Since ancient times, the children of the emperor's family have been precocious, and Tongzhi is no exception, of course he knows what the palace change is about, and because of the imperial education he received, he has no guilt about the palace change.

But Tongzhi is only a ten-year-old child after all, a trace of innocence has not been extinguished, in his heart you can kill the enemy, but you can't insult the enemy, especially if the other party is not an enemy but a relative in the same Forbidden City.

The little emperor knew that he could not disobey his mother, so this bit of fire in his heart had been accumulating, until tonight he heard the 'great truth' of the little ghost in the fog, and the volcano in his heart burst out.

"... An dared to use this poisonous trick...... Dragged out with a cane... Can the Huai army stop Xiao Letian? Can the iron army that can go on an expedition to Europa be able to resist their Huai army?"

Cixi pulled Tongzhi's arm, and the little emperor kept scolding, and when he was angry, he raised his foot and kicked it. At this time, the little ghost of the fog also let out, "Your Majesty, listen to the slave and maid...... Now Xiao Letian has broken through Tianjin Wei, but he has not continued to advance westward or even stayed in Tianjin, which shows that he Xiao Lotian does not have the strength or courage to attack Beijing......"

"This is the imperial capital of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and this is where the dragon vein in the hearts of the people is, don't look at Xiao Letian, he is now the king and hegemon of the Ryukyus, but he covets Beijing, and he doesn't have such a big appetite...... Although the common people have some complaints about the imperial court, the imperial authority is still strict, and the people's will has not changed......"

"So Xiao Letian, he has to wait... What he is waiting for is a righteous name, Li Hongzhang said very clearly, if Xiao Letian returns home with the news of the victory in the European war and let Ci'an know, this woman is very likely to secretly summon Xiao Letian Qinwang, because only Xiao Letian's army has nothing to do with any faction in the land of Gyeonggi, and the combat power is still strong......"

"So the slave maid implored the Queen Mother to forget her previous grievances and make peace with the Queen Mother... Isn't it just the separation of powers? He Ci'an knows what advances and retreats, and she should know what is important in state affairs... As long as the peace talks are successful, the Queen Mother will please take away the heads of the slaves and maids and appease the anger of the people in the world..."

The little ghost of Wuyin was also anxious, "Even if Ci'an is determined to fight against us, we don't have to be afraid, the Huai army will win this battle..."

"Why? Why the hell are you ......," Tongzhi asked sharply.

"Because the slave maid is from Fuso, because the slave maid is a ninja, because we have our own set of secret methods of observing clouds during the day and stargazing at night, I can predict the weather in the next ten days...... 陛xià... Dowager... Please believe the slave, there will be heavy rain in Gyeonggi tomorrow, and this rain will linger for about ten days......"

"Your Majesty, the Queen Mother... God is helping us......"

Just as he was talking, suddenly there was a strange wind outside the hall, and several ventilated windows were slapped with loud noises, and the frightened people in the hall entered the heart, and looked up to see the leaves and dust being poured into the hall at any time.

At the same time, in a place called Xiaomoutun in the northwest of Wuqing County, west of Jingshi, a brand-new large camp stood on the south side of the official road, but in the center of the camp was the flag of the green camp.

Hundreds of surrounding people passed by here, all looking at this black camp with frightened eyes, although the soldiers at the door were thin but full of energy, they didn't look like green camp soldiers.

This is the camp of Li Hongzhang's temporary garrison, and it is also the decisive place for him to prevent Xiao Letian's advance.

In the middle of the night, the atmosphere. Li Hongzhang looked at the crackling flags outside the big tent, and was extremely shocked by the Japanese woman's qi observation technique.

"Amazing, this small state also has such talents, she said that it will rain if it rains?" Li Hongzhang said lightly.

The people of the Central Plains will probably never understand what it is like to be a troubled island nation of Japan, with earthquakes, tsunamis, typhoons, volcanic eruptions, and, of course, endless wars.

Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions are unavoidable for human beings, but there is one climate that human beings can judge, and that is wind, frost, rain and snow.

The experience accumulated over thousands of years in agrarian societies is not only valuable but also complex, and the ability to predict the weather can help not only the farmer, but also the army. What the Fog Hidden Imp is studying is a magic skill for observing celestial phenomena and predicting future climate change, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is just a summary and purification of countless human experiences.

"Hmm... This woman is a little interesting, if the situation is really as she expected, and there is a rain battle, then our Huaidi soldiers are better than this group of northerners...... The rain is also a restraint on firearms, and it seems that the odds of winning are two points more..."

Li Hongzhang muttered a few words to himself, and then turned his eyes to a guest in the big tent, a down-and-out general who was holding a bowl of noodles and eating wildly.

"General Mailer, slow down, slow down...... Here are the side dishes we brought from Huai, try it......" I didn't expect that the general entertained by Li Hongzhang was none other than Meler, who had retreated from Tanggu, and the Huai Army rangers robbed him from the official road of Wuqing.

"Thank you, Brother Shaoquan...... Shame on my brother... Shame......" Mailer said ashamed as he covered his face with a large sea bowl, looking a little embarrassed to lose to one person twice.

Li Hongzhang was not annoyed, and then read the official document on the desk, until Mailer put down the bowl and wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, and then asked, "General Mailer, can you tell my brother the details of this battle, and describe to me how powerful this group of new troops is?" You must know that we are very likely to have to fight with them as well......

"Brother Shaoquan, how many soldiers have you brought, and what are the configurations?"

"Three thousand foot soldiers, all of them are Mini bullets and foreign guns, and some of them are rear-loading Desailet...... The cavalry only had a few rangers for communication......"

"Not enough, not enough......" Before Li Hongzhang could finish speaking, Mailer shook his head, "Is there a cannon......?"

Mailer recalled the cruelty of the Tanggu battlefield and couldn't help but fight a cold war.

"That's the god of killing from hell, the whole army is in blue clothes and blue pants, without an inch of armor, and the head is full of foreigners' patent leather big-brimmed hats...... Each of them has a serial gun in their hands, which seems to be called Spencer, and can fire seven projectiles in a row at a time, and it is a rain of bullets in an instant......"

"There are also sharpshooters among these people, who will shoot wherever they say within two hundred paces...... Countless of my officers have caused harm to them, and you can tell me that the officers are all dead, how can I command the army?"

Li Hongzhang frowned, "Firearms are so powerful, then they must not be good at hand-to-hand combat, we can use big knives and spears to deal with them?"

"Huh...... My young brother, don't you dare to fight hand-to-hand when those new troops? God, they rushed forward in a line with bayonets as if they were not their own lives, and they also sang a song of great rebellion......"

"Those people sang 'up the mountain is a tiger, down to the sea is a dragon' whenever this song sounds, the whole battlefield is not heard any other sound, they want to shout and break their throats......"

"Terrible, really terrible, that bright bayonet array, coupled with that devil's song, pierced through our countless military formations, how many Eight Banners warriors died tragically under the bayonet array......"

"By the way, there is also a group of people called the Knife Drawing Team, also called the Foreign Legion, all of them are Japanese ronin...... The sharp Japanese knife, which is more than a meter long, rolls like a wheel, and everyone is shattered after the knife light..."

Mailer kept wiping cold sweat in fright, this battle had already scared his guts, "What's even more terrifying is that this group of people's demagogic ability, the green battalion soldiers of Dagukou Fort are what make them bewitch...... But this group of rat-like green battalion soldiers was able to fight hand-to-hand with our Eight Banners athletes in the end...... It's unthinkable..."

With a snap, Li Hongzhang threw the case on the table, and said very unhappily, "General Mailer is exaggerating, right? I know that you are making excuses for your own failures, and brother, I am not an official who interrogates you, so why bother to deceive me...... So Xiao Letian's soldiers are all heavenly soldiers?"

Mailer's face was bitter, "Shaoquan is angry, Brother Shaoquan is angry...... Listen to me, I really didn't lie to you..."

"This group of soldiers is really powerful, playing with firearms, playing hand-to-hand combat, and fighting morale...... But they also have flaws, and this is the experience that we have bought with blood......"

As soon as Li Hongzhang heard this, he scolded in his heart: "Damn waste, do you still want to squeeze oil from me? You want to sell this thing for money? Forget it, what he wants now is nothing more than bribing the court to buy money......

Thinking of this, Li Hongzhang shouted, "Come on, give General Mailer 20,000 taels of silver tickets...... Don't shirk it, you have to put it on hold, I won't give you money, aren't you in trouble......? Hurry up, get the ......."

"Don't worry, the brothers in the capital also have some ways, and they will naturally speak for the brothers when the time comes..."

Mailer pinched the silver ticket, tears flowed down, and he arched his hand and said, "Brother's righteousness, brother's heart understands...... I'm also panicking, a penny is hard to beat a hero..."

Mailer didn't say a word this time, took out the fold from his arms, and handed it to Li Hongzhang, "Brother Shaoquan, hurry up and copy a copy, brother, my hard work is all here......"

"Xiao Letian's new army is not a divine soldier, and he also has shortcomings. First of all, the new army did not wear armor, but only woolen cloth uniforms, which were light and easy to move, but it was difficult to defend against bows, arrows, bullets, and ......."

"Especially for bow and arrow projectiles, as long as we can find favorable terrain and choose the method of projectile against the new army, we will naturally be able to protect ourselves and kill the enemy......"

"Secondly, the new army has no cavalry regiments, only a small number of communications and reconnaissance cavalry, and they must rely on trenches and barbed wire against the cavalry, and if we have enough cavalry, we can defeat them......"

"Again, the new army actually doesn't have artillery, this is really a very peculiar point, the new army only has four strange guns, but there is no artillery, from this point of view, Xiao Letian seems to have never been in Europe, even our Qing Dynasty knows that artillery is useful, why don't they have any of them? shouldn't it be that there is no money..."

"The last and most critical one, there are too few new soldiers, I estimate that the number of new troops in Tanggu City will definitely not exceed 1,000 and a half, and such strong soldiers will not be mass-produced at all...... I firmly believe, I firmly believe..."

Mailer gritted his teeth and said, as if he was holding Xiao Letian's bones in his mouth.

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