In the battle of the palace, some eunuchs and palace maids also died in the war. Of course, there is no way to avoid it, since it is a war, it is inevitable that there will be accidental injuries, not to mention that the battle in the palace can basically be regarded as a typical urban war, and in urban warfare, it is common to hurt the innocent.www.biquge.info

However, the eunuchs and palace maids who were injured by mistake were only a very small number of people, and the vast majority of eunuchs and palace maids still survived, mainly because the two sides basically did not use any heavy weapons, and the side of the Eight-Nation Alliance basically did not have heavy weapons, and the heavy weapons on the side of the traverser were limited to 40 rocket launchers and 47 mm rapid-fire guns, strictly speaking, they were not considered lethal weapons, so the accidental injuries caused were limited, and for the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace, they were mainly frightened, which was worse than when the Eight-Nation Alliance Army invaded Beijing.

It turned out that after the Eight-Nation Coalition captured Beijing, although the palace was ransacked, there was no fighting, so the eunuchs and palace maids who stayed in the palace actually did not see the appearance of war, and the actions of the Eight-Nation Alliance in the palace were relatively restrained, mainly just to search for treasures and wealth, and did not do much harm to the eunuchs and palace maids, of course, a small number of Eight-Nation Coalition soldiers also committed some atrocities in the palace and killed several eunuchs, also ** There were some palace maids, but in general, the atrocities of the Eight-Nation Alliance in the palace were indeed much less.

Later, various countries successively set up their headquarters in the palace, and also used many eunuchs and palace maids to do some chores, such as cleaning every day, serving tea and water, and some officers would find palace maids to sleep with, but they would not kill people indiscriminately for no reason, on the contrary, the palace has restored some of the order of the past.

And in the early hours of this morning, there was a lot of gunfire in the palace, explosions continued one after another, and some places even caught fire, and the eunuchs and palace maids saw such a scene, and they were so frightened that they hid in the house and did not dare to come out, and they did not know what was going on outside, and how the fight broke out in the palace. Because the palace is a relatively closed area, in the past when the Qing court, many eunuchs and palace maids still had the opportunity to go out of the palace to do business, or there were some Sula who served as miscellaneous servants in the palace, so they could still understand some outside information; and after the Eight-Nation Alliance occupied Beijing, the people in the palace basically had no chance to leave the palace, so they almost didn't know anything about what was happening outside in the palace, and some eunuchs even fantasized about whether Lafayette and the emperor brought King Qin's army back. But even though they thought so, no one dared to go out and have a look.

After dawn, the war finally stopped, and the eunuchs and palace maids were also relieved, and were thinking about what was going on outside, and when they wanted to go out to see, someone suddenly broke into the door and ordered all of them to gather in the square in front of the Taihe Palace. So many people muttered in their hearts, what are they going to do in front of the Taihe Palace? However, although they muttered in their hearts, they did not dare to disobey, so the eunuchs and palace maids came out of the house one after another, and under the supervision of the People's Army, they walked towards the Taihe Palace.

When they walked out of the house, many people were also frightened, only to see that the ground was full of the corpses of foreign soldiers, blood flowed all over the ground, and there was a strong smell of gunpowder smoke in the air, and many palaces were damaged, some timid people saw it, and they couldn't help but tremble with fright, some palace maids even cried, and a few fantasized about Lafayette, The eunuch who led the army back with the emperor was also disappointed, because although the soldiers of this army in front of him seemed to be Chinese and spoke Chinese, they were strangely dressed, and they were an important symbol of the Chunguo people who could not be seen - braids, which was obviously not the royal division of the Qing Dynasty, but closer to the army of foreigners, so I couldn't help but feel uneasy in my heart, and I didn't know what the origin of this army was.

However, this army's attitude towards them is much better than that of foreigners, although some people also shouted at them to leave quickly, but no one started to beat people, let alone ** palace maids. During this period of time, although the safety in the palace was guaranteed, foreign soldiers beat and scolded eunuchs and palace maids from time to time. Fortunately, these people have been on errands in the palace for a long time, and they have already developed the habitual attitude of knowing the time and affairs, and being obedient, after all, it is impossible for people who do not know the current affairs to survive in the palace. Therefore, whether it was beaten or humiliated, he did not dare to resist, but could only bear it silently.

There was also a small episode in which a eunuch accidentally fell on the way to walk, and two soldiers from the People's Army came to get him up, but the eunuch who fell was so frightened that he fell to his knees at once, kowtowed again and again, and kept muttering: "The slave should die, the slave should die." ”

It also made the People's Army soldiers who helped people look embarrassed, and when a crossing soldier saw it, he couldn't help but scold and scold: "Dead eunuch, shameless, good people are not appropriate, they have to be slaves." ”

Another crossing warrior laughed: "Eunuchs are not human beings in the first place, so don't treat them as human beings." Then he reprimanded the eunuch: "Knock it, get up and walk quickly, otherwise the old man will shoot you and destroy your nothing." ”

The eunuch listened, got up from the ground in a hurry, and trotted into the crowd.

When they came to the front of the Taihe Palace, they saw that there were soldiers with guns waiting to stand, and on the steps of the pedestal in front of the Taihe Palace, a person who looked like an officer stood and shouted to them. However, what this person said made the eunuchs and palace maids incomprehensible, such as he said that he was an overseas Chinese, and this army was called the People's Army, but the eunuchs and palace maids were inexplicable, what are overseas Chinese, the Qing Dynasty has Manchus, Han people, Hui people, Mongolians, Tibetans, which kind of overseas Chinese are counted; and the Qing Dynasty has the Eight Banners Army, the Green Camp Army, the Hunan Army, and the Huai Army, but I have never heard of any People's Army?

But the latter words were understood a little, the officer said that the People's Army was specially here to fight foreigners, and had recovered Tianjin, Weihai, and Qingdao before, and now it has recovered Beijing, until all foreigners were driven out of China, and they would not harm them, but asked them to stay in the palace to guard themselves and abide by their responsibilities, so the eunuchs and palace maids were also a little relieved. In the end, the officer ordered them to clean the palace, collect the corpses, wash the bloodstains, and collect the guns, items, and so on discarded by the Eight-Nation Alliance.

These things are not difficult for eunuchs and palace maids, cleaning the palace is their job, more than two months ago, they did a comprehensive cleaning in the palace, that was before the countries decided to move their headquarters to the palace, due to the previous looting of the Eight-Nation Alliance in the palace, the entire palace was a mess, or these eunuchs and palace maids cleaned the palace and let the Eight-Nation Alliance move in.

Of course, this time it is not an ordinary cleaning, but to clean up the corpse and clean up the bloodstains, but you have to pinch your nose and do it. Moreover, the eunuchs and palace maids were already familiar with the road, and someone immediately went to bring all kinds of cleaning furniture, brooms, dustpans, buckets, mops, brushes, and even single racks and white cloths to wrap corpses, etc., which can be said to be readily available.

After the work was ready, the eunuchs and palace maids immediately divided labor, and cleaned up several large palaces at the same time, and the eunuchs were responsible for cleaning up the corpses, and the corpses of the soldiers of the Eight-Nation Alliance Army were first moved to the side of the square for unified placement, and the items on their bodies were searched out, and the remains of the soldiers of the People's Army were placed in the Wenhua Palace. All of a sudden, the eunuchs and palace maids took their own responsibilities, and the division of labor was in place and they worked in an orderly manner.

The KPA left only a small number of people to supervise their work, and some soldiers on duty were also left behind, and the rest of the soldiers also found a place to rest and eat their own dry food, after all, there may be a battle to be fought in a while, so they also need to seize the time to recover their strength.

, Zhang Zhengjie, Qiu Yahui and others watched the eunuchs and palace maids busy cleaning up the palace, and they all felt that this decision was really correct, not to mention the ability to work, but these cleaning furniture, the People's Army definitely did not have it, and without the furniture, it would definitely not be possible to do it so quickly.

There is nothing to do for the time being, so ***, Zhang Zhengjie, Qiu Yahui and others also checked the materials left in the headquarters of various countries in the palace, of course, the main thing is to check the treasures and property looted by various countries from China, after all, this attack on Beijing, obtaining this wealth is also an important goal.

The Eight-Nation Coalition not only sacked the imperial palace in Beijing, but also the official yamen, the residences of the princes, the princes, the bailes, the beyers, and the ministers, as well as the shops, money houses, and pawnshops in Beijing, and even the imperial tombs and the Summer Palace around Beijing. Beijing has been the capital of the Qing court for more than 250 years, and there are many wealthy families, and there are countless time-honored shops, so the wealth that can be accumulated is extremely huge.

In the headquarters of each coalition army, there are a large number of looted treasures and wealth, although it is too late to count the number of clubs, but it is certain that the treasures and wealth in that command headquarters are far more than the gains of the traversers after the capture of Tianjin.

However, in the battle of the palace, there are many treasures and wealth storage rooms have also been damaged, a lot of treasures, wealth has even been scattered out, trampled on a lot, some courtyards are scattered with a large amount of gold, silver, gems, but the guards of the People's Army soldiers have not moved, but also let *** and others feel very satisfied, and at the same time hurriedly ordered people to scatter the treasures, The wealth was contained, and the damaged rooms were patched with wooden planks, sealed, and guarded by soldiers, and slowly cleaned up after the situation in Beijing stabilized.