Time: October 15, around 7:30 a.m.; There are still almost sixty hours before Hu Biao and others stick to the deadline for the first phase of the task.

After putting down a snatched beautiful teacup in his hand, Montauban, the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces.

Speaking to the senior officers around him, he said very seriously:

"Sure enough, it is worthy of the tea enjoyed by Emperor Daqing, even if it is more fragrant in fragrance and sweeter in taste than the best tea in Darjeeling.

I have to say that this ancient Eastern Empire really has some good things. ”

After hearing this, a group of senior officers of the coalition forces present nodded one after another and started a discussion about this morning's tea, and the scene was very warm and relaxed.

Such a relaxing and comfortable tea tasting activity lasted for another half an hour.

Montauban turned his head to glance at the direction of the coalition soldiers in the barracks, and then with a casual expression, he said lightly:

"Alright, the lads have finished their hearty breakfast for the day.

You can go and tell them that you can attack; Today, let's completely wipe out the people in the Xuange camp and let everything come to an end.

That's right! Tell the lads for me that whoever is the first to rush in will have the right to receive three of the trophies. ”

"Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, everything will be as you wish~"

A group of high-ranking officers of the coalition army replied one after another after hearing this; In their expressions, they also looked extremely indifferent and relaxed.

Mainly, in their opinion, today's battle is completely out of suspense.

When the soldiers under his command have recovered their morale well after a special relaxation yesterday; On the contrary, the manpower and equipment of the Xuange battalion were exhausted, and there was no way to replenish them at all.

Attacking in such a contrast, this damn building, there is no reason why it can't be defeated.

If there must be any suspense, then these magical Oriental knights can still hold on to repelling their attacks a few times before they are killed and captured.

In short, it seemed to them that no matter how the defenders struggled, this building would be breached today.

Then, under their orders, two Yin troops, two French troops, a total of four companies and more than 500 soldiers, slowly began to advance towards the main building with high morale, with the help of various obstacles.

All the artillery on the artillery positions is also ready to open fire.

At that time, no matter where the fire comes out, it will be the first time to call a cannonball over and suppress it.

As the soldiers advanced, there was no movement in the main building; It seems that the people of the Xuange camp are planning to put the soldiers in and engage in a tug-of-war again.

Seeing this, a French colonel suddenly said something in his mouth:

"Gentlemen, I'll bet 20 francs, and this one attack will take down this damn place."

"I think it's going to be at least twice, so I'm betting £10 that I won't be able to hit this time." A lieutenant colonel of the Yin Army next to him said his different opinions.

So in the ensuing time, more light-hearted officers joined such a gamble.

After a short time, both military caps were filled with various banknotes.

Montauban and Grant, the two supreme commanders of the Yin and French armies, although they did not join such a gamble because of their own status.

But the expression on his face was still extremely relaxed.

I have even imagined how I will deal with and distribute those oriental treasures after I get them.

It was only after a while that the smiles on their faces froze completely; Even in his eyes, there was a look of fear and despair.

The smiles on the lips of the other senior officers who gambled also came to an abrupt end.

It's like all of a sudden, someone is stuck in the throat......

The reason why the top leaders of these coalition forces have such a big reaction is because a series of incomprehensible scenes have happened in front of their eyes.

When the soldiers who rushed to the front all entered the distance of sixty-seven meters in front of the main building, it only took twenty seconds at most to kill them.

Suddenly, at least one hundred and fifty or sixty rifles and arquebuses came out of the main building and opened fire.

After far more than expected, the artillerymen did not know where to fire.

When they reacted, after the men finished shooting, they said that they were not light in their hands, and began to move to other positions to prepare for the next fire.

In the dense flight of bullets that suddenly beckoned, the soldiers who rushed forward instantly put down as many as forty or fifty people.

I don't know if it's because of the news that in Montauban's promise, 'the first person to rush in will be given priority to pick three pieces of loot'.

Facing the main building, this is a bit of an unexpected firepower.

The four companies of coalition soldiers, still firing with rifles in their hands, rushed forward under the cover of the artillery behind them.

However, when they rushed to the front of the main building, almost thirty paces away, the defenders threw more than twenty grenades with wooden handles, which should have been a small number.

After landing, they exploded one after another.

In addition, after another round of rifle fire, the soldiers on the coalition side fell again; It is equivalent to that in a short period of time, almost all of the rows of people who rushed to the front have now been defeated.

Even after yesterday's leave, the coalition soldiers have recovered well in terms of morale.

But such a terrifying firepower density and lethality, and more importantly, behind all this, the Xuange battalion has received at least two or three hundred reinforcements.

and a batch of equipment support in an unknown amount, but it should be a lot.

After thinking of this, the morale and fighting courage of the coalition soldiers, who had just recovered yesterday, immediately disappeared like a tide.

I don't care about some grassroots officers at all, and they have some shouts and curses in their mouths that they are not allowed to retreat or stop.

After making a U-turn, he began to retreat towards the rear.

In the face of such a rout, Montauban and other high-ranking officers of the coalition army did not even react at all; Because at this moment, they are all in a stupor.

After seeing the dense firepower inside, they had too many questions in their hearts, and an intuition that made them extremely disappointed:

"What went wrong, did these reinforcements and the weapons in their hands grow out of the ground?

This damn main building, I'm afraid they won't have a chance or a way to fight it again; Because the soldiers no longer have enough courage to pay thousands more casualties and consume the strength of these defenders~"

******

In the main building, the large number of reinforcements that magically appeared.

Naturally, last night, Huang Yizhi and Lao Hei were brought in through the tunnel from outside.

To be more specific, they came all the way to a wasteland outside the Old Summer Palace last night, led by Zhang Fuhai; As the old man said, there are two hundred and sixty or seventy people here.

Faced with the arrival of the two, everyone bowed their heads one after another.

After the two sides greeted each other for a while, they only knew after asking that the origins of these people were varied.

Among them, there are some nearby hunters, the girl who kicked Huang Yi just now is called Feng Wanzhen, and she is actually the leader of them who was temporarily pushed out.

There are some scholars from all over the country, some people from the rivers and lakes, and some small people near Beijing.

There are also old people like Huang Acan, some bald masters and Taoists, and even some mysterious originators who are not willing to be named for the time being, but guarantee that there are absolutely no evil thoughts.

These people come from all over the world, and their accents are a hodgepodge of accents.

But there is one thing in common, a large part of them are reading some of the books they left behind, or listening to other people, more or less say some relevant truths, and listen to that kind of thing.

Essentially, these people are tinder-like beings.

Originally, most of them were dozens of people together, and at least only a few people were together, and they touched all the way to the Old Summer Palace at night; I plan to risk my life to do something for the Xuange camp.

I never thought that after bumping into someone else nearby, I realized that I was not alone.

Eventually, they were temporarily united for a common goal.

Someone looked at Zhang Fuhai, who was a dry old man, but not weak, and went out with Feng Wanzhen and went to the Old Summer Palace to find out the detailed arrangements of the Yin and Law Alliance.

Then wait until two or three o'clock in the middle of the night to start together, planning to enter the main building from the weak point of the encirclement network to join the heroes of the Xuange camp.

After hearing what they said, Lao Hei and Huang Yizhi glanced at each other, and then had an idea in their hearts.

thought that instead of letting these people rush in from the weak point of the Yin and Law Alliance's encirclement network, it would only increase some unnecessary casualties; It's better to enter secretly through the tunnel, and you can give the Yin Law Alliance a surprise.

You must know that they now have enough weapons and bullets made in Hanyang, revolvers, which are currently cross-era, but there are not enough personnel to use them.

As long as these people join, there is no problem at all if you keep it until zero on the 18th.

By the way, it can also allow the two Haidongqing to transport more cultural relics.

However, the stakes in this matter are very important, and they still decided to go back and ask Hu Biao to take a look at the dead street to see what the opinion of this product is.

Subsequently, Huang Yizhi stayed in place and greeted everyone, bragging and talking about some old things about adulthood.

Lao Hei rushed all the way back and told Hu Biao this huge good news; After receiving the news, Death Street immediately came to greet these righteous men in person.

Through the last underground passage, you will come to the main building.

After Hu Biao and the others hurriedly grouped some combat groups and conducted some training in the use of weapons, the coalition forces launched an attack.

As a result, there was a scene where the above coalition soldiers who rushed forward with full confidence were beaten into dogs in a blink of an eye and had to retreat in embarrassment.

As for the grenades with wooden handles that were thrown at the critical moment of the battle, they were actually brought in by these people.

Hu Biao and before they left for their last mission, they left behind such a kind of 'poor man's heavy firepower', how to quickly and easily manufacture a technical manual.

Even if it is filled with explosives, it is all black powder from Daqing, which causes this thing to explode in half after it explodes, except for being scary, the actual damage caused is not much.

But now in the hands of the Hunan army, bandits, and even some heroes in the rivers and lakes, this weapon has become quite popular; So in many people, there are as many as one or two hidden.

On the contrary, it is the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion of Daqing, and these regular armies do not look down on the weapons of such traitors......

With ease, he defeated a group of rumored Yin Law barbarians, leaving hundreds of dead and wounded, and had to retreat in embarrassment.

The men who came to support were a little unconvinced of such a scene at first.

When they confirmed, there was a loud cheer; It's just that in the midst of such loud cheers, there are still some people who seem to be in a trance.

It's not that they're upset, it's that they've discovered something amazing.

For example, in the cheers, Zuo Gong kept looking at the Hanyang-made rifle in his hand; The emotions on the surface are not so intense, but in the heart, they are already turning upside down.

He followed Zeng to shave his head to help with military affairs, and this year he formed a 'Chu army' with a scale of 5,000 people.

For this reason, I also went to the magic capital to buy weapons, and I don't want to say whether the most advanced guns and cannons in Western countries can be bought in large quantities.

However, I still have some understanding of the guns of various countries.

It is precisely because of this that he clearly knows that even if the two countries are Yin and France, it is now said to be the latest rifled rifle that uses rice pinching bullets.

It is far from being able to hold five copper-shelled bullets in front of him, and it can hit far and accurately.

Not to mention the heavy machine gun with six pipes, and when shaken, the bullets were as fast as lightning and as dense as raindrops.

If there are enough of these heavy machine guns, the last bit of effect of mounted shooting will be lost.

Combining all of the above, Zuo Gong is aware of some key issues that others have ignored so far:

With so many weapons and bullets to be able to come up with, the Xuange camp must have a base of no small scale, so that it can be produced continuously, but I don't know where it is.

In this way, I wonder if they are willing to sell these weapons to the outside world, and what is the price?

The subordinate troops equipped with this weapon do not need to be too numerous, as long as there are thousands of people, I am afraid that in the future, on the battlefield, they can become an invincible fist force.

Destroying those bandits is also just around the corner.

More importantly, these weapons are so advanced, which shows that the hands of these people in the Xuan Ge camp have mastered more powerful 'technology' than foreign devils.

So the question is, how can we learn these 'technologies' without hiding from the imperial court?

After some thought, although Zuo Gong did not have a clear idea in his heart; But it didn't affect him at all, he planned to show his identity to the new leader of the Xuange camp, 'Hu Yitong'.

Presumably, with the usual style of the Xuan Ge camp, although he is a fourth-grade official of the imperial court, he will not have any worries about his life.

Thinking of this, he walked straight to the second floor.

Unexpectedly, outside the office of the current leader of the Xuange Camp on the second floor, Hu Yitong, who dealt with affairs, he was stopped by a Taoist in the 'Wang's Shop' last night.

In the room, a voice faintly came out: "In the next ** British King Chen Yucheng, I have seen Leader Hu~"

Just hearing this, Hu Biao in the room and Zuo Gong outside the room, their brows couldn't help frowning......

For the rest of the morning, apart from an hour's artillery bombardment, the Yin-French coalition forces did not launch any attack on the main building.

Later, seeing that the shelling effect was not great, even the firing of the artillery stopped.

After noon, just through the lens of the telescope, I saw the depressed appearance of the Yin Law Coalition army surrounding them.

Hu Biao, who is old in battle, can be sure of one thing:

The sudden appearance of this batch of reinforcements here caused the Yin Law Alliance Army to suffer a rather astonishing blow in terms of morale.

In comparison, even lower morale than the night before,

With such a state of morale, there is simply no way to launch an offensive; In a short period of time, it seems that there is no other way to recover.

This means that if nothing else happens, they won't be in a fight for a few days; They will be able to easily complete the first stage, which is required to hold on until midnight on the 18th.

It's just that after putting down the binoculars, Hu Biao's face didn't show any joy.

Instead, after lighting a sand cigarette, he asked a group of teammates around him: "Let's talk about it, what now?" ”

Although this sentence in Hu Biao's mouth was a bit clueless, everyone in the team could understand what Hu Biao was talking about.

Of course, in the previous time, Chen Yucheng, a rebel in the Daqing court, found Hu Biao in private.

said that they were going to join forces with the Xuan Ge Battalion to fight against the Green Demon, what kind of 'one-word side by side king' Hu Biao could be, and the rest of the team was also the news that everyone could be crowned king.

Even Chen Yucheng wanted to give Hu Biao a kowtow as an apprenticeship on the spot, and he wanted to follow him to learn the 'art of slaying dragons'.

did not express his position on the spot, but temporarily sent Chen Yucheng away, and Zuo Gong revealed his identity.

Boy! After confirming that this middle-aged man was actually the Zuo Gong who would carry the coffin in his 60s and recover the frontier of more than 1.6 million square kilometers.

Hu Biao instinctively almost gave this one a knock.

It's not that Hu Biao doesn't know anything, in the previous mission, he didn't have seen a historical figure with a higher status and greater fame than Zuo Gong.

But there is one thing that cannot be denied.

The battle in which Zuo Gong recovered the frontier can be said to be one of the few bright spots in the history of humiliation in modern times.

In the modern plane, the Frontier Province, a huge treasure house, has played an indelible role in the great revival of the flower planter.

So kowtow to a hero like Zuo Gong, it's not miserable at all.

It's just that the respect for Zuo Gong is respectful, and it is not easy to agree to his requests for some purchase of firearms, secret cooperation between the two sides, requests for technical guidance, and how to carry out foreign WU.

So there was Hu Biao, who gathered everyone together and began to discuss how to deal with the situation.

After all, every time they do something, they have to think carefully about the consequences: if because of their actions, Daqing becomes stronger and can last a little longer, then it is a crime......

PS: I've got a cold, and my whole body is not strong, and there will be the next chapter, but it is estimated that it will be late, so you don't have to wait.

(End of chapter)