Chapter 169 The Capital Gate Opens (End of Volume)
The atmosphere in the Dharma Altar Living Room was quite dull. All the guests from the south did not even dare to take a breath.
The situation Wu Dong described shocked them.
No one expected that what was originally thought to be a simple lion king's fight for hegemony would actually involve so many things?
The Hundred Days Reform, the conflict between the Queen Mother of the West Palace and the great powers?
Are they, a bunch of ordinary people, able to participate in these things?
If you do not do well, you will end up being shattered to pieces.
Not to mention Huang Feihong and Thirteenth Aunt, even the most heartless Liang Kuan looked a little frightened at this time.
Faced with possible life and death threats, no one can take them calmly.
After a while...
"A Dong, you mean that foreigners are likely to find trouble during the Lion King's Contest?"
Huang Feihong's face was more solemn than ever before, and his gaze at Wu Dong was even more sharp, and he said, "Is this really possible?"
"Master Huang, you must have experienced how arrogant foreigners are in Guangdong Province, so I won't say more about it!"
Wu Dong shook his head slightly. He did not inform Huang Feihong and his party of the news that the armies of the great powers might jointly attack the capital.
Not to mention whether this news was a bit too fantasy to their ears, even if they were willing to believe it, there was no need for Wu Dong to cast a heavy gloom in their hearts.
It's better to be like in the movie. It's not too late to evacuate in time when something really happens.
Wu Dong was confident that he could still protect Huang Feihong and his party.
"Anyway, just be careful!"
It's time to remind you, if Huang Feihong and his party are really involved in the subsequent coalition war, it won't be a big deal.
At that time, Wu Dong might have brought his younger brother who had been trained for a long time to fight with the coalition forces.
"Don't worry, Huang still knows this point of sense!"
Seeing this, Wu Dong didn't say much. He turned to look at Aunt Thirteen, who had turned into an old girl, and asked: "Aunt Thirteen, when I went to Khmer last time, I heard from Pork Rong that there was a problem in the pharmaceutical factory.
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Aunt Thirteen's face suddenly became a little embarrassed and she didn't know how to answer.
"Is such that!"
Huang Feihong hurriedly spoke to save the situation: "Not long after you left, Adong, no one expected that all the foremen of the pharmaceutical workshop would be poached at high prices!"
"All the secrets of the pharmaceutical workshop were exposed. At that time, Aunt Thirteen was preparing to purchase a steam engine to replace the hydraulic power drive according to your arrangements at that time!"
"This happened suddenly and caught everyone off guard. Therefore, Baozhilin's patent medicine business has finally recovered after several years of twists and turns!"
"Haha, Aunt Thirteen, don't get me wrong, I don't mean to blame you!"
Wu Dong laughed and explained: "If my identity was not sensitive, I would have planned to meet Master Huang and you to have a good talk!"
When he spoke like this, the awkward look on Thirteenth Aunt's face slowly faded away.
"Actually, I had known that such a day would come, but Master Huang is too merciful!"
Wu Dong's next words made Huang Feihong a little embarrassed: "Profits move people's hearts. If the punishment is not severe enough, many people will do things that violate morality for their own interests!"
"Fortunately, now that the pharmaceutical workshop has recovered, it seems that steam power has been of great help to the pharmaceutical workshop!"
"That's natural!"
Speaking of this, Thirteenth Aunt suddenly became very happy and talked endlessly about how much thought she had put into this, and she seemed a bit like a strong woman.
He entertained Huang Feihong and his entourage well for three days, and even competed with Huang Feihong. Without using any means to improve his strength, he just tied with Huang Feihong.
But even so, Huang Feihong was still surprised by his speed of progress.
Ha ha……
After bidding farewell to Huang Feihong and his entourage in a happy mood, Wu Dong focused his thoughts and energy on the training of the newly formed local team.
As the Boxers of Lu were destroying churches unscrupulously, the attitude of the great powers became tougher day by day, and the smell of gunpowder became stronger and stronger.
I don’t know where the old witch Cixi got her confidence, or maybe she simply had no concept of the strength of the great powers, so out of anger she directly declared war on many European powers.
The court in the capital acted as if it were natural, but the powerful countries were in a state of chaos.
They didn't go after me to cause trouble to the Qing court, which was quite a show of respect.
Unexpectedly, the Qing Dynasty actually dared to declare war with them, and directly went against the whole of Europe. It was simply a weapon that was brought to their doorstep.
William II was the most active and immediately contacted Britain and France to prepare a coalition force, intending to teach the Qing Dynasty a harsh lesson.
Prior to this, William II had already made a request to seize the Jiao'ao Peninsula.
In order to achieve the goal, they even planned to send a large army across the ocean to fight as the main force of the coalition forces. This cost was really sufficient.
Soon, the coalition forces were formed. First of all, there were many warships from the great powers cruising in the sea outside Jinmen. They scared the Qing troops stationed in Jinmen to death.
The old witch Cixi also seemed to feel the threat. Through a series of previous wars, she knew that the Qing army was unreliable, so she made a crazy move and invited Boxer to Beijing.
Of course, the person who came forward was definitely not Cixi, the old witch herself, but Lu Di couldn't control that much. Brother Qian Dharma was very excited.
In particular, Senior Brother Zhao once again convened a gathering of many brothers from the Dharma Altar, expressing high spirits that Yihequan would turn the tide.
Then, hundreds of thousands of Yihe boxers, with the cooperation of local officials, rushed out of Ludi in a mighty manner.
Along the way, all foreign churches were burned down, not to mention the Japanese who had defected to the foreigners. Under Wu Dong's hint, none of them had a good ending.
If there were no evil foreigners, he would still let them go, but he would not be merciful at all to the two Japanese devils who took refuge in the foreigners and acted as their accomplices.
Besides, in normal history, when the coalition forces attacked the capital, these Japanese devils played a big role. They helped to raise part of the logistics for the coalition forces.
It's just a pity that a rabble is a rabble, and just because they are large in number will not change the fact that the boxers of Lu are a rabble.
Not to mention anything else, it took a full two months to lay siege to a church outside the capital, which was simply outrageous.
Because they had no idea of being in the limelight, the Jiaoao Faltan boxers' armed forces had always been at the rear of Boxer Boxing. In addition, the other Faltan brothers were intentionally or unintentionally squeezing them out, so naturally it was Jiaoao Faltan's turn to take action.
Seeing his companion's poor performance, he said helplessly: "In those days, even Changmao knew how to dig underground and bury explosives to destroy the city. I didn't expect that in such a short time, our companions are not even as good as Changmao!"
It was not yet time for the Jiaoao Boxers to show their fighting strength. Wu Dong did not participate in these shabby things. He was busy with other things.
Quietly contacted Xilaile of Yixiaotang and the core members of the Bai family of Baicaoting, and asked them to help determine the residences of the powerful people in the capital and the location of their important properties.
That's right, he planned to take advantage of the coalition forces' attack on the capital to make a fortune.
Prior to this, Wu Dong had quietly purchased a number of houses throughout the capital as warehouses for later transporting valuables.
He has not forgotten his previous idea to evacuate the entire hospital!
Damn it, instead of taking advantage of the coalition forces or other messy forces, it would be better to take advantage of Wu Dong.
But at this moment, the battle for hegemony among the lion kings of all nations officially began. Cixi, the old witch, was so unhappy that she did not care at all about the tense situation.
After a fierce battle, the final winner was still Huang Feihong, but this time he did not show off and threw away the gold medal.
Obviously knowing that the situation outside is tense, he will naturally not put his family in danger.
Soon, Huang Feihong and his party, including Huang Qiying, quietly left the capital and quickly returned to the south, without any intention of stopping.
At this time, the coalition forces had already arrived on sea ships off the coast of Tianjin.
After that, the warships attacked the fort, which quickly fell, and then the army landed and attacked Tianjin.
However, after a few days of fighting, Nie Shicheng, who had expressed ill will towards Wu Dong before, was killed in battle, and Jinmen fell into the hands of the coalition forces so easily.
When the news spread, the capital was immediately in an uproar.
But there was no point in making an uproar anymore. The coalition forces just took a short rest and then rushed towards the capital with great momentum. When the old witch Cixi saw that the situation was not good, she immediately led the Guangxu Emperor who was under house arrest to the west.
As for the Boxer Master Zhao, he led hundreds of thousands of boxers to block the road from Jinmen to the capital, intending to have a good fight with the coalition forces of the great powers.
It's not like Wu Dong didn't persuade Senior Brother Zhao not to engage in frontal attacks, but to take advantage of the Boxer people's advantages and fight with small groups of elites.
It's a pity that no one listened. At this time, all the Dharma brothers, including Senior Brother Zhao, were stunned by the momentum of the hundreds of thousands of boxers who had gathered.
As a result, the most brutal battle of the coalition forces' attack on the capital broke out, which was certainly very tragic for the Boxers.
What martial arts routines and invulnerability are nothing in front of sharp guns.
Countless boxers were like moths to a flame, sending themselves directly to the guns of the powerful armies. It was a complete one-sided massacre.
Fortunately, at the critical moment, Wu Dong's rangers came out and circled around the coalition camp to harass them, which prevented the coalition from winning too easily.
Senior Brother Zhao died in the battle, and all the Senior Brother Fa Tan also died on the way to the charge.
By the time Wu Dong took over control of the Boxer, tens of thousands of his brothers had died, and the entire Boxer force was on the verge of collapse.
Wu Dong gave an order and hurriedly asked them to stop their mindless act of charging with their heads covered, and were restrained by the five thousand rangers armed by the Jiaoao boxers.
The style of the war changed drastically after that. The coalition forces were no longer as proud as they were at the beginning. They had a good experience of the vast sea of people. By the time they reached the gates of the capital, there were already less than 10,000 troops.
The dignitaries in the capital followed the old witch Cixi and ran away cleanly. It can be said that the entire capital opened its door to Wu Dong...