Whether it was the Anglo-French troops in Beitang or the monk Lingqin in Dagukou, no one found that since the end of July, there have been some mysterious sentinels near Tianjin. Every day, there will be fast horses under various guises to pass on the latest situation of the battlefield to a small town that is inconspicuous and there are still horses outside the city. The content is detailed enough to make the warring sides embarrassed, and even the fate of the sect old man's family is clearly written, because there is also a person in Gu'an City who is always paying attention to the development of the war situation.

Changlu was training his reconnaissance battalion, and there was a platoon of scouts near Tianjin observing the situation on the battlefield at all times, rotating every three days. And the miscellaneous affairs department personally led by Zou Degui in Tianjin sent back to Gu'an that the information that Baitang Adu could not find was missed. Goxinga in Gu'an now has a God's perspective, he can know everything that is happening two hundred miles away, but he still can't do anything.

After the coalition army landed in Beitang, Guo Xing'a asked for battle three times, but it was rejected by the coefficient, and the imperial court only wanted him to guard Gu'an. After all, Guo Xing'a was an official of the Qing court, and he had not yet pulled the flag to rebel, so although he was worried about the death of the monk Lingqin, he could only stay in Gu'an honestly.

Guo Xing'a fantasized more than once about what the outcome would be if the imperial court agreed to his application, and would he be able to fight side by side with Monk Lingqin? The second battle of Dagu was fought well, which showed that Seng Lingqin was still capable of fighting against the British and French forces, and the rout of Ercrow may have a reason that Guo Xinga did not understand. If Guo Xing'a could drive over with an army of 8,000 now, the situation would definitely be different, there were forts and fortifications, and Guo Xing'a felt that as long as he cooperated with Seng Lingqin, the British and French troops would not even be able to land.

It's a pity that I don't know what the imperial court has planned, and Seng Lingqin's troops are insufficient, but he can't even get a single reinforcement. Tens of thousands of garrisons in Zhili, hundreds of thousands of eight banners in Gyeonggi, all of them are behind the back of Monk Lingqin, which is really incredible. Now is not the time to avoid irritating Yangyi, they have already started fighting, what are you still afraid of?

Xishou has always been the best at figuring out Goxinga's thoughts, so the engineer company recruited a large number of skilled craftsmen and made a huge sand table for Goxinga according to the map mapped back by the reconnaissance battalion. From the coast of Tianjin to the outside of Beijing, everything is like real mountains and real waters, and the huge sand table is the size of three rooms. If it weren't for the secrecy, the sand table was tightly hidden, and it was estimated that everyone who came to visit would be able to step on the threshold of Goxinga.

"Mr. Zeyuan, help me write another note!" Guo Xing'a looked at the sand table of the dismantled coastal fort part, and frowned, ready to fight again.

"My lord, it has been rejected by the imperial court three times, and I am afraid that it will be inappropriate for you to write to ask for war again!" Pi Runmin didn't say anything, and Saishan'a on the side said something to stop him.

Together with the war, Guoxinga set up a wartime staff headquarters, and the two old men, Saishan'a and Xiande, did not move, and joined Pi Runmin, Zheng Qifeng, Zou Degui, Rong Hong, Bo Ritu, Mu Shun, Bi Yuntao, Acton, Chengtai and others. At present, except for Rong Hong and Zheng Qifeng, who are in charge of factory affairs, and Zou Degui, who is in charge of intelligence work, everyone accompanies Guoxing A to meditate every day. In addition to these high-ranking cadres, more than 20 outstanding cadets of the training team have also become members of the General Staff Headquarters, and they deduce the sand table every day and practice their work on one map after another.

"At present, it is most beneficial for us to march into Tianjin, and it is absolutely possible for us to cooperate with Seng Lingqin to block the foreigners at sea, and if we miss this opportunity, we will have to fight a field battle between Tianjin and Beijing!" Guo Xing'a was very anxious, if he didn't go to Seng Greenqin, he would definitely not be able to defend Tianjin, and he didn't want to go to Bali Bridge.

"Adults are too pessimistic! On the third day of the first month of August, Beitang Yangyi sent more than 1,000 troops, including horses and several artillery pieces, to directly attack the Tanggu camp. The monk king saw the British and French troops at the fort, "a chain of guns and cannons, endless". Ordered Dutong Dexing'a to lead the guards Ming'an, Zhuo Ming'a, Tolumbu, Decheng, and the general Chang Shanbao and other officers and soldiers to lead the officers and soldiers of Jilin, Heilongjiang, Zhelimu League, Zhaowuda League, and Guihua City Horse Team to resist head-on. After fighting for a few hours, didn't you intercept the Yiren who had just left the village ten miles away? The monk has been stationed in Tianjin for a long time, and he is familiar with all the surrounding affairs, and his subordinates are also the elite of my Qing Dynasty. Acton read the information sent back a few days ago, trying to convince Guo Xing'a, he also didn't understand why Guo Xing'a always thought so badly about the Yi people, and he even felt that Guo Xing'a was a little timid.

The "third day of the eighth month" mentioned by Acton is the Western calendar rather than the lunar calendar, although the lunar calendar is more in line with the weather conditions, but the memory of the entire war in Goxinga's mind is from the Western era, and it is always exchanged for Guoxinga's fear of chaos. There is no trivial matter on the battlefield, and a misremembered day may cause unimaginable losses, and Guo Xing'a has suffered this loss before, so of course he can't take it lightly.

"Send someone to ask Changlu to call the soldiers who recorded the battle situation on that day, what he wrote in the original text is how many hours it lasted, how many hours it was fought or what the situation is, you have to make it clear!" This was a battle that Guo Xing'a had no impression of at all, and Guo Xing's mind seemed to be over as soon as the British and French troops landed in Tianjin in Beitang, and what was going on in this battle. If the Qing army and horse team could really easily defeat the British and French forces, how could Baliqiao be defeated so badly, Guo Xing'a didn't know the situation at all.

Goxinga is also experienced in battle now, and his troops should be in a similar situation to the British army before, and he knows that if the British army suddenly encounters a large-scale cavalry raid, Seng Lingqin still has a chance to win. Guoxing Aneng crisscrossed the south of the Yangtze River to take advantage of the Taiping Army's lack of cavalry, and the second battalion in Shandong was almost wiped out because of the cavalry. If it is infantry, with the training level of the Twist Army, which is not much stronger than the bandits, the second battalion will definitely be able to retreat in its entirety.

"It has been raining heavily in the area of Tianjin for ten days, and the two armies cannot fight, and it is also raining continuously in our vicinity. Even if the imperial court approves your invitation, it will take a few days for us to rush over. Bo Ritu also felt that Guoxinga was a little unfounded, and the current weather was indeed not suitable for the army to be pulled.

"Rain!" Guo Xing'a muttered to himself, autumn in the north is rainy, but it is not common for it to rain for more than ten days in a row. It seems that the situation in Tianjin has not changed for a long time, and it is also because of the rain.

The main force of Seng Lingqin's subordinates was his Mongolian horse team, and the ground was muddy in the rain, and the war horses could not run. The composite bow of the Qing Dynasty will also have a weak bowstring due to the humid weather, and it cannot be used at all, and the arquebus is completely out of service. Although the Anglo-French army did not rely on bows and arrows and horses, their front-loading guns were also unable to be used continuously in the rain, and the barrels would get wet* if they were wet. As for the Goxing Asuo Division, which uses metal ammunition, except for the war horses and artillery, which will be affected a little, rifles and so on can be used normally.

If the imperial court now agrees to Goxinga's participation in the war, although it is an exaggeration to completely annihilate the enemy who has landed, it is absolutely possible to beat the British and French forces violently. Night battles, extreme weather operations, this relatively unpopular combat environment, is what Guoxing'a is best at, after all, Guoxing's army-building ideas are inherited from the people's army. It's a pity that the imperial court not only did not allow Guo Xing'a to participate in the war, but also strictly ordered him not to leave the defensive ground without permission.

Guo Xinga could only sit at home and wait for the intelligence of the reconnaissance battalion, and in fact, it was very taboo to investigate this matter. To put it mildly, Guoxing'a is a private peeping into the military's affairs, and at the worst, it is also overstepping its authority and arbitrariness. Fortunately, Zou Degui had a good command and dispatch, not only did none of the people in the miscellaneous affairs section be exposed, but even the affairs of the reconnaissance battalion were properly arranged. If it was really for Hengfu, the governor of Zhili, to detain two Guoxing'a people and go to Xianfeng to sue Guoxing'a, it would really be enough for Guoxing'a to drink a pot.

Soon, Changlu also rushed over with the soldiers who saw Du Xing'a repelling the coalition army, and there were vague and inexhaustible places in the report, and Changlu felt a little embarrassed. And he read the report, he didn't think there was anything wrong, and he didn't know why Guo Xing'a suddenly went crazy.

"Have you seen with your own eyes that Du Xing'a's men and horses repelled the Yangyi? How they fought and for how long! After a brief salute, Goxinga asked the soldier directly.

"If you go back to your lordship, I saw the two armies fighting with my own eyes, and it took about a little more than two hours to fight, as for how it was fought, I won't say!" The scout is not a banner man, and it is the first time that he has spoken to Guo Xing'a so closely, so he is inevitably a little apprehensive. And he didn't feel comfortable with a large number of high-ranking officials calling himself me, he wanted to call himself a villain or a small one, but he didn't dare to mess with the title rules set by Guo Xing'a.

"Are the two armies fighting against each other, or are they a surprise attack on the march?" Changlu wanted to scold the soldiers, but Guo Xing'a raised his hand to stop him, and Guo Xing'a began to ask little by little.

"Yangyi is marching, and our army is a horse team, and it was killed suddenly." In addition to his own lineage, Guo Xing'a has never regarded other Qing troops as our army, and at best they are friendly troops. But in the eyes of the soldiers, everyone is a soldier of the Qing Dynasty, and naturally our army.

"Did the horse team storm the marching ranks of the Yiren? What weapons did they use, and what were the results? "If the Qing army is a coalition army that retreats by surprise attack, everything is reasonable.

"The Yiren had left Beitang for ten miles at that time, but it was not far, and our horse team did not charge. Just circled around the ranks of the Yi people, shooting the Yi people with bows and arrows and muskets, and the Yi people also returned fire with muskets. The horse team has been running in circles, and we haven't seen the results clearly, so the Yiren should have killed and injured a few! "Scouts can't get too close, so some details are still unclear, so I can only give a rough idea.

"How's the damage over there?" Guo Xing'a turned his head to Pi Runmin and asked, these detailed numbers scouts can't see clearly, but Zou Degui has information sent back.

"Three people were injured, several war horses, and the horse and step bandits were all killed and wounded!" Pi Runmin has a good memory, and retold the original text of the monk Lingqin who was handed back by Zou Degui.

"It's just a temptation! If it doesn't rain, Tianjin will be lost! Guo Xing'a let out a long sigh, and the hope for Monk Grinqin that had just been ignited was extinguished again.

There were already more than 18,000 British and French troops in Beitang, and more than 20,000 including laborers, so an attack of 1,000 men must have been a temptation. Moreover, after several hours of fighting, only three people were injured in total, and the so-called "all bandits and horses were killed and injured" must be a cliché.

Guo Xing'a quickly made up the actual situation, the British and French troops sent a thousand people out to explore the way, and Monk Greenqin sent some people to the past. Then the two sides were far apart, and after firing their guns for a while, the coalition forces made sure that the Qing army was prepared and the road was almost visible, so they went home to wash and sleep. Monk Greenqin drove the foreigners back, which can be regarded as completing the task, and the Qing army thwarted an attack by the coalition army.

"Everyone in the staff department worked overtime to draw up several sets of combat plans, don't be lucky, and plan for the worst." Guo Xing'a looked at the sand table worriedly, he had to go to the Bali Bridge.

The monk Lingqin in Dagukou was not happy, and the big slap in Beitang made him a little painful. And although it was wartime, the imperial historian in the court did not spare him, if it wasn't for the fact that he couldn't change generals on the spot, it was difficult to say whether he could keep the title of prince.