Life is really about whether it is extremely Tailai and happiness and sorrow are transformed into each other.

When Li Weiguo had just overthrown Su Sanniang and enjoyed the blessings of the Qi people, news came from the capital, and the imperial court issued an order to transfer him to the governor of Zhili, and assisted Zeng Lingqin to lead the Gyeonggi army to resist the imminent military invasion of the British and French forces, and immediately set off for the capital to report on his work.

In the eyes of outsiders, the Governor of Zhili is the head of the nine governors in the world, and his status is extremely respectful, and they all think that it is a reward from the emperor to Li Weiguo.

But Li Weiguo knew that this was a bright rise and a dark fall, and the tiger was diverted from the mountain. If he was asked to lead the Gyeonggi army to resist the invasion of the Anglo-French army, it also showed that Xianfeng really wanted to use him to resist the enemy. But Xianfeng asked him to assist Zeng Greenqin, which means that Xianfeng is going to attack him.

The members of the shogunate quickly gathered and began to discuss countermeasures.

They were each indignant and scolded Xianfeng for being unkind and unjust in killing donkeys.

It's just that their expressions are not as angry as they actually are, but they are happy and even excited, because this is an excellent opportunity to rebel.

"The lord can just use the excuse to deal with the British and French coalition army, justifiably bring the soldiers and horses of the four towns, and after arriving in Zhili, first relieve the military power of Zenglinqin, and then converge with the fourth town, with the soldiers and horses of the five towns is enough to completely destroy the British and French coalition army, and then take the capital with the power of a great victory, and sweep the world is just around the corner."

"I'm afraid it's not easy to deal with Zeng Lingqin, he has more than 300,000 Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners in his hands, and the military power is not so easy to seize, and even if he seizes his military power, it is impossible for the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners to listen to the dispatch of a Han official."

"That's right, besides, Zeng Lingqin is the commander, and the adults can only go to his military camp to meet him instead of him coming to the adult's military camp to meet the adults, so that the action to seize military power can only be in the large camp of Zeng Greenqin, and it is difficult to succeed."

Everyone has come up with countermeasures. Li Weiguo just listened silently, and he was also thinking about it in his heart.

At this time, Wu Yong said after synthesizing everyone's suggestions: "I think adults don't have to do anything now, just wait." As long as the Gyeonggi War broke out, Zeng Lingqin would definitely not be the opponent of the Anglo-French coalition army, and he could destroy the 300,000 Manchu and Mongolian troops with the help of the Anglo-French coalition army. ”

Li Weiguo nodded. This is a good piece of advice, and it basically fits what he has in mind. The Manchus and Mongolians have enslaved the Han people for hundreds of years, and it is time for them to pay the price. More importantly, these 300,000 Manchu and Mongolian troops will also be the enemies of the Shanghai army in the future, and it would be a good thing if they could be eliminated by the hands of the British and French forces.

"Respond to all changes with no change, just lead the troops to the north!"

"But will Li Hongzhang allow the Shanghai army to cross the border?"

"He didn't allow us to fight over, just had an excuse to seize Anhui and northern Jiangsu, and completely control the two rivers and four provinces!"

Li Weiguo served as the governor of Liangjiang. Nominally, it has jurisdiction over two rivers and four provinces, but in fact it only controls one province in the south of the Yangtze River, with Jiangbei and Anhui provinces in the hands of Li Hongzhang and Jiangxi in the hands of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Therefore, if there is an excuse to start a war against Li Hongzhang, it is also a good choice to take back Jiangbei and Anhui provinces by the way.

It's just that the rice has to be eaten bite by bite, and things have to be done step by step, and the top priority at the moment is not to start a war with Li Hongzhang.

"He shouldn't be in the way. I'm still his boss in name only, after all! ”

After all, Li Weiguo was the governor of Liangjiang, and Li Hongzhang was nothing more than the governor of Anhui. Nominally, it was returned to Li Weiguo's control, and the Shanghai army crossed the border under the banner of the two rivers, and Li Hongzhang's Huai army did not dare to provoke.

After discussion, everyone decided to send soldiers and horses from the two towns to protect Li Weiguo and go north to serve as the governor of Zhili. As for who the imperial court sent to serve as the governor of Liangjiang, everyone didn't care at all. Because no matter who comes, there is only a life that is set aside.

At the beginning of July 1860, the British and French fleets arrived at Bohai Bay, attacked Yantai and Luda successively, and then blockaded the entire Bohai Bay, clearing the way for the attack on Tianjin.

The defenders of Yantai and Luda retreated with little resistance. Because they were ordered by the monk Rinqin to believe that the British and French fleets could not be defeated in naval warfare, they retreated inland and fought the British and French forces on land.

Seng Lingqin even abandoned Beitang, allowing the British and French troops to easily land from Beitang and directly threaten the Dagukou Fort.

After 10 days, 30,000 British and French troops completed the landing safely, and even some local people took the initiative to help lead the way, directly from the flank to the north bank of Dagu Fort, at the same time, the naval fleet also did not have to worry about water radium and boldly launched an attack from the waterway to Dagu Fort.

Under the coordinated attack of the British and French forces, the Dagukou Fort was quickly captured, and Seng Greenqin was taken aback, thinking that the Dagukou Fort could still repel the British and French forces as last time, but the Dagukou fell in less than a day, and the British and French Allied forces drove straight in, and Seng Greenqin ordered the Qing army to flee from Dagu and retreat to Tongzhou through Tianjin.

Subsequently, the British and French forces occupied Tianjin, and the Qing government suddenly became anxious and urgently sent Guiliang to Tianjin to negotiate peace. Britain and France proposed that, in addition to accepting the "Treaty of Tianjin" in its entirety, they should also open Tianjin as a treaty port, increase 200 million taels of silver as indemnity, severely punish Li Weiguo, the governor of Liangjiang, hand over the Anglo-French forces for war crimes, and allow the British and French forces to bring 1,000 troops to Beijing to exchange contracts.

The Qing government could have considered the previous conditions, and even handed over Li Weiguo to the Anglo-French forces for disposal, but in the end, Xianfeng did not accept the amount of indemnities and the issue of bringing troops into Beijing, but the Anglo-French troops had to compensate for the more than 100,000 casualties in the First Battle of Shanghai, so the negotiations between the two sides broke down, and the Anglo-French troops attacked Beijing from Tianjin.

Xianfeng was so frightened that he immediately fled to Chengde, and at the same time sent Prince Yi Zaiyuan and Shangshu Muyin of the military department to replace Guiliang to continue negotiations with the British and French coalition forces, and agreed that the British and French would send troops to Beijing to exchange the treaty, but asked for a reduction in compensation, and the Qing government could not afford 200 million taels of silver, and could not even take out 2 million taels.

However, the British and French coalition forces did not agree at all, and 200 million taels of silver was not missing at all, because Britain and France were really beaten too badly by Li Weiguo, and without 200 million taels of silver compensation, they could not explain to their respective governments at all. As a result, the two sides quarreled, and the negotiations broke down again.

This was the delaying tactic of Monk Lingqin, who was mobilizing his troops to prepare for a decisive battle with the Anglo-French forces.

During the period of negotiation between the two sides, Li Weiguo had already set off for Beijing, not alone, but with an entire two towns and Shanghai troops.

Of course, when Li Weiguo crossed Anhui and Jiangbei, Li Hongzhang's Huai army did not stop him. However, after the imperial court learned of this, Xianfeng was immediately shocked, and hurriedly issued a holy decree asking Li Weiguo not to lead troops north, requiring all the Shanghai troops to stay in Shanghai to guard against the Taiping army, and to let Li Weiguo only bring a few hundred escorts into Beijing.

But Li Weiguo obviously wouldn't listen, and soon the declaration of King Qin, drafted by Li Hongzao, spread all over the country. Li Weiguo announced in a high-profile manner that he would lead troops into King Qinwang to help the imperial court resist the invasion of the British and French forces.

As a result, the imperial court and Li Weiguo insisted on their own words, the imperial court said that Li Weiguo was disrespectful and intended to rebel, while Li Weiguo insisted that the imperial court was controlled by Su Shun and other traitors, and the emperor was blinded, so he led troops into the king of Jingqin and the side of the Qing monarch.

After Xianfeng learned about this. Immediately vomited blood and fell ill in bed.

Then the two sides suddenly started a war of words, and the common people couldn't tell who was true and who was false, and the common people in the north were under the rule of the Qing court, and most of them believed in the court. The common people in the south only knew Li Weiguo but did not know the imperial court, so they believed Li Weiguo's words.

However, when the British and French forces captured Tianjin, Xianfeng fled to Chengde, and the people of the whole country were in an uproar. The emperor abandoned them, and they learned that Li Weiguo had defeated the Anglo-French army. Therefore, the common people in the north began to believe Li Weiguo's words, hoping that Li Weiguo would lead his troops to resist the invasion of the British and French forces as soon as possible, so the public opinion of the whole country began to fall to Li Weiguo in an all-round way.

Li Weiguo led the Shanghai army to the north, and there was no obstacle to passing through Li Hongzhang's defense area, and the Huai army was very restrained. Even Zuo Zongtang, who has always been hostile to Li Weiguo, did not make it difficult, as if all this had been arranged by Li Hongzhang in advance.

However, when entering Hebei, Baishun, the governor of Hebei, once closed the city gate tightly and did not allow the Shanghai army to pass.

The course of history changed dramatically at this time. The Anglo-French army attacked very fast, so fast that Li Weiguo had to speed up his march.

At this time, anyone who stood in front of Li Weiguo would be killed.

In the next few days, the Shanghai army successively attacked the city in Xingtai and Baoding, and killed more than a dozen local officials and thousands of green battalions of the Qing army defending the city, Hebei governor Baishun was finally afraid, he saw that the Shanghai army destroyed the Qing army defending the city in minutes, and was worried that Li Weiguo would kill him to vent his anger, so he quickly ordered all the prefectures and counties along the way to open the city gate and let him go, but he did not dare to offend Li Weiguo, the god of killing.

Fortunately, the Qing army in Hebei was too weak, and the Shanghai army attacked the city without casualties, and it did not delay much time, so Li Weiguo did not send troops to attack Shijiazhuang to kill Baishun to vent his anger, but hurried to Beijing, because Li Weiguo remembered the Old Summer Palace in his heart, which was something he fancied and was not allowed to be sacked by the British and French forces.

Of course, the fourth town of the Shanghai Army is secretly lurking in the Baiwang Villa outside the Old Summer Palace, and the tunnel has been dug through, leading directly to the inside of the Old Summer Palace, and you can enter the Old Summer Palace at any time.

It's just that Chen Liang and Hai Mingze have not received Li Weiguo's specific orders, and they have not taken action for the time being.

Because the progress of the Anglo-French alliance was too fast, Li Weiguo himself was not sure when the Anglo-French alliance would go to sack the Old Summer Palace, so this was the biggest variable, and Li Weiguo had to act carefully, for fear that a historical tragedy that accidentally caused the Old Summer Palace would occur.

"Did Monk Grinqin fight with the British and French forces?"

Li Weiguo asked, he only remembered that the destruction of the Old Summer Palace was after the defeat of Seng Lingqin, and a defeated Qing army led the British and French troops to the Old Summer Palace, resulting in the direct looting of the Old Summer Palace.

Chen Jingnan was the only staff officer accompanying him this time, and Wu Yong and others stayed in the Shanghai base camp.

I only heard Chen Jingnan nodding and shaking his head, and replied: "I'm not sure, our people haven't found out when and where Seng Lingqin will fight the British and French forces, but there is one thing that is very strange, when our scouts approached the camp of Seng Lingqin, someone shot a note at our scouts from inside the camp, which read: 'Eighteenth, Bali Bridge, decisive battle', our intelligence officers don't know whether it is true or not, and they dare not believe it easily." ”

When Li Weiguo heard the three words of Bali Bridge, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he was convinced: "If it is Bali Bridge, then it must be the location of the decisive battle!" ”

Chen Jingnan was curious: "Why is the Lord so convinced? There are many places to choose the decisive battle in Monk Greenqin, and the location of the Bali Bridge is not advantageous? If it were, I would never have chosen there, and when the British and French musketeers pulled out of formation. ”

Li Weiguo knew that the historical monk Grinqin was stupid enough to choose a decisive battle with the British and French forces at Bali Bridge, but now that history has changed, he just doesn't know what the specific time is.

"Monk Greenqin is good at using Mongolian cavalry, he must be preparing to use cavalry to attack the British-French musket array, this trick would have worked if it was placed in the Napoleonic era, but unfortunately the British and French forces have cracked Napoleon's cavalry tactics, this trick has no effect on them, but will accelerate the defeat of Monk Greenqin."

Chen Jingnan suddenly figured it out and exclaimed: "Lord wise, our scouts have indeed discovered that Seng Lingqin has concentrated fifty or sixty thousand cavalry troops, and it is indeed very likely that the cavalry attack tactics will be adopted. ”

Li Weiguo smiled slightly, and suddenly asked, "You said that the news was shot with a bow and arrow from inside the camp of Monk Lingqin?" Is there a name for the payment? ”

Chen Jingnan replied: "There is indeed a payment, but it is very strange, only the three numbers 'zero zero seven' are written, and this name has never been heard!" ”

Li Weiguo was stunned for a moment, and then smiled.

"Of course you haven't heard of it! But this is indeed the news from our people, and you can fully believe it! ”

"Our people?" Chen Jingnan was extremely surprised: "Being able to obtain the deployment of Seng Lingqin on the specific time and place of the decisive battle shows that he is at least a high-level core member of the Zenggelin Group, otherwise it is absolutely impossible to get this kind of information!" What is sacred? The subordinates had never heard of this person! He shouldn't be an unknown person! ”

Li Weiguo smiled, smiling brightly.

Zero Zero Seven, this is a code name, only Li Weiguo knows it, and it belongs to the code name of the first batch of members of the China S.H.I.E.L.D. when it was first established.

From zero to one hundred, there are a total of one hundred and one people, Li Weiguo is zero, and the others from one to one hundred are all agents trained by Li Weiguo himself, and they began to carry out the hidden mission early, but I didn't expect that at this time, No. 7 actually took the initiative to transmit information to the Shanghai army.

At the beginning, Li Weiguo confessed that unless the wake-up procedure was initiated, every latent person was not allowed to take the initiative to contact Li Weiguo. No. 7 must have remembered this rule, so he replaced it with zero-zero-seven, but Li Weiguo still saw at a glance that zero-zero-seven was No. 7, because when he gave No. 7 to this person, Li Weiguo told him a story of zero-zero-seven.

"Do you know why the numbers of the agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. only start from one hundred and one hundred and why the first hundred numbers never appear?"

When Li Weiguo mentioned this, Chen Jingnan suddenly remembered this strange point, so he realized that he had not seen the agents of the first hundred, could it be that they exist?" ”

"You're the second person besides me to know this!" Li Weiguo smiled and nodded.

Chen Jingnan looked shocked, shocked by Li Weiguo's methods, and at the same time happy in his heart, as the second person to know this secret, he undoubtedly gained Li Weiguo's true trust.

"Thank you Lord for your trust!" Chen Jingnan made a big salute excitedly.

Li Weiguo accepted it calmly and said: "They have already gone out to carry out the hidden mission a long time ago, and they will only be awakened at the most critical moment. ”

Chen Jingnan asked tentatively, "I don't know if you have succeeded in lurking around Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang?" ”

"I don't know! They change their names and surnames, and they only appear in places you don't imagine! Li Weiguo said with a smile, he really didn't know where the hundred agents were, and he didn't even know if they were still alive.

However, in Chen Jingnan's view, he suddenly found that Li Weiguo was unfathomable, which was a kind of imperial wisdom, which made him extremely happy, but also even more afraid.

Accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger, Chen Jingnan felt that he should be mentally prepared for this, although this day came too suddenly. (To be continued......)