The commander-in-chief of the northward march from Zhangjiakou to Chengde Mansion this time was Luo Sanyuan, deputy commander of the Taiyuan Military Region.There were three armies in total, and one corps was the cavalry corps of the New First Army.After the Boxer Rebellion's Seven Evil Army attacked Chengde, Rong Lu quickly led 50,000 soldiers and horses back to help.Seeing that the goal had been achieved, Hu Liefeng hurriedly evacuated to the capital with 8,000 cavalry.However, the mountains of Chengde are crisscrossed, and there is only one way to enter the customs.Rong Lu had already left soldiers and horses waiting for Hu Liefeng, and set up ambushes on all the roads that must be passed to enter the customs.The cavalry of the Seven Evil Army hurried back to Beijing, and as soon as they entered the position of the Protector Army, they were firmly blocked by rows of guns.The Protector Army also referred to the positional warfare of the Huaxing Army, dug trenches, set up strongholds, and blocked the cavalry of the Seven Evil Army layer by layer in a radius of more than ten miles.Hu Liefeng led the army to attack several times, but there were more than 1,000 casualties, but he could not move forward.Rong Lu was willing to miss this opportunity, let them go, and quickly surrounded the Seven Evil Army from behind with the other half of the army.Hu Liefeng and the six brothers knew that everyone was at the end of their rope, but even if they died, they didn't want to break the name of the Seven Heroes of Saibei.So the seven brothers, with the rest of the cavalry, rushed up to the position of the national army regardless of life and death."
Anti-Qing Restoration of Sight, Anti-Qing Restoration of Enlightenment" All the people of the Seven Evil Army chanted the slogan of the Heaven and Earth Society, and rushed straight to the position of the Protector Army like sharp arrows without hesitation."
Bang bang bang" dense gunfire continued to resound in the wilderness, and bullets flew out "whoosh, swish, swish", putting the war horses in a pool of blood."
Seven Evil Army, Attack" Only Hu Liefeng was left on the battlefield, his eyes were still blood-red and he was still standing straight on the back of his horse, waved the saber in his hand at the Protector Army, and rushed towards the tens of thousands of Protectors on the opposite side."
Bang, bang" A hundred meters after him and the Hunan Army of the Protector Army, several gunshots broke through the sky.Dozens of bullets rushed towards Hu Qiangfeng head-on, and "poof" drilled bloody holes in his body.Finally, calm returned to the battlefield.Hu Liefeng and the war horse rolled to the end together, his eyes widened in a daze, facing the sky, and his saber was still firmly held in his hand.More than 8,000 people from the Seven Evil Army went north to Chengde, but in the end, none of them surrendered, and all of them died on the battlefield.Blood stained the outskirts of Chengde, dyeing the autumn dead grass red.After dealing with the Seven Evil Army, Rong Lu hurriedly returned to Chengde City to report to Cixi.Cixi suddenly felt a burst of weakness, and instantly felt that it was not easy to come out of Beijing this time and return again.Sure enough, only one day apart.Ronglu's defense army in the vicinity of the Great Wall quickly reported that hundreds of thousands of Huaxing troops came to attack Chengde.The three armies of the Huaxing Army actually have more than 100,000 people, but they are densely packed and stretching for dozens of miles, and the spies only exaggerate the information.Cixi was shocked, and at this time she couldn't care about the capital, so she hurriedly fled north with all the courtiers.Half of Rong Lu's protector army escorted everyone to retreat north, and half was ordered to block the Huaxing army and delay the pursuit of the Huaxing army.More than 20,000 people of the Protector Army dug trenches on the outskirts of Chengde and fought trench battles with the Huaxing Army.It was the first time that the Huaxing Army fought against the Protectors, who were also armed with breech guns, and at first they were a little careless and intensively charged.Although the bullets whizzed out, the Protectors hid in the trenches and did not cause many casualties.On the contrary, the Huaxing army suffered more than 1,000 casualties in a while, and the first tentative charge was repulsed by the dense volley of the Protector Army.Luo Sanyuan was distressed to death, and the Huaxing Army had not been killed or injured by a single charge.So he ordered the generals on the front line to wipe out all this national protection army, and never let go of a single person to avenge the dead soldiers of the Huaxing Army.The generals at the front also changed their tactics after deliberation.It was decided to first carpet bombard the positions of the Protectors from the front with mortars.After the artillery bombardment, the infantry quickly broke through from the front, and the cavalry units outflanked the Protectors from both flanks, breaking through their lines from three directions.So thousands of mortars were the first to be arranged on the position, and after the commander gave the order, the shells flew out "whizzing".Piercing through the clear sky, it let out a roar and landed accurately on the position of the Protector Army in a parabola.If the Protector Army and the mortar battalion had fought head-on, they should have known to quickly withdraw from their positions and assemble on their positions after the bombardment was over.But one by one, they stared at the sky, watching the dense iron balls fall down, and they didn't even know how to lie down in the trench to dodge.Only one explosion was heard in the position of the Protector Army, and the smoke of gunpowder soon enveloped the entire battlefield.I don't know how many shrednel flew sideways, whizzing into the flesh.The Protector in the trenches was instantly blown up and bled out, and their skin was opened.The wails spread throughout the battlefield, followed by a dense batch of black iron balls.Like a locust crossing the border, once the iron ball falls, it is a deafening explosion."
Woo, woo, woo" The military horn sounded, and the infantry and cavalry of the Huaxing Army launched an attack at the same time according to the predetermined plan.The Protectors were completely at a loss for mortar bombardment, and who had time to organize resistance.Before they could react, the Huaxing army had already broken through from all directions, completely scattering and encircling the positions of the Protector Army.The cavalry corps completed the encirclement from both flanks, and the battle lasted only half an hour, and the more than 20,000 people of the Protector Army were all annihilated.In order to form a certain deterrent to the Qing court, Luo Sanyuan did not take in the prisoners, and all of them were shot and killed.If they always fight back recklessly, and they can't fight and then raise their hands to surrender, then they are too sorry for the dead Huaxing army.The only way to do this is to make an example of them and make it clear to them before the war begins, either they all surrender or they all die.In this way, they will also weigh the weight before shooting to resist, and the battle will be much easier in the future.After Luo Sanyuan took Chengde, he did not pursue the Qing court to the north, but waved his troops to the southeast to sweep away the government and armed forces of the Qing court in the Zhili area.Within a month, the Huaxing army successively broke through Qinhuangdao, Tangshan and other prefectures and counties, and all the prefectures and counties directly under the jurisdiction were owned by the Huaxing army.The strategy formulated by Qiao Zhiqing and the Ministry of National Defense was to first defeat the place where the head of the Qing government was.Then they attacked from both sides, forming an encirclement of the Central Plains.Now the Northeast and the Central Plains have been completely cut off, and the city of Beijing has really fallen.Cixi's intestines are about to come out of repentance, and she can't wait to cut Rong Lu and Yi with a thousand knives.I really shouldn't have listened to some bullshit tricks of the two of them, so I easily gave up Beijing City.As a capital, Beijing has extraordinary significance.The Boxers occupied Beijing, and the provinces of the Central Plains could not take it seriously.Because they believe that the imperial court will still take Beijing back from the hands of these rabble.But the Huaxing army occupied Beijing, and the world shook.Almost everyone has to accept a reality, the national fortunes of the Qing Dynasty are about to be broken, and the world will soon belong to Qiao Zhiqing.In just a few months, the people of Beijing changed the city wall one after another, and the government changed several times.Everyone was completely stunned by everything in front of them, and they didn't know who to serve as the emperor.The Manchu Qing Dynasty had just left, and a Ming Dynasty came.Daming left again after only a month, and a new China came.What kind of court is this new China, everyone has no score in their hearts.Secretly praying that they could scavenge a little less food and silver, so that everyone could continue to live.What surprised them was that instead of looting and killing, they were waiting for boatloads of food from the sea.Qiao Zhiqing also came with the fleet, and this was his second visit to Beijing.The first time was to be rewarded by the Qing court, but this time he came as the master of the city.Wang Shijie had already moved his headquarters from Taiyuan to Beijing, and had just set up a military government to formally take over Beijing's government affairs.In order to welcome Qiao Zhiqing's arrival, the first task of the military government was to organize the citizens of Beijing to provide relief for work, repair the broken city walls and houses everywhere, and clean the streets spotlessly.This not only relieved the victims, but also allowed Beijing to regain its original vitality.This time he was accompanied by Qiao Zhiqing's confidential secretary Wei Ziyou, and his wife did not bring any of them.First, the distance is long, and they all have children to take care of, which is inconvenient for them to move.The second is that Qiao Zhiqing just took the time to relax, and it was still a headache to take them to twitter every day.Three women in one play, and having more wives may not be a good thing.Qiao Zhiqing now understands this very deeply, even if he is a little partial to any wife, the others will immediately lose their temper with jealousy.In order to avoid them from arguing, he simply didn't bring any of them.Beijing in the golden autumn is very cool and pleasant, but at this time, there is no Qiao Zhiqing's era when you can't see the blue sky and white clouds all day long, and you always live under the haze.Qiao Zhiqing came across the horse with his own soldiers and stopped in front of the Zhengyang Gate in the inner city.Wang Shijie had already led all the generals to greet him here, and held a grand ceremony for Qiao Zhiqing to enter the city.Zhengyangmen is the gate of the Ming and Qing dynasties of the emperor's sacrifice, located in the middle of the inner city, very solemn.The soldiers of the Huaxing Army stood majestically on both sides of the street, holding steel guns with straight waists, separating the onlookers from the people of the capital.The people crowded forward, their eyes wide in curiosity, to see what the new emperor really looked like.Qiao Zhiqing turned over and dismounted straight, and his black cowhide boots fell to the ground with a crisp sound.After standing firm on the ground, he looked around the generals slightly, smiled lightly and saluted.He was dressed in a camouflage uniform, standing handsome and tall in the crowd, and that action did not know how many onlookers fascinated her."
Ready, release" As an order sounded, a rumbling cannon suddenly sounded on the Zhengyang Gate, soaring into the sky, shocking people's hearts and lungs, and all the people watching were startled."
Good President" Twenty-one artillery pieces rang out one after another, and on both sides of the street, the square teams of the Huaxing Army, which stretched for several miles, were all under Wang Shijie's order, and they saluted Qiao Zhiqing in unison.The cowhide boots "snapped" on the ground, making a uniform sound, as if playing a magnificent symphony, which shocked people's spirits and unconsciously breathed tightly
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