The Eight-Nation Coalition Army stationed in Tianjin did send troops on the same day, but the goal was not to attack Dagukou, but to approach Dagukou and threaten the crossing group.

It turned out that after the crossing group captured Dagukou, although the defenders of Dagukou were basically annihilated, there were still a few fish that slipped through the net, and more than a dozen soldiers escaped from Dagukou and ran to Tianjin, telling the commander stationed in Tianjin, Major General Fukushima Yasumasa of Japan, the commander stationed in Tianjin, the news that Dagukou had been attacked by an unknown army and had been lost.

After learning the news, Fukushima Yasumasa first did not believe it, because he was a person engaged in intelligence work, and he was very clear about the current situation in the Qing Dynasty, although the total strength of the Eight-Nation Coalition was not much, but at this time the Chun State was even weaker, and the Wu Yi Army, Gan Army, and Yi Army guarding the capital had been defeated by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and the supreme ruler of the Qing State, the Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor, had fled the capital. Beicheng, the two most important cities in northern China, had been occupied by the Eight-Nation Alliance, although before this, the Empress Dowager Cixi had issued an edict ordering the governors from all over the south to lead troops into the king of Jingqin, but the actual response to the imperial court's call was only Li Bingheng, the minister of the Yangtze River Patrol Navy, and did not bring many troops, which did not have a major impact on the overall situation. Therefore, it can be said that the current Qing State does not have any resistance at all.

In addition to Li Bingheng, the governors of the southern part of the Chunting Dynasty were organized by Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong, Liu Kun and other bigwigs to form the "Southeast Mutual Protection", and reached an agreement with the great powers to remain neutral in this battle, and Li Hongzhang had arrived in Shanghai at the behest of the imperial court to prepare for peace talks with the foreign powers. Now there is still an army in the north, that is, the Beiyang New Army of Shandong Governor Yuan Shikai, but Yuan Shikai was the first to join the "Southeast Mutual Protection", and he should not send troops. And if Yuan Shikai wanted to send troops to King Qin, he would have been able to send troops a long time ago, and there was no need to wait until now. Where does the Qing State still have troops to attack Dagukou?

But Fukushima Yasumashi asked repeatedly, and the soldiers who fled to Tianjin also cursed and swore that they were absolutely not lying, but they couldn't say what army attacked Dagukou, they just said that it didn't look like the Qing army. Fukushima Yasumasa couldn't make up his mind, so he sent someone to the vicinity of Dagukou to inquire about the news. A day later, the people sent back to Tianjin confirmed that Dagukou was indeed lost, but it was not clear what army occupied Dagukou, because they did not dare to get too close to Dagukou, but observed it from a distance, only to find that this army pretended to be very strange, completely different from the Qing army.

At this time, Fukushima Yasumasa really believed that Dagukou had really been lost, but another question arose: Where did this army come from? Fukushima Yasumasa made several assumptions, first of all, the pretense of this army mentioned from Tan Xiao was very strange, is it possible that it was the Boxers, because the costumes of the Boxers were very strange, but with the combat effectiveness of the Boxers, how could it be possible to capture Dagukou? Of course, Fukushima Yasumasa would not believe that the Boxers were invincible, and more importantly, he heard from the soldiers who fled that the army had attacked from the sea this time and had shelled the fleet of the coalition forces, but it was absolutely impossible for the Boxers to have a fleet.

So could it be that the governor of the southern part of the Qing State changed his mind and decided to give up the southeast mutual protection and send troops to the north to Qinwang, which is not impossible, and Fukushima Yasumasa knew that the Qing Navy's Beiyang Naval Division was anchored in Shanghai, so it was also worthy of the naval attack. However, according to Fukushima Yasumasa's understanding of several governors in the southern part of the Qing Dynasty, they may not have that much courage. Since it is such a major matter, it is impossible to do without Li Hongzhang's participation, and Fukushima Yasumasa has seen Li Hongzhang very thoroughly, and he absolutely does not have the courage to start a war with the Eight-Nation Alliance. So where exactly did this army come from?

Although he was puzzled, it was certain that Dagukou had lost its position, and Fukushima Yasumasa certainly did not dare to conceal the news, and immediately sent a telegram to Beijing to inform the high-level of the Eight-Nation Alliance. Then Fukushima Yasumasa also considered how to send a telegram to Shanghai, asking Li Hongzhang's attitude and whether the Beiyang Naval Division had left Shanghai, although various evidence showed that the enemy army attacking Dagukou was not the Qing army, but it was still necessary to officially confirm it.

At this moment, Beijing called back and asked Fukushima Yasumasa if he had sent the wrong message.

It turned out that after the commanders of various countries received Fukushima Yasumasa's telegram, they did not believe that Dagukou would be lost at all, and Yizhi thought that this was a wrong telegram sent by Tianjin, although the Japanese commander Lieutenant General Yamaguchi Suchen knew that Fukushima Yasumasa was cautious and delicate, and would never send news indiscriminately, but he did not think that the news was true, but he thought that it was an accident, maybe it was a telegram sent by someone, so he did not object to calling back and questioning, after all, if someone faked the telegram, it was also the responsibility of Fukushima Yasumasa.

After receiving a call back from Beijing, Fukushima Yasumasa was also a little crying and laughing, but he was able to understand the thoughts of the commanders of various countries, and he didn't believe it when he first received the news. So Fukushima Yasumasa sent a long telegram to Beijing, saying that some deserters had fled to Tianjin, informing him that Dagukou had been lost, and that he had sent people to Dagukou to investigate and confirm that Dagukou was occupied by an unknown army, and that he would also send a telegram to Shanghai to ask if this matter had anything to do with the Qing Dynasty, and so on.

After replying to the telegram from Beijing, Fukushima Yasumasa immediately sent a telegram to the Japanese intelligence officers stationed in Shanghai, asking them to immediately listen to Li Hongzhang's tone to see if Li Hongzhang still intended to make peace with the Eight-Nation Allied Forces, and at the same time to find out whether the Beiyang Naval Division had left Shanghai. At this time, Shanghai had become the most developed city in China for foreign exchanges, and although such exchanges may not be beneficial to China, they objectively promoted the modernization of Shanghai.

Although at this time only Britain, France and the United States had a formal concession in Shanghai, almost all the major countries in the world had their own consulates in Shanghai, Japan set up consulates in Shanghai very early, in the ninth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1870), the Japanese began to establish a Japanese mansion in the Hongkou area of Shanghai (Japan Shanghai Exodus), that is, the prototype of the famous Hongkou Dojo in some later film and television works, in the same year the Shanghai public concession authorities began to build roads across the border in the Hongkou area, and the Hongkou area was informally included in the jurisdiction of the public concession。 In the twelfth year of Tongzhi (1873), Japan renamed the Japanese Consulate in Shanghai, located at No. 3 Minhang Road, Hongkou.

In the 25th year of Guangxu (1898), the former British and American public concessions were renamed the Shanghai International Public Concessions, and Japan and other countries began to participate in the management of the concessions. The following year, the public concession was divided into four districts: Northern, Eastern, Central, and Western, with Japanese expatriates occupying a dominant position in the North and East Districts. In the same year, the Japanese organized the Japanese team of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps in Hongkou as a self-defense organization and became an unofficial concession of Japan.

From the day the Japanese Consulate in Shanghai was founded, it was actively engaged in espionage activities and became the base camp of Japanese spies in China. It was not until after the Russo-Japanese War that Japan obtained the right to station troops in Northeast China, and the focus of espionage activities gradually shifted to Northeast China.

Two days later, Fukushima Yasumasa received a reply from the Shanghai consulate, and Li Hongzhang was in Shanghai waiting for the appointment of the Chun Ting, because Li Hongzhang knew very well that the situation had reached the current point, and he could only negotiate with the coalition forces to keep Dachun. However, this time the negotiation will definitely be slaughtered, and the compensation for the land cession will definitely be inevitable, and the compensation will definitely be more than the [Shimonoseki Treaty] after the First Sino-Japanese War five years ago.

Although after signing the [Treaty of Shimonoseki], Li Hongzhang was put on the hat of a traitor, but without the authorization of the Qing court, Li Hongzhang could not sell an inch of land at all, so to negotiate with the Eight-Nation Alliance, it was necessary to get the full authority of the Qing court, otherwise Li Hongzhang would not be able to talk about anything when he arrived in Beijing, and after the First Sino-Japanese War, Li Hongzhang went to Japan to negotiate, that is, he was given full authority by the Qing court.

Now Li Hongzhang is waiting for the order of the imperial court. It's just that now the Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu have fled from Beijing, their whereabouts are unknown, and of course they can't appoint Li Hongzhang, so Li Hongzhang can only wait in panic.

At this time, the fleet of the Beiyang Naval Division was still anchored in Shanghai, and Japanese intelligence officers saw with their own eyes several main warships of the Beiyang Naval Division on the beach.

After receiving these news, Fukushima Yasumasa was completely sure that the army that attacked Dagukou had nothing to do with Li Hongzhang or the Beiyang Navy. This time, Fukushima Yasumasa really has a feeling of nowhere to focus, could it be that this army fell from the sky?

At this time, Beijing called Fukushima Yasuma again, ordering Fukushima Yasuma to march towards Dagukou.

It turned out that after receiving the telegram from Fukushima Yasumasa, the commanders of the Eight-Nation Coalition really believed that Dagukou had indeed been lost. Naturally, they did not dare to be careless, and immediately held a meeting to discuss countermeasures.

However, the commanders of the Eight-Nation Coalition have different ideas from Fukushima Yasumasa, because their understanding of China is far less than that of Fukushima Yasumasa, and in addition they have always despised the Chinese government and the Chinese army, they think more simply. Therefore, they believed that the loss of Dagukou was just an accident, and that it might be that a certain Qing army or the Boxers counterattacked Dagukou together, and they succeeded by taking the defenders by surprise. As long as the main force of the Eight-Nation Alliance returns to the division, it can immediately recover Dagukou.

As for the attack on the coalition fleet, the commanders of the Eight-Nation Coalition believed that this must have been done by the Beiyang Fleet, after all, the current Beiyang Naval Division still has two 5,000-ton and three 3,000-ton protective cruisers, as well as several torpedo boats, and its strength should not be underestimated. Moreover, the commanders of the Eight-Nation Coalition did not believe that the coalition fleet had been completely wiped out and at least half of them could escape, and the commander of the Russian army, Vice Admiral Linevitz, was even more convinced that the two Russian 10,000-ton giant ships would never be sunk by the Yellow Monkeys.

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