Chapter 223: We Love the Nest

The French army did not dare to chase too fiercely in the depths alone, so they began to rest in the camp of the superintendent of Seng Lingqin, while the British army had a lot of fun raping and plundering in Zhangjiawan. The depressed Guo Xing'a had more than 100 people, and he didn't take any risks, so he could only scold Ruilin and Shengbao bastards in the wilderness, and wait for the news from the inside line that Zou Degui had bought.

"What's going on, did Monk Grinqin cut those two bastards?" As soon as Changlu, who delivered the news, came back, Guo Xing'a asked directly, and now he has the heart to cut these two waste snacks alive.

"No, after the monk retreated to Xianhuzhuang, he convened the generals to discuss the deployment of defense and protection of Gyeonggi at Bali Bridge, and did not criticize the two adults, but comforted the two with kind words." Changlu replied helplessly.

"I'll fuck it, Monk Greenqin, who didn't plant, how did he bring a soldier? Even if this kind of bastard can't be killed, he has to be dismissed from his post and escorted back to Beijing on the spot, and he is fucking soothed with good words, so he took the wrong medicine! "Ruilin and Shengbao led to the collapse of the overall deployment, and even caused the monk Greenqin to lose even the superintendent camp, which is a capital crime of delaying the military aircraft, Guo Xing'a can't understand why Monk Greenqin didn't clean up the two.

"Dong Weng Shen Yan!" Pi Runmin tugged at Goxinga's sleeve behind his back. Although he was surrounded by his cronies, it was a bit too much for Guo Xing'a to scold all the high-ranking officials in the battle like this. There is no impermeable wall in the world, and if it spreads out one day, it will be a trouble.

"I'm careful of what his uncle said, who are these people! If they toss like this, the heavenly soldiers and generals will have to lose the battle! The furious Guo Xing'a shook off Pi Runmin.

"Dong Weng! The wood is already in the boat, let's think more about what to do in the future! Pi Runmin also lost the optimism he had when he gave Guo Xing'a a pointer, Seng Greenqin was defeated again and again, his teammates were not as good as pigs, and Pi Runmin had no confidence in him.

"Alas! How did Monk Grinqin arrange it? Except for a sigh, Guo Xing'a really had nothing to say. was a little disappointed in Pi Runmin, and secretly remembered that Zou Degui was good, if only he were around.

Zou Degui has always been busy outside, and his main responsibility is intelligence work, and he grasps the intelligence of the coalition army and the Qing army. It is precisely because of his efforts that Guo Xinga can easily see the overall situation. Zou Degui is really a capable person, with the manpower of the miscellaneous affairs department, plus the funds allocated to him by Guo Xing'a, there is no information that he can't get. The coalition side still had to work hard to get some incomplete information through labor coolies, but the Qing army could directly enter the top management. As soon as the military meeting of Monk Lingqin ended, he took the minutes of the meeting and exchanged the dark line of Zou Degui for silver.

"The monk king concentrated 10,000 cavalry as the vanguard and blocked the plain southeast of Xianhuzhuang, while the rest of the infantry camped near the Bali Bridge and a wooden bridge to the west, and built fortifications to block the official road into Beijing. The foreign devils did not occupy Tongzhou, and the monk persuaded Shengbao and Ruilin to return to Tongzhou to hold on, and waited for an opportunity to attack and harass the foreign devils, and restore the situation that the two were horns of each other. Changlu memorized the minutes of the meeting to Guo Xing'a.

"Will those two shits go back?" Guo Xing'a couldn't figure out why these two great gods gave up Tongzhou at that time.

The two tried to return to Tongzhou, but the foreign devils were stationed outside the city, and the two failed to enter the city. The Shengbao department returned to Dingfuzhuang, and the Ruilin department went to Bali Bridge! "This information is not from the inside, but from the scouts.

"What are you doing here?" Guo Xing'a felt a little pain in his brain, and the two gods seemed to be convulsive on the battlefield, and all their actions were incomprehensible.

"Bring me the map!" The original deployment is all messed up, and Goxing Ade takes a look at the map again.

"I don't want the canal, I don't want the city defense, what do you do?" After Guo Xing'a marked the deployment of the Qing army on the map again, he was completely epileptic, and Monk Lingqin was not fighting, he was here to fight luck.

The Qing army on the map gave up favorable conditions such as city defense and canals, and formed a long and narrow defense posture with its back to the canal and the official road, divided into three wings: left, center and right. 30,000 people were distributed on a defensive line more than ten miles long and six or seven miles wide, and the center flank was extremely weak, but the left flank was extremely strong. If the composition of the troops is taken into account, then the strength of the left flank, which is mainly the cavalry of the Monk Lingqin lineage, is even more prominent, while the strength of the middle wing Ruilin is even weaker because it is mainly the Beijing camp. On the contrary, it was Shengbao, who originally only had four thousand green battalions, because it replenished the horse team that was originally scattered all over the country, and its strength became stronger.

"How could Monk Grinqin be so deployed? Shengbao and Ruilin can't recover Tongzhou, and they retreated, so he won't arrange it? Guo Xing'a felt that the level of Monk Lingqin should not be so bad.

"Dong Weng, you haven't read the official letter of the imperial court!" Pi Runmin pointed out a mistake common to both Goxinga and the coalition forces.

Both the high-ranking of the coalition forces and Guoxinga regarded Seng Lingqin as the supreme commander of the Qing army, believing that all Qing troops were commanded by Seng Greenqin, but this was not the case. Monk Lingqin was only the supreme commander of the Tianjin front, and after retreating inland, he was able to command his descendants, and Shengbao and Ruilin did not listen to him at all.

After the defeat of Seng Lingqin in Tianjin, the imperial historian in the court almost scolded his ancestral tomb, and Xianfeng had to deprive him of his honorary title. But it was not only the official who scolded him, who didn't have two enemies, and some political enemies also jumped out to attack the monk Greenqin. In addition, Tianjin has made a disgrace, Xianfeng and Su Shun are not like before, they bet their treasures on Seng Lingqin, and their attitude towards Seng Greenqin has become a little ambiguous. Therefore, the full command of the defense of the Jingshi army has never been granted to Seng Lingqin. The elite spearmen and artillery units of the Eight Banners have not been used because they are not authorized.

In fact, the so-called 30,000 army is three forces that are not subordinate to each other. Seng Lingqin is the prince of Mongolia, Shengbao is the deputy capital of the Eight Banners, and Ruilin is the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and no one can command anyone. Moreover, the two of them have repeatedly defeated Monk Greenqin, frustrated the spirit of the three armies, and they are still a little disdainful, and they don't pee on Monk Greenqin. Because Xianfeng's will is to "do it", and the two are the banner people in command of the flag soldiers, it is difficult for the monks to control the two, and the three families are basically playing their own games.

What is lacking in virtue is that Shengbao and Ruilin have no combat experience, Shengbao was originally a subordinate of Qishan, and Ruilin is a relative of Daoguangye, both of whom were in the process of exterminating the Taiping Army of the Northern Expedition.

Ruilin is a person, Guo Xing'a doesn't know, Shengbao is famous in Jiangnan. In addition to Zhao'an, he will lose the battle, and he has long had the nickname of defeat. The imperial court actually thinks that such a person knows the soldiers, and he is really blind, it seems that as long as he goes to the front line and walks around twice, he can be called a soldier. It is inevitable that Seng Lingqin will be killed by them, and Shengbao can't be expected to recruit the Anlian army!

"The command system is simply chaotic, no one listens to anyone, how can the battle be fought!" Guo Xing'a looked at this situation, and he panicked for Monk Greenqin.

"Dong Weng, you forgot the same, there are still factions!" Pi Runmin admires Guo Xing'a very much now, no matter what Guo Xing'a thought at the time, at least people knew a few months ago that Monk Lingqin must be enough to choke.

"The monk king, Shengbao, and Ruilin are different from civil and military, and they are not divided into sizes, so I am afraid it is difficult to cooperate. Shengbao has a gentleman's face and is not a party, but in private he is closer to Prince Gong, but Ruilin is closer to the military aircraft department, which is open and secret, I am afraid that he also has some knowledge. "Pi Runmin is not good at the tricks in the battle, but he has eaten the situation of the people's hearts very thoroughly, and he has also studied the trend of the general trend.

"There's still a stumbling block! Monk Green is done with calves! The foreign devils are all in the nest, and they have to fight among themselves, oh my God! "Guoxinga is also out of line, and China's modern history seems to be inseparable from the word infighting.

During the Opium War, there was infighting, and Lin Zexu was demolished to clean the platform, and the two crows were still this one. The Sino-French War was fought well, but it was a pity that the court was against it, and the French were cheapened in vain. The First Sino-Japanese War became a war for Li Hongzhang alone, and the people who were close at hand only watched the excitement and did not stretch out their hands, and the Shandong defenders just watched the Beiyang Naval Division finish and refused to help at all. In the imperial court, Weng Tongyi was even more desperate, not to mention the constant troublemaking, and he didn't give Li Hongzhang a tael of silver, and he played the Beiyang Army to death. At the time of the Eight-Nation Alliance, the infighting reached a new height, and the overall situation was that the southeast protected each other, and the provinces declared neutrality and sat back and watched the capital of the country fall. In the end, the Qing army and the Boxers fought against each other, making a lot of trouble, and making all the foreign devils who came to invade look stupid.

"Among the 30,000 troops, there are not a few Beijing camps, and the green camps are also mixed. When these young masters and lambs arrive on the battlefield, I am afraid that they will not succeed enough and lose more than they will lose! "Changlu has added a fire, he himself is from the Eight Banners, and he knows the situation of the Eight Banners too well. Moreover, the garrison of the Eight Banners is a little stronger than that of the Beijing battalion, and the level of the Beijing battalion is even more nonsense.

"Send someone back to inform Uncle Sai that they are in order! I don't want to fight a tough battle, but we are also Chinese soldiers, and we can't watch Monk Greenqin finish up and watch foreign devils rush to Beijing City to harm our people! Beijing is a national treasure inside and outside! If we can't grab it, we can't watch the foreign devils move away, and if we move away, it will no longer be our Chinese! Guo Xing'a gave up the idea of only picking up cheap, and the matter of Zhangjiawan made him very remorseful. Although his own troops have also plagued the people, the scourge of his own people is different from the scourge of outsiders.

"Huh!" Changlu nodded vigorously.

After Seng Lingqin retreated to the Bali Bridge, the British and French troops also stopped and did not take advantage of the victory to pursue. Guoxing'a really made a lot of trouble with them, and a small fight in Zhangjiawan made them run out of ammunition. They had to stop in Tongzhou for two days, waiting for ammunition to be resupplied in the rear, and at the same time waiting for a magic weapon that would allow them to conquer Beijing.

Two days later, supplies finally arrived, along with heavy artillery units from both armies, with the British bringing a full twenty Armstrong guns. Montauban, the commander-in-chief of the coalition army, immediately issued an order to march to Bali Bridge to defeat the main force of the Qing army and capture the city of Beijing.