The sky was white, and the gunfire in the Old Summer Palace gradually stopped.

It was originally planned to take three hours to solve, but it ended up taking more than six hours.

Chen Liang and Hai Mingze stood in front of Li Weiguo with ashamed faces and explained the reason.

It was expected that the inside and outside should be combined with the inside and outside to attack and annihilate the Imperial Forest Army in the Old Summer Palace, but the Royal Forest Army was crushed at the touch of a button and fled in all directions. They knew the roads and rooms in the royal garden very well, and it was easy to hide, but the royal garden was so big that the Shanghai officers and soldiers entered the Old Summer Palace for the first time, and there was a serious shortage of guides, so most of the time was spent searching for these deserters.

"Okay, I don't blame you, the plan on the battlefield can't catch up with the changes." Li Weiguo didn't reproach the two, but just ordered: "The top priority now is to transport all the valuable treasures in the Old Summer Palace as soon as possible, you have to hurry up." ”

"Understood, don't worry, I promise to complete the task!"

The entire royal garden is larger than the area of the Forbidden City, and more than 12,000 people in the fourth town of the Shanghai Army are scattered in it, and there are not many people at all.

Accompanied by Chen Liang and Hai Mingze, Li Weiguo took Su Sanniang to enter the Old Summer Palace from the palace gate, and as for Chen Jingnan, he was sent to Bali Bridge to command the first and fifth towns of the Shanghai army, carefully deployed, ready to take advantage of the decisive battle between the British and French forces and the Qing army of Seng Lingqin, to make a move to catch the cicada and yellow finch behind, and destroy the invading British and French forces in one fell swoop.

Entering the Old Summer Palace, Li Weiguo was immediately stunned by the spectacular scene in front of him.

I saw rows of palaces standing in the sea of clouds, majestic and magnificent, resplendent with gold, there are not only six official offices prepared for the official court, but also the mountains and villages that symbolize the idyllic scenery, as well as the autumn moon of Pinghu Lake and the sunset of Leifeng that imitate the West Lake of Hangzhou. Or imitate the poetry and painting of ancient poets and painters, such as Penglai Yaotai, Wuling Chunse, etc., and there are all kinds of Gothic buildings with obvious Western style, and all kinds of water pavilions, pavilions, pavilions and arches are surrounded by each other, reflecting the lake and mountains, exquisite and clear. It's like a fairyland.

"Grandma's, it's really a good place!"

Li Weiguo couldn't help but burst into foul language, otherwise he couldn't describe his mood at the moment.

"Watch the words!" On the side, Su Sanniang suddenly frowned slightly, and talked to Li Weiguo to express her dissatisfaction.

In the past, this kind of thing was only disciplined by Fu Shanxiang and Shen Ziyan, but now that Su Sanniang has also become Li Weiguo's woman, she will naturally always think about her husband.

"Mine, mine, all mine!"

Li Weiguo laughed. Su Sanniang shook her head helplessly, she found that her husband's ambition was getting bigger and bigger, but if this royal garden became her husband's, then she would be half a hostess, and such a place where the gods lived would soon fascinate Su Sanniang.

Along the way, groups of Shanghai officers and soldiers were carrying out the treasures displayed in various rooms and packing them into boxes. Put on the wagon and prepare to be transported away.

"Be careful. Don't break it! ”

Li Weiguo looked at this and that, and kept telling his subordinates to be careful not to smash his treasure.

Seeing the dazzling array of cultural relics and jewelry being packed and packed, Li Weiguo suddenly had a snot bubble, and he had to admit that this was the most treasure he had seen in his two lives. Many things are legendary artifacts, which were destroyed in the war and are no longer in the world, and now they are in front of his eyes, how can he not be excited.

Li Weiguo took Su Sanniang and began to visit the royal garden. There are countless beautiful scenery along the way, and he really hopes to have a camera to take a picture of it, and then send it back to the Internet of future generations across time and space, so that people all over the world will envy and hate it.

Although it is impossible to take pictures for the time being, fortunately, this world's most magnificent royal garden was occupied by him Li Weiguo, and it will not be burned down from now on.

At this time, Li Weiguo came to the Western Garden, looked forward across the lake, and was stunned.

"Damn, how do you feel that this is the Palace of Versailles?"

"Damn, it looks like Buckingham Palace over there!"

Li Weiguo scolded in surprise, Su Sanniang immediately frowned, and twisted the soft flesh on his waist to express his dissatisfaction.

Chen Liang, who accompanied him on the side, said: "My lord, these two buildings were originally the Palace of Versailles and the Buckingham Palace, is there anything special?" ”

Li Weiguo sighed and said: "The Palace of Versailles is the royal palace of the French Empire, and the Buckingham Palace is the royal palace of the Queen of England. ”

Suddenly, Li Weiguo seemed to have found another excuse for the Old Summer Palace to be burned down by the British and French forces, and the wild history records that the legendary Old Summer Palace was a copycat of Buckingham Palace and Versailles Palace, which caused the British and French forces to be extremely angry, so when negotiating with Yi Xin, he unceremoniously demanded the destruction of the Old Summer Palace, because this was a serious provocation to the Queen of England and the French Emperor.

In fact, the British and French forces set fire to the Old Summer Palace in order to destroy the evidence of the robbery of the Old Summer Palace, this statement itself is not very convincing, after all, the British and French forces were originally robbers, robbing the treasures of various countries all over the world, I didn't see them set fire everywhere to cover up the evidence of the crime, people all over the world know that they are robbers, do they still need to cover up the evidence? If it was really to cover up the evidence of the crime, then why didn't they burn down the Old Summer Palace immediately after the robbery, but only officially wrote an additional condition of the negotiation when they negotiated with Yixin half a month later.

Therefore, in Li Weiguo's view, the record of the wild history is correct, and the Qing Emperor who pretended to be forced to copy the Palace of Versailles and Buckingham Palace is the real reason why the garden was set on fire by the British and French forces.

Li Weiguo shook his head, he had no interest in the cottage Buckingham Palace and Versailles, and the only things on display were some Western furniture, clocks and watches, which were obviously worthless compared to the gold, silver and jewelry in other places. However, even if Li Weiguo didn't like it, he still let people sweep it up and transport it away in a box.

"Daughter-in-law, if you have anything you like, just take it, count it as a gift from me."

"I don't want other people's things that I robbed!"

Li Weiguo was suddenly embarrassed and said, "Okay, how about I go back and make a piece of jewelry for you myself?" ”

Su Sanniang nodded, and agreed.

Li Weiguo smiled bitterly, his three wives are really more individual than the other, since Su Sanniang doesn't want it. Li Weiguo had no choice but to let them all be packed and shipped away.

In the following time, Li Weiguo lived directly in the Old Summer Palace and enjoyed the emperor-like treatment. Su Sanniang accompanied the attendants, and lived a two-person world with Li Weiguo, very happy and happy.

Seven days passed quickly, and all the good things in the entire royal garden, three mountains and five gardens were packed and transported away. Escorted by the Fourth Town of the Shanghai Army, they went directly south from the canal to Shanghai Yu Garden.

On the other hand, Seng Lingqin finally learned that the Old Summer Palace had been forcibly looted by the "British and French forces", and he was also so angry that he immediately mobilized troops to fight a decisive battle with the British and French forces.

Bali Bridge, the battlefield prepared by Seng Lingqin in advance, where 300,000 Qing troops were assembled to prepare for a decisive battle with the British and French forces.

The Anglo-French forces were under the command of Scott and Bronse. Advancing towards the Bali Bridge, their scouts were not vegetarians, and soon learned that the Qing army intended a decisive battle at the Bali Bridge.

Scott and Bronce checked the terrain, and when they saw that it was an open field, they immediately smiled, this was just right for their musket formation, and the cannons used by the artillery were all direct fire. The open field undoubtedly maximizes the power of the cannon.

But all this monk Grinqin did not understand, and the generals on horseback were seriously outdated and outdated in the face of modern warfare.

On the 18th. The clouds were shrouded, and there was a bleak death.

The 30,000 British and French troops advanced to the area around the Bali Bridge, and when they found that the main force of the Qing army was arrayed at the Bali Bridge in front, they also quickly began to arrange their troops.

Although after the Battle of Songhu, the Anglo-French coalition army experienced a painful defeat in front of the Shanghai army, it can only be said that the Shanghai army was too strong. The equipment is too advanced, the tactics are too advanced.

However, the Qing army in front of him was not the Shanghai army, and it did not have the advanced equipment and tactics of the Shanghai army, nor the strong combat effectiveness of the Shanghai army, so the British and French troops fought all the way from Dagu to Beijing. I didn't take the Qing army into account at all.

For the Anglo-French forces, who had been tested in the Napoleonic Wars and the Crimean War, they were experienced in combat, but this time, Scott and Bronce still used the most advanced tactics of the musket era, such as the new hollow phalanx and the three-row array of battle infantry lines.

The Eight Banners Army of the Qing Army on the opposite side, although there are 300,000 troops, the momentum is huge, but unfortunately most of them are still using cold weapons, and the Green Battalion Army is equipped with a small number of imported and imitated old-style smoothbore guns, self-made bird guns, lifting guns, lifting guns, and splitting mountain cannons, less than 30,000 people, and the others all use broadswords and spears.

After the two sides met, Monk Lingqin immediately ordered the infantry to charge.

The Anglo-French troops lined up to meet the enemy, and the infantry of the three platoons of battle lines opened fire in an orderly manner, so that the Qing army could not approach at all, and they were shot in waves.

In the center of the battlefield, corpses piled up like a mountain in an instant, and blood flowed like a river.

From morning to evening, with more than half of the Qing troops killed and wounded, he thought that he had exhausted enough ammunition for the Anglo-French army, so he ordered the cavalry to charge.

I have to say that this is the last Mongolian Eight Banners, which is higher than the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners of the Qing Army, but it is a pity that in front of the guns of the British and French forces, the cavalry is simply a live target, and the target is larger and more likely to be hit by bullets.

Or wave after wave of charges, like a tactic of adding oil, leaving behind patches of corpses, war horses neighing, and its owner cannot be found.

You must know that the modern armies of Europe in the nineteenth century almost always won overwhelming victories in the face of feudal armies around the world.

Similarly, in the Battle of Bali Bridge, more than half of the 300,000 Qing troops were killed or wounded, while less than 300 of the 30,000 British and French troops were killed.

Seeing that the defeat was decided, Seng Greenqin could only order a retreat, but the British and French forces launched a counter-charge, which made the Eight Banners Army scattered, and the army was defeated in an instant.

The Eight Banners of the Qing army fled all the way and retreated in two directions, Beijing and Chengde.

Seeing the defeat of the 300,000 Qing army, Scott and Bronce were immediately full of confidence, and ordered the British and French forces to chase and fight, preparing to capture Beijing in one fell swoop.

The battle at Baliqiao had been under the overall supervision of the Shanghai army, and at this time the first and fifth towns of the Shanghai army had secretly detoured to the flank of the British and French forces.

The British and French forces were naturally not fools, and when they learned the news that Li Weiguo led their troops north, they immediately sent a large number of men to follow the Shanghai army all the way, and reported their location to Scott and Bronce at any time.

However, they did not know that the greatest advantage of the Shanghai army was not only advanced weapons and equipment, but also that the quality of individual combat of the Shanghai army was beyond their reach, and the key point was the armed cross-country ability of the officers and men of Shanghai.

From the day Li Weiguo established the Shanghai Army, he paid attention to the soldiers' armed cross-country ability, and in the past nine years, the Shanghai Army's ability to march in the field has been quite strong. When Scott thought that the Shanghai army was still near Baoding, they had actually arrived in Langfang secretly.

When the Anglo-French army and Seng Lingqin fought a decisive battle at Bali Bridge, the first town of the Shanghai army had secretly sneaked to Yanjiao Town, and the fifth town of the Shanghai army also reached Liyuan Town, and carried out flanking tactics against the British and French forces from the southeast and northwest directions.

When the 300,000-strong army of Seng Lingqin was routed and scattered and fled. The Anglo-French forces began a frenzied pursuit.

The Qing army ran desperately in front, the British and French troops chased frantically behind, the battle line gradually lengthened, the British and French troops kept dividing their troops to pursue around, in fact, many British and French soldiers were in order to fight the autumn wind, they deliberately pursued the Qing army, and went to the nearby people's homes to grab things.

Of course, for the Anglo-French army, they don't look down on the tatters in the homes of ordinary people. They are all running to large families, burning, killing and looting.

Scott and Bronce can only turn a blind eye to this kind of thing, after all, they have just suffered a big defeat in Shanghai, and the soldiers are very hard, let them grab things and earn some extra money to improve their combat effectiveness.

However, the two of them still tried their best to restrain the troops, and always maintained more than 10,000 troops to pursue the main force of Seng Lingqin head-on, and pursued them until the city of Beijing.

Because the artillery speed was too slow, it faced the city of Beijing, which was high and deep. The Anglo-French forces had to temporarily stop and wait for the artillery to arrive.

And yet at this moment. Scott was suddenly reported.

"Oh no, the Shanghai army is coming!"

"What? That's impossible? They were still in Baoding yesterday, just a day's work, how could they reach Beijing? ”

Scott didn't believe it, and so did Brons.

Soon, more and more Anglo-French soldiers came running back to report. They said they were attacked by the Shanghai army and suffered heavy casualties.

"Assemble now!"

"Array up to meet the enemy!"

Scott and Bronce hurriedly issued an order, so that the more than 10,000 Anglo-French troops who were resting quickly gathered and formed a hollow phalanx to guard on all sides.

Meantime. All the Anglo-French troops who had left the team to fight the autumn wind were recalled.

An hour later, the Anglo-French troops who went out to rob came back, originally nearly 20,000 people, but in the end only less than 10,000 people came back, and the other nearly 10,000 people were attacked by the Shanghai army and could not come back.

"Damn, it must be the main force of the Shanghai army!"

"How is this possible? They were obviously in Baoding yesterday, even if they took the train, it was impossible to be so fast? ”

"But they don't have a train! Hell yes! ”

Scott and Bronce were both shocked, but they obviously didn't have time to think about how the Shanghai army had arrived in Beijing so quickly, and quickly organized the remaining less than 20,000 troops to prepare to meet the main force of the Shanghai army.

"This time, Li Weiguo led the Shanghai army from two towns to the north, with a total strength of more than 24,000 people, and we are now less than 20,000 people, so I am afraid that we are not their opponents."

"What then? Fall back? The city of Beijing is right under our noses, as long as our artillery arrives, the city can be broken in ten minutes! ”

"The problem is, we're afraid we don't have ten minutes left! Look over there! ”

Following Brons's prompt, Scott looked to the southeast, and sure enough, the flag was waving over there, and it was the dragon flag of the Shanghai army.

The dragon flag of the Shanghai army is obviously different from the dragon flag of the Qing army, the Qing army is a whole five-clawed yellow dragon flag, and it is not clear whether it is a dragon or a bug from a distance, so the dragon flag of the Shanghai army is conspicuous, there is only one dragon head, a big blood-red dragon head, with a dazzling white dragon ball, whether you look at it from a distance or up close, you can feel the domineering.

Whenever he saw this dragon flag, the corners of Scott's mouth twitched subconsciously, and he gritted his teeth with hatred.

"Report, our artillery regiment has been attacked!"

"What? Where is it? ”

Scott was suddenly agitated, and hurriedly looked at the map, the artillery regiment of the British and French forces encountered the main force of the Shanghai army near Songzhuang, and was completely annihilated in less than five minutes.

Bronce hurriedly asked, "Can you see clearly that it's the Shanghai Army?" How many of them are there? ”

The officer replied breathlessly: "It's definitely the Shanghai army, it's definitely right, the mountains are full of their people, at least one division!" ”

Scott froze and pinched off his pencil.

Bronsi was also in a cold sweat and said, "It's the first and fifth towns of the Shanghai army that have all arrived, and they are quickly rushing towards me in a flanking attack. And in front of our army, there is a strong city of Beijing in front of it, and it seems that Li Weiguo is determined to completely destroy us this time. ”

"Break through! You run out as much as you want! ”

Scott knew very well that his less than 20,000 people would definitely not be able to defeat the main force of the two towns of the Shanghai Army, and instead of being surrounded and annihilated, it was better to break through in advance, at least not be completely annihilated, and save some face. Otherwise, the faces of Britain and France will be completely thrown on Mars.

Bronce understood, and immediately gave the order to break out.

So the British and French forces concentrated their forces and launched a fierce attack in the direction of Liyuan.

This was exactly what the Shanghai army wanted, and Chen Jingnan was worried that the British and French forces would hold their positions, and the Shanghai army would pay a great price for the attack. Now the Anglo-French forces took the initiative to break through the encirclement, so that the Shanghai army only needed to hold its position and destroy the most enemies with the smallest losses.

Knock knock......

The artillery regiment of the 1st town of the Shanghai Army opened fire fiercely, and the shells whistled straight towards the British and French forces, exploding violently, killing and wounding a large number of enemies.

Immediately afterwards, the Shanghai infantry began to shoot, and the dense bullets hit them, constantly reaping the lives of the British and French troops.

The Anglo-French attack was extremely fierce, but unfortunately their artillery regiment was wiped out, and without artillery support, casualties continued to grow.

Looking at the fallen British and French soldiers one by one, Scott's eyes were blood-red. Just a few hours ago, he was still smiling and looking at the Qing army that fell one by one, smiling so happily, and now it was his turn, how bad the mood of this kind of heaven falling to hell in an instant was self-evident.

The Anglo-French army kept charging, wave after wave, just like the Qing army of Seng Lingqin before it, and the final result was that it was repelled again and again by the fierce guns of the Shanghai army.

An hour later, the Fifth Town of the Shanghai Army arrived on the battlefield and completed the final encirclement of the Anglo-French forces.

"Total attack begins!"

"Fire!"

Knock knock......

The 216 Type 59 infantry guns of the 1st Artillery Regiment of the 1st Town and the 5th Artillery Regiment of the 5th Town of the Shanghai Army opened fire fiercely, and the dense shells poured down on the British and French forces, and the flames and smoke instantly engulfed the British and French forces.

"Kill!"

"Kill!!"

The Shanghai army launched a counter-charge and delivered the final blow to the remnants of the Anglo-French forces.

Desperate, Scott pulled out his gun and prepared to die for his country, but was stopped by Brons.

"What are you doing?"

"Surrender, keep this life, and we will come back for revenge in the future!"

"How can I be a captive of the nobles of the British Empire? Humiliate these Oriental monkeys, I might as well die! ”

Scott was reluctant, but was quickly knocked unconscious by Brons.

"Stop fighting, let's surrender!"

At this time, there were still more than 5,000 people left in the British and French forces, and they were all frightened, and they laid down their arms one after another, and raised their hands to surrender to the Shanghai army.

In the headquarters, after Chen Jingnan received the news, he thought for a moment and said, "Forget it, accept their surrender, these people may still be useful to the Lord." (To be continued......)