"If you want to block it, you must suppress the Boxers, because all this is provoked by the Boxers. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"That's right, it's just that Lafayette is now at peace with each other, and it seems that he has to send this telegram to force Lafayette to make up his mind for peace as soon as possible."

The next day, it was the Empress Dowager Cixi who spoke first, and she said in a calm tone to the following ministers:

"The foreigners want to seize our rights and expropriate our grain, and this is the note they sent me." The Empress Dowager Cixi said as she picked up the piece of electric paper from the imperial case and shook it at the ministers below.

When everyone heard this, it was like thunder. Why haven't we heard of such strange things? And the conditions are so harsh, isn't this about the destruction of the country?

"The foreigners deceived people too much, and the mourning family originally wanted to suppress the Boxers, and then go to talk to them for peace. But who knew that they were so arrogant that they wanted to let us perish the country. It has been more than 200 years since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, and if the fortunes of the country are ruined in my hands, how can I be worthy of the ancestors and ancestors under the Nine Springs.

The foreigners want us to surrender our power, do we obey orders? Everyone also holds the court's money, can you all bear to let the court be destroyed by foreigners!

Rather than ruining the country's life in a daze, it is better to fight and start a war with foreigners, even if the country is destroyed, it is necessary to give an account to the ancestors and ancestors, and it cannot be unclear. ”

The more the Empress Dowager Cixi spoke, the more excited she became, and she almost stood up from the throne after speaking. Li Lianying hurriedly brought a cup of tea over, and only then did she calm down the anger of the Empress Dowager Cixi a little.

"The old minister should die on the battlefield!" This is Xu Tong's old voice,

"Foreigners rely on foreign guns and cannons, and they want to run rampant in our court. Now it is even more pressing step by step, and wants to make all of us slaves of the country, which is impossible in any way. Fortunately, when everyone did not want to offend the foreigners, there was a righteous and divine fist, and they were united to help clear and destroy the foreigners.

The Queen Mother, now the situation, has to be decided by the Empress Dowager Shengming, issued an edict to the foreigners, and started a vigorous battle with them. Xu Tong's voice became higher and higher, and finally he shouted: "The Queen Mother of Shengming, the old minister is willing to fight with foreign devils!" ”

"The old minister is also willing to compete with foreign devils." This is Chongqi's trembling voice, "Foreign devils don't stop for a day, and the old ministers can't feel at ease for a day, the Queen Mother of Shengming, this matter is not to be delayed, the Queen Mother has to break it off early." ”

Xu Tong and Chongqi, two respected old ministers, fought the battle, and King Duan conformed to the situation and hurriedly expressed his opinions on the main battle.

"Xu Zhongtang and Chongqi said well, Lafayette, if you keep interrupting, you will suffer from it. Now that the foreigners have to inch in, completely ignoring Lafayette, your old man, the slave can't swallow this breath.

After more than 200 years, how can I casually hand over to foreigners? Yihe Shenquan is a loyal and righteous person, and destroying foreigners is like destroying a dog's ear! The minion asked Lafayette to issue an edict to declare war.

Let the Boxer God Fist kill all the foreigners, see if they dare to be rude to Lafayette, and see how they are still playing! ”

Naturally, no one dared to oppose such an impassioned argument, but a group of people agreed. The Empress Dowager Cixi looked at the ministers, raised her voice and said:

"You have seen the situation today. For the sake of the country, he had to declare war as a last resort. However, it is difficult to say what the outcome will be in the future. If after the war, the society is still not protected, everyone is here today, you should understand my hard work, and in the future, don't say that the queen mother ruined the three hundred years of the ancestors. ”

Now that the Queen Mother's intention to declare war has been decided, the ministers naturally have to show their loyalty.

Foreigners are not so polite in Tianjin. Due to the murder of the Japanese minister Sugiyama Bin and the German minister Klinder, which aroused the righteous indignation of Japan and Germany, and the Qing government did not handle it well, and the Boxers became more and more troublesome, the countries considered their own interests, so they reached an agreement and decided to send troops to intervene.

At the mouth of Tianjin, dozens of ships from various countries were assembled, and several thousand British, French, German, Japanese, Italian, Russian, and Austrian troops were assembled to prepare to march north from Tianjin to Beijing, but they first had to capture the Dagu Fort.

The Dagu Fort was guarded by Luo Rongguang and was equipped with two forts, thousands of soldiers, and more than 2,000 guns. Since the warships of various countries gathered in the sea outside the port of Dagu, Luo Rongguang's heart has become uneasy, and he has constantly sent people to send letters to Yulu, asking for troops to be sent to strengthen the defense.

Where did Yulu draw his troops? Even if he had, he didn't believe in officers and soldiers, he believed in the magic of Boxer, and he was now completely fascinated by the Boxers. Therefore, he brought Zhang Decheng and Cao Futian and told them what Luo Rongguang meant.

"Don't panic, I sent my brothers to assist General Luo in guarding the Dagu Fort. The Dagu Fort is the choke point of Tianjin and Beijing, how can you let the foreigners occupy it casually, I will go back and send people to let them retreat from the enemy. Zhang Decheng said confidently, and Cao Futian also agreed.

Considering that the foreigners' artillery was very powerful, Zhang Decheng decided to send nearly 10,000 Boxers to Dagu. It's impossible for others to be unclear, it's impossible for yourself to be unclear, spells can only be used to bluff outsiders, and the real ability can only be fought hard with others

。 Before leaving, Zhang Decheng told the senior brother in the lead that if necessary, you can ignore General Luo and guard the Dagu Fort by yourself. With this "edict", the senior brother pretended to easily lead the people to Dagu to assist Luo Rongguang in guarding the fort.

Luo Rongguang looked at the Boxers who had nearly 10,000 people, and his heart was finally full, but the grim situation outside did not allow him to be in the slightest mood to be happy. He knows quite well in his heart that if Dagu does not abide by it, it will mean that Beijing will not be protected, and his head will not be protected.

And the Boxers sent now seem to have a lot of people, but how many can really kill foreigners? Is it strange that foreigners don't run most of the time when the cannon goes off? You say, can he Luo Rongguang be happy? He just entertained the senior brother and other generals according to the courtesy, and then dispersed the Boxers to various positions to cooperate with the officers and soldiers in battle.

In the evening, Luo Rongguang received a note from the commander of the coalition forces, Wadsey, asking him to withdraw from the Dagu Fort at two o'clock tomorrow morning. Luo Rongguang showed this note to the generals at all levels and several senior brothers of the Boxers, asking them to come up with ideas, but no one had any specific opinions.

Luo Rongguang had no choice but to send someone to send this note to Yulu and ask him to give instructions.

After the Boxer Rebellion returned, several senior brothers were also discussing what to do? The allied gunboats they could see through the telescope, densely packed outside the mouth of Dagu, with the black barrels facing the two batteries.

Now that the foreigners are really going to attack, what can they do? As soon as the last few people discussed, there were a few of them who hated foreigners very much, and decided to live and die with the Dagu Fort and fight to the last person.

Dark night. Between the Dagu Fort and the sea, there is a beach. At this time, the Dagu Fort and the foreign warships were silent, but it was not calm on the beach, and groups of foreign soldiers came to the beach from the warships with the help of small boats.

The steel helmets on their heads shone faintly in the dark night, and they went up to the beach in such an orderly manner that they went up to the beach silently, and then dispersed, slowly approaching the Dagu Fort, and stopped not far from the fort, where they lurked with bated breath.

That night, the officers and soldiers and the Boxers could not sleep well. Patrols in the forts and other places intensified, and in the darkness of the night the high forts resembled a towering hill, on which the footsteps of soldiers patrolled from time to time.

However, although the patrols were intensified, they neglected a place that could kill them, and that was the beach, which doomed the fort to fall and the city of Tianjin.

Yulu received the information sent by Luo Rongguang and let Zhang Decheng see it, and Zhang Decheng suggested that he immediately attack the Zizhulin Concession Area and eliminate the enemy inside Tianjin.

Then raise troops to resist the foreign soldiers coming in from Dagu. Yulu himself had no opinion, so he followed Zhang Decheng's advice, and at the same time ordered Nie Shicheng to assist in attacking the concession area, even if he did not help, do not prevent the Boxers from attacking the concession area.

The clock slowly pointed to midnight, and Yulu had not yet received a letter, and Luo Rongguang couldn't bear it anymore.

There was still some time before two o'clock in the morning, Luo Rongguang waved his hand, and the gunners of the two batteries adjusted their positions and fired at the enemy ships. Only two sounds of "Peng, Peng" were heard, and the two small ships of the foreigners on the ocean were on fire, and the people on the battery could not help but cheer happily.

However, these two sounds alarmed the prepared foreign soldiers, and they immediately turned to a counterattack, dozens of guns fired at the battery, and the position was full of flowers, Luo Rongguang hurriedly commanded the gunners to fill the artillery and shoot it.

At the same time as the artillery battle between the two sides began, a dense burst of gunfire rang out on the beach, and hundreds of Boxers and officers and soldiers were killed before they knew it, and this sudden attack frightened the Boxers and officers and soldiers on the fort and other places, and they immediately fired blindly at the beach.

In the grim situation, the artillery on the sea is getting more and more fierce, the enemy warships are slowly approaching the shore, and the enemy on the beach is also slowly pressing towards the batteries, and some soldiers on the warships walking in front have already gone ashore to reinforce the foreign soldiers distributed on the beach.

When the Boxers and the Qing soldiers saw this, they decided to rush down the fort and go to the beach to contain the enemy from going to the beach.

As a result, amid the shouts of killing, groups of Boxers and officers and men rushed to the foreign soldiers on the beach, and several thousand people rushed to the beach, which was not very large.

This was what the foreign soldiers were most worried about, and their hand-to-hand combat was no match for the Boxers and the officers and soldiers.

At this moment, a few shells bloomed in the shouting crowd, this was the reinforcement of the cannon on the gunboat, after a few shells, the Boxers and their officers and soldiers died a lot, and there was nowhere to avoid on the empty beach, they had to retreat again. (To be continued.) )