For the officers and men of the Fourth Cavalry Brigade, this may be the most unforgettable night in their lives, near the Lugou Bridge is a sea of overlapping corpses and blood, the closer to the Lugou Bridge, the more corpses of the Qing army, today's battle Qing army left at least 2,500 corpses, the corpses of the Qing soldiers killed in battle, abandoned artillery, bird guns, baggage, together with the corpses of war horses almost made the entire Lugou Bridge stagnate.

In their fighting careers, there has never been a battle that has been more fierce than today, no battle in which the enemy has been so tenacious, but no other battle has been so brilliantly brilliant, so the morale of the officers and men is unexpectedly high, and they chant softly to bid farewell to their heroic comrades.

"Tomorrow we're going to stop attacking!"

Although Ren Zhu is brave, he has to admit that the casualties have reached this extent, the Fourth Cavalry Brigade has reached the limit, whether it is people or horses, it has reached the limit, in fact, most of the war horses have been crossed, but these heroic soldiers are extremely tenacious.

Liu Cangbin's 10th Cavalry Regiment was particularly brave today, but he also had to admit it: "We have suddenly gone too far, we must rest all day, and when the follow-up troops of our 10th Cavalry Regiment rush over, we can attack Beijing!" ”

The existing combat strength is only 700 people, even if you add the 1200 cavalry from the 10th Cavalry Regiment, it is only 100 people, but Ren Zhu can hear Liu Cangbin's vicissitudes of life: "I seem to have arrived at Lugou Bridge in my dream, but I regretfully retreated, but this time it is different......

In another time and space. In the final plane of the Twister's war. Ren Zhu did indeed lead the Western Twist Army to carry out mobile operations throughout the North China Plain in order to rescue the Eastern Twist Army, and even once broke through to the vicinity of the Lugou Bridge, he proudly said: "We have the entire cavalry army behind us, the entire First Army, we just need to rest for a day......

"That's right, just rest for the day!"

Facts proved that Ren Zhu and Liu Cangbin were not right at all, and at noon the next day, the 4th Cavalry Brigade, which had broken through to the vicinity of the Lugou Bridge, had already received two powerful reinforcements, one of which was the follow-up force of the 10th Cavalry Regiment. There were one hundred and seventy warriors, plus one hundred and eighty horses, and their arrival greatly restored the combat effectiveness of the 4th Cavalry Brigade.

And half an hour later, another cavalry joined them. The banner of this cavalry made Liu Cangbin's eyes shine: "It's the first division, it's the cavalry of the first division!" ”

"Dragon Lance Battalion?"

Ren Zhu had heard of the name of this unit a long time ago, and asked, "Is it really so strong?" ”

"It's that strong!" The officer on the opposite horse had a very sharp ear: "We are the inheritance of the second company of the dragon lance!" ”

This officer's statement is not comprehensive, in fact, this cavalry company only has some inheritance relationship with the second company of the dragon lance, when the formation of this cavalry company was formed by the second company of the dragon lance to draw two squads of infantry plus Taizhou recruits, but the company has always regarded itself as the orthodox inheritance of the second company of the dragon lance.

Ren Zhu could hear his pride and self-promise, and he immediately said: "It's good that you guys come up, let's rest for a day, and continue to attack north tomorrow!" ”

"No, leave it to us......"

He glanced at the old battlefield that had been roughly cleaned: "Very good! ”

In Ren Zhu's eyes, it is the most proud battle in his life. But in the eyes of the cavalry officer of the First Division, there was only the comment "very good", Ren Zhu couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, he had already heard from other people's mouths that the First Division was a dragon lance battalion to promise itself, and he didn't ignore other units at all, but he didn't expect the dragon lance battalion to be proud to such an extent: "We fought hard for one day yesterday, our soldiers were only 1,300, horses were no more than 1,000 horses, and the enemy army was as many as 60,000, and they were stoic and able to fight. Like mountains and seas, it was finally defeated after thirteen major battles. ”

"That's good!" The 1st Division has its own pride: "Leave it to us!" ”…,

Ren Zhu asked, "Then where were you yesterday?" ”

He knew that although the 1st Division was the vanguard of the whole army, their cavalry was only a tactical reconnaissance team, which was very different from these strategic cavalry. It is also very normal to fall behind the 4th Cavalry Brigade, but to see the pride of this dragon lance battalion. He had to remind the other party that it was here that the Fourth Cavalry Brigade fought a miraculous decisive battle yesterday, beating all the Qing troops twenty times larger.

But the other party's answer was unexpected by Ren Zhu: "At this moment yesterday, we were with the infantry, yes, with our infantry, we can't be separated from our infantry." ”

This sentence surprised Ren Zhu: "Infantry? Where are they? ”

"There's still an hour!" The cavalry officer opposite replied with a smile: "The heavy task of conquering Beijing will be entrusted to us." ”

If the cavalry of the 1st Division was a day worse than the 4th Cavalry Brigade, which was traveling day and night, Ren Zhu felt that this was an acceptable thing, but he could not accept such an answer now.

From the beginning of their departure, they were almost non-stop, and they did not know how many heavy dangers they had traversed, and there were at least 15 or 6 large and small battles a day, and at most the whole brigade participated in more than 40 battles a day, so that they rushed to the city of Beijing with the mobile advantage of cavalry.

But the infantry of the 1st Cavalry Division! That's right, it's the infantry, and although they have the assistance of this cavalry company, they are only a day behind the 4th Cavalry Brigade, which is incredible!

Ren Zhu stretched out his hand: "How many infantry rushed over?" ”

"A reinforced battalion!" The cavalry officer on the opposite side said with a smile: "There are also some subordinate units, which are lightly armed and leaping forward, and we have organized them several times!" ”

Only then did Ren Zhu realize what the dragon lance battalion was, they almost caught up with their elite cavalry unit with two legs, and it was really the first division, he shook hands warmly with the cavalry officer from the first division: "It's really good!" ”

"You're so good, too!"

As soon as he heard that there were 800 lightly armed infantry coming to join the battle, and that the Fourth Cavalry Brigade had even stopped the scheduled rest, Ren Zhu told the officers and men of the Fourth Cavalry Brigade: "The city of Beijing is right under your noses, do you want to give such an honor to others?" ”

In addition to the Fourth Cavalry Brigade and a part of the First Division, by sunset on this day, many small units of the Rainbow Army appeared in the city of Beijing, some of them were reconnaissance brigades attached to military units, some were combat units belonging to divisions or brigades, and some units came from certain infantry regiments.

By noon on the second day, the situation was already very obvious, some combat units of the 1st and 13th divisions of the Hong Army had already rushed to Beijing for close effect, and more importantly, the defeat on the Lugou Bridge made the entire Qing army near Beijing abandon their flood land and retreat into Beijing.

But the city of Beijing is still a fortified city that is difficult to overcome, and these troops who rush to the city of Beijing are either cavalry units or some light infantry, they may be the most elite soldiers of the whole division, the whole brigade, and the whole regiment, but they lack sufficient heavy firepower.

Just the eight battalions of the forbidden brigade and the green battalion soldiers in Beijing, there are more than 100,000 people in terms of the number of soldiers, not to mention the temporary mobilization of flag people and people, not to mention the beginning of Yongle Jiandu, except for the Ming and Qing dynasties, after the two changes of hands, the city of Beijing has not been conquered, and the two changes of hands during the Ming and Qing dynasties were received in a completely peaceful way, but it is not comparable to the hundreds of thousands of Sinicized foreigners in the city who defend the city with a strong city.

Therefore, the five or six thousand rainbow army troops under the city did not rush forward, dozens of people and hundreds of people could not occupy the whole city even if they could rush into the city of Beijing, but pay attention to clearing the strongholds on the periphery of Beijing, and build field hospitals, field warehouses, command centers and other attack starting positions on the spot, cut off more than two hundred heads in one go, and the remaining Eight Banners soldiers ran back to the inner city in fear. …,

In view of the fact that the five or six thousand rainbow troops outside the city belonged to five or six different formed units, after communication between the various units, Ren Zhu, the commander of the cavalry brigade, temporarily assumed the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, and at the same time began to make preparations for the city of Beijing with both hands, focusing on both military and political solutions.

During this period, there were many representatives of all parties who went out of Beijing, including even some children of the Eight Banners, the military discipline of the Rainbow Army in several cities in the southeast can be said to be innocent in the autumn, as long as the banner people laid down their arms and surrendered, most of the Rainbow Army was released to the north, at first Manchuria thought that it was just a means for the red thieves to win the hearts of the people, but soon found that a large number of people from the north formed a serious political problem.

It stands to reason that these banner people should have their own hardcore crops, and Emperor Xianfeng also regarded them as fellow villagers, but soon a surprising number of northbound banner people formed a fatal pressure on the economy of the Qing Dynasty, not to mention, they even preached the benefits of the rainbow army everywhere, claiming that the rainbow army did not kill people, and the military discipline was excellent, and allowed the banner people to return to the north freely, and even paid back the travel expenses.

These propaganda greatly reduced the ability of the Beidi Banner people to resist the change of dynasty, although they knew that after the change of the Great Xia Dynasty, the hardcore crops were gone, but that was the country of Aixin Jueluo, and even Aixin Jueluo had extremely difficult banner people, a group of bitter people in Beijing City had to think about their own families, and their own skills in fighting were not good, but they could still take it out, they could sing big songs, and they could also play antiques, and they had their own way of living.

As soon as they thought of this, some of Beijing's wise banner people also went out of the city, wanting to fight for a little benefit for the Manchurians, so as not to accompany the funeral of the Qing Dynasty, but among all the representatives who went out of Beijing, the most active were Shanxi merchants. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )RV

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