Chapter 14: Attack
Just when the Eight-Nation Coalition Army launched an attack on the landing in Tianjin, the Boxers suddenly launched a fierce attack on the Qing army besieging the city, the Boxers 150 heavy artillery guns covered the Qing army's position, the unprepared Qing army was fiercely attacked, the Qing infantry commander resisted desperately, and soon died, Guangxi Governor Rong Lu transferred more than 10,000 people, due to the landing of the Eight-Nation Alliance Army in Tianjin, Zeng Guofan, Yuan Shikai, Li Hongzhang signed an agreement with the foreigners to protect themselves in the southeast, Rong Lu, the old thief, sat in the Admiral's yamen, turning back and forth, The anti-thief didn't expect it to come so quickly, the report is not good, the three lines of defense are lost, the anti-thief cannon is extremely powerful, and we have suffered heavy losses! Report Guilin was violently attacked, report the loss of Kunlun Pass, report Nanning to request reinforcements, the Qingshan left by the adults is not afraid of no slash, the anti-thieves came violently, there are many people, the governor's palace was bombarded by heavy artillery during the conversation, can not be withdrawn, swear allegiance to the emperor, transfer all the soldiers who can be transferred to me, Li Ming dispatched 4 armies of less than 300,000 people, light and heavy machine guns, or used, the Qing army did not have an hour to rout, a large number of Qing troops were killed by artillery, the Boxers took several important cities in the morning, Rong Lu pulled out to kill, Captured a large number of supplies, food, innumerable, the Boxers took advantage of the victory against Guizhou, Sichuan, Chongqing, Ningxia, launched the largest battle in history 15 days after the right A large number of Qing troops could not resist the Boxer artillery fire, disarmed and surrendered, willing to accept the adaptation, Tianjin Qing army was defeated and lost, the Eight-Nation Coalition Army occupied Tianjin, Li Ming must rush to the Eight-Nation Alliance to destroy the Old Summer Palace before leading the troops over, otherwise the thousand-year-old cultural relics will be destroyed, the next few days Li Ming directly stepped through Ningxia, to Xi'an, Zhangjiakou Taiyuan Qing Army wrote a letter of persuasion, did not expect these diehards to stopOn January 19, 1900, the Boxers entered Baoding Guanxian County, and the three regiments of the Boxers on the 21st arrived outside the capital, the Eight-Nation Coalition began to attack the city, the Qing army began to retreat, the Qing army surrendered in several northwest provinces, and the Boxers led by Li Ming arrived at night near Fengtai for three regiments, and the rest of the regiments will also arrive in the next few days, Li Ming did not rest at night and directly led people to attack the Fengtai Qing army camp and captured a large number of Qing troops, The next day the Boxers in Langfang also arrived, Li Ming led the Boxers to station a regiment in Nanyuan, the six regiments went to the Old Summer Palace, the firearms battalion, the south gate of the royal city wall, in the afternoon the Boxers Zhang Decheng, the Qing army and the coalition army exchanged fire, a large number of ignorant Boxer brothers died in battle, Li Ming's heart was bleeding, Dongyang soldiers wore white clothes, robbed things on the street, robbed women, killed people and set fires, the next target was the Old Summer Palace, the Forbidden City, the cultural relics could not be destroyed, Li Ming's Boxers attacked, Dongyang soldiers are Japanese soldiers, The impact of the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Coalition on China:
Huge reparations and the loss of many national sovereignty. At the time of the chaos in North China, the governors of the southeastern provinces declared their neutrality, and since then the authority of the Qing central government has declined, and the Han ministers have risen, and from an objective point of view, the Eight-Nation Alliance incident has accelerated the demise of the Qing Dynasty.
Later, the United States reduced the indemnity to Qing ** by about 10 million taels of silver. The refund is mainly used for China's dispatch of state-funded students to the United States, and Tsinghua University was also established in this context. The two refunds in the United States had a great international impact.
In addition, after the First World War, China also stepped into the position of the victorious power, so it stopped paying reparations to the defeated Germany and Austria; All countries have expressed their willingness to be "friendly" with China so that they can use peaceful means to safeguard and expand their interests in China.
Therefore, they all followed in the footsteps of the United States, and Britain, Japan, and the Netherlands revised the repayment method for the balance of the Geng payment. On the one hand, this indirectly promoted the process of learning from the West, and on the other hand, strengthened the control of the great powers over China.
In addition, after the victory of the October Revolution in Russia, the balance of the Russian part of the Geng was also abandoned by Soviet Russia in 1920. The signing of the "Xinqiao Treaty" not only imposed a heavy burden on the Chinese people, but also undermined national sovereignty.
From then on, the Qing Dynasty completely became a tool of imperialist domination over China.
The composition of the forces of the eight countries is as follows:
1. Japan: 20,300 Army, 540 Navy, 20 warships.
2. Russia: 12,400 in the Army, 750 in the Navy, and 10 warships.
3. Britain: 10,000 in the Army, 2,020 in the Navy, 8 warships.
4. France: 3,130 in the Army, 390 in the Navy, and 5 warships.
5. United States: 3,125 Army, 295 Navy, 2 warships.
6. Germany: 300 Army, 600 Navy, 5 warships.
7. Austria-Hungary: 100 in the army, 294 in the navy, 4 warships.
8. Italy: 5 people in the army, 80 people in the navy, 2 warships.
There are about 50,000 people, Li Ming must take action, let these Dongyang soldiers come and go, drive these invaders out, and in the next section, the protagonist will personally go into battle to kill the enemy and clean up these Dongyang soldiers, the plot is more exciting, please pay attention