Tan Shaoguang is now in a dilemma, setting up a machine gun to shoot at the people, he can't be ruthless no matter what, but he can't explain to Guo Xing'a if he lets the people mess around. After the reinforcements arrived, the original defensive line was extended a lot, and the cavalry was even more effective in driving out the rioters in the park. But it's still the same problem, the army is defended by fire blockade, and if the people are blocked by fire, the people can still find all kinds of gaps, and then rush into the garden like a swarm.

The Anglo-French alliance will definitely not be able to find trouble in the short term, and the current enemy of Guoxinga will become a chaotic people. These people have limited attack power, but their destructive power is extremely staggering, and it takes less than a quarter of an hour to turn a room into four walls, and there will not be a single window paper left. If they were not driven out of the Old Summer Palace as soon as possible, Guo Xing'a would definitely be questioned by the imperial court in the future. was robbed by the British and French forces, which can also be explained as the unfavorable war, and was robbed by these chaotic people, Guo Xinga is ill-intentioned. The adults of the imperial court would never have imagined the power of these chaotic people.

Guo Xing'a moved the temporary headquarters to Haiyan Hall in Changchun Garden, firstly, to supervise the command in person, and secondly, to protect this Western-style building. The Western-style buildings of the Old Summer Palace are concentrated on the northwest side of the Changchun Garden, which can be said to bear the brunt of the rebellion, and there are not only new things that the people have not seen before, but also a large number of copper ornaments. Copper can be directly spent as money, and the chaotic people naturally have a deeper obsession with copper, and there are not a few people who threw porcelain from the official kiln of the Northern Song Dynasty to grab copper. With limited troops, Goxinga could not send troops to protect this place, so he had to move in and let his guards take care of these Western-style buildings.

"My lord, the only way to do this is to kill some of the rebellious people with heavy hands, and the others will flee on their own!" Bi Yuntao and others were also recruited back by Guoxing, and everyone consulted the countermeasures together, Bi Yuntao chose to solve the problem by killing people as always.

"Dong Weng, Bi Tuanzuo's words are indeed the best way at the moment, but there is a hidden danger in the future." Pi Runmin didn't want to offend people, but he found that Guo Xing'a was obviously moved by Bi Yuntao's suggestion, and he had to stop it.

"The government and the opposition will say that I am unkind and cruel! Is that right? "Guo Xing Ake has watched all kinds of Qing court dramas that have been twisted to a certain extent, and he immediately reacted to Pi Runmin's meaning.

"Dong Weng Wise!" Pi Runmin prefers Guoxinga to Huiyang, Huiyang has to explain everything, and Guoxinga is a little thorough.

"Alas! It's always easy to talk about cool words! No one will come to see that tens of thousands of rebels are in trouble, they will only say that three or five officials can blow people away, but I Guo Wu is very aggressive. It's definitely not that the chaotic people can't get rid of it, but that I'm cruel and don't have a heart of mercy, it's my habit of killing, and I deliberately want to kill people for fun. "Guo Xing'a really wants to rebel now, this minister is not good! It's too hard to do something.

"Let's ask all departments to exercise restraint and try to hurt as few lives as possible!" Tan Shaoguang is rarely a little naïve.

"The chaos is too scattered, although it is a matter of killing dozens of people to establish a prestige, but the scale is too large. Kill a few in a group of rebels, how many chaotic people! If you do it on a large scale, I'm afraid that one or two thousand lives won't be able to stop it! Goxinga's eyes lit up for a moment, then quickly darkened again, and he shook his head.

"And the front-line officers and soldiers are not easy to make restraint requirements, my lord here requires less injuries, and when you get to the regiment, you can still have the same appearance, and when you get to the battalion, I am afraid that you will not be allowed to hurt people's lives, and you may not be allowed to hurt people in the company. Once the soldiers of our army are timid, they may give the rebellious people the impression that the officers and men can be bullied, and they are afraid that there will be other troubles. "Zou Degui is not beating Tan Shaoguang's broken drum, but he must not do anything to tie the hands and feet of soldiers.

"In fact, there is no difference between killing ten and killing a hundred, as long as we kill people, it will inevitably be known to the government and the opposition in the future, and there are many banner people in the chaos." Guo Xing'a is also distressed, and the poor Qiding is also a member of the ruling class, although they can't eat themselves, but they have a lot of relatives from the mountains and seas. It's not okay to let them help, but give them an excuse to attack others, and these big people are still happy to accept it. There are not many people who have offended Guoxing'a, but there are a large number of people in the Ming and Qing dynasties who specialize in scolding people.

"In the nearby villages such as Liulangzhuang, Lanqiying, Huangqizhai and so on, ninety percent of the banner people have come. Once the fight really starts, these people will definitely suffer heavy casualties. At that time, I am afraid that the government and the opposition, inside and outside the Eight Banners, Dong Weng will be scolded miserably. Moreover, Dong Weng relied on the military exploits of Jiangnan and Texas to stand out for refugees, and the people accumulated in the people are afraid that they will be ruined. "Pi Runmin's biggest concern is actually popularity, the imperial court will definitely not deal with Guoxinga because of this matter, Xianfeng will only thank Guoxinga.

"Yes! When it is not clear at what time, the thousand people refer to die without disease. Who would want to know what the situation is now, and everyone will only have the impression that I slaughtered the people. "Guoxinga looked up to the sky and sighed!

People are blind followers and have an instinct to sympathize with the vulnerable. The people don't need to know what happened, as long as they know the two sides of the matter, one is Guoxinga with heavy troops, and the other is the common people who can't eat, and the final result is that Guoxinga killed many people, then it must be that Guoxinga is wrong. They don't need to understand under what circumstances Guo Xinga ordered the killing, and they don't need to know what caused the conflict between the two sides, and they can be paranoid that Guo Xing'a is extremely evil. Even though Goxinga had a good reputation before, a sentence that people will always change, can explain everything.

"The effect of the cavalry driving people is good, but these people come and come, and they come and go, and they always don't finish. If you can keep them out of the garden for a while, let the cavalry drive them away, and finally the people will gather and scare them again, it will be easy to do! "Mu Shun's heavy cavalry battalion is the main force against the rebels at the moment, and he himself went to command it for a while.

"It's an idea, how can you keep them out for a while!" Guo Xing'a felt that although Mu Shun's method had a difficult premise, it was also a little better than Bi Yuntao's idea of setting up a machine gun and making a sudden attack.

"But there are still a great number of people in the garden! Do you want to get them out first? "Saishana feels that Mushun's method requires too many prerequisites, and it is not so easy to do.

"Don't worry about the people in the garden first, solve the big boss outside first, and without the people outside to follow the gang of people, this little mouse in the garden can be solved with a little effort." Guoxing is very clear that his pressure mainly comes from the steady stream of chaotic people outside, and only a small part of those who have actually entered the garden are now left.

The idea is smooth, but everyone has no good way. How can we keep out tens of thousands of people who have lost their minds? If you follow the method of finding Bi Yuntao, it is okay to directly use machine guns and cannons, but it will be difficult to block them without hurting people's lives. The Gu'an army doesn't have the strength to pull the wall, so it can't stop these people! Unless there are thorns on the palace walls of the Old Summer Palace, so that these guys can't touch it.

"My lord, I have a solution, but this idea may be a little spoiled!" Tan Shaoguang really thought of a way, but he was too embarrassed to say it. One is because he is responsible for this trouble, and the other is that his idea is a bit ruthless, others say that it is nothing, Tan Shaoguang is a little suspicious of revenge against the Qing royal family when he says it, after all, he was originally from the Taiping Army.

"If you're not rancid, let's talk about it first, and let's study it!" Goxinga urged.

"My lord, let's set fire! The rebels mainly rushed into the garden from the front line of the Lion Forest, Ruyuan, Wanhua Array, and Beiyuan Mountain Village, and our troops were insufficient, and we were afraid that we would not be able to do a large-scale encirclement. But we can set fire to this line, set fire to some of the eunuchs' dwellings, storehouses and the like, separate the rebels with a wall of fire, and then expel them with cavalry, which may be effective. The more Tan Shaoguang spoke, the quieter his voice became, and he himself felt that this idea was a little unreliable, and his confidence became weaker and weaker.

"Burn down the Old Summer Palace!" Guo Xing'a was a little sensitive to the matter of setting fire to the Old Summer Palace, and he was even more hesitant to set fire to it himself.

"This is too dangerous! In case the fire gets out of control and threatens the main hall of a certain palace, it will be troublesome. Once there is a mistake, the sin of burning down the palace is greater than killing the people! This is a great sin of disrespect! "Xiande and Saishana were the first to come out to object, how could this palace be burned, arson in the emperor's house is a big crime to exterminate the clan.

"Oops! We are an emergency response in wartime, and we are not deliberately setting fires in peacetime, two different things! Xiande and Saishan'a's words made Guo Xing'a very uncomfortable and a little rebellious. Human life is not as good as the emperor's two broken houses, this is too stupid! Everything is disrespectful, and in the end it is all respect, and what is the use of defeating the battle.

"Dig some arson ditches before setting fires, don't let the fire expand, let those eunuchs prepare some fire-fighting emergency things, don't have any accidents!" Guo Xing'a turned his head and said a few words to Tan Shaoguang.

"Your Excellency!" Xiande and the others could hardly believe their ears, and Guo Xing'a not only agreed to the idea of arson, but also began to arrange specific measures to set fire.

"It's just a matter of burning a few houses, what's the big deal, we're working hard here, and the chaos is no less than burning it in a while. Don't delay any longer, it's decided, the first battalion of the cavalry regiment is responsible for igniting the fire, and the other troops are all on horseback, and after isolating the rebels from the park, they will be expelled immediately! The two regiments of infantry entering the park, after the fire broke out, began to check the rioters in the park. If there is a situation of repeated entanglement, you can find some executions that take the lead, but you must first declare the crime, and don't leave people with the excuse of killing people at will! Xiande and Saishana completely aroused Guoxinga's rebellious heart, and Guoxinga resolutely gave the order to set fire to expel the refugees.

Guo Xing'a's order was quickly implemented, and smoke began to rise from the northwest side of the Old Summer Palace, and the rioters in the park were systematically purged. A large number of cavalry clashed back and forth outside the plain, driving away the rebels who still wanted to get some benefits, but some things still exceeded Guoxinga's expectations, and the fireworks in the Old Summer Palace were lit for three days and three nights. Although this time it was Guo Xing'a who sent people to refill the wood into the fire, and did not damage any of the main building, Prince Gong Yixin did not know, all he saw was billowing smoke.