Dinghui Temple covers an area of more than 180 acres, with the People's Army only more than 800 troops, it is certainly impossible to surround Dinghui Temple. However, there is no need for the People's Army to surround Dinghui Temple, just use it to replace the surface and use firepower to blockade it.

The establishment of special forces is different from that of regular forces, and is divided into three levels: squads, squadrons, and brigades, and progresses according to the three-three system. The squad has 16 soldiers, divided into 4 groups, 1 machine gun group, 1 mortar group, and 2 combat groups, each group is 4 fighters, such an organization is to ensure that each squad has enough firepower to fight independently.

Although this kind of establishment somewhat weakens the individual firepower of the squad in mobile combat, after all, the combat group is only half of the personnel, but because it is equipped with a new type of firearm newly developed by the East China government, the Type 08 Rush Gun, it can completely make up for this shortcoming.

After completing all the supporting systems for the production of firearms and manufacturing the Type 01 rifle family, the East China government began to develop a repeated-fire rifle to increase the firepower of individual combat. Originally, it was hoped to develop an assault rifle based on the famous AK-47 rifle in the old time and space, but after nearly 3 years of research and development, although hundreds of prototype guns were manufactured, due to the level of materials and craftsmanship in this era, the manufacturing cost of assault rifles was high and it was difficult to produce them on a large scale, so it was changed to develop a punch gun.

In the old time and space, the emergence of the Punch Rifle was indeed better than the assault rifle, the first Punch Rifle was designed and invented by the Italian officer Leveri in 1914, called the Vera Perosa Punch Rifle, with a double-barreled design, a theoretical rate of fire of up to 3,000 rounds per minute, and a 9mm pistol cartridge. Originally intended as an ultralight machine gun, it could closely follow infantry charges and provide them with supporting fire in a timely manner. However, although the gun had a high rate of fire, its accuracy was too poor, and it was relatively bulky, so it was very unpopular with the soldiers.

It is recognized that the world's first actual combat punch * front gun is the MP18 punch * front gun designed by the German Schmeiser in 1918, made in Germany with pure blood.

Originally, in the later stage of World War I, in order to break the situation of trench warfare, Germany developed a type of melee weapon with fierce firepower and high rate of fire. Due to the simple structure and easy production of the MP18 Punch Gun, after it entered China, there were a large number of imitations in arsenals all over China, and it was well received and loved by various warlord forces, and also won the common name of a "flower mechanism".

Of course, there is not much difference between the assault rifle and the assault rifle in nature, they are both firearms that can be fired continuously, and the internal structure is similar, in the old time and space, the early days of New China once called the guns that can shoot continuously as the punch * front gun, so the imitation AK-47 rifle was named the 56 type punch * front gun. The difference between the two is that the assault rifle basically uses pistol bullets, the diameter of the bullet is large, the firepower is fierce, the barrel is short, the firing range is short, and the shooting accuracy is poor; the assault rifle uses small and medium-sized bullets, and the firing range is medium and long, and the shooting accuracy is relatively high; in addition, the punch rifle is shorter and easier to carry than the assault rifle. Therefore, with the level of materials and technology in this era, it is more realistic to develop the punch gun room.

The Type 08 Charge * Fronter Gun was finalized in March 1908 and adopted the Movable Gun * The butt is 62 cm long and weighs 4.5 kg, and the butt is 86 cm long, weighs 5.2 kg, with a 30-round magazine, and the theoretical rate of fire is 500 rounds per minute, and after testing, the actual rate of fire is between 150-180 rounds per minute, which is quite impressive in this era, but the range is only 200 meters, in this era when the range of rifles is generally above 500 meters, not to mention the latest Japanese 38 rifle, the range is 800 meters, so this is the 08 type rush* The biggest shortcoming of the blade gun.

However, the firing range of the charge * sharp gun is smaller than that of the rifle, and in most wars, the best combat distance of the rifle is within 300 meters, beyond this distance, the accuracy of the rifle in this era is not enough, and it can only be made up by dense firepower, which is not as reliable as using machine guns or even artillery.

The special forces will not participate in large-scale battles, mainly for small battles, and the combat environment is more complex, so after the Type 08 Punch * Frontal Gun is finalized, the first thing to equip is the special forces, a squad is equipped with 6 Type 08 Punch Guns, machine gun groups, mortar groups are equipped with 1 each, and 2 combat groups are equipped with 2 each, so in a battle within 200 meters, a Punch * Frontal Gun can fight against 4-5 bolt rifles, and the firepower of the special forces is completely sufficient. And the People's Army can blockade Dinghui Temple with pure firepower.

Of course, although the area of the temple is large enough, Cixi and Guangxu are only resting, and in order to show respect for the gods and Buddhas, they only brought more than 300 guards, eunuchs, and palace maids into the temple, while other soldiers, guards, and vehicles stayed outside the temple. However, the Qing army was still professional, and soldiers were stationed at each temple gate.

And this also provides convenience for the blockade of the People's Army, because the temple gate is an important node to block the temple, after all, the courtyard wall of the temple itself can also be regarded as a kind of blockade belt, so only the temple gate is used as an important node, and other nodes are distributed between the important nodes, which also completes the fire blockade of the temple. So Yang Rui gave the order and began to attack.

The first was to use mortars and machine guns to attack the Qing army in front of the gate of Dinghui Temple, as well as the chariots and horses. And the sudden cannonball fell into the army, and the Qing army suddenly became in chaos.

The army that defended Cixi and Guangxu was the Praetorian Guard, and it was also formed according to the establishment and training of the new army when the Qing court was training the new army, and the weapons assembled were the same as those of the Beiyang New Army. However, the source of the Praetorian Guard soldiers is the children of the Eight Banners, the children of the clan magnates, and the generals of the unified army are all royal clans, after all, the Praetorian Guard is the army responsible for defending the royal family, so they naturally need reliable people. But the children of the Eight Banners, the children of the powerful clans, are definitely not as easy to manage as ordinary people, so the usual training is naturally greatly discounted, and these people have not experienced the experience of the battlefield, and they have not even fought low-difficulty wars such as bandits and exterminations, so it can be said that they are completely a group of rookies. When they were blown up by a shell, they were naturally panicked.

However, the loyalty and concentration of the Praetorian Guards to the Qing court were indeed stronger than those of ordinary troops, so after being hit by shells, most of the soldiers ran to the temple, and the Empress Dowager Bi Jing and the emperor were still in the temple, and only a few soldiers scattered and fled, but soon they were blocked by the fire of the People's Army, most of them were wounded and killed, and the rest of the people finally fled into the temple.

And several accompanying ministers were also frightened, Prince Qing Yixuan was originally mediocre, and would only blindly welcome Cixi, Prince Zaifeng was still young, and did not experience any big storms, Dai Hongci was an old bureaucrat, but he was a civil official, did not understand military affairs, at this time he was naturally helpless, only Yinchang still had some military talent, so he commanded the army to deploy in the temple, relying on the temple wall to resist the attack of the People's Army.

Although the power of the 60 mortars was not strong, after all, the courtyard wall of the temple was not a professional fortification, so it could not withstand the bombardment of the shells; and some Qing soldiers who climbed the temple wall to resist were also hit by the fierce fire of the people's army, and they were either shot and killed, or they hid under the wall and did not dare to show their heads.

Seeing that the temple wall had been blown open, the KPA also stopped shelling, and the assault soldiers launched an attack on the temple under the cover of machine gun fire. Moreover, the firepower of the People's Army was very fierce, even in the attack, the firepower was still uninterrupted, so the Qing army was completely suppressed by the firepower of the People's Army, and as a result, the People's Army gradually assaulted into the courtyard wall of Dinghui Temple, and launched a fierce exchange of fire with the Qing soldiers who resisted in the courtyard.

The original quality of the Qing soldiers was poor, and they lacked actual combat experience, and many soldiers made the mistake of pulling the gun and not moving, and the ammunition could not be inserted; and the firepower of the People's Army was too fierce, because it was the Type 08 Rush * Rifle that was used for the first time in battle, and it did play the effect of a miniature machine gun, although the accuracy was insufficient, but as soon as the fire was fired, it was a barrage, which could completely make up for the shortcomings of the lack of accuracy, and the Qing soldiers were beaten to countless wounds and deaths, and could not resist, so they could only retreat to the rooms or the backyard of the temple to hide. Of course, there were a small number of people who escaped from the monastery over the wall, but they were immediately hit by the fire of the People's Army, and no one could escape.

In fact, the people's army's firepower interception is not very tight, and from a professional point of view, it is even a little weak, if the Qing army can gather a group of people and disperse and flee without hesitation, although the losses will not be small, there are still a considerable number of people who can escape. However, the Qing soldiers lacked actual combat experience and could not see the weakness of the KPA's firepower interception; second, they also lacked the determination to go out, so after discovering that there was a KPA fire interception outside the temple, and those who had fled in the early stage were all killed, no one tried to escape outside the temple again

On the one hand, the People's Army opened the gates of the temple so that more KPA soldiers could come in and increase their strength; on the other hand, they also arranged several firepower points in the temple to firmly defend the results of the war. Then he began to clear the remnants of the Qing soldiers house by house, and at the same time, he was also searching for the traces of Cixi and Guangxu.

The KPA were well-trained, and they were very skilled and professional in their small tactics of cleaning rooms, either by throwing a hand-left bullet through the window, or by slamming the door open, they would first fire into the house with a rifle before entering the house to check the results.

When Yang Rui entered Dinghui Temple, the People's Army had cleaned up more than 10 houses, and there were indeed Qing soldiers in several of them, but they were either dead or wounded, and some Qing soldiers in the houses took the initiative to surrender, but they had not yet found Cixi and Guangxu.

Yang Rui was still very calm on the surface, but he was also a little anxious in his heart, because he had just received a report that the Qing army stationed in the Summer Palace had already set off in the whole team, and they would be able to reach Dinghui Temple in one hour at most, so there was not much time left for him.