Start: Datang Wanli a lonely city

Chapter 934 Translator’s Notes ([-])

When the sky turned slightly white, those who were unwilling to stay, as well as the father-in-law and maids who were under guard before, plus Wen Xiang, the minister in charge of the garden, and Chang Guiren, a concubine of the Tao Emperor.

A group of several hundred people exited the back door of the Old Summer Palace and fled to different places.

Not to mention some of the palace maids and father-in-law, after listening to a suggestion from Hu Biao and others, they took a detour to Jinmen with their money; they planned to find opportunities here to start a new life in Nanyang.

Wen Xiang and Chang Guiren naturally hurried back to the capital as soon as possible.

When they entered the city through the hanging basket and met the Sixth Empress of the Japanese Army, who was currently solely responsible for staying in the imperial court, they naturally told everything they had encountered.

In this way, Xuan Geying turned out to be hiding in the Old Summer Palace these days.

And there has been another exchange of fire with the Yinfa coalition forces. With the temperament of those barbarians who are unwilling to suffer, I am afraid that the army will soon move over and have a big battle with Xuan Ge camp.

It immediately spread in the capital city and even outside the city at an alarming speed.

So in a very short period of time, under various emotions of happiness, worry, curiosity, and indifference, the Old Summer Palace became the focus of many people's attention.

Especially at noon that day, a Yin-Fa coalition force with at least 8000 people and dozens of cannons drove through the north of the city and drove towards the Old Summer Palace.

These people became more and more excited or worried.

They knew that this battle was about to begin.

But no one dared to risk their lives to go out of the city to see the specific fighting process; they could only rely on the guns and shouts of death coming from the Old Summer Palace to judge the war there.

Or infer, how long those people in Xuange Camp can persist.

After all, when looking at the huge power of the Yinfa coalition forces as they marched all the way outside the city, no one thought that the twenty or so people from Xuange camp, plus some father-in-laws and maids, could win the final battle.

Even the Xuange Battalion's previous victory in Yangcheng was already considered a legend.

Therefore, even in the minds of these people, some of the most daring ideas never thought that Xuange Camp would eventually persist for such a long time.

As for this mission world, some historians and enthusiasts in later generations.

On October 10th of the Western calendar, the 7rd day of the eighth lunar month in Daqing, another legend begins.

As for how it started and what happened during the period, we can get a clear answer from the "Translator's Notes" written by Maurice Ellison, a translator who accompanied the French army...

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Despite the sunshine that was at least 8000 or [-] degrees Celsius at noon today, and the large amount of dust that was brought along during the march, the Yinfa coalition consisted of a total of [-] people.

Among them, 3500 French troops and 4500 Yin troops, plus 50 cannons, rushed towards the summer palace of Emperor Daqing.

Even before that, we had been marching for three hours without any rest or lunch.

Everyone in the team thought that there were millions of items in the Summer Palace.

It can be regarded as the most exquisite and valuable treasures in this fertile land for thousands of years, waiting for us to plunder them.

Everyone in the team had no signs of fatigue or frustration on their faces, but only great excitement.

Even today, the French army's military flag is about ten centimeters higher than the wooden pole of the Yin army's military flag, and it is higher when it is raised. The Yin people didn't care.

If it had been normal, the Yin people would have quickly found a longer flagpole in order to crush us.

But now, they acted as if they hadn't seen it, and took big steps forward; probably they were all thinking beautifully about getting a large number of precious trophies.

As for the legendary Xuan Ge Camp, the last knights of the East, no one paid much attention to it.

On the one hand, we carry as many as 50 artillery pieces, and we can fire continuously beyond the range of their strange six-barreled muskets until they flatten their positions.

On the other hand, there is another good news that the young man named 'Gong' told us.

The summer palace of the Daqing Emperor, called the Old Summer Palace, is a super palace complex that is much larger than Versailles and Buckingham Palace.

It's not Xuange Camp at all. It can be defended with just a few manpower.

As long as they climb over the wall or blow open the wall, the coalition forces can easily rush in, attack from behind the Xuange Camp personnel, surround them, and kill them.

Although saying this makes me feel quite disdainful towards this 'Gong' who even betrayed me, Guo Jia.But the emotions in his heart are getting higher and higher.

Especially when I think about the astonishing bounties that the Great Yin Empire still has for these people after 19 years, as well as the noble status of that 'baron'.

Many people in the coalition are no longer afraid of them, but are praying that these people will not run away again.

All right!It should be right for everyone.

I admit, I am also fantasizing about killing their leader Hu and becoming a baron of the Great Yin Empire; because then the expressions of those Yin people will be very exciting...

Whatever you are afraid of, whatever comes your way.

After we were ready to arrive outside the Daqing Emperor's summer palace, we immediately launched artillery tactics to kill everyone in Xuange Camp.

When I finally arrived, I found that except for some fortifications, there was no one at the gate.

It seemed that the people from Xuan Ge Camp had run away again.

With such a huge worry, we rushed in through the gate with all kinds of curses in our mouths.

Then, the whole world became quiet.

Because everyone from Monsignor Montauban to General Grant to some soldiers from the colonies were shocked by what they saw.

We thought we were in heaven, so we didn’t dare to speak or even breathe loudly.

The high walls that surrounded the entire Summer Palace were even as long as 14 kilometers. The astonishing area of ​​​​this Daqing Summer Palace was even larger than most cities in Europe.

In this huge, heaven-like place on earth.

Countless elements such as independent palaces, temples, pavilions, archways, colonnades, rockeries, caves, lakes, streams, islands, woods, and landscape platforms are all skillfully integrated.

Brother Su is on top!They are so beautiful that I don't know how to describe them with my poor words.

It can only be said that it is an oriental fairy who took all the most beautiful things in the world and used incredible whims to arrange them together skillfully.

One point more, one point less, and it will lose too much.

Instinctively, I want to use my own steps to measure this beautiful paradise bit by bit; once is simply not enough, ten times, or a hundred times, I may still not be satisfied.

It is a pity that such a beautiful state of mind in my heart was quickly broken; those barbaric Sikhs in the Yin colony experienced the earliest shock.

These rude and despicable guys have ignored the beauty of the pinnacle of human aesthetics in front of them.

They shouted and rushed towards the exquisite palaces.

Although I don't know what they mean when they shout in dialect, but thinking about it, I know that I must rob the treasures.

So while despising them, I also rushed forward.

After all, if you bring back a piece of royal fabric from the summer palace of Emperor Daqing, you will surely win the favor of a charming lady in Paris.

If you go back with a piece of porcelain, you can sell it for a lot of francs; if you have more, you can become a rich man.

If you really run slower, you will be robbed by these barbarians.

But when I rushed into the nearest palace, I felt bad; the furnishings inside were basically all removed, leaving only some furniture and some cloths made of beautiful fabrics.

Although these exquisite cloths and furniture should be worth a lot of money, they are far from what was expected.

After coming out, I could see the people coming out of other palaces with frustrated faces, so the situation must be similar.

The people who did not believe in evil rushed towards the depths of the Summer Palace, and then the sound of a strange but powerful gun with six tubes reached my ears.

Those Eastern Knights from Xuange Camp have not escaped yet...

(End of this chapter)