In fact, Qian Jiang did this just a waste of time. He was in the historical trend, and his knowledge and knowledge were of course not comparable to Zhang Yuntian from the future. Therefore, even though he was extremely smart, he could not have imagined that the latter had the ability to know the future.

However, this ability of foresight is limited to the present moment. As Zhang Yuntian's influence in this era becomes greater and more profound, everything that should have been destined to be in the future will inevitably undergo earth-shaking changes.

Zhang Yuntian lingered in the mountain village for several days, took out dozens of stolen silk from Curry, put it on a carriage, changed into a rich businessman's outfit, sat comfortably in the carriage, and the other fifty minions dressed as coachmen, porters and guards, and the group rushed straight to Daming Mansion.

The geographical location of Daming Prefecture is very special. Although it belongs to the boundary of Zhili, it is adjacent to Shandong and Henan. It is a three-in-one location. After passing here and going north, it is the complete boundary of Zhili.

Zhili can be regarded as the foot of the emperor. Although there are some bandits occasionally, most of them are transiters. There are few arrogant people like the bearded man who dare to set up camps near the prefecture. Therefore, Zhang Yuntian's journey is quite smooth. Although there are also some ignorant people who know how to live or die, they are all taken under Zhang Yuntian without hesitation.

The entire team expanded from fifty people at the time of departure to one hundred and fifty people. It was indeed a bit exaggerated to have so many people escorted more than a dozen boxes of goods. In order not to arouse the suspicion of the government, Zhang Yuntian would purchase cheap goods and load them on horse-drawn carriages every time he arrived in the prefectures and counties. The goods were getting more and more, and the convoy was getting longer and longer.

Because the goods were escorted, the road was difficult to move, so I stopped and stopped all the way, and it was already early September when I arrived in the capital.

At this time, Senggeerqin had retreated to Tongzhou. He led the horses and 17,000 infantrymen, stationed on the line from Zhangjiawan to Baliqiao, guarding the avenue from Tongzhou to Guangqumen, the capital.

The deputy commander Yiledong Adu also ordered the Mongolian horse team to lead 4,000 Mongolian horse teams to defend Baliqiao; another thousand Chahar Mongolian horse teams were led by the general manager Namashan to defend Caiyu in the southeast of Maju Bridge to prevent the enemy from advancing west from the horse head and detouring the capital; the Zhili Admiral Cheng Bao led 4,000 Green Camp soldiers to defend Tongzhou.

The deputy commander Shengbao led 5,000 people from the Beijing camp to the area east of Qihuamen to Dingfuzhuang. As a reserve force to support Senggelinqin and protect the capital, Senggelinqin led a total of 30,000 Qing troops, including nearly 10,000 Mongolian horse teams.

Bali Bridge is eight miles east of Tongzhou and thirty miles west of the capital. It is the key point from Tongzhou to Beijing. If it falls here, the invaders will arrive at the capital in less than half a day. Therefore, although their troops are three times that of the British and French coalition forces, Xianfeng still feels unsafe and is ready to go to Mulan Eid to hunt for autumn. It is said that it is autumn hunt, but in fact it is planning to escape and take refuge.

Half a month later, the most shameful battle in history, the Battle of Baliqiao was about to begin. More than half of the 30,000 elite soldiers in Senggeerqin died and injured, while 3 French troops died and 17 injured in the British and French coalition forces, 2 British troops died and 29 injured.

This cannot be considered a battle at all, it is simply a massacre.

Afterwards, the commander of the British and French coalition forces returned to France, he was named "Earl of Baliqiao" by Emperor Napoleon III and made him a senator. However, this tragic battle was rated as "a hilarious battle", which was really a great humiliation for the Chinese people.

Zhang Yuntian, who had predicted the result, had no intention of helping, because as long as this incompetent Qing government continued to rule, such a crushing defeat would not stop (there would be a more miserable Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 in decades). Instead of maintaining his poor dignity that had long disappeared, it would be better to overthrow it and rebuild a stronger country.

Zhang Yuntian bought a small courtyard in Beijing and lived there. He selected dozens of shooting masters from the corpse guards. Each of them was given an anesthesia gun and a bundle of syringes. Each of them was given an explosion-proof shield and a machete. He was trained in the yard all day long.

Now Emperor Xianfeng is still in the city and is guarded everywhere, especially the Old Summer Palace has heavy troops to guard, so it is not advisable to advance rashly. What Zhang Yuntian has to do now is to wait quietly for the opportunity to come, but this opportunity will never let him wait too long.

On September 21, 1860, early in the morning, the sky was just bright, and there were faint sounds of deafening sounds in the southeast of the capital, one after another, continuous, and the whole city was in chaos. From time to time, the fast horses of Qing soldiers galloped into the Old Summer Palace. The more intense the cannons outside the city, the more fast horses were coming and going. They all looked solemn, and even covered in blood. They were lying on the horse's back and forth, and the fierceness of the war in the south of the city was evident.

At around 10 o'clock in the morning, there was a commotion at the gate of the Old Summer Palace. Then a team of horses and infantry opened the way. Then the emperor drove out. Followed by various exquisitely crafted sedan chairs, which should be the descendants of the concubines, followed by some close-fitting palace maids and eunuchs, and then there were ministers with fearful expressions, and finally the rear team was escorted by the military officers of the Zhenghuang Banner.

The whole team was so prosperous that they headed north and left the city.

The journey was like a parade, with artillery fire outside the city and the emperor in the city left the palace. As long as he was not a fool, he understood what was going on, the battle must be unfavorable, and the foreigners were about to fight to the capital.

The prince was so scared that he hurried back home and locked the doors and windows, for fear of being rushed in. Some passers-by saw this and hurriedly packed their luggage and ran northward.

The entire capital was suddenly in panic and chaos.

The emperor's horse team had just left the capital less than half an hour. The soldiers guarding the city could not tell what the wind sounded. They quietly threw down their weapons and put on casual clothes. They didn't know where they ran. The gate of the huge capital city was opened and no one was guarding it, and there was a miserable and desolate scene.

Zhang Yuntian knew that the time was ripe, so he brought all 150 corpse guards to the main entrance of the Old Summer Palace.

At this time, the Old Summer Palace had not recovered from the chaos, and there were only a few Qing soldiers guards at the door. When they saw Zhang Yuntian and his group, they were shot to the ground by anesthesia gun before they could go in and report.

Zhang Yuntian waved his hand and more than a hundred corpse guards rushed in like hungry tigers, frightened in, scaring the remaining palace maids and eunuchs inside to flee and shout loudly.

The corpse guards ignored them. They followed the lineup arranged in advance, each with ten people, each team equipped with anesthesia guns, explosion-proof shields and close-knit warriors. They began to collect treasures in the gardener's garden separately. Zhang Yuntian was not idle either. He took out the scanning device of the building (mentioned at the end of Volume 24) and placed it on the open space in the square. Then, thousands of crystals rushed out like bees and flew out in all directions.
Chapter completed!