces and attacking them! There are only so many people in total, how can they divide the troops! "Guo Xing'a is very sure of this, in history, the coalition forces went all the way to Beijing, and now they dare not divide their troops with more of themselves, and the small force is likely to be eaten by Guo Xing'a.

"Dong Weng, this is the Gyeonggi Forbidden Land! The monk king retreated dozens of miles without doing anything, how could he stand the discussion of the government and the opposition. Pi Runmin looked at Guo Xing'a with the expression of a person who came over, in fact, what kind of luring the enemy and the like are just the same, the key is not to compare and can't explain.

"Guo Jiafen! Monk Greenqin wants to fight in Guo's tomb! Thinking about this, Guo Xing'a suddenly became enlightened when he was watching the deployment of Monk Greenqin.

The Qing army's troops seem to be scattered everywhere, but in fact there is a central point, that is, the Guojiafen, where the camp of the superintendent of Seng Lingqin is located. The Qing armies of all divisions were not far from Guojiafen, and they could support Guojiafen from several directions such as northwest, east, and south, or the coalition forces that were fighting with the main force of Seng Lingqin near Guojiafen. If this idea of Seng Lingqin can be realized, even if it is still defeated, the coalition army will definitely not be able to stand it.

In fact, in history, Monk Greenqin is also roughly such a formation, but the so-called strategic concept has never been realized at all, and there is little mention of Guo's tomb in history, and there are only a few strokes, and people remember the fiasco of Bali Bridge. Guo Xing'a only knew about Bali Bridge, and he didn't have any impression of Lianzhou, he thought that this was a new tactic he had come up with to change history and Seng Lingqin!

"Report, my lord, the coalition has moved!" The scouts brought back the movements of the coalition forces.

At noon on September 27, Montauban's loyal follower, Major General Mitchell, commanded the Queen's Dragoon Guards, two Sikh cavalry regiments, two and a half artillery regiments, the 2nd Queen's Guard, the 15th Punjab Regiment, the Marines and the 99th Infantry Regiment, and more than 4,000 British troops and 4,000 French troops, leaving Wulidian, which had been allowed to be stationed at the previous negotiations, and began to march towards Zhangjiawan.

Lying in the grass and looking through a telescope, after the baptism of Napoleonic Wars, African Wars and Indian Wars, the modern army has been very mature in technology and tactics. Although he had just seen the ingenious arrangement of Monk Greenqin as a famous general, Guo Xing'a still sincerely felt that Monk Greenqin was enough to choke, and he was actually choking enough to be in such a strong army.