Chapter 124: The Bird Hides the Bow

After the defeat of the British army, James was first entrusted with the important task of gathering British boxers to take on the heavy responsibility of defending London. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

However, as the British Army continued to retreat to London, and even returned to London in brigades and regiments, Downing Street and the Queen of England found that the losses of the British Army were not as great as imagined.

Yes, there may be so many hundred thousand servants who will never come back. However, there was no British who regarded the servant army as a human being, although many of the servant army were spiritual British.

Yes, tens of thousands of the British themselves were either killed or captured or scattered, but the 100,000 British troops still came back with 80,000. Five hundred thousand servants followed, and three hundred thousand returned.

Most of the strength is still there, of course, the arms and baggage are all lost, and the hundreds of thousands of servants who came back plus the British army with rifles are not left. But that kind of thing, not to mention the inventory of the British Empire, is enough to equip 100,000 troops every month.

This time it was rare that the British did not complain about the rifles, because they discovered many new uses for the British rifles, such as as stretchers, crowbars, crutches, hunting (or shooting farmers' cattle and sheep), and scaring the villagers. In addition to facing the Qing army's iron cans, the use is still wide.

What is the quality of the British Army, the British royal family and Downing Street themselves also know in their hearts, do you want to send it with phone bills.

Although the last battle of the Qing army was a defeat this time, the losses were still within the acceptable range of the Queen and Downing Street.

But as more and more British troops and servant troops entered London and the London Circle, Downing Street looked at the British boxers who patrolled and enforced the streets of London every day.

Originally, James was asked to form a boxer again, also to defend London. But in the current situation, the Qing army has not come over, and there is no shortage of troops around London, so it seems that there is no need to keep this British boxer with Downing Street expenses. Moreover, the members of the upper and lower houses do not want the expansion of the civilian armed forces.

It's just that the boxers who have just been assembled for less than two weeks have let the family disband, which doesn't seem to be very authentic. Especially now that James's reputation in England, especially London, is unparalleled for a while, even if three hundred swords and axes are arranged in Downing Street for a Hongmen banquet, they may not be able to win the senior brother James.

So this bad guy still wants the Queen of England to do it, and Britain is also the Queen of England. It is a responsibility and an obligation to bear the blame for the interests of the British Empire.

After Downing Street reported the dismissal of the boxers to the Queen, Queen Victoria summoned her brother James to a royal banquet as a reward.

The British royal banquet is still looking up at the starry sky pie and chocolate eggplant, etc. - it is not easy for Bei Ye, who was born in England in later generations, to go to live broadcasts all over the world to eat Xiang in order not to eat British food.

During the meal, Queen Victoria said: "Little Zhanzi, this British boxer's business, you did a good job." Originally, my wife shouldn't have said much, but now you can see that there are more and more troops around London. They all said, "What's the matter with this army being in charge of the people?" Moreover, the army suffered a defeat, a few people died, but all the heavy artillery was lost, which had to be made up. Recently, the budget of Downing Street has been tight, and the Minister of Finance came to me and told me that there really is no budget for the boxers. ”

James also said something heart-wrenching: "Your Majesty, we have a budget of millions of pounds for your birthday banquet in Great Britain. Every year, the navy and army spend tens of millions of pounds sterling on military affairs, and tens of millions of dollars on building guns, guns, and ships. How can the expenditure of these hundreds of thousands of British boxers not be found?

Your Majesty, I have been to China for a few years, and the people there say that the cunning rabbit is dead and the lackey cooks, and the birds are good and the bow is hidden. But the Qing army in front of him is not dead, it is only a few hundred miles away from this England, if you take the train, it will only be a matter of one day to get to the city of London. Now Your Majesty, you asked me to disband the boxers, that is a matter of one sentence, and when the Qing army hits the city of London again, it will not be so easy for your Majesty to let me gather the boxers. ”

Queen Victoria sighed: "Little Zhanzi, you call me the Queen, the Empress, and Your Majesty." But who knows, I am sitting here as a mouthpiece, and the parliaments of the two houses and Downing Street are the masters of Britain. I'm talking about this today just because the Parliament of both Houses and Downing Street want me to talk to you about it. So, little Zhanzi, you get the idea. ”

James fell down on one knee and punched a thousand: "Your Majesty, the more this happens, the more I think the boxers should not be canceled." For financial reasons alone, some of the boxers could not receive a salary, the church could donate a part, and more importantly, the team of boxers was loyal to Great Britain and to Her Majesty the Empress. ”

The Empress Victoria understood what it meant to send charcoal in the snow, and looked at James who was half-kneeling on the ground affectionately and exclaimed, "Little James! ”

James: "Your Majesty. ”

Victoria: "Little Jenko! ”

James: Your Majesty! ”

Victoria: "Little Jenko! ”

Well, I won't make up the word count.

As a result, the disbandment of the British boxers this time came to an end. It is true that the boxers are no longer receiving wages from Downing Street, and a small number of people have been symbolically laid off. But the rest are either ****** boxers who bring their own dry food or boxers who are sponsored by the church. He still patrols the streets of London, and trains or teaches boxing to ordinary Englishmen near churches. Even the elder brother James was injured everywhere and performed hard qigong such as breaking boulders on his chest, breaking blue bricks in his hands, and being invulnerable.

If it is in the Sijiu City Flyover, James's performance level will be mixed with a full stomach. But the low-level British people who have never seen much of the world and have no culture have never seen such a wonderful hard qigong performance. Those who were stunned by the hard qigong that the senior brother James learned from China were stunned, and many of them joined the boxer preparatory organization.

This change has made Downing Street even more uncomfortable. If it is an armed force, or a local armed force, it is worth Downing Street's salary, then it should listen to Downing Street. But now people bring their own dry food. You don't have to listen to Downing Street.

For this unpredictable variable, the people in Downing Street are really like eating a chicken, and the chicken bones are all stuck in the throat -- in Chinese terms, it is like a fish in the throat. If it weren't for the fact that the Qing army was really going around hundreds of miles away, as the big brother of the boxers James said, Downing Street would have sent the British army and the boxers to fight.

At present, although Downing Street hates James so much that his teeth itch, all the British high-level people still understand the principle of putting the overall situation first - if nothing else, there are still common enemies, even in the British Island, and in the end Downing Street still endured this matter.