A soldier with golden curly hair wiped the sweat from his face, bypassed several groups of British soldiers lying on his stomach, and saluted Ergin, who was sitting in the crowd with a gloomy face: "Lord Earl, those Chinese have been defeated. ”

Listening to the sound of gongs in his ears, Ergin was overwhelmed, "These Chinese like flies, who have been sticking to our army, are thinking of biting a big piece of meat here to please the executioner in Beijing," Ergin gritted his teeth, thinking of the various traps on the way to retreat, and became more and more annoyed. "There's absolutely no way they'll succeed, they'll be on the road in five minutes!"

The herald prayed with a wail: "Lord Earl, let everyone rest more, we haven't eaten for a morning, those shameless Chinese have been harassing us last night, God, everyone has hardly slept!" ”

"Can't rest," Ergin was an idiot-like herald, thinking that he must replace this subordinate who dared to question his orders in a safe place, it was too much to say, "You haven't noticed that the regular army of the Chinese is getting less and less?" The herald nodded in agreement, "That means they're already after the poor lone soldiers, or they don't have enough troops!" Idiot! Erjin shouted sharply, "If we take advantage of the opportunity for them to capture the gold coins that can move in the Chinese and return to Tongzhou City, then we will stay in this ominous place forever!" My corporal! Hurry, hurry back to Tongzhou, we will have a good rest in Tongzhou, hold that majestic city, and wait for the support of the Far Eastern Fleet, I don't believe it," Erjin still felt that he couldn't lose at this time, "I don't believe that we can't turn defeat into victory!" Come on! ”

The group dragged their tired bodies and set off, Elgin's assertion was indeed correct, and on the way, sure enough, the originally extremely common squad of cavalry were gone, only some Chinese who were all peasant equipment in the British to harass the large army, and all the vile and shameless tricks were carried out, and Ergin never knew that in the daily novels of the Chinese there would be many schemes that would teach people how to use them on the enemy, poisoning the water in the river well, casting poisonous smoke, firing arrows, digging traps - those traps did not need to be dug again at all, The previous digging can be used to cover up, beating gongs and drums all the time to disturb the British army, Ergin because of the lack of gunpowder, so strictly ordered the British troops not to shoot casually, so that the Chinese are even more unscrupulous, and finally dare to stand on the official road and watch the British troops in red uniforms, like a trickster. Many British soldiers were injured and couldn't walk, hungry and tired, stopped in place and refused to move forward, giving up their glory as British soldiers, Ergin did not pull them, but took the British troops who could still walk to Tongzhou, the soldiers who fell at the end of the line turned their heads and a group of Chinese cheered and swarmed up to drown those British soldiers who had fallen behind, and several groups of people had questions about the ownership of prisoners and small-scale armed fights. The British soldiers were suddenly sad and sad, and hurriedly gritted their teeth to keep up with Count Elgin, who was still riding a horse.

Almost to the ground in Tongzhou, the harassment of the crowd finally a little less, and then after all, all the harassment troops were lost, Ergin breathed a sigh of relief, these few hours are really difficult, Ergin with a small number of cavalry and a group of musketeers to Tongzhou City, the state city is as desolate and cold as when he left, the city gate is wide open, there are not a few figures, Ergin then let go of his heart, at this time, he feels that only the strong and thick city wall can give himself a little sense of security, however, Ergin has been afraid of the well rope for ten years, Although he didn't know this proverb, he thought it would be better to be cautious, a large group of people stood in front of the city gate, and Erjin pointed to a team to enter Tongzhou City to check, "Are the countrymen ambushing inside!" ”

As soon as the squad entered the gate of Tongzhou, they heard crackling muskets and cannons, and the sound of fighting, Erjin was shocked, cold sweat involuntarily flowed down, there was a shout on the city gate, many Chinese soldiers with bows and arrows appeared on the city wall, and a huge banner was erected, the word Ergin on it did not know, and he did not know the general wearing armor under it, but he knew a little, and the idea of wanting to defend Tongzhou City and play tug-of-war with the Chinese was shattered.

Standing on the city gate, the face of the monk Grinqin sank like water, I didn't expect the British after the defeat to be so alert, actually sent a team to explore the city first, but called their own ambush knife used to kill chickens, Monk Grinqin waved his hand, the soldiers on the city tower pulled the bowstring, feather arrows poured down like a torrential rain, the city tower underground mourning, Monk Grinqin finally had a little happiness in his eyes, "The whole army attacked, this king wants to destroy all the British with his own eyes!" (To be continued......)

PS: Commuter pass.