The edict that Ronglu read before was not directed at the Heying camp and the Eight Banners vests stationed in Nanyuan, but was ordered by the emperor to copy and announce it in order to encourage the morale of the military and civilians to encourage the morale of the military and civilians.

Although Han Xiufeng had no confidence in the battle death in Tongzhou, he urgently dispatched more than 600 officers and soldiers to the Yuanmingyuan, not only to prepare for the emperor's "visiting Mulan", but because the emperor not only made up his mind to start a war with foreigners, but even surrendered two decrees that planned to lead the imperial army in person.

It is no trivial to be the imperial guards in person. Even if the war in Tongzhou is good, even if the emperor just goes to Tongzhou for a walk, he cannot be without soldiers to protect him along the way. The soldiers who can fight in various battalions in the capital have long been drawn. Considering the safety of the emperor, Han Xiufeng could only request to urgently transfer the Heying camp and the more than 100 Eight Banners and Vestmen Army stationed in Nanyuan to come to the Yuanmingyuan to wait for the order.

I never thought that the emperor not only approved it, but also rewarded him with a new official position, from the previous Fengchen Yuanqing to the current Shangsi Yuanqing!

He is also an official position in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and is also a third-rank official. The only difference is that he was responsible for the ban on the garden before, but now he has become the emperor's control of horses. He can not only legitimately arrange the horses, mules, camels and carts needed for the emperor's patrol, but also command twenty-one Aduan guards who are responsible for serving the emperor, riding and testing the horses.

More importantly, Shangsiyuan has a stable outside the north gate of the Old Summer Palace. Brothers can be transferred from Nanyuan to station near the stables.

Ronglu held the token brought by Jixiang, and together with Yongxiang and Wang Hedong, he led more than 600 brothers, under the banner and in an orderly manner, opened to the outside of the palace gate in a mighty manner.

Not only were they neat and clean, but most of them were carrying foreign guns and even wearing yellow jackets. The soldiers of the police camp avoided them one after another, and the guards guarded at the palace gate were as shocked. They didn't know where these "colleagues" came out. Sushun and Chen Fuen, who had just met the emperor, were also confused and were about to ask the guards to ask what was going on. Han Xiufeng, who also changed into yellow jackets, rode out of the corner.

Ronglu and others hurriedly turned over and dismounted and went up to pay their respects.

"Dao Ronglu, the candidate of Zhili, please see Lord Han. Heying Dushi, 416 people below the Heying Dushi, and 228 people below the Nanyuan General, were ordered to bring him here. Please ask Lord Han to show me!"

"It's coming fast enough, good." Han Xiufeng nodded with satisfaction, then turned around and said, "Ajiga."

"I'm in the position!" A guard of Aden ran over quickly.

"Take the way forward, take Mr. Rong and his brothers to settle first, and I will arrive later."

"Yeah!"

...

With Han Xiufeng's order, more than 600 horse and infantry took orders again, and drove around the stables north of the Old Summer Palace with pride.

It was not until the vest behind the palace disappeared from sight that Sushun recovered from his consciousness.

Han Xiufeng had already come out, so he quickly turned over and got off the horse, stepped forward and bowed, and said, "Sir, Han Xiufeng, pay homage to you!"

Su Shun didn't care about being polite and pulled him aside and asked, "Zhixing, where did you do this? Where did these guards come from?"

Han Xiufeng hurriedly said, "Sir, those who were not guards just now were not guards, but the soldiers of the Heying camp and the vest gate troops stationed in Nanyuan. Didn't the emperor plan to personally command the army? He could not have no soldiers to protect the army. Therefore, he was urgently responsible for the matter and gave them the yellow jacket when protecting the army."

Thinking that Han Xiufeng had always used the excuse of dredging the river channel of Nanyuan in the past two years, he rarely went to the city or came to the Old Summer Palace, and sometimes he could not even find others, Su Shun suddenly reacted and stared at him and said meaningfully: "Zhixing, Zhixing, you are indeed hidden."

"Why did you say this by sir?"

"Isn't this obvious?" Su Shun didn't care about complaining that he hadn't told the truth before, but asked anxiously: "Zhixing, were the soldiers carrying foreign guns on their shoulders just now?"

"yes."

"Where did those foreign guns come from?"

"Of course I bought it."

Sushun asked, "Where did the money for buying a gun come from?"

Han Xiufeng didn't want to hide it anymore, because he couldn't hide it, so he could only bow down: "Sir, the money for buying guns and the food and wages of more than 600 soldiers were all raised by the officials in Nanyuan under the order."

"Can you still buy it?" Su Shun asked in a low voice.

"It's hard. Even if you can buy it, the distance water cannot relieve your near thirst." Han Xiufeng said helplessly.

"That's true, even if you can buy it, it's too late now." Su Shun nodded slightly, then raised his arm and pointed at Jixianyuan: "Zhixing, let's talk about the Heying incident. You have dealt with the Western Yi and are most familiar with the Western Yi. Let's go and meet the Baxiali with me."

Han Xiufeng had long heard that they had arrested envoys from Britain and France, and even knew that the Ministry of Justice could not be imprisoned, and most of them were imprisoned in the Shuntian Prefecture Prison and Wanping County Prison. The two countries had not yet been killed, and they were not only useless and would be counterproductive. How could Han Xiufeng go to examine Baxiali with him? He said with embarrassment: "Sir, the emperor has surrendered two decrees in a row, and he may be in charge of the imperial crusade at any time. At this critical moment, Xiufeng really dares to leave his post without hesitation."

Sushun didn't think that the emperor could really be the emperor's commander in person, but as Han Xiufeng said, the emperor had already surrendered two orders in a row, and it could be seen that Han Xiufeng was also following the order, so he could only say helplessly: "Okay, you can do it first, I'll go and meet that barbarian chief."

"The Lord is honored to send me off."

"Stop sending it, it's important to do it."

Su Shun rolled over and headed straight to Jixianyuan.

Chen Fuen, Minister of War, hurried into the carriage and asked the coachman to hurry up.

When he arrived at Jixianyuan, Su Shun whipped the tree in the dean twice in a row. After whipping, he threw the whip to the side and turned around and asked, "Where is that barbarian?"

"Sir, you are using torture in it." A chief replied uneasy.

"Take me to have a look."

"Please, sir."

Chen Fuen knew that he was not only angry with foreigners, but also with Han Si. He knew that he had always valued Han Si very much and was not weak in treating Han Si, but Han Si was arrogant because of his favor and quietly practiced military affairs in Nanyuan and never reported to him. Just as he was thinking about comforting him later, a scream suddenly came from the inside, followed by a rumbling bird song that he couldn't understand.

At the same time, Bao Jing, the Minister of the Office of the Interior, and Wen Feng, surrounded by seven or eight offices of the Interior, rushed to the Shangsiyuan stable, not far from the north gate of the Old Summer Palace, after hearing the news.

Seeing a team of soldiers with excellent weapons and high morale driving in, then lined up neatly in front of the stable, even the horses were well-trained, neither neighing nor kicking, and even lined up like those soldiers carrying foreign guns, Baofeng exclaimed, "This is the elite soldier, this is the elite soldier who can fight!"

"Brother Peiheng said very well. Han Zhixing is indeed a good soldier. Unfortunately, he has trained too few soldiers, only five or six hundred, and it would be great if there were five or six thousand." Wen Feng sighed at the foreign guns on his shoulders of Wang Hedong and others.

Although Baofeng is not a member of Houyi Hall, he has some connection with the late Grand Secretary Wen Qing and has a good relationship with Wen Xiang, the Minister of Military Affairs. He has heard Wen Qing mention Han Xiufeng before, and in the past two years, he has heard Wen Xiang talk about Han Xiufeng a lot. He didn't bother to sigh that there were no soldiers. Instead, he walked over and patted the arm, touched the foreign gun on his shoulder, and even pulled out Wang Hedong's waist knife and touched the blade. It was not until Rong Lu, the behind-the-scenes palace, turned over and got off the horse to pay homage to him that he turned around and said, "I have no gifts. I have met you and Ama back then, so I ask you to call you a good nephew."

Ronglu was originally the kind of person who climbed up the pole, so he hurriedly bowed and said, "Ronglu pays homage to uncle!"

"Okay, good-looking. If everyone is as promising as a virtuous nephew, will I be worried about those Western barbarians?" Bao Zhuo helped Ronglu up and immediately ordered: "Listen, the emperor has an order. The food and salary of the soldiers will be supported by my Ministry of Internal Affairs. I don't care what you think of, anyway, if the soldiers are not full, I will ask you!"

"Yeah!" A group of doctors from the Office of the Internal Affairs hurriedly bowed to accept the order.

"My Nephew Ronglu, please speak to them whatever you need." Emperor Baofeng was on his own and had already prepared to follow the emperor to personally fight or "schedule Mulan". Seeing the more than 600 elite soldiers brought by Ronglu, his heart was finally relieved. He thought about it and bowed: "Mr. Wen, the six hundred tiger and wolf troops brought by Ronglu, the swords and swords of the six hundred tigers and wolves brought by Ronglu would either not be unsheathed, and the ground would shake if unsheathed. Therefore, the soldiers were just stationed here, Yuanwai was still inspected by the police camp, and Yuanwai's guards were still the responsibilities of the guards."

Thinking that Bao Feng could follow him as both the Minister of the Office of the Interior, but Wenfeng wanted to continue guarding the garden, Wenfeng felt uncomfortable, but the king was like a mountain, Wenfeng could only say sourly: "This is nature, this is nature."

They were chatting, and Han Xiufeng arrived on a horse.

First, he introduced Yongxiang, Wang Hedong and other military officers to Baoyan. After everyone met, he accompanied Baoyan and Wenfeng into a public room not far from the stable and talked about the news he found in the park in the morning.

"The fight in Tongzhou should have started, otherwise there would be no report since the afternoon of the previous day."

"Where is the court?" Bao Jing asked in a low voice.

"The court was very lively. All the civil officials became Confucian generals who were planning and winning thousands of miles away. When they mentioned the Western barbarians, they were confident and said that when fighting the Western barbarians, they could not be the case of "the horse team was in front and the infantry was behind. When the battle was in front, the horse team was divided into two wings. The infantry advanced in three layers, the front layer was lying on the ground, the middle layer was in the middle layer, and the back layer stood tall. The front layer fired first, the middle layer followed, and the latter layer followed. "

"I have seen the world. Is this true? " Bao Jin asked anxiously.

"Sir, what they said is reasonable, but these are not secrets. Duke Lin Wenzhong reported it as early as the 20th year of Daoguang. Wei Yuan, the governor of Gaoyou, Jiangsu Province, wrote a book. In short, knowing these things is useless and knowing how to deal with them is true."

Wen Feng subconsciously asked: "Then do they know how to deal with it?"

"They thought a lot of ways, but I don't seem to be reliable."

"Why is it unreliable?"

"Some of them say that foreigners can't see clearly at night and are good at sleeping like pigs. As long as we wait until the second round of the drum, foreigners will wake up from their dreams. Since we can't see clearly at night, we don't have to beat them, and they will trample on each other."

Bao Jing was ridiculous and couldn't help but scold, "Nonsense!"

Han Xiufeng nodded and continued: "Some of them said that foreigners have long legs and straight legs and cannot bend. As long as we set more traps, we don't have to dig too deep. When fighting, lure them into the trap. If they fall into the trap, our official army will come forward and capture them alive."

"It's a good thing they can think of it!"

"Some people say that foreigners are not resistant to cold. They come to China to fight wars in summer and autumn. They go alone and when the weather is cold, they will retreat. We can let the navy troops in Dengzhou and other places attack, and either do not attack, and if they attack, they will hurt foreigners. Small punishment, peace for several years, big punishment, and nothing will happen in a century."

"Even if the foreigners are really impatient with the cold, they have to pass this level first." Wen Feng murmured.

"Yin Zhaoyong, a secretary of the Zhanshi Mansion who had just made a big splash last year, was not idle either. He made an account early in the morning, saying that he had read a "City Defending" from an ancient book called "The Legend of Dynasty Jingshiwen" and came up with a way to break the enemy. It was said that in ancient times, soldiers used wet quilts to cover gunpowder, which was called using softness to overcome hardness.

I asked to quickly conquer the old quilts, penetrate with water, and pass them horizontally, and use thick ropes up and down, tie bamboo poles on both sides, and tie small iron fishing at the end of the bamboo poles to penetrate into the ground. Each quilt is spread out with two soldiers, lined up in front of the formation, and set up a quilt formation. Once the enemy encounters the enemy, the first row of soldiers covers the entire army with quilts to block the guns of foreigners, and leave a gap between the quilts and quilts to wait for the foreigners to wait for the fire and set off the fire. After the foreigners set off their guns and fire, they will immediately rush up to fight."

"Do you think it works?"

Han Xiufeng did not answer this question, but smiled bitterly: "Sir, although we don't have foreign cannons, we have foreign guns. Whether it works or not, we can try it."
Chapter completed!