There are more than 12,000 people in a complete town of the Shanghai army, and so many people are going north, even if they march secretly, how can they hide their tracks?

What puzzled Wu Yong the most was why Li Weiguo sent an entire town's troops to the north, and also lurked near the Old Summer Palace, a royal garden in the northwest suburbs of the capital.

What is this for? Do you want to rebel? Want to catch Xianfeng?

"I heard that the emperor lives in the Old Summer Palace for nine to ten months out of the twelve months of the year, and the lord wants to blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes?"

Li Weiguo suddenly laughed, this Wu Yong's association is very rich, and he can even think of coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes.

"Coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes, does this trick work for the Qing court?"

Wu Yong replied: "It should work, didn't the Kangxi Dynasty have a worship?" ”

Li Weiguo nodded and said, "This reminds me, if the opportunity allows, let's also make a coercion of the Son of Heaven to make the princes try!" However, at present, the fourth town is heading north, not to rebel, but to deploy in advance, waiting for the British and French forces there! ”

"Waiting for the Anglo-French forces? Will they be able to hit the capital? Wu Yong's mouth opened wide in surprise, but soon he asked: "My lord, how do you know that the British and French troops will definitely appear there?" ”

Li Weiguo couldn't explain, he couldn't tell Wu Yong that he was a traverser, knowing that the British and French forces would capture the capital and sack the Old Summer Palace, he had already regarded the Old Summer Palace as his back garden, and the treasures in the Old Summer Palace were all his, and he sent 10,000 troops to the Old Summer Palace secretly just to protect his Li Weiguo's personal assets.

"Well, foreign devils are greedy, they will definitely not let go of the Old Summer Palace! We ambushed them halfway, and we must have gained a lot! ”

Wu Yong was stunned when he heard this, confused, and asked, "That, my lord, the British and French forces haven't come over yet." You sent troops to ambush near the Old Summer Palace so early, you were in a bit of a hurry. ”

Li Weiguo rolled his eyes, he didn't want to tell Wu Yong the real purpose of sending the fourth town to the Old Summer Palace, but in the face of Wu Yong's persistent attitude, Li Weiguo didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm, so he had to tell the truth.

"Tell me, I sent the fourth town to the Old Summer Palace, on the one hand, it is indeed to ambush the British and French forces, but they also have another task, that is, the treasures in the Old Summer Palace are taken by the official. Tell them to dig a tunnel, take advantage of the opportunity of the British and French alliance to attack the Old Summer Palace, and quietly bring back those rare treasures to the official, just such a thing, do you understand? ”

Wu Yong was suddenly frightened into a cold sweat when he heard this.

Well, he admits that this master of his is really bold enough to rob the Old Summer Palace and blame the British and French forces.

I have to say that this is indeed a clever strategy.

However. Wu Yong disagreed, he objected: "My lord, this matter is really dangerous, and one accidentally leaked the news." The emperor will definitely charge the adults with rebellion. ”

Li Weiguo smiled: "If that's the case, then I will admit it, anyway, haven't you always wished for me to rebel?" ”

"This-hehe-" Wu Yong suddenly smiled, a little embarrassed.

Li Weiguo glared at Wu Yong. said: "Let's talk ugly in front, the treasures of the Old Summer Palace are all mine, if you dare to spoil my good deeds." Don't blame me for turning my face on you! ”

Wu Yong was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly smiled dryly: "How dare I harm this good thing for adults?" ”

Li Weiguo snorted, with an expression that knew you too well.

Wu Yong smiled bitterly, knowing that the person in front of him was not easy to fool, he did have a bold idea in his heart just now, that is, to leak the news of the fourth town going north, and then the imperial court would inevitably be furious, Xianfeng must think that Li Weiguo sent the fourth town north to rebel, and when the time came, Li Weiguo couldn't say clearly, and he would inevitably have to rebel.

This was the best opportunity to force Li Weiguo to rebel, but unfortunately Li Weiguo saw through it.

Wu Yong secretly screamed in his heart that it was a pity, but he didn't give up, but said tentatively: "My lord, when will we enter the Forbidden City?" ”

Li Weiguo smiled: "Don't worry, this day is not far away!" ”

Wu Yong still did not give up and said: "At present, whether it is the court or the people, the Shanghai army of the Lord is undoubtedly the strongest, and when the Lord defeats the invasion of the British and French forces next year, the prestige will be in full swing, and then the time will take the opportunity to seize the world." ”

Wu Yong paused and continued: "According to your inference, the British and French forces will attack Shanghai first, and your lordship will set up heavy troops in Shanghai to build strong fortifications, and the British and French forces will definitely not be able to get benefits. Then the Anglo-French alliance gave up attacking Shanghai, and turned north to attack Gyeonggi Zhili, with the strength of the Qing army's eight banners absolutely unstoppable, when the time comes, the adults will come to a soldier Qin Wang, while eliminating the invading British and French forces, while taking the opportunity to attack the Forbidden City, the adults did not also send the fourth town to secretly go north to lurk near the Old Summer Palace, when Xianfeng Bacheng lived in the Old Summer Palace, directly captured Xianfeng, and used Xianfeng to trap the Manchu Dynasty civil and military officials, then the hegemony can become! ”

is a good Wu Yong, and he is really resourceful.

Li Weiguo praised in his heart, he originally only wanted to keep the Old Summer Palace and the rare treasures inside, after all, this is something that more than a billion Chinese in later generations yearn for, but under Wu Yong's suggestion, Li Weiguo's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Wonderful! Take the opportunity of the king of Qinwang in the north, first destroy the foreigners, and then raid the capital, capture Xianfeng, trap the civil and military officials, if it happens, the Qing Dynasty is at your fingertips! ”

Wu Yong suddenly asked excitedly, "My lord, do you agree with this?" ”

Li Weiguo paced back and forth, and suddenly became excited.

"This matter needs to be planned by Haosheng, and call Chen Jingnan, Rong Hong, Li Hongzao, and Fu Xuexian over!"

"That's right, it's time to call them all!"

Wu Yong was so excited that he almost jumped up, and he actually ran out to find someone himself.

Just when Li Weiguo convened a staff group to discuss major matters, tens of thousands of refugees came to Pingqiao Town, Huai'an Prefecture, Jiangbei.

During the war years, it was not uncommon for refugees to flow in droves, ranging from a few hundred to tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands.

From ancient times to the present, there have been two diametrically opposed rules for dealing with refugees, one is to provide relief and resettlement to the victims, and the other is to expel or even massacre.

The former is easy to understand, and it is what the government should do, and there is nothing wrong with it. The latter is not understood by most people, especially those who are overflowing with compassion, who believe that refugees are already miserable and that they are simply inhuman if they are slaughtered.

In fact, there are two sides to everything. The refugee flow does have a lot of suffering people, most of whom are simple farmers. However, when they face hunger, the dark side of human nature will be stimulated to explode, they will smash and loot everywhere for food, if their relatives die, it will stimulate them to take revenge on society, and will make the smashing and robbery escalate into murder and cheap silver women, as long as one person takes the lead, there will be a group of people fishing in troubled waters.

Faced with this situation, the government will suppress it. Indiscriminate massacres of refugees.

And some officials, they have experienced similar things, so they will not allow the flow of refugees to enter their territory, drive them out, or directly send troops to slaughter them, treat the refugees as rebels, cut off the heads of refugees and act as rebels to ask for merit and rewards.

Pingqiao Town had experienced a refugee ransack before, so when the local people learned that tens of thousands of refugees had suddenly arrived, they were immediately frightened and their doors were closed. One by one, they were armed with knives and guns, and their spirits were tense.

However, the aborigines of Pingqiao Town are strangely surprised that the tens of thousands of refugees who came this time were a little different. These refugees were just passing by, and none of them stopped halfway to smash people's homes to ask for food.

At this moment, the door of a house opened, and an old man walked out. Looking around, looking for someone in the crowd.

He saw a tall, strong young man and immediately stepped forward to stop him.

"Little brother. Where did you come from and where are you going? ”

"Jiangxi's hometown has been occupied by the Hong bandits, and they are ready to enter Beijing to petition, so that the imperial army can drive away the Hong bandits as soon as possible." The young man paused.

The old man looked each other up and down and asked, "Are the Jiangxi Hong bandits making a lot of trouble?" I heard that they beat the local tyrants and divided the land, and the poor people have a way to live! ”

The young man suddenly yelled, "Fuck it! Damn, the poor people do have land to plant, but all the fucking food grown is handed over to the fucking public. What's even more hateful is that those bandits separated men and women, and did not allow them to marry, even if they were husbands and wives, they had to live separately. Mom, they don't let Lao Tzu marry a daughter-in-law, but those who are officials can have a group of wives and concubines, especially the bandit leader Hong Xiuquan, who has tens of thousands of concubines alone. Damn, I'm so angry! ”

The old man frowned slightly, but he didn't mind that the other party was speaking "chapter", he circled around the other party twice, and said with a smile: "This little brother, have you ever been married?" ”

The young man suddenly scolded angrily: "Originally, there was a doll kiss, but unfortunately I was dragged to the female army by the damned Hong bandits, and now I don't know if I died on the battlefield or slept in the beds of those dog mongrels." ”

The old man suddenly smiled and said: "The old man has a daughter, who is double eleven years old, and is single at home, I wonder if the little brother is willing to be the old man's son-in-law?" ”

The young man was stunned, his eyes lit up, and he said excitedly: "Is there such a good thing in the world? I just don't know how Ling Ai looks? ”

The old man was about to answer, when two more refugees came.

"Ersunozi, are you underdrawn?"

When Erhezi heard this voice, he immediately turned around with a bitter face, and said, "Platoon Elder, you see that I am almost thirty years old this year, and I still don't have a daughter-in-law, do you see—"

In the Qing Dynasty, the title of platoon commander was only the only one in the Shanghai Army.

That's right, most of these refugees were disguised by the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Town of the Shanghai Army, and they did not dare to blatantly march north, so they disguised themselves as refugees in order to avoid the Qing army's interrogation along the way.

It is precisely because of these Shanghai officers and soldiers disguised as refugees that there was no burning, killing, and looting incident in this refugee tide, because the real refugees in the team were not short of food, all of which were secretly provided by the Shanghai officers and soldiers.

The person who came was Geng Lei, the platoon commander of the 413th platoon of the 413th platoon of the 45th battalion of the 15th regiment of the 8th brigade of the 4th town of the Shanghai army.

However, when he heard that Erhezi wanted to marry his daughter-in-law, Geng Lei suddenly darkened his face.

"Have you forgotten our rules?"

The rules are naturally the military rules and regulations of the Shanghai Army, which are known as the iron laws of Hades and cannot be violated. Erhezi suddenly became excited, and his estrus head was instantly poured with a basin of cold water.

"How could it be! Remember to remember! I'm just talking about playing! ”

Geng Lei glared at Erhezi, turned to the old man and said, "Old man, don't be so hasty in choosing a son-in-law, it is about your daughter's happiness for a lifetime, you are so hungry and stop people on the street to recruit a son-in-law, it will only harm your daughter." ”

After that, Geng Lei left with Erhezi and continued on his way.

The old man stood at the door in a daze, at a loss for a moment.

This is just a small episode, but things like this are too common, but the Shanghai army has strict military discipline, so naturally it will not give in.

Among the ranks of the refugees, there was a convoy, which on the surface looked like a convoy of a large family, but in fact it was the command organ of the Fourth Town of the Shanghai Army, and Chen Liang, the commander of the Fourth Town Division, and Hai Mingze, the chief of staff, were dressed as old men, sitting in the carriage, and discussing the route of the march.

"Report, Master-Master!"

A personal soldier came to report and almost called out the division commander, but fortunately, the spirit changed his name to master.

"What's the matter?"

"Report to the master, I'm afraid I won't be able to pass Shanyang, the Huai'an Mansion Governance Office in front!"

Chen Liang and Hai Mingze glanced at each other, and the former asked, "Why?" What's going on? ”

"Li Hongzhang's Huai army is arresting strong men everywhere near Shanyang, and some of the soldiers who are exploring the road in front of us have been captured by the Huai army, and I heard that they are soldiers for the Huai army!"

Hemingze frowned and said, "Didn't you ask you to be careful?" Dressed as beggars and begging for food, do they also arrest them? ”

The soldier smiled bitterly: "You don't know, our brothers are tall and strong, even if they are dressed as beggars, they are outstanding." The Huai army captures strong men, but it doesn't matter if you are a beggar or a common man, as long as you are strong. ”

Chen Liang was speechless for a moment, you must know that the fourth town is the elite of the Shanghai army, and the reconnaissance battalion is the elite of the elite, all of them are skilled, if you use Li Weiguo's professional terminology, it is called special forces, usually treated well, and they eat strong and strong, no wonder they will let the Huai army be arrested as a strong man.

Chief of Staff Hemingze worried: "What should I do? If they know about this group of refugees, I'm afraid they will not be killed, and they will have to be arrested as strong men! ”

Chen Liang suddenly turned to the map and said, "If you really can't do it, let's take a detour, let's go to Huangjiaji, go to Taoyuan through Hongze Lake, and bypass Huai'an Mansion." ”

"That's it!" Hemingze nodded, and immediately ordered his own soldiers to pass the order to let the reconnaissance battalion divert to Huangjiaji and explore the way in advance.

However, soon the news came back, not only in Huai'an Mansion, but also in the entire northern Jiangsu and Huaibei regions, and the Huai army was arresting strong men everywhere.

"What does Li Hongzhang want to do? His Huai army has expanded by nearly 200,000 people, and he is still catching strong men, where did he get so much money to raise soldiers and guns? Chen Liang slapped the table and said angrily.

"It should be Hu Xueyan, he is a Hui business giant, over the years, with the promotion of Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang, the business has become bigger and bigger, only he has the financial resources to help Li Hongzhang's Huai army expand its strength."

Chen Liang snorted coldly and said: "I heard that this Hu Xueyan has always been a thief to the second lady of our family, Lao Tzu has long been unable to stand it, this time passing by Huaibei, if he encounters this Hu Xueyan, Lao Tzu must kill him." ”

Not only Chen Liang thought so, but the entire Shanghai Army Group was eager to kill Hu Xueyan, if it weren't for the fact that Li Weiguo didn't want to completely turn his face with Li Hongzhang for the time being, he would have killed Hu Xueyan a long time ago.

"I heard that Hu Xueyan's hometown is in Shanyang! Do you think Hu Xueyan will be in Shanyang County? ”

Hai Mingze's sudden words made Chen Liang's eyes suddenly light up.

"Lao Hai, what do you mean? Don't you want to? ”

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"......" (To be continued......)