The sky was covered with white fish, and the gunshots in the Old Summer Palace gradually stopped.☆→☆→,

It was originally planned to solve the problem in three hours, but in the end it took more than six hours.

Chen Liang and Hai Mingze stood in front of Li Weiguo with a look of ashamed and explained the reason.

It was expected that the inside and outside attacked the Imperial Guards in the Old Summer Palace were completely wiped out. As a result, the Imperial Guards were about to collapse and fled in all directions. They were very clear about the roads and rooms in the Royal Garden and were easily hidden. The Royal Garden was too big. The Shanghai Army officers and soldiers entered the Old Summer Palace for the first time, and the number of guides was also severely lacking, which led to most of their time searching for these deserters.

"Okay, it's not your fault. The plan on the battlefield is not keeping up with the changes." Li Weiguo did not blame the two of them, but just ordered: "The most urgent task now is to transport away all the valuable treasures in the Old Summer Palace as soon as possible. You must hurry up."

"I understand, don't worry, I guarantee to complete the task."

The entire royal garden is larger than the area of ​​the Forbidden City. More than 12,000 people in the fourth town of the Shanghai Army were scattered inside, and there was no sign of many people at all.

Accompanied by Chen Liang and Hai Mingze, Li Weiguo took Su Sanniang into the Old Summer Palace from the Grand Palace Gate. As for Chen Jingnan, he was sent to Baliqiao to command the First and Fifth Towns of the Shanghai Army, and was carefully deployed, preparing to take advantage of the decisive battle between the British and French Allied Forces and Senggelinqin's Qing army to use a move to stalk the cicada oriole behind, and eliminate the invading British and French Allied Forces in one fell swoop.

Entering the Old Summer Palace, Li Weiguo was stunned by the spectacular scene in front of him.

I saw rows of palaces standing in the sea of ​​clouds. They were majestic and spectacular, with six official arrangements for officials to visit. There were also mountains and villages that symbolize pastoral scenery, as well as the autumn moon and thunder peak sunsets imitated by Hangzhou West Lake, or the poetic and picturesque of ancient poets and painters, such as Penglai Yaotai and Wuling spring scenery, as well as various Gothic buildings with obvious Western styles, various water pavilions, pavilions and pavilions guarding each other, reflecting the lake and mountain scenery. They are exquisite and transparent, and are as misty as a fairyland.

"Great grandma's. It's really a good place."

Li Weiguo couldn't help but swear, otherwise he would not be able to describe his mood at this moment.

"Pay attention to words." Su Sanniang, who was standing beside her, suddenly frowned slightly, and communicated with Li Weiguo and expressed her dissatisfaction.

In the past, only Fu Shanxiang and Shen Ziyan were disciplined. Now that Su Sanniang has become Li Weiguo's woman, she will naturally think about her husband at all times.

"Mine, mine, everything is mine."

Li Weiguo laughed loudly, and Su Sanniang shook her head helplessly. She found that her husband's ambitions were getting bigger and bigger. However, if the royal garden became her husband, she would only be half of the hostess, such a place where the gods lived, which soon fascinated Su Sanniang.

Along the way, teams of Shanghai soldiers were transporting out rare treasures displayed in rooms in various places, packing them in boxes, putting them on carriages, and preparing to transport them away.

"Be careful, don't break it."

Li Weiguo looked at this and that, and kept reminding his subordinates to be careful and not to smash his treasures.

Seeing the dazzling array of cultural relics and jewelry being packed, Li Weiguo was immediately so beautiful that he was soaked in his nose. He had to admit that this was the most treasure he had seen in two lives. Many things were legendary artifacts. They were once destroyed in the fire of war and were no longer passed down to the world. Now they are right in front of him, how can they not be excited?

Li Weiguo took Su Sanniang to visit the royal gardens, and there were countless beautiful scenery along the way. He really hoped that he would take a camera to take a picture and send it back to the Internet of later generations through time and space, making people all over the world envious and jealous.

Although it is impossible to take photos for the time being, fortunately, the world's most magnificent royal garden was occupied by him, Li Weiguo, and it will not be burned from now on. There is still time to take photos as a souvenir in the future, so there is no rush to do so.

At this time, Li Weiguo came to the Western Garden and looked forward through the lake, and was stunned.

"Mom, why do you feel like this is Versailles' Palace?"

"Fuck, it seems like Buckingham Palace over there."

Li Weiguo cursed in surprise, and Su Sanniang frowned immediately, twisted his soft flesh on his waist hard to express dissatisfaction.

Chen Liang, who accompanied him, said: "Sir, is there anything special about these two buildings in Versailles and Buckingham Palace?"

Li Weiguo sighed and said, "The Palace of Versailles is the palace of the French Empire, and Buckingham Palace is the palace of the Queen of England. If the British and French forces see these two buildings, they will definitely destroy them. This is clearly the faces of the French Emperor and the Queen of England."

Suddenly, Li Weiguo seemed to have found another excuse for the Old Summer Palace to be burned by the British and French coalition forces. The legendary Old Summer Palace passed Buckingham Palace and Versailles Palace Garden, which caused the British and French coalition forces to be extremely angry. Therefore, when negotiating with Yixin, he demanded the destruction of the Old Summer Palace without hesitation, because this was a serious provocation to the Queen of England and the French emperor.

In fact, the British and French coalition forces set fire to destroy the evidence of the crime of looting the Old Summer Palace. This statement itself is not very convincing. After all, the British and French coalition forces were originally robbers. They robbed treasures of various countries all over the world. They did not see them setting fires everywhere to cover up the evidence of the crime. People all over the world know that they are robbers, and they still need to cover up the evidence of the crime. If it is really to cover up the evidence of the crime, then why didn’t they burn the Old Summer Palace immediately after the robbery? Instead, it was officially written as an additional condition for the negotiation when they negotiated with Yixin half a month later. Isn’t this a superfluous way? Isn’t this a waste of time?

Therefore, in Li Weiguo's view, the records of unofficial history are correct. The pretending Qing emperor copied the Versailles Palace and Buckingham Palace, which was the real reason why the garden was destroyed by the British and French coalition forces.

Li Weiguo shook his head and was not interested in the copycat Buckingham Palace and Versailles Palace. The only displays are Western furniture, clocks, etc. These things are obviously not worth much compared to gold, silver and jewelry in other places. However, even if Li Weiguo looked down on them, he still swept the inside and drove them away in a packaging box.

"Wife, just take whatever you like, just take it. I will give you the gift I give you."

"I don't want other people's stuff I stolen"

Li Weiguo was immediately embarrassed and said, "Okay, when I go back, I will make a piece of jewelry for you, how about giving it to me?"

Su Sanniang nodded, as if she agreed.

Li Weiguo smiled bitterly. His three wives really had more personality than the other. Since Su Sanniang didn't want them, Li Weiguo had to have them packed and transported them away.

The next time, Li Weiguo lived directly in the Old Summer Palace and enjoyed the treatment of the emperor. Su Sanniang accompanied him and lived a world of two with Li Weiguo, very free and happy.

Seven days passed quickly. All the good things in the entire royal garden, three mountains and five gardens were packed and transported away, and were escorted by the Fourth Town of the Shanghai Army. They headed directly south from the canal and sent to Shanghai Yuyuan.

On the other hand, Senggelinqin finally learned that the Old Summer Palace was raped and looted by the "British and French Allied Forces", and was also furious and mobilized the army to fight the decisive battle with the British and French Allied Forces.

At Bali Bridge, the battlefield prepared in advance by Senggelinqin, 300,000 Qing troops gathered here to prepare for a decisive battle with the British and French coalition forces.

The British and French coalition forces advanced to Bali Bridge under the command of Scott and Browns. Their scouts were not vegetarians and soon learned that the Qing army intended to fight decisively at Bali Bridge.

Scott and Browns checked the terrain and saw that it was an open land and was flat. He immediately smiled. This was just right for their musket array, and the cannons used by artillery soldiers were all direct fire. The open land could undoubtedly maximize the power of cannons.

But Senggelinqin didn't understand all this. The general on the horse was seriously out of date and out of date in the face of modern warfare.

On the 18th day, clouds were shrouded in a terrifying situation.

Thirty thousand British and French troops advanced towards the Baliqiao area and found that the main force of the Qing army was lined up at Baliqiao in front, and quickly began to arrange troops.

Although the British and French coalition forces experienced a painful failure in front of the Shanghai army after the Battle of Shanghai, it can only be said that the Shanghai army was too strong, the equipment was too advanced, and the tactics were too advanced.

But the Qing army in Senggelinqin's front view was not the Shanghai army. It did not have the advanced equipment and tactics of the Shanghai army, nor the strong combat effectiveness of the Shanghai army. Therefore, the British and French allied forces fought from Dagukou to Beijing, and did not take the Qing army seriously at all.

For the British and French coalition forces, they experienced the trials of the Napoleonic War and the Crimean War, and had rich combat experience. This time, Scott and Browns still adopted the most advanced tactics of the musket era, such as the new hollow square array and three-row array battle line.

Although the Qing Eight Banners Army on the opposite side had a large army of 300,000, it was a huge momentum, but unfortunately most of them used cold weapons. The Green Camp Army was equipped with a few imported and imitated old smoothbore guns, homemade bird guns, guns, cannons, and mountain-slashing cannons, and less than 30,000 people, and the others used large swords and spears.

After the two sides met, Senggelinqin immediately ordered the infantry to charge.

The British and French allied forces lined up to meet the enemy, and the three platoons of infantry on the battlefield opened fire in an orderly manner, making the Qing army unable to get close at all, and were shot and killed in waves.

In the middle of the battlefield, corpses accumulated like mountains and blood flowed into a river.

From morning to evening, more than half of the Qing army in Senggelinqin died or injured. He believed that he had consumed enough ammunition from the British and French coalition forces, so he ordered the cavalry to charge.

I have to say that this is the last Eight Mongolian Banners, which is more combative than the Eight Banners of the Qing army. Unfortunately, in front of the guns and cannons of the British and French coalition forces, the cavalry is simply a living target, with a larger target, and is more likely to be hit by guns and bullets.

It was still a wave of charges, like a tactic of adding fuel, leaving behind corpses, war horses neighing, and its owner could not be found.

You should know that the modern European armies in the 19th century were almost overwhelming victory when fighting feudal armies around the world.

Similarly, in the Battle of Baliqiao, more than half of the 300,000 Qing troops were eventually injured and killed, while less than 300 British and French coalition forces were killed.

Seeing that the defeat was decided, Senggelinqin had to order a retreat. As a result, the British and French forces launched a counter-charge, causing the Eight Banners to be dispersed and the troops were defeated in an instant.

The Qing army fled all the way and retreated to Beijing and Chengde.

Seeing the 300,000 Qing army defeat, Scott and Browns were immediately confident and ordered the British and French coalition forces to pursue and fight relentlessly, preparing to take the opportunity to capture Beijing in one fell swoop.

The war at Baliqiao has been under the comprehensive monitoring of the Shanghai army. At this time, the first and fifth towns of the Shanghai army had secretly detoured to the side of the British and French coalition forces.

The British and French coalition forces were naturally not fools. After they learned that Li Weiguo led his army north, they immediately sent a large number of people to follow the Shanghai army and reported their location to Scott and Brons at any time.

However, they did not know that the biggest advantage of the Shanghai Army was not only advanced weapons and equipment. The individual combat quality of the Shanghai Army was beyond their reach, and the focus was on the armed off-road capabilities of the Shanghai Army officers and soldiers.

Li Weiguo has focused on the armed off-road capabilities of soldiers since the day he established the Shanghai Army. After nine years, the Shanghai Army's field armed marching ability was quite strong. When Scott thought the Shanghai Army was still near Baoding, they had actually arrived in Langfang secretly.

When the British and French Allied Forces fought decisively at Baliqiao, the first town of the Shanghai Army had secretly sneaked to Yanjiao Town, and the fifth town of the Shanghai Army also arrived at Liyuan Town, and implemented the pincer attack tactics against the British and French Allied Forces from the southeast and northwest directions.

When Senggelinqin's 300,000 troops were defeated and fled in all directions, the British and French coalition forces began to chase and kill.

The Qing army ran desperately in front. The British and French allied forces chased each other wildly, and the front line gradually lengthened. The British and French allied forces kept dividing their troops to pursue the surroundings. In fact, many British and French soldiers were deliberately chasing the Qing army and went to the homes of nearby people to grab things.

Of course, for the British and French coalition forces, they looked down on the little bit of rags in ordinary people's houses. They were all busy with wealthy families, burning, killing, looting and looting.

Scott and Browns had to turn a blind eye to such things. After all, they had just suffered a big defeat in Shanghai, and the soldiers worked very hard. Let them snatch things and earn some extra money to improve their combat effectiveness.

However, the two of them tried their best to restrain the troops. They always maintained more than 10,000 troops to pursue Senggelinqin's main defeated soldiers head-on, and chased them to the city of Beijing.

Because the artillery speed was too slow, facing the city of Beijing, which was high and deep, the British and French coalition forces had to stop temporarily and wait for the artillery to arrive.

However, at this moment, Scott suddenly received a report.

"Not good, the Shanghai army is fighting"

"What's the point where they were still in Baoding yesterday, but in just one day, how could they arrive in Beijing?"

Scott didn't believe it. Browns was also half-believing and half-doubting.

Soon, more and more British and French soldiers ran back to report that they were attacked by the Shanghai army and suffered heavy casualties.

"Get together now"

"Line in the array to meet the enemy"

Scott and Browns hurriedly issued an order to allow more than 10,000 British and French forces during the rest to quickly gather, form a hollow square formation, and guard all sides.

At the same time, all the British and French coalition forces who left the team to fight Qiufeng were recalled.

An hour later, the British and French coalition forces who went out to rob came back. There were nearly 20,000 people in the end, but less than 10,000 people came back. Nearly 10,000 people were attacked by large Shanghai troops and could never come back.

"Damn it, it must be the main force of the Shanghai army."

"How could this be possible that they were clearly in Baoding yesterday, and even if they took the train, they wouldn't be so fast."

"But they don't have a train, it's really hell."

Scott and Browns were both shocked, but they obviously had no time to think about why the Shanghai army arrived in Beijing so quickly and quickly organized the remaining less than 20,000 troops to prepare to fight the main force of the Shanghai army.

"This time Li Weiguo led two towns of Shanghai troops to the north, with a total force of more than 24,000. We are less than 20,000 now, so we are probably not their opponents."

"What should I do to retreat to Beijing City is under our noses. As long as our artillery arrives, we can break the city in ten minutes."
To be continued...