I can't die

Zai Chun was almost scared out of the Hall of Mental Cultivation by Wo Ren that day.Although Wo Ren is an old pedant that Zai Chun can't get used to, but after all, he is getting old and a veteran of the three super powers. He can't be scolded or beaten. I'm afraid that this old man has heard something that Zai Chun accidentally said. , an inattentive, angry direct hiccup, that would be ridiculous.

When Li Chun fell into poverty and escaped from the Palace of Mental Cultivation, he was about to go to Chuxiu Palace, but later he heard that Cixi was not in his palace at this time, and went to Zhongcui Palace.Considering that during this period of time, I don't see Ci'an very often, after all, she is also the aunt, so Zai Chun decided to go and visit Ci'an together.Therefore, I also diverted to Zhongcui Palace.

After entering Zhongcui Palace, some palace people had heard the news that Zai Chun's dragon had arrived, and they went forward to greet him together. After paying a big gift, they surrounded Zai Chun and entered Zhongcui Palace.

At this time, Cixi and Ci'an seemed to be waiting for Zai Chun. Seeing Zai Chun come in, Ci'an gave Zai Chun a very loving look, and waved: "The emperor is here. I have grown taller after a long time."

Seeing Ci'an getting close to him, Zai Chun sneaked a glance at his mother-in-law Cixi, seeing that she didn't seem to have much taste, so he leaned into Ci'an's arms and got close to Ci'an for a while.

"Your Majesty, what happened to the Ministry of Industry?"

After a while, the two of them got bored, Ci'an put Xia Chun aside, and asked with concern.

"It's not that easy. I was almost scared by Woren and fell off the dragon chair."

Zai Chun only felt three cold sweats on his head, thinking about it, he felt that this old rot was really scary.The Empress Dowager Ci'an was born in the Nobility of the Eight Banners, so she had heard Woren's style evaluation, so she also smiled immediately: "Take your time, it's too late, this change can't be changed too fast. As a monarch, you don't need the emperor to do everything personally. If the emperor can't figure it out, ask the Military Aircraft Department to do it; if the Military Aircraft Department can't figure it out, ask the other six ministers to do it, there is always a way."

Also, if you worry about everything as the emperor, you will be exhausted if you are tired.Zai Chun nodded, and heard Ci Xi say: "Your Majesty, the people from the Ministry of War have just arrived."

"Oh?"

Zai Chun was surprised, he didn't know why the Ministry of War came.

"Because the emperor was entangled by Woren just now, so there was no notification. After delivering the letter, he left immediately."

"What letter?"

"The Taiping Army has attacked Shanghai."

"what?"

Zai Chun heard the news, and thought it was no wonder, the reporter came and went in a hurry, it seems that the state of the front line is very anxious.However, looking at Cixi Ci'an's nagging appearance, it seemed that he was not in a hurry at all, which made Zai Chun feel puzzled.

"Aren't you two worried?"

Before, I still thought about playing parent-child fun with Zai Chun.

"There is nothing to worry about. The Taiping Army took down the entire Anhui Province back then, and they were all beaten back. The emperor believed Zeng Guofan, and we naturally believed it. Besides, the spies just said that the Taiping Army attacked Shanghai, which is too courageous." fat."

Shanghai?

It should be noted that although Shanghai is still the territory of the Qing Dynasty at this time, it is basically a country within a country, and it can be regarded as the world of foreigners. Think about it, the Taiping Army has something wrong with its brain, right?It's really daring to tease the beards of foreigners.

As for the Taiping Army making such a stupid military mistake?

Let me tell you, it really is.

These extremely bold leaders of the Taiping Army, who rely on the vast labor-labor-peasant-peasant-class-class to carry out armed-armed-struggle-struggle, because most of them are from bad backgrounds, have an innate aversion to foreigners .Moreover, many of them lack an understanding of the international situation and the gap between Chinese and Western armed forces, which leads to their over-recognition of their own strength, which makes the whole army have a special disgust and contempt for Western powers.

This can be seen from the resolute refusal of the leader of the Taiping Army on the pole that Bacharley handed over on behalf of the United Kingdom.

On the eve of the Spring Festival in 1862, the Taiping Army launched a large-scale attack on Shanghai, a city at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

Shanghai is the estuary of the Yangtze River, the earliest trading port in China opened to the outside world, and the "No. [-] city in the Far East". Its importance is not only in geography, trade, but also has an irreplaceable position in economy.

The leader of the Taiping Army this time is Li Xiucheng, the loyal king. He was originally a poor man in a remote village in Guangxi. He was inspired by Hong Xiuquan and joined the army. He was just a small soldier at first. Jiangbei Daying in the Qing Dynasty was indeed a general.

Li Xiuquan led his army to start from Jiangsu, via Taicang, intending to enter the hinterland of Shanghai from the second county of Jiading in Songjiang.But just when its army entered the border of Taicang, it was the first to encounter a wave of extremely strong attacks.

This wave of attacks was initiated by the foreign gun team led by Charles.

With the support of Li Hongzhang, Charles obtained sufficient munitions from Chard, and waited early on the main road for the Taiping Army to enter Shanghai. More than 1000 people, each armed with foreign guns, formed a group of ten people, a hundred people in a team, and a row of 500 people. They took turns to shoot in turn. Two rows of fire (gunners), one row finished shooting, the other row made up, and replaced in turn. In an instant, the Taiping Army's assault troops were hit head-on.

Li Xiuquan was sitting on the two-meter-high chariot at this time, looking into the distance, only heard a scream, and the vanguard of the Taiping Army was killed and injured.

"Foreign gun?!"

As soon as Li Xiucheng saw this group of troops headed by foreigners, his complexion turned pale, and he began to scold the foreign devils for being despicable, for colluding with the Manchu Qing and meddling in other China-China internal affairs again.

"Take the fast horse camp, rush!"

It is obviously impossible to use infantry to attack firearms whose attack range is much larger than that of bows and arrows. Fortunately, he now leads an army of [-], which is far more numerous than the foreign spear team, and there are also cavalry among them.

Using foreign guns as a cavalry captain is a very traditional and inhumane method of warfare.Taking advantage of the number of cavalry, the fast horses rushed to the camp of spearmen, so as to achieve the purpose of killing the enemy at close quarters.Naturally, those cavalry who charged first were basically no different from death squads before they were in person. They were quite the meat shields of the troops behind, but because the cavalry was faster, they suffered less losses than the infantry.

At that moment, the cavalry of the Taiping Army received Li Xiuquan's order, and all of them looked heroic.The captains of each cavalry battalion gathered quickly, and the captains drew lots to determine the order of charge in this battle.The one who got the back rusher had a happy face, but the one who got the vanguard inevitably looked haggard.After the decision was made, the battalion leader returned to the team, and then mobilized, leading a group of men to the foreign gun team.

This is the most authentic way of using flesh and blood to plug gun holes.

Although Shire, the leader of the foreign gun team, has always done things like hanging his neck on his waist and licking blood with the tip of a knife, it is the first time he has seen so many people not afraid of death, going forward and succeeding, and he was stunned for a while on the spot.

But listening to horses neighing and people roaring, guns burst out.Countless blood bloomed on these cavalrymen like blood-red stamens, and the corpses all over the ground seemed to open the gate of the underworld.

Poor Wanli River and Mountain Road, there are many autumn grasses in the battle bones every year.

Charles squinted his eyes, watching batch after batch of Taiping soldiers die at gunpoint.Finally, with their shouts and cheers, someone finally broke through the hail of bullets and rushed to Charles' side.

A huge machete slashed straight at Charles' head.Feeling a cold wave hit his head, Charles immediately rolled over on the side, threw away the long gun (gun) in his hand, took out a small pistol (gun), and shot at the person who came.In an instant, a hole was blown out of the man's abdomen.

At the same time, along with the cavalry who had already attacked, the archers of the Taiping Army also gradually reached the shooting range, and launched large-scale long-distance attacks on the members of the foreign spear team. turned around.

"retreat!"

Seeing this, Charles shouted and announced his retreat.After all, every gunman in the foreign gun team is much more precious than these Taiping troops, and every loss of one will make Charles' heart bleed.

At the moment, everyone in the foreign gun team fought and retreated, feeling a little bit fleeing.

The author has something to say:

In the end, I replied to the questions of several friends on Weibo: I am indeed a man. . . .

The following is a reply to a reader (taken from Baidu Encyclopedia)

After Zhang Shengzao's opinion was suppressed, Woren appeared in person and was immediately involved in the debate.He fought tit-for-tat with Prince Gong Yixin and others for two rounds.He argued from the height of the foundation of the country, opposed intellectuals learning Western science and technology, worried about "turning the summer into barbarians", and exaggerated the seriousness of the problem to the point where the country was in danger of extinction.With Woren's education and status, the Qing court naturally couldn't take it lightly.On the day when Woren played the memorial, the empress dowagers of the two palaces summoned Woren and handed over his memorial to the Prime Minister's Yamen for processing.