On November 25, the fifth year of Yongzheng, there were little snowflakes floating in the sky. Under the sky with not strong light, Huo Chong began pre-war mobilization. The soldiers heard their commander Huo Chong shouting loudly: "Win and live together!"

"Win and live together!" the soldiers shouted.

"Die together with the loss!" Huo Chong continued to use slogans to describe the current situation simply and bluntly.

Even if life and death are involved, it is precisely because life and death are involved that this brief description is exactly what soldiers can understand most.

Most of these soldiers followed Huo Chong for several years, and were sure that Huo Chong himself was standing in front of everyone. The commander and himself were in this bold action beyond his imagination.

The feeling of death made the soldiers believe that this battle would not fail. Everyone shouted: "Do you lose and die together!"

"Abide by the orders and obey the command!" Huo Chong gave the final guidance on how to fight. At this time, if everyone just thinks about how to win, then they will be dead.

Regarding the content that had been shouted many times, the soldiers followed smoothly and shouted: "Abide by the orders and obey the order!"

He shouted the slogan twice, and Huo Chong gave the order, "Change dress!"

The troops took off their coats, which were thick cotton coats and boots. With these equipment, everyone not only walked so far in winter, but also carried them over on the night when they had to camp outdoors.

At this time, I took off my cotton coat, tied the rabbit fur lining tightly, and put on rubber-soled leather boots. In the cold, I put on the cotton armor seized from the Qing Dynasty, and everyone was energetic by the cold armor.

"Take a scarf!" Huo Chong continued to order and began to bring the bright red scarf with him.

Everyone brought red scarves, and under the dim sky, they looked much more eye-catching.

After preparation, Huo Chong shouted: "The enemy is in the Old Summer Palace! Set out!"

The troops, led by familiarity with the road, headed straight to their destination, the Old Summer Palace.

The deputy helm leader of the Tianli Sect and several of his men were stunned. Judging from their initial reaction, they should think that Huo Chong was going to play a trick, waiting for the Tianli Sect to take action first, and they took the opportunity to see the situation.

However, Huo Chong had no such plan, and all actions were for battle. The deputy helm leader of the Tianli Sect could also feel this strong murderous aura and was shocked. After Huo Chong's troops walked out for a distance, the deputy helm leader understood. He quickly ordered the people around him, "Go and report to the head leader quickly, Mr. Huo has taken action!"

When the person ran out, the deputy helm leader trotted all the way and caught up with Huo Chong. "Master Huo, what's next for us, men?"

"We are going to play the Old Summer Palace. If you want to go, follow us. If you don't want to go, go back to find the headmaster."

"Master Huo! Why do you want to fight a garden? Isn't it good to fight a palace?" the deputy helm leader asked.

"There were princes and ministers living in that garden. After attacking the Old Summer Palace, the Qing army would certainly come to rescue him." Huo Chong explained.

After hearing this, the deputy helm leader thought about it, but was probably worried, so he said, "I'll go and have a look first with Mr. Huo."

Huo Chong ignored the deputy helm leader. The intelligence level of the Tianli Sect was just like this. Although he had the will to kill the emperor and grab the dragon throne, he didn't even know that Yongzheng did not live in the palace, but lived in the Old Summer Palace.

But Huo Chong did not underestimate the Tianli Sect. If he was stupid, he would only look at it in the hindsight and everyone would be a big fool.

The stupid thing is never to do exactly what you want, but to think that the result will be the same as you think.

In fact, the world has its own rules. As long as you do it according to the rules, you don’t need to consider what it will become.

Master Changxin has always praised Huo Chong as a Taoist person, and Huo Chong also thinks that Master Changxin is a true Taoist practitioner. The two of them have completely different views on the world. The reason why both sides give each other a high evaluation is because Master Changxin and Huo Chong believe that they only know a little bit of "Tao", which is far from knowing the world and knowing the Tao itself.

If the world is regarded as a big stage, Taoist Chief Changxin and Huo Chong are just passers-by on this stage, just doing things according to the principles they believe.

The cold wind gradually weakened, making the Han army heading straight to the Old Summer Palace feel a little better. Everyone was still a few hundred meters away from the royal garden. The Qing army guarding the garden had noticed this team. The cotton armor of the Qing Dynasty was mainly worn by the Eight Banners. At this time, the Qing army guarding the city rushed over and stopped in front of the team.

The leader of the team shouted: "You are waiting..."

The gunshot sounded, and several people were immediately knocked to the ground while shooting the guns, and they were dead.

Huo Chong shouted: "No one in the Old Summer Palace will be left and all will be killed!"

By the Second Opium War in 1860, the Old Summer Palace covered an area of ​​3.5 square kilometers and had a construction area of ​​200,000 square meters. In 1727, the Old Summer Palace was far from that large.

The Old Summer Palace was built in 1707 (the 46th year of the Kangxi reign). It was originally a garden granted by Emperor Kangxi to the fourth son Yinzhen. Kangxi engraved the plaque "Yuan Mingyuan", and "Yuan Ming" was named Yongzheng's Dharma name.

After Yongzheng ascended the throne in 1722, he expanded the original Ci Garden and added the Zhengda Guangming Hall, the Qinzheng Hall, as well as the cabinet, six ministries, and many offices in the Military Affairs Office in the south of the park. He wanted to "avoid the noise and listen to the government" here in summer.

During the reign of Emperor Qianlong, in addition to partially rebuilding and renovating the Old Summer Palace, Changchun Garden was also built on the east side and merged into the Wanchun Garden in the southeast side. This was how the scale of the Old Summer Palace was later formed.

At this time, the area of ​​the Old Summer Palace is less than one square kilometer. The longest place is only 600 meters and the width is only 300 meters.

Compared with Qianlong's aesthetics of farmhouses, Yongzheng's aesthetics are undoubtedly the feeling that a normal senior management should have. So the Old Summer Palace is a simple garden, a flower pond, just be fine.

The so-called "street scene" is not within Yongzheng's consideration.

If the Old Summer Palace really had the scale of the Qianlong era, Huo Chong probably wouldn't have the courage to launch this beheading operation. 3.5 square kilometers, hundreds of people rushed in, and then scattered a small handful of salt into the pond, and it melted when it went in. Its use was extremely limited.

But a yard that is six hundred meters long and three hundred meters wide can still work.

The guards here saw a team of troops wearing cotton armor like the Eight Banners rushed over and killed people. They didn't know whose troops were this, and they didn't know which battalion of troops were this.

While organizing the resistance immediately, some people went in to report to Yongzheng, and some people ran to the Jiumen Admiral to report. For a moment, there were shouts such as "someone rebelled" and "Beijing camp rebellion".

At this time, Yongzheng had returned to the Old Summer Palace and the gate was completely closed. When he saw this group of people rushing past, he killed people. Even the gate was closed, leaving only dozens of Qing troops outside to resist.

It was too easy for three hundred people to deal with dozens of people. With one shot, dozens of people were shot and hit.

The Han army knew that at this time it was only about life and death, and there was no mercy. In the past, the gun was immediately replenished, hoping to kill all of them without leaving any troubles.

After controlling the South Gate first, the troops immediately divided into three according to the plan. The two teams rushed towards the east and west gates, striving to control the gate.

The blasting team has taken over the blasting object. Huo Chong has taken out the most powerful advanced product, plasticized explosives.

The name sounds extremely modern, but it is not so modern. This thing is to mix nitroglycerin into diatomaceous earth rich in holes, so that nitroglycerin enters diatomaceous earth.

This explosive is extremely safe and it won't matter if it's burned.

But once detonate with a detonator...

The team had long seen the power of plasticized explosives in person. The engineers here fixed explosive bags on the gate that was so thick that they seemed to be indestructible. The others had already hid in a safe place.

Not long after, the violent explosion made the ground tremble. Huo Chong felt that his internal organs were impacted and he felt disgusted.

Holding back on this feeling, Huo Chong went straight to the gate and saw that the thick and solid red painted door was not blown to pieces, which shows how good the wood is.

However, this kind of wooden door was not intended to deal with modern warfare. Although they could last for a while in the era of cold weapons. However, under the impact of several kilograms of strong explosives, a large hole was blown up on the red lacquer gate, and the road leading to the Old Summer Palace was opened.

Squad leader Yang Mingde was also in the team. The gate was blown open. He followed his comrades and rushed in from the middle. Through the door hole filled with pungent smoke and dust, he saw that there were many Qing troops falling from the door hole. It seemed that these people had no idea that hiding in the solid gate was completely useless.

After drawing out one of the four revolvers, Yang Mingde will start to kill the struggling guards who were shocked to the ground. The soldiers took action together and quickly implemented the order of "No one in the Old Summer Palace will be left, and they will kill them all!"

When he rushed out of the door, he heard a gunshot. It turned out that the guards on the city wall were hiding on the top and firing downwards.

The platoon leaders commanded the squad leaders to fight back immediately, and in a moment they killed the enemies on the city wall. When Huo Chong and the artillerymen entered the Old Summer Palace together, the soldiers running on the city wall had eye-catching red scarves around their necks.

The Old Summer Palace is not simply a large open space surrounded by a wall to build buildings on the open space. As a geographical name, the entire garden is divided into separate courtyards by many walls.

Just as they were about to kill inside, a few officials were dragged out from outside. The official hat had fallen off at this time, revealing their rat tails of money. In addition, the officials all looked frightened, looking a bit like actors on the stage.

"What are you bringing it in?" Huo Chong was very puzzled.

"Sir, they said they knew where Yongzheng was and had something to say to you."

"Oh?" Huo Chong looked at the paintings on the chests of these people.

To be precise, it is not called painting, it is called "pump". In the Ming and Qing dynasties, officials decorated a square pattern on the front, chest and back of the court uniform, called patch, which is used to distinguish between the size of officials and titles (distinguish between official qualities).

The production methods include brocade, embroidery and kesi. In the early days, the official supplement was larger and well-made. The civil servants used two birds to flew with each other, while the military officers used single beasts, either standing or squat. In the Qing Dynasty, the civil servants only used single birds to hold their own, while the military officers still used single beasts, with slight differences in each grade.

When he looked at the crane, pheasant, and lion on the chests of these people, Huo Chong, who had a little research, smiled and said, "I am still a first-rank second-rank official. Tsk tsk, do you know where Yongzheng?"

Seeing Huo Chong like this, the officials all showed shock. Perhaps they didn't expect that someone could make such indifferent mockery of the big men and Yongzheng so calmly.

Huo Chong didn't have time to play the trick of interrogation, so he asked the official on the far left: "Where is Yongzheng?"

The man wanted to speak, but couldn't speak. Huo Chong raised his revolver and shot his shiny forehead. A black hole immediately appeared on his head.

No longer looking, Huo Chong turned around and asked the new 'leftmost' official, "Where is Yongzheng?"

This man's mouth was so open that he had to give the official a few points, but he was still flushed and could not speak.

Huo Chong continued to execute the order he issued, "No one in the Old Summer Palace will be left and all will be killed!"

The massacre was indeed a tragic matter, but Huo Chong issued such an order not to target special individuals. God knows who are in the Old Summer Palace.

There must be some unjustly killed in this garden, but there are no unjustly dead ghosts in which temple?

At least, no one of the senior officials in front of them needs to live.

He raised the revolver to the third 'leftmost' official, Huo Chong asked: "Where is Yongzheng!"

The man finally shouted: "The Emperor is in the palace, not here."

Hearing that the man's voice was hoarse because of his excitement, Huo Chong was sure that under the threat of death, the man's excitement was completely sincere.

"What do you call this lord?" Huo Chong said with a smile.

"I...I am Zhang Tingyu."

"Oh! I've heard of it!" Huo Chong looked at the guy with a beautiful beard in front of him. If he didn't have this rat tail of money, the old guy would be quite handsome.

"May I ask, are you... Huo Chong?" Zhang Tingyu tentatively said.

"Oh! Lord Zhang is really smart and deserves to be a figure who can leave a name in history." Huo Chongzang said. He was already in the Qing Dynasty's cotton armor at this time, and the red scarf itself had no special meaning in this era. Zhang Tingyu was really very powerful to be able to make such a judgment.

"I just heard your subordinates mention it." Zhang Tingyu replied.

"Haha." Huo Chong couldn't help laughing dryly. It turned out that he was thinking too much. He held back the embarrassment. Huo Chong asked, "Mr. Zhang, you said Yong was in the palace, right?"

"Yes! Yes! The Emperor is in the palace!" Zhang Tingyu quickly confirmed.

"Thank you!" Huo Chong replied. He pulled the trigger with his fingers, and Zhang Tingyu was shot.
To be continued...