Chapter 19: Fierce Fighting of the Coalition Forces

Li Ming mobilized the First Army of the New Army to be stationed near Rehe, the Second Army was stationed in Baliqiao, the remnants of the Boxer Rebellion were incorporated, the red light illuminated the remnants, and a large number of personnel of the Qing Army were quickly reorganized into the Third Army of the New Army, led by the late Qing Dynasty Jinmen master Dadao Wang Wu, stationed near Rehe, which is now the summer resort of Chengde, and there was a firearms battalion to issue new muskets, and the Fourth Army of the New Army was led by Wang Manzi to quickly accept the reorganization of the southern defenders of the New Army. It will even be a full-scale battle, Li Ming can't take care of it so much, Fushun and other places outside the gate are being attacked by the Russian army, Li Ming is anxiously walking back and forth in the telegraph room, and now he is left with such a mess, the country has not yet been unified, and the great powers are still attacking, which can be said to be worse, isn't the current Southeast Asian territory in his own hands? Why not first cut off the Langfang station of the coalition army as a rocker, and then attack the defenders of Jinmen, in Southeast Asia, a few new armies can open up a few battlefields, the northern battlefield, the southern battlefield, and then Li Ming sent a report to Vietnam, Burma, and the local guards quickly recruited troops and horses in the local conditions for food and housing, after 5 taels of silver per month, the official position is in the long salary, and the non-commissioned officer is 8 taels of silver, and the training is paid after the recruitment is full, and the telegram is received after all levels are recruiting, and the clothing factory is also working overtime to make clothes but still can't supply it, Li Ming then built a clothing factory near the capital and put it into use, the firearms battalion also began to produce weapons, on the basis of the front-loading weapons directly upgraded the reloading gun drawings have arrived, the new weapons of the Southern Military Factory Marco heart heavy machine guns, light machine guns, shotguns, **** wave pistols, **, **, bazookas, steel helmets, military pickup trucks and cars have begun to be produced, military trucks, motorcycles will also begin production next month, especially the rear-loading 92 infantry guns, 150 type mountain field guns, anti-aircraft guns, Light platoon artillery also began to be produced next month can equip the troops, the Empress Dowager Cixi who fled to Shanxi was caught by the Shanxi defenders and put in prison, so good, to the Shanxi garrison to report the military industry, let Cixi issue a holy decree to Hebei, Henan, Xinjiang, Tibet, Mongolia, Jiangsu, Anhui, Hubei, Hunan, Shanghai, and other places The defenders will lay down their arms like the new army surrendered, and the Guangxu Emperor abdicated, otherwise the new army broke through the city and the chickens and dogs were not left, and the scorched earth policy was implemented against the Manchu Qing and then killed you, Cixi was forced to have no choice but to agree to the decree if she wanted to save her life, In the spring of 1900, the villages of Wuqing built uprisings and regimental altars, and the Boxer Rebellion and Red Lantern activities spread throughout the county, and the Boxer Rebellion against foreign invaders occurred in Caicun and Hexiwu in the territory. Nearly 10,000 Boxers of Wuqing marched into the county seat in early May to hold a demonstration and shouted at the entrance of the main altar of the Guandi Temple, "Go to the law to reach the foreign invaders, and return me to the rivers and mountains" to carry out a huge "tree flag oath." The Beijing-Tianjin Railway runs from Tianjin to Langfang for most of the mileage, passing through Wuqing, Xiazhuzhuang, Yangcun, Huangzhuang, Douzhangzhuang, and Dongmaquan five townships. Wuqing County Zongtankou is more than ten miles away from the city of Nanjing-Tianjin Railway. At that time, the Boxers were in Jinmen, and there was a large altar mouth (general altar mouth) in the area directly under the district, and the general leader Cao Futian (Jinghai people).

After the Wuqing Boxers learned of the information that the allied forces were going to invade Beijing through the Beijing-Tianjin Railway, they immediately sent "Jieti'er" (for the exclusive use of the Boxers, equivalent to an emergency notice) to the village altars. After receiving the post at the entrance of the village altar, the group quickly organized the people to gather on the Beijing-Tianjin Railway according to the instructions of the "post". The Wuqing Boxers operated on two lines, east and west, the east line was east of Yangcun Railway Station, and the main task was to demolish the railway and intercept the allied trains; Cut down the poles and cut off the railway communications. The west line is Yangcun West, which is also mainly to demolish the railway, and ambush in the green gauze tents on both sides of the railway, ready for sniper trains. The Wuqing Boxers' strategic and organized actions were completely unexpected by the Eight-Nation Alliance.

On 15 March, 2,066 officers and men from Russia, Britain, the United States, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, and Austria (915 British troops, 540 German troops, 312 Russian troops, 158 French troops, 112 American troops, 54 Japanese troops, 40 Italian troops, and 25 Austria-Hungarian troops) formed an allied advance team, with British Vice Admiral Seymour as commander, US Navy Colonel McCargara as deputy commander, and Russian Colonel Wortek as chief of staff. So many people exceeded Li Ming's expectations, the members of the Red Lantern Zhao, the Boxer Rebellion, the Qing Army Wu Weijun joined the battle, the Red Lantern Zhao, the Boxers, the nearby peasants are all big swords, spears, Qing army muskets fired at foreigners, the battle was fierce and there were farmers who fell under the foreigners' muskets, Li Ming's *** aimed at the heavy machine gun of the foreign devil for the first time, snapped a few shots The heavy machine gun of the three devils was dumb, Li Ming rolled three meters away and took out a wave pistol and pointed at the foreign devil is the devil on the corner of the shot fell, Then two shots on the top of the train fell, and then a few shots of foreign soldiers fell behind the train, and the Qing army, the red light shined, and the Boxers were stunned Who is so powerful, and when they were in a daze, the ghost special forces shot the devils in the back, front, left, and batteries, and everyone rushed in and captured Commander Seymour of the British Navy, Lieutenant Commander McAgara of the United States Navy, and Chief of Staff of the Russian Colonel Warnick, these people were protecting the embassy and did not expect to become prisoners, God! At this time, the biggest insult in my life after joining the army, and my military service will be ruined in the future, is my future important, or is my life important? Shut up a soldier of the New Army, Li Ming introduced himself as the New Army, Wu Weijun admired the New Army very much, and in the face of the cowardice of the Qing Dynasty, the defender of the Wuwei Army Nie Shicheng was very sad, knowing that he had to leave a place for himself to go and leave a way back, where did General Nie plan to go in the future? Now that the war in the world is not peaceful, General Nie can come to me, join the new army to serve the country, kill foreigners, only by driving out foreigners can we ordinary people have a good life, Nie Shicheng looked at the soldiers around him, what about you? Li Ming said that those who left would pay for the journey, and those who stayed would join the New Army, the peasants of the Boxer Rebellion, and the remnants of the Red Lantern to join the New Army, and there were more than 10,000 people, Li Ming reorganized these people into the New Army, and Nie Shi became the commander of the New Army

Heroic Boxer soldiers

The fierce battle of the coalition forces in the early summer of Gengzi was a major battle in modern Chinese history and a major event with far-reaching historical impact during the entire Boxer Rebellion. In that battle, the Chinese people's courage to fight the enemy to the end shocked the world. In the past 100 years, the national spirit of the "Langfang Great Victory" has been inspiring the people of Langfang.

The outstanding battle of the Boxers against the Eight-Nation Alliance in Langfang not only prevented more foreign soldiers from entering Beijing, but also greatly strengthened the determination of the people of Tianjin to resist the war. As a result, Tianjin and Beijing did not fall into the hands of the imperialist powers. The Boxer Rebellion's resistance to the Eight-Nation Alliance, the historical facts of the Battle of Langfang, which shocked China and foreign countries, will always be passed down forever.

Seymour and his coalition forces were accustomed to running rampant on Chinese soil, believing that a trip to Peking, with the convenience of a railway from Tientsin to Peking, would be a matter of immediate success for a foreign army armed with guns. The invading army, consisting of modern guns, artillery and armoured trains, suffered a crushing defeat and had to retreat to Yangcun on March 18, where it was pursued by the Boxers and then defeated back to Tianjin West Railway Station. The team marched from Laolongtou in Tianjin with a military band, and finally turned into a long stretcher team and returned in frustration.

Seymour later recalled: "If the weapons used by the Boxers were modern guns, then the coalition army I led would have been wiped out."