At about 11:30 p.m., Zhu Yaping led the reinforcements to Beijing, and also brought a batch of ammunition and medical medicine to the troops attacking Beijing. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The two sides met in the palace, and the medical team that arrived with reinforcements immediately began work in the Mandarin Palace. In the battle to attack Beijing, more than 200 KPA soldiers were wounded, and more than 60 others were seriously injured. Moreover, among the captured soldiers of the Eight-Nation Alliance, there were also a large number of wounded soldiers, but even the KPA itself did not have medical personnel, and there were not many medicines with them, let alone treating the wounded prisoners, so they could only be left to fend for themselves. But now that medical personnel and adequate medicines are available, the captives should of course also be treated.

In addition, Zhu Yaping also brought a piece of news to the people, tomorrow Tianjin will send a group of personnel to Beijing, led by Qin Zheng himself, including a regiment of troops, as well as more than 300 traversers and more than 500 local personnel composed of management personnel, will be responsible for taking over the administrative affairs of Beijing City, because it is recalled that the top priority of the People's Army is still to take full control of Beijing City as soon as possible, and now that reinforcements have also arrived in Beijing, the available mobile forces have reached four battalions, and they are fully capable of completely cleaning up the Eight-Nation Alliance Army in Beijing。

At this time, the soldiers who had gone out of the palace to inquire about the news had also returned one after another and reported the reconnaissance to the headquarters. Now among the 13 city gates outside the city of Beijing, there are 5 controlled by the People's Army, namely Zuo'anmen, Yongdingmen, You'anmen, Deshengmen, Andingmen, and Xuanwumen, Zhengyangmen, and Chongwenmen located in Beijing, and its eight city gates are now controlled by the remnants of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and the number of defenders of each city gate is different, the largest number of defenders is Chaoyangmen, about 1,500 people, and the defense line is even arranged under the city; 200 men were garrisoned, and the remaining four gates were garrisoned by between 500 and 1,000 men.

It's just that the soldiers who reconnoitred couldn't tell the nationality of these troops, and they could only determine that it was the Japanese army guarding the Fucheng Gate, because only the Japanese soldiers looked the closest to the Chinese, while the other foreigners looked similar.

After hearing this, Zhu Yaping and *** were also relieved, because now the Eight-Nation Alliance Army is stationed at each city gate, which shows that the current Eight-Nation Alliance Army has no unified command and can only fight separately, and the People's Army can also break the Eight-Nation Alliance Army at each city gate one by one. If the Eight-Nation Coalition can concentrate at this time, it will be a problem.

However, the reconnoitring soldiers also reported that with the exception of the central axis and the area around the imperial city, order in Beijing is very chaotic, and not only are there a small number of scattered soldiers of the Eight-Nation Coalition who are committing murders and robbing prisoners, but there are also quite a few local scoundrels and ruffians who have also taken advantage of this opportunity to loot and commit crimes. In addition, according to the reconnaissance soldiers, it was also found that two churches were besieged by a group of Chinese, one of which had been breached, although the reconnaissance soldiers did not enter the church to take a closer look, but only at the door of the church could see a mess inside, there were several corpses dressed in clergy clothes, and among the people besieging the church, there were still people wearing Boxer clothing.

It turned out that although the Eight-Nation Coalition Army was broken up and stationed at each city gate, they could only fight on their own, but after the People's Army occupied the palace, it did not rush to attack the remnants of the Eight-Nation Alliance, which gave the Eight-Nation Alliance some time to breathe. Originally, the soldiers of the Eight-Nation Coalition Army had robbed a lot of treasures and property in China, and they did not plan to rob them anymore, but the looted things were either kept in the headquarters of the Imperial Palace or stored in the embassy of their own country, and the People's Army occupied the Imperial Palace and sent troops to Dongjiaomin Lane, but the looted things were basically gone, and a small number of soldiers of the Eight-Nation Coalition Army were unwilling, so they planned to rob a little more. In addition, there are some scoundrels who take advantage of the chaos to fish in troubled waters.

The other is the person who took the opportunity to kill the foreigner to vent his anger and revenge, and the object of revenge is generally the church. At the peak of the development of the Boxer Rebellion, all the cathedrals in Beijing were besieged by the Boxers, and many clergy and clergy died in the chaos. Of course, these two unilateral persecutions were mixed with a large number of private interests, such as personal revenge, personal grievances, and so on.

The battle in the early morning soon spread throughout the city of Beijing, and some of the former Boxer members who were hidden in the city of Beijing were a little impatient to move, and when they inquired after dawn, they knew that the Eight-Nation Coalition had been defeated and had been driven out of the palace, and some people even inquired that it was the overseas Chinese who attacked Beijing and defeated the Eight-Nation Alliance, and although the overseas Chinese did not have any direct connection with the Boxers, in the eyes of some remnants of the Boxers, since the overseas Chinese were enemies of the Eight-Nation Alliance, they were naturally the same as the Boxers, so they should have killed a few foreigners and fought in concert with the overseas Chinese; so some people took action immediately, launched a new round of revenge against foreigners, and the first to bear the brunt was naturally the church.

Fortunately, the number of remnants of the Boxers is not large, and a considerable number of people have a wait-and-see attitude, so only 4 or 50 people actually take action, which can cause turmoil. Limited. Of course, if this development continues, it is not impossible to cause another Boxer Rebellion.

After listening to the report of the reconnaissance soldiers, Zhu Yaping and *** couldn't help but be a little vigilant, in wartime, it is very normal for some chaotic incidents to occur, but if the Boxer Rebellion has a tendency to rise again, it will be different. During this time, both of them had made up for the historical knowledge of this period, and of course knew that although the Boxer Rebellion had a certain positive significance in this particular era, it had a significant impact on the country, To put it bluntly, the Boxer Rebellion was an extreme nationalist movement, and it was quite stupid, so under the rule of the Boxer Rebellion, the Boxer Rebellion must not be allowed to appear, or even develop, and now the Boxer Rebellion has a comeback trend, and it cannot be prevented, if a large-scale Boxer Rebellion really forms, it will be troublesome.

Then the top priority now is to drive out all the Eight-Nation Coalition forces as soon as possible, take full control of the city of Beijing, and then restore order in Beijing, only in this way can the resurgence of the Boxer Rebellion be nipped in the bud.

Therefore, the two immediately recruited three regiment commanders, conducted simple consultations, and finally decided that the Fifth Regiment of the Fifth Regiment was mainly responsible for the battle of attacking the city gates, and Liu Shunchang, the commander of the Fifth Regiment, was the commander-in-chief, and the second battalion of the second regiment and the first company of the artillery battalion were temporarily assigned to the command of the fifth regiment.

Although the Fifth Regiment is not the absolute main force like the First Regiment and the Second Regiment, the soldiers with actual combat experience in the whole regiment account for about forty percent, and although the Fifth Regiment is not equipped with an artillery battalion, it is equipped with a firepower reinforcement battalion, and it is also the only regiment equipped with an artillery battalion except for the first and second regiments, so it also has considerable combat effectiveness, which is also one of the main reasons why the Fifth Regiment is also listed as one of the troops attacking Beijing this time.

Although the Fifth Regiment had not participated in any battles in the Beijing Campaign before, and now there were only two battalions, it was a complete organization and a new force, and after the Eight-Nation Coalition Army was attacked, its combat effectiveness had been greatly reduced, so letting the Fifth Regiment fight at this time was just the right time for them to accumulate more combat experience and not cause excessive casualties. The temporary transfer of the second battalion of the second regiment and the first company of the artillery battalion to the command of the fifth regiment was also aimed at strengthening the combat effectiveness of the fifth regiment.

After the order was issued, the members of the regimental headquarters of the fifth regiment were also very excited, after all, it was finally their turn to go to the battlefield, although it was only to clean up the mess, but after all, they could participate in the battle, although the regimental members of the fifth regiment knew that the regiment could not be compared with the first and second regiments, and there were not many soldiers with combat experience, but they also hoped that the regiment could quickly improve its combat effectiveness and become a combat-effective unit as soon as possible.

The goal of the attack was to start from Chaoyang Gate first, because Chaoyang Gate had the largest number of defenders, and it was quite close to the palace, so it also caused a huge threat to the palace and must be uprooted as soon as possible.

However, although the Eight-Nation Coalition Army was a defeated army, and lacked ammunition and heavy weapons, it must not be careless, because the distance between Chaoyangmen and the Imperial Palace was about 3 kilometers in a straight line, but the streets of Beijing at this time were narrow, so the strength of the People's Army could not be fully deployed, and the Eight-Nation Coalition Army guarding the city gate had already arranged a defensive line, and if it blindly attacked head-on, it might cause heavy casualties.

After discussing with the members of the regimental headquarters, the regiment commander Liu Shunchang decided to adopt a two-way battle, with the fifth regiment and one battalion attacking from the city wall, while his other two battalions were divided into four routes and launched an attack on Chaoyangmen, while the artillery company first launched an artillery attack on the enemy to cover the attack of the troops.

After the battle plan was formulated, the 5th Regiment immediately attacked from the Imperial Palace and launched an attack on Chaoyangmen, while the artillery company arranged artillery positions outside the eastern city of the Imperial City and launched an artillery bombardment on Chaoyangmen.

However, the course of the battle greatly exceeded the expectations of the members of the Fifth Regiment, and the artillery company only fired a few shots, and the Eight-Nation Coalition troops stationed at Chaoyangmen immediately abandoned the city gate and the city tower and fled outside the city, and at this time even the troops attacking from the city wall had not yet been arranged. And not long after, news came that even the defenders of Dongzhimen had retreated.