Sure enough, life will be transformed into each other by the extreme of happiness and sorrow.

When Li Weiguo had just pushed down Su Sanniang and enjoyed the blessing of the Qi people, news came from the capital. The court issued an order to transfer him to the Governor of Zhili, assisting Zenggelinqin to lead the army of the capital to resist the upcoming military invasion of the British and French coalition forces, and immediately set off to the capital to report on his duties.

In the eyes of outsiders, the Governor of Zhili is the head of the nine governors in the world, and his status is extremely respectable. They all think it is the emperor's reward to Li Weiguo.

But Li Weiguo knew that this was an upward trend and a descendant, and was luring the tiger away from the mountain. If he was allowed to lead the army of the capital to resist the invasion of the British and French forces, it also means that Xianfeng really wanted to use him to resist the enemy. However, Xianfeng asked him to assist Zenggelinqin, which means that Xianfeng was going to attack him.

The members of the Shanghai Army gathered quickly and began to discuss countermeasures.

They all were full of righteous indignation and scolded Xianfeng for being unkind and unrighteous.

But their expressions were not as angry as they were in reality, but were happy and even excited, because this was an excellent opportunity to rebel.

"The Lord can just use the excuse to deal with the British and French coalition forces, and bring the troops of the four towns with just a legitimate reason. After arriving in Zhili, he first lifted Zenggelinqin's military power, and then joined the fourth town. The troops of the five towns were enough to completely eliminate the British and French coalition forces, and then deprive the capital of the capital with the power of great victory, and sweeping the world is just around the corner."

"Zenggelinqin may not be easy to deal with. He has more than 300,000 Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners in his hands. The military power is not so easy to seize. Besides, even if he seizes his military power, the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners will not be able to listen to the orders of a Han official."

"That's right, Zenggelinqin is the head coach. The adults can only go to his barracks to pay homage to him instead of him coming to his barracks to pay homage to him. In this way, the action to seize military power can only be in Zenggelinqin's barracks, and it is difficult to succeed."

Everyone proposed countermeasures, but Li Weiguo just listened silently, and he was also thinking in his heart.

At this time, Wu Yong said after compiling the suggestions of everyone: "I think you don't have to do anything now, just wait. As long as the war in the capital is fought, Zeng Gelinqin will definitely not be the opponent of the British and French coalition forces. You can use the hands of the British and French coalition forces to destroy 300,000 Manchu and Mongolian troops."

Li Weiguo nodded. This was a good suggestion, which was basically consistent with what he thought. Manchu and Mongolia enslaved the Han people for hundreds of years. It was time for them to pay the price. More importantly, these 300,000 Manchu and Mongolian troops will also be enemies of the Shanghai army in the future. It would be a good thing if they could use the hands of the British and French coalition forces to eliminate them.

"To adapt to all changes with the unchanging situation, you just need to lead your troops north!"

"But will Li Hongzhang allow the Shanghai Army to transit?"

"He won't allow us to fight. There is an excuse to seize Anhui and northern Jiangsu, and completely control the two rivers and four provinces!"

As the governor of Liangjiang, Li Weiguo nominally has two rivers and four provinces, but in fact he only controls one province in Jiangnan, Jiangbei and Anhui provinces in Li Hongzhang, and Jiangxi is in the hands of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. So if there is an excuse to start a war against Li Hongzhang, and it is also a good choice to take back Jiangbei and Anhui provinces.

It’s just that the food has to be eaten bite by bite, and the things have to be done step by step. The most urgent task at the moment is not to start a war with Li Hongzhang.

"He probably won't stop him. After all, I'm still his boss in name!"

After all, Li Weiguo was the governor of Liangjiang, while Li Hongzhang was just the governor of Anhui and was nominally under the jurisdiction of Li Weiguo. The Shanghai army passed by under the banner of Liangjiang, and Li Hongzhang's Huai army did not dare to provoke him.

After discussion, everyone decided to send troops from two towns to protect Li Weiguo to the north and serve as the governor of Zhili. As for whom the imperial court sent to serve as the governor of Liangjiang, everyone didn't care at all, because no matter who came, they would be killed.

In early July 1860, the British and French Allied Forces arrived at the Bohai Bay. They successively attacked Yantai and Luda, and then blocked the entire Bohai Bay, clearing obstacles for the attack on Tianjin.

The defenders of Yantai and the Great Brigade retreated without any resistance because they were ordered by Senggelinqin. They believed that naval battles could not defeat the British and French fleets, so they retreated inland and went to war with the British and French coalition forces on land.

Senggelinqin even gave up Beitang, allowing the British and French coalition forces to land easily from Beitang, directly threatening the Dagukou Fort.

After 10 days, 30,000 British and French forces completed their landing safely. Some local people even took the initiative to help lead the way and launched an attack from the flank to the Dagu North Shore Fort. At the same time, the naval fleet also launched a bold attack from the water route to the Dagu Fort because they did not have to worry about water and radium.

Under the coordinated attack of the British and French forces on the sea and land, the Dagukou Fort was quickly captured. Senggelinqin was startled and thought that the Dagukou Fort could still repel the British and French forces like last time. As a result, Dagukou fell in less than a day. The British and French forces marched straight in, and Senggelinqin then ordered the Qing army to flee Dagu and retreat to Tongzhou through Tianjin.

The British and French coalition forces occupied Tianjin, and the Qing government was immediately anxious and sent Gui Liang to Tianjin to negotiate peace. Britain and France proposed that in addition to accepting the Treaty of Tianjin, Tianjin should be opened as a trading port, and 200 million taels of silver were added as compensation, as well as severe punishment for the governor of Liangjiang Li Weiguo, and handing over war crimes to the British and French coalition forces for disposal, allowing the British and French coalition forces to lead thousands of troops to Beijing to exchange contracts.

The Qing government could have considered the previous conditions, even including handing over Li Weiguo to the British and French coalition forces for disposal, but in the end, Xianfeng did not accept the amount of compensation and the issue of leading troops into Beijing. However, the British and French coalition forces died and injured more than 100,000 people in the Battle of Shanghai, and they had to be compensated. Therefore, the negotiations between the two sides broke down and the British and French coalition forces invaded Beijing from Tianjin.

Xianfeng was so scared that he fled to Chengde immediately. At the same time, he sent Prince Yi Zaiyuan, Minister of War Mu Yin to replace Gui Liang and continue negotiations with the British and French coalition forces, agreeing that Britain and France will send troops to Beijing to exchange contracts, but demanding a reduction in compensation. The Qing government could not afford the 200 million taels of silver, and could not even afford the 2 million taels of silver.

However, the British and French coalition forces completely disagreed, and 200 million taels of silver cannot be reduced at all, because Britain and France were really beaten too badly by Li Weiguo. Without 200 million taels of silver compensation, they could not explain to their respective governments at all. So the two sides argued and the negotiations broke down again.

This is Senggelinqin's delaying tactic. He is dispatching troops and preparing to fight a decisive battle with the British and French coalition forces.

Just during the negotiations between the two sides, Li Weiguo had already set out for Beijing. He was not alone, but brought two entire towns of Shanghai troops.

Of course, when Li Weiguo passed through Anhui and Jiangbei, Li Hongzhang's Huai Army did not stop him. However, after the court learned about this, Xianfeng was shocked and hurriedly issued an imperial edict to Li Weiguo not lead troops north, and asked all the Shanghai troops to stay in Shanghai to guard against the Taiping Army. Li Weiguo should only bring a few hundred personal guards into Beijing.

But Li Weiguo obviously would not listen. Soon, the declaration of support for the king drafted by Li Hongzao was sent to all places. Li Weiguo announced a high-profile announcement to lead troops to Beijing to serve the king and help the court resist the invasion of the British and French coalition forces.

Therefore, the court and Li Weiguo each had their own opinions. The court said that Li Weiguo was disrespectful to the order and intended to rebel. Li Weiguo insisted that the court was controlled by treacherous slanderers such as Sushun and the emperor was deceived. Therefore, he led his troops to the capital to serve the king and clear the king's side.

When Xianfeng learned about this, he vomited blood in anger and fell ill in bed.

Then the two sides immediately started a war of words, and the people couldn't tell who was saying the truth and who said it was false. The people in the north were under the rule of the Qing court, and most of them believed in the court. The people in the south only knew Li Weiguo but did not know the court, so they believed in Li Weiguo's words.

However, when the British and French coalition forces captured Tianjin, Xianfeng fled to Chengde, and the people of the whole country were in an uproar. The emperor abandoned them. They learned that Li Weiguo had defeated the British and French coalition forces, so the people in the north began to believe Li Weiguo's words and hoped that Li Weiguo would lead troops to defend the king as soon as possible to resist the invasion of the British and French coalition forces. So the national public opinion began to turn to Li Weiguo in full.

Li Weiguo led the Shanghai army northward, and there was no obstacle to passing Li Hongzhang's defense zone. The Huai Army was very restrained. Even Zuo Zongtang, who had always been hostile to Li Weiguo, did not make things difficult for him, as if all this had been arranged in advance by Li Hongzhang.

However, when entering Hebei, the Hebei Governor Baishun once closed the city gates and refused to allow the Shanghai army to pass.

The historical process changed drastically at this time, and the British and French forces attacked very quickly. It was so fast that Li Weiguo had to speed up the marching speed.

At this time, anyone who stands in front of Li Weiguo will be killed without mercy.

In the next few days, the Shanghai army successively broke through the city in Xingtai and Baoding, and killed more than a dozen local officials and thousands of Qing army green camp soldiers who were guarding the city. Hebei Governor Baishun was finally scared. Seeing that the Shanghai army destroyed the Qing army guarding the city in minutes, he was worried that Li Weiguo would kill him to vent his anger, so he quickly ordered the prefectures and counties along the way to open the city gates and let them go, and he did not dare to offend Li Weiguo, the killing god.

Fortunately, the Qing army in Hebei was too weak, and the Shanghai army had no casualties in the attack, nor did it take much time. Therefore, Li Weiguo did not send troops to attack Shijiazhuang to kill Baishun to vent his anger, but instead rushed to Beijing, because Li Weiguo was worried about the Old Summer Palace, which was something he liked and was not allowed to be looted by the British and French coalition forces.

Of course, the fourth town of the Shanghai Army was secretly lurking in Baiwang Villa outside the Old Summer Palace. The tunnel has been dug up and goes straight to the interior of the Old Summer Palace. You can enter the Old Summer Palace at any time.

However, Chen Liang and Hai Mingze have not received specific orders from Li Weiguo and have not taken action yet.

Because the progress of the British and French coalition forces was too fast, Li Weiguo himself was not sure when the British and French coalition forces would go to loot the Old Summer Palace, so this was the biggest variable. Li Weiguo had to act carefully, for fear that a historical tragedy that accidentally caused the Old Summer Palace to happen.

"Did Senggelinqin fight with the British and French coalition forces?"

Li Weiguo asked, he only remembered that the destruction of the Old Summer Palace was after Senggelinqin's defeat. A defeated Qing army led the British and French coalition forces to the Old Summer Palace, resulting in the direct looting of the Old Summer Palace.

The only staff officer who accompanied this time was Chen Jingnan, and Wu Yong and others were left at the Shanghai base camp.

Chen Jingnan nodded and shook his head, and replied: "I'm not sure. Our people have not yet found out when Senggelinqin was fighting the British and French coalition forces. But one thing is strange. When our scouts approached Senggelinqin's camp, someone shot a note from the camp to our scouts, which said 'Eighteenth Day, Bali Bridge, Decisive Battle'. Our intelligence officers didn't know whether it was true or false, and they didn't dare to believe it easily."

When Li Weiguo heard the three words Bali Bridge, his eyes lit up and he was convinced: "If it is Bali Bridge, it must be the place of the decisive battle!"

Chen Jingnan said curiously: "Why is the Lord so sure? There are many places to choose the decisive battle in Senggelinqin. The location of Bali Bridge is not an advantage? If it were me, I would never choose there. It was smooth and the musketeers of the British and French coalition forces set off the formation."

Li Weiguo knew that Senggelinqin in history was so stupid that he chose to fight the British and French coalition forces at Baliqiao. However, history has changed now, and he just didn't know which day it was.

"Senggelinqin is good at using Mongolian cavalry. He must be planning to use cavalry to attack the musket formation of the British and French coalition forces. This move would work if it was in the Napoleon era. Unfortunately, the British and French coalition forces had cracked the Napoleon cavalry tactics. This move no longer works for them, but will accelerate Senggelinqin's defeat."

Chen Jingnan immediately figured it out and exclaimed: "The Lord is wise. Our scouts did find that Senggelinqin had concentrated 50,000 or 60,000 cavalry troops, and it is indeed very likely to use the cavalry attack tactic."

Li Weiguo smiled slightly and suddenly asked, "Did you say the news was shot from Senggelinqin's camp with bows and arrows? Is there a signed name?"

Chen Jingnan replied: "There is indeed a signature, but it is very strange. Only three numbers 'zero and seven' were written, and this name has never been heard before!"

Li Weiguo was stunned at first, then smiled.

"Of course you haven't heard of it! But this is indeed the news from our people, and you can completely believe it!"

"Our people?" Chen Jingnan said incredibly: "Being able to obtain the deployment of Senggelinqin on the specific time and location of the decisive battle, this kind of information shows that he is at least a senior core member of Zenggelinqin Group, otherwise it would be impossible to obtain such information! Who is the sacred person? His subordinates have never heard of this person! He should not be an unknown person!"

Li Weiguo smiled, smiling brightly.

Least 7, this is a code name, only Li Weiguo knew it, and it belonged to the code name of the first group of members when SHIELD was first established.

From zero to one hundred, there were a total of 101 people. Li Weiguo was No. 0, and the others from No. 1 to No. 1 were all agents trained by Li Weiguo himself. They started to carry out the lurking mission early. Unexpectedly, No. 7 took the initiative to convey intelligence to the Shanghai army at this time.

Li Weiguo had an explanation that unless the wake-up procedure was initiated, every lurking person would not be allowed to contact Li Weiguo on his own initiative. No. 7 must remember this rule, so he used 007 as a substitute, but Li Weiguo could still tell at a glance that 007 is 7, because when he gave 007 to this person, Li Weiguo told him a story about 007.

"Do you know why the numbers of the Chinese S.H.I.E.L.D. agents only start with one hundred numbers, and why never appeared in the previous one hundred numbers?"

When Li Weiguo mentioned this, Chen Jingnan suddenly remembered this strange point, so he realized: "I have never seen the agents of the previous 100th. Could it be that they exist?"

"You are the second person to know this except me!" Li Weiguo nodded with a smile.

Chen Jingnan looked shocked, shocked Li Weiguo's methods, and was also happy. As the second person to know this secret, he undoubtedly gained the true trust of Li Weiguo.

"Thank you for your trust!" Chen Jingnan gave a great gift excitedly.

Li Weiguo accepted it calmly and said, "They have gone out to perform the lurking mission very early, and they will only be awakened at the most critical moment."

Chen Jingnan asked tentatively: "I wonder if anyone has successfully lurked around Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang?"

"I don't know either! They will only appear in places you can't imagine!" Li Weiguo said with a smile. He really didn't know where the one hundred agents were, and even if they were still alive.

However, in Chen Jingnan's view, he suddenly realized that Li Weiguo was unfathomable. This was an imperial wisdom that made him extremely happy, but he was even more afraid.
Chapter completed!