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Chapter 1042 Approaching ()

Time: Morning of April 4th.

Location: Capital City, Nanyuan Camp, Daqing New Army First Town Training Campus.

In the thought of "I'm going to kill someone on my knees", AT slapped the horse hoof sleeves on his hands and performed a "beating a thousand" salute to Emperor Guangxu who was sitting on the high platform.

At the same time, he shouted loudly:

"I report to Your Majesty that there should be 8735 people in the first town of the Daqing New Army, but the actual number is 8735. They have now formed up. Please give instructions to Your Majesty."

After hearing this, Emperor Guangxu and all the imperialists looked at the New Army soldiers who were neatly arranged in units such as standard, association, and team on the campus, with bayonets like a forest.

Suddenly, the emotions in his heart surged indescribably.

Looking at such a new and powerful army that belongs to the Manchu people and has never been seen before, no matter how you look at it, you will like it.

The accompanying military ministers, some Manchu princes and nobles, and the court ministers looked at each other with some new ideas in mind.

It seems that His Majesty the Emperor is really getting up.

Today was the day when Emperor Guangxu led a group of people to review the new army at Nanyuan Camp for the first time.

The reason for this is that as early as four months ago, AT and Xufeng finally became deputy ministers of training of the Daqing New Army in the reward edict issued by Emperor Guangxu.

In addition, he must also hold the title of Minister of War.

There are also a lot of fancy things like a pair of flower feathers and a yellow vest.

However, although they are only deputy ministers of military training, the chief minister is Emperor Shi Weng Tonghe. Not only does he have no time to take care of things here, but he also doesn't understand anything.

So in fact, the two of them have become the actual leaders of this new army since their promotion.

With such a name, the two completely took over and controlled the First Town.

Because other new officers and soldiers of the Biaohe Association have long been extremely envious of the life of the Second Association where they can be paid on time, there is no deduction in salary, and they can eat every meal, and they can eat meat for a few days.

The entire process of power transition was extremely smooth.

Xu Feng and AT also arranged some well-performing New Army soldiers from the Second Association into other troops in the First Town.

He served as a shed leader with some subordinates in charge of 13 people, similar to a squad leader level.

After all, in the eyes of the Eight Banners men, a shed chief as big as a booger is not considered an official at all; there is no money and no one is willing to take the position.

But relying on these most basic shed leaders, AT and Xu Feng had good control over the entire New Army First Town.

After deducting some free pay, there were a total of eight thousand soldiers, and after four months of training, they had barely reached the level that they thought they could leave the recruit camp.

In line with the idea that watching the excitement is not too big a deal, let a mother and son like Guangxu and the old witch make more trouble with each other.

After AT and Xu Feng had a private discussion, they came up with a deal and invited Emperor Guangxu to come and see how powerful and majestic the new army belonging to Da Qing and His Majesty the Emperor looked like.

Before, Emperor Guangxu only listened to the people in the imperial party around him talking about how powerful the new army trained by AT and Xufeng was.

In fact, he had never actually gone to see it in person. Suddenly, this little secret between the two of them scratched the most itchy spot in his heart.

As a result, a scene like today occurred.

Seeing that in the eyes of AT and Xu Feng, they were just useful, but in the hearts of Guangxu and others, they were the New Army soldiers who could be called a mighty division.

It is now the 20th year of Guangxu's reign. In these years, the emperor has been suppressed by the old witch.

It was by suppressing the excitement in his heart that tears filled with grievances, excitement, joy and other emotions were not allowed to flow out from the corners of his eyes.

The only flaw in the above scene is that it feels like it’s not good enough.

Still in the queue, those officers who came from the Eight Banners.

These Eight Banners men, even after knowing the news of the review in advance, happily drank enough duck slices in advance, and presented themselves in their best condition in front of Guangxu and others.

But after they have been fishing for a long time, they have performed their best.

Compared with the military posture, morale, etc. displayed by the New Army soldiers, it is still the attitude of comparing goods.

Fortunately, including Emperor Guangxu, they had long known the fact that the Eight Banners of the Manchus had been abolished; after seeing it, they were not so disappointed...

Facing AT's inquiry, Emperor Guangxu took a deep breath.

It was then that with a big wave of his hand, he said in a strong and calm tone: "Tang and Liu, my dear friends, let's start the review directly~"

After hearing such a sentence, Xu Feng had no intention of being humble anymore.

With the arrogance of "I can let you see this scene, it's already green smoke rising from the ancestral graves of the Wild Boar Skin Family", he turned around and came to the edge of the high platform, and shouted in a long tail tone:

"The pacesetters are in place~"

With such a sentence, his bodyguards, who looked like soldiers, came out one after another with rifles with bayonets, five steps apart in front of the stage, standing upright like spears in front of the stage.

Then, the first town team of the Daqing New Army, more than a hundred people from the first association, took the first bid.

They just lined up neatly and walked past the reviewing stand with bayonets drawn.

In short, a group of new army soldiers walked with the somewhat funny goose steps of German sticks.

But even if it was Goosebu, where had Guangxu and all the important officials of the imperial court seen this scene before?

When the neat team passed by, the cold light of those bayonets flashed in my eyes, but I was really shocked by such scenes.

Especially in the following time, the entire New Army's First Town soldiers roared a loud word "kill~" at Xu Feng's command, and stabbed out with bayonets in their hands.

Guangxu and the others felt like their souls were trembling.

Later, he followed Xinjun and had a lunch of pickles, steamed buns, and radish soup. Perhaps because he was in a good mood, he ate two corn-meal steamed buns.

When leaving, Emperor Guangxu held the hands of AT and Xu Feng tightly, and kept saying, 'As long as they live up to him, he will treat them with the courtesy of a countryman.'

Faced with Emperor Guangxu's obvious superiority, he seemed to lose his composure.

Xu Feng and the two didn't know that Emperor Guangxu, after the huge impact, was now showing his heart to them.

For future plans, they were happy to hear this, but when Emperor Guangxu held his palm, they clearly felt how wet his palm was.

Damn it! The health of this waist is not as good as that of a pretty boy...

*****

At the same time, in the Huailai area, northwest of the capital city and more than 200 miles away, in a small county town.

At this time, it is obviously not a holiday, nor is it even a day to go to the market.

The strange thing is that the county town is far more lively than going to the market.

Since early in the morning, people from all over the country have entered the city one after another.

It was early in the morning when tens of thousands of men, women, and children entered the city of Huailai, squeezing the abandoned school grounds that were originally used for the Qiu Queen to be beheaded to the brink of suffocation.

On weekdays, the government servants whose nostrils are eager to turn to the sky are overwhelmed by the arrival of these bitter people.

Not only did they not dare to stop him at all, they even started to talk about it in private:

"Hehe, have you guys seen that, that shirtless man with a ring of hair that protects his heart, he is the second master of Qian's village?

It is said that when he was seven years old, he was admitted to the Shen Fist Sect. Before he was eleven, he became a core disciple valued by the sect leader because of his outstanding qualifications.

Now I heard that as long as you drink the talisman water, you can invite the golden-armored god general from the sky to take possession of you.

Even the Ghost Tou Dao, which can cut off a person's head with one strike, can only leave a mark on his belly, and the mark disappears after rubbing it with his hands. "

“Have you seen that eldest sister in red clothes, with a red headband and braided hair?

This one is even more powerful, but Tong Shuxian, the master sister of the Red Spear Club in several nearby counties, is said to be able to get the protection of the red boy after drinking the talisman water.

Are the foreign guns of those foreign devils powerful? The gun can't even penetrate. "

"It's incredible. Even Mr. Chai is here. He is one of the four major incense masters of Plum Blossom Quan..."

In the end, the many exclamations in the mouths of these government officials gathered together and turned into a huge doubt: "Today is not a festival. These boxers gathered in the county town. What are they planning to do? Is it safe?" In a few years, what big things are going to happen?"

well! From the talk of these yamen, it is not difficult to tell that these people are the Boxers who have suddenly become popular in the entire Zhili area since the old witch started trouble.

After a few months, they, which were already developing well, grew rapidly like a snowball.

Nowadays, in the entire Zhili region, the total number of boxers is probably not in the hundreds of thousands.

And today, tens of thousands of people from the Huailai area gathered here, something big is really going to happen.

It was around three o'clock. He was dressed like a fat shopkeeper who was friendly and made money, but he was the most virtuous and respected Mr. Chai in the whole room.

A beautiful kite turned over, and people stepped onto a stage that was seven or eight feet high and was originally used as a stage.

After everyone applauded, seeing Mr. Chai say something, the originally chaotic scene gradually calmed down.

Then, Mr. Chai shouted at the top of his lungs; There is no way! There were too many people at the scene, and not many people would be able to hear me if I didn’t shout so loudly:

"Dear fellow villagers, old and young.

Have you ever thought about why in the past few years, all kinds of foreign devils and bandits have continued to appear, making the world more and more unstable day by day, and everyone's life becoming more and more difficult day by day?

What else could it be, a demon star from the sky came to this world just to cause chaos in the world.

Those foreign devils with ghostly white skin and blue eyes, and those second devils, they are the incarnations of the demon star.

They are building railways, building factories, and digging mines everywhere. It sounds like science and civilization, but in fact they are stealing the dragon energy of our Daqing;

Once Daqing's dragon energy is absorbed by them, we Daqing will no longer have the protection of the real dragon, and the world will be in chaos.

By then, plague will be rampant everywhere, locusts and severe drought will be everywhere in the north, and floods will occur in the south, and no crops will grow on the ground. "

The above statement is actually not new among boxers. Various senior brothers and incense masters have said it repeatedly.

When they first spoke, not many people believed.

However, in the modern world where information is developed, lies often become the truth after they are told too many times, not to mention the current era that has been ruled by Daqing ignorance for more than two hundred years.

Everyone present listened to it more times, or said it to others more often, and even they themselves believed it.

So, after Mr. Chai finished speaking the above, everyone in the audience became panicked when they thought of those doomsday scenes.

They all shouted: "What should we do? God won't give us a way to survive~"

"Mr. Chai, you are the venerable one under Wusheng Mother. Just tell me what you want to do. As long as you can find a way to survive, we will all listen to you..."

After another commotion, Mr. Chai finally opened his mouth and shouted again:

"Of course it is to support Daqing internally and resist foreigners externally.

However, how to provide support is very important; most of the officials in the court are idle people, and not many people understand it nowadays. The first one is Lafayette, who understands it best.

According to the decree given to us by the old mother Wu Sheng, this is what she said.

First point, we must burn incense and practice boxing well in the future, and develop more brothers and sisters; as long as we wait for Lafayette's order, we will go to the capital city to help.

The second point is that now in Huai Lai alone, there are seven or eight different sects and incense halls such as the Golden Bell Cover, the Divine Fist Sect, the Red Spear Society, and the Peace Sword.

Counting the entire Zhili region, the number of various sects is even greater.

If everyone does their own thing, how powerful can it be?

Therefore, Yu Xian, the former governor of Rilu Province, once collectively called us 'Yihequan', so the heads of various sects have decided to unite together and call us under this name.

In the future, we can also advance and retreat together.

Third, a snake cannot survive without a head.

Today we need to choose one person. We have to choose a senior brother from the Huailai area to be responsible for commanding the tens of thousands of brothers and sisters of the "Yihe Quan" in Huailai. "

After hearing such a statement, everyone present became excited.

Because for them, how can they choose a senior brother that everyone can admire? Of course, it is a competition of skills. Whoever is more capable will be regarded as the senior brother.

It's like saying, there will be a good show to watch later...

The actual situation is indeed the same.

Then Mr. Chai announced the rules. As long as he could be a hero and invulnerable to gods, he would be qualified to compete on stage to compete for senior brother.

Then these competitors will have a battle on the stage to see who is better at inviting the Queen of Gods.

Whoever stands on the stage until the end will be the future senior brother of the "Yihequan" in Huailai area.

In the following time, at least twenty or thirty people burned a piece of yellow talisman paper and drank it together with a bowl of water while mumbling something.

Or, after lighting a lotus lantern, they dance in front of them for a long time.

Anyway, after all kinds of seemingly unconscious methods, they were faced with chopping with broadswords, stabbing with spears, and beating with hammers, but nothing happened at all. They were considered qualified to compete for senior brothers.

Afterwards, these people came up to compete with the gods they invited.

Unexpectedly, the most conspicuous figure was Tong Shuxian from the Red Spear Club.

This woman dressed in bright red, who looks like a little pepper, definitely has good kung fu, or the red boy she invited to wear is obviously more powerful than the other gods.

Before noon, Tong Shuxian had defeated five heroes in a row.

The remaining heroes looked at each other, and for a while no one dared to come on stage to compete with her.

Seeing this, Mr. Chai, who was presiding over the competition, was about to announce that Tong Shuxian from the Red Spear Club would be the senior sister of the "Yihe Quan" in their Huailai area from now on.

At this critical moment, with a loud "Wait a minute~", a figure finally jumped onto the stage.

This is a man who looks to be in his forties. He is not very tall and strong. Apart from his fairer skin, there is really nothing special about him.

Tong Shuxian, who had lost five people in a row, was at her most energetic right now.

Someone came up to challenge him again. She immediately stepped forward and stabbed the person in the chest. It was the 'mandarin duck kick' that she was best at.

Unexpectedly, the man swung his fist lightly in the flash of light and hit Tong Shuxian's sole.

The huge force came, making her entire right leg numb, making it difficult to even stand.

Suddenly, the contemptuous thoughts in Tong Shuxian's heart disappeared, and she became more solemn than ever before, because just one move made her understand that she had met a powerful opponent she had only seen in her life.

Unfortunately, her cautious approach had no effect.

After ten moves, the man locked one arm with her and threw her off the stage with a slight flick.

After landing, she even took several steps back, but could not stand completely. Tong Shuxian was in huge shock and asked: "Who are you and why are you so powerful?"

Without waiting for the middle-aged man on the stage to answer, there was a group of only three to four hundred people on one side of the stage. They were considered the weakest 'Magic Lamp Zhao' force in the Huailai area.

A man pointed at a majestic and strange big dog next to him with a proud mood.

He said in his mouth: "Listen up, this is the senior brother of our 'Shen Leng Zhao'. He can invite Erlang Shen to take over, so he is naturally much better than a red boy like you..."

A middle-aged man with a big dog and amazing kung fu is naturally the warehouse manager.

After receiving Hu Biao's telegram, he came to the Huailai area and found a way to join the 'Magic Lamp Zhao'. After a lot of trouble, he finally became a senior brother.

Now, he has become the "Righteous Fist" senior brother again.

As for the invulnerability of these people, it is just hard Qigong, plus some skillful use of their hands when cutting with knives and spears.

In a place hundreds of miles away from Huailai, Yunqing's situation was similar to that of Warehouse Guan; the difference was that in the following time, he gradually discovered a huge secret...

　PS: It’s my friend’s housewarming celebration and I’m going to have a dinner. I’ll try to update the next chapter when I get back, if I don’t get drunk.

　　

　

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