Gordon is completely different from Bai Qiwen and Wall. The most important thing is that Gordon is a professional officer of the British government. He was born in a military family and received an aristocratic education!
I also went to a military vocational school, and after graduation, I went to the regular army step by step to gain qualifications and military exploits!
Professional soldiers and third-generation nobles are definitely different from those wild ruffians, at least they have connotations!
Gordon knows how to advance and retreat. He knows that although China has become too weak to resist and is far behind Britain's national strength, it is also an ancient country that has existed for thousands of years!
Even if you look down on them in your heart, you still have to be polite on the surface!
This made Jiangnan officials have a very good impression of him. Although Gordon also committed robbery and corruption, he could still act polite!
This is completely a different character cultivated by different tutors!
More importantly, Gordon is a formal serving officer in the British army, and he has a full set of British government resources to support him!
This is not the case for Hua Er and Bai Qiwen. They were civilians who came to the Qing Dynasty to take risks on their own initiative. They only received a little support from the US government after they had succeeded!
How can the final result be the same if the background is different?
Gordon completely inherited the legacy of Wall and Bai Qiwen, and used his professional military academy knowledge and experience in the army to completely control the army in just one month!
This Gordon has a very good way. When he commands the army to fight, he behaves like a British gentleman. What is incredible is that when he leads the army to fight, he does not even use a gun?
This Gordon just got a civilized stick that is common in Britain, and walked at the front of the team, even if there was a hail of bullets and thousands of troops in front of him, he was not afraid at all!
The command of Hua Er and Bai Qiwen was much more brutal, often waving command knives or pistols to lead the soldiers to charge!
Strangely enough, Gordon's British aristocratic style was very popular at the end of the 19th century, because at that time people had an almost habitual worship of imperial power and the aristocratic system!
This is different from the social atmosphere of the 21st century that completely advocates liberalism. The people are in great awe when they see the imperial power and nobles!
They respect the nobility and are willing to accept their rule. Once Gordon shows off his aristocratic temperament that ordinary people don't have, the combat effectiveness of the Victory Army actually increases by three points. The soldiers respect him far more than Wall and Bai Qiwen!
The battle where Gordon shined was the Battle of Suzhou! This Suzhou City is a military town that the Taiping Army painstakingly managed, and its geographical location is very important.
Several strong attacks failed, and Li Hongzhang had no choice but to persuade the eight kings in the city to surrender in an attempt to capture Suzhou City without any bloodshed!
"Hey...Cheng Beile...the last time I saw this pistol was in Suzhou! The story of this pistol is quite long!"
"Haha... Li Hongzhang gave you this pistol, Mr. Beile, just to threaten me with what happened back then!"
"What does he want to sue me for? To commit plunder or massacre? You don't understand, you don't understand what war is at all... That kind of cruelty is not something you can imagine in Sijiu City!"
"I have seen too much of the darkness of human nature!"
Gordon put away the pistol and asked his family to put it in the study. He looked at Zai Cheng calmly and said very seriously, "Before the Battle of Suzhou, Bai Qiwen had already betrayed the Taiping Army!"
"That guy was too obsessed with power. He couldn't find any important position in the Qing Dynasty, so he went to Suzhou to try his luck. Unfortunately, King Mu Tan Shaoguang didn't take him seriously and only gave him two thousand troops!"
"Bai Qiwen, who had a serious psychological gap, could only defect out of Suzhou again... Fortunately, the Taiping Army did not kill them all, and he returned to the camp of the Ever Victorious Army!"
"After that, Li Hongzhang captured Bai Qiwen and detained him in his military camp for three full days before handing him over to the American consul!"
"This gun should have fallen into Li Hongzhang's hands at that time... No, no, no... maybe not this time, maybe it was after Bai Qiwen came to Fujian from Japan, and Li Hongzhang got it after he drowned him in Lanxi!"
"Haha... You want to threaten me just with this pistol?" Gordon looked disdainful. "The so-called black material about me in Bai Qiwen's hand is just a little money!"
"During the war, there were so many people who made illegal money! I wasn't the only one. In Suzhou City, Li Hongzhang robbed more money than I did!"
"Shameless! Li Hongzhang used my credibility as a guarantee to lure the Eight Kings to surrender... What happened in the end? He betrayed his trust and killed the Eight Kings, completely discrediting my credibility!"
"You know, the Eight Kings did not believe in Li Hongzhang's credibility at that time. They asked Europeans to vouch for it, and they asked me to vouch for it by name!"
"I broke arrows to form an alliance and gained the trust of the eight kings! But in the end, Li Hongzhang still killed prisoners. He trampled on my dignity!"
"You still want to threaten me with what happened back then? He just gave me 390,000 taels. Do you still want to use this little money to threaten me?"
"dream!"
With a clatter, the bowl of tea in Zai Cheng's hand suddenly rolled down on the table. He looked at Gordon with wide eyes, "And... what about this? No wonder these generals who are fighting are all crazy." ? It’s so easy to make money from dead people!”
Gordon thought that Zai Cheng knew everything, but he didn't expect that Li Hongzhang was very strict. He gave the pistol but did not reveal any information to Zai Cheng.
Gordon, who didn't know what was going on, was immediately fooled and revealed the secret deal with Li Hongzhang. When he saw Zai Cheng's surprised expression, Gordon immediately understood!
"Ah! So that's it...hehehe...it turns out that Mr. Chengbeile didn't get all of Mr. Li's secrets!"
"This is very bad, very bad... It seems that I have to serve tea to the guests!"
Gordon pricked his mouth in time, and no more secrets were revealed. He picked up the tea cup and pointed at the door, signaling Cheng Beile to leave quickly!
Zai Chun wished he could slap himself twice, he was so unstable. If he could just stabilize himself, he would have to lie out some secrets.
"Well... Sir Gordon! Let me open the window and speak frankly! Since I can get this pistol from Mr. Li, I can also get your secret!"
"The Qing Dynasty will always be a Manchu world. As a guest, we will not stop you from coming here to make money! But if you interfere too deeply, it will not be good for you!"
"Remember, remember, the Qing Dynasty will not bring you another victorious army in the future! You'd better stay away from the army..."
"Farewell..." Zai Cheng led a group of losers and left like a gust of wind!
Gordon angrily looked at the door and closed his mouth and cursed in English, "Shameless! Impolite barbarian! I never want to see such a guest again!"
"You all listen up, no more random people are allowed in, I'm going to rest!" Gordon's good mood for the day was completely ruined by Zai Cheng!
