At this time, it was the US military stationed at Chaoyangmen, and in fact, even Dongzhimen was also garrisoned by US troops. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Because of the decisive evacuation from the palace, the American army suffered almost no loss of troops, and brought in a few missionaries and parishioners to serve as interpreters, and also contained the remnants of some other countries, a total of about 2,000 troops.

The commander of the US army, Lieutenant General Chaffee, temporarily set up his headquarters in Chaoyangmen and arranged for more than 1,500 soldiers to be stationed there, while only about 150 soldiers were stationed in Dongzhimen, and the remaining 300 or so were handed over to his deputy Li Kensi to lead him to leave Beijing and find a foothold outside the city to temporarily stay. Because Lieutenant General Chafei has already concluded that Beijing is willing to lose, it is certainly not a good result to continue to stay in Beijing now. And the reason why they were still guarding the city gate was just to try their best to buy more time for the troops preparing to leave the city.

And since he was ready to withdraw from Beijing at any time, Lieutenant General Chaffee did not blindly garrison the city walls, but expanded the defensive line all the way to the streets, leaving enough passage. As for what to do after withdrawing from the city of Beijing, we can only wait until later, and it is best to be able to obtain a liaison with the consulates in Shanghai or Tianjin, and then negotiate with the overseas Chinese to settle the problem, so that the problem of the US military can be properly resolved; no matter how bad it is, it can last for more than 10 days, and perhaps there will already be an armistice, because after the overseas Chinese occupy Beijing, the Shanghai negotiations will certainly be resumed, and no matter what the result is, it will be much better than staying in Beijing and waiting for death.

After the KPA launched an artillery bombardment in the direction of Chaoyangmen, Lieutenant General Chaffee immediately ordered all US troops to withdraw from the city at once, because Chaffee did not want to fight hard with the KPA at all; not to mention the fact that the KPA used artillery bombardment, which the US forces could not resist, so they should retreat as soon as possible, so as not to increase casualties in vain, and once they were entangled by the KPA, it would be difficult to get out.

Although the People's Army captured Chaoyangmen and Dongzhimen almost bloodlessly, and did not even damage a single soldier of its own, and only wasted a few shells, the whole regiment, as members of the regimental headquarters, could not be happy, because such a battle would not be of any help to the Fifth Regiment. Moreover, Liu Shunchang also regretted it in his heart, knowing that he should have sent a force out of the city to ambush, so that when the enemy army withdrew from Beijing, he could intercept the enemy in the middle and win a great victory in name only.

Now the battle to clear the remnants of the Eight-Nation Alliance in Beijing will continue, and the People's Army cannot go out of the city to pursue, so after occupying Chaoyangmen and Dongzhimen, the city gates will be closed immediately, and a platoon of troops will be left at each city gate to guard, and the rest of the troops will continue to the south and attack Dongbianmen. And Liu Shunchang also sent a battalion of troops to march from outside the city, if the enemy army was stationed in Dongbianmen to resist, the People's Army would carry out a flanking attack inside and outside the city, and if the enemy troops in Dongbianmen also abandoned the gate and fled like Chaoyangmen and Dongzhimen, then the troops outside the city could launch an attack on the evacuated enemy troops.

Because the Dongbian Gate is close to the palace, after the battle in the palace, most of the Russian army received a notice from the headquarters, so most of the troops rushed back to the palace to reinforce, leaving only more than 150 soldiers on the city tower to guard the city gate. However, after the Russian army arrived at the palace, the headquarters of the Russian army had been broken by special forces, and the reinforced Russian troops still stayed in the palace to participate in the battle and did not return to Dongbianmen to garrison.

Now the Russian army left behind in Dongbianmen is naturally unable to stop the attack of the People's Army, and this time the People's Army is divided into three routes, from three directions: outside the city, on the city, and inside the city. Serving the country in seven lives is loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, but Bi Jing is also a fighting nation, and will never surrender easily, nor will he flee like the cowardly Americans, so the Russian army and the People's Army resisted desperately on the one hand, and sent people to Guangqumen to rescue the Russian troops stationed there.

After only two or three minutes of exchange of fire between the two sides, the Russian army's firepower was insufficient, and it was completely suppressed by the people's army's firepower, mainly because the Russian army was short of ammunition and its numbers were small. Naturally, the People's Army would not be polite, and immediately loaded their rifles with bayonets and launched an attack on Dongbianmen. So the two sides started a white-knuckle battle on the tower of the East Gate.

Although the Fifth Regiment did not participate in the battle at the Tongzhou Railway Station, in the few days of the Tongzhou garrison, it also heard the first regiment's summary of the battle at the Tongzhou Railway Station, and knew that there was still a considerable gap between the People's Army and the Eight-Nation Coalition Army in terms of bayonet warfare.

Of course, the Japanese army attaches great importance to bayonet skills, and of course, a considerable part of the reason why the Japanese army attaches importance to bayonet skills is that the domestic resources are limited, and it is difficult to provide soldiers with enough ammunition, so they can only practice bayonets more, and they also deliberately design the rifle to be longer, so as to facilitate bayonet warfare, so they are somewhat compelled to do so; while Russia is a large country with resources, although its industrial capacity is insufficient, its huge population base can make up for it to a certain extent, and there will never be a shortage of supply, and the main reason why the Russian army attaches importance to bayonet technology is the backwardness of tactical thinking, and now the tactical thinking of the Russian army is still stuck in the era of queuing for shooting, the belief that "the battle must be settled with bayonets in the end", coupled with the natural bravery of the Russians, the tactics of fighting bayonets are also in line with the appetite of polar bears.

However, although the Russian soldiers have strong bayonet skills, the current battle situation is very unfavorable to the Russian army, because no matter how hard the Russian army tries, the change of ownership of Beijing City has become a foregone conclusion, so the Russian army is fighting a doomed battle, and the overall morale is not high. The KPA not only has an absolute superiority in numbers, but also has extremely high morale.

After arriving in Beijing, after learning that the First Regiment and the Second Regiment had made great contributions in the battle to conquer Beijing, the soldiers of the Fifth Regiment were also very envious and hoped that they could also show their skills on the battlefield, after all, the proportion of veteran soldiers in the Fifth Regiment was not low, and after several months of training and education, most of the soldiers had a sense of honor and the consciousness of fighting for the country and the nation.

After receiving the order to sweep the city gate and completely clear the Eight-Nation Alliance Army in Beijing, the soldiers of the Fifth Regiment also breathed a sigh of relief, intending to show their bravery on the battlefield, but in the battle of attacking Chaoyangmen and Dongzhimen, the enemy abandoned the gate and fled almost without engagement, and as a result, although they occupied Chaoyangmen and Dongzhimen, they did not really fight a battle, and the soldiers of the Fifth Regiment were like a dam full of water at this time, just waiting for an outlet.

Now this gang has finally appeared, so the soldiers of the fifth regiment are like a flood that has opened the floodgates, surging towards the Russian army, almost everyone is brave, one by one, one by one, brandishing a rifle with bayonets on, struggling to assassinate the Russian army, and there is a deafening roar from the mouth. Even if it is a fighting nation, at this time I can't help but feel fear, and I can't resist the ferocious attack of the People's Army, even if it is a one-on-one battle, the soldiers of the Russian army can hardly take advantage of anything, let alone a one-on-two, one-on-three battle, as a result, within a few minutes of the battle between the two sides, the Russian army could not parry, and fell to the ground and died, and some Russian soldiers saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly abandoned their guns and surrendered. In this regard, the fighting nation is much more flexible than the Japanese, and when they know that they are invincible, they will never blindly fight hard, and when it is time to surrender, they will still surrender

In a short time, the People's Army occupied Dongbianmen, most of the Russian troops were killed, a small part surrendered, and only 4 or 5 people fled. However, the number of Russian troops is too small, and in fact, most of the KPA fighters have no chance to shoot at all, they just follow behind and shout a few times, and they don't have any other addictions.

At this moment, the regiment commander Liu Shunchang received a notice from the headquarters that the Russian army in Guangqumen had been dispatched and marched towards Dongbianmen, and it seemed that they were coming to reinforce Dongbianmen.

There are about 800 Russian troops guarding Guangqumen, and the commander will be the battalion commander Major Kirilenko, because Guangqumen is far away from the palace, so when the Russian command headquarters transferred troops and reinforcements, they did not transfer troops from Guangqumen, and did not receive orders from the headquarters, and Major Kirilienko did not dare to act rashly, so no matter what happened in Beijing, Major Kirilyenko has always stood still. By the time dawn came, Major Kirilenko had already figured out the situation in Beijing, knowing that the imperial palace had been occupied by overseas Chinese, that the Russian command and the command headquarters of other countries had been attacked by overseas Chinese, that the Eight-Nation Coalition had no unified command, and that a complete defeat was inevitable.

But what should I do now? Major Kirilenko is also a little confused, and there is no point in continuing to fight; and where can he escape from Beijing, which is all Chinese and has no place of its own; if he surrenders to the overseas Chinese, he will not be able to get over it, and although the Russians are not like the Japanese, they are also a fighting nation, so how can they easily surrender? Kirilenko was just a small major, having experienced such a complicated situation, and was completely overwhelmed at this time.

After the US troops withdrew from the palace, the commander, Lieutenant General Chafee, also sent people to Major Kirilenko, hoping that the two sides could converge and jointly resist the overseas Chinese, but Major Kirilenko categorically refused, because the number of US troops was larger than that of the Russian army, and Lieutenant General Chafee's military rank and official position were much higher than those of Kirilenko, so if the two sides converged, it would be more likely that the US military would be dominant, and the Russian army could only obey the command of the US army. But the United States is the same as the onion, the Russians are the descendants of the authentic Holy Roman Empire, noble birth, upright roots, and a dignified fighting nation, and the United States is nothing more than a group of criminal immigrants and the descendants of local natives, and the United States has enough to do with it, how can it be possible to obey the command of the United States.