After receiving the order from the headquarters, Qin Yuhai immediately set off with his battalion and another marine company and headed in the direction of Tianjin City. After more than an hour's march, the whole army rushed to the city of Tianjin.

At this time, the city of Tianjin had been completely controlled by the crossing army, and the battlefield had been cleaned. In fact, the scale of the battle in Tianjin City was not large, the Japanese army defending the city was only more than 200 people, and the army that came to reinforce in the middle was only 400 people, and the crossing army, plus the follow-up army was less than 300 people, it can be said that this was a very small battle.

After the battle, the corpses of 137 Japanese soldiers and 5 Russian soldiers were found in the city of Tianjin, and 26 prisoners were captured.

In the battle outside the city, the crossing army killed a total of 177 enemy soldiers, including people from all countries, captured 38 people, and captured a total of 181 rifles of various kinds and more than 4,000 rounds of ammunition inside and outside the city.

However, there were also nine people killed in the crossing army, five of whom died in the blocking battle outside the city, and the remaining four died in the battle to attack the city of Tianjin. But there were not a single casualty among the reserves, for by the time the reserves arrived, the hardest battles had already ended. Twenty-seven other fighters were wounded, but fortunately none of them were seriously wounded.

After Qin Yuhai entered the city, Qiu Yahui immediately handed over to Qin Yuhai and handed over the command of the army to Qin Yuhai. and reported to Qin Yuhai the course of yesterday's battle. And Qin Yuhai also conveyed the order of the command to Qiu Yahui, and the next step was to attack the Tianjin Concession.

At this time, it was almost six o'clock in the morning, and the sky had brightened slightly, but although the city of Tianjin had returned to calm, every household was still closed, and the main four main streets were deserted and empty, and it was obvious that the residents of the city were frightened by the battle just now and did not dare to go out.

At this moment, a soldier came to report to Qin Yuhai, and according to the prisoner's confession, he found the warehouse of the Eight-Nation Alliance in Tianjin, and found a large amount of food, supplies, silver, guns, bullets, and so on.

Because the order from the command had not yet come at this time, and it was idle anyway, Qin Yuhai and Qiu Yahui and the others rushed to the warehouse together to see what they had found.

The warehouse was actually a large mansion, and in the middle of the lobby, it was neatly filled with sacks, and it almost reached the roof, except for a passage more than a meter wide on each side. Qin Yuhai pinched a sack, which should contain grain such as rice, and the sack was printed with Japanese, which was obviously the material of the army.

Liu Qinglin, the platoon commander who found this warehouse, said: "Battalion commander, we have counted, there are more than 3,000 tons of rice in the two halls, and in that room, there are 500 tons of flour, as well as some spices and wine. ”

Qin Yuhai nodded and said, "Very good, more than three thousand tons of grain, enough for us to use for a long time, and what about rifles and silver?"

Liu Qinglin said: "Over here." As he spoke, he led Qin Yuhai and Qiu Yahui to another room, which was presented with long wooden boxes, each of which was about 1.5 meters long and 0.4 meters wide and high, two of which had been opened, and there were a lot of hay stuffed inside, and in the hay package, it was a Japanese-made 30-style Murata rifle, each rifle was also equipped with a bayonet and fifty rounds of ammunition.

Qin Yuhai took out a rifle from the wooden box, checked it in his hand, and said, "Count it clearly, how many rifles there are in total." ”

Liu Qinglin said: "There are about 3,000 pieces, and there are about 1 million rounds of bombs, as well as more than 2,000 sets of various accessories. In the next room, there were thousands of other rifle shells. Is the inscription on the gun a Type 88 rifle, or a Chinese character, I don't know what kind of rifle. ”

Qin Yuhai put the rifle back in the box, and said with a smile: "Type 88 rifle, isn't that the famous Hanyang-made?" This batch of rifles was probably captured by the Eight-Nation Alliance! Okay, this is a big fortune, and it will be easy to do it with food and guns. ”

It turned out that these grains and rifles had just been shipped from Japan not long ago, and according to the original plan, they would be shipped to Beijing in a few days, because Japan was the main logistical supplier of the Eight-Nation Allied Army, and the basic food of the Eight-Nation Army was supplied by Japan, and the number of Japanese troops in the Eight-Nation Allied Army was about 23,000 people, and they also needed a considerable number of rifles and accessories.

The silver utensils and other items were looted by the Japanese army in China, and the materials looted by other countries were placed in their own concessions, but the Japanese concessions in Tianjin were relatively late, and they did not operate seriously, and now they do not even have a serious consulate, and after the Eight-Nation Coalition attacked Beijing, the city of Tianjin was handed over to the Japanese army to guard, so the Japanese army put the looted materials in the city of Tianjin, and some of them have been transported back to their own country.

Qin Yuhai was about to go to see the looted property of the Japanese army again, but at this moment the order of the command came, requiring Qin Yuhai to immediately send troops to attack the Tianjin concession, and set four principles for Qin Yuhai: first, before the attack, first send a letter of persuasion to the concession, the content of which has been drawn up by the headquarters, divided into Chinese, British and French languages, and now it has been transmitted to the helicopter, if the concession refuses to surrender, then launch an attack; second, try not to destroy the public facilities, factories, docks, Third, the resistance forces in the concession should be severely cracked down, but it is strictly forbidden to harm any unarmed personnel, and the freedom of the unarmed personnel may be imprisoned and restricted, but the living conditions, diet, and medical care of the unarmed personnel must be guaranteed, and the women, the elderly, and children should be treated as well as possible. Private houses are forbidden, and when the Provisional Executive Committee sends people to receive inspections, and when it is necessary to use private houses, the personal belongings in the houses should be cleaned up first, and they must not be used or damaged without permission, so as to maintain the fine style of our army.

In addition, the headquarters also reminded Qin Yuhai that some of the defeated Yue troops on the battlefield of Dagukou were likely to flee to the concession, so they could not underestimate the resistance of the concession, and when attacking the concession, they could not ignore the guards of Tianjin City to prevent a sneak attack by the Yue army. And maintain the order of Tianjin, appease the people, and do a good job in mass work.

After receiving the order from the headquarters, Qin Yuhai naturally had no intention of looking any further, and immediately ordered to gather troops and recruit the commanders of each company.

After a brief explanation, Qin Yuhai ordered Qiu Yahui's company and the reserve team to stay and guard Tianjin City, and leave a machine gun platoon and a mortar platoon, such strength is of course enough to hold Tianjin City. Of course, they also have another task, that is, to appease the people's minds and do a good job in mass work. He led the remaining three marine companies, a machine gun company, a mortar company, and two warrior vehicles, with a total strength of nearly 400 men, to attack the concession area.

The reason why Qin Yuhai left Qiu Yahui's company but brought another company that was not from the base battalion with him was because Qiu Yahui's company was very tired and needed to rest after repeated battles, and on the other hand, the combat effectiveness of this company that was not based on the base battalion was extremely strong, and it was also brought by Luo Yue's knife platoon, because the battle in front had already proved the combat effectiveness of the knife platoon, and no commander would give up such a unit.

The sky had gradually brightened, and Qin Yuhai led the army out of the city from the south gate of Tianxian and marched towards the concession area.

After the army left, Tianjin City was still deserted, and Qiu Yahui was also a little depressed, this person didn't come out, how could he appease people's hearts?

According to the records of a reporter accompanying the army, after the invasion of Tianjin, the Eight-Nation Coalition even set up machine guns on the bell and drum tower to wantonly kill and poke civilians, and almost every street around the bell and drum tower was covered with the corpses of civilians, and half of the houses in the city were burned down. After the end of the war, the corpses in Tianjin were cleaned up, and they were not cleaned for three days.

Subsequently, the Eight-Nation Coalition launched a large-scale hunt and killing of the Boxers inside and outside Tianjin. In addition to the revelations of the gentry and merchants, the basis for judging whether it was a Boxer Rebellion was: young men and unmarried daughters, with traces of carrying guns on their shoulders, wearing red clothes, even angry expressions on their faces, walking alone and looking hurried, in short, all Chinese with suspicious signs. And as long as a suspected Boxer is caught, his entire family or the family where he is hiding will be sentenced to death.

Countless Chinese were arrested and beheaded, and as many as 66 people were called the leaders of the Boxer Rebellion, including Tan Wenhuan, the Tianjin Daotai of the Qing court. The hometown of Duliu Town, one of the supreme leaders of the Boxers, was surrounded by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and no one in the town, young or old, was spared.

It is impossible to count the number of civilians killed by the Eight-Nation Coalition in Tianjin, but some people later estimated that it was about 300,000.

In addition to the killing and poke, it was robbery, and the Tianjin Provincial Bureau, the Government Office, the County Office, the Yandao Yamen, the silver treasury of the Zhili Governor's Yamen, the Tianjin Mint, the Tianjin Machinery Bureau, and all the factories, enterprises, and shops were all looted by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and the looted property was incalculable, estimated to be worth no less than 30 million taels of silver. In addition, more than 300 artillery pieces of various kinds, 30,000 rifles, and a large quantity of ammunition were seized from the arsenal near Tianjin, with a total value of about 2.5 million pounds. At that time, one pound was worth about six kuku, two stripes of silver.

There was a fierce battle last night, and the remaining residents of Tianjin did not know what had happened, that it was the army there, so they all hid in their homes and falsely accused, hoping to avoid this catastrophe again, and they dared to go out again.

At this time, Fang Bin came to Qiu Yahui and suggested to Qiu Yahui that he should find all the Tianjin soldiers from the army, or they could speak Tianjin, shout on the streets, and use the local accent to eliminate the panic of the residents, and let them come out of the house first.

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