Huo Qiu was originally a close confidant of Zhao Guanhou, but he acted on his orders, and this time when he entered Beijing, the sentry fast gun team he brought was similar to that of the guards, and he only talked about obedience. The commander had an order, and he almost didn't think about it, so he pulled out the revolver. The subordinate soldiers are the basic troops in the artillery standard, and their status is like Zhao Guanhou's personal guards, and many of them are hunters taught by him, and they are regarded as mentors.

The discipline of the right army is very strict, especially this sentry, and the obedience is extremely good, as long as the order is given, even if it encounters the Jade Emperor, it dares to fire. Listening to only one order, more than 100 people brushed and took off their rifles, loaded and aimed at the rapid flow of the industry, but Cheng Gongting shouted, "Don't be reckless!" ”

The leader had no fear, and pointed a knife at Zhao Guanhou, "Don't be nosy, this is our enmity with Cheng Devil, and it has nothing to do with you." If you dare to mix it in, even you will be slaughtered! We have set up altars in Zhuangwang's mansion, and the master of the army also believes in the fist of God, do you dare to shoot at the lord, don't you want your head? ”

Zhao Guanhou looked at this group of people coldly, stretched out his hand from his waist, a revolver was already in his hand, and raised his pistol without saying a word, "You'd better have taken the Fa, how about I see your supernatural powers?" Everyone, shoot! ”

After the gunshot, the leader of the group fell down without even shouting, and Huo Qiu hurriedly gave the order, "Shoot!" "The first row of Mini guns fired at the same time, and the Mini bullets let out a scream of death and rushed into the array of boxers.

Those fighters had never been in battle and had no combat experience. They only knew that they had set up an altar in the palace of the capital and performed the Fa in the palace, and even Lafayette knew about him, and these military attachés did not dare to shoot. When the leader was shot and fell, the others didn't react to what was going on, and then they were ruthlessly swept away by the rain of bullets.

A volley was fired, and more than half of the boxers fell, and some people watched their companions who were laughing together fall like this, and they didn't even understand what was happening, they just felt a little cold on their faces. I touched it with my hand, it was slippery and greasy, and I saw that it was blood when I got it in front of me, and then I realized that it was in this burst of sound that my partner was already dead.

"Officers and soldiers have killed, officers and soldiers have killed!" The rest of the people seemed to suddenly understand and pass on this fact to each other, and then they scattered and fled for their lives. During this period of time, the right army can completely leave them all, but Cheng Gongting has already interceded for these people, "You have to be forgiving and forgiving, you can't do things too much, you must always leave a line." ”

Zhao Guanhou did not let people continue to shoot, but came to Cheng Gongting to salute in front of the horse, with Fang Cai's appearance, Cheng Gongting was not good at taking the style of the official again, but treated him as an equal, and dismounted early to help. He looked at Zhao Guanhou, "You are Zhao Guanhou under Yuan Rong'an of the Right Army, right?" It's only you, who has the courage to shoot boxers, for the sake of old decay, you're afraid you've caused a big disaster. ”

"Junmen, if you want to cause trouble, I'm afraid this disaster has already been provoked. I killed their big leader Zhao Laozhu, and even with a few important leaders, I killed them, and everyone just died for the festival, and they didn't resolve it. You don't have to blame yourself, whether you are old or not, we all have to play with our lives. These people dare to bully officials, they want to fight and kill, isn't this a rebellion? If this kind of person is not killed, this Dajin will have no royal law. ”

"Daikin's royal law? I'm afraid it's not just today. Cheng Gongting snorted, it seemed that there were many words, and it was inconvenient to say it, and looked at Zhao Guanhou, "The old man's home is not far from here, go to the house and sit down, we have something to say, go to the house to say." ”

"Thank you for the love of the old army, it's just that I have brought more than 100 people here, there are too many people, I'm afraid of disturbing your family, let's ...... another day"

Cheng Gongting put his face on the board, "What's the matter, the old man's home can't entertain these more than 100 brothers?" ”

As soon as he said this, others couldn't refuse, so they had to line up and follow Cheng Gongting all the way back to Cheng's house. Yipin Admiral's Mansion, since it is a deep mansion compound, it is not difficult to entertain a sentry, Cheng Gongting people are extremely bold, after entering the mansion, he immediately ordered: "Tell the kitchen, make more cakes, go to the market to buy a few hundred catties of beef back, cook cakes and stew beef for the brothers, and put more sugar in the mung bean soup." ”

The soldiers stayed in the courtyard outside and waited for dinner, while Zhao Guanhou followed Cheng Gongting all the way to the small study. When Zhao Guanhou's artillery battalion was first established, in order to form a flying cavalry artillery team, he not only claimed all the military horses that originally belonged to Cheng Gongting's department, but also included the artillery that was originally to be assigned to Cheng's department.

It's just that things have changed, and the original thing doesn't need to be mentioned now, because of the row of guns just now, the two have become very confidants of the New Year's Friend.

After taking his seat, Zhao Guanhou said: "The military gate, the Jinmen gate is the place where the Taiwan is stationed, and the Flying Tiger Regiment is so presumptuous, is there no one to take care of it?" ”

Cheng Gongting sighed, with a sad and helpless look on his face, "Guanhou, the presumptuousness of the Flying Tiger Regiment is more than what you see in front of you. The green tweed sedan chair of Fengzhitai is only allowed to be ridden by a first-class person, and it is a matter of the system, which is not trivial. Even if the official overstepped, he should also be punished, but now, the sedan chair has become the public opinion of Zhang Decheng, the old master of the world's first altar in Jinmen. A grass-headed common man dared to take the sedan chair of a first-class official, enter and exit the governor's yamen, and enter Pingchuan, and invited the gods to come up at every turn, and the army wanted to kneel and kneel to him. The Yamen of the Governor of Zhili has set up an altar, and the ministers of Xinjiang are still like this, so how to talk about the word system? Now on the ground of Jinmen, when I saw the Flying Tiger Regiment, the civil officials got off the sedan chair, and the generals dismounted, otherwise they would attack each other with white blades. The yamen can't restrain these strongmen, and even a lot of big families have suffered from them, if it weren't for you today, the old man's face would have been cut off by this cadre......"

Zhao Guanhou only realized at this time why the boxers glared at him angrily along the way, it turned out that it was because he saw that they had never dismounted. If it weren't for the guards himself, I am afraid that someone would have to face him with a sword. His brow furrowed,

"Old Junmen, how could the Feng Army be fooled by this god-like stick? In Shandong, we wiped out Zhao Laozhu and Zhu Hongdeng, why don't we see their immortal powers. This has been punctured by the Western landscape, can also bluff people? ”

Cheng Gongting shook his head, "Guanhou, this can't all be blamed on the army. Behind the Flying Tiger Regiment, there are backers. In Beijing, Duan and Zhuang Erdi took the lead in setting up altars, and now I heard that even the six halls should set up altars. In the capital, Dong Wuxing, who was in the rear army of the armed guard, breathed out of one nostril with the regimental people, and the officers, soldiers, regiments and bandits were each other's inside and outside. The situation in our Jinmen is not very good. When the group first entered Zhili, the feudal secretary Tingjie was in charge of suppression, and the commander of the clan was in charge of the soothing, and the result was reported to Tingjie, Tingjie was internally transferred, and Tingyong was the commander of the domain. If this is the intention, what about the ministers? If the army refuses to comply with the wishes of the gods, this son is afraid that it will be difficult to protect. It's just that he is an old man, and he is also a little confused. ”

Originally, he was a subordinate of Fenglu, and he shouldn't have talked about Shangguan in vain, but in today's situation, if he hadn't met Zhao Guanhou, the light one would have been ruined, and the heavy one would be in danger of being killed, and he would have dared to say some words.

"Now Jinmen is surrounded by the black smoke and miasma of this dry people, the men enter the Flying Tiger Regiment, and the women enter the red light. Zhang De is a scoundrel, Cao Futian is You Yong, I know the details of these two people, I actually believe that they have supernatural powers, isn't this a big joke? Since ancient times, there have been no people who have heard of the cause of the art, let alone the fact that even the art is fake, let alone believable. The female leader of the red light, the one known as the Holy Mother of the Yellow Lotus, is Tuchang after the Hou family, and these people can now go to the governor's yamen and sit on an equal footing with the platform, and a group of women threaten to use their magical powers to kill foreigners overseas. If all these crazy things are said, and some people believe it, it will be difficult for the world to be peaceful. ”

"Then why is this cadre in trouble with the old soldier, just to not get off the horse?"

Cheng Gongting smiled bitterly: "That's not it, the two of us do have a holiday." The old man guards the Jinmen Gate and has the responsibility of protecting the railway along the way, and the people of the regiment destroy the railway and damage the line poles, and the old man cannot sit idly by. After two attempts failed, I ordered the shooting, killing and wounding hundreds of the regimental people, which is one of the reasons why they hated me. The former wanted to burn down the old dragon head railway station, and I sent troops to shoot and bombard, and they hated me in their hearts. Now that it has spread in Jinmen, if you want to kill all the foreigners, you need the heads of the old man and two subordinates. With their words today, it is not a lie and threat, if the old man can't avoid it, I'm afraid that he will follow in the footsteps of Yang Futong. ”

Zhao Guanhou said: "Kill all the foreigners? Hearing this, they are going to attack all foreigners, regardless of country, have they ever gone to the purple bamboo forest to make trouble? ”

"Why didn't you go? It's just that the purple bamboo forest is heavily guarded, and there are more foreign soldiers, and the Flying Tiger Regiment can't take advantage of it. They also knew it well, and they didn't dare to do it. However, within the Chinese community, foreigners did not dare to act at will. In fact, not only foreigners, but even those who have a little relationship with foreigners are deeply afraid that they will not be able to protect the leader. Within the Jinmen, everyone is already in danger, and they don't know when they will be killed. As a martial artist, Cheng Mou can't defend the country at the top and protect the people at the bottom, so he is really ashamed of his fathers and elders in Jinmen. Of course, you can't control boxers and bandits inside, and you can't control foreign soldiers outside. Not long ago, various countries formed an army, saying that they wanted to enter Beijing to protect their embassies, and when they passed through Yangcun, I sent people to negotiate, but the foreigners refused to listen. If I fight, I have no will, and if I let go, I will be derelict in my duties, and I will have difficulties in each other, which will be difficult for outsiders to understand. Guanhou also asked me to explain the situation to the marshal on my behalf when he entered Beijing this time, and asked the marshal to make a decision as soon as possible, if he felt that Cheng was incompetent, he would change the general as soon as possible, and Cheng would be happy to get out of this place as soon as possible. ”

Zhao Guanhou arched his hand towards Cheng Gongting, "The predicament of the military gate, the lower officials can also understand, everyone is a martial artist, people are not close to the righteous relatives, and the righteous are not close to the gown." It is our duty to help each other. The marshal, the humble will talk about the difficulties of the military, but I am soft-spoken, and it may not be useful to say it. At the moment, the humble official feels that the military gate needs to be careful and watch carefully for the secret plans of the boxers. They dare to kill officials with knives during the day, and I am afraid that sooner or later it will be detrimental to the families of the military gate. Humble duty stopped a train in the old dragon's head, specially for the family members in the army, if the military gate does not give up, the treasure family can be sent to Shandong first. When the wind calms down, it's not too late to pick it up. ”

Cheng Gongting thanked him first, and then said, "Thank you Guanhou for your kindness, but this thing is not feasible." At present, the situation in Tianjin is tense, and the people in Tianjin are already impetuous, and they are happy to speak out. Now there are flying tiger regiments, red lights, stirring up right and wrong, foreigners display military ships at Dagukou, in my opinion, if not dealt with early, the military disaster will only be in the mist. If there is a war together, the people of the regiment can't count on it, and we soldiers still want to defend Gyeonggi and the two palaces. Our army's equipment is inferior to people, and its combat skills are inferior to people, and those who rely on it are only morale. As the main general, I should share weal and woe with the soldiers, if I send my family away first, what will my subordinates think? According to my thoughts, the boxers don't dare to be unfavorable to my family, after all, the old man has these dozens of battalions of soldiers in his hands, and they themselves have to weigh their weight. ”

He has made up his mind, and Zhao Guanhou can't shake it again. He invited Zhao Guanhou to come over, mainly to thank him for his help, but also to remind him that now that the Jinmen Tuan is powerful, he should not blindly touch it, otherwise he will have to blame Duan and Zhuang Erwang, not only will it not help the situation, but will damage itself.

The soldiers outside were all flatbread and beef, and Cheng Gongting specially opened a table for Zhao Guanhou as a hospitality, and all kinds of grievances in the past were also invisible in this banquet.

There is a chef in his house who is good at Huaiyang cuisine, and the meat is a thousand threads, and the cooking is not much different from the Yuhuatai in the capital. When the two were eating and drinking happily, a material official suddenly walked in from outside, muttered a few words in Cheng Gongting's ear, and then waited to say goodbye, but he was looking at Zhao Guanhou, and they were both stunned.

This talented officer is not very old, has outstanding appearance, and has a good appearance, but these are not the point, the key is that the two are old acquaintances. This young material officer is Pang Yulou, the second son of Pang Yulou, the assistant teacher of the Martial Arts Academy.

Because of the bombardment of Cisheng, although there is no clear evidence pointing to him, his various actions are also very suspicious, and Yuan Weiting is ready to send someone to investigate. I didn't want him to run away when he heard the wind, and there was no trace, but he was sheltered in Cheng Gongting's army. Judging by his closeness, he is also a close confidant of Cheng Gongting.

Hearing Pang Yulou's whisper, Cheng Gongting nodded, "Sure enough, that's the case." Guanhou, as I thought, the people of the Flying Tiger Regiment first went to the army to complain, saying that someone shot without authorization and killed the righteous people, and the army should uphold justice, otherwise they would have to pay it back by themselves. The army asked me to go to Yamen, so I must have something to say. ”

"It's a lowly duty to kill boxers, and you have to fight a lawsuit, I'm afraid that I'll have to be the murderer to get to the case, Junmen, and I will go through this with you."

Cheng Gongting shook his head, "That's not necessary, if Cheng can't end this lawsuit, then the command of the former army of the Wuwei can't continue." Guanhou, you just have to go and do your own business, in front of the stage, I have my own strength. Left and right killed dozens of boxers, and it didn't matter. The army is not a fool, and it will not really ask the court to order officials to be killed for the sake of some boxers. It's just that Jinmen is not peaceful now, and the boxers don't know the law and discipline, so you have to be more careful yourself. ”

As soon as the master left, Zhao Guanhou had no choice but to leave, and the place he could go to was the house at the Zizhulin Wharf. Now that he has offended the boxers, it is not good to go directly to Meng Siyuan, otherwise he is afraid that he will be implicated. I just wanted to settle down at home first, and then visit a few Cao Gang leaders, and they would come forward and invite Meng Siyuan to their home for a talk.

Leaving Chengfu, the time has reached the afternoon, and as you see along the way, the market is quite depressed, far less prosperous than when Zhao Guanhou was in Tianjin. On the street, the gangsters wandering around can no longer see a shadow, only a group of boxers in red clothes and white blades, running back and forth, looking at pedestrians vigilantly, probably ready to find a few Ermaozi to solve it at any time.

When he was not far from the purple bamboo forest, he saw more than a dozen young students, wearing uniforms and carrying schoolbags, running lifelessly. Behind them were dozens of boxers with red scarves on their heads, holding shiny steel knives and spears. Seeing that Zhao Guanhou was an official soldier here, the students ran here desperately, but the last two students were fatter and their physical strength was not very good. (To be continued.) )