Although the immediate priority is not to fully occupy Beijing, there are two places that must be controlled first, one is the telegraph office in Beijing, and the other is the legation area of Dongjiaomin Lane. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

It is of course very important to control the telegraph and control the spread of news in Beijing, and at the same time, to be able to disseminate news to all parts of the country in the name of the People's Army, solemnly declaring that Beijing has been occupied by the People's Army.

The first telegraph was transmitted to China in 1871, by the Danish Great Northern Telegraph Company officially opened the telegraph business in Shanghai, and China's first self-built telegraph line was in 1877, by the then Fujian governor Ding Richang took the opportunity to go to Taiwan to observe the establishment of the Taiwan Telegraph Bureau, and drew up a plan to build a telegraph line, from Qihou (now Kaohsiung) to Fucheng (now Tainan). The whole line is 95 miles long. Subsequently, the telegraph lines between Tianjin, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, and Taiwan were gradually connected.

In 1880, after Li Hongzhang set up the General Telegraph Bureau in Tianjin, telegrams sent to Beijing from all over the country had to be sent to Tianjin first, and then forwarded to Beijing by fast horses. The approval of the imperial court had to be sent to Tianjin by fast horse for forwarding, and as a result, it was delayed in vain to go back and forth like this. Therefore, in 1883, the telegraph was first transmitted in Tongzhou, and in this way, the telegraph from Tianjin to Beijing was changed to a telegraph from Tongzhou, which was much more advanced than before. However, if there was an urgent telegram in the evening, the gates of Beijing would have been closed by then, and the telegram would have to be delivered into the city the next day. At this time, the conservative forces could not stop the progressive power of science and technology, and the following year, the telegraph line was finally connected to the city of Beijing, but seven years were wasted, which also shows the great conservative forces in China in this era.

There are two telegraph offices in Beijing, one is the Beijing Commercial Telegraph Bureau, which is located in Yang's Garden, Magpie Hutong, outside Chongwenmen, and the other is the Beijing Official Telegraph Bureau, which is located in Lu Gongtang, by the Baozi River, which is responsible for sending and receiving government telegrams. After Beijing opened the telegram, the embassies of various countries were also connected to the telegraph line, which could generate electricity to the outside world on their own, and at the time of the Gengzi State Change, the countries were informed of the situation in Beijing through the telegram, which also prompted the countries to form the Eight-Nation Alliance, but in the first period of the development of the Boxer Rebellion, the Boxer Rebellion once destroyed the Beijing Commercial and Telecommunications Bureau, so that Beijing completely interrupted the telegraph exchanges, and later the Eight-Nation Allied Forces invaded Beijing and used the Beijing Official Telegraph Bureau to release news to the outside world.

During the Boxer Rebellion, a large number of expatriates from various countries hid in the embassy to take refuge, and the Boxers attacked the embassy many times, but they failed to break through the embassy, which also became a strange story during the Gengzi Revolution.

The 1st and 2nd Regiments immediately reported to the command that they had captured the city of Beijing and occupied the Imperial Palace, and then both moved their regimental headquarters into Peking and set up their headquarters in the Imperial Palace.

Subsequently, after the two regiment commanders Zhang Zhengjie and Qiu Yahui negotiated, they also immediately divided the labor, and a regiment was responsible for guarding Zuo'anmen, Yongdingmen, You'anmen in the south of Beijing, Xuanwu Gate, Zhengyangmen, Chongwenmen in Beijing's inner city, and Dongjiaomin Lane, because Dongjiaomin Lane is located between Zhengyangmen Inner Street and Chongwenmen Inner Street. The second regiment is the defense area of Deshengmen, Andingmen, Huanggong and Tiananmen in Beijing's northern city, as well as the Beijing Official Electricity Bureau.

In this way, the People's Army also firmly controlled the central axis of Beijing, only waiting for reinforcements to arrive in Beijing.

After the first and second regiments of Nazhi had just divided the defense area, the reinforcements from the Tongzhou Railway Station had not yet arrived in Beijing, but one of the commanders-in-chief of the front-line command headquarters took a helicopter and led a group of staff officers to rush to Beijing as soon as possible, and landed directly outside the Taihe Gate.

It turned out that after receiving the news from the front, the two front-line commanders-in-chief Zhu Yaping and *** also immediately conducted a simple consultation, although the tactical plan formulated before the war was basically completed, but now it is not really time to enjoy the victory, because the People's Army has not yet fully controlled the city of Beijing, and now the regiment that has captured the city of Beijing, The two regiments are at the same level, which makes it difficult to unify the command, if it is in the war, it is not a big problem, Bi Jing has its own tactical goals, each according to its own goals to complete, the command headquarters to carry out remote command on the line, but now the large-scale war is basically over, the People's Army has been stationed in Beijing, which requires a unified command and dispatch, so the two decided to negotiate and decide, the first to take a helicopter to Beijing, presiding over the overall situation, and Zhu Yaping stayed at the Tongzhou Railway Station to organize the corresponding personnel, The army marched into Beijing on foot. It is expected to arrive in Beijing at 11-12 noon.

As soon as the helicopter got off the helicopter, the two regimental headquarters were immediately summoned for a meeting, and after a preliminary understanding of the current situation in Beijing, they immediately adjusted the defense areas previously demarcated by the first and second regiments.

Although the People's Army currently has only more than 7,000 people, and it is not enough to control the city of Beijing, it is still more than enough to control the central axis, and now the Eight-Nation Coalition Army is basically unable to launch an offensive against the People's Army, so the People's Army can at least set aside a certain amount of mobile troops, and can even try to launch an attack on the Eight-Nation Alliance Army that is still stationed at other city gates.

After consultations with the two regimental headquarters, it was decided that the distribution of the defense area should be adjusted to a certain extent: the first regiment and the second battalion were responsible for garrisoning Zuo'anmen, Yongdingmen, and You'anmen in the southern city of Beijing; the first regiment and the second battalion were responsible for garrisoning Dongjiaomin Lane; the first battalion of the second regiment was responsible for garrisoning Deshengmen and Andingmen in the north of Beijing; and the third battalion of the second regiment assigned a company to garrison Xuanwumen and Zhengyangmen in the inner city of Beijing. The artillery battalions of the two regiments and the regimental headquarters of the two regiments are stationed at the Imperial Palace in Beijing, so that the first battalion of the first regiment and the second battalion of the second regiment can be used as mobile forces, and when the reinforcements arrive, the People's Army will have four battalions of mobile troops, which will be enough to gradually clean up the Eight-Nation Coalition forces in Beijing.

After adjusting the defense areas of each unit, *** ordered that all troops could take turns to rest, after all, after nearly three hours of fighting, the soldiers were also very tired. In addition, there were a large number of wounded soldiers, and *** ordered that the Wenhua Hall be set up as a temporary field hospital to accommodate and treat wounded soldiers. Because the location of the Wenhua Hall is large enough, and the damage is minimal, and then the reinforcements enter Beijing, there is also a medical team, which will properly treat the wounded soldiers.

As for the captives of the Eight-Nation Alliance, *** ordered them to be taken to the walls of the imperial city, and classified by nationality, they were concentrated on different sections of the city walls. Because the space on the city wall was small, the room for movement was limited, and the KPA occupied the towers and towers, so as long as the steps under the city wall were blocked, there was no fear of the captives making trouble.

After dealing with these things, he sent some reconnaissance personnel, put on the clothes of ordinary people, and went to various places in Beijing to reconnoiter the situation, focusing on the situation at each city gate, so as to find out the whereabouts of the remaining troops of the Eight-Nation Alliance.

By this time, the aftermath of the incident in Beijing had basically come to an end, and the People's Army was free to clean up the palace. Although the battle is distributed on the central axis of Beijing, but the main battlefield is in the Imperial Palace, the casualties of the Eight-Nation Coalition Army are extremely large, and when the People's Army just occupied the Imperial Palace, almost everywhere are the corpses of the killed Eight-Nation Coalition soldiers, but the People's Army has not been empty of the battlefield, so it is only a simple cleansing, the dead crossing soldiers, the remains of the People's Army soldiers are contained in a palace for placement, and the corpses of the Eight-Nation Coalition soldiers can only be moved to the side first, the field is vacated. And there are also a large number of scattered guns.

Now that the things that should be dealt with are almost dealt with, it is time to clean up the palace, and the results of the battle should be counted. At this time, Yu Maolin, the captain of the special forces, said: "Qin Zhi, when we attacked the Internal Affairs Mansion again, we found that there were many eunuchs and palace maids living in it, not a thousand people, but also seven or eight hundred people, anyway, this group of people is idle, it is better to release them and help us clean up the palace, there are many people to work." ”

Hearing Yu Maolin say this, Qiu Yahui also said: "Yes, there are many eunuchs living in each palace, and there are also a large number of eunuchs and palace maids living behind the palace. And they are more familiar with the structure of the palace than we are, and they are easier to clean up. ”

After thinking about it, I also think that this suggestion is good, let the eunuchs and palace maids do more work, so that the soldiers can rest for a while, and after the reinforcements arrive in Beijing for a while, there will be a battle, so it is necessary to conserve physical strength. And anyway, the eunuchs and palace maids were also working people in the palace, so it was nothing to ask them to help clean up the palace.

So the People's Army immediately found out all the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace and gathered in the square in front of the Taihe Palace, and *** was also shocked when he saw it, it turned out that the eunuchs and palace maids added up to at least 2,000 people, and almost the entire square in front of the Taihe Palace was occupied. In fact, this is due to the fact that the Eight-Nation Coalition captured Beijing and fled part, otherwise the number would be even higher.

Only then did I remember that although the number of eunuchs in the Qing Dynasty was far less than that of the Ming Dynasty, there were thousands of people, in the old time and space, when the last emperor Puyi disbanded the eunuchs in the palace, there were almost more than 1,000 people, which was still at the end of the Qing court, and in normal times, the eunuchs in the palace of the Chun Dynasty were about 2000-3000 people, of course, these eunuchs did not all live in the palace, but some lived outside the palace, such as the Old Summer Palace, Chengde Villa, Huangzhuang and other places, and the palace generally maintains about 1,500 eunuchs, and the number of palace maids is about the same.