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Now Li Guolou is so powerful that he has already surpassed his title as a fourth-rank official. Being an escort is a painful job, but who dares to embarrass him.The decree issued by the imperial court did not fix the date of departure, and even the final date of the arrival of the supplies in Lanzhou, but Li Guolou was given this errand.As for the middle link, Li Guolou has the final say on the deployment of personnel and materials, and he is even given the power to mobilize soldiers.

The materials escorted this time are mainly military materials. There are mainly two Krupp cannons with a caliber of 120 mm and a range of 15 kilometers. These two cannons are big guys, weighing more than four thousand catties.Eight Krupp cannons with a caliber of 80 mm and a range of 8 kilometers, as well as twenty Krupp cannons of smaller specifications, one hundred new howitzers and mortars, copper cannons, two thousand Mauser rifles, and a large number of Flower bombs, bullets, and 1000 military coats and other supporting military equipment.The materials are expensive and most of them are imported.These materials were transferred from Tianjin to the military camp on the outskirts of Gyeonggi, Xishan Ruijian Camp.More than 300 long husbands and servants were arranged, more than 100 horse-drawn carts and ox carts, and more than [-] camels.

These people lived in Jianrui camp in Xishan, waiting for the escort envoy Li Guolou to arrive.Zhang Xuefei, the commander of the Xishan Jianrui Battalion, was pulled up by Wu Peipei's ex-husband, You Gaoming, the commander of the Eight Banners Guards of the Ministry of War. For Wu Peipei's sake, he once lent Li Guolou two Francine cannons, which made a big splash in the Battle of Balizhuang Shenwei, two cannons knocked down the gate of Balizhuang.

So Zhang Xuefei is a good friend of Li Guolou. He is at the official pavilion ten miles away from the camp, leading a group of officers to greet the arrival of the escort envoy Li Guolou. Everyone in the court knows how popular Li Guolou is. .Don't look at the current use of demoted officials at the second level, and the title of the fourth-rank official, as long as he is a smart person, he will lean on his thick legs.You must know that the most powerful princes today, Prince Chun Yizhen and Prince Qing Yikuang, will also advance and retreat with Li Guolou, and make money together, so they all bet on him.Prince Gong Yixin, Li Hongzao, Weng Tonghe and other important court officials and Li Guolou are in the same spirit, and they are connected with each other, controlling the right to speak in the government.

The last time Li Guolou was an imperial envoy to inspect the military camps in the Gyeonggi area, he had been to Xishan Jianrui Camp for three days. Everyone had a good chat and became good friends who talked about everything.

Fan Ye, an artillery officer, also fought with Li Guolou in Balizhuang. He also received a bribe from Li Guolou and returned with honor.This time, when he went to Lanzhou, Li Guolou had called his name and asked him to lead 200 cadets in training.This made him see another world. He was just a small school in the barracks. Although he had the reputation of a sharpshooter, he couldn't eat it.Restricted by the Mengyin system, there is very little room for him to be promoted, and even the post of artillery officer is out of reach.

But many things in the world are unexpected.Li Guolou, a sesame official of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, unexpectedly gave him the opportunity to be promoted quickly. Following Li Guolou to the west would be the biggest change in his life.Later, he entered the Xinwu Hall for further studies, and he was the favorite student of Li Hongzhang, the governor of Zhili. The principal Weng Tonghe and Xuezheng Li Guolou were also his mentors, and his official career was bright.Even the battalion officers and sentry officers in the army were envious of him, and regretted why they didn't lead a team of officers and soldiers to help Li Guolou suppress the bandits.These military officers had nothing else to ask, they just wanted to enter the Xinwu Hall for further studies as soon as possible, get a solid diploma, and get promoted as soon as possible.

Zhang Yi, the officer directly under Fan Ye, has an old-fashioned square face, and it is rare to see a smile. He is famous for being mean and ungrateful to his subordinates in the Xishan Jianrui Camp, but now he is smiling at Fan Ye, and said kindly: "Fan team Officer, don't forget about the old army, I will rely on your breath for promotion in the future."

In the army, the ranks of the ranks and ranks see the old, and the first rank of the official ranks overwhelms the dead. When the chief is promoted, it is the turn of the favored subordinates to rise up and rise up step by step.Fan Ye, who had never had a chance to make a name in his life, sometimes felt elated, but he was proud of himself, kept a submissive face, and replied respectfully: "Chief Zhang, how can I forget my mother's family, maybe I still have to come back. At that time, please ask Chief Zhang to take in his subordinates, and don't let the subordinates become children without parents."

Zhang Yi heard Shu Tan, his square face turned into a round face, his facial features crowded together and he was smiling.The battalion officer Wang Qing, who was full of flesh, yelled: "Captain Fan, what are you farting, you have no father or mother, so you must be a bastard."

Soldiers just like to make this kind of jokes. Although Fan Ye was scolded, he still laughed along with him, and the other officers also laughed.

Dutong Zhang Xuefei laughed a few times without holding back, quickly held back the smile, became serious, covered his mouth and coughed dryly.Li Guolou used to be indiscreet in his private life, and got involved with Wu Peipei, the widow of his old chief officer. The rumors in the capital are so stinky, and women and children already know it. He also told it as a joke when he was drinking in the military camp. That's all.Nowadays, it is even more taboo. The matter of Yuanmingyuan has caused a chain reaction in the imperial court.If the joke is overdone, it will be the head off the ground.

Hastily turned around to look at the subordinates behind him, stared at the bull's-eye, and shouted bluffingly: "Officer Wang Ying, please keep your stinking mouth under control. Except for drinking at night, you are not allowed to tell jokes. You too, between men and women You are not allowed to tell any jokes, do you hear clearly?"

"Zha! Your Excellency Supervisor, I heard you clearly." More than a dozen officers did not dare to be a little presumptuous in their military salute.How could it be possible to know the depth of the situation, and the governor Zhang Xuefei was suddenly promoted from a deputy to a full-time job, and who made the way for him? Do you have to guess?

Why did Li Guolou place a large army in the Xishan Jianrui Camp, and the second-rank military officer went all the way to welcome a fourth-rank civil servant who was demoted to the second rank?The supply, restructuring, and replacement of new equipment for the Xishan Jianrui Camp depended on Li Guolou's breath.The men and horses of Xishan Ruijian Camp will be Li Guolou's cronies in the future.

The Xishan Jianrui Battalion was under the jurisdiction of Zhili Governor Jianrui, and it was an important army to defend the capital. In the past, when there were no foreigners threatening the Qing Dynasty, the Xishan Battalion belonged to a powerful Eight Banners strong army of the Qing Dynasty. The 2000-person establishment is full, deterring all rebels who dare to invade the capital.

The Jianrui Camp was established in the 14th year of Qianlong. The predecessor of the Jianrui Camp was the Yunti Troop established in the 13th year of Qianlong.In the 12th year of Qianlong, Sha Luoben, the chieftain of Dajinchuan, Sichuan Province, invaded the neighboring tribes and provoked troubles.In order to quell the war, in 13 years, Qianlong sent Zhang Guangsi, who had made great achievements in recruiting seedlings, to suppress it.However, the chieftain resisted by relying on the unique local stone tower buildings, coupled with Zhang Guangsi's improper employment and loss of command, which made the Qing army unable to attack for a long time and suffered heavy casualties.Qianlong believed that "at the beginning of the founding of the country, our bannermen climbed the city on the ladder with thin flesh, and they could not bend the index. They used this to attack the fortress. How can the fortress be built?" Flying people learn it."

How much role did the Yunti troops play in the first big and small Jinchuan battles?Fu Heng arrived at the barracks in December of the 13th year of Qianlong, and Sha Luoben surrendered in the first month of the 14th year. At this time, except for the 300 Yunti soldiers who arrived first and Fu Heng's accompanying soldiers, most of the Yunti soldiers were still on the road.Moreover, the end of the first big and small Jinchuan battles was mainly due to the pressure of large soldiers. Sha Luoben knew it would be difficult to resist, and Qianlong also wanted to escape as soon as possible and surrendered because of the unsustainable national power.Even if the Yunti soldiers who arrived earlier took down several stone towers, the impact on the battle situation was negligible, and it was not the main reason for Sha Luoben's surrender. ?

In order to cover up the Jinchuan war that was laborious and wasteful, and at the same time to boast about himself, after the battle, Qianlong held a celebration banquet to reward the meritorious soldiers.For the cloud soldiers he formed with his own hands, he is even more generous.

Because of the invasion of the Eight-Power Allied Forces and the profound lessons learned from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's attack on the Jiangnan camp twice, I know that with the cannon, there is no need for cloud ladder soldiers to charge into the battle, and a few flowering bullets can knock down the ordinary city wall.This allowed the Xishan Jianrui Battalion to learn from Zuo Zongtang's Chu Army in the organization and drill mode, and it was no longer a single cloud ladder soldier.Beginning to train artillery, the titles of the officers are the same as those of the Chu army, and the officers are also named as battalion officers, sentry officers, management belts, team officers, and corps leaders. The army of the world is transitioning to the army of technical content.

But the current Xishan Jianrui Battalion is no slower than other Eight Banners soldiers and horses. It's not that they are not well equipped and their weapons are poor, but that they dare not fight anymore.Relying on the solid military fortifications of Xishan to sit back and enjoy the success, except for the big and small Jinchuan during the Qianlong period who had military exploits, this army did not make any military exploits in the next hundred years, and it has been defending the capital without going to the plains.

After East Nian Lai Wenguang was pacified by Li Hongzhang and led by Li Hongzhang, the West Nian army led by Zhang Zongyu, who entered Shaanxi, resorted to the ability to take revenge with his carbine. Taking advantage of the slackness of the officers and soldiers, Liu Mingchuan, the general of the Huai Army, led [-] soldiers when he returned home from illness. The Nian army quietly left Shaanxi, crossed the Yellow River on ice from Yichuan, arrived in Jizhou, Shanxi, rushed from southeast Shanxi to Zhili, and went straight to the capital.Relying on the strong mobility of war horses, they reached the Gyeonggi area, only a few tens of kilometers away from the capital.But it was this army that huddled in the camp and did not dare to intercept the large Xiyan army, but only dared to defend the old nest, and finally used it all on the tall city wall of Xishan.

The Empress Dowager Cixi was furious, and issued an order like a thunderbolt. Zuo Zongtang, governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, "had a negative appointment and was incapable of dispatching", and he was handed over to the Military Aircraft Department for strict discussion.

For this reason, Li Hongzhang also pulled out his eye feathers, stripped off his yellow jacket, and removed him from the post of first-class captain.In the end, it was Li Hongzhang who relied on the courage of Liu Songshan and other Huai army troops to encircle the eastward west Nian within the trap of the Grand Canal and Tuhai River.Gradually wiped out most of the Nian army, Zhang Zongyu was also forced to throw himself into the river.Today, the Shaanxi-Gansu region is dominated by Hui chaos and a small number of Nian troops, and the large Western Nian army has been wiped out.However, because of this incident, Liu Mingchuan was later deprived of his official rank by the court and became Baiding.

The unit of Xishan Jianrui Battalion has lost mobility, but it has military facilities and can still defend. Let this unit go out to suppress bandits and fight mobile. Even the Empress Dowager Cixi did not dare to issue orders, and she knew that this was a city defense force. Army, dare not let this Eight Banners elite soldiers be drawn to fight in the Shaanxi-Gansu area.