Although at the military conference, Britain, the United States, and Japan jointly vetoed Russia's opinion and decided to hold their troops still, the Russians have never honestly respected the rules, so the commander of the Russian army, Lieutenant General Linnevich, decided to abandon Britain, the United States and Japan, and lead the Russian army alone.

This kind of thing of leaving other countries aside and doing it alone has been common since the founding of the Eight-Nation Alliance. After all, the Eight-Nation Coalition is only the product of the conflict of interests of various countries, but it is the product of mutual containment and balance, there is no unified command arrangement, and even the commander in name is not in the army.

As a result, whenever a country considers that the decisions of the Provisional Staff are not in its own interests, it will ignore the decisions of the Provisional Staff and take action that it considers to be in its national interests.

The military plans drawn up by Yu were repeatedly interrupted, resulting in very chaotic movements of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and there were even several incidents of accidental injury to friendly troops. If it weren't for the fact that the Qing court was too corrupt and incompetent at this time, it would not have been beaten by such a rabble, and even the capital would have been lost.

Now Lieutenant General Linnevich decided that the decision of the coalition forces was clearly not in the interests of the Russians, so it was natural for him to decide to act in the interests of Russia and go it alone.

At this time, the total number of Russian troops stationed in Yangcun was 6,600, including 4,500 combat personnel, including 300 cavalry, more than 200 artillery pieces, and 19 artillery pieces of various kinds; Linnevich believes that such a force is completely sufficient, because according to the news from Tianjin, the army of this group of overseas Chinese is about 1,500 people, but it is impossible to deploy all of them in Tianjin, and there must be a part of the troops stationed at Dagukou, according to Linnevich's estimate, Tianjin's troops should be about 1,000 people, so the strength of the Russian army is absolutely enough to do it alone.

However, this group of overseas Chinese captured the city of Tianjin with the same force, and the number of Japanese soldiers stationed in Tianjin at that time was also 5,000, and the strength was not much worse than that of the Russian army, but it was ignored by Linevich, of course, even if someone mentioned it to Linevich, Linnevich would not care, because in his opinion, overseas Chinese and Japanese are both yellow-skinned monkeys, how can they be the opponents of the fighting nation?

So after the meeting, Linnevich immediately returned to the Russian garrison and ordered the entire Russian army to march and launch an attack on Tianjin.

Soon, the Russians' solitary action reached the armies of Britain, the United States, and Japan, and the three countries were naturally very annoyed by the Russians' actions, and immediately began urgent consultations, and decided to gather forces at once and prepare for the operation.

It turns out that there are many things to do on their own and the coalition forces have enough experience in dealing with other countries, and the general way to deal with it is to gather troops and then observe the development of the situation. If the battle situation is favorable to oneself, then immediately enter the war and catch up to compete for the results, and the situation of the war is unfavorable to oneself, and will not sit idly by, and will come to the rescue at the right time, because after all, it is still the allied army, and if the losses are too great, the overall interests of the coalition army will also be damaged, or when the two sides are defeated, other countries will rush to pick it up. Anyway, that's how it came along the way, so the three kingdoms were annoyed, but they also immediately began to arrange actions.

At this time, the crossing army had already set up a defensive line in Beicang, about 6 kilometers away from Tianjin City. Beicang has been incorporated into Beichen District in the north of Tianjin city in the old time and space, and was originally a small town on the north bank of the Tianjin-Beijing section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, with a length of about 600 meters from north to south and a width of about 300 meters from east to west, with more than 2,000 residents.

In the past, when there was Cao Yun, Beicang was a large grain storage station on the Cao Yun line, and now although the Cao Yun was canceled and the sea was changed, the materials could only be transported to Tianjin by sea, and then transferred from Tianjin to Beijing, or to take a section of the canal. Therefore, Beicang was still an important node on the canal, and at the same time, as the Qing court paid more attention to coastal defense, an arsenal was set up in Beicang to supply the garrison of Tianjin. However, now the residents of Beicang have basically run out, and the grain depot and arsenal have also been looted by the Eight-Nation Alliance, leaving only an empty town.

The army commanders Zhu Yaping and Qin Yuhai who crossed the group set up their headquarters in Beicang Town, and the defense line was centered on Beicang Town, which was divided into east and west lines, and the two marine battalions each guarded the first line, but only two marine companies and two machine gun platoons were arranged on each line, and the remaining one marine company and one machine gun platoon were used as reserve forces. The three new military camps that had just formed the army for only a dozen days were also pulled to Beicang, on the one hand, to do some logistical support work, and on the other hand, to let them feel the atmosphere of the battlefield, so as to speed up the growth of new recruits. The security and garrison work in Tianjin was entrusted to the new fire support battalion and the newly established Ministry of Public Security.

Due to the relatively sufficient preparation time and the fact that there were sufficient human resources, the fortifications in Beicang were built very well, and all kinds of tunnels, trenches, hidden bunkers, field reserves, and even bunkers for amphibious combat vehicles to hide were very complete, just waiting for the Eight-Nation Alliance to attack.

Beicang and Yangzhuang are about 16 kilometers apart, so after the Russian army opened, it only took more than half an hour to reach about 5 kilometers of Beicang, Linnevich set up the headquarters of the Russian army in the woods on a nearby hill, while the other Russian troops were arranged in the woods near the hill.

Although Linnevich is earnest, he is not a reckless person, and he also knows that this group of overseas Chinese is not incompetent, comparable to the Qing court, although they both belong to the yellow-skinned monkeys, but the yellow-skinned monkeys are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, the Qing court undoubtedly belongs to the lowest level, and the Japanese, as well as this group of overseas Chinese, belong to the strong monkeys in the yellow-skinned monkeys, but no matter how strong the monkeys are, they are also monkeys, of course, they cannot be compared with the noble fighting nation.

Linnevich was naturally convinced of this, but the Slavic people still had to be careful with the strong monkeys among the monkeys, so Linnevich first sent three teams of scouts, each team of seven people, to reconnoiter the layout of the opponent's defense line and provide reference elements for artillery shooting. Although you can see with a telescope that the opponent has already built fortifications, you can't see the layout of the opponent's defensive forces, first, the telescope's field of view is too small to see the overall situation, and second, the opponent's army can hide in the fortifications and will not let you see clearly.

But less than ten minutes after the three teams of scouts left, they heard a rapid burst of gunfire coming from the direction of the opposing position. Linevich was not surprised, it was common for scouts and patrols on both sides to meet and exchange fire on the battlefield, and Linnevich was also a long-time battle-hardened person, so he naturally would not make a fuss.

The gunfire stopped for only a few minutes before calming again, and Linnevich was optimistic that the Russians must have the upper hand in this skirmish, because judging by the gunfire, most of the gunfire was fired by Russian Mosingana M1891 rifles. In this era, the Mosingana M1891 rifle has a more distinctive sound, very crisp, and has a nickname in China "Water Lianzhu", so it is very easy to listen to.

But after a while, the three teams of scouts returned, leaving three teams of 21 people, and only 11 people remained, and 7 people were wounded. When Lynevich asked them about the encounter, the answer was that the Russian scouts had not found the enemy, but only heard a gunshot, and some of their companions were shot dead or wounded. Although the other Scouts immediately raised their guns and fired at them, there was little use for them, and the Scouts did not notice any enemies being hit, but the bullets fired at themselves continued to come from all directions, and as a result, their companions were constantly hit. The other scouts saw that the situation was not good, and immediately withdrew, and the layout of the opponent's defense line was naturally not clear at all.

After listening to the scout's report, Linevich's heart couldn't help but cast a shadow, although it is said that preventing the enemy's reconnaissance is also a common thing on the European battlefield, but it is generally the two sides to exchange fire in close quarters, and like this, you can't see each other's firefights at all, it seems that there has never been, because in this era, there is no concept of sniper tactics, and the Russian army of course cannot know that in front of the snipers who cross the army, it is impossible for the Russian scouts to hide.

However, since reconnaissance is useless, it can only use the offensive to test the enemy's defensive line, but the losses in this way are too great, and the troops who try to attack often suffer huge losses. In fact, Linevich really didn't care about the casualties of the Russian soldiers, because in Russia, ordinary soldiers are called gray cattle, and it is not a pity to have as many as they want, and it is not a pity to die as many as they want, but at the same time that all countries are increasing their troops to China, Russia's troops in the Far East are insufficient, and if there are large casualties on the battlefield, it is obviously not conducive to competing with other countries for interests in China in the future, so Linevich has some hesitation.

But now there is no other way, because they do not know the layout of the opponent's defensive line, and they cannot bombard the enemy's positions with artillery, so they can only bear such sacrifices. So Linevich immediately mobilized a thousand troops and launched an attack on the opponent's defensive positions.

After the Russian army attacked, Linnevich immediately picked up a binoculars he bought with a lot of money on the hill to observe the movements of the enemy, but he observed several places in a row, the opponent's position was quiet and there was no movement, and the Russian army gradually approached the opponent's defense line, but did not encounter the opponent's artillery attack on the way.

Linnevich was a little surprised, this group of yellow-skinned monkeys has some skills, and they are really calm. Because at this time, using artillery bombardment will expose the position of their artillery positions and attract the opponent's artillery strikes, which also shows that this group of yellow-skinned monkeys still knows a little about using soldiers. It also shows that they have enough confidence in their own defense line and can do without artillery.

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