Just under Taiyuan City, he sat on a cold bench in the National History Museum for many years, and now Zheng Xie, who has been the governor of Shanxi again, is in a hurry, and heard Gu Shining complain that the red clothes are trying to eliminate and drive away the Tartars, but the civil officials are trying to turn the Tartars into their own people, Zheng Xie wants to defend the civil officials: "If you talk about the head, the civil officials are afraid that there are many more cuts than the red clothes......

Gu Shining didn't mention it in one breath, his face was blue and white.

Civilian officials killed more people than martial artists, which was a common phenomenon in the northern expedition of the British Dynasty, especially in Shanxi. Gu Shining's Third Army of the Northern Expedition had not fought a few tough battles, and with the cooperation of civilian officials, the red clothes were everywhere, no, even just the red shadow swaying, and the place was falling from the wind. And the Jin merchant Haoqiang, who was scheduled to be cleared, had already consciously dragged his family and fled to Zhili to get the ferry tickets issued to them by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

In Hedong Road and Jining Road, civil officials relied on red vests and black clothes to implement the three-light policy, killing as many as 350,000 people in most of the month.

Gu Shining's posture changed suddenly: "Zheng Fu, Hedong Jining and Jining are killing people in two ways, the two Tartars can run, and those who can't run away are all gathered in Yanping Road, since ancient times, it has been a place where thieves are in trouble and peace, isn't it a good word, let us help suppress bandits in red clothes?" ”

Not to mention the courage to defend the city and protect the road, the two red-clothed divisions can't just travel in Shanxi, Gu Shining is pulling business.

Of course, Zheng Xie is not willing to borrow red clothes easily, Shanxi Province is the cooperation of Sichuan, Shaanxi, two lakes and four provinces, and the resources of the entire four provinces can be mobilized, not to mention the red vests, there are tens of thousands of black clothes available, and they can't use so much at one time, and they are all scheduled for shift rotation, and there are several shifts waiting behind, this also needs a red-clothed helper, and he is too incompetent as a governor.

Zheng Xie's refusal was very tactful: "The Second Army is not going to flank Zhili. Do you want to go straight to the city of Beijing? ”

Gu Shining sighed faintly: "I want to too, but Xie Shuai sent a military order to suspend the eastward advance, first secure the northern line of Jin, and monitor Chahar Mongolia." ”

Zheng Xie frowned, what threat can Chahar Mongolia have? This Mongolia does not belong to the Mongolian Eight Banners, nor does it belong to Inner Mongolia, let alone Mobei Mongolia. The Manchus made up another Chahar Mongolian Eight Banners, which were governed by the Mongolian capital in Beijing, and they had already been divided and ruled, and they could not be gathered together.

After the Yinghua conquered Mobei Mongolia, even the Inner Mongolian tribes were secretly communicating with the Yinghua, but only the Mongolian Eight Banners and Horqin and other Inner Mongolian tribes were too deeply entangled with the Manchus. Continue to huddle together to keep warm, but Chahar Mongolia is not among them. As the descendants of Lin Dan Khan, the general trend and righteousness are pressing, and it is impossible for them to serve the Manchurians wholeheartedly.

Everyone knows that Xie Dingbei is cautious, but not to the point of being cautious, right?

Gu Shining said: "Monitoring Chahar Mongolia is only one reason, the situation in Zhili has changed, and in the direction of Tanggu, the Fifth Army is struggling. His Majesty issued an edict to slow down the attack on Zhili. So...... Our Third Army will have to stay in Shanxi for a while longer. ”

The Anglo-North Expeditionary Army was organized into six routes and divided into seven armies, namely the main force of the South Route Army in the direction of the Grand Canal, which governed the First Army, the West Route Army in the direction of Shaanxi and Hubei, the Second Army in Henan, and the Third Army in Shanxi. The North Route Army in the direction of Mobei was under the jurisdiction of the Fourth Army, and the East Route Army that landed from Tanggu was under the jurisdiction of the Fifth Army.

The Sixth Army in the Shandong direction was directly controlled by the emperor, and the Liaodong direction was divided into another theater of operations. Han Zaixing was appointed as the governor of Liaodong. The Seventh Army was only a red-clothed formation, and the Metropolitan Governor's Office also had a number of Korean servant armies.

The combat strength of the Fifth Army led by Zhang Ying and Feng must be no weaker than that of the Third Army. Including the two battalions of the Fubo Army and the two red-clothed divisions, the three battalions of the Manchu Xishan, Fengtai and Tongzhou were weak in combat strength, and even if the Xishan battalion that could withstand a war poured out, it would be impossible to resist these 20,000 elites.

Hearing that the Fifth Army was blocked, the surprise on Zheng Xie's face was undisguised, and it was the same as Gu Shining's expression when he received the news before, how could it be!?

Gu Shining smiled bitterly: "Unity fist ......"

Muhd waged a "people's" war in Shanxi, and later generations of Manchus judged that he was limited to the position of the bureaucratic class, did not believe in the revolutionary enthusiasm of the masses of the people, and did not dare to mobilize the masses to the maximum.

When the British and Chinese were advancing in Henan, Shanxi, and even Shandong, the British imperialist troops that had landed at Tanggu had been submerged under the vast ocean of the people's war, and this was the real people's war. Under the correct leadership of the leaders of the Hui Party and the sect leaders, and under the guidance of the great theory of the Manchu court that "to protect the Qing Dynasty is to protect the world, and to protect the Qing Dynasty is to protect China," the revolutionary class led the poor middle peasants to launch waves of singing and weeping attacks against the vicious British imperialist bandits.

Tanggu, the governor of the East Route Army, and the commander of the Fifth Army, Zhang Ying, stood on the sentry tower, holding a telescope and looking at the northwest direction, his face full of melancholy. The city of Tianjin in the northwest is billowed with black smoke, which is not caused by the siege of the city by the red clothes, but by the boxers named Unity Fist burning the city.

"Your Majesty has ordered the march to be postponed, and the current situation is not a crime of war, and the Governor does not have to mind."

Seeing Zhang Ying put down the binoculars and sighed deeply, his subordinates persuaded him like this.

Zhang Ying nodded first and shook his head: "I'm not worried about merit and crime, but I'm worried that this unity fist will disrupt the overall situation of the Northern Expedition, which is not a dilemma that our martial artists can solve." ”

At the same time, on the official road in the southeast of Tianjin, thousands of red-clothed and blue-clothed people were lining up left and right, retreating in battle formation. The sound of gunfire was incessant, although it was extremely messy, but it was overwhelming, and this team was like being in a turbulent vortex, and at a rough glance, the situation was precarious. And there are a large number of people in the middle of the team, including both British and Chinese, as well as old and weak women and children dressed as Qing people, which is even more worrying.

"These boxers are simply inhuman beasts, I really want to kill them all in one go!"

Feng Ming, the deputy governor of the Eastern Route Army and the deputy commander of the Fifth Army, clenched his fists and his eyes were red.

The army under his command is surrounded by tens of thousands of "Unity Fists", which looks dangerous, but in fact it is thundering and raining. Since the withdrawal from Tianjin City, the team has only injured a dozen people, but those boxers who are enthusiastic and vainly trying to attack the blocking front have left hundreds of corpses, and now these tens of thousands of boxers only dare to gather half a mile and a mile away, and vigorously put shotguns and earth cannons, as if they can scare the British and Chinese troops away by relying on this lively energy.

On the route from Tanggu to Beijing City, Feng must have led the army twice, but this time the things are still the same, but the people are different. These boxers gathered from the countryside of Zhili were cruel and ignorant, besieging Tanggu and turning to Tianjin City. When you see people who are not well-dressed, you will kill them, and if you see things you don't know, you will smash them, and in the future, you will simply burn the house when you see it.

Tianjin City by the Tanggu Port north and south integration of the influence, the city of British and Chinese goods prevailed, most of the people also changed the British Chinese people's costumes, in addition to the Yinghua built temples, hospitals and schools, the local also imitated. A number of hospital schools have been built.

When the Fifth Army came from the sea, the unity fist of Beizhili also chanted the slogan of protecting the Qing Dynasty and destroying the British, and gathered in Tianjin Mansion one by one, and Tianjin City suddenly became a hell on earth. Zhang Ying and Feng Certain's Fifth Army not only failed to advance north quickly, but instead became a firefighting team, constantly dividing divisions and battalions. First rescued the British and Chinese people, and then rescued the innocent people. Tanggu has also become a huge refugee camp, gathering at least 100,000 civilians whose families have been ruined by the scourge of Solidarity Fist.

In this situation, it is not impossible to continue to advance northward, and the unity fist does not pose a fatal threat to the Fifth Army militarily, and the trouble is logistical support. Most of the members of the Solidarity Fist were poor peasants who had been coerced and wanted to be killed with a ruthless hand, and the people of the country, especially the press, who had come with the Fifth Army, had a lot of talk to talk about.

So at this moment. Although Feng must have given an order, he could kill these boxers to the point of blood, he could only suppress this fiery thought, and protect the last batch of people rescued from Tianjin City to return to Tanggu. At this time, Zhang Yingtanggu felt the same emotion, this is not a simple military issue. The Northern Expedition urgently halted the Fifth Army's advance, and even let the Shanxi Third Army temporarily not enter the Northern Zhili, which was to realize that the British North Expedition was not to conquer foreign races, and it was necessary to take means other than military to solve the unity fist.

"Great victory! Great victory! Nanban was beaten away by us! ”

Seeing that the red clothes and blue clothes gradually retreated into Tanggu, there were artillery guns outside. Behind the line of trenches with barbed wire. The boxers erupted in earth-shattering cheers.

"I've never seen the world, what kind of victory is this? I was in Beijing. But the Consulate General, the Temple of Heaven and the Ying Tzu Yuan were breached! Nanban was killed by us and bled like a river! ”

On a hill, Baoding Mansion "Baoqing Dingjiangshan Boxing", referred to as Baoqing Boxing's senior brother He Zhi is dressed in a strong suit, wrapped in black cloth, and the ghost head is on the back, which is heroic and majestic, and his heroic words make his subordinates shake.

"Let's Baoqing Fist has a senior brother in charge, and the future is immeasurable!"

"It's so unfair that the eighteen scoops of the Unity Fist don't have a senior brother!"

The subordinates praised He Zhi one after another, but He Zhi was very sober and a little hungry......

Seeing that there was a village next to the official road, He Zhi waved his hand and said: "Nanban has passed all the way, and it must have infected the people along the road, and we must not let go of a person who has been poisoned!" The day of Zhili must be clear and clear, the day of the Qing Dynasty! Go, exorcise evil spirits! ”

At the sound of the order, hundreds of boxers in various colors, wielding single knives, carrying hoes, and carrying shuttle darts, rushed to the village.

"With brute money? Damn it! ”

"This is the tap fire of the Southern Barbarians, Second Barbarian!"

"Still quibbling? What's on your windows? It's not paper, it's Nanban's glass! Say that you are two barbarians, and you dare to shout injustice!? ”

The boxers poured into the village, and their eyes breathed fire, and sure enough! As the senior brother said, this place is also full of demons from the Southern Barbarians, and the people who use these things are naturally no longer human, they have become two barbarians, and the two barbarians are little demons, kill!

There was a cry in the village, the villagers were honest farmers, in addition to farming, relying on the newly built official roads in the vicinity in recent years, transporting goods and living people, all of them were lifted out of poverty, but they never thought that they had anything to do with Nanban. When the government came to collect the "barbarian silver", every household enthusiastically pledged to donate, and the people in the neighboring villages fled to Tanggu, and they also consciously stayed out of the matter. But he didn't want to unite his fist, pointed to something, and buttoned them up with the big hat of the second barbarian, and killed them without hesitation.

A young couple begged for mercy, but the boxers really didn't find anything in the peasant couple, He Zhi looked at the peasant woman on the side, and said casually: "That woman, the clothes on your body are sewn from Nanban cloth!" ”

The subordinates chimed in: "It must be the Southern Barbarians, tear it off and take a closer look!" ”

The peasant woman pinched the collar and trembled: "I weave my own cloth and cut my own clothes!" ”

He Zhi said angrily: "Then your thread and your needle are also made by yourself?" That's also Nanban's! ”

The subordinates clamored to pull the peasant woman again, but the farmer was a stunned person, and protected his wife and said: "According to this, there is no one in Zhili who is not a second barbarian!" ”

He Zhi was stunned for a moment, and was furious: "It is also reasonable for us to unite our fists to do things, whether they are two barbarians or not, they have their own way of distinguishing!" If you don't accept it, I will burn incense sticks for you, and if you don't smoke it, you will be wronged! ”

Burning incense to show evil demons, this is the method used by the Unity Fist when it is unable to identify the "two barbarians", "three barbarians" and even "ten barbarians" by foreign objects, the farmer does not believe this, and said angrily: "Anyway, whoever you say is, who has to be, right?" ”

He Zhi felt that something seemed to be stabbing him in the eyes of this stubborn farmer, and his anger turned into rage, like a wounded beast, his eyes showed a fierce light, his throat was snoring, he took off the big knife with his backhand, and slashed down, the blade slashed into the farmer's shoulder, sank straight into his chest, splashed a puddle of blood, and dyed half of the peasant woman's body.

"I'm a big brother! I've killed Nanban! I'm not talking about the top number, but you're talking about the top number? ”

He Zhi kicked away the farmer's corpse, and then said loudly: "Our unity fist is to protect the Great Qing, and to fight against us is to oppose the Great Qing!" Those who oppose the Qing Dynasty are the Nanban! Kill you unjustly! ”

The bloody big knife pointed at the peasant woman who was screaming, and He Zhi said sharply: "Peel! Skinned this female barbarian! ”

The heart-tearing screams continued for a long time, and finally gradually reduced to a low moan, He Zhi stepped on the woman who was penetrated by foreign objects in the upper and lower orifices, and was covered in bruises, and smashed a small glass hand mirror on the woman's head: "What is this?" I didn't wrong you! ”

The hustle and bustle of the small village is reaching the highest point, the official road is around, and the songs of the boxers have also merged into a sea of passion.

"Unity fist, protect the country, just because the barbarians are in the Central Plains. If it doesn't rain, it's all the devils covering the sky, the women are unscrupulous, the men are not virtuous, and the barbarians are not ...... by men."

"If you don't believe it, look carefully, the barbarian has no braids. The gods are also angry, and the immortals are also annoyed, so they go down the mountain together to pass the fist, burn the yellow table, make cigarettes, and invite the gods and immortals in each cave. ”

"Don't use soldiers, just fists, it's not difficult to abolish the barbarians. Burn barbarian cloth, melt barbarian money, go to the sea to overturn the steamer, the southern barbarians, all killed, and the Qing Dynasty will unify the country! ”