After the victory at Baliqiao, Feng Yunshan only let the captives rest for a while, and then decided to start capturing Beijing early the next morning. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The results of the battle at Baliqiao have all been counted.

The Mongol and Manchu cavalry were killed more than 4,000 horsemen and captured 1,000 horsemen; The Manqi infantry and the Han army's Eight Banner infantry were killed and wounded 3,000 and more than 4,000 were captured. What moved Feng Yunshan the most was that he had captured more than 1,500 Mongolian war horses, although they were not particularly tall, but after all, they were war horses, and they could finally form a small cavalry.

However, Feng Yunshan would not form a cavalry and archery class like the Mongolian cavalry, not to mention the hard training, in this era of fighting with muskets, it would be useless at all, but it was better to directly rush and kill the heavy cavalry in the past. And Feng Yunshan's imagination is to form a musketeer cavalry, equipped with cavalry-specific Sharps carbines, and will definitely be invincible and prepare for the pacification of the north in the future.

More than 400 soldiers were also sacrificed to fight for the army, including as many as 16 students in the second phase of Huangpu, which made Feng Yunshan feel a pain in his heart. He didn't understand, how did the Anglo-French army that wrote in the history books that they only killed 12 people in the Battle of Bali Bridge? Could it be that there is still such a big gap between the soldiers of his own captive army and the foreigners? Or did the Manchus know that the foreigners would not seize their country, so they just let the water go and abandoned the war and fled?

These are difficult for Feng Yunshan to pursue, and he has no time to pay attention to these things. After sending Shi Dakai and Tan Shaoguang out overnight, they also sent scouts to reconnoiter the defense of the entire Beijing City.

Early the next morning, Feng Yunshan received a report that nearly 10,000 Qing troops outside the city had retreated without a fight, and Xianfeng had led more than 5,000 Praetorian Cavalry to flee north to Rehe with his concubine and a cadre of ministers, and sent his younger brother Prince Gong Yi? Stay in Beijing.

And Yi? Thinking that the city of Beijing was too big and there were not many defenders, and the princes and ministers who stayed in Beijing said that "the city cannot be defended", he simply ordered the entire outer city to be abandoned and concentrated his troops to defend the inner city.

As a result, in addition to the more than 20,000 Qing soldiers of Seng Lingqin who retreated from Chaoyangmen back to the inner city, more than 10,000 Qing soldiers in the entire outer city of Beijing also withdrew into the inner city, and even the 4,000 Janissary Banner soldiers in the Old Summer Palace who were not taken away by Xianfeng were all transferred back to Beijing, and all the outer cities of Beijing were directly abandoned!

Feng Yunshan was overjoyed! Originally thought that the historical Yi? Although the monk Lingqin also abandoned the outer city of Beijing, at that time, Feng Yunshan thought that the Qing demon would definitely defend the army of the foreigners and the army of the captives, but he didn't expect that the history was always strikingly similar, and they still made the same decision.

As a result, Feng Yunshan directly mobilized the army of the captives and took action.

Due to the small number of troops in the captive army, Feng Yunshan did not order to directly disperse to surround the city of Beijing, but concentrated his forces and attacked in three directions.

Lin Fengxiang led 10,000 soldiers of the First Division to attack Dongzhimen and Chaoyangmen from the east of the city;

Chen Tianshi led 10,000 soldiers of the Eighth Division to attack Fuchengmen and Xizhimen from the west of the city;

And Luo Xuan led the four marine regiments of the 5th Division and the four marine regiments of the 10th Division of nearly 10,000 people, directly and easily occupied the outer city, and attacked Zhengyangmen from the south of the city.

Feng Yunshan himself, on the other hand, personally led the remaining 4,000 soldiers of the 9th Division and 3,000 soldiers of the 1st Division, as well as nearly 2,000 sailors of the 10th and 5th Divisions, to drive small warships through the inner river of the Qinghe River to the Old Summer Palace in the northwest suburbs of Beijing.

Although it was already October, the sun was still a little sunny. Feng Yunshan and the 7,000 soldiers took the land route, and under the scorching sun, they advanced in great strides. However, knowing that all the Qing demons had withdrawn to Beijing City, and even if there were Qing demons outside the city, there were only a few spies and remnants of troops, Feng Yunshan did not be cautious, but directly took the path and marched to the Old Summer Palace.

Look at the Qing Dynasty houses on both sides of the road, as well as patches of farmland and vegetable gardens. Feng Yunshan couldn't help but sigh, this is the city of Beijing, if it is more than a hundred years later, I am afraid that this will be a prosperous scene of busy traffic, but at this moment, it is still a remote countryside.

There were intertwined trees and bushes along the way, if it weren't for some villagers to lead the way in advance, and dozens of captives pointing ahead, Feng Yunshan suspected that he would get lost if he walked around this countryside.

Walking all the way, I am afraid that I have walked more than 40 miles, but I still failed to reach the Old Summer Palace before dark. Seeing that the captives were exhausted, it was getting late.

Tanma looked around and found that there was a Zhenwu temple next to it, so the captives camped near the Zhenwu Temple.

The sky was clear, looking at the starlight in the sky, Feng Yunshan suddenly remembered that today was the fifth day of the tenth lunar month, and it was his father's birthday. Suddenly, a tide of longing spread from the bottom of my heart, and my mood couldn't help but stir a little.

In the life of the next generation, Feng Yunshan should not be called Feng Shaoguang, Feng Yunshan smiled bitterly: he almost forgot his original name. At that time, although Feng Shaoguang had been to Beijing many times, he either passed by in a hurry or was busy with work, and he had never looked at the starry sky so leisurely on the land of Beijing.

Feng Yunshan remembers that he once wanted to change jobs and stayed in Beijing for one night to interview a refining and chemical company owned by China's largest coal group. I remember that time, it was also the fifth day of the tenth lunar month, Feng Yunshan didn't feel homesick much, and suddenly heard the familiar music of the weather forecast on TV, and suddenly found that he was so homesick, and then he remembered that this day was his father's birthday, and he almost forgot about it when he was busy, so he hurriedly called home.

And tonight, it was so coincidental that it was the fifth day of October, and I came to this place of Beijing again. But it's a pity that I can no longer call home to greet my father and say happy birthday to him!

Feng Yunshan looked at the starlight in the sky, remembering that every time his father had his birthday when he was a child, his mother would always boil a few eggs, and every time he would let him accompany his father to live and enjoy the delicious eggs.

Feng Yunshan had eaten countless eggs later, but none of them were so delicious anymore!

For a while, Feng Yunshan couldn't help but recall many things, from childhood to adulthood, the bits and pieces of the past couldn't help but make him burst into tears and miss him like a tide.

I don't know, what will happen to my parents? Losing their son, heartbroken is for sure, and I don't know if they have gotten better after more than two years?

I wonder if my mother's diabetes is getting better? I don't know if my father's frozen shoulder, or is it always tormenting his old man?

I don't know if I was killed by the artillery in the museum, did I compensate my parents for a sum of money so that they could spend their old age in peace?

In the thoughts that crossed time and space, between the tears and hazy eyes, Feng Yunshan fell asleep in a daze.