After the treaty was signed, the commanders and ministers of the coalition forces were sent away. And the ministers in the court originally asked Hu Lin to ask about it, but Hu Lin didn't want to contact them for the time being, leaving only Li Hongzhang, and Hu Lin had something to talk to him about.

Hu Lin welcomed Li Hongzhang to the study, and after sitting down, the guards served tea and withdrew. Li Hongzhang looked at the guards with a unique temperament and meticulousness, never left his sight, and looked very interested.

"Immortals? Heavenly soldiers? I don't think so, since you left the old man alone, are you going to tell the old man something? ”

After Li Hongzhang waited for the guards who served the tea to leave, he looked at Hu Lin with great meaning. Obviously, Hu Lin's high-equipped army and helicopters did not convince smart people like Li Hongzhang.

"Hehe, I didn't expect that Lord Li's vision is so high, and the performance of our army can't make you believe it? Keeping you in private is naturally something to talk about. ”

When Hu Lin saw that Li Hongzhang directly brought it up, he naturally didn't have to hide it anymore. Moreover, this was not Hu Lin's original intention, it was the ignorance of this era that made the Wuwei Army and civilians mistakenly think that the Pingshan Army was an immortal heavenly soldier, and knowledgeable and intelligent people naturally would not believe it.

"If this frightens the old man, then the old man has lived for decades. It's just that the old man is very curious, where did you and your army come from, and the equipment and quality of your army are much higher than those of Westerners. ”

Li Hongzhang listened to the touting words, but did not feel proud, but only felt perfunctory. With Li Hongzhang's experience, there are not many major events in the world that I don't know. Things that I haven't seen before have appeared, and the most important thing to worry about is where these things come from.

"It's worthy of Lord Li, the leader of Beiyang, there is a regimental training bureau in Guangxi Province that knows. Work under Tang Jingchong, and let him do it. Hulin is the one who is the one. The soldiers outside came out of Pingshan Village, Guangxi Province, and they were Pingshan Army. ”

Hulin does not intend to hide it. Shake out the old bottom directly, anyway, you don't have to keep it secret now. Besides, now he needs to show his foundation in order to be recognized by this big man who controls almost half of the Qing Dynasty's troops.

"Oh! Hahaha, I didn't expect that a group training meeting in a miasma place would be held, defeating Westerners, lifting the siege of the capital, and heroes were teenagers. However, according to the old man's observation. Hu Huiban left the army in the city, I'm afraid it's not that simple! ”

Hearing that Hu Lin was a person in the court, Li Hongzhang knew where the other party came from, so the matter behind it was much simpler. When he found that there was an extra group of troops in the city, it was said that they were heavenly soldiers, Li Hongzhang went to check it out.

The short gun suspected of being a musket, the sturdy soldier, and the neat and well-read record made Li Hongzhang stare at him, and he really deserved the name of a heavenly soldier.

Look at these soldiers almost all the gates of the city. Li Hongzhang found that it was not good, but such a tiger was at home, friends and enemies were unknown, and he only felt that he could not be moved in vain.

Li Hongzhang has been mixed with officialdom and the army for so many years. Naturally, it can be seen at a glance that the motives of this unit are not pure.

"Master Li, it's over. Then how much do you think it's not simple, if not simple. What do you think? ”

Li Hongzhang's words were not explicitly stated, but he had actually told Hu Lin. He knew that Hulin was not really here to defend the city, and the meaning of rebellion was quite heavy. That's it. Naturally, there is no need to hide the words, just pick out and say it clearly.

Hu Lin is willing to have such a direct showdown, although Li Hongzhang did not say it so bluntly, Hu Lin can still understand the meaning, the Chinese speak so implicitly and directly to the goal.

"There are only 15,000 people, plus a few of your flying horses in the sky, which play a very limited role, and this is the purpose of you looking for the old man alone! Do you know that the old man is loyal to the court, and the court treats me Li Hongzhang well. ”

Although he knew Hu Lin's general purpose, Li Hongzhang still didn't think that what could a person do with just this point, just control the palace? Not to mention that there are 100,000 Qing troops in the city, and there are more than 100,000 people near the city, it is not enough for this soldiers and horses to do something big.

"It's really worthy of Lord Li, in a word, since Lord Li said so, then I also want to express it. Outside the city is a temporary elite division of 15,000 people, and a division is like a town in the imperial court. In addition, there are 35,000 people on the road, does Master Li think that the role is still limited? Well, there is Tang Jingchong's regimental training in Guangxi Province, the governor Huang Huaisen's imperial army, and Pingshan, that is, my territory, there are still some guards. And it is already stepping up the recruitment of new recruits, for now, in total, there are 200,000 people in total! ”

Hu Lin did not deny that these 15,000 people naturally could not fully achieve their goal. If you want to say that there is no problem in knocking down the palace, but if you want to succeed in one fell swoop, you have to have more strength.

Immediately, the army in Pingshan's hands was thoroughly explained to Li Hongzhang, and in the case of such strength, if he wanted to succeed in one fell swoop, the problem would not be difficult, and Li Hongzhang's judgment of underestimating Hu Lin's strength would be dispelled.

"You, you, you, you, you, you have a million troops in the imperial court, what if you have 200,000."

Li Hongzhang stood up in horror and pointed at Hu Lin for a long time without saying anything. Suddenly, it was not acceptable that Hu Lin had such a huge strength, and Li Hongzhang had not seen the combat effectiveness of these armies.

However, just from the fact that a few helicopters flying in the sky can repel the foreigners, we can feel that the weapons equipped with these 200,000 people will not be bad.

In addition, I saw the military appearance of these armies before, how elite they were, even the forbidden army of the imperial court could not be compared, so I knew that the other armies would not be much worse.

"Really? Lord Li, Lord Li, you know better than I what the Qing army in the imperial court is like. And our 200,000 troops in Pingshan, even if they are discounted, are not comparable to the Qing army of the imperial court. Not to mention weapons and equipment, do you know what the food standard I give to the soldiers below is? ”

Li Hongzhang was a little breathless, but he didn't care, and compared the food standards of the Pingshan Army, which could completely distinguish the strength of the two armies.

"Hmph, the big deal is to add two more slices of meat a day, and you can still let them eat without their stomachs." Li Hongzhang replied unconvinced.

"The food standard, Master Li guessed right, and it wasn't right. Although the meat is not eaten freely, there are two taels of meat per meal, and the rest is eaten casually, every meal, not every day. ”

Hu Lin roughly described the food situation of the Pingshan Army, so as to deal a blow to the confidence of this leftist in the late Qing Dynasty, Xiao Xiao and Li Hongzhang.

"It's impossible, the amount of silver these soldiers eat in one day is a terrible amount, and the food cost for a month alone is probably an astronomical amount."

Hearing Hu Lin raise soldiers like this, Li Hongzhang gasped a few breaths of cold air, obviously not believing that Hu Lin would equip the soldiers below with such an excessively good meal. It's good to be a soldier and have something to eat, which is a soldier raised by Hu Lin, this is no different from raising a young master.

"Don't believe it, this is indeed the food standard of the Pingshan army, even the workers I hired in Pingshan eat better than the vast majority of the Qing army in the imperial court. And you know that there are more than 2,000 of us, and there is no limit to the food, which is what you said, to eat on a stomach. Hulin struck again.

"Where does your money come from, and where does your grain come from? Guangxi Road has been abnormal recently, a lot of roads have been built, and there are some special machines, which I also know. It's just that I didn't expect that you surprised the old man today. ”

Li Hongzhang obviously believed Hu Lin's words, but he didn't understand where Hu Lin came from, and how many taels of silver would be consumed to raise soldiers in such a luxurious way.

"I won't disclose this for the time being, since Master Li knows something about Guangxi Dao, it can be regarded as knowing me Pingshan, and you won't doubt my strength."

It was naturally impossible for Hu Lin to tell Li Hongzhang that the silver was bought from this Guangxi Province and purchased in modern times.

"Okay, Hu will do it, the old man just wants to know, what are you going to do."

Li Hongzhang compromised a little, and it was an admission that the Pingshan Army had a very strong strength and could suppress the strength of the Qing army. To confirm the purpose of this army,

"I won't beat around the bush with that kid, the world is the world of the Han people, not the world of the Manchurians. Since the Qing soldiers entered the customs, the Han people have suffered such a great disaster, boy, I don't want this kind of thing to continue to happen, I hope that Lord Li will help the boy. ”

Since Li Hongzhang had already asked so, Hu Lin did not hide his armpits, and directly stated the purpose.

"Hmph, the imperial court has been ruling the world for more than 200 years, how can you break it if you say it. Even if you add the old man, it won't be so easy. ”

Although Li Hongzhang recognized Hu Lin's strength, he still had great confidence in the ruling power of the Qing Dynasty.

"Lord Li has no confidence in Hu Boy? Show you something and think again! ”

Seeing that Li Hongzhang didn't refute, Hu Lin slapped his palm, and then a guard came in, holding a 4-foot square displacement board in his hand, which was a tablet.

Without saying more, Hu Lin took the modern tablet computer in his hand, pressed the power button, called up a war video in the document, clicked on the play, and pushed it to Li Hongzhang's desk.

Li Hongzhang saw a guard come in, and quickly edged the board in his hand, and then saw Hu Lin click on it a few times, and there was moving music.

"This..." Li Hongzhang was speechless when he saw the picture on the tablet, this is a certain clip in an American movie, first a helicopter launches an air-to-ground missile, blowing up a building, and then the ground troops work together to capture this building.

Such a plot can be seen everywhere in modern movies, Hu Lin just found one at random and transferred it to the combat part, which caused a shock to the people of this era in the Qing Dynasty, which can be imagined.

Li Hongzhang stared at the tablet in shock, stunned by the coordinated operation under modern technology, and his breath was short. After a few minutes of the battle, Hu Lin tapped on his tablet and paused the playback. (To be continued.) )