On the hunting road of the royal garden in the western suburbs, a cavalry of 1,000 people is galloping forward.

It is the attire of the Shanghai army, and there are men and women in the ranks.

The leader is none other than Li Weiguo and Su Sanniang, followed by the two of them's personal guards.

"How far is it?"

Li Weiguo stopped and asked suddenly, taking a short rest, and Su Sanniang on the side took out a Xiupa, wiping the hot sweat on Li Weiguo's forehead, extremely gentle.

Since Su Sanniang had a relationship with Li Weiguo, she has finally changed her sex, and she stays by Li Weiguo's side like a gentle and considerate little daughter-in-law all the time, taking care of his diet and daily life.

Especially this time when he went out with the army, only Su Sanniang accompanied him, and he monopolized Li Weiguo's rain and dew, as if he was on a honeymoon.

At this time, the guide replied: "If you go back to your lordship, it is not far away, and there are about thirty miles to Baiwang Villa." ”

Li Weiguo nodded, looked at the sky, then turned over his horse and continued to move forward.

However, as soon as he walked ten miles, he met Chen Liang, the commander of the fourth town of the Shanghai Army, and Hai Mingze and others.

Seeing Li Weiguo, Chen Liang and Hai Mingze and others were very excited, congratulating Li Weiguo on winning the glorious victory of the Battle of Songhu, but it was also a little sour, as one of the main forces of the Shanghai army, the fourth town failed to participate in the Battle of Songhu, and it was inevitable that there was some loss.

Li Weiguo laughed and said, "Don't worry, the battle has been fought, hasn't the British and French forces already conquered Tianjin?" In this battle, your fourth town will be the main attack. ”

"Great!"

Chen Liang and Hai Mingze suddenly became happy.

However, Li Weiguo continued: "But before that, your first task is to move the Old Summer Palace back to Shanghai. ”

Chen Liang and Hai Mingze glanced at each other and said excitedly: "Don't worry, my lord, we have dug through the tunnel, and we can enter the Old Summer Palace at any time without knowing it." It's just that if we move the Old Summer Palace back to Shanghai, won't the emperor have to find an adult to fight hard? ”

Li Weiguo snorted coldly. said: "Don't worry about Xianfeng, he will have been vomiting blood from anger, and it is estimated that he will not live for a few months, let's move the Old Summer Palace away with the front foot, and he will be so angry that he will have braids on the back foot." ”

Hahahaha!

Everyone was immediately happy, and there was nothing more enjoyable than making the emperor vomit blood and braid.

The crowd talked as they walked.

Chen Liang and Hai Mingze reported to Li Weiguo about the situation in the Old Summer Palace. They had been at Baiwang Villa for a long time, and their investigation of the royal gardens was naturally very clear.

"My lord, the Old Summer Palace is only a small part of the royal garden, so many of us are here, do we only move the Old Summer Palace back to Shanghai?"

In this era, the Old Summer Palace and the Old Summer Palace as later generations called it were different in direction, and it was not a concept. The former is only a part of the royal gardens of the Three Mountains and Five Gardens, which refer to Wanshou Mountain, Yuquan Mountain, and Xiangshan, and the Five Gardens refer to the Old Summer Palace, Changchun Garden, Wanchun Garden, Tsinghua Garden, and Changchun Garden. The last two are two parts of the first Chinese garden built by the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and the first three were expanded in the late Qing Dynasty, which together are known as the Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens.

Chen Liang and Hai Mingze thought that Li Weiguo said that he would move the Old Summer Palace back to Shanghai, but he was only referring to one of the Three Mountains and Five Gardens. And Li Weiguo's meaning is to move all the good things in the entire Three Mountains and Five Gardens back to Shanghai, because in later generations, the Old Summer Palace is the collective name of the entire Three Mountains and Five Gardens.

Li Weiguo then said: "Not only the Old Summer Palace, but all the good things that can be removed in the entire royal garden, otherwise what do I want so many of you to do." ”

Chen Liang and Hai Mingze smiled. Sure enough, they had to move the entire royal garden, otherwise they would send a whole town of troops over. Some are overkill.

Su Sanniang, who was on the side, suddenly said at this time: "Husband, if you do this, it is no different from rebellion!" ”

Li Weiguo said with a smile: "I just Xianfeng to death first, and then look at the attitude of the imperial court!" ”

Chen Jingnan explained: "If the imperial court has a tough attitude, it means that they are full of confidence and have the capital to fight us." Then the adults have to consider the gains and losses of an all-out war with the imperial court. But if they swallow their anger, then it means that they know that they can't beat us, and the adults can continue to slowly encroach on the imperial court, and we will first unify the two rivers and four provinces, and then annex the entire south of the Yangtze River. Then he controlled Zhili and coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, until all the forces against the adults were cut off one by one. ”

Su Sanniang understood, but she smiled: "I can't see it, you still want to be Cao Cao!" ”

Li Weiguo asked rhetorically: "Then do you want to be a concubine?" ”

Su Sanniang suddenly glanced at Li Weiguo, and said coquettishly: "Is it rare? It's almost the same to give me a queen. ”

Li Weiguo was speechless for a moment, and the others quickly turned their heads away, pretending not to hear.

Everyone quickly arrived at Baiwang Villa.

At this time, Baiwang Villa had been built, Xianfeng gave the surrounding land to Li Weiguo, and allocated funds from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to Li Weiguo to build a magnificent official residence, both in terms of area and magnificence, far exceeding the palace of the first prince Prince Gong Yixin. At that time, Xianfeng was not well-intentioned and wanted to put Li Weiguo under house arrest here, and now Xianfeng must regret his death, a typical loss of his wife and his soldiers, no wonder he vomited blood.

The door plate of Baiwang Villa has been replaced with the word Li Fu, and the inside and outside are heavily guarded, and the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Town of the Shanghai Army disguised themselves as workers who built the official residence, and set up a company camp nearby, just like a military camp.

When Li Weiguo and his entourage entered the official residence, they did not have time to visit, so they immediately convened a meeting of officers above the battalion commander level in the conference hall.

"At present, the emperor has fled to the summer resort in Chengde, and there are 2,000 guards in the royal garden, and some concubines, palace maids and eunuchs stay behind to take care of the daily life, about 1,000 people, a total of 3,000 people, we enter from the tunnel, the inside and the outside should be combined, and the entire royal garden can be controlled within three hours."

"It's just a few people, and it takes three hours?"

Li Weiguo was immediately dissatisfied, and Chen Liang hurriedly explained: "My lord doesn't know, this royal garden is too big, and it takes two and a half hours for our soldiers to run and move forward to reach the four garden gates in the east, west, north and south of the royal garden, and half an hour is enough for the actual battle." ”

No wonder!

Li Weiguo has no choice, there is no car in this era, so he can only run back and forth on two legs, so he can only do this for the time being.

"All of you in the fourth town are disguised as Anglo-French troops, and I have brought you military uniforms, and you are not allowed to speak Chinese when you enter the garden. The Imperial Forest Army was all killed, and the eunuchs, concubines, and palace maids were all pitiful, so they were stunned and locked up first, and then let them go when everything was over. ”

Chen Liang and other officers and soldiers of the Fourth Town were a little reluctant when they heard that they were going to change into foreigners' military uniforms, but in order to complete the task. They also had to carry out orders.

In the Battle of Songhu, the Shanghai army annihilated more than 100,000 British and French troops, only a few thousand prisoners were left useful, and a large number of weapons and equipment were captured.

Of course, this kind of blame can only be short-lived, and when the war is over, the imperial court will definitely find out that Li Weiguo did it. But Li Weiguo needs this time difference. Because Xianfeng was already angry after the war, whether the court turned against Li Weiguo or continued to pretend to be confused was a choice question given by Li Weiguo to the court.

"Our scouts have secretly infiltrated the royal gardens to investigate, and there are a large number of rare treasures, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, ancient sacrificial vessels, etc., which are initially estimated to be at least more than one million pieces, mainly concentrated in the Old Summer Palace, Qingyi Garden and Tsinghua Garden, etc., our operation will start on the night of the 11th, and it is planned to take a week to move. By the eighteenth day it must be over, and then ready for battle. ”

Li Weiguo added: "Eighteenth. The Qing army led by Seng Lingqin will have a decisive battle with the Anglo-French coalition army, although Monk Lingqin has 300,000 troops, but it is vulnerable, and it will be completely defeated by the British and French coalition forces in half a day at most. The first and fifth towns of the Shanghai army will detour to the flank of the British and French forces, and launch a surprise attack on them in order to fight for a decisive battle. ”

Chen Liang suddenly said anxiously: "My lord." And what about our Fourth Town? ”

Li Weiguo smiled and said, "Your main task is to safely transport those treasures in the Old Summer Palace back to Shanghai. ”

Chen Liang and Hai Mingze and other officers of the four towns were obviously a little lost, they were soldiers, and they were honored to fight.

At this time, Chen Jingnan hurriedly said: "Don't be bitter, you must know that the value of this treasure is immeasurable. From the artifacts of the pre-Qin era to the famous calligraphy and paintings of the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties and all kinds of Chinese and Western treasures, this is a difficult task, and it is not a trustworthy person to undertake. It is the Lord's trust in you that will let you carry out this task, you must know that Zhang Xiaoliu has not won this task after several times with the Lord's ink, but the Lord has given it to you, which shows the Lord's trust in you, which is an incomparable glory, and I will give you a first-class credit when I turn back. ”

Hearing Chen Jingnan say this, Chen Liang, Hai Mingze and other officers of the Fourth Town suddenly turned pale, this is Li Weiguo's greatest trust in them, it is a supreme glory, and there are first-class military merits to be obtained, which is a great thing.

"Don't worry, my lord, we promise to complete the task!"

The day of action is fast approaching.

When night fell, the Baiwang Villa began to get busy.

The tunnel gate was opened, and a group of Shanghai officers and soldiers changed into the uniforms of the British and French forces, and then entered the tunnel with loaded guns.

Soon, the tunnel exit in the Old Summer Palace was opened, and the scouts came out first, and they guarded the area with guns, clearing an open space so that more Shanghai soldiers could be gathered.

At the same time, another group of Shanghai troops pretending to be British and French troops outside the gate of the palace arrived, which immediately made the Qing troops guarding the gate nervous.

Wen Feng, the minister of the royal garden management, hurriedly came out to negotiate, indicating that this was a royal garden, and also wanted to let the fake British and French troops on the opposite side retreat.

However, what awaited him was a 9mm rifle bullet that killed him in an instant.

"Fire!"

Knock knock......

The Fourth Town Artillery Regiment opened fire, and one hundred and eight Type 59 infantry guns held back for a year, and today they finally found an outlet.

In an instant, a burst of shells whistled and exploded, lighting up half of the sky in an instant.

I saw that the gate of the palace was destroyed by the fierce artillery fire in an instant, and the defenders of the hundreds of garden gates were blown up before they could react.

This is the royal garden, the guards of the Imperial Forest Army are all the children of the banner people, they are used to being pampered on weekdays, they have never fought, and they are all the children of the Imperial Forest Army who come to the Royal Forest Army to gild.

As soon as the gun rang out, they were all frightened in an instant, and immediately shouted for help from their parents and ran away with their heads in their arms.

"Rush me!"

"Quick Fix!"

The officer at the head shouted in English, and the soldiers around him were stunned for a moment and did not understand. Fortunately, he was well-trained on weekdays, and the commander's eyes and movements understood, so the Shanghai soldiers began to charge.

The guns thundered and the bullets rained down.

These guards of the royal garden, their weapons are not muskets and cannons, but a luxuriously decorated clear knife, some of which have never even been pulled out, and this drawing knife suddenly found that it was stuck.

Dense bullets hit, and the Qing army suddenly fell in a large area.

"Foreigners are amazing, run!"

I don't know which second ancestor shouted, turned around and fled, so the chain effect, the other royal guards turned into birds and scattered, scattering in all directions.

The Shanghai army quickly broke through the Dagong Gate, and it took less than five minutes before and after.

"A battalion goes to Qingyi Garden!"

"The second battalion goes to the Old Summer Palace!"

……

The mission was very clear, and the combat units had long known their mission and rushed to their respective mission areas under the guidance of their guides.

Hearing the news, the other Imperial Forest Army rushed to meet their companions who fled for their lives on the way, and when they heard that the foreigners were powerful and the gate of the Great Palace was lost, these Royal Forest Army who were ready to reinforce quickly ran away.

The concubines, palace maids, and eunuchs in the royal garden were so frightened that they had to quickly pack up and escape while they were in chaos, and some of them hid directly in the room and shivered.

The soldiers of the Shanghai Army who originally infiltrated the Old Summer Palace in advance, they were originally preparing to defeat the Imperial Forest Army in one fell swoop, but the plan could not catch up with the changes, and they did not expect the Imperial Forest Army to be so vulnerable that they were destroyed in minutes.

As a result, the inside and outside could not be used, and all began to search the garden for the remnants of the Imperial Forest Army, concubines, palace maids, eunuchs, and craftsmen who repaired the garden.

Li Weiguo was still on the hillside in the distance, and was about to watch the battle, but unexpectedly, it only took a few minutes for the Shanghai army to defeat the Imperial Forest Army and attack the Old Summer Palace, so he had to hurry into the Old Summer Palace.

"Husband, the danger hasn't been lifted yet, let's go in after a while!"

Su Sanniang stopped Li Weiguo, since Li Weiguo almost died on the battlefield of Songhu last time, Su Sanniang has strictly guarded Li Weiguo, and she was also entrusted by Fu Shanxiang and Shen Ziyan to let her husband take risks again.

Li Weiguo said: "I'm afraid that they will damage my garden and smash my things!" ”

The Old Summer Palace is full of treasures, from the ancient pre-Qin era, the precious treasures of the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties were almost all looted into the Old Summer Palace by the emperors of the Qing Dynasty.

Su Sanniang snorted and said coquettishly: "You are really, that is the royal garden, the royal thing, and now it is yours!" Are you a robber? ”

Li Weiguo retorted: "What robber? It's so ugly! These things were robbed by the Manchu emperor, and when our ancestors got these treasures, they were still wild people outside the gate. I'm taking back the legacy of my ancestors. ”

"Okay, good, it's all yours!" Su Sanniang couldn't say anything about Li Weiguo, but she just stopped him from letting him pass.

Li Weiguo had no choice but to keep sending people in to inform him that he was not allowed to destroy the building or smash things, and he was surnamed Li. (To be continued......)