Su Shun was entangled and entangled, and finally began to face the reality, he had no way out, and he didn't want to die so he could only cooperate with Guoxinga. Although Goxinga is strong in force, he has almost no power in terms of officials, especially civilian officials. Su Shun felt that even if Guo Xing'a entered Beijing in the future, as long as he firmly controlled the civil service system and did not give Guo Xing'a a chance, Guo Xing'a would not be able to take a group of soldiers to abolish the establishment. Without the support of the civilian system, Guoxinga would not be able to succeed, and only a soldier can be a bandit leader at most.

On the sixth day of October in the 11th year of Xianfeng, Su Shun, the only fish that escaped the net of the minister of Zanxiang and the most strange minister of Xianfeng, Guo Xing'a, finally issued the "Praise Gui Rebellion Party" in Hexi. claimed that Prince Gong and his father-in-law Gui Liang robbed the empress dowager and the heir emperor of the two palaces, coerced orphans and widows to falsely pass on the holy decree, and overthrew the political team left by Xianfeng. And Prince Gong Yixin monopolized the power of one party, and there was an attempt to force the palace to usurp the throne. Therefore, as Xianfeng's dying people, Su Shun and Guo Xing'a raised troops to fight against each other, to eliminate Yixin and Guiliang and a gang of bastards, and snatch back the empress dowager and the heir emperor of the two palaces.

When the article was sent to Beijing, the people were quite shocked, but none of the officials believed it, not even the officials who had been aggrieved by Su Shun before. Now the curtain can be lowered, the empress dowager of the two palaces can see the ministers, the empress dowager Cixi's small mouth is loud, and she scolds Su Shun more ruthlessly than Prince Gong, and it is pure nonsense to be coerced by Prince Gong. Although the officials did not believe it, they were not small. Although Guo Xing'a kidnapped Su Shun before, he never said anything, and no one knew what he wanted to do. Most of the officials who don't know about the "assassination of Guo Xing'a" still think that Guo Xing'a is just against the disposal of the eight ministers! Now as soon as the text arrived, everyone understood that Guoxing, who was fiercer than Lu Bu, followed Su Shun and reversed.

Guoxing Ah kept saying that he wanted to attack Beijing, and the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces and Prince Gong also had to be prepared, one was to quickly send people to order Shengbao's army to return to aid King Qin, and the other was to deploy the defense of Gyeonggi. Shengbao didn't need to rush it, as soon as the coup was launched, he began to run back. The deployment of Gyeonggi defense is a bit urgent, and the army of Goxinga is now in Hexi, and the direction of attack is exactly the same as that of the British and French forces last year, so it is necessary to quickly dispatch troops and horses to Tongzhou to deploy defenses. Even if he can't beat it, he has to delay Guoxing for a while, and he can't let him directly come to the city of Beijing. However, it was embarrassing when choosing generals, there are not many people in the north of the Qing Dynasty who have actual experience in leading troops, and there are still a few generals who charge into battle, but there are few commanders who command the army. The most suitable candidate is Seng Greenqin, but after Monk Greenqin came back from Chengde, he said that Guoxing'a was going to use force, and hurriedly went to Shandong and Henan to transfer his old department, and the person was not in Beijing. There are really no one left, and in the end, I picked and found a person who was quite experienced, the original brother and sister of Monk Greenqin, and the current commander of the Han Army with the Yellow Banner and the management of the Shenji camp - Ruilin.

It's really no one, otherwise no one would want to use Ruilin. First of all, this guy is a pure civilian official, although he has fought a war, but he has basically never won, and what he is best at is actually collecting defeated soldiers. But fortunately, he still has the experience of commanding the army, and he can entrap this group of Qiu Ba. If you change people, maybe before you meet Guoxing, the troops will mutini directly. There is also a very embarrassing problem, that is, although Ruilin is from Zhenglanqi, he is of the same clan as Guoxing'a, and he is also surnamed Yehenara. The two blue flags themselves are close, and he and Guo Xing'a are still distant relatives, and many speech officials who can only pick thorns suspect that Ruilin will directly demote Guo Xing'a if the battle is unfavorable.

Yixin was in a dilemma and secretly hated his mistakes, Wenxiang stood up. Although Wen Xiang himself did not personally command the troops, he was also a person who tied himself to the fort in Tanggu, and he also went to the battlefield. So this upstart took the initiative to stand up and was willing to be Ruilin's deputy, which suddenly solved Yixin's urgent need. With such a noble status of the prison army, the voice of attack on Ruilin has also decreased. However, there are still many people who don't trust Ruilin, saying that Ruilin was born with a surrender appearance, and he must not believe it.

No matter how noisy it was, Ruilin and Wenxiang still led the troops to the battle. It's no wonder that many people in the court are suspicious of Ruilin, the moment he saw his troops, Ruilin really wanted to surrender to Guoxing'a, these troops were too cheating. Ruilin's troop composition this time is more complicated than the group of people he led last time. First of all, there are more than 10,000 Eight Banner Protectors from various banners, and these people are very enthusiastic about fighting, but their ability is really limited. Not only did he have almost no training, but his physical strength was poor, just because these uncles couldn't walk, Ruilin actually walked from Beijing to Tongzhou for two days. Secondly, there are nearly 10,000 elite people from various departments such as the Shenji Battalion, the Ruijian Battalion, and the Shanpu Battalion, and their combat effectiveness is okay, and there are almost no major problems. But these guys have eyes on the top of their brains, and they just look down on this and that every day. They hadn't met Goxinga yet, and they had already fought with other friendly forces several times. Finally, there are some of the Zhili Green Battalion and the Guanwai Banner Soldiers, and there are also more than 10,000 people. The combat effectiveness of these people is not good, but the military discipline is really poor, and they start to grab it when they leave Chaoyangmen, and they really don't let go of a stitch. What can they do when they fight Guoxing, Ruilin doesn't know, beating the common people, these bastards are amazing!

rushed to Tongzhou in such a chaotic manner, Ruilin and Wen Xiang had just arranged the defense, and the Gu'an army came to the city. Guoxing Ah can come so quickly, and he has to thank his old acquaintance Wen Yu, he didn't clean up Wen Yu, because Wen Yu turned against the water, and he took the initiative to sign his name on "Asking Gong Gui to Rebel against the Party".

Wen Yu and Su Shun have a good relationship, and he has the shadow of Su Shun all the way to the promotion. After the fall of Sushun in history, Wen Yu immediately sat in Shandong to subdue the thief Zhang Xizhu and others to disturb the ineffective supervision and suppression of Jinan, resigned from his post, and garrisoned the military platform. It was unfavorable to suppress the bandits, so he gave him a governor to the army, and Jiao You didn't win a few of them so badly! The situation inside is naturally clear when you think about it. So this time, Wen Yu didn't wait for the two palaces and Prince Gong to clean himself up, Su Shun and Guo Xing'a raised their flags, and he took the initiative to stand in line. Guoxing'a is known as invincible in the world, and he is still very promising, if he wins, Wen Yu can also go to the military plane to sit down.

The continuous autumn rain gave Ruilin and Wenxiang illusions that the use of firearms in the rain was limited, and they wanted to take this opportunity to hold on to the city, so that Guoxinga could taste the taste of being under the fortified city. But Guoxinga didn't talk nonsense with them at all, and the scene of the infantry carrying the ladder to attack the city did not happen, and Guoxinga directly let them taste the fruits of the technological progress of the Gu'an Arsenal.

The most advanced artillery of the Gu'an Army at present is the captured British Armstrong gun, and the arsenal has also been researching to copy and improve. Although the Armstrong gun is now the most advanced rear-loading rifled gun in the world, it has many problems. The design of this thing is too precise, and it is particularly difficult to produce, and the output has not been able to go up. Although the Gu'an Arsenal has large sets of industrial equipment such as stirring furnaces, rolling mills, heating furnaces, and water hammers for manufacturing, which are used to manufacture materials and cut parts, it is still very troublesome. Mainly because the Armstrong gun was designed with multiple rifling, lead-coated shells and rear loading, which was quite complex and inefficient. Fortunately, because of the use of new high-explosive shells, not only does the Gu'an Army no longer need such a large caliber, but the shape of the shells has also changed, and the problem of lead-coated shells has been solved. The problem of multiple rifling made the technicians of the arsenal scratch their heads, although they are very smart, but their knowledge level is limited, and they cannot solve this problem. However, they have a big BUG Guoxinga, and Guoxinga with a golden finger directly solves this problem with spiral mixed rifling.

The production problem was solved, but there were other problems, and the Armstrong gun had a lot of problems in real combat. Not only do there often be small problems such as jamming and late delivery, but there are even big problems such as air leakage and explosion. The Armstrong gun had the most serious problems with the tail bolt and lock bolt, and the lock bolt on almost all the guns cracked after actual combat, and the lock bolt of a few guns simply broke. In fact, there was a problem with the locking device of the Armstrong cannon, and the production process of this thing was extremely cumbersome, and Guo Xinga couldn't figure out what was going on. So Guo Xing'a used the golden finger again and took out the modern swinging rotary locking screw bolt. In fact, the production process of this gun latch is not simple, but fortunately, it is safe and reliable. The technicians of the arsenal are also a good group, as long as Goxinga can draw them for them, they can make them.

It's very simple, but it also invests a lot of manpower and material resources, and has experimented hundreds of times. Guo Xinga invested half of the money he earned from Britain in these scientific research projects, as well as advanced British equipment, and the arsenal also started from the Beijing peace talks, and it has been carried out until now that it is completed, and it has been busy for almost a year.

All the original artillery pieces of the various units of the Gu'an Army have been collected in the warehouse, ready to be used as cultural relics in the future, and now the whole army is equipped with new artillery produced by this kind of arsenal working overtime. In order to thank these great technicians and workers, Guo Xing'a gave this artillery a funny name, Jinxi artillery, and also "wrote" a song for everyone - "We Workers Have Power". These people are really not easy, the so-called technicians turned out to be a group of blacksmiths, silversmiths and porcelain makers. When I started to engage in scientific research, I studied mathematics, physics and chemistry while researching, and I almost didn't tire them to death. The workers were farmers and small traders, who learned to read and write while fanning their mouths and operating large industrial equipment such as iron stirring furnaces, rolling mills, heating furnaces, and water hammers with their hands that were accustomed to holding hoes. Without these thousands of "Wang Jinxi", Guo Xing'a would have turned himself into an encyclopedia, and he would not have thought that the Gu'an army would have today's equipment. Of course, these "Wang Jinxi" were also fed one by one by Guo Xing'a after turning the silver into water. Now that they have left Goxinga, they can become big landlords wherever they go, and they are all rich people.

It was precisely because of these changes that Ruilin and Wen Xiang did not see the charging Gu'an army, only the muzzles of black holes. The Jinxi 220 mm heavy howitzer, the Jinxi 150 mm howitzer, the Jinxi 110 mm field artillery, the Jinxi 100 mm mountain artillery, the Jinxi 75 mm mountain artillery, and more than 300 artillery pieces of various calibers blasted Ruilin and Wenxiang's army out of Tongzhou in one fell apart.

By the time Wen Xiang's ears stopped ringing, they had already retreated to the Bali Bridge. Everything seems to have returned to last year, when 30,000 Qing troops held the Bali Bridge and more than 10,000 enemy troops attacked. But this time, the commander of the Qing army was no longer Seng Lingqin, and there was no Mongolian cavalry of Seng Lingqin, and their opponent was Guoxinga, who was many times more fierce than the foreigners.