Chapter 424: Attack on Beijing (3)

Attacking Zhengyangmen, Luo Yueyu used the same tactics as attacking Zuo'anmen, still attacking from the city walls on both sides of the city tower, climbing the city wall, and then attacking the city tower, but the place where the People's Army landed the city was not far from the city tower, only more than 100 meters away. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Although the same tactics were used, they were indeed very effective, because the British troops guarding Zhengyangmen were seriously under-manned, and in the face of the separate attack of the People's Army, the defenders could not stop it at all, and even the People's Army did not even use the firepower to suppress it, so the soldiers of the People's Army climbed the city wall from the towers on both sides and launched an attack on the towers.

The British army was not as brainless as the Japanese, in fact, most of the British army was not British, because the British army was actually mainly Indian Sikh soldiers, plus some soldiers from other colonies, including some Chinese soldiers recruited from Hong Kong, and only a few officers and elite soldiers were British. These soldiers came all the way to China to fight, of course, not for the honor and dignity of the British Empire, but only to be worthy of the salary of the white soldiers.

Although Britain claims to be an empire on which the sun never sets, the size and population of the country are very limited, so in the colonies, it mainly relies on the army composed of local residents to maintain British rule, and in order to maintain the dominance of the colonies, the treatment of colonial soldiers is quite favorable, as long as the local residents who can join the colonial army, they can live a good life in the colony, take people's money, and naturally want to eliminate disasters with people, so it is a matter of course to come to China to participate in the war at the request of the British. Of course, in China, you can still grab some things and take the opportunity to make a fortune, although most of the looted property is divided between the British or British officers, but they can't eat meat, and they can always drink a few mouthfuls of soup, which can be regarded as a considerable additional income for these colonial soldiers.

But all this is based on the victory of the British army, or the Eight-Nation Alliance on the Chinese battlefield, and once the war situation is unfavorable, or the defeat has been achieved, the colonial soldiers will not be desperate, and it is the business of British officers to be loyal to the Queen of England, not the duty of these colonial soldiers, or to save their own lives first. Therefore, when the KPA soldiers attacked from the walls on the left and right sides of the tower, the British soldiers immediately put down their rifles and raised their hands in surrender.

However, at this time, the People's Army still did not have time to capture prisoners, and it would not care if the opponent surrendered, it was better to put down the gun, and it saved effort, so the People's Army soldiers who rushed to the city tower were all bayonets in the face of the soldiers who had laid down their weapons and raised their hands, and in the blink of an eye, more than 10 British soldiers fell under the bayonets of the People's Army, and after the other British soldiers reacted, it was too late, and it was too late to pick up the gun and shoot back, and the result was not long, and more than 60 British soldiers guarding Zhengyangmen were all killed, and the People's Army captured Zhengyangmen without any casualties in this battle。

After occupying Zhengyangmen, Luo Yue also left a platoon to garrison Zhengyangmen, and then led the remaining troops and all the ladders through Zhengyangmen, along Zhengyangmen Street, to Tiananmen, the gate of the imperial city.

At this time, the sound of gunfire from the direction of the palace could be heard, and there were several explosions from time to time, indicating that the battle in the palace was raging.

At this time, the sky has begun to gradually brighten, the light slowly dispels the darkness, the streets, city walls, buildings, etc. are gradually showing vague outlines, and the tall and majestic tower of Tiananmen Square has gradually appeared in front of the eyes of the People's Army.

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After the command of the two coalition forces in a row, Yu Maolin received the order of the command and immediately rushed to the Jiaotai Palace, and now the 3rd squadron is attacking the Jiaotai Palace, but the battle situation is in a stalemate, so the command ordered Yu Maolin to join the other two squadrons and attack the coalition headquarters of the Jiaotai Palace.

It turns out that Jiaotai Hall is the headquarters of the Russian army, the Russian army is the army second only to the Japanese army in the number of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and now there are about 3,400 Russian troops in the Eight-Nation Alliance, and among the 13 city gates outside Beijing, the Russian army is responsible for garrisoning 4 city gates and the same as the army, and in addition, there are more than 200 defenders in the palace. Due to the location of the Jiaotai Palace, it was classified as the target of the second group of attacks by the traversers.

The special forces parachuted into the palace, and as soon as the battle began, the command of the Russian army was alarmed, and the commander Yevgeny ?? Ivanovic?? Although Lieutenant General Alekseev did not quite understand what was happening, he immediately gave the order to immediately arrange the defense of the headquarters, and at the same time sent people to find out what was going on. And the soldiers who inquired reported that although they did not know that the army came from there, it was certain that the palace was attacked by enemy troops.

After hearing this, Alekseev did not dare to be careless, and hurriedly ordered to transfer some of the soldiers stationed in the imperial city back to strengthen the defense of the headquarters, so when the 3rd squadron launched an attack on the Jiaotai Palace, the defenders guarding the Jiaotai Palace had reached more than 150 people.

Although the weapons of the special forces are advanced, and there are night vision equipment, there is an advantage of unilateral transparency on the battlefield, but the Russian army is large after all, and the Russian army is on the defensive side, so the disadvantage of the night battle does not have a great impact on the Russian army, and the 3 squadron launched 2 attacks on the Jiao Tai Hall in a row, but they were unable to break through the defense line of the Russian army, on the contrary, they also paid the price of the death of 3 soldiers. The battle has also entered a stalemate.

This naturally attracted the attention of the command, since the palace is well defended, then it must be an important place, just at this time the task of the 1st squadron has been completed, so the command ordered the 1st squadron to rush to the Jiaotai Palace to reinforce the 3rd squadron, and must conquer the Jiaotai Palace.

After Yu Maolin received the order, he immediately led the troops to leave the Internal Affairs Office, rushed to the Jiaotai Palace, and went around to the rear of the Jiaotai Palace to launch an attack.

This time the Russian army guarding the Jiaotai Palace can not resist, the Russian army can block the attack of the 3rd squadron is quite strong, because the opponent's firepower is too fierce, there seem to be more than a dozen machine guns, but also there are guns and grenades that make the Russian army unguardable, the Russian army only relies on the advantage of numbers, so as to avoid the strong to hold the Jiaotai Palace, to put it bluntly, it is to rely on the human pad, and more importantly, the Russian army's ammunition is insufficient, after more than ten minutes of fierce fighting, some Russian soldiers' bullets have been exhausted, fortunately, many Russian soldiers have been killed, and some bullets can be found from the dead Russian soldiers, so that they can maintain shooting and firepower without being strong, but it can't support it for too longTherefore, as long as the 3rd Squadron is given some more time, the 3rd Squadron can completely break through the Jiaotai Hall with its own strength.

At this time, the 1st Squadron rushed to the Jiaotai Hall to participate, which undoubtedly became the last straw that pressed the Russian army. The resistance of the Russian army suddenly collapsed, and the special forces were attacking and blocking, and the Russian soldiers in the Jiaotai Hall had nowhere to escape, as a result, the special forces broke into the Jiaotai Palace, cleaning up the halls one by one, and all the personnel of the Russian command were killed. The commander of the Russian army, Lieutenant General Alekseyev, died in the chaos, of course, the special forces did not know it at this time.

Successfully eliminated the enemy forces in Jiaotai Palace, at this time the 2nd Squadron also completed its own task, and successfully eliminated the coalition headquarters of Fengxian Hall and the Imperial Tea House, so that 6 of the 7 objectives have been completed, and only the last Wenhua Hall remains.

But at this moment, the command sent a notice to Yu Maolin that it had discovered that a large number of enemies had entered the palace for reinforcements, and asked the special forces to temporarily stop completing their tasks, and immediately all converge to prepare to meet the reinforced enemy forces.

It turned out that these reinforcement troops were actually the Eight-Nation Alliance guarding the imperial city, and after the battle in the imperial palace began, some command headquarters sent people to transfer their own soldiers guarding the imperial city back to defend the headquarters, such as the Russian command headquarters, and the command of some countries was wiped out by the special forces before they had time to transfer troops back to defense, but there was such a big movement in the palace that it was impossible for the troops guarding the imperial city not to hear it.

Although the army guarding the palace was very surprised, where did the army that attacked the palace come from, and it seems that there are quite a few people, because the entire palace seems to have been attacked, and it seems that there are at least a few hundred people. Although there were not many troops guarding the walls of the Imperial City, only about 6 or 700 people, it was impossible to silently put such an army into the Imperial Palace.

However, where the enemy army came from is not a matter that should be considered now, and the safety of the command left in the palace is the most important, the army that received the command command order naturally immediately returned to protect the headquarters, and the army that did not receive the command order, after hesitating and watching for a while, also withdrew from the imperial city, or left only a few people to guard the tower of the imperial city, and then rushed back to the palace to protect their headquarters.

However, when the armies of various countries arrived at their respective headquarters, they almost all found that there were already a mess of dead bodies everywhere in the headquarters, and there were few living people to be found, and the gunfire in the palace was still continuous, so the troops rushed to the direction where the guns rang out. There were about 500 troops who flocked into the palace, and of course all this was transmitted to the monitor of the traverser command through a drone monitored at high altitude, so the command immediately informed the special forces of the movements of the coalition forces.

After receiving the report from the headquarters, Yu Maolin thought about it for a while, and immediately ordered the 3rd Squadron to garrison the Jiaotai Palace, and he took the 1st Squadron to the Yangxin Palace to garrison, and at the same time notified the 2nd Squadron to immediately withdraw to the Qianqing Palace to garrison, so that the three squadrons formed a triangular position, ready to meet the reinforcements of the Eight-Nation Alliance. Moreover, the three palaces are located slightly southwest of the palace, and the palace buildings in this area are very dense, so it is conducive to the interspersed movement of special forces and reinforcements to carry out maneuvering operations.