Just when the battle at Yongdingmen was raging, the 1st and 3rd Battalions also launched attacks on Zuo'anmen and You'anmen. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The battalion commanded by Luo Yue was responsible for attacking Zuo'anmen, which was one of the city gates garrisoned by the Japanese army, and the defenders were about 800 people, but when the first battalion launched an attack on Zuo'anmen, most of the Japanese troops were transferred to support Yongdingmen, and the Japanese troops who stayed in Zuo'anmen were only guarded by more than 100 troops.

In fact, in the final analysis, it is because the number of troops of the Eight-Nation Alliance is too small to defend the walls of Beijing at all, and it is useless to deploy them.

Luo Yue first ordered the battalion's firepower reinforcement company to fire on the tower to suppress the defenders on the tower, and ordered the battalion's company to take 8 siege ladders and detour from the left side to the city wall about 500 meters away from Zuo'anmen to kick the city.

Although Luo Yue did not know at this time that most of the defenders guarding Zuo'anmen had been transferred to reinforce Yongdingmen, considering that the total strength of the Eight-Nation Alliance was limited, it was impossible for the strength of the Zuo'anmen to exceed 1,000 people, so going around to a place 500 meters away from the city tower should be the limit of the enemy's range.

Sure enough, when the first company came to a place about 500 meters away from the Zuo'anmen city tower, it was dark and cold, and the first company approached the city wall and erected the siege ladder to the city wall, and there was no movement at all.

Originally, although the Eight-Nation Alliance was short of troops, it still arranged a lot of outposts on the city wall, and regularly sent patrols to patrol the city wall. However, due to the large number of troops drawn from Zuo'anmen to reinforce Yong'anmen, all the outposts distributed on the city wall were also removed, and the frequency of patrols was also reduced, which was also a helpless move. Moreover, at this time, the fire reinforcement company of the first battalion was firing at Zuo'anmen, and there was no time to worry about going to other places.

Of course, the first company will not care about these things, if there is movement, it will attack the city, and if there is no movement, it will attack the city, so the company commander of the first company, Ban Xiaowei, immediately ordered to start attacking the city. The three squads of the first company and the second platoon in charge of the assault climbed to the city wall of Beijing through eight siege ladders.

Due to the special ladder climbing training at the Tongzhou Railway Station, the soldiers of the second platoon climbed the ladder very quickly, and it only took more than ten seconds for Li Zhuangyong, the leader of the third squad, to be the first to climb the city wall of Beijing. Li Zhuangyong's heart was also quite excited, he was beaten by the Eight-Nation Alliance and fled Beijing, and now he has finally returned to Beijing.

However, Li Zhuangyong did not forget his mission, and after the whole class of soldiers climbed the city wall, he immediately led the whole class of soldiers to guard on the city wall and cover other troops to climb the city wall.

Time was not up, all the soldiers of the company climbed the city wall of Beijing, and they were not hindered at all, and Ban Xiaowei looked at the city wall with night vision goggles, at least within the eye range, there was no trace of a single guard, and the gunfire on the side of the city tower could still be heard very clearly.

Ban Xiaowei immediately informed Luo Yue of the results of the landing through the walkie-talkie, and Luo Yue immediately ordered the first company to immediately attack Zuo'anmen, and at the same time ordered the third company to attack, and also took 8 siege ladders to climb the wall from about 200 meters to the right side of Zuo'anmen.

After receiving Luo Yue's order, Ban Xiaowei immediately ordered to lead the soldiers of the whole company to break through to Zuo'anmen from the city wall. And the unit responsible for the front of the attack is still the second platoon.

The width of the ground on the city wall is about 10 meters, and it is very flat, and it does not take much time to get close to the position of the tower of Zuo'anmen Gate in less than 500 meters. Since the castle tower was lit with torches, it could be seen very clearly, and many of the guards hid under the battlements, not daring to raise their heads. However, at this time, the attention of the defenders on the tower was focused on suppressing the fire outside the city, and no one noticed that the enemy had climbed the tower and approached their flank.

Communicating with the walkie-talkie, Luo Yue knew the progress of the first company at the first time, and also knew that the third company had also climbed the city wall, so Luo Yue also ordered to stop shooting, and ordered the second company guarding the position to attack Zuo'anmen.

And the defenders did not understand what was going on, how suddenly the enemy fire stopped. But at this moment, a burst of gunfire came from the left, and more than 10 Japanese soldiers were in a hurry to take precautions, and immediately fell to the ground, while the other Japanese soldiers were also immediately in confusion, and hurriedly turned their guns one after another, preparing to meet this sudden enemy army.

However, after a platoon of fire, the soldiers of the first company had already loaded their bayonets and launched a charge on the tower. The Japanese troops defending the city also had bayonets in hand, and both sides were ready to start a white-knuckle battle.

Li Zhuangyong held a rifle and rushed to the front along the steps, and when he was two or three steps away from climbing the tower, he was intercepted by a Japanese soldier. The other party held a gun in both hands, condescendingly, and stabbed at Li Zhuangyong. And Li Zhuangyong's figure was short, he dodged the bayonet, and the bayonet in his hand also stabbed out quickly to the feet of the Japanese soldier.

The soldiers also reacted quickly when they arrived, immediately raised their legs, dodged Li Zhuangyong's stab, immediately changed their moves to Li Zhuangyong, held a gun in one hand, and swept horizontally, the Japanese soldiers could no longer dodge, the bayonet cut a wound of more than 10 centimeters on the thigh knee, blood suddenly gushed out, and the whole person was so painful that he retreated backwards, Li Zhuangyong took advantage of the situation to step forward and climbed the city tower of Zuo'anmen.

At this time, two more Japanese soldiers caught up, and two bayonets, one on the left and one on the right, shot at Li Zhuangyong. And Li Zhuangyong roared violently, and the rifle in his hand pulled left and right to block the stabbing of the two Japanese soldiers, and at the same time, two soldiers had climbed the tower from Li Zhuangyong's left and right, each raised a rifle with a good bayonet, and stabbed at the two Japanese soldiers.

The two Japanese soldiers were caught off guard, one scrambled to dodge backwards, while the other was unable to dodge, was stabbed in the face, screamed, and fell to the ground.

Li Zhuangyong took advantage of the momentum and swung his stabbing power again and again, and rushed forward a few steps in a row, and behind him, more and more People's Army soldiers climbed the city wall and started a white-knuckle battle with the Japanese soldiers.

Although the Japanese army's bayonet skills were very powerful, first, the Japanese army was at a clear disadvantage in numbers; second, it was now caught off guard by the KPA; third, after the baptism of the previous war, coupled with the hard practice of the past three days, the bayonet skills of the soldiers of the first battalion had made marked progress, so after the two sides launched a bayonet white-edged battle, the Japanese army was obviously defeated and was forced to retreat again and again by the KPA.

At this time, the third company also killed from the right side of the city tower, the enemy on both sides, the Japanese army could not resist, and the two ends were blocked, there was no place to escape, and at the same time, the People's Army also divided a part of the soldiers to go down to the city wall, opened the city gate, and let the company that had rushed to the city gate enter the city, so that the first battalion successfully broke through the Zuo'an Gate.

However, the battle on the city tower is not over, although the Japanese army has no chance of victory, and there is no way to retreat, but the Japanese army's habit of not surrendering also determines that the Japanese army will inevitably continue to bear the guilt, in fact, even if the Japanese soldiers surrender at this time, the people's army will not accept it, because now the people's army has no energy to contain the prisoners, so the two sides fought on the city tower for a while, until all the Japanese soldiers were killed, and the battle of Zuo'anmen was all over.

Luo Yue entered Beijing with the battalion headquarters from the city gate, counting his casualties while reporting to the regiment headquarters the news of the successful occupation of Zuo'anmen.

According to the original plan, after the first battalion broke through Zuo'anmen, it should immediately rush to reinforce Yongdingmen, but the regimental headquarters quickly replied to the first battalion, asking them not to reinforce Yongdingmen, and leaving only one platoon of troops to guard Zuo'anmen, and then immediately go to seize Zhengyangmen, and attack in depth in the inner city of Beijing to reinforce the special forces in the palace.

It turned out that at this time in You'anmen, the three battalions of the first regiment also basically controlled the battle situation, and it would not take long to end the battle of You'anmen and reinforce Yongdingmen, and at the same time, the battle in Yongdingmen had also reached the time of closing the building, after the regiment headquarters ordered an attack on Yongdingmen, the soldiers of the second battalion had broken into the city gate, and were engaged in a fierce bayonet battle with the defenders.

The personnel of the regiment headquarters estimated that judging from the current situation, it would not be difficult to conquer Yongdingmen by relying only on the second and third battalions, so it would not be of great practical significance to let the first battalion reinforce Yongdingmen. And once the People's Army breaks through Yongding Gate, then the defeated army guarding Yongding Gate will definitely retreat to Zhengyangmen in the inner city of Beijing, so it is better to let the first battalion go to seize Zhengyangmen before breaking through Yongding Gate, so that after the regiment occupies Yongding Gate, it can also smoothly pass through Zhengyangmen and break into the inner city of Beijing.

At this time, Luo Yue made a simple inventory of the whole battalion, and in the battle to capture Zuo'anmen, the first battalion lost 26 soldiers and another 12 were wounded. After receiving the order from the regimental headquarters, Luo Yue left a platoon and all the wounded soldiers to guard Zuo'anmen, and led the other troops and the siege ladder to break into the city. Entering Zuo'anmen, it is the Xiannongtan, Luo Yue led the troops, around the Xiannongtan around a big circle, turned to Yonganmen Street, and then went straight to Zhengyangmen.

Because all the Japanese soldiers guarding Zuo'anmen were killed, and the battle between Yongdingmen and You'anmen was not over at this time, the defenders of Zhengyangmen did not know that Zuo'anmen had been lost, and the enemy was rushing to Zhengyangmen.

Although Zhengyangmen is located in the outer city and will not be directly attacked by the enemy, but because the location of Zhengyangmen is very important, it is connected to Yonganmen in front and Tiananmen in the back, so the Eight-Nation Alliance still garrisoned 300 British troops here, but at this time more than 240 people were dispatched to reinforce the battle of Yonganmen, and now the defenders of Zhengyangmen are only more than 60 people.

Although the British army was ready to defend, when the first battalion approached in front of the Zhengyang Gate, the British army immediately opened fire on the city tower, but after all, the number of people was too small, Zhengyang Gate is one of the largest city gates in Beijing, and more than 60 people could not even stand in the city tower, let alone defend the city.