Chapter 224: Li Hongzhang's thoughts
"General, our people have come up, and this Qing army patrol team is really lax enough, a tour every quarter of an hour!" Li Baoquan prepared a lot of ways to deal with it, but he didn't use them one by one, and he was happy and funny in his heart.
Tang Liang smiled, he also felt that it was too smooth, and turned around and said: "Ten people come out, change the clothes of the Qing soldiers, find out the code of the Qing army, let's go down and open the city gate." ”
"Stop! Signal! Tang Liang saw a group of Qing soldiers coming in front of him, and immediately asked.
The leader of the Qing army was stunned for a moment, confused, and asked left and right, "What code?" Is there a code on it? ”
I thought about it for a while, shook my head together, and said no.
The leader of the Qing army suddenly felt bad, looked at Tang Liang and the others who were getting closer and closer, and asked loudly, "What part are you from?" It's our battalion patrol tonight, why haven't I seen you? ”
Tang Liang asked again: "If you can't say the code, you are the spies of the Han army!" ”
The leader of the Qing army took two steps back, thinking to himself: Could it be that they were sent by the chief soldier? Otherwise, why is it so reasonable, but the pipe band really didn't say any code, it's bad! It must be that the person sent by the chief soldier has a secret contact, and the level of the pipe band is too low, or the pipe band master forgot to tell us!
"My lord misunderstood! We are the people of the Dagu Association, ah! You're the devil! "When the leader of the Qing army saw Tang Liang's appearance, he immediately remembered the Battle of Dagu, when this person led a battalion of men and horses, killed one of their associations, and the general was killed on the spot.
"Poof", "Poof", "Poof"......
Tang Liang and the others quickly threw out the flying knives, and the Qing soldiers of this team were killed in an instant, and the knives were stuck in their throats.
Li Baoquan sent someone to come forward and clean it up. "General, now we have been exposed." If this group does not return after a quarter of an hour, the Qing army will definitely send someone to investigate. It's better to kill the city gate now and receive the army into the city! ”
Tang Liang said: "That's right, I didn't expect the Qing army's defense to be so lax, this Tianjin general soldier is really a layman, let's find the wall ladder and go down!" ”
Two hundred people lined up in two lines and walked blatantly on the city wall.
The sound of neat footsteps woke up the sleeping soldier, who opened his hazy eyes and saw that it was his own person. muttered a few more curses, closed his eyes, and only when he met an official would someone ask:
"Stop! Who are you? ”
Li Baoquan immediately replied loudly: "The chief soldier sent us to patrol the city to prevent a sneak attack by the Han army!" ”
Hearing such a reasonable answer, the official stopped talking and let Tang Liang and the others pass by.
Tang Liang and the others walked for about a mile before they came to the entrance of the Dengcheng Road, where more than ten Qing soldiers sat crookedly, and saw Tang Liang and others coming over. Immediately get up and hold the knife.
"Stop! No traffic here! ”
Li Baoquan said: "We were sent by the chief soldier, and we won't let us go!" ”
The leader of the Qing army looked up and down, making sure that he had not seen this group of characters, and was shocked. The expression on his face was also unnatural, and he gestured to the Qing soldiers behind him, and said nonsense in his mouth: "Take out the token and let me see?" There are no tokens. Unless you are a lieutenant general or above, you can pass. ”
Tang Liang saw a Qing soldier slowly retreating, and secretly exclaimed that it was not good. With a wave of his hand, a dagger flashed. The Qing soldier slowly fell to the ground holding his throat, causing a commotion among the Qing army.
Seeing the boss move, the Han army immediately swung his sword forward, solemnly and quickly, and there was still a cry for help.
Tang Liang didn't stop doing anything, and immediately released the signal, and a white light shone in the sky.
"Everyone wraps a white cloth around their sleeves, and when they see a white cloth, they are their own people!" Tang Liang took out the white cloth from his arms and said while tying it.
"Kill!" Li Baoquan took the lead, ran down the stairs, killed people when he saw them, cut them when he met them, and some of the Qing soldiers lost their lives in a daze while they were still asleep.
"Someone is rebelling!" In the darkness, the Qing soldiers in the rear only saw their own people killed, and immediately shouted.
The newly joined Qing army didn't know the situation, and when they saw that their own people were killed, they also slashed at their own people indiscriminately, and when Tang Liang led his troops to break away, they were still killing each other, and the sound of weapons crashing was mixed with shouting and scolding, and it was endless.
Looking at the hundreds of Qing soldiers standing in line at the city gate, Li Baoquan had an idea, led fifty people to rush to the city gate, and shouted: "The deputy general has rebelled!" He let the Han army into the city! The lieutenant general has reversed! ”
The battalion officer at the city gate was confused, thinking that he was the confidant of the adjutant general Hainatu, and the adjutant general rebelled, why didn't he inform himself, didn't he trust me? Looking at Li Baoquan and the others who ran over, the battalion officer never gave the order to release the arrows.
After such a hesitation, Li Baoquan rushed over, looked at the battalion officer in front of him, wondered in his heart, and did not make a move, waiting to meet Tang Liang.
Li Baoquan bowed to the battalion officer and said, "The little one has seen the big one." ”
The battalion officer didn't care when he saw that he didn't bow down, and asked, "Is it true that you just said that the deputy general rebelled?" ”
Li Baoquan replied: "I also heard others shouting like this, and I don't know if it's true or not." ”
The battalion officer was furious and scolded: "Bastard! If you dare to bewitch the officials to kill you, the deputy general is a man from the Yellow Banner of Manchuria, how can he rebel, what's the matter with the shouting of killing in front? ”
Li Baoquan looked back and saw that Tang Liang and the others were fifty steps away, and the shouting of killing gradually became low, and he knew in his heart that there must be a big official there to maintain order.
"Poof" The battalion officer looked at the sharp blade in his chest, and before he could say a word, he was killed immediately.
"Kill!" Li Baoquan and the others slashed at the archers.
"Kill!"
When the Qing army saw that the battalion officer was killed by his own people, no one took the lead, and after resisting a few times, they couldn't kill Tang Liang, Li Baoquan and others, so they dispersed in a hurry.
Tang Liang shouted: "Open the city gate quickly!" The rest of the people line up, don't let the Qing army kill in! ”
The city gate made an ugly sound, and it was gradually let go, Liu Mingchuan had been waiting impatiently, and when he saw that the city gate shook a few times, the shouting and killing sound inside came down again, and he immediately ordered to charge.
rushed to the gate of the city, the city gate was just let go by Li Baoquan and others, Liu Mingchuan was not verbose, and immediately ordered the musketeers to open the way in front, and the men and horses of a division entered the city in less than a quarter of an hour, and killed them along the streets.
Li Baoquan gasped, came to Tang Liang, and said with a smile: "My lord, I checked just now, we only killed one person and injured three, these Qing troops are too bearish, if they shoot, they will be beaten to the ground." ”
Tang Liang patted Li Baoquan's chest and said with a smile: "We are a sneak attack, try not to shoot, remember it later!" After this battle, I can give you this special soldier with confidence. ”
Li Baoquan was not mentally prepared and asked, "Where is the general going?" Our kung fu is taught by the general, why does the general want to go? ”
Tang Liang glanced to the south and said: "If you take Beijing, the emperor will move the capital, and then I will have time to take care of you, without me, you can't relax." ”
"Yes!" Li Baoquan was excited in his heart, just because this special force was a division-level establishment, and he was still at the level of deputy regiment commander, if Tang Liang recommended him to be the captain, he would be promoted to three levels at once.
Li Hongzhang was the last group to enter the city, looking at Tang Liang and others guarding the city gate, secretly scolding Liu Mingchuan for being a bastard, and immediately stepped forward and said: "General Tang has worked hard, this time he has conquered Tianjin, thanks to the special team who sacrificed his life and forgot to die, you have made the first contribution!" ”
Tang Liang said with a smile: "The general is serious, if it weren't for Division Commander Liu arriving in time, we would have died in battle, how can we talk about the first merit." ”
Li Baoquan lowered his head and didn't speak, but he didn't think so, they attacked at night, although it was a little smoother, but it was better than the surname Liu, and the first credit came to the surname Liu.
Li Hongzhang said: "General Tang doesn't have to shirk, Tianjin is the eastern barrier of Beijing, this city is the most important thing for us, capture Tianjin, our 14th Army will be invincible, Xianfeng will not eat well and sleep well, escape is a matter of time!" ”
Li Baoquan couldn't help but say: "Why don't you attack Beijing, with our special team, Bao Zhun will open the city gate for the adults, and capture Xianfeng alive at that time, wouldn't it be a great achievement!" ”
Li Hongzhang smiled, did not answer, and said to Tang Liang: "Our army came by boat, and fought several battles in succession, I plan to repair in Tianjin for a few days, what does the general think?" ”
Tang Liang replied: "When I first set out on the expedition, the emperor repeatedly instructed that all military affairs should be under the orders of Lord Li, and Lord Li only had to decide. (To be continued......)