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Chapter 469: Confucius blesses you, making you invulnerable to swords and guns! (Please subscribe and vote)

Chapter 467

"Your Majesty, something terrible has happened. What should we do?"

Yuan Bao had been gone for less than half an hour when he came back crawling as if his butt was on fire. As soon as he climbed up to the watchtower where Xianfeng was staying, before his knees touched the ground or his head kowtowed, he shouted at the top of his voice: "Something bad is happening!"

When Emperor Xianfeng heard this, his heart skipped a beat and the pockmarks on his face trembled. His face turned black, like an angry "pockmarked wolf". He turned around and glared fiercely at Guaerjia Yuanbao, who was sweating all over his face, breathing like a bellows, and had a terrified expression as if he had seen a ghost.

"Yuanbao, what nonsense are you talking about?" Before Xianfeng could even open his mouth, Yuanbao's old boss Sushun suddenly became furious and started shouting at him with a stern face.

Yuan Bao must have been terribly frightened. He ignored Su Shun and crawled to Xianfeng's feet, knocking his head hard against the floor. His voice was as trembling as a leaf falling in the autumn wind: "Your Highness, I saw it in the prison car. I saw the Governor-General of Guangdong and Guangxi, Ye Mingchen, and the Prefect of Guangzhou, Chongling."

As soon as these words came out, Xianfeng's face turned as pale as paper: "What? Yuanbao, what did you say?"

When Yuan Bao spoke again, tears were falling like beads from a broken string: "Your Majesty, I saw with my own eyes that the people sitting in the prisoner car were the Governor-General of Guangdong and Guangxi, Ye Mingchen, and the Prefect of Guangzhou, Chongling. Your Majesty, Guangzhou has been taken away by that evil Luo!"

"Guangzhou, Guangzhou was taken away by Luo Yaoguo? This, this..." Xianfeng's eyes went dark, his legs went weak, and he almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, An Dehai and Zeng Jialin were quick to act and rushed over to support him.

At the same time, Sushun and Duanhua who were present were furious and began to question Yuan Bao.

"Impossible! Yuan Bao, you must have made a mistake! The total number of the Eight Banners, Green Camps, and militias under Ye Mingchen and Jierhang'a is no less than 80,000. How could they be defeated by Luo Mo so quickly? Even if they can't win in the wild, they can still hold on to Guangzhou for several months, right?"

"Yuan Bao, you must have fallen for the trick of the Hong demon! Ye Mingchen and Jierhang'a just reported their victory not long ago! How is it possible that Guangzhou is gone all of a sudden? Your Majesty, Yuan Bao must have been bewitched by the magic, you must not be fooled!"

Yuanbao looked aggrieved. How could he have made a mistake? He was alone, risking being shot at by someone to get a look (in fact, someone deliberately showed it to him). Moreover, he was very familiar with Ye Mingchen and Chongling. Yuanbao's surname was Guaerjia, and he was from the Oboi clan. Chongling's surname was Hesheli, and he was a descendant of Sony. The two families had a friendship and had been in contact for generations. Ye Mingchen had been to Beijing before on a foreign ship, and it was Yuanbao who took him to see Emperor Xianfeng. How could he have made a mistake?

However, Xianfeng, the fool, did not give Yuanbao a chance to speak. He just made a conclusion with a dark face: "Yes, it must be a sorcery! It seems that the Shroud of Turin cannot break the illusion of the Flood!"

As he said this, he narrowed his triangular eyes and glared at Tupolev unhappily. The latter had something to hide and was like a coward. He didn't dare to say a word, and just shrank his head, pretending that he was air.

Although Xianfeng was very tough on the outside, he was as weak as a deflated ball in his heart. Because he hadn't received any memorials from Ye Mingchen, Jierhang'a, Bai Gui, Chongling and others for a while! Don't say the road was difficult to travel. The memorial from Guangxi Governor Lao Chongguang was just delivered to the Huai'an Palace two days ago!
In his memorial, Lao Chongguang also "implicated" the Western Roman Catholic Church, saying that the Church was colluding with the Guangdong bandits and sending the Crusaders all the way to China to help the Guangdong bandits rebel. They also took over Macau controlled by the Portuguese and might soon attack Guangzhou. Therefore, he suggested that the court should quickly ban Catholicism!

Ye Mingchen, Jierhanga, Bai Gui and Chongling had reported this before, and said they would join forces with the British army in Hong Kong to deal with these Roman Crusaders. Xianfeng also asked Tupolev about this, and Tupolev also thought it was too outrageous, because the last time the Roman Catholic Church organized a Crusade was in 1271 AD, and the Southern Song Dynasty had not yet perished! It has been more than years, why is there another Crusade? Moreover, Tupolev also said that the Roman Catholic Church has long been an empty shell, without soldiers or generals, and it is impossible to send any Crusaders to help the "Second Son of God" rebel. This sounds too weird!
If we combine this bizarre incident with the fact that Ye Mingchen and Chongling were locked in cages and sent to the Huai'an front, it is possible that Guangzhou is really gone!
But there were 80,000 Eight Banners, Green Camps, and Training Army! Even if Luo Yaoguo was asked to catch 80,000 pigs, it would take him a long time, right? How could Guangzhou disappear just like that?

After Guangzhou was lost, would Luo Yaoguo's army and the Roman Crusaders go north together on a large ship?

In the Beiyang port, except for Tianjin, which was guarded by Gong Laoliu and Li Hongzhang's Beiyang Army, other places were empty. If Luo Yaoguo landed in the coastal areas of Shandong, Zhili, and Liaodong, the rear of the army on the Huaiyang front would be in danger.
We can no longer hold back our strength. We must make a concerted effort to defeat the armies of these two traitors, Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing!
After thinking this over in his mind, Xianfeng immediately made up his mind. He clenched his fists, his eyes were red like a rabbit, and he cast his gaze on the Duke of Yansheng, Kong Fanhao: "Kong Fanhao, you must quickly help Senggelinqin and Guofan. You must use the prestige of Confucianism to break the crooked ways of the Western father and brother of the two rebels, Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing!"

Well, now even the great Duke Yansheng has to do the shaman dance!

"I obey your order!" Duke Yansheng Kong Fanhao had no choice but to accept the order, then walked down the watchtower dejectedly to help Senggelinqin, Zeng Guofan and others perform the ritual.

Jin Aduo gulped down a bowl of "talisman water" and shouted at the top of his voice as if he had been injected with chicken blood: "Confucius bless me to be invulnerable to swords and guns!" The Eight Banners New Army officers and soldiers under his command were also unambiguous and immediately shouted together: "Confucius bless me, I am invulnerable to swords and guns!"

The slogan "Blessed by Confucius, invulnerable to swords and guns" is so creative. It is a "magic trick" thought up by the Duke of Yansheng, Kong Fanhao. He referred to the White Lotus Sect in Shandong and came up with this "magic". In addition to shouting slogans, there is also the "Analects Talisman" produced exclusively by the Duke of Yansheng's Mansion. It is to write a passage of the Analects on talisman paper, and then offer it in front of the tablet of Confucius in the Confucius Forest for 49 days. After that, drink it, and you will feel that you can get the blessing of Confucius. This is a very creative idea! I don't know if Kong Fanhao will have the face to see Confucius when he goes to the underworld in the future.

But seeing as he was dressed like a high-ranking Tartar official, Confucius might have waved his hand and said, "You are a barbarian, not my descendant!"

At the same time, in front of the Xiang, Lu, and Huai armies in front of the Eight Banners New Army, Zeng Guofan's younger brother Zeng Guobao and his student Peng Yulin were sticking a stack of talismans on the newly placed cannons like a magician. While sticking, they kept muttering: "Confucius said: If you are not angry, you will not be enlightened; if you are not frustrated, you will not speak." "Confucius said: If you know what you know, and if you do not know what you do not know, this is knowledge."

If this cannon had intelligence and heard these things, it might really be able to “hit the target if it doesn’t fire, but hit the target once it does”!
As for the Qing artillery's Western adviser, Lord Sukhoisu, he kept making the sign of the cross on his chest, probably asking his Orthodox Father, God, for support!

Just when this group of people were having a great time playing with feudal superstition, a heart-wrenching scream suddenly came from the Taiping Army position opposite. Zeng Guobao and Peng Yulin looked in the direction of the sound curiously. Wow, it was terrible. A thrilling drama of "killing people with blades" was being staged on the opposite side! The two unlucky guys, who seemed to be Ye Mingchen and Chongling, were stripped naked and tied to two wooden stakes. There was a pile of firewood under their feet. It seemed that they were going to slice the meat first and then grill it. The two Taiping executioners, holding knives, sliced ​​the meat one by one like cutting vegetables. There was also a big flag hanging next to each of them, with "Kill the Qing demon, the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Ye Mingchen" and "Kill the Qing demon, the Guangzhou prefect Chongling" written on it. The words were so big that they could be seen clearly with a telescope! Zeng Guobao and Peng Yulin looked through their telescopes, their faces turned pale, and they glanced at each other, their eyes seemed to say: "We can't wait any longer, fire quickly!"

Zeng Guobao was quick to grab a red flag, held it high, and shouted at the top of his voice: "Confucius bless us to fire!" "Ya!" The artillerymen on the battlefield had already loaded shells and gunpowder into the barrels, waiting for this order. Soon, the Qing army's artillery array "boomed" with fireworks, and more than a hundred shells were pushed out of the barrels by gunpowder. Under the "magical blessing" of "The Analects", they seemed to have grown wings and rolled towards the Taiping Army's position. At this moment, "The Analects" can be regarded as a "truth shell" that is more real than real gold!

"Set fire, burn the man surnamed Ye and the man surnamed Chong for me!" Hong Xiuquan, who was sitting in the armored sedan chair, saw the Qing army firing artillery on the front line, and was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and quickly ordered the "human meat barbecue". He thought in his heart that the executioner must not be killed by the Qing army's artillery shells, which would be embarrassing. However, before being barbecued, the two men had been stabbed dozens of times, which was really horrible!

"Heavenly King, this place is too close to the front line, and your sedan chair is so conspicuous, or..." Bian Sanniang looked at the Qing army's artillery shells flying like raindrops, and her heart was beating fast. She kindly advised Hong Xiuquan to move quickly. But the Heavenly King was not willing to listen. He immediately raised the "Dashing Stick" and shouted like a majestic hero: "I have the Dashing Stick, so why should I be afraid of these artillery in the mortal world? Pass on my order, the holy cannon fire! I want to compete with the Qing demons. Who is more powerful, Confucius, or my father, the emperor of heaven!"

As he spoke, Hong Xiuquan stood up, took a step forward, and stood on the platform of the armored sedan. He held the golden hoop stick in his hand and looked up at the sky. It seemed that above the dark clouds in the sky, God the Father was fighting with Confucius!
(End of this chapter)