If James Hope Grant was one of the two major culprits in the burning of the Yuanming Garden.

Then Charles George Gordon was undoubtedly a typical robber.

Charles George Gordon.

Sometimes due to translation, he is called Charlie George Gordon.

He was born on January 28, 1833. His father was a Lieutenant General in the British Army, and he attended the renowned Taunton School and the Royal Military College.

After graduating, Gordon became a crossbowman in the Engineer Corps in 1850.

According to historical trajectory.

He would participate in the famous Crimean War in 1855, and during the Second Opium War, he went to Huaxia as a Major.

He didn’t catch the attack on Dagu Fort, but he did participate in the occupation of Beijing and Yiheyuan, looting a large number of precious cultural relics.

However, Charles George Gordon is truly known to later generations only after he led a notorious rogue army:

The Invincible Army, also known as.....

The Foreign Gun Team.

The Foreign Gun Team was an armed force organized by Qing officials and merchants, and comprised of foreign officers from England and France, and rogues from regions like Huaxia and the Southern Ocean to fight against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in its later stages.

The first leader of the Foreign Gun Team was Frederick Ward, who was succeeded by Bai Qiweng after his death.

Charles George Gordon was the third leader and the one who committed the most atrocities.

For instance, everyone heard how Xiang Jingmin and Noda Takeshi achieved the extremely cruel ’hundred-man slashing’ during the Bai Xia Massacre.

But in reality.

Charles George Gordon had already accomplished this brutal, disgusting, and unscrupulous ’achievement’ as early as 1863.

Additionally, Gordon was one of the few recorded invaders known for cannibalism, with his letters mentioning more than five events of cannibalism.

What’s ridiculous, however, is that.

In some marketing accounts on certain media platforms claiming to popularize "little-known history," Gordon was bizarrely portrayed as being "benevolent" and "faithful" regarding the Suzhou killings event:

The Suzhou killings occurred in December 1863 when Gordon promised the ’Eight Kings of Taiping’ - Gao Yongkuan, Wang Anjun, Zhou Wenjia, Wu Guiwen, Zhang Dazhou, Wang Youwei, Fan Qifa, and Wang Huaiwu - that their lives would not be endangered upon surrender.

But just a few days before the surrender.

Li Hongzhang, recalling that his brother Li Hezhang had been shot in the leg during a deceptive surrender by the Taiping Army in Taicang a few months prior, reneged on his word.

He killed all the eight kings and over twenty thousand surrendered troops in Suzhou City.

Gordon later expressed dissatisfaction with Li Hongzhang and wrote a letter to the United Kingdom’s envoy to China, Bruce.

He requested British government intervention to force Li Hongzhang from office.

This incident.

Was portrayed by those marketing accounts as a ’benevolent’ and ’trustworthy’ act by Gordon, isn’t it absurd?

In fact, Gordon objected mainly because he was not informed of the whole plan approved by Li Hongzhang that included Cheng Xueqi killing those who surrendered in a Hongmen banquet.

At that time, the "Invincible Army" was stationed outside the city and did not participate until the entire plan concluded.

This caused the "Invincible Army" to miss both the credit for capturing Suzhou and the opportunity to loot the city.

Gordon wrote this in a letter to Borong, the British commander of the army in China, which is now stored in the Marine Warfare Museum in Dongguan, undoubtedly a solid fact.

Later, to settle this matter.

Li Hongzhang commissioned Hed, a Western official hired by the Court, to send Gordon a reward of seventy thousand yuan.

Gordon initially declined, then secretly instructed Hed to deposit ten thousand into his foreign account, thus resolving the matter.

Such a thorough executioner can even be whitewashed, showing that some people will forsake basic morals for so-called ’niche’ popularity, without worrying about being haunted by wronged souls.

Of course.

Under Xu Yun’s flashbang.

Gordon has lost any possibility to replicate past achievements, which can be considered heavenly retribution.

After all, Xu Yun’s A1 high flash genuinely wasn’t deliberately thrown at Gordon; it was highly coincidental.

Xu Yun didn’t even know he ended such a butcher’s life until Gordon’s death.

Bringing our focus back to reality.

With the collapse of the crossbowman line.

The English forces on the battlefield at the Chamber of Commerce outpost completely lost the strong long-range fire support of the crossbow arrows.

Combined with the western caravan’s temporary military already having an overwhelming advantage.

Therefore soon, the situation within the Chamber of Commerce outpost began to gradually be brought under control.

English soldiers who came to attack were either killed, captured, or surrendered immediately like Gaul.

Some quick-reacting ones took the opportunity to flee the scene.

Subsequently, under the organization of Xu Yun and Ten Hag Rangnick.

The bodyguards within the outpost killed their way out, rushing straight to the sentinel for support.

The English troops at the sentinel had only a few crossbows, though pressing the Scottish soldiers, their advantage was only at best seventy to thirty.

Thus when a new batch of reinforcements appeared, their fate was already sealed.

Half an hour later.

"President Rangnick, Mr. Luo Feng."

Francis Mason Sadao, chest bandaged, ran out from the sentry, and gratefully saluted Xu Yun and Rangnick:

"If not for the assistance of you two, the outpost and camp might have suffered greater casualties. Gentlemen, I salute you both on behalf of everyone!"

Ten Hag Rangnick hurriedly waved his hands upon hearing this, sidestepping slightly to avoid the salute:

"I don’t deserve it, Mr. Sadaoyi. If not for Mr. Luo Feng’s intervention, I might not have survived myself."