Eunuchs who traveled through the Qing Dynasty

The thermite incendiary bombs blazed, emitting a dazzling white light, illuminating the valley like daytime.This thing is really a treasure for night battles. When it was first developed, Xiao Ran planned to use it to deal with foreigners' iron-clad ships, but he didn't expect it to be used in a better way.But the foreign devils had never seen this thing before, only saw the chichi burning, and didn't know if it would explode, so scared they rolled and crawled back.

The stunned coalition forces just came to their senses. They were ambushed by the enemy, and immediately turned around and retreated back the way they came.The gunners led by Cheng Tong were gearing up at the moment, pointing their black muzzles at the valley.Following Cheng Tong's order, dozens of short-barreled curved guns spewed out their anger, and the shells fell into the crowd accurately, setting off a burst of flames.

With the expansion of the firearms battalion, Cheng Tong's artillery team now has more than 120 short-barreled curved guns, which are flexible and powerful in close combat.Cheng Tong divided the artillery team into three teams to bombard in a circular manner. The raindrops of shells fell on the valley almost without stopping, intertwined into a fire dragon, which was difficult to fly even with wings.The foreign devils were bombed to the ground with corpses strewn all over the field, and the dead ones fled back rolling and crawling.

The coalition forces couldn't move after several attacks, so they had to hide in the open space in the valley.The gunfire unexpectedly stopped at this time, and there was a brief silence on the battlefield, only the thermite bombs dropped continuously were still burning.The foreign devils were secretly wondering when they suddenly heard a low humming sound in the sky.When he raised his head, he saw clusters of black shadows floating quickly in the starry night sky.It seems that many huge nights are opening their bloody mouths, waiting to devour everything.

Shou personally put on the gondola, climbed on the hanging basket and looked down, his eyes were shining with Xingguzhong, the thermite bomb was still burning, and the dazzling white light was the best target guide.

"put!"

With a decisive wave of his arm, the soldiers in the hanging basket picked up high-explosive aerial bombs weighing forty to fifty kilograms one by one, and threw them down neatly.When the tail fin of the aerial bomb pierced the air, it made a characteristic whistling sound with trembling sounds, and fell straight into the valley.

)||The vertical attack is a piece of cake for the professionally trained helmsman and bomber, and it is foolproof.And this distance just avoided the range of the foreign devils' smoothbore guns. In the era when anti-aircraft guns had not yet been born, such an attack was undoubtedly a one-sided massacre.

Boom! ! !

The deafening explosion shattered the brief silence, and the entire valley shook violently.The flames that burst out instantly illuminated the death canyon. In the air waves from the explosion, countless broken branches and rubble flew into the sky, and in the billowing smoke and dust, there were countless foreign devils.

A flash of fire flashed, and another burst of fire.Soon, the flames happily burned into a sea of ​​flames in the valley.More than [-] balloons, each carrying [-] bombs, add up to more than [-] high-explosive aerial bombs, enough to blow up every inch of land in the valley.Jing Shou led the brothers, like combing their hair, from west to east, and dropped the bombs one after another.The air wave generated by the explosion surged from the ground to the sky, and even Jing Shou felt the heat wave hitting his face.Breathing is also suffocating.Just after the [-] aerial bombs were dropped, the hydrogen balloon, which suddenly became lighter, took advantage of the momentum of the air waves and quickly soared into the sky, flying farther and deeper into the night sky.

And in the valley, after the huge explosion accompanied by the flames rolled all the way, it fell into darkness again.Only the echoes spread in all directions wave after wave like a tide, and then came back from afar, gradually returning to silence.No piercing howls.There could be no more sound.Rug bombing.All traces of life on this long and narrow land have been wiped out.

Deadly silence.

half an hour.The brothers lying in ambush on the mountain ridges on both sides slowly emerged, looking carefully at the dark valley.Xiao Ran led the two wives to hide in the farthest corner. At this moment, he shook off the dust on his body and got up, taking off the special earbags on his ears.Monk Hua ran over, scratched his neck and shouted: "My lord, it's all blown up, should I tell my brothers to go down and clean the battlefield?"

Xiao Ran was shocked by him.Angrily said: "You are crazy, you are so loud, damn, think I am deaf?"

Monk Hua tilted his head and continued to shout: "Ah? What are you talking about? Can't hear clearly!"

Only then did Xiao Ran realize that it was because of the earth-shattering explosion just now that his ears were temporarily deaf.I had no choice but to yell at him: "Nonsense! They're all fucking blown up like this, and they're cleaning up! Immediately order the troops to rush to Liujiaji at full speed, and surround the wounded soldiers and the remaining troops of the foreign devils!"

Liujiaji is a market twenty miles away, and Xiao Ran has already sent a scouting team to find out.The wounded troops of the foreign devils are temporarily stationed here.And there are more than a thousand soldiers guarding it.Soon, the vanguard led by Sheng Zuo had penetrated into the east of the market, blocking the retreat of the foreign devils.After half an hour.The large army had already arrived, and using the cover of night, they quickly surrounded the market like a railroad.

As early as when the foreign devils came to kill them, the people in Jizi had already fled, so even the shelling would not hurt the Chinese people.Cheng Tong rubbed his fists and said: "My lord, leave this kind of trivial matter to me! With a curved cannon and a blaster, I can turn this place around in a stick of incense!"

But this time Xiao Ran did not follow Cheng Tong's suggestion, but adopted the tactics of artillery cover and ground raid.In fact, there seems to be no need for artillery coverage to deal with these remnants of the defeated soldiers. After several rounds of precise shelling by Cheng Tong, those foreign devils who hurriedly pulled up their pants and ran out to resist in their deep sleep were completely dizzy. I can't figure out why the main force of the enemy suddenly appeared from the rear under the onslaught of a large army of 8000 to [-] people in front.

The establishment of the Firearms Battalion at this time has expanded to more than [-] people in two large camps, including the original Jingshou subordinates, the [-] brothers from Daxing Mountain, the [-] Youfeng Battalion of Nayan Ziqing, and Jiha Bu's Oroqen tribe.As for the foreign devils stationed in Liujiaji, there are a total of more than [-] people, and two-thirds of them are wounded. One can imagine how weak their combat effectiveness is.So when roars like stormy waves sounded from all directions, and thousands of Qing soldiers poured into the market like a tide, the foreign devils had completely given up resistance, dropped their weapons and knelt down on the ground in black.

Coincidentally, the French commander in the Allied Forces of the Three Kingdoms was wounded due to being shot in the leg, and he was also taken prisoner at this time.he is lucky

Became the only surviving one of the three commanders.This guy also pretended to be his own identity, but he took the initiative to ask to see Xiao Ran, the first sentence was: "I know, the coalition army has been defeated! Excuse me, general, how many people are there in your army?"

Xiao Ran imitated the style of the foreign gentleman he saw on TV, shrugged his shoulders arrogantly, and said, "Didn't you see it? It's all here."

"What?! They're all here?!" The French commander's eyeballs and chin almost fell off, and he was stunned for a while before saying: "Then our [-] main force in front, now, now..."

Xiao Ran smiled coldly, and said word by word: "As you think, the whole army is wiped out!"

"what!……"

Annihilating 8000 people in one fell swoop, and then running a long distance to kill Liujiaji, which is [-] miles away, it took only one night. What kind of combat power is this, and what kind of army is this? !The commander just realized at this time: the so-called blocking and fighting before was just a game of cat and mouse. The landing troops of the three-nation coalition with a total of more than [-] people are actually a piece of fat in people's lips anytime and anywhere.And the reason why our own fleet was able to land smoothly in Dongping Port without resistance, and went all the way to Tongzhou, did you know that it was not a trap set by the other party?It can be inferred from this that the fleet of the three countries is still showing off its power in the Chinese sea, and who knows how long it will be happy? ...

At this time, the commander really wanted to sing "One Game, One Dream" or something to express his feelings, but unfortunately he couldn't, so he was completely speechless.After a long time, Fang said: "Your Excellency, I am now a prisoner of your army. I have a question, can you tell me?"

"Say."

"How on earth did you defeat our 8000-strong coalition in such a short period of time?"

kindness?Xiao Ran tilted his head and looked the commander up and down, thinking that you are really utopian, you are worthy of being French, you have the nerve to ask such a romantic and mentally handicapped question.He pondered for a moment, smiled slightly, and said, "Because today's China is no longer the China of the past. It is not now, and it will not be in the future!"

The French commander let out a long sigh, and was escorted away dejectedly.

Monk Hua, Duan Xingnian, and Ji Habu happily bet there, preparing to kill the prisoners in a competition to see who can kill more.But Xiao Ran said: "No, these captives cannot be killed, let Liu Aufu go back to the capital."

"Ah? Why?!"

Everyone was taken aback.It seems to be Xiao Ran's consistent practice to hand in the gun and kill, cut the weeds and root out the roots, because he once said that he must leave such an impression on the enemy: Anyone who dares to fight against the firearms battalion will end up with only one, death!But why did he suddenly become soft-hearted today?

Monk Hua said in a loud voice: "If you catch them, you will catch them. If you don't kill them, you won't kill them! Let them live one more day, and we will waste the food of the Qing Dynasty!"

"Damn, what do you know? Just treat it as a pig, and let their country redeem themselves with silver. Tsk tsk, how much does this have to be!"

Bang!Monk Hua fell to the ground three at the same time.

Xiao Ran's calculations were resounding. With more than 3000 captives, why should one or two million taels of silver be still available?Immediately ordered Jingshou and Sheng Zuo to take the brigade and escort the prisoners back to Beijing first to guard the capital.But he himself only brought the old troops of Daxingshan to Dongping Port, preparing to stage a modern naval battle for the foreign devils.

Not to mention Xiao Ran, just a few days later, the military camp in the outskirts of Chengde will be the main tent.Zeng Guofan was staring at the table, with an uncertain expression on his face.

On the table was an unrolled letterhead, which was a secret report from the eyeliner, roughly stating how Nianzishan Xiaoran led the Firearms Battalion to wipe out the foreign devils and the Allied Forces of the Three Kingdoms.A small firearms battalion wiped out more than ten thousand troops of the Allied Forces of the Three Kingdoms overnight. This news not only did not make Zeng Guofan feel any comfort, but made him feel a chill from the soles of his feet to the top door.

In fact, ever since he fought against the rebels, there have been many doubts in his mind: Nayan Xinduo doesn't seem to intend to capture Beijing, he never wants to fight head-on, he just leads the Qing army around by the nose ,What exactly is this for?Time delay, or simply bluffing?

And now another mystery appeared in his mind: Xiao Ran's firearms battalion was only able to deal with a group of foreign devils at the beginning, and they would be defeated at the first touch, and they couldn't fight well. More than [-] people from the Allied Forces of the Three Kingdoms were wiped out. How could there be such a huge difference in strength before and after this?Could it be... Xiao Ran simply concealed his strength?

Why did he do this?Zeng Guofan stretched out his hands out of habit, pulling out his beards one by one, his eyes gradually narrowed into a line.

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, the oil lamp burst out a little light, and the beating light flickered on and off, making Zeng Guode even more gloomy.But his train of thought gradually became clearer.

First, he was transferred from the south of the Yangtze River to Zhili, and then there were foreign criminals, the Shengjing rebellion, Xiao Ran's hidden strength, Nayan Xinduo's bluff, and Shengjia's southern tour. events, in fact, is there really no correlation at all?Or, is this simply an elaborate trap? ...

"Xiao Ran, Xiao Ran! Are you really losing your temper?..." Zeng Guofan pulled out three or four beards at the same time with a strong hand, and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly due to the tingling pain.At the same time, his always squinting eyes suddenly opened, and he said in a deep voice, "Come on!"

"Your subordinate is here!" A burly man flashed into the tent, clasped his fists and said, "What orders does your lord have?"

"Order to go down, each battalion pulls out the stronghold overnight, and prepares to move out!"

"Exit?" The man was taken aback, "My lord, are you going to attack the rebels?"

"No, turn around, hurry back to the capital immediately! Nayan Xinduo didn't come to attack the capital, he just wanted to hold me back! Hehe, if that's the case, let the Monk King and the others deal with it!" Zeng Guofan sneered lowly. He said again: "Dai, you lead the guard battalion and rush to the capital as quickly as possible, change into the clothes of the common people, and must sneak into the city, and secretly blockade the Forbidden City, the Military Aircraft Office, the Prime Minister's Office and the Infantry Office. In addition, The mansion of Director Xiao in Yuqian'er Hutong in the north of the city, surround me and let one person go, I only ask you!"

"Ah?! My lord. This..." Dai's face changed drastically, as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't dare to say it.

"Why, is there any difficulty?" Zeng Guofan glanced at him and snorted coldly: "The pro-army has already escorted them. In the capital, there are only a few guards left in the infantry office. They are empty. Your guard battalion has more than 1000 numbers. People. You can’t even do this little thing, can you?”

"Don't dare!" Dai hurriedly said. "This subordinate will do it!"

……

early morning.Lushunkou.The thin morning mist is gradually dissipating, and the blue waves are lightly swaying on the vast sea.The east is burning with gorgeous morning glow, reflecting half of the sky red.

A fleet sailed out of the mist.In the front is a heavy three-masted battleship, the top of the main mast erected high, and a dragon flag of the Qing Dynasty is waving in the wind.On the bow, a young general is wearing a summer tassel hat.Wearing a black battle robe, he is looking ahead with binoculars.